Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, December 23, 1898.
NEWSPAPERS CONSOLIDATE.
The Syracuse Standard and The Post Will Be One Paper Hereafter.
SYRACUSE, Dec. 23.—Contracts have been signed for the consolidation on Jan. 1 of the Syracuse Standard and the Syracuse Post. The stock of the new organization is to be divided equally between the present owners of The Standard and the present owners of The Post, who are to form a new corporation under the title, The Post-Standard company. The name of the consolidated paper, both daily and semi-weekly editions, will be The Post-Standard.
The directors and officers of the new company, who have been elected for a period of three years, are as follows: James J. Belden, president; Francis Hendricks, vice president; Hendrick S. Holden, treasurer; Frederick W. Barker, secretary; Horace White, Walter E. Gardner, Martin A. Knapp and Albert K. Hiscock.
The general manager and editor-in-chief of the consolidated paper is to be W. E. Gardner, now editor and manager of The Post, and the present office of The Post is to be the future office of publication.
OUR FLAG STILL FLOATS.
Plainly Visible From the Harbor and City of Havana.
EFFORTS TO FEED THE STARVING.
Thousands of People in Havana Are in Destitute Circumstances—General Lee Orders a Distribution of Rations. More Troops Reach Havana. Spanish Troops Sail.
HAVANA, Dec. 23.—Major Russell Harrison, the provost marshal, who on Tuesday raised the stars and stripes over Fort Atares without orders and in contravention of the United States evacuation commissioners that no American flags should be raised in Havana or its suburbs until Jan. 1, was formally reprimanded by Major General Lee and instructed to lower the flag. Lieutenant Lee reported a few hours later to headquarters that the flag had been lowered. Nevertheless, at the hour of filing this dispatch, it is still flying on a tall staff over the famous fort, plainly visible from the harbor and city.
Major General Lee, having received a cable from General Alger, saying that the secretary of war understood there were thousands of persons starving in Havana, and directing him to feed them "without delay," immediately ordered Lieutenant Colonel Wood to distribute rations and to make systematic efforts to feed the helpless, carefully avoiding waste.
There are hundreds in Havana today who, though not actually starving, are in a deplorable state of weakness and disease, the effects of the cruel reconcentration policy. They need hospital treatment, which is not always available. Much of the wretchedness is due to the neglected condition of the tenements. Every day or so the relief distributors come upon dead bodies, terribly emaciated.
It is difficult to distinguish between the professional vagrant and the really deserving cases, but the committees with local knowledge are able to render excellent service.
The United States transport Minnewaska, which left Savannah for Cuba on Dec. 19 with the Forty-ninth Iowa regiment, has arrived here.
The Spanish transport Ciudad de Cadiz and the Nuestria sailed for Spain, the former with 1,286 men and officers bound for Santander, and the latter with 1,033 men for Cadiz.
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| George Frisbie Hoar. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
◘ Carnegie is to make 40,000 tons of steel rails for use by an English company in Cape Colony. Locomotive builders at Schenectady and Philadelphia have contracts for twenty locomotives for the Midland railroad in the heart of England. We build warships for Russia and Japan, make armor plate for Russia's use in its own ship yards, export pig iron to foreign factories, and manufacturers of iron and steel to all the nations of the globe. The United States owes its supremacy in the iron and steel trades to the Republican policy of [tariff] protection.
◘ Senator Hoar is right in his position on the Nicaragua canal. The canal "should be built, and built at once." Its cost is a detail to be met at whatever necessary total it may be. The one thing definitely known is that the canal is necessary. The Massachusetts senator would have the government take charge of the construction, secure an amicable understanding with England, and dismiss the Maritime company with reasonable compensation for its property and work.
◘ Yale was financially successful in its 1898 football course, if not a pennant winner. With all expenses paid, the games with Harvard and Princeton netted the Athletic association $25,505, a larger sum than has been received in seasons when Yale was victor on the grid iron.
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| Cortland Hospital on North Main Street. |
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| Julia E. Hyatt. |
HOSPITAL REPORTS
FROM THE SECRETARY, TREASURER, AND MATRON.
Hospital Never Used as Much as in the Year Just Past—Building is Overcrowded—Need of a Nurses' Cottage—Detailed Statement of Medical and Surgical Staffs—The Finances.
The Cortland Hospital association completed seven and one-half years of its existence in Sept. 30, 1898. The following reports of the secretary, treasurer and matron were given at the recent meeting of the board of lady managers and will be of interest to the general public. The following is the secretary's report:
To the President and Members of the Cortland Hospital Association and Citizens of Cortland:
In presenting to the public the report of the Cortland Hospital association for the year ending Oct. 1, 1898, the management can report an increased growth and development of the hospital's sphere of usefulness over that of any previous year of its history. The routine business has been transacted at the regular monthly meetings which have been well attended. One change has occurred in the board of managers—Mrs. Aaron Sager taking the place made vacant by the resignation of Mrs. H. J. Harrington.
The total number of patients treated since the opening of the hospital seven and a half years ago is 388. The first year there were fifteen, the second twenty-nine, the third twenty-five, the fourth thirty-nine, the fifth sixty-eight, the sixth, covering a period of only eight months fifty-five, the seventh year seventy-six, the year ending Oct. 3, 1898, there have been eighty-one. The number of days' occupancy in the past year has been 1854, a daily average of 5.07.
The number of patients paying from $2 to $10 per week has been sixty. Of the twenty-one beneficiaries one has been a county charge. Fifteen were received as charity cases and five have received the benefits of the free bed which was endowed by Mrs. Hyatt, the president of our association. The number of days' occupancy of the beneficiaries has been 792.
During the year the nurses of our training school have cared for thirty-four cases in Cortland and in the adjoining towns, but the matron has not been able to respond to all the calls made for their service on account of the increasing work at the hospital.
The number of pupil nurses in the training school has been increased from the three members of one year ago to seven. This training school, established four years ago last April has now attained a higher degree of efficiency than ever before and that the public appreciates this fact is shown in the increasing demand for our nurses.
To the intelligent and watchful oversight of our very efficient matron, Mrs. Waters, and to the faithfulness of the head nurse, Miss Van Derveer, and her assistant nurses, the thanks of the association are extended for the conscientiousness with which their duties have been performed, thus making possible the satisfactory results achieved.
In considering the question of "ways and means" we find the amount received for patients' board has been $1,084, for nurses' services $609, from the fair and bazaar held last December $200, from membership fees and donations $138.76.
In February last the people of the town voted to appropriate to the hospital the sum of $800, for the benefit of the needy sick of the town. This will prove a most welcome help in the perplexing solution of the financial problem which has been confronting the management of the association. The indebtedness of the hospital had been accumulating through nearly the whole period of its existence for it has never been self-supporting and the contributions have never sufficed to meet the deficiency. Upon the strength of the appropriation and in the expectation of receiving some ready money from the Brewer estate the managers decided that, rather than keep their creditors waiting until these should be paid, they would borrow $1,000 with which to meet the most urgent claims.
The increase in expenditures of nearly $1,000 over last year does not therefore represent an actual increase in current expenses of that amount for the year 1898.
The annual offering from the children of the public schools has become a permanent custom and, as in previous years, it aided much in furnishing a supply of vegetables, fruits and other household necessities for winter use.
The association extends grateful acknowledgment to all friends who have kindly remembered the hospital's needs with gifts, whether of money, of provisions, fruits, flowers or house furnishing; to the local press for their continued favors and unfailing courtesy in giving us gratuitously the use of their columns, and to Messrs. Lewis Bouton and E. E. Mellon for valuable legal services. Not less important to us than gifts of money and donations of supplies are the liberal discounts allowed by many of the business men of whom purchases have been made.
The uniform courtesy, the ever increasing devotion to the hospital's interests and the untiring faithfulness of each and all members of the medical staff are fully appreciated.
Our need of a telephone had been long felt, but on account of the expense had seemed among the impossible. Last spring, through the efforts of Dr. Reese, the necessary funds were raised by subscription and in June a telephone was placed in the house with the service paid for two years. How great a convenience it is, none but the corps of workers in the hospital can fully realize.
During the year the association lost in the death of the Rev. James A. Robinson one of its earliest and firmest friends and the one who was first to publicly urge the establishment of a hospital in our town. Since the founding of the association he had been chairman of its advisory board and he was always ready to use his influence, both in public and in private for the upbuilding of the institution in which he took such an interest.
Our facilities for work and our funds for improvements do not keep pace with our large ambitions and designs. If there were room in the hospital to accommodate a larger number of pupil nurses several more could be employed with advantage both to the hospital and the public. For the accommodation of the number now employed it has been necessary to rent a room in a private house. This emphasizes the fact which was brought to the attention of the people of Cortland in a former report—the urgent and imperative need of a nurses' cottage upon the grounds. There is abundance of room for such cottage and it could be erected at a small expense. This would also give three more rooms in the hospital to be used for private patients, and these additional rooms have seemed during the past months, almost a necessity.
As in previous years, all the committees of the board of managers have worked together faithfully and harmoniously. A hospital sustained, as is ours, very largely by current contributions needs a devotion and consecration to the work on the part of its management which will carry them undaunted and uncomplainingly through great labors. Such a devotion to the hospital's interests, we believe its managers have always shown. No written words can tell of the unwearying care and patience and the expenditure of time, all of which have been most cheerfully given by those who are responsible for the administration. Truly "hospitals do not run themselves." The methods doubtless have not been faultless, but those in charge have endeavored to do their best.
We still ask the support and co-operation of all who believe the Cortland hospital has proved its right to exist. Until we have a substantial endowment the question of "ways and means" will continue to be a most important one.
With the thanks of the association to all who have aided in the past we commend the hospital to your support for the year 1898-99.
ELLA M. BUCK, Secretary Hospital association, Cortland, Oct. 3, 1898.
The following is the report of the treasurer:
TREASURER'S REPORT.
The following is the treasurer's report of the Cortland Hospital association for the year ending Sept. 30, 1898:
Souvenirs are All the Go.
At Bennett's Oysterhouse Friday and Saturday every purchaser of 25 cents or over will be given their choice of 200 decorated shells as long as they last. They are not only decorated but many uses can be made of them as pin trays, ash trays, match boxes, etc.
You will also find a variety of shell fish never before shown in Cortland at one time. Oysters at 25, 30, 40 and 50 cents a quart and from 12 cents a dozen up in the shell.
Blue Points on half shell 15 cents a dozen. You can have them delivered for your Christmas dinner. Princes Bay clams (not the common variety), Little Neck clams, lobsters alive or boiled served or sold by the pound.
Clam chowder 20 cents a quart and last but not least an oyster cracker that will melt in your mouth. [paid ad.]
BREVITIES.
—The Normal school closed this afternoon for the Holiday vacation and will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 3.
—All who are to take part in the Christmas concert Sunday evening at the Homer-ave. church are requested to meet at the church Saturday at 2:30 for rehearsal.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Baker & Angell, Jenness Miller Shoes, page 8; D. E. Shepard, Fine Christmas Goods, page 2; Baker & Angell, Great Bargains in Slippers, page 4.
—At the conclusion of the trial of the case of Joseph Valliere against Elizabeth Hathaway, both of Solon, yesterday, Justice Dowd decided in favor of the plaintiff for the full amount claimed, $45.50.
—The Binghamton Y. M. C. A. has just cleared off the indebtedness on its building, and the burning of the $1,500 mortgage is to be one of the features of the New Year's day celebration. Wish Cortland could rejoice in a fine building clear from debt.
—The Normal News notes the fact of a member of the B class at the Normal who recently spent a few days at her home on the D., L. & W. R. R., and she is still wondering why the conductor declined to accept her Lehigh Valley mileage book.
—The United States express office will be open on Christmas morning till 10 o'clock and the teams will make the usual morning delivery to accommodate patrons who may have packages arrive late Saturday night or on the early train Sunday meaning.
—The Christmas exercises at the first M. E. church to-morrow night begin at 7 o'clock. There will be a Christmas tree for the whole Sunday-school, and anyone who wishes may bring presents. These should be at the church at 5 o'clock so that they may be property arranged.
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