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| John Hay. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, December 15, 1900.
TREATY NOT SPARED.
Senate Amends It Beyond Hope of Acceptance.
READY TO BE SENT TO ENGLAND.
It Is In Such Shape That No One at Washington Believes It Will Be Ratified. Amendment to War Tax Reduction Bill Affecting Express Companies.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. — Unless amended beyond any degree proposed in the senate by the responsible leaders, and resolved into such form as to make it an absolute discourteous matter to be communicated, the pending Hay-Pauncefote treaty will be submitted to the British government by the president.
The communication will be purely pro forma for the administration has not the slightest idea that the convention will be accepted by the British government. If this belief is well founded, then the document will go into the limbo of treaties failed of ratification, its position comparing in some degree with the Olney-Pauncefote arbitration treaty.
Any expectation that the action of the senate upon the Davis amendment to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty would result in the immediate retirement of Secretary Hay from the cabinet, is negative by the fact that the secretary has not resigned and according to his own statement will not leave the cabinet at present.
When the senate went into executive session yesterday Senator Lodge reported the amendments agreed upon in committee. There were two of them. The first of these inserts the words "Which is hereby superseded" after the words "Clayton-Bulwer treaty" in the first paragraph of article 2 of the treaty, making that paragraph read as follows:
"The high contracting parties, desiring to preserve and maintain the general principle of neutralization which is hereby superseded, adopt as the basis of such neutralization the following rules, substantially as embodied in the convention between Great Britain and certain other powers signed at Constantinople, Oct. 29, 1889, for the free navigation, for the Suez maritime canal."
The second of the amendments strikes out article 3 of the treaty, reading as follows:
"The high contracting parties immediately upon the exchange of the ratifications of this convention will bring it to the notice of the other powers and invite them to adhere to it."
It was stated that the committee had been unanimous in its action with the exception of Senator Money, who opposed any action except the absolute and unconditional abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. That result is accomplished, by the amendment reported yesterday, but the Mississippi senator would have this done through other means than the Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
After the report was made Senator Culberson of Texas took the floor and he was followed by Senator Spooner. Mr. Spooner reported the treaty.
After reporting the new amendment to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty as made by the committee on foreign relations Senator Lodge made an effort to have a day set up for the taking of a vote upon the treaty. He suggested next Thursday as the generally acceptable time, but did not succeed in getting the unanimous consent necessary.
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| Fredonia Normal School before the 1900 fire. |
CAUGHT IN DEATH TRAP.
Fredonia Students Who Were Cremated Were Wired In.
SCREENS BARRED WAY TO ESCAPE.
Horrible Fact In Connection With the Fredonia Catastrophe Becomes Known and a Rigid Investigation Will Be Made—One Body Found.
DUNKIRK, N. Y., Dec. 15.—A rigid examination will be made into the deaths of the six young lady students who are certain to have perished in the Normal school fire at Fredonia yesterday. It is stated that heavy wire screens were firmly nailed across the windows leading to the fire escapes and the only way the lucky ones escaped was by crawling through windows adjacent to the escapes and then creeping along the gutter of the mansard roof.
The windows were screened to prevent giddy girls from escaping at night to attend parties. Lawyers say there will be heavy damages instituted against the state because of the fire escape screens. A revised list shows that seven persons were cremated. The dead are:
Phineas J. Morris, janitor.
Irene Jones of Busti, N. Y.
Bessie Hathaway of Cannonville, N. Y.
Ruth Thomas of Pike, N. Y.
Cora Storms of Boston, N. Y.
Mae Williams of Lake Coma, Pa.
Maud F. Fizzell of Bradford, Pa.
The foregoing young women were students and occupied rooms on the third floor of the building in company with a matron and 50 other young women who succeeded in escaping by descending the fire escapes. Up to a late hour last night but one body was recovered from the ruins and it is supposed to be that of Miss Storms. It was burned beyond recognition.
To account for the origin of the fire puzzles the local board of managers as no fire is used in the building, the heat being piped from a boiler two blocks away. The fire started in the private room of Janitor Morris and was discovered by Charles Gibbs, assistant janitor, who notified Morris and then ran to the fire alarm station a block away. Janitor Morris evidently lost his life while firefighting.
Miss Fizzell was at the head of the fire escape and turned back into the burning building to save a diamond ring, which cost her her life. Others who perished suffocated before being able to find the fire escapes.
A search for the remains of those who are thought to have perished is being made as rapidly as possible, but it is slow work digging over the acre of debris, which is still hot and smoking.
Principal Palmer estimates the loss at $200,000, with $93,000 insurance. Nothing was saved from the magnificent building, not even the personal effects of the students or the valuable records of the school.
Grief-stricken parents are arriving to assist in the search for the dead. School has been adjourned until Jan. 3, when classes will meet in the different halls and churches of the village. Plans for a new and larger structure are already under way. The legislature will be asked to make an appropriation equal to the insurance.
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| William Jennings Bryan. |
BRYAN TO BE EDITOR.
Makes Public Announcement of His Plans.
HAS LONG CONSIDERED THE STEP.
Will Devote the Rest of His Life to Study and Discussion of Public Questions Through "The Commoner," Which He Will Own and Edit.
LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 15.—Mr. Bryan gave out the following interview this morning: "I have for several years had in contemplation the establishment of a weekly newspaper and this seems an opportune time for undertaking it.
"Intending to devote my life to the study and discussion of public questions, I have chosen this method because it will best accomplish the purpose which I have in view. Through such a paper I shall be able to keep in touch with social and political problems. The paper will at the same time, if successful, provide an income sufficient for my pecuniary needs, and this kind of work will allow me more time with my family than I have been able to enjoy for several years past.
"I expect to lecture occasionally, especially in college towns where I can speak to students, but my principal work will be done with the pen, or perhaps I should say, with the pencil.
"The paper will be called 'The Commoner' and will defend the principles set forth in the Kansas City platform. The first issue will appear in January. I shall be proprietor and editor."
THE BOY MURDERER
Begins His Twenty Years—Difficulties About Clothes and Marching.
SING SING, N. Y., Dec. 15.—Alexander Stewart, the 14-year-old boy murderer, to-day commenced his twenty years term of service in Sing Sing prison. His first pair of long pants were striped ones and the prison officials had difficulty in finding a suit small enough to fit him. Chief Keeper Connaughton says the boy is the smallest prisoner ever confined in the prison. Stewart was given his first lesson in the lock-step custom last night. He was too short to put his hands on the shoulders of the smallest prisoner in his class so he clasped them about the man's waist. The boy seems content in his new life.
Moon Has an Atmosphere.
PARIS, Dec. 15.—Albert Charbonneau, the astronomer, claims to have discovered an active volcano in the moon. The eruptions are marked by a puff of smoke at intervals from a small crater near the crater of Theettus. The smoke, the astronomer says, hangs suspended for some time indicating an atmosphere in which case all theories concerning the moon are upset including the question of its habitability.
KANSAS FOSSILS.
Some Gigantic Turtles Found at a Great Elevation.
To the Editor of The Standard:
SIR—In a recent issue of the Oakley Graphic of Logan county in Northwestern Kansas, where the writer lived nearly four and a half years in the nineties, the following item was published:
"The two turtles from Logan county which have reached Kansas university were taken from a formation which geologists estimate as 30,000,000 years old."
These turtles were found in the bed of the Smoky Hill river, about twenty-five miles south of Oakley and 2,900 feet above the sea level, and in the same locality where were gathered the shark's teeth to which The STANDARD had reference a short time ago.
Mr. H. T. Martin, an English geologist, employed by the New York university, has passed the summer seasons of several years in exploring the valley of the Smoky Hill river in Logan and the adjacent county of Gooc, the water in which is then very low, and a large number of boxes containing fossil remains of pre-historic animals he has sent every summer to the university, where the bones are mounted.
In 1897, when Mr. Martin gave the teeth mentioned to me, he had begun to uncover the shell of a turtle which he estimated would, when alive, have measured 9 feet in diameter and weighed about three tons.
Our townsman, Dr. Geo. H. Smith, has the jaws of a shark which he says measured 9 feet in length, but none of the teeth in those jaws is any larger than the smallest teeth in my possession, some of which as you know are several times larger and must have belonged to a gigantic member of the shark tribe.
It is probable that the same upheaval of the earth which caught the turtles also got a cinch on the shark aforesaid.
F. G. KINNEY.
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| Cortland Hospital on North Main Street. |
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| Julia E. Hyatt. |
GIFTS TO THE HOSPITAL.
Generous Donation by Mr. W. G. Hibbard of Chicago, a Former Cortland Boy.
Mrs. Julia E. Hyatt, president of the Cortland Hospital association, has received the following communication, which she has handed us for publication, and which speaks for itself. It is worthy of note that the largest amount of money yet received by the association has come from Dr. J. S. Brewer, late of New York City, and the most valuable gift in the way of equipment from Mr. W. G. Hibbard of Chicago—both former Cortland boys. Their example is a much stronger appeal to others to do likewise than could be framed in any form of words. Mr. Hibbard writes an follows:
HIBBARD, SPENCER, BARTLETT & Co., Chicago, Dec. 9, 1900.
MRS. JULIA E. HYATT, Cortland, N. Y.:
DEAR MADAM—In response to yours of Nov. 26th, I have sent to the Cortland hospital for the surgical ward, care of Wickwire Bros., freight prepaid, one operating table, which Dr. Owens says is the best thing made, also one case of surgical instruments, and enclose herewith my check for $25 for sheets and pillowcases, all of which 1 hope you will find useful. They agreed to make shipment this week.
It strikes me from what I have seen of the reports in the Cortland STANDARD of the contributions to your only two organized charities in Cortland county— the Cortland hospital at Cortland and Old People's Home at Homer—if Dave Harum was alive, he would say that the "narrow" people, so far as charities are concerned, "could be extended beyond Scott." There are scores of people and firms in Cortland county who are worth from $10,000 up to $500,000, and yet the annual reports show pretty beggarly receipts. Some good missionary ought to get in there and try and warm them up and see if he could not open their purse strings. Hoping they will do so, I am,
Very truly yours, WM. G. HIBBARD.
EXTINGUISHED BY CHEMICALS.
Fire in Bunkrooms Detected by Chief Smith and Neatly Handled.
At about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Chief of Police Smith, who was at police headquarters in Fireman's hall, smelled smoke which he thought came from the bunkroom in the same building. He immediately informed the janitor, Jas. F. Costello, who unlocked the room and found that one corner of the room was a mass of flames. With an assistant he brought up a chemical extinguisher from the room below and, with one charge, put out the flames which had ignited a bunk, several draperies, a window curtain and the casing's of the window in that corner of the room.
The flames, however, had eaten through the casing at the top of the window and were roaring away in the air chambers above, working rapidly toward the roof. A ladder was taken to the back part of the building and D. F. Waters, with other members of the fire department, went up and tore away about four feet square of the tin roof and with one more charge of the extinguisher the flames were all put out.
The fire evidently started from a match that must have fallen from a box just above a steam radiator down to the radiator and there ignited, setting fire to a macrame cord drapery that hung from a mantle just above the radiator and which came to within about four inches of the radiator. From the draperies the fire spread to the window shade, and portions of this falling down ignited a bed that stood nearby. The flames from the window shade also ignited the window casings and a lively flame in the bunkroom was the result. A clock on the mantle from which the draperies hung, went through without stopping, although the glass in its face was cracked by the heat.
Died in Virgil.
William P. Thompson of Virgil died at his home yesterday at about 7 o'clock, P. M. The funeral will be held at the house Monday forenoon at 11 o'clock, burial in Cortland. Mr. Thompson was 39 years and 9 months old.
Science Club.
A regular meeting of the Cortland Science club will be held this evening at 8 o'clock at the office of Dr. Higgins. Dr Higgins will be the speaker of the evening and his subject will be "Blood." The program of the last meeting will be reviewed by Mr. A. P. McGraw.
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Political Equality Club.
The regular meeting of the Political Equality club will be held at the home of Dr. Strowbridge, 11 Monroe Heights, Monday, Dec. 17. It is desired that all members be present, as the subject of Economics and Civics is to be considered. We shall be glad to see many visitors.
MRS. BENTLEY, Rec. Sec.
CORTLANDVILLE GRANGE.
Annual Election of Officers Last Night for Ensuing Year.
A goodly number of the members of Cortlandville grange, No. 461, met last night and elected officers for the ensuing year as follows:
Master—L. E. Burnham.
Overseer—Mrs. H. M. Phlllips.
Lecturer—Mrs. A. V. Smith.
Steward—Daniel Thomas.
Assistant steward—W. P. Robinson.
Chaplain—Mrs. Manley Kinney.
Treasurer—Manley Kinney.
Recording Secretary—Eugene Davis.
Gatekeeper—Wells D. Brown.
Ceres—Mrs. Fred Brooks.
Flora—Mrs. A. Loucks.
Pomona—Mrs. Wells D. Brown.
Lady Associate Steward—Mrs. Wm. P. Robinson.
Ins. Director—J. L. Kinney.
Organist—Mrs. Geo. Givens.
Chorister—Geo. F. Dann.
BREVITIES.
—The Delphic fraternity of the Normal school initiated seven members at their regular meeting last night.
—The last rhetorical exercises of the Normal school for this term were held at Normal hall yesterday afternoon.
—The Ladies' Aid society of the Universalist church took in $50 at the turkey supper held last Wednesday night.
—A 430-pound porker was the object of considerable comment at Daniel Reilly's, Railroad-st. market this morning.
—The subject of the lecture to be given by Mrs. Boole in the Baptist church on Sunday evening will be, "The Christian's Duty in the Temperance Reform."
—Mrs. Ella Boole, state president of the W. C. T. U. will address the men's meeting at the Y. M. C. A. to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock and will speak at the First Baptist church to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock.
—Rev. Louis Heinmiller of Preble will preach at the First M. E. church to-morrow morning. There will be no evening service. Rev. W. P. Garrett of McGraw was unable to be present for the evening as was first anticipated.
—New display advertisements to-day are—C. F. Brown, Christmas gifts, page 6; F. Daehler, Clothing, page 6; C. W. Stoker, Groceries, page 6; Smith & Beaudry, Books, pictures, etc., page 2; W. J. Perkins, perfumes, page 6; Palmer & Co., Silverware, page 2; McKinney & Doubleday, Special Bargains, page 2.
—In place of the regular study of the lesson in the Presbyterian Sunday-school to-morrow Prof. W. L. Booth will occupy the time with a talk upon "Early Post-Apostolic Church History." This will be of special interest as following the course of lessons of the year, which has been upon the founding of the Apostolic church. All of the members of the school are urged to be present, and any others who would like to hear it are cordially invited.
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