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| Cortland Opera House. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Wednesday, November 17, 1897.
VICTOR HERBERT'S BAND
Gave a
Grand Concert to a Highly Appreciative Audience.
If the great bandmaster Victor Herbert and
his celebrated Twenty-second regiment band had tried hard to pick the most
disagreeable afternoon of the season from the weather point of view for a visit
to Cortland, they could hardly have failed to select yesterday. And it was too
bad, for hosts of people wanted to hear the special attraction, both those here
in Cortland, and others for miles out into the country. But with mud inches
deep and a cold rain falling that was steadily turning to snow it is no wonder that
the audience was comparatively small.
The coldness, however, was all out of doors.
What the audience lacked in numbers it more than made up in appreciation and
enthusiasm. As Mr. Herbert himself said after the concert, "The house was
with us.'' It couldn't help being with them. The person must be deaf and dumb
and blind indeed who could fail to yield to the magic spell of that magnificent
band and its wonderful music. Every number on the program was encored, and in
several cases double encores were called for and were cheerfully given.
The band seems equally at home in the heavy Wagner
music and in the bright and breezy waltzes or stirring marches from some of Victor
Herbert's own comic operas. As might have been expected Mr. Herbert's violincello
solo was one of the choicest features of the concert, and he was compelled to
respond to a double encore. When the last strains of the closing number, The
Hungarian Rhapsody, died away, the audience, strange to say, remained in their
seats refusing to go. The applause was continued till the leader glanced at his
watch and found that still a little time remained before the departure of their
special train for Ithaca, and then the band played "The American
Patrol," a medley of American patriotic airs that proved a splendid
closing to one of finest band concerts ever heard in Cortland.
The program including the first encores in
each case was as follows, the second encore in several cases being a repetition
of the whole or part of the first one, though sometimes different:
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| Patrick S. Gilmore. |
NOTES.
It is a notable event for Cortland to have
the two greatest military bands in the country come here the same year. Sousa
played here March 31 and now
Victor
Herbert.
This same band under the leadership of P. S. Gilmore has played in Cortland five times before—the first time under the
auspices of Excelsior Hook and Ladder Co. at the [roller skating] rink on both
the afternoon and evening of March 2, 1886; the next time under the auspices of
Excelsior Hook and Ladder Co., at the Opera House on both the afternoon and
evening of March 19, 1888, when a local chorus of 115 voices which had been
practicing for some weeks under the direction of Mr. A. D. Blodgett sang a
number of selections with the band accompaniment, among them being "The
Anvil Chorus," "Inflammatus," and the "Gloria" from
Mozart's Twelfth Mass. The next time the band appeared at the Opera House on its
own account on the afternoon of May 16, 1890, and now comes the same band under
the direction of Victor Herbert, Mr. Gilmore having died in 1892.
Herbert's band came to Cortland from Auburn
and went to Ithaca for last evening.
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| Hamilton College Chapel. |
Gifts to
Hamilton College.
UT1CA, N. Y., Nov. 17.—In the chapel at
Hamilton college there was a formal presentation of the Root hall of science,
the Benedict hall of languages, the renovated chapel interior, the stone apse,
the campus addition and the Stephen field, presented by the donors in their
order: The Hon. Elihu Root of New York, H. H. Benedict of New York, Dr. Horace
Silliman of Cohoes, Chauncey S. Truax of New York, Hamilton B. Tompkins of New
York and President Stryker, speaking for John K Myers. Response was made for
the trustees by the Hon. Franklin D. Locke of Buffalo, and for the faculty by
Professor A. G. Hopkins. The oration of the day was delivered by President M.
W. Stryker. A guest of honor was Governor Frank S. Black.
POSTAL TREATY SIGNED.
President
McKinley Affixes His Signature.
TAKES
EFFECT ON JAN. 1, 1899.
It Makes
Many Changes From the Rates Adopted by the Vienna Conference and Now In Use.
Reduction Every Two Years.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—The final act on the
part of this government in the ratification of the treaty adopted by the recent
universal postal congress has been taken.
President McKinley signed the formal
convention or treaty, and Secretary of State Sherman had the governmental seal
affixed. Postmaster General Gary had already signed.
The treaty takes effect Jan. 1, 1899. It
modifies the convention of the Vienna congress now in force as follows:
For territorial transit, including maritime
transit of not more than 300 nautical miles, each country in the line of
transit is to be compensated by the country of origin at the rate of what
amounts in American currency to 18 cents per pound for letters and postal cards
and 2 1/4 cents per pound for other articles.
This rate is to be reduced every two years
of the six at the rate of 5, 10 and 15 per cent respectively.
For maritime transit, about $1.45 per pound
for letters and postal cards, 9 cents for other articles. This is to be divided
pro rata among countries in transit with graduated reduction each two years to
$1.35, $1.16 and 97 cents respectively.
Transit expenses will be further reduced, as
payments will be made only on
the basis
of weights exchanged during 1896, though mails increase in weight about 10 per
cent annually.
Commemoration postage stamps will not be
recognized international mails.
Postage stamps are to be printed, as far as
possible, by the various countries as follows:
Five cent in dark blue, 2 cent in red, 1
cent in green.
Natural history specimens, except for
commercial uses, will be admitted as merchandise samples.
Letters in care of consuls will be returned
to origin free.
NO
ACTION TAKEN.
Seal
Conference Reach an Understanding That Will Prove Valuable.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—The Bering sea meeting,
in which representatives of Great Britain, Canada and the United States have
participated, came to a close last night, the seal experts making a unanimous
report concerning the condition of the seal herds, and the diplomatic
representatives of the respective governments reaching an understanding by
which they hope at a later day to effect final adjustment, not only of the
Bering sea question, but of other pending border controversies.
For the present, however, no final action
was taken as to the suspension of pelagic sealing.
The Canadians urged that other questions be
embraced in any plan of settlement and suggested an international commission to
accomplish this end.
This proposition was fully discussed and an
agreement reached, that the Canadian officials would put their views in writing
after returning to Ottawa and submit them to the authorities here.
All parties concerned say that the outlook
is favorable to a satisfactory adjustment.
A
SERIOUS CHARGE,
Missionary
Lecturer Arrested on Charge of Attempt at Rape.
Tully, N. Y., Nov. 17.—(Special).—Fred S.
West, who was to have delivered a lecture in the M. E. church in this place
this evening on ''The Wonders of Africa,'' was arrested shortly after 1 o'clock
this afternoon by Constable Burdick on a warrant charging him with an attempt
at rape upon the person of Annie, the 9-year-old daughter of Rev. Eli Pitman,
the pastor of that church. It is said that West was in the church arranging the
apparatus for his stereopticon with which the lecture was to have been
illustrated. The little girl was watching him, when he made the attempt. She
eluded him and went home crying, and was quite seriously hurt.
A warrant was at once sworn out and Officer
Burdick found his man and took him to the office of Attorney G. R. Patterson
for examination. The people heard of it and a great crowd gathered. There were
threats of lynching.
Word was sent to Syracuse asking the
presence of the district attorney or one of his assistants, but all are engaged
upon the Wesolosky murder trial and could not come. It was decided to take him
to Syracuse this afternoon for examination in that city.
The lecture at the M. E. church will not
occur to-night. Tully is thoroughly aroused over the occurrence.
(NOTE.—West is the same man of whom an
extended notice occurred in our Homer letter yesterday announcing his lecture
next Sunday night in the Homer Congregational church.—Editor STANDARD.)
BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS.
Proceedings
of Cortland County's Lawmakers and Financiers.
Seventh
Day, Tuesday, Nov. 16.
The board convened as usual, all being present.
The report of the supervisor of the town of
Cortlandville was submitted and placed on file.
The special committee appointed at the last
annual session, consisting of Messrs. B. R. Corning, John O'Donnell and H. D.
Hunt, to consider the claim of Cortland county against the state of New York
for the value of the county buildings for the insane which are now useless to
the county presented its report which was placed on file. The committee reported
that they had thought it unwise to wait till the annual session before putting
in the claim, and that they had submitted the matter to each supervisor
individually and had then put in the claim to the state of $9,058.70. The
committee recommended that two competent builders be detailed to look over the
buildings, so that they could be called as witnesses in case of need to testify
as to their value.
On motion of Mr. Hammond:
Resolved, That the pay of grand and trial jurors for the ensuing year be fixed at
$2 per day and eight cents per mile for going and returning once.
On motion of Mr. Hammond:
Resolved, That the supervisor of the town of Marathon be authorized to add to the
town abstract the sum of $2.50 for highway and bridges, the same being approved
by the town board.
On motion of Mr. Hammond:
Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed by the chair to visit the
almshouse and farm and report at the next annual session of this board.
On motion of Mr. Hammond:
Resolved, That E. A. Williams be, and is hereby appointed sealer of weights and
measures for the ensuing year.
On motion of Mr. Hammond:
Resolved, That the sheriff's compensation for the board of prisoners for the
ensuing year be fixed at 40 cents per day, and that three meals and one lodging
constitute a day's board.
On motion of Mr. Surdam:
Resolved, That the supervisor of the town of Lapeer be authorized to add to the
abstract of said town the bill of John E. Leonard, M. D., of $1.75, it having
been disallowed by the town board on account of an error that he has since
corrected and write it so to appear on the abstract.
On motion of Mr. Childs:
Resolved. That the compensation of the clerk of this board shall be $150 for the
annual session—$100 to be paid at the close of this session and $50 to be paid
when the [printed journal] proceedings of the board are delivered to the
supervisors.
On motion of Mr. Childs:
Resolved, That in matters of erroneous assessments in case of the refunding of
taxes the amounts refunded should be charged proportionately upon the county
and the town interested.
The remainder of the day was devoted to
committee work.
Eight
Day, Wednesday, Nov. 17.
The board convened as usual, all being present.
The report of Supervisor Lee of Cuyler was
read and filed.
Mr. Brown, chairman of the committee on
printing, presented his report which was adopted and referred to the committee on
appropriations.
Mr. O'Donnell, chairman of the committee on
settling with the district attorney, presented his report which was adopted and
referred to the committee on appropriations.
Mr. Tuttle, chairman of the committee on
settling with the county judge and justices, presented his report which was adopted
and referred to the committee on appropriations.
Mr. Brown, chairman of the committee on
erroneous assessments, presented his report, which was adopted and referred to
the committee on appropriations.
On motion of Mr. Tuttle:
Resolved, That the salary of the district attorney-elect including office rent be
fixed at $850 per year for the ensuing term.
On motion of Mr. Tuttle:
Resolved, That the supervisor of the town of Truxton be authorized to add to the abstract
of said town the bills of Howard C. Watrous for cleaning town hall $1 and of
John M. Davis, supplies for justices, $1.75, the same having been duly
verified, but not presented to the town board for audit.
On motion of Mr. Smith:
Resolved, That the supervisor of the town of Cortlandville be authorized to
add to the
abstract of said town the bill of James Tanner, $10.23, for taxes erroneously
assessed and collected of him in 1895.
The chairman announced the appointment of
the following committee to visit the county almshouse and report at the next
annual session: Messrs. Hammond, Bingham, Greene.
By request, Mr. Corning, chairman of the special
committee, presented the matter of the claim of the county against the state for
buildings formerly used for insane patients. Mr. O'Donnell, a member of the
committee, suggested that this board provide that a sum be appropriated to pay
the expenses incurred by the committee in preparing their case for the court of
claims. Some discussion followed regarding the matter, after which, on motion
of Mr. Tuttle, it was
Resolved, That this committee be empowered to procure such witnesses as may be
necessary for the proper prosecution of this claim, and that the sum of $200 be
appropriated by the county and placed at the disposal of the committee.
H. M. Kellogg, a member of the board of
trustees of the Cortland County Monumental association, appeared before the board
and presented an appeal from the association for the appropriation by the board
of $25 for the care of the plot surrounding the monument for the year 1898. Mr.
Kellogg recited the fact that the monument had cost $5,000, not a cent of which
had been raised by the county. For twenty years the care of the monument had
been performed by two parties free of expense. The petition was signed by H. M.
Kellogg, H. T. Bushnell, A. Sager, S. N. Holden, Geo. W. Edgcomb, J. R.
Birdlebough and D. C. Beers, trustees.
After discussion Mr. Lee moved that the
prayer of the petitioners be granted and that the sum of $25 be appropriated for
the purpose of caring for the soldiers' monument and grounds, stating that in
so doing it would exhibit a spirit of laudable ambition on the part of this
board to cherish and perpetuate the memory of our heroic dead. The roll was
called on the above resolution and the name of each of the fifteen supervisors was
recorded in the affirmative.
Mr. Kellogg, as a representative of Grover
post No. 98, G. A. R., also presented the matter of the burial of indigent
soldiers, stating that a burial lot had been provided in Cortland Rural
cemetery, that arrangements were being made for the erection of a suitable
monument upon said lot, and asking that the $15 used for the erection of a
headstone for each soldier be used for the placing of a proper inscription for such
soldier upon said monument instead. After discussion, on motion of Mr.
O'Donnell,
Resolved, That the request of Grover post No. 98, G. A. R., be granted so far as it may
be in the power of this board to grant such request.
The
rest of the day was devoted committee work.
GOING TO
SYRACUSE.
Supervisors
to Visit Public Institutions in the Salt City.
The board of supervisors after their adjournment
this afternoon will board the 4:40 train for a trip to Syracuse. They expect to
visit the Onondaga county board of supervisors and also the Onondaga
penitentiary, aside from other public buildings. They expect to return
to-morrow afternoon. The party will consist of Chairman W. H. Crane, Clerk A.
E. Seymour, and Supervisors B. R. Corning, R. B. Smith, B. F. Lee, Harvey Z.
Tuttle, J. H. Brown, F. M. Sudam, J. H. Hammond, H. D. Hunt, E. W. Childs, W. H.
DeLong, John O'Donnell and Jefferson Greene.
Hospital
Report for October.
The following is the report of patients at
the Cortland hospital for October, 1897: patients remaining in hospital Oct. 1,
8; patients admitted during October, 8; patients discharged during October, 11;
number of deaths, 1; number of operations, 3; number remaining in hospital Oct.
31, 4.
BREVITIES.
—Grover post No. 98, G. A. R., meets
to-night at 7:30 o'clock.
—Four candidates received the third degree
in the O. U. A. M. Monday night.
—The oyster supper at the East Side rooms
last night wan very liberally patronized, and a large sum was realized.
—The Woman's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A.
held a very helpful prayer-meeting in the parlor yesterday afternoon, led by
Mrs. T. D. P. Stone.
—The total number of children of school age
in Syracuse is 19,942, and there are less than fifty of these that are unable
to read or write.
—The annual dance of Hitchcock Hose Co., No.
6, will be held in Taylor hall on Friday evening, Nov. 19. Music by McDermott's
orchestra of six pieces.
—The first term of the kindergarten dancing
class, which meets in Empire hall, is now half over and the members of the
class show much proficiency.
—The case of J. B. Morris against Ray Call
and others occupied the attention of Justice Kelley Monday. The action was brought
to recover alleged damages for the breaking of a wagon. Decision was reserved.
—The Cortland & Homer Traction company
and a force of men engaged in putting the skating rink east of the Tioughnioga river
in shape for the winter season. Excavations are being made so that the water
will be of the same depth all over.
—Mr. O. C. Smith is to-day assuming to
himself such airs as could be produced by only one thing in the world—the fact
that he is a grandfather. His friends read it on his face at first sight, and
he is fully convinced that the young lady, Miss Lillian Jewell Hopper of New
York, who made her debut this morning, is a jewel in fact as well as in name.
—The Root hall of science and the Benedict
hall of languages, two new gifts to Hamilton college, representing a cost of $31,000
and $30,000 respectively, were formally presented to the college and dedicated
on Monday. The former is the gift of Elihu Root of New York and is in memory of
his father, Prof. Owen Root, long professor of mathematics at Hamilton. The
other is the gift of H. H. Benedict of New York.
—The Cortland association junior football
team will play the Ithaca association juniors on Thanksgiving day afternoon in
Ithaca.—Ithaca Journal. We are authorized by Secretary Armstrong to say that
the Cortland Y. M. C. A. has no football team, junior or senior. There are four
members of the Y. M. C. A. who play upon a town team, but no team is conducted
under the management of t he Y. M. C. A., and no team is authorized or entitled
to play under its colors or under its name.
McGRAWVILLE.
Crisp
Local Happenings at the Corset City.
Humphries & Stafford have a new sign on
the wholesale feed store on Railway-ave.
McGrawville now has a regular office of the
United States Express Co. at the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. station.
M. B. Howes is suffering from a clipped
finger caused by an ending machine at the Taylor paper box factory.
Mrs. Electa Palmer, who dislocated a limb
last week, is rapidly improving under the care of Dr. Hendrick.
Mrs. C. L. Kinney, daughter Maud and son
Wesley, Miss Minnie M. Alger and Mrs. E. D. Barker of Cortland were guests at
David Loomis' Saturday.
Miss Claudine Tripp is again on duty at the
corset factory after an illness of several weeks.
Hon. P. H. McGraw is sick from trouble of the
heart.
Mrs. Elmira Forshee has returned from Ellis,
Tompkins Co., N. Y.
Mrs. Almon Wellman of Osceola, N. Y., is
visiting her son and daughter Mr. L. L. Wellman and Mrs. J. J. Cowles.
McGrawville lodge, No. 212, have elected and
installed the following officers for the ensuing quarter:
C. T.—George Hoag.
V. T.—Teresa Hall.
Secretary—Althea Underwood.
Treasurer—Myrtle Underwood.
Financial Secretary—Carl Hammond.
Marshal—Floyd Loomis.
Department Marshal—Arthur McElheny.
Assistant Secretary—Louise Salisbury.
Guard—Belle Wood.
Sentinel—Arthur Freeman.
Chaplain—Clinton Gates.
S. J. T.—Lena Masten.
P. C. T.—Charles A. Hurd.
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