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| Mrs. Carrie Nation. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, February 14, 1901.
MRS. NATION GOES BACK.
Leaves Chicago Without Having Attempted Wrecking.
WILL APPEAR IN TOPEKA COURT.
Her Meeting With Saloonkeepers Did Not Materialize and She Promised to Come Back and Make Souvenirs If She Found "smashing" Necessary.
CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—Mrs. Carrie Nation left Chicago for Topeka last night. She is under bonds to appear in the Kansas capital today for trial in connection with her operations in that city. Before leaving Chicago she announced that as soon as she had "cleaned up things" at home she would come back here, and if things were not properly taken care of by the authorities she and her friends would take matters into their own hands, and to use her own expression "We will make souvenirs."
Her meeting with the saloonkeepers, which she announced she would carry out, did not materialize, and in default of having them for an audience she went once more to the saloon at 290 State Street, which she visited Tuesday night and in which her grandson is manager, and delivered a talk to the people she found there. It was a motley throng, embracing all classes. Mrs. Nation mounted a table and for 15 minutes talked with great energy, urging her hearers to abandon both the use and sale of liquor and denouncing in the most unmeasured terms all those who permitted its sale in the city.
Her meeting at Willard hall last night, which preceded her visits to the saloons, was attended by about 300 people, nearly all of them temperance people, who applauded everything she said. Her talk was not long, and in closing she declared that she did not want any hatchets used, and that she believed in peaceable means of closing the saloons as far as possible. All means of that kind, she said, should be exhausted before more violent methods were employed.
"Now I am going back home for a few weeks," she declared, as she closed, "and as soon as I have cleaned house out there, and it will not be long, I will be back here again and if the authorities have done nothing, and are willing to do nothing, we will see what is best to be done, and if it is necessary we will go to smashing things. We will make some souvenirs, I tell you."
She expressed herself as more than pleased with the treatment she had received while in Chicago and departed with the assertion that the rum power in this city and other large places in the United States was tottering to its fall.
STATE ELECTRIC COLLEGE.
Bill to Be Introduced Providing for First of Its Kind in This State.
ALBANY, Feb. 14.—The establishment of a great state electrical school at Schenectady and the establishment of official standards for electrical measuring instruments and apparatus and to secure important and authoritative information on questions of electrical science, is the purport of a bill to be introduced by Senator Brackett and Assemblyman McMillin.
The amount asked for the establishment of the school is $150,000, and the annual amount for maintenance $25,000. The school is to be a part of Union college, and in return the university is to give 100 free scholarships and the land upon which to erect the building, while the General Electric works is to give the use of its works for observation and instruction. The precedent for such action by the state is found in the various agricultural colleges, veterinary colleges, school of plastic art and schools of forestry.
The idea of locating at Schenectady is because the works of the General Electric company, the largest in existence, makes Schenectady the natural center for the study and development of electrical science, and with Union college in close proximity offers exceptional advantages.
OTSELIC COMMERCIAL CO.
Incorporated in Cortland—To Furnish Ice and Preserve Farm Produce.
Incorporation papers of the Otselic Commercial Co. have been filed at Albany and at the county clerk's office in Cortland. The directors are L. N. Frederick, W. D. Tisdale, J. C. Seager and H. P. Davis of Cortland, John I. Bland, Charles O. Scull and Frank M. Hall of Baltimore, Md., and B. F. Dewey of New York City. The capital stock is now fixed at $3,000, all paid in, but the stock will be increased to $20,000 or $25 000 next fall, as more money may be needed for improvement purposes. The object of the company is the construction of storage houses for cabbage and other farm produce and ice houses along the line of the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. The company has already begun the erection of an ice house at the junction with the D., L. & W. R. R., 30 by 75 feet in size and 20 feet high and having a capacity of 1,000 tons. Another one will be built at Cincinnatus. These will be filled with ice from the pond at East Freetown. Next fall other icehouses will be built at other points on the road, till there will be a storage capacity of 20,000 tons of ice. Storage houses for farm produce will also be built next fall. One of the directors, Mr. Dewey, is the manager of the Farmers' Dairy Dispatch Co. of New York, which handles all the milk on the Lehigh Valley railroad, as well as on the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. The plan is to re-ice the milk cars at Cortland at the junction instead of at Sayre as at present.
The officers of the company are:
President—L. N. Frederick.
Treasurer—W. D. Tisdale.
The Fortnightly Club.
Twenty members of the Fortnightly club braved the storm yesterday and met at Mrs. W. R. Cole's, 6 Argyle Place, Cortland. The principle feature of the program was an address by Miss Clara E Booth, who had kindly consented to tell of her personal visit to Stuttgart, Munich and Nuremberg. She gave a remarkably interesting as well as profitable talk. Mrs. James Walsh and Miss Martha McGraw played a piano duet from Tannhauser. The remainder of the program comprised a paper upon ''Albert Durer, the Many- Sided Genius'' by Miss Elizabeth Turner; a paper upon "Durer's Prominent Works" by Mrs. F. L. MacDowell; and a recitation, Longfellow's "Nuremberg" by Mrs. G. H. Ames.
The next meeting will be on Feb. 27 with Mrs. Edward D. Blodgett at 8 Argyle Place.
Ladies' Literary Club.
The Ladies' Literary club met with Mrs. J. F. Twiss yesterday afternoon at 16 Church-st. There were nineteen present. At roll call responses were given by a quotation or some item of interest. The program was as follows:
Battle of Buena Vista—Mrs. N. H. Gillette (who gave the account as a personal reminiscence of Capt. Stevenson, Kentucky.)
A Selection from Mexican Folk-lore, Miss M. Force.
Philosophy of the Mexican Revolutions, Mrs. A. G. Henry.
Famous Cities of Mexico, Miss Cornelia Adams.
The next meeting will be held with Mrs. C. P. Walrad, 13 Lincoln-ave. on Wednesday, Feb. 27.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The Baseball Outlook.
◘ Baseball "magnates," the persons who are in the game for revenue only, are a peculiar set of men. The less money there is to be made the more bitterly they fight as to who shall gather in the meager profits. The present outlook is anything but hopeful. There is nothing in sight on the baseball horizon but war and a war that will put all former strifes of this sort completely in the shade. Even in the unlooked for event of an arbitrator arising and bringing unity and harmony out of the tangle he would not be able to make the sport very successful financially next season at least.
The various factions have their plans for next summer well formulated by this time and for a short period have been resting on their arms. A glance at the situation as it is today does not promise well for the patron of the sport, whose chief concern is the kind of ball that will be meted out to him during the playing season. He cares naught for magnates and their squabbles, and yet on the results of their acts his pleasure and the future of baseball depend. If the three big leagues now formed carry out their plans, the situation in a nutshell will be as follows:
There will be 24 clubs in 15 of the big cities, an average of nearly two clubs per city. In two of these places, Boston and Philadelphia, each of the three associations has planned to locate clubs. This means that in these two places at least one club must go to the wall. The National league in making up the circuit of the American association, which it controls, has refrained as far as possible from cutting its own throat; consequently the latter body will have clubs in only two of the major league's strongholds, and in both of these there will be opposition on the part of the American league anyway.
The American league has only one city—Cleveland—all to itself, while the American association is minus opposition in two—Louisville and Indianapolis. The National league will have five towns in which it will be the whole thing as regards baseball—that is, unless a return is made to the 12 league circuit, concerning which there are many rumors.
The real struggle for supremacy is going to be between the National and American leagues. In regard to funds and grounds, the former is by far the better off, but the American league has been much better managed and has no internecine troubles to contend with, as is the case with its older adversary.
It is a terribly tangled mess. The interests and schedules are so confusing that the public will turn in disgust from the green diamond until the warring factions shall have finished their contentions, and by that time the fans will have become interested in their new diversions.
◘ Thomas A. Edison being recently asked if he thought the twentieth century would surpass the nineteenth in invention, and particularly in the application of electricity, promptly replied that it would, and then with characteristic modesty, added that in the first place there are more inventors to work and in the second place they know more to start with, "but, all the same, none of us knows anything about anything," which is his way of saying that until it is definitely settled what electricity is we are only on the threshold of achievement. The opinions of Mr. Edison, who is a practical man and who has turned his many inventions to commercial uses, are in sharp contrast with those of Mr. Tesla, a dreamer and impractical man, who assumes to have settled all the electrical and scientific affairs on this earth and is now adjusting those of Mars.
FIDDLING CONTEST.
Unique Attraction at the Baseball Fair To-night.
The attendance at the baseball fair at Taylor hall last night was much larger than on the previous evening. The parlor concert given by St. Mary's choir, assisted by Mr. Arthur Williams and Mr. Herman W. Carver, was one of the best arranged and most pleasing programs that has been given at the fair.
To-night the attraction will be an old fashioned fiddling contest from which all violinists are debarred There have been many entries in this novel contest and it will doubtless prove very entertaining.
ENGINEER IMPRISONED.
SNOW SWEPT HIM FROM HIS PLACE IN THE CAB.
Train Ran Free for Half Mile—Fireman Climbed Over Top of Express Car In the Howling Blast Till He Could Reach Emergency Brake Cord and Pulled It—Took Hour to Dig Out Engineer.
The Ithaca News of Feb. 13 says: Last night on the Elmira, Cortland & Northern branch of the Lehigh Valley Engineer Joe Reidy had one of the most peculiar accidents of his career as a railroad man.
Frequently trains are held up by snowdrifts but it is seldom that the presence of snow in the cab of the engine makes a "runaway" of a locomotive when the engineer and fireman are still on board, anxious to control the machine.
That, however, was exactly what happened to Reidy's engine last night. For half a mile or more the locomotive ran itself and the fact that at that time of night there is not much traffic on the road was the only thing that prevented the experience from being fraught with great danger to passengers and crew.
The train left Canastota at 6 o'clock. Although there was considerable snow along the road no time was lost as the train went along under the careful eye of Engineer Reidy.
About a mile from the station at East Ithaca the train entered a deep cut. The snow was piled high in each side of the engine as it entered the stretch of track between the high banks at Stevens' siding.
Suddenly there was a mighty rush of snow against the pilot of the iron steed. Not content with covering every part of the working machinery and reaching almost up to the headlight, the mass impelled by a fierce wind crashed against the windows of the cab.
The windows gave way and the engineer seated at the throttle was pushed back away from his post before he could make an effort to stop the machinery.
Snow filled the cab. The engineer could not reach the throttle. The engine was running free from a guiding hand through the drifts.
Reidy could make no warning signal to the members of the train's crew and could do nothing to stop the engine. The fireman tried to enter the express car which was next the tender but the door was locked.
Finding no other means of sounding the alarm or of stopping the train the fireman crawled over the top of the express car while the gale howled about his ears and threatened to blow him from the top of the car.
When the baggage car was reached the fireman pulled the emergency cord and the air brakes stopped the train. A party of passengers poured from the cars. They were told that the engineer was buried in a mass of snow in the cab and that the train had been running free.
They started at once to dig out the imprisoned Reidy. It took an hour to remove the snow from the cab. Finally Reidy was freed from the weight of snow which had made him useless in his own engine, boards were placed in the windows and the trip to Ithaca was resumed.
The train which was due here at 8:55 o'clock arrived at 10 o'clock after one of the most exciting experiences ever had by the engineer and his helper.
Death of Mrs. Asa M. Turner.
Mrs. Asa M. Turner died at her home, 100 Maple-ave., at 6:30 o'clock this morning. The funeral will be held Saturday at 11 o'clock A. M. Burial in Marathon. The family moved from Marathon to Cortland not quite a year ago.
TRAIN HAS BEEN FOUND.
Spent the Night in the Snow Drifts of Cincinnatus, N. Y.
The lost E. & C. N. Y. R. R. passenger train has been found. It left Cincinnatus with two engines at an early hour yesterday morning and passed Willet station and that was the last that was heard of it till 9 o'clock last night. The officers knew that it was somewhere between stations, but in the raging blizzard they couldn't locate it nearer than to say that it was between Willet and East Freetown and out of sight of both places. At 9 o'clock last night Treasurer W. D. Tisdale received a telephone call from a tired out trainman who had waded through snowbanks nearly up to his waist and had at last reached East Freetown. He said that the train was stalled at Reubens, a crossroads flag station on the Cincinnatus hills, 2 1/2 miles east of East Freetown. He reported that the locomotives were well supplied with fuel and they would try and keep them alive all night. They could supply water by shoveling snow into the water tank and turning on the heater to melt it. They had all the snow conveniently at hand that was needed for present purposes.
There was no help for them last night, but at 5 o'clock this morning Mr. Tisdale telephoned to the company's agent at Cincinnatus directing him to get out a gang of men to shovel and go to the relief of the train. A big party was started out and it had to wade all the way over the hills to the train, as the roads were impassible and no teams could get through to carry them.
At 1:30 this afternoon the agent at Cincinnatus telephoned that the train had just succeeded in getting back to that station and wanted orders. The men were all tired out. General Manager Frederick and Treasurer Tisdale decided to direct the crew to remain in Cincinnatus till to-morrow morning and then get an early start, and taking on board a gang of shovelers try to get through to Cortland as soon as possible. This is the worst storm the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. has ever experienced.
THE KING'S DAUGHTERS
Elect Officers and Committees for the Coming Year.
At the recent annual election of officers of the Loyal Circle of King's Daughters the following officers were chosen for 1901:
President—Mrs. Henry Relyea.
First Vice-President—Mrs. E. D. Parker.
Second Vice-President—Mrs. A. W. McNett.
Third Vice-President—Mrs. Arthur J. Goddard.
Fourth Vice-President—Mrs. Frank M. Ingersoll.
Secretary—Mrs. M. S. Bierce.
Treasurer—Mrs. C. F. Thompson.
Superintendent of Local Charity—Mrs. A. McElheny, 29 Greenbush-st. Mrs. McElheny will be assisted in this work by the following ladies:
First ward—Mrs. John Moore.
Second ward—Mrs. S. Doyle.
Third ward—Mrs. W. D. Coburn.
Fourth ward—Mrs. E. D. Wood.
Fifth ward—Mrs. Homer Smith.
Sixth Ward—Mrs. J. O. Hammond.
Chairman of Fruit and Flower Mission— Mrs. S. N. Gooding.
Chairman of Finance Committee—Mrs. E. D. Parker.
Chairman of Sewing Circle—Mrs. H. J. Palmiter.
Chairman of Hospital Committee—Mrs. Julia F. Hyatt.
Chairman of the Literary Committee—Mrs. J. R. Birdlebough.
Assistants—Mrs. Clara Hale, Mrs. A. A. Sprague, Mrs. Ida Dunsmore.
Chairman of the Entertainment Committee— Mrs. F. H. Cobb.
Assistants—Mrs. M. K. Harris, Mrs. DeWitt Rose, Mrs. W. D. Tisdale, Mrs. E. E. Ellis, Mrs. Frank Kenyon, Miss Mary Van Marter, Miss A. Kingman.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—C. H. Brown, Syringes, page 6.
—The D., L. & W. morning train, due in Cortland at 6:55, came through at 9:25, drawn by two engines. It was followed closely by the 9:20 train.
—Mrs. Miles Bennett of Taylor died at her home on Tuesday of consumption. Her age was 36 years. The funeral will be held at the house to-morrow at 12 o'clock noon.
—The funeral of Mrs. Mary L. Birdsall was held at 8 o'clock this morning at 67 Madison-st. The remains were taken to Whitney Point on the 9:27 D., L. & W. train for burial.
—A traveling man, in speaking of the storm, said to-day that he came from Ithaca to Cortland last night by train and that it took four hours to make the trip. Some of the drifts, he said, were higher than the top of the car windows.
—Hon. Charles R. Skinner was last night in joint session of senate and assembly at Albany re-elected superintendent of public instruction. He received the 128 Republican votes, while Dr. James M. Milne of Cortland received the 52 Democratic votes.
—No word has yet been received in Cortland in regard to the arrival here from Oakland City, Ind., of the remains of Mrs. Theresa Collins Bishop. Due announcement of the time of the funeral will be given in these columns as soon as any thing definite is known.
—Curiosity led us to figure up the deaths and births as recorded in this town for ten years, beginning with 1890. During that time there were 266 deaths, and 260 births. According to this one-fourth of our population dies every ten years.—Marathon Independent.
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| Sen. Henry M. Teller. |
The Pronunciation of Cuba, N. Y.
Senator Teller always pronounces "Cuba" as if it were written "Cuby." And thereby hangs a tale. Mr. Teller was born in Allegany county, N. Y. The chief town in that county is Cuba, but from time immemorial its people have called it "Cuby." Mr. Teller grew up with these people, and "Cuba" has always been "Cuby" to him.—Washington Post.
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