SEN. RAINES' MISFORTUNE, ADMIRAL COTTON'S REPORT, THE STRIKE QUESTION, SAW THE PRESIDENT, BIRTHDAY PARTY, AND TWO RECEPTIONS

 

Senator John Raines.

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, September 8, 1903.

RAINES' MISFORTUNE.

Senator Had His Pocket Picked of $1,500 at Syracuse.

HAD GONE TO SEE FIREWORKS.

Soon After He Had Taken His Seat In the Grand Stand He Discovered His Loss and Notified the Police—Much Crowding and Jostling on the Street Car Ride.

   Syracuse, Sept. 8.—Senator John Raines of Canandaigua either had his pocket picked of $1,500 or he lost the money from his pocket while in this city last night between 6 and 7:30 o'clock.

   Senator Raines and Congressman Sereno E. Payne of Auburn came here Sunday night to be present during the visit of President Roosevelt to this city and the state fair. There were many thousands of visitors in town and dozens of crooks followed and mingled with crowds.

   Senator Raines attended the fair in the afternoon and returned to the city and had dinner. He said that he had the money at that time. With Congressman Payne he attended the fireworks last evening, taking a Lakeside street car for Athletic field. At both ends of the line were large crowds and much jostling and pushing.

   Soon after he took his seat in the grand stand he missed the money and notified the police and a number of detectives and officers set to work on the case.

   The police think he was robbed, but Senator Raines does not believe it. He carried the pocketbook in his left trouser's pocket under an undercoat and an overcoat. It contained one $1,000 bill, ten $50 bills, one $20 bill, two collateral notes and a visiting card. He remained through the show.

 

Rear Admiral Chales S. Cotton.

REPORT OF ADMIRAL COTTON.

Turkish Officials Say Four Men Have Been Arrested For Attack on Vice Consul.

   Washington, Sept. 8.—The navy department has made public the following cablegram from Admiral Cotton regarding the Turkish situation, dated Beirut, Sept. 4:

   "Vice consul shot at but uninjured. The Turkish officials have informed consul that four men have been placed under arrest because it is suspected that they had attacked the vice consul. I cabled Friday afternoon to the American minister at Constantinople the arrival of the United States squadron. The American minister has nothing to communicate.

   "I have strengthened the American representatives' position by pronounced recognition of them. The American consul and the vice consul accompanied me in my call on the Turkish governor and the Turkish general and were present at their call on board the Brooklyn.

   "The Turkish officials [are] very cordial. The Turkish admiral is here. The following Turkish ships are here: One small gunboat, one armored cruiser. Usual courtesies exchanged. Have conferred with the consul freely; will confer with other prominent American citizens Sunday and next day. I shall require a full statement in writing of the situation at Beirut. The presence of the American squadron inspires with confidence and feeling of security all foreigners and Christians.

   "COTTON."

   This cablegram has been communicated to the president and to the state department but no instructions have yet been sent to Admiral Cotton.

 

Bulgarians and Greeks Differ.

   Chicago, Sept. 8.—Believing war with Turkey to be imminent, Chicago Bulgarians are organizing to give financial support to their native land and to send fighting men to the field. A number of Bulgarians have left for Philadelphia where a regiment is being formed.

   Meantime 4,000 Chicago members of a Greek patriotic society that has for its chief object the extension of Greek territory have manifested their lack of sympathy with the Bulgarian revolutionary movement.

   The Greeks declare that the Bulgarian revolution is prompted by Russia.

 

John Mitchell.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

The Strike Question.

   The optimists who think that the time may not be far off when all differences will be settled amicably and strikes will be things of the past do not find their optimism echoed by that shrewd and able leader of organized labor, John Mitchell.

   "Labor strikes," he says, "will never cease until men reach that amiable spirit wherein there can be no dispute about anything."

   Humanity is slowly but steadily improving, beyond a doubt, but man is and always will be selfish and, while we all hope his spirit will constantly become more and more amiable, a long process of evolution will be necessary before he ceases to engage in disputes.

   "I believe that the majority of the disputes between labor and capital can be settled by what we call the trades agreement," says Mr. Mitchell—"that is, the agreement between the employer and the employee. They are the parties deeply interested, and if they are reasonable and sensible I cannot see why they cannot settle their differences. I believe that in nine out of ten cases if each party to a dispute as to the trouble arising from labor matters would evince a mutual desire to be fair and seek a reasonable solution of the problem presented there would be fewer strikes. And even if this rule was applied to strikes they would end sooner.

   "But when it comes to the point where there is no hope of a settlement between the disputants then arbitration is the only course. Judge Gray says that the solution of the struggle between capital and labor is along lines of humanity, common sense and arbitration. In a general way he is right, but in place of arbitration I should put the trades agreement. Such a system will settle strikes until the employer and employee reach that condition of mentality where they regard mutual interests."

 

Theodore Roosevelt.

SAW THE PRESIDENT.

Passed Through the City and Waved His Handkerchief to the Crowd.

   Fully a thousand people assembled at the Cortland Lackawanna railroad station yesterday morning to see the special train of President Roosevelt pass through on its way to Syracuse, where the president was to be the guest of honor at the state fair. It had been hoped that arrangements could be made for the train to stop that the people could hear a few words from the president, but this did not prove to be possible.

   However, the train ran very slowly through the city and all had a good view of the president as he stood on the rear platform of the last car and waved his handkerchief to the cheering crowd. As far up the road as the train could be distinguished the president stood waving the handkerchief, for at every crossing there were crowds of people as well as at the station.

   The train consisted of three ears: a Pullman sleeper, the private car of General Superintendent Clarke and the private car of President Truesdale. The train was preceded by a pilot engine which ran fifteen minutes ahead of the special. The president's train passed the local station at 8:10, nearly an hour after the time stated by the railroad people on Saturday as the schedule.

Stop at Preble.

   The train was not due in Syracuse till 9:30 and the statement had been given out that it would be stopped at some small station toward that city and wait till time for it to just get into Syracuse on time. For obvious reasons the name of the place was not to be made public in advance and was only to be known to the railroad authorities themselves. But it proved to be Preble, and the fortunate few who went down from that village to see the train pass were highly gratified at seeing the president close at hand and at bearing a fine little speech from him.

   Hon. David W. Van Hoesen was one of those who went down to see the train pass, and consequently he heard the speech too. He knows all the people of Preble and is authority for all of their politics, and he reports the crowd to have consisted of nineteen Democrats and one Republican.

   And then after the president bad spoken and had retired to his car the mother of a numerous family of children pressed forward to the car with her children about her. The president caught sight of them through a window and their number, and vigor and comeliness and the pride of the mother in them so affected him that he came out again to greet them and to say a few words more upon the blessings of large families and the future of the race. And the crowd cheered wildly. And then the train moved on, and the last seen was a view of the smiling countenance of the president and his waving white handkerchief.

 

A Birthday Party.

   John Edward Wilcox celebrated his fifth birthday Saturday at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Wilcox, 34 North Greenbush-st. in honor of the event a number of his young friends was invited to be his guests from 3 to 6 o'clock. Mrs. Wilcox was assisted in entertaining the little people and also in serving the birthday supper by Miss Bertha Smith and Miss Cora Fuller. Numerous presents were received by the host as souvenirs of the occasion.

   The guests were: Robert Hogan, Glen Card, John Sens, Floyd Wadsworth, Sheldon Booth, Norris Woodward, Robert Ellis, Lloyd Ellis, Kenneth Maxon, Walter Kelley and Arden Gale.

 

MRS. WEBB'S RECEPTION

Given Saturday Afternoon in Honor of Two Sisters.

   Mrs. Benj. L. Webb very pleasantly entertained about one hundred and fifty of her friends Saturday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Walter L. Webb of Philadelphia and Mrs. J. J. Robertson of Yonkers. The house was very tastefully decorated with golden rod, nasturtiums, and ferns. The guests were received by Mrs. B. L. Webb, Mrs. W. L. Webb and Mrs. Robertson. Mrs. J. S. Bull, Mrs. H. C. Johnson and Mrs. J. H. Turner, were the unbonneted ladies. Misses Helen Clark, Helen Turner, Bessie Johnson and Edith Bull assisted in serving in the diningroom [sic] and Misses Margaret Turner and Marion Webb presided over the punch bowl.

 

Reception for Mr. and Mrs. Clements.

   The Ladies' Aid society of the Presbyterian church will this evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Greenman, 23 North Church-st., give a reception for Rev. and Mrs. Robert Clements, who have just returned home from a two months' trip to Europe. Every member of the church and congregation is urged to be present.

 

New Dental Parlor.

   Dr. Greene has completed his new dental rooms in the Tanner building, Main-st., Cortland, and is now ready for his business. Painstaking care and reasonable fees. [Paid ad.]

 

BREVITIES.

   — The public schools opened this morning and the Normal opens tomorrow morning,

   —A regular meeting of the Fortnightly club will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the home of Miss Martha McGraw, 6 James-st.

   —A regular meeting of the Ladies' Literary club will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. G. W. Bradford, 70 Tompkins-st.

   —Every Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock until further notice, the King's Daughters will be at the W. C. T. U. rooms to receive and give out clothing.

   —The proprietors of stores in Syracuse are considering the project of not opening their stores till 8:30 o'clock in the morning. The matter will be definitely settled soon.

   —We are requested by the Normal school authorities to state that all pupils intending to enter the Primary and Intermediate departments will be expected to register on Wednesday morning of this week.

   —S. Earle, who lives at the Corner of Elm and Pendleton-sts., Cortland, has brought to the Standard office a sample hill of potatoes grown in a portion of his garden made up entirely of coal ashes. The potatoes are large and smooth and of excellent quality.

   —The new display advertisements today are—W. W. Walters, School shoes, page 6; W. W. Bennett, Asphalt roofing, page 6; McGraw & Elliott, Rubber goods, page 6; M. A. Case, Dry goods, page 5; F. E. Brogden, Man Wanted, page 5; C. F. Brown, Spices, page 6.

 

JAPANESE INTERFERENCE, DETAILS OF INSURGENT DEFEAT, ALASKAN BOUNDARY, THE PRESIDENT, AND OPENING CORTLAND SCHOOLS

 

SS Stanley Dollar (1902).

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, September 5, 1903.

JAPANESE INTERFERENCE.

Details of Stopping of an American Vessel at the Yalu River.

   Pekin, Sept. 5.—Telegrams received here from Port Arthur give details of the reported recent stopping of the steamer Stanley Dollar, owned by an American, by a Japanese gunboat, as the steamer was attempting to enter Yongampho at the mouth of the Yalu river, Corea, to load timber from the Russian concession on that river.

   The Japanese did not forcibly oppose the vessel's entering the port, but protested strongly against her taking lumber on board on the ground that Yongampho was not an open port.

   The captain of the Stanley Dollar telegraphed to the Russian company at Tien Tsin, which had chartered the Stanley Dollar, that the Japanese were preventing him from loading, and he ultimately loaded and the vessel is now supposed to be on her way to Dainy.

   The Japanese legation here is without information regarding the incident, which has created much comment. It is not known whether the Japanese commander acted on his own responsibility or on instructions from his government. If his action was due to orders from the government there is much curiosity to know how Japan intends to support her protest.

 

Details of Insurgent Defeat.

   Salonika, Sept. 5.—Details of the fighting between the Turks and Bulgarians at Lake Rapela, between Klissura and Kastoria, September 1, when the insurgents were defeated, have been received here. Four hundred Bulgarians were killed and many captured, including two chiefs.

   Fifteen Bulgarian villagers have taken refuge in the mountains at Vitch. A revolt has begun at Razlog in the Turkish province of Seres.

   The railroad authorities are preparing 20 trains for the dispatch of Albanian troops to Adrianople. Two battalions of Albanian levies have arrived at Salonika and 18 other battalions are expected.

 

LEHIGH VALLEY IN SYRACUSE.

Purchase of Skaneateles & Moravia Road Bonds Gives Long Wanted Entrance.

   New York, Sept. 5.—E. I. Burt has purchased $1,200,000 first mortgage gold bonds fives of the Syracuse, Skaneateles & Moravia railroad, which runs from Syracuse to Moravia and connects with all points. The road permits the Lehigh Valley to enter Syracuse, which they have heretofore been unable to do. Wing T. Parker of Moravia is the president of the railroad company, and Henry J. Hubbard of this city, is the vice president, with Edward Stetson Griffing of New York the general manager.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

The Alaskan Difficulty.

   The meeting in London of the Joint Commission to consider the Alaskan boundary dispute again calls public attention to an interesting and important question.

   After the organization of British Columbia in 1871 the Canadian government requested that the boundary line between Alaska and Canada should be adjusted, but it was not until 1898 that the British government acted in the matter. Thus for more than seventy years, through the Russian occupancy of Russian America and the American occupancy of Alaska, the British empire made no formal protest against Alaskan boundaries as marked on maps, official and otherwise.

   In view of such history, the Canadian claim, countenanced in 1898 by the British government, seems curious--that the Alaskan eastern boundary should run from Prince of Wales island at 54 degrees 40 minutes along the mountains nearest the shore and across all the indentations of the sea up to Mount St. Elias. The grant of such a claim would contravene the phrase from the official language (French), "parallele aux sinuosites de la cote," found in the Russo-British treaty of 1825. The correspondence leading up to this treaty shows indubitably that its purpose was, first, to give to Russia a continuous strip of territory on the American mainland around all sea indentations and, second, to make this territory ten marine leagues wide unless there should exist inside that limit a chain of mountains which could constitute a watershed.

   Alaska is still largely unexplored, but we now know that a natural watershed exists on the summits of the White and Chilkoot passes. Those are less than ten marine leagues from the coast. Under a modus vivendi with the Canadian government our own boundary has thus been brought nearly to the coast line at these points, and if such a watershed exists elsewhere the boundary line should be changed accordingly. This granted, the general claim that the boundary should follow not the actual indentations, as provided for in the treaty, but the general trend of the coast, rests on insufficient basis, as is seen even from Canadian and British sources. Furthermore, by actual occupancy and usage the United States has acquired by prescription a confirmation of its title.

 

President Theodore Roosevelt.

THE PRESIDENT

To Pass Through Cortland Next Monday Morning.

AN EFFORT TO HAVE HIM STOP

And Speak for a Few Minutes at the Lackawanna Railroad Station—Train Due Here at 7:20 a. m.—Locomotive May Take Water Here.

   President Roosevelt will pass through Cortland next Monday morning, Sept. 7, at 7:20 o'clock. He is bound for Syracuse to be the guest of honor at the State fair. He will go over the Lackawanna railroad in President Truesdale's private car which is scheduled to leave Binghamton at 6:30 a. m. and pass Cortland at 7:20. a. m. An effort is being made to have the train stop at the station in this city for a few minutes and give the people of Cortland an opportunity to extend their greetings in some form to the nation's chief executive and perhaps secure a few words from him. No positive announcement can be made concerning this now, but it is to be hoped that a large crowd will be at the station.

 

New Fairgrounds at Ithaca, N. Y.

   The fairgrounds at Ithaca are always in trouble from high water if it rains. Last week the water was two feet deep at the gates. Each year repairs from washouts are required. Herman Bergholtz has now offered to raise a stock company in Ithaca and fit up fairgrounds and build a race track in what are known as the Renwick gardens, north of Percy Athletic field, if the Agricultural society will agree to rent them for a week each year, Except for the one week the new stock company will control the grounds and will keep them in repair. It is likely that the offer will be accepted as the grounds will be on dry land.

 

OPENING OF SCHOOLS

To Occur in this City on Tuesday and Wednesday.

CHANGES IN TEACHING STAFF.

Four Additional Teachers at the Normal and Two to Fill Vacancies—Assignment of Places in the City Schools—Statistics Showing Growth of the Schools—Changes in Requirements.

   This is practically the last day of the summer vacation for the schools. Monday is Labor Day and a public holiday, and Tuesday in most places marks the beginning of the school year. Every train for the past few days has carried its quota of teachers returning from their vacations. From lake, mountain and other summer resorts, they come from quiet homes in villages and rural districts and even from the large cities where the fleeting weeks of the seemingly to short vacation have been spent.

   Next week the travel will be exceedingly heavy on all roads, especially those leading into New York City. Thousands of New Yorkers with their families spend the summer "up state" returning only in time for the opening of the schools. The New York City schools open Monday, Sept. 14, and nearly all who are out of the city for the summer will return next week.

   The teachers employed in New York have to report for duty next Friday, and the number drawn from all parts of the state to instruct the children of the big city and vicinity would make a small army in themselves.

   Most regent schools throughout the state as well as most city schools will begin the year's work Tuesday. The Normal schools all open on the same day, the second Wednesday in September, which this year is Sept. 9.

The Normal School.

   Cortland follows the same custom as most cities in the state and the Central and other city schools begin Tuesday. The Normal will open Wednesday for its thirty-sixth year. There will, as usual, be quite a change in the delegation that returns. More than one hundred pupils who for four years have spent most of their time in Cortland, where they have made acquaintances and established close friendships have been here for the last time and are now about to enter upon lives of usefulness and merit.

   The faculty of the Normal has undergone some changes. Prof. W. M. Booth has resigned from his position as head of the science department and gone with the best wishes of all who know him. Miss Harriet A. Hamilton for seven years the beloved and accomplished teacher of history died soon after the close of the past school year. Their places have been taken by others well qualified to fill the vacancies, and, in addition there will be four new teachers, an assistant in science and physical instruction, two new critics, and an assistant in English and general work. As nearly as can be told before the opening of the Normal the outlook for a large entering class is excellent.

   Although the Normal department begins work Wednesday, the practice schools do not open until the following Monday. The pupils, however, are to be present on Friday to have work assigned in order that the regular work may be commenced Monday morning.

The City Schools.

   The Central and City schools will begin the work of the year under the most favorable conditions. Both the total and average attendance last year were excellent, the best in fact in the history of the schools. The buildings are finely equipped and are modern in every particular. There have been changes in the faculty here also. Some have gone never to return, others have been transferred from one school to another, and there will be several new members on the teaching staff.

   Ferdinand E. Smith, A. B., is again superintendent of schools. H. Elizabeth Turner is supervisor of music and Ella Vosburg, supervisor of drawing.

   The teachers have been assigned to the various schools as follows.

Central High School.

   F. E. Smith, principal; Fannie M. Galusha, vice-principal, Mathematics and science; Mae A. Euller, Latin and French; Jennie L. Robinson, German and English; Ada J. Wallace, history, bookkeeping and civics; Mary E. Williams, English, science and history.

   Central Grades—Anna C. George, Anna Flanagan, Clara A. Perry, M. Louise Fairchild, Edith E. Colledge, Lena R. Conable, Olive H. Parker, Annie E. Luker, Bessie L. Park, Minnie F. Bloomfield.

Schermerhorn-st. School.

   Helen L. Mulligan, Jessamine A. Ellsworth, Mary C. Van Gorden, Nellie L. Conable, Clara H. Benedict, K. Louise Adams—kindergarten.

Owego-st. School.

   Anna M. Sharp, Florence C. Snyder, Helen M. Carver, Agnes T. Dowd.

Pomeroy-st. School.

   Lulu M. Forrest, Clara C. Tracy Elizabeth A. Byrnes, Bertha R. Day.

   All except Supt. Smith, Miss Vosburgh and Miss Adams are graduates of the Cortland Normal school. The annual catalogue of the public schools of the city which has just been issued from The Standard job rooms contains many interesting facts. The superintendent's report shows that 1,436 pupils were registered during the past year. Of these 735 were boys and 701 girls. The average daily attendance was 1,155. The gain in attendance was the largest in fifteen years. The gain in registration of pupils in five years is over 32 per cent, and in average daily attendance over 30 per cent.

   The rank of the academic department was raised last year to that of a high school and 179 students were registered. The attendance in this department has increased over 300 per cent in the past five years.

   A new course of study will go in effect this year. The ninth grade has been abolished and the course arranged for twelve years work, eight in the grades and four in the academic department.

   The new catalogue also contains the rules laid down by the board of education, including the changes which have been made since Cortland became a city. The catalogue is a neat, attractive volume of ninety-five pages. It contains two cuts of the Central building, one of the front and another of the east side of the structure. It also contains the names of all those who have graduated from the Central school.

   Provision has been made for complying with the regulations laid down by the state department in regard to free no-resident tuition. The requirements are as follows:

Minimum Requirements.

   To participate in the benefits of the act providing for the payment of non-resident tuition in academic departments (chapter 542 laws of 1903) it will be necessary for every school not approved by me pursuant to chapter 1031, of the laws of 1895, to engage regularly at least four teachers for full time and to include in its academic course or courses of study the following minimum requirements:

   Two years (400 periods) of English.

   One year (200 periods) of history, at least one-half of which is to be given to American history.

   One-half year (100 periods) of civil government.

    Two years (400 periods) of algebra and geometry.

   One year (200 periods) of science, at least one-half of which is to be given to physics.

   Six weeks (30 periods) of physiology.

   Note: The course of study must extend over a minimum period of three years and include at least 1,800 recitation periods, 1,330 of which are requires as above and 475 elective.

   Charles R. Skinner, State Superintendent, June 9, 1903.

 

BREVITIES.

   —A meeting of the board of managers of the Cortland hospital will be held Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock.

   —Services will be resumed tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock in all of the several churches which for two months past have joined in union services,

   —Monday will be Labor Day and a legal holiday and no paper will be issued from this office. Full account of all the news of the interim in Tuesday's paper.

   —The evening service at Grace Episcopal church in this city will hereafter be held at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, a half hour after the time appointed for Sundayschool, it being the hope that all the school will remain to the service.

   —The ladies of the Presbyterian church will on Tuesday evening from 8 to 11 o'clock, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Greenman, 23 North Church-st., tender a reception to Rev, and Mrs. Robert Clements, who have just returned from their summer trip to Europe.

   —The meetings of the Y. P. S. C. E. of the Presbyterian church will be resumed tomorrow night at 6:30 o'clock at the chapel. The meeting tomorrow will be a special song and praise service with Miss Cora Edgcomb as leader and Miss Carrie D. Halbert in charge of the music.

   —It is perhaps a little singular that during the more than two months' absence this summer in Europe of Rev. Robert Clements, pastor of the Presbyterian church, there should not have been a single funeral in his church or congregation, but that he returned last evening to find two funerals appointed for him for this afternoon, one at 1 o'clock and one at 4 o'clock.

 

FRESH KILLS LANDFILL AND 9/11

Two websites to read and watch about post 9/11:

https://www.ice.gov/9-11/fresh-kills-landfill

https://www.911memorial.org/events/fresh-kills-inside-story-recovery-operation-after-911