A COMPLETE
TIE UP.
NOT A WHEEL TURNING WEST OF SAYRE, PA.
Conductors, Engineers, Firemen and Telegraphers
All Out—Situation Unchanged on the Eastern Divisions—President Wilbur Issues a
Bulletin to Employes—A Change Expected Today.
ROCHESTER, Nov. 22.—Only one train has moved
on the Rochester division of the Lehigh Valley road since 1 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. Representatives of five
Brotherhoods, conductors, trainmen, engineers, firemen and telegraphers, held a
meeting at the strike headquarters here. A general order was issued which was promptly
obeyed by every employe [sic] of the Lehigh road. The engineers left their locomotives
in good condition and the firemen banked their fires. The strikers include several
men, some of them conductors who are not members of the brotherhood.
The freight trains due to leave hare at 2 o'clock
yesterday afternoon are still in the yard all made up. The order included not
only the Rochester branch, but took in the Batavia and Niagara Falls branches,
and on these branches it was as promptly complied with as on the Rochester
division.
The Batavia division runs from Manchester to
Batavia. The Niagara Falls division runs from the Falls to Batavia. Not a wheel
is turning on any of these divisions. This completes the tie-up of the road
west of Sayre.
The strike leaders here say that the claim
that the New York Central is not a Brotherhood
road is false. They say that were an order issued to the operators on that road
similar to the one issued yesterday the road would be absolutely crippled. They
go further and say that if the Lehigh road does not succumb within a reasonable
time, they will tie-up the Erie, New York Central, Delaware and Lackawanna and
all of the other roads one by one.
The strikers claim Operator J. F. Walters at
Rochester Junction, is a Canadian from the provinces, and that he came thither to
work under a contract with the Lehigh company. Should Walters persist in
remaining at his post, proceedings will be taken against him under the United States
contract labor law. Other operators working are said to be in the same boat.
The passenger train due to leave here for
Sayre at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon has not yet arrived at that place and it
will probably not arrive there for some time. The local train due to leave here
at 5:10 did not leave at that hour.
The train crew stood around the depot, and
after the agent had conferred with the engineer the latter agreed to draw the mail
car to Rochester junction. There were two passenger coaches attached to the
train, but no tickets were sold to any point, the agent refusing to guarantee that
anybody buying them would reach his destination. The employes say that no
trains at all will be run today.
L. L. Coleman, district chairman of the
brotherhoods, telegraphs from Waverly that volunteers are running a stage line
from Waverly to Towanda, to take the place of cars.
Bulletin
to Employes.
BETHLEHEM, Pa., Nov. 22. — President Wilbur
said that there were no new developments in the strike. Things are moving quietly.
He subsequently issued the following bulletin.
To all
employes:
To correct any misapprehension regarding the
position of the officers of this company, I would state that they are at
all times ready and willing to give patient hearing to complaints on the part
of its employes or any number of them in any department. If dissatisfied with
the conclusions reached by the division superintendents or general
superintendent, the president will hear the cases and decide.
But we decline to confer with organized committees
composed of several branches of the service, for the reason that we cannot know
that such a committee fairly represents its employes.
The engineers cannot, of course, fairly represent
the grievances of telegraph operators, nor can firemen properly represent
trainmen. The company maintains the right to employ men upon such terms as may
be agreed upon, and settle all complaints only with its employes, and to
discharge for cause with the right to
appeal, but without reference to the judgment or action of any organization.
All employes who may fail to report for duty
on or before noon today will be regarded as having left the service of the
company and all such will be paid in full as soon as the payrolls can be made
up. Men failing to come forward and receive their wages will receive no consideration
in reorganizing train services.
E. P. WILBUR,
President.
JERSEY CITY, NOV. 22.—While no change is
apparent at the terminus of the Lehigh Valley, the probabilities are that something
in the nature of a change will take place between now and noon.
The 12:42 train for Elmira left on schedule
time with a few passengers and some baggage. This train was taken out by Conductor
Riddle, who brought in the 10:40 train from the L. and B. junction. He had with
him a nonunion fireman and engineer. Conductor Riddle made the statement that
he did not think another train would come in during the afternoon. This
statement was verified, as train No. 20, due to arrive in Jersey City at 1 p.
m., failed to come in. Another train, No. 18, local from Lansdowne also failed
to put in an appearance, and it looks as though the strikers have succeeded in
tying up the passenger service for the eastern terminus pretty effectually.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
The
Blount Report.
It is probably the [sign] of popular disapproval
which has forced the administration to give out portions of the Blount report
on Hawaiian affairs, on which Secretary Gresham based his extraordinary
recommendations. The most striking thing about the report, so far as the
published extracts go, is that it ignores altogether the revolution initiated
by the queen in the attempt to establish an absolute despotism. That was the
starting point of the whole business, but Mr. Cleveland's paramount
commissioner does not recognize it. From all that appears in his report, the
men who established the provisional government might have been on a level with General Walker's filibusters, acting from a greed for empire or for plunder.
But the fact is, as any orderly history of
the occurrences which preceded and attended the formation of the provisional government
will show, that before the committee on public safety met, or any measures were
taken to get the degraded queen, to whom Mr. Blount gives his amusing testimonial
of good character off the throne, she had undertaken to possess herself of
absolute power by overthrowing the constitution. It was then that the public
safety was threatened. It was then that the men of intelligence and of means on
the islands were aware that, if they submitted to the reckless schemes of the
queen and her corrupt advisors, neither their property nor their lives would he
safe, and in self-defence they organized their committee of public safety, out
of which grew the provisional government. If Commissioner Blount went out to
ascertain the truth, and not to find a pretext for a preconceived policy for
the administration, why, asks the Boston Journal,
does he not state these facts as they are? Why does he undertake to make the
American people believe that a movement which had its origin in the attempt of
a wicked and dissolute queen to usurp all constitutional authority was the result
of a conspiracy between the United States Minister, American missionaries and children
of missionaries and American merchants?
There is a great deal of tattle and
irresponsible gossip in the voluminous mass of material which Minister Blount collected,
but there is not a word in which disproves the statement of ex-Minister Stevens
that the troops from the Boston were landed solely to secure the safety of
American life and property. There is not a line to show that they were used for
any other purpose. Requests for their aid which were made to Minister Stevens
by both parties were refused to both. Within the last several years there have
been five or six revolutions in Hawaii, and more than once before American
Marines have been landed to preserve order. It is more than probable that their
presence on this occasion averted scenes of bloodshed and pillage which would
have followed the attempt of the queen violently to overthrow constitutional
government. But there is nothing in that circumstance which can give the administration
warrant for such a monstrous proceeding as the replacement on her throne of the
queen whose rapacity and corruption caused all the trouble. If such a rule is to
be permanently maintained, either the forces of good order and civilization on
the islands must first be exterminated, or our government must maintain troops for
the queen to lean upon.
BREVITIES.
AND HIS STORY IT ENDED RIGHT THAIRE.
There was a young man in Bellaire,
Who
said: "When I was at the faire—"
So they
jumped on his neck,
And left
him a wreck,
With his
heels sticking up in the aire.
—The Oswego starch factory has again started
up after a shut down of four months.
—On Saturday L. R. Lewis will place a Kelsey
furnace in the schoolhouse at Loring Station.
—Miss Alice Hotchkiss of Homer died at 3
o'clock this morning after an illness of about five months.
—Mr. A. M. Jewett this afternoon shipped to
the Clionian society at the Oneonta
Normal another order of their society pins.
—The Ladies' Literary club met with Mrs. W.
P. Henry on Owego-st. at 3:30 this afternoon. This was its last regular meeting
for the study of Emerson.
—If any of our readers who have ordered
books with coupons fail to receive them within two weeks thereafter they will
confer a favor by letting us know promptly.
—The Ladies' Aid society of the Presbyterian
church will hold a Christmas sale of fancy work in connection with a Y. M. C.
A. supper at the church on Friday evening, Nov. 24.
—George, the two-year-old child of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Pierce, died at his parents' home, three miles west of the village,
yesterday. The funeral will be held at 11 A. M. to-morrow.
—Messrs. Edwin Robbins and A. E. Darby
started early yesterday morning, armed with their rifles, tramped all day in
the woods, got caught in the snow storm and never got a shot at anything.
—The Albany Business college has received
the first award at the World's Fair for the best exhibit of bookkeeping,
penmanship, shorthand and typewriting. This is a high honor and is well
deserved.
—The City band minstrel organization will
hold their next rehearsal at the Opera House next Thursday evening. It promises
to be one of the strongest minstrel organizations, professional or not, that
has ever shown in Cortland.
—The loafers at Fireman's hall all assembled
as usual this morning, but each, after staying a few minutes, arose with a sigh
and left. The reason was that there was no fire in the furnace, as new fire
pots are being put in. It is thought that there will be a fire by to-morrow.
—James L. Reardon, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel Reardon, died at 6:30 o'clock last evening of membraneous croup, aged
two years, seven months. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock to-morrow
afternoon. This is the second child Mr. and Mrs. Reardon have lost within the
past four days.
—It will interest the hundreds of our
readers who have purchased volumes of the Standard library on the coupon plan
to know that all these volumes now come with the edges neatly trimmed and with
covers of heavy and durable glazed manila, in place of the former uncut edges
and delicate paper covers. In both of these respects the improvement is a great
one.
—Mr. George B. Williams entertained a fair
sized audience at the Y. M. C. A. rooms last night with a reading of the first
three acts of Henry IV. Mr. Williams' delineation of characters is fine and his
hearers were very much pleased. The program closed with the rendering of
Howells' laughable farce, "The Sleeping Car,'' which sent every one home
in good humor.
—When the sun went down last night J. O.
Reid's meat market was in the Squires building, as formerly. When it came up
again this morning the market was transferred to the new stand in the VanBergen
building. Everything was in order and everything was brand new. A broad smile
lights up John's face as he gazes about, and the customers look equally happy
as they see the improvements.
—Jerry O'Connor of Homer was in Cortland
this afternoon, probably for the reason that he had become tired of a licensed
town. At any rate he acted tired when Chief Sager collared him on South
Main-st. about 2 o'clock, and asked him where he was going. "I'm goin' to
Homer," said Jerry, as he started for the E., C. & N. station. Chief
then took hold of him and piloted him with some difficulty to the cooler, where
he is now sobering up.
—A Cortland gentleman put an advertisement
in the daily and semi-weekly STANDARD of two farms to rent. Before the time had
half expired for which the notice was inserted the advertiser ordered it out,
saying that he had rented the farms and that he was so bothered with applicants
who had read the notice that it was almost impossible to do any business in his
office. He was fairly overflowed with them. His mails too were made voluminous
by letters of application. One man wrote from St. Lawrence county and several
from Auburn. This man believes in advertising in The STANDARD.
Funeral
of Dewitt C. McGraw.
The funeral of Dewitt C. McGraw took place
from Christ's church yesterday afternoon and was largely attended. The members
of the Malta Commandary, Eminent Sir Austin S. Bump, commanding, were present
in a body. The Rev. Dr. R. G. Quennell officiated. D. L. Brownson, C. H.
Ackerman, E. C. Delavan, John Anderson, T. B. Fuller and G. W. Lester were the
bearers. The body was escorted to the railroad station by forty members of the
Commandary in full uniform and draped side army. Burial was at
Cortland.—Binghamton Republican.
WILCOX-
KENNEDY.
A Quiet
Wedding at the Parochial Residence.
A quiet wedding occurred at the parochial
residence of Rev. J. J, McLoghlin on North Main-st., at 4:30 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, when Mr. Harry M. Wilcox and Miss Rose J. Kennedy, daughter of Mr.
Edward Kennedy, were united in marriage. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J.
J. McLoghlin. The bride was attired in a handsome gown of dark blue broadcloth,
trimmed with silk braid. Blue kid gloves and blue velvet hat completed a very
becoming costume. The bridesmaid, Miss Mary E. Carey of Groton, also wore blue.
Mr. Ira Dexter acted as best man. After the ceremony a wedding supper was
served at the bride's home in the Wickwire building on Main-st. A large number
of valuable presents were received. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox left on the 6:04 train
for a week's trip to Syracuse and Utica, after which they expect to make their
future home at Cortland. Their many friends unite in extending congratulations.
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