SMOKE CLEARING AWAY

William Jennings Bryan.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, July 13, 1896.

SMOKE CLEARING AWAY.

Chicago Resumes Her Wonted Air of Calmness.

DEMOCRATS FAST DEPARTING.

Bryan, Sewall and a Few of the Silver Leaders About All That Remain In the City—Bryan Spends a Very Quiet Sabbath.

   CHICAGO, July 13—The last expiring echoes of the convention crowds are heard about the corridors of the hotels today. The first state delegation to leave was New York, which gave up its headquarters at the Palmer House on Friday night, and Pennsylvania followed shortly afterward.

   All of the remaining delegations departed on Saturday, and with the exception of the national committee headquarters, nothing is left to indicate that there has been any convention. Even the sign of the sergeant-at-arms has been removed, although Colonel Martin remained to finish up some matters connected with the closing of the convention.

   The silver headquarters at the Sherman House are deserted. The bimetallic committee, their work being accomplished, disbanded and only those who are members of the national committee remained over. "Buck" Hinrichsen with his cohorts left on Saturday evening, as did also the most of the Virginia and South Carolina delegates. Senator Tillman and the North Carolinians, with the Tennessee delegates, stayed over until 10:30 yesterday morning. Arkansas left on Saturday evening.

   W. F. Harrity, ex-chairman of the Democratic national committee, completed his labors in connection with the management of last week's convention, and left for Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania at 6:30 p. m. yesterday.

   The old subcommittee held a short session at noon in parlor Y, Palmer House, and arranged matters so that ex-Secretary Sheerin, Colonel Sherley, Colonel Martin and Mr. Conda, the architect, could settle bills and turn the books over to the new committee. Colonel Martin said he regretted exceedingly the trouble that could not be avoided on the first day, when the doors were not opened in time for the people to go in to the Coliseum without waiting, and for which the blame was all heaped on his shoulders.

   He was not to blame, he said, and the subcommittee exonerated him. It was explained that the keys to the Coliseum were not turned over to him until nearly 12 o'clock instead of at 9 a. m., when he should have received them.

   A good deal of fun was made over Colonel Martin's medical staff, yet it seems he had need for it. During the convention, he said, 60 persons were given treatment for one cause or another. A good many women fainted. One man sustained a broken nose; another got his ankle crushed. Several of the delegates were overcome from the excitement, loss of sleep and long sessions without anything to eat and were treated by the physicians in charge.

   Mr. Sewall kept in his rooms at the Palmer House and received many visitors. He will probably stay here for two or three days.

   William Jennings Bryan, the nominee of the Democratic party for president of the United States, turned his back on statesmen, politicians and curiosity seekers, and went out to quiet Oakwood cemetery and stood with uncovered head before the grave of Lyman Trumbull, the man who had been his teacher and friend. When Mr. Bryan turned away his eyes were brimming with tears.

   ''Any distinction I may have gained I owe in great part to the man who is buried there," he said as he returned to the carriage and was driven back to town again.

   Yesterday was the first opportunity Mr. Bryan has had to rest since he started to Chicago over a week ago to attend the convention which was destined to name him as its candidate for president. He spent it under the hospitable roof of the Trumbull homestead on Lake avenue.

   The nominee recovered some of his lost strength by sleeping till toward noon. After dinner he sat out upon the vine-clad porch and looked across the blue waters of the lake. Some of the neighbors called and chatted with Mr. Bryan, and Senator Jones and the vice presidential nominee, Mr. Sewall, drove out and paid a short visit.

   George Sternedorf, who is an old friend of Mr. Bryan in Nebraska, drove over and took the candidate and his wife driving over the south side boulevards.

   After they returned John Trumbull took Mr. Bryan in his carriage out to Oakwood cemetery, where a visit was paid to the grave of Lyman Trumbull. In the evening Mr. Bryan and his wife and the members of the Trumbull family sat in the library chatting.

Arthur Sewall.

IN THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY.

Bryan and Sewall to Be Formally Notified in New York.

   CHICAGO, July 13.—In Madison Square Garden, early in the month of August, the Hon. William J. Bryan will be formally appraised of the fact that he has been nominated for president. At the same time and at the same place the Hon. Arthur Sewall will be notified of his nomination for the vice presidency. This action was taken at the request of Mr. Bryan, who thought that it would be wise to fight in the heart of the enemy's country.

   The committee organized by electing Senator White of California chairman and M. L. Blake of Wyoming secretary. Both Mr. Bryan and Mr. Sewall were present, as also were nearly all the members of the national committee. A general discussion was entered into as to where the notification should be made. It was finally agreed that Madison Square Garden would be the place.

An Excellent Contrivance.

   Mr. J. A. Maxwell, the expert electrician of the Cortland and Homer Traction Co., last evening surprised the patrons of the road by a neat little contrivance which he introduced upon one of the park cars as an experiment. It was an illuminated sign telling the destination of the car. Incandescent lights placed within the square sign at the front of the car lighted up the letters, so that they could he read some distance in front. The contrivance by which the electric current is carried into the sign is an invention of Mr. Maxwell's and he purposes to apply for a patent upon it.

Saturday at the Park.

   Saturday was a big day at the Cortland park. The picnic of St. Mary's church was very largely attended, and the heat of the day and evening and the attractions of the concert by the City band and the dance music of McDermott's orchestra drew many others over there. The band concert was an excellent one. The dancing hall was crowded all the afternoon and evening. The refreshment and ice cream stand in the pavilion did a flourishing business, and everybody had a good time. It was midnight before the last of the crowd could be induced to leave.

Guarding Against Accidents.

   All through the afternoon and evening of Saturday cars ran to and from the park at intervals of twenty minutes. Each car was attended by two trailers and all were crowded. During the evening a change was made on the switch on Main-st. and on the switch on Elm-st. at each trip by which the trailers were put behind the motorcar, instead of turning right around and letting the trailers be pushed upon the return trip. Some people were so unkind as to say that the change was made merely to keep the employees at work.

   As a matter of fact this was an instance of the extreme care which the company is very properly taking to guard against accidents. It was done to let the motorman be right in front when he could have an unobstructed view of the track ahead and not to let him be dependent upon a watchman on the head trailer for a signal to stop in case of need. It was a very proper thing to do, though it took some time at each trip to make the change.

Fire at Marathon.

   The large plant of the Adams Manufacturing company at Marathon was burned to the ground Saturday. The fire was discovered late is the afternoon and before the department arrived it had gained such headway as to be beyond control. The company was engaged in the manufacture of blackboards. The value of the plant was estimated at about $5,000. It was insured for $3,500.

Appeared to be Poisoned.

   On Saturday afternoon, Oracle, the three-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F. Hoar, living on Sand-st., drank two ounces of a patent cough medicine. Symptoms of violent poisoning soon developed. Dr. Edson was called and found symptoms of poisoning by morphine and Cannabis Indica. After several hours hard work, ably assisted by kind neighbors and the administration of physiological antidotes the little girl was saved.

M. F. Cleary in fireman's uniform.

The Army Worm at Work.

   The army worm has arrived and is getting in his work at a rapid rate. Messrs. W. E. Powers and R. J. Latimer each of them had to cut a fine piece of oats Saturday to save them for feed. They would have been ripe in ten days, but in two days the worms would have riddled them so thoroughly that there would have been nothing but stalks to cut.

   Mr. M. F. Cleary has brought in to us a sample of one of these worms which he picked up last night on Fitz-ave. We have it under a glass here where it can be observed by any one who cares to take a look at this awful pest and who has not already seen it to his sorrow. Mr. Cleary describes a piece of timothy hay which the worms were fast making way with, stripping the stalks of every leaf and all the seed.

   It behooves farmers, to keep an eye every single day on their oat fields and to turn in and cut them at once at the first approach of the worm if they would save them for feed. Haying too cannot be hurried forward too rapidly.

WON BY CORTLAND.

Binghamton A. A. Team Defeated in a Good Game Saturday.

   The spectators at the fair grounds Saturday afternoon were pleased to see the Cortlands win from the Binghamton A. A. team by the score of 17 to 9. The game was a good one and both teams worked hard for the victory.

   Binghamton went first to bat. Nelson hit the first ball thrown for a long right field fly, but Hugh Corcoran was there and bagged it in good shape. Brodie hit to short and was thrown out at first, Hanrahan then came up and surprised the Cortlands by planting the ball far out in right field away beyond Corcoran and made three bases. Tompkins struck out and this retired the side.

   Cortland now came to bat. Kinney went out at first. Haulihan hit safely for one base. Buckley made a pretty three-base hit, bringing in Haulihan and he himself scored on Lovelock's base hit. Welch secured his base on balls, but McMillan and Ketchum went out at first retiring the side.

   The score remained 2 to 0 in Cortland's favor until the fourth inning. Dewey made a home run, bringing in Hanrahan and Tompkins, scoring three runs for the visitors. Cortland made three runs in the fourth and six in the fifth, giving them a big lead which they kept until the end when the score was 17 to 9 in Cortland's favor.

   The trouble with the Binghamton team was that they were too slow. They may make good ball players in time, but need a large amount of practice.

The Cortlands put up a fine game from beginning to end, making only two errors. McMillan seemed to be the favorite of the spectators, his appearance being the signal for a round of applause. Lovelock caught a fine game and Carroll did good work in the box.

   A Binghamton paper comes out with a long tale of woe claiming that they were robbed by the umpire and asserting that Binghamton could have had the game but for the umpire. "Robbed by the umpire" is indeed the wail of disgruntled players in this case as all fair-minded judges who saw Saturday's game will say. If Binghamton wants to win from Cortland they must play much better ball than they did Saturday. The position of an umpire is a difficult one, but the decisions Saturday was fair and did not tend to the defeat of one team more than the other. The Binghamtons did not win Saturday's game simply on account of their inability to play the game and for no other reason. The summary follows:

Fined Fifteen Dollars.

   Brewery hill in Homer has acquired quite a reputation in the courts of late.  The latest is Arthur Chapman of that famous locality, who was arrested by Officer Edwards of the S. P. C. A. this morning on the charge of cruelty to animals. Chapman was a companion of Mott Rood of the same place one night last April when they were alleged to have over-driven a horse from McGrawville to Cortland and for which Rood is now serving a term in Onondaga penitentiary.

   Chapman pleaded guilty to the charge and paid a fine of $15 in preference to going to jail for that number of days.

POLICE COURT.

Cornell and Woodworth Held For the Next Grand Jury.

   William L. Woodworth and Herbert Cornell, the two men who were arrested at Norwich some time ago charged with being implicated in the stealing of a team of horses from the barn of T. H. Young on the night of June 14, were this morning in police court bound over to await the action of the next grand jury. Bail was fixed at $300 each in default of which they were returned to jail.

   Mary Hubbard, who was connected with the two men in this case, is still in jail. Her examination is adjourned until Saturday, July I8, at 3 o'clock.

   Edith Ladd, a seventeen-year-old girl was arrested on Saturday afternoon charged with being disorderly and keeping a house of ill fame. Bail was furnished in the sum of $250 for her appearance in court Monday, July 20 at 9 o'clock A. M. for examination.