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| Peter Krapotkin. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, March 27, 1901.
AID FOR NIHILISTS.
Russians In New York City Start Agitation to Help St. Petersburg Agitators.
NEW YORK, March 27.—According to The World, Nihilists and Russian anarchists in this city yesterday started an agitation to aid the Russian students and political agitators. From now on public meetings will be held all over the city. Money will be sent to agents in St. Petersburg to be distributed where it will do the most good.
The leading societies among the Russians in this city are the Russian Social Democratic club and the Russian Students' club. The Russian Democratic club is an organization which keeps in direct touch with the revolutionists. Plans of all the plots to upset the government are known to its leaders.
The leader of all Russian revolutionists is Prince Krapotkin, who recently came here on a lecture tour. He lectures Sunday evening at Tammany hall. Another leader is Lawyer Louis E. Miller of this city.
"This agitation in Russia," Lawyer Miller said, "is the greatest since the DeKalbrist's in 1824, when all the general’s colonies and the-whole army led in the revolution. Today we have not only the students, but the laboring classes as well in the movement.
"Heretofore the well bred, the educated, stood alone in their fight for either a republic or a constitutional monarchy. Now all classes, including noblemen, have joined hands to establish a new form of government.
"In 1824 a poet wrote in Russia a rhyme that cobblers in Europe were anarchists because they wanted to be noblemen and he asked if noblemen were anarchists because they wanted to be cobblers.
"All over the city the various groups of anarchists will meet and start an agitation, the like of which never was seen before. There are about 60 organizations in the city, to which 10,000 Russians belong. We propose to give the Russian prisoners all the aid that is in our power and to forward them expressions of our sympathy in their trouble."
Army Officers In Demonstration.
BERLIN, March 27.— The Voewaerts publishes a detailed report of the Russian demonstrations of March 17, from a number of eye witnesses, confirming the statement that those who participated in the demonstrations included leading members of all classes, even army officers, who were aroused by the police and administrative lawlessness.
The Vorwaerts also publishes a protest against the cruelty displayed by the Cossacks under Lieutenant General Kleighel, prefect of the St. Petersburg police, bearing the signatures of the elite of Russian literature, including men like M. Nikolaj Michajlovic, the socialogist; M. Lesgast, the anatomist, and M. Kaeref, the historian, as well as a second protest of a similar character. The Vorwaerts also publishes a letter of thanks from Count Leo Tolstoi for the sympathy shown him by Germans of high and low position in the matter of his excommunication by the Russian Orthodox church.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
National Bureau of Standards.
The appointment by President McKinley of Professor Samuel W. Stratton of the University of Chicago to be the head of the national bureau of standards, created by congress in the closing hours of the last session, marks the opening of a new branch of governmental machinery at the national capital. It is an enlargement of the scope of the former office of weights and measures.
Professor Stratton will have charge of a special building at Washington, with a corps of 14 assistants. His work will be that of standardizing all instruments of precision and all weights and measures used in the United States. The operators of the new bureau will reach every branch of scientific industry. Recent inventions and discoveries have led to countless new instruments of measurement, and the lack of uniform standards has caused much confusion and financial loss. There are barometers, thermometers, pressure gauges, polariscopes, steam-indicators, instruments for measuring electric currents, others for chemical measurements and a thousand other kinds of measuring apparatus. For want of authoritative standards in this country it has been necessary for manufacturers and for the government itself to send many delicate instruments to Germany to be tested and made accurate. This was not only expensive and somewhat humiliating, but it was a serious handicap to business. American instruments were in more or less disfavor abroad because it was said their exactness could not be depended upon. England and France, as well as Germany, have such standardizing bureaus, and it has long been held that the United States should have a similar institution. Henceforth all government departments, state institutions, manufacturing concerns and others interested can go to the national bureau of standards at Washington for accurate and authentic measurement of all kinds. The one item of securing a definite standard for measuring the current contracted for in electric lighting is likely to save the cities of the United States as much as the cost of the whole bureau. The results of the bureau's work will be felt wherever the quality and value of substances are fixed by chemical and physical tests, and this includes the greater part of the wide field of scientific investigation, industry and commerce.
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE
Of Both Commissioner Districts at Homer, N. Y., April 8 to 12.
The teachers' Institute of the two commissioner districts of Cortland county will be held in the academy building at Homer the week beginning April 8. The conductor will be Prof. Charles A. Shaver of Watertown. The assistants will be Dr. S. H. Albro of Fredonia, Dr. F. J. Cheney, Prof. W. A. Cornish, Prof. F. R. Parker, Prof. W. M. Booth, Miss Elizabeth M. Wright and Miss Miriam S. Skidmore of the Cortland Normal school, Superintendent F. E. Smith of Cortland, Mrs. Anna E. Friedman of Buffalo, Principal L. H. Tuthlll of Homer, C. R. Wells of Clifton Springs, Superintendent John Kennedy of Batavia, Miss Mabel C. Whitcomb, instructor of drawing at Addison, and Miss Florence Nixon of Homer. The [elected] commissioners are Luke J. McEvoy of the first district and Mrs. Katharine C. McDiarmid of the second district.
The secretaries will be Miss Stella J. Sears, Miss Bertha A. Reed and Principal James Pierce. The department reporters will be Miss Jessie L. Barnes, Miss Alice R. Watson, and J. O. Lansing. The pianist will be Mrs. F. Eula Davis.
The committee on educational exhibits will be Miss Harriet E. Pollard, Miss Mary A. Dowd, Mrs. Mabel Schellinger, Miss Genevieve Babcock and Mrs. V. H. Smith.
Teachers desiring to arrange for board should address Miss Nina M. Coon, Homer.
The program will be as follows:
"THE WIDE AWAKE."
A. T. Weiss to Open It in the Churchill Building Early In April.
Mr. A. T. Weiss of Rome, who has rented the store in the Churchill block, 9 North Main-st., now occupied by Palmer & Co. as a dry goods department, is in the city to-day making arrangements for his opening which will take place just as soon as the present occupants vacate the premises and the store can be put in proper shape. Mr. Weiss will conduct a general store and will carry a full stock of everything pertaining to housekeeping. Mr. Weiss has a large store in Rome where he has been in business for seven years. He expects to come to Cortland and give his personal attention to the business here. The store will be known as "The Wide Awake."
Highest Water Since 1865.
BINGHAMTON, N. Y., March 27.—The Chenango and Susquehanna rivers are veritable raging torrents. Not since 1865 has the water risen so high here. Cellars at houses along the river banks are flooded. Pumps are getting the water out of the Boston store.
TWO BAD WASHOUTS.
Wrecking Train Starting as First Relief Struck Second Washout.
NORWICH, March 27.—The New York express on the Utica division of the D., L. & W. R. R. ran into a washout 2 miles south of here at midnight. The entire train of five coaches was derailed. A wrecking train from Utica while going to the wreck ran into another washout near Sherburne, but another wrecking train was secured from Binghamton. Several persons were hurt, but none seriously.
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| Photo credit Cortland County Historical Society. |
WATER IS STILL HIGH
Over the Bonds in Some Places All Night.
It rained nearly all night last night and the water continued to rise. The result was that it is higher now in the east branch of the Tioughnioga river than for several years. It was quite deep over the road at the east end of the Tioughnioga river and there were several narrow escapes from getting into the ditch. It was so deep over the road near the county house bridge that it entered the milk wagons of E. C. Rindge as they started for the city this morning. It was also over the road near the stone bridge north of the Wickwire flour mills on Clinton-ave., but did not continue to flow over it long, for with the chill in the weather it began to recede.
The bridge over the Bean creek on the line of the electric road between Cortland and McGraw was partly undermined and called for attention at once to see that no harm was done.
An Italian lives by himself in a little house on the west bank of the Tioughnioga river just north of the Port Watson bridge. He went to bed all right Monday night, but when he jumped out of bed yesterday morning he found himself standing in six inches of water that had come in above the floors during the night. Last night he could not get near his house when he returned from work and had to lodge elsewhere. This is the first time he has been driven out by water.
But the water is receding to-day to some extent as the chill in the air has stopped the thaw.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Mrs. W. S. Brown and Son Edward Rescued from the High Water.
Mrs. W. S. Brown of 72 River-st. and her son Edward, a lad of 7 years, narrowly escaped being overcome by the high water at the Port Watson bridge this forenoon. The horse failed to follow the track; the wagon was swept out of the road by the swift current and carried up against the fence on the south side of the highway just east of the bridge.
Mrs. Brown had started for McGraw this morning shortly after 10 o'clock, taking her little boy with her. The horse is one she is accustomed to drive and the wagon was a light top buggy with the side curtains on. As she crossed Port Watson bridge and drove into the water she says the current seemed to carry the wagon out of the track and it seemed as though the wagon was about to tip over. The horse too followed the current instead of keeping to the road and both landed against the board fence.
The water at this point was over the box of the buggy and the horse fell as it was carried against the fence by the body of moving water.
William Mudge of Groton-ave., who was drawing manure to a lot on the Park tract, was returning from the hill and saw the accident. He drove to the place and backed his empty wagon up to the buggy and Mrs. Brown and the boy were taken into the lumber wagon and to a place of safety. Charles O'Connell, who works for Herbert Johnson on the Conable farm, walked out on the boards of the fence and assisted in getting the horse out of the water. It was a narrow escape and Mrs. Brown considers herself fortunate in that the results were no more serious.
DEATH OF MRS. CHAPIN.
Had Suffered from Heart Difficulty for Several Years With Fatal Result.
Mrs. A. K. Chapin was found dead in her bed at 7:30 o'clock this morning by members of her family. Dr. C. D. Ver Nooy was summoned and found that she had been dead for about four hours. In all probability she died of heart disease. Mrs. Chapin had been in poor health for more than a year and had been treated for heart disease with seemingly good results. She is survived by her husband and two sons, Morris Chapin of Catskill and Harry Chapin of Cortland.
Mrs. Chapin was an active member of several organizations and will in these, as in her home, be greatly missed. She was a member of the First Baptist church of Cortland and her Christian character was exemplary. With her family she had lived in Cortland for the past twenty years and she has a host of friends who will learn of her sudden death with deep regret. Deceased was 57 years, 11 months and 29 days old. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made. Mr. Morris Chapin is expected to arrive in Cortland this evening, after which time the arrangements will be made and announced.
The Uncle Tom's Cabin Parade.
Stetson's Uncle Tom's Cabin company is in the city in full force. It seems to be the largest company showing this well known play, that has ever visited Cortland. The parade through the paved streets at noon to-day attracted much attention. There were two fine bands, one of them composed of colored girls. Ten dogs gave life to the line, and ponies by the dozen. Eva was in the line as large as life. Several chariots and show carriages were included. The procession was as long as that of many circuses. The visiting show people were reinforced to some extent by local talent and familiar faces could be seen above the brilliant uniforms as the boys joyfully led the big bloodhounds or performed some other similar service. Perhaps the happiest boy in the procession was Keator Brown, the mayor's son, as he brought up the rear mounted upon the trick mule. He fairly beamed upon his less fortunate associates who looked on from every side.
The streets were full of boys and girls as well as of older people and there is a likelihood of full house to-night.
BREVITIES.
—Mr. A. Somers has purchased of J. J. Glann the house and lot 28 Hubbard-st. Possession given April 1.
—The Dryden Herald has absorbed the Freeville Leader, and the editor of the latter has gone to Manlius to try a new venture.
—The Cortland Y. M. C. A. basket ball team went to Auburn this afternoon and will engage the Prison City Y. M. C. A. team at basket ball to-night.
—There will be a meeting of the Baseball association next Friday night at the Emerald Hose parlors for the purpose of promoting baseball interests.
—New display advertisements to-day are—F. Daehler, Clothing, page 8; City Steam Laundry, Laundry work, page 7; C. F. Thompson, Groceries, page 6; Opera House, Bennett-Moulton Co., page 5.
—Ethel Francelia Doyle, aged 8 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Doyle of 78 Groton-ave. died at noon to-day from bronchial pneumonia. Funeral at the house Saturday at 10:30 o'clock. Burial at Cortland.
—The Ladies' Literary club is of age. It celebrated its twenty-first birthday this afternoon. The meeting is at Mrs. S. J. Sornberger's and a special program has been prepared in which there is due reference to the birthday.
—Mr. James A. Nixon is exhibiting to his friends a specimen of Baltimore weather and temperature received by mail this morning. Mr. Albert W. Edgcomb was present when the sample was opened and seemed to enjoy the inspection of it hugely.
—A cow from Kingman's stable ran away on the pavement on Tompkins-st. this afternoon and proved a far better sprinter than did the two men who had been driving her and who tried their best to head her off. When last seen she was headed for McLean with tail outstretched, while the legs of the pursuers were flying so fast they could hardly be seen.
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