BUFFALO WENT DRY

John Raines.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, April 13, 1896.

BUFFALO WENT DRY.

Her First Experience With Sunday Drouth Came Yesterday.

   BUFFALO, April 13.—Buffalo had its first dry Sunday under the Raines law yesterday. It was practically Buffalo's first experience, for it had been accustomed to pursuing the fairly even tenor of its way, in the matter of excise, without the interruption of periodical reform waves such as have visited other cities, and its people knew of "dry Sundays" only by hearsay or experience gained from without.

   But it was all brought home to Buffalo yesterday and there was no oasis anywhere except at on occasional road house outside the city limits. Every saloon in the city was shut, and the removed screens tantalized the thirsty passerby with the view of long rows of bottles which he could not get at.

   Only two attempted evasions of the law were reported, and those were due to carelessness in not closing sharp at 12 o'clock Saturday night. Both cases were on the south side and the delinquents will answer in police court today.

   The drugstores did a rushing business in soda water.

Field Marshall Count Yamagata.

COUNT YAMAGATA HERE.

Japan's Napoleon a Guest of the Empire State.

LEFT BUFFALO THIS MORNING.

Was Met by Governor Morton's Staff and Shown a Hearty Welcome—Will

Visit the Governor Today. His Stop In Buffalo Yesterday.

   BUFFALO, April 13.—The man who led the victorious land forces of Japan in the recent war with China, whose strategy and skill have placed him upon the level of great generals of countries of a higher grade of civilization, has stepped foot upon the soil of New York state.

   When the Michigan Central express rolled into the depot, there alighted from one of the rear cars a short, slim man with iron gray hair, a weak carriage, and nothing in either demeanor or appearance to suggest the warrior or the strategist. It was Count Yamagata, the present secretary of war of the Mikado of Japan, a warrior and a diplomat.

   His European made clothes, the absence of display in his personal appearance and that of his small retinue, and his unostentatious bearing, would have made him unobserved, were it not for his parchment like skin and other personal characteristics of the Japanese race. His hair is quite gray but full, his face intelligent, his manner courteous.

   It had been expected that the visitor would stop at Niagara Falls and arrangements had been made to receive him there, but Adjutant General McAlpin, who was here as the personal representative of the governor, was advised that he would come straight through to Buffalo.

   When the guest of the state of New York—as he will be for the next few days—alighted, he was met by Adjutant General McAlpin, General Edmund Hayes, General B. M. Whitlock, General James M. Varnum, General William Wallace, General C. S. Wiley, General M. A. Perry, General H. C. Noyes, Colonel Selden E. Marvin, Jr., Colonel George W. Turner, Colonel Charles F. James and Colonel Archibald Rogers of Governor Morton's staff, all in full military uniform. General McAlpin was introduced to him, and with the staff in a semicircle about the guest and the gathering of citizens outside, he said:

   "As the personal representatives of Governor Morton, his staff bids you a hearty welcome to the Empire State of New York and extends to you all the hospitality that has made it famous."

   The private secretary acted as interpreter, for the count does not speak English and when he had finished the Oriental guest replied in Japanese:

   "I thank you for the honor you pay me, and through you and on behalf of my own country I thank the governor and this great state." General McAlpin introduced the members of the staff individually, and also Major J. P. Burbank, representing the United States army.

   The party was then driven to the Iroquis hotel, Count Yamagata and his secretary occupying the carriage with Adjutant General McAlpin and Colonel Marvin.

   At the hotel there was a large crowd of persons to welcome the guests, among them being State Senators Mullin and Higgins, Clerk of the Senate John Kenyon, ex-Senator McMillan, Congressman Mahaney and Tracey R. Becker.

   After getting rid of the stain of travel, the Japanese military leader, the Japanese consul general from New York and the private secretary, made a formal call at the rooms occupied by the adjutant general.

   Dinner was served a little later in parlors G and H of the hotel, the guests, in addition to the Japanese and Governor Morton's staff, being Senator Joseph Mullin, George M. Daniels, Senator Frank Higgins, and the clerk of the senate, John Kenyon, and J. M. Toucey. An elaborate banquet was served, the rooms and tables being beautifully decorated with flowers.

   During the progress of the dinner, in response to laudatory remarks by General McAlpin, relative to Count Yamagata's record in Japan, the foreigner said that he would tell the mikado with pleasure of the magnificence of the reception accorded him by New York state.

   Then he said, through his interpreter: "The peaceful relations of the United States and Japan have always been remarkable, but during the past few years the trade relations have increased very largely. Our ports are all open and it is my sincere wish, and I know I express the wish of my countrymen, that these relations shall be further increased to the benefit of both countries."

   The entire party left here this morning at 7:30 o'clock on a special train. The first stop will be made at Albany, where the party will arrive between 2 and 8 o'clock. They will drive to the Capitol and meet Governor Morton in the executive chamber. It is probable that there will be but little time for much elaboration of this event, as the present intention is to stay in Albany but about an hour.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Time to Stop.

   It is not likely that civilized mankind all desire to go crazy or to commit suicide or become bankrupt. Certainly, however, today they are taking exactly the path that leads to these mournful ends.

   It is a principle as old as thought itself that man grows to be like what he most thinks about and is most interested in. Cases are not at all uncommon wherein a poet or novelist noted particularly for the portrayal of horrors and nightmare fancies committed suicide. Sometimes he became a miserable physical wreck or imbecile, or a raving lunatic. It is not unknown that some of the greatest actors in tragedy gave evidence of being more or less unbalanced in mind before their death. The instance is sufficiently well known of the physician who had made a study of insanity and was a great specialist in this line. He read a learned paper on some department of lunacy one evening at a medical society and then went home and murdered his wife and children and blew his brains out, himself a maniac.

   The tragedies and horrors of nihilism in Russia are aggravated by the pessimism of the Russian novel, a pessimism which crosses the borderland of melancholia. This wretched, suicidal pessimism has infected the English, French and American novelists.

   Newspapers in the largest cities today are steeped in horror, tragedy and crime. It seems as if reporters and editors alike gloat over occurrences that show the vilest, wickedest, most desperate side of human nature. Capitals an inch long, whole pages, spread before us every detail of a murder, a fire in which lives were lost, or a burglary or suicide. The picture of the ghastly, headless body of a murdered woman was not long since a feature of great size in certain newspapers. A story of a suicide by gas suffocation was spread as a feast of horrors before the readers of a certain journal. An innocent child read the tale. A few days afterward, for no assignable reason, she killed herself exactly as the woman of the newspaper story had done.

   Reporters hunt up all that is ghastly, morbid and horrible, like spending a night in a graveyard vault or trying how it feels to take an opium debauch or perhaps to be hanged or commit a burglary.

   One inevitable result may be looked for. Coming years will see the writers who persistently depict these horrors either committing suicide or confined in insane hospitals, or they will be physical and mental wrecks. Many of their readers will be the same.

   It is time to stop this fostering of the filthy, the morbid, the diseased and the horrible. Many a person who would be shocked at the thought of committing a murder; stealing or wallowing in filth is doing something very like it every day. He is familiarizing himself with details of all uncleanness and wickedness. Uncleanness, crime, murder, vice and foolishness exist in the mind before they manifest themselves outwardly. The person who reads these things, the person who writes them, fills his mind with them. Oft repeated, they remain, rotting and festering, to taint, to craze and defile permanently.

   No! We must have a change. The good, the bright, the joyous, the clean, the honest must have their day in our reading and in our minds. We must build our minds up with the thought that is good unless we wish to go to the bad. Nothing is so true as this. Our thought absolutely makes us what we are. We can control our thoughts and make them what we will. To this end we need reading that is cheerful, that deals with happiness and prosperity, with the good deeds of men. There are plenty of these good deeds, more of them than there are of bad ones.

   Let the newspapers give prominence awhile to the generous, cheerful and hopeful. Let reporters hunt events of this nature and make a "big story" out of them. The public will thank them. There never were so much suicide, crime, murder, insanity and dishonesty as there are now. Part of it is directly traceable to the horrible prominence newspapers have given and are giving to these things. For reporters, for managing editors, for all mankind there is dire need to take deeply into their souls the command, "Whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are lovely and of good report, think on these."

THE HITCHCOCK CASE.

Motions Made and Decided by Judge Forbes on Saturday.

   The complications of the Hitchcock Mfg. Co. receivership were continued last Saturday before Judge G. A. Forbes at Canastota. The proceedings were stated to a STANDARD representative by Mr. James Dougherty of Dougherty & Miller as follows:

   Motions were made and argued last Saturday before Judge Forbes, in behalf of the Second National bank and others, to open the defaults taken by the attorneys for the receivers before Judge Mattice on March 4. The motions were argued and the defaults in each of the motions were opened except the order appointing Messrs. Hitchcock and Devine as permanent receivers. That the court permitted to stand until the determination to set aside the judgments and the executions issued thereon to the sheriff. By order of the court and by a stipulation made by the attorneys the sheriff was directed to turn over to the receivers the personal property subject to the liens and the executions issued on the judgments and the liens were to attach to the proceeds of any sales of property made by the receivers until a final determination. Decision was reserved on a motion to set aside the judgments and executions and to punish the sheriff for contempt. The court gave permission to make an application to the court, after the decision of the motions to set aside the judgments and executions, to file affidavits and to remove Messrs. Hitchcock and Devine as permanent receivers. Dougherty & Miller appeared for the Second National bank, W. G. Crombie for the sheriff, Kellogg & VanHoesen for the First National bank and Mr. Samuel Keator, and J. William Wilson for the receivers.

AN EAST SIDE FIGHT.

This Time the Women Pulled Each Other's Hair Furiously.

   The police were called to a house in the East Side on Elm-st. Saturday evening about 6 o'clock to quell a riot among the women of the household. In this particular house four families live and it seems that the quarrel started by one of the occupants of the lower part of the house accusing one of her neighbors above of sweeping dirty water out of the door onto the former's washing which hung on a line. A general melee ensued in which hair was freely pulled, faces were scratched and one woman flourished a revolver but did not shoot. None of them were willing to swear out warrant and so no arrests were made.

COOPER BROTHERS

Have Begun to Erect Their Splendid New Brick Building.

   Cooper Brothers, whose large foundry and machine shop was destroyed by fire on the morning of Nov. 26, have to-day begun rebuilding. During the winter months they have cleared up all the debris from the fire and within a few weeks have taken a trip through New Jersey and the New England states visiting a number of the largest and best known foundries and machine shops in order to make themselves familiar with the latest improvements in buildings for their purpose. They have decided to erect a single building on the site of the old ones which shall be 80 by 208 ft. in size. The building will stand north and south by the side of the Tioughnioga river. It will be constructed of white brick from the yards of Campbell & Wood of Ithaca and will have a felt roof. The inside will be finished in white and all together it will be one of the handsomest and best appointed buildings for their purpose erected in this vicinity.

   The work will be done by the day under the direction of L. G. Viele and L. L. Gillet.

   It is not the purpose of the builders to divide it yet into departments. That will be done later when they are ready to settle down to work and when it is determined just what line of work they will pursue. It is expected that the building will be completed about July 1.

   In this connection we may say that Cooper Brothers have arranged for the help of all the men which they can employ at present in the rebuilding, so that it will be of no use for others to apply to them for work now.

BREVITIES.

   —Peck Brothers have just received a carload of fine carriages from the Indiana wagon works.

   —A regular meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. will be held in the Y. M. C. A. parlor Thursday, April 16, at 3:30 P. M.

   —The office of Police Justice Mellon and the japan shop of the Cortland Forging Co.'s works have been connected with the telephone.

   —The teachers' institute of both districts of Cortland county will be held in Homer on the week beginning May 4. It will be in charge of Conductors Hendrick and Sanford.

   —There will be an adjourned regular meeting of the C. A. A. to-night at 8 o'clock. All members should be present as a matter of great interest to every member will be brought before the meeting.

   —New Advertisements to-day are—F. E. Brogden, corn cure, page 4; Bingham Bros. & Miller, clothing, page 4; I. Whiteson, a great success, page 7; Case, Ruggles & Bristol, four specials, page 6.

   —The roads between Cortland and Cincinnatus are said to be about the worst in years. The stage was over five hours in coming through this morning and had to be shoveled out of the drifts more than once.

   —T. F. Brayton has bought of R. G. Lewis the bay scales which have so long stood in front of the latter's store in the Squires building. They will soon be removed to Mr. Brayton's on Clinton-ave. and will be set up near the mill.

   —Tickets for the [hospital] charity ball on Friday evening may be obtained of Mr. W. J. Perkins at the City drug store. Tickets for gentleman and lady $2; for single ticket $1; for spectator's tickets 50 cents. Supper will be served to those who desire it, but is not included in the price of tickets.

   —Work was to-day begun on the new house to be built on Church-st. by Messrs. W. W. Kelsey and D. H. Bingham, mention of which was made in The STANDARD when the gentlemen bought the lot of Mr. W. D. Riley. Mr. Riley has reserved the fine large barn on the lot and in a day or two will begin moving it to the north toward Court-st., where it will be on his own lot.

THE HORSE WAS EXPOSED.

And the Agent of the S. P. C. A. Wanted to Protect Him.

   Friends of a local agent for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are rather laughing up their sleeves at a joke which is alleged to have been perpetrated on him a few days ago by a well known joker here in town. The two were reported to have been walking along Main-st. together one chilly evening recently when the joker said to the agent that he thoroughly approved of the way the Society was looking after the care of stock out in the country, but he thought it was too bad that they neglected horses right here in town.

   The agent was wide awake at once and inquired what he meant. "Why," replied the joker, "I know of a horse that has stood out here on Main-st. without any blanket on for more than seven hours to-day and he is likely to stand out all night too unless some one takes him in or takes care of him." "Show him to me, quick," said the agent. "All right, come along," responded the other.

   The two walked down Main-st. together until they came in front of the store of Peck Brothers where stands the handsome dapple gray wooden horse that is used to show harnesses upon. "There he is now," said the joker. The response of the agent is not recorded, but his friends are often seen puffing with an air of enjoyment cigars that have a very agreeable fragrance and which would never be accused of being "two-fers."