Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday,
February 9, 1895.
A BIG EXODUS.
The Scheme of "Peg" Williams of
Georgia to Lead 100,000 Negroes to Mexico.
The
redoubtable "Peg" Williams of Atlanta, he of the negro exodus fame, has
created a small sized sensation in Texas and Mexico by announcing that he would
export 100,000 negroes from the southern states to Mexico during this winter.
The above information was conveyed to Atlanta last night in a press dispatch,
dated at San Antonio, Tex., which also stated that "Peg" had signed a
contract on Saturday to furnish a wealthy planting company in Mapiamia, Mexico,
800 laborers, to be obtained from Georgia.
"Peg" Williams is one of the best known railroad men in Georgia, and he has been
instrumental in the exportation of more worthy and worthless negroes from this
state than any other half dozen men in it. He is known, and intimately, by
every prospective darky exoduster in the borders of the state, from the Blue
Ridge to Liberty, and to say aught against "Peg" in the hearing of
any one of them is to lay yourself liable to trouble.
Did
"Peg" mean what he has been telling the people out in Texas? Will he really
relieve the south of 100,000 members of its population within a few months and,
if so, how will he do it? Will he colonize and march them to the land of the
greaser, or will he send them in specials prepaid all the way through?
"Peg"
Williams is known as a hustler, and when he undertakes to do a thing he
generally succeeds. If there are 100,000 negroes in the south who want to go to
Mexico that have the necessary cash, "Peg" Williams is the man who can
carry them. He is resourceful, and if they have the money he can provide transportation
for that number and many more.—Atlanta Constitution.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Mrs. Lease's Idea.
Although Mrs. Lease seems to have retired from politics, she has not retired from
political economy. Her book, just published, is called "The Problem of
Civilization Solved." It contains more ideas to the page than some books have
in their whole length. Lack of ideas was never one of Mrs. Lease's failings.
The reader will be inclined to wonder where this woman, a Kansas farmer's wife
for many years, out on the prairies, afar from school or library, got all the information
that is apparent in her attempt to solve the problem of civilization. Whether
she is right or wrong in her deductions from the facts of history, the facts
certainly have been sought and marshaled abundantly before her readers.
According
to Mary Elizabeth Lease's lights, the problem of civilization today is chiefly
to find a way of thinning out the wretched poor who are crowded together in the
great cities, cheated out of light, air, food, education and everything that
makes life worth living, existing either as criminals or slaves.
The
trouble with the civilized world, the author says, is overpopulation in a few
great centers. Two-thirds of the earth's people live on only one-eleventh of
its land acres. The total population of the globe is about 1,500,000,000. Belgium
has 600 persons to the square mile, England 500, and even our own New England
states have 300.
At the
same time in Africa, in Central and South America there are 10,000,000 square
miles of the most fertile, favored land on the globe waiting for the hand of
man to cultivate it. The climate is admirable in most of these regions. In all
of them it may be made healthful by cultivation and drainage. Thin out, thin
out! cries Mary Lease. Send the suffering surplus population of civilization to
these favored climes and fertile lands, where life will be happiness, and the
poorest can by their own reasonable effort easily enjoy every luxury needed by
man. In two words "tropical colonization" is Mrs. Lease's solution
for the problem of civilization. Besides this she would have the profits
derived from labor saving machinery shared equally by the capitalist, the
workman who runs the machines and the purchaser who consumes their product.
◘ A committee of ladies belonging to the Municipal
Order league of Chicago are endeavoring to get the city council to make an
appropriation to provide free baths in the smoky town. The ladies say, "We
hope to show the finance committee that clean bodies lead to clean souls and
less need of police." Whether entirely free or not, there ought to be
public baths, and excellent ones, in every city of the Union. Poor tenement
house people cannot be blamed for being dirty when there is absolutely no place
in their poor dwellings where they can take even a sponge bath in privacy.
◘ Captain Rockefellow, a fruit culturist of
Colorado, says, "Results show that we can successfully fight all sorts of
bugs, How about goldbugs?
NO
PROSPECT OF THE STORM ABATING.
Trains
Still Tied Up, No Mails Moving—Traffic Paralyzed. Warmer and That is One
Comfort.
The storm still continues in full violence.
Railroads are to-day in worse condition than yesterday. Last night at about
midnight the wind went down, the moon shone out and there was a prospect that
the blow was over. By 8 o'clock this morning though, the gale was on again.
There was a lull from 10 to 12 o'clock, and then it began again worse than
ever. Roads leading into town are badly blocked. The snow is as hard as flint
and will not be pushed out of the way and it is hard to dig it out.
The electric road has kept a car running
constantly from the E., C. & N.
station to the carhouse. The car north of that point was abandoned yesterday and a
sleigh omnibus was used, but that had to be pulled off toward night and this
morning it was not possible to get a horse through. By steady digging the
streets were opened so that the omnibus was resumed this afternoon.
The D., L & W. R. R. kept the snowplows at work all night. The
single track plow worked south of Cortland and the double track plow north of
here. One of the crew of the latter plow told a reporter at 10 o'clock this
morning that they had been on duty constantly since 6 o'clock last night. They
had been running back and forth over the road, but through the Tully flats the
snow blew in about as fast as they could throw it out. This plow was then
starting for Syracuse which they hoped to reach about noon and they hoped then
to be relieved.
The 6 o'clock train north was an hour and a
half late this morning. The 9:58 was nearly on time, but only had two cars. The
8:52 train south was nearly on the schedule, but the vestibule train due at 10
o'clock did not go down until after 12 when it pushed through with two engines.
It had been stuck in the banks north of Syracuse.
The E., C & N. started a snow plow with three engines and two
passenger cars from Elmira at 7:46 this morning. The train reached Cortland at
12:13 and stopped here. Another snow plow left Camden early this morning and came
twenty miles down to Canastota and stopped. An hour was occupied in the trip.
At 1:25 this afternoon the snow plow with three engines and two cars left
Canastota for Cortland. It will probably get in before 5 o'clock. It will depend
on the weather whether or not it goes on to Elmira and whether a train will
leave for Canastota to-night after the other one gets in.
A LONG
TRIP.
They
Were Snowed in Thirteen Hours at Mount Pocono.
Mr. I. Whiteson returned last night at 9
o'clock from Philadelphia, from which place he had started at 5 o'clock on
Thursday night. At 11:30 on Thursday night the train had reached Mount Pocono
and got stuck in the snowbank. The train stayed there until 1 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. The wind was blowing a hurricane and all efforts to reach and
extricate the train were in vain. The passengers did not suffer from cold and
were able to get a light lunch from the buffet in the sleeping car. At 1
o'clock yesterday a snowplow reached there and at 3 o'clock they got to
Scranton and had a square meal. The train reached Cortland at 9 o'clock last
night,
Among Cortland passengers on the train were
Mr. Whiteson from Philadelphia and the following from New York: Mrs. C. W.
Sanders, Misses Maine and Ethel Sanders, Mr. W. J. Eisom and Miss Jennie Humes
and Mrs. H. S. Bliss.
KILLED
BY CARS.
Oliver
Baum of Marathon Was the Unfortunate.
Oliver Baum, who lived a half mile south of
the D., L. & W.
station at Marathon, was found lying dead beside the railroad track this
morning. It is supposed that he was struck by a train while walking on the
track and was killed.
Mr. Baum was a man about sixty-five years
old and was slightly deaf. He has a son who is a student at Cornell university.
The young man was expected home on the 6:57 train last night and at about 5
o'clock Mr. Baum said he guessed he would walk up to the village and do some
errands and meet his son and come home with him. As he did not return, Mrs. Baum
concluded that her son had not come on that train but would be along on the
late express, and that her husband had waited for him. This train is due in
Marathon at 11:46, but did not get along last night until nearly 3 o'clock.
After a reasonable time had elapsed after the train had passed for the arrival at
the house of father and son, and as they did not appear Mrs. Baum became
frightened and got a neighbor to start out in search of her husband. His body
was found about half way from the house to the station.
The son did not go home at all last night. It
appeared that at about half past 5 o'clock
Mr. Baum stopped in to get warm at the house of a friend who lived about half
way to the village. He stayed there a few minutes and then started on. His body
was found about thirty rods from their house. Coroner W. J. Moore was summoned
and will go down on the first train that goes through.
CITY
BAND MINSTRELS.
AN
EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE THROUGHOUT.
To-night's
Entertainment Postponed Until Monday on Account of the Weather and an Extra Put
in on Tuesday Night.
The first performance of the Cortland City
Band Minstrels was given at the Opera House last evening. The band boys seem to
be fated as regards the weather and a worse night for such an entertainment
could not have been selected. Notwithstanding the storm a fair sized audience
was present to greet the performers when the curtain rose.
The program opened with a novel and artistic
first part entitled "White and Black." Mr. E. B. Cummings took the
part of conversationalist in his usual artistic manner, and his
"darkies," with Mr. O'Connell and Mr. W. Dillon as end men, kept the
audience in excellent humor with their jokes and funny remarks.
After the introductory overture by the
entire company, Mr. J. D. Clark rendered in a very pleasing manner the ballad,
"Back Among the Old Folks." This was followed by songs by Mr. J.
O'Connell, Mr. Malick, and a selection by the Carriage City quartet, consisting
of Messrs. F. Lanigan, Jas. Walsh, T. H. Dowd and O. W. Lund. All were obliged
to respond to encores.
Mr. J. Widmer and Mr. J. F. Costello as
"Emperors of Mirth and Music" kept the audience convulsed by their
performances and jokes. Mr. Widmer is a host in himself and his appearance upon
the stage was always a signal for applause. "The Sweetest Story Ever
Told" by Mr. Lanigan was well received and he was obliged to respond to an
encore as was also Mr. T. H. Dowd in his baritone solo, entitled, "Because
I Love Thee So."
The Fifth-ave. colored swells were represented
by Mr. L. Dillon and Mr. J. Fitzgerald
and the first part of the program closed with a selection by the Carriage City
quartet.
One of the most original, pleasing and
interesting features of the whole entertainment was the work of Messrs. P. T.
and R. L. Carpenter and George Murphy. Their solos, topical songs and musical
selections were highly amusing, while the song "In This Town," fairly
brought down the house. Mr. Malick, "the human serpent," performed
some tricks which would puzzle a professional. The dancing by Messrs. J.
Sullivan and F. Ketchum, the "knockabout song and dance artists," was
a prominent feature of the evening and created no end of amusement.
"Down in the Orange Grove,"
arranged by Mr. Lawrence Dillon, gave an opportunity for several artists to
display their talents.
The saxophone solo by Mr. Fred L. Graham was
rendered in his usual excellent and artistic manner. The African Demosthenes
impersonated by Mr. Jas. F.
Costello, followed the presentation of "Down in the Orange Grove,"
and the entertainment closed with a short and laughable farce, entitled
"The Darktown Fire Brigade."
The entertainment throughout was pleasing
and showed careful preparation. Owing to the storm Prof. P. Conway of Ithaca,
who had a part on the program, was unable to reach Cortland and his part was
necessarily omitted.
On account of the weather the management has
concluded to postpone the entertainment of to-night until next week when two
performances will be given on Monday and Tuesday evenings, Feb. 11 and 12.
Those who were unable, on account of the storm, to see the entertainment last
evening can exchange their tickets at O. F. Wallace of Co. Reserved seat
tickets held by persons for to-night will be good Monday night,
The same chart used for to-night will be
used Monday night.
A
BRILLIANT SOCIAL EVENT.
Mr. and
Mrs. T. H. Wickwire Entertain Nearly Three Hundred Guests.
The reception by Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Wickwire
which occurred last evening, and which was the first event of its kind to take
place in their spacious and beautiful brown stone residence on Tompkins-st.,
had been looked forward to with lively interest by every one who had been
honored with an invitation out of the more than four hundred issued, and who
expected to be present. A more inauspicious day for such an event than yesterday
has never been manufactured by the weather machinery. It would have killed a
church sociable, paralyzed a theatrical performance and kept every one but
would-be delegates and officeholders away from a political caucus. But in this
instance it had so little effect, and the weather clerk was so surprised thereby,
that the mercury in thermometers and barometers went up and the weather
forecast this morning was decidedly favorable.
But while wind and snow were doing their
best, or worst, a great many invited guests were anxious or inconvenienced.
Mrs. C. W. Sanders and daughters Mame and Ethel, who started from New York City
at 9 o'clock the previous evening, were on the D., L. & W. train which was
snowed in on Pocono mountain and did not reach Cortland until 9 o'clock last
evening. Dr. and
Mrs. I. D. Warner who had come on from Bridgeport to attend the reception and had
driven down to McGrawville were unable to get back to Cortland. Mr. and Mrs. W.
H. Crane, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Brockway and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Murray of Homer
got as far toward Cortland as Tisdale's mill, and were there compelled to turn
back. And with those living in Cortland even, it became a serious question
whether horses and sleighs could get through the drifts between the various
residences and the Wickwire mansion. Every covered sleigh and cab in the place
was pressed into service, however, and kept running at as rapid a rate as possible,
and when the latest guest had arrived the company numbered two hundred and
sixty-six.
The beautiful roses which decorated the
various rooms did not arrive till just before the first guests made their
appearance, and the last of [Rochester, N. Y.] Caterer Teall's essentials came still later. But
everything needed did finally arrive and was beyond criticism, though the day
must have been an anxious one for host and hostess.
Besides the guests from Cortland the
following were present from out of town: Mrs. Chas. W. Sanders, Miss Sanders
and Miss Ethel Sanders and Mr. J. Maas Schermerhorn of New York City; Mr. and
Mrs. C. F. [Lighton] and Mr. J. W. Black of Syracuse; Mrs. Hyde of Buffalo;
Miss Katie Henry of Orange, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert C. Brown of Boston;
Mrs. I. N. Tillinghast of Poughkeepsie; Mrs. Wallace Hose of Little Falls; Mrs.
A. H. Bennett and Miss Henry of Homer; and Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Nelson of Truxton.
The large, elegantly furnished and brilliantly
lighted rooms presented one of the most attractive sights ever witnessed in
Cortland. The three stories of the house were thrown open to the guests, the
ground floor—including the wide and beautiful hall, the receptionroom, diningroom,
sittingroom and library—being devoted to the reception of the guests, social
intercourse, and refreshments, the first floor above to dressing and card
rooms, and the second floor to dancing. Valentine's Harp orchestra of Rochester
occupied the middle landing of the grand staircase and furnished delightful music
throughout the evening, while Dresser's orchestra of Syracuse stirred the souls
and the feet of the dancers.
The refreshments by Teall were most elaborate
and delicious, and all the minor arrangements and accessories of the affair
were planned and carried out in excellent taste and to the satisfaction and
enjoyment of every one, and the reception throughout was a most brilliant and
successful affair.
BREVITIES.
—Reports from Dr. G. W. Hull to-day are that
he is no better, but is rather worse.
—The prayer-meeting in Good Templars' hall
will be omitted Sunday, Feb. 10, on account of the temperance mass-meeting in
the Baptist church.
—Four Normal lady students who live in Homer
waited at the D., L. & W. station from 3 to 9 o'clock last night for a
train to take them home.
—On account of the temperance mass-meeting
in the Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, there will be no meetings
in the Y. M. C. A. rooms.
—The no-license caucus will be held at
Fireman's hall this evening at 7:30 o'clock. All temperance voters and those
interested in the enforcement of law are requested to be present.
—A mass-meeting in the interest of no-license
movement will be held at the Baptist church to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Addresses will be made by a number of local speakers. A general invitation is
extended to all,
— A bill was introduced in the assembly
yesterday fixing day telegraph rates at fifteen cents for ten words and one-half
cent for each word extra; and the night rate at fifteen cents for each twenty
words and one-half cent for each word extra.
—Dr. H. A. Cordo will deliver a discourse to
young people in the Baptist church to-morrow evening on "Relation and Duty
of Young People to the Temperance Cause." A cordial invitation is given to
all young people and to the various temperance organizations.
—Mail Carrier Theodore Sheeley was out on
the first delivery this morning with his horse and got into a drift. The horse
got down, the harness was broken and
Mr. Sheeley got back to his barn as best he could. He has done the rest of his
delivering to-day on foot.
—L. D. Gutches of East Homer was in
town several days buying cows, going back Tuesday with a drove of ten head. While
here he stopped with his son-in-law, Arthur Rozelle, who is also engaged with
him in the stock business. They report cows in this section as scarce and high,
the prices paid being about $30 apiece.—Whitney's Point Reporter.
—The local board of the Normal yesterday ordered
out two hacks to carry the lady students home from school. They thought that the
day was too dreadful to have them face cold and wind on drifted sidewalks. The
primary and intermediate departments were not in session, as the term was just
opening and it was impossible to arrange the work for the practice teachers.
—Six McLean [business] men men came to Cortland
yesterday to draw their money from the Second National bank. Most of them left
the money undisturbed when they found the bank all right and as the six decided
that they must get back to McLean last night and as no trains were running they
started at 4 o'clock to go there on foot. They have not since been heard from
at this end of the line, but it is a wonder if they did not almost perish on
the way.
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