CANAL ENLARGEMENT, FLOODS AT ST. LOUIS, RECORD BREAKING SPEED, TEACHERS' BUREAU, CITY BALL LEAGUE, AND MOUNTAIN LAKE RESORT

 

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, June 10, 1903.

CANAL ENLARGEMENT.

Advocates of 1,000 Ton Barge Canal Issue Statement.

REPLY TO OPPOSING SENATORS.

Conclusions of Commissions of Governor Black and Roosevelt Coincide With Those of the National Interstate Commerce Committee and Are In Line With All Experience.

   New York, June 10.—The following reply by canal improvement advocates of this state to the recent anti-canal statement given out by a number of state senators who oppose the proposed 1000-ton barge canal, was made public here today:

   For a period of nearly 20 years past the business interests of the state have been patiently and persistently working for a proper improvement of the state's waterways.

   This agitation was begun and continued for the reason that year after year the port of New York has been steadily losing its proper share of export and import traffic of the country, and the growth in manufacturing and industrial enterprises in the state has not kept pace with sister states in proportion to our natural advantages.

   In order that the best plan of improvement might be secured, having in view the present needs of the state and with careful consideration of the future, most competent commissions were appointed by Governors Black and Roosevelt to carefully investigate this proposition. In addition, most careful surveys and estimates were made, and information was collected by the state authorities through the office of the state engineer.

   As a result of the conclusion reached by these various eminent authorities, the business interests of the state have decided that the commercial, manufacturing, industrial and agricultural supremacy of the state will best be preserved and maintained through the construction of the one thousand ton barge canal.

Phases of Opposition Considered.

   These 20 years of agitation have served to bring forth certain phases of opposition to the proposition, and it is proper that the various arguments against canal improvement should be carefully considered.

   One of the most common statements made by the enemies of the canals is that the demand for the improvement of the canals can be traced to certain terminal, dock and elevator interests in the cities of New York and Buffalo. The facts are that while perhaps not the sole owners, the railroads centering at Buffalo and New York practically control the terminal, elevator, dock and lighterage interests of those ports, and certainly they would not be likely to be clamoring for canal improvement.

   The opposition leave out of sight the fact that there is not a single commercial organization in the cities of New York and Buffalo that does not demand the enlargement and improvement of the Erie canal as provided for under the one thousand ton barge canal plan, and the further fact that the preponderating business interests of both cities emphatically agree in urging the adoption of the proposed plan for the improvement of the waterways of the state.

   The statement is sometimes made that there is no condition or emergency in the development of the great commercial centers of New York and Buffalo which would justify the incurring by the state of an indebtedness for the construction of the one thousand ton barge canal; practically saying that the rate of increase in the population and wealth of the cities of New York and Buffalo justifies the conclusion that the cities of New York and Buffalo have sufficiently prospered and do not require any further aid through the improvement of the waterways of the state.

   Admitting that the cities of New York and Buffalo have developed and prospered under the construction and operation of the Erie canal, which was a most efficient transportation route until within the last 30 years, the fact yet remains that the former commerce of the City of New York has not only shown a relative decrease as compared with competing cities of this country during the last 20 years, but has actually fallen off in export as well as in import trade in the last few years. Proofs as to the correctness of this assertion can be found by consulting the reports of the chamber of commerce of New York, the reports of the commerce commission appointed by Governor Black to examine into the commerce of New York, the cause of its decline and the means for its revival, and the report of the committee on canals of New York state appointed by Governor Roosevelt, and we do not believe that the concurrent testimony of these bodies, consisting of most competent, men who have given very careful attention to the subject, can be lightly disregarded.

Commerce Under Railroad Control.

   This testimony goes to show conclusively that the commerce of the state of New York is now at the mercy and under the control of the railroad combinations which, through discrimination, divert traffic to other ports and to other states as may best suit their convenience or their business interest; that the Erie canal is at the present time in a nearly useless condition, in which it cannot furnish the service required to compete with the railroads and exercise its former vocation of a regulator of transportation rates, whereas the roads have steadily and enormously increased their efficiency.

   The conclusion arrived at by the committees of the state of New York is  in a line with the views announced by the committee of interstate commerce of the United States senate in 1885, as follows:

   "The evidence before the committee accords with the experience of all nations in recognizing water routes as the most efficient cheapeners and regulators of railroad charges. Their influence is not confined within the limits of territory immediately accessible to water transportation, but extends further, and controls railroad rates at such remote interior points as have competing lines reaching means of transportation by water.

   "Competition between railroads sooner or later leads to combination or consolidation, but neither can prevail to force unreasonable rates in the face of direct competition with free natural or artificial routes. The conclusion of the committee is, therefore, that natural or artificial channels of communication by wafer, when favorably located, adequately improved and properly maintained, afford the cheapest methods of long distance transportation now known, and that they must continue to exercise in the future, as they have invariably exercised in the past, an absolutely controlling and beneficially regulating influence upon the charges made upon any and all means of transit."

   The Erie canal today, in its neglected condition, carries a larger quantity of local freight, i. e., between points within the state, than foreign goods, and the same proportion will obtain in the improved canal, besides which the possibilities of industrial development along the line of the canal through the saving in water transportation of coal, iron ore and other raw materials are unlimited. Andrew Carnegie writes on this subject as follows:

   "With an enlarged canal, barges could go to any part of New England without transshipment of cargo and, on the other hand, we should have the empty barges in which we could bring from New York City to our works on the lake the ores which must be imported from South Africa and the Caucasus. The saving over rail transportation to Philadelphia and Baltimore would be so great that the western part of New York on the lakes would inevitably become one of the principal seats of manufacture. Nothing can prevent this if a suitable waterway between Buffalo and the ocean be kept open. We intended to manufacture pig iron on Lake Erie to supply Rochester, Utica, Syracuse, Troy and, of course, New York and eastern parts, so that the foundries of these cities would have cheaper pig iron than ever before."

   Certainly this possible development of the industries of the interior of the state justifies the assertion that the proposed development of the Erie canal is expected to and will redound to the benefit of not only New York and Buffalo, but practically the entire state from the lakes to the sea.

   Signed by George Clinton, Henry B. Hebert, E. L. Boas, Gustav H. Schwab, Frank Brainard, J. W. Fisher, R. R. Hefford, F. S. Witherbee, Frederick O. Clark, canal improvement state committee.

 

Automobile Certificates.

   Albany, N. Y., June 10.—Considerabłe of last month's increased earnings in the secretary of state's office were due to the issuance of automobile certificates under the Bailey law passed by the last legislature. Since this law went into effect on May 15 the secretary of state has issued in the neighborhood of 2,000 automobile certificates at $1 each, this number including about 350 operator's certificates. These certificates are being issued at the rate of about 100 daily. The law makes a charge to the owners of the autos of $1 for every machine owned. Tourists from other states are obliged to secure licenses before passing through this state.

 

FLOODS IN ST. LOUIS.

Ten Thousand People Homeless and at Mercy of Waters.

   St. Louis, Mo., June 10.—One-half of East St. Louis is buried in flood. Ten thousand persons are homeless and at the mercy of the raging waters.

   Families are penned up prisoners in the garrets of their homes on their roofs. They are without food and are crying for help.

   Two thousand people, who sought refuge in the Washington school, the Franklin school, St. Mary's church and the plant of the St. Louis Syrup Refining company, all on high ground, are prisoners, and are suffering greatly. The city has appealed to St. Louis for small boats.

   The break in the Illinois Central dyke came at thirty minutes after midnight. In five minutes a mighty maddened torrent was tearing through the large residence section in the eastern part of the city.

   The people, thousands of whom were sleeping, feeling certain that the city was safe, were warned by the blowing of the sand train whistles, by the firing of the riot guns and the cries of fleeing citizens who had been working on the embankment in an effort to save it.

   The property losses cannot be estimated. Many great industries are flooded. Many citizens [are already] made homeless, losing all of their worldly possessions, but they are thrown into idleness. This city is in dire need. After its noble struggle against the encroaching waters a fight which seemed won for a time, it is paralyzed by the awful devastation.

   The water stands from 3 to 30 feet deep all over the eastern half of the city. The flood came down upon the city from the southeast, this being a great sea of black water which had been piled up against the city. This morning the flood had swept clear through to the river and the city lies under the unbroken stretch of rising, swirling torrents. The flood is cutting its way under East Broadway and threatening the northern half of the city.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Record Breaking Railway Speed.

   Shakespeare makes King John say, "The spirit of the times shall teach me speed." The spirit of modern times has for some years been teaching us speed, particularly in railway travel, and the public is never unprepared for new achievements in "annihilating distance." Although this is an era of record breaking performances in ocean and land transportation and locomotion must be very rapid indeed to attract even passing comment, the run made by a fast train on the Lake Shore road the other day may be regarded as somewhat phenomenal.

   On this run between Toledo, O., and Elkhart, Ind., a distance of 133 miles, an average speed of 70.6 miles per hour was attained. The entire run was made in a little less than 114 minutes, thereby smashing all previous long distance runs in this country. While short spurts of eighty and ninety miles per hour were made, they were not continuous. The fastest clip of which any record was made was that between Kendallville, Ind., and Elkhart, a distance of forty miles, which was covered in thirty-three minutes, showing a speed of a little over seventy-six miles an hour.

   It is claimed that the only run on record which approximates this feat was made on the Pennsylvania between Camden, N. J., and Atlantic City, a distance of fifty-eight miles, which was made at a rate of a trifle over seventy-six miles per hour.

   While the record of the Lake Shore is the best for a continuous run of over 100 miles, the run of a Burlington flier between Eckley and Wray, in Colorado, of last year was an unprecedented performance, the distance of 14.8 miles being covered in nine minutes, showing a speed of 98.7 miles per hour. On a one mile run a New York Central train has reached a speed of 112.5 miles an hour, while a flier on the Plant system made the five mile run from Fleming, Ga., to Jacksonville, Fla., in 1901 at the rate of 120 miles per hour.

 

Charles Rufus Skinner.

A TEACHERS' BUREAU

Opened by the State Department of Public Instruction.

   Hon. Charles R. Skinner, superintendent of public instruction of the state of New York has issued the following circular letter to teachers which will be of general interest:

   State of New York,

   Department of Public Instruction,

   Albany, N. Y.

   To teachers:

   A bureau has been opened at the department of public instruction in which teachers may register for employment in the schools of this state. It must be distinctly understood, however, that the department does not guarantee employment to any teacher but will, when called upon to do so, furnish the names and addresses of such teachers as are registered in this bureau of trustees and boards of education making inquiry therefore. In no case will the department recommend the quality of work done by any teacher, but teachers will be requested to furnish a duplicate of this blank to trustees that they may look up the teacher's work and satisfy themselves regarding his qualifications. For that purpose one of these application blanks will be sent each teacher registering with the department when he is recommended to a trustee, and he will be requested to furnish the trustee with a duplicate of the information furnished the department. If, after registering, a teacher secures a position, he should immediately notify the department, that his name may be removed from the eligible list.

   Respectfully,

   Charles R. Skinner, State Superintendent.

 

JUST KEROSENE.

The Bottom Falls from the McGraw Oil Boom.

   The sample of oil from the McGraw "oil well" submitted to Dr. Cheney and Prof. Booth of the Normal school was pronounced by them at first sight as kerosene oil pure and simple and not crude oil. No further examination was made by them, as Dr. Cheney said "If it is petroleum it is a very peculiar kind."

 

Rev. W. J. Howell.

HOWELL BIBLE' CLASS

Passed a Pleasant Evening—Elected Officers for Six Months.

   The Howell Bible class of the First Baptist church held its regular monthly sociable and semi-annual election of officers at the church parlors last evening. There was a large attendance and a pleasant evening was passed. Mr. Howell, the pastor of the church and the teacher of the class, had a numerous collection of pictures at hand, many of which had reference to his recent trip to the Holy Land, and these were viewed with great interest.

   Officers for the coming six months were elected as follows:

   President—Herman W. Carver.

   Vice President—George V. Clark.

   Secretary—Edwin Woodbury.

   Treasurer—J. B. Hunt.

   Chairman of Attendance Committee—G. S. Olds.

   Chairman of Visiting Committee—W. P. Owen.

   Chairman of Social Committee—Fred Phillips.

 

CITY BALL LEAGUE

To be Disbanded and Reorganized—New Articles of Agreement.

   The board of managers of the Cortland City baseball league has found that certain matters were not covered when the original articles of agreement were framed for the governing of the league and has decided that it would be advisable to incorporate these in the articles. This will avoid misunderstanding and will add to the good spirit of the teams, especially if a strong rivalry should spring up as the games progress and as the end of the season draws near. Consequently it has been decided to disband the league and to reorganize.

   At the last meeting of the managers a committee consisting of C.H. Kimble, Ira Dexter and M. T. Roche was appointed to revise the rules. This committee has performed its work and will meet with the managers tonight. The team of every manager who signs the rules will be admitted to the league and no team will be admitted unless the rules be signed. The championship series will then be begun all over again. This will mean a few more games for the public and every one will of course be pleased.

 

Mountain Lake near Gloversville, N. Y.

A POPULAR RESORT

And Former Residents of Cortland are Conducting it.

   Charles H. Warren, formerly of the Dexter House, Cortland, who was manager of the Mountain Lake summer resort, a few miles north of Gloversville, last season, is again in charge and from reports in the papers of that city he is doing a very satisfactory business. Several cottages have been erected and more are building. Electric lights will soon encircle the lake, as well as illuminate the grounds. A floating bandstand is anchored a short distance from the hotel; pathways and drives through the woods and along the lake shore are being laid out; and among other attractions for the comfort and pleasure of the guests are a ball ground, conveniences for picnickers, and a merry-go-round.

   On Decoration Day over 3,000 persons went to the Mountain House and a thousand more would have gone could the trolley line have carried them. The A. O. U. W. of Gloversville held a picnic, a ball game was played and a fine orchestra afforded music for dancing in the pavilion afternoon and evening. Not an unpleasant incident occurred to mar the pleasure of the excursionists which, of course, was very gratifying to all concerned. It will not be the fault of Mr. and Mrs. Warren if the popularity of this charming resort does not steadily increase.

 

BREVITIES.

   —Cortland Chapter, No., 194, R. A. M. will hold a regular convocation this evening at 8 o'clock.

 

SUNDAY FILLER: MOHAMMED ALI AND REDD FOXX

 

MISSISSIPPI FLOOD, BULGARIA AND TURKEY, TEMPERANCE WORK IN MILITARY, MINISTERIAL OUTING, D. A. R., AND STUCK TO THE NEST

 

Mississippi river flooding in 1903. Steamboats moored.

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, June 9, 1903.

MISSISSIPPI FLOOD.

One Hundred Persons Rescued at Venice, Ill.—Lack of Food.

   St. Louis, June 9.—Relief boats were sent to Venice, Ill., which is completely flooded as a result of the break in the levee south of the Merchants bridge. Only the roofs of houses are visible and the 500 inhabitants are homeless.

   During the day 100 persons were rescued. Many persons were obliged to flee from the flood only partially clad. The Methodist church was lifted from its foundation and carried three blocks. In the schoolhouse, which is of brick, 200 men, women and children have found refuge. Unless there is a rise of another foot or so they are safe, but they have no food.

   Several business houses were carried away in the terrific current and stock valued at thousands of dollars was destroyed.

   When the Venice levee burst the current swept northward to the terminal yards. The citizens had barely time to leave their homes. One woman who lived close to the river put her three children in a washtub and pushed them to safety through the flood.

   At one house a man was seen to crawl on to the roof bearing a child in his arms. There he remained the greater part of the night. Clinging to high fences, roof tops and trees a score of families were found. Some had remained in the water 15 hours and were almost exhausted when rescued.

   Camped at the round house of the Terminal Association are 200 persons who got out of the flooded city in the nick of time. The refugees are badly in need of food and clothing.

   In some parts of Venice the water is from 20 to 25 feet deep.

 

ZIONIST CONVENTION.

Call to Jews to Heed the Lesson of Kishineff Massacre.

   Pittsburg, June 8.—The Federation of American Unionists which is holding a convention here, had a big meeting in the Bijou theater, and resolutions were adopted declaring that the massacres at Kishineff had demonstrated that the continued settlement of Jews in Russia was attended with personal danger and futile martyrdom and closing:

   "Therefore, this convention, reaffirming the Zionist principles, calls upon every Jewish congregation and community throughout the United States and upon every individual Jew to give heed to the piteous appeals of our people, and in the common interests of humanity and the particular necessity of the Jewish people to help end their present plight by affording the Zionist movement that cordial and financial support which will enable it  to achieve the purpose for which it is organized, the settlement of the Jewish people in Palestine."

 

Bulgaria and Turkey.

   Sofia, June 9.—At an immense open air meeting, Michalłovski, the president of the Macedonian committee, declared that the only hope for Macedonia was a direct rapprochement between Bulgaria and Turkey. The Macedonian committee, he said, had too long been regarded by the world as the tool of Russia, who could stop the Turkish atrocities in a single day if it wished. He advised his hearers to support Bulgaria in exhausting every means for a pacific solution of the Macedonian question. The meeting adopted resolutions in favor of an appeal to the Bulgarian government for a diplomatic solution, and a recourse to arms as a last resort.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Temperance Work of Practical Sort.

   In his ultimatum to the town of Bremerton, Wash., where is located the government's Puget Sound navy yard, Secretary Moody has done some temperance work of the new and thoroughly practical sort—the sort which certain railway companies and some other big corporations have been doing for some time. The secretary told the officials and residents of that town that unless they closed and keep closed the saloons and dives now collected around the Bremerton navy yard, to the great injury of the sailors and workmen gathered there and to the serious interference with the government work, he will reduce the operations conducted at that yard to the smallest possible proportions and send the ships somewhere else whenever he can. The prosperity of the town of Bremerton depends in a very great degree upon the navy yard activities, and the authorities have acted wisely in deciding that they can better afford to do without the saloons than have the government withdraw its operations. They agree not only to close all the saloons in the neighborhood of the navy yard, but promise to grant no more saloon licenses in any portion of the town.

   Now, if the secretary of the navy can do this sort of thing in the Puget sound region why cannot he, and the secretary of war as well, resort to the same device in other parts of the country where navy yards and army posts are situated? Almost all of them have many close neighbors exactly like those of the Bremerton yard, and in each case those neighbors do as much harm as they do there. Effective pressure could not, of course. be exerted in a large city, where army or navy money is only a very small part of a very large whole, but where the town is small such an ultimatum as Secretary Moody has delivered to Bremerton in the interests of virtue and sobriety could not fail to receive serious consideration from the local authorities.

 

MINISTERIAL OUTING.

A Fine Day Passed at Little York—Genuine Enjoyment.

   The annual outing of the Ministerial association of Cortland, Homer and vicinity was held Monday at Little York. There was a much smaller attendance than was expected, but there was no disappointment on the part of those who were present in the matter of enjoyment. The lake looked its loveliest and was enjoyed both by the fishermen of the party and those whose interest was purely in the scenery. The dean of the fishing party is ever the Homeric Scotchman and his catch was incomplete at the hour of adjournment. It was at that time an object of envy to less fortunate piscatores.

   The only formal business of the day was tbe careful deliberation of the menu provided by the genial host of Little York, Mr. Raymond, and the distribution of the programs for the next season's literary work.

   A very welcome shower failed to dampen in the slightest degree the enjoyment (though more successful with the clothing) of the clerics, and the only cloud on the sky of memory of the day was of pity for those who were so unwise as to remain away.

 

CONSERVATORY CONCERT

The Opening of the Series at Music Hall Wednesday.

   The following is the program of the grand inaugural concert of the Conservatory of Music in the new Music hall in the Tanner building on Wednesday evening, June 10, at 8 o'clock. The Conservatory symphony orchestra will play under the direction of A. E. Darby, and will be assisted by Miss Lulu M. Tickner, soprano; Miss Maude P. Cody, reader; L. Lee Wellman, baritone; and B. L. Bentley, accompanist.

 

TIOUGHNIOGA CHAPTER

Of the D. A. R. Met Monday Afternoon With Mrs. J. G. Jarvis.

   The last meeting before the summer vacation of the Tioughnioga chapter of the D. A. R. was held with Mrs. J. G. Jarvis at her home, 24 Clinton-ave., Cortland, yesterday afternoon. Nearly every member was present. Mrs. Stockwell, the retiring treasurer, presented a concise report, showing a balance in the treasury, after all bills were paid. The programs for the coming year were given out, continuing the course of study that has been pursued the past year of the history of our country. The program yesterday was as follows:

   From French and Indian War to Close of 1775:

   England's First Attempt at Taxation, Miss Angell.

   England's Second Attempt at Taxation, Mrs. Hyde.

   Tea Test, Miss Green, Homer, read by Mrs. Mager.

   Opening of War, Mrs. Lane.

   A brief intermission was enjoyed, during which light refreshments were served by the hostess.

   At the close, the regent, Mrs. Sherwood, gracefully bequeathed the honors of the office to the regent-elect Mrs. Gillette, who accepted them in a happy way and the meeting adjourned to meet Sept. 14 at the home of Mrs. Gillette.

 

To Rent

   The middle store in the Standard building, including half of 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. [Ad.]

 

STUCK TO THE NEST.

Hen Took a Ride and Will Hatch the Eggs Anyway.

   Sylvester Oaks of Virgil, N. Y., was in Cortland last Friday. He went to his carriage house before starting and ran out a carriage he had not used before in a month. He pushed a jar of butter under the seat which he was to deliver to a party here in Cortland, and never looked under the seat.

   He drove up and down the hills that rise between Virgil and Cortland and finally stopped before the house of his customer. When he reached under the seat for his butter he was startled beyond measure at the sharp stinging sensation that ran up his arm as the result of a sudden peck upon the hand. He jerked the hand out and investigated, and there he found a very indignant hen sitting upon eight eggs.

   She had stolen a nest under that carriage seat and had laid her eggs and was then sitting upon them, and she didn't propose to have anything happen to those eggs, so if the carriage was to come to Cortland she was coming along too.

   Mr. Oaks rubbed his hand and concluded to respect her feelings. He got his butter out and then drove home, and the hen held her position. Now he is watching for the chickens, but he is quite sure that hereafter when he wants a hen to sit upon eggs, a hen that will not abandon her nest, he cannot do better than to select this hen.

 

BREVITIES.

   —A trained bear with his Italian conductor attracted a great crowd of children upon the streets of Cortland last night.

   —George Judson has purchased a Rambler automobile of the Cortland Automobile company through Harold Gillette, of Cortland, who was in the city last Saturday.—Ithaca Journal.

   —The new display advertisements today are—G. H. Wiltsie, June sale of muslin underwear, page 4; First National Bank, Banking, page 5; Warren, Tanner & Co., Muslin underwear, page 5; Hollister Hardware Co., Hardware, page 6; A. Mahan, Pianos etc., page 6; M. W. Giles, Special, cut prices, page 3.

 

PRESIDENT'S CHURCH, SAVAGE LYNCHING, ZIONIST MOVEMENT, CITY SUED, ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE, AND DEATH OF MRS. WATERS

 

President Theodore Roosevelt.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, June 8, 1903.

PRESIDENT'S CHURCH.

Handsome New Edifice Dedicated In Washington.

PRESIDENT MADE AN ADDRESS.

Spoke of Service and Duty, Especially to Take Care of Newcomers to This Country—Faith Should Not Be One of Words Merely, But of Good Deeds.

   Washington, June 8.—The handsome new home of the Grace Memorial Reformed church, which President Roosevelt attends, was dedicated Sunday with appropriate exercises. President Roosevelt, with his family, attended the services and made a brief address.

   The Rev. J. M. Schick, the pastor, read the article of consecration and the Rev. E. R. Eschbach, D. D., of Frederick, Md., preached the dedication sermon.

   President Roosevelt occupied one of two bishop's chairs which he presented to the church. He was introduced by the Rev. Mr. Schick and said:

   ''I shall ask your attention to three lines of the dedication canticle: 'Serve the Lord with gladness; enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in His holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity nor sworn deceitfully.'

Service and Duty.

   "Three better lines could surely not be brought into any dedication service of a church; and it is a happy thing that we should have repeated them this morning. This church is consecrated to the service of the Lord, and we can serve Him by the way in which we serve our fellow men.

   "This church is consecrated to service and duty. It was written of old, 'By their fruits ye shall know them,' and we can show the faith that is in us, we can show the sincerity of our devotion, by the fruits we bring forth. The man who is not a tender and considerate husband, a loving and wise father, is not serving the Lord when he goes to church; so with the woman; so with all who come here. Our being in this church, our communion here with one another, our sitting under the pastor and hearing from him the word of God must, if we are sincere, show the effects in our lives outside.

   "We of the Reformed churches have a peculiar duty to perform in this great country of ours, a country still in the making, for we have the duty peculiarly incumbent upon us to take care of our brethren who come each year from over the seas to our shores.

   "The man going to a new country is torn by the roots from all his old associations, and there is a period of great danger to him in the time before he gets his roots down in the new country, before he brings himself into touch with his fellow in the new land.

Interest in Immigrants.

   "For that reason I always take a peculiar interest in the attitude of our churches toward the immigrants who come to these shores. I feel that we should be peculiarly watchful over them, because of our own history, because our fathers came here under like conditions. Now that we have established ourselves let us see to it that we stretch out the hand of help, the hand of brotherhood toward the newcomers, and help them as speedily as possible to shape themselves and to get into such relations that it will be easy for them to walk well in the new life.

   "That is one form of duty peculiarly incumbent upon us of these Reformed churches. But we are not to be excused if we selfishly sit down and enjoy gifts that have been given to us and do not try to share them with our poorer fellows, coming from every part of the world who, many of them, stand in such need of the helping hand; who often not only meet too many people anxious to associate with them for their detriment, but too often too few anxious to associate with them for their good.

   "I trust that with the consecration of each new church of the Reformed creed in this our country there will be established a fresh center of effort to get at and to help for their good the people that yearly come from overseas to us. No more important work can be done by our people; important to the cause of Christianity; important to the cause of true national life and greatness here in our own land.

   "Another thing; let us so far as strength is given us make it evident to those who look on and who are not of us that our faith is not one of words merely; that it finds expression in deeds. One sad, one lamentable phase of human history is that the very loftiest words, implying the loftiest ideas, have been used as cloaks for the commission of dreadful deeds of inequity. We must in our lives, in our efforts, endeavor to further the cause of brotherhood in the human family and we must do it in such a way that the men anxious to find subject for complaint or derision in the churches of the United States, in our church, may not be able to find it by pointing out any contrast between our professions and our lives.

   "This church is consecrated here today to duty and to service; to the worship of the Creator, and to an earnest effort on our part so to shape our lives among ourselves and in relation to the outside world that we may feel that we have done our part in bringing a little nearer the day when there shall be on this earth a genuine brotherhood of man."

 

SAVAGE LYNCHING.

Negro School Teacher Hanged, Burned, Cut With Knives and Beaten With Clubs.

   Belleville, Ill., June 8.—The lynching of W. T. Wyatt, the negro school teacher, who shot Superintendent Hertel Saturday night for refusing to renew his teaching certificate, was attended with exhibitions of savagery seldom seen in a civilized country.

   The mob hanged Wyatt to a telephone pole in the public square. While his body was jerking in the agonies of death men built a fire at the foot of the pole. The flames flared up and licked at the feet of the victim, but this did not satisfy the mob, and another and larger fire was started. When it had begun burning briskly the negro, still half alive, was cut down, and after being covered with oil he was cast into the fire. Moans of pain were heard from the half dead victim of the mob, and these served further to infuriate his torturers.

   They fell upon him with clubs and knives, and cut and beat the burning body almost to pieces, and not until every sign of life had departed did they permit the flames to devour the body. As the fire lighted up the scene the members of the mob stood around the funeral pyre hurling more faggots of wood in the flames. After the body had been reduced to ashes the mob departed.

   Hertel was removed to the hospital, where the physicians stated there is no chance for his recovery.

   Superintendent Hertel, it is said, refused to renew the certificate until Wyatt should clear his name of certain scandals in which he had been mixed up among his own race.

   Angered by the refusal, the negro shot Hertel, and was arrested only after a hard struggle. He was hurried to jail and when Hertel's injuries had been pronounced fatal, a crowd of citizens went to the jail, overpowered the jailor and hanged Wyatt.

 

Sun Again Visible.

   Saratoga, N. Y., June 8.—Sunday, for the first time in several days, the sun was not obscured by smoke and ashes from the forest fires in the Adirondacks. A slight shower fell and the indications point to more rain.

 

First Rain for 52 Days.

   Hoosick Falls, N. Y., June 8.—The drought was broken Sunday after lasting 52 days. Rain began to fall early in the afternoon, lasting long enough to give the farmers some relief and to encourage those who are replanting crops. It has come too late to save the grass. The rain has helped to extinguish the forest fires in this vicinity.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

The Zionist Movement.

   The recent massacre of Jews in Bessarabia gives renewed interest to the Zionist movement, which has in view the reoccupation of Palestine by the Hebrew race, now scattered throughout the world. In the opinion of Israel Zangwill, the novelist, who has gone into the Zionist movement heart and soul, the Bessarabia massacre has given an added impetus to the cause. "It is not necessary," he says, "for the Jews comfortably established in America, but for the great mass of our people. Half of the Jews in the world live in Russia. It is the only permanent solution of the tragic Jewish question."

   Briefly stated, the object proposed is a separate state for the Jewish people, and the suggestion has aroused a great deal of enthusiasm in many prominent members of the race. Its chief exponent is Dr. Theodore Herzl, while Max Nordau is another, and Mr. Zangwill is associated with Sir Francis Montefiore in the English branch of the Zionist work.

   In December, 1901, a convention was held at Basel, Switzerland, for the purpose of furthering the movement, and the federation which has been formed in its interest now extends to many countries. A recent estimate would indicate also that it had made considerable headway in Russia, since the number of the members of Zionist societies there is put at 100,000.

   Already numerous small colonies of Jews have been established in Palestine, and they seem to be doing reasonably well. Certainly there must be some inducement to keep them there, for the growth of the Jewish population during the last twenty-five years has been remarkable. There were, it is calculated, about 14,000 Jews in the country at the beginning of the period, whereas now there are some 60,000. Probably half or nearly half of that number are living in Jerusalem, but many of the immigrants have taken to tilling the soil, and it is claimed that the results of their labors give promise of permanent success. As to the treatment of the Jewish residents in Palestine by the Turkish government it would appear that there has thus far been little cause of complaint. They are certainly much better off than their coreligionists in Russia, where the government seems bent upon the complete extermination of the Jewish race.

 

THE CITY SUED

For Alleged Damage by Water on Port Watson-st., Cortland—Aggregate $12,000.

   E. E. Mellon, attorney for A. J. Barber, Michael Madden, John J. Colgan, Margaret Mourin, F. P. Merchant, and Thomas McMahon, served a summons Friday afternoon on Mayor Chas. F. Brown to answer complaints in regard to alleged damages resulting from high water last summer. The claims aggregate about $12,000. The damage is said to have been caused by the fact that so great an amount of water was carried in the street that the gutters could not carry it off, and that walks, lawns, cellars, etc., were flooded.

 

A Slight Rainfall.

   Sunday marked the fifty-second day since rain had fallen in Cortland, beyond a mere sprinkle on two occasions, neither of which laid the dust. On Sunday afternoon there was quite a little shower and another one came in the night. The total rainfall at both times was not very great, but it did lay the dust and dampened the face of the earth and was decidedly welcome. An encouraging feature of it was that since rain has once begun to come more may follow.

 

ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE.

Three Men Speak in Six Churches of the City on Sunday.

   Three representatives of the New York Anti-Saloon league spent Sunday in Cortland. Rev. John F. Brant, superintendent of the Buffalo district, spoke at the First Baptist church in the morning and at the Memorial Baptist in the evening. Rev. G. W. Peck, Sunday school superintendent of Rochester district, addressed the First Methodist church in the morning and the Presbyterian church at night, and Rev. H. A. Durfee, D. D., superintendent of the Elmira district, spoke in the Congregational and Homer-ave. churches.

   Five congregations greeted the strangers and listened attentively to the latest call for a federation of the Christian and moral forces of the hour against the liquor traffic.

   The argument is mainly for such a federating of the friends of law and order in town, county and state that the uttermost strength of the consolidated totality may be brought to bear upon the growing evil of intemperance. The Anti-Saloon league, as its name implies, has but one object, the immediate repression and ultimate suppression of the beverage liquor traffic. It is omnipartisan as to politics and interdenominational in matter of church relations. It has its organization in thirty-nine states and territories and more than 200 men are giving their entire time to the work. Under the plan of league organization, New York state is divided into districts with headquarters offices at Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Elmira, Albany, Poughkeepsie, Brooklyn and the state headquarters in New York.

   The main efforts are directed to a state wide agitation of the question of intemperance that shall be as constant as men and means can prosecute. The sentiment of any community is a cultivable factor and is reflected in the evident conditions of the trade in drunkard making. It controls, as well, the operation of the laws intended to safeguard the public interest. The rum traffic and, its attendant evils, gambling and prostitution, are merely pressing forward to the limit of leash permitted by local public sentiment. The people are supreme and their acquiescence in flagrant violation of law is fairly interpreted as approval of his course, by the law breaker. When the supreme people are ready to stand together upon the main issue, disregarding minor matters, the doom of the destructive business will be sounded.

   The overwhelming cost of the liquor trade last year cannot fail to interest the most indifferent—$1,172,565,235--an increase of more than $113,000,000 in one year.

   The speakers were present at a citizens' conference held at the close of the day's meetings and steps were taken in the direction of a local organization to carry out league principles. The ministers were appointed a committee to make nominations, each from his own church, for a general committee to carry forward the work.

   A committee was also appointed to extend the thanks of the ministers and friends of good order to the mayor and common council for passing an ordinance prohibiting vaudeville entertainments at places where liquor is sold.

 

Formerly of Truxton, N. Y.

   Prof. Eudorus C. Kenney of Baltimore, who is spending the summer in Oakland, favored the students of the Oakland Normal school on last Friday afternoon with a very interesting and instructive talk on "Mathematics," which was highly appreciated by the management and students of the Normal school. The professor's lecture consisted not only in telling, but by illustration practical examples were solved and short cuts demonstrated. Throughout, the lecture was a good, live lesson on the above subject. Prof. Kenney will deliver another lecture on tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at the school house, his subject being "Modern Meteorology."— Oakland, Md., Mountain Democrat.

 

OPEN AIR CONCERT

By the City Band at the York Hotel Tuesday Evening.

   The Cortland City band will give an open air concert on the corner by the York hotel on Tuesday evening. The following will be the program:

 

 

Death of Mrs. Waters.

   The death of Mrs. Jane Roche Waters occurred at her home, 22 North Greenbush-st., at an early hour yesterday morning of consumption. Mrs. Waters had been ill for some time. The death of her mother, Mrs. Winifred Roche, who was killed by the Lackawanna switch engine on May 25 was a great shock to her and one which doubtless hastened her death. She is survived by two daughters, Lena and Winifred Waters of Cortland, four brothers, M. T. and D. M. Roche of Cortland, John Roche of Oswego and W. J. Roche of Scott, also two sisters, Mrs. Lynch of Cortland, and Mrs. O'Connor of Syracuse.

   The funeral will be held from the house, 22 North Greenbush-st. at 8:30 and from St. Mary's church at 8:45 o'clock.

 

BREVITIES.

   —Hay has gone tip to $24 a ton in Syracuse, the highest price touched in years.

   —A regular meeting of the A. O. U. W. will be held at Vesta lodge rooms tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock.

   —The residence of Garry E. Chambers, 23 Tompkins-st., has been connected with the Home telephone exchange. The number is 214-B.

   —The new display advertisements today are: G. H. Wiltsie, Dry goods, page 5; C. F. Brown, Huyler's candies,  page 5; A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 8.

   —The Cortland County Ministerial association is holding its annual outing today at Little York lake.

   —Horace Walker of 74 Owego-st. has preserved a copy of the New York Herald of Saturday, April 15, 1865, containing an account of the assassination of President Lincoln the previous night. The paper is interesting to the student of history both on its own account, and also as a contrast typographically and in size with The Herald of today.