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| Felipe Buencamino. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, January 30, 1901.
DON'T WANT THE FRIARS.
Said That Filipinos Will Desert Catholic Church in Large Numbers.
MANILA, Jan. 30.—Dr. Kruger, the German consul general here, has cabled to the Berlin government asking that the German ambassador at Washington be instructed to diplomatically urge the passage of the Spooner bill.
Two mining corporations, organized in Germany, are anxious to begin operations in the Philippines but cannot do so until the status of mining claims is established by a permanent government. Similar action will probably be taken by the British consul.
Buencamino and some of the other Filipino leaders in Manila have about decided to become Protestants and are considering the organization of an Evangelical church. In an interview yesterday Buencamino said he had learned the pope had decided to restore the friars to their former position in the Philippines and Buencamino added that the Filipinos would not submit to that and the effect would be that they will shortly leave the Catholic church in great numbers. No public meeting has been held, but the leaders of the movement met privately last night to discuss the question with the Rev. J. B. Rodgers, a missionary of the Presbyterian board who advises the establishment of an Evangelical church. The principals in the project are Buencamino, Dr. Rosario, Tavara and Flores. All of these men are members of the executive committee of the federal party. But Chief Justice Arellano and Attorney General Torres, the remaining members of that committee, adhere strictly to the Catholic church and have distinctly declared the movement towards Protestantism does not emanate from the party organization, nor is it connected with the organization.
Archbishop Chappelle declined to grant an interview, but his legal adviser reiterated the statement often made that the friars will not be sent into the districts where the people objected to them. He remarked, however, that the archbishop had received a great number of requests from Filipinos for the return of the friars.
The Rev. Mr. Rodgers was interviewed in regard to the matter. He said there had been no Protestant proselytizing, but that many persons in outlying districts were turning to Protestantism and that many residents of Manila would doubtless do likewise.
Soldiers From Philippines.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—General MacArthur reported to the war department yesterday that the Hancock arrived at Manila on the 27th inst. and that the transport Pennsylvania sailed Monday for San Francisco with 15 officers and 487 enlisted men of the Thirty-sixth volunteer infantry.
Wade and Ludlow For Philippines.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—By direction of the president Brigadier General James W. Wade and William Ludlow will be relieved of their present duties and ordered to Manila. This will enable the department to relieve two general officers on duty there, probably Major General Lloyd Wheaton and Major General J. C. Bates.
Sent Back to China.
PLATTSBURG, N. Y., Jan. 30.—Two Chinamen arrested by Chinese Inspector Kitchum at North Burke recently on charge of illegally entering the United States were yesterday ordered deported back to China by United States Commissioner Woodward. Two others arrested at the same time were discharged. There are now 20 Chinamen in jail here, 10 at Malone and 14 at Canton awaiting trial charged with entering this country illegally.
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| Cortland Normal School. |
GAMMA SIGMA FRATERNITY
Closes a Quarter Century of Public Exercises With Credit to Itself.
The Delta Chapter of the Gamma Sigma fraternity gave its twenty-fifth annual public exercises at Normal hall last night, and a large crowd assembled to hear the young men. The exercises were fully up to the high standard of the club set in other years, and the value of the club in training speakers was again fully demonstrated.
The rostrum was tastily decorated with the national colors and the fraternity colors, old rose and white. The pretty custom of giving to the members of the other clubs reserved seats to which they are escorted by ushers from their various, rooms in the building, is still kept up and is a pleasing feature of the public exercises. Each of the four other clubs was escorted to reserved seats in the auditorium last night, and each was well represented.
The program was as follows:
The music for the evening was furnished by members of the fraternity exclusively. Mr. Jennison at the piano, and especially in the piano solo, gave ample proof of his skill with this instrument. Mr. Carver rendered the solos in a manner that elicited hearty cheers. Mr. Carpenter with the mandolin and violin was heartily enjoyed and appreciated by his many admirers.
After the piano solo by Mr. Jennison, Mr. Fred A. Bierce gave the address of welcome, outlining the work of the club and giving a most cordial greeting. He spoke of the development that was sure to come to the club member who gave earnest, persistent effort to the work. The past term was said to have afforded excellent topics for debate, as it covered a time when great questions were brought before the people. The Gamma Sigma, he said, gave especial attention to debate, and during the past term they had settled rightly all the great questions of the day. His words of welcome were very cordial.
Mr. James A. Beha gave the declamation of the evening in fine style. Mr. Beha entered into the selection from Henry W. Grady with feeling and spirit and did himself and his club great credit. He has the ability of getting hold of his audience and carrying it along with him. He merited the prolonged applause.
Another especially pleasing feature of the program was the oration by Mr. Charles B. Dowd, "America's Preeminence in the Twentieth Century." Mr. Dowd is a careful writer, and his article gave ample evidences of the pains taken with it. Added to this quality is the fact that Mr. Dowd's voice is particularly well suited to public speaking. He also showed evidence of good drill in the preparation. He outlined America as the country protected by natural bulwarks, as a country that had, in a comparatively short time, grown from a handful of Pilgrims on the desolate New England shores to a progressive and prosperous nation with millions of inhabitants. The people are endowed by nature and nature's God with health, fertile soil and gushing streams, while the innermost parts of the earth furnish abundant materials for light and heat. No country was ever so well adapted for producing a strong people as America. The Emerald Isle and the South African territory were mentioned as the thorns in England's side, and the drawbacks to her prosperity. Russia was depicted as America's greatest rival among the nations for preeminence. The battle grounds of the twentieth century was said to be in the far East, in China, where America would ever lead. By American aggressiveness, the Philippine Islands are nearly subdued, the Cubans are being educated, the Porto Ricans are building up, the States at home are prosperous, and thus American preeminence is thoroughly grounded.
The debate on the partitioning of China was opened by Mr. Chappell by an outline of the present condition of the country, the extent of her territory and the great populace that it contains. The people were described as being low in morals. Vice and ignorance were everywhere rampant. He said that by the partitioning of China is meant that the country is to be divided into six parts, and that England, Germany, Russia, Japan, France and the United States would each assume a protectorate over a part. These nations owe it to China to do this because, morally, they are responsible for the difference between what China would be at the end of a hundred years more of her own rule and what she might become in a hundred years under Christian governments. Then, too, China could, under a great leader, mass an army of 25,000,000 men and march against the whole of Europe. By the partition of China this awful catastrophe might be averted. He saw, too, that the people of China would be benefited commercially, intellectually, morally, and spiritually, and that the people of each of the six parts would develop and progress as rapidly as did the nation which held the protectorate over it.
Mr. Dennison, for the negative, opened by stating that a new Vesuvius was in eruption in Asia; that shock followed shock till the whole world felt the force. Here stood for three thousand years the Chinese government, while thrones had tottered and fallen. Such an empire's destiny need not be feared of. Selfish ends, he depicted, as the cause of partitioning by the powers. The richness of the country had inspired them to try to steal from the possessors, under the pretense of doing the Chinaman good. China would fight before she would submit to such a partition, and when the whole population arose in rebellion, all the powers could not cope with her. The powers should refrain from partitioning in order to avert such a catastrophe as this. Then, in case of such a condition, the six parts under six different nations would be bitter rivals. The position of the United States would be materially changed if this was attempted, for where now we have the open door in China, we would then find the door closed. He thought the Christianizing of China could safely be left to the missionaries.
Mr. Huntley followed and claimed that the good of the entire world demanded the partition of China. This would be entirely justifiable because China never did her part in civilizing the world, but was always selfish and kept herself isolated and repressed all means toward advancement. The parable of the talents was applied to the Chinaman by Mr. Huntley, and under his application it seemed to fit the case remarkably well. As the people of that country were mostly agriculturalists, there would be no occupation taken from them, and therefore no injustice would be done them. China, he said, was asleep in the fumes of opium smoke, and it is not our part to let her dream on. The division of China would increase Christianity in that country a thousand fold.
Mr. Grant summed up for the negative. He said that we could not expect China to open her ports to nations that did not welcome her people to their shores. If the good of the Chinaman was all that actuated the powers in this movement, then the situation would be changed, but the chief motive in it is selfishness, and this could not be tolerated. The result of the movement would be to seriously impair the work of missionaries, to create dislike between the powers and in all to retard instead of advancing civilization.
The debate was listened to with close attention and each debater was heartily applauded. The exercises were in all of a high order and spoke well for the work of the Gamma Sigma fraternity.
THE CANNING FACTORY.
LEASE IS SIGNED FOR THE FACTORY ON SQUIRES-ST.
Privilege of Purchase Within a Year—Proprietors are Yager & Halstead—Public Meeting Called fur Saturday, Feb. 2, at 2 o'clock at Good Templars' Hall to Make Contracts for the Coming Season—String Beans and Sweet Corn to be Canned Exclusively this Year—The Price to be Paid.
The contract has at last been closed and the lease signed and delivered between the Second National bank and Yager & Halstead, proprietors of Cortland's new canning factory. This assures the fact that Cortland is to have a canning factory. It will be located on Squires-st. in a part of the three-story factory built and formerly used by the Cortland Manufacturing Co., Ltd. The remainder of this factory was some time ago leased to the Champion Milk Cooler Co. and is now occupied by that concern. The lease to the canning men carries with it the privilege of the purchase of the entire property anytime during the year at pleasure. The firm which will operate the canning business consists of George P. Yager of Cortland and William R. Halstead of Camden, and its style and title will be Yager & Halstead.
The bank contracts to put the factory in a good state of repair. New floors are to be put in and new windows; the 60-horse power boiler and the 25-horse power engine are to be repaired and a new smokestack will replace the old one. Everything will be arranged for convenience and utility. Possession will be given on March 1.
Mr. Halstead will be in Cortland on Saturday of this week, Feb. 2, and a public meeting of farmers and all interested in the canning business is called for that day at 2 o'clock at Good Templars' hall. The whole matter will be explained to them and an effort will be made to secure contracts at once for a certain number of acres to be devoted by each to corn and beans.
This year only string beans and sweet corn will be put up. It is desired to secure contracts for at least twenty-five acres of string beans and 300 acres of sweet corn. For the beans the price will be $1.75 and $2 per hundred weight, according to the size of the pods, and for the corn 45 cents per hundred weight for husked corn on the cob. The farmers can simply pick the ears of corn from the stalks in the field and draw them unhusked to the factory where they will be weighed in bulk. The farmer and the yard man at the factory will then together in the presence of each other husk perhaps fifty pounds of ears and weigh the corn on the cob and the husks, and thus determine the percentage of corn on the cob and of husks in that specimen lot. That percentage will be taken as the basis for reckoning the weight of the corn on the cob in that load exclusive of husks. The canners pay only for the corn on the cob. The husking will be done at the factory at the expense of the canners. The corn will be shelled by machinery and the husks and the cobs are given back to the farmer to be used for food for his cattle at home. In this way he can draw a load of unhusked ears to the factory and when he has unloaded can at once load up again from the pile of husks and cobs and draw home the food for his stock. The cornstalks and the husks and green cobs can be fed at once or turned into ensilage for later use. The pay for the beans and corn furnished will all be turned over to the producers on Jan. 2 of the following year.
The season for beans will begin the middle of July and the season for corn the middle of August. The acreage of these two crops mentioned will probably call for the employment of between two hundred and three hundred people during the season.
The Camden Advance Journal says:
William R. Halstead, superintendent and processor of L. P. Haviland's cannery of this village, has decided to embark in business for himself in the bustling city of Cortland.
Mr. Halstead is a Camden boy, brought up in the corn canning trade and has years of successful experience to his credit. For five years he was professor of the Oneida Community factory at Kenwood, and the reputation of their goods while he was in charge was the best. For the past thirteen years he had held a similar position in the Haviland factory, and has been skillful in perfecting to the highest degree the products of the factory, and faithful in the discharge of his duties.
Mr. Halstead leaves Camden to launch in business for himself, not as a promoter and speculator in starting and selling factory supplies, but will enter the business with George P. Yager, a prominent business man of Cortland, with a view of building up an industry that Mr. Halstead's years of experience cannot make otherwise than a benefit to the community.
Mr. Halstead and family will leave Camden about March 15, and their departure will be much regretted by many friends, who bespeak for them happiness and prosperity in Cortland.
DR. HOMER O. JEWETT.
Cortland's Oldest Practicing Physician Passes Away—Pneumonia the Cause.
Dr. Homer O. Jewett, the dean of the medical profession in Cortland county and one of the oldest and most highly respected practitioners in this part of the state, passed away at 1:45 o'clock this morning at his home, 58 North Main-st. Dr. Jewett had not been in good health for several months past, but was able to be about the house and took a keen interest in passing events till some four weeks ago. Then it appeared as though his strong constitution was breaking down, and day by day he seemed a little weaker. Still, nothing immediate was anticipated, till yesterday when pneumonia developed. The work of this dreaded disease was swift an effective. Word was immediately sent to his older son, Mr. G. S. P. Jewett at Utica, and he arrived in Cortland last evening, but before the night had passed the end had come.
Dr. Jewett was of Norman descent. His ancestors emigrated from the north of England and settled in the eastern part of Massachusetts about the middle of the seventeenth century. His father, Walter Jewet, married Betsy Rockwell and moved from Lanesborough, Mass., to Lebanon, Madison county, N. Y., in 1806. Seven daughters and two sons were born to them, of whom Dr. Jewett was the youngest but one and the last survivor. He was born March 31, 1819. In 1832 Mr. and Mrs. Jewett moved with their family to Homer to secure better educational advantages for the children, for that town had already become famous as an educational center. They bought the farm which extended up the hill west of the village where Glenwood cemetery is now located.
Dr. Jewett had the usual experiences of the farmer's boy of his period—constant work and rigid economy. He attended the Cortland academy at Homer while it was under the principalship of Prof. Samuel B. Woolworth whom he ever held in most grateful remembrance. For three years he taught school and then in 1839 he entered the office of Dr. A. B. Shipman for the study of medicine. In the winters of 1841-42 and 1842-43 he attended the first two courses of lectures delivered in the medical department of the University of New York City, and was graduated from that institution in March, 1843.
After graduating Dr. Jewett practiced a few weeks with Dr. Shipman in Cortland, and then in the summer of 1843 established himself in Summerhill, where he practiced for six years. In 1849 he came to Cortland which has since been his home. For nearly fifty years it was his rule never to refuse a call upon which he could attend regardless of the inclemency of the weather, the condition of the roads, the time of day or night or the circumstances of his patrons. Every road and lane within miles of Cortland became perfectly familiar to him. The doctor never concerned himself with politics nor sought political preferment, and never engaged in enterprises outside of his profession. He seldom enjoyed a vacation or was absent from his duties.
For years Dr. Jewett has been a member of the Cortland County Medical society and has been several times a delegate to the New York State Medical society. He was a member of the National Medical association and also of the New York Medico-Legal society. He was one of the founders of the New York State Medical association, was for several years one of its council, vice-president and president of the Third Branch of the association. He was a frequent contributor to medical journals.
No man in his profession has the power to get nearer to the hearts of people than a physician. He is with them in trouble and they appreciate him. Dr. Jewett through all the long years of his practice [was] beloved in a remarkable degree. He was proverbially kind and attentive to the sick, rich and poor alike, often times without any hope of reward unless possibly the thanks of the patient. Dr. Jewett was accurate in diagnosis and safe in operating. He was cautious and conservative in all his treatment, striving to work in harmony with the curative effects of nature. He often spoke of recoveries, but not as cures. Many hearts throughout this county and the vicinity will be saddened by the thought that Dr. Jewett is no more.
The doctor was a member of Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M. and was a past master in the order
On Oct. 1, 1850, Dr. Jewett was married to Miss Matilda E. Ingalls of Summerhill who with two sons, Mr. G. S. P. Jewett of Utica, and Mr. A. M. Jewett of Cortland survives him. Dr. and Mrs. Jewett observed their golden anniversary last fall.
The funeral will be held at the house on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
BREVITIES.
—The bartenders' dance will be held in Red Men's hall to-night.
—The seventh annual public exercises of the Alpha Delta sorority occur at Normal hall to-night at 8 o'clock.
—The ninth annual public exercises of the Corlonor fraternity at the Normal [School] will occur in Normal hall at 8 o'clock to-morrow night.
—New display advertisements to-day are—W. J. Perkins, Corn cure, page 6; Mitch's market, Fish, page 5; J. W. Cudworth, Optical talks, page 5; C. W. Stoker, Groceries, page 6.
—Crape to-day hangs upon two doors of adjoining houses on North Main-st., Mrs. Clarissa Bouton and Dr. H. O. Jewett, two neighbors of many years standing and both 81 years of age, having passed away from pneumonia.
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