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| Albert Leo Stevens in balloon basket. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Saturday, September 25, 1897.
AERONAUT IN
DANGER.
Balloon Exploded at a Height of 7,000 Feet.
HANGING BY HIS TOES TO A BAR.
Swiftly
Seizing the Parachute He Sprang Out Into the Air—Parachute Worked Right and the
Professor Escaped Injury—People Horror Stricken.
NIAGARA FALLS, Sept. 25.—The balloon
ascension and parachute drop exhibition of Professor Stevens came near having a
fatal termination.
When the balloon was up to about 7,000 feet
an explosion was heard, and instantly the mammoth sack began to collapse. Professor
Stevens was then dangling by his toes from the trapeze beneath the balloon.
Before
he fairly knew the cause of the noise above his head, he was descending head
first. The collapsed balloon, helped along by his weight, was coming down as
nearly as rapidly as it went up. The thousands of persons looking on stepped
back in horror at the beginning of what they thought must be a tragedy
Professor Stevens pulled himself to the trapeze
in a second. In another second his right hand clasped the rope that unfastened
his parachute. He was coming down swiftly. One jerk at the rope disengaged his
parachute, and he made a leap with it to the right of the bulky sack above him.
Its folds spread and he stopped.
The collapsed balloon sped past him, missing
him by inches, and crashed to the ground amid the throng.
From the bar of his parachute, Professor
Stevens waved his hand to the admiring crowd, and in two minutes he had landed
safely within 100 feet of the place from which he started.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Dr. Wyman's advices
include the following:
At the Fontainbleau camp of detention, 88
persons were admitted and 11 discharged; total now in camp, 432.
At Mobile there were three new cases and
three deaths; under treatment, 16. New cases at Edwards, 29; total to date, 133.
From Atlanta, Surgeon Sawtelle reports as follows:
"Case reported doing well, no other case in town and no suspected ones on
in-coming trains."
From Nashville, the following telegram signed
by the president and secretary of the board of health was received:
"At a call meeting of the state board
of health all quarantine orders heretofore issued were rescinded. Parties
coming from infected districts will be allowed to stop at any and all points in
Tennessee, the western division of the state excepted."
New
Cases at Scranton, Miss.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 25.—At Ocean Springs
there are 11 old cases of fever under treatment and one new case reported. No
deaths.
Scranton reports three new cases, with no
deaths there or in Pascagoula.
At Biloxi Mayor H. L. Howard has been taken
down with the fever. He is overworked, having devoted his energies to fighting
the fever.
Acting Mayor Sweetman is also sick.
The reports from the sick are all favorable.
Board of health there reports: Yellow fever cases to date, 75; under treatment,
42; total deaths to date, 4; new cases reported, 15.
Edwards
Closely Guarded.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Surgeon Geddings reported
from Jackson, Miss., that the town of Edwards had been surrounded by a cordon
and that the fever cases in the country were guarded.
In another dispatch he states that traffic
has been resumed on the Alabama and Vicksburg road from Jackson to Meridian,
and that two medical inspectors have been assigned to the trains.
Midwife
Charged With Murder.
PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 24.—Mrs. Amelia Forbes,
a midwife on Genesee street, and Lizzie Dale, a girl who lived with her, were
arrested charged with having caused the death of Sarah Brown. The Brown girl,
who was unmarried and lived in New York, came to Paterson several days ago to
visit her sister, Mrs. Walter Brown, the wife of a carpenter. She told her
sister that she was in trouble, and then went to Mrs. Forbes, who is alleged to
have treated her. The girl returned to her sister's home, where she died. The
prisoners were committed to jail. The dead girl was 24 years old.
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| Cortland Normal School. |
NATURAL
GAS.
Some of
the Advantages That Would Follow Its Discovery.
To the Editor of The STANDARD:
SIR—I was very much interested in the item
which appeared your paper recently in reference to putting down a test well in
Cortland for natural gas. I believe this to be a move in the right direction for
many reasons.
First, because I believe and have done so
for years that the Trenton rock formation underlies this section of the state, and
the fact that gas and oil have shown themselves on the surface in various places
in this locality confirms that belief. Also, the fact that gas has been found
north, northeast, west and southwest of us leaves but little uncertainty in the
matter.
What would a good find of natural gas mean to
Cortland and to the people of Cortland? The first thought is that it would make
cheap light, and cheap fuel. That is true, and that means something to a
village like this where over 20,000 tons of hard coal are used annually besides
all the steam coal used in our factories and Normal school, making a total
annual coat of about $150,000. To save one-half of this amount would mean a
saving of considerable more than our corporation taxes annually, and there is
no reason to believe that natural gas would cost more than one-fourth as much
for fuel as coal, besides being so much easier, cleaner and nicer to use. And
when you think of this enormous amount of money to be saved to the people of
Cortland every year and then consider that this is only a small part of the
benefit to be derived from the use of natural gas you can very easily draw your
own conclusions as to whether it would pay to investigate the matter as to
whether natural gas is within easy reach.
Cortland is not a commercial or seaport town
and its financial prosperity must depend upon its manufacturing. With natural
gas for fuel our manufacturers would be better able to put their products upon
the markets of the world in competition with other manufacturers and could sell
more of their wares for that reason. Other manufacturers would locate here,
bringing in their wealth and giving employment, not only to our own people, but
to others who would necessarily have to find homes in our midst and the result
would be, according to the rule of demand and supply, that real estate here
would begin to advance, and capitalists, ever ready to purchase on a rising
market, would be on hand.
Our population would nearly or quite double
as soon as we can furnish work for two thousand more men than are now employed,
because families have on an average four or five members, and many would come
to a growing town, who do not come for work, but to invest their money and to live
in a city that is alive and has advantages second to no other in this part of the
state. Under such circumstances we might reasonably expect to see property values
in Cortland advance far beyond our expectations.
Do not call this a picture overdrawn, for
hundreds of cases can be cited where property values have been doubled in a very
short time because of a little lift, just at the proper time, when it was
needed and other conditions were favorable. And certainly with the conditions existing
here, with our natural and acquired facilities and surroundings, we may
naturally expect similar results. And a rise in value of 25 per cent on the
real estate in this village means $1,250,000, besides the direct benefit to be
gained by the intrinsic value of the gas.
All this and doubtless very much more may he
saved or gained by us if natural gas is within easy reach of us, and we are
willing to help ourselves to it at an expense of a few paltry dollars each or
if a few of our citizens, who are most interested or more public spirited and
able, would put in one hundred or so dollars each and put down a well which
would be their own private property whatever they might find.
I have been told that one firm here have
been considering the matter of putting down a well at their own expense,
believing that it would be an investment that would pay them back many fold.
The probabilities are certainly reasonable and
the possibilities mighty, even to contemplate.
L. M. LOOPE,
Cortland, Sept. 24, 1897.
DR. S.
S. NIVISON
This
Season at Dryden—Plans for Next Year.
Dr. S. S. Nivison, so well known to Cortland
people, will close her summer sanitarium at Dryden early next month and reopen
the winter sanitarium at Hammonton. N. J. The season just finishing at Dryden
has been a fair one, considering the times, but the doctor is planning to open next
year on June 1, and do a rushing full house business.
In connection with the winter sanitarium at
Hammonton Dr. Nivison will this year open an office at the Park-ave. hotel for
professional work this winter.
CANANDAIGUA
GETS IT.
Palmyra's
Claims to the State League Pennant Thrown Out.
At a meeting of the directors of the New
York State Baseball league held in
Auburn
last night the pennant for the season just ended was awarded Canandaigua. When the
season closed Sept. 11, Palmyra claimed a tie with Canandaigua for first place,
basing the claim on the ground that Canandaigua played one more game than was
necessary.
Yesterday the directors went over all the
games played in the league and found that Canandaigua had not exceeded her number.
BEFORE
THE PRESIDENT.
Harry
Hitchcock Exhibited his Skill in Bicycle Riding.
Harry Hitchcock of Cortland, who is
traveling with the Maude Hillman company has been spending this week in North
Adams, Mass., where the company was playing an engagement. On Wednesday, Sept.
22, the Hoosac Valley Agricultural society had as its guests of honor at its
annual fair President McKinley, Secretary of War Alger, Secretary of the Navy
Long, Attorney General McKenna, the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and
others, several of whom made addresses.
Harry Hitchcock was invited by the management
of the fair to give an exhibition bicycle trick riding before these gentlemen
and the attendants of the fair in general, and did so.
The Maude Hillman company is playing to
large houses. Thursday night it is reported that over 200 people were turned
away from the largest theatre in Northampton for lack of seats and standing
room.
BREVITIES.
—The work was begun this morning of painting
the Cortland House.
—The Normal faculty will tender a reception to-night
to the Normal and Academic students in the school parlors.
—New display advertisements to-day are—A. S.
Burgess. Our Clothing, page 8; C. F. Brown, Have One With Us, page 7.
—The matinee of "O'Hooligan's
Wedding" at the Opera House this afternoon was declared off. The company
will play to-night.
—As the Marathon football eleven failed to
put in an appearance to-day the Normals arranged for a game this afternoon with
the Homer team.
—Mrs. J. W. Angell is this afternoon entertaining
a number of lady friends at a whist party given in honor of her guest, Miss
Flossie Dennis of Elmira.
—Dr. F. J. Cheney informs us that the
registration at the Normal is climbing way beyond what it was at the end of last
term and that still more students are seeking admission.
—The Gamma Sigma and Clionian fraternities
are arranging for a literary and musical entertainment, which will be concluded
with a farce, to be given in Normal hall Saturday evening, Oct. 2.
—Free dancing at the park to-night. Music by
McDermott's orchestra. This will be the last free dancing of the season as the
regular park car service will be discontinued after to-day. If the weather is
favorable to-morrow the cars will run in the afternoon.
—At the meeting of the Cortland fire
department last night it was decided to accept the invitation of the Homer fire
department to attend the annual parade and field day of the latter next
Thursday. The chief and the secretary were appointed a committee to arrange for
music.
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