HAWAIIAN TREATY AND WOMEN'S HOME IN CORTLAND

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, July 16, 1897.

HAWAIIAN TREATY.

ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO BE MADE TO SECURE A FAVORABLE REPORT.

No Need for any Action at This Time. Senate Hardly Expected to Act on it at This Session—Battleship May be Sent to Honolulu.

   WASHINGTON, July 13.—An attempt to secure a favorable report from the senate committee on foreign relations on the Hawaiian treaty will be made to-morrow. Senator Davis, the chairman of the committee, said to-day that at to-morrow's meeting he would try to have action taken so that the treaty could be reported to the senate. Although it is not expected that the treaty will be disposed of at this session, the impression among advocates of annexation that the situation demands immediate action may result in causing the matter to be taken up at once.

   This impression, however, is not borne out by the attitude of Japan, as officially expressed in her notice on the subject. These notes have been of a uniformly temperate tone. Japan has given positive assurances that she has no designs on the Pacific republic.

   President McKinley told the members of the cabinet at to-day's meeting that he was not alarmed. The situation was talked over by the President and cabinet. It is said that the intention to send the battle ship Oregon to Honolulu was the principal feature of the conversation, and the reasons for assigning such a large vessel to Hawaiian waters were explained for the benefit of those cabinet officers who knew nothing about the matter. The friendly feeling which has characterized Japan's relations with the United States is shared by the present Tokio ministry. All the correspondence with the State department about Hawaii has shown a desire to maintain those relations even at great cost to Japanese pride. The correspondence between the Tokio and Honolulu governments over the immigration question which has been furnished the State department also indicates that Japan hopes for a settlement of its claims on a peaceable basis.

   WASHINGTON, July 13—The President and cabinet talked about Hawaii and Japan at their regular meeting to-day. The decision to send the battleship Oregon to Honolulu was indorsed as a good move, but the President said he was not at all alarmed at the protest made by Japan against Hawaiian annexation.

AMERICAN KILLED

By Spanish Soldiers—Discovered He Was an American.

   HAVANA, via KEY WEST, July 13.—Col. Charles Gordon, a well-known American, who served in the Cuban army and was in high favor with Gen. Gomez on account of his intelligence and bravery, has been assassinated by the Spaniards in the same manner that Charles Govin was murdered last year in the province of Havana. Govin and Gordon landed together in Cuba in the same expedition early in 1896. A few days ago Gordon accompanied a band of Cubans who were sent under Col. Aulet to attack the town of Ciego Montero, near the city of Cienfuegos. A brave Cuban officer and an intimate friend of Gordon, Gustavo Menocal, was also one of the party. As soon as the attack began the Spanish guerrillas of Cartagena, 200 strong, commanded by Maj. Braulio Coleron, arrived and overpowered the insurgents.

   Menocal and Aulet succeeded in making their escape. Menocal was pursued to the Damuji river, which he crossed, and arrived safely at a strong Cuban camp. But Gordon, surrounded by 100 Spaniards, surrendered and gave his name and nationality.

   When Braulio Coleron learned that the prisoner was an American he said to his men: "Kill him immediately. If we let him go to Havana, Lee will claim him."

   Gordon was hacked to pieces with machetes, and two other prisoners were also slain.

STILL IN SECOND PLACE.

Cortland Ball Team Won Four Games Last Week, Lost Two This Week.

   Saturday the Cortland team were out in fine form. Manager Gear has signed Meara and Dextraze for left and right field. The latter is captain of the team since Berger's release. O'Neill is now behind the bat and his work there is very satisfactory. The new men materially strengthen the team as both are good with the stick. Tessie, a pitcher who came here with Palmyra, was also signed by Manager Gear.

   Palmyra played here Saturday and the way they were done up by the home team was very pleasing to the fans. Friel in the box played his usual game and his support was good. Dexter umpired the first three innings and then "Cyclone" Ryan. Palmyra's first baseman kicked because Dexter would not allow interference in base running. Tessie umpired the rest of the game. Bott was knocked out of the box by Cortland in the third inning. The final score was 13 to 4.

   At a league meeting Sunday it was voted to allow the transfer of the Batavia franchice [sic] to a new management providing old debts be paid. Umpire's salaries were raised to $6, $9 for a double bill and $3 in case of rain. The league is now very strong. Lyons, Canandaigua and Batavia have increased backing and are being strengthened.

   Monday the Cortland team went to Canandaigua but rain prevented a game.

   Tuesday Cortland played at Palmyra. It was one of the best games ever seen there, but our team lost the game on errors which, though few in number, were costly. Score 3 to 0.

   Wednesday we again met defeat at Batavia. Since reorganization that team has been much strengthened. It was a good exhibition of base ball and we made more hits than the home team. Tessie, our new pitcher was in [for] the first inning and they made seven scores, a lead we could not overcome. Friel was in for two innings and Stout finished the game for us. Score 11 to 6.

   Cortland and Auburn were playing a double bill at the Fair grounds [sic] when we went to press yesterday afternoon.

   Canandaigua will play here Saturday and Monday.

   Last Thursday Auburn defeated Lyons at Auburn in a good game, 6 to 5. The same day Batavia won her eighth game in the pennant race, Canandaigua was the opposing team and the score 7 to 5.

   Friday the Auburn-Canandaigua game was postponed on account of rain. Palmyra played at Lyons and was too much for the home team, 5 to 3.

   Saturday Canandaigua played at Auburn and won a game by hard hitting, 12 to 10. Lyons was at Batavia and one of the best games of the season was put up, Lyons winning 4 to 2.

   Monday the only game was at Batavia with Palmyra. The reorganized Batavia team had a cinch. Bott in Palmyra's box was touched for eighteen hits. Score 20 to 14.

   Tuesday Auburn shut out Lyon 8 to 0 and on Wednesday repeated the whitewash, 9 to 0. Canandaigua defeated Palmyra 11 to 2 on Wednesday.

   Standing of the clubs Wednesday evening:

Russell Sage.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.

Mr. Russell Sage on Business and the Miners' Strike.

   Mr. Russell Sage has been reported as holding very optimistic views on the immediate future of business conditions, but it would seem that he has been misrepresented. A representative of the New York Times called on Mr. Sage last week and reports Mr. Sage as saying in part:

   "I would like to take a confident view of the immediate business situation, would like to be able to say that I see good reasons for expecting large increases in traffic for our railroads and profits for everybody. But, as a matter of fact, I do not yet see such indications. The country has been very sick; it is not yet well. We are better, and rejuvenation is going to come along n natural ways, but not in any other way than naturally. The man with a fever does not become an athlete over night.

   "I have been paying pretty close attention to trade conditions, which have finally resulted in the coal strike now extending over so great a territory, from Pennsylvania and Ohio south. To me this seems a much graver matter than Wall Street popularly considers it. If the strike ends promptly, if there shall at once be a mutually satisfactory adjustment, I should regard that result as very greatly favorable, disposing as it would of a grave feature in the business situation. Unfortunately, I see no indications, however, of any such early settlement.

   "There is bitterness back of this strike; there are miseries among the workmen; there are bad business results staring the employers in the face; from any standpoint the status is bad.

   "And we might as well look squarely in the face facts which this strike outbreak emphasizes. There is a great big insurmountable obstacle to prosperity for some of our working people. The power of production is far outrunning the power of consumption. The law of supply and demand is just as active and just as severe as ever it was. There is no dodging it. And the poor people of our country are unfortunate victims of trade conditions which year by year have been growing more and more stringent. The bituminous coal trade is a case in point; not an exceptional one, however, but fairly representative. There is more coal and more men to dig coal than the markets call for. Owners of this coal, actively competing with one another, glut the markets, and thus prices fall. The owners of the coal suffer, but those who most keenly feel the suffering, in this case as in every other case, are the poor fellows whose livelihood depends upon working regularly at some price. Sympathies awaken at the dreadful penalties inflicted by this unswerving law of supply and demand—but still the record stays unchanging and unchangeable.

   "Year by year labor-saving machinery comes in to minimize the need for man's work and year by year trade demands grow comparatively smaller and smaller beside the vast increases in supply. Our workmen have endeavored as best they could to keep themselves in front. They have been resolute and earnest in seeking solutions for the vital problem. Strike after strike has availed them nothing; the panacea of lessened hours for a day's work is a corrective but for a little time, and insignificant.

   "In my youth I worked sixteen hours a day and there was a feeling that the millennium must be close approaching when finally we were able to get the workday hours down to twelve. Then there came the relief of a ten-hour day, and later eight hours was in demand. It will be but a little time, I anticipate, before there will be an issue for six hours, and the end of it all will be so far as curing the evils of the labor situation may be concerned, practically nothing. The problem is old, and there is no solution for it so long as production is beyond consumption. We might as well face the facts, and the facts are precisely as I state them."

The Women's Home.

   On Thursday, July 8th, the Fairchild property on Port Watson St., was transferred to Mrs. E. M. Moore for a Women's Home. Mrs. Moore has for some little time conducted a home for elderly ladies on a farm some little distance west of this village. The advantage of this quiet retreat for elderly ladies seems to have been so well appreciated that the capacity was soon outgrown, and recently accommodations for two more inmates were added. It almost immediately became apparent that this small addition would not meet the demands made upon the Home, and Mrs. Moore began looking about for larger and more suitable quarters, and the advantages, attractions and better accommodations offered by the Fairchild property attracted her attention.

   Negotiations were at once commenced, and on July 8th Mrs. Moore acquired the title to this property, which is located on Port Watson-st., on the north side and next to the Tioughnioga river. There is about nine acres of land belonging to this property which can be made to furnish about all of the vegetables, garden fruits &c., needed by the institution, and as the house, built many years ago for a hotel, is large and commodious it will afford accommodations for about twenty ladies. The price paid for the property, we understand, was $4,000. Mrs. Moore is intending to make quite extensive repairs, and will build a broad veranda on three sides of the house and hopes to have the Home ready for occupancy by Sept. 1st.

   The founding of this benevolent Home in our village [Cortland] will afford an opportunity for our citizens to very materially aid a most worthy institution, as Mrs. Moore has planned to place it in control of a committee, or board of managers, to be composed of two ladies from each of the churches in town and to have the institution incorporated at once. The Women's Home when located in its new quarters, will be for all women regardless of age who are in poor health and with limited means, providing a home where they may have proper and kindly care.

   More furniture will be needed than Mrs. Moore now has to furnish the new Home, and donations of furniture will be most thankfully received, and as soon as incorporated, subscriptions toward paying for the Home will be most acceptable, and we understand that Mrs. Edmund Potter of Port Watson-st., has promised to start the subscription with a donation of $25.00.

   Anyone desiring further information in regard to the Home may obtain it by addressing Mrs. E. M. Moore, Dr. W. J. Moore or J. A. Jayne.

HERE AND THERE.

   Buffalo Bill shows in Syracuse next Thursday.

   The annual picnic of St. Mary's church will be held at Cortland park to-morrow.

   Take in the A. O. H. excursion to the Thousand Islands next week Saturday, July 24.

   An office to rent on second floor of DEMOCRAT building. Steam heated and good light.

   The St. Vitus dancing club held another of their series of parties at the park last Friday eight.

   The stockholders of the Cortland & Homer Traction Co. will hold their annual meeting next Tuesday.

   A large crowd went with the excursion of the Congregational church and Sunday school to Sylvan Beach Wednesday.

   Miss Laura Strowbridge gave a party to a number of her young friends Wednesday afternoon in honor of her ninth birthday.

   Entertainments at Cortland Park are now free to all, and the company this week is a fine one. Go and see the trick donkey. He does everything but talk.

   Carl Beard, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Beard, broke one of the bones of his left arm Tuesday afternoon by a fall while at play. Dr. Sornberger attended him.

   Bingham Bros. & Miller have just added a fine three deck, eight foot Porter Farley show case for neckwear and the like to their gents furnishing department.

   Mr. Charles W. Collins of Cortland and Miss Arabella Barnes were married at the home of the bride in Kings' Ferry, Wednesday, in the presence of a few relatives only.

   A colored camp meeting is being held at the Floral Trout Park. Presiding

Elder Wheeler is in charge. It is hoped to raise money enough to build a house of worship for Zion M. E. church.

   The junior department of the Y. M. C. A. will camp on Cazenovia lake for two weeks in the latter part of August. The secretary will have charge of the camp which will accommodate twenty boys.

   Alvin Gay, for many years proprietor of the lake House at Little York has sold the property to John Raymond of New York, who takes possession next week. Mr. Gay moves to Homer to reside.

   The centennial celebration at Dryden Saturday was a grand success. Judge J. E. Eggleston was the principal speaker of the day. A large crowd was in attendance and all were amply repaid for going.

   Cortland county grangers have been invited to join those of Madison county in a picnic at Sylvan Beach Saturday, July 24. W. M. Brigham of the national grange and Governor Black will be the speakers.

   Notice is given in another column of a cheap excursion by the Lehigh to Atlantic City and Cape May. The round trip from Cortland only $7.85. This is surely a rare opportunity for a ten days' outing at an extremely low price.

   Mr. Frank Doughty and Miss Daisy Fuller were married at the home of Mr. and Mrs. DeLancy Fuller Wednesday afternoon by Rev. John T. Stone. After a short wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Doughty will reside in Cortland.

   The ladies of the Homer-ave. Epworth league gave an ice cream social on Wednesday evening which, though not largely attended, was enjoyed by all present. The "mystery room" was a source of much amusement and some profit.

   Mr. and Mrs. Alameron Loucks celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage at their home last Saturday. They were presented with an elegant silver tea service by a number of friends who had been invited to celebrate with them.

   Cortland capitalists are becoming interested in the New Orange Industrial Association which owns a large tract of land only twelve miles from New York. A committee has been appointed to visit the tract and report before money is invested.

   Mrs. Charles Hicks of East Homer, through her attorney, on Tuesday began an action in the supreme court for an absolute divorce on the grounds of principal cause. Mrs. Hicks formerly resided in Cortland. They were married in 1881.

   Harry Duncan, who resides on Union-st., caught his right hand in a back gear press at the Forging shops last Saturday. He was sent to Dr. Higgins office and it was found necessary to amputate the third finger entirely and the little finger down to the first joint.

   Mr. Abram F Lewis died Monday morning at the residence of his nephew, L. Huguenin, 187 Port Watson-st. He was 76 years, 3 months and 25 days of age. Deceased was a veteran of the Civil war, serving in Co. C., 153 N. Y. Volunteers. The funeral was held Wednesday morning and the remains were taken to Tribe Hill.

   Mr. Lucius Townley died Sunday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. J. Warfield, 137 Groton-ave., at the age of 75 years, 5 months and 4 days, after a lingering illness of several months. The funeral services were held at the house Tuesday morning and burial was at McLean.

   Adjutant James Allen, in charge of the Binghamton section of the Salvation Army, will be in Cortland to take charge of a grand enrollment of soldiers at the army hall on Friday evening, July 16th. The Adjutant is counted a wonderful speaker and a very powerful man, you should not miss it.

   Sheriff Hilsinger has levied upon property of the Cortland and Homer Traction Co. upon two executions in the case of Anna V. Ray against the Traction Co. in accordance with the decision of the appellate division affirming a judgment of the lower court as mentioned in our last week's issue.

   The Groton Journal of last week says that parties from Moravia have been there endeavoring to secure a franchise to run an electric line through that village and claims that a company has been organized in Moravia for the purpose of running an electric car line from Moravia to Cortland via of Locke and Groton. Put it through gentlemen. All aboard for Groton and Moravia.

   Several promotions have recently been made among the clerks of the National bank of Cortland. Howard J. Drake resigned the position of general ledger clerk to become bookkeeper for the Cortland Carriage Goods Co. and Clayton E. Mudge, late correspondence clerk, took Mr. Drake's former position in the bank. James E. Corwin, a recent graduate of Joiner's college, is serving as correspondence clerk.

   Wm. Parker and family have resided at the corner of Duane and Squires-sts. since coming to Cortland. Neighbors say there has been much ill treatment of the wife by her husband. At any rate she loaded her part of the household goods on a Lehigh Valley car Tuesday and shipped them to Rochester going there herself, with her children. Mr. Parker was unaware of the move until he returned from work that night. He denies all allegations of ill treatment.

   Rev. John Kenyon will be ordained as a minister of the gospel and installed as pastor of the First Universalist church on Wednesday and Thursday next. The following are among the clergymen who will be present: Revs. F. W. Betts, of Syracuse; A. B. Curtis, Ph. D., of Binghamton; H. W. Carr, formerly pastor here and H. H. Graves of McLean. The work of Mr. Kenyon has been most acceptable since he came to Cortland and it is the unanimous wish of all of his parishioners that he be installed as permanent pastor.

   On complaint of Frank Halley, Chas. Wilkinson, who has gathered paper and rags about town with a wheel barrow for a year or so, was arrested and taken before Justice Mellon last Friday. The warrant charged him with assault without provocation, in attempting to use an axe and in using his fists on Halley. Wilkinson did not deny the charge and was given 59 days in jail. Sentence was suspended on his promise to leave town. Later a petition signed by a number of business men was presented the Justice, asking to have the entire sentence suspended, as Wilkinson keeps their alleys and back doors cleaned of papers and rags.