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| Seth Low. |
The Cortland Democrat, Friday, Nov. 8, 1901.
LOW ELECTED MAYOR.
FUSION WINS ALL ALONG THE LINE IN NEW YORK.
Tammany Losses Its Grip on the Metropolis--$5,000 Verdict Over 5-Cent Fare—New Blue Diamond—Here's a Skyscraper—Preacher Stricken Blind in a Car—New Hotel to Rival Waldorf-Astoria.
New York, Nov. 6.—The result of the election in New York yesterday was not a surprise to those who were in touch with the leaders of either party, though it was not expected that the Fusion ticket would make such a clean sweep in city and county as it did. Seth Low, formerly president of Columbia university and four years ago the Citizens' Union candidate for mayor of Greater New York, was elected the second mayor of Greater New York by a plurality ranging anywhere from 30,000 to 40,000, defeating Edward M. Shepard of Brooklyn, the Democratic nominee.
The campaign was an exciting one, and the vote, though somewhat less than the presidential election a year ago, was the largest ever polled in a municipal contest in this county.
In addition to the canvass for mayor public interest largely centered in the nomination by the Fusionists of William Travors Jerome for district attorney and Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck by the Democrats for justice of the supreme court.
Both the candidates for district attorney and justice of the supreme court were voted for only in the territory contained in New York county. Returns received up to eleven p. m. indicate that Jerome had been elected by a comfortable plurality, and that Mayor Van Wyck has been defeated, the latter running behind his ticket from 15,000 to 30,000.
Returns also indicated the complete triumph of the Greater New York Fusion ticket, Charles Vincent Fornes, the nominee of the Citizens' Union and the Republicans for president of the board of aldermen, defeating George M. Van Hoesen, the Democratic nominee. Edward M. Grout for the past four years Democratic president of the borough of Brooklyn, the Fusion nominee for controller, has also defeated William W. Ladd, jr., the Tammany candidate.
Charles W. Morse, formerly president of the Ice Trust, has organized a syndicate to build a twenty-two story office building for the Bank of the State of New York, of which he is a director. The cost of construction will be $3,500,000 and the value of the land will bring the investment represented near to $5,500,000. The new skyscraper will be the largest structure of its kind in the world, measured by floor space.
R. H. Webber of Tenth-ave. cooked a batch of crullers in a new kind of oil Tuesday and as a result, a large part of the neighborhood was poisoned with ptomaine. Roosevelt hospital had the busiest day in its history, and the efforts of all the physicians for dozen blocks around with stomach pumps and emetics were required to save the lives of those who had eaten pastry. No fatal cases have been reported up to the present time, but there were many serious ones.
President Percival W. Clement of the Rutland railroad and a few of his associates in Northeastern railroads have secured a big site on the 5th ave. line, between 38th and 50th sts., and will soon erect a $2,500,000 hotel which will rival the Waldorf-Astoria. It will be conducted on lines similar to the Holland House.
The Rev. Charles Herald, who since his ordination in 1889, has been pastor of the Bethesda Congregational church in Brooklyn, was suddenly stricken blind Monday afternoon while in a trolley car on his way to consult an eye specialist. An operation performed at the Long Island college hospital yesterday afternoon removes what hope had been entertained that he would again see, it being discovered by specialists that the left eye was so affected that the immediate removal of the iris lens, the essential part of the eye, was imperative.
A new blue diamond rivaled in size and color by only two stones in the world, passed through the custom house yesterday. The stone weighs 22 1-2 karats and its foreign value is $70,000. The price to be asked for it here is $190,000. The big diamond is owned by a French syndicate. It is said that a Fifth avenue jewelry house proposes to sell it to an American millionaire R. R. magnate who is looking for a Xmas present for his wife. The diamond came from the Golconda mines in India, about the only section of this world that produces tinted diamonds. It is about an inch and a half long and an inch wide. It is cut, but comes unset. Experts say that though this is not absolutely the largest blue diamond in the world, it is the finest in point of color and that even the Hope jewel cannot compare with the wondrous azure of its flashes.
Eugene LeZinsky. a dry goods and commission merchant, last week obtained in the supreme court under Judge Fursman a verdict for $5,000 against the Metropolitan Street railway company, because he refused to pay a five-cent fare twice over and was ejected from the car. Pretty heavy damage for five cents.
DEMOCRATS NON EST.
REPUBLICANS SEEM TO BE EVERYWHERE PRESENT.
Judge Eggleston Has Over 1870 Plurality—Dickinson for Member of Assembly Runs About a Hundred Behind—Dr. Ball Has Highest Vote on the Democratic Ticket.
The Democrat has no rooster to present to its readers with this issue, for the reason that on Tuesday it was taken ill with a serious attack of colic caused by an overdose of Republicanism. We had carefully trained old chanticleer to put up his most thrilling crow for "Billy" Wingate but Dick Duell and his Democratic allies in the Fifth ward were too sickening a dose for the rooster. We expected to have him whoop for McCarthy, and for McGuire in Syracuse, and for Shepard in New York, and for Bissell in Buffalo, and for Parker in Albany but everything seems to have gone over to the enemy.
The Republicans elect all three aldermen in this city, E. M. Yager having 137 majority in the First ward, Geo. F. Richards in the Third by 51 majority, and Robert Pettigrew in the Fifth by 54.
Judge Eggleston's plurality in the county is very near 1900, Henry A. Dickinson for member of assembly running about one hundred behind him, and Dr. Greene for coroner polling the smallest vote of any Republican candidate on the ticket.
In Syracuse Jay H. Kline, Republican, defeats Jas. K McGuire for mayor by 1,425 plurality.
Seth Low, the fusion candidate for mayor in Greater New York, is elected by nearly 40,000 plurality, and the entire fusion ticket is also elected.
Albany, Troy, Buffalo and Schenectady elect Republican mayors, Utica being the only city remaining true to the Democratic faith.
Below will be found the vote in Cortland county by districts:
VOTED FAVORABLY.
The Taxpayers Vote for the School Appropriation by 24 Majority.
The special election held on Wednesday to vote upon the proposition to raise $19,500 for the enlargement of the Central school building was an event of more interest, except to a few politicians, than the election of the day previous. The result was a surprise to a majority of the people, even some of the strongest supporters of the proposition having doubts as to a favorable vote. The people, however, may be depended upon to provide ample school facilities for the education of all children.
The proposition was carried by 24 majority the vote in the several wards being as follows:
For Against
First ward 44 52
Second ward 72 57
Third ward 61 56
Fourth ward 60 50
Fifth ward 41 30
Sixth ward 36 45
Totals, 314 290
Ginseng root.
Heavy Sale of Ginseng Roots.
Mr. E. D. Crosley of Scott has just shipped to a firm in Cincinnati, O., seventy-one pounds of dried cultivated ginseng, for which he received $9 per pound. This was grown on less than two rods of ground in four years from wild roots reset [replanted]. Think of it! A total of $639 from less than two rods of ground in four years. One of the firm came on personally to make the purchase.
Mr. Crosley has received an offer from an enterprising firm interested in the culture of ginseng to deliver a series of lectures throughout every county in the state. Mr. Crosley stated to a Democrat representative that he has given the raising of ginseng a personal study for the past four years, and he has now nearly a half acre set out. An acre is valued at $40,000. He ridiculed the statement made by the Cortland Standard that the price of ginseng would be less within a few years, because "so many" have begun raising it, and remarked that the writer must have been indulging in a "pipe dream," when prophetically predicting this calamity.
Mr. Crosley has been engaged of late in ascertaining the space of land used in raising ginseng throughout the whole world, and says that so far as he can learn there is less than 25 acres now under cultivation. He further says that recent developments show that there is no prospect of price decreasing within thirty years, as 450,000,000 Chinamen alone are anxious to secure this root, and are using it continually. Good roots for re-setting are worth 25 cents each, and seed is bringing $80 a pound. Mr. Crosly sold more than $2,000 worth of seed this fall, besides his roots. A pound of seed contains about 8,000; the roots weighing less than eight ounces are reset.
Mr. Crosley has consented to write his personal experiences in the culture of ginseng for the benefit of the Democrat's many readers and for the information of those who are just starting in this industry. It will shortly appear.
J. H. Brown of Harford, N. Y.
Washington Letter.
(From Our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington. Nov. 4.—President Roosevelt has found the combined pressure of Senator Platt and Gov. Odell more than he could resist, and as a result it has been given out at the treasury that George N. Whitehead, now collector of customs for Porto Rico, will be appointed to the Appraisership of New York in the place of Wilbur F. Wakeman, the present incumbent. As indicated in these letters some weeks past, Senator Platt came to Washington for the express purpose of getting Mr. Wakeman's official scalp. On investigation, Colonel Roosevelt found Mr. Wakeman had sinned only by a failure [of subservience] to the New York boss and he advised the senator that he found no cause for removing him.
About this time Secretary Gage endorsed Mr. Whitehead for the place and Senator Platt joined issues with the secretary of the treasury and wrote to the president, endorsing him also. Still the president stuck to his colors, but Platt came to Washington again and so did Odell, and both represented that the discipline of the New York machine was at stake, and that it was essential to the best interests of the organization that Wakeman be made an example of. The matter determined by the president giving in as above stated.
Although the address of Secretary Wilson, delivered at Dysart, Iowa, on Saturday, has been heralded as coming pretty straight from the White House, it is a very weak production. It goes back to the old-fashioned Republican doctrine that the United States ought to practically build a wall about its shores and conduct its International affairs along lines that the Chinese boxers would adopt if they could. The secretary holds up as a sort of economic millennium the time when, economically or otherwise, the United States will produce everything it uses in its own territory and appears to forget completely that only a few months ago the late president made the sage remark that "we must not expect to sell everything and buy nothing."
It is thought here that Mr. Washburn of Minneapolis is rather coming to the support of Representative Babcock of Wisconsin in his fight against the steel trust. In a recent interview Mr. Washburn says that steel rails can be made and sold in this country at $17.50 per ton, and that figure would give a larger percentage of profit than the millers can make on their flour; but they are sold at $28 per ton, and that the trusts pays a handsome profit on a capital stock that is more than half water, and in order to enable the trust to do this, Congress maintains the duty of $7.80 per ton. In conclusion, he says "If this is not robbery, I would like to find a stronger word to characterize it."
There are rumors afloat that the Democrats will invite Admiral Schley to head their next presidential ticker, but they are regarded as mere rumors by all of the Democrats I have met in Washington. As a matter of fact, no one knows what Admiral Schley's politics are, or if he is in sympathy with any of the traditions of the party beyond what may be inferred from the fact that he is a Marylander. It is intimated that the rumors have been started to hurt Schley, as it is well-known that the insignificant little presidential bee that got into Admiral Dewey's bonnet injured him. The indications are that Admiral Schley has too much good sense to even listen to the siren voice of political ambition.
A prominent Democrat senator recently called my attention to the fact that the old law which prohibits anyone from sailing, as an American ship, any vessel which was not built in the United States, is still in vogue. He claims that were this law repealed most of the alleged necessity for a ship subsidy bill would disappear and that American commerce will resume its normal proportions, ''proportions which have absolutely atrophied under a law enacted in a vain attempt to divert unearned profits to a few Maine shipbuilders.''
When Rear Admiral Crowninshield retires from the head of the bureau of navigation, he will also retire from his rear admiralty and become once more a simple captain. His appointment to the European station will necessitate his promotion to the rank of admiral by the president and the confirmation of his appointment by the senate. It is by no means impossible that he will encounter too many friends of Admiral Schley in the senate, to permit of confirmation, in which case, he will be compelled to take a ship in the squadron of some other officer to whom he would be subordinate or to apply for his retirement.
A Washington correspondent tells of the meeting between the president and Peter Dunne, author of the famous "Dooley" letters, at the national convention in Philadelphia. Shortly before Dunne had written his "Alone in Cuby" in which he had made Dooley portray Roosevelt as writing the story of the Cuban war as if he had fought it all by himself. When Colonel Roosevelt met Dunne he said "By Godfrey. Mr. Dunne, I would rather meet you than any man in this hall. You gave me the worst roasting I ever got, and my wife has read it to me seventeen times when she thought I needed discipline, but it was the best thing you ever wrote."
HERE AND THERE.
Election day weather was not bad. And now a heavy rain would be acceptable.
The consumption of coal has been light thus far this fall.
November 28 is the day designated as national Thanksgiving.
The annual shower of meteors is due next Wednesday night.
Several wells and water troughs in this locality were dry last week.
The poles of the Home Telephone company are receiving their first coat of white paint.
Say, but wasn't "Sandy" mad when his pot of white paint was capsized by a teamster in Main-st. Monday, while "Sandy" was up a pole?
Marathon Grange will during the winter hold its meetings in the afternoon instead of the evening.
Prof. D. L. Bardwell of Binghamton will speak at the Y. M. C. A. meeting Sunday afternoon at 3:15 o'clock.
The Democrat has become, through its many able writers upon the subject, a reliable authority on ginseng culture.
A. H. Watkins, J. H. Seeber and Theo. Schiele were elected Tuesday evening trustees of the Homer-ave. M. E. church for terms of three years.
The Church Protective Union will meet as usual next Monday evening at the W. C. T. U. rooms at 7:45. All members are urgently requested to be present.
On Monday evening next a meeting of temperance people will be held in G. A. R. hall for the purpose of forming a Prohibition Alliance. Fried cakes and coffee will be served, the latter being furnished by E. M. Mansur. All temperance people are invited to be present.
The Cortland lodge of A. O. U. W. is becoming one of the strongest secret organizations in the city, its membership increasing rapidly and steadily. Last Friday evening 34 candidates were initiated, the ceremony being very impressive because of a degree team from Onondaga county having charge of the initiation. Visitors were present from Homer, Truxton, DeRuyter and Cincinnatus.
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