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| Count Alfred Von Waldersee. |
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| Count Von Waldersee reviews Russian troops at Tien Tsin. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, August 9, 1900.
LONDON MORE HOPEFUL.
Selection of Von Waldersee Generally Approved.
CONSULS DISAGREE AT SHANGHAI.
Goodnow Opposes Seymour's Intention to Land Troops, Fearing It Would Cause Trouble—More of the Edict Offering Ministers Escort to Tien Tsin.
LONDON, Aug. 9.—Beyond the official news given out yesterday the morning papers contain no direct information of importance from China. Thanks to the dispatches of Sir Claude MacDonald and Rear Admiral Bruce, there is a general disposition to take a more hopeful view of the situation. The report of the appointment of Field Marshal Count Von Waldersee as commander-in-chief of the international forces meets with general approval.
The Rome correspondent of The Daily Mail announces the reception there of official dispatches from the Italian minister in Pekin, Marquis Salvago Raggi, asserting that he left Pekin on July 31 presumably for Tien Tsin. This, however, is so utterly at variance with the action and intentions of the other ministers heard from that it seems almost incredible. If true it opens up an interesting field of speculation concerning the fate of the Italian representative.
The text of the edict of Aug. 2 authorizing the escort of the ministers from Pekin to Tien Tsin is given out at the Chinese legation and says in part:
"In view of the existence of hostilities between certain Chinese rebels and foreign powers, caused by the Christian feelings of the Chinese people, we have afforded reasonable protection to the foreign representatives in Pekin; and the Tsung Li Yamen has sent to the legations letters of inquiry and proposals for their safe conveyance under escort to Tien Tsin, in order to avoid apprehension of further attack from the rebels before the complete restoration of peace and order in the capital."
''We have now on the advice of Li Hung Chang and Liu Kun Yi, to authorize Yung Lu to escort them to Tien Tsin. If there be any rebels en route trying to endanger the safety of the party, the officials have to destroy the rebels at once."
The Chinese legation believes that the members of the foreign legations have not yet left Pekin, but that they will do so, and declares that the edict would not have been issued had not the foreign ministers signified a willingness to accept the escort.
The Shanghai correspondent of The Daily News wiring yesterday says: "United States Consul Goodnow strongly opposes Admiral Seymour's intention to land 3,000 troops on the ground that such an act would not be warranted by the circumstances and would be likely to create trouble. M. Bezaure, the French consul, agrees to the arrangement but says that if the British land forces, the French will do likewise. The Austrians also will land men. My personal opinion is that the landing of troops here at the present moment would be a grave mistake."
The Daily Chronicle commenting upon American criticism of the character of Chinese "news" printed in some of the London dailies admits that the charges are only too true and that the practices of certain papers in this respect are opposed to the best traditions of British journalism. It joins in the American protest against trashy sensationalism.
Almost all the news in this morning's papers upon which credence is placed comes either from Washington or direct from British officials.
CHANGES GALORE.
New York Charitable Institutions to Undergo Revision of Conditions.
ALBANY, Aug. 9.—Deputy State Comptroller Theodore P. Gilman and Robert W. Hebbard, secretary of the state board of charities who, on behalf of the state comptroller and the president of the board of charities recently investigated the state charitable and reformatory institutions and developed the startling disclosures regarding conditions at the Hudson House of Refuge for Women, the Syracuse institution for Feeble Minded Children and the State Custodial asylum for Women at Newark, have submitted a report.
They have prepared a reclassification of positions and salaries in all these institutions, but the schedule of salaries is still subject to revision and is withheld. The committee in its report says that the stewards of each of the institutions are required to give bonds to the comptroller for the faithful performance of his duties.
"Ascertaining that non-resident physicians employed by some of the institutions, at a considerable salary, have not always been able to give due attention to the duties of their positions, we have recommended the appointment of resident physicians at the following institutions:
"New York State Reformatory, Elmira; State Industrial School, Rochester; House of Refuge, Randall's Island; House of Refuge for Women, Hudson; Western House of Refuge for Women, Albion; and the New York State Reformatory for Women, Bedford.
"Realizing the importance of having women parole officers constantly searching for positions for persons discharged from the House of Refuge, as well as watching over those who are paroled, we have provided for the employment of women parole agents at Houses of Refuge for Women at Hudson and Albion, and at the State Reformatory for Women at Bedford."
Women marshals at these institutions have also been provided for.
The Automobile Industry.
According to The Automobile Almanac for 1900, there are at present in use in the United States 688 automobiles, or about one-tenth the number in France.
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| William Jennings Bryan. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIAL.
Did Not Refer to Negro Suffrage.
The speech of acceptance of William Jennings Bryan of the Democratic nomination for the presidency was wholly devoted to the subject of imperialism, which he, through the Democratic platform, calls the paramount issue. He denounced the attempt to govern the barbarians of the Philippine Islands without immediately giving them the right of franchise and compares the Filipinos with the colonists in this country before the revolutionary war. He overlooks the fact that the colonists were fully civilized and the peers of the inhabitants of the mother country, in fact, were of them till they came to America. The difference between the condition of the colonists and the Filipinos is, as a matter of fact, beyond comparison. But while he is talking of the franchise for Filipinos he absolutely ignores the fact that his own party has just taken the right of franchise away from hundreds of thousands of colored citizens of the United States and he doesn't raise the first protest against it. Concerning this action The Mail and Express makes the following timely remarks:
With a majority of more than 50,000 in approval of a constitutional amendment to disfranchise her negro citizens, the state of North Carolina has joined in a movement which is fraught with grave consequences to the political interests of the South. The word has gone forth among the white people of the southern states that the negro must be eliminated from politics, and while this command dates back more than twenty-live years it is now being executed by methods which are relatively new and thoroughly effective. The plan at present in vogue aims not only to destroy negro suffrage, but to do so under the forms of law, and it has already produced results which seriously concern the country at large.
The progress of this concerted policy of destruction against the rights of the colored voter has been both consistent and rapid. It began in Mississippi, where more than 90 per cent of the colored citizens were disfranchised by a constitutional amendment establishing educational qualifications which bar ignorant negroes, but do not bar ignorant whites. Louisiana adopted a similar amendment; South Carolina did likewise and North Carolina now follows their example. In these four states 400,000 negroes have been robbed of the ballot solely because of their color, while a large number of white voters equally ignorant are permitted to exercise the franchise. Virginia and Alabama have already taken steps toward disfranchisement, while Georgia is also looking in that direction and it is predicted by the author of a special article on this subject in the Sun that within three years the various states we have named will have deprived 785,000 negroes of their right to vote.
The trick by which the ignorant negro is "eliminated from politics" while the ignorant white man is permitted to retain the franchise, is the same in nearly all the states where the movement has been undertaken. Take the amendment adopted in North Carolina last Thursday as an example. After stipulating that no person shall be permitted to vote unless he possesses certain exacting educational qualifications, it provides as follows:
But no male person who was on Jan. 1, 1867, or at any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under the laws of any state in the United States wherein he then resided, and no lineal descendant of any such person, shall be denied the right to register and vote at any election in this state by reason of his failure to possess the educational qualification herein prescribed, provided he shall have registered in accordance with the terms of this section prior to Dec. 1, 1898.
The purpose of that provision is perfectly clear. It is to keep the ignorant white Democrat in politics and drive the ignorant black Republican out. That illiterate voters have too much power in the control of public affairs, not only at the South but in other sections of the country, is doubtless true. We believe also that a general movement to curtail their power by enforcing rigorous, impartial educational tests would command hearty popular approval. But the attempt of the southern Democrats to draw the color line on ignorance and to distinguish between the illiterate white man and the illiterate black man, to the disadvantage of the latter, is not only grossly unjust, but a direct infraction of the following provision of the Fourteenth amendment to the Federal constitution:
When the right to vote is denied to any of the male members of such state, being 21 years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such state.
Under the authority thus defined any congress so disposed could seriously reduce the congressional and electoral representation of Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina because of their wholesale disfranchisement of negro citizens. By such readjustment three of those states would lose 50 per cent of their present representation, and the other would lose 33 1/2 per cent. The question, therefore, is whether the South shall be permitted to destroy negro suffrage and still claim representation on the numerical basis of her disfranchised negro citizens. This issue will become more and more acute as the southern states continue their evident purpose of destroying the negroes' rights. For surely the representative white leaders at the South cannot expect the people of the other sections to submit permanently to so gross a perversion of constitutional power when the remedy lies in their own hands.
BRYANISM ANALYZED.
IT IS FREE SILVER AND MEANS SILVER MONOMETALISM.
Communication from Riley Champlin—Shows that Imperialism, Militarism and Expansion are but Blinds to Draw Attention from the Real Issue, and They Amount to Nothing Anyway.
To the Editor of The Standard:
SIR—When the Populistic National convention met at Sioux Falls, May 10, 1900, to place in nomination candidates for president and vice-president, the merits and political antecedents of Mr. Bryan were discussed. The fact that Bryan voted for Weaver, the Populist candidate for president, and urged the appointment of Allen, a well-known Populist for senator from Nebraska when a Democrat sought the position, were among the reasons cited to show that in all essential particulars he was a Populist. The fact that Bryan was masquerading under the label of Democracy among the uninitiated required some explanation, but the explanation of the leaders was in kind with that made by the colored deacon when he introduced a white minister to a colored congregation saying, "he may have a white skin, but, brederin, he has as black a heart as any one of you."
With equal assurance and entire truthfulness the Populist leaders were able to assure their followers that Bryan, notwithstanding the misleading label of Democracy, was in all things a Populist, and the Populist convention so believing made him their nominee. When the Democratic convention met at Kansas City, the Populist leaders were there in force, not only to insist that Bryan should be nominated, but also to insist that the Democratic platform should be inculcated with the virus of Populism. That the Populists succeeded in both of the purposes mentioned, the records of the convention and platform adopted fully attests.
Notwithstanding the fact that the people of this country have with great emphasis once placed their seal of condemnation upon the revolutionary and anarchistic Chicago platform of 1896, the Kansas City platform readopts and reaffirms it, and it is now the substratum or corner stone upon which the Kansas City platform rests. By reason of new matter added the Kansas City platform is even more objectionable than the platform which it attempts to rejuvenate. To some of the glaring absurdities, groundless assumptions and hypocritical pretenses contained in the Kansas City platform, attention is now invited.
In that portion of "The Innocents Abroad" where Mark Twain weeps over the tomb of Adam and gives vent to his "tumultuous emotions," we have presented the most exquisite sense of the humorous, but the humor consists in the extreme absurdity of the situation which the author's lively imagination has created. When the Bryanites at the Kansas City convention and later at Lincoln charged their opponents with an attempt to destroy our republican form of government and erect upon its ruins a militarism, or an empire, they more than equaled Twain in absurdity. No one who has read the account of Twain weeping over the tomb of Adam, his far distant relative, has failed to understand that it was humor pure and simple, and no intelligent person who has read the emanations of the Bryanite orators at Kansas City and at Lincoln has failed to understand that their pretended fear of militarism or an empire is unblushing and unmistakable hypocrisy. To suppose that these men believe their own utterances would be an imputation either upon their intelligence or their sanity.
With reference to the charge of militarism the best answer is a brief statement of undisputed facts. We have at the present time, including our island possessions, a population of about 85,000,000 and we have a citizen soldiery, consisting of about 85,000 men—that is 1,000 soldiers for every 1,000,000 of inhabitants. Bear in mind that our soldiers are not Hessians nor hirelings, but American citizens—not conscripts compelled to render military service, but in the service because they have voluntarily requested to be there. And yet the Bryanite orators claim to be in fear and trembling lest 1,000 citizen soldiers should subvert the liberties of 999,000 of their fellow citizens.
But a farther fact is significant. Many of the orators at the Kansas City convention were in congress and voted with great unanimity to create this so-called militarism—not only voted to create the army, but to arm and equip it. If the creation of this military force was likely to endanger our republican form of government, why did these men vote to create it? The Bryanites entertain very little respect for the intelligence of the American people, if they expect that credence will be given to their charge that the party in power desires to create a militarism or an empire.
We must have a navy and an army to protect our rights at home and abroad, but at present our navy is a very small one and our army by far the smallest in the world in proportion to our population and our importance among the nations of the world. The pretense that our present military force is a threat against the liberty of our citizens, and a danger to our institutions, is the lowest and most contemptible demagoguery ever put forth by a party asking to be entrusted with political power.
The Kansas City platform devotes considerable space to the subject of imperialism, the consent of the governed, and our retention of the Philippine Islands. As there are no imperialists in this country, either to the manor born or naturalized, opposition in the platform to so-called imperialism can only mean opposition to expansion.
The charge that our government in the acquisition or retention of the Philippine Islands, has been despotic, or imperialistic, has no foundation to rest upon; but on the contrary is utterly disproved by conceded historic facts, which can neither be gainsaid or denied.
To some of the historic facts attention is now invited. After 100 days' war, Spain sued for peace, and on the 12th day of August, 1898, a protocol was entered into between the United States and Spain which provided among other things, that commissioners of the respective powers should meet at Paris, not later than Oct. 1, 1898, to negotiate terms of peace, and that hostilities in the meantime should cease. In the peace convention which met in pursuance of the protocol, the United States was represented by five gentlemen, distinguished for their learning, character and ability. This peace convention continued its labors until the 10th day of December, 1898, when a treaty of peace was signed including in its provisions a cession of the Philippine islands to the United States, the United States agreeing to pay therefor $20,000,000. The immediate effect of the agreement at Paris was to continue the suspension of hostilities until the treaty was acted upon by the senate of the United States and the proper authorities in Spain. The treaty thus agreed upon was in due time transmitted to the senate of the United States for consideration. After a long protracted discussion on Feb. 6, 1899, a vote was reached, and fifty-seven senators voted in favor of the ratification of the treaty, and twenty-seven senators voted against its ratification. This treaty had to have a two-thirds majority in order to ratify it. The Republicans in the senate when this treaty was under consideration were in the minority and could not have given the treaty a majority vote, much less a two-thirds majority. The Bryanites at that time had a majority in the senate, and if they had all voted against the ratification, there would have been a majority against the treaty. Let us see how the vote stood politically. Seventeen Bryanite senators voted to ratify the treaty, and more than that they so voted under Bryan's advice. The twenty-seven votes were not all given by Bryanite senators, for at least four Republicans voted against ratification.
The moment the treaty was ratified, our title and sovereignty in the islands ceded to us by Spain, was and now is as perfect and unassailable, as our title to the territory embraced in the Louisiana purchase, the territory acquired in the Florida purchase, the territory acquired from Mexico or to Alaska, or any other territory or possession of the United States. Not only is our title as perfect and unassailable to the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico as to any territory over which we claim sovereignty, but it is derived in precisely the same way—by treaty.
It is a source of title and sovereignty recognized by all civilized nations. Bryan knew this when he pleaded to have the treaty ratified and every senator knew it when he voted for its ratification. The treaty was thus ratified ''by and under the advice and consent of the senate" in the manner designated by the constitution, and also ratified by and under the advice and consent of Mr. Bryan, which to his followers must make our sovereignty in these islands still more sacred and unassailable. The treaty had to be sent to Spain for ratification, so that in fact ratifications were not exchanged until April 12, 1899.
Having acquired sovereignty over these islands, it was the bounden duty of the executive branch of this government to protect our sovereignty therein to the fullest extent of its power.
From the time the protocol was entered into down to the time ratifications were exchanged our position at Manila and in the Philippines was made extremely embarrassing by Aguinaldo and his Tagalog followers. Until ratifications were exchanged Spanish sovereignty continued to exist in the Philippines and the people still remained Spanish subjects. When news of the protocol reached Manila our troops occupied the city and our flag floated over it and the forts designed to protect it. It was the duty of our government to see that its forces on land and sea observed the suspension of hostilities, bat at the same time it was our duty to preserve order and protect life and property in the city. It was a duty we owed to Spain, to ourselves and to the foreign powers, whose consulates and citizens required protection. It was a duty we could not ignore without a sacrifice of our national honor. During all this time, our officers made every possible effort to avoid trouble and even submitted to indignities to avoid conflict. Instead of our efforts to preserve peace being met by a reciprocal feeling, it was ascribed to cowardice.
Aguinaldo was bound to bring on a conflict and without any provocation succeeded in bringing on a conflict after the date for the vote on the treaty had been agreed upon, evidently hoping that news of the conflict would defeat the treaty. Aguinaldo and his Tagalog followers fired upon our flag and our men, because we insisted upon protecting the city and guarding life and property within it, and would not allow the city to be looted and its people massacred by his miscreant band. The conflict inaugurated by Aguinaldo was in existence when the treaty was ratified and our government had to protect its men, guard the honor of our flag and maintain its sovereignty in these islands or admit that oar great republic was unable to protect its flag, its men, or its national honor.
President McKinley met the situation frankly and fearlessly—and in the only way it could honorably be met; in a message to congress in which he uses this language: "Until congress shall have made known the formal expression of its will, I shall use the authority vested in me by the constitution and the statutes to uphold the sovereignty of the United States in those distant islands as in all other places where our flag rightfully floats. I shall put at the disposal of the army and navy all the means which the liberality of congress and the people have provided to cause this unprovoked and wasteful insurrection to cease."
Republicans and Democrats, McKinleyites and Bryanites in congress with almost one accord have voted to send ships and men to the Philippine Islands to put down this "unprovoked and wasteful insurrection." The Bryanites distinctly knew that the forces sent to the Philippine Islands, were sent there to put down armed resistance to our authority, and yet they voted men and money for that purpose. It will be a difficult task for these men to satisfy the people that it was proper and patriotic to vote men and money to put down the insurrection in the Philippines, but imperialistic to use the men and money for such a purpose.
The talk of Mr. Bryan and his followers about the "consent of the governed" does not seem to require very serious consideration. That illustrious Democrat, Thomas Jefferson, the author of the phrase, evidently did not think that it was a condition precedent to the acquisition of territory, that the consent of the inhabitants residing in the acquired territory should first be obtained. He did not ask the consent of the inhabitants of the northwest when through the Louisiana purchase, he acquired that vast territory. That other great Democrat, James Monroe, did not require such consent when under his administration the territory embraced in the Florida purchase was acquired. Again, when through another Democratic administration we acquired California, New Mexico and other territory from Mexico, the consent of the inhabitants living therein was not asked for or deemed necessary. It is true the illustrious Democrats referred to were not Kansas City platform Democrats; neither were they 16-to-1 Democrats. It would be impracticable in all instances and impossible in many to ascertain the wishes of the inhabitants residing in territory sought to be acquired. Never in the history of this or any other country has such consent been asked. Even the pilgrim fathers, "honored in story and in song," did not, when they landed at Plymouth Rock, inquire whether the native population wished them to remain or re-embark. Many of the delegates to the Kansas City convention had had occasion to consider what the "consent of the governed" meant, when from January, 1861 to April, 1865, they had insisted that under our constitution there was no power under the federal government to coerce a sovereign state. If their insistence had then prevailed the Union would have been dissevered, and a new government whose corner stone would have been human slavery would have defaced and divided the map that now points the boundary of the greatest republic the world has ever known. Talk about "the consent of the governed" comes with bad grace from that portion of the country, where millions of people have no voice in the government, unless it is to stand up and be counted in order to increase the congressional and electoral vote in the states in which they live. And yet Bryan's only hope of success rests upon the electoral vote of states where these conditions exist.
Militarism, imperialism and "the consent of the governed" are not the real issues in this canvass, but are made a part of the Kansas City platform to divert attention from the real issue. With the doctrine of free silver twice endorsed in the platform, and with Bryan as the candidate the issue is free silver. He declined to accept the Democratic nomination unless free sliver was specifically endorsed. If Bryan should be elected, he will exert all the power and influence at his command to secure the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and free coinage of silver at that ratio means silver monometalism.
If elected, no one can say that he would not succeed in driving this country to silver monometalism. If he should in fact fail to accomplish this result, the fear of its accomplishment would work great injury to public and private credit and seriously impair public confidence. As an inevitable result, his election would injure business, depress the prosperity that now exists and retard the prosperity that seems reasonably assured in the future, if we let well enough alone.
PATRONS' PICNIC.
FIRST ANNUAL OUTING A MARKED SUCCESS.
Large Crowd at the Park Yesterday—Bountiful Dinner at the Pavilion—Good Speeches—Music by Cortland Drum Corps.
The expectations of the committee of arrangements for the Patrons of Industry picnic which was held yesterday at the Cortland park were more than realized in reference to the number in attendance, the enthusiasm manifested, and the success of the affair in every particular. Every association in the county was represented and members of the organization from Onondaga and Tompkins counties were also present.
The patrons were on hand early in the morning and before 9 o'clock the baskets of provisions which had been left at the office of the Traction Co., on Main-st., in charge of the committee on transportation presented an array which gave evidence of the bountiful dinner which was soon to be spread at the park and to which the members did ample justice a little later in the day.
The first ears left for the park at 9:30 and from that time each car carried additions to the number of picknickers. Many from the northern part of the county drove as far as Homer and took the electric cars from there.
Dinner was served at noon and of the excellence of this part of the program little need be said. There was an abundance of everything and the quality was P. I. No. 1 [sic]. Four tables were spread the whole length of the large hall, and others the entire length of the verandas. Each association was assigned a section and all sat down to dinner at the same time.
A short program of music and addresses had been prepared and at 1:30 o'clock the company gathered about the bandstand and Chairman J. H. May called the assembly to order and introduced the first speaker of the afternoon, Mr. A. J. Sears of Cortland, who delivered an appropriate address of welcome to all who were in attendance.
State Secretary John F. Ross of Pennellville, Oswego county, was the next speaker, and he was followed by Mr. C. H. Scoville, county president of Onondaga county and editor of the Garden, Farm and Fireside, the official organ of the organization in Onondaga county.
The last speaker of the afternoon was Mr. Smith Soules of Cicero, N. Y., president of the largest association of Patrons of Industry in Onondaga county. Mr. Soules is thoroughly posted on all matters pertaining to the organization and is a firm believer in the benefits of the organization. He spoke of the care that should be exercised in the selection and admission of members, and dwelt upon the benefits to be derived from the organization. Referring to the contract system he said, that while it was a good thing it was by no means the principal feature of the organization, and members who joined for the purpose of benefitting themselves from this alone would not get the most good out of the organization. He referred to the co-operation plan of insurance and said that steps had already been taken to make this one of the features of the organization.
Music throughout the day was furnished by the Cortland drum corps.
Business Manager Frank Eigabroadt of Syracuse was an interested visitor at the picnic. The success of this first annual picnic was largely due to the untiring efforts of the county committee on arrangements, Messrs. J. H. May, A. J. Sears, Geo. A. Wilber, Mrs. Marvin Wadsworth and Mrs. Eugene Underwood, and to the committee of three from each local association.
The park car registers showed last night that there were more than one thousand people at the park yesterday and it is safe to say that of this number fully nine hundred were in attendance at the Patrons of Industry picnic.
A NEIGHBORHOOD PICNIC.
Charles-st. United in a Pleasant Outing at the Park.
With the thermometer at 98 and Old Sol steadily increasing in his glaring heat some of the residents of quiet Charles-st. thought a neighborhood picnic far preferable to an "at home." No, sooner thought of than they got together as only women will and found the whole street anxious to be of one mind in one place. Yesterday was the day fixed upon, and while we are not bound together by ties of fraternity we did find as we assembled that the management of the affair was up-to-date in every particular and genial hospitality prevailed, for in absence of programs and the like, an old-fashioned visit came in play. Very few families were unrepresented and in each case they were unavoidably detained.
One very pleasing feature of the afternoon which was not intended for our company was the "tableau on the beach.'' Fortunately a young man with us finding his Kodak the "we two" were simply taken and only witnesses will be able to recognize the picture in time to come.
Then we came to the heavily laden table which would bring a smile to the face of an epicure. We reached our home to find in our absence a refreshing shower had visited us, but fair "Luna" was peeping out from a clear sky. It is needless to say that an annual return of a like gathering will find favor among our neighbors and many will respond.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hammond, Arthur and Eugene Hammond, Mrs. H. Wilcox, Wilson Wilcox, Mrs. J. Lonergan, Edith Lonergan, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Erway, Ethel Erway, Mrs. G. O. Barnes (of New York,) Mrs. J. Quigley, Mrs. L. M. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. J. Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. J. Gillette, Master Harold White, Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Hike, Ward Jones, Mrs. W. H. Harter, Grace Howard, Miss Catley of Tully, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Tyler, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Price, Neil Price, Mrs. J. Winters, Mrs. Rooks, Charlie and Eddie Hillock, Mr. and Mrs. R. Beard, Ward Beard, Mr. and Mrs. F. Northrup, Miss Effie Northrup, Mrs. H. Colligan, Mr. and Mrs. W. Barnes, Mrs. C. Cramer, Miss Edith Cramer, Mrs. D. E. Stanford, Leon Stanford, Mrs. D. Conger, Miss Richardson, Mrs. H. L. Peckham.
ONE OF THE PICNICKERS.
THE BATES FAMILY
Annual Picnic at the Park—Officers for Next Year Elected.
The descendants of Lemuel Bates, who died in 1882 at the advanced age of 91 years and five months, held their annual reunion and picnic at the park yesterday. An elaborate dinner was served. Capt. C. W. Wiles of Delaware, O., delighted his hearers with his spicy remarks. The six brothers and sisters, who with their families were present, were Messrs. S. S. Bates of McLean, Joseph T. Bates and Henry Bates of Cortland, William Bates and Mrs. Alonzo Borthwick of Freetown, Mrs. Owen Brooks of Dryden. No deaths have occurred which is quite remarkable considering the age of the older members, aged respectively 81, 78. 73.
The following officers wore elected:
President—S. S. Bates of McLean.
Vice-President—Henry Bates of Cortland.
Secretary—Miss Mina Bates of Cortland.
The next reunion will be held at the park the first Wednesday in August.
CONTRACTS SIGNED
For Paving Groton-ave.—City Authorities to Sign at Once.
The contracts for the paving of Groton-ave. have been returned to Cortland signed by the Warren-Scharf Paving Co. and their sureties. They will be promptly signed by the city officials and the copy returned to the paving company, and it is expected that work will begin at once.
WORK TO BEGIN PROMPTLY
In the Construction of the New Independent Telephone Plant.
Mr. James S. Brailey, Jr., president, and Mr. William Callahan, chief engineer of the Central Construction Co., are in the city to direct and supervise the construction of the Home Telephone company's plant. Immediate and positive steps will be taken for the prosecution of the work. A large quantity of tools, pole steps, thirty barrels of glass insulators and about five tons of hardware have just arrived at the D., L. & W. station. A meeting of the board of directors will probably be held this afternoon or evening.
SHAPLEY-PHELPS REUNION
Held at Harford on Wednesday—Next Year Will be at Marathon.
The second annual reunion of the Shapley and Phelps families was held yesterday on the public green in the village of Harford and was largely attended by representatives from this and adjoining counties. A bountiful dinner was served at about noon and after all had done full justice to the good things the company was called to order by Mr. Frank A. Phelps of Cortland, the chief counselor, who made appropriate remarks concerning the reunion of the families. He also read letters of regret from Mrs. Sarah Creamer of Syracuse, from Miss Fannie Lombard of Binghamton, and extracts from a letter from his brother Andrew Phelps of Chicago, Ill.
Officers for next year were then elected as follows:
Chief Counselor—Oren Shapley of Harford.
Vice-Counselor—John H. Phelps of Cortland.
Secretary and Treasurer—Earl M. Phelps of Cortland.
Assistant Secretary— Miss Frances Phelps of Cortland.
Executive Committee—Miss Rena Hopkins, Cortland; Miss Millie Phelps, Cortland; Mrs. Jennie Ennis, Auburn; Mrs. Neva Wilcox, Harford; George Shapely, Tully; Harry Shapely, Marathon.
The report of the treasurer was then presented and a vote of thanks was adopted for the Harford members of the families and the courtesies extended in connection with this reunion. Appropriate Scripture was then read and prayer offered by L. R. Lewis, and all joined in singing "Blest be the Tie that Binds," and the business session was at an end. The remainder of the day was devoted to visiting and renewing old friendships.
The next reunion will be held on the third Wednesday in August, 1901, at the home of Mrs. Frances A. Lombard at Marathon.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Byron M. Phelps, Webb Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Phelps, Earl M. Phelps, Misses Nora, Frances and Jessie Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Phelps, Herbert Phelps, Robert A. Phelps, Millie Phelps, B. Harry Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Lewis, Paul N. Lewis, Ralph E. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Ogden, Blanche Viola Ogden, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Williams, Miss Emily A. Hammond, all of Cortland; Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Rounds, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ennis, Oliver H. Phelps, all of Auburn; Daniel N. Shapley, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shapley, Mrs. Sarah Shapley, Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Wilcox, Earl Wilcox, Sadie Wilcox, all of Harford; Mrs. Georgia Wilcox, William O. Shapely of Harford Mills; Mrs. Alvira A. Hopkins, Miss Rena Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lombard, Misses Katherine and Jessie Lombard, Harry Lombard, all of Marathon; Mr. and Mrs. George H. Shapley and Luceal Shapley of Tully, Mrs. Euphemia E. Hunt of Dryden and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Yaples of Slaterville Springs.
BREVITIES.
—The regular meeting of Canton Cortland will be held this evening.
—It is said that an astronomical observatory will soon be presented to Cornell university.
—Cortland Commandery, No. 50, K. T., will meet at their regular conclave Friday evening for purpose of transacting business.
—A regular meeting of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. will be held at the association parlor on Monday evening, Aug. 13, at 8 o'clock.
—Eighteen persons near Reading Center, Schuyler Co., were poisoned Tuesday afternoon by eating ice cream. Twelve of them were made violently ill, but they will all recover. This is a warning to all ice cream fiends.
—A couple of Hamilton young men amused themselves the other day shooting at a mark on the barn. Investigation showed that a surrey inside was badly damaged by the bullets and they had occasion to settle for the injuries.
—Six arrests have been made on the [bicycle] sidepaths this week, many of which were made Sunday. One man was so frightened when accosted by an officer on that day that he gave him a wrong name. The man was found later, and yesterday he was fined $10 by Justice Harrington. The rest pleaded guilty and were fined $5 apiece.
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