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| Lord Salisbury. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, November 10, 1899.
SALISBURY'S SPEECH.
Outlines the Policy of England at a Banquet in London.
LONDON, Nov. 10.—At the Guildhall banquet the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Wolseley, Mr. Ritchie, Lord George Hamilton, Lord Halsbury, the lord chief justice, the Duke of Marlborough and a few minor diplomats were present. Mr. Chamberlain was absent. Lord Salisbury and Lord Wolseley were warmly cheered as they passed from the reception in the library into the banqueting hall. The lord mayor proposed "The Ministers" in a speech in which he vigorously denounced "the ignorant arrogance of the invader, dwelling on the fact that Sir Alfred Milner, in spite of herculean exertions, was unable to prevail with the overbearing, corrupt oligarchy, therefore other of our champions have the business in their hands."
Replying to the toast to "The Army," proposed in warm terms by Alderman Trelear, Lord Wolseley paid a graceful and glowing tribute to British soldiers and sailors.
Lord Salisbury in replying to the lord mayor, was greeted with intense enthusiasm, prolonged cheering and a general waving of handkerchiefs.
The premier appeared to be in fine fettle, his voice filling the hall and holding the entire attention of his auditors. He spoke at great length and touched upon divers subjects, the most prominent of which were Samoa and the Transvaal war. He expressed unbounded faith in the British arms and closed his brilliant peroration as follows:
"Whenever we are victorious we shall consult the vast interests committed to our care. Vast duties lie upon us to perform, and taking counsel of the uniform interests of our colonial government and of moderation and equal justice to all races of men which it has been our uniform practice to observe, I do not doubt we shall so arrange that the issue of this conflict will confer good government upon the area where it rages and give the security sorely needed against the recurrence of any such dangers and the necessity of any such future exertion, and for the restoration of peace and civilization to that portion of the world."
Lord Salisbury resumed his seat amid a tremendous ovation.
Boers Show Great Courage.
CAPE TOWN, Nov. 10.—There is no doubt that the feeling prevalent of admiration for the courage of the Boers during the recent fighting is a good augury for a future peaceful settlement of the existing trouble. The Boer prisoners on the British cruiser Penelope pay high tribute to the British artillery.
Reports from Kimberley seem to indicate that the investing force has greatly weakened for the purpose of lending detachments to the eastern and southern borders, and the threatened widespread Boer invasion of Cape colony has not materialized. Doubtless the swollen river and the possibility of their retreat being cut off has had some effect.
The work of laying a new cable to St. Helena will be commenced shortly.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Something of the mischances of war and the strange streaks of fate was illustrated the other day in the South African campaign when two of the most distinguished regiments of the British army, the Royal Irish fusiliers and the Gloucestershire troops, fell into the hands of a practically untrained army of Boer yeomen. The Royal Irish fusiliers, formerly known as the Eighty-seventh Royal Irish fusiliers, were one of the two British regiments that captured the eagles of two French regiments. The Eighty-seventh performed that feat at Barrosa, Spain. The Gloucestershire, formerly the Twenty-eighth foot, earned the privilege in the peninsula war under Wellington, in one of the battles when, with the rear rank faced about it received a French charge from front and rear, of wearing a special badge on the back of their shakos, in addition to the usual ornament, with the number in front.
NOT A QUITTER.
Jefferson Does Not Like Obituaries Till They Are Needed.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—The veteran actor, Joseph Jefferson, though greeted with thronged houses out West, is not satisfied with what he sees in the newspapers. They constantly bid him last good byes, on a circulated report that this is the actor's last season. Jefferson has written to a friend in this city thus:
"The criticisms of my performances out here." he says, "read like obituaries, and I want to say right here that I have no intention of quitting the stage. The people always greet me kindly and I shall appear for them as long as I am able. In other words, it is my intention to act until I die, though I realize the time is not many years off."
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| 1894 map segment shows northbound D. L. & W. train approaching Homer Ave. crossing. |
CORONER'S INQUEST.
Charles Taylor Relates His Experience Prior to the Accident.
Coroner F. H. Green of Homer this morning began an inquest into the cause of the deaths produced by the collision of the trolley car and milk train at the crossing between Cortland and Homer. Under the new law no jury is required though the inquest is in all other respects conducted in the same manner as before. The coroner now examines the witnesses and renders a verdict. He may have the assistance of the district attorney or of other counsel if he chooses in making the examination.
In this case Coroner Green was assisted by District Attorney Edwin Duffey, and the inquest was held at the latter's office in Cortland. Mr. Duffey was at the scene of the accident yesterday and made a very careful examination of everything for his own information as a possible prosecuting attorney.
Only one witness was examined today— Charles Taylor of Baltimore, Md., the passenger on the ill fated trolley car who saved his life by jumping just before the collision. The deposition of the witness was taken to-day so that he might be enabled to leave Cortland and continue his business trip. The further examination of witnesses was deferred till some time next week when it is hoped that Motorman Chrysler may be able to be examined and when it is the intention of having the crew of the milk train on hand as well as other witnesses.
Mr. Taylor having been duly sworn made the following statement in reply to the questions of coroner and district attorney: My name is Charles Taylor. I reside in Baltimore, Md., and am employed by Sperry, Jones & Co. of that city in selling investment securities. I was in the village of Homer on the morning of Nov. 9, 1899. I left that village for Cortland on the electric car of the Cortland & Homer Traction Co., which left that village at about 11:06 A. M. I entered the rear door of the car and seated myself in the rear corner on the right hand side, viz: the west side. I remained there without moving till just before the accident. Frank M. Newton, with whom I was acquainted, was seated on the same side at or near the front corner of the car. Miss Kennedy was seated on the opposite side near the middle of the car, perhaps a little nearer the rear of the car than the front. I noticed the southbound milk train on the S., B. & N. Y. R. R. pull into Homer before I boarded the car. I have been in Homer several times during the last year and am familiar with the crossing between Cortland and Homer, where the electric road crosses the railroad. No other passengers were on the car to my knowledge. Soon after the car left Homer the conductor entered and collected fares and then returned to the rear platform, closing the car doors. I am quite sure he did not enter the car again. The car ran rapidly to the switch at the mill. There it slowed up and made the switch at a reduced rate of speed. I could not say whether or not the brakes of the car were set when it approached this switch. They may have been set, but I did not notice it and was paying no attention to it. After leaving the switch the car increased its speed and passed over the stretch of track to the vicinity of the crossing at a high rate of speed. Up to the time the car reached the curve where the track deflects from the highway [Homer Ave.] to cross the railroad I am quite sure there was no diminution of the speed of the car. I remember nothing as to the power being shut off. I did not notice that it was done. I did not notice that the brakes were set. At no time up to the accident did I feel the sensation of the brakes setting. As I sat in the car I leaned back into the corner facing partly toward the front of the car. Without having to turn my head to any extent I could look forward toward the front of the car. A few rods, perhaps six or eight, before the car reached the curve I noticed in looking out through the front of the car that the flagman at the railroad crossing stood in the highway on the Homer side of the S. B. &N. Y. tracks waving his flag. He was facing the trolley car and waving his flag in its direction. At the moment that I observed him I also saw the motorman standing on the front platform. What he was doing I do not know, as I immediately upon seeing the flagman turned my head around toward the railroad track to look for the train. I looked through the rear window of the car immediately at and over my left shoulder and saw the milk train approaching. It was then, I should say, about 25 or 30 rods up the track toward Homer. I cannot say positively as to the distance just stated. Upon seeing the flagman the thought instantly came to my mind that the train I saw in Homer must be approaching. Immediately upon seeing the train I sprang to my feet, opened the double sliding doors, stepped out on the platform, down upon the step upon the left side toward the highway and with my hand on railing stepped off the car following the motion of the car. I did this all as rapidly as I could. I had to take three or four quick steps in nearly the direction the car was moving to stop my headway. When I passed on to and off the platform I did not observe the conductor then. I did not see him leave the car, but am quite sure that he left it before me. The first I saw of him after l alighted he was standing 2 or 3 rods toward Homer on the side of the highway. I observed no signals of any kind given by the conductor to the motorman. No warning or outcry was given by any one on the car. At the moment I saw the railroad train there was no time to do anything and I barely got off myself before the collision. I did not notice any signal by way of whistling or bell ringing given by the railroad train. I could not say they did not give such signal. The car door was closed and if the bell was ringing I might not have heard it. I do not think there was any blast of a whistle given near by. I would not say that the whistle was not given farther up the track toward Homer. The point where I alighted was between the sharp curve and the northbound track of the railroad. Judging from the way in which I alighted from the car I think the speed of the car must have been reduced somewhat. For the moment after alighting my back was toward both car and train, and the collision occurred before I turned about, and consequently I did not see it. I heard the crash, however, and when I turned I saw the wreckage of the trolley car lying in the street and the train still moving south and across the highway. It had not come to a stop when I first saw it and I did not know it was off the track till I was so told a little afterward. I saw Miss Kennedy lying along the track, and next beyond her the motorman, and Mr. Newton several rods further south. I did not go close to them. Others were soon present and went to their assistance.
Attorney W. S. Jenney of Syracuse, counsel for the S. and B. division of the D. L. & W. R. R., was in town yesterday afternoon looking after the railroad company's interests in connection with the accident. Attorney Peter B. Cole from Mr. Jenney's office was here to-day on the same business.
Motorman Chrysler is being attended at the hospital by Dr. C. E. Bennett, and the physician said to-day that his condition is very materially improved and that his speedy recovery seems certain.
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| Fireman's Hall, Main Street, Cortland, N. Y. |
LANTERN EXPLODED.
GILLETTE'S LIVERY BARN ON ORCHARD-ST. BURNED.
The Proprietor Had Gone There Early This Morning to Feed the Horses and Had Just Reached the Top of the Stair When the Lantern Exploded—Horses and Wagons Saved—Good Work of the Firemen.
The livery stable of J. J. Gillette on Orchard-st. was burned early this morning, but most of its contents aside from hay and grain were saved.
Mr. Gillette, who lives on Charles-st., intended to go to Dryden to-day, and wanting to get away at 6 o'clock, came down at 4:30 to feed his horses. He had an oil lantern in his hand and as he reached the top of the stairs to throw down the hay to the horses, the lantern exploded and the flying burning oil set the hay and woodwork on fire. He rushed down stairs and hurried the lantern out in the street, at the same time calling his son, Allie Gillette, who sleeps in the livery office nights.
Going back up stairs he tried to smother the fire with a broom and partially succeeded, but the flames had too much headway. His son hastened to the engine house on Main-st., crying fire on the way. He could find no policeman or any one else about the place, and in his excitement could not find the bellrope to ring the bell. He ran back to the barn, and in the meantime a number of people had been attracted to the barn, and were assisting Mr. Gillette in getting the already almost frantic horses out of the barn. All were gotten out, however, and with them the carriages, hacks and harnesses.
It was some time after the fire started when the firebell finally rang, and the man who had hold of the rope was Mr. T. N. Hollister, who has a room in the Wallace building and bad been aroused by the cry of fire and rushed out in his nightclothes to the engine house. At about the same time some one sent in an alarm from the D., L. & W station.
The firebell brought the entire fire department to the scene in a hurry, and the firemen did valiant service in confining the flames to this one building, though the tenant house of Mr. Gillette standing close by the barn on the west and occupied by Frank H. Hibbard got a bad scorching, and the boarding house of James Kane on the east was on fire in a number of places.
The barn was a story and a half frame structure and the three or four tons of hay in the loft were burned, as was a quantity of grain on the first floor. The roof is almost entirely gone, but the walls are still standing.
Mr. Gillette had an insurance on the barn of $1,200, half in the Phoenix company and half in the Dutchess, all placed with Davis, Jenkins & Hakes. The same firm also carried an insurance of $1,500 on the barn's contents. The houses on either side were fully insured.
The good work of the firemen is a subject of very much favorable comment, as in the rear of the building is a number of wooden buildings which would burn quickly should they once get started. The four well directed streams of water did effective work.
Mrs. Frank Watson was early on hand in Fireman's hall and had hot coffee ready for the firemen as soon as they could get time to drink it, and through the columns of The STANDARD they wish to express to her their hearty appreciation of her thoughtfulness and promptness in doing what she did single-handed.
The boarding house of Mr. Kane was quite materially damaged, being almost completely gutted at the rear. The building stands only two feet from the barn and the entire west side was charred. Holes were burned in the roof, and the rear half of the second story was completely gutted. The family and boarders got out without injury, but most of the bedding was burned, besides a large amount of clothing. One bedstead and a few pieces of furniture were saved.
An Opera House Burned.
Wilson opera house in Owego was partially destroyed by fire at 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon caused by the explosion of celluloid films belonging to the Howe Moving Picture Co., which was to exhibit there that night. The trunk was open as the machine was being tested. A cigar stub is supposed to have been thrown near the celluloid. The loss on the building will not exceed $3,000, covered by insurance. But the loss on the moving picture apparatus and films is about $2,000, which is not insured.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—L. N. Hopkins, Free chrysanthemum show, page 6; Model Clothing Co., Top coats, page 8; F. D. Smith, Red Cross stoves, page 6.
—The returns from Madison county show that the majority of Carlos J. Coleman for school commissioner was 1,270 and that he carried every one of the eight towns in his district except one.
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