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| Emilio Aguinaldo. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, March 7, 1899.
AN AGGRESSIVE MOVE.
American Troops Will Shortly Advance on the Filipinos.
REBELS MAKING PREPARATIONS.
They Are Throwing Up Defenses In Every Direction and Levying Men and Supplies In Every Province—Our Reinforcements Have Reached Manila—Another Battle.
MANILA, March 7.—The civil members of the United States Philippine commission who arrived here on Saturday afternoon from Hong Kong on the United States cruiser Baltimore landed and are now installed in quarters specially provided for them on the Malate water front. While awaiting the arrival of Colonel Charles Denby, former United States minister to China, [and] the other civil member of the commission, they will devote their time to sight-seeing and getting familiar with local conditions. Until Colonel Denby arrives the commission will be incomplete and can do nothing officially.
The troops which arrived Saturday on the United States transport Senator and those that arrived on the transport Ohio are disembarking and all the preparations are being made to proceed with an aggressive campaign before the wet season sets in.
The rebels, anticipating the American advance, are busy in throwing up defenses in every direction and it is reported that they are levying men and supplies in every province. As a result great dissatisfaction prevails among tribes ordinarily unfriendly to the Tagalos, particularly among the Ilocanos, who assert their desire to assist in conquering the Tagalos, if furnished with arms.
The following order has been issued regarding the movements of transports: "The Arizona will sail for San Francisco, via Hong Kong, with all the sick on March 9; the Newport, via Nagasaki, Japan, with all the returning officers and their wives, on March 10; the Scandia, via Nagasaki, with discharged soldiers, on March 11, and the Morgan City, via Nagasaki, on March 12.
The rebels have been concentrating in the vicinity of the reservoir. A patrol of Company G, Second Oregon volunteers, was taken in ambush. Two men were wounded, but the Oregonians held their ground under a heavy fire until the remainder of the company, assisted by two companies of the First Nebraska regiment, flanked the enemy, killing 30 and wounding several more.
Two battalions of the Twentieth regular infantry have reinforced General Hale's brigade. All the native huts have been destroyed at Mariquina, and the country there is pretty well cleared, but the rebels were returning small bodies at sundown. Apparently they have secured a new supply of smokeless ammunition recently, as there has been a noticeable difference during the last few days.
The Spanish commissioners who are endeavoring to secure the release of the Spanish prisoners in the hands of Aguinaldo returned to Malolos to offer $2,000,000 for their release. As Aguinaldo has been demanding $7,000,000 it is not likely that their mission will be successful.
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| Maj. Gen. Elwell Stephen Otis. |
OUR TROOPS WELCOMED.
The Inhabitants of Negros Surrendered Quite Willingly.
WASHINGTON, March 7.—A cablegram from General Otis at Manila indicates the satisfactory and agreeable reception accorded to the American troops which recently landed at the island of Negros. They were sent there by General Miller at Iloilo in command of Colonel Smith to take formal possession for the United States which he did without trouble.
Previous to the time the troops landed, a commission from the island visited General Otis and said they were willing to surrender and asked that he take the inhabitants under his protection. The congratulatory address to General Miller embodied in General Otis' dispatch is particularly gratifying to the officials of the administration, as they believe the attitude of the inhabitants of the island of Negros is such that there will be no trouble in dealing with them hereafter.
GREAT SALE OF HORSES.
At Maricle's Cortland Home Stable in Cortland After March 10.
We, the undersigned, will be at F. H. Maricle's barn near Cortland House, Cortland, N. Y., March 10, 1899, with a carload of twenty-four good horses. These horses are shipped direct from our Pleasant View Horse and Pony farm, Mechanicsville, Ia., and will be offered at private sale. This lot of horses consists of: One well matched truck team, weighing 3,410 lbs.; one express horse, 1,525 lbs.; one express horse, 1,450 lbs.; one pair chunks, 2,800 lbs.; one pair chunks, 2,500 lbs.; one pair black coachers, 2,500 lbs.; one family broke surrey horse, 1,300 lbs.; one pair standard bred gentlemen drivers, 2,100 lbs.; one pair chestnut cobs, 2,400 lbs. The balance consists of farm chunks and carriage horses, and one pair bay coachers weighing 2,450. These horses are from 5 to 7 years old and well broken in all harness. This is the best load of horses we have ever shipped to Cortland. Any one wanting a good horse or team will do well to call early and see us and we will try to suit you.
C. L. AND C. D. PECK, Mechanicsville, Ia.
"Dawn of Freedom."
There are five well written acts in the "Dawn of Freedom,'' which will appear at the Opera House Thursday night. There is a charmingly handsome Cuban girl, Miss Lovette De Wola, who is made the victim of the wiles of the scheming Spanish officer; another Cuban girl, Miss Virginia Carter, whose father is murdered by the Spanish officers; an American newspaper woman, Miss Celci Trene. Then there is a Cuban hero portrayed by Carroll Daley, an excellent actor; a Cuban American, with a good big generous voice with plenty of passion in it, whose name is John Hepworth; the American consul, who looks like pictures of Fitzhugh Lee, done by H. Rees Davis; Phillip Gordon (Francis Justice) said to be an American speculator, a pretty good fellow and a fair type of the stage American abroad, who always wants things that are up-to-date; Col. Gusman, the Spanish officer, an ungrateful part, is very well played by Edwin M. Summer, and a number of other capable people.
Tickets on sale at Rood & Co.'s at 35, 50 and 75 cents.
THE SIDEPATH MOVEMENT
And the League of American Wheelmen—Provisions of the Bill.
To the Editor of The STANDARD:
SIR—The provisions of the L. A. W. sidepath bill, introduced by Senator T. E. Ellsworth (senate bill, No. 19) have been misstated and consequently misunderstood. This bill was drawn, pursuant to a resolution unanimously adopted at the annual meeting of the board of officers of the New York state division, L. A. W., held in Rochester, Dec. 17, 1898, by the chairman of the sidepath committee of the New York state division, L. A. W., Mr. John D. Chism, Jr., of Albany, assisted by the friends of the sidepath movement who have been most active in the construction and maintenance of cyclepaths under the county laws in force, and is based on the experience of the past two years in Niagara county and the past year in Albany and Monroe counties.
The L. A. W. sidepath bill is drawn on liberal lines; it permits any county to organize a commission to raise funds for building these paths, but does not compel this work. It is designed to enable cyclists to construct side (cycle) paths through country districts where the wagonways are unfit for cycling, and to preserve such sidepaths from encroachment by heavy vehicles by imposing severe penalty for such encroachment.
A touring cyclist who prefers to ride on the wagonway may do so without paying for a sidepath license and without fear of hindrance or delay, except such as the ruts and mud of the wagonway may impose.
A touring cyclist who prefers to use the sidepaths will need but one license (which can be obtained from any county having a sidepath commission) and such license will enable him to ride upon the sidepaths of any county in the state without interference.
The cost of a license to ride upon the cyclepaths will not be more than one dollar in any case and may be as low as 50 cents (except in the case of Monroe county which is exempt from the provisions of this bill, and where the cost of a license is only 25 cents.)
A cyclist residing in any county where a sidepath commission has been organized will be required (in case be makes use of the sidepaths) to obtain a license from the commissioners in his own county. A touring cyclist residing in another state or in any county in this state in which a commission has not been organized may obtain his license from the commissioners of any county where such commission exists.
The whole intent of the bill is to provide smooth, pleasant and safe cyclepaths where touring wheelmen may ride without fear or collision and without encountering the mud, dust, sand and water which are often found in the wagonway of the country road. In the pursuit of this object, the Ellsworth bill makes a very sensible and just provision that cyclists who use these paths shall not do so at the expense of other cyclists who contribute the money for constructing and maintaining them. In other words, the bill aims to provide benefits for all and to distribute the expense of these benefits evenly among those cyclists by whom they are enjoyed.
The license fee established by the provisions of this bill is in no sense a "class tax." The riders and drivers of all other vehicles are excluded from the use of these cyclepaths and for this reason are not even permitted to pay a license fee.
Special laws providing for sidepath commissions in several counties are now on our statute books and these laws in effect will require a cyclist using the paths in these counties to obtain several licenses unless the Ellsworth bill should become a law, in which ease the entire state will be subject to one general provision and the requirements will be greatly simplified and made uniform.
While advocating the passage of the sidepath bill the L. A. W. has not ceased in its efforts for "good roads." From the time of its organization the league has spent many thousands of dollars to advance the cause of road improvement, and has printed and circulated over two millions of pamphlets and magazines devoted to the subject.
At the annual meeting of the division board of officers held in Rochester on Dec. 17, 1898, on motion, unanimously carried, his excellency, Governor Roosevelt, was requested to make mention of good roads legislation in his forth-coming message to the legislature and also requested to recommend, and the legislature requested to make an appropriation of the sum of $1,000,000 for carrying out the provisions of the good roads law during the year 1899.
The position of the League of American Wheelman regarding good roads and sidepaths is clearly defined in the following extracts from Cycle Paths, a practical hand book by Isaac B. Potter, published by the League of American Wheelmen:
Every cyclepath is a protest against bad roads, a sort of public notice that the public wagonways are unfit for public travel, a wit-sharpener to every highway officer who has seven holes in his head, and a splendid example of the charming relations which the wheel and the roadway may be made to sustain each other. It is a declaration of independence, which for the time being, lifts the bicycle out of the mud and puts the wheelman on a firmer ground of argument for good roads, takes from his critics the charge that the cyclist's warfare is a selfish one. and supplies to every traveler an impressive exhibition of the value of a good wheelway.
And so, till the day of good roads shall come, I believe that cyclepaths should be laid, and I believe the League of American Wheelmen, in the pursuit of its constitutional objects "to promote the general interests of cycling" and "to facilitate touring" is bound to exert its splendid energies to quicken, to regulate and to systematize the making and to govern the proper use of these paths.
I do not for a moment admit that this work for cyclepaths can be substituted for the wheelman's agitation for better roads, but rather do I regard it as a valued auxiliary for the greater cause, which seems to have taken new impetus in those sections where cyclepaths have been put down. "Good roads for all" is the ultimate end of league work. It is the motto which years ago was nailed upon the topmost rampart of the league citadel, and there I hope it may remain till the end of time. Yours very respectfully,
H. H. BELDING, Jr., Chief Consul.
W. S. BULL, Secretary and Treasurer, New York State Division, League of American Wheelmen, Vanderbilt Building, New York, N. Y.
AGAINST THE VILLAGE.
Actions to be Brought by Timothy and Mary Conway.
A summons was served by Sheriff Brainard last night upon President Arthur P. Stilson, president of the village, in two separate actions to be brought by Timothy Conway and Mary Conway, his wife. No complaint was served. At the last term of the supreme court the action of Mrs. Conway against the village, to recover $10,000 for injuries claimed to have been received by falling on an alleged defective sidewalk on East Court-st., the jury rendered a verdict of no cause for action. Mrs. Conway's attorneys, Dougherty & Miller, have made a motion for a new trial, and this has not yet been decided. Attorney Dougherty said to a STANDARD reporter this morning that the firm is counsel for both Mr. and Mrs. Conway in the new actions, that Mr. Conway's action would be to recover $5,000 for loss of services and society of his wife during her confinement to the house after the alleged injury. The action of Mrs. Conway is practically the same one that was tried, being to recover $10,000.
THE VILLAGE TRUSTEES.
Last Regular Session of the Present Board Last Night.
The board of village trustees transacted routine business only at last night's session. It was the last regular meeting of the present board, though it will meet March 15 to canvass the returns from charter election.
The summons and complaint in the action brought against the village by the Warren-Scharf Asphalt Paving Co. was referred to Kellogg & Van Hoesen, village attorneys. Bills were allowed as follows:
S. N. Holden, coal, $21.00
H. F. Benton, lumber, 13.26
H. E. Kirby, copying, 3.18
Street commissioner's payroll, 168.00
Foundry & Machine Co., 1.30
Police force, 126.35
Savings bank, interest, 1,300.00
Thos. Mulligan, labor, 9.80
W. T Nix, expenses, 1.30
Jas. F. Costello, salary, 25.00
Cortland & Homer Electric Co., 330.30
The board then proceeded to audit to themselves their last quarter's salaries, $25 to each of the four trustees and $75 to the president. This pleasant duty having been performed, Sheriff Brainard paid a visit to the board, and served a summons in two actions against the village by Timothy Conway and Mary Conway. This is one of the legacies left to the next board, and was turned over to village attorneys Kellogg & Van Hoesen.
The members then withdrew into another room in Clerk Crombie's office and were in private consultation for three-quarters of an hour, when they emerged and passed a motion to adjourn.
BREVITIES.
—There will be a meeting of the Kindergarten association in the Normal [School] kindergarten Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
—The Water Witch Steamer & Hose company and Excelsior Hook & Ladder company will hold business meetings to-morrow night.
—A special meeting of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. will be held tonight at 6:30 o'clock in Secretary Armstrong's private office.
—A special meeting of the Royal Arcanum will be held at G. A. R. hall to-night at 7:30 o'clock. Important business is to be transacted.
—A regular convocation of Cortland chapter, No. 194, R. A. M., will be held to-morrow night at 7:30. The Royal Arch degree will be conferred.
—New display advertisements to-day are—McGraw & Osgood, Shoes, page 5; W. W. Bennett, Bicycles, page 7; Brown & Dawson, Tiny Liver Pills, page 4; A. O. Tennant, Bath Cabinet, page 7; McCarthy & Sons, Shopping by Mail, page 4; Opera House, Steve Brodie Comedy Co., page 5.
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| John J. McGraw. |
ONLY ONE CIRCUIT.
State League With Farrell at Its Head is All Right.
The New York State league, which will probably be composed this year of Binghamton, Cortland, Auburn and Oswego in one section and Rome, Utica, Schenectady and Albany in the other, is going to be one of the strongest minor leagues in the country, the efforts to disrupt it and form another having failed. The Auburn Bulletin of yesterday says:
"President John H. Farrell returned from the metropolis Saturday evening and he brought with him the glad information that there will be only one State league in New York state. The man who sneakingly endeavored to break up our compact little circuit is at liberty to take large-sized bites of the above sentence and find out if it is palatable. A hundred to one he'll think he is chewing alum. The Auburn magnate went before the national board of arbitration with his case, explained to the magnates how utterly impossible It would be for two leagues to exist in this state, the big moguls thought Mr. Farrell was right, and the ambitions of the man who had dreams of a new league were crashed.
Now, Mr. Man, whoever you may be, when you want to organize a new circuit in this territory, you come to President Farrell, as you should have done before, and ask his permission. He'll tell you yes or no whether you can have a league and, we may add, it's highly probable that he'll tell you no. Another time don't go about It in an underhanded way for it won't net you any more. You'll be set on just as hard a second time and perhaps you couldn't survive "setting" No. 2, in which case the undertaker would have something coming. If you fostered the project for the sake of revenge it is your privilege to enjoy the rewards (?) unmolested."
L. F. Stillman has been chosen president of the Cortland Baseball association in place of G.J. Maycumber, resigned.
John J. McGraw, formerly of Truxton, and the best third baseman in the baseball world will manage the Brooklyn National league team this year, and also guard the third bag.
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