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Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, January 8, 1900.
GILLMORE IN MANILA.
Harbor of Safety Reached by the Gallant Sailor.
SADLY BROKEN IN HEALTH.
Thrilling Tale of Suffering Endured By the Brave Officer and His Band.
MANILA, Jan. 8.—Lieutenant J. C. Gillmore of the United States gunboat Yorktown, who was captured by the insurgents last April near Baler, on the east coast of Luzon and rescued a few days ago by Colonel Luther R. Hare of the Thirty-second volunteer infantry, sat yesterday in the apartments of his sister, Mrs. Major Price at the Hotel Oriente in Manila, and told a remarkable story of his eight months in captivity, ending with his dramatic deliverance from a death that seemed inevitable.
The steamer Venus came into the harbor Saturday evening from Vigan, province of South Ilocos, with Lieutenant Gillmore and 19 other American prisoners, including seven of his sailors from the Yorktown. Lieutenant Gillmore, after reporting, came ashore and hobbled along, with the aid of a cane, to the Hotel Oriente, where American officers and ladies were waltzing through the halls to the strains of "Aguinaldo's March."
Although tanned and ruddy from exposure, he is weak and nervous, showing the results of long hardships. He spoke warmly of Aguinaldo and very bitterly against General Tino, declaring that, while in the former's jurisdiction, he was treated splendidly, but that after he fell into Tino's hands he suffered everything.
Colonel Hare and Lieutenant Colonel Howse, the latter of the Thirty-fourth volunteer infantry, rescued Gillmore's party on Dec. 18 near the head waters of the Abalut river, after they had been abandoned by the Filipinos and were expecting death from the savage tribes around them. When the rescuing force reached them they were nearly starved, but were building rafts in the hope of getting down the river to the coast.
Lieutenant Gillmore made the following statement to a correspondent of the press:
"The Filipinos abandoned us on the night of Dec. 16. We had reached the Abalut river, near its source that morning, and the Filipinos rafted us over. We then went down the stream, along a rough trail, guarded by a company of Filipinos. That night we were separated from this guard, and another company, armed with Mausers, was put in charge of us. I suspected something and questioned the lieutenant in command. He said: 'I have orders from General Tino to shoot you all, but my conscience forbids. I shall leave you here.'
"I begged him for two rifles to protect us from savages, adding that I would give him letters to the Americans who would pay him well and keep him from all harm. He refused this, however, saying that he would not dare to comply. Soon afterward he left with his company.
"We had seen some savages in war paint around us, and we prepared to fight them with cobblestones, the only weapons that were available to us. The next morning we followed the trail of the Filipino soldiers, feeling that it was better to stick to them than to be murdered by the savages, but we could not catch up with them. Then I ordered the men to build rafts, in the hope of floating down the river. It was a forlorn hope, but I knew the river must empty into the sea somewhere. I was so weak myself that I did not expect to get out, but I thought some of the men could.
"On the morning of Dec. 18, while we were working on the rafts, the Americans came toward us yelling. One of my men shouted, 'They are on us.' He was lashing a raft of bamboos. I, however, knew it was not the yell of savages, but the yell of Americans. The rescuing troops thought we had Filipino guards and called to us in English to lie down, so they could shoot the Filipinos. That was the finest body of officers and men I ever saw."
Lieutenant Gillmore could not speak enthusiastically enough about the 140 picked men who had rescued him and his party.
The command spent the day in making rafts. Colonel Hare thought Lieutenant Gillmore too weak to live through the trip, but there was no alternative. They shot many rapids, the men losing all their effects, and Lieutenant Gillmore some valuable papers. Only 14 out 37 rafts survived the first night's experience, and 80 men were practically unable to walk when Vigan was reached.
VANDERBILT ESTATE.
Cornelius Has Received Almost All of His $6,000,000 From Alfred.
NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—One of the executors of the Vanderbilt will said: "All the bequests under the will of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt have been paid."
From the same authority it was learned that Cornelius Vanderbilt has received almost all of the $6,000,000 which Alfred agreed to give him in order to avoid a contest.
Cornelius received part of this sum in cash and part in marketable securities. One of the executors also said that the original estimate of the Vanderbilt estates' value made by Chauncey M. Depew and announced on Oct. 27 last as being about $70,000,000 has been practically verified. The estate will probably not exceed $75,000,000.
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| 1900 Flag of Norway—National and Merchant with proportions. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Norway's "Clean Flag."
A new maritime flag has made its appearance in the list of national emblems. For the first time in many years Norway has been enabled to hoist a pennant bearing no token of the union with Sweden, and now from all unmilitary Norwegian masts floats a flag which signifies the hopes of a very large part of the nation—namely, the separation of the two states and the elevation of Norway to the dignity of a sovereign power.
During the years in which Norway was bandied about by the nations of Europe as a vassal state she could, of course, boast of no national emblem. When, in 1814, she was turned over to Sweden by France, the Swedish flag was forced upon the people although there was a stipulation in their constitution that they should be entitled to a flag of their own. In 1844 King Oscar I, to allay the dissatisfaction among the Norwegians, granted them a merchant flag and a naval ensign of red, blue and white and a double triangle in the canton, or upper corner of the flag.
This canton device has been the bone of contention between the two branches of the Scandinavian family. It was composed of the colors of both nations—blue and yellow for Sweden and blue and red for Norway. It was to appear as well on all Swedish flags and was thus known as the mark of union. For years the Norwegians have sought to eliminate it from their flag, but King Oscar has steadfastly refused his consent. Three successive storthings have enacted a bill to this end, which has repeatedly received the royal veto. Under the constitution when three such enactments have prevailed the royal veto is ineffective, and in accordance with this provision King Oscar recently issued a decree setting aside that of his father in 1844 and ordering that the Norwegian flag should henceforth appear without the union mark. It is to be retained, of course, in the naval emblem, as that signifies the joint power of the two peoples and cannot be separated.
So for the first time in modern history Norwegian merchantmen now fly the colors of their own country, the three tongued flag of Norway, the emblem which in the controversial parlance of the past half century has been called by the Norwegian radicals the "clean flag." It may be the entering wedge for the complete separation of Norway and Sweden and the erection of a Norwegian republic, in favor of which there appears to be a strong and constantly growing sentiment.
CORTLAND COUNTY COURT.
O. L. Ingraham PIeads Guilty—Geo. I. Crane will contest. Myrtie Hudson Decision Handed Down.
County Court re-assembled this morning at 10 o'clock, Judge J. E. Eggleston presiding. A decision In the case of The people vs. Myrtle Hudson, held in Police court early last summer, was given reversing the decision of Police Justice Davis and setting the defendant free from all charges. Court then adjourned till 2 o'clock this afternoon.
When the case of The People vs. Ollie Ingraham for the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor was called, Mr. Ingraham came before the court and pleaded guilty to the charge and was given a fine of $350 or six months in the Onondaga county penitentiary.
The second case called was The People vs. George I. Crane of Homer. This is one of the excise cases and Mr. Crane will stand trial, for which a jury is now being drawn.
In regard to the case in which the decision was handed down it will be remembered that the defendant was arrested at about 10:30 o'clock on the evening of July 10 and was brought before the police justice charged with keeping a disorderly house in the village of Cortland. She was tried on July 17 before the police justice and a jury, T. H. Dowd appearing for the prosecution and E. E. Mellon for the defendant. The attorney for the defendant took the position on the trial that the court of special sessions had never acquired any jurisdiction of the defendant, for the reason that she was arrested by the officer without a warrant, and that she was committing no crime in the presence of the officer when the arrest was made and that upon being brought before the police justice there was no complaint made against the defendant and that there was no warrant issued and that the defendant was forced into a trial without any authority. The trial occurred and the verdict was "guilty."
The defendant was sentenced to the Western House of Refuge at Albion for three years. Attorney Mellon appealed to Supreme Court Justice Lyon, Judge Eggleston being in Europe at that time. He based the appeal upon two points: (1) That the court of special sessions never acquired any jurisdiction of the defendant Myrtle Hudson; (2) that it had no jurisdiction to try and pass sentence upon her for the crime charged. The appeal was allowed by Judge Lyon on July 20. The appeal was argued before Judge Eggleston at the September term and the decision is now handed down reversing the previous decision. Mr. Mellon has made a hard fight for his client and is naturally gratified at the result.
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| Cortland Normal School. |
THE CORTLAND NORMAL SCHOOL.
How It is Viewed by a Prominent New England Educator.
On Nov. 26 Dr. A. E. Winship, editor of the New England Journal of Education, gave a lecture at the Cortland Normal school. In the current issue of his paper he pays the following tribute to the school, which is very gratifying, coming as it does from a person of Dr. Winship's high standing and prominence in the educational world:
New York is one of the great Normal school states of the Union. Next to Massachusetts stands New York, in point of time, in the introduction of Normal schools. David P. Page at Albany and Dr. E. A. Sheldon at Oswego made a professional impression upon the country second to that of no other Normal school men. With the increase of state Normal schools there is also an increase in efficiency.
The school at Cortland, Dr. F. J. Cheney, president, is an every way admirable institution—large, enthusiastic, scholarly, and professional. The village is specially attractive with wide streets, wide grass plats between the driveways and the walks, with elaborate and beautiful residences in the heart of the town. The school is on the most attractive street in town, with a well shaded avenue of its own leading off the main street.
The old part of the building was not made for a Normal school, but rather for an old time academy, but, in connection with the thoroughly modern extension, it serves its purpose well. Here have been trained and here have taught many of the best instructors and superintendents of the state. Probably no school in the state, after the original Normal institutions, is better known than Cortland. It always had enthusiastic, vigorous leadership and a faculty in which were men and women widely known from their writing and speaking on educational topics.
Evidently the school has two great purposes, the training of sensible, skillful teachers and the inspiration to scholarly habits and attainments. The social life and the literary societies are all focused to professional and cultured aspirations. Rarely have I enjoyed an audience so much as that which filled the large and cheery assembly room, a company of students, of village people, and of the teachers of the town and suburbs.
The training school in connection with the Normal is admirably organized and conducted. From the kindergarten up it is not only an excellent place for students to practice what they have learned about teaching, but it is an inspiration as well. The same earnestness that characterizes the Normal students seems to have possessed the pupils of the model school, indeed, the atmosphere of Cortland is peculiarly professional; even the daily paper has as its office editor [Edward D. Blogett] a man who was a professor in the school for many years, while the editor-in-chief and proprietor [William H. Clark] is the chairman of the board of trustees and a most devoted friend of education.—A. E. Winship.
REV. JOHN TIMOTHY STONE.
Likely To Be Called to the Brown Memorial Church of Baltimore.
The members of the Presbyterian church and congregation are greatly disturbed over the possibility of losing their pastor, Rev. John Timothy Stone, as there is reason to believe that a strong effort is being put forth to call him to the pastorate of the Brown Memorial Presbyterian church of Baltimore to succeed Rev. Maltbie D. Babcock, D. D,, who is about to undertake the pastorate of the Brick Presbyterian church of New York City made vacant by the call of Dr. Henry Van Dyke to a position in the faculty of Princeton Theological seminary. The first news of this reached the public ear last week through a letter received by a member of the Presbyterian church from a business man in Baltimore with whom he had dealings. The letter said that the Brown Memorial church had sent a committee to Cortland to hear Mr. Stone the previous Sunday and that it had returned highly enthusiastic, and that other members of the committee would probably follow.
It was then learned through the register at the Cortland House that Mr. J. P. Ammidon and Dr. H. M. Summers of Baltimore did arrive in Cortland on Sunday morning, Dec. 3, and registered at that hotel. They attended service twice that day at the Presbyterian church and went away on the late train. It was also learned that Dr. Babcock himself, the retiring pastor, was present at the prayer-meeting of the Presbyterian church ten days before, but was not recognized by members of the congregation, and was not observed in the room by Mr. Stone till after the meeting had been dismissed. It further appears that three gentlemen from Baltimore arrived in Cortland yesterday morning and registered at The Kremlin. They were Hon. James A. Gary, the first postmaster-general under President McKinley, E. C. Ammidon, and John B. Ramsay. They attended service twice yesterday at the Presbyterian church and went south last night on the late train. Some members of the congregation entered into conversation with them and taxed them with their errand to Cortland, and they did not deny it.
Mr. Stone has had nothing to say upon this matter and when interviewed upon the subject replied that he desired to say nothing; that he had received no official proposition whatever in regard to a change in his pastorate and sincerely hoped that the spiritual work upon which the church entered this week might be in no way interfered with or hindered by these reports.
Reference to a book of statistics of Presbyterian churches discloses the fact that the Brown Memorial church is the strongest church of that denomination in every sense of the word south of Philadelphia; that its membership is over 800, and that it has paid its retiring pastor a salary of $6,000 and a parsonage. It has had but three pastors: Dr. Babcock who retires after a service there of twelve years; Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus, the celebrated pulpit orator, who is now preaching at Central Music hall in Chicago, and Dr. Jones now of Philadelphia.
The Presbyterian church will feel very sorry to lose Mr. Stone if he should be called and should accept the call, for he is doing a great work in up building and strengthening that church, and his influence is widely felt throughout the whole community as well, and the church is likely to look long and far before it finds another pastor like him. But all appreciate the honor paid him in thus seeking his services, and if it appears to the Brown Memorial church and to Mr. Stone that a larger field of usefulness is opening before him in the Southern city it is not likely that a straw will be laid in the way of his accepting it and that the good wishes of all his church and congregation will follow him.
BREVITIES.
—"Chimes of Normandy" rehearsal at the Conservatory of Music to-night at 8 o'clock.
—There will be a meeting of the baseball men at Fireman's hall to-night at 8 o'clock. All interested should attend this meeting.
—Cortland chapter, No. 194, R. A. M., will hold its regular convocation Wednesday evening and confer the P. and M. C. degrees.
—Invitations are out for the wedding of Mr. Earl Haight and Miss Edithe Lang which will occur at the home of the bride in Cortland on Friday, Jan. 12.
—Mr. Henry Van Wormer died at his boarding place here yesterday. The remains were taken to Tully, his former home, and the funeral will be held there to-morrow.
—The first basket ball game of the season will be played at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium on Wednesday evening of this week at 8:45 o'clock. The Y. M. C. A. team will then meet a team from Auburn.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Warren, Tanner & Co., Inventory sale, page 6; Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 7; F. D. Smith, Red Cross stoves, page 6; Buck & Lane, Plumbing, page 6; Opera House, "A Breezy Time, page 5.
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