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| Gail Laughlin. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, July 7, 1900.
MISS GAIL LAUGHLIN.
SMART GIRL LAWYER.
She Has Been Appointed to Investigate the Domestic Servant Problem.
Miss Gail Laughlin, who has been appointed by the national industrial commission to investigate the knotty servant girl problem, is a bright young woman lawyer of New York. She is a member of the Woman's Suffrage association's committee on industrial problems affecting women and children. As a member of that committee she delivered an address on women wage earners which came under the notice of the industrial commission; hence her recent appointment.
Miss Laughlin will be expected to find out all about the domestic puzzle which so troubles the American women. She will hear the grievances of both servants and their employers, and probably her report will be a bulky one. It is hoped that the commission will be able to suggest methods of reform after they have heard all Miss Laughlin can tell them.
The young woman who is undertaking this job is only 32 years old, but she has already made her mark as an orator, debater and as a lawyer. She was graduated at Wellesley in 1894 and at Cornell law school four years later. She was admitted to the New York bar in 1898. While at Cornell she took the negative in a debate on immigration and won the prize of the year, although she believed in the arguments for the affirmative. As the result of that victory she was appointed to a place in the Cornell debating team for the debate with the University of Pennsylvania and was the first woman to participate in an intercollegiate debate. Her side won.
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| Edwin Hurd Conger. |
CONGER'S LAST REPORT.
Tsung Li Yamen Given Ample Warning of Outbreak.
APPEALED TO BY ALL POWERS.
But Deferred Action Until It Was Too Late—Conger's Document Bears Date May 21 and the Situation Was Threatening at That Time.
WASHINGTON, July 9.—The last China mail to reach the state department brought the report of Minister Conger, perhaps the last that will ever come to hand. This bears date of Pekin May 21st. It is of the utmost importance, disclosing as it does a full comprehension on the part of the foreign ministers in Pekin of the character and extent of the Boxer uprising even though Mr. Conger, himself by disposition optimistic, found some reason to hope that the worst was over at that date.
What Mr. Conger has to say as to the attitude of the Chinese government toward the Boxer movement as revealed in the formal interchange that took place between himself and the Tsung Li Yamen, is not only of peculiar interest now, but probably will have a strong bearing on the final reckoning that must be had between the civilized nations and the Chinese. Mr. Conger makes it very clear through the publication of the French priests' letter that at least one and probably all of the European nations having interests in northern China were acquainted with the dangers of the situation at least two or three weeks before the actual outbreak in Pekin.
The correspondence referred to follows:
"Legation of the United States of America.
"Pekin, China, May 21, 1900.
"To the Hon John Hay, secretary of state, Washington, D. C.
"Sir—I have the honor to confirm, on the overleaf, my cipher telegram of today.
"In response to the requests of the French minister the dean called a meeting of the diplomatic corps yesterday and upon information furnished in a letter from the Catholic bishop in Pekin and verbal reports by the other ministers, the situation was so grave that the corps unanimously instructed the dean to present it to the Tsung Li Yamen and demand immediate and effective measures which he did today by the note, copy of which is enclosed.
"I also enclose copies of the bishops' letters and one from Rev. Mr. Killie, an American missionary who lives in Pekin but travels a circuit to the north and east.
"On the 18th inst during an extended personal interview with the Tsung Li Yamen, I called their attention to the fact that notwithstanding constant warnings from this and other legations the Boxers had continually increased and spread until now they are boldly organizing inside the wall of Pekin, the existence of thousands is known in the villages around Pekin, Christian converts are being persecuted and threatened everywhere, many forced to recant their religious professions and some have been compelled to abandon their chapels and come to Pekin for safety.
"I said, 'at a London mission near Chou Chow, forty miles west of Pekin, two native Christians have been killed and their chapel destroyed. Near Pao Ting Fu, a Catholic village has been destroyed and 61 Christians murdered, some of them being burned alive. The foreign governments can not longer sit idly by and witness this persecution and murder. I can only speak for my own government but it is becoming very impatient over China's continued treaty violation. It always has been and still is the good friend of China, and only wishes it prosperity, but is now more than ever determined to sustain the treaty right of all American citizens and of the Christian converts, and it will hold the Chinese government to the strictest responsibility for every treaty infraction in this regard. It will do this not only for the benefit of its own citizens, but in the interest of China herself, whose government is now sadly threatened by these lawless organizations. At present, it is true, they seem to have no capable leader, but should one arise and the populace become really inflamed, the overthrow of the present dynasty is most likely to follow and possibly the destruction of the empire, etc, etc.'
"They replied that I did not understand the many difficulties under which they labored, but they had succeeded in suppressing the Boxers in the province of Shan Tung and would do so here.
"I told them I saw no effective measures whatever being put forth. They replied that the movement had not heretofore been looked upon as serious; but that now the throne was fully aware of the gravity of the situation and that a recent confidential decree had been sent to the viceroy, the Pekin and neighboring officials, which would surely prove effective, suppress the Boxers and restore order.
"I told them that the most alarming telegrams were being sent to the newspapers of Europe and America of the existing state of anarchy here and that the people of the world would be forced to believe that the government of China was either abetting these murderous brigands, or that it was too weak to suppress or control them and its good name and credit must suffer irretrievably in consequence. After reading me the decree, which was much like those heretofore published, they asked if I would not wire my government that they could and were suppressing the Boxers.
"I replied that at present I would not; that I had been for six months telegraphing the issuance of ineffective decrees, but if they would show me the fact by actual and immediate repression which they could if they would, in three-days I would gladly and quickly wire it to my government.
"They assured me that sufficient troops had been sent to the disturbed districts to restore order and afford protection.
''I again told them that restored order would be the only possible proof. I also said that unless the situation was relieved and the threatened danger from mobs averted, I should be compelled to ask for a sufficient guard of American marines to insure the safety of the legation.
"They said 'Oh, don't do that. It is unnecessary,' and again promising energetic action the interviewed closed.
"Unless some energetic action is taken the situation will become fraught with great danger to all foreigners, not from any intelligent or organized attacks, but from ignorant and inflamed mob violence. I, however, believe as I said in my telegram, that the government is aroused, itself alarmed at the situation, and will take more energetic action but no one can be certain of this until it is done.
"Since the United States steamer Wheeling had already left Taku I deemed it prudent to ask the admiral for the presence of another war vessel and, responding to the request, Admiral Kempff with the Newark sailed hither from Yokohama on the 19th inst. and should arrive soon.
"I have the honor to be, your obedient servant. B. H. CONGER."
The enclosures referred to by Mr. Conger follow, beginning with the cablegram of the same date, as his letter:
Telegram sent (cipher).
"Pekin, May 2d.
"Secretary of State, Washington.
"Boxers greatly increased in this province and in and around Pekin. Villages 40 miles Pekin burned. Sixty native Catholics killed. No foreigners attacked. Chinese government aroused and promises immediate suppression. Diplomatic corps demanded immediate effective measures. Newark en route Taku. I hope and believe the worst has passed. CONGER."
MINISTER CONGER'S FATE.
Residents or Cayuga County Looking for Large Indemnities.
Residents of Cayuga county are looking for large indemnities from China in case Edwin H. Conger, the American minister to China, has been massacred. Mr. Conger is a native of Cato, Cayuga county. Some years ago he borrowed money from residents of that county and has since been unable to pay. Three years ago this month, says the Auburn Advertiser, a judgment for $26,946.78 was docketed at the Cayuga county clerk's office against Mr. Conger. Papers were served upon the defendant on July 20, 1897, just as he was embarking on a steamer in New York bound for Brazil, where he had been appointed as American minister. Subsequently he was transferred to China. If the prevailing and persistent rumors of the massacre of the American minister be true, a new course will be presented to the holders of the big claim against him. This government will be asked to force china into paying large indemnities for the Americans. From this money it will be possible to liquidate the loans made years ago and for which the lenders' heirs seek restitution, the original lenders being themselves dead.
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| Prince Tuan (or Duan). |
HOPE FOR FOREIGNERS.
Leader of Counter Revolution May be Helping Them.
LONDON, July 9.—The more hopeful feeling engendered by Saturday's news from Pekin was further strengthened this morning by Rear Admiral Bruce's endorsement of the previous rumors that Prince Ching, who is said to be heading a counter revolution at Pekin, is fighting in behalf of the legations against the usurper Prince Tuan. If the admiral's hope turns out to be well founded this turn of events is of the upmost importance as it is felt here that in some such division among the Chinese themselves lies the best hope of the safety of the foreigners. If the powers can find allies in China itself it will materially facilitate the task of restoring order, and those acquainted with the country believe that if the diplomatists are able to induce such a man as Li Hung Chang or Chang Chi Tung to send forces to the assistance of Prince Ching the hordes of revolutionaries will disperse as quickly as they have collected and a way to Pekin will be opened without great delay. With all due allowance for the uncertainty in regard to their reliability the authorities here feel that the latest messages from the far East gives distant hope. If, as suggested, the native sympathizers are able to keep the besieged legation reasonably supplied with provisions the foreign colony may yet escape destruction.
TROOPS FOR CHINA.
Japan to Send 23,000 Men and 5,000 Horses at Once.
YOKOHAMA, July 9.—The government has finally decided to immediately dispatch 23,000 men and 5,000 horses to China. The newspapers, in endorsing this action, point out that should the foreigners at Pekin perish Japan could not be absolved from blame.
ALL MINISTERS SAFE.
Rioters Attack the Legations but are Defeated With Loss.
WASHINGTON, July 9.—The following telegram was received last night by Minister Wu from Sheng, director general of the Imperial telegraphs at Shanghai, dated yesterday. "July 8, two legations in Pekin still preserved. All ministers safe. Rebellious troops and rioters made attacks but suffer many losses. Imperial troops are protecting but meet with difficulty in doing so. It is feared that food and ammunition are exhausted."
WORK FOR ROOSEVELT.
Charges Against Ice Trust and New York City Officials Claim His Attention.
ALBANY, July 9.—Governor Roosevelt will arrive here today from Oyster Bay, when several important pending public matters will engross his attention.
The petition seeking the removal of Mayor Van Wyck of New York city on the charge of malfeasance in office, Commissioner Wilcox's findings, as a result of the investigation conducted into the affairs of District Attorney Gardiner's administration, which are ready for submission, and the application for the removal of Comptroller Bird S. Coler, are some of the matters of state that the chief executive will go over with Attorney General Davies.
Undoubtedly the most troublesome question is the ice trust litigation in which at present the advantages seem to rest largely with the American Ice company's officers. If, after conferring with the attorney general, the governor decides that he will not convene an extraordinary term of the appellate division of the supreme court for the sole consideration of the litigation, nothing else can be done by the state authorities and the ice trust proceedings will be effectually stayed until September or October.
There is an impression at the Capitol that the charges filed against Mayor Van Wyck and Comptroller Coler will be dismissed by the governor.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Now will be heard the usual chorus of dissatisfaction from cities which find that the census returns do not make them as big as the local "directory estimates'' have made them. It is said that a number of ambitious cities that are not pleased with the count of the federal authorities have organized business men's organizations for the purpose of taking censuses of their own. Those who are doing this are wasting their time and money. The figures of the United States census will be accepted as the standard everywhere, and even if some ambitious cities have been done an injustice the rest of the world will be disposed to accept the figures of the national government as less partisan than their own. The business men's associations should have seen to it that no one was missed by the enumerators, and they would then have found how carefully and conscientiously the census enumerator works. It is to his interest to omit no one. Inasmuch as he is paid according to the number of names he secures, and census enumerators are sworn officers of the government. One of the reasons why the census figures often do not come up to the expectations of ambitious towns is that in directory estimates those in the suburbs and men who do business in the town, but live outside, are included. The census office makes it a uniform rule to include only people actually resident within the city. Whenever a test has been made, the federal census has been found to be remarkably accurate, even though it fails to give many progressive towns as many people as they think they have.
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| Franklin Hatch Library, Court Street, Cortland, N. Y. |
SOME NEW BOOKS
Recently Received at the Franklin Hatch Library.
The following are the titles of a number of new books recently received at the Franklin Hatch library [in Cortland]: Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them, Wild Animals I Have Known, London to Ladysmith by Merton Spencer Churchill; The Memoirs of Baroness Cecile de Coutot, Red Blood and Blue, Touchstone, The Grip of Honor, Unleavened Bread, The Boss of Taroomba, Feo, Resurrection by Tolstoi, Hearts Unfortunate, I. Thou and the Other One, Bath Comedy, Jack the Young Ranchman, Soldier Rigdale, The Banker and the Bear, Deacon Bradbury, The Autobiography of a Quack, Arden Massiter, Margaret Momfort, Three Margarets, Diana Tempest, The Last Lady of Mulberry, Knights in Fustian, Debts of Honor, The Voice of the People, Hilda Wade, Shine Terrill, Young Citizen, Sophia, Dream of a Throne, Philip Winwood, A Man's Woman, Among the Esquimaux, True to His Trust, Venetian June, A Manifest Destiny, Fortune's Tangled Skein, The Jessamy Bride, In Connection With the DeWilloughby Claim, Dross, To Have and to Hold, The Brahmin's Treasure, Cruise of the Cachelot, The Workers; the East, Red Potage, Santa Claus Partner, Gentleman from Indiana, Robert Louis Stevenson's Letters, Redemption of David Corson.
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| Charles Holland Duell. |
DUELL FOR GOVERNOR.
Washington Post Names the Commissioner of Patents.
All Cortland friends of the present United States commissioner of patents will be interested in the following Associated Press dispatch from Washington under date of July 8:
The Post to-morrow will say that the friends of the Hon. Charles H. Duell, commissioner of patents, intend to present him vigorously as the next Republican candidate for governor of New York. The Post will say that Mr. Duell will be urged as the most available man for the Republicans to nominate for the place. He is an organization man, but well thought of by the independent voters and also well liked by the national administration. As commissioner of patents he has displayed executive ability, discretion and energy of a high order. He was appointed commissioner upon the recommendation of the leading federal and state judges, and his endorsers included Senator Platt and the Republican state committee, Secretary Root, Secretary Bliss, Ex-Secretary Hiscock and Warner Miller. He has lived in Syracuse for the past twenty years and always has taken an active interest in politics, supporting the Republican ticket.
A FINE PICTURE
Of the First Baptist Sunday-school by Classes.
There was placed on exhibition Saturday afternoon in the large show window at F. D. Smith's hardware store, a large picture of the First Baptist Sunday-school by classes, which is remarkable in its way and which is attracting a good deal of attention. There are thirty-one classes in the school and each is represented in the picture. In addition to the thirty-one class pictures there are cabinets of individuals as follows: Rev. Geo. H. Brigham, Rev. W. J. Howell, pastor of the church, Deacon E. A. Fish, who was superintendent of the Sunday-school for twenty-five years; Prof. E. C. Cleaves, superintendent for seven years; Mr. Frank A. Phelps, superintendent for three years, Mr. Miles J. Peck, superintendent since April 1, 1898, and Mrs. A. D. Ellsworth, superintendent of the primary department.
Among the group pictures are the two men's classes, the Baracas, with forty-two represented, and the Howell class with the pictures of sixty-one members. There are about six hundred people represented in the picture altogether. The frame is of oak and is 6 by 11 feet in size. The picture will be hung on the east side of the Sunday-school room and will be of added interest and value as the years go by.
The idea of the school picture originated with the superintendent, Mr. Miles J. Peck, and to his persistent efforts is due the success of the undertaking. The photographs were all taken by G. E. Butler.
Died from Apoplexy.
Mr. John Livington, who on Friday last was stricken with paralysis while going to his work, died at his home, 12 Grace-st., Saturday afternoon at 6 o'clock, aged nearly 67 years.
Mr. Livingston was a well-known and highly respected citizen of Cortland. He had lived here for the past thirty years, and for the past twelve years has been engaged in the harness business. He leaves a widow and one son, Mr. Eugene Livingston of East Freetown. The funeral will be held from the house tomorrow at 2 P. M. Burial in Cortland.
Death of Mrs. Copeland.
Mrs. Harriet Emerson Copeland, widow of the late William S. Copeland, died very suddenly at her home, 134 Homer-ave., last evening at about 7 o'clock of apoplexy, aged 83 years. Mrs. Copeland has for the past month or more been unusually well. Early in the day she was taken with a sick headache, but had recovered from it and ten minutes before her death she was bright and ready to talk. She passed peacefully and quietly away without an apparent struggle.
Mrs. Copeland was born in Solon eighty-three years ago, and it was there that she passed her girlhood days and married William Copeland, who died four months ago. Their fiftieth wedding anniversary occurred last September.
Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Copeland moved to Cortland and took charge of the old Port Watson hotel, next the East river bridge. Then for several years they were in charge of the Central House at Tully Center. They returned to Cortland and bought the old Cortland House and conducted this for several years. For three years before the breaking out of the civil war they were at Atlanta, Ga. During the war they were in Washington, but in 1867 returned to Cortland and took charge of the Messenger House which they afterward purchased, and conducted till about seventeen years ago when they moved to the beautiful house on Homer-ave., which they had just built and which was the home of both of them till the time of their death.
Mrs. Copeland is survived by two grandsons Edward and William Boynton. A singular incident in connection with the death of the three members of the family, Mrs. Boynton, and Mr. and Mrs. Copeland, is that all have passed away on Sunday.
Mrs. Copeland was the possessor of an amiable and gentle disposition. For the past three years she has been an invalid, yet she was bright and cherry at all time.
The funeral will be held from the house to-morrow at 11 A. M.
BREVITIES.
—The stock brokerage office in Cortland has been closed up for lack of support and patronage.
—There will be a meeting of the Poultry association at Fireman's hall this evening at 8 o'clock.
—A regular meeting of Royal Arcanum council will be held Tuesday evening, July 10, at G. A. R. hall at 8 o'clock.
—The eighteenth annual picnic of the Johnson family will be held at Jay S. Johnson's one mile west of Marathon village, Aug. 22.
—The Farther Lights society of the First Baptist church will meet at the church to-night at 7 o'clock. Every member must be present.
—Mrs. Orson A. Kinney delightfully entertained a number of the members of the Clionian fraternity at her home on East Court-st. Saturday afternoon.
—All members of the A. O. H. who expect to go to Syracuse on July 18 to attend the convention are requested to meet at the society rooms to-morrow evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—Richard O'Brien, who was arrested Saturday by Officer Parker, was sentenced in city court this morning to be confined to county jail for thirty days. This was Richard's third trip before the city judge within a year.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 8; Cortland & Homer Traction Co., Trolley rides, page 8; C. F. Brown, Summer Soda and Sweetness, page 6; Palmer & Co., Fruit jar prices, page 6.
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