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| Surgeon General George Miller Sternberg. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, September 19, 1898.
SICKNESS INCREASING.
Camp Meade Hospitals Are Fast Filling Up.
TYPHOID AND MALARIA.
Over a Hundred New Cases In New York Regiments.
CAMP MEADE, Middletown, Pa., Sept. 19.—The hospitals are again filling with typhoid and malarial patients. The Thirty-fifth Michigan has 60 cases, and in the three New York regiments which arrived from Camp Black last week there are more than 100.
Surgeon General Sternberg has ordered the worst cases sent to hospitals in Harrisburg, Lebanon and Lancaster as soon as the patients are able to be moved.
Private Augustus Cargill, Company K, Twenty-third New York, died of typhoid fever, and his body was shipped home to Catskill. The body of Corporal E. F. Daly, Company C, Tenth Ohio, another typhoid victim, was taken to Toledo by his parents. Private Burton D. Dante, Company K, Third New York, died in the Red Cross hospital of typhoid fever and his body was shipped to Wellsville. Corporal Samuel C. Pager, Company H, Second Tennessee, also died of congestive chills at the regimental dispensary after a brief illness.
Chief Surgeon Girard says the general health of the command, outside of these four regiments, is excellent.
Private Kerr of the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Indiana was fined $5 and ordered to the guardhouse for five days by the general courtmartial for circulating a muster-out petition.
Captain Blackman, Company A, Two Hundred and First New York, has resigned. Many officers are trying to get out of the service.
Fifteen typhoid fever cases were shipped from the Second division hospital to the charity hospital, Morristown, in a special car. The patients were from the Two Hundred and First, and Two Hundred and Second New York, Fourth Missouri, First Rhode Island and Second West Virginia regiments. Chief Surgeon Girard believes the sick do better in city hospitals than in tents, and has arranged to ship more away to Harrisburg and Philadelphia hospitals. There are 175 fever and rheumatism patients in the general hospitals, and they will be taken away as rapidly as they can be moved.
Detailed reports have been received by Colonel Girard from the various regimental surgeons on the health of their regiments. They report very few malarial cases and in the regiments where this malady has been greatest it is on the decrease.
Most of the cases of typhoid fever and malaria have been brought here from the camps in the South and Camp Black, N. Y.
Colonel Abbott of the First Rhode Island is seriously ill with typhoid fever at the home of a friend in Middletown.
The Fifteenth Michigan has moved on the grounds vacated by the Twelfth Pennsylvania, which have gone to the home station for muster-out. The Michigan regiment takes the place of the Twelfth in General Gotin's brigade of the First division.
Chief Quartermaster Howard says the Seventh Ohio, which has received orders to muster out, will hardly get away before Thursday. This will complete, for a while at least, the movements of troops from camp.
There is a strong possibility that the Fourteenth Pennsylvania will be the next regiment to receive orders to muster out on account of the trouble among the officers.
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| Hospital tent, Santiago, Cuba. |
SICK AT SANTIAGO.
Discouraging Reports Come From General Lawton's Command.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Sickness among the troops of General Lawton's command at Santiago, Cuba, is increasing. Nearly one-sixth of his force is now on the sick list, although the number of deaths is not great. General Lawton's bulletin of the health conditions of the American forces at Santiago received at the war department is as follows: Sick, 1,222; fever, 841; new cases, 92; returned to duty, 304.
Deaths—Gustafsen John, sailor, typhoid fever; Edward Harris, corporal, Company I, Ninth United States volunteers, yellow fever; Arthur Bassey, private, Company D, Ninth United States volunteers, yellow fever; William Diltmat, private, Company M, Ninth United States volunteer infantry, yellow fever; Otto Sefeldt, private, Company D, Fifth infantry, malarial remittent fever; Michael J. O'Brien, first lieutenant, Company A, Fifth infantry, malarial remittent fever; James Burke, Company E, Ninth United States volunteers, bilious fever.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Russia.
Russia is at once the largest and the weakest of the world's great powers. Its area is one-seventh of the land surface of the earth, three times the size of China. On a peace footing her army numbers 1,700,000, on a war footing 5,000,000 men. In 1897 the military expenditure of the empire was $227,000,000 in a time of peace. The national debt is $3,500,000,000, and it requires a round billion to meet the annual expenditures, including civil and military list. The Russians are the poorest people in the world except the Celestials [Chinese], vastly more so than the peasantry of any other European nation. In France the per capita wealth is $85, in Russia $8.95. Is it any wonder, then, that his imperial majesty is anxious for disarmament on purely economic grounds aside from philanthropy?
◘ The merest trifle sometimes is the secret of great results or of the absence of them. Pascal wisely said that if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter the face of the whole world would have been changed.
BAD FIRE NEAR SYRACUSE.
Two Men Burned to Death—Others Escape With Difficulty.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 19.—At 3 o'clock this morning seven buildings in Elmwood, four miles from here, were burned to the ground and two men, Frank Harvey and George Strauss, were burned to death, nothing but trunks of their bodies being left. The buildings destroyed included the Sheppard hotel in which the two dead men were sleeping. There were only two other guests in the building, Joe Dunfee, the pugilist, who tried to save Harvey and Strauss and escaped with difficulty, and Hazel Tidd, an actress, who dropped from the third story of the building to the roof of a building in the rear into the arms of Allen Sheppard, the proprietor of the hotel. Mrs. Sheppard and her daughter Rhoda were saved by H. H. Foy, a blacksmith, who carried them down a building. The other buildings burned were two houses, two stores, a barn and a vacant store. The loss will amount to $20,000 with $10,000 insurance. The destroyed buildings were owned by Cornelius Harrington.
AN OLD NEWSPAPER
Possessed by Mrs. Hickey of Marathon, N. Y.—Tells of Washington's Funeral.
Mrs. Nancy E. Hickey of Marathon is the possessor of a rare relic in the way of an old and well worn newspaper, the Ulster County Gazette, published by Samuel Frear & Son, and dated Saturday, Jan. 4, 1800. The antiquated sheet contains four pages and four columns to the page, and is in a pretty fair state of preservation. The margin is quite badly thumbed out, and somewhat the worse for wear, although it could be distinctly read throughout by The STANDARD'S traveling representative. The paper was presented to Mrs. Hickey when a very young girl by her father, Lyman Stone of the town of Solon, who was born in Litchfield, Conn., in the year of 1800, and it was left in his care by his grandmother, Mrs. Abbie Joy, an aristocratic southern lady.
The paper is heavily draped in mourning and contains an extended account of the burial of the father of his country, George Washington, giving a description of the burial ceremonies including the most minute details. It also gives an account of the meeting of the American congress, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 1779, followed by an address before the house of representatives by John Adams, which is published in full.
The advertising columns are also filled with matter gotten up in unique colonial style, one advertisement in particular attracts attention under big headlines of "A Nigger Wench for Sale Cheap. Healthy and Smart to Work. Enquire at Gazette office."
LOCAL PERSONAL.
PRIVATE FRED BROWN of Troop F, Fifth Cavalry, who has been home on a three weeks' furlough left this morning for Sackett's Harbor to await further orders.
Miss EVA LATHROP, who completed her course of study last year in the Central school, began teaching her first term of school this morning three miles west of town on the Groton road.
MESSRS. WILLIS H. MCGRAW and Chester D. Moses left to-day for Denver, Colo., to enter Grove Medical college. Mr. McGraw expects to spend the first year of his course there and then complete his work at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at New York.
MR. AND MRS. C. C. DARBY, Miss Elma Darby and Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Oday returned Saturday night from Frontenac, where all but Mr. Oday have been spending the summer, and where he has been since the return of his regiment from Camp Alger. Mr. Oday has been engaged as coach for the Cascadilla football team at Ithaca for this fall, provided those duties do not interfere with his enlistment in the army. His company is now out on a thirty-day furlough, and at its expiration the furlough may be extended or the men may be discharged or sent back to camp, according to the prospects in the peace negotiations.
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| Post Office is advertised at street level on Tompkins Street, Cortland, N. Y. |
The Grade at the Postoffice.
Engineers connected with the [Main Street] paving work have to-day been making measurements relative to establishing the new grade of the street at the postoffice corner. When the grade was first arranged it was planned to lower it about fifteen inches from the present level, but that decision was reconsidered, and it will be lowered only about eight inches. The engineer believes that the Tompkins-st. water which after a hard rain is always the bane of this corner will cross Main-st. all right at that level and continue its course to the river. That will be good news to every one.
Dancing Party at Virgil.
W. H. Hall, proprietor of the Virgil hotel, is planning for another of his social parties at his popular hostelry on Friday evening, Sept. 30. Palmer & Davis' full orchestra will furnish music. Dancing tickets 50 cents. Supper 25 cents. Everybody invited to attend and have a good time generally.
New Steam Laundry.
Mr. William K. Hatler has taken possession of the store in the Squires building at 7 Tompkins-st., and has put in first-class machinery for a steam laundry, and expects to begin operations to-morrow.
Mr. Hatler formerly conducted the New York Steam laundry on Homer-ave. He understands his business thoroughly, having in the past two years been foreman of a large laundry in Wilkes Barre, Pa., and of another in Greenville, Pa. Mr. Hatler has a very convenient location and will undoubtedly command a large patronage.
BREVITIES.
—A regular meeting of Grover post, No. 98, G. A. R., will be held to-night at 8 o'clock.
—Reports from Mr. Garry E. Chambers at McLean to-day are that he is steadily gaming and will in all probabilities now recover. He was able to sit up for three-quarters of an hour last night.
—Rev. J. Chidester, assisted by Rev. Mr. Murphy, will conduct a series of meetings at the Elm Stump church, commencing Thursday evening, Sept. 22, and lasting until next week.
—The regular meeting of Grover Relief corps, No. 96, will occur to-morrow, Sept. 20 at 2:30 P. M. It is earnestly desired that every member be present, as business of importance is to come before the meeting.
—The Lehigh Valley R. R. is planning for another excursion from Cortland to Niagara Falls on Sunday, Sept. 25. Directions regarding the time of leaving and the rate have not yet been received in Cortland, but details will be given later.
—Loads and loads of exhibits from Cortland stores and manufactories have passed The STANDARD office to-day bound for the Dryden fair. The fair itself begins to-morrow and then it will be loads and loads of people that are going by headed westward.
—Mr. Jerome McAllister of Truxton died at his home Saturday morning at 4 o'clock after a long illness. His age was 56 years. Mr. McAllister was the father of Mrs. Fred Robbins of 170 Clinton-ave., Cortland. The funeral was held this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock,
—New display advertisements to-day are—Baker & Angell, Jenness Miller Shoes, page 4; Warren, Tanner & Co., Jackets, Capes, etc., page 4; Geo. Allport, Lots for Sale, page 5; F. E, Brogden, Prescriptions, page 8; C. F. Brown, Special Camera Offer, page 7.
—Mr. A. B. Wraught is planning for a Y. M. C. A. wheel ride to Freeville to visit the George Junior Republic next Saturday if the weather and roads be favorable. All interested are invited to make their plans to join the party. The start will probably be made about 9 o'clock. More details later.
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