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| Li Hung Chang. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, July 14, 1900.
VICTORY WAS COSTLY.
Said That 3,000 Chinese Were Killed at Tien Tsin.
GENERAL KEK AMONG THE DEAD.
Li Hung Chang Will Stay at Canton Until the Allies Defeat Prince Tuan's Forces, When He Will Try to Arrange Terms of Peace.
LONDON, July 14.—The scanty cable dispatches received today add nothing to the knowledge in London of the Chinese situation.
It is stated positively from Canton that Li Hung Chang will remain there until the allied troops have defeated Prince Tuan's forces and will then go north to lend his powerful aid in arranging terms of peace, co-operating with Prince Ching, Yung Lu and the other pro-foreign viceroys. For the present Li Hung Chang considers that he can best control and direct the viceroys from Canton and also keep in check the turbulent province of Kwang Tung.
All the foreigners and missionaries have evacuated Wen Chau and have arrived at Ning Po. Large bodies of Boxers appeared at Wen Chau and threatened to exterminate the foreigners and Christians. They also distributed banners, badges and inflammatory anti-foreign appeals.
The Tien Tsin correspondent of The Express, telegraphing under date of July 9, asserts that the Chinese are daily driving in the allies. They have mounted, says the correspondent, 12 fresh guns in advantageous positions, with which they are sweeping the streets of the foreign settlement, the incessant fire rendering position after position quite untenable.
The Daily Mail's St. Petersburg correspondent says that in the last six hours battle outside of Tien Tsin the Cossacks captured six Krupp guns and killed a number of fleeing Boxers. The Chinese lost 3,000 killed, including General Kek.
NEWS OF REBEL DEFEAT.
Secretary of Belgian Legation Says Faithful Troops Have Defeated Boxers.
BRUSSELS, July 14.—M. Defabereau, minister of foreign affairs, has received a telegram from M. Decastier de Marchienne, secretary of the Belgian legation at Pekin, dated at Shanghai, stating on the authority of a Chinese source, that troops faithful to General Nich Sichang have defeated the rebels near Pekin and that they recognized the authority of Prince Ching and General Yung Lu, who strived to defend the Europeans.
NO NEWS OF PEARY.
Bark Calcium From the Arctic Region Had Not Met the Explorer.
PHILADELPHIA. July 14.—The bark Calcium, Captain Smith, from Ivigtut, Greenland, arrived here yesterday with a cargo of crysolite. The bark was expected to bring tidings, from Lieutenant Peary who is in the Arctic region in quest of the North pole but there was much disappointment felt by the crowd which was waiting for the bark at the wharf when Captain Smith announced that he had no news from the explorer.
Captain Smith said the past winter in Greenland was one of the worst in years, and it was his belief that Lieutenant Peary and his party must have suffered considerable hardship from the severe weather. The natives in that locality, Captain Smith said, suffered severely and were generally in poor condition. The bark was icebound for over a month off Greenland, the ice pack reaching from 100 to 150 miles off the shore.
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| Edwin Hurd Conger. |
OUR MINISTER TO CHINA.
The Hon. E. H. Conger Very Well Known In Washington.
HIS PUBLIC CAREER OUTLINED.
A Middle Westerner by Birth, Though of New England Stock—His Public Career Was Begun in Iowa—Mrs. Conger.
WASHINGTON, July 13.—[Special.]—A good many letters have been received here from Peking within the past few days, among them some that were dated late in May and early in June.
Naturally, nearly all of these letters mentioned the Boxer trouble in China; but like the letter received at Galesburg, Ill., the other day from the wife of Minister Conger, few or none of the writers seems to have appreciated the real danger at the time of writing. They all speak of the Boxers as a growing element tending toward general anarchy and serious trouble for the foreigners, but none of them seems to have anticipated such a serious state of affairs as we have been led to believe is now actually existing.
Minister Conger and His Family.
Minister Conger is well known in Washington, as a matter of course. His cousin, who is connected with one of the Washington newspapers, married a relative of Mr. Thomas, United States minister to Sweden and Norway, some years ago, and the wife of our minister to China has two sisters here.
The Hon. Edwin H. Conger was born in Illinois. He comes of New England stock which was transplanted early in the last century to central western New York, and from there, in the twenties or thirties, to the middle west. Like so many other Americans prominent in American life, he was born in a farming community, and won his college training in spite of difficulties. He was schooled in Lombard university, graduating therefrom in 1862. We do not hear much of that little college nowadays, but Mr. Conger's success in public life and as a diplomat speaks well of the training which it imparted nearly 40 years ago to the young men who sought it in making preparation for the battle with the world.
Almost immediately after leaving college young Conger enlisted as a member of the One Hundred and Second Illinois infantry in the Union army. For three years he served in the south. He was with Sherman in the celebrated march to the sea, and at the end of his service was a volunteer captain. When the war was over, he was brevetted major by President Lincoln in recognition of gallant and meritorious conduct. After that young Conger studied law at the Albany Law school, receiving his degree in 1866. President McKinley was a student at the same law school at that time. Conger practiced at Galesburg after being admitted to the bar, and it was at Galesburg that he met Miss Sarah Pike, who became his wife and who went to Peking a few months ago.
Mr. Conger's Public Career.
Though he had prepared for the legal profession, Edwin H. Conger did not follow it very long. After two years' practice in Galesburg he removed to Dallas, Ia., whither his father had gone before him, and there he devoted his energies to farming, stock growing and banking. By 1877 he had become sufficiently prominent as a solid citizen and as a factor in the public life of the community to run successfully for the office of county treasurer. After two terms he was made state treasurer.
This naturally led him to take up his residence at Des Moines, the capital of the state. After he had served two terms as state treasurer he was elected a member of the lower house of congress from the district now represented by the Hon. J. A. T. Hull and served six years. As a representative Mr. Conger was not noteworthily aggressive, but he soon won the reputation of being a strong man with plenty of good judgment and a loyal member of his party without being tainted with unreasonable and offensive partisanship. During his first term he was a member of the committee on agriculture among other things, and it was his efforts which led to the passage of the Conger pure lard bill, a measure which added to his popularity among the farmers. During Mr. Conger's second term Thomas B. Reed, who was then speaker of the house, advanced him materially.
Mr. Conger as a Diplomat.
Mr. Conger's first position as a diplomatic representative of the United States was that of American minister to Brazil, President Harrison appointing him in 1890. While filling this post Mr. Conger negotiated an extremely important treaty with the big South American republic by which the security hitherto enjoyed in Brazil by American fugitives from justice was brought to an end. He also made exhaustive studies of commercial conditions in Brazil, and his reports thereon have been highly complimented by exporters to that country.
At the expiration of Mr. Harrison's term as president Mr. Conger resigned. When McKinley became president, he reappointed Mr. Conger to Brazil. This was in 1897, but in 1898, as the senate would not confirm the nomination of Charles Page Bryan of Illinois to the Chinese post, Mr. Conger was transferred from Brazil to China, where he went as soon as possible and where he has been doing much difficult and arduous work.
Mrs. Conger has a large acquaintance here as well as in the west and her friends are sincerely solicitous that she and her husband may have escaped death in Peking. CHARLES GOODWIN.
James M. Milne.
AN AUTOMOBILE COMPANY
MAY POSSIBLY LOCATE ITS FACTORY IN CORTLAND.
Board of Trade Holds a Public Meeting to Consider It—Committee Appointed to Investigate—Machine Will Soon be Shown in Cortland—Would be a Great Boom for the Place.
At 8:30 o'clock last night Fireman's hall was crowded to standing room only with men who came in response to the call of the board of trade to consider the possibility of the location in Cortland of a new manufacturing plant. Hon. L. J. Fitzgerald, president of the board of trade, called the meeting to order and named Dr. James M. Milne for chairman. Hon. W. D. Tisdale, secretary of the board of trade, was elected secretary of meeting,
Herman Bergholtz of Ithaca was then called upon to explain the matter before the meeting. Mr. Bergholtz said that he was one of a new company which had been recently formed in New York to manufacture automobiles. It had capitalized at $5,000,000. The company needed a plant. The speaker had been told that there were two or three plants in Cortland now unused which could be remodeled and refitted to make a suitable plant for this company.
Several places had made overtures toward the company to secure the location of the factory, but Mr. C. D. Simpson of Scranton, who is one of the company, and the speaker, both have interests in Cortland in the Traction company and in real estate, and if Cortland can do half as well as some other places already being considered both of these gentlemen stand ready to do all in their power to bring the factory to Cortland. The company would like to be presented with a site and a factory building but would be ready to pay for these with stock in the company. The possibilities of the company are enormous. There is no reason why it should not be employing a thousand men inside of a year and a half.
The machine which it is to manufacture is no experiment. It is a German machine and is made with great success in Germany and has been adopted by the German postal service. It consists only of a forward axle and wheels, and these are fitted under the body of any wagon which has a cut-under. It is designed especially for use upon heavy vehicles, such as trucks, drays, express wagons, oil wagons, cabs, etc. There is a ready call for it at $600, and it can be manufactured for $300. Its motive power is gasoline and the method of use is by explosion. The company has bought the patterns and working plans and will be all ready to go to work as soon as a plant can be secured. Nearly seventy orders for machines have already been placed. The company would like to have from $30,000 to $50,000 in stock taken in Cortland, the money to be used in purchasing machinery to equip the plant. There are no plants of this kind in this country. In Europe 98 per cent of the automobiles are propelled by gasoline.
Mr. W. H. Clark was called for and said that he saw this very machine at the bicycle exhibition in New York last winter. There were scores of different designs of automobiles, but the Scientific American described this one and one other as the only machines worthy of special mention at the exhibition. Mr. Clark spoke in high terms of the explosive method of producing power and quoted Mr. Westinghouse as saying that this is the coming power.
Mayor Holden was called for and said he would be glad to aid in a material and substantial way in bringing the company to Cortland.
Mr. G. T. Maxson said he felt confidence in it because of the kind of men who were back of it. They wouldn't be spending time and money on it unless it were practical. He would do what he could to get it here.
Dr. Milne thought a committee should be appointed to investigate the machine and report at a future meeting before an effort was made to raise money for a plant.
W. W. Kelsey said he heartily believed in automobiles, In fact he was a crank on them. He had used one three months and believed in it now more than he did before. He liked this one because it has its power in front. More power can be secured in a pulling machine than in a pushing machine.
Mr. Fitzgerald said that he and Mr. Hugh Duffey tried last winter to secure the ownership of this same machine in this country and the right to manufacture it, but the other company got in ahead of them. He believed in the machine.
Mr. Fitzgerald moved that a committee of five be appointed to investigate the machine and report at a future meeting of the board of trade whether it was advisable to make an effort to raise money to secure the plant. The chairman appointed as such committee: Hugh Duffey, S. N. Holden, G. T. Maxon, F. H. Cobb and F. J. Peck.
On motion of Mr. Fitzgerald, Dr. Milne's name was added to the committee and, on motion of E. E. Mellon, Lester Cooper's name was also added.
Mr. Bergholtz promised that he would have the machine in Cortland in about a week where all could see it. He thought they would run it right up overland from New York. They did run it from Philadelphia to New York in five hours a few weeks ago.
At 9:13 the meeting adjourned.
CORTLAND BALL PLAYERS.
An Eastern League Paper Has Good Opinions of Them.
The Syracuse Evening Telegram has some highly complementary things to say about the players of the Wagon City team that will be read with interest by Cortland people. It might be well to say that Syracuse has already bid liberally for Eason, but Cortland needs the best pitcher in the State league for a while yet and so will not spare him. The Telegram says:
There are some fast men among the players of the state league clubs, and while on the subject it might be well to mention that the Cortland team has several men that could hold the pace in faster company.
Pitcher Mullin seems to be in prime shape now and that means that the other fellows must turn every trick to get a game from him. He has excellent control and the faculty of keeping the ball over the plate: Catcher Coogan of Providence fame is now with Cortland. Coogan is the same delicate looking fellow, but he keeps right on putting up good ball year after year. He adds strength to the Cortland club.
Warren Townsend, more familiarly known as Si, is playing the best ball of his career and that is saying much. Townsend is an emergency hitter and bats in lots of runs He improves every season as a first baseman. For a man of 200 pounds, Townsend is fast.
Center Fielder Gannon, so say the fans all about the circuit, is one of the stars in minor league baseball. Gannon is aggressive, a fast fielder and a batsman of the .300 class.
Syracuse ball cranks are much interested in State league affairs, and would regret exceedingly any misfortune that might befall the circuit. However, the belief is unanimous that matters must improve in several directions or disaster is certain to follow.
Under the heading, "Umpires Need Protection," the same paper hits the nail squarely on the head and voices the sentiment of the patrons of the game in Cortland. It is this:
At Troy and Albany the umpires are subjected to treatment that should result in the expulsion of both towns from the circuit. A baseball enthusiast, residing at Albany, was at the Globe hotel in this city yesterday and in a talk with the writer said:
It is no idle talk to say that if something is not done to protect the umpires the game will go to the wall. Respectable people at Albany are quitting the game every day on account of this matter. My opinion is that every man on the State league staff is competent to fill the position and gives his very best efforts at all times. No umpire ever goes into the game with any other object in view than to use his best judgment and give decisions as he sees them.
At Schenectady the visiting team is furnished with a body guard of three police officers, one on the rear of the bus and two mounted officers. Surely the great game of baseball has fallen pretty low when the players must have police protection on leaving the ball park.
It would be a pity to see the State league disrupted for this or any other reason, and the club owners of the circuit should take this umpire matter in hand, and at once.
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| James M. Milne. |
AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
Dr. James M. Milne's New Work—Its Originality and Strength.
The English grammar upon which Dr. James M. Milne has been at work for the past two years has just been issued from the presses of Silver, Burdett & Co. of New York City, and is in every sense of the word a model. Ever since the structure and use of the English language have been made subjects of study, the text books upon grammar have been more or less of a bugbear to every student. The author of this book has started out upon a new theory, and the key to it is given in the two quotations, the first from Von Herder and the second from Herbert Spencer, which precede the introductory chapter: "Grammar must be learned through language, and not language through grammar," and "As grammar was made after language, so it ought to be taught after it."
The plan of the book is outlined by the author in his preface as follows:
"1. To present a work purely grammatical, both in method and in facts emphasized.
2. To give emphasis to language study through the wealth and variety of illustrations used in the development and elucidation of grammatical facts.
3. To present English grammar in such a way that only a minimum of it will have to be unlearned in studying the grammar of any other language.
4. So to present the method that the maximum of strength will be reached through the minimum of facts learned.
5. To use illustrative sentences of such value in giving pleasure and in stimulating thought that the pupils will be led into a love for grammar and thence into a love of literature."
The intelligent working out of such a plan could not fail to make an ideal textbook on language as well as grammar. Dr. Milne's handling of it is more than intelligent—it is able. In the first place, the book is clearness itself, and it is as logical in arrangement as it is lucid in expression. Every definition is developed by examples before it is stated, and the examples are so pertinent and pointed that they lead directly and inevitably to the conclusion finally expressed. In the hands of a good teacher, the pupil cannot fail to see the truths sought to be conveyed before they are embodied in formal statements. In other words, the student, taking illustrations from gems of literature and the choicest specimens of the English language as used by the best authors, is led to see the underlying principles which run through them all.
The arrangement of the subject-matter of the book is based on the natural order of presentation, that the pupil should not be encumbered with technicalities before he has use for them.
Dr. Milne has undertaken the preparation of this book with a theoretical and practical equipment rarely, if ever, equaled by any author who has written upon English grammar. For many years he has taught the Latin and Greek grammars, and taught them most successfully. He is also an accomplished German scholar, as well as an enthusiastic student and experienced instructor in English, both as literature and from the standpoint of critical analysis. He knows practically the difficulties over which students of English grammar stumble and the parts which are dark and mysterious to them. He knows also how little has been done to make the study of English grammar a preparation—which it ought to be—for the study of Latin and Greek, and how often it has been made even a hindrance and had to be partially unlearned before successful work could be done in the ancient languages. He has, therefore, aimed to make a textbook in English grammar which should be strong in those particulars where the ordinary grammar is weak, and his success has been most gratifying.
Above everything else he has sought so to place the beautiful and inspiring in English literature before students that they would be drawn to and delight in the study of the structure of the language and the rules governing its use, as illustrated by its choicest passages in prose and verse, rather than by making the study of bare grammar dry, tedious and mechanical, to repel them from the study of a literature which is unsurpassed in breadth, richness and variety and in its power to make men and women "wiser, happier and better."
It is safe to say that no other grammar ever contained such a collection of illustrative sentences—over 1,600 in all—gems of poetry and prose, each with the name of the author from whom quoted, each striking by reason of the strength or the beauty of the sentiment, but each one selected to illustrate or develop a particular thought of the grammar, this purpose never being lost sight of. No student can become as familiar with these quotations as he must in a study of this grammar without being benefited or without having aroused within him a desire to know more of the authors from whom the quotations are made.
An excellent feature of the book is the omission of the subject of false syntax. Language, as the author says, is learned largely from imitation, and children from the cultured homes of to-day often meet false syntax for the first time in the incorrect expressions given as illustrations of it in grammars in the schools. The careful use of correct speech in the classroom on the part of the teacher, and the continued and persistent correction of errors on the part of the children by the teacher, will accomplish more for accuracy of speech than any long continued course in false syntax, with all its attendant dangers from the imitation of incorrect forms on the part of the children.
In the appendix appear chapters giving a historical outline sketch of the English language, upon word formation and upon prosody, all of which, because of their completeness and conciseness coupled with their clearness are of especial value. The entire work is really interesting to sit down and read through, and that is something which probably was never truthfully said of a grammar before.
Mechanically, the book is a delight to the eye. In typography, both as to size and style of type, in press work, in paper and in binding it is well nigh perfect. A convenient and valuable feature is the marginal index, which makes it possible to refer quickly to any subject and which acts also as a sort of classification for the student.
The book as a whole seems likely to meet with great success—which it certainly deserves—and will prove a boon to those who have heretofore struggled hard with the mysteries of English grammar, both students and teachers.
BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION
Of Wickwire Workers—Officers Elected—The Benefits.
The following officers of the Fine Wire Drawers' Beneficial association have been elected:
President—Albert Williams.
Vice-president—Barney McNiff.
Financial Secretary—C. B. Rothig.
Recording Secretary—James T. Summers.
Treasurer—Wallace Goodell.
Trustees—A. G. Klotten, Thos. Jenkins and Charles Fuhrmye.
This organization was perfected in 1894 and has sixty-six members. Its purpose is to give mutual assistance to the members. In the last quarter, $78 have been paid to the sick. The funds to meet the benefits are raised by a membership fee of $1, and whenever these fall below the sum of fifty cents per member, an assessment of $1 per member is ordered.
The association was an outcome of the great number of papers that were floated in the fine wire rooms asking for assistance in all kinds of emergencies, many of which proved to be unwarranted, This organization does away with all possible doubt in the matter, and when the fine wire drawers pay out their money for benefits they know they are well placed and deserved, nor do the men feel in being helped by the association that the act is one of charity, for each has paid into the treasury.
BREVITIES.
—A regular meeting of Grover Post, G. A. R., No. 98, will be held on Monday, July 16, at 8 P. M.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Palmer & Co., Special, page 8; J. W. Cudworth, Optical talks, page 5.
—Mr. James E. Edwards has a natural curiosity in the form of a year old apple tree graft that is now in full bloom.
—The Cortland Actives defeated the DeRuyter baseball team yesterday in a close and well played game. Manager Wells has a good aggregation of players together.
—The union service to-morrow evening will be in the Presbyterian church and the sermon will be preached by Rev. O. A. Houghton, D. D., pastor of the First M. E. church.
—Ketchum secured three of Milwaukee's eight hits in yesterday's game with Indianapolis and made two out of three runs. He stole a base and took three chances without an error.
—An adjourned meeting of the First M. E. church Epworth league will be held to-night in the church parlors. Important business will come before the meeting and a full attendance is desired.
—J. H. Cowan of Colorado, a postgraduate student in the College of Horticulture, Cornell university, was operated upon for appendicitis at the City hospital in Ithaca early in the week and died Thursday night, acute jaundice having set in. He had just been elected professor of horticulture in the Colorado Agricultural college at Fort Collins, Colorado.
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