DISGRACE OF RUSSIA, BOGUS NATURALIZATION PAPERS, PROFESSOR LORENZ, CORTLAND PARK, FORECAST AND TIME, AND BARBARIC SPLENDOR

 

Maxim Gorky.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, May 22, 1903.

DISGRACE OF RUSSIA.

Scathing Denunciation of Massacre by Maxim Gorki.

SUPPRESSED BY PRESS CENSOR.

Article Then Sent to the St. Petersburg Correspondent of a German Paper—Blame For the Atrocities Placed on the Authorities and Cultivated Russian Society.

   Berlin, May 23.—Maxim Gorki, the Russian novelist, recently wrote an article on the Kishineff massacres for a Nijni Novgorod newspaper, but the censor refused to allow its publication. Gorki then sent the article to the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Frankfort Kliene Presse which prints it. The article is as follows:

   "Russia has been disgraced more  and more frequently of recent years by dark deeds, but the most disgraceful of all is the horrible Jewish massacre at Kishineff, which has awakened our horror, shame and indignation.

   "People who regard themselves as Christians, who claim to believe in God's mercy and sympathy, these people, on the day consecrated to the resurrection of their God from the dead, occupy the time in murdering children and aged people, ravishing the women and martyring the men of the race which gave them Christ.

   "Who bears the blame of this base crime which will remain on us like a bloody blot for ages? We shall be unable to wash this blot from the sad history of our dark country. I would be unjust, and too simple to condemn the mob. The latter were merely the hand which was guided by a corrupt conscience, driving it to murder and robbery.

   "For it is well known that the mob at Kishineff was led by men of cultivated society. But cultivated society in Russia is really much worse than the people who are goaded by their sad life and blinded and enthralled by the artificial darkness created around them.

   "It is now the duty of Russian society, that is not yet wholly ruined by these bandits, to prove that it is not identified with these instigators of pillage and murder.

   "Come, therefore, all who do not want themselves to be regarded as the lackeys of the lackeys and who still retain their self-respect, come and help the Jews."

 

Bogus Naturalization Papers.

   New York, May 23.—Over 500 men in the street cleaning department, Italian sweepers and drivers, are under the surveillance of the United States secret service agents, suspected of having obtained their positions through the purchase of bogus naturalization papers. Four employees of the department are under arrest as being connected with the leaders of the gang of counterfeiters in New Jersey by whom the forged papers have been received, and the department is short 1,000 men, who are staying away from work, it is thought, through fear of arrest. The price paid for these papers varied from $2.50 to $25 each, and not less than $10,000 was received by the alleged forgers.

 

Dr. Adolf Lorenz.

PAGE FOUR—BRIEF EDITORIALS.

The Attacks on Professor Lorenz.

   To the lay mind there is something quite unaccountable in the severe criticism visited upon Professor Lorenz, the eminent Vienna surgeon, at the recent meeting of the American Medical Association at New Orleans for the introduction in this country of his bloodless method of treating congenital hip dislocations. It would seem that in view of Professor Lorenz's successful demonstrations of his methods some months ago, the doctors would welcome the new light shed upon their profession. Not so, apparently, from the outgivings of the New Orleans assembly.

   Physicians are naturally conservative and whatever progress is made in the profession is invariably made in the face of great obstacles. It is only right that they should subject new discoveries or methods to the closest scrutiny before accepting them at their face value, for life is too sacred to be experimented upon. And yet it would seem as though the Lorenz method had by this time been put to sufficient test to prove that there is merit in it, enough at least to lead members of the medical profession to question it only in a receptive spirit. As for the laity, it is more likely to prefer the bloodless manipulations of Lorenz to the surgeon's knife.

   ◘ The story that Andrew Carnegie said a man who dies rich dies disgraced is probably apocryphal. But that he is sustaining his record as the most remarkable philanthropist of his age is indisputable. Up to a month ago Mr. Carnegie had given away all told more than $85,000,000, this sum representing over 500 separate benefactions. Of the total amount $690,000 went for negro education of the sort favored by Booker T. Washington, $13,042,000 for technical education and $26,019,500 for general education, research, including the establishing of the national institution at Washington. Millions have been spent in libraries and for miscellaneous purposes all intended to benefit the worthy and help them to help themselves. And what higher form of giving could there be than this?

 

Cortland Traction Park was located at the base of Salisbury Hill on the east side of the Tioughnioga river. Access by trolley across bridge from Elm Street.

CORTLAND PARK

Opens on Decoration Day Evening With Band Concert and Dance.

   The Cortland park will open on Decoration Day evening with a band concert, followed by a dance in the pavilion. Music for dancing will be furnished by the Cortland orchestra. The park will be conducted in the same manner as heretofore, with all the old attractions and new ones as they can be added. Picnics can be arranged for at any time, and the public will be accorded the most courteous and liberal treatment.

 

FORECAST AND TIME

Furnished to Farmers by Telephone Each Morning.

TO SET THE CLOCK AND WATCH.

City Subscribers May Ask the Chief Operator for the Time Whenever Desired, for Railroad Time Tables, Closing of Mails, for Information Concerning Amusements and May Leave a Call to be Roused in the Morning.

   Through the united efforts of the United States Weather Bureau, The Cortland Standard and the Home Telephone Co., all the subscribers of this Telephone company upon the farm lines and all toll stations of this company will each morning receive the weather forecast by telephone, and the Telephone company will also add another feature, the correct time.

The Weather Forecast.  

   The weather forecast for the succeeding thirty-six hours is each morning (Sundays and holidays excepted) received at this office by wire. For several years The Standard has telephoned this forecast to the works of the Cortland Forging Co. in this city and it has been sounded at 11:30 o'clock by code signals upon the big whistle of this plant, bearing the news far out into the country.

   Now a further improvement is to be made. The forecast is to be given by The Standard to the Home Telephone Co., and through the courtesy of Manager Bennett this will be sent out to all the subscribers upon the rural lines and to all the toll stations of the company at about 11 o'clock each forenoon. All of these lines will be coupled together and one long ring of the bell will be heard in every house where there is a rural telephone. If then each subscriber will take down his receiver he will hear the operator at the Central office give the weather forecast for the next thirty-six hours. It must be remembered that the forecast does not tell the weather existing at that minute. Everyone can tell that for himself by looking out of doors or by taking account of his own feelings, but it tells what the weather is expected to be upon the next day.

Exact Time Also.

   And the Home Telephone company will also add another feature upon its own account which cannot fail to be of value. In its office is a chronometer clock connected with the naval observatory at Washington. This clock is regulated from Washington and always gives the exact official time.

   After giving the weather forecast each day the operator will also announce the exact time at that moment, and every subscriber can at once set his watch or his clock by that announcement, if a change is necessary.

   It will be impossible to give these weather forecasts and the time simultaneously to the subscribers on the city toll boards because so many are constantly talking that all the lines can not be brought together at one time, but any subscriber who wants to know the exact time may at anytime ask the operator upon his board to connect him with the chief operator and she will be pleased to give it to him, and he can regulate his time pieces accordingly.

General Source of Information.

   The chief operator will also be a general source of intelligence, a bureau of universal information. One may not ask questions of the general operators upon the several boards. They are too busy answering calls to answer questions, but one may call for the chief operator and she will be glad to answer all reasonable questions, such as the correct time, the time of arrival and departure of trains on all railroads, the time at which mails close, amusements going on at the Opera House and at other places in the city.

An Alarm Clock.

   The Home Telephone Co. will also establish in its office a call sheet for morning calls by which anyone who desires to be waked up at any hour of the night or morning may leave a request at night and the telephone bell will ring at the time mentioned to rouse the sleeper. This will necessitate the sleeper having his bed somewhere in the vicinity of the telephone in his house, and the Telephone company will not guarantee to wake him up, but it will promise to try and will ring the bell to the best of its ability. If he is not too sound asleep he will wake up.

   This matter of questions and of early calls applies only to subscribers in Cortland and Homer, not to McGraw or to the farm lines.

   All the new features will go in force on Monday, May 25.

Telephones Indispensable.

   The Home Telephone company is making itself indispensable to all of its subscribers. It is a convenience that would have been inconceivable a quarter of a century ago for a person ten miles out in the country to talk with all his neighbors and friends, to get the weather forecast for the next day and regulate his farm work accordingly and to get the correct Washington time, and all without leaving his house. Any one of these things alone might on occasion be worth much more than the cost of a telephone for a whole year.

 

Barbaric Splendor.

   Lyman H. Howe has just received from Delhi, India, a picture showing the most gorgeous pageant of oriental splendor ever witnessed in modern times. Hundreds of magnificently caparisoned elephants are seen decorated with the wealth of India, including jewels and precious stones. The great rajahs, sultans and princes in the grand procession are arrayed in all the gorgeous trappings and bewildering decorations of the Orient. This grand spectacle was the occasion of the great Dubar celebrated at Delhi, in which King Edward of England was proclaimed Emperor of India through his representative, the Viceroy Lord Curzon, amid all the magnificence and pomp which oriental imagination can devise and unlimited wealth provide.

   Mr. Howe will present this picture together with an entire new collection at Cortland Opera House on Wednesday, May 27.

 

BREVETIES.

   —The Normal [School] baseball team is playing the Cascadilla team at Athletic park this afternoon.

   —The new display advertisements today are—Haight & Freese Co., Stocks, bonds, grain, etc., page 6.

   —Normal [School] track team went to Syracuse this morning and is this afternoon contesting in the annual track meet of the Syracuse Interscholastic association.

   —Rev. Robert Clements, pastor of the Presbyterian church, and Rev. James Rain, pastor of the Congregational church, will exchange pulpits tomorrow morning, each preaching in his own pulpit in the evening.

   —The new plate glass windows forming the front of the York hotel were put in today and make a very fine appearance. That corner room at the hotel will be a most attractive place.

   —The front of the old [roller-skating] rink on Main-st. is receiving a new coat of paint, and the color is a dark green. This makes a great change and a great improvement.

   —The Standard acknowledges its obligations to Rev. U. S. Milburn for the selection of quotations from Emerson which make up our Sunday column in this issue.

 

FORESTS DESTROYED, GOODSELL-BEDELL BILL, JAPAN COLONIZING, CORTLAND HOSPITAL, AND MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH

 

William Avery Rockefeller, Jr.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, May 22, 1903.

FORESTS BEING DESTROYED.

Engines Sent From Plattsburg and Malone to Save Rockefeller's Preserve.

   Plattsburg, N. Y., May 22.—In response to an appeal from William Rockefeller's representative at Loon Lake for help in fighting forest fires, a fire engine and several hundred feet of hose were sent from here to Rockefeller's park near Loon Lake.

   An enormous quantity of valuable timber and pulp wood is cut and piled along the railroad track which runs through Rockefeller's preserve and with the help of the fire engine it is hoped to save some of it. An appeal for help has also been sent to Malone.

   An official of the Chateaugay branch of the Delaware & Hudson railroad, who made a trip over the line from Lake Placid to this city, says that at no time since May 1 have the forest fires been so active as they are at present. Although they have burned away from the villages, hotels and lumber camps, so that very few buildings are threatened, the forests are being destroyed at a rapid rate.

   Foliage is coming out very slowly on account of the unprecedented drought, so there is practically nothing to check the spread of the flames.

 

Fires of Incendiary Origin.

   Glens Falls, N. Y, May 22.—There is little doubt that many of the fires which in the past few weeks have devastated the great north woods have been of incendiary origin. It has been difficult to detect the criminals, but fire fighters who had been sent from North creek to fight a fierce fire on the western slope of Gore mountain near Second Pond, which lies in the counties of Warren and Hamilton, discovered four fires which were of recent origin. A further search was made and a man was seen who was recognized by the firemen and who fled at their approach.

   Fanned by a wind that was almost a gale, the fire swept the woods in the vicinity of the Chatiemac Club house, burning over hundreds of acres of valuable timber land. This club owns the lake and has a preserve about it. Its membership is composed of residents of New York, Philadelphia and Glens Falls.

   Conservative estimates place the damage to timber and to business during the past five weeks at $2,000,000.

 

Continued Drought in Chemung County.

   Elmira, N. Y., May 22.—Continued drought has caused great damage to crops in this section. The hay crop is practically ruined. The ground is so hard that the farmers require a three-horse team to plow. A heavy rain on Monday was succeeded by hot, dry weather.

 

Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.

GOODSELL-BEDELL BILL

Relating to Hospitals For Consumptives

IS SIGNED BY GOVERNOR ODELL.

Prevents the Location of Such Hospitals by Municipalities or Corporations Without Consent of Supervisors of County and Town Board. Does Not Apply to the State.

   Albany, N. Y., May 22.—Governor Odell has signed the Goodsell-Bedell bill prohibiting the establishment of any hospital or camp for consumptives in any town without the formal consent of the supervisors of the county and town board of the town. With the bill the governor filed a memorandum in which he says:

   "This is a bill to regulate the establishment of tuberculosis hospitals in the various counties of the state by municipalities, corporations, associations or individuals. It seeks to prevent the erection of such hospitals without the consent of the board of supervisors of the county or the town board of the town In which the hospital is to be erected.

   "It does not apply to the state and therefore in no way interferes with the tuberculosis sanitariums which are now under way and which are to be continued as the future policy of the state for the treatment of this disease.

   "Under existing law municipalities of the first class are not permitted to establish such hospitals outside of their own limits in cities or incorporated villages, or in towns without the consent of the local board of health and the approval of the state commissioner of health. This bill substitutes for the state commissioner of health the local board of supervisors of the county and for the local board of health the town board, thus making secure to the localities the same home rule principles which are guaranteed to cities of all classes.

   "Under these conditions it does not prevent the location within the state of hospitals for the treatment of tuberculosis, and but slightly broadens the protection of town and property interests. In thus making provisions for safeguarding these interests there has been no material change from the existing law and unnecessary burdens have not been placed upon municipalities or those who desire to establish such hospitals.

   "The same legislature which passed this bill also authorized liberal expenditures by the state for the establishment of a tuberculosis hospital upon its own ground in the Adirondack region, and proposes to make provision for the care of all patients that may be sent there by the various municipalities.

   "There is no interference with the rights of those who do not desire to take advantage of charitable treatment and who are able to provide from their own means for their care and treatment. I cannot see that any great injury will result to the work which the state and individuals have undertaken. On the contrary I can  see very urgent reasons why the property interests and rights of individuals which are safeguarded in this act should receive the thoughtful consideration of the legislature and the executive.

   "After viewing the bill from all standpoints and consulting with those who are interested in this work, as a matter of equity and justice I have concluded to approve the bill."

 

JAPAN COLONIZING.

Sending Subjects by Every Steamer to Settle in Korea.

   Berlin, May 22.—The Frankfurter Zeitung announces that Japan has responded to Russia's move against her in Korea by announcing her intention of sending 150 male and seventy-five female Japanese colonists to Korea by every mail steamer. Forty steamers a month ply between Japan and Korea. Such action by the Mikado's government would accordingly mean the sending of 10,000 subjects to Korea every month.

   Russia's move, mentioned in the above dispatch, was announced in a dispatch to Berlin on Wednesday last. According to dispatch, the Russian government had forced the Korean officials to command Korean children to attend Russian schools, threatening death to all parents who permitted their children to attend the Japanese institution. Other regulations equally as glaringly anti-Japanese in tenor were reported as having been issued.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Self-Governed a Year.

   Wednesday marked the close of Cuba's first year as an independent government. May 20, 1902, Thomas Estrada Palma was inaugurated president of the new republic. The Cubans had come to the trial of self-government through years of hardship, suffering and bloodshed. They had that for which they had contended, independence. What would they do with it?

   They started well, putting their best foot forward in calling to the presidency a man of large natural capabilities, whose years of residence in the United States and study of its forms of government particularly fitted him to guide the affairs of Cuba. The people, too, had had the advantage of a two to three years' object lesson in good government, in the temporary administration of affairs by officials appointed by the authorities at Washington. They had seen order restored, industries revived and sanitation applied to the plague-breeding spots of the island to the eradication of fevers and great reduction of the death rate. Taking the reins of government from hands that had proved fit to handle them President Palma and those associated with him have adhered closely to the models set. In the matter of public health they close the first year of their administration with a death rate for the past twelve months of 21.19 per thousand, a fraction below that of the city of Washington, against an average per year of 41.95 for the thirty years ending with 1900. In the very important matter of conserving the public health Cuba is fully entitled to the commendation, well done, at the end of its first year of self-government.

   It was freely predicted the essay at self-government in the island would prove a failure. The people were said to be incapable of it. There was a strong party favoring annexation to the United States. There were Spanish dissidents. Indolence was said to be the people's characteristic. Confronted by the devastation of revolution, and encouraged by interests that counted on profit from annexation, an early application to come under the government of the United States was predicted by many and desired by more. Instead, the year has quieted annexation sentiment. The republic of Cuba has taken root and thrived. Despite the failure of the United States to keep its pledges industry and commerce have prospered the people. The great crops of the island, sugar and tobacco, are almost restored to record proportions. Other markets have taken at profit what the United States declined, or repelled by refusing the virtually promised tariff reduction. The present sugar crop is estimated at 900,000 tons; the largest in the history of the island was that of 1894, 951,000 tons. If the tobacco falls short in any respect it will be due to weather conditions. The planters and workers have done their part.

   The government has been well administered. But for the labor trouble in Havana good order bas prevailed. Life is safe. Property is respected. The habit of industry is growing. The national treasury has paid all obligations and reported at the opening of the present month a balance to the credit of the government of $2,699,000. A year, as the Elmira Advertiser truly says, in practically of little account in the life of a nation, as a test of government, a trial of a people's ability to take care of themselves, but it is this to Cuba's credit, that whatever it does show is altogether to the credit of the young republic.

 

CORTLAND HOSPITAL.

Graduating Exercises to be Held May 27—Eight Graduates.

   The graduating exercises of the nurses of the class of 1903 at the Cortland hospital will occur at the hospital on the evening of Wednesday, May 27, at 8 o'clock. There are to be eight graduates: Marie Reville, Emma Briggs, Pearl Fish, Ester Young, Minnie M. Palmer, Nellie Scott Bryam, Gladys A. Jenkins, Grace G. Young, Mabel Eighmey Miller and Ellen Webb Hayes.

 

MEMORIAŁ DAY.

Excursion Rates from all Stations to Cortland on E. & C. N. Y. R. R.

   For the opening of the Trout Park at the Cortland Junction on Decoration Day the Erie & Central New York R. R. will sell round trip tickets to Cortland at one-way fare. An opportunity is thus afforded to attend the Memorial services at Cortland cemetery.

 

To Rent.

   The middle store in the Standard building, including half of a story above, formerly occupied by C. F. Baldwin's grocery store. Store is 90 feet deep, with high, dry cellar, good elevator, furnace, shelving, counters, etc., Rent reasonable. Apply at Standard office.

 

MEMORIAŁ BAPTIST CHURCH

Outgrowing its Accommodations—Plans to Build Larger.

   The Memorial Baptist church is rapidly outgrowing the size of its edifice and that organization has arrived at the conclusion that some improvements are necessary to keep pace with the rapidly increasing membership and attendance. Since the pastorate of Rev. J. C. Auringer began last December, the church has been crowded, especially at the evening service. Several times the house has been so full that people have been turned away. The Sunday school is crowded for room, especially in the primary department. The attendance in this department has increased from fifteen or twenty to about fifty, while the attendance in the senior department averages upward of 115 each Sunday.

   A meeting was called for last Wednesday evening to discuss the situation and its remedy—more room. It was unanimously decided that the welfare of the church and its growing condition demands more room, and that, too, immediately.

   The following committees were appointed:

   Building committee: Rev. J. C. Auringer, chairman, J. V. Chatterton, W. J. Moss, Thomas Harkness, Jr., John B. Smith, J. H. Ullshoefer and George T. Lester.

   Finance committee: Rev. J. C. Auringer, chairman, John S. Miller, I. Dan Lester, Albert H. Allport, Chas. B. Thompson.

   A meeting of the building committee will be held Monday evening, at which time the extent of improvements and plans will be discussed.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The H. C. Hall circle, No. 439, P. H. C., will meet this evening in John L. Lewis lodge rooms.

   —Cortland Commandery, No. 50, Knights Templar, will hold its annual conclave and election of officers this evening at 8 o'clock.

   —Syracuse university will next fall start a daily paper to be called The Orange. It will be devoted to the interests of the university and be a record of daily occurrences.

   —The new display advertisements today are—The New York Store, Dry goods, etc., page 6; Opera House, "Moving Pictures," page 5; Warren Tanner & Co., New shirt waists, page 8; Bingham & Miller, Straw hats, etc., page 8.

 

DISASTEROUS FIRE AT ST. HYACINTHE, PRESIDENT AT OREGON, MANCHURIAN MUDDLE, FOR THE JEWISH SUFFERERS, FLORAL TROUT PARK, AND PONY AND DOG SHOW

 

Ruins after fire at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec.

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, May 21, 1903.

HUNDREDS HOMELESS.

Disastrous Fire at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec.

SEVEN FACTORIES DESTROYED.

Three Hotels and 250 Houses Burned. Two Steamers and Hose Brought From Montreal—Practically Everything Burned to the River's Banks. Students Did Good Work.

   St. Hyacinthe, Que., May 21.—A fire which broke out shortly after noon in the shoe factory of Cote Brothers destroyed that and half a dozen other flourishing industries, and 250 houses, leaving nearly a quarter of the city's population sitting homeless last night amidst heaps of furniture. The loss is placed at $400,000.

   Nobody knows how the fire started. When it was first noticed it had secured a firm grip upon the Cote factory. The wind was blowing half ą gale at the time and the buildings in the immediate vicinity were of such a character as to fall easy prey to the flames.

   The local fire department did its best, but the water pressure was poor, and it was not long before the fire had gotten entirely beyond its control. Then word was wired to Montreal for help, and two steamers and a supply of hose made the run of 36 miles in 44 minutes, the Montreal men being actually at work an hour and a half after they received instructions to leave their stations.

   Their coming was opportune, for by this time the fire had worked its way up to St. Antoine street and was attacking the finest business blocks of the town situated on the Market square. Through the efforts of the Montreal men the Market building and the buildings on the other side of the square were saved.

   By this time, 3 o'clock, the water supply was practically exhausted, and the flames were burning in a score of places. People were practically dragging the furniture from their homes and chaos reigned supreme, except when here and there a semblance of organized effort had been made by the priests to check the progress of the flames.

   A large body of students from the St. Hyacinthe college did particularly good work under the guidance of their teachers. In the end, however, the flames burned everything which lay in their path.

   The burned district is practically the same as that destroyed in 1876. The River Yamaska flows through the town in the shape of a letter "V." St. Antoine street runs along the top of this ''V" and practically everything south of that street was burned.

   Beside Cote Brothers' Shoe factory, the industrial establishments burned include: Hudon & Allard, machinists, the Duplessis Pegging and Sewing company, C. A. Hamel & Co., Lussier Brothers, J. Girouard, J. Mathiew &  Co.; The Frontenance, Union and Ottawa hotels were also burned.

 

President Theodore Roosevelt.

PRESIDENT IN OREGON.

Did Little Speaking in Mountain Districts.

SPOKE AT DUNSMUIR AND SISSON.

Said He Left California a Better American—Necessity of High Standard of Virtue in Average Citizen—First Stop in Oregon at Ashland—At Portland Tonight.

   Ashland, Ore., May 21.—President Roosevelt completed his tour of California and entered upon the last stages of his long trip which is to end at Washington, June 5.

   His journey has been through the mountainous region about Mt. Shasta, where the towns are few and far between and consequently he has been called upon to do but little speaking.

   The president made his longest speech of the day at Dunsmuir.

   "I think I can say," he said, "that I came to California a pretty good American and I go away a better one. I pity no man because he has to work. If he is worth his salt, he will work. I envy the man who has a work worth doing and who does it well. It is the fact of doing the work well that counts, not the kind of work as long as that work is honorable.

   "To the true American nothing can be more alien than the spirit either of envy or of contempt for another who is leading a life as a decent citizen should lead it. In this country ,we have room for every honest man who spends his life in honest efforts; we have no room either for the man of means who in a spirit of arrogant baseness looks down upon the man less well off, or for the man who envies his neighbor because that neighbor happens to be better off.

   "It is a perfectly trite saying that in no country is it so necessary to have decency, honesty, self-restraint in the average citizen as in a republic, for successful self-government is founded upon the high average citizenship among our people; and America has gone on as she has gone because we have that high average of citizenship. We need to keep up that for the lack of which nothing else can atone in any people, the average standard of citizenship. In our life what we need is hot so much genius as the ordinary, commonplace, every-day qualities which a man needs in private life, and which he needs just as much in public life."

   The president also spoke at Sisson [Mt. Shasta, Ca.] and at Montague.

   He was greeted by 6,000 people as his train pulled into Ashland, where he made his first stop within the confines of Oregon. He made a 15-minute speech for the first time. He spent the night traveling and arrived at Salem this morning. Three hours were spent in the capital and the president delivered an address from the state house steps.

   Governor Chamberlain will accompany the presidential party to Portland where they will spend tonight.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

The Manchurian Muddle.

   The proceedings of Russia in Manchuria continue to provide the principal topic of international importance. It is not yet settled that the Russian demands which began the present excitement were ever officially presented. This, however, has ceased to be a matter of much importance in view of later developments. Russia may or may not have made demands upon China the granting of which would mean the virtual cession of Manchuria. Whatever the exact nature of her desires in this direction, she has shown that she is in a position to enforce them against the opposition of the rest of the world. Whether Newchwang [Yingkou] has been "reoccupied" or "re-evacuated," attention has been called very forcibly to the fact that Russia has more than 10,000 troops in the neighborhood and controlling the whole Liaotung peninsula and is in practical control of the situation.

   The interests of the United States in Manchuria are purely commercial and yet political. The volume of foreign trade at the port where Russia is now asserting supremacy has doubled in five years, reaching a total of $40,000,000 last year. The value of Russian imports is less than 2 per cent of the total, while the value of America imports is more than 35 per cent. Seven-eighths of the trade of Newchwang is in the hands of England, the United States and Japan, which may be regarded as a sufficient explanation of their concern in the efforts now being made to give Russia exclusive control of the only point of ingress into the Manchurian market.

 

FOR THE JEWISH SUFFFERERS.

Ira Lowe Circulating a Subscription Paper to Aid Them.

   Ira Lowe, cutter for T. P. Bristol the merchant tailor at 9 Railroad-st., Cortland, is circulating a petition in this city in aid of the Jewish sufferers from the Russian outrages at Kisheneff and it is being numerously signed. He will send this money to Syracuse, N. Y., to be added to the subscription that is being made there. Any who would like to add to it without being solicited can do so by calling on Mr. Lowe at Mr. Bristol's store.

 

Floral Trout Park sketch, courtesy Cortland County Historical Society.

FLORAL TROUT PARK

Sold to J. Boone Who is Making Many Changes.

   J. Boone of Syracuse has bought the old Floral Trout park which was opened and fitted up about thirty years ago by H. C. Blodgett, and which for many years was the popular picnic resort of the vicinity. In those days the ponds were full of trout and hardly a day passed in the summer season without there being a more or less numerous crowd in attendance. In recent years the park has been closed up and since the death of the owner it has been for sale.

   Mr. Boone is to make quite a number of changes in the place. The ponds and water courses have been cleaned out and the water level raised. The trees have been trimmed, the old evergreen maze cut down, etc.

   In addition to the sea lions which arrived from California on Tuesday Mr. Boone will have some sea turtles, alligators, swans, gold fish, etc. The dancing pavilion is to be enlarged to twice its natural size. There is to be a museum of curiosities, including miniature coal and gold mines in operation, cage of monkeys, tame animals, etc, Three tennis courts are being laid out, etc.

   A bar room is being built in the southwest corner of the grounds. Mr. Boone intends to take out a beer license, but will sell no intoxicating drinks on Sunday. He has a large collection of stuffed birds in cases and many other attractions.

 

Move for Early Closing.

   A petition is being circulated among the various store keepers by members of the Clerks' union asking them to close at 6:15 four nights in the week, or each evening except Monday and Saturday. Provision is made in the petition for keeping open every evening during Thanksgiving week and during the month of December. The great majority of the merchants are in favor of the movement, thinking that the clerks, many of whom have to be at work early in the morning, are entitled to their evenings while the merchants themselves will also have their evenings free and that without any injury to their trade.

 

Thomas Simms.

   The Orlando, (Fla.,) Sentinel Reporter of May 15 says:

   Mr. Thomas Simms, one of our oldest and most highly respected citizens, passed over the great divide at 2:30 o'clock p. m. Sunday, May 10, at tbe age of 72 years, 2 months, and 1 day. He was stricken down with paralysis on the 24th of February, and has been a great sufferer most of the time ever since—but he became unconscious the last few hours and passed away as quietly as an infant—going to sleep without struggle. His wife, and daughter, Mrs. Campbell, and grandchild, were at his bedside when he passed to that "home from whence no traveler returns."

   Mr. Simms was born on mid-ocean on March 9, 1831, while his parents were crossing from Scotland to settle in America. His parents settled in Newburg, N. Y. Mr. Simms was a painter by trade, and was engaged in that business twenty-five years in Cortland, N. Y., where he accumulated considerable property. He enlisted in the Seventy-sixth N. Y. regiment during the civil war, and was promoted to lieutenant. His health became impaired from exposure, and he was honorably discharged from the service for disability. He returned to his home, but in the shattered condition of his health he could not stand the rigors of that climate, and in 1875 he came to Florida and settled at Altamonte on the shores of the beautiful Lake Orienta, where he has resided ever since. He was passionately fond of flowers and gained a wide reputation as a floriculturist. He was of a modest and retiring disposition, a kind and loving husband and father, and a congenial and obliging neighbor. He is survived by his devoted wife and daughter, Mrs. Campbell, both of whom have been in constant attendance at his bedside during his last sickness.

 

Gum Case Raided.

   The gum case in front of C. F. Thompson's grocery store was torn from its place at the front of the store at an early hour yesterday morning and taken into the alley at the rear of the store and there broken open. What money there was in the case had been taken out the evening before, but about $5 worth of gum which was in the case was taken. [Cortland Police] Night Captain Baker heard a noise down in that direction, but thought nothing of it. It was no doubt the noise made by rending the box from its fastenings on the wall.

 

THE PONY AND DOG SHOW.

Last Exhibition Tonight at the Tent on Elm-st.

   Darling's pony and dog show exhibited to well pleased audiences in the tent at the corner of Elm and Pomeroy-sts. yesterday afternoon and evening, and a third exhibition was given this afternoon, the last occurring tonight at 8 o'clock. The reputation of former appearances in Cortland was fully sustained. Ponies and dogs manifested almost human intelligence in the various tricks, while the clowns were as funny as ever. The admission is 25 cents.

 

Masterson-Cudworth.

   Fred I. Masterson of 38 Pendleton-st. and Lola Cudworth, the very youthful couple who left town on May 12 unbeknown to their parents and whose whereabouts have since been the cause of much comment and conjecture, returned to Cortland on the milk train last evening looking happy and contented. When interviewed this morning at the home of Mr. Masterson, the happy couple stated that when they left Cortland they proceeded at once to the home of the young man's uncle, E. E. Clineburg of Lindsey, Steuben Co., where they were married. They will make their home with the groom's mother, 38 Pendleton-st., Cortland.

 

BREVITIES.

   —There will be a special service at Grace Episcopal church tonight in observance of Ascension day. The services will include evening prayer and sermon. Every one invited.

   —The new display advertisements today are—M. A. Case, Ribbon sale, page 6; Haight & Freese Co., Stocks, etc., page 6; G. H. Wiltsie, Dry goods, page 5; McGraw & Elliott, Kodacks, page 6.