IN THIRD PLACE

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, June 25, 1897.

IN THIRD PLACE.

The Cortland Team Has Now Lost 5 Games—Some New Players.

   Cortland base, ball "fans" are slightly down-hearted since Cortland lost to Auburn last Saturday and thereby lost first place. All sorts of excuses, kicks, and apologies are going around. Last week Thursday the umpire stole the game from Cortland at Palmyra, score 6 to 1. The same day Canandaigua did up Lyons, 8 to 5.

   Friday Cortland played at Auburn and there won a great victory. Every man played a star game and the score, 11 to 6, was well earned.

   Saturday Auburn came to Cortland and about 1,500 people turned out to see the game. It was an off day for Cortland. The visitors touched Yerks for twenty-two hits, there being many two and three baggers and they were so bunched that Auburn made 19 scores to our 3. Case of Auburn sent the ball clear over the fence for a home run. Cortland got ten hits off Murphy but they were scattered. Kanaley made a home run and got to the plate a second time but the ball was a few seconds ahead of him.

   Tuesday Canandaigua played in Cortland. Their team has been much strengthened since their last visit here and their pitcher, Whitreck, proved rather difficult for our boys. Good ball was played on both sides but the visitors won, 5 to 2.

   Our downward course in league standing was helped along at Batavia while our team played two games Wednesday, one scheduled and one postponed. Cortland won the first game, 14 to 9 but the second one went to Batavia, 10 to 7.

   Yesterday at the hour of going to press Cortland was playing at Canandaigua. B. Berger who has played in our [infield] and "Barney" McManus who has played nearly everywhere on our team have been released. Recent games have developed the fact that our team is weak at bat and the management are corresponding with some good players who are hitters and probably one at least will be signed before our game with Lyons on our grounds to-morrow.

   Last Friday Canandaigua defeated Lyons 5 to 4 and Palmyra won from Batavia, 8 to 4.

   Saturday Palmyra played at Canandaigua and defeated the home team, 14 to 8. The same day Lyons and Batavia played an exciting game at the latter place, Lyons winning, 6 to 5.

   Monday Batavia visited Lyons and again met defeat, 14 to 11. The same day Auburn defeated Palmyra 22 to 6 on the Palmyra grounds.

   Tuesday at Auburn the home team defeated Palmyra 13 to 7. Wednesday at the same place Canandaigua was beaten, 7 to 1, and at Lyons Palmyra won from the home team, 9 to 8.

   Standing of the clubs Wednesday eve.

Cortland Park.

The Park Theatre.

   The attractions for this week have been: the Asbeys, the white illustrators; Frank Latona, the funny musical tramp and his trick donkey Pete; and the Burroughs, sketch artists and whistlers. A performance is given each afternoon at 4 o'clock and every evening at 8:30. The Traction Company are making a great effort to give to the people of Cortland a really first class vaudeville performance, and so far the artists who have appeared have been very much better than any one has a right to expect, if they take the very small price of admission into consideration at all.

   The Park itself is an attraction which should be appreciated by our citizens, and the addition of the theatre gives them an opportunity to enjoy an hour or more of pleasant entertainment, and quite as good as they would usually see at the [Cortland] Opera House for 25 or 35 cents. We work too much and play too little as a people, and now that warm afternoons and evenings have made a commencement, we will be better prepared for hard work in the morning if we pass the evening in some cool and pleasant place, instead of working both night and day and then retire too tired to sleep or rest as we should. Try an evening at the Park.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.

The Hawaiian Scheme.

   We are of the opinion that the annexation of Hawaii as a State would be a precipitate and unwise action at this time, the consequences of which it would be hard to foretell. We do not believe that we need either Senators or Congressmen from the State of Hawaii, and cannot believe that it would be safe to grant the right of suffrage to a people, only a small part of whom know anything of our form of government or our needs as a people. We give below a few opinions of the press on this question.

   There are precedents enough for the annexation of adjacent territory, but it will be a new departure—opening up boundless and dangerous possibilities—if Congress shall approve the annexation of a group of islands populated by an alien race and situated in mid-ocean, two thousand miles away from the Pacific coast of the United States.—Albany Argus.

   1. In a population of 105,000 there are less than 10,000 English speaking whites—Germans, French, English and Americans.

   2. The climate and the soil make it inevitable that the reputable white population will remain about stationary and the disreputable population from Oriental races will steadily increase.

   3. There are now 40.000 Chinese and Japanese coolies, 15,000 ignorant and shiftless human beings from the slums of Portugese cities, 40,000 leprosy-cursed native Hawaiians and half breeds.

   4. The Government will always be a Government of the few, holding the many in a subjection akin to slavery.

   5. It will open the way for new extravagances and dishonesties in appropriation bills, new and almost unlimited jobs and steals.

   6. It will open the way for the annexation of other remote, useless islands that, like Hawaii, will be troublesome and expensive in times of peace and indefensible in time of war except by an enormous outlay of money in ships and forts.

   To make assurance doubly sure Mr. McKinley, in his inaugural address three months ago, solemnly declared that "we must avoid the temptation of territorial aggression," and warned the people of the "grave peril of a citizenship too ignorant to understand or too vicious to appreciate the great value and beneficence of our institutions and laws."

   This is an exact description of the mongrel, leprous aid enslaved people who form 90 per cent of the Hawaiian population—15,000 ignorant Portugese, 30,000 semi-barbarous native Hawaiians, 10,000 vicious half breeds, 15,000 Chinese and 25,000 Japanese.

   Do the American people wish to add to the Union an Asiatic State, lying 2,000 miles from the mainland and twice as far from the National capital?

   What evidence is there that they do? What slightest effort has ever been made to find out that they do? How many American voters does John Sherman know or know of who have a definite wish to this effect? How many are known to President McKinley? How many has he consulted? Who are they? What are their professed motives? What are their real motives?

   These are the questions that rise in the mind of every intelligent and disinterested American, and there are many, many more, of like kind, for which there is absolutely no satisfactory answer. They are very grave questions. That they should have to be asked, and that when asked no one can even suggest a plausible reply, is amazing.—The New York Times.

   Anxious as we are to see something done for the relief of suffering Cuba, we would be opposed to the annexation of that island, and cannot see that the admission of either Hawaii or Cuba, even as territories, is necessary, but if to protect these islands of the sea and the interests of American citizens located there becomes necessary, let them be admitted as territories, not states.

HERE AND THERE.

   Two large coal boxes for sale. Suitable for a hallway or outside. Enquire at this office.

   The Traction Co. are extending their line north in Homer to the second bridge, about 2,000 feet.

   Do not overlook the fact that Dr. S. Andral Kilmer will be at the Cortland House June 30. See his card in another column.

   Arthur White, paroled from Rochester Industrial school, has violated his parole and was on Saturday returned to that institution.

   Several Baptist Sunday schools in this county will run a joint excursion to Long Branch on Onondaga lake next Wednesday. Fare, $1, children, 50 cents.

   The Order of United American Mechanics initiated twenty new members on Monday night and report fourteen applications now awaiting the action of the lodge.

   The events of the Y. M. C. A. field day are in progress as we go to press. The large number of entries in the many events insure the crowd ample return for their money.

   The details of the painful and fatal accident which resulted in the death of Mrs. Charles Allen near McGrawville on Monday evening, will be found under the head of our McGrawville items.

   Willet items failed to reach us, for some reason, until Wednesday night, and this being Commencement week at the Normal, it was impossible to give them a place in this week's issue after they reached us.

   The butter market is sadly demoralized and farmers are at a loss to know what to do with it. A letter from Orange, N. J., but 10 miles from New York, states that the finest grades are selling at retail for 12 and 15 cents.

   Sheriff Hilsinger went to Norwich last week and arrested Fred Cook on an old indictment charging him with stealing a rig from Liveryman T. H. Young of Cortland. Cook has been in the Norwich jail a year but when tried a week ago was found not guilty of a similar charge.

   Monday forenoon, at a little before eleven, an alarm of fire was sounded from box 333 and the department quickly responded. The cause of the alarm was found to be a small pile of blazing straw in the rear of Stowel's Bargain House, and was soon extinguished. Little or no damage was done.

   The DEMOCRAT is indebted to Hon. F. P. Saunders for a copy of the Greater New charter. It makes a formidable volume of 958 pages, and it would seem that the future Mayor of Greater New York will have something of a task on his hands before being able to administer the affairs of the city in accordance with the charter.

   The June races of the Central New York circuit at Binghamton will be held on June 29 and 30 and July 1 and 2. There are to be nine races and they have 135 entries which ought to make a lively and interesting meet. The Association offers $3,600 in premiums which has attracted some of the best steppers in the State, and a good time may be expected.

   At a meeting of the Lehigh officers held at Geneva Monday June 14, it was decided to begin the construction of what is to be known as the Seneca county railroad at once. It is to compete with the Central, and will extend from Geneva through Waterloo to Seneca Falls and thence over a trestle across the foot of Cayuga lake to Auburn.—Ithaca Journal.

   Miss Emma Maude Squires and Mr. Charles Wilson Aiken of Cambridge,

Mass., were married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. S. Squires, Tuesday evening by Rev. A. Chapman, assisted by Rev. G. H. Brigham. Mr. and Mrs. Aiken will spend their honeymoon in the Adirondacks after which they will reside in Cambridge where Mr. Aiken is engaged in business.

   The Fountain House at Slaterville Springs has been opened for the season and is under the same management as formerly, W. J. Carns & Son. Guests have already commenced to arrive and a large number of rooms have been engaged for the summer. One of the many attractions already secured for this year is the Susan Tompkins Orchestra of Cortland, which will be at the hotel during July and August to furnish music for the entertainment of the guests.—Dryden Herald.

   Miss Eugenia Kellogg will give a reception to a number of her lady friends at Riverside, her home, to-morrow afternoon from 3 to 6 o'clock.

   Mr. E. DePuy Mallery brought to this office last week, a chip from an elm stump which the workmen struck when excavating for a new cement walk, which has just been put down in front of the Taylor Hall block. Mr. Mallery informed us that the stump was four feet across and that the tree was cut down thirty-six years ago, and the strange part of it is that notwithstanding the stump has been covered with earth most, if not all, of that time, that the stump is as sound and solid as the day on which the tree was cut down, and the chip brought to us looked like one from a fresh cut log.