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| Admiral George Dewey, USN. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, October 11, 1899.
DEWEY IS REALLY HOME.
Once More Back In the Green Mountain State.
AT SHELBURN FOR A SHORT REST.
A Guest at the Magnificent Residence of Dr. W. Seward Webb at Shelburn Farm Out of Touch With the Life He Has Been Leading Lately.
SHELBURN, Vt., Oct. 11.—Away from the bustle and worriment which has been a part of the honors so amply paid Admiral Dewey, he is in absolutely quietude. At the magnificent country residence of Dr. W. Seward Webb at Shelburn Farms he is out of touch with the life he has led from the time he reached this continent. More than this he has, as he himself expressed it, came home, and home yearnings were stronger and more pathetic to him than the many enthusiastic greetings he received on his journey from New York to the Green Mountain state.
Admiral Dewey is the guest of Dr. W. Seward Webb and will not become the state's guest until Thursday, at the capital, Montpelier. He came here on a special train from New York city and occupied Dr. Webb's magnificent car, the Elsmere. In the party were the admiral and his son, Dr. Webb, Flag Lieutenant Brumby, Governor Smith of this state, President S. R. Callaway of the New York Central, President P. W. Clement of the Rutland railroad, General Superintendent J. C. Yager of the Wagner Car company, General Passenger Agent R. T. McKeever of the Rutland and General J. D. McCullough of Bennington.
While in New York state Admiral Dewey remained within the car chatting with the others of the party. But after crossing the Vermont line above White Hall, the admiral seemed to grow a little nervous, spoke of his home-coming repeatedly and went out on the rear platform, although the car was an observation one, to view the scenery. He seemed to be very happy and to those who were around him it appeared almost as if the arrival had had a touch of homesickness. As the train neared Shelburn the admiral watched the changing scenery with great intentness. Here and there a flag was seen but it is nature that has done the lavish color painting on this great occasion for Vermont scenery is one mass of gorgeousness in autumnal tints.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Chasing the Pigskin.
The football season is now fairly upon us, and those who take an interest in vigorous and manly athletic sports—a no inconsiderable element, by the way, of this great American nation—are turning their eyes toward the college gridiron. The teams have lined up for the intercollegiate and varsity battles, scheduled to be played between this time and Thanksgiving day. Already we begin to read in the news columns of broken limbs, unhinged joints and battered noses, but this is to be expected and does not lessen the enthusiasm of the players nor the interest of the public. However much some may decry the brutality of the game, the collegians will continue to wrestle for the possession of the pigskin with unabated vigor.
Public interest, particularly in the east, naturally, centers around the "big four"—Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Yale. Never in the history of the game has there been such widespread interest in these four teams, and never has the question of comparative merit been so much involved in uncertainty. Last year the remarkably brilliant record of Harvard in its splendid victories over Yale and the University of Pennsylvania gave an impetus to football at Harvard which should serve as an inspiration for many seasons to come. Princeton, too, emerged from the season victorious over its old rival, Yale, and maintained its reputation as the abiding place of the genius of football. While Yale and Pennsylvania were the victims last year, there was no discredit in the defeats. It was the fortune of that mimic war, and if any one imagines that these reverses imply their uninterrupted defeat he little knows the spirit and stamina of the young men of these two institutions.
While the teams of the "big four," which year in and year out unquestionably have the best players and set the pace, attract the widest attention, there are hundreds of other universities, colleges, training schools and academies whose vigorous young men pursue the pigskin at this season of the year with unvarying devotion and varying success. The game is indeed more than any other game the universal college game, and the results of the play are watched with keen interest by the public as the college yell resounds throughout the land.
YALE DEVELOPS A NEW PLAY.
Football Now Tossed to Quarter Back Instead of Being Rolled.
Yale's football coachers [sic] inaugurated a brand new system of putting the ball in play from center the other afternoon at New Haven. "Pa" Corbin, the old captain of ten years ago, arrived and taught the center rush to toss the ball to the quarter instead of rolling or bounding it along the ground to him.
Fincke, the varsity quarter back, was puzzled by the play, and Corbin was forced to call over to the varsity young De Saulles, who has been playing on the scrubs. De Saulles is a brother of De Saulles the old Yale quarter. All the candidates for center and quarter were set to work trying the new pass the other day, and it promises to be a feature of the Yale play this fall, says the Chicago Times-Herald.
CORTLAND HOSPITAL.
Annual Meeting of Medical and Surgical Staffs.
The annual meeting of the medical and surgical staffs of the Cortland hospital was held at the hospital on Monday, Oct. 9. There were present Drs. Dana, Reese, Higgins, Moore, Henry, Didama and Neary.
The meeting was called to order by Dr. Higgins and Dr. Dana was elected chairman and Dr. Neary secretary.
The chairman said that the object of the meeting was to outline a course of instruction to be given at the hospital during the coming winter to the nurses of the Training school of the hospital. An informal discussion followed in which all were unanimous in admitting the necessity of making the course as thorough and practical as possible. The patients, the physicians themselves as a result of it, and the public in general would receive direct benefit from such practical instruction.
The course of instruction as outlined is as follows. Two lectures weekly—Friday and Tuesday evenings:
SURGICAL STAFF.
Anatomy—Dr. Reese.
Gynaecology, Minor Surgery and Bandaging—Dr. Sornberger.
Obstetrics and Anaesthetics—Dr. Higgins.
General Surgery—Dr. Dana.
MEDICAL STAFF.
Diet Physiology and Treatment—Dr. Didama.
Practice with Special Reference to Symptomatology—Dr. Neary.
Materia Medica, Electricity, Baths, Massage—Dr. Henry.
Chemistry, Toxicology, Urinalysis, Infection, Etiology—Dr. Moore.
First week—Dr. Reese and Dr. Henry.
Second week—Dr. Higgins and Dr. Moore.
Third week—Dr. Dana and Dr. Neary.
Fourth week—Dr. Sornberger and Dr. Didama.
The meeting then adjourned.
THE NEW FIRM.
Like Dewey, They Took Possession Before They Were Expected to Do So.
Mitchell & Strowbridge like Dewey arrived in their new market at 102 Main-st., [Cortland], several days before they were advertised to do so. They expected to take possession next Monday, but finally concluded to do it yesterday. This shows the promptness of the men, and they purpose to conduct their business and deliver their goods on that plan. Everybody knows the excellence of Ralph Mitchell as a judge of meat and his artistic skill as a cutter. Mr. Strowbridge is also recognized as a first class business man. It is a strong combination. They are now at the market and are doing business. They purpose to carry a fine line of meats of all kinds, of fish and oysters on the proper days, of all kinds of green "stuffs" in their respective seasons, and before very long they will be prepared to furnish milk and cream. They solicit a trial and guarantee to please.
Death of Mrs. Byram.
Mrs. Laura Scott Byram, widow of the late Captain Samuel M. Byram, died at 11:30 o'clock last evening at her home, 3 State-st., after an illness of nearly four years resulting from a shock, during the last two of which she has been almost an entire invalid. Mrs. Byram was one of two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William Scott, the former of whom was a native of Aberdeen, Scotland. She was born in Cortland sixty-one years ago, and her entire life has been spent in this vicinity. With her husband she lived at East River up to the time of his death Dec. 30, 1894, and up to March 1, 1898, when she removed to Cortland. Mr. Byram was captain of Company D, Seventy-sixth New York volunteers.
Mrs. Byram was a lady of many noble traits of character and was especially interested in the grange. In February, 1895, she was attending a state grange meeting in Rochester when she slipped and fell on the ice breaking a limb. She had hardly recovered from this when she was attacked with the shock which eventually led to her death. Through all her illness she was extremely patient, and while realizing her condition was always cheerful.
Her sister, Mrs. John Rollo, survives her, also one daughter, Miss Nellie S. Byram of Cortland, and two sons, Wm. S. Byram of East River and Charles J. Byram of Cortland.
Funeral services will be held from 51 State-st., Friday at 2 P. M. and burial will be made in Cortland Rural cemetery.
Place-Duffey.
Mr. A. H. Place of Chicago and Miss Grace K. Duffey of Cortland were quietly married at 9 o'clock this morning at the parochial residence by Rev. J. J. McLoghlin. Only the immediate relatives of both parties were present, the only one from out of town being Mr. P. P. Miller of Buffalo, an uncle of the bride. Mr. and Mrs. Place were driven at once to the 9:20 train and started for their home in Chicago, where Mr. Place has a fine position in a large concern engaged in manufacturing street car registers.
Both bride and groom have grown up in Cortland from their childhood and are held in highest esteem by hosts of friends who know and appreciate them for their genuine worth. The groom is a graduate of Cornell university and the bride has been for five years a member of the faculty of the Cortland State Normal school.
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| Klondike gold rush--the Scales--stairs into the mountains. |
IN THE KLONDIKE REGION.
Willard Wilcox Tells of Some of His Experiences.
Willard Wilcox of North Lansing, who was a student at the Normal school and a prominent football player and who left school during the winter of 1898 to go to the Klondike, was in town last night as a guest of Floyd Stoker, and of other friends. In conversation with a STANDARD man this morning he spoke in a most interesting way of some of his experiences there.
Mr. Wilcox left Cortland March 1 and was joined in Seattle in April by Judah P. Gray of Cortland who is his partner and associate in all his undertakings. They remained in Seattle till May 30. There was to have been quite a large party of them going together, but one after another they dropped out discouraged till only Gray and himself remained. They first bought a steam launch in which to make the trip up the river when they should have left the ocean steamer, but that proved of no use and they disposed of it and made other arrangements. On Memorial day, 1898, they left Seattle and started for the gold regions. They were able in the summer season to go by water nearly the whole distance, first along the coast and then up the Koyukuk river to Red Mountain where they made their principal claim, where they spent the winter and where Mr. Gray is now. They reached Red Mountain about the middle of September after three months and a half of constant traveling.
For the first two or three weeks they were engaged in building cabins and making arrangements for the winter. Then they were able to get right at work prospecting. They have located several claims in that vicinity, which they [too] own in company. The largest of these covers about twenty acres. They have also what is called a "lay" on several others, which signifies that when worked on the per cent plan they, doing the work, shall have two-thirds of the receipts. Mr. Wilcox said they took out some gold and found that some of their claims were quite rich in the precious metal. They netted enough from their brief period of work to purchase for Mr. Gray a complete outfit at Alaska prices and enough to bring him home. They are quite sanguine of the future results.
The weather last winter was of course extremely cold. The temperature got down to 78 degrees below zero, but they did not wear any specially extra amount of clothing. They had on quite heavy underclothing and overalls, and were otherwise dressed as they would be here. The air is so dry that one is never chilly and does not suffer more from cold than here. But he will freeze his nose or his face or any part of the body without any warning. He does not feel the cold or know he is cold till the part is frozen. They had only about 2 1/2 feet of snow, though the old timers there said that that was less than the usual snow fall. About 2,000 men spent last winter in that vicinity, but there are now only about sixty men there, the rest having either moved on to other locations or, having become discouraged, have returned home.
Mr. Wilcox called attention to the number of elderly men who are in the mining regions. The per cent [sic] of gray heads is greater than here in this vicinity. But there are no very young men there. There are, however, hosts of those who have no business there. A man, he said, who does not relish roughing it and who is not ready to hustle and turn his hand to anything has no place there. And yet the life in those frozen zones is not nearly a s wearing as it is popularly represented. The truth of this is evidenced from the number of consumptives and otherwise partly disabled men who get up there. But they must have nerve. That is indispensable.
Mr. Wilcox thinks there is a good deal of luck in mining. A person should know something of rock formation, but even then he is not at all sure of striking it rich, while his neighbor with little knowledge of any kind may strike a bonanza. There has of late been a new strike at Cape Nome, still further north and 120 miles north of St. Michael's on Behring sea.
The people here are nearly all Swedes, who have little or no idea of mining, and yet among them and among those near Red Mountain are California miners who have been all their lives in the business and who have not yet found anything. Mr. Wilcox says that on the various steamers that come down to San Francisco there may be ten people who are reported as bringing with them a large amount of gold dust, but nothing is said of the 300 or over who have only secured enough to pay their expenses home and who think they are fortunate to get home again.
Mr. Wilcox expects to start back very soon, although he owns that his father is objecting strongly to his return. But he says he feels confident that he can make a good thing up there in the next two years, while if he does not go back he has really lost all his labor during the past two years. When he goes he will have to travel overland for a large share of the distance as river navigation will be closed. It is 1,400 miles from Seattle to where Mr. Gray is and he expects it will take him five months to get there. He expects to leave the steamer at Skagway about Dec. 1 and go over the pass. They have dog trains, but the most of the journey has to be made on foot. Mr. Wilcox thinks that he will not stop at Red Mountain with Mr. Gray now, but he wants to push on to Cape Nome, which is 2,200 miles from Seattle, and do some prospecting there.
They are practically shut off from the world when they get up into that region. It takes a letter eight months to get there and a newspaper a year. Mr. Wilcox received one letter from home last year on Aug. 20. This overtook him on the road into the mining region. His next letter came to him on July 6 of this year. Mr. Gray got a letter in January, the first since he left Seattle.
Prices up in that country are pretty high. Flour is worth $5 for fifty pounds, sugar, salt and evaporated fruits 25 cents per pound, whisky $12 a quart, canned meats, canned fruits $1 per can, tobacco $2 per pound, soap 35 cents per cake, and other things in proportion.
Just before Mr. Wilcox started for home he and Mr. Gray earned quite a little money in moving some wood cut last winter back to a place where high water cannot touch it. They received $2.50 per cord for carrying it about twenty rods.
Mr. Wilcox will probably be in Cortland again the last of this week. He is looking well and as though his experiences had agreed with him.
BREVITIES.
—The residence of Dr. F. J. Cheney has been connected with the telephone exchange.
—Excelsior Hook & Ladder Co. and Water Witch Steamer a Hose company will each hold a regular meeting to-night.
—The board of village trustees meets to-night, when it is expected an official declaration will be made as to the paving of Groton-ave.
—The Avalon club has issued invitations for a private dancing party at Empire hall on Friday evening, Oct. 20. Music will be furnished by McDermott's orchestra.
—New display advertisements to-day are—F. D.
Smith, Stoves, page 6; F. Daehler, Overcoats, page 6; W. J. Perkins, Dandruff
cure, page 6; McKinney &
Doubleday, Bicycles, page 4.
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