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| Gen. Arthur MacArthur. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, November 18, 1899.
General MacArthur Marches North.
MANILA, Nov. IS.—General MacArthur, with the Thirty-sixth infantry, a battalion of the Seventeenth infantry, a troop of the Fourth cavalry, several Gatlings and a detachment of the signal corps, has begun his northward advance from Tarlac, which will be continued to Bayombong, province of New Vizcaya.
OPPOSED TO PADDLING.
Its Resumption Will Certainly Not Be Tolerated at Reformatory.
ELMIRA..N. Y., Nov. 18.—The board of managers of the reformatory has concluded its meeting, the session being devoted to rearrangement of affairs in the institution in order that expenses may be kept within the legislative appropriation. In some instances two departments of the trades schools have been placed under one instructor. President Sturgis of the board of managers, when asked if it were true that Superintendent Brockway had made a request of Governor Roosevelt to resume paddling and that his request had been referred back to the board, replied:
"No, that is not correct. Superintendent Brockway has been in correspondence with me on that subject and has made statements to me in regard to the subject by mail. I am firmly opposed to paddling and will not consider its resumption. It will not be tolerated."
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| Grover Cleveland. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
◘ Ex-president Cleveland's observation, that whatever may have been one's abstract opinions of our Philippine policy, now that war exists, "ready and unquestioned acquiescence becomes patriotism, and the support of our country a contention becomes good citizenship," startles the "anti-imperialist" leaders and camp as ice water would a person in a Turkish bath. There is in his remark a reminder of the American spirit that found words in his official utterances on the Venezuela boundary matter. The cuckoos were paralyzed then, and are extremely shy of his Philippine attitude—Utica Herald.
◘ Signer Marconi was a passenger on the steamship St. Paul, which arrived at Southampton Wednesday night. When the vessel was sixty miles from the Needles, he obtained for the passengers by means of wireless telegraphy, the news from South Africa, and that of the loss of the Charleston off the coast of Luzon. The passengers also sent messages to friends in England and the United States.
HOMER, N. Y.
Gleanings of News from Our Twin Village.
HOMER, Nov. 18.—At about 5:30 o'clock this morning the people of this village were aroused by the violent ringing of the fire bell. Flames were seen leaping high in the air in the southern part of town. Many thought it was Blackman's Shirt factory, but it proved to be the dwelling known as the [Hawley] house on South Main-st into which Rev. I. J. Christler and sister had moved about three weeks ago and had just got comfortably settled. The house was recently sold to Myron Babcock, but the deed had not yet been delivered. The owner was Mrs. Ives of New York.
The fire is supposed to have originated from a defective fireplace. There were two large old fashioned fireplaces in the house. These had not been opened in years, but since Mr. Christler moved in there he has used them. The fire was first discovered by those inside the house. Miss Christler ran across the street to a neighbor's, only partially dressed and carrying the balance of her clothing in her arms. Mr. Christler shouted "fire" and began to rescue property.
Among those first alarmed by the shouts was the family of I. M. Samson at the corner of Albany-st. Mr. Louis Samson dressed with all speed and hurried across the street. As he left the house he heard the exclamation from his sister who was watching the fire from the window, "His books are all up in that room." The fire was in Mr. Christler's study where his extensive and valuable library was placed. Mr. Samson's first thought when he got there was to save the books. There were but two men in sight when he reached the house. He ran hurriedly up the stairs to the study. One side of the room was all in flames and a large sofa with its pillows was blazing fiercely. The fire was out of the roof above this room and the smoke was drawing up well through the big chimney in the fireplace and through the burned hole in the ceiling. The fire lighted up the room well. Mr. Samson seized an armful of books and rushed down stairs with them. He attracted the other two men to this work, and within a very few minutes the last book was rescued from the room, and all the furniture except Mr. Christler's large desk which was locked and the sofa which was already pretty fully destroyed. The furniture was also saved from all the other chambers upstairs except Miss Christler's. Before this time plenty of help had arrived and the lower floors were pretty thoroughly cleared of furniture.
The fire department responded as promptly as could be, but it took some time to get the alarm up to the enginehouse, and by the time there was water on the fire the entire garret and roof was roaring like a furnace. In the upright part of the house the building was burned down to the top of the first floor. The wing was not seriously burned. Mr. Christler had an insurance of $2,500 on his household goods and personal effects, placed with W. H. Foster. It is not yet possible to learn about the insurance on the building itself.
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| Cortland Hospital on North Main Street. Photo from Grip's Historical Souvenir of Cortland. |
HOSPITAL REPORTS.
A BUSY YEAR AT THIS PUBLIC INSTITUTION.
The Secretary, Treasurer, Matron and Director of the Training School Tell of Public and Private Needs Met and Helped—Increased Use of Hospital and Greater Demands for Nurses.
At the annual meeting of the Cortland Hospital association reports were presented and read from the secretary, the treasurer, the matron and the director of the Nurses' Training school, and these are so full of interest to the public in general and tell so clearly of the busy year just completed and of the public and private needs met and supplied that we publish them entire as follows:
To the president and members of the board of managers of the Cortland Hospital association and citizens of Cortland:
The following report of the Cortland hospital for the year ending Sept. 30, 1899, is respectfully submitted:
The membership of the board of managers remains as at the beginning of the year with one exception, Mrs. Ella C. Butler having been elected to fill a vacancy then existing. There are now twenty members of the board, and these ladies have all shown an unabated interest in the hospital and devotion to the work entrusted to them by the association.
Since the opening of the hospital eight and a half years ago last April there have been treated a total of 508 cases. During the past year, the number was 120, an increase of thirty-nine over last year. The number of days occupancy was 3,322, a daily average of nine and one-tenth patients, this being nearly double the day’s occupancy of the previous year. The sources of income have been as follows:
Amount received for patients board, $1,765.09; amount received for nurses' services, $1,109.00; amount received from membership fees and donations, $180.65; amount received as proceeds of Kirmess in Oct. '98, $262.50.
Notice has been received of bequests left to the hospital by the wills of the late Mrs. T. A. Price, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Goodrich and Mrs. J. W. Sturdevant, and we are assured by the executors of the Dr. Brewer estate that a final settlement will be soon made, so substantial aid will be coming to us in the near future.
The failure to secure the expected appropriation from the town has seriously crippled the work of the hospital, and will make necessary further appeals to the generosity of the public which we had hoped to spare both them and ourselves.
A recent order, issued by the state superintendent of public instruction, prohibits the collection of funds or supplies for any other than school purposes in any of the public schools of the state. This has deprived us of the annual offering from the school children which aided so greatly in the past years in furnishing a supply of vegetables, fruits and many other household necessities for winter use. To supply this lack a foraging committee was organized late in the summer for soliciting supplies and aid of whatever kind the farmers about Cortland felt willing to give us. It was planned to make frequent trips along the principal roads leading into town, calling at all the homes along these routes. Some work of this kind was done by the committee and it is regretted that circumstances prevented it being continued longer as the ladles met with a most cordial reception and much substantial help was given as the result of these calls. The work will be resumed in the spring, and the friends will have further opportunities of helping the work in which they seemed so interested.
The only entertainments given for the benefit of the hospital have been the Kirmess and a charity whist at the Tioughnioga club rooms both of which gave pleasure to a large number of people and added materially to our treasury. On New Year's day we were favored with a visit from Cortland commandery of Knights Templar who conducted an impressive service and left a very substantial token of their interest.
The equipment of the operating room has been largely increased by the addition of valuable surgical instruments furnished by the Cortland County Medical society.
Through the united gifts of Rev. J. M. Benedict of Utica, Mrs. O. H. Perkins of Philadelphia and Messrs. Beard & Peck, the men's ward has undergone a most pleasing transformation and it is now fitted up with appropriate furniture. The receipts from the benefit sale tendered by Palmer Bros. in January amounted to $19.37 and were most acceptable. Those from a later sale have not yet been reported. The hospital box at the Messenger House still yields good returns and we sincerely wish there were more of them scattered through the town.
The need of a laundry which should be separate from the kitchen has long been felt and with the rapidly increasing work had become an imperative necessity. So steps were taken and plans have been completed for the addition of a wing to the house to be used for laundry purposes the near approach of the payment of the Brewer legacy making this possible.
The training school, established five years ago, has proved a most important branch of the hospital work. The school now numbers seven pupil nurses and, in addition, one graduate nurse, Mrs. White, is employed by the managers. These, with Mrs. Waters as matron and head nurse, make an active and very efficient working force of which the physicians and managers feel justly proud. Two have graduated and received diplomas since the annual meeting in '98, Mrs. Waters and Mrs. White. During the year these nurses have cared for fifty-two cases in private homes and many urgent calls for nurses have come which the matron could not fill. If the number in the training school had been double what it is, all who could have been spared from the hospital work would doubtless have been employed in caring for outside cases.
To the surgeons and physicians of the staff we are, as ever, deeply indebted for gratuitous services in caring forward patients, and for their interest in all that pertains to the welfare of the hospital and training school. The small percentage of deaths and the splendid recovery from difficult and critical operations, or from serious illness, attest to their skill, but only patients and nurses can fully realize their unwearying and unselfish devotion to the sick entrusted to their care.
We feel that we have been fortunate in retaining the services of Mrs. Waters as the head of our institution. Her humane and intelligent administration of the affairs of the hospital during the past three years has placed it in the front rank of cottage hospitals. In every department of its work, whether the teaching and training of nurses or the supervision of the domestic and business affairs of the house, she has shown exceptional ability and we take pleasure in thus publicly recognizing her services.
The local press have, as in previous years, been unfailing in their courtesies to us and have responded willingly to all requests for space in their columns. The thanks of the association are again extended to all who have aided in any way the board of managers in their work, with gifts of money, with supplies and with words of encouragement and appreciation.
What has been accomplished in the eight and a half years of the hospital's existence vindicates the purpose of its founders and entitles the Cortland hospital to an unquestioned place among the best of our village charities.
ELLA M. BUCK, Secretary Hospital association, Cortland, Oct. 2, 1899.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
Treasurer's report of the Cortland Hospital association for the year ending Sept. 30, 1899:
Cash on hand Oct. 1, '98, $73.67
Total receipts, $4,117.21
Total: $4,189.31.
By expenditures, $4,172.65
Cash on hand, $15.66
Total, $4,189.31
Expenditures.
Interest and loans, $983.00
MATRON'S REPORT.
Matron's report of hospital year ending Sept. 30, 1899:
Patients Treated During Year, 120—Male 48, female 72; private patients treated 76, ward patients treated 22, town patients treated 8, charity patients treated 14, births 3, deaths 9.
Causes of Death—From carcinoma of utertus 1, compound fracture of skull 1, enteric fever 1, internal hemorrhage and shock result of accident 1, paralysis and old age 1, pneumonia 1, rheumatism and septicaemia 1, tuberculosis 2.
Diseases Treated During the Year, Medical, 61—Arsenical poisoning, acute 1, bowel troubles 8, catarrhal ulceration of bowel 1, debility, general 4, fever, entric 18, fever, simple 1, gastritis 3, hemiplegia 2, insanity 1, la grippe 3, lymphadnoma 1, nervous troubles 8, neuralgia of stomach 1, pneumonia 1, pregnancy 5, rheumatism, acute 1, chronic 2, inflammatory 1, toxemia 1, tuberculosis 3.
Surgical Cases Treated, 69—Abscess of antrum 1, abscess of Ischlo Rectal 1, of neck 1, pelvic 1.
Accidents—Compound fracture of skull 1, internal hemorrhage and shock 1, powder in face and eyes 1, scalp wound 1, adenoid growths 1, appendicitis 8, burns 1, carcinoma of breast 3, carcinoma of uterus 2, cervicitis 1, concussion of brain 1, cystocele 1, dislocation of thumb 1, dislocation of shoulder 1, dislocation of elbow 1, metritis 5, fracture of [femur] 1, hemorrhoids 8, injury to [?] 1, injury to eye 2, injury to foot 1, laceration of cervix 3, laceration of cervix and perineum 6, laceration of perineum 3, menorhagia 1, necrosis of femur 1, orchitis 1, periostitis of [mita] carpal bone 1, peritonitis, pelvic 1, phimosis 1, post puerperal complications 2, rectocele 1, salphingitis, catarrhal 1, sarcoma of arm 1, tuberculosis of crest of illium 1, tuberculosis of knee 1, tumor of hand 1, tumor of umbilicus 1, tumor of uterus 2, ulcer of cornea 1, ulcer perforating gastric 1, varicocele 1.
Operations 55—
Among the more important operations have been:
Amputation of thigh 2, celiotomy, hysterectomy, perineorraphy, removal of breast, removal of tumor, trachelorraphy, ventral suspension.
No death from operation has occurred since November 1898, nearly one year.
REPORT OF TRAINING SCHOOL.
Nurses in hospital at beginning of year: Head nurse 1, training class 7, admitted during year 4, head nurse dispensed with 1, dismissed 1, graduated but retained in hospital 2, home on sick leave 1, remaining in training school 7.
These with two graduate nurses retained in hospital make a corps of nine nurses.
Receipts from nurses' services, $1,109, calls few nurses supplied 52.
HELEN M. WATERS, Superintendent of Training School.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Bingham & Miller, Neckwear, page 4.
—The Knights of Columbus will give a euchre party in their rooms Monday evening at 8 o'clock.
—One of the delivery horses of Tyler & Jones, while being driven to Blodgett Mills yesterday, became frightened and ran away, but did little damage.
—Bear in mind that a change of time goes into effect to-night on the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. and to-morrow on the Lehigh Valley R. R. Look up the timetables and don't get left.
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