FIGHTING DE ARMITT AND CORTLAND BOARD OF TRADE

Patrick Dolan.

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 1897.

FIGHTING DE ARMITT.

His Mines Are Now Virtually Closed.

SURROUNDED BY THE STRIKERS.

Very Few Men at Work—Monster Meeting to Be Held Thursday Night—De Armitt Claims

 West Virginia Operators Are Supporting the Strikers.

   PITTSBURG, Aug. 4.—The strikers continue to gain accessions from the New York and Cleveland company's men. Sandy Creek and Turtle Creek mines are completely idle and the Plum Creek men are slowly but surely coming into line with the men encamped in the vicinity. Nearly half of the diggers at this stronghold of the company failed to go to work and a number of others have promised to quit.

   At Camp Determination it was reported that every one of the miners of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal company who had gone to work was in sympathy with the movement, and only their signatures to a contract prevented them from staying out.

   Peace and order seem to be the watch word of the strikers. At the headquarters of the miners' officials here there were many callers during the day. Proffers of aid were numerous.

   The miners' officials have retained W. J. Brennen to defend them at the hearing before Justice Semmes at Turtle Creek. They are charged with riot and unlawful assemblage. Attorney Sol Schoyer will appear on behalf of the prosecutors.

   There are close upon 2,000 strikers in camp at Turtle Creek, 360 at Plum Creek and 800 at Sandy Creek. If this number is not sufficient to deter the De Armitt miners from going to work all these camps will be largely increased before the end of the week.

   Arrangements are being made for the big meeting on the wharf Thursday night. It promises to be the greatest demonstration of the kind ever held in this city. Eugene V. Debs and Mrs. Mary G. Jones will be the chief speakers. Mayor Ford was asked by the men to preside, out declined.

   The announcement that there was a possibility that the state troops would be ordered out had no effect on Camp Determination. The strikers all say there has been no occasion for discussing the coming of the troops.

   The arrival of Brigadier General John A. Wiley of the Second brigade, N. G. P., in the city, and his conference with local officers of the guard, gave rise to the story that he was here to arrange for transportation of troops to De Armitt's mines.

   General Wiley said, however, that he was here on personal matters only. The general is satisfied that the strike will be settled without calling out the guard.

   The district mining officials were here arranging the details for the continuance of the camps at the De Armitt mines.

   President Dolan states that the entire New York and Cleveland Gas Coal company interests have been fought to a standstill. Each of the three camps of striking miners was placed under military government.

   Secretary Warner is experiencing great difficulty in getting provisions. The camp at Plum Creek will be short on rations.

   President Dolan said: "The entire success of the movement now depends upon the order maintained in the camp. The New York and Cleveland company has given up all hope of operating the Sandy Creek mines, while those at Plum Creek and Turtle Creek are so badly crippled that there are not enough men to get out a car of coal."

   President Dolan has issued an order appointing Edward McKay general manager of Camp Determination and empowered him to make arrests and eject all persons under the influence of intoxicants [for] trespassing on the premises of the camp.

   The order requests all miners to respect the law.

   Mr. De Armitt is confident the strikers cannot wholly shut down his mines and avers that a change will come over the scene within the next few days.

   Mr. Dc Armitt intimates he will soon spring the injunction against the miners which was granted May 25, 1895, and which was sustained by the supreme court. This injunction, which was made perpetual, restrains the defendants from assembling and encamping upon the highways, roads and premises adjoining the mines of the plaintiff, or in the vicinity of the same for the purpose of intimidating and preventing the plaintiff's miners from working, etc.

   Mr. De Armitt said: "The miners employed at our mines are not only intimidated from going to work, but they dare not leave their families at home at the mercy of a mob responsible to no one. The mob has … until it is beyond the control of law."

  W. De Armitt said that anything tending to stop the output of the Pittsburg mines resulted in the advantage of the mines of West Virginia, and it was reported that the West Virginia coal operators contributed $10,000 for the purpose of making a strike in the mines of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania.

Iowa Miners Now Strike.

   OTTUMWA, Aug. 4.—A thousand miners went out in this district last night. The men at several Centerville, Rathbun and Forbush mines have also stopped.

Closed the Mines.

   ARDMORE, MO., Aug. 4.—Two hundred and fifty diggers in the Missouri & Kansas Coal company's mines here have gone on strike for an advance of from 40 to 50 cents for mining. The company discharged all other employees and closed the mines.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Farm School for Jews.

   An interesting experiment is to be made at Doylestown, Pa., near Philadelphia. Wealthy Hebrews have contributed funds to set a farm school upon its feet, and it has been opened. Its ultimate object is to draw Hebrews away from the exclusively commercial lines which are now overcrowded by them and return them in modern scientific style to that country life which was theirs in Bible times. Other students than Jews will be admitted, however.

   In his address at the opening of the school Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf of

Philadelphia quoted the saying of Tolstoi in reference to the Russian Hebrews, "Let the Jew exchange the yardstick for the spade, the counter for the plow, let him become a tiller instead of a trader, let him draw with his own hand food from the soil and lay it at mankind's feet, and he will do much toward solving the Jew question."

   The pupils in the Doylestown school get their living, their clothing and their tuition and textbooks in such a way that their work may pay for all. When they graduate, each student will get a diploma and a small farm from some of the unoccupied lands of the country.

   One thing is certain, we cannot have too much scientific knowledge of farming. Agriculturists are now suffering from hard times mainly because they farm in the way that would do when this country was new. That is a way that will never pay again. We need diversified scientific farming, of a kind that will reduce expenses and increase profits.

   ◘ In 1876 the United States and the then kingdom of Hawaii entered into a reciprocity treaty for the mutual exchange of goods useful to both. The principal articles we imported from the islands were and are still, first, sugar; second, rice. The principal goods we ship to Hawaii are manufactured articles, chiefly cotton goods and machinery, with some breadstuffs. Twenty-one years ago, when the first reciprocity treaty was made, the whole trade of the islands with the United States amounted to a little less than $2,000,000. It was last year the largest in the history of the islands, being $20,924,306.  This is not quite 92 per cent of the total trade of Hawaii with all the countries of the earth. We receive all the goods that the islands export and send them back in return three-fourths of all the articles they import.

CORTLAND BOARD OF TRADE.

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED AT LAST NIGHTS MEETING.

It is Brief, Comprehensive and Drawn to a Definite Plan—Office of Secretary to be a Salaried One—Dues of Members Ten Dollars per Year—Those Who Became Members.

   Another step, and a very important one, was taken last night in the organization of the Cortland board of trade, and that step was the adoption of a constitution which had been carefully prepared by the committee previously appointed for that purpose. When President Fitzgerald called the meeting to order in Fireman's hall at 8:10 o'clock, the hall was well filled with Cortland's business men. Irving H. Palmer, the secretary of the committee, read the constitution that had been prepared, and on motion of Frank P. Hakes, it was adopted as a whole as submitted by the committee.

   Preceding the reading of the constitution, Mr. Palmer made a few remarks, stating that the document had been drawn to a definite plan, and was very much like the constitution of the Syracuse Business Men's association. The constitution is brief, simple, and comprehensive. The name of the organization is the Cortland Board of Trade, and its objects are to encourage present enterprises, induce others to come to Cortland, and promote the business and commercial interests of Cortland. Any one interested in the objects of the organization may become a member on payment of the membership fee of $5. The annual dues are placed at $10, $5 to be paid Jan. 1 and $5 July 1 in each year. The annual meeting of the association shall be held on the third Wednesday in February. The affairs of the association are vested in a board of managers, consisting of the president, vice-president and treasurer together with sixteen other members appointed by the president to serve until the annual meeting in 1898, when sixteen members of the board shall be chosen, eight for a term of one year, and eight for a term of two years.

   The secretary shall be chosen by the board of managers and shall hold office at the will of the board, by which body his compensation shall be fixed. Upon the secretary devolves the greatest amount of work for the association for he is to be secretary of all standing committees, shall conduct the correspondence, compile statistics, acquire and disseminate information. All standing committees are to consist of five members each and the chairmen thereof are to be members of the board of managers. The standing committees shall be seven in number, as follows: Executive, public improvements, roads and transportation, trade and manufactures, legislation, entertainment and statistics and publication.

   The following business men and firms became members of the association last night by signing the constitution and paying the membership fee: L. J. Fitzgerald, D. F. Wallace. F. H. Cobb & Co., Palmer & Co., Kellogg & Curtis, Davis, Jenkins & Hakes, F. Daehler, Cramer & Hollister, Simmons & Grant, W. D. Tisdale, S. N. Holden, W. J. Perkins. Benj. L. Webb, Hugh Duffey, L. M. Loope, B. T. Taylor, H. L. Smith, G. P. Yager, Theodore Stevenson, C. P. Walrad, Price & Co., J. R. Schermerhorn, F. B.  Nourse, Irving H. Palmer, Angel & McFall, E. E. Mellon, Cortland STANDARD Printing Co.

   B. L. Webb, E. C. Palmer and W. D. Tisdale were appointed a committee to circulate the constitution and secure members.

   The matter of a permanent secretary was brought up and it was stated that D. W. Van Hoesen, who was elected to that position at the previous meeting, refused to accept, owing to his other business which consumes all of his time, and on motion, the motion electing him was rescinded. The secretary will be appointed by the board of managers after they have been named by President Fitzgerald, who will probably take ten days in which to make the appointments, and the meeting was adjourned subject to the president's call.

PRISONERS GOING INSANE.

Commissioners Mantanye and Boyd to Investigate.

   ALBANY, Aug. 4.—The state prisons commission at its meeting yesterday decided to make an investigation of the condition of the prisoners in the Kings county penitentiary, many of whom, it is alleged, are insane because they have no work to occupy their minds, and Commissioners Mantanye and Boyd were appointed as a committee to make the investigation.

THE WOMEN OBJECT.

Will Not Work if Management Employ Negroes.

   ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 4.—Two hundred women employed in the Fulton bag and cotton mills struck this morning because the management employed some negro help. At noon 400 men walked out in obedience to orders of the Textile workers union which is in sympathy with female operatives. This forced closing down the factory. Strikers gathered in angry groups about the mills, and for a time a riot was feared. Fulton Mills is one of the largest concerns in the South, 800 men, women and children are affected by the strike.

Killed by a Mink.

   A few mornings since Mr. Fred Lampman, who lives on North Main-st., upon going to his henhouse which is located on Pearne-ave., Cortland, near the river found that eleven of his chickens about half grown had been killed by a mink. The victims had one by one been carried from an elevated board perch to the floor and from thence inside a slatted coop, where the eleven were found bunched together. A gentleman that lived near by [sic] heard the disturbance and judged from the outcry that each one made, as it was caught, that once in about every five minutes a fresh victim was captured and disposed of.

Died in Syracuse.

   Mr. Sidney Harrington, who has for some weeks conducted a boot and shoe repair shop in the Sampson building on North Main-st., died yesterday morning at the residence of his son, Lewis Harrington, in Syracuse, where he went a few days ago for a visit. The remains will reach Cortland at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, and will be taken directly to the Cortland Rural cemetery for interment. Mr. Harrington was a veteran of the Civil war, having served in the Sixteenth New York Heavy Artillery.

BREVITIES.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—W. J. Perkins & Co., Soda Water, page 7.

   —The members of the Homer-ave. M. E. Sunday-school are picnicking at Little York to-day.

   —The tenth annual meeting of the Cortland County Soldiers' and Sailors'

Veteran association will be held in McGrawville to-morrow.

   —The regular monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Tioughnioga club will be held at the parlors of the club this evening at 8 o'clock.

   —The examination of Robert H. Clark on the charge of skipping a hotel bill, was adjourned to Tuesday. Aug. 10, at 9 A. M. in Justice Dowd's court yesterday.

   —C. J. Ramsey & Co. of Ithaca offer a Happy Thought [kitchen] range to the handsomest baby under 2 years of age at the Tompkins county fair. Premium to be awarded on the second day of the fair at 2 P. M.

   —A special excursion train from DeRuyter and points north passed over the Lehigh Valley railroad this morning to Cornell university, Ithaca. It was under the auspices of the DeRuyter M. E. church and carried over 400 people.

   —A large number of the members of and attendants at the Universalist church picnicked at the park yesterday afternoon in honor of Rev. and Mrs. H. W. Carr of Fort Plain, who are spending a portion of their vacation in town.

   —The most expensive book ever published in the world is said to be the official history of the War of the Rebellion, now being issued by the government of the United States at a cost up to date of about $3,385,000. It will consist of 112 volumes.

   —The three men who were arrested by Officer Nix on Pomeroy-st., Saturday evening, who gave their names as Fitzgerald, Brown and Harrington, each paid a fine of $10 in police court Monday afternoon. The two former for creating a public disturbance, and the latter for assaulting an officer while in the discharge of his duty.

THE IROQUOIS WAMPUM.

A Relic of the Six Nations That Has Nearly Disappeared.

   A recent dispatch from Syracuse told of the death of Chief Thomas Webster of the Onondaga Indians, and of the subsequent discovery that nearly all the great wampum of the Iroquois confederacy, of which Webster was the keeper, had disappeared. The disappearance of this wampum is a great loss to the Six Nations, although it is probable that much of it will be restored if, as has been stated, it has found its way into the Smithsonian institution at Washington or the state museum at Albany.

   The great wampum of the Iroquois Indians was composed of four belts of shell beads of varying lengths and widths, worked in designs to tell the story of the events which they were intended to celebrate. The wampum is a sort of historical record of the most important events in connection with the life of the confederation. Few whites have seen the great wampum. It was supposed to be jealously guarded and to be produced only on great occasions, such as a great council for the election of a president of the confederation. The Indians were prevailed on, however, to show it at the Onondaga county centennial four or five years ago.

   The long belt is the federation agreement among the Six Nations, and is the most highly prized of the collection. This treaty of confederation is composed chiefly of white shell beads, the figures and the council house being wrought in beads made from black clam shells.

   One of the other three belts of wampum, it is said, sealed the treaty by which the Tuscaroras (shirt wearers) were admitted to the Iroquois confederation. Still another of the pieces of wampum is known as the Hiawatha belt. All are made from shell beads, the original wampum of the North American Indian.—New York Sun.