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| John D. Rockefeller |
The Cortland Democrat, Friday, Nov. 15, 1901.
OUR NEW YORK NEWS.
THE STANDARD OIL CO. DECLARES ANOTHER DIVIDEND.
John D. Rockefeller Gets Over Nineteen Million Dollars This Year—The Banner Democratic District—Heavy Betting on the Recent Election—Great Curiosity—Shot by His Best Friend.
New York, Nov. 12.—The directors of the Standard Oil company yesterday declared a dividend of 1 per cent, payable in December. This makes a total of 48 per cent for the year, which means an aggregate distribution of $48,000,000 on a capital stock of $100,000,000. John D. Rockefeller has been gradually picking up the floating stock of the Standard Oil company in Wall street. A year ago he controlled 33 per cent of the stock. It is now said that his interest is 40 per cent. If this report is true, his share in the dividend next month will be $3,200,000. With this Mr. Rockefeller has drawn from the Standard Oil company in dividends $19,200,000 during this year.
In the second election district of the sixth assembly district, Edward M. Shepard received 301 votes for mayor and Seth Low 28. Shepard was very near solid in that locality.
One of the greatest curiosities in the neighborhood of New York is now to be seen at the foot of the Palisades. Between two frame houses built there is a giant boulder twenty-five feet wide, which fell from a great height, at the top of Palisades, and sweeping down the front of the cliffs, uprooted big trees, tore up tons of loose stone and cut a wide swath the entire distance. Finally, after zigzagging from one side to the other, it rolled in between two frame houses and stopped there. The people were asleep in the houses when the rock started. They had barely time to make their escape when it made its appearance at their front doors. They are now thanking their lucky stars that the enormous stone did not hit one of the buildings.
Estimates as to the amount of money wagered on the election in Wall street offices differ, but a conservative guess places them at no less than $500,000. In the great majority of cases, Low betters gave odds of 10 to 9 to 10 to 7 and in a few instances bets of 2 to 1 on the mayorality were reported.
The recent wedding of Miss Estella Ackerman, youngest daughter of William H. Ackerman, to James Irving Van Orden, brought out the fact that she was the last of ten daughters who have married, nine of whom are still living, and that their father only allowed their marriage in regular order according to their ages.
At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday the committee on Internal Trade and Improvement recommended for adoption a resolution favoring the establishment by the United States of a department of Commerce and Industries, with a cabinet secretary to have jurisdiction over commerce, including all functions exercised by the government with regard to transportation, shipping, manufacturing and mining, and statistics relating thereto.
Dr. C. N. Spalter, a young physician with offices on West Eighty-second street was shot and instantly killed Friday while duck hunting in a naptha launch in the Sound off New Rochelle by his bosom friend and professional sponsor Dr. Edward E. Tull. The latter asked Dr. Spalter to take a gun which he held in one hand, and as he reached for the weapon it exploded. He fell into the arms of his friend, nearly capsizing the launch. Dr. Tull says the hammer of the gun must have struck the wheel. Dr. Tull was nearly overcome with horror as the young physician fell dead in his arms. Like one in a trance he brought the launch to shore, and as he stepped on the pier he nearly collapsed. He reported the shooting at once to the police and body of Dr. Spalter was taken to the Morgue.
The first man to comply with the law which requires every political candidate to file with the county clerk an affidavit of money spent in his canvas was George H. Fahrbach, the defeated Tammany candidate for county clerk, who swears that he spent $3,882.50 in his unsuccessful candidacy.
Henry Hart, "father of the Third avenue railroad," died Thursday morning at his home, No. 739 Madison avenue, at the age of ninety-one years. He was several times a millionaire, notwithstanding his heavy losses a year and a half ago in the wreck of the Third avenue line. He recovered most of his Third avenue stock after its value had been restored and held it to the time of his death. His loss through the wreck of the Third avenue road was estimated at $11,000,000.
Frank H. Lawton of this city, in answer to his wife's divorce complaint declared she went to lectures and made him cook and wash dishes.
E. D. & M. S. CROSLEY'S GINSENG FARM, SCOTT, N. Y.
As the Democrat is becoming an authority on ginseng culture, an industry as yet in its infancy, we are securing information from all who are in anyway familiar with the raising of this valuable product, that our readers may secure accurate knowledge of the methods of planting and cultivating ginseng. Mr. E. D. Crosley of Scott, a gentleman who has given the subject much study and who began raising ginseng four years ago, has kindly prepared the following article, which will be of exceeding interest to all, whether engaged in the raising of the plant or not:
Scott, Nov. 12, 1901.
Ed. Democrat:—At your request we will give you a little of our experience in ginseng culture. In the spring of 1897 E. D. Crosley's health was very poor and we concluded to start a ginseng garden. We set 500 roots in June, placing them with the tops left on. The tops soon died. About the first of July we visited all the gardens in Central New York. We found the people engaged in its culture very reticent though they did show us their gardens. We paid one man five dollars for a few seed and a book of instructions (which by the way, we have never received.) We learned from a man not engaged in its culture that the top should be removed as soon as dug, and that it would generally grow the next year after setting, if properly handled, and that it might be set at any time of year that it could be found.
That season we set a few thousand roots and planted some seed which we bought. In the fall we took up the five hundred roots set with the tops left on and found that over seventy-five per cent, of the roots had decayed. In the spring of 1898 very many tops of the roots did not come up, and we found that we had set them far too deep. We estimated that we lost about three thousand roots from that cause. That year we set a few thousand more wild roots and planted what wild seed we had gathered the season before. We had about ten thousand seed that fall.
In 1899 we set about two thousand wild roots and planted the seed we had raised. Bought two pounds of seed and found from actual count that we got less than ten thousand seed in the two pounds. Not over twenty-five per cent of the purchased seed grew the next year after setting. That fall we sold some seed and cultivated roots for setting, having gathered about eighty thousand seed, forty thousand of which we sold the next season, besides some cultivated roots for setting.
In the year 1900 we set about two thousand wild roots and about 40,000 seed—28,000 in Truxton, N. Y. That year we gathered about 200,000 seed which we sold, with the exception of about 20,000 used ourselves. We also sold several thousand cultivated roots for setting. The last of the roots and seed we had for sale was ordered the first of last August.
This fall we have set about 20,000 seed and 12,000 cultivated roots, increasing our ground to a half acre. We gathered this season 335,000 seeds. We have taken up the wild roots set in 1897, and very many of them had not thrown up any top, being set too deep. The best roots weighed eight ounces each, being four years' growth from wild roots. We re-set all thrifty roots weighing less than two ounces. The dry root weighed something over 57 pounds. We bought fourteen pounds of the same class root of W. H. & A. D. Frink, making something over 71 pounds, which we sold to Samuel Wells & Co. for $9 per pound. The call for roots and seed for planting is far greater than supply.
It might not be out of place to give you the amount of our sales and receipts for the last few days. On November 1 we received for dry root sold $521. Nov. 2 we sold of this year's seed to a gentleman from Long Island [$600] to be delivered before Jan. 1. Next, to another party, $100 to be delivered next August. On the 5th, $80 to be delivered next August. The 6th, $150 worth to be delivered before January 1. On the 8th $420 for roots and seeds to be delivered this fall. Last Saturday, the 9th, we sold $115 worth of 1901 growth of seed and $20 for seed for this fall's setting, making a total of $2,006 for the nine days.
Some of the parties to whom we have sold ask that their names be withheld from publication.
Ginseng culture is a new industry. The number of acres in cultivation is but few and confined to very few localities. We have experimented and studied its cultivation very carefully for the last five years, and have great confidence in its having a successful future. We will cheerfully give free of charge, all that we have learned about its cultivation to any one interested. We are in correspondence with most of the growers in the United States and some in Korea, and also with gentlemen who should be good judges of the future demand for the dry root. Thomas G. Millard, who has been traveling in China for many years as correspondent for a London newspaper writes that there cannot be enough grown to lower the price in the next fifty years. Other gentlemen write that there will be a call for at least $20,000,000 worth a year from this country.
I find that some people who have had no experience in its cultivation and have not in the least investigated intelligently the prospect for the future market, will tell by far the most about it. We very much enjoy taking care of our garden, and we give an invitation to all to visit us and inspect our ginseng farm.
E. D. & M. S. CROSLEY.
The Groton Bridge Plant.
Groton, N. Y., Nov. 1.—Work on the new bridge plant in the rear of the Conger Mfg. Co's plant will be begun in a few days. The rock crusher is now busy crushing stone for the concrete foundation for the buildings.
The plans for the building are not finished but it will cover an acre 22x5650 feet. Its frame will be of steel and the walls of tile. Over tongue-grooved sheeting will be laid a gravel roof. All floors will be of concrete. It is expected that the plant will be in readiness for the beginning of the manufacture of bridges in the early spring and its capacity will be 1,200 tons a year.
The power used will be electricity, except for some of the hoists, in which compressed air will be used. A forge shop 50x108 will also be constructed. The total of the whole plant will probably be in the neighborhood of $300,000.
The new plant of the Conger Mfg. Co. is approaching completion as rapidly as the work can be pushed. Several of the motors have been put in position and several heats have been run off in the furnaces. The iron plates for the windows in the new carriage shop are being cast in the foundry.
The electric power in use in this factory is pronounced by all who inspect it to be the finest in use in any factory in this part of the state.
The reported sale of the old plant of the Groton Bridge and manufacturing company is not regarded here as a bona fide sale, but that it has merely passed into the possession of another branch of the American Bridge company.
No information can be gained at the office of the American Bridge company here, but it is thought that the owners of the plant have in view a customer for the buildings for purpose of installing another branch of business here.
There is now practically nothing left of the plant except the buildings, nearly all the machinery having been taken out. Even the derricks are being taken down.—Ithaca News.
PAGE FOUR—BRIEF EDITORIALS.
Now we can all settle down and wait for the Schley verdict.
That was a rich cargo which a steamer just arrived at San Francisco brought out of the Orient, its principal items being $1,000,000 in gold from Japan, and Chinese silk valued at $1,500,000. A fine prize that ship would have been in the old days of piracy.
Kingston, Yonkers, Dunkirk and Amsterdam report Democratic gains; Utica holds its own, and Tioga county, the home of Senator Platt, elects a Democratic sheriff—the first Democrat elected in that county in sixteen years. Let us be thankful for small favors.
Republican newspapers, professing to be fair, jubilate over the defeat of Tammany in New York while rejoicing over the triumph of the corrupt Quay machine in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. The cause of good government will hardly be assisted by hypocritical snivel of that kind.
The Chicago Tribune—stalwart Republican—begs that the triumph of Seth Low in New York be not referred to as a Republican victory. It points out that it was a popular uprising against corrupt political methods and that the Democratic party in that city is in nowise defeated. This is true, but just watch and see how Senator Platt, Lieutenant Governor Woodruff and other famous non-partisans will proceed to take advantage of the overturning to entrench the Republican machine in Manhattan.
It appears that nearly 8,000 persons who registered failed to vote in Buffalo last week. This same discrepancy existed in Cortland and elsewhere. The old conundrum arises, why should so many people take the trouble to enroll and then neglect to go to the polls? The problem is one of long standing, and has never been satisfactorily explained. Some person who could afford the time might render a service to public curiosity. If nothing else by comparing the registry with the poll lists, classifying the stay-at-homes by wards and districts, and making extended personal inquiry.
"Not All A Funeral."
It was not all a funeral for the Democrats of the country in Tuesday's elections. Maryland elected a Democratic legislature, which will send Arthur Poe Gorman to the United States senate in place of George Wellington, Republican, and Kentucky elects a Democratic legislature, which will also send a Democrat to the United States senate,
Virginia Democrats carried their state by the usual majority and the Democrats of New Jersey cut down the Republican majority by the thousands.
In this state the Republicans elect a mayor in Rochester by a majority of only a few hundred, and had it not been for the almost superhuman efforts of the Republican boss George W. Aldridge, who was fighting for his political life, the Democrats would easily have carried that city.
Utica elected a Democratic mayor and a number of Democratic mayors were elected in the small cities of the state, where there was no powerful Republican machine to fight for its existence.
Next year the elections throughout the country will have an important national bearing. Forty-five states will chose their delegation to the house of representatives, which fact will practically demonstrate the strength of the two great parties on national issues of the time.
Much will depend upon the action of congress in the coming long session of that body.
It is impossible to predict what congress will do when it meets, but its course will have most largely a determining influence along the lines on which the great popular contest of 1902 will be waged.
Death of Mrs. Anderson Francisco.
The Democrat regrets to announce the death at Preble on the 13th inst. of Mrs. Jennett Davidson Francisco, widow of the late Anderson Francisco. Although nearly eighty years of age, Mrs. Francisco was until the past two weeks in excellent health and unusually active for a person of that advanced age. On November 1, however, while about her house as usual she accidentally fell and seriously injured her hip, and internal complications resulted that caused her death.
Mrs. Francisco was born in the town of Florida, Montgomery county, N. Y., in 1822. She and her husband moved to Preble in 1866 and that place has ever since been their home. Mr. Francisco died in 1893.
Mrs. Francisco was a devoted member of the Presbyterian church of Preble, and was an efficient helper in all local charities and religious work. She was loved by all who knew her and will be sadly missed by the whole community.
The funeral will be held at her residence in Preble at 1 o'clock this afternoon.
Patrons of Industry.
The fourth quarterly convention of Cortland county Patrons of Industry will be held at Good Templars' Hall, Cortland, on Saturday, November 23, at 10 o'clock a. m. The meeting is called for the purpose of electing county officers and delegates to the state convention. A good attendance is desired.
HERE AND THERE.
This has been an unusually blue, dark week, rain or snow having the right of way.
The Lackawanna company has built a high board fence on its west line, extending from Railroad to Venette-st.
The regular meeting of the A. O. U. W. this evening will be addressed by V. R. Blehdon, grand receiver of the order.
The membership of Cortlandville grange is steadily increasing, four new applications having been received the past week.
The Knights of Columbus will work the third degree at the rooms Thanksgiving evening. It is expected that 300 or more visiting Knights will be present.
That was a fine rain we had Monday night and Tuesday, and some folks might say that was a fine snow we had Wednesday morning, but we beg to differ.
Seven of the standing committees appointed by Chairman Crosley have a preponderance of Democrats. This is an honor alike to the chairman and to the supervisors so chosen.
If any reader of the Democrat knows of a surviving musician or officer who served in the militia in 1832, a great favor will be conferred by communicating the same to this office.
A lad named Beugler, son of Hugh J. Beugler, superintendent of the Electric Light company, was severely bitten by a dog Sunday evening, and several wounds made in the face.
The Y. L. S. Social club will give a pedro and euchre party in Empire Hall this evening from 8 to 10, and those who are fortunate enough to attend may be sure of a delightful evening.
At the regular communication of Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. and A. M. next Tuesday evening, the third degree will be conferred. Invitations have been extended to the lodges at Homer, Cincinnatus, Dryden, Marathon and Groton to attend.
At the regular meeting of the county ministerial association held Monday, Rev. D. H. Carver of Groton preached the morning sermon, and Rev. G. E. T. Stevenson of the Memorial Baptist church read an interesting paper at the afternoon session.
The panel of trial jurors to serve at the term of county court to be held in the city of Cortland, commencing Monday, December 9th, will be drawn on Saturday, November 23d at 10 a. m. The date first fixed was on Thursday, November 21st, but was necessarily changed on account of the absence of Judge Eggleston on that date.
The members of Cortlandville grange will hold a social this evening at the home of Mrs. Etta Browne, 26 Church-st. Let every granger turn out and enjoy an evening of pleasure. One feature of the social will be a peanut hunt, and as several of the grangers are great peanut eaters it is expected that there will be some shrewd detective work.
The E. & C. N. Y. R. R. will run a special train from Cortland to Cincinnatus next Tuesday night about 12 o'clock to accommodate those desiring to attend "When We Were Twenty-One" at the Opera House and members of the Masonic fraternity who may wish to attend the regular communication of Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. and A. M., that evening.
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