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| Gen. Maximo Gomez. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, February 12, 1901.
GOMEZ' FRIENDS WIN.
He Is Declared Eligible to Presidency of Cuba.
MAJORITY OF BUT ONE VOTE.
One of the Members of the Opposition Was Absent, and Another, Who Had Previously Voted Against Gomez, Flopped to His Side.
HAVANA, Feb. 12.-The followers of General Maximo Gomez triumphed yesterday in the Cuban constitutional convention. The clause making him eligible to the presidency of the republic was adopted by a vote of 15 to 14.
Senor Liorente, who is classed with the anti-Gomez factions, was not present at the session owing to sickness. General Riviera absented himself in consequence of his wish not to take part in this particular dispute.
Senor Betancourt who voted last week with the opponents of General Gomez to postpone the discussion, cast his vote for Gomez, making a majority of one in favor of the clause.
ALDERMEN'S WAGES.
Legislature Recommended to Fix Pay According to City's Rating.
ALBANY. Feb. 12.—Representatives of the boards of aldermen of Rochester, Syracuse, Troy and Albany met in this city yesterday and recommended to the state legislature several amendments to the uniform charter for cities of the second class. The principal amendment provides that the members of the board of aldermen in each city of the second class shall be salaried. In cities of 150,000 or more inhabitants the salaries shall not be less than $750 or more than $1,000 per year, and in cities of less than 150,000 inhabitants, not less than $600 or more than $750 per year; the exact amount to be fixed by the board of estimate and apportionment in each city.
Another important amendment provides that a two-thirds instead of a three-fourths vote shall be necessary in the adoption by the council of the annual tax budget or resolutions appropriating public money. Several minor amendments are proposed including one raising from $50 to $250 the maximum amount the head of a city department may expend for supplies without a contract.
The aldermen held a banquet last night and will meet again today.
POST NO BILLS.
Fine and Imprisonment for Injuring Appearance of Highways.
ALBANY, Feb. 12.—"Post no bills" will not be necessary after Assemblyman W. P. Smith's bill introduced in the assembly to-day passes. It provides for a term of imprisonment and a fine of $250 where a person places, or causes to be placed, advertising matter on telegraph, telephone or elevated railway pillars, ashcans, lampposts, etc., in any public highway.
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| Cortland Normal School. |
THE ENGLISH SCHOOLS.
Fine Talk to Normal Students by Miss E. P. Hughes.
Miss E. P. Hughes, late president of the teachers' Training college in Cambridge, England, who has been spending a week in Cortland, made an address at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon to the Normal students and faculty at Normal hall. Many others interested in education were also present and the hall was full. Miss Hughes devoted the greater portion of her remarks to a comparison of the American and English schools. The former she thinks are far superior to the latter. She enumerated many of the defects of the English schools and told what they are doing for their improvement. She began by saying, "Your virtues are not ours, your sins are not ours." The typical American school, she said, is the primary school, while the typical English school is the high school.
The first defect in their system of education is that their schools are divided into two classes, one for the rich and one for the poor. Each class of schools is taught by different methods. The teachers for the rich are educated in the universities; those of the poor have a limited education. They are trying to remedy the last mentioned defect by sending them to the universities to be educated, partly at government expense. Provided at the age of 14 one desires to become a teacher and is able to pass a certain examination he is admitted to the high school, where he is partly supported by the board of education and partly by being a student teacher, where he receives a small salary. From 18 to 21 years he attends the university, his expenses being paid by the government.
The second defect is the over-crowded curriculum, and this Miss Hughes said, was also a fault in the American schools to a lesser extent. The aim they are trying to reach is to give the pupils a love for study and a power to study rather than to teach them so much. She found that a characteristic of the American schools. The English Bible is taught in the English schools from a doctrinal standpoint.
The English salaries are $5,000 and a house per year for a head master; $1,500 and a house for secondary teachers, but poor pay for the poor teachers in the rural schools. Miss Hughes is a great admirer of the broad school system in the United States, particularly in New York state.
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| Statue of George Washington, Brooklyn, N. Y. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
◘ There are many statues of George Washington throughout the country, but none of them is destined to be more notable than one to be erected in Brooklyn by the register of deeds of Kings county. The fees of the office amount to something like $100,000 annually, and this the register thinks is a good deal more than he ought to receive, but the law prescribes the fees, and he must take them. He has already spent several thousand dollars in charity. He now proposes to devote many thousands of the accumulated fees to the erection of a monument to the Father of His Country. It will not only testify to the virtues of the immortal Washington, but will likewise be a constant reminder of the excessiveness of the official fee system.
◘ Bishop Potter in relating European outrages in China mentions an English woman who jabbed a Chinaman with her umbrella. But where in any civilized country is any one safe from jabs, intentional or otherwise, from umbrellas and parasols in the hands of women?
PRODUCT OF VERSATILE BRAINS.
No Plans Yet Made of Any Kind for Extending the Electric Road.
Some reporters for out of town papers have been amusing themselves recently and filling space by detailing plans for changing and extending the lines of the Cortland & Homer electric road. A few days ago they took up the park line and built a road to Little York for summer traffic. Since that time the Little York line has been abandoned and a road has been built to Glen Haven—all in the mind of the reporter. Within a few days we may expect an extension to Dryden lake or to Gridley Hollow.
We are authorized by an officer of the company to say that no changes in the mileage of the company have been discussed by the directors, and no changes in the immediate future are contemplated by the company as a whole or by any one of the directors individually, so far as he knows. The company is now in the hands of a receiver and every plan is now being directed toward the sale of the property and the reorganization of the company. When the new company is organized it is impossible to say what will be done, as no plans for any change in the operation of the road have yet been suggested, much less arranged. But it seems likely, this officer says, that instead of laying out new branches and new lines the first effort will be directed to the improvement of the present road bed and the equipment, with some new rolling stock to be added.
It is surely to be hoped that the electric line may some time be extended both to Little York and to Glen Haven, but people living along those streets had better not sell any horses yet in anticipation of riding on the cars instead.
THE SHORTAGE IN HAY.
Heavy Shipments Into the County, but None Going Out.
The drought last summer and fall made a great shortage in the hay crop in Cortland county, and in consequence the price of hay is pretty high, as every one finds who has to buy it. This shortage and resulting high price falls heavily upon the farmers who are not accustomed to buying bay, as many of them are now compelled to do. Usually Cortland county ships a considerable amount of baled hay outside of its borders, but this year not a pound is going out. A general freight agent on one of the railroads touching Cortland made the statement recently that the amount of hay, chiefly Western hay, that is coming in over his road is surprising, while none is going out.
The fear is that the dry weather last season burned the grassroots so badly as to partly kill them and bring about a prospect of a light crop of hay this next season. Farmers may perhaps find it advisable to sow grass seed upon the old meadows in the spring before the snow goes off and let it settle into the ground with the melting snow, where it will quickly take root and thicken up the roots in the meadows for the coming season.
Light Rockaway Cab.
William Shaw, the city cabman, has purchased a light rockaway cab on sleighs which adds very much to the efficiency of his service, as well as to the convenience of his patrons. The cab can quickly be obtained by telephoning to The Kremlin [Hotel] or to his residence, No. 64 Y upon the Empire State Telephone company's line.
GROTON-AVE. PAVING.
Recommendations of Board of Public Works to Common Council.
At the adjourned meeting of the board of public works on Saturday night, Feb. 9, in addition to the hearing upon the charter amendments as already detailed, the report of Engineer H. C. Allen upon the Groton-ave. paving in the fall of 1900 was received. It appears that the total cost of the paving of the street was $26,318.44. Of this sum $1,750.09 was the expense of paving crosswalks and intersections of streets which belongs exclusively to the city to pay. The balance is $24,568.35 and of this one-third or $8,189.90 is to be paid by the city. This makes the total of the city's share of $9,989.99. The two-thirds to be paid by the property holders whose land adjoins is $16,378.90. The report showed an apportionment of this sum according to foot frontage upon the street, and this apportionment is given below. It should be understood that this apportionment is not yet an assessment and will not be till it has been passed upon and accepted by the common council, but it is now a recommendation to the common council by the board of public works as to what the assessment should be if made upon the basis of foot frontage. The recommendation is as follows:
NORTII SIDE.
DEATH OF MRS T. C. BISHOP.
Occurred at Oakland City, Ind.—Burial to be in Cortland.
Word was this morning received in Cortland of the death at Oakland City, Ind., on Friday, Feb. 8, of Mrs. Theresa Collins Bishop of this city. No particulars are given as to the cause of death or as to whether she had been ill long. Mrs. Bishop's only daughter, Miss Addie, has for several years been a teacher in Oakland City, and each fall it has been her custom to go out there to spend the winter with the daughter, returning with her to Cortland at the end of the school year. Following this custom she left Cortland on Nov. 14, leaving her home on Clinton-ave. in Cortland closed for the winter.
Mrs. Bishop had one son, Collins Bishop, who was in California. The letter which came to Cortland to-day said that Miss Bishop had telegraphed to her brother to come on to join her in bringing the remains to Cortland for burial. She did not expect to leave Oakland City till the brother arrived there. She could not tell exactly when they would arrive in Cortland but possibly on Friday. The remains will then be taken to the old home and the funeral will be there at a date yet to be decided upon.
Mrs. Bishop was a daughter of Jabez and Adelaide (Doud) Collins and was 72 years old, the oldest of her family. The families of her parents date back to some of the earliest settlers of Cortland. Her husband, Mr. Charles Bishop, died July 8, 1893, She is survived by two brothers and two sisters, as well as by her son and daughter: Mr. Van Halen Collins of San Diego, Cal., Mr. Truman D. Collins of Oil City, Pa., Mrs. Chauncey R. Dickinson of Cincinnatus and Miss Augustina Collins of Binghamton. The late Mrs. W. F. Clark of Cortland was her niece.
Mrs. Bishop was a graduate of Mount Holyoke seminary at South Hartley, Mass., and last June went back there to attend the fiftieth reunion of her class. She and one other were the only survivors of the class present and they were the guests of honor on the occasion. Mrs. Bishop had been from girlhood a member of the Presbyterian church of Cortland.
Death of Mrs. Birdsall.
Mrs. Mary L. Birdsall died yesterday at 67 Madison-st., aged 49 years. The funeral will be held Thursday morning at 8 o'clock. The remains will be taken on the 9:27 train to Whitney Point for burial.
Mrs. Birdsall had lived in Cortland only since last April. She was the widow of Mr. S. E. Birdsall of the firm Birdsall, Waite & Perry, manufacturers, Whitney Point, N. Y. She is survived by one son, W. S. Birdsall of Whitney Point. She died from apoplexy.
DEATH BY FREEZING.
Mary Dorsey Found Dead in a Pasture Lot Half Mile from Her Home.
Mary Dorsey, aged about 50 years, colored, was found dead in a pasture lot about a half mile from her home, which is on the hill between East Homer and Little York, at about 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. There are no traces of violence yet disclosed, and it is thought she froze to death.
The last seen of the woman by her neighbors was Thursday by John McGintis, who took provisions to her at that time. He did not notice but that she was in usual health at the time. Friday morning one of her neighbors noticed smoke, coming from her house chimney. Sunday at 2 P. M. Wm. Potter, a farm hand who lived near, while crossing a pasture lot belonging to William Ryan, saw what he thought was the body of a woman. He gave the object, however, a wide berth and reported what he had seen to Mr. Ryan, who went back with him and looked over the object and came to the conclusion that it was really the body of a woman. F. E. Maycumber was next notified and with him the party made a close examination, digging the snow away, and found that it was the body of Mary Dorsey. Dr. E. M. Santee, coroner, was summoned and he with a team and driver set out for the place at 7 o'clock Sunday night.
The body was found on a sidehill with the head down the hill and face downward. The arms were flexed at the elbows, and the fingers were tightly clenched over the hands full of snow that had been slightly melted, then frozen, showing that she had fallen to the ground some time before death. She had on her head a fascinator and a hood. A red flannel band was wound around the neck and she was dressed in two calico dresses, two thin cotton vests, an under waist, thin muslin underwear, a thin woolen skirt, summer stockings, an old pair of shoes and boots of burlaps securely tied at the ankles and below the knees. This preparation showed that she had started on an extended trip somewhere.
The body was removed first to Richard Ryan's, where it was placed in a casket and brought to Wright's undertaking rooms, where last night an autopsy was held.
Before leaving the locality where all this occurred, the coroner visited the humble abode of the unfortunate woman. Here she had lived in solitude with her dog her only companion, and for the comfort of which she had taken due precaution before setting out on her journey, her object probably being to get something to eat. The door between the kitchen and woodhouse had been left propped open by an axe so that he could pass from one room to the other, and a bowl of water was left on the floor for him to drink. Everything in the house was neat and tidy. There was only a little wood about the premises and a scant supply of provisions. There were four hens in the hen house with crops entirely empty. These with the dog were taken to a neighbor's. The house was securely locked and left to keep itself.
The autopsy was made last night at Wright's undertaking rooms by Dr. E. M. Santee, assisted by City Physician Paul T. Carpenter. There were no indications of heart failure or any kindred troubles, and the supposition that death was caused by freezing was placed beyond a doubt. The woman was thought to be about 50 years of age.
BREVITIES.
—Dillon Bros.' dancing school will meet to-morrow night in Red Men's hall.
—The will of the late Mr. W. R. Randall will not be offered for probate till next Monday.
—The Fortnightly club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with Mrs. W. R. Cole, 6 Argyle Place.
—Next Friday night the assembly party will give the first of five informal dancing parties at Red Men's hall.
—Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M., will confer the third degree at a special communication this evening.
—Cortland Chapter, No. 194, R. A. M., will confer the P. & M. E. degrees at their regular convocation Wednesday evening.
—The Ladies' Literary club will meet to-morrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with Mrs. Julia F. Twiss at 16 Church-st.
—Rebekah lodge will hold a drill on Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The officers will please take notice of this fact.
—Canton Cortland, No. 27, P. M., I. O. O. F., are arranging for a smoker to be held in John L. Lewis lodgerooms Thursday evening.
—Mr. W. R. Huntington is fitting up an office for the transaction of business in two of the rooms in the Randall bank building which were for so many years used by the Cortland Savings bank.
—New display advertisements to-day are—M. A. Case, Drygoods, page 6; E. M. Mansur, Groceries, page 2; Buck & Lane, Hardware, page 6; C. W. Stoker, Groceries, page 8; Opera House, Serviss & Baeviers, page 5.
—J. H. Mourin, proprietor of the Messenger House, seems to have been the only patriotically inclined personage in the city to-day. An America flag has waved from the hotel all day on the occasion of Lincoln's birthday, and so far as observed that was the only flag out.
—The Pan-American Specialty Co. is the name of the latest entertainment company originating in Cortland. The group of about seven or eight young men making up the company boarded the 8:31 Lehigh train this morning for Berkshire, where they show to-night.
—Peck Bros.' sawmill is now turning out lumber at the rate of 15,000 feet per day. The logs are, for the most part, brought from the region about Cincinnatus by the E. & C. N. Y. Railway Co., while many of them are brought by sleighs from the proprietors' woods between Solon and McGraw.
—This is a genuine old blizzard. The snow has fallen all day long. It is light, but there is a tremendous quantity of it. The country roads are badly drifted and the railroads are having a hard time. The electric road has kept its cars running as rapidly as possible trying to keep the snow from the tracks. There is a howling hurricane out on the flats toward McGraw.
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