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| Empress dowager Ci Xi. |
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| Viceroy Li Hung Chang. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, December 27, 1900.
EMPRESS PUT BEHIND.
Will Not Be Officially Recognized by Envoys.
CONGER TAKES A HOPEFUL VIEW.
Spanish Minister, However, Believes That When China Has Accepted the Note Discussion Will Extend For a Year or More—Li a Trifle Better.
LONDON, Dec. 27.—"Mr. Conger takes a hopeful view of the situation," says the Pekin correspondent of The Morning Post, wiring Monday "and thinks that a settlement will be effected, but be declares that no one of the envoys will recognize the empress dowager officially, although all are aware that she has long exercised the supreme power. He believes the crisis will result in the initiation of reforms in China.
"Senor de Cologan, the Spanish minister, fears that the discussion of the joint note, after general acceptance, will extend for a year or more.
"It is rumored that numerous villages east of Pekin are combining to exterminate native Christians, several of whom have been burned in a local temple.
"Li Hung Chang is a trifle better."
CHRISTMAS IN PEKIN.
Troops of Various Nations Observed the Day In Their Own Fashion.
PEKIN, Dec. 27.—Rev. Mr. Kelly, the Presbyterian missionary, who has reported to Minister Conger the burning by Boxers of 19 Catholic Christians, now reports having received further confirmation of the burning of native Christians. He now says the number burned is 21 and he adds that thousands of armed Chinese have been seen in the San Ho country. Mr. Conger has sent a copy of the communication to Field Marshal Count Von Waldersee and Japanese and German troops have been sent to investigate the reports.
The troops of the various nations celebrated Christmas in their own fashion, each force being interested in the doings of the others.
The Germans yesterday were reviewed on the occasion of the presentation of flags to two regiments. The event was made practically international. All the generals and their staffs and detachments of their troops were present, with the result that a great military spectacle was witnessed.
No answer has yet been received to the joint note of the powers.
FOUND DEAD IN NEW YORK.
Dr. U. H. Brown of Syracuse, a Native of Cortland County.
NEW YORK, Dec 27.—The body of a well dressed man, believed by the police to be Dr. U. H. Brown of Syracuse, N. Y., was found this morning in the areaway [sic] of the house of Richard King, a rich stock broker at 200 West 45th-st. An ugly cut in the forehead at first led to the belief that the man had been sandbagged and robbed, but subsequent investigation convinced the police that this theory was a mistaken one.
The body was taken to the West 47th-st. station. There a search of the dead man's pockets revealed papers which the police say contain conclusive proof that the man is Dr. Brown. The body will be held at the station until friends or relatives of the dead man positively identify it and make arrangements for its removal. A roll of money, gold watch and chain, scarf pin, studs and cuff buttons were found on the body and this shook the early impression that he had been the victim of foul play and his death is believed to be purely accidental.
SYRACUSE, Dec. 27.—Dr. U. H. Brown, whose dead body was found in a New York street this morning, was born at Higginsville, Cortland Co., July 14, 1850. His early education was obtained in the old Cortlandville academy. He turned his attention to medicine, and studied in New York and Cleveland. Desiring to fit himself for special practice as an oculist, he later spent a year in London, Paris and Vienna. In 1875 he located in Syracuse where he has built up a large practice. He had many patients in Cortland and vicinity. Dr. and Mrs. Brown went to New York last Friday night and were stopping at the Imperial.
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| Wu Ting Fang. |
NOT AN EASY JOB.
WHAT A CHINESE DIPLOMAT HAS TO CONTEND WITH.
Tact and Ability of Minister Wu and the Value of His Amiable Wife—An Interesting Family In Washington Society.
Under the present circumstances, when everything relating to China and its intercourse with foreign nations is in a state of chaos, it is very difficult to predicate positively anything about the future. The final settlement of the terms of the treaty of peace will probably be delayed for some time, even if an ultimate solution agreeable to all the parties be finally reached. It must, however, be pleasant to Americans to realize that our government has thus far kept out of dangerous entanglements and that the Chinese government recognizes that our good faith and honest intentions are above those of any of the other nations now negotiating with that government.
Among the influences that make for peace between the government of the Flowery Kingdom and that of the United States the diplomatic representatives of the two countries deserve high rank. Minister Conger has shown himself possessed of exceptional strength, while the tact and ability of Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese representative in the United States, are beyond question. During the trying times of the past year, even while the soldiers of the two nations were engaged in open warfare, Minister Wu has shown that he is the right man to set forth the case of his countrymen at Washington.
Minister Wu is likely to need all his diplomatic ability in the near future. His position is somewhat anomalous, since no one can foresee the result of the pending negotiations. Should China accept the terms of the foreign nations, among them the United States, he will in all likelihood be retained here to arrange the details of the final settlement. Should the Chinese government not agree to the terms, its refusal resulting in open hostilities, Mr. Wu might be placed in a ticklish position, to say the least, for the Chinese government has had in the past a disconcerting habit of blaming the wrong person for the failure of negotiations.
Minister Wu, his wife and son are deservedly popular in Washington society, for they are fond of company. Minister Wu speaks English most fluently and therefore dispenses with the services of an interpreter, while his wife has also mastered a little of our tongue. Their son is a bright little chap, and he and his mother often go out together in an automobile. The minister himself is also very fond of that mode of locomotion. Mme. Wu is quite young and dresses in the picturesque Chinese style. Her costumes are made of the very finest of embroidered Chinese- silks, with the addition of brocades, furs and skins in winter. Minister Wu's household contains his own barber, tailor and cook, whom he brought with him. The tailor manufactures the garments of Mme. Wu and her son as well as those of the master of the house.
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| Florence C. Ives. |
MRS. FLORENCE CARPENTER IVES.
A Gifted Woman Whose Relatives are Residents of Homer.
Florence Carpenter Ives, daughter of the late Frank B. Carpenter, the well known artist who painted the "Lincoln Emancipation" picture now in the capitol at Washington, and "Arbitration," which was sent to Queen Victoria, died December 20 in her 46th year, at Quaker Hill, Dutchess county, New York, and was buried at Homer, N. Y. She was born in New York City, March 10th, 1854; was graduated at Rutgers college on Fifth-ave., joined the staff of the Danbury News during its famous prosperity under Mr. Bailey, and was New York correspondent. On her return from Europe in 1888 she wrote for The Tribune, The Press and other New York journals, also for magazines.
On the organization of the World's Fair she was appointed secretary and chief executive officer of the New York state board of the Woman's department of the fair. She performed her duties with great tact and success and was retained to close up the affairs of her department until the organization dissolved.
She had the friendship of distinguished men and women. Governor Flower, Mr. Depew, Mrs. Erastus Corning, Mrs. Daniel Manning and others of influence. She made many strong friends and, in 1895 her proposition to establish a Woman's club in New York received instant encouragement and support. She established The Town and Country club on East 22nd-st., which soon had nearly four hundred members, many of them influential and distinguished women.
Mrs. Ives was proud of the success of her club and her extreme conscientiousness in attending to the wants of her guests and the requirements of the growing business of the institution overtaxed her strength, and the cold which she contracted on Dewey day, a little more than a year ago, never left her system. After a prolonged, lingering illness she died on Quaker Hill overlooking the mountains of picturesque Pawling.
Mrs. Ives was a remarkably handsome woman, of infinite tact and grace, and her father was fond of quoting John Hay, who saw her at a reception on his return from diplomatic service abroad and said: "Mr. Carpenter, I congratulate you on your daughter Florence. I think she is the most beautiful woman I ever saw, charming in every way." As Mr. Hay had been secretary of legation in Madrid, where the handsome women of Europe are said to appear, his appreciation of the artist's lovely daughter was a very high compliment. Her charm of manner excited admiration everywhere. At the marriage of the Duke of Norfolk to Lady Flora Hastings in London, when the wealth and fashion of England were supposed to be present, and where the great Disraeli—Lord Beaconsfield—gave away the bride, a lady recently from court circles in Vienna said Mrs. Ives was the most beautiful in the church and as she walked down the aisle the first women of the day turned to admire her grace and beauty.
But this is of little moment compared with the loveliness of her character. She was the personification of truth and integrity. She was as gentle as a child, yet as immovable as mountains when a question of justice or propriety was at stake. She had the gift of always doing the correct thing. What she did was right and nothing could sway her when once she had decided on a course.
As executive officer of the New York Woman's department at the Chicago World's Fair she had the entire support of the board. It is related that, on the occasion of a trip to the East by special train of a company of officials headed by Governor Flower, the profound courtesy shown Mrs. Ives attracted much attention. As she approached the train the crowd opened, and no princess could have received a more distinguished reception. This was the explanation: Among the delegates from a distant state was an attractive, highly cultivated young woman with a trace of negro blood in her veins. Although she was graduated from a university and a brilliant young woman, officially entitled to all the courtesies due to her position as delegate, accommodations could not be found for her. The reception committee was in an embarrassing dilemma, when Mrs. Ives remarked that she had room and would be glad to receive the delegate as her guest. The incident made a deep impression, and when this beautiful and sincere woman walked quietly down to take the train on that day the southern delegate was with her, where the governor and a lot of swells and stately officials bowed low as she passed along and entered the train—the least conscious of all the throng—her pose like a queen's, a simple beautiful woman, her face lighting with a quiet smile as she greeted her friends who had come to say good-by.
Frank Carpenter, the artist, had reason to be proud of his daughter. She was a pure and noble woman—of lofty character and purpose, absolutely truthful—walking all her days in the straight and narrow path that leads to blessedness. Every act of her life was of grace and beauty. She lived as the flowers live, in sight of Heaven. Every thought was sweet and good. Her dark, tender eyes shone with love and truth. She censured no one, made no hearts sore with hasty speech, was always considerate, patient and wise. Her virtues were like stars. Darkness and adversity but increased their brightness. She was a woman among many—one of those rare and lovely women whom poets immortalize. And now that she has gone from the visible world her example will exert a new influence for good through many years.
The charm of her lovely character, the haunting beauty of her personality, the grace of her manner, her gentleness, goodness, sincerity and deep unfailing loyalty, will remain a dear and blessed memory. The life of such a woman is proof of the divine teachings of immortality.
"Death is Dawn.
"The waking from a weary night
"Of fevers, unto Truth and Light."
Women like the dear sister and mother who sleeps amid the scenes of her childhood, are the hope and promise of humanity.
But their death ends neither their career nor their influence. No warriors of old did more for their country. Of all such women one may say what will be said a thousand years hence, quoting Mr. Gladstone's favorite lines from Byron:
"They fell devoted, but undying;
The very gale their names seem'd sighing;
The waters murmured of their name;
The woods were peopled with their fame;
The silent pillar, lone and gray,
Claim'd kindred with their sacred clay;
Their spirit wrapp'd the dusky mountain;
Their memory sparkled o'er the loan fountain;
The meanest rill, the mightiest river,
Roll'd mingling with their fame forever."
Death of Mrs. Saunders.
Mrs. Edwin Saunders died Tuesday morning at her home in Keeney, after an illness of several months, aged 68 years. Her husband and three children survive. The children are Mr. O. P. Saunders and Miss Jennie Saunders of Keeney and Mrs. A. W. Baker of Oneonta. The funeral was held this afternoon at 1 o'clock.
DISTURBED THE SALVATION ARMY.
Gang of Lads Try to Break Up Meeting Sunday Night.
Charles Dalton, Robert Dillon and Harrison Ray pleaded guilty to the charge of attempting to break up a religious meeting this morning in police court and were sentenced to five, ten and fifteen days respectively in the county jail.
These boys are about fifteen years of age and were complained of by Edward De Barr of the Salvation Army. The boys were brought to police court this morning, but not arrested. Each one told his own story of the matter of the disturbance at the Salvation Army rooms last Sunday night, and stoutly declaimed any part in it. Mr. De Barr was questioned about the circumstance and he claimed that all three of the boys tried to break up their meeting by ''rocking the benches, shuffling their feet," and some of them by kicking the door after they had been asked to go out of the room, and by throwing snow and ice against the door.
When questioned by Judge Davis as to these, the boys differed among themselves, and the truth was easily obtained. Dalton made a partial confession, but would not admit the seriousness of the matter. The others still denied that they had any part in the work, but were quickly brought to own up their misdoings by the judge ordering them arrested. They all pleaded guilty and were sentenced. In giving the boys the sentence, the court stated that if their gang was not broken up by getting rid of the ring leaders, the rest would soon join them. He made it very emphatic that no set of boys would be allowed to go into any place of public worship and try to break up the meeting.
GYMNASTICS FOR BUSINESS MEN.
A Class in the Wanger System to be Organized by the Y. M. C. A.
A business men's class for instruction in the Wanger system of gymnastics will be formed by the Y. M. C. A. at their gymnasium on Monday, Jan. 7th. Work will begin at once and continue every week-day during the month at 5:15 P. M. A fee of $5.00 will be charged, the proceeds, after payment of expenses, going to the Y. M. C. A. The charge in a very reasonable one, including as it does use of lockers, bathroom, etc., and it is hoped that all, or nearly all, of Prof. Wanger's late class will join the new organization.
Mr. Floyd Stoker, who was one of Prof. Wanger's star pupils, and to whom he several times entrusted the conduct of his class, has been secured as instructor. Mr. Stoker was endorsed by Prof. Wanger as being thoroughly competent to teach his method, and has since kept up his practice and gained a remarkable muscular development. He not long since had some photographs taken by Hyatt showing this, and, at the request of some of those interested in the formation of the proposed class, he has consented that copies of these photographs be left at the Y. M. C. A. rooms, that an idea may be had of the possibilities of the Wanger system by those thinking of joining the class. Under the Wanger system benefit cannot help but be gained, the chest measure being increased, waist decreased, muscles generally enlarged and the whole body toned up. The photographs of Mr. Stoker are well worth examining.
Before class work begins, every one proposing to join will be examined by a competent local physician, to make sure that there will be no possible danger of injury from the exercise.
Few, if any, of Prof. Wanger's pupils failed to be pleased with the results of the work done under him, and those who have kept up the exercises which he taught have experienced great benefit from them. There is no reason why Mr. Stoker's instruction should not be equally satisfactory.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Smith & Beaudry, Wall paper, etc., page 7; F. Daehler, A Happy 1901, page 8.
—The Loyal circle of King's Daughters will meet with Mrs. E. R. Wright on Groton-ave. to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.
—The Y. M. C. A. is making arrangements to organize an orchestra of its own. Eight young men who play have asked to have it done and have promised to assist.
—The alumni of the Cortland Normal school who are members of the Grammar School Principals' association now in session in Syracuse are to form an organization to-night.
—The third one hundred of the original order for four hundred residence and business telephones for the Home Telephone Co., arrived this forenoon and are being put up as rapidly as possible.
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