Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, September 26, 1898.
EVACUATION OF CUBA.
Spain Trying to Delay Removing Her Troops.
SHE WANTS UNTIL MARCH.
Our Commissioners Instructed Not to Grant This.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—The officials here are watching with interest the progress being made by the military commission at Havana in securing the evacuation of the island of Cuba. The commission has been very slow in making reports to the war department, but from the latest received it appears that the body would like to have more definite instructions as to procedure. It seems that the Spanish side has said that they could not begin the evacuation of the island until Nov. 1 and that it could not be completed before Feb. 28 next.
In view of the alarming state of the Cubans who are suffering from hunger and the inability in the present uncertain conditions for obtaining work, the president decided that he could not assent to the consumption of so much time. Therefore he caused the commission to be instructed to demand that the evacuation by the Spaniards begin not later than Oct. 15 and that it be completed by Dec. 31 next. What the result of this demand will be is not yet known, but it is said that the administration is determined to tolerate no dilatory tactics on the part of the Spanish forces in leaving the island, although disposed to permit reasonable indulgence.
Notice has also been taken of the expected purpose of the Spanish captain general to remove from the island the remains of Christopher Columbus, with part of the surrounding monument. If a monument is not a permanent fixture then it is hard to decide what is, and it is possible that attention will be called to the infraction of the terms of the protocol, although this must be done with haste in order to succeed in its object, as the removal is said to be fixed for next Tuesday.
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| Emilio Aguinaldo. |
AGUINALDO'S TROUBLES.
Natives Will Refuse to Pay a Tax to Support the Government.
MANILA, Sept. 26.—The Filipino congress is engaged in the consideration of the question of raising funds to defray the heavy expenses of the maintenance of the army, pending a decision by the Paris conference. Hitherto the army of the Filipinos has been chiefly supported by public subscription, but now the native government contemplates the imposition of various taxes. The inhabitants of the northern provinces, however, especially of Pampanga and Ilocos, flatly refuse to pay land or poll taxes because it was the popular impression that the revolutionists would abolish taxation entirely.
The natives of Pampanga and Pangasinan, the two richest agricultural provinces of the island, and those of Ilocos and Zambelas, who are the sturdiest mountaineers, distrust the Pagals, and insist upon the establishment of an American protectorate.
Saturday the assembly discussed a land tax. The majority were opposed to the maintenance of a burden unequally distributed and demanded that a statement of expenditures be submitted. The statement was not forthcoming and the question was shelved.
Aguinaldo realizes the difficulty of reconciling the conflicting interests, but hopes that the nations will allow the Filipinos a fair chance to show that they are capable of autonomy. He says that "there is conclusive evidence that many Spaniards and priests are intriguing with a faction of the natives to foment disturbance so that Americans will believe the whole population to be irreconcilable."
He asserts that the intriguers pay money and provide uniforms to persons who impersonate rebel officers and enter the town and accuses Eugene Blanco with being the chief paid agent of the intriguers.
In the course of an interview Aguinaldo said that the Filipino fleet comprises eight steamers which are now engaged in conveying troops for a grand campaign against the Spanish garrison in the Southern Island. These vessels are practically unarmed. The Spanish gunboat El Cano, he says, recently entered Masbate and caught and sank the Filipino troop ship Burisan, which was lying at anchor there.
He admitted the recent purchase of the steamer Abbey, formerly the Pasig, but denied that she had landed rifles and ammunition at Batangas, though he admitted that she carried two Maxim guns and a shipload of stores.
The United States steamer Hugh McCulloch captured the Abbey 60 miles south of Manila. It is believed that the Abbey had landed 7,000 rifles.
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| Main Street, Cortland, N. Y., circa 1899. |
RUSHING THE PAVEMENT.
Big Contract Being Prosecuted with Great Diligence.
The big contract for the paving of Main-st. which calls for an expenditure of over $71,000 of public funds is being prosecuted by the Warren-Scharff Asphalt Paving company with all the diligence that is possible, and unless the elements seriously interfere, the job will be finished before real cold weather sets in. The patent Parkhurst combined curb and gutter is practically laid as far as the Messenger House, and the end of the week will see it finished nearly to the Lehigh Valley station. The curb-makers, however, are not hurried in their work for they are so far ahead of the gangs of concrete mixers that they do not hinder that part of the work.
The concrete mixers have to-day passed Lincoln-ave. They are rapidly proceeding down the street. When the Cortland House is reached a fourth gang of mixers is to be put on on account of the increased width of the street. The concrete mixers on the railroad strip have passed Court-st. on the west pair of street car rails, which have been relaid to the new grade. The east track has to-day been taken up for excavation beneath it, and will soon be in place again. The teams are busy hauling away the dirt and stones from the street, and others are hauling materials to the street for the new pavement.
The laying of asphalt may not begin until next week. But that is a comparatively short piece of work, for it can be laid at the rate of from 1,000 to 1,500 square yards per day. The brick for the railroad strip is to be laid at the same time as the cement.
Italians in a Row.
A couple of the Italians engaged in mixing concrete for the foundation for the new pavement on Main-st. near Lincoln-ave. this afternoon had a little mixup in which one of them struck the other in the back of the head with a shovel, cutting an ugly looking gash. The trouble started over a wheelbarrow, and the one who was cut struck the first blow, but doing no injury. He was discharged on the spot, and started with bleeding neck toward the Italian camp in Floral Trout park.
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| Cortland Opera House on Groton Avenue. |
"A Hired Girl."
Charles E. Blaney, who has written a number of successful comedies, this year produces for the first time what he calls a musical comedy, and it is said to be the best effort he has yet made. It will be seen next Saturday evening at the Cortland Opera House. As the title might indicate, "A Hired Girl" is a satire on the ways and whims of the autocrat of the kitchen. An outline of the so-called plot of the story shows the numerous possibilities for fun-making. A young German graduate of the musical conservatory at Berlin, Herr Ver Blotz, comes to America and accepts a position as instructor at Vassar. He marries a poor American girl, and as neither are versed in the art of housekeeping, they are compelled to secure the services of a hired girl. The latter has ideas of her own and although her intentions are always the best, in her efforts to be economical for her employers she usually manages to mix up everything she attempts.
The professor, it appears, has been rather wild in his younger days and had for a companion a young American who was also a student at Berlin. To this comrade the professor confided all his secrets, among them the fact that unknown to his family he had married a young peasant girl. Fearing an exposure, the professor fled to America and secured the position at Vassar and after hearing of his first wife's death he married again. His former friend hearing of his second marriage decides to hold the secret of his first marriage over his head and thereby, as a supposed English Lord, gain access to the society at Vassar and be presented to one of the most wealthy girls.
The schemer presents himself at the college as Lord Green Goods, sees the professor and tells him that the report of the death of his first wife is false, and fearing exposure, the professor is compelled to aid the bogus lord in his scheme. The latter, however, is not quite sure that he will succeed in his plans, and when he hears that the hired girl is about to receive $100,000 for the death of her brother who was killed in a stone quarry, he begins to make love to her and is about to marry her when the professor receives proofs from Berlin that his first wife is dead and that his second marriage was legal. He exposes Green Goods and has him arrested for forgery.
The music of "A Hired Girl" is by Harry James, and incidentally a large number of topical songs and popular selections from the latest operas are introduced. There are twenty people in the company, including ten handsome and shapely women. The principals have all made hits in Keith's and other vaudeville houses during the past summer, and theatre goers need only glance at the cast to see the strength of the company. Prices 35, 50 and 75 cents. Sale at Rood & Co.'s, Thursday at 2:30 P. M.
AT THE KIRMESS.
Some of the Features —Dances and Drills--Tickets Now Selling.
The tableau of nations will be one of the most effective and beautiful features of the entire Kirmess, under the constantly changing hues of the calcium lights and will be well worth seeing. The ladies of the Cortland City hospital are working very hard to make this entertainment a huge success. It is to take place at the Opera House next week, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Several young ladies are interested in securing the prizes offered for the ticket selling contest. Season tickets including the Saturday matinee, free, are $2 and $3, and are to be exchanged at the Candy Kitchen after 9 A. M., Oct. 3. Single tickets 35, 50 and 75 cents. All seats reserved.
The snowstorm during the Klondike drill will be very realistic and the tiny cupids will sing a selection besides giving a few fancy steps.
The Greek Daughters of the Nile, which will be presented by seventeen handsome ladies from Homer, McGrawville and Cortland will be one of the most pleasing features on the program Wednesday evening.
The dances, tableaux and drills to be presented at the Kirmess are entirely new and novel, yet very short and interesting. Even persons not understanding whist will be greatly interested in the Kirmess, as there will be many specialties introduced aside from the game of whist. The playing of the living characters will be very amusing and not in the least tedious. There will be a partial change of program each evening.
Fifty-nine Days for Giles Rood.
Justice of the Peace Eliot L. Stone of Homer this morning sentenced Giles Rood of that place to fifty-nine days in the county jail, and Officer Shirley brought him down to Cortland at 10 o'clock. Giles was found guilty of public intoxication.
A Change of Barbers.
Mr. W, F. Potter has resigned his position at Banks' barber shop and now has a chair in the shop of Arch W. Stevens on Railroad-st. He is succeeded at the former place by John W. Fitzgerald.
BREVITIES.
—The Odd Fellows who went to Boston last week to attend the sovereign grand lodge have returned. All report a fine trip.
—The University Center meets at the Normal building to-night at 8 o'clock and will be conducted by Dr. F. D. Reese. The study of Roman history will be continued.
—Ninety-five Cortland people took in the Lehigh Valley's Niagara Falls excursion yesterday. They returned at 3 o'clock this morning and reported a fine time. Four people went to Sylvan Beach.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Stowell, Lace Sale, page 8; Burgess, Hats and Caps, page 7; Bingham Bros. & Miller, Suits and Overcoats, page 8; Opera House, "A Hired Girl," page 5; H. M. Kellogg, Aluminum Heaters, page 6.
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