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| Charles H. Allen. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, May 1, 1900.
ALLEN INAUGURATED.
Formally Made Civil Governor of Porto Rico.
SAN JUAN IN HOLIDAY ATTIRE.
City Handsomely Decorated For the Occasion and Entire Island Observes the May Day—First Event of the Kind in History of United States.
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, May 1.—Ere the rising sun spread its effulgence over the city on this first May day the air was filled with sweet serenades by numerous bands of music to usher in the magnificent ceremonies of inauguration of Charles H. Allen as civil governor of Porto Rico.
A general holiday had been proclaimed throughout the island and the citizens united in observing it in a manner that will forever be memorial in Porto Rico's history. The city is prettily and profusely decorated with flags and bunting and everything presents a gala appearance. Early in the morning the crowds commenced to gather on the streets, and at 9 o'clock when the naval, military and civil parades began to move the throng was so dense that one was fortunate in procuring room to view the marching organizations.
The governor reviewed the procession at the Plaza Principal. It consisted of four companies of the Porto Rico regiment of marines, the civil societies and the troops, who wore helmets, blue blouses and white trousers and were headed by the Eleventh regimental band.
The inauguration ceremonies took place at the legislative mansion, and the magnificence of the occasion will long be remembered. This is the first time in the history of the United States that an event of this kind has taken place.
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| Gen. Louis Botha. |
Botha Resumes Supreme Command.
LADYSMITH, May 1.—The country north of Sunday's river seems comparatively clear of Boers. General Louis Botha has returned to Pretoria to resume the supreme command of the Transvaal forces.
British Subjects Ordered to Leave.
PRETORIA. May 1.—As a sequel to the Johannesburg explosion the government has ordered British subjects, with a few exceptions, to leave the republic within 48 hours. Nearly £4,000 have been subscribed for the relief of the victims.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Whittier is vindicated beyond all question, and the verity of "Barbara Frietchie" is fully and firmly established. There has been much controversy over the question of the reality of the existence of the heroine of Fredericksburg. A congressional committee, which has thoroughly investigated the matter, has submitted testimony removing all doubt. The testimony is culminative [sic] and convincing. One member of the investigating committee announced that he knew Barbara well. Another had seen the flag which she waved as Burnside entered the city and Jackson retired. A third knew her and had seen the flag in her house. And then the climax of the testimony was reached in the statement of a fourth that his wife had stood with Barbara when she waved it and that he had the flag at home, framed and hanging on his wall. Any patriotic legend that can be preserved in these iconoclastic days is a distinct gain for sentiment and is withal gratifying.
NEW TELEPHONE FRANCHISE
To be Asked for from the Common Council To-night.
The promoters of the new telephone company, Dr. C. D. Ver Nooy and Mr. Willard H. Jones, both of Cortland, expect to appear before the common council at its meeting to-night and ask for a franchise to erect its poles, string its wires and equip its plant in Cortland. As the result of an interview with them both to-day the following facts were elicited. Dr. Ver Nooy has been for several years connected with telephone companies and feels reasonably familiar with all their details. He knows the cost of the building, equipping and operating of such a plant as that proposed for Cortland and vicinity. He is at the present time interested in the Enfield Valley Telephone company of Tompkins county which connects together a number of the small villages of that section and which with telephones at popular prices is said to nearly pay for itself each year. Mr. Jones is a traveling man who last year bought a house and lot in Cortland and has come here to make this place the home of his family and his own home when he is not on the road. They both express the belief that a purely local telephone company in this vicinity would be a paying venture.
Their idea is to form a local company with a capital stock of about thirty-five thousand dollars divided into shares of $50 each. They would give all who desire it an opportunity of taking stock. They would limit the amount of stock that any one person can take to 20 per cent of the whole, preferring to have many small stockholders rather than a few large ones, and arranging it so that by this limit of stock the larger holders cannot freeze out the smaller ones. They would hope to put in a great number of telephones, not only in Cortland, but also in Homer, McGraw, Blodgett Mills, South Cortland and elsewhere. There would be no extra charge for talking with any subscriber within a radius of 5 miles from the central office. They would promise that the price for the first year should not be over twelve dollars per telephone for residences and $18 for business places. They will not agree that the price would not be raised at the end of the first year, but would guarantee that it should not go above $15 for residences and $25 for business places, and they say the price may be lowered. In case a large number of telephones should be put in they would feel justified in reducing the expense. They would make a special point of getting telephones into residences, and they believe the rate would be so reasonable that many would feel like using them. They claim that by looking over the present telephone list they find only twenty-six telephones in residences, where the residences are purely residences and not connected with a physician's office, and they believe there is a field here for 500 telephones.
The proposed system would use the Stromberg-Carlson telephone, known as a central energy telephone, where the batteries are all at the central office, and there is no ringing up or ringing off, and where the simple taking down of the receiver at the subscriber's telephone rings up the central office. A company using this telephone recently started in Rochester with 8,000 telephones, and in St. Paul with 2,000 telephones.
THE OLD TELEPHONE COMPANY
About to Establish a New Exchange in Homer—New Rates.
Mr. G. A. Paddock of Auburn, manager of the Empire State Telephone and Telegraph Co., of which the Cortland exchange is a part, said to a STANDARD man to-day that his company ordered a new switchboard for Cortland some weeks ago on account of the great increase in business that had come with the increased number of telephones. They are planning to place a new switchboard in Homer at once and put an operator there, as it is apparent that a considerable number of people up there want telephones through which they can speak to Cortland parties as well as to people in their own town. Mr. Paddock said that it was his belief that the majority of people wanted a telephone in their places of business or in their homes through which they could talk out of town if they desired to do so. He based this belief upon the fact that the out of town tolls of the Cortland office last year exceeded $1,400 and that this aggregate was made up of tolls ranging from 5 cents to 50 cents each, and that the average expense was 22 1/2 cents. This telephone company is putting in residence telephones for $12 each and the company guarantees that the subscribers can talk with Syracuse upon these and can hear the one with whom they are talking. There is no extra charge for these $12 telephones for talking with any one in the exchange whether in Cortland or Homer. Long distance telephones of course cost more. New telephones will be put in at McGraw for any desiring them and the company had about decided to cut the toll in two between Cortland and McGraw, also between Cortland and Homer, but there will be no toll any way for subscribers between Cortland and Homer whether on the $12 telephone or on the higher priced instruments.
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| American baseball. |
BASEBALL TO-MORROW.
Binghamton and Cortland at Athletic Field—Notes of the Diamond.
Binghamton will be here to-morrow and open up the season with Cortland in the pair off games. The games this year played between these two teams bid fair to be as interesting as they have in former years. Binghamton has made a favorable showing in the games played with Elmira of the Atlantic league, and the team comes to Cortland after having played three times the number of practice games that Roche's men have seen together. In spite of this fact, however, Cortland will stand in readiness to meet the rivals with a splendid article of baseball. In all probabilities to-morrow's game will be played with O'Brien at short and Hickey at second. McCormick will hold third and Cy Townsend will cover the initial bag. This will make an aggregation of infielders that will make Bacon's men hunt for a safe place to put the ball. The outfield will be safe in the keeping of Nadeau, Gannon and Egan.
The sale of score card and other privileges have been let for the season to Thomas Kane who has exclusive rights for the sale of cards, cushions and soft drinks.
NOTES.
Utica is weak in the outfield. There is no question about that. Gilford has not shown speed enough and Warren lacks experience. Two fast, hard hitting fielders are demanded, and Manager Earl should lose no time in securing the proper material. The club can not afford to start in the season handicapped by an inferior outfield. It should profit by the lesson taught in the early part of last year, when it lost many games that should have been won. Utica has an excellent pitching corps and a superior infield. It is not telling the management anything new when it is written that the club's weakness is in the outfield. President Brown knows it as does Manager Earl, and knowing where improvements should be made, they can not afford to hesitate in supplying the required strength. The public will sustain them. Of that they can rest assured. So strengthen up!—Utica Press.
Manager Earl of the Utica team has received word from outfielder Dobbs, in which the latter states that he need not be expected to report here before next Saturday. Wheeling is dickering with Dobbs and it is not a sure thing yet that Utica will get him.
GLIMPSE OF EARLY DAYS
VIEWED THROUGH THE EYES OF C. G. MAYBURY, A SOLON BOY.
Now a Resident of Winona, Minn.—His First Visit to Cortland—Some of the Old Firms and Business Places—Prominent Men Recalled.
To the Editor of the Standard:
SIR—The announcement that Cortland has finally doffed her village garb and put on a new suit which entitles her to take a place among the bright and enterprising commercial centers of the Empire state is received by her old friends and admirers, no doubt with much rejoicing, and they feel like making their lowest bow to the city of Cortland.
The writer for one hails this news with great satisfaction and delight, for he feels assured that Cortland has richly earned the promotion bestowed upon her by the legislature of the state, and she will worthily and modestly wear these newly extended honors.
Since reading in The STANDARD the announcement that Cortland had assumed the form of city government with a mayor and board of aldermen, the mind of the writer naturally ran back to the old days as he remembers her as a small, but always a very pretty inland village. I remember when a small boy, I should say in the winter of '39 or '40, father said he was going to Cortland that day and he informed me that I could go with him. To say that I was elated would be putting it very mildly for I had never seen Cortland although I had often heard it talked of and had read about the county seat in the Cortland Advocate which was taken in the family. McGrawville was soon passed. The first glimpse of Cortland was from the big hill east of the village and the glistening of the bright sun, shining on the tin domes of some of the churches, Eagle tavern and Cortland House, gave an inspiration that has never been forgotten. When the business center was finally reached almost every scene was new to the lad from the rural districts, and the few hours we were in the village were very interesting and enjoyable. The greenhouse in the William Randall garden was visited and there I saw oranges, lemons or both growing on the small trees. The Randall garden for many years was a great attraction to people visiting Cortland, and "Uncle Bill," as he was familiarly called by his old friends and neighbors, was always very kind and considerate in allowing the people from the surrounding towns and country to freely visit his beautiful grounds. It was a sight that the common people seldom had the privilege of enjoying and was therefore greatly appreciated.
I will name some of the old firms who were there doing business in Cortland. Several stores were visited during the day, as my father was in quest of such supplies as were needed in a family of a mother and several children. I well remember visiting the store of Dickson & Hibbard, located in the brick block still standing on the corner of Main and Port Watson-sts. A son of Joel Hibbard, a member of that firm, is now at the head of probably the largest hardware firm in the West; Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co., of Chicago.
Then there was William Randall, occupying the Randall store, since used as the Savings bank. Roswell Randall's store was west of the Eagle tavern. A. P. & G. N. Lyman had a store in the brick building recently occupied by Mr. Samson. Other firms were Osborn & Barnard, Henry T. Eels, George K. Stiles, jeweler, was located in a store on the west side of the Eagle tavern block. Henry Brewer manufacturer of saddles and harness, and John McFarlan, furniture maker and dealer in general household furniture, their stores were just east of the Eagle. These two men commenced business side by side when young men and always appeared like two brothers. The writer for many years frequently met these gentlemen when on their annual western trips. They were successful business men.
The earliest foundrymen in Cortland as remembered were Anthony & Stephen D. Freer on Port Watson-st. A gentleman by the name of Scouten kept the Eagle tavern for several years. His friends usually called him "Scout" for short. Orrin Stimpson kept the hotel or tavern on Court-st. near the courthouse. Daniel J. Sperry subsequently built the Sperry House on the same grounds—now The Kremlin. Dr. A. B. Shipman was Cortland's great surgeon, and Dr. Goodyear, later Drs. Goodyear and Hyde were the noted physicians. It used to be said of Dr. Goodyear that when called to visit a family in the country, if hot water was wanted and there was none he would fill the tea kettle and hang it on the crane in the fireplace. Many prominent men could be named as then residents of the county seat, among them Judge Reynolds and that eloquent son of his and disciple of Blackstone, Robert O. Reynolds, also Judge Henry Stephens and the Ballards. Augustus was district attorney for several years, and I think was a member of Gen. S. G. Hathaway's staff in the days of the old general trainings.
The writer distinctly remembers a visit to the Solon school by Henry S. Randall, when county superintendent. I had never before seen a gentleman dressed so richly—blue broadcloth suit, double-breasted coat trimmed with very bright buttons. We small boys and girls gazed upon him with wonder, and then he was of a fine physique with black glossy hair. He made an address to the school and so perfect was the attention of the children, one could have heard a pin drop. William P. Randall, the old time liveryman, so well known in the community as "Billy P.," is well remembered by the older residents.
C. G. MAYBURY, Winona, Minn., April 25, 1900.
COMMISSIONER DUELL.
Enthusiastic About the Business of the Patent Office.
The Syracuse Post-Standard of this morning says:
Charles H. Duell of this city, commissioner of patents, who has been in Syracuse for a brief visit with relatives, left last night for Cortland. He will return to this city to-day and go immediately to Washington.
Commissioner Duell is very enthusiastic about the business of the patent office this year. Under his administration the patent office has been more successfully conducted than under any of his predecessors. This year the business of the office will probably net about one million and a half dollars, surpassing all previous records. Last year the gross receipts were about $1,327,000.
"The good times and the activity in industrial circles," said Mr. Duell last night in speaking of the large business of his office, "always stimulate inventions and encourage the bringing of devices before the office to be patented. Accordingly, the great receipts this year speak volumes for the prosperity of the country at large, and especially for the vigor with which people are engaging themselves in different industrial enterprises."
Commissioner Duell has not ceased his agitation for a fireproof building for the patent office, although he does not expect that that will come this year.
The work of renovating the old building of the department of the interior is being pushed earnestly and the old rooms have been cleared and are being remodeled and repainted to be occupied by the patent office. This will give Commissioner Duell much better accommodations for the work of his office.
SWALLOWED A SAFETY PIN
But it Was Closed and Will Not Result Seriously.
Little Thelma Townsend, aged eighteen months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Townsend, had the misfortune yesterday to swallow a safety pin which, for a time, lodged in her throat and nearly strangled her. Fortunately the pin was closed, otherwise it would have been almost impossible to have dislodged it. Aside from a very sore and irritated throat to-day, the little girl is feeling well, and the attending physician is of the opinion that she will not be inconvenienced further by it.
MISSIONARY MEETING
To be Addressed by Mrs. Roberts of Nebraska Saturday Afternoon.
A meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary society will be held in the parlor of the First M. E. church Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. M. E. Roberts of Nebraska, the national organizer of the society, will be present and address the meeting. All the ladies of the church and congregation are invited to be present. A cordial invitation is extended to the ladies of the Homer-ave. church and any others interested in the work. It is especially urged that all members of the society and the Girls' Mission band be present. This will be the regular May meeting, and the mite boxes will be opened at this time.
THE BOYS' CAMP
Of the Y. M. C. A. at Eagle Island, Sodus Bay This Summer.
At a recent meeting of the Central N. Y. associations held in Syracuse the general secretaries and physical directors of the various Y. M. C. A.'s voted to open a summer camp on Eagle island, Sodus Bay. For a number of years Camp Dudley on Lake Champlain was the only boys' camp under the supervision of the state committee. Last year a camp for western New York was held at Chautauqua lake with over fifty campers present. The different cities in the central section of the state have held summer camps open to members of their associations, but the small members and the short stay almost always involved a financial loss. To remedy this defect, to increase the privileges and yet reduce the cost, the plan of a third state camp was inaugurated. The associations at Kidders, Lockport, Rochester, Clifton Springs, Geneva, Syracuse, Cortland, Elmira, Binghamton, Waverly, Corning, Sayre, Pa., Utica, Rome, Oswego and Watertown will unite. Over one hundred twenty-five are already pledged to attend. The camp is on Eagle Island in Sodus Bay on Lake Ontario. Passengers on the New York Central R. R. leave that line at Lyons and go north on the Northern Central to Sodus. The island is large and well adapted. Shade trees on one side will shelter the camp, while a large open field will be utilized for athletics. A running spring supplies pure water. The fishing at Sodus Bay is as good as can be found in any fresh water. Bass and pickerel of unusual size are plentiful. The bay is sheltered and safe for rowing. A sandy bench on one side of the island affords every facility for bathing. A fleet of boats will be at the disposal of the campers free of charge.
General Secretary Geo. F. Day of Syracuse will probably serve as camp leader. While state secretary of Massachusetts, Mr. Day had plenty of experience with boys' camps. Associated with Mr. Day wil1 be H. P. Lansdale of Elmira, F. L. Starrett of Rochester, Col. S. P. Moulthrop of Rochester and Dr. John W. Plant of Syracuse, who will form the executive committee. These with the secretaries of the various associations, the physical directors and assistants, will be the leaders in charge. No leader underestimates the great care and responsibility resting upon him. All have had experience and voluntarily assume their responsibility. Leaders pay their way as well as the boys. Seven boys and a leader occupy a tent.
The discipline will be semi-military with Col. S. P. Moulthrop as commandant. Col. Moulthrop is principal of Grammar school, No. 26, at Rochester, with over 2,000 pupils in attendance. He won his title of Colonel as an Indian fighter and proved a veritable treasure house of stories at the campfire talks in the Rochester camp last year. Dr. John W. Plant of Syracuse is well known to Cortland boys and has looked after the health of Cortland campers for the past three summers.
The camp will open July 9 and close July 28. The cost will be $8 for the 15 days or $5 for one week. A deposit fee of $1 must be in the hands of the treasurer by June 15 and on all such deposits a rebate of 5 per cent or 40 cents will [be] allowed campers remaining full time.
The [railroad] car fare for round trip from Cortland is $4.14, making the total cost of the outing to Cortland boys $11.74 for a fifteen days' trip. Printed matter will soon be issued that can be obtained of the general secretary in this city. An early response from parents is earnestly desired.
PRISONER ESCAPED.
Three Times Fired at by the Guard in Ithaca.
William Perry, a prisoner who was sent to the Tompkins county jail last week for a term of four months for disorderly conduct, escaped on Saturday while at work on the boulevard. It will be remembered that the prisoners in that county are now sent out under guard to work on the highways. The Journal says: Perry and eight other prisoners were under the charge of Daniel Landon. When Perry ran he was pursued by Landon who fired two shots in the air and one directly at him, but without causing him to stop. Perry ran to the Inlet and was taken across in a skiff rowed by Jerry Daniels, the latter's wife also being in the boat. Before Landon could cross, Perry disappeared behind the salt works. Sheriff Seaman expects to recapture him and the next time Perry goes out he will be adorned with a ball and chain. Daniels declares he was not aware that Perry was endeavoring to escape when he carried him across the Inlet. The officers are of a different opinion.
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| Sig. Sautelle's circus on street parade. |
SAUTELLE'S CIRCUS
To Show in Cortland on Friday, May 11, Near D., L. & W. Station.
Within the last few years Sig. Sautelle's new big 25-cent shows, which will be seen in Cortland, Friday, May 11, have grown till they are now the largest on the road, and to use a circus localism, they are the "best hooked up" on tour. They are bright and shining from the ticket wagon back as a new coin. Everything is of the highest class, and no "sloppy weather" details are tolerated. A positive guarantee is given that the performance will be strictly high-class throughout, with not a dull act, and with all new attractive features. Back-numbers and out-of-date concerns, human or otherwise, have no place with Mr. Sautelle whose monster-tented amusement enterprise this year excels all his previous efforts. All who can should station themselves in positions of advantage, where they can obtain an uninterrupted view of the gorgeous and dazzling free street parade upon the above date.
BREVITIES.
—The Wide Awake club will meet at 7:30 this evening with Mrs. Van Vost, 77 North Main-st.
—Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M., will confer the first degree this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—Ladies night at the Tioughnioga club tomorrow night. Dancing and music by Darby's orchestra.
—The Kindergarten association will meet at the Normal Kindergarten Thursday afternoon at 8:30 o'clock.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Palmer & Co., Bicycles, page 4; Sig. Sautelle, Circus, page 7; Warren, Tanner & Co., Dry goods, page 4.
—The Fortnightly club meets to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock with Mrs. Geo. P. Hollenbeck, 10 Church-st., and will enjoy a luncheon with a special program.
—The Cortland Savings bank moved last night to its new location at the corner of Main and Port Watson-sts., and is now doing business at the new bank.
—There were several more arrests yesterday for violation of the [bicycle] sidepath law in riding the path without a license tag, among them two riders from Harford who were gathered in on the South Cortland path. All paid their fines.
—Mrs. H. D. Didama, wife of Dr. H. D. Didama of Syracuse and aunt of Dr. E. A. Didama of Cortland, died of pneumonia at her home in that city at 1:30 o'clock this morning. Her age was 74 years. She had been ill only since Wednesday.
—The thirty-first annual convocation of the Gamma Sigma fraternity will be held at Rochester June 1 and 2. The annual dinner will be served at Tealls' Friday evening, June 1, at 7:30 o'clock. The Delta Chapter of the Cortland Normal will be represented by delegates. Mr. Halsey M. Collins of Cortland will be the orator of the evening.
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