YELLOW JACK SPREADS

Charity Hospital, New Orleans.

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, October 6, 1897.

YELLOW JACK SPREADS.

New Orleans' Situation Decidedly Worse. New Cases and Deaths.

   NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 6.—After two days of improvement and of promise the fever situation, on the face of the record, took somewhat of a bad turn. For 40 hours there had been no deaths and the number of cases had shown materially falling off.

   But all previous records of this season have been broken. So far 31 new cases have developed. Three deaths have also been reported to the board [of health].

   Dispatches announce that there are two cases of yellow fever on Dr. Saunder's plantation near Patterson, La., and an additional [suspicious] case.

Two Deaths at Mobile.

   MOBILE, Ala., Oct. 6.—The yellow fever report for the day is as follows: New cases, 2; deaths, 3.

   Total cases to date, 94; deaths, 15; discharged, 52; remaining under treatment, 27.

Scranton Growing Better.

   WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—At Biloxi there are six new cases and no deaths.

   The situation at Scranton, Miss., is improved. There were two new cases but no deaths.

Henry George.

Henry George Accepts.

   NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—Henry George accepted the nomination for mayor of Greater New York at Cooper Union last night. It was in the same hall and before many of the same people that he accepted the nomination 11 years ago and made the race, receiving 68,000 votes. It was the greatest outpouring of the people seen in this city during the present campaign. The doors were opened at 7:15 and in a few minutes every seat in the big hall was occupied and the aisles, as far as the police permitted, were crowded.

   Mr. George was notified of his formal indorsement [sic] by United Democracy, the Democratic Alliance, the People's Party and the Manhattan Single Tax club.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Putting Jefferson to a Bad Use.

   What a surprise it would be to Thomas Jefferson if he knew that Henry George had appealed to him as his political guide, philosopher and friend. He would imagine either that he had written with hopeless obscurity, or that he had been read with an incredible perversity. For there is really not much more in common between him and Mr. George than there is between virtue and vice. After enumerating in the famous inaugural address with which he entered upon his presidential duties for the first time, the things "necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people," he said: "Still one thing more, fellow citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the food it has earned."

   But the distinctive doctrines of Mr. George, the doctrines that he proposes to inject into the platform that he is now at work upon, shatter to dust this keystone to the arch of Jeffersonian Democracy. While Jefferson demanded above all things that the government should prevent men from injuring one another, George, by denouncing "government by injunction," proposes that they shall be permitted to injure one another as much as they please. Not to put it too softly, he favors government by mobs. While Jefferson asked that people shall be left free to "regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement," George insists that in order that they may be relieved of poverty in some mysterious way, their land shall be taken from them by taxation and then rented to them under the auspices of the government made a great landlord. Such an invasion of the rights of the individual would have driven Jefferson to the composition of another Declaration of Independence. While he favored a "wise and frugal government," George, as is pointed out in an interview with Abram S. Hewitt this morning, favors the exact antithesis. When he ran before for mayor of New York he demanded free street ears for the working people. Although he did not say how their fares should be paid, whether by appropriations from the city treasury or by the city ownership of the railroads and the distribution of free tickets to deserving persons, the scheme possesses illimitable possibilities of extravagance and fraud.

   But it may be added that it is not from Henry George alone that Thomas Jefferson is to be protected. Hardly an apostle of dishonor and ruin appears nowadays that does not appeal to the patron saint of Democracy. Even Byran finds in his teachings all the principles of the Chicago [Democratic] platform. Yet the sentence quoted from his inaugural address is a complete repudiation of every Popocratic tenet.

   ◘ Within the past few weeks the Cubans have gained three considerable victories over the Spaniards. General Garcia defeated the Spanish troops at

Victoria de las Tunas, Commander in Chief Gomez whipped them at Placetas and General Acosta captured a suburb of Havana only three miles away from that city.

   ◘ There is one thing the great coal operators who are now so bitter against the "foreigners" on strike against them should remember. It is that the operators themselves first brought these foreign miners to America to work in the coal districts so there might always be an abundance of men and therefore lower wage rates.

   ◘ William Gillette of "Secret Service" observed when he returned from England that British cigars were the best in the world if one wanted to be cured of the smoking habit. Certainly smoking British cigars cannot fasten upon one the tobacco habit, since it is stated for a fact that a third of them have not a trace of tobacco in them.

Juan Guiteras, M. D.

SHADOW OF A PLAGUE.

LIFE IN THE MIDST OF A YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC.

Rush of the Panic Stricken Populace to Escape Prom the Town—Then Comes Quarantine and the

 Horrors of Hand to Hand Conflict With the Pest.

   "The wind in the east and no frost until November." This means little to one who has never been in the midst of a yellow fever epidemic. To the resident of an infected district, however, it is full of import.

   After sundown on a midsummer's day is when a southern town seems to stir with life. All day the blinds have been closed tightly and the streets practically deserted, but when the sun no longer beats fiercely down on brick and stone, when the long shadows have deepened into cool, wide spreading darkness, then the shutters are thrown open and groups gather on verandas and doorsteps. There is the sound of laughter and chatter and here and there the tinkle of a banjo or the low thrum of a guitar. Peace and happiness are in the air.

   Late in the evening some one comes up from down town, and a whispered conversation is held. There is a suspicious case at the hospital, but the physicians have not as yet given their opinions. The word has been passed around, and wherever the rumor spreads the laughter and the music are hushed.

   "In the morning we will know," say the men. "Probably it is nothing serious."

   Yet each man hesitates as he nears the corner where he knows the bulletin will be posted. The ancients trembled when they asked the oracle to speak. The bulletin is there. It is the fever. During the day more deaths occur and more bulletins are posted.

   The scourge is on.

   The evolution of a panic is a dramatic thing. Fear of an unseen foe—a foe that strikes in the broad sunlight or in the dark, in the crowded street or in the seclusion of the home—causes it. Death may be communicated by a touch. The rail against which you lean, the knob of the door which you open, the newspaper which you pick up, may have been handled by one who has since been stricken and polluted.

   The colored people generally, as well as some of the natives who have lived through other epidemics, accept the situation with resignation. The whites, however, protest against it. They surge in crowds to the railroad stations and frantically beseech or curse the officials because of the lack of accommodations. They are mad with fear and they fight desperately to get away from the stricken place.

   At the first rumors of the presence of the epidemic, those who have the means send their families to the northern states, far out of reach of the plague. The poorer people get as far away as their money will carry them at the railroad stations. There are tears in many eyes and sobs mingle with the more commonplace sounds. Those who are left behind stay to face death. Those who depart go to suffer anxiety and perhaps privation among strangers. Every means of transportation is taxed. The very poor, who have no money to buy railroad tickets, take to the pine woods. On the seacoast some take refuge on islands.

   Next comes the quarantine.

   It seems harsh and selfish to shut people in a town where a deadly disease is epidemic, but the law of self preservation justifies it. This same law justifies the imprisoned ones in trying to escape. So a mere edict will not do. Guns are needed, and the dead line is drawn. The local militia of neighboring towns form a cordon around the infected place, and the amateur soldiers are enforced by private citizens. At every road and lane stands an armed man, grim, determined and ready to warn or shoot. They are all filled with the same determination to ward off the infection from their homes. Each man feels that he is protecting his own family, and when a man fights for his fireside he is a lion at bay.

   And how goes it in the fever stricken town? Walled in by the law on four sides, pelted from above by the merciless sun and with the scourge waiting for them at every turn, life becomes a dreadful nightmare. Business is suspended. Stores are closed and the streets traversed only by the doctors, the nurses and the dead wagon.

   In the present epidemic from which certain sections of the south are suffering the disease is being fought by skilled experts. Dr. Guiteras, the great Philadelphia yellow fever specialist, has been sent there by the federal government, and every precaution is being taken to prevent the spread of the scourge. It is probable that the great epidemics of former years will not be repeated this year, but the crisis will not be passed until the first welcome touch of frost is felt along the lower Atlantic seaboard.

   C. J. BOWDEN.

MRS. JENNIE WILLIAMS CHAPMAN

Died at the Hospital Tuesday Morning After a Brief Illness.

   Mrs. Jennie Williams Chapman, wife of Rev. Adelbert Chapman, punter of the First Baptist church of Cortland, died at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning after an illness of only five days. Mrs. Chapman had been in her usual health until Thursday of last week and it was not until Friday morning that a physician was called. She had made her usual preparations to attend the regular church prayer meeting with her husband on Thursday evening, but just before time for the meeting decided that it would be better for her to remain at home.

   Friday morning Dr. Reese was called who pronounced the case a severe attack of stoppage of the bowels. Mrs. Chapman continued to grow worse and on Sunday evening it was decided best to remove her to the hospital, where an operation was performed Monday morning at 8 o'clock by Drs. Reese, Higgins, Dana and Sornberger. She seemed to rally somewhat from the operation and retained consciousness until the end, which came shortly after 10 o'clock Tuesday morning.

   Mrs. Chapman was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William G. Williams of Attica. N. Y., and, besides her husband and her parents, she is survived by two brothers, Messrs. John G. and Charles Williams of Attica and one sister, Mrs. L. C. King of Oriskany Falls, who was with her at the time of her death. She was married to Rev. Adelbert Chapman on her 25th birthday, March 23, 1881. Mr. Chapman was at that time pastor of the Baptist church in Attica, where he remained for two years after his marriage. After leaving Attica Mr. Chapman took a course in the seminary at Rochester and then became pastor of the church at Hoosic Falls where he remained until he accepted the call to come to Cortland in August, 1895.

   Mrs. Chapman's death will be a sad blow to the church in Cortland, where she has been an active worker. She was superintendent of the primary department of the Sunday-school, an active and earnest worker in the Christian Endeavor, interested in the various missionary organizations of the church and ever ready to do all in her power to advance the interests of the church. She was especially interested in the children and young people. She was president of the Primary Teachers' union and up to the time of the summer vacation was superintendent of the junior work of the Baptist church.

   Funeral services will be held in the First Baptist church Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock and at Attica, where the remains will be taken for burial on Friday afternoon.

Cortland Opera House on Groton Avenue near Main Street.

A Letter from Managers Wallace & Gilmore.

To the Editor of the STANDARD:

   SIR—In presenting that great New York success, "Madame Sans Gene," we offer the people of Cortland one of the finest productions now before the American public. Of course, to secure such an attraction we are compelled to offer the highest possible percentage terms and a promise of large business. To be able to give such attractions to Cortland we must have the support of the people, for if we give high grade attractions to poor business, we will naturally have trouble in booking for a return date. There are no doubt many of Cortland's residents who have seen the above production in New York City, Syracuse, Rochester and others of the large cities, and it is to be hoped that they will tell their friends of this grand attraction, and that a large house will be the outcome.

   "Madame Sans Gene" was rendered in our Richardson theater at Oswego last season and the return date is anxiously awaited. When that date does arrive one of the largest audiences ever assembled in Oswego is a surety. Hoping Cortland's Opera House patrons will support us in our efforts to get the best on the road, we are the public's obedient amusement servants,

   WALLACE & GlLMORE,

   Mgrs., Cortland Opera House.

   Sale opens Thursday at 2:30 P. M.

BREVITIES.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—F. Daehler, Underclothing, page 7; Dey Bros. & Co., Fall Business, page 7.

   —The regular meeting of Grover post, No. 98, G. A. R., occurs this evening at 7:30 o'clock sharp, instead of 8 o'clock as heretofore.

   —Mr. William W. Wallace, brother of Mr. Joe A. Wallace, senior partner of the firm of Wallace & Gilmore, managers of the Cortland Opera House, has arrived in Cortland and will be the local representative of the managers.

   —The annual reunion of the Seventy-sixth Regiment N. Y. Vols., is to-day being held at Moravia and fifty-one tickets were this morning sold to veterans from Cortland who attended and who went upon the special car over the Lehigh Valley R. R.

   —Women are these days pushing themselves to the front in the legal profession, and Cortland bids fair not to be behind the times in that respect, judging from the smiling countenance of Attorney Nathan L. Miller to-day, into whose home there arrived this morning a bouncing daughter.

   —Secretary Armstrong of the Y. M. C. A. has received a notification from the secretary of the Central branch of the Brooklyn Y. M. C. A. that Messrs. Carl V. Tennant and F. A. Bates, members of the Cortland association who have recently moved to Brooklyn, have been accepted as full members of the Brooklyn Central branch for the unexpired portion of their Cortland membership.