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| President William McKinley. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, February 18, 1899.
ROUND OF PLEASURE.
How the President Enjoyed Himself In Boston.
THE EVENTS OF THE SECOND DAY.
He Visits the Grand Army Men and Then Goes to the Legislature—A Breakfast Tendered by the Algonquin Club. The President Well Pleased With His Reception.
BOSTON, Feb. 18.—The second and last day of the visit of President McKinley and his cabinet was spent in a round of pleasures. The day was a beautiful one as far as wind and weather were concerned, and the different events which were crowded into the few remaining hours followed each other rapidly. The president breakfasted at 9 o'clock and at 10 o'clock was en route to Tremont temple, where he spoke to the members of the Massachusetts department of the G. A. R., who were assembled in annual convention.
Immediately following this carriages were taken for the state house, where the president visited the legislature in joint session and made an address. Here also Secretary Long created much amusement by his witticism and his allusions to the time when he wielded the gavel as speaker of the Massachusetts house of representatives. After a short reception the presidential party was taken on a tour through the subway, and thence to the Algonquin club, where a breakfast was tendered to the gentlemen by the members of the Commercial club, composed of the principal business and professional men of the city of Boston.
At 4:50 the party was driven to the South Terminal station and left for Washington on their special train at 5:10.
Secretary Long did not return with the party, preferring to go to his home at Hingham with Mrs. Long.
Hon. Ferdinand Peck, commissioner of the United States to the Paris exposition, with his wife accompanied the president as far as New York. The president left in excellent health and expressed himself as having enjoyed every moment of his trip, and as being well pleased with the welcome and greeting he had received at the hands of the Home Market club, whose especial guest he has been and from the citizens of Boston and the commonwealth.
FRIENDLY TO AMERICA.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock Tells of the Attitude of Russia.
NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—Ethan Allen Hitchcock, the retiring American ambassador to Russia, recently appointed by President McKinley secretary of the interior, arrived here on the steamship Teutonic.
"My appointment was as much a surprise to me as it could have been to the public."
Asked for some information about Russia, Secretary Hitchcock said:
"There is little I can add to the interview which I gave to the press in England. I stated that Russia had always been most friendly towards the United States and that there was not the slightest foundation for the story in circulation here during the war that Russia was a member of a coalition of continental powers which would have intervened in the dispute if England had not refused to join them. France has also always been friendly and I don't think there could have been any such proposition broached anyway."
Large Order For Locomotives.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 18.—The Baldwin Locomotive works has just closed a contract for the building of 81 locomotives, the largest single order ever received by that company. The locomotives are for use on new railroads now under construction in China. The contract was under consideration about a year ago, but the breaking out of the war with Spain opened up such an element of doubt regarding the safe delivery of the engines that the matter was dropped for the time. The negotiations were recently renewed and have just been brought to a conclusion.
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| Puck cartoon, pig absent. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
The pompous solemnity with which trifles are treated by official Germany continues to make the rest of mankind laugh. The American comic paper Puck recently printed a cartoon representing the nations of the earth as animals, in which Germany assumed the shape of a pig. This picture, having been copied by the Paris Figaro, that paper was thrown out of Germany neck and heels. The consequence was that half a million people in Europe who never heard of Puck and who would have forgotten the picture as soon as seen are everywhere asking for it. Several harmless foreign publications have in this manner been excluded from the German mails, and it does not appear to be at all plain to the high cockalorums who are carrying on the puerile tyranny that they are sowing the tiny seeds of discontent among the intelligent people of the empire. Count Posadowski, when recently questioned with respect to the political discontent in Germany, went off at a high rate of speed on German unity and German prestige abroad. He refused to touch upon the small ills and annoyances of the people under the present system and pointed with great solemnity to a consolidated Fatherland.
A NATIVE ARMENIAN
Was One of the Victims of Turkish Persecution.
Mr. S. H. Devirian, who is now at the [Cortland] store of Graham, the tailor, showing and selling Oriental rugs, is a native of Armenia, and in a talk with a STANDARD man this morning said that he was born near Tarsus where the apostle Paul was born. He was educated at an institution of the American board of missions in Turkey. He preached the gospel for twenty years in his native city, Hadjin, Cilicia. His church grew from one of small numbers to one of over 1,000 attendants. During the massacres he did not escape attention. He was accused of cursing the sultan in his prayers and was sentenced to be hung, but fortunately made his escape to this country and worked hard to bring over his family, consisting of his wife and five children who live in Binghamton. He has letters of introduction and recommendation from Supreme Court Justice George F. Lyon and Rev. G. Parsons Nichols, D. D., of Binghamton.
Though a minister, he has an interest in the hand woven rug line, so through the aid of people in his country he has engaged in the sale of these rugs and is supporting his family in this way. He has written a book on his experiences during the massacres, and this he is selling also.
Important Meetings.
A mass-meeting for men only will be held in Taylor hall Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The object of this meeting will be to discuss the question of [liquor] license or no-license to be voted upon at the approaching town-meeting.
Sunday evening at 7 o'clock mass-meetings to which all are invited, will be held in the following churches: The Presbyterian, First Baptist, Homer-ave. Methodist and Universalist. Interesting programs are being arranged for each of these meetings.
On Monday evening at 8 o'clock, Rev. C. E. Hamilton, formerly pastor of the Homer-ave. church, will address a mass-meeting at the Opera House. This meeting will be open to all.
Dr. Francis J. Cheney will address a meeting to be held in the Baptist church at McGraw, Sunday evening, and on Monday evening Rev. W. H. Pound and Prof. J. E. Banta are to speak at Cincinnatus.
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| Cortland Normal School. |
CORNELL DEFEATED.
Another Victory Scored for the Local Y. M. C. A. Team.
Last night in the Normal gymnasium the Cortland boys again showed their superiority and defeated Cornell university's first team in basket ball by the score of 14 to 7. And the score plainly shows that the victory was not due either to the presence of a certain rabbit's foot that one of the players always carries nor that red bandanna that Smith exhibits at the end of every victorious contest with the confident smile "I told you so." He had it at Elmira and Binghamton and it was the mascot that turned the balance our way at Syracuse.
The game was the cleanest and yet hardest played contest ever seen in town and the enthusiasm waxed so high that even the staid and seemingly unexcitable people who were witnessing the game for the first time would often catch themselves in the act of cheering so loud that their neighbor's voice was inaudible, some even had to be forced to keep their seats. To some the result was a surprise and many never dreamed the walk away would be our way.
It will now be interesting to watch the Cornellians in their coming game with Yale at Poughkeepsie the coming week.
Promptly at 8 o'clock the young ladies' team of the Normal school and the Y. M. C. A. juniors trotted out on the floor for a preliminary and shortly started the play. The game as ever was of great interest; the girls, however, showing much better team work than ever before. The little fellows nevertheless managed to win out by the score 7 to 4.
After a little practice the two teams were brought together and the ball was thrown up between the two center men, starting as it proved the best game of basket ball ever played in Cortland. Every one was nerved up to win, neither team had ever been defeated. Some time elapsed before either team could cage the ball. Capt. Ludwig broke the spell and got one, Hotchkiss shortly followed suit. Reynolds gets a goal from the 15-yd. mark, but Bodell comes in for one and Cornell leads by one point. Reynolds gets another free throw and ties the score, but Morrison in an easy and provoking manner cages the ball from his position as guard. But although our own Smith gets a basket, Cornell still leads by one point when the half ends.
Before the game the Ithacans had been very confident, while the Y. M. C. A. men knew they were up against the hardest proposition yet put before them. It was plain that the opposition they met at every turn surprised the college men and that lofty air of confidence was not so noticeable during the intermission, although Cornell was one point to the good.
The second half started and every one thought "Now we will see, I am afraid our boys can't stand the pace." But they were mistaken. Whatever it was that had been administered during intermission put new life into the men and the play waxed fiercer than ever. Cornell was unable once to get a basket from the Field, so well did Smith and Richards guard. And at first even Cortland found it hard to get the ball any where near the basket. It was in the middle of the half after the college men had obtained one point from the 15-yd. mark that by the quickest and most accurate passing of the game coupled with the best team work, that Hotchkiss received the ball from a long running throw just ahead of his defense and avoiding his man by one of those peculiar twists of Jack's, made the star throw of the game and caged the ball. Now all came easy, Hotchkiss obtaining another basket while Reynolds made two accurate throws. The game ended with the score 14 to 7:
LINEUP.
Cornell. Cortland.
MacFarlane….center….Reynolds
Ludwig, Capt….guard….Smith
Morrison….guard….Richards
Bodell….forward….Hotchkiss
Rogers….forward….Mills
Time, 2 twenty-minute halves; referee, R. W. Wheeler; umpires, Young of Cornell and A. R. Mosher; timekeeper, Charles Dowd and scorer, W. H. Callahan.
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| Kremlin Hotel on Court Street, Cortland, N. Y. |
WAS ON THE ALERT.
Especial Vigilance Shown by Officer Nix on Discovery of Fire.
It was no wonder that the admirers of the Y. M. C. A. basket ball team held a jollification last night after the splendid victory of 14 to 7 won by the boys against the Cornell team. And it was no wonder that many people supposed a disastrous fire was raging when they saw flames leaping high in the air from the big bonfire built in Court-st. in front of The Kremlin.
It is stated that the Hitchcock hose boys with their cart, anxious to be first on the scene had a good start toward Court-st. before they discovered their mistake. But the members of the whole fire department do not generally understand how near they came to being called out. Policeman Nix was one of those who saw the flames and thought surely some building must be on fire, when he rushed with mighty speed to box 333 at the enginehouse and inserted the alarm key, but was pushed aside by some one who told him it was a only a bonfire. Superintendent Costello released the key. But the boys celebrated their victory in good style without being disturbed, and at the same time the vigilance of Officer Nix is to be highly commended.
"It Will Rain Business!"
To the Editor of The STANDARD:
SIR—Some men who either do not or will not look far enough into the question to see the absurdity of many of the excuses given for voting for a licensed liquor traffic are influenced by the cry that no-license will affect unfavorably the business interests of the town. To all such we commend the following letter written by Mr. Guy Wallace from Fargo, N. D., soon after going there to reside in 1896. Mr. Wallace is well known to the people of Cortland. He writes:
"We have a population of 13,000. There are twenty-two churches and a Catholic cathedral in course of construction. There are five public schools, five colleges and a Y. M. C. A. that owns its building and is encouraged in its work by the business men. One remarkable feature is that there is not a saloon in the city, neither open nor blind. There are twenty-one hotels and none of them have a bar, and none of the drug stores sell intoxicating liquors as a beverage. The prohibition law does prohibit where city and county officers regard their oath of office and do their duty. There are fewer 'holdups,' burglaries and other crimes here than in any other city of its size in the United States. It is a city of schools and churches and prosperous business where investments are safe, women are never insulted by drunken loafers nor are children in danger from vagabonds. There is scarcely a business building or residence in the city that is vacant. The Fargo Morning Call of Feb. 12, 1896, contained a note from the mayor in which he declared that in the preceding three years the city had increased 3,000 in population."
Let the facts be candidly investigated and the conclusion will be irresistible, viz, that the worst enemy of every legitimate business interest of Cortland is her enormous liquor traffic.
O. A. HOUGHTON.
NO OVERSLEEPING.
The Bell Will Ring Till the Sleeper Rises and Stops It.
Mr. Charles Mee, Jr., has invented an electrical attachment for all clocks with an alarm mechanism and has filed an application for a patent through his attorneys, Smith & Denison of Syracuse, who have informed him after a thorough search that nothing of a like construction is on file at the patent office. The attorneys will push the matter as rapidly as possible and hope to secure the patent soon.
Mr. Mee uses the best of alarm clocks and dry batteries and manufactures a very neat case for it. The clock can be set for any hour. When that time arrives the bell begins to ring and will continue to ring indefinitely till a small switch is turned to break the circuit. This is a clock which every man should have who needs to rise early in the morning. Tardy men are not held in the best of estimation by their employers and this clock will help bring any one to time. If the clock is placed a little distance from the bedside the sleeper must rise to turn off the switch, for it is safe to say that no more sleeping can go on in the room where that bell is ringing. If he is once sufficiently aroused to turn off the switch he will not go back to bed or to sleep again.
Mr. Mee requests us to say that if any man who depends on his day's earnings for the support of his family and who habitually oversleeps, will call upon him and examine the clock he will convince him that by its use he can be just as prompt in rising as any other man.
BREVITIES.
—The Cortland Political Equality club will meet with Mrs. Parsons, 88 Tompkins-st., Monday, Feb. 20, at 3 P. M. All are invited.
—The funeral of A. W. Merritt will occur at 58 Lincoln-ave. at 4 o'clock to-morrow afternoon, and burial will be made in Cortland Rural cemetery.
—The funeral of Mrs. Walter Morris will be held Monday, Feb. 20, at her late home west of the village at 9 o'clock and at St. Mary's church at 10 o'clock.
—Lyman D. Carns, proprietor of the Fountain House, Slaterville Springs, is in town arranging for extensive improvements to his hotel, of which he now has sole and exclusive management.—Ithaca Journal.
—The funeral of Charles A. Lownsberry was held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at New Woodstock. Mr. Lownsberry was a member of Cortland Council of the Royal Arcanum, and his was the first death in the council's membership.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Palmer & Co., New Goods, page 6; Model Clothing Co., Sale of Odds and Ends, page 6; Drs. Smith & Stamford, Important Announcement, page 7; H. H. Hoffman & Co., Loose Leaf Ledger, page 3.
—Mrs. John Sherry, aged 29 years, died at 6 o'clock this morning of grip and pneumonia at her home, one and one half miles north of East River. The funeral will be held Tuesday at an hour not yet fixed. Burial will be made at East Homer.
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