Cortland
Evening Standard, Tuesday, June 22, 1897.
JUBILEE CELEBRATION.
Diamond
Jubilee Parade a Successful Feature.
LONDON
PROFUSELY DECORATED.
Many
People Held Positions of Vantage All Night Long in Order to Witness the
Parade—Queen Greeted With Hearty Cheers.
LONDON, June 22. Even old timers in London
are surprised at the number of people who have flocked to the city for the
Jubilee week festivities. You hear natives remark, "Bless me, where do
they all come from!" It is estimated that there is crowded into London at
least 6,000,000 people.
All nations are represented. Turks, clad in
their picturesque costumes; East Indians, arrayed in brilliant colors; Japanese
and Chinamen mingling with the holiday crowd, good naturally pushing their way
through and jostling their Eastern brethren, is a sight that will be long remembered
by those who saw it.
It is probable that London never before had
so many strangers within her gates. The
Americans are taking an active part in the celebration, thus strengthening the
friendly relations that exist between the mother country and the States.
One of the beneficent results of the jubilee
celebration will be the formation of a museum of the wonderful treasures of Windsor
Castle. In the outside world very little is known of these rare objects,
because for the most part they are scattered about the private apartments of
the royal castle, where only the favored visitors with immense influence can
hope to tread. They surpass the wonders of the British museum. They include
paintings, furniture, plate, bronzes, china, jewels, weapons and armor.
They will now be arranged in some of the
less private apartments of the palace, to which the public will be admitted
under certain restrictions. Their aggregated value in money could not be
computed; the sum total would amount to a figure so stupendous as to be almost
beyond belief.
Among the paintings are 22 of the finest works
of Van Dyke. They alone would cost a large fortune. There are also some of the
best pieces by Hogarth, Reynolds, Jansen and Canaletto.
The queen has been in receipt of innumerable
presents, the most interesting, perhaps, being the magnificent set of emeralds
sent by the czar and czarina, valued at £40,000. From China, Japan, India, Persia,
the continent and elsewhere enough of rare and costly articles have arrived to
fill a small museum.
Her majesty stands the fatigue of jubilee
week remarkably well. She arose this morning at her usual hour, feeling bright and
strong after a good night's rest. She expresses some slight annoyance at the report
that she was becoming blind. The fact is her eyesight is remarkable for
a person of 78 years.
DENOUNCED THE QUEEN.
Woes of
Ireland Laid at Her Door.
DISPLAYED
A BLACK BANNER.
Dublin
Students, Carrying the Union Jack, Fall Foul of an Irish Parade, and a Fight
Ensues—Police Interfere and Quell the Riot.
DUBLIN, June 22.—At a meeting held near
College Green, in connection with the jubilee, a black banner was displayed
bearing the statement: "During Victoria's reign 1,500,000 of people have
starved in this island; 3,000,000 have been evicted, and 4,000,000 have been
compelled to emigrate."
A body of undergraduates, who marched out
from the grounds of the Trinity college carrying the union jack, came
into collision with the crowd, and there was considerable fighting.
Philip Callan was severely wounded in the
head and several others were more or less injured.
Only with difficulty did the police restore
order.
The cause of the trouble was rivalry in
singing national airs.
After the rumpus the crowd paraded, [then] destroyed
the decorations.
MILITIA
DISBANDS.
Nineteenth
Separate Company of Poughkeepsie Mustered Out.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 22.—The formal
disbandment of the Nineteenth Separate company, on the order of Governor Black,
was made the occasion of a great public demonstration here. Each member, as his
name was called, stepped forward in citizen's dress and received his
discharge. Afterward the disbanded
company formed a parade by platoons and, headed by the Nineteenth Separate
company drum corps, marched through the principal streets of the city, each
member holding his discharge in his right hand. Great crowds lined the
sidewalks and cheered the men as they passed by.
The company will be continued as a social
organization.
Fifth
Battery Disbanded.
SYRACUSE, June 22.—The Fifth battery, N. G.
S. N. Y., which was organized Sept. 3, 1881, was disbanded last night at the
state armory, pursuant to orders issued last week from the adjutant general's
office. A new infantry company may succeed the battery. The organization had
nearly full complement of men and was commanded by Captain A. D. Hayes.
Militia
Disbanded at Elmira.
ELMIRA, June 22.—Lieutenant Colonel E. P.
Cottle of the Seventy-fourth regiment, Buffalo, mustered out the Twenty-sixth
Separate company of this city. Seventy-four of the 92 men were in line.
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
Why We
Should Have Hawaii.
The
Brooklyn Eagle is patriotic as well as Democratic, and it takes a very
dispassionate and conservative view of the Hawaiian annexation matter. It
surveys some of the reasons pro and con, and very logically reaches the
conclusion that annexation is all right, though there is no occasion for haste
and the ratification of the treaty can well wait until fall. The Eagle finds in
the tacit acceptance of the
situation by England and other great powers ground for the belief that the
civilized world looks upon the islands as naturally belonging to the United
States; that everybody has been familiar with what was going on and other
nations, had they opposed the plan, should have protested long ago, and that,
putting the debt of Hawaii, which this government has assumed at $4,000,000,
the United States has made a good bargain. "At a much greater expense we
purchased Alaska, which by the way, is further from Washington than Hawaii, and
it has repaid us for our outlay many times over. Upon the head of the man who
bought it for us, limitless abuse was showered." Finally the Eagle says:
As a matter of fact not a serious objection
to the treaty has yet been submitted. We are simply consummating what has
practically existed for years. We are
building that for which more than half a century ago we [began to make]
foundations. The feeble mutterings which are heard are mere whispers in
comparison with the deafening outcry Japan might have provoked by sending half
a dozen men-of-war to Honolulu. President McKinley has indulged in no flourish
of jingo trumpets. A positive and definite policy is indebted to his hands for
the finishing touches. We might have abandoned our kindred in Hawaii. We might
have permitted them to fall into the grasp or the Asiatics and we might have
virtually presented one of the great powers with a coaling station—a base of
operations from which our western coast could have been ravaged. That would have
been liberality run riot.
It may not be "manifest destiny"
for Hawaii to fall into the hands of the
United
States, but The Eagle helps to make manifest common sense of it.
A BAD
ACCIDENT.
Mrs.
Charles H. Allen Killed in a Runaway in
the Town of Solon.
Last night shortly after 9 o'clock Mr. and
Mrs. Charles H. Allen started from McGrawville, [N. Y.,] for their home on the
farm north of Solon which they secured about two years ago in exchange with
Miles Peck for their house and lot in Cortland. It is known as the Gershom
Burgess farm. They were driving a double team and a platform wagon. Near the
home of Ed Hulbert, about one and a half miles east of McGrawville, one side of
the pole came loose from its fastening and frightened the horses which at once
started to run. Mr. Allen was doing his best to restrain them and had them
partly under control when Mrs. Allen became frightened and tried to seize hold
of the reins to help him. She got hold of only one rein and pulled the horses
short, off into a woven wire fence in front of the place of L. D. Allen.
The wagon was overturned and the horses were
so badly tangled up they couldn't get away. Mr. Allen escaped with a few
bruises, but when the wagon was righted up it was found that Mrs. Allen lay
under it with her skull crushed. It is believed that in the struggles of the
horses to escape one of them either kicked her or stepped on her head. She was
carried into Mr. Hulbert's house and Dr. Forshee was called from McGrawville,
but the life was gone.
Coroner Smith decided that no inquest was
necessary. Undertaker Parsons of McGrawville was notified and the remains were
removed to the home of the deceased.
Mrs. Allen was 61 years old. She was a
daughter of the late Peter Bigsby, who for years lived next the entrance to the
cemetery on Tompkins-st. She was born in Cortland and lived here till her
marriage with Mr. Allen when they went to Philadelphia and resided there
fourteen years. Then they returned to Cortland and this was their home for
about eighteen years prior to going to the farm in McGrawville. She is survived
only by her husband and by a niece.
The funeral arrangements have not yet been
made.
BREVITIES.
—Twenty candidates took the third degree in
the O. U. A. M. last night.
—All the Chautauqua circles of Cortland
picnic at the park to-morrow.
—The graduating exercises of the ninth grade
of the intermediate department at the Normal occur in Normal hall to-morrow afternoon
at 2 o'clock.
—Nothing seems to be safe from the hands of
burglars now-a-days. The Homer letter to-day tells of the looting of a photograph
gallery up there.
—The fourteenth annual prize declamation contest
of the Gamma Sigma fraternity will be held at Normal hall to-morrow evening at
8 o'clock.
—Mrs. Franc Andrus, Miss Flora Kelley and
Grant L. Munson were last night elected delegates from the Homer-ave. Epworth
league to attend the Central New York Epworth League convention at McGrawville
June 29 and 30.
—The STANDARD is indebted to Mr. M. W. Boone
of Galesburg, Ill., formerly of Cortland county, for copies of the Galesburg
daily papers containing interesting matter concerning paving. Mr. Boone has
recently been elected a member of the park board of that city.
—New display advertisements to-day are—C. F.
Brown, Snap Shots, page 6; D.
McCarthy & Co., White
Goods, page 7; Simmons & Grant, Down Go the Prices, page 4; Warren, Tanner & Co., Bargains in Dry
Goods, page 4; Palmer &
Co., Special Sale, page 6.
—The Cortland & Homer Traction company
is extending its line in Homer to the upper bridge, a distance of 2,000 feet.
In order to do this the company found it necessary to widen the first bridge,
and the contract for this was given to C. C. Healey of Homer.
—The sixth annual oratorical contest of the
Y. M. D. C. will be held in Normal hall this evening at 8 o'clock. A fine
program has been prepared. The exercises this evening as well as every evening during
the commencement season will begin promptly upon the hour named.
—Sheriff Hilsinger was in Norwich Saturday
and brought back Fred Cook, who is under indictment on the charge of horse
stealing. Cook, after being in the Norwich jail a year on a similar charge, was
tried in county court last week and found not guilty. The indictment charges
him with stealing horses from the livery stable of T. H. Young of Cortland over
a year ago.
HOMER.
Gleanings
of News From Our Twin Village.
HOMER, June 22.—Mr. Hall Bates of Williams
college is the guest of his cousin, Mr. Carl Bates, on Elm-ave.
Miss Nettie Berry of Manilas is visiting at
the home of her aunt, Mrs. F. E.
Schultz.
Loads of cinders passed through town this
morning to be used on the sidepath from Cortland to Little York.
Miss Rose Ryan and Miss Nina Coon left this
morning for a trip to Montreal and the Adirondack mountains.
Miss Lizzie Colney, who has been teaching on
Staten Island, is in town to spend her summer vacation with Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Stevens on Clinton-st.
One of the moat elaborate receptions ever
given in this town will occur in Brockway hall to-morrow evening. Mc- Dermott's
orchestra of Cortland has been secured for the occasion.
Miss Mary Miller very hospitably entertained
a large number of her young friends at her home on South Main-st. last evening.
One more burglary was added Saturday night
to the category of crimes committed in Homer. The large and expensive camera
was stolen from the photograph gallery of Mr. Priest. The village authorities
have been working upon the case and the parties who committed the crime are
thought to have been found.
Mr. Burr Johnson has resigned his position
in the barber shop of Thomas Knoble.
McGRAWVILLE.
Crisp
Local Happenings at the Corset City.
E. B. Wood started for Solon Monday as an
ardent bicyclist, but returned a pedestrian. For full particulars ask George
Hoag.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tice and Mrs. Laura Tice
of German visited at Lee Maybury's Wednesday and Thursday.
The following letters remain at the McGrawville
postoffice uncalled for June 20, 1897:
Patrick McMahon (2). Persons calling for above please say advertised. B. T.
Burlingham, P. M.
Mr. Albert Oliver spent Sunday with his
sister in Cortland.
Rev. J. J. Cowles is in Tully preparing his
cottage for the coming summer.
Mrs. Alma Ensign, who has been quite sick,
is improving.
Palemas W. Chaffee, of Wm. H. Tarble post
No. 470, has been appointed one of the aides-de-camp in the department staff by
Commander Albert D. Shaw.
Miss Winifred Smith has been engaged by the
Y. P. H. S. S. of Solon to give an entertainment in the Baptist church on
Friday evening, June 25. This is an opportunity never before offered us and we
cannot afford to miss it. Miss Smith is a graduate in elocution from Evanston,
Ill., and soon goes South to teach. Music has been secured for the enjoyment of
all and the program will begin at 8 o'clock. Admission 10 cents.
A false alarm of fire will be given some time
between June 22 and June
25. All firemen and others
please take notice. F. D. GRAVES, Chief.
Warner Brothers have sold the box factory in
McGrawville to J. K. Hunt of Rochester, who will move the machinery and stock to
that city as soon as an inventory can be taken. Warner Brothers reserve the
right to retain such machinery as they may need to supply the boxes for use in
the corset factory and also to fill any orders in Cortland county. This will be
a serious loss to McGrawville as it will throw about fifty people out of employment.
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