SCOURGE'S AWFUL GRIP AND CARRIAGE BUILDERS' CONVENTION

Yellow Fever patients at Camp Joe Williams, Memphis.

Charity Hospital, New Orleans.

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, October 14, 1897.

SCOURGE'S AWFUL GRIP.

Yellow Fever's Hold on New Orleans Increases.

NINE DEATHS IN ONE DAY.

People Still Refuse to Obey Doctor's Orders and Conceal Cases Until It Is Too Late—Thirteen New Cases at Mobile—Death at Edwards.

   NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14.—This was the record smasher in the number of deaths in a single day from yellow fever since the sickness was first reported in New Orleans.

   It is difficult to find the cause except in the fact that concealment, neglect and rebellion against the authority of the board of health have made it difficult for the physicians to give proper attention to the cases.

   There has been nine fatalities reported. Heretofore the highest number of deaths in any one day has been six. Among the deaths reported some are of the better class of people. There were 36 new cases. A very large number of recoveries were reported.

   The health officer at Plaquemine parish reports one death there from yellow fever. Two persons there are ill, but they are convalescent.

SITUATION AT MOBILE.

Thirteen New Cases—Steamer Kate Adds Three—Death at Wagar.

   MOBILE, Ala., Oct. 14.—Seven new cases of yellow fever in the city proper and six brought into the city from Magazine Point, three miles out, make up the record. Eight recoveries are reported; no deaths for the past 72 hours.

   Three more cases were reported on the steamer Kate, but they are considered doubtful.

   R. C. Settles, superintendent of the Wagar Lumber company at Wagar,

Ala., died there of yellow fever. One new case has developed.

New Patient at Nitta Yuma.

   JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 14.—At Clinton there are only two cases under treatment. At Nitta Yuma there is one new case. At Edwards there are seven new cases and one death.

No Change at Houston.

   HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 14.—There is no further development in the fever situation. No new cases, and the old ones are getting along well. The city council has given the board of health authority to visit and decide on all suspicious cases.

   The Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway will run a through train out of Galveston, but it will not be allowed to stop here, as quarantine has been re-established on that place.

Henry George.

HENRY GEORGE'S CREED.

Believes In Unrestricted Personal Liberty.

EXCISE LAW AN INJUSTICE.

Says We Have Too Many Laws, but If Elected, He Will Strictly Enforce

Them—Low is His Chief Opponent—Thinks He Will Win.

   NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—In an interview regarding what he proposed to do if elected mayor of Greater New York Henry George said:

   ''I will execute the excise law according to my interpretation of the law; but I will tell you frankly what I think about excise. I think it is an injustice and an absurdity, and I am totally opposed to the existence of any excise law whatever. If I could, I would abolish it along with many other laws. If elected mayor I would enforce the excise law just so far as the letter of it required, and not a step beyond.

   "I believe in the largest possible liberty for the individual. I am a Jeffersonian Democrat. We have too many laws. It is one of our greatest troubles—this mass of restrictive legislation. What one does, as long as it injures no one else, is no one else's business.

   "The moral effect of my election and also of the results of my administration would probably promote the acceptance of my single tax doctrine.

   "That I can defeat both Van Wyck and Tracy I do not feel the slightest doubt. In my opinion the issue is solely between Mr. Low and myself. I think I shall beat him.

   "My stand here for local election is based almost entirely on national issues, and I think much of my strength comes from that very attitude. In fact, my grounds for believing that I will be elected are to a great extent based on that very fact."

MINERS ARRESTED.

Were Marching on the Public Highways. Musicians Taken In Custody.

   PITTSBURG, Oct. 14.—The deputy sheriffs at the DeArmitt coal mines made a raid on the strikers at Sandy Creek and arrested 15 men, including the members of the brass band.

   The strikers were marching on the public road and were halted by the deputies about a quarter of a mile from the tipple. The band refused to stop playing and the entire party was placed under arrest without resistance.

   The prisoners were brought to this city where a hearing will be given them.

   Superintendent DeArmitt says that the three mines of the company are now running to their fullest capacity.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Don't Lose Your Suffrage!

   The elector whose name will not be on the registry books by Saturday of this week at 9 A. M. will lose his vote. If he lose his suffrage he will lose the distinctive badge of his citizenship. He will lose the privilege of speaking a good and effective word for the McKinley administration, for an American protective policy that has brought prosperity, for a state government that is honest, orderly and economical. The voter who fails to preserve his privilege of voting will close his month against the right to condemn Bryanism, the 16 to 1 fraud, ballot box stuffing and theft and the use of disorder as a political method.

   If a citizen were forcibly debarred from voting he would shed his blood to enforce his right. Would he debar himself by negligence or carelessness? If not, let him have his name on the books this week.

   ◘ George W. Smalley utters a wail in the New York Herald upon the personal baggage clause of the Dingley tariff. He has just crossed the Atlantic and has heard the complaints of his fellow travelers, which he both voices and sympathizes with. He makes the singular statement that the foes of the measure are going to compass its overthrow by buying more and not less abroad in consequence of what is called the attempt to restrict their liberties. This is a queer way of discrediting the law, and it is not to be apprehended that Mr. Dingley will be seriously disturbed by it. Already it has brought many thousands of dollars to the treasury and has justified its enactment. It is within the volition of American tourists to clothe or not to clothe themselves from foreign looms, but if they buy abroad they should be willing to pay tribute to their own country for the luxuries of which they avail themselves. That there should be some friction at the first was to be expected, but it will soon pass away and all true Americans will acknowledge both the justice and the propriety of the regulation.

Alice Ettling.

CARRIAGE BUILDERS

NATIONAL CONVENTION IN NEW YORK NEXT WEEK.

The Silver Anniversary of the Founding of the Association—Local Exhibitors

Will Include the Cortland Wagon Co., William N. Brockway and Catley & Ettling.

   The National Association of Carriage Builders of the United States will hold its twenty-fifth annual convention at the Grand Central Palace at 43d-st. and Lexington-ave. in New York City from Oct. 18 to 23. The association was organized and held its first convention in New York, and on this anniversary very appropriately returns to the same place. Upwards of 3,000 members of the association are expected to be in attendance. There will in reality be three separate conventions in session in different parts of the same building: the Carriage Builders, already referred to, the Carriage Dealers, and the Carriage Builders' Traveling Men's association.

   Under the auspices of the Carriage Builders' association there will be a large and comprehensive exhibit of parts and material entering into all manner and grades of carriage work, but no completed wagons. Under the auspices of the Carriage Builders' association in a near by [sic] hall which is very large and commodious there will be on exhibition completed carriages and vehicles of all kinds. Space has already been reserved for 240 vehicles and no more applications will be received. The list of exhibitors comprises all the prominent manufacturers of the country, and vehicles to be shown cover all styles and grades of carts, farm wagons, road wagons, buggies, phaetons, surreys, cabriolets, landaus, broughams, express and delivery wagons. It will undoubtedly be the greatest and best exhibition of its kind ever seen in the country.

   Five local manufactories will be represented at the convention and those will be represented at the two exhibitions.  The Cortland Wagon Co. of Cortland, and W. N. Brockway of Homer will have exhibits at the Carriage Dealers' convention, and Catley & Ettling of Cortland will have an exhibit at the Carriage Builders' convention. Other local concerns planned to send exhibits, but finally decided not to do so.

   The Cortland Wagon Co. to-day sent via the D., L. & W. R. R. seven of their new style vehicles for 1898 to be placed in their exhibit. The goods forwarded are up-to-date in every respect. Each vehicle has the latest improved style of dustproof, long distance axles. All have open rubber head springs and are also equipped with hard rubber tires on the wheels. The styles are as follows: One new park surrey, no top, a very handsome and stylish family carriage; one new style bracket front top buggy; one standard style piano box top buggy; one new city stanhope, and one new doctor's stanhope, both very elegant jobs; one stick-seat piano box road wagon; and one new speeding cart. The last is something entirely new and having a rubber tire is quite a novelty.

   The Cortland Wagon Co. will be well represented at the conventions, as the officers of the company, as well as the full force of traveling salesmen will be there, and there is no doubt that good results will follow.

   W. N. Brockway of Homer will send three of his latest and handsomest vehicles. One is a light break, a vehicle that is entirely new in this part of the country, and in fact new to city trade.  It is an open carriage hung high up full platform gear so that the front wheels turn under. It is something on the order of a tally-ho or a drag, except that it is a light carriage for four passengers and for one or two horses.

   The second vehicle is one very popular in Philadelphia under the name of the Pittsburg cut under. It is known in the northern cities as a depot wagon and is often called a curtain rockaway. It is built on the style of a close carriage, but has curtains instead of glass sides. It is a very popular vehicle, especially in the suburban towns and small cities, as it takes the place of an expensive landau or hack.

   The third vehicle is a light surrey with boulevard or spindle seats and blind work in the side panels. It is finished in the natural wood and trimmed with whip cord.

   The Brockway factory will be represented at the conventions by Wm. N.

Brockway, the proprietor; Geo. A. Brockway, the manager; H. S. Brockway the superintendent; R. C. Tillinghast, the correspondent, and Charles E. Perkins, H. H. Sickels, George W. Husted and J. M. Crutcher, traveling men.

   Cately & Ettling of Cortland will be represented by Mrs. Alice M. Ettling, the junior partner. This will be Mrs. Ettling's ninth annual convention. Because of her sex and the restrictions of the constitution of the Carriage Builders' association Mrs. Ettling is not a member of the association, but she is well known among the members as a first-class business woman and is held in high esteem by all. She is always cordially greeted by them as the only woman manufacturer in the United States who attends the conventions, and is often called "the daughter of the convention." She is always granted all the privileges of full membership except that of voting.

   Cately & Ettling will exhibit their buggy top spring and lever which has already become so popular and has met with such a large sale, and also a thill support which is something altogether new and upon which a patent was only granted in August of this year.

   The H. M. Whitney Co. will be represented at the conventions by R. E.

Lasher, one of the traveling men; and Keator, Wells & Co. will be represented by W. T. Smith, superintendent of the works. Neither of these concerns  will send exhibits.

   The headquarters of the association will be at the Murray Hill hotel. The conventions close with a grand banquet at that hotel Thursday evening. On the following day the representatives become the guests of the builders in New York City and their entertainment will take the form of s steamboat ride to West Point, where a landing will be made and where it is expected that, according to special arrangements, the cadets at the military academy will give an exhibition dress parade for the benefit of the carriage men [and woman—CC editor].

Slightly Injured.

   Mrs. Nora Clark, a waitress, employed at Kittrick's cafe on Railroad-st., while standing on the crosswalk in front of Hubbard's grocery last night in company with her friend Miss Ella Nix, waiting for a Homer car, was thrown to the ground by a fractious horse and slightly bruised. Just as the car approached, a horse driven by a young man became frightened, and in its perambulations knocked Miss Clark to the ground, and the carriage wheels ran over her, bruising her about her limbs, but breaking no bones, she was taken to her home on Railroad-st., and attended by Dr. Sornberger.

A DECISION RENDERED.

Cortland House Ticket Not to Be Placed in the Republican Column.

   County Clerk E. C. Palmer yesterday made a decision in writing and placed it on file in the county clerk's office in the matter of the protest against the filing of the certificate of county nominations made by Republicans at the Cortland House, Sept. 6, and the placing of that ticket on the official ballot.

   The decision is as follows and explains itself.

   "This matter having been brought before me for determination by the filing of objections to the same by Franklin P. Saunders and Thomas H. Dowd, candidates named upon another certificate previously filed in this office, and due notice having been given to the several candidates and the committee named in said certificate as provided by section 65 of the election law, I have duly considered said objections and find that said Republican convention held at the Cortland House, Sept. 6, 1897, did not represent a majority of the delegates chosen by the several towns to represent said towns in a convention to nominate candidates for officers, and that the county clerk is not authorized by said certificate to place the names of the candidates named therein upon the official ballot and sample ballots to be prepared for the ensuing general election.

   "Given under my hand and official seal this 13th day of October, 1897.

   E. C. PALMER, Clerk."

One of the Features.

   A capital incident in "The Girl from Frisco" which appears at the [Cortland] Opera House to-night is Goliath Klondyke's interview with a New York reporter. The embryo journalist waxes important, and Goliath rises in his might, like his prototype of Scripture, and thrashes the young man. The reporter is not so ready with a sling and a stone as was David, so Goliath has it all his own way. But, unhappily for the assailant, he smashes the reporter's glasses, and then learns to his horror that the penalty in New York state for breaking another person's spectacles, is two years in the penitentiary. How Goliath tries to avoid the imaginary punishment, and how other characters do all they can to make his life miserable, is brought out with a broad humor that makes the scene one of the most screamingly funny in the whole play.

   Manager Wallace this morning received the following telegram from Norwich, where the company played last night:

   "The Girl from Frisco" company played here last night. Excellent performance to big house.

   L. B. BASSETT, Manager Opera House.

BREVITIES.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—A. S. Burgess, Men's Fine Shoes, page 8.

   —The Loyal Circle of King's Daughters will meet with Mrs. Julia E. Hyatt, 182 Main-st., on Friday, Oct. 15, at 2:30 P. M.

   —Mrs. C. A. Lansing entertained a few invited guests Tuesday evening at a 6 o'clock tea at her new home on East Main-st.

   —There was a large attendance last night at the annual chicken pie supper at the First M. E. church. The supper was quite up to the usual standard and a satisfactory sum was netted.

   —A highly romantic and very entertaining story might be written about a well known postoffice clerk, a sunflower, etc., but we refrain for the aforesaid clerk could never get down low enough to hide his blushes.

   —Several nights ago the new house which is being built by Mrs. Alice Robinson near the brick schoolhouse was broken into and about $30 worth of carpenter's tools belonging to Henry Ellsworth were taken.

   —In the list of articles mentioned yesterday for which the hospital managers would be specialty grateful upon school children's day to-morrow money was omitted. No one need feel at loss to know what to give for money will be particularly acceptable.