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| General Ada R. Chaffee. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, February 9, 1901.
CHINESE WILL OBJECT.
Belief Spreads That the Court Will Not Accept Demands of the Foreign Envoys.
PEKIN, Feb. 9.—The foreign envoys met yesterday to consider the edict presented by the Chinese plenipotentiaries regarding the suspension of examinations for five years, and also the punishment of officials guilty of not having suppressed outrages upon foreigners. They objected to the wording of the edict, which made it seem that the troubles were entirely new to the actions of native Christians. Satisfactory in other respects, it was altered to suit the views of the envoys and was then returned to the Chinese plenipotentiaries.
It is reliably reported that more than 20,000 Mohammodans have reappeared in Pekin during the last four weeks with the object of creating disturbances during the Chinese celebrations at new year. The Germans have accordingly issued an order that no one shall walk alone and no one go unarmed. The order directs the German troops to search all Chinese and never under any consideration to enter Chinese private houses on invitation unless in considerable numbers.
The more widely known the demands of the foreign envoys are among the Chinese the more the belief spreads that the court will not accept them, especially the demand for the punishment of Tung Fu Hsiang, who practically controls the entire Chinese army, apart from the troops with the court, and who is now in the province of Nan Su. With Prince Tuan he would be able to hold out for an indefinite period. The opinion is gaining ground among the generals that possibly a spring campaign against the province of Shen Si will be necessary.
No answer to the latest communication from the foreign envoys is expected from the court before Tuesday next at the earliest, but the envoys hope the reply will be satisfactory.
There is much enthusiasm among the Americans, soldiers and civilians, over the reported promotion of General Chaffee. All the foreign generals have called to tender him congratulations.
Woman Held For Murder.
ELMIRA, N. Y., Feb. 9.—Annie Schineskie, aged 33, was arrested last night on the charge of murder in the first degree in causing the death of a new-born babe whose dismembered remains were found in the city dumping grounds. Frank Rowley, aged 23 years, was arrested as an accessory. The woman is Polish and the young man is a negro.
Locomotive Engineer Drops Dead.
SYRACUSE, Feb. 9.—Charles Stuttler, a New York Central passenger engineer, brought his train into the station here yesterday afternoon, made his report and then dropped dead. He was 60 years of age and was well known along the road.
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| Elihu Root. |
THREE DEMANDS UPON CUBA.
United States Asks Certain Concessions When Cuba Shall be Free.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Secretary Root admits that Gen. Wood, with the consent and authority of the war department, has made three demands of the Cuban constitutional convention. They are:
1. Recognition of the right of the United States to military control of the island until a native government shall have been formed which is satisfactory to this country.
2. Admission of the right of the United States to intervene at any time after such government shall have been formed to prevent the passing of the island into the possession or domination of any foreign power.
3. Grants of at least three coaling stations and necessary lands therefor: one at Havana, one at Cienfuegos and one at Santiago.
According to Secretary Root the words "Complete pacification'' used in the senate must be construed as applying to the establishment of a sound form of government, one which will last and not be subject to frequent revolutions as well as to merely creating a state in the island. Such construction implies a certain continued American control of Cuban affairs is frankly admitted by the secretary. He declares that forty years ago this country forbade possession of Cuba by any foreign power other than Spain and the grasp of that nation having now been wrested from the island it is the duty of the United States to continue that policy and to that end interest itself directly and intimately in all acts of Cuban citizens. The granting of coaling stations is merely a corollary to this reasoning.
The purpose of the war department, and in this Secretary Root, in acting only in a ministerial capacity for the president, in demanding that these rights be recognized formally by the Cubans in their constitution is that the question may be permanently settled. President McKinley is determined to give the Cubans a chance to govern themselves if the Cubans themselves will only meet the administration half way. At the cabinet meeting yesterday and in conversation with a number of senators before that, he expressed himself so hopeful that the constitutional convention now at work in Havana will listen to reason and avert possibility of serious trouble with this country by complying with the very reasonable wishes of the United States in matters affecting our business and diplomatic interest. When these conditions are complied with, the president and his party managers are resolved to give the Cubans a free hand to work out their own salvation.
That Cuba will be free with these restrictions the president plainly told some of his callers yesterday. One of them remarked to him "The flag must never be pulled down in Cuba."
"Indeed it must," retorted the president, "just as soon as the Cubans are ready to attend to their own affairs we must turn their government over to them."
At the present rate of progress, however, the administration men in Washington fear that the date of the hauling down of the flag under these conditions is far removed. Those in the saddle at the Cuban convention seem to have ignored the United States entirely.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Annual Meeting—Election of Directors—Financial Statement.
The adjourned annual meeting of the Cortland Courtly Agricultural society was held at Fireman's hall this afternoon. Four directors for the ensuing year were elected as follows: A. P. Rowley, Hugh Duffy, J. R. Hathway, T. H. Wickwire.
Treasurer C. F. Brown submitted his annual report which showed receipts to the amount of $7,888.36 and disbursements to the amount of $8,120.66. This latter sum included notes and interest to the amount of $1,617.18 and leaves an overdraft of $232.30.
The meeting was still in session when The STANDARD went to press.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The Education of Women.
Statistics compiled and published by Professor Harris, federal commissioner of education, furnish some interesting facts and figures touching the advance of women. He reports that the high schools of the United States in 1899 graduated 36,124 girls and only 20,344 boys. Between 1872 and 1899 the number of male students in college in proportion to the whole population increased nearly 100 per cent, while the number of female students increased sixfold in the same time. Of the 60 foremost colleges and universities in the country all but nine confer degrees on women. Every college founded since the war is open to students of both sexes. Only three state colleges in the Union—those of Virginia, Georgia and Louisiana—exclude girl students. Practically all the schools in the country below the high school grade are in the hands of women teachers, and 80 per cent of the teachers in the high schools of New England are of the gentler sex.
If these facts have any significance, it is that the competition of woman is destined to become a steadily enlarging factor in the practical activities of life, particularly in what are known as the higher and more intellectual callings. It indicates also that this growing power of woman is likely to be exerted in the arts, professions, industries and business more than in political affairs, though in this latter direction there has been a wonderful advance in recent years. In four states they have the right to vote for candidates for all offices, including the presidency. In others they can vote for nominees for borough, school and county offices and are themselves eligible to those positions.
The enlightened and liberal policy of the great majority of our educational institutions in admitting young women on the same terms as young men is bearing fruit, and the statistics quoted above show that the young women are availing themselves of the opportunities thus offered. They are successful competitors with young men in the pursuit of knowledge in all its branches, and with the intellectual equipment thus acquired they become successful competitors in the practical affairs of life. The question is not now, as formerly, What shall we do with our girls? but, What will our girls do with us?
FAIR OPENING.
At Taylor Hall To-night—Continue all Next Week.
The baseball fair opens this evening at Taylor hall under most auspicious circumstances. Mayor C. F. Brown will be present and formally open the week's festivities. The fair will be continued through all next week.
The program for the evenings includes many attractions that will be of interest to Cortland people, among which are the descriptive songs and cakewalks by Wilcox & Wallace, ballads by Mr. A. W. Williams, an entrancing fairy dance under the direction of Miss May Duffey, the coon town swells, the Beaudry children, Ketchum and Seamans the acrobatic wonders, the juvenile wonders, the child soprano, and many others.
Each evening the floor will be cleared at 10 o'clock and free dancing will be indulged in. The very best music has been provided for this, and it is the object of the association that each patron of the fair, if he desires so to do, may dance to his heart's content. To-night the dancing will begin earlier on account of there being no program between the opening and the dancing.
The hall has been handsomely trimmed for the occasion with flags and buntings. Two electric arc lights and thirty incandescent have been placed in the room, lighting the place better than ever before. The booths are tastily built, especially the pillow booth, which is made of Nile green and pink bunting. The hall will present a beautiful appearance during the entire week of the fair.
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| Cortland Forging Company. |
CONTAMINATED WATER.
Deep Well at the Forging Co., Contains Some Bad Germs.
The officers of the Cortland Forging Co. have taken a deep and personal interest in these tests that have been made of the water in Cortland in the effort to see if it is in any way accountable for the epidemic of typhoid fever which has swept over the city this fall and winter. They felt particularly anxious about it because so many of the cases have been located in the vicinity of their factory on streets where well water is used exclusively and because there is also a well at the factory, the water from which has been more or less used for drinking purposes. This well is forty-two feet deep and when driven was put through a layer of hard pan. Great difficulty was experienced in getting it down through this stratum and it was once thought that rock had been struck and that it could be driven no further. But success finally attended the efforts. The tube is 2 1/2 inches in diameter and a duplex force pump is attached to it which pumps 20,000 gallons of water every ten hours. The water from this well is chiefly used for the boilers at the factory and for other mechanical purposes about the works. But there is a drinking fountain of this water at one point in the factory standing side by side with a faucet of city water. The men very generally have preferred to drink the well water rather than the city water, especially in the summer time, because it is so much cooler.
With this thought in mind Mr. C. L. Kinney, president of the Forging Co., determined to have the water tested. The sample of water was taken a day or two after that secured by Mayor Brown and the others which was sent to Albany to the state board of health. This water was sent to Cornell university and was chemically analyzed by Prof. Veranus A. Moore, head of the department of comparative pathology and bacteriology. Prof. Moore sent directions for procuring the sample and those directions were substantially like those sent from Albany to Mayor Brown. The bottle and the cork were both sterilized before taking the water and no one had anything to do with the matter except Mr. Kinney and Mr. F. M. Kinsman, the superintendent of the Forging works, and these two men took great care to follow every direction exactly. The water was not taken from the well till 10 o'clock in the forenoon after the pump had been in operation on that day for three hours.
Mr. Kinney this morning received the report on the sample and it is so unsatisfactory and shows so clearly the presence of dangerous bacteria in the water though no typhoid germs were found, that the drinking fountain at the Forging works will be removed and no one will be permitted to drink another drop of well water about that establishment. And this water, let it be remembered and understood, came from below the stratum of hardpan. It plainly shows that there is some place where surface water has the opportunity of getting below this stratum, either because the stratum somewhere bends upward and comes up toward the surface and permits water to flow beneath it or because there is an opening through the stratum at some place. It is clearly an evidence that deep wells are not necessarily pure wells, and it would also make very questionable the advisability of drinking well water anywhere in the city.
The letter says:
NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY COLLEGE, CORNELL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY AND BACTERIOLOGY, ITHACA, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1901.
Cortland Forging Co., Cortland, N. Y.:
DEAR SIRS—The examination of the water received Jan. 29 gave the following results, viz:
1. The number of bacteria as determined from cultures made immediately on its receipt was very small, 20 to 30 per cubic centimeter. Later tests showed a great increase in the number.
2. There were very few fungi (moulds).
3. There were a few fecal bacteria (bacillus coli comminus). They averaged about one to three c. c. of the water.
4. The indol reaction was light.
5. Typhoid bacilli were not found.
The examination shows the water to be objectionable on account of the presence of the colon bacillus. It shows that there is or has been surface drainage. According to the rules of many health departments the well wou1d be considered unsafe and condemned. A comparison with the results of the examination with the city water test which your health board probably has would indicate which of the two sources is the better risk.
Very respectfully, V. A. MOORE.
A Handsome Souvenir.
The Ithaca Publishing Co., publisher of the Ithaca News, has issued a very attractive souvenir of its office in the form of a pamphlet containing half-tone portraits of its office force and illustrations of its plant. The souvenir shows twenty-one people in its business and editorial departments, nineteen in its mechanical department and two in its photo-engraving department. The indications are that The News has a very complete and well equipped plant.
A Settlement In Prospect.
It was said this afternoon that negotiations were in progress between Mr. E. C. McEvoy and Mr. J. H. O'Leary looking toward a settlement out of court of the unfortunate differences between them and that there was a reasonable certainty that an understanding would be reached, but that nothing was ready to be given out yet as to the ultimate result. The friends of both [funeral directors] certainly hope that this may come about.
AN UP-TO-DATE PROPRIETOR
Has Model Undertaking Rooms and a First Class Livery.
Mr. E. R. Wright, the undertaker and liveryman at 16 Groton-ave., next to the Opera House, has recently made extensive and substantial improvements in his heretofore well equipped establishment, demonstrating the fact that in the conduct of his business Mr. Wright is thoroughly up-to-date and bound to give his customers the very best service that can be had.
The two parts of his business—livery and undertaking—are entirely separate, the latter being carried on in the west part of his residence, where the show rooms and office are located. The principal show room is arranged with cases on two sides that lower and bring the caskets into full view. When a casket has been shown, it can be raised to its former position and removed from sight and thus give opportunity for the examination of the caskets in any one of the twenty-two sample cases. This room is also fitted up as a place in which bodies may be kept for short lengths of time, and in case of out-of-town parties coming to Cortland for burial, or for others who desire it, Mr. Wright opens his house for their use in conducting such services as they may desire.
In the barn many improvements have been made. The stables for livery and funeral use are equipped with five pairs of black horses. New harnesses have been added and four coaches are kept for use. The coaches are all provided with heaters with no extra charge on this account. Mr. Wright not only looks after the comfort of his patrons, but of his drivers as well, for he has provided each one of them with a fur cape and cap. The ambulance is kept in readiness for hurry calls, and some of his men always sleep nights in a room adjacent to the barn office, which is provided with both telephones [two separate telephone companies—CC ed.], so that he is well equipped to take care of such calls. Mr. Wright has also recently added to his paraphernalia one of the latest devices for lowering bodies into the graves. In all respects he is well equipped for carrying on the business in which he is engaged.
POPULATION OF CORTLAND COUNTY
As Shown by the Different Enumerations Since 1810—Other Places.
Cortland county was set off from Onondaga county April 8, 1808, and the first national census of the county was taken in 1810. The population of the county since that time as shown by the different enumerations has been as follows: 1810, 8,869; 1820, 16,507; 1830, 23,791; 1840, 24,607; 1850, 25,140; 1860, 26,294; 1870, 25,173; 1880, 25,825; 1890, 28,657; 1900, 27,576.
The residents of the county are much disappointed that this county has decreased in population, but it will be noted that this has occurred once before and after the loss it took a decided jump upwards. Twenty-one other counties of the state also lost in population during the decade just past, the full list being Allegany, Chenango, Columbia, Cortland, Essex, Greene, Lewis, Livingston, Madison, Orleans, Oswego, Otsego, Putnam, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Schuyler, Seneca, Tioga, Washington, Wayne, Wyoming and Yates. The percentage of Cortland county's loss is 3.8. Eight counties show a larger per cent of loss than Cortland.
The population of some of the places in the vicinity of Cortland in which special interest may be felt here is as follows: Binghamton 39,647; Lisle 892; Whitney Point 807; Auburn 30,345; Genoa town 2,075; Locke town 1,079; Moravia 1,442; Moravia town 2,373; Summerhill town 779; Elmira 35,672; German town 423; Greene, 1,236; Greene town, 3,152; Lincklaen town, 646; McDonough town, 907; Norwich, 5,766; Norwich town, 7,004; Otselic town, 1,234; Pitcher town, 751; Smithville town, 1,105; Cazenovia, 1,819; DeRuyter, 623; DeRuyter town, 1,410; Hamilton, 1,627; Rome, 15,343; Utica 56,383; Syracuse, 108,374; Tully, 574; Tully town, 1,465; Geneva 10,433; Oswego 22,199; Oneonta, 7,147; Owego 5,089; Richford town 1,142; Dryden 699; Freeville 440; Dryden town 3,785; Groton 1,344; Groton town 3,564; Ithaca 13,136;Lyons 4,300.
BREVITIES.
—The Forrest Seed Co. is placing a new elevator in its storehouse at 86 Clinton-ave.
—There will be a meeting of the Women's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the association parlor.
—The regular monthly meeting of the directors of the Y. M. C. A. will be held in the association parlor on Monday night, Feb. 11, at 8 o'clock.
—The regular meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution will occur on Monday at 3:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. F. Daehler, 29 Tompkins-st.
—The next regular meeting of the Church Protective union will be held at Dr. VerNooy's, 50 Port Watson-st., on Monday evening, Feb. 11, at 7:30 o'clock sharp.
—The W. C. T. U. will meet at headquarters, Monday, Feb. 11 at 10:15 o'clock A. M. to attend in a body the funeral of Miss Sarah H. Hare, which occurs at 11 o'clock of that date.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Home Telephone Co., Telephones, page 2; C. F. Thompson, Turkeys, etc., page 5; E. M. Mansur, Groceries, page 2; J. W. Cudworth, Optical talks, page 5.
—Members of the Church Protective union are requested to meet at 12 Argyle Place on Monday, Feb. 11, at 10:30 o'clock to attend in a body the funeral of one of the members, Miss Sarah Hare.
—The Pastime club held a social party at Red Men's hall last evening from 8 to 12 o'clock and enjoyed a very pleasant occasion. Kane's orchestra furnished excellent music. About forty couples were present.
—Myron Oothoudt with a force of workmen is engaged in making a thorough overhauling of the factory on Squires-st. to be taken possession of March 1 by Yager & Halstead, proprietors of the canning factory.
—Mr. John Garrity was suddenly stricken yesterday at his home, 32 North Main-st., and at first it was thought he had suffered a slight stroke of paralysis. Dr. H. T. Dana was called and in a few minutes he was restored to consciousness. The fainting spell, for such it proved to be, was the result of indigestion.
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