FLOODS AND FRESHETS

Goodman Hotel, Interlaken, N. Y.

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, March 31, 1896.

FLOODS AND FRESHETS.

Havoc Wrought by the Waters at Many Points.

PORTIONS OF TOWNS INUNDATED.

Cellars and Basements Full of Water in Every Direction—Much Valuable

Property Washed Away. Streams Still Rising Rapidly.

   LYONS, N. Y., March 31.—The Clyde river is higher than at any time since 1865. It commenced rising Sunday and is now about 15 feet above its normal level and is still rising.

   The Standard Oil company's plant on Depew avenue is submerged, Manager Miers being driven from his office by the flood. The Lyons creamery is surrounded by water, all the cans of milk having to be transported to that establishment by raft.

   The bridge and a portion of the west shore have been washed out near Palmyra, necessitating the use of the Central tracks for the West Shore trains.

   The Clyde river bridge at the eastern end of the Lyons yards is believed to be in a dangerous condition. Water undermined the tracks and several gangs of men were put to work to protect them.

   The cellars in many of the residences on Elmer, Shuler, Montezuma, Fordham and Franklin streets are half full of water. Water also surrounds the kilns in the Scott Malting company's malt house and several other establishments were obliged to close down because of difficulty in their engine rooms.

   Several bridges along the Ganargua creek, the Clyde and Canadaigua outlet have been swept away and it is thought that many dams are gone. Water from

Canandaigua outlet covers the flats to a depth of several feet. Much damage has been done all along the streams.

Damage In Western New York.

   BUFFALO, March 31.—Western New York has been having its annual spring floods and they are the worst in its history. In East Buffalo the flooded districts covered an area of over four square miles and much damage was occasioned.

   At Tonawanda the water is steadily rising and the Ely electric road was forced to shut down. It is feared there that the canal locks will give way from the enormous strain and a force of men are busy at work to prevent a washout. The damage from the flood is estimated in that town alone at from $25,000 to $50,000.

   At Niagara Falls the upper end of the city is flooded and boats have been used to remove articles from several houses on the flats this side of Echota.

   At Lockport much damage is reported from the flooding of cellars.

   At many other places the water is dangerously high.

Ithacans Suffer Severely.

   ITHACA, N. Y., March 31.—Numerous freshets have caused a dangerous flood in the inlet at Cayuga lake at the lower part of Ithaca. The water is rising steadily, and many of the cellars of the residences and stores are flooded. Illstone's icehouse has already been washed away, and Dixon & Robinson's lumber yard is so badly flooded that most of the lumber is likely to be carried off. All trains in this vicinity are delayed. Much damage is reported, but it is thought that the worst is over, as the thermometer is falling.

Hornellsville Partly Submerged.

   HORNELLSVILLE, N. Y., March 31.—The Canisteo river today is a raging torrent. Several portions of the city are under water and many of the highways are impassible. The electric road between this city and Canisteo has not been operated and at the latter place the flood is even worse than here. A farmer moving his household goods was forced to abandon his wagon on the lower flat lands. There is still much snow about the valley and if the mild weather continues serious apprehension will be felt.

High Water at Jamestown.

   JAMESTOWN. N. Y., March 31.—Water has risen several inches and is still rising in Chautauqua lake and the Chadakoin river, by the melting of the snow in the woods and fields where it lay in heavy drifts and which has swollen the creeks over their banks. In many places between here and Mayville the railroad tracks are submerged and no trains have yet gone over the road.

Canisteo Badly Inundated.

   CANISTEO, N. Y., March 31.—The water is higher today than it has been since 1865 and considerable damage to farm property will be reported. The river is over its banks in many places. The whole lower end of the town is inundated and residents of Taylor, West Main, Corter, Walnut, Depot and Second streets, were unable to get to their work.

HIGH WATER [IN CORTLAND].

Fills the Creek to Overflowing, Also Many Cellars.

   The warm weather of yesterday started the water from the melting snows on the hillsides with a rush, Yesterday afternoon and evening both Otter and "Dry" creeks were raging torrents. In the evening both overflowed their banks, filling cellars in their immediate vicinity to the windows. Otter creek rose eight inches in one hour, almost overflowing the bridges on Lincoln and Maple-aves. On Maple-ave. the barn floor of Liveryman E. M. Yager was covered with water over one foot in depth. Mr. Yager was compelled to remove his horses to another barn.

   The flats north of Madison-st. were one sheet of water. Residences in that part of the town were, in many instances, entirely surrounded. No damage is reported except that nearly everything in the cellars affected was found floating around this morning and a few hens belonging to Mr. Grant Bugby of Madison-st. were drowned.

   The water is rising rapidly again in both streams this afternoon.

NOTHING IN IT.

Unauthorized Report of a Change in Local Hotel Property.

   A report was circulated last night of a prospective trade in hotel property between Ollie Ingraham, owner of the Messenger House, and Wickwire Brothers, owners of the Central hotel. A STANDARD man to-day called upon Mr. Ingraham and asked him to verify the report. Mr. Ingraham said there was nothing in it.

   Mr. T. H. Wickwire had at one time happened to meet him and asked "How will you trade hotels?" Mr. Ingraham had made no reply at the time. When next he saw Mr. Wickwire he had called out to him that he should want $35,000 to trade with him. That was some time ago and neither party had referred to the subject since. He did not expect to make any trade and did not know that Mr. Wickwire was at all serious in his thought of a trade when he asked the question.

   The STANDARD man also saw Mr. C. F. Wickwire and that gentleman laughed at the idea. He verified Mr. Ingraham's report of the circumstance and the conversation almost word for word but, as Mr. Ingraham said, did not believe his brother was serious when he asked the question. It was probably the expression of a thought that happened to come into his mind at the time, and he didn't believe he had thought of it since. It isn't worth saying anything about, said Mr. Wickwire.

   We wouldn't refer to the matter, as there is so little to it, except that another paper had published the trade as a fact and some one might be deceived by it.

Graduates With Honors.

   Among the many successful young men who have gone forth from Cortland county, there promises to be another added to the list in the person of Mr. Burt D. Harrington of Harford Mills. Mr. Harrington is now twenty-two years of age and has attended the Long Island college hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., for the past three years. At the commencement exercises held March 25 he received a special diploma for proficiency in physical diagnosis as well as the degree of doctor of medicine.

   In addition to the above honors, Mr. Harrington was one of six men from a class of seventy-two selected by the faculty of the college and the regents of the hospital to fill the position of resident physician and surgeon.

   We congratulate Dr. Harrington on his brilliant success and hope that this is only the beginning of a bright and prosperous career in his chosen profession.

BREVITIES.

   — Bingham Bros. & Miller to-day put up new awnings in front of their double clothing store.

   —There will be a baking exhibition by the new Cortland Range at Buck & Lane's store to-morrow,

   —The Nomination of Charles E. Wills as postmaster at Homer was yesterday confirmed by the senate.

   —The windows in the City drug store have put on Easter appearance with begonias, Easter lilies and other potted plants.

   —Several of the millinery stores have their spring openings to-day and they are crowded with ladies inspecting the beautiful lines of Easter hats.

   —Mr. A. A. Freeman has accepted an invitation from the Fortnightly club to deliver a lecture before them to-night at the home of the Misses Fitzgerald.

   —New advertisements to-day—Fred I. Graham, facts of the case, page 6; Warner Rood, "London Gaiety Girls," page 6; Bennett & Hartwell, plumbing, etc., page 6; Will Grady, bicycler, page 6.

   —The boxing entertainment under the auspices of the Cortland Boxing club, which was to have been held in Keator opera house, Homer, to-morrow night, will be held in the Cortland Opera House on Saturday evening of this week instead.

  

London Gaiety Girls.

   The London gaiety girls appear at the Opera House Friday night, April 3. Comedy items and sensational novelties will be introduced. There will be pretty girls, funny comedians, and original novelties, in two laughing satires, "The Century Club's Reception" and "The Tramp Astronomers."

   The following well known vaudeville stars, the Fergusons, Eddie Odell, Dot Lothrop, Hilton, Keating and Alexander and the Chapelle sisters are among them. All mechanic and scenic effects are carried by the company.

 

RAINES LAW IN FORCE IN NEW YORK STATE AND PAST SNOW RECORDS IN CORTLAND

John Raines.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, March 30, 1896.

RAINES LAW IN FORCE.

Many Towns Enforced the New Law, Others Did Not.

   NEW YORK, March 30.—Outside of Long Island City New York enjoyed the distinction yesterday of being the only city in the state in which the Raines liquor bill was not assumed to be in force, and this was due to the fact that Chief of Police Conlin and the corporation counsel were in doubt as to whether the bill goes into operation before April 30.

   To the casual observer this condition of affairs seemed to be about the same as on any other Sunday in the past. The saloons as usual were closed to strangers, and many of them closed entirely.

   The exceptions, however, were few and far between for the majority of them kept their shades up with a picket on guard who released the chain on the side door only after assuring himself that the callers were "all right."

   At the University, Union League and other prominent clubs, drinks could be had the same as usual, but it was said that next Sunday the bars would be closed tight.

   At one saloon on Second avenue, near Ninety-eighth street, the proprietor "had his excise and tobacco licenses on view in the window with a sign under reading: "By order of Senator Raines."

ERROR IN THE RAINES LAW.

A Technical Mistake Which Promises Heaps of Trouble.

   ALBANY, March 30.—So far as the legislature is concerned, it was supposed that the Raines bill was finally disposed of and that no amendments of any kind would be tolerated. The beer and ale license bill is slated to die. The Kempner repeal bill is to be hung up in committee, and Senator Raines, who had some technical amendments to make to the legal part of the bill, was hesitating in putting them in, in fear of precipitating a row, when it is discovered that there is a serious technical error affecting wholesalers in cities of less than 10,000. In all the tax clauses of the bill the section relative to places of 10,000 inhabitants reads: "In cities or villages of less than 10,000 or more than 5,000," but in the wholesale liquor dealer clause the word "city" is omitted. The effect of this is to cut off wholesale liquor dealers in Olean and Dunkirk, the only two cities of less than 10,000, according to the last state census, upon which the bill is based.

   Curiously enough the discovery of this error was made by dealers in Hudson, and they at once prepared a bill amending it which is to be presented tonight by the assemblyman and senator representing the district. But the error does not concern Hudson, for by the census of 1892 she has 10,040 people credited to her, and that puts her in the next higher class and not in the one where the error occurs.

   It is thought that the offering of the amendment may precipitate a fight at once or allow the attempt being made to attach a beer and ale amendment, in which event there will be a close fight and more caucus action. Such an occurrence is viewed by the leaders with some alarm, for it is a pretty well conceded fact that if a beer and ale amendment bill is sent to the governor he will sign it.

A Veritable Drouth In Brooklyn.

   NEW YORK, March 30.—The Raines law went into force in Brooklyn yesterday. The mandate had gone forth from the police commissioners and the district attorney that the law would be strictly enforced and every saloon keeper within the jurisdiction of the police was notified to comply with this provision. That they did so was apparent everywhere. Saloons, side doors and all were closed tight. Blinds were drawn and in eases where panels obstructed a view of the bar from the street, these were thrown open. Never in its history as a city has Brooklyn experienced such a dry Sunday. The restaurants and clubs were just as dry as the saloons.

Dry Sunday In Syracuse.

   SYRACUSE, March 30.—The police paid particular attention to the saloons and hotels yesterday on account of the notice issued by Chief Wright to the effect that the Raines law would be enforced. It was a dry Sunday, but few saloon keepers evading the law. The provision requiring that the interior of places be exposed to view from the street was not satisfactorily obeyed. At all of the hotels and most of the clubs drinks were obtainable. The police gathered information of about a dozen violations of the law. Two places within a stone's throw of police headquarters were closed by detectives. After nightfall many of the saloons relaxed their rigid observance of the law and side doors were opened.

MANY RIVERS RAGING.

Warm Rain Causes a Thaw, Which Threatens Much Damage.

   NUNDA, N. Y., March 30.—The indications for a flood here are serious. The heavy rain helped to swell Kishequa creek, and the warm wave melted the snow and ice so rapidly that the little creek raised a foot in 40 minutes and was soon a raging river, overflowing its banks in many places. A washout and landslide occurred on the Central New York and Western railroad above Willard's dam, and a large force of men are now at work repairing the bank.

   At Coopersville the damage is great. The public highway has been washed out to a depth of about two and a half feet and a width of 200 feet. Two houses at this point are completely surrounded by water, and in order to escape from one of the houses the members of the family had to climb from a window to a tree and then pass to high ground with the aid of a plank.

Niagara Falls, Ont., Flooded.

   NIAGARA FALLS, Ont., March 30.—A big flood has spread over the town. Owing to the culvert which takes the surplus water from Muddy creek becoming choked, the creek backed up, flooding the first floors of houses on Huron street and Superior avenue.

   The Grand Trunk railway station is surrounded by water and can only be reached by an elevated plank. The tracks of the Grand Trunk and the

Niagara Park and River Railway companies are under water. A great deal of damage was caused.

Seneca River Freshet.

   SENECA FALLS, N. Y., March 30.—The great freshet in the Seneca river will entail great loss to manufacturers here from damage by the flood as well as by the enforced shutdowns of the various establishments. A heavy rain and thaw swelled the river to greater proportions than in 15 years, and being unexpected, much damage has resulted in the basements and low first floors of the factories, including Gould's pump works, the Gleasan & Bailey fire apparatus and the Rumsey pump and fire apparatus manufactories, the Seneca Falls Manufacturing company and a score of smaller concerns.

Some Other Winters.

   To the Editor of the Standard:

   Sir—I saw a statement in your paper that February and March, 1896, would go on record as the coldest and most blustering (or something to that effect) for many years. As I have records for the past twenty-five or more years I thought I would look it up and see, and in looking back I find that February and March have in former years exceeded the present, both in temperature and snowdrifts.

   In the year 1873 on March 27 snow fell to the depth of one foot and there was about the same depth upon the ground previous to this fall. It drifted so badly that upon the 3lst it was impossible for teams to get through from South Cortland to Cortland upon the main road. The only way was to go upon the cross road over to the McLean road by the way of L. Gillett's.

   I find that in 1875 on Sunday, Feb. 7, it was twelve degrees below zero, on the 8th, eighteen below; and the 9th, fourteen below at 6 A. M., and six below at noon and ten at 6 P. M. The 10th, twelve below; 11th, four below; the 12th, seven at 6 A. M., and twenty at 9 P. M; the 13th, twenty-eight below and four at 8 P. M. Sunday the 14th, four below at 6 A. M., and four at 8 P. M; the 15th, eight below, and the 16th, two at 6 A. M., and 10 [at] 9 P. M.; 17th, 8 above and 18th, 2 below and the 19th, 3 above. The 22d, 10 below; and March 21st, 6 below; the 22d, 18 below at 5 A. M. and at 10 P. M., 10; the 23d, 18 below.

   In 1885 March 11, zero; 12th, 4 below at 8 P. M., the 13th, 14 below; the 15th, 6 above; 16th, 2 below; 17th 2; the 18th, 8 below; and the 21st, 6; and 22nd 4 below; the 23rd, 4 above; and 24th, 2 below.

   On the 15th of April people went past the house in sleighs. By comparing dates it will be seen that February and March of the present year are not quite so vigorous as in years past, but still are not very feeble.

   A. P. ROWLEY,

   South Cortland, March 30, 1896.

[A. P. Rowley was a postmaster at South Cortland, first appointed in 1861—CC editor.]

Rescued the Cars.

   The Lehigh Valley's wrecking train with a force of men spent the day yesterday near Canastota rescuing the coal cars which went over the embankment last week. Six cars were brought up, the others will come later. The coal is still down the bank where the cars upset. It has not yet been decided what will be done with that, but a suggestion has been offered that it be sold to people near by [sic] right where it lies and let the purchaser get it.

BREVITIES.

   —The amount of snow which has disappeared since Saturday and the rate at which it is now going is surprising.

   —H. Banks, the barber, is now nicely located in his new shop next north of the Model meat market on North Main-st.

   —A new plate glass was to-day placed in the north window of the City drug store to replace the one broken two months ago.

   —There will be a gymnasium exhibition in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium to-morrow night under the direction of W. S. Haskell, the physical instructor.

   —Messrs. T. H. Youngs and Charles Antisdell have to-day received another [train] car of horses from Buffalo which are to be sold some day soon at the Cortland House stables.

   —And now Oneida and Clockville are trying to get the Lehigh Valley road to extend its lines to those towns. Public meetings are to be held and correspondence with the Lehigh people entered into.

   —The Congregational Christian Endeavor sleighride and social which was announced to have been held to-night at the home of Riley Niles has been postponed indefinitely on account of the condition of the roads.

   —Architect M. F. Howes has the plans all drawn for a very handsome new house to be built by Glann & Clark upon a vacant lot owned by them at 17 N. Church-st. The contract has not yet been let, but they hope to have the building completed by the middle of the summer, when it will be occupied by Prof J. E. Banta.

   —New advertisements to-day are—F. E. Brogden, is your liver right? page 6; A. S. Burgess, will save you money, page 7; C. F. Brown, a giddy rainbow, page 6; Bingham Bros. & Miller, spring overcoats, page 8; Wesson-Nivison Mfg. Co., wheels, page 6; Warren, Tanner & Co., kid gloves for Easter, page 6; Tanner Bros , one dollar, page 6.

   —The cable supporting a large freight elevator at the carriage factory of The H. M. Whitney Co. broke one of the last days of last week while between the second and third floors. The elevator was heavily loaded at the time and three men were on it besides the freight. The elevator did not fall five feet before the automatic safety appliances caught and held the elevator.

 

MORE RETRACTIONS IN ORDER

William H. Clark, editor and publisher of the Cortland Standard.

Benton Bushnell Jones, editor and publisher of the Cortland Democrat.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, March 28, 1896.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

More Retractions in Order.

   The only Democratic candidates on the Good Government ticket a year ago was one school commissioner, and he was a Prohibitionist, and two out of eight inspectors of election, one of these being also a Prohibitionist.—Cortland Democrat, March. 20.

   The STANDARD insists that Trustee Jas. J. Glann, who was elected on the Good Government ticket a year ago, is a lifelong Democrat. Possibly The STANDARD may be right about it, but it is so much more liable to be wrong than right, that we must be pardoned for desiring further evidence as to Mr. Glann's lifelong Democracy. If The STANDARD will procure and publish Mr. Glann's statement, that he voted the Democratic ticket in 1894 and 1895, we shall be pleased to acknowledge that we were mistaken. We fully appreciate the fact that we are treading on dangerous ground when we seem to distrust the Democracy of a Democrat but we are not distrusting him. We are simply suspicious, and for good reasons, of the truth of any statement made by The STANDARD. Mr. Glann's statement would be sufficient but nothing short of an affidavit of The STANDARD, backed up by strong circumstantial evidence would suffice.—Cortland Democrat, March 27.

   Democratic candidates, who "was a Prohibitionist," were, or was, strange articles, or a strange article. We don't "get onto" the Democrat's syntax exactly, but perhaps our readers will grasp the idea. It is rarely, however, that the Democrat gives us a better chance to nail one of its false statements than in the present instance. A STANDARD representative called on Mr. Glann and obtained from him the following statement, which was put in writing by our representative and signed by Mr. Glann, that there might be no question as to wording:

   "I have noticed with surprise the editorial in the Cortland Democrat of March 27 in which the editor expresses serious doubts as to my politics and the quality of my Democracy. Permit me to say for Mr. Jones' benefit that I was born and brought up a Democrat and was the son of a Democrat. I have never taken any very active part in politics, but always felt enough interest to vote at every election and I have never on any national or state election voted other than the straight Democratic ticket, including the years 1894 and 1895, to which he especially calls attention. Upon local politics I have not felt myself bound so strictly by party lines. Though usually voting the Democratic ticket, I have felt that there should be little politics in local affairs and I have felt at liberty to cast a complimentary vote for a friend who might chance to be a candidate upon another ticket if I so desired, and have always intended on local elections to vote for the candidates whom I regarded the best men for the offices. But upon general elections I have always voted the Democratic ticket."

   It would seem from the above that Mr. Glann is a Democrat and that Editor

Jones is—our readers can judge for themselves. We hardly know in which light the editor aforesaid appears to the worse advantage—as a deliberate falsifier or as the editor of the only Democratic paper in Cortland and yet professing that he is ignorant of the fact that a lifelong member of his own party is village trustee. Is it possible because Mr. Glann does not favor the violation of law and the unlicensed sale of whiskey that Editor Jones took him for a Republican? These are Republican symptoms, surely [sarcasm].

   ◘ The Cortland Democrat having been compelled to own up to a falsehood in stating that there had never been but one Democratic professor in the Cortland Normal school, should now be honest enough to tell its readers that, besides five Democratic professors, the Normal once had a Democratic principal, Dr. J. M. Cassety, appointed by a Republican superintendent of public instruction. If ever an editor went wool gathering and came back sheared, it is the editor of The Democrat—after his attempt to find Republican partisanship in the Normal. And still this confessed and convicted falsifier has the gall to lecture others on truth telling! We are not quite done with him and this paper yet.

Take Refuge Behind Petticoats.

   The fact that out of a score or more of instructors in the Normal there is at the present time one single, solitary Democrat, proves beyond a doubt that the school is not run in the interest of Republican politics.—Cortland Democrat.

   The logic of the above is not very clear, but whatever objection there is to it on this score should probably be charged to the condition of the editor's head, which of late has seemed to be rapidly getting into the same demoralized state with his conscience. What the editor of The Democrat probably meant to say, and tried to say, was that the alleged fact which he sets forth proves that the Normal school is, rather than that it is not, "run in the interest of Republican politics." But even here he makes a mess of it. With his usual accuracy and truth he charges that there are a "score or more" of instructors in the Normal, whereas there are just sixteen. Out of these sixteen only four are men. Out of these four men, one is a Democrat.

   The way elections are running nowadays—except where Mississippi and

South Carolina Democratic methods are in vogue—this is not so far as it might be from the ratio which the Republican bears to the Democratic vote.

   But the essential meanness of the Democrat's paragraph consists in the attempt to make the public believe that out of "a score or more" of instructors in the Normal entitled to vote only one is a Democrat. Compelled to own up to a deliberate falsehood in charging that there had never been but one Democratic professor in the Normal faculty he takes refuge behind petticoats, and charges that the twelve women teachers are Republicans. Brave man! We [had] never thought to inquire into the politics of the lady members of the faculty. We have never heard of this being done save in one Normal school of the state—not in this immediate section, however—where the principal was a Democrat. He had to be assured that a lady who applied for a place as a teacher came of a Democratic family. The burly form of the editor of the Democrat skulking behind skirts recalls the story of the capture of that other distinguished Democrat and patriot Jeff Davis, whom even crinoline couldn't save.

   ◘ It is a remarkable fact that the Normal school was opened in 1868 and during all the twenty-eight years of its existence The STANDARD can only remember that five Democratic instructors have been employed.—Cortland Democrat.

   The STANDARD has not inquired into the politics of all the lady teachers who have held places in the Normal faculty. Possibly The Democrat has. It is worth noting, however, that The Democrat owns up to a contemptible falsehood in stating that there never has been but one Democratic professor in the Normal. It is also worthy of note that of the five Democratic professors who have held places on the faculty, four have been appointed while the editor of The STANDARD has been a member of the board and while there was a Republican majority in the board.

   ◘ Bets are about even as to whether the Cortland Democrat should be denominated "the champion falsifier," or "the champion retractor."

PERISHED IN THE STORM.

LITTLE NICENAH BURVEE OF VIRGIL GOT LOST.

Following a Straying Cow—Searched for all Night—Smothered Under a Huge Drift.

   March, 1896, will go down into history as one of the most stormy months for its season ever known in this section of the county. The oldest inhabitants are now looking back in vain to find its equal in their recollection. The changes from warm to cold have been remarkable, the storms and blizzards have been terrific. Railroads have been tied up and trains delayed almost beyond a parallel, and now on one of the last days of the month in a well populated part of this county comes the news of the death of a little girl ten years old in the town of Virgil, who wandered out in the great storm Thursday night while looking for a stray cow and perished, though a small army of friends and neighbors were looking for her.

   Supervisor Holton of Virgil gives us the details of this sad occurrence as follows: Mr. George Burvee lives about two miles south east from Virgil on the farm of Hiram Conrad, and also works the farm of Wm. Ryan about one half mile east from where he lives.

   Just before dark Thursday night when the cows were let out from the barn to drink one of them that had been kept on the Ryan farm started to go back to that place. Little Nicenah, a girl of ten years, threw a shawl over her head and ran to get past the cow and drive her back, but the cow kept ahead of her, and her sister Martha followed to assist her. When they got to the house of Mr. Alva Mott, Martha was so cold that she stopped and called to Nicenah to stop, but she in her earnest effort to help her father and head off the cow, persisted in following the straying animal.

   As the children did not return when the parents thought they should, they started in pursuit of them, but the storm was raging so fiercely that no trace of them could be found until they arrived at Mr. Mott's house, where they found Martha, but little Nicenah could not be found. The neighbors were aroused and the search was continued until after midnight, when all hope of finding her that night was abandoned, and, as there was great danger of others getting lost, it was decided to wait until daylight.

   At daylight the search was renewed and about 9 o'clock Mr. John Houk discovered a small corner of the shawl that she wore, about 100 rods south from the Ryan barn, on the farm of Duane Ballou. He hastened to the spot and found the object of their search under the snow, but life was extinct.

Whether death was caused from exhaustion, or from her being smothered by the snow is not known. The body was still warm except two toes which were frozen. Dr. Butterfield of Harford was called but no effort of his could be of any avail.

BREVITIES.

   —New advertisements to-day are—Wesson-Nivison Mfg. Co., wheels, page 4.

   —The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad has declared the regular quarterly dividend of 1 3/4 per cent.

   —Dr. L. S. Ingalls is out to-day with a new high grade Victor bicycle purchased of the local agent, Mr. A. M. Jewett.

   —The Candy Kitchen will soon after April 1 be moved to the store in the Grand Central block, now occupied by Fred I. Graham.

   —News was received in Cortland yesterday of the death of David B. Parce of South Otselic Thursday. The funeral will be held to-morrow.

   —Justice of the Peace Thomas H. Dowd to-day removed to his new quarters in the Burgess block, and now has one of the neatest offices in town.

   —A hen hawk was seen to-day hovering about the hen roost of one of our subscribers—a sure sign he says of the coming of spring and warm weather.

   —The Electro Photograph Co. have rented rooms on the second floor of the Dowd block on Main-st. over the store soon to be occupied by Mrs. Pomeroy and will move into their new quarters April 1.

   —Miss Mattie Tracy of Cayutaville, who had a wide acquaintance in Cortland, died in Chattanooga, Tenn., Saturday, where she had gone for the benefit of her health. The funeral was held yesterday at Cayutaville.

   —A very pleasant time is reported by those in attendance at the social at Mr. A. Sager's on Lincoln-ave. given by Bible class No. 8 of the Homer-ave. church. A literary and musical program was rendered and refreshments were served.

   —Messrs. C A. Lowell and M. A. Lowell have formed a company to be known as The Cortland Welding Compound Co., and will engage in the manufacture of several lines of welding compounds, of which the former is inventor and has patents pending. Mr. C. A. Lowell will also continue his interest with The Climax Welding Compound Co.

   —Yesterday was a very bad day for railroads up north. The Chenango Valley road was completely blocked up until about noon. The Central and West Shore trains were nearly all behind time. The Lehigh Valley trains on this division were late, the train due here at 3:15 o'clock being several hours behind time. Bliss' cut near Delphi was the same old offender. It seems as though some of this snow ought to go before long.

New Directory Coming.

   Mr. Samuel Parsons of Syracuse has been in town this week working upon his new directory for Cortland, Homer, Marathon and McGrawville. The new directory will be a duplex street directory, that is, in addition to the alphabetical list of residents, the streets will be arranged in order and the residents of each street given in consecutive numbers. Mr. Parsons went back to Syracuse to-day, but will return to Cortland about April 15 to continue active work in taking the names of the people and business places. Much of the work done before April 1 would have to be done over again, so he will wait until after the moving season is over.