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| 1894 map segment of Cortland County Fairgrounds. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, August 29, 1898.
MARION MILLS IS DEAD.
BURIAL OCCURRED AT THE FAIR GROUNDS SUNDAY MORNING.
Was Largely Attended—Dr. W. L. Baker as Funeral Director—Letters of Condolence and Flowers Received by Manager Joslyn Who Left for Home Saturday Night.
Marlon Mills died in her stall at the grounds of the Cortland County Agricultural society at 5:28 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Her death was not unexpected. It was so clearly a case of concussion of the brain and of so severe a nature that there was never but little hope of her recovery from the time she fell on the track Friday afternoon. She rallied Saturday morning, but in the afternoon it became evident to the veterinarians in attendance, Dr. W. L. Baker and Dr. J. C. Stevens, and to her manager, C. O. Joslyn, that life could last but a very short time. In the afternoon Mr. Jsolyn with President Hyde and Secretary Baker of the society, selected a burial spot for the little mare who had been applauded and cheered by the hundreds of thousands of people, just inside the racetrack on the east side of the enclosure.
Sunday morning at 10:30 occurred the burial, and the news of the mare's death and expected burial had spread to such an extent that several hundred people had gathered at the spot to take a last look at the remarkable and world-renowned little animal. Dr. W. L. Baker acted as funeral director. The ceremonial was brief and silent. The large grave, 6 feet in depth, was lined with straw, the body of Marion Mills was wrapped in mosquito netting, and was gently laid in the grave, her head resting upon a pillow of straw, beneath which was placed a copy of "Black Beauty." In a short time the surface of the earth was again level and the body of Marion Mills, "the guideless wonder," forever lost from the sight of human eyes. Many were the words of sorrow expressed in that circle which surrounded the tomb as thoughts of the beauty of the dead animal and her almost human intelligence flitted through the minds of those who were present. Her manager, Mr. Joslyn, and her two grooms had left Cortland the night before for Oshkosh, Wis., the place of ownership of Marion Mills.
Before leaving town, Mr. Joslyn received many letters and telegrams of condolence from all parts of the United States. Some of the letters were enclosed in envelopes with black borders. Flowers were also received, and these were placed on the grave Sunday morning. Many letters have come to-day, and these have been forwarded to Oshkosh.
The car in which Marion Mills traveled was started back to Oshkosh this morning empty. It was a private car owned by the owner of the mare. The wonderful little pacer was due in Bangor, Me., this morning for an exhibition, and Station Agent Brownell of the D., L. & W. R. R. had arranged a route for her by freight which would have brought her in Bangor this morning. She would have left Cortland Friday night.
The impression has gained ground in the minds of many that Marion Mills was insured. Manager Joslyn stated to a STANDARD reporter Friday that she was not, and he also stated the same thing Saturday.
The real owner of the pacer was not G. W. Athearn, but the estate of G. W. Athearn, that gentleman having died a year and a half ago. It is thought that the mare herself was the cause of her owner's death. Mr. Athearn formerly drove her on the race track, but on one occasion she reared and pitched over back, and fell heavily on Mr. Athearn, breaking a rib and injuring him internally, from the results of which he died a year and a half afterwards.
She paced a mile as evenly as though handled by a skillful driver. In Philadelphia last year she paced a mile in 2:07 1/2, reaching the first quarter in :30 1/2, the half in 1:01, and the three-quarters in 1:35. She made the half on the [muddy] Cortland track Friday in 1:11.
This was not Marlon Mills' first experience in falling on the track. She fell last season at Hot Springs, Ark., and at Combination park, Boston. She was not injured at either place, and at Boston, within ten minutes after her fall, she paced a mile in 2:07.
Marion Mills was certainly a wonderful beast and her loss is a heavy one for her owner, besides being a great loss to the turf of the United States.
A MILKMAN'S PARADISE.
Fine Display of Dairy Utensils by the Champion Milk Cooler Company.
Among the many interesting and attractive exhibits at the Cortland county fair there was none which attracted more attention than that of the Champion Milk Cooler company of 85 Railroad-st., Cortland. To one who has not kept in touch with the progress of dairy science during the last ten years their display of improved dairy apparatus and dairy supplies was almost bewildering. It leads one to think that dairying, far from being a drudgery that it was a few years ago, has taken its place as one of the fine arts. Indeed, with the keen competition in dairy products now-a-days a successful dairyman must be quick to take advantage of every improvement in dairy appliances and must keep in touch with modern dairy methods. The dairy cow is a crop that never falls, good times or hard times she can always be depended upon.
Since 1892 the Champion Milk Cooler Co. has been manufacturing its well-known milk coolers and aerators and during these six years the popularity of this machine has been constantly increasing, the sales now extending all over this country and indeed to some foreign countries. The company's exhibit of milk coolers at the fair was very complete, and attracted much attention.
In addition to the manufacture of milk coolers the company commenced last year to handle milkmen' supplies and has established a large trade in these goods all over the country. This year it has added a full line of dairy supplies, thus filling a want long felt among dairymen of this vicinity.
At the fair its display of DeLaval separators attracted no little attention. A good many of these well-known separators are already in use in this vicinity, and it is claimed that by their use at least $10 per cow more can be realized each year than by any other method of creaming. To many, a separator was a novelty, and their working was carefully explained to many callers at their booth by Mr. L. P. Bennett of the Cooler company, or by Mr. Willey, the general manager for the DeLaval Separator company.
Second in interest to the separators was perhaps the exhibit of churns. The Aspenwall double lever churn attracted a good deal of attention. With this churn all drudgery is taken away from the processes of "bringing the butter," and a little child might operate it.
It also exhibited a full line of butter packages of various sorts, but made a specialty of the Bradley Patent Parafine butter package which makes a very neat, cheap and attractive package for butter. A full line of butter moulds and butter printers were also exhibited as well as a complete stock of parchment papers of all sizes and kinds for wrapping print butter and for lining tubs and pails.
An interesting feature of the exhibit was the Babcock testers, of which they exhibited several kinds. These are simple machines for determining the amount of butter fat in milk. They are so simple that any one can operate them and by the use of acid the exact amount of butter fat in the milk is readily determined. A large quantity of delicate glassware for various apparatus in the dairy was tastefully displayed, including all kinds of thermometers, lactometers, pipetts, graduates, buretts, etc.
The line to which this company devotes its special attention is milkmen's supplies and its booth was a milkman's paradise. No less than five kinds of milk bottles were displayed in all the sizes from one-half pint to one-half gallon and all sorts of caps to fit, bottle brushes and can brushes, bottle cases and carriers and all kinds of milk cans, in fact everything to make a milkman happy.
All of the goods were shown in an attractive way, the booth being very tastefully decorated under the supervision of Mr. L. P. Bennett, the manager of the company, who was in constant attendance at the fair and who was kept busy from morning till night explaining the uses of the various apparatus.
The Champion Milk Cooler Co. gave about $25 in special prizes for dairy exhibits and this added no little interest to the dairy department of the fair as was evident by the unusual large exhibits in this division.
Dairying plays a very important part in the industries of Cortland county and the Champion Milk Cooler Co. are doing much to build it up and to supply dairymen with all the latest goods necessary for its successful conduct. The entire exhibit will be shown at the State fair at Syracuse this week and will no doubt attract much attention there.
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| Main Street, Cortland, circa 1899. |
PAVING BEGUN AGAIN.
The Work Now To Be Pushed With Rapidity.
Work looking toward the paving of Main-st. began again this morning with a large force of men and teams at work. The street is torn up and barred to traffic between the hospital corner and Lincoln- ave. Saturday the street car track was removed and to-day the work of excavating the railroad strip is in progress. The dirt is being deposited on Rickard-st. across the new bridge. The work is to be pushed from now on with the greatest possible speed, and the time seems not many months off when Cortland's main thoroughfare will compare favorably with that of other cities and towns in the State.
To Lecture at Cambridge.
The Cambridge, Mass., Chronicle says: "At the next Tuesday evening meeting of the C. E. society of the North-ave. Congregational church, Mrs. Susan A. Houghton, Ph. D., of Cortland, N. Y., will deliver her lecture entitled "Mexico, Our Next Door Neighbor." Mrs. Houghton has lately lectured in Syracuse, Elmira and Cortland and the papers in those places have commented very favorably upon her efforts. She comes especially fitted to describe this region of her discourse, as she has but recently returned from a visit to our neighbor to the south of us. The Christian Endeavor society extends a very cordial invitation to the public to attend this lecture."
Death of John P. Keenan.
A number of relatives and friends of the late John P. Keenan of McLean, N. Y., went to that place this morning to attend his funeral which occurred at 10 o'clock. Mr. Keenan had been ill for three weeks with typhoid fever which developed into pneumonia, the latter disease causing his death on Saturday night at 7:30 o'clock.
Mr. Keenan was born in 1865 and had lived nearly all of his life in McLean. He entered the employ of the E., C. & N. R. R. as a fireman on March 19, 1891, and had worked up till he had become an extra engineer and would soon have had a regular run. He was the one to run the Lehigh Valley special train from Cortland to McLean with the fire apparatus on board on the night of Oct. 11,1897, when the big fire occurred in McLean and feeling the personal interest in the saving of his own home town he put the train through at top speed.
His mother was killed by being struck by a train near her home two years ago. He is survived by his father, John P. Keenan, by two brothers, James and Charles, and by two sisters, Miss Mary, and Mrs. J. B. Quigley.
The funeral occurred this morning and was conducted by Rev. John McMahon of Groton, assisted by Rev. J. J. McLoghlin of Cortland.
SEVENTY-FIRST RETURNS.
MARCHES UP BROADWAY IN A CONTINUAL OVATION.
For Four Miles the Crowd Cheered Wildly—Veterans Were Carried In Cable Cars for Fear of the Effect of the Long March—Fifty Were Too Weak to Walk—The Others Marched.
NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—Seldom has been seen such enthusiasm in New York as to-day when the Seventy-first regiment of New York volunteers arrived and proceeded up Broadway which was literally packed with people from the Battery to 34th-st.—a distance of four miles. It was thought best by the officers to send those who had seen active service up town in the cable cars, being afraid that the long march would prove too much for them. These cars were preceded by the Seventy-first regiment Veterans' association and were followed by a few marching recruits of the Seventy-first. On reaching the regimental armory the men were dismissed and then sat down to the first really good luncheon that they have had since they went into camp on Hempstead Plains months ago.
Hours before the regiment reached the Battery the crowds stretched along Broadway and when the first line of soldiers came into view with their dingy forms the people were so excited that cheers burst forth and the men were the recipients of continuous ovations until they came to their armory. The returned men looked extraordinarily well as compared with their condition when they landed at Camp Wikoff. The regiment as it left camp consisted of 610 men of whom 260 were veterans who had seen service in Cuba and were able to walk and 300 recruits who had never had a chance to fight, and fifty who were Santiago survivors and who were too weak to march and had to be carried in vehicles.
HEROINE OF THE WAR.
Miss Annie Wheeler's Noble Work In the Hospital at Santiago.
Miss Wheeler, daughter of General Wheeler, has written the following letter to a friend in Tampa:
HOSPITAL, SANTIAGO, July 30.
You took so kindly an interest in my coming here that I thought I would snatch a minute from my duties in the hospital to tell you I am well established in the hospital here, which contains fever patients of all kinds, including yellow fever. Thirty good, trained nurses came right on the wharf and were turned back on account of yellow fever. None but immunes were allowed to enter the city. An exception was made in my favor because my father and brother were here, though I was strongly advised not to come, being told there were dozens of yellow fever cases in every regiment of my father's division. I thought the greater the danger that existed the greater reason for me to come. On landing I found the yellow fever scare without foundation, or, if the fever which the troops have is yellow fever, it is wonderfully light.
My brother was very ill, and I had to ride horseback on a cavalry saddle six miles to his camp every morning and back every evening. I was fearfully uneasy about him, as he was desperately ill. Now that he is better I am working in the hospital here, and there are a great many patients and very few nurses and, although when night comes I am too tired to eat or rest, I am glad to be here. It will be a beautiful memory to me all my life, the sight of the pathetically grateful faces of our poor neglected soldiers and the wonderfully pleased expression in their pitiful eyes when I do anything for them at all. There is so little I can do, and they are so grateful for that little I feel fully repaid for taking a great deal more trouble than I did take to get here. My whole heart goes out to the soldiers who fought so bravely and uncomplainingly, and still in the long, suffering days of the hospital they do not complain. Surely in all the world there is no one like the American soldier! I have a great deal more to say, but no time.
It will be remembered that Miss Wheeler made at least half a dozen attempts to reach her father, General Wheeler, without avail, but at last through the kindly assistance of President McKinley, she sailed on the transport Lampasas with the Red Cross nurses.—New York Tribune.
DEATH CLAIMING TROOPS.
Americans and Spaniards Alike, Rapidly Dying at Santiago.
SANTIAGO, Aug. 29.—The transport Roumanian is ready to leave for Montauk Point with 650 sick men of the Seventy-first, Second and Ninth Massachusetts, the Second regulars, the Tenth cavalry and the Sixteenth and Twenty-first regiments. The condition of the men is extremely bad, the disappointment over the delays in getting them away having greatly affected their spirits. Ambulances were found to be necessary to convey most of them to the steamer.
The transports San Francisco, San Augustine and Leonora are about ready to leave for Guantanamo, Baracoa and Sagua for the Spanish prisoners there. The condition of these men is distressing and it is probable that death will claim nearly half of them before they reach Spain. Their condition is the result of hard living and the prevailing fever. The rations and medical aid sent from Santiago were practically too late.
The Second and Third battalions of Ray's Second immune regiment will go to Baracoa and Sagua for garrison duty at those places.
INVESTIGATION ORDERED.
Official Inquiry to Be Made Into the Affairs at Camp Thomas.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 29.—Surgeon General Sternberg has yielded to the pressure calling for an investigation of the conduct of the medical department resulting in the hospital ship scandal and other complaints of mismanagement, and has asked for an official inquiry into the affair at Camp Thomas, Chickamauga Park.
The acting secretary of war ordered the investigation to be held, and this may lead to an investigation of the whole field of operations by the medical department.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—F. Daehler, Fall Hats, page 6; C. F. Brown, Drugs, page 6.
—M. S. Nye of Preble was awarded first prize and diploma for best herd of Holstein cattle at the Cortland county fair.
—Sixty-nine people took advantage of the Lehigh Valley railroad's cheap excursion yesterday for a trip to Sylvan Beach. This was the last low rate excursion of the season to that place.
—The Binghamton Leader of Saturday had a very fine sixteen-page addition to its usual sheet, devoted to "The Binghamton of To-day." Its public works, buildings, churches and prominent men were illustrated and written up in attractive style.
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