GRAND ARMY REPUBLIC

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, Aug. 23, 1897.

GRAND ARMY REPUBLIC.

Thirty-First Encampment in Full Swing.

CITY BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED.

Camp Jewett Visited by Many People and Veterans Pleased With Their Quarters—Arrival of General Clarkson and Governor Black.

   BUFFALO, Aug. 23.—"There will be a hot time in the old town this week."

   The 31st national encampment Grand Army of the Republic is on. The streets are filled with veterans and visitors, the air with flying flags and bunting and every known device of decoration has been called into use in honor of the great event.

   The trains began unloading the advance delegations on Saturday and ever since each incoming train has swelled the number and still they come.

   Saturday eve witnessed the streets brilliantly illuminated for the first time.

There are many notable displays of electricity. The grand G. A. R. arch on Main street facing Niagara being the principal point of interest.

   Everything possible is being done to insure comfort and convenience to visitors. About 600 men have been engaged to act as guides to the incoming guests. A large force is stationed at each depot and direct the strangers where they can obtain lodgings.

   Headquarters in the Ellicott square building is a busy place. Information booths are scattered all over the city, those in charge readily directing each and everyone wherever they wish to go.

   Camp Jewett at the lake front is an object of interest to all, and is visited daily by thousands of curious spectators. It is estimated that 70,000 viewed the camp Saturday.

   The camp is really a fine place, situated as it is on the long level lawn. There are 1,350 tents, which will accommodate 10,000 easily, and the veterans who have occupied their quarters there speak highly in praise of the camp, saying the accommodations are better than at any previous encampment.

   Everything needful is there; a hospital tent, beer hall and dining hall. In fact, almost anything can be obtained without leaving the grounds.

   A tent capable of containing 5,000 people has been erected for meetings and reunion purposes.

   General Clarkson arrived this morning, being met by a large delegation and was escorted to headquarters.

   Governor Frank Black was an arrival today and was accorded a most enthusiastic reception.

   There was considerable disappointment over the non-arrival of President McKinley, but a telegram stated that he would come Tuesday. He will be quartered at the Hotel Niagara on Porter avenue.

   The formal opening of Camp Jewett occurred today, and the camp was formally turned over to the old soldiers.

   You can attend a band concert in almost any part of Main street or the west side. Scinta's Italian band was stationed at Ellicott square, the Seventy-fourth at Erie and Main streets, and the Sixty-fifth at Delaware park. Besides these are a few at the camp and others continually on the march with the reception committee.

   This evening will occur the civic parade and it is estimated that 20,000 will be in line.

   The old veterans are in their glory. Old acquaintances are being renewed, battles fought again, stories told of by gone days and events and the glad hand extended to all.

   The streets are crowded, many being obliged to leave the sidewalk and take to the road, but thanks to the splendid asphalt pavement that covers this city, that is no handicap.

   The police compliment the crowds by saying it is the best-natured and most easily handled of any heretofore.

   There is a merry battle waging for the next encampment. San Francisco, Denver, Omaha and Cincinnati are the prominent candidates in the field.

GONE TO BUFFALO.

Many Veterans Start for the National Encampment.

   There was quite an exodus from Cortland this morning of the Grand Army men and many others who have gone to Buffalo to attend the National G. A. R. encampment. The Lehigh Valley ran a through special train which started from the Cortland station at 8:30 o'clock, in charge of Conductor P. T. Carmody.

   Those who went on this train were M. E. Corwin, L. M. Alexander, I. M. Alexander, P. H. Lyon, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Hoxie, George Buley, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Edgcomb, Samuel Williams of South Cortland, George W. Roe, David Dodge, W. P. Henry of McGrawville, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Mallery and daughter, John Maybury and James T. Steele of Preble, Charles Gregg, I. N. Sandwick, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Durkee, Hiram Maltbie of Virgil, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hill, G. W. Wolcott, E. E. Harvey of McGrawville, Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Smith of Cincinnatus, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Ashbey, Dr. H. C. Hendrick and Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Chaffee of McGrawville, H. T. Bushnell, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. A. Sager, DeForest Hakes, H. R. Burrows, James Wilson of Willet, C. J. and C. L. Harris of Willet, H. B. Greenman, R. J. Lucas, J. R. Birdlebough, Mrs. B. T. Wright, Martin Edgcomb, David Colledge, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Kellogg, Albert Allen, Lewis S. Hayes and son, L. S. Hayes, Jr., E. D. Phillips, R. Bushby and B. R. Carpenter.

   The train ran to Van Etten and then to Ithaca, where the Tompkins county battalion was taken on, also the veterans from Truxton, Cuyler and DeRuyter, who went to Ithaca on the regular train passing Cortland at 8:52, and crossed the city by electric cars.

SETTLEMENT WITH SPAIN.

Convention Will Probably Be Held Similar to That of 1871.

   WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—It is probable that a convention will be negotiated between Spain and the United States for the settlement of all claims on account of the Cuban trouble by the claim commission, similar to that appointed in 1871, which settled the claims of citizens of both countries after the insurrection of that time.

   No formal presentation of United States claims has been made to the Spanish government by the secretary of state, although as soon as they are filed at the state department, a notice of such filing will be presented to the foreign office at Madrid. The administration is resolved to follow the precedent in this matter and await the cessation of hostilities and, meanwhile, to negotiate a treaty, or convention for the appointment of a claim commission.

   General Woodford, in his instructions, was directed to negotiate such a convention as was arranged by General Sickles with the Spanish government in 1871.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

John Brown and His Critics.

   Some of the Southern papers are not pleased with the visit of President McKinley to the grave of John Brown. Hoke Smith's paper in Atlanta says that John Brown was "a depraved lawbreaker," a "desperate villain" and a "convicted traitor."

   John Brown was a law-breaker, but he was not depraved. On the contrary he had the loftiest sense of right and justice. It was that which led him to defy the public opinion of his age and country respecting slavery and set at defiance the laws and authority of the government.  Brown was neither "desperate" or a "villain."' He was a good man, though not well-balanced in judgment, and he was as brave as a lion.

   Finally the charge that he was a "convicted traitor" comes with an ill-grace from any who actively or passively within two years were engaged in armed rebellion against the government of the United States. Brown was not a citizen of Virginia, which tried, convicted and executed him; so on the theory of allegiance to state sovereignty he could not be a "convicted traitor," but he was a citizen of the United States, and in his death he paid the penalty of the laws he had defied and violated. His memory is reverenced, not for his reckless act in instituting a rebellion against the government with a small squad of followers, but because of his heroic character, his unselfish devotion to the cause of the oppressed, and his splendid moral and physical courage. Those who are unable to discern those qualities in John Brown's career are welcome to stay away from his tomb in the Adirondacks,  but those who recognize and appreciate his real manliness—though it was not unaccompanied by faults and defects—whether they are presidents or private citizens, have the right to visit his grave and pay their tribute of respect to the good there was in the man and in his life.

   ◘ Lord Kelvin is to be congratulated on his latest achievement, and civilization is to be congratulated on possessing Lord Kelvin. He has invented and put into successful operation at Shoreditch, England, a garbage crematory. Its action is mainly automatic by means of electricity. The lifting and emptying are done by automatic electric hoists which deposit the garbage into cells where it is burned. The heat of the furnaces is intense, and it is increased by forced draft. This is perhaps the most interesting part of the process. The air to produce the tremendous draft in the furnaces is drawn by pumping machines from the city sewers. Thus the sewers are ventilated and their noxious gases destroyed. The heat produced incidentally is used for making steam, and that runs dynamos for any firm wanting manufacturing power.

AT ELYSIUM PARK.

Many Coming and Going—Doings of the Cottagers.

   Mr. F. M. Beardsley of Marathon spent Sunday with his family at their cottage at Elysium park. Yesterday they entertained Misses Alice, Ella, Grace and Mabel Jones of Marathon and Mrs. Lyons and daughter Lena of Cuba, N. Y. Mr. Beardsley returned home this morning and was followed this afternoon by Mrs. Beardsley, daughter Leda and son Myron.

   Mr. R. J. Latimer entertained his brother and family from Cortland Sunday.

   Mr. James Hamlin is spending the week at the Latimer cottage.

   Mr. McCormick of Binghamton is spending the day at the cottage of Mrs.

Frank Keeler.

   Mrs. Frank Weyant, Misses Lilia and Kittie Deusenbary and Bessie Brown of Cortland, and Mr. J. Swartz of Philadelphia left the park on Saturday.

ASSEMBLY PARK.

Rev. E. B. Gearhart Preaches an Able Sermon at Tully.

   ASSEMBLY PARK, Tully, N. Y., Aug. 23.—The program continues with unabated interest. The addresses of John R. Clarke, the famous lecturer, on Saturday and Sunday were enthusiastically received.

   On Sunday morning Rev. E. B. Gearhart of the Homer-ave. M. E. church, Cortland, preached a very fine sermon upon "The Resurrection of Christ." The certainty of the death of Jesus, as absolute a certainty of his being raised from the dead, the pivotal place of the resurrection as an authenticating fact in the Christian system, and the results flowing from it were so set before us as to win econiums from all. Indeed, the lecturer mentioned above, publicly said that it was the best defense of the resurrection that he had ever listened to.

Cortland County's Claim.

   ALBANY, Aug. 23.—Under special jurisdiction conferred by Chapter 481 of the Laws of 1896 upon the court of claims to hear, audit and determine the claims of the several counties against the state for the value of the county insane asylum, the county of Cortland to-day filed its claim against the state for the value of the Cortland county insane asylum. The value placed is $9,058.70 and interest from July 22, 1891.

DWELLING HOUSE BURNED.

Loss on Building $2,500, Insurance $2,000—Loss on Furniture Also.

   At about 5:30 o'clock Sunday morning an alarm of fire was rung in from box 134 at the corner of Tompkins and Owego-sts. The two-story frame dwelling house of B. H. Bosworth at 100 Tompkins-st. was on fire. Mr. Bosworth has charge of the night cafe on Main-st. and never reaches home until 3 o'clock in the morning. On Saturday night he left the cafe in charge of a friend and went to Binghamton on the 11:20 train, so that Mrs. Bosworth and her two little daughters were alone in the house.

   It is the custom every night to boil a ham on the kitchen stove which Mr.

Bosworth uses the next night in his cafe. A coal fire is run as low as is possible and usually the ham which is put on in the evening is done when Mr. Bosworth reaches home at 3 o'clock and he takes it from the stove. That night Mrs. Bosworth got up at a little after 3 o'clock and removed the kettle. The fire in the stove was then going very low and the drafts were all shut off. She did not disturb the fire. A severe thunderstorm occurred at about that time.

   Shortly after 5 o'clock Mrs. Bosworth was awakened by what sounded to her like the dripping of water. She listened a moment and concluded that the roof was leaking and that water from the shower was getting into the house. Following the sound she went up stairs and entered a room at the rear of the house. To her horror she discovered flames in the ceiling, but no smoke and that the sound she heard was the crackling of the fire. She thought that a pail of water would extinguish the fire and ran down to the kitchen for it, and dashed it on the blaze. A second pail was secured, but by this time the smoke was rolling out and the flames were increasing and she saw that the fire was past her control. Hastening to the front room she wakened her daughters and told them to take their clothing downstairs and dress as quickly as possible. Slipping on a wrapper and slippers she ran to the next house and gave the alarm. This is a double house occupied by Fred Christenat and Arthur Williams.

   The latter hurried to ring in an alarm, but was delayed by his failure to find a key to the alarm box. He called at three houses before he got the right one. Meanwhile Mr. Christenat and other neighbors who quickly arrived began to carry out the furniture. Nearly everything was saved from the first floor, but nothing from upstairs.

   The fire department responded promptly and soon had water, but the house burned like tinder and, though the greater part of the frame is standing, it is nothing but a shell, and the loss on the building is almost total, as it is believed that what remains will have to be torn down.

   Mr. Bosworth estimates his loss at $2,500, and says that at the time the house was erected it must have cost $3,000 to put it up, but it could probably be replaced now for less money. He has an insurance upon it of $2,000 placed with Davis, Jenkins & Hakes. He has not yet had an opportunity of looking up the loss on the furniture and clothing, but it will be quite heavy. He has an insurance upon it, however, of $400, placed with the same agency.

   The cause of the fire is a mystery. There was no fire in the house except the coal fire in the kitchen stove. The stovepipe from this stove did not go near this room, and though the chimney did adjoin it an examination of it since shows that it is apparently perfect, and it is not believed that the little fire in the kitchen stove and that too of coal could have possibly had any connection with the burning of the house. Mr. Bosworth says he can form no other theory than that the house was struck by lightning in the shower which was just ceasing when the fire was discovered.

MANAGER SMITH RESIGNS.

Cortland Ball Team Did Well Under His Administration.

   Manager Otis C. Smith of the Cortland Baseball club has tendered his resignation to take effect at once, owing to the fact that he goes on the road early next week for a New York wallpaper house. G. J. Maycumber is the new manager and left this morning for Lyons with the team.

   Mr. Smith speaks with pride of his record as manager of the team. In the early part of the season, while he was manager, the team occupied second place in the league race, and when he took hold of it the second time the team was in fifth, but during his administration came up to third place. Of the last twelve games played, the team has won nine, and Mr. Smith is proud of this record, as he has reason to be.

Police Court.

   Three drunks and a pair of tramps were at the bar of justice in police court this morning. The tramps gave their residences as Binghamton and Greene and were each given suspended a sentence of ten days, and were told to shake Cortland dust from their feet, which they proceeded to do at once.

   George Doyle went to jail for ten days for being drunk, Henry Johnson, colored, will also spend fifteen days with Sheriff Hilsinger for the same offense, and William Ringer paid a fine of $5.

The Truxton Caucus.

   The Republicans of Truxton met in caucus Saturday night to choose delegates to the county convention. There was a contest between Otis D. Patrick of that town and Assemblyman F. P. Saunders for the election of a delegation favorable to their nomination for member of assembly. Ninety-five ballots were cast, of which sixty-four were for the following delegation favorable to Mr. Saunders: William M. Crandall, William Baldwin, William Young, A. E. Freeman, Charles Jarvis, Charles W. Beattie.

   The defeated ticket contained the following names and received thirty-one votes: F. L. Hilton, C. J. Bosworth, R. R. Stewart, M. H. Crosby, G. K. Atkinson and William Bell.

BREVITIES.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—A. S. Burgess, men's suits, page 8.

   —In police court this morning the case of The People against Fred Stout was adjourned for one week.

   —The walk at the driveway between the stores of Beard & Peck and J. A. Jayne was to-day repaired.

   —The case of Nichols vs. Jaquins is on trial before Justice Kelley and a jury to-day. James Dougherty is the attorney for the plaintiff and I. H. Palmer for the defendant.

   —Miss Adelaide Tiffany died at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at her residence in the Calvert block of Bright's disease at the age of 78 years. The date of the funeral has not been fixed, but burial will be made at McLean.

   —Round Island, including the Frontenac hotel at the Thousand Islands, which has been visited by many Cortland people, was sold at mortgage foreclosure on Saturday. The property was sold for $37,000 to Jacob Hays, holder of the second mortgage.

   —A meeting of the members of the board of trade of Cortland for the election of managers will be held at Fireman's hall Wednesday evening, Aug. 25, at 8 P. M. This will be a very important meeting and each member is earnestly requested to be present.

SINGLE FARE TO BUFFALO.

Lehigh Valley R. R. to Sell Reduced Rate Tickets to the National Encampment.

   Low excursion rates to Buffalo, account national encampment G. A. R. Single fare for the round trip. Tickets on sale at all Lehigh Valley ticket offices on Aug. 21, 22, 23 and 24, good for return leaving Buffalo on any day after Aug. 24 and up to and including Aug. 31. Extension of time until Sept. 20 may be secured by payment of 25 cents and deposit of ticket with joint agent at Buffalo. Reduced rate tickets for side trips to Niagara Falls (50 cents) and other points of interest, on sale at Buffalo during encampment.