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| Li Hung Chang. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, June 23, 1900.
POWERS AWAKENING.
England, Russia and United States Act Instantly.
LI HUNG CHANG MAKES REQUEST.
Wants No More Troops Sent to China. Attack on Tien Tsin Continues With No Late Particulars. Anarchy Reigns in Pekin.
LONDON, June 28.—A special dispatch from Shanghai, dated Thursday, says: "A prominent resident of Pekin received at Tien Tsin on June 16 reports that the soldiers were troublesome in Pekin, that a night attack on the legations was feared, and that the advent of the relief force would be the signal for a general riot in Pekin."
The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Daily Mall, telegraphing Thursday, says: "The Russian minister of war, General Kouropatkin, yesterday ordered the mobilization of all the Siberian regiments of the line."
It is announced that the British war office has brought forty batteries of Krupp field artillery.
A special dispatch from Vienna says: "Li Hung Chang has wired the various Chinese legations in Europe directing them to inform the governments to which they are accredited that he is called to Pekln to act as intermediary between China and the powers and negotiate a settlement of the points at issue and begs the powers to facilitate his mission by ceasing to send troops to China."
Sheng, director general of telegraphs, wires from Shanghai to the Chinese legation in Europe that the foreign legations in Pekin are safe.
It is reported that the British government will immediately send 1,200 marines to China and possibly, according to some of the morning papers, 10,000 of the regulars now with Lord Roberts.
TROOPS FROM MANILA.
United States Will Withdraw at Least One More Regiment to Send to China.
WASHINGTON, June 23.—The administration is trying to stimulate the dispatch of troops and naval reinforcements to China to meet the emergency at Tien Tsin. Reports that have been received over night at the navy department, but which are temporarily withheld from publication are, it is believed, confirmatory of the reports from Europe of the need of reinforcements for the international force at Tien Tsin.
It is understood that low water in the Poi-Ho river is preventing the naval vessels at Taku from going to the assistance of the small force at Tien Tsin, and it is probable that no boat drawing more water than a torpedo boat can get that far up the river. In that case, the purpose of the navy department in hastening the gunboat Nashville and the old Monocacy to Taku has been in part defeated, for even with their light draft, it is improbable that they could ascend the Poi-Ho as far as Tien Tsin during extreme low water.
In this case, the only recourse is in the use of troops and naval battalions afoot. The distance from Taku to Tien Tsin is about 30 miles, but traveling is bad, and if there is much opposition the journey might occupy several days. The urgency described in Admiral Kempff's dispatch has led the war department to make an extra effort to hurry forward the Ninth regiment from Luzon to Taku. It was reported by General MacArthur upon the receipt of the original order to send these troops to China, that owing to the break in railway communication between Tarlac, the headquarters of the Ninth, and Manila, and the prevalence in the harbor of a typhoon, it would probably not be possible for the troops to get away before the 24th inst. The war department is now determined that this movement shall be hastened if it is possible to do so and has instructed General MacArthur in such fashion as to warrant the belief here that the troops will be on their way to China not later than tomorrow evening, thus saving one or two days on the original calculations.
There also is good reason to believe that the authorities will dispatch at least one other regiment from Manila to China with the least possible delay, in order that the United States may be in a better position to assist the allied forces in protecting the lives and property of foreigners,
The United States consulate at Tien Tsin, which late news advices report to have been destroyed, is situated far up on the Meadows road, which runs up from the Poi-Ho directly through the center of the town. It is far removed from any of the other consulates and practically isolated from all other foreign buildings. This fact might explain the report of its destruction before the rest of the foreign consulates were molested. The Japanese and the Russian consulates are close together on the Meadows road nearer the river. Away off by themselves farther up the Pei-Ho stand the British and French buildings in close proximity to each other. The American consulate is, or was (as the case may be), one of the most imposing and substantial buildings in the town.
A recent census of Tien Tsin shows the foreign population to be about 1,000 persons, including 110 Americans. Thus the report from Japanese sources that 1,500 foreigners at Tien Tsin had been massacred, would seem to be untrue or grossly exaggerated in point of numbers. Every foreigner within Tien Tsin boundaries would have to be killed to bring the total up to anywhere near that number.
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| Boxers. |
ANARCHY IN PEKIN.
Boxers Clamor For Death of Foreigners and Are Wholly Beyond Control.
LONDON, June 23.—The silence of Pekin continues unbroken. Four thousand men of the allied forces were having sharp defensive fighting at Tien Tsin Tuesday and Wednesday, with a prospect of being reinforced Thursday. This is the situation in China as set forth in the British government dispatches: "Eight hundred Americans are taking part in the fighting at Tien Tsin," says the Shanghai correspondent of The Daily Express, cabling last evening, "and they apparently form a part of a supplementary force, arriving with Germans and British after the conflict started. It is impossible to estimate the number of the Chinese there, but they had a surprising number of guns.''
This information appears to have been brought by the United States gunboat Nashville to Che Foo and telegraphed thence to Shanghai. The Chinese are deserting Shanghai in large numbers and going into the interior. Reports from native sources continue to reach Shanghai of anarchy in Pekin. According to the statements the streets are filled day and night with Boxers, who are wholly beyond the control of the Chinese troops and who are working themselves up to a frenzy and clamoring for the death of all foreigners.
The English consulate at Shanghai is said to have received from influential natives reports of a tragedy in the palace at Pekin, though precisely what is not defined. The consulate thinks that Admiral Seymour, commander of the international relief column, was misled by information from Pekin, and consequently underestimated the difficulties in his way and the Chinese power of resistance with Maxim guns and Mausers.
The consuls at Shanghai still believe the foreign missionaries at Pekin safe, although Japanese reports received at Shanghai allege that up to June 15, 100 foreigners had been killed in Pekin.
The Daily Express says: "We understand that R. T. Tower, secretary of the British embassy in Washington, is to succeed Sir Claude MacDonald at Pekin, and that the reason of Sir Claude's recall is the breakdown of his health."
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
School of Commerce.
The governing body of the University of Wisconsin has announced the establishment of a school of commerce in connection with that institution and offers to supply facilities for the training of young men who desire to enter business careers and especially in such fields as domestic and foreign commerce and banking or branches of the public service as consular, where a knowledge of business is essential. The argument in favor of such courses in universities is briefly that there is need for training expert men with a knowledge of the complexities of business on a large scale. Special training of a high order is also needed for the management of a large modern industrial plant. The new school prospectus says that "economy of production, which is so vital an element of success nowadays, involves on the part of managers of such concerns an accurate knowledge of the multitude of items which constitute aggregate costs. Skill in the manipulation of those items, ability to deal successfully with organized labor, knowledge of systems of taxation, public debts, the money market, monetary and banking systems, commercial law, special legislation relating to railroads, corporations and trusts.''
The required studies will include history, trigonometry, chemistry, physics and economic geography, which are needed as a foundation or preparation for the more technical courses which are to follow. The other required studies are industrial history, the history of commerce and industrial legislation, together with transportation, the mechanism of exchange and political economy. The languages French, German and Spanish are also compulsory, as are courses in the materials of commerce, dealing with the method of their production and manufacture. This broad list of required studies is supplemented by electives, which include courses in materials of construction, insurance, consular service, public finance, statistics, administration, international law, constitutional law, geology, mineralogy, nineteenth century history, social and economic history of the United States.
The prominence of the University of Wisconsin in economies under the direction of President Ely has given it a worldwide reputation, and it would appear to be well equipped for the important and practical work it proposes to take up.
FIRE IN COAL YARD.
SPRAGUE & STEARNS OF CORTLAND BURNED OUT TO-DAY.
Fire Started from Unknown Causes in Rear of Office—Office Building Completely Destroyed with Coal Sheds and Some Hay—Dwelling House Damaged.
At 1:45 this afternoon there was a fire in the coal office and sheds of Sprague & Stearns on the Ireland tract on North Greenbush-st. that completely destroyed the office, the coal sheds and a quantity of coal, and badly damaged the adjoining dwelling house next south of the coal office, owned by Mrs. Anna Spore and occupied by George Borden down stairs and by Mrs. Spore up stairs [sic].
The office building was a two-story structure that stood close up to the street. Only the front room down stairs was used by Sprague & Stearns, the coal dealers. There were two rooms further back and the entire second floor that were used for storage purposes by the Ireland estate, which owned all the property there. Painters had been at work from time to time in these rooms painting some steps and preparing paint to use on a house near by that they were painting. There were also a few gallons of mixed paints stored there for use.
These gentlemen had been in the front office talking with Mr. Stearns, who was in charge, and they had just departed when Mr. Stearns heard a crackling noise from the rear. He stepped out the front door and around to the side and found the flames breaking out of the windows on both sides just behind the partition wall separating his office from these rooms. The whole interior seemed to be on fire. Mr. Stearns shouted fire at the top of his lungs, and hurried back inside to gather up books and papers. Some he put into the safe and some he carried out to a place of safety.
A switch from the D., L. & W. runs into the yard just north and along side of it were sheds containing coal and a quantity of baled hay and straw. Mr. Stearns hurried out as soon as he had secured his books and papers, to close the door leading into the part where the hay and straw were to keep sparks out, but the flames were so hot he couldn't get into the alley to reach the door.
Meanwhile some one [sic] had pulled the alarm at box 312, corner of Clinton and Washington-sts. and the whistles upon the Wallace Wallpaper Co. and the Cortland Steam laundry blew furiously. The fire department lost no time in getting down there and plenty of water was soon put on the flames.
Two box cars and two gondolas all loaded with coal stood on the switch by the coal sheds and these caught fire, but a switch engine came in and hauled them out, while a stream of water extinguished the fire upon them. ,
Just south of the burning office and within twelve or fifteen feet from it stood a two-story frame dwelling house belonging to Mrs. Anna Spore. That lady herself lived in the second floor of it, and George Borden and family lived down stairs. The flames quickly communicated with this but the department did good work in keeping them down, while many hands hurriedly passed out all of the furniture and contents. The house was quite badly damaged but can be repaired.
The coal sheds were almost entirely destroyed and water was kept playing on the burning coal for some time to extinguish the flames there. The sheds belong to Sprague & Stearns. Just before the front office got too hot to live in Mr. Sprague, who had arrived upon the scene, thought of the contents of the money drawer and hurried in to get it. He had recently changed the combination of the lock and it took several minutes before he could work it successfully in his haste, but he got it, about a hundred dollars. It is doubtful, however, if it would have been destroyed if he had failed to secure it, as this part of the office is not so badly burned as to much more than char things.
Sprague & Stearns had an insurance of $500 on the tools, stock and sheds, placed with William Kennedy. It will not cover the loss.
The Ireland estate had no insurance. The loss on the office building and contents is about $1,000. Miss Ireland says they had about $200 worth of glass and upwards of $400 of sash and doors stored there, remaining from the days when Mr. Ireland conducted a planing mill and sash and blind factory.
Mrs. Spore was in Homer this afternoon and could not be seen concerning insurance. Her sister said the insurance was placed with F. W. Kingsbury, but she didn't know how much it was. Mr. Kingsbury was in Groton City this afternoon and no one in his office knew anything about it.
Other houses in the vicinity were in great danger at one time, but were saved. A garden hose in the hands of Leroy Wheeler kept one house soaked down so the fire could not catch.
After the fire was getting well down there was a shout of fire from further west and the crowd began a great rush over fences and gardens toward a big smoke that was rising up. Hose carts and hose companies hurried with their apparatus. A pile of loose straw on top of a manure pile in the rear of the new barn of Hon. F. P. Saunders on Clinton-ave. was on fire, probably catching from a spark from the other fire. A garden hose did good work and extinguished the flames before a hose company could get upon the scene.
The Ithaca News called the STANDARD this afternoon to inquire in regard to the fire, saying that a report had reached Ithaca that the factories of the Cortland Wagon Co. were burning up again. Fortunately we were able to tell them that this was not true.
Mr. Sprague was asked as to his future plans, and he replied that he had none yet. This was his first fire and he had not yet made up his mind what to do.
THE BOLLES WILL CASE.
More Testimony Given—Adjournment Taken till July 23.
The direct examination of Mrs. Ryan in the Bolles will case was resumed at 2:15 P. M. Friday afternoon in surrogate's court. The witness described the wish of Mrs. Bolles to have a wire strung from her rooms to those of the witness, so that help might be given, if she were suddenly ill. This wire Mr. Ingersoll, Mrs. Bolles declared to the witness, would not put up. To a final question, the witness declared that the acts and words of Mrs. Bolles impressed her as irrational.
Cross-examination—The witness would not repeat that every act and word of Mrs. Bolles seemed irrational. The witness was at the Bolles' house nearly every evening. Every Tuesday evening it was appointed that the witness should spend there. The Ingersolls had also certain evenings. The witness went to Rochester in December, 1899. There was nothing about the quality of the meals sent from the Candy Kitchen that made Mrs. Bolles stop having them brought. The witness knew that Mrs. Ingersoll prepared Mrs. Bolles' breakfasts. The witness took meals with Mrs. Bolles on several occasions. Mr. and Mrs. Kinney did likewise. Usually there was a maid servant who attended upon these meals. Edna Fish was the girl. The witness never knew Mrs. Bolles to drive on Sunday before or after the episode with Mr. Ingersoll about Sunday driving. Witness could not give words of Mrs. Bolles in asking Ingersoll to take another road to Homer than that which he took. Witness recalled that Ingersoll gave as reason for not bringing hay from farm that he had no hayrack and that it would not pay. Mrs. Bolles described to witness all the sources of her income and told that her income was less than her expenditure. Her remarks on this subject did not seem irrational. The proposing to sell her team seemed not irrational under the circumstances, but coming from Mrs. Bolles, the proposal did seem irrational. Mrs. Bolles withdrew the proposal the day after she made it. Mr. Saunders advised her not to sell, as well [did] as Mr. Ingersoll. The proposal to sell a lot to the Ryan's was only talk—not serious on either side. It was thus that the reference to "their not letting her sell anything," came up. Mrs. Bolles did not say that she had consulted Judge Knox. The witness could not say whether this transaction seemed irrational. The talk about the dissatisfaction with Mr. Ingersoll was repeated on several occasions. The witness could not say whether this talk seemed irrational. Mrs. Bolles told witness that she had promised her husband not to give the house and lot to Dr. Parker. This promise troubled her. It was soon after this talk that she said she had changed her will, "not as she wanted it, but as it had to be." It was before this that she said she had given most of the money to Dr. Parker. The witness was not positive that Mrs. Bolles might not have referred to this promise in making the remark quoted.
Mrs. Anna Munson testified that she was a cousin of Dr. Bolles and that she had been intimately acquainted with the family for forty years. She noticed changes in Mrs. Bolles after the doctor's death. When calling sometimes she could not get her to talk, at other times she would be very social. Mrs. Bolles had told her that she could not cook because she would forget what to do. She told witness that she stopped going to church because she could not help crying. She could not control herself. She observed that Mrs. Bolles stopped in conversation and cried. She noticed this after the doctor died. This impressed witness as an irrational act. Mrs. Bolles had spoken to her of the will, and said that she intended to carry out the doctor's wishes in this respect. She said that she had sewing to be done, but that she had nothing with which to pay for it. This impressed witness as irrational. Mrs. Bolles seemed sad and excited when talking of her property. This impressed her as being irrational. Just before the doctor's death she was there and Mrs. Bolles asked the doctor to put a letter in the box. This he did not do quite quick enough, and she flew into a passion. She was at the house when Mrs. Bolles tried to figure up how much some oats came to. Mrs. Bolles had to refer it to the witness. Mrs. Bolles had formerly been a good reckoner. This act impressed the witness as being irrational. Mrs. Bolles frequently complained of a pain in her head. Her eyes seemed at times expressionless. Her health gradually failed. She observed that her health was failing fastest in the spring of 1898. Mrs. Bolles told witness in the winter of 1898 that she had been ill; that for several days she had been unable to speak, and that she did not know those who had come in to see her.
Adjourned till Monday, July 28, at 10 o'clock A. M.
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| Superintendent Ferdinand E. Smith. |
CENTRAL GRADUATION.
FINE EXERCISES AT OPERA HOUSE LAST NIGHT.
The Large Crowd Listens Attentively to the Close—Well Arranged and Pleasing Program—Prof. Wright's Address—Presentation of Diplomas.
Long before the hour for beginning the commencement exercises of the Central school at the Opera House last night, a large crowd had assembled and filled its entire seating capacity, and many were turned away. The exercises throughout were of a high order and exhibited much work on the part of those who had the matter in charge as well as careful preparation and drill on the part of the young people who participated.
The first part of the program consisted of a group of patriotic songs by the students of the different schools of the city. The curtain lifted and disclosed the pleasing picture of 280 children arranged in rows the length of the stage. When one set had finished, they moved gracefully off to the right and departed. The rows alternated with boys and girls and the effect produced was very striking. Darby's orchestra furnished delightful instrumental music for the occasion.
After the first part the curtain disclosed a different scene. At the left, Superintendent Smith, Prof. A. M. Wright of the state department of public instruction, who delivered the address, Rev. J. C. B. Moyer, Messrs. F. D. Smith, G. J. Mager, F. D. Hakes, C. F. Brown, N. J. Peck and A. W. Edgcomb of the board of education. At the right were the teachers of the different ward schools, twenty-four in number. The large array of little people who had taken part in the singing had been released from the stage and they swarmed in the boxes and in every conceivable place about the front of the room. There were bright merry faces poking out from corners and peeking over railings. The juvenile tendency to be where a view of the sights could be had was fully demonstrated, and placed the small boy at times even on the spindles to the boxes, climbing high up to get a better view of his favorite teacher or the sweet girl graduate who was speaking.
Misses Inez M. Petrie, Sarah Hernon, Belle B. Beeman, Amelia D. Townsend and Mary L. Pease and Sol Simmons were selected from the class to give orations. In these the young people acquitted themselves with great credit. After the orations had been delivered Prof. Wright was introduced and spoke for about twenty minutes on the elements of success. He spoke in part as follows:
The elements of success are perennial; they never die. They are as essential for the present to-day or the to-morrow of the future as they were in the yesterday of the past. Honesty, kindness, politeness, courtesy, promptness, faithfulness, uprightness, temperance, studious habits, neatness, order, patience and perseverance are ethical characteristics necessary for a successful life. Are these becoming old-fashioned and obsolete, and hence to be despised? It must be confessed that there are many new-fashioned ideas as to the moral qualities with which the most of us associate the men and women of the past. A "gentleman of the old school" was referred to and the speaker said that this individual's training had been in a school in which there was inculcated a hatred of all that is base and vulgar, a scorn for that which was cowardly, a sense of duty for treating the poorest and humblest with courtesy. If this honest gentleman is dying out, it is time a revival was started, for no element is more essential to success than an honest manhood. The sobriquet "Honest Old Abe," applied at first as a nickname, now expresses a nation's love and the world's admiration for the integrity of character which made Lincoln one of the most successful men of any age.
Second only to integrity of character was the keeping of appointments. He who fails to keep his appointments, if he has not good and sufficient reasons, is practically a liar and the world treats him as such. Patience and perseverance are other prime requisites to success. Too many are in a hurry to get rich or to acquire an education. It is not the occasional spurt that wins, but the continuous earnest effort. It is success to do faithfully and to the limit of our ability the work that comes to us. Hard work is generally the foundation of all true success. The will should be trained to the performance of work. Life is sure to be a failure if this is not done.
The same elements that insure success in the individual life, work out good results in the state and national affairs. New York state believes in this training and scholarship as elements of success and $40,000,000 were spent last year in this state for the support of schools and colleges, while the amount invested in sites and buildings was more than $150,000,000.
Mr. Wright spoke to the class of opportunities, saying that these were not wanting for the honest, scholarly, trained, cultured man. Diplomatic circles needed him, legislative halls cry out for him. He is needed on the bench and at the bar. In fact, all walks of life offer opportunities for a successful life.
After the address the class, which consists of seventeen members, marched on the stage to have their diplomas presented them by Mr. Moyer. A few words of well directed advice were offered and then the diplomas distributed. The members of the class are as follows:
Mary Lacy Pease, Inez Maud Petrie, Belle Bessie Beeman, Sarah Hernon, Sol Simmons, Amelia Dunkin Townsend, Bessie Hasbrouck Reed, Lillian Margaret Stebbins, Lulu May Griffing, Bertha Whiteson Simmons, Bertha Louise Locke, Pearl Elizabeth Gordon, Louis Asa Crane, Emil Simmons, L. D. Thomas, William Howard Moyer, Edith May Bunnell.
The entire program of the evening appeared in these columns a few days ago.
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| Cortland Opera House. |
CRITICISM AND EXPLANATION
Concerning the Matter of Seats at the Opera House.
To the Editor of the Standard:
SIR—The officials of our public schools seem to be taking on city airs in earnest, if the way the closing exercises were managed last evening is any guide. Parents of children who were to take part in the entertainment, were told at the door that the Opera House, with the exception of the little gallery, was reserved for those holding tickets, but no notice had been given that the tickets could be procured. Prominent members of the board of education were appealed to, but without success, and parents were obliged to go home while seats remained empty below. I am very truly, GEORGE H. SMITH.
The above communication was left at the STANDARD office this morning with a request for its publication. A STANDARD man made inquiries of Superintendent F. E. Smith in regard to the criticism and was informed that following the custom of the public school commencements from the beginning of commencements at the Opera House and following the custom of the Normal commencements, the entire first floor was reserved for admission only by ticket. The seventeen graduates were each given ten tickets for their friends. The twenty-six teachers in the public schools and the members of the board of education were given tickets for themselves and for a limited number of friends. Other tickets were given out to public officials and to others interested. Beyond that tickets were passed out to any one who asked for them till the supply was exhausted. Two hundred eighty children took part in the first five choruses which occupied the first fifteen minutes of the program, but it was impossible to furnish tickets to the parents of all of these, for that would mean 560 tickets, eighty more than the entire seating capacity of the first floor, though any of these parents could have had tickets this year by applying for them as in all the years past, as long as the tickets held out after the special ones to be accommodated had been supplied.
The board of education could not have furnished seats when appealed to as suggested in this communication as the entire first floor was accounted for with tickets and the seats might be demanded at any moment by ticket holders.
Directions had been given to the ushers to hold no seats for any one after 8:05, but to fill them all in with any who might be in waiting without tickets. As a matter of fact the ushers did not wait till 8:05 last night before beginning to fill in the vacant seats but admitted all who could get in as soon as the music began which was promptly at 8 o'clock. Within a very few moments there was not a seat left and all the standing room was occupied.
It is to be regretted that there should be a lack of seats, but really there is not a building in town that will accommodate all the people who wish to attend these closing exercises of the public schools. Where there are so many families represented as there are in school exercises in one capacity or another, there is bound to be interest in the programs and many more are sure to try to gain entrance than can possibly find seats in any building which we now have. The authorities thought they had made the best arrangement they could with the space which they had at their disposal.
BREVITIES.
—The Normal baseball team is playing the Tully team in that village to-day.
—Cazenovia seminary has this week celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of its founding.
—The Corlonors were entertained by Miss Sarah G. Ross and the Clionians by the Misses Walrad last night.
—Monday night will be ladies' night at the Tioughnioga club. Valentine's Harp orchestra of Syracuse will furnish music for dancing.
—There will be an adjourned meeting of the Cortland County Poultry and Pet Stock association Monday, June 25, at 8 P. M., at Fireman's hall.
—The West End Brownies defeated the East Siders Friday by the score of 36 to 18. The Brownies claim the championship of this city under 15 years. They would like to play the North Enders.
—Rev. C. W. Negus of Homer will preach at the First Baptist church tomorrow morning. In the evening the Children's day service entitled "Lessons of Flowers" will be given by the Sunday-school and the Oratorio society will sing "Sanctus" from Gounod's "Messe Solennelle."
—Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Wilcox delightfully entertained a company of friends last evening at their home, 34 Railroad-ave., in honor of their guest Miss Margaret Mahoney of Syracuse. The early part of the evening was devoted to cards and later very fine refreshments were served.
—The Freeville Leader says that "the Y being built near the junction at this place will prove to be of great benefit to the Lehigh R. R. people when completed, as hardly a day passes but what one or more engines are compelled to back either to Cortland or Ithaca in order to head the opposite direction."
—About 350 people boarded the excursion train of ten cars this morning at the D., L. & W. station for Lakeside park. A large crowd assembled to see the excursion train start. A pleasanter day for the trip could not be well selected and the start indicated a highly enjoyable day for the participants.
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