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| Gen. Elwell Stephen Otis. |
Cortland Semi-Weekly Standard, Tuesday, July 4, 1899.
TROOPS FOR MANILA.
General Otis’ Army Soon to be Reinforced.
NEARLY 3,500 TROOPS STARTED.
Four Thousand More Will Be Dispatched as Soon as Transports are Secured. No Particular Hurry for Nothing Will Be Done in the Philippines for Some Time.
WASHINGTON, July 1.—A statement prepared in the office of the adjutant general of the army shows that with the departure of the Pennsylvania from San Francisco about 3,500 reinforcements were dispatched to the Philippines this week. These troops are carried on the transports Zealandia, Sheridan, Valencia and Pennsylvania, and include 59 officers and 3,444 enlisted men.
About half of the troops are recruits intended to fill gaps in the regiments in the Philippines caused by deaths, disabilities and discharges. There are about 3,000 recruits at San Francisco which are intended to recruit [sic] the regular regiments in the Philippines up to their regular maximum strength of 128 men to a company. Including the Nineteenth Infantry, under orders for Manila, and troops at San Francisco, there are 4,000 ready to start for Manila as soon as transportation can be provided.
The war department is awaiting advices from General Otis before proceeding actively with the enlistment of volunteers under the recent decision of the administration to organize nine regiments of three brigades each, including the three skeleton regiments in the Philippines, amounting in all to about 10,000 volunteers. Everything is in readiness for the proposed increase in the army and the entire machinery of enlistment and organization can be put in operation when orders shall be given.
BATTLE EXPECTED.
A Collision Inevitable Between the Armies at San Fernado.
MANILA, July 1.—A collision between the two armies at San Fernando seems inevitable soon. The insurgents are active all around the town and can be seen working in the trenches to strengthen their positions. Day and night forces are at work. It is estimated that 3,000 men have been seen marching in the road north of the town.
The American soldiers sleep in their clothes and are expecting an attack at any time.
The commission of three Spanish officers who entered the insurgent lines a fortnight ago to make a final attempt to arrange the release of the Spanish prisoners have not returned. Their absence has occasioned alarm.
ROOSEVELT INTERVIEWED.
He Talks Politics and Tells of His Journey Through the West.
ALBANY, June 30.—Governor Roosevelt, who stopped off on his way to New York city from the West, declared that he is not a candidate for the republican nomination for president in 1900 and that he is in favor of President McKinley. In an interview at the depot he said:
“I have had an exceedingly good time and have thoroughly enjoyed myself. I have been as much touched as surprised. I have been delighted with the West. Everybody in the West is for McKinley’s renomination and I am most emphatically for his renomination of course. I feel that both the extreme rapidity with which the country has gone up the path of prosperity under President McKinley’s administration and the conduct of the war in the Philippines makes it the duty of every man to stand with it and render President McKinley’s renomination a necessity. We must smash out this insurrection there by force of arms and then we can consider terms of peace.”
Governor Roosevelt was joined at the train by Mr. Youngs, his private secretary; Assemblyman Fellows of New York city; Assemblyman Murphy, who is a member of the special legislative committee on taxation, and Austin G. Fox, one of the special attorneys who are employed in examining the testimony taken in the canal improvement inquiry.
SECOND Y. M. C. A. ROAD RACE.
Good Time Made—Punctures—Dog in the Way—Field Day Coming.
At exactly 7 o’clock Friday night little Harley Seamans on his Stearns wheel was started off for the fifteen miles of country roads to Little York and return. Parsons soon followed and Chapin and Hollister only waited 15 seconds. Pierce was next let go on a Stearns chainless. Peak on a Clipper chainless came next, then Benjamin on a Keating; Hammond was held 2 minutes and 50 seconds before he was started. The three scratch men waited a very long and anxious two minutes, when Chamberlain and Weatherwax with Hopkins tagging took a hot spurt down the pavement. The race was on. Everything seemed propitious, a very little wind, good roads and hot riders.
At Little York Seamans first made his appearance; Chapin and Pierce sailed by together; Parsons and Hollister, too, were friendly. Benjamin was setting his own pace, and Peak was equally lonely, but Chamberlain, Hopkins and Hammond seemed on friendly terms. They passed the checker, George Mee, in a bunch. Weatherwax had lost his pedals several times, and was slamming along by himself.
And the finish was much like this, except that Chapin ripped his front tire from the rim as he left Homer, and Peak picked up a tack and walked. The finish was as follows: Seamans, 49 min. 31 sec.; Pierce,47 min. 3 sec.; Hollister, 49 min. 43 sec.; Parsons, after bending in a dog’s ribs and breaking his rim, 50 min. 18 sec.; Hopkins, 45 min. 13 sec.; Weatherwax, 47 min. 35 sec.
In time Hopkins seems to be as near Chamberlain’s equal—1 minute and 12 seconds difference—as Oothoudt was last week. Pierce and Hammond, both novices, made the next best time records. There were four watches held officially on the men Friday night and they agreed on the time given above to the fraction of a second, and the same timers will hold watches on the last of the series of road races held on July 4th. This event will start at 1:45 P. M. at the Cortland House, but will end on the fair ground with ten laps on the track. It will signal the beginning of a most interesting field day and race meet. The events will be pulled off, one after the other in quick succession. Watch for the programs.
Captured the Prizes.
G. F. Beaudry sent up three balloons from in front of his store Friday evening at 8 o’clock. Two of them contained a ticket, each entitling the finder to admission to the Y. M. C. A. races at the fair grounds Tuesday, also 50 cents’ worth of fireworks at Beaudry’s. One of the tickets was secured by C. B. Roethig and Ira Hyde in company, and the other two balloons were captured by Edward Dunn, so he secured the other ticket.
Typhoid Fever in the Country.
Dr. M. R. Smith of McGraw now numbers among his patients seven people suffering from typhoid fever. All of them live out in various directions in the country. The doctor says it is quite unusual to find so much typhoid fever in the summer, as it is rather considered an autumnal disease, and he has directly traced the cause of most of these cases to bad water. People cannot be too careful about their drainage, as nothing will cause illness much quicker or more surely than impure water.
BREVITIES.
—Bear in mind that the banks close at 3 P. M. thereafter.
—Adolph Frost, Jr., has just put eighty tons of coal into his greenhouse to keep Jack Frost away next winter.
—Oxford has a boy who will be 13 years old on July 26 who is 5 feet 3 inches in height and weighs 269 pounds.
—There will be a vaudeville show at the park pavilion every evening and two matinees upon the week beginning July 10.
—It is expected that the opera, “The Merry Milkmaids,” will be repeated at Marathon Tuesday night for the benefit of the Marathon band.
—The Congregational Sunday-school of Homer Friday ran an excursion to Pleasant Beach on Onondaga lake, and about forty people from Cortland went up to Homer to join the party.
—New windows with a single light of glass in each sash have been put in throughout the whole of the block of The National bank of Cortland. The halls are being resheathed and other improvements are in progress.
—Mrs. Julia Padin, colored, aged 50 years, died Thursday afternoon at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John McCarthy, 21 Reynolds-ave. The funeral occurred at 9 o’clock Saturday and burial was made in the Cortland Rural cemetery.
—The insurance on the high school building at Hamilton has been adjusted and paid. The total amount received was $1,870.65. The Hamilton Republican is now agitating the subject of a new school building instead of trying to repair and rebuild the old one.
—Four cars well filled comprised the trolley party to Homer and McGraw Friday night [June 30]. The City band furnished fine music. Had the night been a little warmer and had a little longer notice been given doubtless the crowd would have been more than doubled. The Traction company will undoubtedly repeat this when the temperature is higher.
—Editor W. W. Ames of the DeRuyter Gleaner has announced himself as a candidate for the assembly nomination from Madison county. He announcement recently printed in The Gleaner is typically modest. He makes no boasts, and is in substance the simple expression of the hope for a hearty support of his friends everywhere. Mr. Ames has been a Republican supervisor a number of years and has made for himself a good record.
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