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| Rear Admiral George Dewey. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Wednesday, May 4, 1898.
NO NEWS FROM
MANILA.
Commodore Dewey Has Not Been Officially
Heard From.
NO ALARM FELT OVER IT.
Dispatches
Expected In the Very Near Future.
WASHINGTON, May 4.—Not a single word has
been heard from the American fleet in the Philippines, and in view of the long
continued interruption in cable communication the officials are beginning to
resign themselves to the belief that they must await for their official news
until a boat arrives at Hong Kong. In ordinary times there is plenty of
communication by steamers as well as by native vessels between the Philippines
and the mainland, and the officials will be rather surprised if some news is
not received within the next few hours.
The navy department estimates that it will
take from 34 to 36 hours for the Hugh
McCulloch to steam from Manila to Hong Kong with dispatches from Dewey. It
is not believed that he will send the cutter away until he has completed the
capture of Manila. With 24 hours notice from Sunday noon to the Spaniards to
get out or surrender would cause the bombardment to begin Monday noon, the time
the cable was cut. The departure of the dispatch boat could of course depend
entirely upon the time needed to capture the town. Monday night would probably
be the earliest at which Dewey could hope to get possession of the city. If the
McCulloch started at once she would not get to Hong Kong until late today.
Navy department officials think it more
likely that it will be 24 hours later before official news is placed upon the
cable. Of course Dewey could pick up the end of the cable off Manila before he
takes the town, but navy people here think that he probably will not do that,
as he will not be over anxious to place himself under possible embarrassing
Washington orders until he has completed his task after his own ideas.
WHO CUT THE CABLE?
Probably
Spanish Officials on Instructions From Madrid.
WASHINGTON, May 4.—Who cut the cable to the
Philippine islands is a question of much speculation among Washington
officials. A leading diplomat said circumstances would indicate that the
cutting had been done by Spanish officials, on instructions from Madrid, in
order to stop the transmission of further news of the disaster there, and in
that way calm the storm of popular indignation at Madrid.
It is thought to have been impossible for
Commodore Dewey to have cut the cable, as he was unacquainted with its location
50 miles seaward and, moreover, there appears to have been no motive for an
interruption of cable communication on his part.
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| USS Marblehead. |
Report
of a Small Naval Fight.
ATLANTA, May 4.—A special from Key West to
The Journal says: "The
Marblehead
has arrived with the Argonauta, the Nashville's prize. While the Nashville was
away trying to capture a mail steamer two Spanish gunboats came out and
attacked the Hornet. The Hornet returned the fire, the Marblehead coming into
the action soon after. After firing a broadside the Spaniards turned about.
Captain McCalla thinks he sank one of the Spaniards and probably both. The
firing occurred off Cienfuegos."
READY TO
RELIEVE DEWEY.
California's
Militia Can Start Within Forty-Eight Hours.
SAN
FRANCISCO, May 4.—The announcement that the government would probably send
Pacific coast troops to the Philippines as soon as possible after Commodore
Dewey's report has created considerable excitement in this city. The officers
of the various departments at army headquarters eagerly read the dispatches
which conveyed the first intimation of the government's action, and evinced the
liveliest interest in this new chance for active service.
In the absence of General Merriam, who is in
command of the department of California at Vancouver barracks, nothing definite
could be learned as to what, if any, instructions had been received or given,
but his subordinates stated that they were fully prepared to dispatch the
requisite number of men as soon as the demand is made for them.
General Warfield of the National Guard
stated that he had not received any instructions, but that California's quota
would be ready and fully equipped for the journey to the Philippines or
anywhere else within 48 hours after being so notified.
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| Rear Admiral William T. Sampson. |
CUBAN
CAMPAIGN.
Military
Expedition to Be Landed There In a Short Time.
WASHINGTON, May 4.—The plans of the Cuban
campaign are being steadily developed and there is no indication of a change of
purpose on the part of the military authorities who are expected to land an
expeditionary force in Cuba in a very short time. Admiral Sampson, so far as
the navy department knows, is steadily maintaining the blockade of the Cuban
coast, and this is not likely to be abandoned for the present, though two or
three of his ships may be sent away temporarily to meet the Oregon on her way
to Cuba from Rio Janeiro.
While the officials of the navy department
naturally feel a warm interest in this race of the magnificent battleship
around the continent, they profess to feel little anxiety as to the outcome,
notwithstanding the current talk of an effort on the part of the Spanish flying
squadron to cut off the Oregon. The vessel sailed from Rio on a course known
only to the captain, and the chances of being overtaken on the high seas are
very small. Even should the Spanish vessels fall in with her, it was by no
means certain, notwithstanding their numbers, that she would be defeated by the
combined Spanish force, as her magnificent armor and ordnance are superior in
every respect, size and quality to those of the Spanish ships.
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
What
Spain Has Before Her.
If Spain's six or seven armored cruisers in
the Atlantic should also meet our ships, they would be destroyed as surely as
her Asiatic fleet was destroyed. Powerful vessels as they are, they are not so
strong as ours. Their men cannot begin to use their guns with ours.
Individually they cannot fight with ours. The Spanish fleet is doomed if it
crosses the Atlantic. Wiseacres of hostile sympathies will sneer at this as
braggadocio, but it's true. To make our estimate of the American navy as clear
to everybody as it is
definite in our own mind, we will say, without desire to impose on any one, but
also without fear to express what we believe to be the fact, that our navy has
not an equal, ton for ton, in the world.—New York Sun.
Unselfish
Praise.
Rear Admiral Jouett, retired, is quoted as
saying of Commodore Dewey's work:
It was a most daring and glorious feat for
an officer to run his fleet into a strongly defended harbor lined with mines
and torpedoes. It is an act that will go down in history and make the name of
Dewey famous. The president should promote him to the grade of admiral by
telegraph. Every officer who took part in the glorious fight should be
promoted.
These words, and similar sentiments are
expressed by naval officers generally, show the unselfishness of our sea
fighters. The promotion of Dewey to the rank of admiral would be the reward he
most would prize, and be approved by the country. He is a commodore—three
grades below admiral, the rank won by Farragut and now lapsed. To raise Dewey
for deeds done, from commodore to admiral, skipping rear and vice admiral,
would not be so much a departure from routine as the promotion of Sampson from
captain to acting rear admiral, for deeds hoped for. We mean no criticism of
the promotion of Captain Sampson, who is on all sides accounted a most
competent officer.
Spain's
Last Naval Victory.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat has been at
pains to look into the history of
Spain in
modern times and see what she has been able to do in the field of naval
warfare. The editor finds that the dons gained their last victory at sea in the
gulf of Lepanto where, with the aid of two Italian fleets, they whipped and
destroyed the Turkish navy. But that victory was in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth and the fight of Lepanto occurred 327 years ago. Seventeen years
after Lepanto, in 1588 that is, Philip II of Spain tried another great sea
fight, this time with England Its disastrous result is known to history in the
tale of the destruction of the armada.
Next Spain lost Gibraltar, and she has been
losing sea battles ever since. Judging from her history in the past three
centuries, as recalled by the St. Louis editor, it ought to take about three
months for us to whip the cruel and decrepit old country off the seas and give
her such a thrashing that it will be three centuries more before she sends out
another fleet. The Globe-Democrat says of the fight of Lepanto and after:
No naval victory has been gained by Spain
since that day. Three centuries and a quarter have elapsed since the battle of
Lepanto, but Spain never won another important fight on the water afterward.
Since Lepanto Spain has on the ocean at one time and another fought England,
France, Holland, the different parts of
Italy, some of the various combinations of the German states and almost every
other country in Europe, small and great, and most of the little nations of
Central and South America, but she has won no battle which has had the faintest
effect toward bettering her own fortunes or which has altered in even the
slightest degree the general current of history.
CABLE CUT, OR DESERTED?
NEWS OF
DEWEY'S VICTORY TRAVELED OVER TWELVE CABLES.
14,000
Miles In Thirty-five Minutes—Under the China Sea, Straits of Malacca and Bay of
Bengal; Over India, Under the Arabian Sea, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Channel and
Atlantic.
(From
the New York Sun, May 3.)
News of the fighting in Manila, on the other
side of the earth, travels more than 14,000 miles over a dozen or more cables
and three or more overland wires before it gets to this city. Very few persons among
the thousands who watch the bulletin boards these days stop to think, when a Manila
dispatch is posted, that the message was repeated over and over again, as
it was sent from cable office to cable office, in the long journey from the Philippine
port to the American shore. It traveled across seas, gulfs, bays and straits,
mountains, valleys and plains. But yesterday the news that Commodore Dewey was
ready to bombard Manila was known in this city 35 minutes in actual time after
the British operator at Manila opened his key. The cables were rushing things.
The eastern cables are owned by British companies,
the Eastern Telegraph company and the Eastern Extension, Australia and China
Telegraph company. The two companies are controlled by the same men. Across the
China sea, from Hong Kong to Cape Bolinao on Luzon Island in the Philippines, a
cable was laid in 1880. The cable is 529.11 miles long. From Cape Bolinao
across the island to Manila is a telegraph line about 100 miles long. All the
news we have received from Manila has been first telegraphed from Manila to the
cable station at Cape Bolinao, and from there sent on by cable to Hong Kong.
The news that Commodore Dewey had demanded
the surrender of Manila and was about to bombard the city, received yesterday
morning, was soon afterward followed by a short cable dispatch from the office
of the Eastern Extension company in London reading:
"The cable between Hong Kong and Manila
is interrupted."
Only surmises could be made here as to the
cause of the interruption. The wording of the dispatch led the general officers
of the telegraph and cable companies in New York to believe that the cable had
been extended direct to Manila. At the Western Union office it was believed that,
the bombardment of Manila having begun, the telegraph office had been deserted,
and news of the bombardment would be sent to Hong Kong by tapping the land
telegraph line north of Manila. That the interruption had been caused by
Commodore Dewey's picking up and cutting the cable north of Cape Bolinao was
the opinion at the Commercial Cable company's office.
Without the aid of the Cape Bolinao-Hong
Kong cable, dispatches from Manila must be carried by boat across the China sea
and there put on the cable to the south. From Hong Kong to New York a message
has an interesting course. From the Chinese port it is first sent down the
China sea over a 460-mile cable to Saigon in Cochin China. Another cable, 630
miles long, conveys it to Singapore on the straits; or it may be sent to the
island of Labuan, Borneo, and then to Singapore. From Singapore it runs around
the Malay peninsula to the island of Penang on the western coast of Lower Siam,
a distance of 388 miles. Across the Bay of Bengal from Penang to Madras the
message is repeated on a cable 1,498 miles long.
In India the message reaches the first land
telegraph line after leaving the island of Luzon. Across India to Bombay the
message runs over 800 miles of wire. Then it is put on a cable again to cross
the Arabian sea to Aden on the gulf of Aden, a distance of 1,851 miles. Up
through the Red sea to Suez is another long cable, 1,403 miles. Again the
message goes overland over the 200 miles of wire from Suez to Alexandria.
The Mediterranean has no direct cable from
Alexandria to Gibraltar. The message must be sent over a 913-mile cable to the
Island of Malta, and then repeated over the Gibraltar cable, 1,126 miles
further. From Gibraltar to Carcavellos near Lisbon, is a short cable 337 miles long,
connecting the Mediterranean port with the 856-mile ocean cable from Lisbon to Porthcurno, the cable station at Land's End, England.
Eleven ocean cables connect the English, Irish
and French cable stations with America, and the message from Manila, upon
reaching Land's End, may be sent over any of these cables. The Western Union's
messages are sent from Sennon Cove near Land's End, direct to Dover Bay near
Canso, Nova Scotia, 2,531 miles; from there they are repeated over the coast
cable to New York, 888 miles more. Coming by this route the message from Manila
to New York travels over twelve cables, having a total length of 13,411 miles,
and three land telegraph lines with a total length of about 900 miles, a total
distance of 14,311 miles.
Not all the news from Manila comes across
the Atlantic direct from Land's
End. The
Commercial Cable company's messages are sent overland from Land's End to London
and back to a cable station on the west coast of England, there to be cabled to
Waterville, Ireland. The Commercial ocean cable from Waterville to America
touches at Canso, Nova Scotia. From there messages are sent either by direct
cable to New York or to Rockfort near Boston. The Anglo-American cable connects
Valentia, Ireland, with Heart's Content, Newfoundland.
CUBAN
RELIEF FUNDS.
The
Total Amount Paid In Now Amounts to $249.84.
Cortland's contributions to the fund for the
relief of the unfortunates in Cuba now amounts to $249.84, which includes the
contribution at the Opera House meeting, voluntary contributions by individuals
and the following from the different wards through the efforts of the ladies of
the W. C. T. U. First, $22.50; Second, $32.00; Third, $50.07; Fourth, $3.48.
Treasurer H. R. Maine at the Second National
bank is ready at any time to receive the funds, and it is particularly requested
that those who have not as yet paid in what was pledged, do so at once.
It was the intention of The STANDARD to
publish the names of all those donating anything to the relief fund, and the names
of those subscribing at the Opera House, and the names of those from the Third
ward have already been published. But as the names of those from the other three
wards were largely passed in to Treasurer Maine on small slips of paper and as
these cannot now be separated or distinguished from each other or from those
already published, we shall be obliged to abandon the project and simply give
the amounts from each ward, as stated above.
Joiners'
Business School Notes.
Mr. Floyd Phillips of McGraw is taking a
course in the business department.
Mr. Arthur Lowell of Cortland has entered the
school.
Miss Bessie M. Ashby, one of the graduates
of this school, has secured a fine position in the office of Webster Young, as
bookkeeper and stenographer.
Miss Jennie Spencer of Killawog, a graduate
of the school, is now employed in the office of the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. as bookkeeper
and stenographer.
ON
SENECA LAKE.
Picturesque
and Popular Route—Trips Daily.
The Seneca Lake Steam Navigation Co. will on
May 16 put one steamer on Seneca lake to make a round trip from Geneva to Watkins
and return. This will be the Otetiana, which has during the past winter been
thoroughly overhauled, refurnished and put in first-class condition. The
steamer will leave Geneva at 8:10 A. M. and will reach Watkins at noon. Returning
it will leave Watkins at 2:45 P. M., and reach Geneva at 6:45 P. M. On July 1 a
second boat will be put on and the summer schedule will be resumed which
includes six trips daily. Single fares one way 75 cents. Round trip $1.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Dey
Bros. & Co., Crockery Department, page 7.
—The funeral of Fred V. Anderson will be held
from his late home, 21 North Main-st., to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock.
—The Kindergarten association will meet
to-morrow (Thursday) afternoon at 4 o'clock in the kindergarten at the Normal.
—All interested in the Woman's Riverside
Home are requested to meet to- morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at 26 Clinton-ave.
—The Syracuse university baseball team took
dinner at the Cortland House to-day while enroute to Ithaca to play Cornell
university this afternoon.
—The annual election of officers of the Homer-ave.
M. E. church Epworth league will take place at the business meeting of the
league to-night at 7:30 o'clock.
—All members of the Y. M. C. A. who ride
wheels are requested to meet in the association parlor Friday night at 7:30 o'clock
to take steps toward the organization of a cycling division.
—Miss Harriet May Mills, a vigorous champion
of woman suffrage, addressed a fair sized audience in the Universalist church
last night. She presented her views in a clear and forcible manner.
HOMER,
N. Y.
Gleanings
of News From Our Twin Village.
HOMER, May 4.—Mr. G. I. Priest of Geneva is
in town on business for a few days.
Frank Blashfield was the guest of his cousin,
Mr. Carl Bates, yesterday.
Supper at M. E. church to-night.
Last evening at about 9:15 o'clock a neighbor
living near C. C. Johnson on Cortland-st.
saw a light in Mr. Johnson's poultry house, but thought that it was some of the
owner's family. Upon investigation this morning, however, it was found that all
of their poultry had been taken during the night. The tracks made by the
thieves were in the direction of the railroad. The guilty parties, it is claimed
by the owner, have been found out and if the poultry is returned no prosecutions
will follow.
Gifts to the Home for Aged Women for the
month of April: Rebekah lodge, McGraw, comfortable; Ladies' Aid society, Congregational
church, biscuit and sugar; Mrs. J. H. Starin, napkins, carpet, curtains; Mr.
Wm. Beach, milk; Mrs. J. M. Schermerhorn, roses; Mrs. W. M. Brockway, turnips,
wine plant; Mrs. M. Hunter, carpet; Chas. Cortright, cartage; Bessie and
Florence Like, flowers.
The monthly meeting of the [village] board
will be held Tuesday afternoon, May 10, at 2:30 o'clock.
The naval board of strategy of the Columbia
club will meet at the clubrooms this evening at 8 o'clock to further perfect plans
for the conduct of the war with Spain. The board has not yet fully decided
whether Havana shall be bombarded first or whether they will capture the
Spanish fleet which has recently left the Cape Verde Islands. Rear Admiral Pomeroy,
Commodore Brockway and Captain Andrews have new maps and charts to present for
the board's inspection.
Mrs. Baker on Clinton-st. stated this
morning that at about 9 o'clock last evening two men were seen hanging around
the house and peeking in the windows of the residence of Mr. Collier Van Hoesen.
She thought they were making examinations of the premises with the intentions of
looting the house after the family had retired. Mr. Van Hoesen stated to a STANDARD
reporter this morning that he saw tracks around the house, but when he came home
at 9 o'clock he met no one and saw no one around the house, but thinks there
was somebody there previous to his arrival as several footprints could be seen
this morning. A little later shooting was heard and perhaps, although we have
not heard any particulars, they were peeking in other houses and were shot at
to scare them away.
The following places in the county have been
granted [liquor] licenses:
Cortlandville—E. B. Linderman, G. W. Bradford, Chas.
F. Brown, W. J. Perkins.
Cortland—Sager & Jennings, P. H. Dowd,
Michael Nix, Wallace & McKean, Riley & Son, Elizabeth Noonan, Arthur
Goddard, Hugh Corcoran, John F. Doud, Chas. H. Warren, Chas. Rowe, Marion
Mathewson, William J. Nash, Wm. F. Rogers, Wm. R. Jones, Michael Ray, Dan
Kernan, Clayton Phillips, Alvin D. Wallace, Irving Stevens, C. M. Ingraham.
Cuyler—Abbie House.
Homer—Stanley Raymond, Michael Murphy, John
Andrews, Geo. Lowell, Dan Donahue, C. A. Skinner & Co., Mrs. G. I. Crane.
Marathon—Jane E. Brown, Lynde Bros., Patrick
Comerford, F. A. Allen, G. L. Swift & Son. Wooster & Ayres.
Preble—E. C. Ercanbrack.
Scott—John Sweeney, M. G. Roche.
Truxton—John Wiegand, Earl C. Johnson, John
O'Connor.
Willet—Burke Bros.
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