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| Sick Ward, Charity Hospital, New Orleans. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Tuesday, September 21, 1897.
NEW CASES OF FEVER.
Doctor Was Too Slow In Reporting Them.
FOUR IN A BOARDING HOUSE.
Boarders
Had Several Days Start of the Board of Health and New Orleans
Is Excited
Over the Doctor's Carelessness—Some Leave the City.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 21.—Ten new cases of
yellow fever are reported, the largest number of any day since the outbreak. No
one has died.
The most sensational incident of the day was
the announcement from Dr. Joseph Holt, expressed to the board of health, that
he had discovered nine cases among his practice, the first of which had come
under his observation on Friday.
Immediately upon receipt of the news the
machinery of the board was placed in motion and inspectors were sent to various
houses where Dr. Holt reported sickness to exist. The places were all
disinfected and guards placed in front of them, but the board said it had very
little hope of the effectiveness of these measures, since all those who desired
were given an opportunity to escape from the infected houses.
One of the houses, where are four of the
patients, is a fashionable boarding house. The first case to develop in this
house was at 2:30 Saturday morning, and the other cases in the same place
Saturday afternoon.
Those living in the house, of whom there
were quite a number, knew of the existence of fever early Saturday morning and
therefore got out as fast as possible. Some of them moved their baggage on
Saturday and others on Sunday, while it is said some of the boarders took a
train and went to Atlanta.
Miss May Chinn died at Biloxi. All mails are
now being sent from the infected districts with as much regularity as possible
with the reduced railroad facilities.
Dr. Holt reported to the board of health
that all his cases were traceable to Ocean Springs, one of them having
contracted the fever through a letter written in a room where a child was sick
at Ocean Springs. The letter apparently had not been disinfected.
The public circulating library in New Orleans
was closed at the suggestion of the board of health.
Two private schools have refused to close in
accordance with the suggestion of the board of health, and will be proceeded against
legally.
Autumn
Weather at Mobile.
MOBILE, Ala., Sept. 21.—Sunday afternoon the
hot spell was broken by a rainstorm, which served also to cleanse the gutters
and improve the city's sanitary conditions. Now real autumn is experienced.
The report of the board of health is as follows:
One new case; no suspicious cases; no
deaths. The new patient is J. E. Bolton, living in the infected district.
Mississippi
Quarantines the Mails.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—The postoffice
department has received information that the Mississippi board of health has
quarantined all mails from the infected districts of that state, and refuse to
permit them to be dispatched to their destination, even if fumigated. Surgeon
General Wyman of the Marine hospital service will take action in the matter with
a view to raising the embargo so far as properly disinfected mail is concerned.
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Only Two
Cases at Cairo.
CAIRO, Sept. 21.—There have been no further
cases of yellow fever in this district. The two cases in the Marine hospital,
pronounced yellow fever in a mild form by Dr. Guiteras and the hospital
surgeon, are improving and one of them is convalescent.
France
Fearful of Yellow Fever.
PARIS, Sept. 21.—M. Barthou, the minister of
the interior, has instructed the prefects of the maritime provinces to watch
particularly all arrivals from America, with a view of guarding against yellow
fever.
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TWO—EDITORIALS.
The
Rival of Niagara.
While capital is engaged in harnessing Niagara,
and far reaching projects are developed for utilizing the mighty volume of its
waiters, a rival scheme has been exploited which, in the opinion of those interested
in it, will produce industrial results quite as astounding as those expected at
the great cataract. The plan is to capture the Long Sault rapids. The hamlet of
Massena, the northern terminus of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg railroad,
is situated on the Grass river, about three miles from the St. Lawrence and
opposite the rapids, which fall more than fifty feet between that point and the
mouth of the Grass. Southerly, from the southern shore of the St. Lawrence the
land has a gradual descent of about fifty feet to Massena.
It is proposed to construct a canal across
the plateau to the Grass. A charter was secured from the New York legislature
and capital, mostly English, has been subscribed for the building of the canal
which will be 187.5 feet wide on the bottom, with the width of the water line
262.5 feet, and a depth of 25 feet. The navigable use of this artificial waterway
will, with the raising of the level of the Grass into which vessels will be
locked, avoid the passage of the Long Sault canal by American bottoms and the
payment of Canadian tolls. The waters for the canal will be taken entirely from
those within the boundary of this state, and no international question can
arise from their appropriation.
But the navigable use is the smallest part
of the commercial value of the canal. Almost limitless power for mechanical
service is to be generated at Massena. The projected powerhouse located at the
confluence of the canal with the river will be, it is said, when completed, the
largest in the world. It will be 535 feet long and 114 feet wide, rising to a
height of 60 feet, and will have a crane traversing its whole length, with a
lifting capacity of 85 tons. Each of the great generators, of which there will
be fifteen, will weigh about 350,000 pounds, the weight of one piece in each
machine being 125,000 pounds. The speed will be 180 revolutions a minute.
Further details of the electric power may be found in the New York Tribune of
Sunday, to which we are indebted for the particulars already given. The Grass river
will, of course, be the tail race for the body of water which will be diverted
from the St. Lawrence.
The cost of constructing the canal and powerhouse
is estimated at $3,000,000 and the work, contracts for the various portions of
which have all been let, will be completed by 1900. The first 75,000 horse-power
to be developed is already let, and will be used for the manufacture of
aluminum, calcium carbide, for making acetylene gas and for other
electro-chemical products, and will involve the transfer of factories now
located in England, attracted to America by the desire to be released from
heavy corporation taxes and the import duties imposed by the Dingley law. These
factories alone will give employment to 3,000 men. Massena already feels the
impulse of the coming change, and from a somnolent condition is wide awake and
is being transformed into an active and prosperous community. Actual work has
been begun on the canal and a delegation of the English capitalists will soon
visit Massena to look over the ground.
The story reads like a fairy tale, but it is
consistent with the marvelous tales which science is daily telling of the
conquest of nature and the triumphs of enterprise. The project will have the
best wishes of the people of the state for its success; but Niagara must look
to its laurels, lest they be stolen by the St. Lawrence and the Grass.
◘
The deepest hole in the world is
being bored by the Standard Oil company at Elizabeth, Pa. It is nearly finished
and the boring has already gone down more than a mile. When completed, the well
will be 6,000 feet deep. At the distance of 2,285 feet a flow of gas was struck
which was sufficient to make steam for boring the rest of the way. The most
interesting phenomenon connected with the work thus far is the gradually
increasing heat of the earth as the shaft is sunk lower. At a depth of 5,500
feet the temperature was 129 degrees. At that rate a heat equal to the boiling
point of water, 212 degrees, would be found at a depth of 9,000 feet. In case a
strong vein of water were struck at a great depth steam would issue in force
from the hole. Science may be able to gather from the deep well at Elizabeth
facts throwing light on earthquakes, volcanoes, hot springs, etc.
BOARD OF EDUCATION
To Accommodate More Pupils—Miss
Conable the New Teacher.
At the meeting of the [Cortland] board of
education last evening Miss Lena R. Conable was elected as supply teacher to
assist Miss Van Hoesen. There are now about sixty-five pupils enrolled In the
primary department in the Central school building and as there are not enough
seats it was decided that half of the pupils of this department should report
at 8:45 A. M. and 1:30 P. M. and be dismissed at 10:30 A. M. and 2:30 P. M., at
which times the other half will report and remain until noon and 3:30 o'clock.
This arrangement will give seats to all and a room opposite the library will be
used as a recitation room.
The board also purchased of A. Mahan three
cabinet grand upright Sterling pianos, which will be placed in each of the ward
schools—Pomeroy, Schermerhorn and Owego-sts.—when there will be a piano in each
building.
A map of the Pacific ocean was also
purchased from J. M. Olcott. It gives a very clear idea of the commerce of the
West which is not as well shown on some other maps, which are divided in the
center of the Pacific.
The members of the board also informally
discussed the necessity for additions to the Central school building and
audited the following bills:
S. N. Holden, [coal], $726.65
William Southworth, 8.75
J. M. Olcott, 2.60
Palmer & Co., 4.43
The meeting was then adjourned.
Real Estate
Transfer.
The local board of the State Normal school
acting with the approval of the superintendent of public instruction has bought
of the First M. E. church a strip of land north of the church building fronting
on Church-st., where the church sheds used to stand. The deed of transfer was today recorded in
the county clerk's office. The consideration was $1,500. This will add much to
the beauty of the Normal grounds and will insure the fact that no other
building can be erected there to cut off the view of the school.
Communication.
To the Editor of The STANDARD:
SIR—It is freely claimed by the followers, and
quietly whispered about by the leaders of the bolters from the late Republican county
convention, that Mr. County Clerk Palmer will file and print their nominations
as the regular Republican ticket.
Permit me to call the attention of these people
to the following provisions of law, without assuming for a moment that it is
Mr. Palmer's purpose to disregard them.
Election Code, Sec. 56. "If there be a
division within a party, and two or more factions claim the same, or
substantially the same device or name, the officer aforesaid shall decide
between such conflicting claims, giving preference of device and name to the
convention or primary, or committee thereof, recognized by the regularly
constituted party authorities.
Penal Code, Sec. 41g—A person who, (2) files
or receives for filing a certificate of nomination, knowing that any part
thereof was falsely made; or (3) suppresses a certificate of nomination which
has been duly filed, or any part thereof; is punishable by imprisonment for not
less than one nor more than five years.''
"Better not monkey with the
buzz-saw."
The county clerk has nothing whatever to do
with the claim that illegal votes were cast in some caucuses.
If any man knows of his own knowledge that
any such vote was cast, the criminal courts will receive his information and
administer the law without fear or favor. I speak with authority for one such
court, and with perfect confidence regarding the others.
It would seem that these [Hotel Cortland] billiard
room conventionists really have no horror of fraud, but have simply made the
cry for one purpose: They are wild
to defeat Saunders. Fisherman Courtney is doing the bobbing, with
"Walton" Mantanye in the background giving him points in the
piscatorial art. They have cunningly baited their hook with the good Mr.
Bushnell, but the hook is still there. Will the people bite?
Once upon a time a certain sort put forward
poor Horace Greeley, and induced the Democrats to take him up with the cry, "Anything
to beat Grant." But for once the politicians mistook the temper of the
people. Gentlemen, the people are not always amenable to your selfish plans.
They are seldom caught by your delusive cries.
Respectfully yours,
JOHN H. KELLEY.
Cortland. N. Y., Sept. 21, 1897.
An Error.
Our attention has been called to an error in
the biography of Hon. F. P.
Saunders in
yesterday's STANDARD. It is there stated that Mr. Saunders is the only Republican
supervisor elected from the Democratic town of Truxton in the last thirty
years. Mr. W. S. Maycumber was elected Republican supervisor of that town in
1870 and 1871.
Chinese Laundry.
The Lee Laundry Co. of Syracuse have bought
the Chinese laundry business conducted by John Sung at 7 Tompkins-st. and 5 Clinton-ave.,
and took possession Monday. The new company have purchased all the machinery
and materials belonging to Mr. Sung and under the contract Mr. Sung is not to
engage in the laundry business in Cortland. The Lee company will continue the
business at both places as heretofore and will also continue the house to house
collection and delivery. Fine work and satisfaction guaranteed. All persons
indebted to John Sung are requested to call and settle. THE LEE Co. 694-3t [paid ad.]
BREVITIES.
—The sun crossed the line to-day and the nights
will now be longer than the days.
—The Fortnightly club will meet tomorrow afternoon
with Mrs. H. L. Smith at 53 Prospect-st.
—The Republican county committee meet at 10
A. M. to-morrow in the office of Attorney T. H. Dowd.
—Late yesterday afternoon Ed Fitzgerald was
given a fifty-nine days' suspended sentence in police court.
—New display advertisements to-day are—A. S.
Burgess, Men's Fine Shoes, page 8; Harper & Bros., Canvassers Wanted, page
6.
—Track laying on the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. is being
pushed hard to-day east of McGrawville. The weather yesterday proved a
hindrance and little was accomplished.
—The Dryden fair began to-day and a liberal
representation of Cortland people are in attendance. Some went by train, others
by carryall and others by private conveyance.
—The formal opening of the Opera House season
occurs to-night when "The Man in the Iron Mask" will be presented by
a strong company. The company arrived at 4:43 o'clock this afternoon from
Norwich.
—The trustees of St. Patrick's Catholic
church, Binghamton, have decided to take down the church spire, as it has been
declared unsafe by a number of architects and expert builders. The work will be
begun at once.
—The Home department visitors connected with
the Presbyterian Sunday-school will meet to-morrow afternoon at 8 o'clock at
the home of Mrs. Esther Johnson, 34 Tompkins-st. An interesting program has
been prepared and each visitor is urged to be present.
—Capt. Timothy James Shinnick of the Auburn
baseball team was on Monday morning married to Miss Cora Annah Pierce, daughter
of the city attorney of Auburn. The Auburn Advertiser headed an item about the
wedding, "Capt. Shinnick signed for life."
—There was no service at the First
Presbyterian church in Syracuse on Sunday. It was said to be closed for repairs,
but the fact is that for some unaccountable reason it was infested by an army
of fleas, which filled every inch of the building. Monday an attempt was made
to exterminate them with sulphur. A passerby saw the fumes and thought the
church was on fire and sent in an alarm, to which the fire department
responded, but threw no water.
McGrawville's
Excursion to Freeville.
At 1:35 P. M. on Saturday, Sept. 18, 1897,
the first passenger train over the Erie &
Central New York railroad left the McGrawville station with seven
coaches filled with enthusiastic excursionists for Freeville. The excursion was
under the auspices of the Presbyterian Sunday-school, but everybody was invited
and Mr. Bundy, through whose ''stick-at-it-veness'' the road has been built, took a personal
interest in making it a success and it was such in every respect.
The McGrawville band was in attendance with
its members overflowing with music, and those who couldn't go were there to see
the more than half a thousand start on the first trip. Of course usual customs
were not to be thought of and the engineer's signal to start was not received in the usual manner. Hon. A.
P. McGraw was the originator of and first president of this road and it was a
canon fired by his hand that started the first train out of the station over
the road bed which had been graded nearly a quarter of a century ago under his
direction. Of course it was arranged that he should have a chance to board the train
and take the first ride and it was a question, which was the most pleased over
the fulfillment of the long wished for work, the first promoter, Mr. McGraw, or
the last, Mr. Bundy.
The trip to Freeville was short and without
any thrilling incidents except the loading of the fruit at the L. V. station in
Cortland. Upon arriving in Freeville the excursionists were met by Manager H.
W. Roe of Riverside park and escorted to the picnic grounds which are conveniently
located and seem made for the purpose. Swings, fountains, boats and all the
requisites of a day's enjoyment are there, while a large auditorium well
supplied with seats made a fine resting place for those who wished to see the
others enjoy themselves. Mr. Rowe had arranged for a ball ground near by and the
married and single men eager for the fray, were soon engaged in a spirited same
of ball of six innings. The married men were not in it until the fifth inning
when some of their wives appeared upon the scene and then the tables were
turned and the game was won by them by the following score:
The marred men were F. P. Dunbar, Burdett
Gross, A. P. McGraw, F. D. Graves, Rev. J. J. Cowles, Steve Waters, C. D.
McGraw. W. J. Buchanan, and L. L. Wellman.
The single men were Fred Durkee, Fancher
Kinney, Clyde Beers, John D. Gutchess, Floyd Randall, A. H. D. Mudge, Lewis
Phelps, Harry Huntley and Roger Kelley with P. W. Chaffee as umpire.
The interest of the spectators was about
evenly divided between the game and the urchins who dived into the water after
truant balls, regardless of clothes or anything else than the coins with which
A. P. McGraw rewarded their aquatic feats.
After the game a fruit banquet was partaken
of and Rev. J. J. Cowles between the bites out of a huge slab of watermelon
offered his services free to any of the defeated ones who wished to join the winners.
Several are thinking seriously of making him carry out the proposal.
Manager Roe, having refused to accept pay
for the grounds or even for clearing up the fragments, was given a unanimous
and hearty vote of thanks, after which the excursionists started for the depot
and were soon home again, bearing with them as a souvenir the coupon [ticket]
which Mr. Bundy kindly declined to collect on the homeward trip.
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