YELLOW FEVER SITUATION IMPROVES AND BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

 

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, November 10, 1897.

SITUATION IMPROVES.

Yellow Fever on the Wane and Business Begins to Boom.

   NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 10.—Yellow fever continues on the decrease as the record indicates and the board of health is elated over the prospects of an early termination of the scare which has so badly crippled commerce. The business situation continues to brighten.
   Six new cases were reported and four deaths.

Warm Weather at Mobile.

   MOBILE, Nov. 10.—The report shows a slight increase in the number of new cases of yellow fever, the result of unusually warm weather. There were six new cases and two deaths.
   The report from Whistler is that there are 10 new cases there.

Memphis Steadily Improves.

   MEMPHIS, Nov. 10.—There has not been a case of yellow fever or death from that disease in Memphis for 40 hours.
   The Little Rock quarantine against Memphis was raised, but no reference was made to New Orleans or other infected points.

Colombia Raises the Quarantine.

   COLON, Nov. 10.—After holding in quarantine the Royal Mail Steam Packet company's steamer, via Jamaica, for 32 hours because of the reported prevalence of yellow fever in the island, the officials have raised the quarantine and allowed her to land her passengers and mails. Much indignation is expressed by the passengers at what they consider unwarranted detention.

Braceville Miners Resume Work.

   BRAIDWOOD, Ills., Nov. 10.—Five hundred coal miners who have been on strike since July 4 will return to work in the Braceville mine.
   The men will receive 77 1/2 cents per ton, an advance of 10 cents; no rent will be collected for the strike period and coal will be supplied to them at a reduction of 50 cents per ton.
   Talking of importing Chinese labor to fill the places of strikers in the other mines of the district continues to excite strong comment among the miners.
   Work was continued on the stockade at Carbon Hill, where it is said the Chinamen will be put to work.

Not Afraid of Chinese Miners.

   SPRING VALLEY, Ills. Nov. 10.—The news that Chinamen are to be imported into the mines at Carbon Hill is not considered very seriously at this place. The reported settlement at Braceville, where it is stated the miners have accepted the operators' offer, was discussed. The leaders say that no matter if Braceville does return to work at a nonunion scale the Spring Valley men will hold out until next May for the Springfield scale. The leaders also scoff at the idea of the "Coolies" movement being a success. They say it is only a bluff.

Electric Road in Delaware County.

   ALBANY, Nov. 10.—The Delaware Terminal Railroad company was incorporated with the secretary of state with a capital stock of $150,000. The company proposes to operate an electric road from the village of Sidney to the village of Franklin in Delaware county.

Booker T. Washington.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Booker Washington's Work.

   "How shall the colored youth of the south be educated?" asks Rev. A. D. Mayo in The New England Magazine. In the same number of the magazine the question is answered, and satisfactorily answered, in an article by Thomas J. Calloway on Booker T. Washington's negro institute at Tuskegee, Ala. It may well be that in time to come this black Washington will rank among his own race as George Washington ranks among the whites of the republic. Certainly the colored Washington is leading his people into liberty and enlightenment.
   His plan is mainly to give his students a good common school education and then fit them with some trade whereby they may step from the institute into an industrial pursuit that will yield them a good living. All occupations from farming to tailoring are taught. Whatever students do they must do in perfection, so that their services will be wanted and paid for. Here is a lesson for white folk as well for black. A large proportion of the army of the unemployed are in its ranks because they either will not take the trouble or do not know how to do their work well.
   What Booker Washington's school is accomplishing in the south we learn best from the story of one or two students as given by Mr. Calloway. One of the first graduates from the institute was a girl who went into a remote country neighborhood and became a teacher. To that benighted spot she has proved a veritable Moses to lead her people into plenty and enlightenment. When she went to the place, there were only three months' school and a tumble down log hut for a schoolhouse. She induced her people to become provident and contribute anything they could spare—eggs, chickens, fruit, vegetables or labor—to turn into money to lengthen the school term. Year by year improvements were added. She has staid in the same place ever since she began. Now the school term is eight months, and the children get their instruction in a neat and roomy frame building. Encouraged by her, the people have become thrifty, are the owners of small farms and live in neat frame dwellings. They are accumulating property rapidly under the inspiration this one girl teacher brought to them from Tuskegee.
   One of the young men graduates of the institute was a dairy expert. A friend got a place for him as butter maker in a creamery whose owners did not know he was black till they saw him. They demurred at first, but they needed a man very much, and he was allowed to begin work. When the butter he made brought 2 cents a pound more in the market than the owners had ever received before, they concluded the color of the butter maker did not make so much difference.

The County Canvassers.

   The supervisors as a board of county canvassers convened at the county clerk's office at 10 o'clock this morning, and finished canvassing the vote excepting the returns from the First district of Homer, in which there was a clerical error, and the inspectors from that district were summoned to correct it.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

Proceedings of Cortland County's Lawmakers and Financiers.

Second Day, Wednesday, Nov. 10.

   The board of supervisors met pursuant to adjournment at 9 o'clock. An application of J. H. Van Hoesen and T. H. Kennedy, assessors of the town of Homer, was read asking that an error be corrected in the assessment roll of that town where R. W. Rice is assessed $2,060 too little, and H. Power $1,000 too little.
   The clerk read a communication from Sister Mary Ann Burke, principal of Le Conteuix St. Mary's Institute for the Dumb at Buffalo, stating that Arthur Dillon, a county pupil in that institution became 12 years of age, Jan. 17, 1897, when he became a state pupil. Accompanying the letter was a bill of $81.74 for board and tuition from Oct. 1, 1896, to Jan. 17, 1897, which was referred to the committee on appropriations. Other bills read and referred to the same committee were those of the Matteawan state hospital of $237.86 for board of two patients, Fred C. Johnson and Alphonso Wagner; $15.16 from Craig Colony for clothing for John O'Selins; $40 from the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble Minded Children, for the board of Etta Toppin and Ada F. Hollenbeck; and $374.43 from Onondaga penitentiary for board of prisoners. 
   The report of District Attorney Miles E. Burlingame was received and placed on file, and his bill for salary and expenses amounting to $877.04 was referred to the committee on appropriations.
   On motion of Mr. Lee, the rules of the assembly were adopted as the rules of the board so far as applicable.
   On motion of Mr. Holton, $896.50 was levied on the several road districts of that town to make payments due on four road machines Feb. 1, 1898.
   The hours of the board's sessions were fixed from 9 to 12 A. M. and 1:30 to 4:30 P. M.
   On motion of Mr. Lee, the bills of A. M. Hulbert, poll clerk, $4; G. H. Hulbert, inspector, $8; G. W. Lee, election officer, $4 and Fayette Keeler, constable, $9, were added to the abstract of the town of Cuyler.
   The bill of Charles Beattie, excise commissioner, for $3, was ordered added to the abstract of the town of Truxton on motion of Mr. O'Donnell.
   At 10 o'clock the board adjourned until 1:30 P. M. to-meet as a board of county canvassers.

Adjudged Insane.

   Mrs. Ada L. Hahn, an inmate of the countyhouse, was examined this morning by Drs. F. W. Higgins and P. M. Neary, and declared insane. County Judge Eggleston thereupon made an order committing her to the Binghamton State hospital. The certificate states that within the past pear she has absconded from the Cortland hospital three times, and from the county almshouse two times. It also states that she has threatened suicide; that she pulls her hair out and screams when alone; is afraid to be alone; says there are 10,000 devils after her. She claims to be very wealthy, and on one occasion made a will bequeathing her imaginary wealth to strangers.

Died at the Hospital.

   Mrs. Eliza Slater, who resided in the W. C. T. U. rooms, and who fell on the floor early in October injuring a hip, died at the hospital this morning at the age of 75 years. The funeral will be held Friday at 10 o'clock A. M. at the home of her daughter, Miss Henrietta Slater, at the W. C. T. U. rooms on West Court-st.. and burial will be made in the Cortland Rural cemetery. Mrs. Slater was born in Danube, Herkimer county, and came to Cortland from Genoa, Cayuga county, sixteen years ago. Her husband's death occurred eight years ago. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. E. A. Chubb and Miss Henrietta Slater of Cortland, and three sons, Charles E. of East Homer, Henry M. of Detroit, Mich., and Edgar of Battle Creek, Mich.

Funeral of Mr. Fletcher.

   The funeral of Mr. R. B. Fletcher, which was held from his late home, 115 Clinton-ave. at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, was very largely attended. The undertakers of the county were represented by N. J. Peck, of the firm of Beard & Peck, and the members of the firm of O'Leary & McEvoy of Cortland, both members of the firm of Briggs Brothers of Homer and L. Parsons of McGrawville. The funeral was in charge of Undertaker Elmer Bangs, Mr. Fletcher's business partner, and Rev. J. C. B. Moyer, pastor of the Homer-ave. M. E. church, assisted by Rev. John T. Stone, pastor of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. G. W. Bellis and Mrs. O'Donnell sang with fine effect. The bearers were Martin Edgcomb, H. E. Andrews, H. T. Bushnell and B. M. Phelps. Interment was made in the Cortland Rural cemetery.

BREVITIES.

   —The meeting of the Syracuse chamber of commerce last night heartily endorsed the project for the electric road from that city to Moravia to connect with the Lehigh Valley railroad and promised to do all in its power to help the scheme along.

   —Invitations are out for the wedding of Mr. Earl L. Sprague of Virgil and Miss Lona A. Freeman, which will occur at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Freeman in Lapeer, on Wednesday evening, Nov. 17, at 8 o'clock.

   —New display advertisements to-day are— F. Daehler, A Strike, page 6; Rosenbloom & Sons, Parlor Furniture, page 7; Geo. Allport, Great Bargains, page 6; Kellogg & Curtis, Special Sale, page 6; Opera House, Victor Herbert's band, page 5.

   —Owing to the bad roads and the uncertainty of the weather the husking bee, which was planned for to-night under the auspices of the Y. P. S. C. E. of the First Baptist church at the home of Mr. C. E. Wilkins, has been indefinitely postponed.

   —The dry goods and clothing store of J. R. Foster at Cincinnatus was entered by burglars Monday night, who secured a suit of clothes, besides other articles of lesser value. Entrance was gained by breaking a window light. The intruders left no clue.

   —Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Wadsworth of 1 Greenbush-st. very pleasantly entertained about thirty-five invited guests Monday evening in honor of the twentieth anniversary of their marriage. Nice refreshments were served and they were the recipients of several nice presents.

   —The Choral society meets this evening in the Y. M. C. A. rooms at 8 o'clock. Work will be begun on Jensen's cantata, "Feast of Adonis." Prof. Dahm-Petersen has arranged to accommodate those basses and tenors who wish a preparatory rehearsal, and this will begin at 7:30 sharp.

HOMER.

Gleanings of News From Our Twin Village.

   HOMER, NOV. 10.—Mr. C. O. Newton went to Syracuse this morning for a day's business trip.

   Mr. Owen Waite of Cornell university was the guest of Mr. William Hamilton the fore part of this week.

   Mrs. F. E. Webster, who recently moved here from McGrawville and who is occupying rooms over Bennett & Starr's shoe store and who has been ill with the fever, is somewhat improved.

   Mr. E. B. Kenfield, former proprietor af the Brunswick cafe, now proprietor of the Allen House in Oneida, has sold his share in the Brunswick cafe at this place to Mr. Elisha Williams. Mr. Williams takes possession of the place next Monday morning. The place has been run for the past few months by Mr. [Frank] Fox.

   Mourin, Wolfe & Co. have been making some new improvements at their place of business at the railroad station in the line of a new private office. The work is very neatly done and the office has been fitted up with a telephone, new office furniture, etc.

   Miss Louisa Henry, who went to Syracuse Monday morning, returned to the home of Mrs. J. M. Schermerhorn on South Main-st., this morning.

   Mrs. William Hildreth Field and daughter, who have been visiting with her brother Mr. Burnette E. Miller and family for a few days left for their home in New York City this morning.

   Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Brockway left for a short visit to New York City this morning.

   The Ladies' Aid and Home Missionary societies of the Congregational church will serve their annual supper in the parlors of the church next Friday evening at 6 o'clock. At 5 o'clock there will be the reading of reports, election of officers and a short musical program, which every one is most cordially invited to attend, as well as the supper.

   The ladies of the M. E. Aid society will serve their regular bi-weekly supper in the Methodist church this evening at 6 o'clock. An earnest invitation for all to attend this supper is extended.

   The vested choir of the Calvary Episcopal church will meet with Miss Gertrude Samson on South Main-st. for a regular rehearsal. It is desired that there be a full attendance of all the members.

   There was a full attendance of all the members of the Dorcas society last evening which met with Miss Norma Davis at her home on Wall-st. and, as usual, the members had a most enjoyable time as the meetings are becoming very interesting.

   Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Watson and Mrs. D. N. Brown left this morning for a day's visit in Syracuse.

   The funeral of Mrs. Michael Kinney occurred this morning from the home of her son, Mr. P. Kinney, on the corner of James and Williams-sts. Services were held at St. Mary's church in Cortland. Mrs. Kinney was 85 years old and came to this country from Ireland, where she was born in [1812]. Her death was due to paralysis and old age.

   Miss Bessie Wills is now employed as clerk in the postoffice since her father went out of the shoe store, where she has been his clerk for several years.

   Mrs. William Pierce, who has been for the past two years a patient and uncomplaining sufferer, died of heart disease at her home on Elm-ave. at 9 o'clock last evening. Mrs. Pierce has been a great sufferer for some time and all that could be done by medical aid and a kind husband and children was of no avail. Mrs. Pierce was 46 years of age and is survived by her husband and two children, Miss Lena Pierce and Mr. Edwin Pierce, and two brothers and two sisters. Arrangements for the funeral services have been made and will be held at the home on Elm-ave. at 2 P. M. Friday.