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| Major General Elwell Stephen Otis. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, June 28, 1899.
OPENING UP TO TRADE.
General Otis Making an Effort to Revive Business.
A NUMBER OF PORTS OPENED.
Boats Engaged In Shipping Will Be Protected By Our Gunboats—A Rumor that Aguinaldo Had Been Killed But Is Not Generally Credited. Other News From Manila.
MANILA, June 28.—Major General Otis has ordered the opening up to trade of many important ports that have been closed since the outbreak. These include San Fernando on the west coast of Luzon; Aparri on the north coast; Currimao and all ports in the islands of Samar and Leyte.
Many ships used in inter-island commerce have been tied up in the harbor here for months; and the shippers and merchants have been urging the governor to raise the blockade. When the decision was made known the scene in the custom house was as animated as the floor of an American stock exchange. It was a busy day. Ship owners rushed to get their clearance papers.
There will be a great boom in the hemp business, which has been at a standstill. The ships will race to bring the first cargoes before the demand weakens. As there is a heavy export duty on hemp this will greatly increase the revenues.
The interests of the natives, as well as the merchants and traders generally, led General Otis to take this action. Delegations from the Southern islands told him that the cessation of business was bringing much suffering to peaceful inhabitants.
Gunboats will protect the shipping in some ports, but elsewhere shippers must risk confiscation by the insurgents, who exact heavy tribute of all ships they permit to sail.
The rumor that Aguinaldo had been assassinated was in circulation here for several days. It was not believed, but its currency gave it a definite form. According to the story General Pio del Pilar called upon Aguinaldo on June 19 and accused him of causing General Luna to be killed. Aguinaldo denied responsibility and added that he deeply regretted Luna's death. General Pio del Pilar, as the story goes, called him a liar and scoundrel, shot him twice in the head with his revolver and walked away unmolested.
The report finds no credence in Manila. A Filipino general mounted on a big horse, with a numerous staff, has since been seen haranguing the Filipino troops around San Fernando in Pampanga province, and this officer is supposed to be Aguinaldo.
Four guns of Hobbes' battery and other artillery bombarded the Filipino blockhouses and trenches about two miles north of San Fernando. The blockhouses which had been used by Filipino sharpshooters to annoy the American outposts were destroyed. The enemy made no resistance.
KILLED AND WOUNDED.
General Otis Sends Another List of Casualties From Manila.
WASHINGTON, June 28.—General Otis has forwarded to the war department the following list of additional casualties:
Killed—Fourteenth infantry at Guadaloupe hill, June 10, Company D, Gerard Strumpner; Ninth Infantry, at Zapote, June 13, Company I, Alfred Mahoney; Twenty-first infantry, Company F, Corporal John R. Gerstmer; Company I, Jos. Crogan.
Wounded—Ninth infantry, Company C, First Sergeant Romeo T. Perry, back, slight; Twenty-first infantry, Company I, Charles Overton, shoulder, slight; James Curran, back, moderate; Fourth infantry, near Imus, June 20; Company B, William A. Mulhey, abdomen, severe; Company E, John Noland, head, moderate; Company G, David H. Wadlington, face, slight; Seventeenth infantry near San Fernando, June 22, Company D, Albert R. Davis, leg, slight; Company E, Musician William O. Carroll, forehead, slight.
REGIMENTS REORGANIZED.
A Number of Changes Made at the State Encampment at Peekskill.
PEEKSKILL, N. Y., June 28.—The first battalion of the provisional regiment, which went on a march, established Camp Oliver in honor of Brigadier General Oliver near Continentalville. The second battalion, under Major Goodier, went on their practice march.
The provisional regiment at the end of the week will be dissolved and the Fourth Separate company of Yonkers, the Tenth of Newburgh, the Eleventh of Mount Vernon, the Sixteenth of Catskill and the Twenty-third of Hudson will be formed into a part of the First regiment, and the Twenty-seventh Separate company of Malone, Twentieth of Utica, Thirty-ninth of Watertown, Fortieth of Ogdensburg and the Fourth of Utica will comprise the fourth battalion of the National Guard under command of Major Goodier.
The Seventeenth Separate company of Flushing will continue as a separate company and will be the only one in the state not in a battalion with other companies.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
New York and Boston.
The statement that the Boston and Albany railroad is soon to come under the control of the New York Central & Hudson River railroad company by perpetual lease is nowhere denied. High officials of either company ''decline to discuss the report," when appealed to for information. Reticence is equivalent to confirmation that the deal is to be made, and is too close to consummation for denial. This view seems to be taken by the newspapers of New York and Boston which [were] beaten in the announcement. Instead of denying or questioning the report, one and all refer to it as something they long ago prepared their readers for!
Acquisition of the Boston and Albany would add comparatively little to the Central's mileage—only 202 of direct track—but it would mean much in business facilities. Boston is only 50 miles further from Albany than is New York. It is half a day's sailing nearer Liverpool than is the metropolis. It has a fine harbor and ample facilities for transshipping freights from between land and water carriers. Its harbor charges are much below those of New York.
These facts make the pending lease a matter of absorbing interest to New York City and the people of New York. They include the possible, not to say highly probable, diversion of much western freight designed for Europe from New York, as the eastern terminus of the Central. The difference of harbor charges entirely apart, the Boston outlet would be attractive. The slightly longer haul from Albany would be compensated for in the time gained in the ocean voyage from Boston. Then, there is the relief from train congestion on the Hudson River division. This is increasing with the years, in local traffic and that whose outlet is north of Rensselaer [sic]. The passenger, postal and express business alone of the Central Hudson road is enough to keep the rails warm along the Hudson river. The double track from Albany to Boston would afford welcome relief, with the earnings going into a single till.
This probability concerns the state of New York as well as the city. The canal problem is yet with us. The commercial interests of the metropolis press for its solution while yet the railroad company carries grain for shipment from New York. If Boston is to handle the bulk of the Central's foreign freight New York will need more than ever the canal feeder. The question of canal enlargement then will have increased interest. And a matter that has all along stood in the way of grain forwarding by canal will demand attention and reform on the part of the city—terminal charges. These are at fault in the loss of grain shipments by New York as things are. They will have to be remedied without parley if the metropolis cares for the business that grain transhipments afford, once the Central railroad has its own tracks to Boston. The people of New York will not vote more millions to improve the canals simply that elevator and dock interests at the terminals may continue to fatten.
◘ The death in Vienna of the celebrated Johann Strauss removes from our world the musician who has animated more people with his strains than any other composer of his era, with perhaps the single exception of Verdi. It is strictly true to say of Strauss that he moved the world and moved it gayly. More persons have danced to his music than to that of all the other composers combined. His strains to this day are linked with the "Blue Danube," and bring back to thousands the starry nights, the cool, dancing waters and the voluptuous romances of southern Europe and the Mediterranean. He was the master of rhythm, the magician of the ballroom. [What] Liszt said of Chopin's dance music might be said with more truth of Strauss. He has a hundred imitators, but no successor.
THE EIGHT HOUR LAW
NOW IN FORCE ON ALL STATE AND MUNICIPAL WORK.
Flags for School Houses Must be Displayed During School Hours—School Trustees Authorized to Make Purchases Without Submitting the Question to Taxpayers.
ALBANY, June 28, (Special.)—A great many complaints of violation of the eight-hour law by contractors doing state and municipal work are being considered by Factory Inspector Williams. They have come from all over the state and in some cases the men claim that they are not receiving the prevailing wages of the locality in which they are employed and in others that they are being kept at work more than eight hours a day. The prevailing rate of wages is in some cases a matter of dispute, the contractors claiming that the rate per hour should be taken as a basis and the men that the rate per day should be taken. If the rate per day is taken the employees on state and municipal work would receive the same pay for eight hours that workmen on private contracts would receive for nine hours and if the pay per hour is taken as a basis, workmen on public contracts are unable to make as much a day as those on private contracts.
It is held by the factory inspector that the intent of the law is that men on public contracts shall receive nine hours' pay for eight hours' work. It is required under the law that the factory inspector shall enforce all the provisions of the labor law. He must investigate complaints of violations made to him and if he finds that these complaints are well founded he is required to issue an order to the person or corporation complained of requiring him to comply with the provisions of the law. If this order is disregarded his next move is to present the case to the district attorney of the county in which the alleged violation took place and that officer will then proceed under the law with the prosecution. It is not believed by Mr. Williams, however, that it will be necessary to begin prosecutions in the cases now before him since he is in correspondence with the persons complained of and the indication, are that he will be able to settle the points in dispute.
Attention has been called by the state department of public instruction and in the societies throughout the state to the law requiring that each schoolhouse shall have a national flag. It is directed that the school authorities of every public school in the cities and school districts to purchase a United States flag, flagstaff and the necessary appliances, and display the flag upon or near the public building during school hours, and at such other times as the school authorities may direct. The necessary funds to defray the expense shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as moneys for public school purposes are now raised by law. The school authorities shall establish rules and regulations for the proper custody, care and display of the flag, and when the weather will not permit it to be otherwise displayed, it shall be placed conspicuously in the principal room of the school building. It shall be the duty of the state superintendent of public instruction to prepare, for the use of the public schools, a program provided for a salute to the flag each day at the opening of the school, and such other patriotic exercises as may be deemed by him to be expedient. The foregoing laws are mandatory in their terms, and there is no discretion vested with the school authorities as to compliance.
If in any school district such flag and appliances have been purchased, but for any reason such flag has become torn or worn, or is in an unfit condition for its display, or the flagstaff or necessary appliances have become injured or unfit for use; it is the duty of the trustee or trustees of such district to purchase at once a new flag and appliances, and to display such flag. A failure of any trustee or trustees of any school district to purchase such flag and necessary appliances, and to display such flag, is sufficient cause for the removing of any officer so refusing.
In Sec. 51, Article 6, title 7, consolidated school law of 1897, it is provided that when trustees are required by law to incur any expense for their district, they may raise the amount thereof by tax in the same manner as if the definite sum had been voted by a district meeting. It is, therefore, not necessary to submit the question of purchasing a flag and the necessary appliances to the inhabitants of the school district meeting; but the trustee or trustees have the authority, and it is their duty to purchase the same and levy a tax upon the district for the expense thereof. C. N. A.
Experienced the Earthquake.
Mr. C. F. Wickwire and family and Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Rouse were in San Francisco on the night of June 1 when the earthquake occurred there which was considered the greatest since 1868. Mr. Rouse has shown us a copy of the San Francisco Chronicle of the next day giving a detailed account of the results of the earthquake in different parts of the city. Mr. Charles Wickwire was at the Palace Hotel at the time, where the Chronicle says there was a general panic. None of the party will ever be likely to forget the experience.
THE UNIVERSITY CENTER.
An Effort in Progress to Reorganize it for Another Year's Work.
Rev. John Kenyon has consented to reorganize the University Center for the coming fall. He will call upon all persons who are interested enough to study universal literature in the university manner, which is, after all, the only true modern way in which to study any subject. The course last year was interesting and instructive, as all who attended the meetings will testify, but the course this year is undoubtedly far more fascinating to the larger number of people.
For, as the soul is greater than the body, so the expression of the soul of humanity is infinitely more valuable to the judgment of every generation than the bare facts of historic movement. And as human nature is ever the same, no matter what the date may be, the study of the best thought of the world's greatest poets, thinkers and reformers is really necessary for the better understanding of our very selves, this day.
The course which is now offered to the people of Cortland is not merely the cheapest, in point of price, but it is claimed to be the best, in point of excellence, ever offered to the discerning public. Take a moment and think of this program: George Ebers, Professor of Egyptology in the University of Leipsic, teaches Egyptian literature; T. G. Pinches of the British Museum teaches Babylonian and Assyrian literature; A. V. Williams Jackson, professor of Indo-Iranian languages in Columbia university, teaches Persian literature; F. K. Sanders, professor of Biblical literature in Yale university, teaches Hebrew literature; and so on and so on. Prince Serge Wolkonsky teaches Russian literature, and every teacher is an authority in his department because he is a specialist.
There has never been any plan of study prepared that is so simple, so accessible, so comprehensive, so authoritative, as this university course. It is unique and invaluable. To bring to the homes of the people the result of the profound study and investigation of the trained scholars of the world is the sincere purpose of the University Center.
Drop a card to Mr. Kenyon, and ask him to call, or better still, send your fee, (it is only $3.75 for new members and $2.75 for old) at once to him and thus become enrolled. Certificates will be issued and the organization effected as soon as possible. Address Mr. Kenyon at the postoffice.
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| Cortland Normal School. |
TWO NEW TEACHERS
For the Normal Next Year in Place of Miss Duffey and Mrs. Newkirk.
The local board of the Normal school held a meeting last night at which Mr. John W. Suggett was chosen chairman pro tem in place of Mr. W. H. Clark who was unable to be present on account of illness.
The resignation of Miss Grace K. Duffey as critic of the intermediate department was accepted and Miss Helen E. Griffin of Yonkers was elected in her place. Miss Griffin is a graduate of the Brockport Normal school and has been a teacher for a number of years in the Yonkers public schools at a steadily increasing salary. She comes highly recommended and is regarded as a competent critic of grade work.
Miss Nancy Hall of Boston, a graduate of the Chauncey Hall Kindergarten Training school of Boston, was elected assistant in the kindergarten department for the coming year in place of Mrs. Anna Newkirk, who did not apply for reappointment.
Arrangements were also made for a new fence at the rear of the building and for some new walks upon the grounds where needed.
TO THE GOLDEN GATE.
Half Fare to California Over the Lehigh Valley Routes.
On account of the National Educational association's thirty-eighth annual convention at Los Angeles, Cal., July 11 to 14, 1899, the Lehigh Valley railroad will make a rate of one single fare for the round trip, plus two dollars membership fee, to teachers, their friends, and those interested in educational affairs, who desire to go to California at the time named. Tickets will be on sale June 24 to July 6, limited for return passage to Sept. 5, '99 inclusive, affording ample opportunity for tours and sight-seeing in the far West. Consult Lehigh Valley ticket agents for particulars.
Half Rates to California,
The Chicago and North-Western Railway, affording the quickest time, grandest scenery, variable routes and perfect service. Chicago to Los Angeles and return $64.50, tickets on sale June 25 to July 8, limited to return until Sept. 4, 1899, account of annual meeting, National Educational association. Illustrated pamphlet sent free on application. For rates and other information ask your nearest ticket agent, or write W. M. Burgard, 301 Main-st., (Ellicott square), Buffalo, N. Y. [Paid Ad.]
Nix Was Discharged.
The examination in the case of The People against Michael Nix, charged with violation of the excise law on May 7 in selling [liquor] to Irving Carpenter was concluded before Police Justice Davis this afternoon. No additional testimony was produced, but arguments were made by the attorneys. The police justice did not consider the evidence sufficient to hold the defendant and discharged him.
Mr. Bennett's Eye.
It is impossible yet to tell whether the eye of Mr. Lester P. Bennett, which was injured by the breaking of the glass of his spectacles when a cannon cracker exploded in his face Monday night, can be saved. He can just distinguish light from darkness, and is not now suffering great pain. Dr. Brown of Syracuse, the oculist, is to-morrow coming down in counsel in the case.
BREVITIES.
—C. H. V. Elliott's residence has been connected with the telephone exchange.
—New display advertisements to-day are: Dey Bros. & Co., Holiday helps, etc., page 4.
—The semi-annual election of the Order of Foresters of Cortland will be held this evening at 8 o'clock at their rooms. All Foresters are invited to be present.
—The Crandall House in Binghamton has been closed for lack of patronage and ability to make both ends meet. The Crandall used to be one of the best of the secondary hotels of the Parlor city.
—About twenty veterans left Cortland this morning for Baldwinsville to attend the annual reunion of the One Hundred Eighty-fifth regiment. On the 9:20 D., L. & W. train was Hon. Robert P. Bush of Elmira, a major in the regiment, accompanied by an Elmira drum corps.
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