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| Surgeon General Walter Wyman. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, September 13, 1899.
YELLOW FEVER REPORT.
Nothing Very Alarming Except at Key West With Twelve New Cases.
WASHINGTON, Sept, 13.—Surgeon General Wyman had very few advices from the yellow fever districts. He has heard nothing indicating new cases at New Orleans. Surgeon Carter, one of the best yellow fever experts in the service, has been ordered there from Key West and left at once. The surgeon general, as a precautionary measure, has ordered all steamboats from New Orleans inspected at Natchez, Memphis and Vicksburg.
Both the secretary of the state board of health and Surgeon Murray report there is no yellow fever at Vicksburg. There is, however, one case at Jackson and one authenticated case at Mississippi City. The latter is being strictly guarded.
At Key West Dr. McAdams reports 12 new cases, but no deaths, with several physicians to hear from. At Port Tampa there is one case.
A dispatch from Havana to the surgeon general says:
"Ordinance Sergeant Zachery S. Moodall and Private Bernhart Kramer, Battery K, Second artillery, died here of yellow fever. Two children, one American and one Spanish, ill at Las Animas hospital with yellow fever."
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| Lt. Robert Peary. |
PEARY'S ARCTIC WORK.
Maps of His Discoveries Sent to the Pearl Club at New York.
SYDNEY, C. B., Sept. 13.—The Peary Arctic club's chartered steamer Diana arrived here from Etah, North Greenland, Aug. 28, with all well on board. Lieutenant Peary and his two companions with native allies were left in excellent health and spirits, comfortably housed for the winter with provisions for two years and an ample supply of dog food, 111 walrus having been killed since Aug. 2 for that purpose. Peary will remain at Etah until February when with a supporting party of natives he will go to Fort Conger and thence begin his journey to the pole, either by the Greenland coast or from Cape Hecla as conditions may determine.
Secretary Herbert L. Bridgeman of the Peary club, in command of the Diana expedition, leaves for New York at once, taking Peary's full report of his last year's work and maps of his discoveries.
In his nomenclature, Peary has bestowed names of Peary Arctic club members. The furtherest north land beyond Greely Fiord is named Jesupland, in honor of President Morris K. Jesup of the club. A bay 50 miles in extent with a deep opening south of the fiord was named Cannon bay, and a mountain 4,700 feet high near its head, Mt. Bridgeman, for the treasurer and secretary of the club respectively, while on the east side of the divide of Grinnell land are Benedict, Sands and Parrith glaciers, Harmsworth, Hill and Flagler bays.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Reports of Two Street Railroads.
The New York Tribune recently published the annual report of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company and on the same day a cable dispatch from Glasgow reviewing the results of five years of municipal ownership and management of street railroads in the latter city.
The incident invites comparison. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit company is a corporation controlling the most extensive system of city street railroads in the world and is under a more than ordinarily enlightened management. It may fairly be said to represent private operation of public franchises at its best estate. According to the report the year seems to have been a profitable one for the company. The lines were extended, the property greatly improved, the fixed charges largely reduced and a surplus of $453,167 reported. It is intimated, however, that there are unsatisfied judgments and pending claims for damages against the company which would more than wipe out the surplus. The report does not add what is known to be true of this as well as many other traction companies, that the employees suffer from overwork and underpay, and that the patrons suffer much from needless overcrowding, too long intervals between cars and lack of cleanliness and order in those vehicles.
Now take for comparison the Glasgow report. That city is not as large as Brooklyn, and its street railroad system is consequently much smaller, but it was the first important municipality to undertake the work in question and may properly serve as an example of municipal operation of street railroads at its best estate. The report shows that there has, as in Brooklyn, been extension of lines and improvement of plant, and that last year there was a surplus of $121,118. The mileage of the Glasgow lines is only about one-twelfth of that of Brooklyn, but the Glasgow surplus was more than one-fourth as large as that of Brooklyn; proportionately, therefore, more than three times as large. When the city took hold of the Glasgow lines the employees had to work 14 hours a day and buy their uniforms and got only $4.75 a week, with no holidays. Now they work only ten hours a day, with one full day off in seven, their uniforms are supplied to them gratis and they get $7 a week. As for the service rendered to the patrons, we are told that the cars are clean and orderly, they are run on short headway, overcrowding is unknown and the fare is so low that one-third of the passengers are carried for a cent apiece.
The contrast here cited does not of course furnish a final and convincing argument in favor of municipal ownership, but it is one of those things that set people to thinking.
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| Cortland Opera House on Groton Avenue. |
THE MUSIC FESTIVAL.
Programs for the Concerts of Thursday Afternoon and Evening.
The music festival is booming. The choir is large and is rapidly becoming highly enthusiastic over the new conductor, Prof. Beall. He understands his business, and is giving the singers a remarkably good drill. The choir is this year using Zerrahn's "Selections of Choruses." Those who remember the splendid results attained by the choir under the direction of that unsurpassed leader, Carl Zerrahn, during the two years in which he conducted the Cortland festival will feel assured that choruses selected from a book of his compiling will be worthy of the admiration and the hearty approval of all. The present choir seems to have the ability to sing them well, and Prof. Beall is giving evidence of the fact that he knows how to bring out that capability to the full.
Rev. L. J. Christler of Homer is the very popular and efficient director of the stage this year for Mr. Mahan and is proving the right man in the right place. His vested choir of twenty from Calvary Episcopal church are all members of the chorus.
The afternoon concerts begin at 8 o'clock and the evening concerts at 8 o'clock, and will occur on both Thursday and Friday.
The following are the programs of Thursday afternoon and evening:
DEAL IN REAL ESTATE.
Charles F. Brown Gets the Sturdevant House on Tompkins-st.
Druggist Charles F. Brown yesterday purchased the fine house and lot on Tompkins-st., owned by the late Mrs. Sarah R. Sturdevant. He will at once proceed to equip the house with all the modern conveniences, and hopes to be ready to move in in the course of a month or six weeks. He will offer his residence on Argyle Place for sale.
NEW STORE IN SCOTT.
To be Opened Oct. 2 by Henry D. Palmer of Cortland.
Henry D. Palmer, now of the firm of Palmer & Co., Cortland, has rented the McConnell store in Scott and will take possession on Monday, Oct. 2, when he will open with a full line of everything usually found in a first-class country store, including dry goods, furnishing goods, hats and caps, groceries, hardware, boots and shoes, etc. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer will move to Scott and will personally take charge of the store.
Mr. Palmer has also bought of M. A. Whiting of Scott his entire stock of goods and the good will. He will close out the stock as soon as possible and close the store. It is understood that the postoffice is also to be moved from the present Whiting store over to the new Palmer store.
Mr. Palmer is an energetic and capable business man and Scott is to be congratulated upon securing him.
Cortland Normal School.
THE NORMAL OPENED.
The Usual Large Number of New Students on Hand.
The Normal school opened this morning for its sixty-second term, and the prospects are that the attendance will be as great at least as the last year which was numerically the record breaker in the history of the school.
During the vacation a number of improvements have been made about the grounds and buildings. Two new walks have been laid—one through the circle in front of the building about the fountain, and the other from the building directly west to Church-st. New paint in several of the rooms has freshened up the appearance of things very much. Prof. Booth has spent a number of weeks in making new apparatus for the use of the students of the science department which will materially help them in their experiments in the physical and chemical laboratories. His skillful handiwork is visible in many places in his department, and the results will appear in greater convenience and added facilities when the classes get to work.
Prof. Banta has been untiring in his devotion to the library in arranging devices for making it of greater service to the students. His vacation has as a consequence practically been contracted from the usual eleven weeks to about two.
The school was opened this morning by the singing of "America" by the entire assemblage under the leadership of Miss Alger, and the reading of the ninety-first Psalm by Dr. Cheney, followed by a brief prayer. The new students then proceeded to the music room where their credentials for entering were presented and [executed]. Registration of the former students was begun promptly in Normal hall.
The practice departments are crowded to their utmost capacity and many children have had to be refused admission.
BREVITIES.
—The premiums awarded at the Cortland county fair are now ready, and prize winners can secure them by calling at the office of the society in the office of G. J. Maycumber in the Schermerhorn building on Main-st.
—A number of the farmers living on the hills between McGraw and Blodgett Mills are compelled to haul water, in many cases, half a mile for their stock and for house purposes, owing to the drying up of wells and springs.
—The binder course on Tompkins-st. was last night completed to Main-st. The asphalt has been going slow to-day as the supply on hand is running short, but more will arrive to-night and the remainder of the street will soon be finished.
—A party of Ithacans are trying to arrange for a special train to come to Cortland Friday night to attend the last of the festival concerts and to return after the concert. At last reports nearly enough people had been found to guarantee the train.
—Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert Stevens of Solon drove to Cortland this morning and on their way picked a branch from a red raspberry bush by the roadside which had a number of large ripe berries on it. It was loaded with green berries, and a number of blossoms.
—William Conroy, who covered short for the Cortland Stale league team the past season, and who was the fastest in the league, has been sold to Milwaukee in the Western league and will delight the fans of that and other Western league cities next season.
Shipped to South Africa.
Mr. H. F. Benton has sold to Smith & Powell of Syracuse his celebrated thoroughbred Holstein bull Lutsca Colanthus II, 4 years old, and that firm yesterday directed Mr. Benton to ship him to New York, where with one other animal from their large herd he is to be shipped to South Africa for breeding purposes. This bull was one of the finest in this section of the state and has twice taken first premium at the Cortland county fair, in fact has done so every time he was exhibited.
HER FIRST RAILROAD RIDE.
A Cincinnatus Lady Nearly Ninety Years of Age.
Miss Minerva Dwight of Cincinnatus, who is the plaintiff in case number twenty-nine on the calendar for the present term of the supreme court came to Cortland this morning over the Erie & Central New York, and this was the first time in her life that she had ridden on a railroad train. Miss Dwight will be 89 years of age Jan. 4, 1900, and on only two occasions in her life previous to to-day had she seen a railroad car. The first was about forty years ago, when with relatives she drove to Royalton, N. Y., and on the way saw some box cars standing on the track near Owego. The second time was last summer in Cincinnatus when she was in the village one day. She enjoyed the ride this morning very much.
Miss Dwight lives alone on a forty-four acre farm which is a portion of the old homestead upon which she was born on the Brakel road 2 miles from Cincinnatus. She retains her faculties and physical vigor remarkably well and milks her cow night and morning besides taking care of a number of hens and doing odd jobs about the farm. The case in which she is interested is one against Charles E. Gardner of Cincinnatus in which she seeks to recover damages for a number of apple trees claimed to have been cut on her premises by the defendant, and it involves title to a certain strip of land as the farms of the two parties are adjoining. During her stay in Cortland Miss Dwight is stopping at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Johnson, 24 North Church-st.
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