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| Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, November 27, 1900.
FUNERAL OF SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN.
Elaborate and Impressive Ceremonies for the Dead Composer at London.
LONDON, Nov. 27.—The funeral of Sir Arthur Sullivan, the composer, took place at noon to-day in the royal chapel of St. James as the queen had commanded. The ceremony was of the most elaborate and impressive ever held in London. The chapel was beautifully decorated and the casket was buried in floral pieces, many of which bore the cards of distinguished personages of Europe. Magnificent floral tributes had been sent by the queen and by Emperor William. Four glass hearses were required to hold the flowers. The chapel choir was attired in the historic robes of scarlet and gold and the music included selections from Sullivan's oratorios. A distinguished assemblage was present at the ceremony. The musical element predominated but the drama, literature, medicine, the fine arts and freemasonry were prominently represented.
Among those present were Ambassador Choate and his family; the Earl and Countess of Stratford; the Countesses of Shrewsbury and Essex, and Lord Glenesak. Without the chapel great crowds had gathered in which all classes were represented. The route of the funeral cortege along Pall Mall and the embankment was lined with people who uncovered as the hearse passed.
Interment was at St. Paul's Cathedral and was accomplished with impressive ceremonies.
STORM OF VAST AREA.
Wind, Rain and Snow Throughout New York State.
WASHOUTS AND OTHER DAMAGE.
Constant Rains Have Swelled Rivers All Over the State and the Country Contiguous to the Streams Is Reported to Be Flooded. Cities Suffer.
CORNING, N. Y., Nov. 27.—There has been an almost steady downpour of rain since Saturday noon and all the small streams in this city have overflowed and considerable damage was done. The Cohocton and Canisteo rivers have flooded the country through which they flow and caused a heavy loss by flooding. The Chemung river formed by these two is overflowing its banks in many places The volume of water is but a little less than it was in the June, 1889, flood. The Erie and New York Central Railroads have much difficulty in running trains. Many bridges and sections of track were washed out.
WRECK AT CASCADE.
Lehigh Valley Train Ran Into Washout and Passengers Walked.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Nov. 27.—A special to the Post Standard from Auburn says that the Lehigh Valley passenger train due in that city at 10:20 yesterday morning was wrecked by running into a washout at Cascade on Owasco Lake yesterday.
One man was injured. The passengers were forced to walk back four miles to Moravia and were taken in busses from there over the hills to a relief train and brought to Auburn late in the afternoon.
THE DAM WENT OUT
And Made a Big Washout at Moravia, N. Y.—Village Flooded.
MORAVIA, Nov. 26.—One of the worst washouts and floods in this section occurred yesterday, and this morning it is still raining. The dam of E. E. Palmer went away last night. In the southern part of the village Morse's creek overflowed its banks, and the inlet has done the same, the flats in the western and northern portions being covered. Farmers coming to town have to ride through water to the wagon hubs. Several sidewalks have been washed away. Main creek rose suddenly to within a foot of the girders, but if the rain ceases no danger will be feared. It is one of the heaviest falls of rain on record in this vicinity.
Elmira Streets Flooded.
ELMIRA, N. Y., Nov. 27.—The high water is evidently reaching its climax here. Last night the Chemung River registered 14 feet, 6 inches above low water level and was slowly rising. Many parts of the city are flooded and the fire and police departments were busy all the afternoon and evening in the work of rescue. Nearly all of the basements of the business district are under water. The property loss will be considerable. Telephone messages from points along the headwaters of the Chemung report the worst floods since 1889. At Knoxville, Pa., two railroad bridges were swept away. Traffic on the Cowanesque branch of the Pennsylvania division of the New York Central is suspended.
Two Feet of Slush at Niagara Falls.
NIAGARA FALLS, Nov. 27.—This city is navigating in two feet of slush and trolley cars have been having a hard time of it on the St. Catherine's, Buffalo and Lockport lines. Cars were kept running with difficulty. Trains on the Grand Trunk, Michigan Central and other western lines are from a half hour to an hour late. Telephone and railroad wires are in bad shape.
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| Moncure D. Conway. |
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| Booker T. Washington. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The Lynchers.
The lynching blot on the reputation of Colorado will not out. The public opinion of the country at large has compelled the governor of that state to begin proceedings against the mob that burned the negro at the stake. How much meaning this order will have will be determined by future events, which will be watched closely, for this is a test case.
So long as there is a continuance of public lynchings, whose offense against the law is aggravated by the borrowing of legal forms, so long must the arguments against lynching be repeated. The extension of the practice into northern states from the South must be resisted with the same fidelity as was the attempt to extend slavery from the slave states to the free states. If lynching is to be prevented from becoming a national as well as a southern habit, the prevention must be accomplished by implanting clear ideas as to the folly and danger of the custom.
Lynching is an antiquated method of redressing wrongs. The struggle of centuries has been to substitute the law of the community for the revenge of the individual. The character of lynching as a relapse to primitive methods is indicated by the selection of the nearest relative of the victim of the lynched man to determine the method of death or to apply the match at the stake. This is a survival of the old "avenger of blood," a similar survival of which is seen in the southern vendetta.
One of the most concise summaries that has been made of the arguments against lynching was given recently by the most distinguished of living negroes, Booker T. Washington. Mr. Washington said regarding the lynching in Colorado:
The same class of people who begin to break the law by lynching a negro will soon learn to break the law by lynching a white man.
Wherever people begin to lynch for one kind of offense they are soon led into the temptation of lynching for any other kind of offense. Aside from the injustice that is perpetrated upon the individual put to death without a legal trial, we must bear in mind that there is a permanent degradation which comes to the individual who takes part in and witnesses such an outrage as occurred in Colorado.
I think that the Colorado lynching emphasizes the fact that the only way to stop such outbreaks is in the first place to bring about such general education, not only in books, but in industry and thrift, as will make such acts as that which provoked the lynching fewer, and then to educate public sentiment up to the point where the people in all parts of the country will see that we can only have the highest civilization if the law is enforced regardless of race or color.
In a letter to the New York Times Moncure D. Conway gives some sledgehammer blows to the pretense of the South that lynching is committed in defense of honor. In addition to the well known fact that one race alone is the victim of lynching, Mr. Conway says that in the states where nineteen twentieths of the lynchings occur the offenses thus avenged—murder and personal outrage—are punishable by death, and that when left to the courts the guilty negroes are promptly and surely punished. And he adds the significant statement, made on the authority of his residence in the South before the civil war, that in that period negroes were not lynched, except occasionally a free negro. Crimes were committed then, but the negro had a money value as a chattel, and when it came to destroying $1,000 or $1,500 worth of the white man's property, southern honor was not so clamorous.
But whatever the personal feeling that incites or restrains the lyncher, the reputation of America is suffering, as the moral vigor of its people and the integrity of law will suffer by the continuance of such crude and barbaric practices. Lynch law is not law any more than counterfeit money is money.—Troy Times.
TIOUGHNIOGA CHAPTER
Of Daughters of the American Revolution Organized in Cortland.
For nearly a year a project has been on foot whereby Cortland might keep pace with the spirit of the age and have a local branch of the Daughters of the American Revolution. On Oct. 11, 1900, Mrs. Samuel Verplanck, New York state regent, met a number of ladies at the home of Mrs. Silas W. Sherwood and steps were taken toward the organization of a chapter in this city. The necessary papers have been accepted at Washington and the Tioughnioga chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution of Cortland is a reality, with Mrs. Silas W. Sherwood, regent; Mrs. W. A. Stockwell, finance regent; Mrs. A. M. Jewett, entertainment regent; Mrs. Clara Benedict, registrar; Mrs. N. H. Gillette, program committee; Mrs. Joseph G. Jarvis, membership committee; Mrs. A. P. McGraw, historian and secretary; Mrs. Geo. P. Hollenbeck, Mrs. Louis L. Waters of Syracuse, Mrs. James A. Miles of Derby, Conn., Mrs. Arthur F. Stilson, Mrs. C. P. Walrad, Mrs. F. Daehler, Mrs. J. D. Sherwood and Miss Grace Mead, as charter members, while others have their papers preparing.
The first regular meeting was held with Mrs. S. W. Sherwood yesterday at 3:30 o'clock at which time the regent gave an account of the meeting of chapter regents held with the state regent, Nov. 18, at her ancestral home "Roseneath," Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, and attended by more than thirty regents. Mrs. Sherwood tried to instill into the minds of the ladies some of the enthusiasm with which she was impressed at that meeting.
The programs are being arranged and the next meeting will be a celebration of the "Boston Tea party" at the home of Mrs. Gillette, Dec. 7. The Chapter is desirous of extending its influence by increasing its membership that the spirit of patriotism and loyalty, which is the object of the organization, may be promoted.
MRS. A. P. MCGRAW, Historian and Secretary.
ORRIS HOSE FAIR.
ROUSING SENDOFF LAST NIGHT FOR FIRE LADDIES.
Taylor Hall Beautifully Decked for the Occasion—Plenty of Amusements—Good Entertainments—Judge Eggleston Gives Opening Address.
Taylor hall was dressed in its gayest attire last evening, the event being the opening of the Orris Hose company's fair. The flags, buntings and gorgeously built booths harmonized well under the bright lights, and the place seemed a palace indeed.
The ante-room at the left of the stage is used as a smoking room, and this is well occupied by the guests who wish to indulge in such a pastime. Just outside this is the coffee house, operated by Messrs. Chas. Griffith and Wm. Riley, assisted by that veteran of the profession, Mr. Bert Bosworth. The sweet cider and cigar stand is just between the coffee house and the entrance to the hall, and here also hangs an attractive bicycle, donated by the Cortland Carriage Goods Co., which is to be given away during the progress of the fair. This stand is guarded by Myron T. Crane and Roscoe Smith.
In one corner of the room is the corner grocery, with Mr. A. E. Pearson as the genial proprietor. "Al" says that he is not used to passing out stick candy, peanuts and other 5-cent dribs, but he does handsomely just the same, and would grace any country grocery, although his training has been in an up-to-date furniture store.
The next booth is a guessing place, and you can try all kinds of speculations from guessing at the number of beans in a can up to the highest kind of mental gymnastics. The Japanese booth, where candy and flowers are sold by Mrs. J. W. Angell, Mrs. Ezra Corwin and Miss Elizabeth Manning, is a cozy corner indeed. Japanese handkerchiefs, fans, lanterns and parasols are used in lavish abundance.
Last night the Emerald Hose Co.'s members were guests of honor of the Orris boys. A beautiful banquet lamp was presented by the Emeralds to their hosts. The Cortland City band was present during the entire evening and did much toward making the evening one of marked enjoyment. Mr. Conway's cornet solo was particularly pleasing and he responded to an encore with his usual willingness and skill. Mr. James Fowler, as a soloist, was given the hearty reception always tendered him in Cortland. Clinton Weston's coon song and dance was greatly enjoyed.
Dr. G. A. Tompkins introduced Judge J. E. Eggleston, who was to give the opening address, as the president of the New York state Fireman's association, and the judge spoke for about thirty minutes of the value of volunteer fire associations, of the effective service of the Cortland Fire department and of the part the Orris boys had played in the department. The judge was in his best humor and was frequently applauded.
The following are additional gifts to the fair: The Kremlin [Hotel], cash $10; G. E. Butler, photographs, $3; Stetson Shoe Co., shoes, $5; The Krippendorf Dittmann Co., shoes, $4.50; Neal & Hyde, Syracuse, two rugs, $10; G. W. Bradford, perfumery, $1.
Fifty turkeys will be disposed of to-night and to-morrow night.
The following is the program for to-night:
"PREMIER" MINSTREL COMPANY.
Opining Chorus, Full Company.
End Song, "I Can See Your Finish, Coon," Wilson Wilcox.
Ballad. "When You Were Sweet Sixteen," William Walsh.
Vocal Selections, Imperial Double Quartet.
End Song, "Just Because She Made Those Goo Goo Eyes," Edward Brady.
Ballad. "Where the Sweet Magnolias Bloom," Arthur Williams.
Closing Selection, Double Quartet.
Died in East Virgil.
Mrs. George B. Griswold died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Monroe Bailey, in East Virgil between 11 and 12 o'clock last night. The remains have been brought to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lawson McKee, near the brick schoolhouse. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made. She was nearly sixty-one years old.
BREVITIES.
—Hotel Bennett in Binghamton is to have another story added to meet the demand for more rooms.
—The prayer-meeting connected with the Congregational chapel, East Side, will be held Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Gallagher, 34 Pomeroy-st.
—One of C. W. Stoker's delivery wagons was stranded just after leaving the grocery store this morning by a burr coming off from one of the front axles, letting the wheel drop off.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Tyler &, Smith, Clothing, page 4; Karl von Hamong, Palmistry, page 6; Opera House, "Quo Vadis," page 5; C. F . Thompson, Turkeys, etc., page 5; C. W. Stoker, Groceries, page 7.
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