WILL RELIEVE WYLER SHORTLY AND EVENING SCHOOLS

Capt. Gen. Valeriano Wyler.

Capt. Gen. Ramon Blanco.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, October 11, 1897.

WILL RELIEVE WYLER SHORTLY.

   MADRID, Oct 11.—Captain General Blanco will sail for Cuba on the 15th and Captain General Weyler will return to Spain immediately, General Castellanos assuming the direction of affairs in the island until Blanco's arrival.

   At the meeting of the cabinet it was decided to send reinforcements to the Philippine islands. Marshal Primo Rivera, who succeeded General Blanco as governor general of the Philippines, will be recalled immediately.

Evangeline Cosio y Cisneros.

EVANGELINE CISNEROS' RESCUERS.

   NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—American money and men effected the escape of Evangeline Cisneros from jail in Havana. It was one of the schemes of the New York Journal. Their agent was told to spare neither time nor money in the undertaking, and the success of his attempt caused much excitement and speculation in Havana and the arrest of several employes [sic] of the jail.

Gen. Calixto Garcia.

KILLED HIS GUARDS AND ESCAPED.

   HAVANA, Oct. 11.—The Cuban government has bestowed especial honors on General Calixto Garcia for the capture of Victoria de las Tunas.

   The military commander of M'tuna del Sur has been replaced by General

Weyler's orders. The commander captured a rebel captain and placed him in a cell without taking away his machete. When the warden carried food to the captain the latter struck him down, rushed out and macheteed four guards who attempted to bar his progress.

   There have been so many deaths from disease and starvation in Guanabacoa, a suburb of Havana, that in order to bury the dead in the cemeteries the authorities have been compelled to exhume bodies which have been less than a year under ground.

Fitzhugh Lee.

LEE WILL RETURN TO HAVANA.

   WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.— General Fitzhugh Lee, consul general to Havana, is in this city. It has been understood that General Lee was to return to Havana about the middle of October and his return to the city presumably is for the purpose of receiving final instructions from the president before sailing for his post of duty.

SPANISH OFFICIALS RESIGN.

   HAVANA, Oct 11.—Following the appointment of Marshal Blanco to succeed Captain General Weyler, the Marquis Palmerola, civil governor of Havana, and the other provincial governors have tendered their resignations.

1875 Guide Map of Central Park by Oscar Heinrichs.

WATER MAIN GAVE WAY.

Ten Million Gallons of Water in New York's Streets.

GEYSER IN MADISON AVENUE.

Buildings Flooded and Ruined by the Overflow—Fashionable District Flooded—Sewers Unable to Carry Off the Rushing Stream.

   NEW YORK. Oct. 11.—A mammoth Croton water main burst at the corner of Madison avenue and Forty-eighth street, the heart of the fashionable district.

   For blocks around scarcely a dwelling or public building could be found which did not suffer in a greater or less degree by reason of the volumes of water which poured into the streets, cellars and basements. The loss will reach far into the thousands.

   The damage by the water extends as far west as Sixth avenue, and as far east as First avenue.

   The sewers were choked by the great rush of water and then the flood rose in the streets.

   The big water main was probably cracked by a blast which was fired in a sewer excavation. Then, when the strain on the pipe was greatest, it gave way and the flood followed. The breaking of the 4-foot water pipe was announced by a rumbling noise which awakened the people in the vicinity. Looking out of their windows they saw a great geyser in the middle of the avenue shooting a vast volume of water eight feet into the air.

   Those who had no view of the fountain heard a mighty rush of water. For five hours this column of water shot into the air before it was shut off at its source, and in that time 10,000,000 gallons of water had run down the avenue and side streets on either hand.

   No sewer or system of sewers was capable of carrying off the flood as fast as it accumulated, and a canvass of the houses on the avenue and streets showed that hardly a building escaped between Forty-ninth and Forty-fourth streets.

   All the streets east of Madison avenue slope gradually, and down them the water surged in a torrent, making deep lakes and flooding directly the cellars and basements. The most serious damage was done to the railroad branch of the Young Men's Christian association building, corner of Forty-fifth street, and to the Knickerbocker Athletic clubhouse, corner of Forty-fourth street. In the basement of the latter place were located the dynamos, machinery, bowling alleys, the bathrooms and big swimming tank. These have been ruined by the flood. The club officials place the loss at $15,000.

   At first it was impossible to locate exactly the main which had been broken until there was a shut down at the Central Park reservoir. In this way much time was lost. Almost without exception the houses in the vicinity of the break have been damaged from $500 to $2,000 each. The residence of J. Hooker Hammersley, William Eustace, J. Talbot and the clubhouse of the Delta Phi were among those most damaged.

   The tracks in the main yard at the Grand Central depot were submerged, but not seriously damaged.

   The main which broke was laid in 1874. It has a capacity of 200,000 gallons an hour with a pressure of 27 pounds to the square inch.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Evening Schools.

   Pupils of ages from 16 to 80 throng to the evening schools each autumn as they are opened. Bookkeeping and arithmetic and stenography [and typing] are favorite studies among the pupils who toil for their living during the day and work their brains at night to get an education. Good scholars in mechanical drawing, manual training, natural science and even languages have been also graduated from the helpful night school.

   Many talented and deserving young people are situated, though, so they cannot go to school even at night. They may be in localities where there is no evening school. Even these can in course of time secure an education if they set their heads to it. During the warm weather and light evenings of the summer season everybody's duty was to be outdoors as much as possible. Now as the long evenings close in there will be an hour or two on the hands of nearly all wageworkers.

   How shall they spend that time? Desultory reading is not good. It fritters away the intellectual powers. After reading a good newspaper enough to keep oneself acquainted with the world's current events, the best thing to do is to take up some one branch of study and pursue it from one to two hours each evening. An hour's study a day for seven or eight months would give a young man or woman an excellent start in learning a language. The study of a good textbook on English literature or of a work on history or civil government would make up to one for the loss of much schooling. If the time most people fritter away in idleness or worse during winter evenings were spent in some line of regular study, not only would an admirable intellectual discipline be acquired, but a liberal education also. In deciding what to study the branch of learning that one naturally takes to will be the best to begin with.

   ◘ The resignation of the Spanish cabinet is the movement of rats deserting a sinking ship. They know, what everybody else knew long ago, that Spain can never reconquer Cuba. They were at the end of their rope. The policy of cruelty, of force, deceit and repression of which Weyler in Cuba is Spain's most illustrious exponent has proved a dismal failure, as such a policy always proves Spain must let Cuba go. Rather than face this themselves the Conservative cabinet resigned so as to let the odium of the loss in the minds of the Spanish people rest on the Liberal party. With Cuba gone, with the rebellion in the Philippine islands stronger than ever, with Spain bankrupt and disgraced in the eyes of gods and men, this dastardly resignation was a fit climax to the policy of the Spanish Conservative party for the past ten years.

Two New Dwelling Houses in Cortland.

   Mrs. Julia K. Hyatt has let the contracts for the erection of two colonial cottages on a new street parallel to and between Union and Argyle-sts. The buildings will have all the modern improvements such as bathrooms, furnaces, city water, gas and sewer connections. Asa White has the contract for the mason work of the two houses. Myron Oothoudt will do the carpenter work on one house and James D. Keeler, the other. The buildings are to be completed by next April under the direction and superintendence of the architect, M. F. Howes. It is understood that options for the rent of both when completed have already been given.

An Old Book.

   McKinney & Doubleday have on exhibition in their show window a book 316 years old. The book is the property of Mrs. Giles E. Robbins of Fabius and was printed in London in 1581. The title page gives this information:

   Against Jerome Osorius, Byshopp of Silvane in Portingall and against his slanderous Invectives. An Aunswere Apologeticall: For the necessary defence of the Evangelicall doctrine and veritie.

   Printed on the last page of the book is this information:

   At London, Printed by John Daye dwelling over Alderagate. Cum Gratia &

Priviligio Regiar Maiestatis. Anno 1581.

Fine New Barn at Cincinnatus.

   H. Edwards & Co. sold the pine to Mr. Boyd of Cincinnatus to be used in siding up his new barn. There was some 14,000 feet of it, and it was shipped here on the cars from Chenango Forks and matched and pinned by Alonxo Pease. Five teams were down from Cincinnatus drawing it up the valley Monday and Tuesday. Mr. Boyd is a brother-in-law of M. B. Edwards and it will be remembered that his barn was set afire by sparks from a threshing engine a few weeks ago.—Whitney Point Reporter.

BREVITIES.

   —The county committee appointed at the Cortland House Republican convention held a meeting this morning at the committee headquarters in the Schermerhorn building,

   —New display advertisements to-day are—A. S. Burgess, Clothing, Hat and Shoe Store, page 8; Warren, Tanner & Co., Dress Goods, page 6; National bank of Cortland, Report. page 6.

   —Mr. and Mrs. Fred Doran of 70 Homer-ave. were very agreeably surprised by about thirty friends Friday evening, who called on them unannounced. An enjoyable evening was passed.

   —The party of gentlemen representing the New York brokers, who came to Cortland to bid on the Marathon water bonds at the sale Saturday, occupied the right hand box at the Opera House at the presentation of "Madame Sans Gene" Saturday night.

   —The Right Rev. P. A. Ludden, bishop of Syracuse, will administer the sacrament of confirmation to a large class at St. Mary's church next Sunday. He will be assisted, by several neighboring priests. It is expected that the class will number about 150.

   —The case of The People against Fred Stout, charged with larceny was called in police court this morning and an adjournment taken to Oct. 18, at 10 o'clock A. M. Attorney Edwin Duffey appeared for the prosecution and Wade Stephenson for the defendant.

   —In its account of the opening of the evening business college in connection with the Y. M. C. A. at Atlanta, Ga., The Constitution of Oct. 2 says: "Professor B. D. Hakes of Cortland, N. Y., will have charge of the classes in bookkeeping, penmanship, arithmetic, spelling and commercial correspondence.''

   —A horse left standing beside a house on Argyle Place, Sunday afternoon, got tired of waiting for his driver and started off alone. The animal rounded the corner upon Main-st. without upsetting the carriage and then began to show his paces as he continued up Main-st. O. A. Kinney rushed out from the walk and stopped him and returned him to his owner who was following anxiously on. No damage was done.

   —Two men, giving their names as James O'Brien of Herkimer and James Whiting of Fall River, Mass., were in police court this morning on the charge of vagrancy, and Police Justice Mellon sentenced each to ten days in jail.

HOMER.

Gleanings of News From Our Twin Village.

   Mr. C H. White, the STANDARD collector, will be in Homer on Tuesday and Wednesday to collect the month's subscriptions.

   HOMER, Oct. 11.—Mr. W. F. MacCarthy, who has been employed by C. R. Merrill & Co. as tailor, left last night for Bloomsberg, Pa., where he has accepted a place with a leading firm. Mr. MacCarthy has been here but a short time but his pleasing manner and address has won for him many friends.

   Mr. Webster of McGrawville arrived this morning and will have charge of the repair department in Bennett & Starr's shoe store.

   Mr. and Mrs. James Barrows and son Eugene returned Saturday afternoon after a month's visit with relatives in Otsego county.

   The regular meetings of the young peoples' societies will be held as normal this evening in their respective churches.

   There was no small amount of excitement in the west end of the town Saturday night when after a few rash threats had been loudly spoken they were followed by pistol shots and more words. But the whole affair was caused by a little too much "fire water" on the brain and everything was soon settled, and the residents of that portion of the town were not disturbed again.

   The Homer football team has just arranged for a game of football with the St. John's team at Manlius to be played on the Manlius grounds next Wednesday.