SHOW SEAL STILL FREE, STATUS OF JEWS IN RUSSIA, POPE UNCONSCIOUS, TWO DAYS OF BASEBALL, BASEBALL SATURDAY, AND DEATH OF MRS. HOWARD

 

Pacific sea lion.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, July 13, 1903.

SHOW SEAL STILL FREE.

Bob Is Enjoying Liberty Immensely and Eludes All Hunters.

   Wilkes-Barre, July 13.—Bob, a tame seal [sea lion], which three weeks ago escaped from a Cortland, N. Y., Trout Park, defies capture in the river, where since its escape it has been living luxuriously on the fine black bass with which the stream abounds.

   A week ago Friday it was first located at Meshoppen, Pa., near here, and enticed close to shore, but when Hugh Sharpe of this city, its trainer, reached the scene no ruse to get it into the cage was successful. Fanny, Bob's mate, was sent to the spot, but her endearing notes could not win him from freedom.

   Sharpe has been trying to capture the seal ever since. It grows wilder every day. A number of fishermen with nets are organizing and will make an effort to capture him.

 

John Baptiste Weber.

STATUS OF RUSSIAN JEWS.

Discussed by Ex-Commissioner Weber Before the Jewish Chautauqua.

   Atlantic City, N. J., July 13.—John B. Weber of Buffalo, N. Y., former commissioner of immigration at New York and chairman of the special commission authorized by congress in 1888 to investigate in Europe the cause of emigration to this country, spoke before the Jewish Chautauqua on "The Status of the Jew in Russia."

   Mr. Weber said there would be no peace, no substantial relief for the sufferers, until the total disappearance from Russia of either the Jew or the special laws directed against him. Summing up the status of the Jew in Russia, Mr. Weber said: "The Jew is the sport of the rabble, the spoil of the official, the football of fanaticism, the buffer against which strikes the wrath of bigotry, intolerance and savagery."

   After asserting the moral obligation and the legal right of the United States to protest to the Russian government against its treatment of Jews, Mr. Weber said: "The abnormal immigration from Russia is due to the laws and methods of that country—and this gives us a legal and moral right to object. Self-interest and humanity unite in a loud call to invoke such rights."

   Mr. Weber closed by calling attention to the grave responsibilities falling upon Jews in receiving the thousands who flee from their oppressors.

    He urged that they be aided to establish themselves and distributed so that they will not become a menace by congestion; that American principles be instilled in the children so that they might grow up a credit to this country.

 

MAY NOT SEND PETITION.

Czar Said to be Doing all Possible to Right the Wrong.

   Washington, July 13.—It is quite possible, perhaps probable, that no attempt will be made by this government to present the B'nai B'rith petition to the czar. Everything depends upon the conference to be held tomorrow at Oyster Bay between the president and Messrs. Levick, Wolf and Strauss. The committee will be informed of the probability of the rejection of the petition at St. Petersburg and the consequent humiliation to the United States in that event, and then they will be allowed to decide whether the incident shall be closed, or become a matter of international irritation.

   Meanwhile, official utterances on the subject have been inconsistent if not contradictory. The president has expressed his horror at the Kishineff massacre, and his sympathy for the victims. He also consented to forward the petition. Later came a statement undoubtedly from Oyster Bay, but issued through the state department, which linked the matter of the petition with the alleged breach of faith by Russia in the treaty negotiations with China and made use of some strong terms of impatience and irritation at Russia's diplomatic methods. Still later there was made from official sources a declaration that the petition and Manchuria were entirely without connection.

   To cap it all, the state department now receives authoritative information that the czar is doing everything in his power to right the wrongs of the Kishineff Jews and to punish those guilty of the atrocity. In many quarters this latter promulgation is regarded as a preliminary to closing the incident without forwarding the B'nai B'rith petition. Of course, if the committee shall insist that the document be sent on, the administration is bound to do it. It is no secret, however, that the state department would feel greatly relieved should the president's callers tomorrow decide that the purposes for which the subject had been agitated in this country have already been accomplished.

 

Pope Leo XIII.

POPE UNCONSCIOUS.

Cardinal Matti Says End May Come at Any Time.

   Rome, July 13.—Toward noon the Pope lost consciousness for a time, and is now barely more than semi-conscious. Your correspondent saw Cardinal Matti for a moment. He said: "The end might come at almost any time." He thought the Pope was now in a worse condition than previous to his rally.

   Rome, July 13.—In the middle of the afternoon the Pope was still in a state of semi-unconsciousness.

 

TWO DAYS OF BASEBALL.

Binghamton Stars Wednesday and Canastota Team Saturday.

   The management of the All-Cortland baseball team has secured two first class teams which will play the locals on Athletic field this week. The Binghamton Stars will be here Wednesday and the Canastota semi-professional team Saturday. The All-Cortland team is getting regular practice now and two fast games are assured. Dillon will pitch Wednesday.

 

BASEBALL SATURDAY.

Much Interest in the Close Contest in One Game.

   Two games in the series for the city baseball amateur championship were played at Athletic field Saturday afternoon. The first was between the Y. M. C. A. and Wickwires, resulting in a victory for the former by a score of 14 to 13 and the second between the Implement Co. and Forging Shop teams, the Implement Co. winning out by the score of 13 to 4.

   The first game was the more interesting to the spectators on account of the closeness of the score. The Y. M. C. A. team took the lead in the first inning and kept it until the fifth when the Wickwires, by bunching hits aided by errors, tied the score. Each team drew a blank in the sixth and when the Y. M. C. A. came to bat in the seventh it was with determination of winning; they hit hard and often and when the umpire called the third man out they stood six runs to the good. Wickwire came to bat in their half of the last inning determined to make a garrison finish; they succeeded in bringing in five runs and had a man on second with two out. With two strikes and two balls on the batter, the runner attempted to steal third, bur was caught out and all was off.

   The Implement Co. Forging Shop game was not so interesting, as the former team took a big lead at the beginning of the game and held it throughout. Each team showed improvement and the games promise to become more and more interesting. The summary:

Y. M. C. A. VS. WICKWIRES.

 

 

 

THE PRIZE CONTETS

Of the Misspelled Words in the Advertisements to Close Friday Night.

   The prize contest in the matter of misspelled words in advertisements which has been continued in these columns for nearly eight weeks past will close on Friday night of this week, July 17, the daily and semi-weekly issues of July 17 being the last in both cases. The count on misspelled words that have appeared in the advertisements should be sent to this office as soon as possible after the contest closes. Each report should be written on a slip of paper which will also contain the name and address of the subscriber submitting it and the whole be enclosed in a sealed envelope. The date of the receipt of each report will be entered upon it as soon as handed in and as soon as these can be examined the result will be announced.

 

Auxiliary of the A. O. H.

   The members of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the A. O. H. are requested to meet at St. Mary's church at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning to attend the funeral of the late Mrs. DeWitt Howard.

 

Death of Mrs. De Witt Howard.

   The death of Mrs. Catherine Howard, wife of DeWitt Howard, occurred at her home, 9 East Main–st., Cortland, at 7 o'clock last evening, after an illness of about three weeks.

   Mrs. Howard, whose maiden name was Catherine McMahon, was born in Marathon, N. Y., June 24, 1865. She lived there until her marriage, Jan. 7, 1901, to DeWitt Howard of Cortland.

   Mrs. Howard was taken ill about three weeks ago with a form of stomach trouble. A complication of diseases arose and although everything that physicians and loving friends could do was done, she grew steadily worse, the end coming last night.

   Mrs. Howard was a faithful member of St. Mary's church and a charter member of the A. O. H. auxiliary. She is survived by her mother Mrs. Margaret McMahon; two brothers, Richard McMahon of Cortland and Thomas McMahon of Homer, and two sisters, Mrs. H. B. McNulty of Rochester and Mrs. T. E. Courtney of Cortland.

   The funeral will be held from her late residence, 9 East Main-st. at 9 o'clock, and from St. Mary's church at 9:30 o'clock, Tuesday morning. Interment at Cortland.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The members of the Ladies' Auxiliary of A. O. H. are requested to meet at St. Mary's church at 8:30 Tuesday morning to attend the funeral of Mrs. Catherine Howard.

   —T. N. and William Hollister have sold their property on Pearne-ave. and purchased another lot on the same street and will erect a residence thereon in the near future.

   —The new display advertisements today are—-A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 4; S. Simmons, Clothing, page 4; First National Bank, Banking, page 5; M. W. Giles, Clearing sale, page 4.

 

WAR REMINSCENCES CHAPTER 26

 

Captain William Saxton, Co. C, 157th Regiment, New York Volunteers.

Captain Frank Place, 157th Regiment, New York Volunteers

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, July 11, 1903.

WAR REMINISCENCES.

By Captain Saxton of the 157th Regiment, N. Y. Vols.

THE REGIMENT'S FIRST BATTLE.

Complimented by Gen. Schurz and its Officers Publicly Thanked—Deadly Work of the Confederates as they Came Out of the Woods—Union Army Retreats, This Regiment, However, in Good Order.

CHAPTER 26.

   To the Editor of The Standard:

   Sir—Devan's Second brigade, McLean's, was along the pike from west to east, between Von Gilsa and Schurz, all facing south. The Seventy-fifth and Twenty-fifth Ohio reserve, Col. Lee, had been twice refused permission to change front to the west. His regiment and the one next on his left, the One Hundred and Seventh Ohio receiving two volleys in their back, then attempted to cross to the north side of the road and change front to the west without orders from brigade or division generals, but it was too late. Stuart's horse artillery on the pike kept pace with the skirmishers, and swept the road. Von Gilsa's men that were pushed back along the road, together with ambulances and quartermaster's wagons, caused such confusion that they were swept along with the mass. The Seventy-fifth Ohio, in reserve, changed front to the west and attempted to stand along with some remnants of other regiments. They had time to fire only a few volleys and in ten minutes they had to give way, wrecked. The colonel was killed, the adjutant severely wounded and 150 men stricken down.

Thirty Minutes Destructive Work.

   Another stand was made a little farther down the pike. The Twenty-fifth Ohio bad deployed and faced west and the remnants of the Fifty-fifth, One Hundred and Seventh and Seventy-fifth Ohio, together with the Seventeenth Conn. joined it, but in ten minutes more they were brushed away. Jackson, in thirty minutes had wrecked Devan's splendid division of nearly 4,000 men and had the Talley farm in possession.

   Gen. Schurz in the forenoon had become alarmed about his position, and had requested Howard to contract his line, and of his own accord had placed the Twenty-sixth Wis. and the Fifty-eighth N. Y. on the west edge of Hawkins' farm facing west. They were half a mile in the rear of Devan's and when the attack commenced they had time to get in line and be somewhat ready. They were soon reached and the Twenty-sixth Wis. occupying the right of this position, fought with great bravery for twenty minutes and was then compelled to fall back to the Hawkins house, where it was formed with the Fifty-eighth N. Y. and the Eighty-second Ill. on the left. These regiments were soon compelled to retire from this position by overlapping regiments of the enemy. They took up another line in the edge of the woods west of the Hawkins clearing. The Twenty-sixth Wis. lost 158 killed and wounded. The Eighty-second Ill. lost 107.

The One Hundred Fifty-Seventh.

   Between Talley's and Dowdall's  along the pike, where Schurz's division (ours) commenced, a point of woods extended along the pike reaching south to the plank road and east to the junction of the pike and plank at Dowdal's. The First regiment of Schimmelfennig's brigade connecting with Devan's division, was the Seventy-fourth Pa. its right was at the east edge of the Talley clearing and then it extended east along the pike in this point of woods spoken of, then came the Sixty-first Ohio (the Irish regiment) continuing this extension to the edge of the woods east, then came the Sixty-eighth N. Y. at the junction of the pike and plank roads, which last came in here from the southwest, and our regiment, the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh N. Y., was in reserve a fourth of a mile north of the Sixty-first Ohio at the south edge of the Hawkins clearing, a little to the southwest of the Wilderness church.

   As the debris of Devan's division struck the Seventy-fourth Pa. in the woods, with Jackson in hot pursuit in the rear, portions of his regiment, the Sixty-first Ohio and the Sixty-eighth N. Y., were swept along with the mass of fleeing fugitives. The remainder of the regiments moved down the pike into the opening at the junction of the plank road and swung into line extending north and facing west the One Hundred and Nineteenth N. Y. of the next brigade forming with them.

In a Narrow Lane.

   It all occurred in so short a time that Jackson was upon them before the formation of this new line was completed. Gen. Howard was vainly endeavoring to mount his horse when the attack reached Dowdall's. As the first sound of the conflict fell on our ears, the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh fell in, formed line and started at once into that point of woods south toward the pike, but there was such a tangle of underbrush that we were obliged to move by the flank on a little wood road or lane and we ran right into the advancing Confederates, head on. There was not room enough to swing into line and Col. Brown halted the regiment, while the bullets came whizzing through the brush at a lively rate, about faced, marched back into the opening, formed line and opened out on the enemy, coming as fast as they could through the thickets. We gave them only two or three rounds, when we were ordered back across the little opening to the brow of a little hill or knoll just to the west and north of the Wilderness church. Here we about faced and lay down so our battery on still higher ground back and to the east of us could fire over us into the enemy as be debouched from the woods into the little opening we had just left.

   As soon as the Talley farm was cleared of Devan's men—Dilger had been sending his shot and shell over our heads and to the right of us into Jackson's men. He inflicted some punishment but did stop the progress.

   Our regiment was in good shape, every company in its proper place, Company C was on the left of the regiment, and as we lay then facing to the rear, our former front, we were on the right. We had just lain down over the brow of this little hill when the Johnnies came out of the woods.

Pen Picture of the Situation.

   It all comes back to me now as though it happened yesterday. I can see the Johnnies as they came out of those woods that we had just left like a long flock of sheep, without much semblance of a line with their yelping rebel yell. Then Dilger's battery opened on them and the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh New York and other infantry regiments did the same with their muskets. I can see the Confederates pitch forward and fall as we reached them, and remember wondering why more did not fall; it seemed as though we ought to have swept them all off the face of the earth, but to the right and left and back of them, they kept pouring out of that piece of woods as if there was no end to them. The great mass did not stop. The advance line, if we may call it a line, in front of us kept right on up to our little knoll, lay down out of sight and began crawling up toward us. The flag of some regiment was raised up and its staff stuck into the ground, and stood there to mock us, with its bearer out of sight. I am speaking now of what occurred on the left (now our right) of Company C.

   While this little halt in our immediate front occurred, the enemy were [sic] lapping our flanks. I looked to the right and the regiment which bad joined us had vanished. The firing from our batteries had mainly ceased and all but Dilger's guns had been retired on the road toward Chancellorsville. As we afterwards learned the position of our regiment was in the new line that was being formed, while we were advancing in the woods, backing out again, getting back to the knoll and lying down. This new line was on the east edge of Dowdall's farm, a quarter of a mile back from the church. This has since been called the Bushbeck line, as Gen. Bushbeck, Steinwehr's remaining brigadier, after Barlow had been sent to Sickles,’ brought his regiments around and faced them west and Schurz's division fell back and joined with them. This was nearly the line suggested by Schurz to Howard in the forenoon when he (Schurz) advised Howard to contract his lines and change the front of the Corps.

An Orderly Retreat.

   This swinging back of our line on the east and the vanishing of our friends on the northwest, left our regiment alone. Gen. Schurz rode up and told us we would have to fall back. (I thought at the time it was Howard, but have since learned it was Schurz.) After rising up and sending our compliments to "our friends" (the enemy), we faced about and retreated, loading and firing as we went. Occasionally we would halt, face to the rear and give them a volley. This was the way we did [fall back] in Company C. I think the other companies did the same. The regiment kept its alignment as well as possible, hindered by brush and trees and uneven ground.

Captain Place was Cool.

   Capt. Place was very cool and constantly admonished the boys to keep in line and to keep connected with the company on the east. Lieut. Coffin took off his cap, placed it on his sword and continually called out "Company C, keep cool, don't get excited, give it to them." The sergeants assisted in keeping the men together and preventing any semblance of a stampede.

   The bullets that the Johnnies had been sending in our direction all this time did not go astray; our own boys of company C and the rest of the regiment were constantly getting hit and dropping out, and we were continually cautioned to be careful and not shoot our own wounded as we fired to the rear. We soon came to where Gen. Schurz in the forenoon had had the Eighty-second Ill. throw up a little dirt. It was a little trench about a foot deep, about like two plowed furrows would be. Here we stopped for a time and gave the Johnnies the best we had and as rapidly as we could hand it out. One man showed me his gun; he had been carrying it in his left hand loading, when a rebel bullet struck the stock below his hand and cut the wood part completely in two, rendering it useless. I told him to throw it way and pick up one from a dead comrade or take one from a wounded man. We did not stay in this last position very long, as we were again flanked.

   A short distance to the north is where connected the Eighty-second Ohio, with the Fifty-eighth N. Y. and Twenty-sixth Wis., where they had fallen back from the Hawkins farm spoken of before. The left of Rodes' and Colson's line had swung across the Hawkins farm here on our right flank and rear. Eleventh Corps historian, Col. T. Hamlin, erroneously places our regiment in this line in reserve.

Night Closes In.

   I know this positively that no troops were between us and the enemy from the time we backed out of those woods west of the Wilderness church until we marched in rear of our line some time after dark and were reunited with the rest of our brigade. The fact is, rather than being in reserve, the line had fallen back and left us alone in front. Clark Pierce of Company K, afterward Lieut. Pierce, now in the U. S. custom house in New York City, (if I remember rightly it was he), told me at that part of the line where Company K was, he came across Col. Hecker of the Eighty-second Ill., wounded, and assisted him, his regiment having already gone. We were alone now, the shades of night were deepening; we moved back again firing as we went. We noticed the firing had moved to the southeast. We perceived we were not followed by a large force; we halted and fixed bayonets, faced the rear, charged and captured a few prisoners. I heard something clink, the bayonet on the gun of one of the men had been struck with a bullet and was broken like a piece of glass. It was now dark, we were in the woods, not knowing exactly where we were; there was occasional firing in the southeast. We halted and marched by the flank and finally came into an opening, where we found Gen. Schurz and Gen. Schimmelfennig reforming the Eighty-second Ill., Eighty-second Ohio, Fifty-eighth N. Y., and Twenty-sixth Wis. Our regiment had kept its formation and all were in their place except the killed and wounded and a few who fell back with other troops nearer the pike.

"Did the Best"

   Gen. Schurz placed us in the line and rode up and down it saying "the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh did the best, the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh did the best," and then publicly thanked the field and company officers for their bravery and good behavior.

   We had done well in this, our first battle, and we knew it. We had seen other regiments go to pieces under the most trying circumstances, while we kept together. From that time on we held an honored position in the brigade, division and Corps. But at what a sacrifice! We had lost a good many choice men and beloved comrades. The One Hundred and Fifty-seventh lost seventy-nine men killed and wounded; the brigade 289; the division 544; the corrected losses of the Corps in killed and wounded amounted to over 1,500; captured or missing, 972; making a total loss of nearly 2,500 out of about 9,000 engaged. (Barlow's brigade being absent with Sickles.) W. S.

 

POPE'S INTERVIEW, SETBACK FOR SCIENTIFIC FORESTRY, BUILDING AND REPAIR, BOUGHT OUT HIS PARTNER, AND TOO HOT FOR SPARROWS

 

Pope Leo XIII.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, July 11, 1903.

SERVICES OF INTERCESSION.

Interesting Story of the Pope's Interview With His Nephews.

   Rome, July 11.—The vesper services in Rome last night were transformed in many churches into special services of intercession for the pope. One service in particular attracted interest. It was held in the church of St. Andrew of the Quirinal. From the side altar, under which lie the remains of St. Stanislaus Kostka, from the exact spot where nearly 70 years ago, the pope celebrated his first mass, priests solemnly invoked the intercession of St. Stanislaus in behalf of the afflicted pontiff and kneeling men and women reverently echoed the prayers.

   An interesting story is told of the recent interview between the pope and his nephews. When they were admitted to his apartment, the pope promptly asked for the news of his birthplace.

   "When did word of my illness reach Carpineto?" said his holiness.

   "On Saturday, holy father," replied Count Ludovic Pecci.

   "Strange," replied the pontiff, "I only felt ill last Sunday."

   As his nephews were leaving the pope called his valet, Centra, and said: "Be sure to serve these children," as he calls his gray-haired nephews, with ices."

   Then turning to his nephews he said laughingly: "If there is any left, leave one for me."

 

POPE HAS GAINED.

General Condition Ameliorated According to the Bulletin.

   Rome, July 11.—The Pope's physicians issued a bulletin at 9:30 this morning, which stated that the Pope had gained somewhat during the night. The bulletin read:

   "The Pope slept during the night at intervals. His pulse is now 90, and has been without irregularity since yesterday evening. His respiration is 30, his temperature 36 degrees centigrade. His renal functions are still deficient, but his general condition is somewhat ameliorated. (Signed). Mazzoni and Lapponi."

 

Cornell School of Forestry at Saranac Lake.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

A Setback For Scientific Forestry.

   People interested in scientific forestry will regret to learn of the suspension of the Cornell College of Forestry. This is a serious setback for a movement in practical education from which very much in the way of good results was expected. Instead of the blow being administered by ignorant outsiders it seems to have been given by the scientific foresters themselves.

   According to all accounts, the suspension of the institution was due to the inability of the heads of the college to use good judgment in construing the purpose of the grants of $166,000 worth (30,000 acres) of forest and $50,000 in money. Since this was done on account of complaints of denudation of forests by lumbermen, the plain purpose was to aid and demonstrate the preservation of forests. Preservation does not mean denudation. But the college took the ground that the purpose was to teach the pupils how to utilize forest products and proceeded to give the instruction which they could have obtained in any lumber camp by denuding 1,500 acres of land in three years and replanting, according to the legislative report, only 275. The instruction that the state intended to secure was how to preserve the forest by removing only the fully matured timber, leaving the forest as a whole intact. This [purpose] the college appears to have wholly failed to do, and it is fairly chargeable with the failure to continue the appropriation. In view of the efforts being made throughout the country in the direction of forest preservation and the urgent necessity for such efforts, the failure of this experiment in New York is to be regretted.

 

Main Street, Cortland, circa 1900.

BUILDING AND REPAIRING.

Great Amount of This Work Being Done in Cortland.

   In taking a trip through Cortland's business or residential streets one cannot help being impressed by the large number of buildings that are going up this summer. Masons, carpenters, plumbers, painters, and paperhangers are at a premium at the present time.

   Among the buildings in process of erection at present are the Goddard block, F. H. Cobb & Co.'s warehouse, Dr. Jennings' house, E. H. Brewer's house, and others too numerous to mention. On Stevenson-st. and Harrington-ave., seven houses, all within a stone's throw of each other, have been built within a year.

   It is not new buildings alone, however, that are keeping the craftsmen busy as the number of new buildings, when compared with the number that are being renovated and improved or enlarged, is inconsiderable. A man in a position to know said yesterday that he had seen more buildings in the process of erection in Cortland before, but never so many that were being fixed over. This certainly is abundant proof of Cortland's present and general prosperity.

   In marked contrast to this is the condition of affairs in several other cities on account of labor troubles, etc. In a nearby city all building has been practically at a standstill for several months on account of disagreements between the master mechanics and the journeymen. Many of the latter have left town despairing of reaching any satisfactory agreement. The master mechanics claim that they have conceded all that they think they can and will try to get men from other places.

 

Cortland Traction Park.

Popular Family Picnics.

   During these hot days Cortland park has become a very popular place for small family picnics, and no day passes without at least half a dozen small parties seeking a quiet afternoon in the shady grove. The accommodations at the park are excellent for these gatherings and courteous treatment to patrons is the attempt of the management. Cars run regularly every day, commencing at 9:30 in the morning, and continuing until late in the evening. Lunches may be carried up and special tables are provided in the grove for public use. There are also facilities for each party to prepare their own coffee, etc., using the stove in the pavilion.

   Moving pictures are shown every evening except Monday and Saturday, but on Saturday evenings the Cortland City band will give open air concerts. This gives an opportunity to spend a warm afternoon and evening in comfort including excellent entertainment free of charge.

   Dancing Wednesday and Saturday evenings in the pavilion which is well supplied with electric fans. Dance 10 cents to gentlemen and ladies free.

 

Cortland City Band.

Band Concert at Park.

   The following is the program of the concert to be given by the City band at the park tonight:

   March—The Strollers, Englander

   Overture—La Vestale, Mercadante

   Intermezzo—Anona, Vivian Grey (Miss McKinly)

   In the Sweet Bye and Bye and Please Let Me Sleep, Von Tilzer

   Selection from The Prince of Pilsen, Luders

   Morceau Caracteristique—The Dawn of Love, Bendix

   Down Where the Wurzburger Flows, Von Tilzer

 

ROUND TRIP ONE FARE

For a Continuous Ride on Trolley Cars on Either Division.

   Beginning today the Cortland County Traction Co. will give continuous round trip rides on through cars on both Homer and McGraw divisions of the road for one way fares, provided that the trip is made purely for pleasure and the person riding does not leave the car at any point on a trip. This rate will be maintained every day in the week during the heated season and is not confined to any particular car. The trip may be started from either end of the two divisions. This will afford a fine pleasure trip at a small expense, the round trip to or from Homer being only 10 cents and the same for McGraw. On all warm days and evenings open cars will be run on the McGraw division. Tickets may be purchased on the cars.

 

Bought Out His Partner.

   W. T. Hughes has purchased his partner's interest in the barbering firm of Hughes & Snow, Railroad-st., Cortland, and commencing Monday next will conduct the business individual1y. Hughes & Snow have been in business together in their present location for a little more than a year and have built up a very large trade. In continuing the business for himself Mr. Hughes will maintain the high standard of excellence which has brought to the firm the liberal patronage of the past. Mr. Snow will remain with Mr. Hughes for the present and the shop will continue to run four chairs as has been done for some time. Thomas Brick now has the fourth chair.

 

Too Hot for Sparrows.

   Yesterday was too hot in New York for the English sparrows which are very numerous, and dozens fell exhausted in the vicinity of City Hall park. The New York Sun says: During the fifty-three years that sparrows have been in New York it has been said that only one thing ever happened to cause them extreme discomfort. That was the blizzard of 1888. In the spring, when the snow melted away, hundreds of sparrows that bad been frozen to death were found.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The K. O. T. M. will meet Sunday afternoon at Empire hall to observe memorial day.

   —The Loyal Temperance legion state convention at Hornellsville has decided to meet at Ithaca next year.

   —The Cortland Stars, the pick up team that played in Marathon yesterday, were defeated by the score of 17 to 12.

   —The morning train on the E. & C. N. Y. had two coaches crowded with excursionists from Cincinnatus this morning, this being the special bargain day at Cortland stores.

   —Owasco Lake is a rather shallow one. Its maximum depth is 187 feet, Skaneateles lake is 320 feet, Cayuga is 300 feet, and Seneca's greatest depth is 520 feet. Keuka's maximum depth is 200 feet. [Finger Lakes.]

   —A number of the Ithaca jail gang employed in road making in the town of Lansing yesterday in the boiling hot sun took French leave while the officer's back was turned and have not yet been recaptured.

   —After several months of legal contest George W. Miller has been declared by the court to be the mayor of Ithaca and was sworn in Thursday night. The matter had been in litigation ever since last November.

   —The Oneonta Normal school will add two new departments next year—a department of manual training and a kindergarten. Miss Blanche S. Van Auken has been elected to have charge of the former. The kindergarten teacher has not yet been chosen.