Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday,
May 13, 1896.
LANGLEY'S
AERODROME.
A
Flying Machine Invented That Will Fly.
AERIAL
NAVIGATION SOLVED.
Professor Langley Has Built a
Machine That Soars Gracefully Skyward
and Unlike Darius Green, He Has Solved
the Problem of Alighting.
Professor Langley has always been very
guarded about the experiments and a statement prepared by Professor Alex Graham
Bell, the well-known inventor, published with the sanction of Professor
Langley, therefore will be of great interest to the scientific world generally.
The statement says:
"Last
Wednesday, May 6, I witnessed a very remarkable experiment with Professor
Langley's aerodrome on the Potomac river. Indeed, it seemed to me that the experiment
was of such historical importance that it should be made public.
"I
should not feel at liberty to give an account of all the details, but the main facts
I have Professor Langley's consent for giving you, and they are as follows:
"The
aerodrome or 'flying machine' in question was of steel, driven by a steam engine.
It resembled an enormous bird, soaring in the air with extreme regularity in
large curves, sweeping steadily upward in a spiral path, the spirals with a
diameter of perhaps 100 yards, until it reached a height of about 100 feet in
the air at the end of a course of about half a mile.
"When
the steam gave out, the propellers which had moved it stopped, and then, to my
further surprise, the whole, instead of tumbling down, settled as slowly and
gracefully as it is possible for any bird to do, touched the water without any damage
and was immediately picked out and ready to be tried again.
"A
second trial was like the first, except that the machine went in a different
direction.
"No
one could have witnessed these experiments without being convinced that the
practicability of mechanical flight had been demonstrated.
"ALEX
GRAHAM BELL."
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Constitution of France.
Unless
President Faure dissolves the French parliament, it will go on till 1897, when
it will expire legally. France's system of national government, although it was
made nearly a century later than ours, trusts the common people still less than
the founders of our republic did.
The French
national assembly consists, like ours, of two bodies. They are the chamber of
deputies and the senate. These two together elect the president of France. He serves seven years unless his full term
is shortened, as it sometimes is, by his assassination or resignation. By the
time he finishes this term of seven years, if he is sensible and knows when he
has had enough, he is ready to quit. Thus there is not the same temptation to
work for a second or even a third term that lies before the president of the
United States.
It is the
national assembly, however, that presents features most different from ours.
The members of the chamber of deputies are elected for four years. The members
of the senate are elected for different terms. There are 800 of them. Of these
225 are elected directly by the people of the different departments and
colonies. The rest are elected by the two parliamentary bodies which constitute
the national assembly. Seventy- five of the senators serve for life. Thus, no
matter what happens, the national assembly is apt to be loaded down with
certain venerable fossils who cannot be got rid of by any elective process and
whom it would be unparliamentary to kill.
◘ The foulest blot on the history of Japan in modern times is the murder of
the Korean queen. If the plot had been concocted by Turks or Chinese, the
horror of the civilized world would not have been so great, for of these
degenerate and cruel oriental races humane sentiments and honorable practices
are not expected. But Japan seeks to be regarded as civilized. She claims and
in some cases has won the right to try foreigners accused of crime by her own
courts, instead of turning them over to the consular courts of their own
nation, as semi-civilized peoples are obliged to do. But Japanese officers
caused the queen of Korea to be hacked to death with swords, after which her
dead body was carried into the garden, covered with kerosene and burned.
If the
Japanese government glosses over this inhuman outrage, if it does not punish to
the utmost those who perpetrated it, then no foreigners can feel secure in
Japan. The sympathies of the nations will be withdrawn from Japan and will be
with Russia, even should she endeavor to gain a protectorate over Korea.
Japan's future is involved in the swift, complete punishment of the wretches
who murdered the queen of Korea.
◘ If all men were honest, if no man was suspicious in the wrong place,
there would have been no need of tacking to the naval appropriation bill in
congress the clause prohibiting retired officers of the navy or of the marine
corps from entering the employ of firms selling supplies to the government. But
not all men are honest; few men but are sometimes suspicious in the wrong
place, while they utterly fail to look out for rascality in the right place.
Consequently the clause is a necessary one.
◘ There is need of instructors in military drill in the public schools and
other schools. No physical training is better than that the soldier receives.
The government will therefore do well to detail, as is proposed, some of its
surplus officers and men to drill young Americans in schools.
◘ Holmes, the murderer, if he read the papers, had the privilege of seeing
it announced what disposition was to be made of his own body.
◘ Fifty millionaires like the late Baron de Hirsch would solve the problem
of abolishing poverty.
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| Cortland Hospital. |
CORTLAND'S HOSPITAL.
One of the Most Worthy Institutions in Cortland.
There is no local charity which appeals so
strongly to the people of Cortland and vicinity as does the Cortland hospital.
Situated as it is on North Main-st. and comparatively near the business portion
of the town it is very convenient and at the same time is in a quiet and
pleasant location.
The management of the hospital was never
better. The matron, Mrs. Banks, is a graduate from the New York City hospital
and since beginning her duties Dec. 25 last, only one death has occurred. There
are at present at the hospital seven patients, of whom three are private. During
the month of April there were nine admissions and four patients were discharged,
while five operations were performed. So far this month there have been three
admissions and as many operations.
A training department for nurses is maintained
in which four young ladies are receiving instruction. Two lectures are
delivered before them each week by capable physicians and in addition Mrs. Banks
gives class instruction.
Everything about the institution is neat and
clean and the patients are full of praise of their treatment there. The
medical service is becoming systematized since the appointment of a
regular staff of physicians and is much better on that account.
The Cortland hospital is daily showing
a reason for its existence and is indeed showing the purposes for which
it was established to "care for sick, injured and maimed
persons" without regard to "age, sex, color, creed or nationality."
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| Lehigh Valley R. R. depot at Truxton, N. Y. |
Lehigh Valley Notes.
Two locomotives from the Southern Central
division, Nos. 531 and 465, have been sent to Cortland for use on the Elmira division.
One will be put upon the new train which will run between Cortland and Elmira
with the change of time next week, and the other will be held in reserve as an
extra.
The passenger cars are rapidly being lettered
in the car shops here "Lehigh Valley." None of them have been put out
on the road yet, but they are expected to blossom forth next week. They are all
receiving a new coat of paint, the same color as now, and the new name in
silver runs along the top of the cars. At each end are the smaller letters
"E., C. & N."
The new summer uniforms of employees will be
put on next Sunday morning. They are of blue of course. The conductors wear a
single breasted Prince Albert coat with gold buttons and gold letters on the
lapels "L. V. R. R." The baggagemen and brakemen wear sack coats with
silver buttons. The caps are of black silk with gold braid and a gold number
plate for conductors, and with silver braid and a silver number plate for
trainmen. The local agents at the various stations will wear uniforms with
silver trimmings.
Agent E. D. Phillips will next week begin
selling through tickets to New York for $5.80 and round trip tickets for $10.
He will also have on sale tickets to any points on the Central and West Shore
roads.
The universal shock of grief which fell upon
the hearts of the large circle of friends of Miss Sara E. Collins yesterday, at
the announcement of her sudden death attests the power which this woman so
strong and true, so brave and earnest, held among those who had known her long
and well. Especially fitted by mental endowment and moral culture for the
strong and wise leadership which was in so many places eagerly accorded her,
her opportunities for usefulness and blessing to the world were manifold.
Her heart was always open to every call of
suffering humanity, and an opportunity to give an uplift to lives which had
fallen through sin was ever regarded by her a special privilege and honor. So
keenly sensitive was she to the cry for aid in every good work that it often caused
her actual pain to refuse a request to help by word or act when time end
strength peremptorily demanded.
It was mainly due to the efforts of herself and
the lamented Mrs. Mary E. Collins that the Ladies' Library association was
organized, out of which grew the village library of to-day. She with Mrs. Frank
Place organized and carried on successfully for some time a night school for
boys. She was a charter member of the Ladies' Literary club and deeply
interested in its work. She was for some time one of the board of managers of
the Old Ladies' Home and one of the most earnest workers for the establishment
of it. She was for a time a teacher in the Normal school of Cortland also, for
a year a teacher in the Hampton institute for Freedmen and Indians in Virginia.
She was an earnest faithful Christian,
everywhere devoted and true, living ever in the light of the heavenly leading. Perhaps
no incident could be more characteristic of her consecrated life than the reply
she made, so reluctantly to a friend who urged her to take up again her
membership in the Ladies' Literary club, the work of which she keenly enjoyed,
"I must refuse, I have no time, and this only pleases myself. My other
public work is done for others in His name, I cannot drop that." Often,
too, when she was busiest in public work, in which she had so great efficiency,
for she was a born leader, she would pause and say, "but we must not
forget our own home duties and privilege, they must be first."
Her own life exemplified this. What she was
in her brother's home, to his family, to her dear aged mother, no words can
fitly express. She counted no sacrifice of selfish ambition or ease, or
pleasure, too great to be given up gladly for the comfort and help and blessing
of other lives.
But it was as a temperance worker that she
most excelled in earnestness and sacrifice and power. With a keenness of
vision, so rare, alas, she apprehended the great stumbling block in the progress
of every reform, the great neutralizing power of the gospel of Christ—to be the
liquor curse, and with marked fidelity to this conviction she turned what power
she possessed toward this giant evil and gave her strength and life to the
battle against it.
She was a charter member of the Cortland
local Woman's Christian Temperance Union and for years its honored president,
holding always positions of honor and responsibility in the organization. She was also a charter member of the county
W. C. T. U. and its loved and trusted president for five years during which
time she built up the county work grandly. The greatest disappointment and
grief was felt throughout the county when three years ago she refused the
nomination for president again on the ground of failing health and increased
home cares.
For five years she was a member of the
executive committee of New York state W. C. T. U. and her counsel and judgment
was sought and prized for its careful thoughtfulness, thorough common sense and
judicious fairness.
Everywhere she will be missed. The shock
will fall successively upon the hearts of individuals as the announcement was
made yesterday, "Sara Collins is dead" will be felt throughout the ranks
of those whom she so often counseled and encouraged and everywhere the same
question will go up, "What can we do without her?" But another
thought is inseparable, as this, from her noble life will surely follow. The
example of her brave faithfulness, her fearless espousal of truth without
regard to popularity or criticism, her utter readiness to "do what she
could" will be an inspiration and a blessing enduring forever as
successive lives shall receive an uplift from sordid living and a new impetus
toward noble, unselfish deeds as a result of her immortal influence.
Ah! no, Sara Collins is not dead. She has
"entered into life"—entered into the glorious life above, the life of
rest and peace for herself; "entered into" the life of earth more
fully and gloriously than ever before, as her memory lives to be the
inspiration to every good and great work for "God and Home and Native
Land."
BREVITIES.
—Mrs.
I. J. Smiley entertained informally a few friends last evening.
—New
advertisements today are—D. C. Beers, Miami wheels, page 6; W. J. Perkins,
paints, page 2.
—The
Dispatcher's office at the Lehigh Valley station has been connected with the
Telephone Exchange.
—The
funeral of Miss Sara E. Collins will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon from
her late residence, 13 Clinton-ave.
—One
tramp occupied the cooler last night and was this morning discharged. One drunk
received sentence of five dollars or five days in jail.
—Epworth
league of the Homer-ave. church give a reception to the Epworth league of the
Homer M. E. church tonight at 8 o'clock in the church parlors.
—To-morrow
being Ascension day, it will be a Holy day of obligations in the Catholic churches. High mass will be at 9
o'clock A. M. to-morrow in St. Mary's church.
—The
Cortland City band are now rehearsing each Monday and Thursday evenings. They
have a large variety of new music and are doing finely. Why not have an open
air concert some evening?
—All
members of the Woman's Christian Temperance union are requested to meet at
headquarters promptly at 1:30 P. M. on Friday to attend in a body the funeral
at 2 o'clock of Miss Sara E. Collins.
—Arrangements
are being made for a ball game next Wednesday between the business men and
clerks on Railroad-st., between Main and Church-sts., and those on Main-st.,
between the Cortland House and Messenger House.
—The
station on the Lehigh Valley road heretofore known as Perryville will have the
new name of Blakeslee on the new time card which goes into effect next Sunday.
This change is made to avoid confusion with two other stations on the Lehigh,
Peruville and Perryville. There can be no more snow blockades on Perryville
hill, but the query is if the blizzard will rage less severely on Blakeslee hill than it has for so many years
at Perryville.
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