THE KNIGHTS MUST GO

Henry Walter Webb.

Photo of Theodore Voorhees, lower left.

The Cortland Standard, Friday, October 10, 1890.

THE KNIGHTS MUST GO.

An Important Circular Issued by H. Walter Webb.

   NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—The following circular has been issued from the office of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad:

   NEW YORK CENTRAL & HUDSON RIVER R. R., OFFICE OF THE THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT, GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT, NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 1890.

   To Messrs. J. M. Toucey, General Manager; Theodore Vorhees, General Superintendent; Walter Kaat, Chief Engineer; William Buchanan, Superintendent of Motive Power and Rolling Stock:

    The recent strike, the acts of lawlessness committed in connection therewith, the published correspondence between the leaders of the organization that ordered it and the fact that many men now seeking re-employment state that they quit work from fear of personal violence and did not dare to resume work for the same reason, compel the management of this company to announce that it objects to its employes [sic] being members of the organization known as the "Knights of Labor." The management is satisfied that membership in this particular organization is inconsistent with faithful and efficient service to the company, and is likely at any time to prevent it from properly discharging its duties to the public. You will at once take such action as will bring this circular to the attention of the employes in your respective department.
H. WALTER WEBB, Third Vice-President.

   General Superintendent Voorhees said to-day that the circular means precisely what it says, and that it will be put in force at once. Knights must either give up their membership in the order or leave the road.

Knights of Labor seal.

The Color Line.

   HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 5.—The Houston & Texas Central railway has employed negro watchmen in its yards for several years. About two weeks ago a demand was made for their removal, the places to he filled with whites. The demand was refused and the foremen all struck. Grand Master Wilkinson has been in the city two days trying to adjust matters amicably, but without avail, as the officials of the Central argue that if the colored men are fool enough to sit in the councils of the Knights of Labor they should be good enough to work with. Wilkinson has wired to all members of the Executive Council of the Railway Federation to come to Houston at once. The impression is general that a strike is imminent. The Southern Pacific may also be involved, as both roads are in the Huntington system.

HERE AND THERE.

   Buckwheat is quoted at one cent per pound.

   The new bridge across the Otselic river at Willett is completed.

   Fried potatoes cut the size of a match are the latest in fashionable restaurants.

   Elmer E. Davis, of Lisle, is now day operator at the S. & B. station in this village.

   G. W. Bain, of Kentucky, will speak for the Prohibitionists at the Cortland Opera House, Saturday evening Oct. 11th.

   Mr. John H. Day has purchased F. M. Johnston's stock of goods and as soon as the same is closed out, Mr. Day proposes to engage in the manufacture of cigars.

   Hose company No. 4, of Homer, have arranged for an entertainment at Keator Opera house, to be given by the New York Symphony Club, on Thursday evening, November 6th.

   Homer and Little York depots receive 5,200 quarts of milk every twenty-four hours, fully two-thirds of which is shipped direct to consumers in Brooklyn. The balance is skimmed and finds a ready market.

   Mr. A. A. Reynolds, of Rochester, has leased the store No. 14 Railroad-st., in the new Democrat building, for a term of years and will open the same Saturday with a handsome stock of fine shoes for ladies' wear.

   Messrs. Green & Bliss, of this place, have purchased the tailoring establishment of Quick & Eadie in Homer, and are in possession. The senior member of the firm will remain in charge of the business in Cortland, while Mr. Bliss will take charge of the Homer store.

   A scheme is now on foot in various parts of the State for naming the country roads and numbering the farm houses as houses are numbered in the city, putting  up signboards at the corners, and, in fact, making it very easy to find a given point in the rural districts.— Union News.

   McGrawville is rejoicing over the outlook for her manufactories during the coming season. The Monarch Wagon Company having the contract to build the packing cases for Warner Bros.' Bridgeport and local corset establishment, requiring twenty cases large enough for twenty-five dozen corsets, besides numerous smaller sizes daily.

   Mr. James E. Tanner is materially improving the exterior appearance of his residence on Lincoln avenue.

   The firm of Webster & Corning, proprietors of the Clinton avenue market, has been dissolved, Mr. Webster retiring.

   Mrs. James Carroll, of East Court street, died Wednesday at the hospital in Syracuse, whither she went but a short time since to receive treatment for throat disease.

   Our enterprising department store proprietor, G. P. Beaudry, maintained his reputation of doing nothing by halves last Friday, when he purchased the entire crop of Crawfords grown in James Stafford's peach orchard at Virgil—three bushels.

   Mr. Theodore H. Wickwire has exchanged his Walnut Creek ranch, consisting of 3,200 acres and located in Ness county, Kansas, for Mr. T. F. Brayton's flouring mills, located on Clinton-ave, in this place. Mr. Brayton will have charge of the mills until May 1st, next.

   Mr. James Owen O'Conner, who essayed to play Hamlet in the Opera House last Friday evening, met with a decidedly warm reception toward the close of the entertainment. Apples, tomatoes and other fruit and vegetables were fired at him from the audience. That sort of applause seemed to be familiar to him and he succeeded in dodging the intended compliments. An officer accompanied him on his way to the Messenger House after the entertainment and was kept pretty busy protecting the eminent tragedian. Mr. O'Conner has no better conception of the character of Hamlet than a child and he has not a single qualification necessary to make an actor in even the smallest parts in any play and the same may be said of every member of his company. The sight was indeed a pitiful one and was calculated to produce sorrow for the simple-minded and misguided being. How any one could feel like injuring or misusing the poor unfortunate is more than we can conceive. Even the wild Indians, savages though they be, treat their weak-minded enemies with mildness and forbearance. Undoubtedly those who engaged in the abuse of O'Conner last Friday night, acted as they did thoughtlessly and because the same sort of treatment had been accorded him in Syracuse and other places, but it certainly was discreditable not only to them but to the town. The DEMOCRAT sincerely hopes that the performance of O'Conner and of some members of his audience will never be repeated in Cortland.

  

FROM EVERYWHERE.

   The recent Central Hudson strike cost the company $150,000.

   Schoharie county fruit-growers are selling their apples at $2.50 per barrel.

   Monday several Fall River mills shut down for a week to relieve the depression in the cloth market.

   The State milk inspectors are "doing" the Hudson river towns and cities, surprising some of the dealers.

   Last week a farmer near Batavia drew $495 for his crop of marrow beans, raised on nine and one-half acres of land.

   "A man of 350 pounds," said a cremationist, "after being burned weighs six ounces, and you can send him by mail."

   Rensselaer county farmers are disposing of their apple crop at $2 per barrel hand-picked and $1.50 per barrel for shaken fruit.

   Furious snow storms and gales visited the gulf and upper St. Lawrence districts Tuesday. Several fishing crafts were capsized.

   The earnings of the New York Central railroad for August are reported to be over half a million greater than for the same month last year.

   During September meat inspector Shaw reported having seized nearly one-half ton of decaying meats from dealers and slaughtering houses in Syracuse.

   Rich gold and silver finds are reported to have lately been discovered in the Arbuckle mountains, Chickasaw nation, near Ardmore, Indian Territory.

  The edict has been issued that young ladies in the Oswego State Normal school must not wear garters of the historic style of Edward III, but hereafter must adopt side elastic fastenings for their hosiery support.

   By the explosion of a can of hexagonal powder in the packing room of the Dupont Company's Powder Mills, near Wilmington, Del., Tuesday afternoon, ten people were killed, twenty wounded and the mills ruined together with some fifty dwelling houses of the workmen.

   The trial of Arthur H. Day, of Rochester, for the murder of his wife by pushing her over a precipice on Niagara river, July 27th last was opened at Welland, Ont., Tuesday. The jury retired at 10:13 P. M., returning a verdict of guilty at 12:45 A M., Wednesday. He has been sentenced to hang November 18.

   Mrs. Rose Fox, who has been in jail at Norwich several months under an indictment for the supposed death of Palmer Rich, was set at liberty upon her own recognizance for her appearance at the next term of court of oyer and terminer and supreme court. Palmer Rich mysteriously disappeared about two years ago. The last seen of him he was going to the brothel of the Fox woman.

   The city of Elmira is agitating very strongly the question of the cause and future remedy of the damage sustained from the Chemung river overflowing its boundaries. A civil engineer has made a survey and recommended the dredging of the river bed and building up its banks at an estimated cost of $750,000. There is much talk of making an appeal to the next Legislature for an appropriation of from $50,000 to $100,000 for this object. Another scheme is to remove the large island situated in mid-stream about one-half mile below the city at a point where the river turns at nearly right angles—the island being directly in the point of this angle, thus obstructing the channel and backing the water upon the city.