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| Portrait of Catherine II of Russia. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, June 10, 1899.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Contemporary Taffy.
Attention is called to the curious tendency of modern literature to rehabilitate some old miscreants. It was not long ago that we had a very learned book by somebody written to prove that Nero had been very much maligned, and was, in fact, an angel of mercy. Not long after another book made its appearance, which proved conclusively that Catherine II of Russia was a vestal and had suffered very much from literary gossip. Then Ouida wrote a charming defense of Shelley's private life, and made the astounding assertion that a man of his genius had a perfect right to do as he pleased in morals. If one were to get his impressions from current literature, Caligula and Torquemada would begin to shine with new luster, and Tamerlane would take his place among the meek and lowly. Just now there is a strong inclination in English literature to rehabilitate Robespierre. A life of that worthy is threatened, which will show that he deserves to rank with Washington in purity of purpose. It is worth noting that the women authors offer the only exceptions to this condoning process. Mrs. Stowe raked down Byron with a steel comb. Another woman has stripped the Empress Josephine of every virtue and shown her to be an exceedingly disreputable person. Mr. William L. Alden, who writes from London, suggests that there should be a literary process of canonization similar to that employed in the Romish church, and that in constructing saints there should be some definite method employed.
◘ The lynching of three white men in Texas, coming so soon after the recent event in Georgia, loads the press of the country with articles on law and order. Although a great deal of shallow fustian is contributed to this discussion by shallow minds, it is to the credit of the press both in the south and in the north that it stands solidly for law and is opposed to mob violence. One is therefore entitled to believe that the inevitable good sense of a growing civilization will ultimately prevail and Judge Lynch will pass into history with the Indians and the buffaloes.
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| Emile Loubet. |
QUESTION IN FRANCE.
The Supreme Crisis of the Government Approaching.
GRAND PRIX RACES WILL DECIDE.
Anarchists Declare Their Intention to Make a Demonstration In Favor of President Loubet—Parisians Advised to Arm Themselves With Bludgeons.
PARIS, June 10.—La Liberte considers the Grand Prix as a fashionable event for this year, "thoroughly compromised."
The Longchamps stewards believe everything will pass off quietly, but the anarchists still declare their intention of demonstrating in favor of M. Loubet, not because they care for him personally, but because "the republic must be defended against the reactionaries."
The radical papers urge Parisians to arm themselves with bludgeons to chastise the noblemen if the latter insult the president. It is believed, however, that nothing will happen beyond a monster demonstration in favor of M. Loubet.
The Paris shopkeepers are complaining bitterly over a poor Grand Prix week. Naturally ladies are reluctant to indulge in brilliant toilettes in the face of the likelihood of cavalry charges.
The government is doing its utmost to keep the exact date, and circumstances of the arrival of Captain Dreyfus a secret. It is said he will be disembarked a few miles from Brest.
Colonel Picquart's release, it is understood, was due to the fact that the German foreign office recently informed the French government that Colonel Schwarzkopf wrote the Petit Bleu, and that, therefore, it was impossible that Picquart should have forged it.
On His Way to Paris.
BRUSSELS, June 10.—M. Perreu, managing editor of L'Aurore, who was sentenced with M. Emile Zola by the Versailles court in the proceedings for libel brought against them by the officers of the Esterhazy court-martial, has left Liege for Paris to enable the court to serve its verdict upon him.
A White Woman Medicine Man.
The Kiowa Indians have just elected a white woman as their "medicine man." Her name is Mrs. Poor Buffalo, or Belle Perkins. Her husband, who was the medicine man of the tribe, died recently, and she was elected to take his place. Mrs. Poor Buffalo is a white woman and has lived among the Kiowas for the past 30 years. She is now 40 years old. She is the first white woman to hold this kind of position. Her duties are to supply the Indians with news from heaven.—Wichita (Kan.) Cor., Cincinnati Enquirer.
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| Cortland Hospital. |
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| Julia E. Hyatt. |
CORTLAND HOSPITAL.
MRS. JULIA E. HYATT MAKES A GENEROUS OFFER.
Statistical Facts Regarding Finance—More Money Needed—Earnings are Increasing, but Not Fast Enough to Pay All Bills—Increased Facilities Required.
To the Editor of The STANDARD:
SIR—The urgent need of the hospital for funds to meet its indebtedness for current expenses and the necessity for more liberal contributions on the part of its friends prompt me to make the following offer: I will be one of ten to give $50 or one of twenty to give $25, the pledges to be secured by Aug. 1, 1899. JULIA E. HYATT.
In connection with the above offer a brief statement of the financial condition of the hospital is deemed advisable by its managers that the public, to whose generosity they now appeal, may fully understand the situation. The facts herein submitted have been given in the annual reports of other years, but the rumors of the good things to come in the future have doubtless caused many to forget that until these are received the hospital must continue to depend largely upon charity to supply the deficiency between receipts and expenses.
The purchase price of the property now occupied was $6,000, of which $3,000 has been paid, a 5 per cent mortgage being given for the balance. This indebtedness is more than offset by legacies not yet available, though it is expected that some of them will be paid soon. The expense of repairs, plumbing and steam heating, amounting to fully $1,200 more, was met as the bills were presented. There is, however, a deficit of $1,050 for current expenses that has been accumulating for six years that has assumed such formidable proportions that the managers feel that an earnest effort should be made at once to overcome it. They have hoped that with an appropriation from the town and the benefits that are tendered from time to time together with the Crosley fund and the increasing earnings of the hospital this debt would soon be cancelled without a special appeal to the public. The failure to secure the expected appropriation at the last town election makes it necessary to ask for an increase in the number and extent of the voluntary contributions.
Since the starting of the Crosley fund in 1895, which called for pledges of $5 for five years, larger amounts have not been solicited and very few have been given. The total amount received annually, though most welcome, has been inadequate to keep up expenses and despite every effort to reduce the debt by giving entertainments it has continued to grow until it has become a wearisome burden.
Though all bequests have thus far come unhampered by conditions it has been and is still the policy of the managers to use them and all gifts of considerable amount in making permanent improvements or for the establishing of an endowment fund. At present the crowded state of the hospital, which has called for the renting of rooms outside for some of the nurses, and the great inconvenience of doing all the work for so large a household over one range make a nurse's cottage and a laundry imperative necessities and the legacies when received should be used for these. To fritter them away in paying current expenses would be wasteful and suicidal. The earnings of the hospital for the eight months of the present year show a large increase over those of past years and without a corresponding increase in expenses, but not sufficient to make the institution self-supporting.
A hospital must necessarily be a costly charity, for sickness is always expensive whether patients be in a hospital, sanitarium or their own homes and those that are self-supporting are exceptional and very rare. Even some of the largest and best endowed institutions have found themselves in the past few years seriously crippled for want of funds and heavily burdened with debt. It would be as reasonable to expect our churches to be self-supporting from their pew rentals or our public schools including the Normal schools, from their tuition fees as to expect a general hospital, open to poor and rich alike, to maintain on its receipts from patients and a small training class. The managers hope with enlarged accommodations for nurses to increase the size of the class, thereby adding to its income. For the present they must still look to the generous and human for funds to carry on a work whose usefulness and necessity are so obvious that argument in its behalf is no longer needed, and they feel confident they have only to place the facts before the public to elicit a prompt and substantial response.
Of the sixty Crosley pledges given less than fifty are being paid by residents of Cortland, a small number surely when we consider our population of nearly 10,000 and when we see the evidence of wealth and prosperity about us, does not $250 seem a paltry sum for such a town to give towards the support of its only charitable institution? We do not forget the many other gifts that have come and that have helped materially to lessen the burden, but all together have not sufficed to meet the increasing work and demands of the hospital and are scarcely worthy of a community so enterprising and so lavish of expenditure in other directions.
Will not those who have during the past four years been exempt from solicitation and giving now come t o its relief by quickly making up the desired number to give $50 or $25, by adding their names to the Crosley list or by giving pledges for any amount they may feel disposed to contribute whether more or less than $5? And may we not look to those who have already given for donations commensurate with their means?
JULIA E. HYATT, Pres., Board of Managers.
AMHERST GRADUATES.
Form an Alumni Association of Central New York.
A few of the graduates of Amherst college met at The Kremlin last evening and took the preliminary steps toward the organization of The Amherst Alumni association of Central New York, as it was decided that this latest addition to the Amherst family should be called. Only seven were present at the meeting, but letters, telegrams and personal responses had been received from forty-one other graduates who live in this immediate vicinity and a glance through the printed list of alumni showed that there are ninety-four graduates residing within a comparatively small radius of Cortland, all of whom will be eligible to membership and who will doubtless be enthusiastic for the association as soon as their attention is called to it.
The meeting was held in the diningroom [sic] and the matter was informally discussed around one of the tables while a very fine little spread which the new management had prepared was being attended to. The table was tastefully adorned with royal purple and white, the college colors, dainty purple and white boutonnieres were laid at each plate and a large and handsome Amherst banner adorned the walls. This last was a very thoughtful courtesy on the part of Mrs. Hugh Duffey. Her son, Mr. Edwin Duffey, the district attorney of Cortland county, was one of the most enthusiastic for the formation of the association, but left a week ago for a trip to Europe. Mindful of the meeting Mrs. Duffey sent down to grace the occasion the banner which waved over a victorious championship won by Amherst in the Eastern Intercollegiate league during the management of the Amherst baseball team by Mr. Duffey a few years ago. The kindly eyes of ex-President Seelye beamed down upon his "boys" from a large framed portrait.
The meeting though small in numbers, was a very enjoyable one. The following were present, named in the order of the year of their graduation: J. Edward Banta, '80, Cortland; Darwin L. Bardwell, '83, Binghamton; Maurice E. Page, '86, Binghamton; Edward D. Blodgett, '87, Cortland; John T. Stone, '91, Cortland; Frank D. Blodgett, '93, Oneonta; Thomas J. McEvoy, '97, Cortland.
Among the letters read from graduates who are warm in their approval of the idea and who will become members of the association were those from Rev. Samuel M. Hopkins, D. D., of Auburn of the class of 1832, and the fifth oldest living graduate of the college; Rt. Rev. Frederic D. Huntington of Syracuse of the class of 1839, bishop of the diocese of Central New York; Hon. John B. Stanchfield, '76, of Elmira; Hon. Israel T. Deyo,'79, of Binghamton; Giles H. Stilwill, '81, of Syracuse; Prof. Walter F. Wilcox, '84, of Cornell university; E. D. Page, '86, of Binghamton; Rev. W. A. Trow, '86, of Sherburne; S. J. Turtelot, '87, of Syracuse; Halsey M. Collins and A. L. Bouton of '96 of Cortland, but who were necessarily out of town. Word was also received from some of the Cortland under-graduates now at Amherst. Fine letters were also read from Prof. J. M. Tyler, Prof. J. F. Genung, Prof. E. L. Wood and Dr. H. P. Gallinger of the college faculty. Dr. Gallinger was a former Cortland boy and prepared for college in the Cortland Normal. He is now at Lake Placid on a leave of absence regaining his health.
An announcement was received, the election by the college trustees of Prof. George Harris of Andover, Mass., as president of the college. Though Prof. Harris was not personally known to any of those present, it was known that he was a man who stood very close in every way to ex-President Seelye and had his hearty approval as a man and a teacher, and this was a sufficient insurance to all that he would prove the right man in the right place, as President Seelye was seldom in error in his estimate of a man, and all would approve of his choice. The Amherst Alumni association of Central New York stood ready at once to pledge its loyalty and allegiance to the new president.
Prof. J. E. Banta was the chairman and Rev. John T. Stone the secretary of the meeting last night. Permanent officers were elected as follows:
President—Giles H. Stilwell, '81, of Syracuse.
Secretary—Rev. John T. Stone, '91, of Cortland.
There will be an executive committee which will consist of the officers and three others who will be chosen later.
It was decided to hold a banquet annually in some of the cities of this vicinity, the exact time of which will be decided upon by the executive committee, but it will probably be sometime about the Holidays.
It was voted to send a notice of this meeting to all the alumni residing in the vicinity. It is particularly gratifying to the Cortland men to have an association started here as the place has been steadily represented at Amherst since 1883. Several men are now in college from here and four or five more are to go this coming fall.
The remainder of the evening was spent in the most delightful manner in talking over the old days and in reminiscences. Not till it was time for the Binghamton men to leave for their train did the gathering break up.
To-morrow's Telegram.
Clayton H. Buell will beat the drum of alarm in the Elmira Telegram to-morrow on the modern tendency of the church to encroach upon state, and the apparent alliance of the former and the grasping trusts. Besides this, and other interesting subjects that will be treated by Mr. Buell in The Telegram his story on "The Aerial Ride of Tom Howard" will be continued.
New Officers Installed.
The following new officers of Cortland commandery, No. 50, Knights Templar, were installed last evening:
E. C—Alden M. Jewett.
G.—Frank P. Hakes.
C. G.—Theodore T. Bates.
Prelate—Dr. Henry T. Dana.
Treasurer—C. Fred Thompson.
Secretary—George H. Kennedy.
S. W.—Merton E. Sarvay.
J. W.—Bert W. Rood.
St. Br.—Dr. Herman D. Hunt.
Sw. Br.—Albert Fisher.
Warden—George J. Mager.
First G.—Cassias E. Ingalls.
Second G.—Thomas P. Bristol.
Third G.—Charles S. Bull.
Trustee—Charles F. Brown.
Sentinel—Robert Otto.
BREVITIES.
—McGraw letter on the third page.
—Additional local on third and eighth pages.
—The Terrier baseball team is playing the Tully team at the latter place this afternoon.
—The Y. M. C. A. junior baseball team is playing the George Junior Republic team at Freeville to-day.
—The Intermediates of the Y. M. C. A. went to Moravia to-day to play the Moravia baseball team of intermediates.
—Justice Harrington yesterday rendered judgment for plaintiff in the case of C. W. Stoker against Chas. H. and Mary Flanders for $31.82.
—Rev. W. J. Howell, the new pastor of the First Baptist church, will speak at the Y. M. C. A. rooms at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon. His theme will be "The Power of the Young Man."
—Mrs. J. M. Bowen, aged 64 years, died at
her home in Earlville May 26. Mrs. Bowen
and family will be remembered as former residents of Grant-st., and later of
Arthur-ave. in Cortland.
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