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| Samuel Gompers. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, December 21, 1898.
GOMPERS RE-ELECTED.
No Opposition to the American Federation of Labor President.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 21.—The American Federation of Labor selected Detroit as the next place of meeting over Louisville, Atlanta and Cleveland.
The following officers were re-elected without opposition: Samuel Gompers, president; P. J. McGuire, Philadelphia, first vice president; James Duncan, Baltimore, second vice president; J. O'Connell, Chicago, third vice president. Mr. Gompers was elected unanimously.
Much of the time of the convention was taken up in amending the constitution and broadening the scope of the organization. Among other amendments to the constitution was that increasing the per capita tax of members of organized unions from three-quarters to 5 cents per month. This increase was opposed by President Gompers, but was upheld by a majority of the delegates; the increased funds being needed, they said, in pushing the added work of the Federation, mapped out for the coming year.
A resolution of J. F. O'Sullivan of Boston, looking to a bill in congress to impose an internal revenue tax against all factories employing women and children overtime was killed.
The committee on laws reported against the measure on the ground that it would legalize the employment of children as laborers.
Before adjourning the convention listened to farewell addresses by British Delegates William Inskip and William Thorn.
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| Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii. |
EX-QUEEN LIL'S PROTEST.
She Objects to the United States Taking Possession of Her Land.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Ex-Queen Liliuokalani has sent to the senate the following protest against the appropriation of the crown lands of Hawaii by the United States:
To the Senate of the United States:
I, Liliuokalani of Hawaii, named heir apparent on the 10th day of April, 1877, and proclaimed queen of the Hawaiian islands on the 20th day of January, 1891, do hereby earnestly and respectfully protest against the assertion of ownership by the United States of America of the so-called Hawaiian crown lands amounting to about 1,000,000 acres, and which are my property, and I especially protest against such assertion of ownership as a taking of property without due process of law and without just or other compensation.
Therefore, supplementing my protest of June 17, 1897, I call upon the president and the national legislature and the people of the United States to do justice in this matter and to restore to me this property, the enjoyment of which is being withheld from me by your government under what must be a misapprehension of my right and title. LILIUOKALANI.
Washington Officials Have the Grippe.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 21.—Secretary Hay was obliged to leave the state department on account of an attack of grippe which he has been fighting off for some days. The disease is undoubtedly epidemic in the department. Secretary Adee and Assistant Secretary Cridler are both afflicted, and Assistant Secretary Allen of the navy department has remained at his post with some difficulty during Secretary Long's absence because of a similar attack. A large number of subordinate officials and employes [sic] are on the sick list as a result of the grippe.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
The Grip.
Reports from various states in the northeastern section of the country show that the grip is more prevalent than it has been before in several years. The Utica Herald explains and comments on the disease an follows: The influenza bacillus is always found in the atmosphere, but after an epidemic of grip there is comparative freedom from the disease for a certain period until the insusceptibility [sic] to it is lost. Then the bacillus takes hold again, and the grip becomes once more epidemic. The disease extends rapidly, and affects large numbers of people, because of the lack of definite diagnosis and any attempt at the isolation of patients or disinfection of discharges.
It was only until recent years that influenza came to be recognized as a germ disease. Even after the grip bacillus had been discovered, the disease was not considered either infectious or contagious. It is now the consensus of expert opinion that influenza may be transmitted from person to person through the taking in of the bacillus organism, either from direct contact, or after the secretions have dried and been pulverized, to be inhaled in the form of dust. There are many catarrhal affections of the respiratory tract which are improperly called grip, but it is very difficult, especially in milder cases, to distinguish between them and real influenza. The latter, however, is a much more serious affection, producing as it does much greater depression, and being followed by a much more tedious convalescence. If cases of genuine grip could be isolated and the discharges disinfected, the disease could hardly become epidemic. As, however, it has not generally aroused any more apprehension than a severe cold, it has been allowed to spread, especially as the physicians seem fairly successful in coping with it. Now that it has been declared contagious perhaps it would be just as well if people did not hunt for it.
According to reports to the New York board of health there are now 100,000 cases of grip in that city. The board has therefore recognized the disease as epidemic for the first time since April, 1891. In that month there were 507 deaths from grip. The total for the year was 854. This dropped to 495 in 1892, to 227 in 1893, and to 188 in 1894. The disease became quite prevalent again early in 1895, the deaths in January numbering 242, in February 165, and for the year 567. The total dropped to 101 in 1896, and went up to 196 in 1897. For the first eleven months of the present year the deaths from influenza were only fifty-eight. Although the disease is very prevalent in the city, the deaths reported from it thus far in December are comparatively few. The reports of the next week or two will doubtless show a greater mortality, and give some idea of the scope and fatality of the epidemic.
Commissioner Cosby of the board of health assures New Yorkers that the filthy condition of their streets has nothing whatever to do with the outbreak of grip. But the fact remains that the disease has less opportunity to spread in a clean city than it has in a dirty one. It is true that there are epidemics of grip at Yale college, Vassar college and elsewhere, but just the same atmospheric conditions favorable to the disease are more likely to be found where dirt abounds than where everything is clean.
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| Lt. Richmond Pearson Hobson, Medal of Honor recipient. |
◘ Hobson is a record breaker of a record-breaking country. Whether he kissed 163 or 165 girls in Chicago doesn't matter particularly, says the Utica Herald, as at Kansas City Monday night he made a new record—417. Some of Chicago editors, old fellows who have passed the age of romance, and care only for extending railway franchises, call the Merrimac hero's kissing exploits "mushy'' and ''loathsome," and consider it "sad that a man of his excellent courage should lend himself to a public display of female hysteria." They are just envious, that is all.
GRIP IS RAGING.
Five Thousand People Sick in Dayton, Ohio. No Fatalities.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 21.—A special from Dayton, O., to The Enquirer says: The grip is prevalent in this city to an alarming extent. One prominent physician estimates that at least 5,000 persons are afflicted with it. In one factory there are 200 employees confined to their homes with the sickness and in some eases whole families are down with the ailment. So far as known no fatalities have resulted.
Colgate's New President.
At the semi-annual meeting of the board of trustees of Colgate university (Hamilton, N. Y.) at the Fifth-ave. hotel Tuesday, the Rev. George E. Merrill, D. D., of Newton, Mass., was elected president of the university. Dr. Merrill was pastor of the Baptist church of Newton; previous to that, at Salem, Mass., and Colorado Springs, Col. He is a graduate of Harvard and of the Newton Theological seminary.
He Had the Gold.
Cashier Sweetland of the Oswego Second National bank nearly had a fit Friday morning when Gilbert Stone of Scriba presented $10,000 in gold for deposit. He has been in South Africa for the past twenty years and was interested in diamond and. gold fields. His gold was coined at the Philadelphia mint and is in $20 pieces. Mr. Stone only recently returned from the scenes of his success.—Ithaca Journal.
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| Cortland Hospital. |
GRADUATION EXERCISES
Held at the Cortland Hospital Tuesday Evening.
Mrs. Adah H. White on Monday night, Dec. 19, completed her two years course of study and under-graduate service at the Cortland hospital. To observe this occasion the board of lady managers prepared a very fine supper to which all the physicians of the medical and surgical staffs and their wives and Dr. and Mrs. Ver Nooy were invited. The supper was served at 6 o'clock and there were present all the physicians of the staff with their wives except Drs. Dana, Reese and Moore and their wives who were unavoidably detained, also the board of managers, Mrs. Waters, the matron, and the nurses, making about thirty in all.
After the supper had been served and a social hour had been pleasantly passed the graduation exercises occurred. By request of the president of the board, Mrs. Hyatt, Dr. Higgins presented the diploma to Mrs. White, making the presentation speech. Dr. Sornberger then read a poem, "In a Hospital," by Grace Litchfield, the sentiment of which was very appropriate to the occasion. Dr. Henry and Dr. Ver Nooy also added words of cordial approval.
Mrs. White will spend one year more in the hospital in study and will also go out on cases where there is a call for skilled nurses.
On Jan. 25 Mrs. Helen M. Waters will be entitled to a diploma as she will then have finished the two years of study which she has followed in addition to very faithfully and efficiently discharging the arduous duties of the office of matron.
The hospital at present has the smallest number of patients of any time for some months, only seven being there.
There are now seven nurses in training at the hospital and very interesting, instructive and profitable courses of lectures are being given for them this winter. The present course is being given by the physicians of the surgical staff—Drs. Dana, Higgins, Reese and Sornberger—who have laid out the course systematically. Two lectures are given each week, on Monday and Friday evenings, usually from 5 to 6 o'clock. The course includes lectures on anatomy, obstetrics, general surgery and the diseases which are common to Cortland. At the close of this course it is expected that the medical staff, which includes Drs. Henry, Didama, Moore and Neary, will arrange a similar course of subjects that lie along the lines of their work in the hospital.
Cases Battled Out of Court.
During the building of the Erie & Central New York railroad, several parties who furnished material such as ties and timber, were not paid. Soon after the road was completed, a number of mechanic's liens aggregating about $25,000 were filed at the county clerk's office, and two of the claimants, J. M. Seacord of Cortland and J. G. Harvey of Cincinnatus, brought an action through their attorneys, Bronson & Davis, for foreclosure and sale, and they were to come up at the January term of the supreme court, but will not be tried as all the claimants but one or two have received their demands in full.
Holly and Mistletoe.
Mr. L. N. Hopkins has received a large supply of fine holly for Christmas decorations and is expecting a shipment of mistletoe this afternoon at his greenhouse, 31 North Main-st. He has in stock some handsome jardenieres which make desirable Christmas presents, palms for decorative purposes and an abundance of cut flowers for Christmas. Leave your order early and have goods delivered when you want them. [paid ad.]
MORE CHRISTMAS WINDOWS.
An Additional Number Who Have Pretty Holiday Exhibits.
A very attractive window in the drygoods store of J. B. Kellogg is the north one, which was yesterday in the hands of Mrs. James A. Wood, hundreds of handkerchiefs are used in the decoration. They are arranged In the form of a star with a background of pillars.
F. B. Nourse, jeweler, has displayed with pretty effect a quantity of jewelry and fancy wares.
McKinney & Doubleday's windows are resplendent with handsome jardenieres and stands, pictures, statuary and fancy dishes.
Toilet articles and novelties compose the exhibit at the City drugstore.
In the store of F. Daehler may be seen a choice arrangement of gentlemen's neckwear, canes, handkerchiefs, gloves and umbrellas.
At Smith's hardware store is a fine display of skates, cutlery, tea and coffee pots.
Simmons & Grant have in their windows a full line of suits, neckwear and shirts.
F. M. Quick, the local manager of the Grand Union Tea Co., is showing handsome wall pockets, mirrors, handkerchiefs and glove cases.
Reider & McLaughlin's windows of rings and clocks are specially attractive.
The windows of Graham, the tailor, display handkerchiefs, neckwear, shirts, hats and caps.
A. M. Jewett has a very pretty exhibit of silver tea and water sets, pins, watches, clocks and silverware.
At Hopkins' grocery, a toothsome display of fruits and candies fills the windows. Charles W. Fleming exhibits fine Christmas candles.
Druggist Fred I. Graham just now confines his window display to patent medicines, but he has Christmas novelties inside.
Both the windows of Mrs. W. W. Gale's store are full of interest to the ladies, for they show fancy goods and millinery.
The large show windows of Mrs. J. T. Davern's store are in beautiful Holiday attire with well displayed millinery and fancy goods tastefully arranged.
Clark & Angell and Price & Co., grocers, have attractive windows, and M. B. Filzinger's candies and fruits are well arranged in his windows. The meatmarkets have all put on special Holiday dress in evergreens, etc. Other windows will be noticed later.
Masonic election.
At a stated communication of Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M., held at Masonic hall, Cortland, Dec. 20, 1898, the following were elected and appointed officers and duly installed for the year 1899:
W. M.—T. T. Bates.
S. W.—F. P. Hakes.
J. W.—C. S. Bull.
Secretary—M. J. Grady.
Treasurer—Geo. L. Warren.
Trustee Three Years—Geo. L. Warren.
S. D.—Benjamin Peters.
J. D.—E. M. Loomis.
Chaplain—Rev. Amos Watkins.
S. M. C.—S. S. Knox.
J. M. C.—Wilfred Kelly.
Organist—A. B. Kingsley.
Tiler—Robert Otto.
Marshal—George L. Warren.
BREVITIES.
—Mr. J. M. Samson has moved his residence from 23 Clinton-ave. to 24 Groton-ave.
—The board of governors of the Cortland Athletic association will meet to-night.
—The annual election of officers of the Cortland fire department will be held to-night at 8 o'clock.
—The village schools will close Friday afternoon for the Holiday vacation, reopening Tuesday, Jan. 3.
—Dr. E. A. Didama has moved his residence and office from 73 North Main-st., to 40 North Main-st., corner of Maple-ave.
—The way the water starts off on Main-st. with the present thaw shows that the new grade, as established by Engineer Allen, is all right.
—Invitations have been issued for a banquet to be given by the Young Men's Debating club at The Kremlin Friday evening, Jan. 6, 1899.
—Of the 1,200 children attending the village schools, all but seventeen have been vaccinated, and the school authorities do not purpose to receive these in the school until they have been vaccinated [smallpox].
—New display advertisements to-day are—Kearney Bros., Men's Suits, page 8; M. L. Decker, Sewing Machines, page 5; Smith & Beaudry, Four Days More, page 4; Stowell, Christmas Toys, page 8; Palmer & Co., Sweet Prices, page 7.
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