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| Theodore and Edith Roosevelt Wedding Anniversary, Puck Magazine. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, December 20, 1898.
ROOSEVELT'S REGIME.
Social Part of It Promises to Be Very Brilliant.
PREPARING FOR INAUGURATION.
A Great Crush Is Predicted in Albany on January 2 For Many of the Governor-Elect's Friends Are Coming From Other Cities to Be Present.
ALBANY, Dec. 20.—The social side of the opening of the Roosevelt administration promises to be very brilliant. The fact that Colonel Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt expect to be in Albany on the 28th of the month has caused a little flutter in social circles. They will go at once to the executive mansion, where they will be received by the governor and Mrs. Black, who will give a dinner for them. The family will then have time to get their household affairs settled by the 2d of January, which is the day of the Inauguration, as the 1st falls on Sunday.
The usual reception at the executive mansion will take place on Monday afternoon, Jan. 2, from 4 to 6, and it is predicted that the crush will be as great as that of two years ago, when people were obliged to obtain an entrance to the house by climbing in at cellar windows. Many of Colonel Roosevelt's friends from New York, Washington, Chicago and smaller cities have signified their intention of being in Albany on Inauguration day.
Squadron A of New York, which is to be present, will be entertained in lavish style. They will arrive in Albany Saturday afternoon, Dec. 31, and will quarter at the armory. Saturday night they will give a reception to their friends in the big drill room, and a dance later in the evening will finish the program for the day. They will be entertained royally while in Albany, a number of dinners being given in their honor.
Mrs. Roosevelt will be a patroness at a series of three dances, the first one to be given on Friday, Jan. 6. The Fort Orange club will entertain Governor and Mrs. Roosevelt at dinner on Jan. 11.
RAILROAD MOVE.
Albany to Be Made a Distributing Point For Coal Business.
ALBANY, Den. 20.—The Delaware and Hudson railroad will transfer its distributing point from Rondout to this city in handling its coal business. Vice President Horace G. Young said that the change would take place on the opening of navigation, that the move had been contemplated for some time, and that it will surely increase considerably the earnings of the road.
The places to be utilized by this move will be the Green Island trestle, owned by the road, and its Church street docks and yard in this city. It is intended to supply coal to all points this side of Kingston from the Albany distributing point, and this will mean a pronounced benefit for the Albany laborer.
One factor in making the change was to more readily supply the steamboat lines, which take a considerable amount of coal.
Demand For New Locomotives.
SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Dec. 20.—The Schenectady Locomotive works has received an order from the Midland railroad of England for 10 mogul freight locomotives. The works have just completed a shipment of an order for 27 locomotives to Japan. An order for 14 of the heaviest compound consolidation locomotives ever built was also completed for the Northern Pacific railway. These engines have a capacity of 1,500 horse power. Orders have been received also for four wheel passenger locomotives for fast service between Indianapolis and St. Louis on the "Vandalia line."
Labor Advices to Congress.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 20.—The American Federation of Labor adopted two resolutions, one urging congress to pass a bill giving to the citizens of the District of Columbia the same rights of franchise enjoyed by the people of the states, and other urging government ownership of a system of telegraph lines, the postal telegraph system being favored.
An Advantage of Railroads.
An exchange says: "The railroads running through Cayuta, [New York], are a great benefit to the town. For the coming year the Lehigh Valley will pay $927.45 of tax in that town, and the Elmira, Cortland & Northern, $90, or the two together $1,017.45, while the total town taxes are but $801.15. Thus the railroads will pay all of the town taxes of Cayuta and $216.30 of the $1,139 of state and county tax."
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| Lt. Richmond Pearson Hobson. |
AN OSCULATORY CARNIVAL.
Lieut. Hobson Kissed 267 Times at Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 20.—Lieut. Richmond Pearson Hobson, U. S. N., was the central figure in an osculatory carnival at the Coates hotel yesterday afternoon that clearly overshadowed any of the kissing affairs in which the gallant Alabamian has figured since his return from more serious duties at Santiago. When Lieutenant Hobson arrived from Chicago he was cheered by several hundred persons who had gathered at the railway station. A reception committee waited with carriages and all along the route from the station to his hotel the Merrimac's commander was recognized and cheered. The streets in the vicinity of the hotel were crowded. In the corridor of the hotel, supported by the local reception committee, Lieutenant Hobson received and shook hands with several hundred men.
The more exciting part came a few minutes later when the lieutenant was escorted to the parlor where over 400 women, young, old, handsome and plain, waited to greet the popular hero. Most of them came to kiss him and 267 of them by actual count were not disappointed. Some of the more mature of them received a cordial shake and were passed up the line, but the greater number of them who showed the least inclination were embraced and kissed. At night Lieutenant Hobson divided honors with Major General A. R. Chaffee, they being guests of honor at the banquet of the Kansas City Commercial club.
General Chaffee, who has been in the city several days, responded to the toast "The Fifth Army Corps in Cuba." Lieutenant Hobson spoke to the toast "The American Navy."
After the banquet Lieutenant Hobson departed for Denver on the fast mail train on the Santa Fe route to San Francisco and Manila.
YELLOW FEVER
Has Broken Out Among the American Troops at Cuba.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—A dispatch to The Herald from Havana says yellow jack has claimed its first victim among the American troops. A member of the Second volunteer engineers had been ill five days at Marianao. The disease was pronounced yellow fever Saturday and he died Monday. The result is a scare in camp, which may have a beneficial result in keeping other soldiers away from the city.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Self Government in Cuba and the Philippines.
By a curious coincidence General Merritt and General Shafter have indulged in comments almost at the same time on the inhabitants of Cuba and the Philippines that cannot fail to awaken the American people to the seriousness of the duties that confront them. When asked whether the Filipinos were capable of self government, General Merritt said: "Most assuredly not. They are quite incapable of it, now at least. They might, however, I think, be educated up to it." When a similar question in regard to the Cubans was put to General Shafter, he replied: "Self government!" he exclaimed. "Why, those people are no more fit for self government than gunpowder is for—." He added that in his opinion, the United States would be obliged to remain in Cuba for some time and govern it by military force.
It is creditable to the American people that they should think every people that has attained to any civilization capable of self government, and should feel, as Assistant Secretary Hill said in an address in Washington last week, that it is their duty to confer that blessing upon them. So unprecedented is the success they have made of the greatest experiment in democracy ever attempted that they are prone to believe that an equal success can be made of it elsewhere. But the opinion of such men as General Merritt and General Shafter ought to lead them to pause before establishing either in Cuba or in the Philippines a form of government that the inhabitants are not yet prepared for. The result might be disastrous not only to their own reputation for sound judgment, but to the welfare of the Cubans and Filipinos themselves.
There can be no question, of course, that we are bound to give these people the largest measure of freedom that they are capable of. But that does not mean that we shall set them up at once in self government, as seems to be assumed by some unwise enthusiasts, and leave them to work out their own salvation. It means that we shall deliver them from the needless burdens of Spanish taxation and from the meddlesome and exasperating interference of the Spanish government in their industrial affairs. In the case of Cuba, the president has promulgated a tariff that ought not only to produce all the revenue that the island will need, but give a powerful impulse to its industrial development. It will doubtless be followed by an abolition of the most onerous internal taxes and regulations. The observance of the same policy in the Philippines cannot fail to have the same happy effects When, in addition to these duties, we assure the preservation of order and the enforcement of justice, we shall accomplish a work of far greater importance at present than independence.
In a task of such magnitude and difficulty, it is needful to make haste slowly. Fewer mistakes and greater headway will be made. It is generally recognized now that had the same cautious policy been pursued in the South after the war, many difficulties that now confront us could have been avoided. There is reason to believe that no such thing as the negro problem would have been called into existence. Our experience in that matter ought to be of value to us now.
A Newspaper Change.
The Syracuse Courier has suspended publication. Several weeks ago it reduced its size from eight pages to four. Shortly after that it started an evening edition. With the issue of Saturday, Dec. 17, the morning edition stopped and The Courier which had been the Democratic paper of Onondaga county for so many years was no more. The evening edition is now known as The Evening Telegram, and states that it will be independent in politics. In other words Onondaga county now has no Democratic newspaper.
Rumors are constantly afloat that the Syracuse Standard and Syracuse Post are about to consolidate. Upwards of two years ago consolidation was nearly consummated, but a failure to agree upon details prevented this result coming about. It is possible, however, that the consolidation may materialize this time.
Free Farmers' Reading-Course.
Every farmer may avail himself of the privileges of the Nixon bill providing for University Extension of agricultural knowledge. Address Reading-Course, College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y., for a plan of a Farmers' Course of reading for these winter evenings. Several thousand farmers are now following this course. The topics relate to the farmer's occupation. After reading on a question, a discussion with the College of Agriculture will follow. Suggestions are given for the formation of Reading-Circles. Much has been said about the practical nature of scientific agriculture. Some simple experiments will be urged upon all readers by which to test the truth of the principles taught. In these times of fierce competition, the strong are constantly becoming stronger, and no farmer should neglect any chance for gaining professional strength. If he does and falls behind, he has no one to blame but himself. Under the Nixon bill there is no expense to those taking up this course of reading. The reading matter is furnished.
NOW MARATHON REPORTS.
John P. Allen Has a Good Corn Record from His Farm.
To the Editor of The STANDARD:
SIR—As our town has not been represented in the corn contest I will tell you what was done on my farm. I raised five and one-half acres of the Leaning variety. It was drilled in rows 32 inches apart. Some phosphate was used. A weeder was run through it twice and a smoothing harrow twice. From the crop I filled a silo which is 15 feet square and 28 feet high. I had one and one-half acres left. From this I fed fifteen cows all they would eat for three weeks, and then when I saw that the balance was about to get ripe I let it stand for a few days, cut and husked it and had 241 bushels of sound ears of corn.
JOHN P. ALLEN, Marathon, N. Y., Dec. 19.
SURPRISE FOR MR. AND MRS. COVERT
Occurred Last Evening at the Home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Richards.
A very happy surprise was planned and carried out last evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Richards, 5 Owego-st., for Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Covert of 74 Prospect-st., who are soon to leave Cortland to locate at Milford, Del., where Mr. Covert has purchased a fine farm. Mr. and Mrs. Covert were invited to take tea and spend the evening with Mr. and Mrs. Richards and it did not enter their heads that the invitation was but a part of a well laid plan for a more complete surprise for them.
Mr. Covert is an active and valued member of the Cortland branch of the A. O. U. W. and Mrs. Covert is one of the leading members of the Degree of Honor. Those who participated in the surprise last evening were mostly members of these two organizations and associates of Mr. Covert at the Lehigh Valley car shops, where he has been so long employed.
To the number of nearly fifty they met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Shirley, 52 Owego-st., and proceeded in a body to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richards, where Mr. and Mrs. Covert were taken completely by surprise and where the evening was most pleasantly spent. In the course of the evening Mr. Richards called the company to order and in behalf of the guests presented Mr. and Mrs. Covert with a handsome onyx stand. Mr. Richards referred to the high esteem in which both Mr. and Mrs. Covert are held, expressed his regret that they had decided to leave Cortland and wished them health, wealth and unbounded prosperity in their new home. Mr. Richards was followed by Mr. Wm. Pearson, who spoke of Mr. Covert's fidelity and active work in lodge matters; and Mr. Joseph Bunney added a few words along the same line. Both Mr. and Mrs. Covert responded and thanked their friends for their gift and for the interest manifested in their behalf.
A bountiful supper was served, the guests having brought their own refreshments. The following were present: Mr. and Mrs. Covert, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Richards, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Bunney, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Shirley, Mr. and Mrs. Mills, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Woodworth, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Angell, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. G. Hatler, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. T. Lester, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Allsopp, Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. J. Bump, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Robson, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burns, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Burns, Mrs. Sarah Lucas, Mrs. Lavell, Misses Mamie Hannon, Ida Covert, Mabel Richards, and Messrs. Fred Lucas, John Hannon, John Lavell, Jared Chaddock, Mr. Summers and Mr. Adams.
Attorney for Bankruptcy.
All reports go to show that the business records of the country this year will exceed that of any previous year. There are many persons who years ago from a combination of circumstances they could not control failed and the old obligations have prevented them from resuming business. The present business revival all over the country offers a signal opportunity for honest insolvents to redeem their impaired credit, as under the law recently enacted they may cancel past debts with but little delay and expense. Many throughout the country are taking advantage of this privilege. Wm. D. Tuttle, attorney of this village, is well acquainted with the practice and will make a specialty of proceedings of this character. His card appears in another column.
BREVITIES.
—The Fortnightly club will meet to-morrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with the Misses White at 53 Port Watson-st.
—The Ladles' Literary club will meet to-morrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with Mrs. J. E. Banta, 89 North Main-st.
—Captain Waldron is expected to return to Cortland very soon to resume command of the detachment of the Salvation Army stationed here.
—The Sunday-school class of the First M. E. church taught by Mr. R. J. Lucas will meet at the home of Miss Myrtie Jones, 11 Lincoln-ave., Wednesday evening. Let every member be present.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Baker
& Angell, Jennets Miller Shoes,
page 7; McCarthy & Sons, Holiday Goods, page 7; L. N. Hopkins, Plant Stand,
page 7; Bingham Bros. & Miller,
True Merit Counts, page 7; John Chatillon & Sons, Scales, page 7.
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