CHINESE DISSATISFIED, TOLSTOI'S REPLY, DISAPPEARANCE OF THE YANKEE, TO MOVE MANY BUILDINGS, AND EDWIN FISH

 

George E. Morrison.

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, May 1, 1901.

CHINESE DISSATISFIED.

Policy of Punitive Expeditions Provokes Disorder.

PEKIN UNSAFE FOR FOREIGNERS.

Von Waldersee's Methods Scored by Dr. Morrison—Another Correspondent Says the Feeling of Unrest Is Everywhere and Uprising Is Likely.

   LONDON. May 1.—Dr. Morrison, wiring to The Times from Pekin, April 29, protests that Count Von Waldersee's policy of punitive expeditions has "thrown the greater part of the province of Chi Li into anarchy and disorder."

   "This is so complete," he says, "that the neighborhood of Pekin is now more unsafe for foreigners than at any previous time since the occupation began. The trade with the interior is crippled. The only armed Chinese are robbers and Boxers. Restitution to the Chinese of territorial jurisdiction has become a paramount need."

   "Everywhere among the Chinese there is a feeling of unrest," says a dispatch to The Standard from Tien Tsin. "There is no doubt that petty attacks on foreigners continue; and the statement is correct that bodies of well-armed Chinese are secretly drilling. Chinese picked troops are reported in strength in the vicinity of Pao Ting Fu. The situation demands the retention of the foreign troops for the present."

 

FILIPINOS SURRENDER.

Two Relatives of Aguinaldo and Several Other Leaders Capitulate.

   MANILA, May 1.—Baldomero Aguinaldo and Pedro Aguinaldo, relatives of General Emilio Aguinaldo, and five other leaders, have surrendered.

 

ANOTHER PHILIPPINE SURRENDER.

Opposition Has Ceased in the Island of Panay, so says MacArthur.

   WASHINGTON, May 1.—Opposition to American rule has ceased in Panay Island, according to a dispatch received this morning from General MacArthur. It says:

   Quentin Sales surrendered at Iloilo April 25. All organized opposition in that island ended. MACARTHUR.

 

Leo Tolstoi.

TOLSTOI'S REPLY.

Denounces Practices of the Church and Says Excommunication Was Illegal.

   PARIS. May 1.—The Temps publishes a two-column reply from Count Tolstoi to the decree of excommunication pronounced against him. It is dated Moscow. April 13. He says that as a result of the decree, he has received letters from ignorant, people menacing him with death. He characterizes the decree as illegal or intentionally equivocal, arbitrary, unjustified and full of falsehoods. Moreover, he says, it constitutes an instigation to evil sentiment and deeds.

   Count Tolstoi denounces the practices of the church and says he is convinced that the teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is injurious, is a lie in practice and is a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery, under which entirely disappears the sense of Christian doctrine.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Disappearance of the Yankee.

   The annual report of the vital statistics department of the state board of health of Connecticut shows that the native New Englander is fast giving way to the foreigner. With him will pass away the Irishman, who began to come into the state in the early twenties, and the German, who came in during the decade previous to the civil war. Their places will be taken by the Italians, Norwegians, Poles and Russians that have poured into the state since the civil war.

   Thus far the foreign population is confined largely to the cities. The natives predominate in the county towns. Still the young people among them are moving away, and the gain in the death rate over the birth rate is certain in the long run to leave them in the minority even there. The returns from forty-one towns show that the excess of deaths over births during the year was 240. In seven towns, the birth rate offset the death rate. The excess of the death rate was the largest in Middlesex and Fairfield counties; in the former, it was forty-one, and in the latter sixty-three. Canterbury lost sixteen, Trumbull thirteen, Kent twelve and other towns from four to ten each.

   It is when we examine the figures of the cities that the disappearance of the Yankee becomes absolutely certain. In New Haven last year, the death of natives was 1,721 and the births 1,032. The deaths among the foreigners were 551 and the births 1,354. That is, the ratio of deaths to births among natives was 2 to 1, and among foreigners 2 to 3. In Hartford, while 1,048 natives died and 661 were born, 484 foreigners died and 880 were born. Here the ratio of births was 4 to 6, and the deaths 5 to 2. In Westbury, New Haven, Hartford, Meriden, Norwich, New London and Bridgeport, the deaths of the natives were 4,227 to 1,867 deaths of foreigners, and the births of natives were 3,394 to 4,524 births of foreigners. In the entire state, while there were 8,229 births and 10,388 deaths of natives, there were 8,219 births and 3,678 deaths of foreigners.

   Curiously this showing is had in the face of the fact that there are more marriages among the natives than among the foreigners. During the past year the marriages of natives numbered 3,715 and the marriages of the foreigners 1,977 showing that the foreign families are much larger than the native families. While the percentage of American parentage has fallen from 43 in 1890 to 39 in 1899, the percentage of foreign parentage has increased during the same period from 37 to 42. The percentage of mixed marriages remains about the same at 15. The nationality of parents in the state is a s follows: American, 8,299; Irish, 1,818; Italian, 1,252; German, 870; Swedish, 833; Russian, 936; Canadian, 830; English, 358; Austrian, 339; Hungarian, 337; Polish, 208; Scotch, eighty-six; French, forty; Swiss, twenty-six; Danish, eighty-two; Finnish, thirty; Norwegian, twenty-six; Bohemian, ten.

 

Pan-American Exposition.

PAN-AMERICAN OPENS.

Buffalo's Great Exposition Not Wholly Complete, But Nearer So Than Others.

   BUFFALO, May 1.—The gates of the Pan-American exposition were thrown open to the public on schedule time this morning, though the exposition is as yet in an incomplete state. A large crowd is present and this crowd will be augmented towards evening, an electrical illumination of the entire grounds being promised for tonight.

   The great fair is further advanced than any previous exposition on opening day. Many of the exhibits are in place, others are on the ground, but unpacked, and there is yet some work to be done in touching up the grounds where, through stress of more important work, walk-laying and road-building had to be neglected. The Midway lacks little of completion. Half the shows were open and doing business when the gates were opened, and these did a big business. Soon after noon, music floated over the vast grounds, being furnished by the Sixty-fifth and Seventy-fourth regiment bands of this city and the Bavarian and Mexican military bands, stationed at various parts of the grounds.

   The official opening of the fair is fixed for May 20, when the exposition will be wholly complete.

 

MILDRED HOLLAND.

Fine Presentation by the Celebrated Actress and a Strong Company.

   Never during the history of the Cortland Opera House has there been such an audience assembled to hear such a play as that which gathered last night to hear and see Mildred Holland in "The Power Behind the Throne." The Opera House is frequently filled to the doors at minstrel shows or on the first nights at week's stands [five or six days] by repertoire companies where ladies' tickets are given away, but for a renowned play by a first class company where the minimum price for tickets on the first floor is 75 cents this was a novel experience. The entire house was sold and there were people standing.

   But this was not the only new feature of the evening. It was an intensely enthusiastic audience and at the end of the third act the leading lady, Miss Holland, was compelled to respond five times to a curtain call. This surely is unprecedented in Cortland. The play is interesting from first to last. One follows it with breathless eagerness, and the company is above criticism. The chief interest of course centers about Miss Holland in the part of Aria, and she carries her audience with her constantly. The transformation in her very appearance from the light-hearted merry girl of the first scene to the woman saddened through suffering and sorrow in the latter part of the play is marked indeed. And the support is excellent. The costumes were remarkably rich and beautiful and the scenery handsome. Taken altogether it was an entertainment long to be remembered in the history of the local playhouse.

 

TO MOVE MANY BUILDINGS

Watts Haight is Now Taking a Barn Through the City.

   Mr. Watts Haight of East Homer is moving an 18 by 32 barn from Venette-st. to Sands-st. for Mr. Spaulding, taking the same through by Greenbush-st. to Port Watson-st., and from thence up Tompkins-st. It was necessary on account of wires to lower the roof of the barn before moving it. On the pavements the building will be moved by anchoring to the telephone poles, with guide lines to keep it away from the curbing. The season bids fair to be a good one for the veteran building mover, as this is the third job and he has contracted to move twenty-three others.

 

Veteran of the Seventy-sixth.

   Mr. Edwin Fish died at his home two and one half miles north of McLean yesterday forenoon, aged 62 years. Mr. Fish served with distinction in the civil war in the famous Seventy-sixth regiment. He is survived by a widow and one son. The funeral will be held from his late home tomorrow at 2 o'clock P. M. Many comrades and friends from Cortland will attend.

 

Taylor Hall, Main Street, Cortland.

BREVITIES.

   —Mr. Daniel Kernan resumes the proprietorship of the North Cortland House today.

   —New display advertisements today are—M. W. Giles, Special prices, page 8; L. R. Lewis, Plumbing, page 6.

   —The first rehearsal of the adult chorus for the music festival will be held in Taylor hall tonight at 8 o'clock.

   —Superintendent Becker is busily engaged this afternoon in repairing the brick pavement between the car tracks in front of the Messenger House.

   —The regular council for Pecos Tribe, No. 357, will be held at Red Men's hall Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock, instead of 8 o'clock, the usual time for holding the council.

   —Mrs. Anna Edmonds Blackmer died at her home, 94 Maple-ave. last night at about 11 o'clock after a long illness. Her age was 65 years and 10 days. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made. A more extended notice will appear tomorrow.

   —The annual convention of the Cortland County Sunday School association has been held today in the Presbyterian church. There has been a large attendance of delegates and many others have been in at both sessions. Papers, addresses and discussions proved unusually interesting. A full report will be given tomorrow.

   —There are some people in this city, it seems, who do not know where Taylor hall is. For the benefit of such we will say that it is in the third floor of a block on the west side of Main-st. between West Court-st. and Orchard-st., and that the stairway entrance is between the stores of F. Daehler and F. D. Smith. The hall has never moved its location since it was placed there in 1863, and it has borne its present name since about 1867.