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| Seth Low. |
LOW TAKES
THE STUMP.
Greeted by a
Large and Enthusiastic Audience.
CHEERS FOR MAYOR STRONG.
Overflow
Meeting For Four Thousand.
General Benj. F. Tracy Appeals to the Voters— Bryan Will Follow Mark Hanna in
Ohio.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—A demonstration in favor
of Seth Low took place in Carnegie hall last night. It was the largest
demonstration on behalf of the Citizens Union held thus far in the campaign. A
tremendous throng filled every seat in the pit, crowded the boxes and from
thence swept up to the topmost row of the big gallery. Even the stage was
uncomfortably crowded, the benches that rose tier-like from the lectern being
jammed.
The most remarkable feature of the meeting
was that it had not been billed as a “Citizens’,” but as a Republican
organization (anti-Platt) of the city of New York. About one-half of the
audience was composed of women.
The enthusiasm verged close to the point of
the indescribable when Mayor Strong, Mr. Low, General Wager Swayne, Joseph H.
Choate, Elihu Root and Anson G. McCook stood up in the center of the stage. The
mayor was absolutely delighted and waved his handkerchief back at the crowd,
which cheered him. Even Seth Low joined in the cheering for the mayor—for the
time being it was the mayor’s meeting, not Mr. Low’s.
Then the crowd turned to Mr. Low and gave
him a great ovation. It cheered and cheered and kept on cheering for more than
two minutes and then recovering its breath, cheered for another minute.
William S. Bagg, vice-president of the
Republican organization, stepped forward and addressed the crowd as “Fellow
Republicans,” and again cheers broke out. Mayor Strong and General Wager Swayne
spoke and then Mr. Low was introduced.
It was exactly four minutes before the
cheering subsided, only to be brought to life again by the mayor who arose and
demanded “Three and three more” for the “next mayor of Greater New York—Seth Low.”
Mr Low’s speech was an amplification of the
address that he had been delivering throughout this entire campaign. Mr. Low
said in part:
“I need not say that this pledge of
Republican support for my candidacy as an independent nominee, in the
selection, is peculiarly gratifying. It is gratifying, first of all, because it
brings to me the assurance that my course hitherto commends the sympathy and
approving judgment of many Republican friends. And it is gratifying beyond that
because it is evident that there is still a strong spirit in the Republican
party of this city that places fealty to the principles of the party above
fealty to the organization.”
Later in his address Mr. Low said: “It has
been said, and correctly said, that so far as the issue of non-partisanship is
concerned, the platform of the Citizens’ Union, upon which I stand, is
precisely the platform of the Committee of Seventy which was endorsed by the
Republican party three years ago. The best evidence of the identity of the two
in that particular is to be found in the fact that, with the exception of the
Republican party through its official organization, every other element, I
think, with possibly the exception of the O’Brian Democracy, that then fought
shoulder to shoulder, is supporting the candidate of the Citizens’ Union and
the platform upon which it stands.”
There was an overflow meeting in the street,
where 4,000 persons listened to many speakers.
BENJAMIN
F. TRACY.
Addresses
an Enthusiastic Audience. Laughs at Non-Partisanship.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—General Benjamin F. Tracy,
Republican candidate for mayor, made a speech in the borough of the Bronx. The
meeting, which was attended by 2,000 persons, was held in Urbach’s hall on
upper Third avenue.
General Tracy and the other candidates on
the platform were enthusiastically received.
At the conclusion of a short speech by
Thomas W. Hamilton, General Tracy came forward and after alluding to the
borough needs, said:
“Non-partisanship is a humbug, and is
presented in this campaign only to disrupt the Republican party. If there is a
candidate elected other than a Republican to the mayoralty of the greater city,
it will be the saddest day this nation has ever seen. I care not whether the
victory be for Tammany or Henry George, the influence will be the same.”
YELLOW
FEVER.
Many New
Cases Reported—One death at Bay St. Louis.
JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 22.—The state board of
health in its official statement reports four new cases of yellow fever at
Clinton, two at Nitta Yuma, five at Edwards, seven at Bay St. Louis and five at
Cayuga.
There was one death at Bay St. Louis, which
place, up to date, has had 150 cases of yellow fever.
The situation at Edwards is much improved,
no one being reported as seriously ill within the past 24 hours.
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| Charity Hospital, New Orleans. |
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 22.—The fever situation as
summed up by the board of health is as follows: new cases of yellow fever, 43;
deaths, 2; total cases to date, 1,024; total deaths to date, 112; total cases
recovered, 519; total under treatment, 393.
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
◘ There is a tradition that yellow fever originated in the horrible Spanish
slave ships which centuries ago landed African captives at Havana. The filth
was so unspeakable and the condition of the slave ships so frightful that there
broke out among them the epidemic which has since been known as yellow fever.
The bay of Havana was a cesspool for the vessels, and it is to this day a
cesspool for the whole city of Havana. Storms and winds stir up the reeking
bottom of the bay, and its poisonous stench is driven to the Florida coast.
Key West is less than 90 miles from Havana.
The deadly fever germs are wafted by wind and wave to our American gulf coast
states. What sort of sanitarians the Spanish authorities that misrule Cuba are
has lately been shown in a curious way. Weyler ordered an immense floating dock
to be sent to Havana from Spain. It was to be ready for the Spanish naval
vessels in case of war with the United States. It cost $900,000. After it was
built the discovery was made that the great dock drew too much water to enter
Havana harbor. Weyler sent in haste to New York for a dredging machine to
deepen the Havana harbor so that war vessels to fight the United States could
be assembled there. Then for the first time it was ascertained that Havana bay
had never been cleaned or dredged since the island had come under Spanish
dominion in the sixteenth century.
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| Judge Walter Lloyd Smith. |
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.
INDEPENDENT
NOMINATIONS ARE TO GO ON THE BALLOT.
Appellate
Division Hears the Arguments of Attorneys Miller and Kellogg in the Cortland County Case
and Renders a Prompt Decision, Affirming the Decision of
Judge Walter Lloyd Smith and Dismissing the Proceedings.
(Special
to The STANDARD.)
ALBANY. Oct. 22.—At 2 o'clock this afternoon
the appellate division of the supreme court heard arguments on the appeal of
the Republican county committee in Cortland County and Eugene W. Bates in the
assembly trouble for an order restraining the Cortland county clerk from
putting the Independent Citizens' ticket on the official ballot. The case came
to the court from Justice Walter Lloyd Smith at Ithaca to secure the order,
Justice Smith not thinking it in his power to act, and he issuing an order of dismissal.
Nathan L. Miller appeared for the Saunders faction, appellants, and O. U. Kellogg
for the Howes' people, or the Independent Citizens.
Mr. Miller opened the case by arguing that
the appellate division had the power to issue an order and that within the
possible time no other review would be possible. He reviewed the case and dwelt
at some length on its merits and read the decision of last year in the Emmett
Westchester county case as peculiarly applicable in this case. Mr. Miller
charged the county clerk with fraud and concluded.
Mr. Kellogg then replied briefly, making a
strong argument on the merits of the case and answering all of his opponent's
points.
A decision was rendered at once by the court
affirming the decision of Judge Smith, and dismissing the proceedings. The Independent
Citizens' ticket will go on the official
ballot. C. N. A.
GONE TO ALBANY.
THE
MATTER OF THE INDEPENDENT CITIZENS' TICKET.
Proceedings
Dismissed at Ithaca--Appealed to Appellate Division of Supreme
Court—Argued
To-day—May Go to Court of Appeals.
As forecasted in The STANDARD yesterday, the
matter of the objections to the so-called "Independent Citizens'"
ticket occupying a column on the official ballots in Cortland county was
appealed from the decision of Judge Walter Lloyd Smith at Ithaca yesterday, who
dismissed the proceedings, to the appellate division of the supreme court at
Albany to-day. The case is being argued by N. L. Miller in support of the
motion, and by Hon. O. U. Kellogg opposed. It is probable that the case will be
again appealed to the court of appeals which is now in session at Albany by the
party decided against in the appellate division.
Following is a copy of the order issued by
Judge Smith at Ithaca yesterday dismissing the proceedings and sending the
matter to the higher court:
On reading and filing the order to show
cause granted herein on the 20th day of October, 1897, and on the objections of
Eugene W. Bates and Edmund C. Alger, filed herein in Cortland county clerk's
office on the 15th day of October, 1897, and on the affidavits filed in said
proceeding in Cortland county clerk's office on the 13th day of October, 1897,
and recited in the decision of said clerk filed in Cortland county clerk's
office on the 18th day of October, 1897, and on the certificate of nomination
of the Democratic convention, held in and for the county of Cortland on the 1st
day of October, 1897, and filed in said clerk's office on or before the 8th day
of October, 1897, and after hearing
Nathan L. Miller, attorney for the petitioners and Mynderse Van Cleef of
counsel, in support of said motion, and O. U. Kellogg in opposition thereto, I
do find and decide that the clerk of Cortland county has proceeded with due
diligence in making his decision upon the objections filed herein and that the
moving parties herein have proceeded with due diligence in their efforts, to
secure a determination herein and have been guilty of no lacks and that it was
impossible to have secured a determination by the clerk in time to review the
same within the time limited by the statute. These facts are conceded by the
respondent within the authority of the matter of Emmett, reported in a 9th App.
Div. at page 237. However, I am constrained to hold that the statute limiting
the time of review is mandatory and not directory and therefore it is ordered
that the application be and the same is hereby denied without costs. And the
parties having stipulated in open court to appear before the appellate division
at Albany, N. Y., on the 22d day of October, 1897, for the purpose of their
having an appeal from this order and the order made upon determination made by
me on the 18th day of October, 1897, heard and a review had, it is further
ordered that the clerk of Cortland county be and hereby is required to produce
on the hearing of said appeal the papers
upon which each of said orders was granted and specified therein and on file in
his office.
Cortland clerk enter, W. L. S., J. S. C.
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| Pink line shows Erie & Central New York railroad between Cortland and Cincinnatus, N. Y. |
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| Fast mail train at Cincinnatus, N. Y. |
BRANCH TO
CINCINNATUS.
Possibility
That it May be Built at Once and Trains Started.
The present contract for the building of the
E. & C. N. Y. R. R. calls for a road from Cortland to the mouth of Gee brook.
The latter point is two miles south of Cincinnatus village. The original project
did not anticipate the building of a road directly to Cincinnatus, as at the mouth
of Gee brook the surveys turned south toward Willet village and the plan was to
continue the road to Hancock to connect with the Erie and with the Ontario
& Western, crossing the Utica division of the D., L. & W. near Greene,
and the D. & H. at Ninevah. That is still the place, but so many people in
Cincinnatus have expressed the desire to have a spur of the road built up to
that place that Contractor Bundy yesterday placed before them the definite
proposition that if they would sell or otherwise dispose of $5,000 of bonds in
the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. the road would be built to Cincinnatus village this
fall and trains would at once be put in operation.
Here is the opportunity for Cincinnatus
people, and it can hardly be possible that they will not seize upon it with avidity.
The building of the road is now no air castle, it is reality. The road is actually
constructed and ready for use to Solon, which is half way. Contractor A. H.
Jacoby completed his work upon the Cortland and Solon division at about 3
o'clock this afternoon, and it is but a matter of a few days before regular trains
will be running.
The grading upon Contractor Coffin's division
between Solon and the mouth of Gee brook is almost done, and the work of track
laying will at once be pushed to completion. The men who have been grading the
second division of the road can be put at once upon the work of preparing the
grade from Gee brook to Cincinnatus, so that trains could be running from
Cortland to Cincinnatus by Thanksgiving. It would be a Thanksgiving indeed for
Cincinnatus people if this could be brought about, and it is wholly in the
hands of the people. What will they do?
BREVITIES.
—The kindergarten dancing class meets in
Empire hall at 3 o'clock to-morrow afternoon.
—McDermott's orchestra furnished music for
the hose company dance at Tully last night.
—New display advertisements to-day
are—Bacon, Chappell & Co., fall and winter underwear, page 8; Palmer & Co., stamped
goods, etc., page 4.
—The STANDARD is indebted to Mr. John C.
Birdseye, chief clerk in the office of the civil service department at Albany for
a copy of the report of the civil service commission for 1896.
—At the opening sale on Monday of tickets
for the Cornell-Princeton football game to-morrow at Ithaca over 1,100 seats
were sold. It is expected that the crowd at the game will be a great one.
—The Ithaca parties who are suing the Ithaca
Street Railway Co. for charging excessive fare in demanding 10 cents for
transportation to the Lehigh Valley station
on East hill seem to be getting in the encouragement at this term of court in
that city. Two cases have so far been tried, and one resulted in nonsuit and
the other in 6 cents damages.
—Instead of the regular gymnasium work at
the Y.M. C. A. to-morrow Physical Director A. B. Wraught will take all members
of the boys' department chestnutting. The boys are requested to meet at the
rooms with their wheels at 8:30 o'clock sharp. All that have not wheels can go
on horseback. The destination is some point south of Blodgett Mills.
—Miss Belle Atkinson of Cortland organized a
dancing class of about thirty members at Choral hall, Monday evening. Miss
Atkinson is a competent teacher and if her pupils do not become proficient in
the art of dancing it will be no fault of the instructor. Lessons will be given
Monday evenings from 8 to 10 o'clock. After the close of each lesson a social
dance will be held at which all are welcome.—Moravia Republican.
—The Y. W. C. T. U. will hold a meeting to-morrow evening at 7:30 o'clock at the
W. C. T. F. rooms on West Court-st. The meeting will last just one hour, and
all young ladies who are interested in the movement are cordially invited to be
present and take part in the further organization. This union was organized two
weeks ago and this is only the second meeting. No vice-president has yet been
elected, as it is to be hoped that many other young ladies will join the union.
SIGNS OF
THE TIMES.
Traveling
Men Speak Encouragingly of the Condition of Trade.
That there is a boom in many different lines
of trade is unquestioned. The traveling man is the one who feels the public
pulse, and the amount of his sales is a sure indication to him of the
industrial outlook. There is probably not another class of people who can speak
of the trade conditions with such definiteness as the traveling man, and what
the majority of them are saying to-day only bears out the prophecy made last
year that with the election of McKinley and a Republican administration, the
country would begin to put on an air of prosperity which would be genuine.
Last evening several of the traveling men
who were stopping at The Kremlin [hotel in Cortland] were discussing this
question, and all agreed that the last few weeks had witnessed a great revival
in trade. C. W. Greene, who represents a Scranton lumber firm, said that the
revival in his line was so marked and perceptible that he could not help
speaking of it. He said the past week had been the best week with him in five
years.
C. R. Bacon of New York, who calls on the
hardware trade, said that in his line there had been a wonderful increase in
the last four or five weeks.
J. C. Near of Auburn, representing the
McCormick company, makers of farm machinery, said that the past season had been
a great improvement over last year, and collections are daily growing better.
HOMER.
Gleanings
of News From Our Twin Village.
HOMER, Oct. 22.—Mr. S. K. Morris of Syracuse
was in town yesterday on business.
Mrs. Z. T. Miner of Skaneateles is visiting
for a short time with relatives in town.
Although the town football team seems to
have lost some of its enthusiasm for arranging games the elevens at the academy
are busy making games among themselves. The Academics will play the Preps this
afternoon at 4 o'clock. The teams have each a new set of signals which by
practice they have learned and a good game is expected. The Preps were defeated
once this fall and to-day they intend to redeem themselves if possible.
There is also another team in the school
which was organized the first of the week as a regular school team. Ralph
Bennett is its captain and Bert Green is manager. It has arranged for a game with
the Scott football eleven to be played next week.
Mr. Harry G. Davis, who has been attending the
Carriage Builders' convention at New York City during the week, returned this
morning. He was accompanied by Mrs. Davis who has been visiting in Syracuse.
Mrs. I. E. Churchell and children are visiting
at the home of her mother, Mrs. R. Blanchon on Warren-st.
Miss Harriet B. Johnson of Albany, who has
been visiting at Mr. P. C. Kingsbury's and other friends and relatives for some
time, left this morning for a visit to friends at Niagara Falls.
John Reagan of Borodino was yesterday afternoon
arrested by Officer Shirley on the charge of public intoxication. He was taken
to the lockup for a night's rest and was arraigned this morning before Justice
E. L. Stone. After a short examination he was given his choice between $10 fine
or ten days' board in the county jail. As the latter was more in touch with his
pocketbook he was taken to the jail in Cortland for the ten days.
For the past week there has been considerable
talk and excitement about the prospects for oil, mineral or gas wells and Mr.
F. H. Morse of Pittsburg, Pa., has been hustling around making leases of
different farms for the purpose of sinking wells, could he secure enough land.
He desires to get leases of all the farms in this part of the country for the
exclusive right of boring and to be protected should he be successful in
boring. If he secures the lease of the amount of laud he desires he expects to
commence boring in a few weeks. Should this prove a success it would be a great
boom for Homer.
Social gatherings and musical and literary entertainments
have become a prolific means of procuring money for beneficent enterprises and
in this country and age every one should be united in an earnest and active way
for this purpose. It promotes harmony between mind, heart and taste and the
fire of love kindled at the family hearth spreads broader and brighter among
our friends, our neighbors, our acquaintances and promotes the cause of human
progress.
The harvest festival to be given this evening
at 5 Clinton-st. will be an enjoyable affair. The place of entertainment will
be decorated in harvest fashion and a delightful musical program will be rendered,
after which a refreshing repast will be served. Some additions have been made
to the program which was announced in last night's STANDARD and Mrs. Arthur L.
Chaplin of Pittsburg, Kan., who will preside at the piano, deserves special
mention as does also Miss Mabelle Adams whose violin renditions are always
listened to with the greatest pleasure. The admission to the building is 10
cents and refreshments to those who desire will be 10 cents extra. Young and
old are all invited to come and have a jolly good time.
A large and appreciative gathering assembled
at the home of Miss Matie Wood on River-st. last evening to hear the informal
talk on the "Analysis of the Vocal Instrument," given by Miss Dora
Louise Topping of the School of Vocal Science of New York City. Miss Topping
illustrated her very interesting and helpful talk with charts.
We learn that Mr. E. G. Ruby, an instructor
from the N. Y. C. School of
[Vocal] Science,
is contemplating taking up this vocal work in our midst and affording us the
opportunity of hearing more about the development of the vocal organs.
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