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| New Croton Dam. |
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| National Guard soldiers guarding cables above dam. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, April 20, 1900.
TWENTY-SIX ARRESTS.
Military Authorities Busy in Vicinity of Strike.
CROTON VALLEY'S LIVELY DAY.
Sheriff Molloy Secures Thirty-Two Warrants—Houses Searched For Ammunition—Italians Quieter and Many Leaving Their Homes to Avoid Trouble.
CROTON LANDING, April 20,—Yesterday was by far the liveliest day in and around the Croton valley since the strike began 18 days ago. The civil and military authorities played a very prominent part in the day's proceedings, and the result was that 26 Italians are now behind prison bars awaiting examination on charges of inciting to riot and carrying weapons with intent to inflict bodily injury.
Sheriff Molloy of Westchester county secured 32 warrants for the arrest of the leaders of the strikers, and also search warrants for the houses in the Italian colonies where the laborers lived from Judge Smith Lent at Sing Sing. When this fact became known more than 100 Italians fled from their homes during the night to avoid arrest. It was said that fully 150 of the men who had struck for higher wages had gone to New York and Syracuse, where they have secured other places. Many of them left the depot here early in the morning and some of them said they could get work elsewhere and were leaving to avoid trouble.
Since the arrival of the cavalry on Tuesday the strikers have been very quiet, and did not repeat their drills with the accompanying display of shotguns, rifles and revolvers. In fact the result of the raid would go to show that the arms have been carefully hidden away.
From General Roe's headquarters orders were issued for the infantry and cavalry to be placed so as to prevent any persons escaping from either Little Italy or the Bowery. Cavalrymen from Troop C were posted along the roads leading from the valley on the west side. They were stationed about 100 yards apart and challenged everybody who passed in either direction. On the east side in the vicinity of Little Italy the men from Squadron A did similar duty, while several companies of the Seventh regiment were placed close to the Italian settlement in order to be ready to render aid in case the strikers should resist.
The sheriff with a posse of 25 deputies, escorted by Company D of the Seventh regiment, arrived at the Bowery where they immediately began a thorough search of the houses for weapons and ammunition, and whenever they came across a person for whom they had a warrant they placed him under arrest. There was not the slightest resistance made, except by one man, Thomaso Leviana, who was very boisterous and tried to escape from his captors. In the Bowery nine prisoners were captured, three of whom were Marcelo Rotella and his two sons, Angelo and Antonio. One revolver, a toy pistol, a few cartridges and several dirks and stilettos were found and confiscated. The prisoners were taken to the guard tent of the Fourth Separate company, where they were placed in the charge of an armed guard of six men. The sheriff then went to the other side of the river and scoured the houses on top of the hill and in Little Italy. In this round-up, which lasted nearly four hours, 16 prisoners were captured. Only one revolver was found, but there were a lot of knives and cartridges in the collection of articles picked up by the searchers.
Later in the day the sheriff's party with its escort went on the granite train up to the quarry near Peekskill to look for the other suspects, but although they kept up their search until nightfall no arrest was made. Seven of the men arrested early in the day, Ponassa, Monessro, Polici, Saluria, Mazezo, Maragelli and Partouchi, were taken into custody without warrants, and they were taken to the local court before Judge Baker, who held them for examination. The other 19 were marched into the Croton Landing depot, where they boarded a special train for Tarrytown, whence they were taken by trolley and lodged in the jail at White Plains, where they will have an examination today. They were escorted by the sheriff and his men surrounded by Separate Companies A and B of Yonkers and Mt. Vernon respectively under command of Major Denike.
The Mt. Vernon and Yonkers companies have broken camp. In addition to acting as an escort for the prisoners the men will attend the funeral of their late comrade, Sergeant Douglass, at Mt. Vernon today.
Shortly after the arrests were made on the Bowery four strangers appeared on the scene and visited the saloons, of which there are quite a large number in that quarter. They harangued the men gathered there and advised them not to return to work. It was generally stated that the men were anarchists from New York. One of them who was on crutches stayed around the Bowery during the afternoon and the other three went to Little Italy, where they repeated their harangue.
Just what effect their arrest will have on the other strikers remains to be seen, but that many of them have fled may influence the others to do likewise or else return to their work.
Very little work was accomplished at the dam, and only four additional laborers were working with the 30 which are quartered at the works.
The troops still show a clean bill of health with the exception of a couple of cases of tonsillitis, and appeared to much better advantage owing to the change in the weather, as bright sunshine has taken the place of rainstorms of the two previous days.
Ended in a Riot.
NEW YORK, April 20.—A meeting of 200 representative Italians held a meeting at the Hotel Colombo on Bleecker-st. last night for the purpose of discussing some reasonable methods of settling the Croton dam strike, but the meeting ended in a riot. The disturbing cause was the presence of a number of alleged Italian anarchists.
STATE LAWS.
Governor Roosevelt's Signature Attached to Many Measures.
ALBANY, April 20.—Governor Roosevelt signed the following laws:
Senator Elsberg: to secure equal rights to colored children in the public schools and abolishing separate schools.
Senator Ellsworth: amending the charter of the city of North Tonawanda to provide for a street lighting fund of $15,000.
Senator Ford: making it a misdemeanor to manufacture gun powder or any other explosives in a dwelling house.
Senator Graney: authorizing the village of Sing Sing to issue certificates of indebtedness in the sum of $12,000.
Senator Wilcox: authorizing the state superintendent of prisons to index and classify the Bertillon system,
Mr. Degraw: amending the tax law so as to provide that every foreign banker doing business in this state shall pay an annual tax to the treasurer of 5 per cent on the amount of interest earned on money loaned.
Mr. Doughty: appointing public administrators in counties where the office of county treasurer has been abolished.
Mr. Patton: amending the town law generally and providing that the town board shall determine whether or not there shall be one or more overseer of the poor.
Mr. Rierdon: making it a misdemeanor for any unauthorized person to wear badges of the military order of foreign wars of the United States or the badge of Spanish war veterans.
Mr. Stevens: giving the clerk of the surrogates courts the right to administer oaths and take affidavits the same as county judges.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
◘ The army of young physicians throughout the country now waiting for a bald spot on their heads—and for the practice that is supposed to come with it—will doubtless hear with interest of Russia's summary plan for preventing a surplus of doctors.. By a recent decree of the Russian minister of education the admission of first year students to the medical colleges of the empire is limited to a fixed number. The University of Moscow is limited to 250, Kiev to 200, Kharkov to 175, Dorpat to 150, Warsaw to 100, Tomsk to 120 and Kasan to 100. This limits the number of students allowed to take up the study of medicine to about 1,000 a year. The number seems small for so great an empire, especially in view of the unlimited output of American medical colleges, but it is by no means certain that the autocratic Russian idea is an unmixed evil.
◘ The tide of immigration to the United States continues to rise, and in the last quarter of 1899 the number of arrivals at the port of New York was 74,892, which is 23,012 more than in the corresponding quarter of 1898.
◘ It is reported that this year's prune crop in California will be the largest on record. People who live in boarding houses should make a note of this.
Talks, and His Neck is Broken.
NEW YORK, April 20.—Frank Nicholi the acrobat, who broke his neck last Tuesday afternoon while performing at a local theatre, is improving at Bellevue hospital. His temperature is lower and an operation probably will be performed to-night. Nicholi is conscious and chats with his friends.
GRAND MASONIC BALL
Held in Cortland Athletic Assoc. Hall To-night—Elegant Decorations.
C. A. A. hall will present an appearance to-night at the grand Masonic ball that will be a strong rival for first position in the ranks of beautiful and appropriate decorations for which these balls are noted. The decorations to-night will be in Japanese, and for these over fifteen thousand paper flowers mainly Japanese cherry blossoms have been made and tastily arranged. Fifty-two oriental flags, as many Japanese fans, and a great number of Japanese parasols also add to the beauty. A great many Japanese windows, which will reflect the pale moon's glance, will make the scene brilliantly beautiful. A large circle, 12 feet in diameter, is hung about the chandeliers. This is trimmed with pine and flowers.
The committee on arrangements has been working for the past five weeks on the decorations and the effect to-night will test their labors. A canopy has been erected over the street entrance, and from curb to the superb flower garden above, the scenes of the festivities will be elaborate and fully certify the promoters' claims that this will be the event of the season.
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| Mahan's music store on Court Street, Cortland, N. Y. |
Send in the Statement.
The subscribers to the piano gift should send to Mahan's music house every Saturday morning a statement showing the number of ballots taken during the week for each contestant, and the result of each week's voting will be published in The STANDARD Saturday afternoon.
Landslide all Cleared Up.
The big landslide in the heavy cut beyond East Freetown which occurred on the E. & C. N. Y, R. R. Wednesday afternoon was cleared up and trains were again running on time yesterday afternoon.
Herrmann the Great.
Herrmann the Great and his big company of fifteen people, magical performers, mind readers and vaudeville celebrities will present their superb and mystifying entertainment in this city at the Opera House on Thursday evening April 20.
Praying Band.
The Cortland Praying band will hold a cottage prayer-meeting Friday evening, April 20, at the residence of Mrs. John Rice, corner of Elm and Franklin-sts. All are welcome, come and bring your friends.
STAMPS IN BOOKS.
First Installment Received at the Cortland Postoffice this Morning.
The first installment of the new books of 2-cent postage stamps issued by the postoffice department was received at the Cortland postoffice this morning and are now on sale. The books are issued for public convenience and contain twelve, twenty-four and forty-eight stamps each. They are sold at an advance of one cent on the stamp value of each book, to cover the cost of manufacture. The pages are of six stamps each, interleaved with paraffined paper to prevent premature adhesion, making a book of convenient size to carry in the pocket or pocket book.
ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HAS COMPLETED SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS.
Historical Address by Edward D. Blodgett—Addresses by Dr. Howe, Dr. Hutton and Dr. Robertson, with Introductory Remarks by Mr. Stone.
The seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Presbyterian church occurred last night and was observed by appropriate exercises in the presence of a large congregation.
The program was as follows:
Rev. John T. Stone of Baltimore, Md., who presided, introduced as the first speaker Mr. Edward D. Blodgett, as one who was a child of the church, whose grandmother united with the church within a few months of its founding, whose grandfather was for forty years an elder in the church, exceeding in period of service any other member of the session, whose father had been for forty-three years the leader of the church choir, and for ten years past a member of the session. Mr. Blodgett's address showed the circumstances which led up to the founding of this church; described Cortland at that time; and covered the leading events of the history down to the present time.
Following the historical address came a violin solo by Mr. Robert I. Carpenter, and then Rev. John T. Stone, who presided at the meeting, introduced Rev. S. H. Howe, D. D., of Norwich, Conn., who was pastor of the church from October, 1869 to September, 1872. Dr. Howe spoke earnestly and feelingly of the church as it existed thirty years ago; of the people connected with it and of some of the circumstances attendant upon his coming to Cortland. He doubted his ability to interest the people of to-day in the affairs and conditions that then existed, but the wrapt attention with which the large congregation listened to his words proved that they were not only deeply interested in what he had to say, but also in the manner in which it was said. Dr. Howe spoke in part as follows:
We climb upon high elevations which others have built and then kick the ladder away. This is human nature. It is church nature. I fear that I cannot interest you in these new conditions. If I had the old conditions, the old surroundings, the old people, I could interest them. This is not my church. Everything seems out of place and out of joint. The wrong people all upon the streets, the wrong signs are over the business places, the wrong people are in the pews. Things are not as they were thirty years ago, and yet it is appropriate that men who were here thirty years ago should be heard from.
How different are the conditions now from what existed then. When I began my ministry in Cortland the country had just come out from the civil war. The military spirit was abroad. The period of reconstruction had but just begun. We did not know anything about expansion nor about many of the great questions that confront us to-day. How different were the religious conditions that then existed. We had no higher theology, no higher criticism, and questions of heresy were not troubling us. I belonged to what was known as the old school church. The church here was of the new school. I came to the work fresh from my college and seminary training and set up, as it were, a smoking Sinai. And yet how wonderfully the church bore it all.
My first impressions upon coming to Cortland I well remember. Among the things about the church which impressed me most was the music. Mr. Alonzo D. Blodgett was then leader and so continued for many years. The church will never know what a debt it owes to him. The church had a remarkable session in those days. There was Charles Kingsbury, Franklin B. Blodgett, S. M. Roe, the memory of whose face has helped me preach a hundred sermons; Simeon Lucas, strong, stalwart, sturdy—the snow banks never were deep enough to keep him from his pew on Sunday —Prof. N. F. Wright, Alfred Greene and H. F. Benton, the youngest member of the session. Another who was intimately connected with Mr. Benton, but who was not at that time a member of the session was Mr. A. F. Tanner.
The first man to meet me when I came to Cortland, the first to come to my room to see me after I was here, and one from whom I received great help during my ministry was Horatio Ballard—a man with patrician manner and always a perfect gentleman. Dr. Howe referred to many who were then members of the church and congregation, spoke in the highest terms of the character and work of Col. J. C. Carmichael, paid a glowing tribute to the godly women of the church of those days and closed by saying that he was glad to have had a part in the great history of the church.
Rev. Alfred J. Hutton, D. D. of Corning, N. Y., who was pastor of the church from February, 1870 to July, 1881, was the next speaker. Dr. Hutton said the success of any church in the coming days will lie in the fact that it is a working church. Great changes are going on all about us in every line of thought and action. There have been wonderful changes in the educational world in the last few years. The business world is constantly changing. The great trusts and combinations, the advancement in the great lines of steamships and railroads and many other forms of activity in the business world are bringing about changes that cannot be stayed, that cannot be resisted. It is our duty to get into our places and do our work. We must have new methods to meet the new conditions. The church needs the co-operation of its members. Co-operation is the key to the situation, a situation that must be met. There is a tendency in the churches to overload the willing workers. This ought not so to be. Everyone should have a share in the work. As you go on in the last quarter of this century of the church's history, from the close of the nineteenth century into the glorious possibilities of the twentieth century as it opens up before us, I hope you will be filled with the spirit of co-operation.
Rev. J. Lovejoy Robertson, D. D., whose pastorate from Nov. 1882 to Oct. 1896, is the longest in the history of the church, was the last speaker, and was introduced by Mr. Stone as the father of the new church building, as it was during the time that he was pastor of the church that the present edifice was built. Dr. Robertson spoke of the old church and of the large minded, far seeing men, admirably fitted for laying the foundations of such a structure which for more than sixty years was sufficient to meet the demands of the organization. As I recall their names, said Dr. Robertson, I am bound to do them honor. The receding forms of men who have left sacred memories come to have a halo about them. One of the best gifts to this church was the high-minded men who founded it. Dr. Robertson then referred to a number of the men and women who were active in the work when he began his ministry, but who have since passed to the other side. Among them were Charles Kingsbury, Simeon Lucas, Deacon Hitchcock. Dr. Frederick Hyde, Mrs. Hyde, Miss Vennette Stephens and Col. J. C. Carmichael.
Dr. Robertson also spoke of the music of the church in the years past and of the service in this line of Mr. A. D. Blodgett, the choir leader for forty-three years, who during this time contributed his services gratuitously. And not only in the church services, but in the houses of mourning at funerals when he and his associates were ready with their service, which was always so acceptable.
Two events which occurred during his ministry, Dr. Robertson spoke of at some length. The first was the experience of divine grace which began during the week of prayer, 1889, and continued for nine weeks, when without any evangelist to conduct special services, meetings were held every night and one of the largest revivals in the history of the church was the result. Those meetings were held in the old chapel and to many that chapel became a hallowed place.
The building of the new church, the second event of which he wished to speak, was largely due to the spiritual impulse of that revival. Dr. Robertson related some incidents connected with the raising of funds and the building of the new church, and closed his remarks with a reference to the good fellowship between this church and the other churches in the community which existed during his ministry and which still exists and which he hoped might long continue. He referred to the inheritance which the church had received from its early members and hoped that it might be transmitted to those who come after us. He exhorted the church to be abundantly faithful and closed with an expression of gratitude to God for the goodly church heritage.
Rev. Robert Clements referred to a number of letters that had been received from former members of the church, but which the lateness of the hour forbade reading, and closed with an earnest word of exhortation for the future.
The music of the evening was of a very high order of excellence. Especially, fine was the duet by Miss McNett and Mr. Favilie, and the violin solo of Mr. Carpenter, while the anthem was exceedingly well rendered, and the organ selections by Miss Halbert were much enjoyed.
BASEBALL NOTES.
National League Opens—Cortland Team Now Completed.
The National league teams began the baseball season of 1900 yesterday under most favorable conditions. From ten to fifteen thousand people in the league cities watched the first games with all the interest of former years. The indications are that baseball will be fully as popular this season as ever in its history.
Brooklyn defeated New York by a score of 8 to 2. At Cincinnati the home team was let down by the Chicago team in a score of 13 to 10. Boston and Philadelphia at Boston ran up the large scores of 17 and 19 with Philadelphia the winner. St. Louis shut out Pittsburg by a score of 8 to 0.
Peter Eagan, who for the past two years has been playing left field with Utica, has been signed by Mr. Roche to play this season in the outfield with the Cortland team. Eagan is a snappy ball player and has an enviable fielding record, while in batting his work is something remarkable. Last year he pulled through with an average of .348, and the year before that he led the league with the stick. This contract fills the Cortland team and with the players that have already been signed makes a strong aggregation with which to enter the-contest. The team reports here next Monday and will make necessary preparation to cross bats with the strong Atlantic league team from Elmira on the Thursday following.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Opera House, "Hermann, the Great," page, 5; F. Daehler, At It Again, page 8.
—The STANDARD yesterday referred to the death of Mrs. Allen J. Hatfield. It should have been Mrs. Ellen J. Hatfield. The funeral will be held Saturday at 11 o'clock at her home four miles west of Cortland.
—The fourth French class at the Normal yesterday gave their teacher Miss Clara E. Booth a substantial token of their appreciation of her efforts in the form of a beautifully bound volume of "To Have and to Hold." Some elegant cut flowers accompanied the gift.
—Mrs. Edward D. Blodgett entertained some of her friends [of] the Presbyterian church in an informal way yesterday afternoon at her home, 8 Argyle Place, thus affording them a little opportunity of meeting the present and past pastors of the church who were in the city,
—Nine years ago yesterday Rev. Dr. O. A. Houghton of Cortland with Rev. Dr. Alfred J. Hutton and Rev. Dr. Wallace B. Lucas of Meridian, N. Y., were together riding over the hills north of Damascus in Palestine. The two last mentioned were in the city yesterday, and the fact was recalled.
—The Odd Fellows of Cortland have been invited to attend service at the McGrawville Methodist church Sunday evening, and have accepted the invitation. All Odd Fellows are requested to meet at Vesta lodgerooms Sunday afternoon at 5:00 o'clock, where tickets for the trip may be obtained.
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