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| General Robert P. Hughes. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, May 7, 1901.
CHANGES IN PHILIPPINES.
General Hughes Will Try to Pacify the Island of Samar.
MANILA, May 7.—The Island of Samar, one of the Visayan group, has been transferred from the department commanded by General Wade to that commanded by General Hughes. General Hughes has been ordered personally to Samar and if he is unsuccessful in negotiating the surrender of insurgent General Lukban, the force of American troops in Samar will be largely increased and a vigorous offensive campaign will be inaugurated.
The report of Colonel Charles R. Greenleaf, head of the medical department in the Philippines, which has just been forwarded to Washington, shows the percentage of sick among the troops in the islands to be only 5 2-3. This is less than the usual percentage which was formerly from 8 to 13. The military authorities have prepared a schedule and forwarded the same to Washington, covering the sailing dates of the 10 regiments of volunteers still in the archipelago. Unless unforeseen delays arise the last of these regiments will reach home before June 30.
The commission is preparing amendments to the form of provincial government, which are a direct result of their experiences during their recent visit to the provinces.
39th Regiment Mustered Out.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7.—The Thirty-ninth infantry was mustered out of service yesterday. The Thirty-second will be mustered out on Wednesday; the Twenty-ninth on Friday, and the Twenty-sixth next Monday. Nearly all of the officers of the Twenty-sixth infantry have been ordered to appear before the examining board for commissions in regular army.
The reduction of the size of the army in the Philippines will bring home immediately, after the return of all the volunteers, the regiments of the regular army who have been longest in the Philippines, the Fourth cavalry, the Fourteenth, the Eighteenth and Twenty-third infantry.
Two Hundred Men Locked Out.
SYRACUSE, May 7.—When the 200 employees of the M. S. Benedict Manufacturing company of East Syracuse, makers of silver metal goods, returned to work at noon yesterday they found the factory doors locked. The men believe that the action is due to the prospective formation of a union. The company claims to have shut down for repairs.
MR. RICE IS BETTER.
CONSCIOUS AT TIMES—RECOGNIZED SOME FRIENDS.
Belief That He Will Recover Physically Though Some Fears Are Felt for His Reason—Tracing the Tramp—His Acts and Conversations in Cincinnatus, N. Y.
Mr. Albert Rice, the victim of the brutal assault in Cincinnatus last Friday night, is considered a little better this afternoon. He was able to open his eyes this morning and recognized Dr. Watson and some others who stood by his bedside, calling them by name, though the recognition was but momentary, for he quickly dropped off again into a state of delirium. He has been delirious more or less all day, though he has periods when his mind seems clear. No attempt has been made yet to inquire of him as to what he recollects of the events of that night.
There is a growing belief now that Mr. Rice will recover physically if no complications set in, though some fears are entertained that he may not regain full possession of his reason. It appears now that there is a fracture of the frontal bone.
AT THE BARBER SHOP.
Frank Wiles, the barber who shaved the tramp, was in Cortland today and was interrogated by a STANDARD man in regard to some matters. Mr. Wiles said he should surely know that man again if he were to see him and he knew he could not be mistaken. He attracted his attention when he first entered his barber shop because he was a stranger. He says he is an American, but of the class known as city toughs. He has the regular Bowery accent and style of speech. When the man came in that day he swaggered forward with the words "Gi' me a 'air cut." As he sat down in the chair he said "Say, old boy, put me up a shave first." So he shaved him and cut his hair.
Mr. Wiles asked him if he was working in that vicinity and he replied that he had been at work for Albert Rice, but he had quit that morning. Mr. Wiles expressed surprise at that and inquired why, saying that Mr. Rice was good pay and the work couldn't be very hard up there, and the tramp acknowledged that it was not, but he said that Mr. Rice was not well and that some features of his disease were offensive to him. Mr. Wiles asked if he wanted another job and he said he guessed he did. Mr. Wiles then suggested Elwin Burnap of German, saying that he understood that he wanted a man and that his father was in the village then. After finishing his work upon the man Mr. Wiles went across to the hotel and took the man to Isaac Burnap, the father. They talked awhile and finally the tramp rode up with Mr. Burnap to his son's. They had a little talk but no engagement resulted and the tramp returned to Cincinnatus.
Mr. Wiles says that at this time the tramp was perfectly sober and he believed was speaking the truth. Before he left the shop he said if he didn't get work there he guessed he would move back to Buffalo where he had been for some time. He knew he could get a job about the Pan-American.
HOW THE TRAMP LOOKS.
Mr. Wiles described the appearance of the tramp as follows: About 25 years old; in height 5 ft. 6 or 7 inches; weighing about 140 or 145 pounds. The complexion is dark, approaching swarthiness, smooth shaven. The eyes are dark and closely set. Hair is dark, nose is slightly upturned at the end. Directly behind the lower lobe of the left ear there is a triangular scar which is very apparent when the hair is cut close. The forehead is low, broad and somewhat prominent. The chin is pointed. The shoulders are broad, but the chest is somewhat hollow. When last seen he had a small sore upon the lower lip at the left end of the mouth which seemed either to be a ring-a-round or a cold sore. When he left Cincinnatus he wore a dark blue or black coat and vest, dark colored shirt with collar of same color attached; striped cotton troupers and soft hat.
WITH OIL ON HIS TONGUE.
After the tramp had gotten some of the contents of his bottle down his throat he talked in entirely a different strain. In the hearing of Isaac Burnap, of Elwin Burnap, of L. L. Delemarter and his brother and of M. D. DeVol he made the remark that "old Rice had a bundle of money about him and it would be dead easy to knock him over and get it if one wanted to do so." He told Mr. DeVol that Mr. Rice was "a crazy old cuss.'' It is hardly likely that he would have talked in this strain had he been sober if he intended to do what some one did do to Mr. Rice on Friday night.
Yesterday Mr. Wiles went up to Lebanon following the trail of a man who had been seen going along the road. With Officer Thompson he traced him from house to house. Many people remembered seeing him go by. At length they found him at Lebanon digging a well, but the moment Mr. Wiles laid his eyes upon him he said that he was not the man and that ended the chase.
INCREASED REWARD OFFERED.
At 3:45 this afternoon Sheriff Overton was notified from Cincinnatus that the town authorities of that town would increase the reward previously offered by the nephew of Mr. Rice to $300 for the arrest of the tramp. The sheriff was then about to consult the district attorney to see if the county would increase that reward any.
Sheriff Overton says that he thinks his first move will be to make a search in Walton, the old home of the tramp and see if he can learn more about him, his haunts and where he would be likely to be found, what his true name is and get all of his previous history that he can, and then he would favor making a fine tooth comb search over Buffalo, and he believes he can land him.
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| Rufus T. Peck. |
OLD DAYS IN SOLON.
FORMER RESIDENT TELLS OF SOME OF THE OLD FAMILIES.
The Numerous Descendants of Capt. Stephen N. Peck—The Canal Boys Who Used to Winter in Solon and Some of Their Doings—How They Passed the Long Snowy Months.
To the Editor of The Standard:
SIR—In continuing reminiscences of the town of Solon, I wish especially to mention some of the men who were prominent as citizens fifty or sixty years ago, and one of those was Captain Stephen N. Peck. He was a man who was greatly respected by his fellow townsmen and by all who came to know him intimately. His name was generally found on the ticket submitted to the voters for their suffrages at the annual town meeting and, his party being largely in the majority, he usually came out on the winning side. He was the father of a large family of intelligent children who like the parent were good citizens. The children remembered were Lyman, Hiram, Nathan, Northrup, Emily, Platt, Smith and John. Lyman lived over on South hill. He was the father of Hon. Rufus T. Peck, an honored citizen of Cortland, recently deceased. Nathan was the father of Wilbur S. Peck, the great wholesale clothing manufacturer and dealer of Syracuse. Dr. Northrup was a dentist and a resident of Canada for several years, where he practiced his profession very successfully. Emily was the wife of Charles Burlingham. Notice of her death was published in The STANDARD a year or two ago. Smith was one of those boys who when quite a young man was attacked by what was known in those days as the western fever, which carried him to Wisconsin territory, I think in the fall of 1844, where he died, as remembered in June, 1845. Platt Peck, I think, is the only member of Captain Peck's large family who still survives, and he must now be an octogenarian, or nearly so. The Peck family, as descended from Captain Peck, have been quite a force in a business way. They were generally frugal and saving and thereby many of them became possessed of considerable fortunes, which they seem to have the business sagacity to take care of. There is quite a branch of the family now residents of the state of Iowa, where they have lived for several years.
My last letter referred to Mr. Burns, as one of the canal boys. I am sure some of the older and former residents of the town and vicinity will remember the days, probably sixty years ago, when a large number of young men, who during the summer were engaged in towing boats on the Erie and other canals of the state came to Solon every fall for a number of years for the purpose of wintering their horses over till spring opened, when they packed up and returned to their summer's vacation. Now those young men with their retinue of fine horses, had the happy faculty of getting almost the entire friendship of the young people of the town, and in some instances the hearts of the town's young ladies, to the discomfiture of occasionally a young gentleman of the town, who laid claim to some young lady, considering her in the light of the modern phrase, as "his best girl." The canal boys, as they were called, were a gay lot of young fellows and generally made friends with all with whom they came in contact. A farm a few miles up the hollow road, as it was formerly called, owned in those days by a man by the name of Peet, but later by a Mr. Decker, was a kind of headquarters. That farm being large and producing a great many tons of excellent hay, gave the owner a ready home market with the advantage of having his product fed out on the farm. The house for those times was large and roomy and afforded good homelike accommodations for the boys. Another place that took in and cared for several of the band was the tavern a mile west of Solon corners, then kept by Lyman Wheeler. Both of those places had good stable room and plenty of good hay and oats and the housing and boarding of the young men brought good honest dollars to the host.
Solon and vicinity in those days was blessed with a goodly number of young men and young women. Nearly every family was large and about equally divided as to boys and girls. The long winter evenings were whiled away by a dance or two, or other gatherings every week. The sleighing was usually the best, probably more even and of longer duration than in these more modern winters. Snow generally came early to the depth of two or more feet and lay on until about the first of April.
An incident is remembered as happening at the old Wheeler tavern. An impromptu dance was hatched up suddenly late one evening by the boys. One of the canalers, a popular young fellow by the name of Jehiel Johnson, whom his fellows—for short called Ikely—had sought his chamber for needed repose when suddenly his dreams were disturbed by a noisy clattering on the stairs and his room was invaded by a number of his friends beseeching him to get up, dress himself and go down with them to the dance. Johnson told them he was too weary to accompany them, but still they importuned him for his genial company and still he said no, when one of the town boys in his true Yankee dialect said, "now Ikely do go down," and it was said thereafter that the boys called him "Ikely Do Godown." Those were happy days, not only for the visitors, but for the native born. C. G. M., Winona, April 30, 1901.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
HEARS PETITIONS CONCERNING MATTERS OF MOMENT.
Moving of Buildings in the City Practically Prevented—Doud-st. Would Like to be Accepted—Concerning Widening Arthur-ave. A Proposition for Street Sweeping.
The board of public works held a prolonged meeting at the office of the city clerk last night and discussed various matters within the jurisdiction of the board. In the absence of the president, Judge S. S. Knox, Hugh Duffey was made chairman of the meeting.
Eugene Woodworth came before the board and asked for the privilege to move a house from Owego-st. to Broadway, via Owego, Park and Tompkins-sts., and Broadway. This route, he said, would not bring the building on the pavement, and there would be plenty of room on any of these streets to let wagons pass. The board seemed to be quite unanimous in the opinion that buildings ought not to be allowed in the streets of the city, as they were liable to cause heavy damages for the city to pay. Later in the evening the board practically prohibited building moving inside the city limit by requiring a bond of $10,000 to insure the city against any loss by tearing down wires, defacing lawns, injury to pavements or streets and any loss that the city might sustain from damage suits.
Franklin Jones and others of Doud-st. came before the board and presented a petition of the residents and property owners of that street, asking that the street be accepted. The reason for wanting the street accepted by the city was given by Mr. Jones and was in order that sidewalks might be built and maintained on the street. One resident was making strenuous efforts against the plan and the board thought it would be best for the gentlemen to get all the other residents of the street or their petition, and then begin condemnation proceedings. The board favored accepting the street but without condemnation proceedings the petition must be signed by all the property owners on the street to be accepted, before it can be acted upon by the board.
H. T. Bushnell appeared in behalf of many residents of Arthur-ave. and asked that the entrance to that street from Main-st. be widened to the same width as the rest of the street. The people up on the street, he said, owned good places in which they took much pride in keeping in good condition, and they were getting tired of being faced at the corner on their way to these with old bill boards, burdocks, rubbish, etc. The plot of ground that choked the entrance, he said, belonged to Mr. J. Melvin Samson, and that it was 220 feet long and 10 feet deep. Some time ago a shake purse of $800 was raised by some of the residents with which to buy this small plot of Mr. Samson, but the speaker said that their offer was laughed at by Mr. Samson who wants, he stated, $4 per foot, or $880. The board individually expressed opinions to the effect that the street should be widened at its entrance, and it seems likely that condemnation proceedings will be begun to widen the street.
Webster Young came before the board and asked that the street cleaner that has been on exhibition here, be given a week's trial on the street. If at the end of that time the board was satisfied with its work, he would sell it at $100 discount, or $700. The sweeper, he said, would do the work of twenty men with scrapers. In a trial here the machine has swept up 5,500 pounds of dirt in one hour and twenty minutes. Edward Alley of the fire board said that if the board wished to try the sweeper, the fire team and driver would be contributed by the fire department for the work, with a view of' keeping the team and driver on the sweeper, if the sweeper were used. This would not impose any added burden upon the taxpayers, as it would be paying money from one fund into the other. The board put the matter over for a week, to be decided at its meeting next Monday night.
E. J. Warfield and Grove T. Maxson came before the board to discuss the matter of laying cement walks. Superintendent Becker thought that it would be a good plan for all the walks in a certain locality to be built at one time, in order that he could the better inspect them, and also save the builders from moving their implements back and forth from one side of the city to the other.
On motion of Mr. Collins, seconded by Mr. Wickwire, and declared carried.
Resolved, That the board of public works of the city of Cortland, pursuant to the authority given by its charter and amendments thereto, hereby allows a rebate of three cents (3) per square foot to be paid out of the public works fund, upon the expense hereafter incurred by any person until other action by this board, for laying in a public street of the city a stone or cement sidewalk adjoining lands owned or occupied by him, provided said sidewalk shall be constructed in the manner and of the material and quality prescribed by the said board, and the work shall be done under the supervision of the superintendent of public works, and shall be approved by him. Rebates to be allowed only on permits to lay walks, granted in advance by the board of public works of the city of Cortland through its superintendent.
The meeting adjourned at a little past 11 o'clock, to meet next Monday night at the same place.
BOARD OF HEALTH
Again Looking for a Public Dumping Ground for Garbage.
The board of health held a short session at the office of the city clerk last evening before the board of public works convened. A committee of three was appointed to select a city dumping ground for garbage, to be used after May 10. Up to this date Mr. William Nash, on whose property garbage is now dumped, will furnish a man to keep the grounds leveled. After that time the city must seek another place for garbage or hire a man to keep the Nash lot in proper condition. The committee named was Dr. E. M. Santee, and Messrs. Bliss and Ryan.
Notice of Dissolution.
I have this day purchased of S. S. Stearns his interest in the coal and hay business conducted by Sprague & Stearns. I will continue the coal business at the same place and all persons owing the firm of Sprague & Stearns are requested to settle their accounts as soon as possible at the office on Elm-st., or with Mr. Stearns. A. A. SPRAGUE, May 6, 1901. [Paid ad.]
PATHMASTERS APPOINTED
By Commissioner W. A. Smith in the Town of Cortlandville.
Commissioner of Highways W. A. Smith has appointed the following pathmasters in the several road districts in the town of Cortlandville for the coming year:
Dist. No. 1 Horace H. Brown, No. 2 John Griswold, 3 Ephraine Moore, 4 Manley Kinney, 5 Bert Dickinson, 6 Fred Launsberry, 7 Oll Gee, 8 W. C. Grady, 9 Frank Higgins, 10 Eugene Graham, 11 Thomas Hinds, 12 Fred Dunbar, 13 Judd Phelps, 14 Thomas Burlingham, 15 Cyrus Heath, 10 Irving F. Rice, 17 Thomas McMahan, 18 William Norcutt, 19 [blank], 20 [blank], 21 Frank Miller, 22 B. D. Hicks, 23 Bert Sears, 24 Chas. Gaylord, 25 Elbert Doxtater, 26 J. H. Graham, 27 Jerry Fades, 28 Ryon Oakes, 29 William Olds, 30 L. C. Greenwood, 31 Frank Blanchard, 32 Chas. Price, 33 William Elster, 34 Sam Miller, 35 Fred Brooks, 36 John Parks, 37 Henry Stebens, 38 Augustus McCumber, 39 Ed. Shoefelt, 40 David Crane, 41 David Hodges, 42 J. W. Danels, 43 Jerome Hall, 44 John Cane, 45 David Pettis, 46 Julius Whiting, 47 Chas. Odell. 48 J. Wooden, 49 Arthur Edwards, 50 Dan Bert, 52 A. F. Tanghe, 53 Edward Owens, 54 J. J. Larrison, 55 David McNish, 56 Ami Wickson, 57 William Martin, 58 E. C. Rindge, 59 George Olds, 60 Barnum McElheny, 61 Amos Olds, 62 Albert Harvey, 63 Peter Doud, 64 George Proctor, 65 Chas. Baldwin, 66 W. L. Bean, 67 Frank Brainard, 68 Ed Maycumber, 69 Clarence Stafford, 70 H. Larrison, 71 Webster Russell, 72 William Summerville, 73 W. J. Miller, 74 George Brooks, 75 Byron Rounds, 76 Harman Kinney, 77 E. Jacobs, 78 John Moore, 79 Q. H. Tanner, 80 Patrick O'Niel, 81 Stephen Johnson, 82 Chas. Humphery, 83 Chas. Munson, 84 P. S. O'Connor.
W. A. SMITH, Highway Commissioner.
BREVITIES.
—The first Baltimore orioles of the season were observed in Cortland this morning.
—Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M., will confer the second degree at their regular communication this evening.
—The Fortnightly club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with Mrs. F. L. MacDowell, 78 Tompkins-st.
—There will be a regular meeting of the Knights of the Maccabees in Vesta lodge rooms this evening at 8 o'clock.
—Cortland chapter, No. 194, R. A. M., will confer the Royal Arch degree at their regular convocation Wednesday evening.
—The Ladies' Literary club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 8:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. C. W. Collins, 18 Clinton-ave.
—New display advertisements today are—A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 7; City Steam laundry, Laundry, page 5; F. S. Bliven, Bicycles, page 7.
—Rev. Robert Yost says that the beautiful cloudless sky of the past two days with its deep blue is precisely like the sky that he has seen in Colorado for weeks at a time.
—At a meeting of the civil service commission last night Mr. James R. Schermerhorn was elected secretary and clerk of the commission, succeeding Mr. Hubert R. Maine, deceased.
—The first, last and only game of ball played by the Normal team at home this season, will be played at Athletic field Saturday afternoon, May 11, with a team from Cornell university.
—A Bible reading this evening at 7:30 o'clock, at the First M. E. church in the south class room will be conducted by Dr. Houghton. All Christians are invited. Bring your Bibles. Topic, "Who is the Holy Spirit."
—The summer season is indeed here. The final evidence of it comes from Cooper's foundry on the banks of the Tioughnioga, where it is reported that the swimmers have already began their daily baths. The water must be cold.
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