CUBA RATIFIES TREATY, COLUMBIAN CANAL TREATY, FROM COLLEGE TO CONGRESS, NURSES WANTED, LIQUOR TAX, AND TYPHOID IN ITHACA, N. Y.

 

Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, March 12, 1903.

CUBA RATIFIES TREATY.

Senate Approved Measure by Two-Thirds Vote.

MAJORITY VOTE ONLY REQUIRED.

Forceful Speech by Senor Bustamante Urging Ratification—Showed Advantage to Cuba of the 20 Per Cent Reduction in United States Customs. Protection For Cuban Tobacco.

   Havana, March 12.—The senate by a vote of 16 to 5 has ratified the reciprocity treaty with the United States.

   The treaty was thus ratified by exactly two-thirds of the vote of the senate. The ratification required only a majority vote, so that there were three votes to spare.

   The vote was taken immediately on the conclusion of a forceful appeal by Senor Bustamante. He insisted that whether the trust or the producers were the chief beneficiaries of the 20 per cent reduction of customs duties on Cuban sugar shipped to the United States, it was not possible that such differential treatment favoring Cuban sugar in competition with that of Europe could result other than favorably to Cuba's trade.

   Under the treaty, he said, the European producer would be unable to compete with Cuba. If the European nations were really seeking to prevent the ratification of the treaty in the United States senate it was not on account of the little they would lose in the Cuban markets, but because they would no longer be able to send sugar to the United States. The treaty would also provide the protection that Cuba needed on tobacco.

   Viewed in another aspect, continued Senor Bustamante, the treaty would give Cuba national entity and allow her to enter into commercial relations with the nation which was hitherto considered only her guardian.

   The custom of approving the treaty by sections was dispensed with and the recommendations of the committee were approved in their entirety.

 

COLOMBIAN CANAL TREATY.

Senate Will Vote Next Tuesday—Morgan Still Speaking.

   Washington, March 12.—Decided progress was made toward reaching an agreement for a vote on the Colombian canal treaty, and when the senate adjourned there was a general understanding that in all probability some hour next Tuesday would be definitely agreed on as the time when a vote should be taken on the treaty and all amendments.

   All statements to this effect, however, were accompanied by the announcement that there were yet some details to be arranged, leaving it impossible absolutely to conclude the agreement before this afternoon. There is, however, no doubt in the minds of leading senators that the vote will be taken Tuesday.

   The arrangement was brought about largely by Senator Frye, who by virtue of long service with Senator Morgan on the committee on foreign relations had come to be on terms of great intimacy with the Alabama senator.

   Senator Morgan exacted consent to the printing in the Congressional Record of the remarks he has prepared giving his best recollection of the speeches he has made in the executive sessions of the senate on the treaty. The Republican senators consented at once to save time, which they consider now more important than the conservation of senatorial etiquette.

   Democratic senators have practically agreed unanimously to urge an amendment to the 23d article of the treaty relieving it of all questions as to the right of the United States to control the canal. The indications are, however, that the treaty will be ratified without modification in any particular.

   The agreement made has no reference to the Cuban treaty but opens the way for its early consideration in the senate.

   Senator Morgan continued his remarks in the senate in opposition to the canal treaty, but most of the time was given up to the reading of documents by the clerk at Mr. Morgan's request. The few remarks made by him related to the unsanitary conditions of the vicinity of the Panama route and to the division of the money to be paid to Columbia by the United States.

   The Guatemalan and Mexican extradition treaties were ratified.

   The understanding among members of the committee on foreign relations is that none of the reciprocity treaties before the committee shall be reported for consideration at this session and that the Cuban treaty will be the last to receive the attention of the committee, for the present.

 

WANAMAKER'S NEW STORE

To be Erected in Philadelphia at a Cost of $5,000,000.

   Philadelphia, Pa., March 12.—John Wanamaker has planned replacing his store here with a new structure which will be the costliest building in town. A permit was taken out before the bureau of building inspection for the erection of a twelve story steel frame fire proof store which will cost $5,000,000. The building of the new store will present some new features. It will be built in sections on the site of the present structure at 13th and Chestnut-sts., and at no time will the building operations interfere with the store's business.

 

Burton L. French.

Guest Editorials.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

From College to Congress.

   The youngest member of the fifty-eighth congress will be Burton L. French, 27 years old, who is now a candidate for a masters degree at the University of Chicago. He was elected last fall in the state of Idaho. How the state changed from wild Populism under the lead of this young college student is as interesting as fiction and as instructive as history. The story is told in the New York Evening Sun as follows:

   Since Mr. French came of age he has mingled politics and college studies in a fashion that illustrates the boundless opportunities of youthful ambition in the arid states. Seven years ago he was the man with a hoe, raising beets on au irrigated farm, poor as Job's turkey and yearning for an education. Earning enough money to pay his preliminary expenses, he entered the freshman class of the University of Idaho, and his voice was heard so often in the debating society advocating expansion in the Orient that the politicians heard of him.

   While he was working on the farm during vacation the Republicans nominated him for the assembly. He was elected and divided his time between the state house and the university. He was re-elected in 1901, being then a junior. As a debater he made such a stir that the Republican minority nominated Burton for speaker. By this time the people had heard of him.

   As a senior representative his fame grew apace. The legislative session closed for him in a blaze of glory, and he took his degree. But he wanted more education and moved to the Chicago university to win a master's degree with an attenuated purse and sublime faith. Between the hours devoted to studies and recitations he hustled for his board and tuition.

   Returning to Idaho last summer, French was nominated for representative in congress by the Republicans, who had a majority of 3,000 to overcome. If all the voters in Idaho were men the outlook would have been dubious, but a good many of them were women, and Burton L. French is comely to look upon, keen of eye, ruddy of complexion, straight-lipped, strong jawed, broad-shouldered, athletic in build. He made a whirlwind canvass, from Bonner's Ferry on the Canadian border to Weston on the Nevada line, 1,200 miles as the crow flies. He was beard in all but two of the twenty-one counties, but in the two there is only sage brush and jackrabbits have no votes. He risked his neck on stages that skirted precipices on one wheel, he rode fractious cayuses, he scaled mountain peaks. He waved the flag, he twisted the lion's tail, he complimented the sex that worships heroes; and though the Democrats boasted that no boy orator could wipe out their 3,000 majority, their candidate was beaten by 8,000.

   Having done a turn at politics, Mr. French repaired to the Chicago university to dig anew for his degree. As his pay as congressman began to run on March 4, he will have less difficulty in keeping the wolf from the door.

   Before making the trip to Chicago, young Mr. French took the bar examination in Idaho, and is now a full-fledged lawyer. He is very modest about his success in riding the educational and political horses without coming a cropper. When he thinks of his days with the hoe he can hardly believe that he has two sheep-skins, has almost earned another, and holds a commission to represent Idaho at the capital in Washington. "I cannot say," he declares, ''that I ever had a single thought of entering politics when I first went to the university of Idaho." What university Mr. French will attend when he goes to Washington he has not yet decided. He will be too young to run for vice-president next year, otherwise be would be Idaho's candidate.

   It is seldom that a youngster launches his bark with so much luck and prescience on the tide that leads to fortune. The time was ripe in Idaho for a hustling young expansionist; Mr. French hit the time for sailing off to a minute. In his starburst career the Democrats may read the answer to the question where Idaho's electoral vote will go in 1904.

 

NURSES ARE WANTED.

Scarcity Because of Ithaca's Draft on Cortland.

   There is at present a scarcity of nurses in Cortland, which is due probably to the fact that many from here have gone to Ithaca to assist in caring for typhoid patients. At Brown's drug store, where a large number of nurses are registered to meet the call that is constantly being made at that place for such help, the number enrolled is insufficient to meet the demand. The pharmacy has calls for trained nurses to take charge of patients in Cortland and several nearby places and if there are nurses in the city who desire to secure a place they should register at once at the store.

 

LIQUOR TAX CERTIFICATES.

Some Statistics as to Effect of the Proposed Law.

   If the proposed bill becomes a law increasing the cost of liquor tax certificates as a means of resource the city of Cortland will be affected along with the other cities of the state. According to statistics furnished by the excise department at Albany there are now twenty-three tax certificates issued in Cortland at the present rate of $300 each. These create a revenue of $6,900. Under the proposed law the license fee will be $450 which will produce a revenue of $10,350, a gain of $3,450 over the present sum.

   Of the present receipts two-thirds go to localities and one-third to the state, Under the proposed law the state and localities share alike.

   The estimated receipts for the entire state under the new law are $18,600,000, of which state and localities will each secure $9,300,000.

   Under the present law the receipts for the state amount to $12,400,000, of which the localities get $8,266,686, and the state $4,133,333.

   Under the proposed law there would be a gain to the state of $5,166,686 annually, and a gain to the localities of $1,033,334. The city of Cortland now receives $4,600 of the tax and under the proposed law would receive $5,175, which would be a gain of $575.

 

Andrew Carnegie.

An Invitation to Carnegie.

   The trustees of the new Carnegie library at Syracuse have invited Andrew Carnegie to visit that city at the time of the State fair in September, at which time it is also planned to dedicate the new library.

 

FISHERMEN ARRESTED.

Six Charged with Using a Seine in Cayuga Lake.

   Six men were arrested near Ithaca Monday and were Tuesday arraigned in court charged with violating the game laws in using a seine in Cayuga lake. They were caught in the act by the State Game Protector Hawes. They had taken eight barrels of fish in their morning haul and about 700 pounds in the afternoon before being apprehended. They pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial.

   There was another phase of the fish question that interests the public aside from the mere violation of state law. The health authorities of Ithaca have been warning people against catching and eating fish caught in Cayuga lake near the city of Ithaca where they might have eaten some of the fever impregnated sewage of the city. The authorities are afraid the infection may be conveyed by use of lake fish.

 

The Typhoid at Ithaca.

   The total number of cases of typhoid fever at Ithaca since Jan. 10 and up to the close of last week is stated by the health authorities to be 755. It is said that not one of the 500 colored people of Ithaca has had typhoid, and not one of the poor of the city who are assisted through the commissioner of charities.

   It was thought on Tuesday that the situation was materially improving as only two new cases had been reported in twenty-four hours, but yesterday there were five new cases with four more suspected cases.

   About 200 of the more than 1,000 students who had left Cornell university and gone home have returned.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The women of Ithaca are taking steps toward the organization of a woman's sanitary protection association.

   —The maple sugar season promises to be unusually short this year. It is reported that the sap is already beginning to lessen in its flow.

   —The Woman's Home Missionary society of the First M. E. church will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock with Mrs. E. F. Jennings, 9 Church-st.

   —The Standard is indebted to Mr. Jesse Jennison for copies of the papers of Charlotte, N. C. Mr. Jennison is on a trip for the Cortland Carriage Goods Co.

   —The next entertainment in the Normal [School] course will be a concert at Normal hall on Friday evening, March 20, by the Von Moltke string quartet.

   —The funeral of the late Mrs. Mary Goddard of Truxton will be held at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the house and at 2 o'clock at the Baptist church in Truxton.

   —New display advertisements today are—Warren, Tanner & Co., Carpets, rugs mattings, page 6; Forrest Seed Co., Seeds, page 4; W. T. Crane, Piano sale, page 8; Bingham & Miller, Rain coats and top coats, page 8.

   —A resident of Ithaca through the chance re-reading of an old letter written to her in 1863 while she was visiting away from home is able to recall the fact that in that year Ithaca had a scourge of typhoid fever not different from that of the present year.

   —Roger Gale Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Smith of Waterloo, died yesterday aged nearly six months. The funeral will be held in Groton Friday. Mrs. Smith was formerly Miss Amy Gale of Cortland, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Scott Gale.

 

SUNDAY FILLER: THE AMERICAN ROAD

 

CANAL PROPOSITION, PORTO RICAN WRECK, RUSSIA'S DOMESTIC TROUBLE, FIVE CENT FARE, TWO DEATHS, AND REQUISITION PAPERS

 

John Murray Mitchell.

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, March 11, 1903.

NEW CANAL PROPOSITION.

Proposed Improvement of Present Waterway by Expenditure of $5,000,000.

   Albany, March 11.—An entirely new canal proposition is to make its appearance here today, when John Murray Mitchell of New York city will propose to the canal committee the improvement of the present waterway at an expense of only $5,000,000.

   Mr. Mitchell represents citizens who propose to accomplish by such an expenditure, as much improvement in a shorter period as would be obtained by the expenditure of $100,000,000.

   The plan is a simple one and electricity is to be its basis. In short they propose to erect along the canal a third rail electric track on which will be run "donkey motors." These motors will tow canal boats at a higher rate of speed and at a minimum cost to boat owners and shippers.

   The cost of equipping the Erie and Champlain canals will be $5,000,000 and the present canal with its present depth will be utilized. All that the promoters of the enterprise ask is two per cent of the gross receipts charged for towing.

   It is estimated that the revenue derived by the state will be sufficient to pay for all repairs. These repairs amount to about $500,000 a year. The apparatus is to be the property of the state.

 

PORTO RICAN WRECK.

Five of the Crew Reached the Venezuelan Coast.

ROBBED OF MONEY AND CLOTHES.

Badly Treated by Revolutionists They Met In Spite of Their Protest That They Were Americans—United States Consul at Coro Sent Them to Willemstad.

   Willemstad, Curacao, March 11.—The crew of the Porto Rican schooner Rapido, wrecked on the Venezuelan coast, has arrived here. After the Rapido was wrecked the crew, numbering five, gained the shore, from which they took three days to reach the port of Coro.

   They had to trudge through an inhospitable country without food or water, while the revolutionists whom they encountered on their way threatened them and robbed them of their money and clothing, in spite of their protests that they were shipwrecked American sailors.

   They then met with the government troops, who detained them and made the sailors follow them. The shipwrecked men were finally released and the United States consular agent at Coro had them forwarded here on the Venezuelan sloop Linda. The consul here has given them relief and their passage to Porto Rico.

 

Guest editorials.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Russia's Latest Domestic Trouble.

   Whether or not Russia becomes embroiled in hostilities with Turkey over the administration of Macedonian affairs, it is apparent that the czar and his advisers will have quite enough on their hands at home to keep them reasonably busy. In addition to the various race, religious and political revolts which the complex population of the Muscovite empire constantly furnishes there now appears a new and what would seem to be a serious menace to the peace of Russia.

   The existence of what is described as a well organized seditious movement directed against capitalism in Russia and the Russian government has just been discovered simultaneously in several of the largest labor centers in south Russia. The secret police staff engaged in the factories in these centers has been strengthened, and several batches of disaffected workers have already been arrested in various parts of the south. Inflammatory proclamations calling upon the workers to combine and put an end to the system in Russia under which labor is shamelessly abused are being scattered broadcast in working class districts of Kiev, Kharkoff, Odessa and other main centers of industry. Corps of special policemen have been enrolled in these towns in readiness for contingencies.

   It is asserted that the present governors in several south Russian manufacturing centers will soon be superseded by purely military governors general, with special powers, and that the whole of the thickly populated industrial areas in south Russia will be brought under martial law. It is generally admitted that the state of affairs in many of these areas is extremely critical already and likely to become more so in the near future.

 

A FIVE CENT FARE

On a Single Car Between Homer and McGraw and Cortland.

   On and after March 16, 1903, passengers may ride between Cortland and Homer and Cortland and McGraw on the first car running between these places each morning except Sunday for a 5-cent cash fare. This rate applies only to the car leaving Cortland for McGraw at 5:50 a. m. and leaving McGraw for Cortland at 6:20 a. m,, and to the cars on the Homer division leaving both Cortland and Homer at 6:30 a. m.

 

CONCERNING RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.

An Amendment to the Bill Relating to Contributory Negligence.

   The following petition is being circulated among the attorneys of this city and has already been signed by many of them:

   To Hon. S. Percy Hooker:

   We, the undersigned attorneys residing in the city of Cortland, N. Y., earnestly request you to procure the passage of assembly bill No. 624, amending Section 1902 of the code of civil procedure by adding to it the following:

   "If it is alleged in the complaint that descendant's death occurred without contributory negligence on his part, and if it appears that there was no witness of the accident, occasioning the death of descendent, it shall be presumed that the accident happened and death resulted without contributory negligence on his part."

   S. Percy Hooker is the Republican assemblyman from Genesee county who has introduced the amendment to the section relating to railroad accidents.

 

First M. E. Society Election.

   The annual meeting of the society of the First Methodist Episcopal church was held yesterday at the church parlors. R. Bruce Smith, Sr., Isaac Edgcomb and Dr. F. J. Cheney were re-elected trustees for three years, and George Moore, who had been appointed to the board to fill the vacancy caused by the death of B. B. Morehouse, was elected to fill the unexpired term of one year.

 

Ithaca's Cleaning Up.

   Ithaca is having a general time of cleaning up now. Streets are being cleaned and [so are] the banks of Fall creek. Wells are to be examined. The question of cleaning and disinfecting water mains is now engaging attention. It is the plan to use about 1,500 pounds of peroxide of permanganate to put in the water to disinfect with.

 

Mrs. Mary Goddard.

   Mrs. Mary Goddard died at her home in Truxton at 8 o'clock this morning after an illness from Bright's disease. Her age was 70 years. She is survived by six sons, Messrs. E. J. Goddard of Myer's Fall, Wash.; George B. Goddard of Syracuse; Thomas L. Goddard of Truxton; Arthur J. and William B. Goddard of Cortland; and Frank H. Goddard of Binghamton. The notice of the funeral will be given tomorrow.

 

Death of Mrs. Cookingham.

   Mrs. Mary Grover Cookingham died this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary P. Hull, 10 Monroe Heights. Her age was 84 years and 20 days. The funeral will be held at the house Friday at 2 o'clock.

 

WOMEN'S AUXILIARY

Of the Y. M. C. A. Elects Officers and Arranges Plans of Work.

   The annual meeting of the Women's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. for the election of officers was held at the parlors of the Y. M. C. A. yesterday afternoon and the following officers were elected:

   President—Mrs. S. W. Sherwood.

   First Vice President—Mrs. C. F. Brown.

   Second Vice-President—Mrs. George C. Hubbard.

   Secretary and Treasurer—Mrs. C. C. Darby.

   Mrs. F. J. Cheney and Mrs. F. D. Reese, the retiring president and second vice-president, respectively, were accorded an unanimous vote of thanks by the Auxiliary for the untiring efforts they have given the work during their terms of office.

   The plans for the work to be done the coming year by the Auxiliary are now being perfected, and these will be announced later.

 

REQUISITION PAPERS SOUGHT

To bring an Alleged Crook from Ohio to Cortland, N. Y.

   Charles B. Dowd, a brother of District Attorney Thomas H. Dowd, started this morning for Albany to secure requisition papers for bringing to Cortland from Cleveland, O., Spencer Pierpont, formerly an insurance agent of Homer, who has been arrested in that city and is wanted here to answer to a charge of grand larceny. As soon as the requisition papers are secured an officer will go to Cleveland to get Pierpont, who is held in that city.

   It is alleged that the insurance man hired a horse last November of a livery man in Tully, named Baldwin, and that he then sold the animal to Rev. James N. Eberly, a minister of the town of Cuyler. The price paid for the horse was $100, $50 of which was paid in cash and for the remaining $50 a note was given to Pierpont by the preacher.

   It is also alleged that after selling the horse Pierpont continued to pay rental to the liveryman, who supposed that the insurance man was still using his rig. He kept this up, it is said, until he made his departure from this section.

   Sheriff Overton states that the requisition papers that are secured from Albany will be taken to Columbus, O., the capital of the state, in order that there may be no possible chance for any irregularity in the matter.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The Davis motor works, Waterloo, N. Y., are to be moved to Geneva, N. Y.

   —The regular meeting L. C. B. A will be held this evening at 8 o'clock.

   —There will be a regular meeting of the L. O. T. M. tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock.

   —Geneva seems likely to get a million dollar automobile factory which will employ 150 men at the outset and increase its force.

   —Muskrats seem to be plenty this season. D. A. Burnham has shot over fifty so far, twenty being secured on Monday alone.

   —The new display advertisements today are—W. T. Crane, Piano sale, page 8; Hollister Hardware & Plumbing Co., Sugaring pans, etc., page 8.

   —S. N. Holden, who recently sold his house and lot at 5 Union-st., has purchased of Cornelius Vanalstine the property at 47 North Main-st., and will occupy the same about the first of June.

 

STATE COURT SUSTAINED, CUBAN TREATY, APPLAUSE MACHINERY, CORTLAND SCIENCE CLUB, GREENE-BRONSON WEDDING, AND HANDSOME NEW RESIDENCE

 

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, March 10, 1903.

State Court Sustained.

   Washington, March 10,—The United States court has affirmed the opinion of the supreme court of South Carolina in the case of John Brownfield vs. the state of South Carolina. Brownfield is a negro who resides in South Carolina and was convicted of murder. He alleged that he had been denied the equal protection of law under the constitution because, notwithstanding four-fifths of the people of the community are colored, all negroes were excluded from the grand jury by which he was indicted. Justice Holmes, who delivered the opinion of the court, said there is no proof of the allegation, and therefore sustained the judgment of the state court, which was adverse to Brownfield.

 

CUBAN TREATY.

A Number of Democratic Senators Will Speak in Opposition.

   Washington, March 10.—The senate committee on foreign relations will take up the Cuban treaty Wednesday. Quite a number of Democratic senators are opposed to the treaty and while they say they have no desire to prevent a vote they intend briefly to present their views.

   The Republicans count on three or four more votes than the necessary two-thirds majority to ratify the treaty. There is a probability of some discussion of the constitutional right of the senate to make a treaty affecting the revenues of the government without the concurrence of the house.

   Some opponents of the measure contend that this is such an important question that the [trade reciprocity] treaty might be delayed until the regular session of congress. Others have suggested an amendment providing that the treaty should not become operative until approved by the house.

   Some members of the foreign relations committee think this much disputed question ought to go to the supreme court to be settled. It is the present intention of the committee to press the Cuban treaty to a vote as soon as the Colombian treaty is out of the way.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Applause by Machinery.

   Nothing apparently is impossible to American inventive genius. Among its latest triumphs is a device for doing away with the hired "claque" as a means of expressing approval in the theater.

   Trial has been made in St. Louis of a machine which will drown the handclapping of thirty husky supernumeraries and turn cold disdain to an ovation. The apparatus in construction is not unlike a mammoth street piano. That is to say, its principal working part is a cylinder supplied with pegs which strike the sounding hammers at intervals. Instead of strings, however, the "applause machine" has clappers, 104 of them, each tuned to a different pitch and arranged to imitate all varieties of applause from the soft impact of kid glove against kid glove to the stamp of an enthusiastic man's No. 11 boot and the thump of a gold headed cane in the balcony. When the handle is turned, the response is not to be distinguished from that of a large and varied audience. Thus far the new device has been used only behind the footlights. It has taken the part of an audience supposed to be behind the scenes. In this capacity it has proved a money saver, enabling one reasonably strong boy to do the work which formerly required a score of men and a trained leader.

   There is no apparent reason why it would not work just as well in front of the footlights. If a manager desires to give the impression that his star is hailed with expressions of delight, all he will have to do is to turn the power on the applause machine in the orchestra. This would be more economical for the manager, and just as fair to the public, as to pack the first dozen rows with heavy handed "deadheads."

 

CORTLAND SCIENCE CLUB.

Lester Cooper Gives a Fine Talk Upon "Petroleum."

   The success of the Science club is chiefly due to the fact that the major part of its members are practical business men. The speaker on Saturday evening has a good store of knowledge, learned in the hard school of experience. Mr. Lester Cooper, who spoke on "Petroleum," is at his best without notes, but gave scientific data which was in part as follows:

   The word petroleum means rock-oil from the fact that it is found naturally oozing from crevices in rock or by drilling through rock. Its discovery is as old as history, being known to the ancients as naphtha, but was not of commercial importance until its development in the Pennsylvania oil fields beginning in 1859, its previous use being principally for medical purposes. The principal sources of petroleum are Russia and the United States.

   There has been much controversy over the origin of petroleum, but it is now generally accepted that the great supplies of oil are of vegetable origin probably a spontaneous distillation by heat of deposits of sea weeds. Petroleum is not confined to any particular rock formation, but may be produced in various strata under the same conditions. The products of different fields vary greatly in character and composition, the Pennsylvania oil being of the highest value from the fact that it is mainly composed of the different paraffines, all of which are of commercial importance, The most valuable product, kerosene, runs as high as 78 per cent while the Russian article furnished only 25 to 32 per cent, and the Beutmont fields 36 per cent of this product. In general, four classes of products are obtained by distillation at different temperatures in refining petroleum; naphtha of various grades, burning oils, lubricating oils, and paraffin. By redistilling naphtha; cymogene, rhigolene, gasolene, benzene and grades of naphtha are obtained [sic].

   The commercial importance of petroleum is due to its adaptability to so many uses. It is fast displacing vegetable and animal oils as a lubricator. It is becoming one of the most largely used materials in stoves. It is very successfully used for steam purposes. It is found to be very valuable in the manufacture of iron and steel and perhaps a great many other places in the industries that have not yet been thought out. In fact petroleum has become one of the indispensible needs of civilized man.

 

Main Street, Cortland, N. Y., circa 1900.

ORDERED OUT OF TOWN.

Police are Watchful in Regard to a Number of Tramps.

   James Morton, William Keegan and Thomas Smith, who were picked up on Grant-st., Cortland, yesterday afternoon by Officers Baker and Austin, were arraigned in police court this morning and given until 4 o'clock this afternoon to get out of the city. Smith was the only one of the trio that offered any resistance to the officers who made the arrest. He was brought in by Officer Austin after a hard struggle for his freedom.

   There seems to be many tramps about the place at present, and the police force is using due precaution and will see that they move on without unnecessary delay.

   In the meantime it is well for all to be on the outlook for the "Wandering Willies."

 

MEETING OF THE D. A. R.

Held Monday Afternoon at the Home of Mrs. Geo. P. Hollenbeck.

   The regular meeting of the Tioughnioga Chapter, D. A. R., was held yesterday with Mrs. Geo. P. Hollenbeck. The attendance was large and a most interesting meeting was enjoyed.

   Mrs. O. U. Mitchell of the Winona chapter from Minnesota outlined the work in the West and gave a most delightful talk.

   Mrs. G. J. Magers's account of the centennial congress in Washington was a brilliant and graceful article, smoothly written and gave her hearers an accurate idea of the real work accomplished aside from the social functions.

   At the next meeting the prizes for the two best essays by the children from the public schools are to be announced to the winners.

   The literary program followed upon "The Settlement and Colonial History of Pennsylvania:"

   Early Settlements of Swedes and Dutch, Mrs. G. H. Smith.

   Progress of Colony, Miss Gould.

   Colonial Troubles, Mrs. J. D. Sherwood.

   Benjamin Franklin, Mrs. J. G. Jarvis.

   Refreshments were served by the hostess and a pleasant social time enjoyed by all including five guests of the chapter.

 

GREENE-BRONSON.

A Noon Wedding and a Departure on the 1 o'clock Train.

   Miss Maud Bronson, daughter of Attorney H. L. Bronson, was married at noon today at her borne, 66 Port Watson-st., to Dr. F. D. Greene of Plattsburg. Rev. George H. Brigham of Cortland officiated. Only the immediate members of the families of the contracting parties were present. The bride and groom left on the 1:03 Lackawanna train today for the mountains where they will spend a few weeks.

   The house was profusely decorated with cut flowers, including roses and carnations, and with ferns and smilax. The couple was unattended. After the ceremony an elaborate wedding breakfast was served. The bride was remembered with many beautiful and costly presents.

   It was the intention of Mr. and Mrs. Bronson to give a large wedding in May, the date at first intended for the happy occasion, but owing to the ill health of Dr. Greene, from grip and bronchitis which necessitated a change of climate for him, an earlier date was set for the event, and consequently, a change of plans had to be made. The couple will spend a few weeks in the mountains and if Dr. Greene's condition is not materially bettered they will then take a trip to the Bermudas.

   The bride is one of Cortland's beautiful and accomplished young ladies, and she has a host of friends who will wish her much happiness. The groom is a graduate of the Buffalo Dental college and is also a John Hopkins institute student. Dr. Greene intends to locate in Cortland, and has already secured rooms in the new Tanner block, which he will occupy in the fall.

   Mr. and Mrs. Truman P. Greene, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Greene and Miss Anna Greene, the parents, brother and sisters of the groom, all of Ithaca, were here today to attend the wedding.

 

HANDSOME NEW RESIDENCE

To be Erected by F. J. Doubleday Corner Church and Port Watson-sts.

   Mr. F. J. Doubleday is preparing to begin the erection of a fine dwelling on his lot at the corner of Church and Port Watson-sts.

   Ground will be broken about the first of next week, and the building will then be pushed to completion. The dwelling will be modern colonial in architecture, three stories in height, 67 feet and 5 inches in length along Port Watson-st., and 38 feet along Church-st. The foundation will be of finest Gouverneur marble, and on the corner next the street corner will be a handsome tower. A twelve and one-half foot hall will be built from the main entrance on Port Watson-st. through to the rear of the building. West of this will be two parlors, while east of it will be a sittingroom at the front and a dinningroom at the rear. Farther east of these will be bath rooms, kitchen, pantry, etc.

   The sittingroom will be finished in curly maple, while the hall and dinningroom will be finished in quartered oak. The parlors will be finished in white and gilt. There will be three fire places built in the house.

   Beside the tower the exterior of the house will be ornamented with composite capitals, and plate and cut glass will be used on the street sides. The dwelling place when erected will be one of the best in the city.

   The plans for the structure were drawn by Messrs. M. F. Howes & Son of Cortland, and W. Elster will have charge of the building.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The Cortland Kindergarten association will meet Thursday, March 12 at 3:30p, m. in the Normal kindergarten.

   —The Lenten service at Grace Episcopal church tomorrow afternoon will be at 4 o'clock instead of at 4:30. This notice is for this one day only.

   —The March business meeting of the Junior Baraca Bible class of the First Baptist church will be held in the church parlors tonight at 8 o'clock.

   —Cortland Chapter, No. 149, R. A. M., will confer the past and most excellent degrees in full form at its regular convocation Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock.

   —The Ladies' club will give an entertainment at the home of Mrs. J. F. Twiss, 16 Church-st., tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, the usual hour for the meeting of the club.

   —The new display advertisements today are—A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 8; C. F. Brown, Drugs and Paints, page 4; Angell & Thomas, Shoes, page 7; M. A. Case, Dry goods, page 6; The First National bank, Banking etc., page 6; A. Mahan, Pianos and organs, page 7; C. F. Thompson, Maple sugar, page 5; W. W. Bennett, Hardware, etc., page 7; Sager & Jennings, Drugs, paints, page 6.