Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, April 12, 1901.
FIFTEEN'S REPORT.
Gambling and Poolrooms, They Say, Are Protected by Police.
NEW YORK, April 12.—The committee of fifteen organized some months ago to investigate vice as it exists in this city, made its preliminary report to the public yesterday. This report will be followed by others from time to time as the committee deems necessary.
After reviewing the work of the formation of the committee and its objects the report says the committee agents by investigation disclosed the fact that gambling and poolrooms were being operated openly in violation of the law and that these resorts were undoubtedly protected by officers whose duty it was to close them. Raids were made by the committee and its agents and the results obtained show conclusively that a committee of citizens can force the police to close up such resorts, thus proving that vice is protected; also that the raids have resulted in making the gambling business unprofitable in this city, either to those directly engaged in it or to those who indirectly derive from it a large share of their revenue.
The committee has been collecting data from different countries and intends preparing a report embodying suggestions for the treatment of the social evil in great cities. It does not feel that the best interests of the city will be served by any violent attempt to suppress this evil, but it is hoped that the forthcoming report will present such information and recommendations as shall enable the community to face the situation frankly and to deal with it conservatively and wisely. The committee says that the actual condition of the tenement house population is alarming over the crying evil of the existence of the social evil in tenement houses, and says that in 125 tenement houses that were examined by its agents and in which disorderly women were living there were found in each house on an average of 24 children under the age of 18 years. The committee is also investigating the organized traffic in young girls by the so-called cadet system.
The committee; recommends with earnestness the necessity of providing suitable places of meeting where the people in each neighborhood can come together and discuss the evils that menace their civic life and where they may from time to time meet their legislative representatives with a view of obtaining from them an account of their stewardship and where remedies may be proposed and discussed. Therefore the recommendation is made that in each assembly district one suitable assembly hall shall be built which shall be kept available for such citizens' meetings and it throws out a suggestion that these might be built in connection with the new public libraries which are likely to be erected in every part of Greater New York.
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| King Oscar II. |
KING OSCAR TO ARBITRATE.
Will Settle Samoan Claims of United States, Great Britain and Germany.
WASHINGTON. April 12.—King Oscar of Norway and Sweden has accepted the post of arbitrator on the Samoan claims of the United States, Great Britain and Germany. The German case has been made up and the United States case is about completed. The British claims probably are in Stockholm by this time.
King Oscar will have general charge not only of the determination of amount of claims, but also will have the more important determination of what claims arose as a necessary result of the military operations during the last uprising in Samoa.
Benjamin B, Odell, Jr.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Common Law Marriage.
Governor Odell has received from the legislature, for his signature, a bill which is designed to safeguard marriage and do away with the sort of litigation sometimes brought against large estates by women who claim to have been married to the possessor of the fortune, or by those who come under the head of "common law wives.'' Titles are thus clouded and not infrequently blackmail is attempted.
The Weekes bill provides that common law marriages must be proven by a written contract, signed by the parties and by two witnesses. Security against forgery is provided for, to an extent, by another provision which makes necessary the acknowledgement of the signatures before a notary. The contract must be filed within six months after its execution.
The measure is a good one and undoubtedly will receive Governor Odell's signature.
◘ The New York Tribune celebrated its sixtieth anniversary on Wednesday. April 10. The paper was founded by Horace Greeley and published its first issue on April 10, 1841. It celebrated the event by issuing a supplement which was profusely illustrated and in which the past and present were compared. Portraits of the founder and of those who were associated with him and who have succeeded him were given. The mechanical part of the New Tribune was also shown. There was a review of the sixty years of progress in newspaper making, and a sketch of The Tribune's career. This paper has indeed been a power in the government and in the history of this nation. Particularly effective was it in the decade prior to the breaking out of the civil war. It has always been abreast of the times and is now generally conceded to be among the best of the more conservative newspapers. It has never catered to readers of yellow journalism, and for that reason has always had a large following among the thousands who have no use for that kind of newspaper. That it may continue to grow and prosper will be the wish of all its friends.
GIRLS MAD ANYWAY.
Some at Prospect of Vaccination, Others Because They Were Vaccinated.
NEW YORK, April 12.—The protestations of the 2,000 Brooklyn High school girls against vaccination has resulted in the order being rescinded. The girls made vigorous complaint and revolt was planned. The board of health had visions of a siege by angry girls and forthwith recalled the order. The girls who were vaccinated are now angry that they obeyed the order.
Copeland Property Sold.
The house and lot of the late Wm. S. Copeland was sold at mortgage foreclosure sale at the [Cortland] court house this morning at 10 o'clock by L. P. Hollenbeck, referee. The property included the beautiful brick residence at the corner of Homer and Fitz-aves., and about five acres of land. There was a judgment against the place amounting to $8,803.97. There was but one bidder, and that was C. P. Walrad for the Cortland Savings bank which held the mortgage. His bid was $8,000, and the place was struck off to him at that price.
VERY SAD DEATH.
Family Sick During Past Year and Now Wife and Mother Has Passed Away.
The funeral of Mrs. Bartholomew Sheenan, who died in the Mahan flats on North Main-st. last Wednesday, was held from St. Mary's church this morning at 9:30 o'clock and was very largely attended. Au infant babe was buried with her.
The story of Mrs. Sheehan's death is peculiarly sad. About a week before her death she was taken with measles, followed by pluro-pneumonia, which hastened the birth of her child, all of which caused her death. The little girl baby lived only a few hours and was buried in the coffin with her mother.
Mrs. Sheehan's maiden name was Bridget Dougherty, and she was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Dougherty of Moravia, N. Y. She leaves besides her husband three small children, two boys and a girl, to mourn her loss, also two sisters in Cortland, Mrs. James Keenan and Mrs. John Couch, and two other sisters and a brother.
The family now so sorely bereft has during the past year or more suffered more from sickness than is the lot of most families during a long term of years. A year ago last fall, both Mr. and Mrs. Sheehan were sick for a long time with typhoid fever. Last fall Mr. Sheehan and both of the little boys were sick for long periods with the same disease, and five weeks ago the little girl was thus afflicted. She had just recovered when this last sickness with its results fell heavily upon the home. Kind friends and neighbors have administered to the comforts of the family, and for these the father is most grateful. The circumstances are such as to enlist the sympathy of all. Mrs. Sheehan was 37 years old.
MEN ARE WANTED.
Cortland is a Busy Place and is Hustling Hard.
There is no opportunity for people to be idle in Cortland now unless they want to be. Men are in great demand. Wickwire Brothers yesterday advertised for thirty men to go to work at once at their wire mills, and that in addition to the number that have been securing employment from time to time there before. Other factories in town are also short of help and would employ more men if they could get them. This means more families coming to the city; more families to feed, to clothe and to care for; more market stuff to be raised and sold by the farmers. It all helps. There is nothing to make everything brisk life plenty of work.
Another Tribe of Red Men.
A tribe of Improved Order of Red Men will be instituted on Saturday evening, April 13, at Red Men's hall, Well's block. It is hoped that all those who have made applications for membership in the same will be on hand, as the charter closes the same night. The projectors of the tribe will be pleased to meet all white male persons of good moral character and some known means of support who believe in a supreme spirit and who are over 21 years of age who may desire to connect themselves with the same. J. T. SUMMERS, D. G. S.
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| Albert Allen. |
Local Personal.
MR. ALBERT ALLEN, proprietor of The Kremlin [Hotel], leaves to-night for Sunnyside, Ark., to settle up for the year with the overseer of the estate of the Corbin family. Mr. Allen has been the manager of this estate for a number of years. He will be gone about two weeks. Then he goes to Manhattan Beach to make arrangements for the opening of the hotels there. Mr. Allen has been the buyer for the hotels for several years. He will spend part of his summer there and the remainder in Cortland.
MARTIN CONWAY of Groton, who has been spending a few days with his brother Patrick Conway, returned home yesterday to make arrangements for closing out his interest in the firm of Conway & Hammil, cigar manufacturers. He has been engaged permanently as first trombonist in the Ithaca band and will shortly change his residence to this city.—Ithaca Journal. Mr. Conway is a brother of Patsey Conway, the leader of the Ithaca band, and both were former residents of Cortland.
HOME TELEPHONE CO.
Received New Switchboard Sections to Supply the Demand for Lines.
The Cortland Home Telephone Co. has just received two new sections of switchboard each of 100 drop capacity. These sections will be installed in a few days and when they are completed the Cortland exchange will have a switchboard equipment for 600 subscribers, besides the former lines and toll lines which come in on a special board.
When the first board was installed in December, it was equipped for only 400 subscribers, but it was soon found that this would not be adequate even for present needs and the additions were immediately ordered. These new sections came none too soon, for the first board has been filled for several days and subscribers are already waiting for room on the new board.
There are also over seventy subscribers in Homer, where there is switchboard room for 100. It looks as though the Homer board would soon be full when an additional section will be added there.
The excellent service which the Cortland Home Telephone Co. is giving shows the possibilities of the telephone business, and those who have studied the telephone outlook say that in a short time the telephone will be as much a part of every house as the doorbell.
BREVITIES.
—The Praying band of Cortland will hold a cottage prayer-meeting at the home of Mrs. J. Fish, 24 Cleveland-st,, this evening.
—The vested choir of Grace church is asked to meet for rehearsal Saturday evening at 7:30 o'clock. All are specially asked to be present.
—The STANDARD is indebted to Mr. L. D. Garrison, who with Mrs. Garrison is spending the winter in the South, for copies of the Florida papers.
—The choir of Grace church will be assisted by Mr. Geo. Oscar Bowen at the Sunday morning service. At that time a portion of the Easter music will be repeated.
—New display advertisements to-day are—E. E. Bates, Optician, page 7; Opera House, "When We Were Twenty-one," page 5; Hudson Crockery Co., Opening, page 8.
—Proprietor J. H. Mourin of the Messenger House says he is tired of being routed out at night by late arrivals and that hereafter there will be a night clerk and the house will be open all night.
—The name of the station on the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. at the mouth of Gee brook has been changed from Willet Station to Gee Brook to correspond to the name of the new postoffice just established there.
—All members of the degree team of Pecos tribe are requested to meet at the wigwam Saturday evening, April 13, at 7:30 o'clock to confer the adoption and warrior's degree at the institution of a new tribe of Red Men.
—A Black Minorca hen belonging to Mrs. N. Palmatier of Virgil has been trying to surprise her owner and the public in general. She has produced an egg that measures 8 3/4 inches in circumference and which weighs 3 3/4 ounces.
—The Normal school completes the first half of the spring term to-day. There having been no vacation between the fall and spring terms and the school having been practically in session since the new year came in, a week's breathing spell will now be taken before beginning upon the last half of the term.
—New lists have to-day been distributed of subscribers to the Home Telephone Co. These are supplementary to the first big list distributed, but include the names on the small supplement published a few weeks ago. With the two lists now in use there seems to be a great number of telephones in use in Cortland and Homer.
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