Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, April 24, 1901.
JAPAN NOT SATISFIED.
Rejection of Manchurian Convention Not Sufficient.
FUTURE MUST BE PROVIDED FOR.
Little Nation, Having Uncovered Russia's Weakness, Will Go Still Farther. China Guarantees to Protect Foreigners if Troops Will Withdraw.
YOKOHAMA, April 24.—There is no doubt that Japan's deadly earnestness in her intention to draw the sword against Russia, should the latter persist in designs upon Manchuria, has saved the situation in the Far East. All that was needed was for some one of the powers to take a bold stand against the aggressor and disturber of the peace and this empire, the youngest and weakest of them all, had the wit and the grit to seize the opportunity.
Everything was in readiness for striking the blow; with every vessel in the navy in a condition of perfect efficiency with a huge transport service thoroughly organized; with an army of 200,000 ready at a moment's notice, and with the sentiment of the nation behind it. All this was of course thoroughly known at St. Petersburg, and it became the determining factor, bringing about Russia's backdown.
The latter has made a fatal blunder in her generally astute diplomacy. A few weeks ago there was a general disposition to let her have Manchuria, as a recognition of her manifest destiny, but her attempt to make a secret and independent treaty with China has made all that a thing of the past.
Japan is in no mood now to let the matter rest with the simple rejection of the Manchurian convention. Having pricked the bubble of Russia's pretension and revealed the weakness of the northern power, it is most significant that an almost unanimous demand has been made on the part of the press of this empire that a yet bolder stand be taken and that Manchuria be in some definite way safeguarded for all time against Russian encroachments.
While Russia has lost, Japan has made an extraordinary gain in prestige. Seldom has it fallen to the lot of a nation in the space of a single year to put the rest of the world under deep obligations such as this country has twice had the opportunity to do. From a dramatic standpoint, the part she played in the relief of the legations was sufficiently impressive, but this latter triumph of her bold and straightforward diplomacy is so brilliant an achievement as to put the earlier one into the shade. With it all it is significant that there is no outbreak of the spirit of overbearing pride the press carefully refraining from any note of exultation. There was a remarkable absence of bluster while the negotiations were in progress, and there is now a manifest disinclination to indulge in any paeans of triumph. All this points to the fact, that Japan has fully assumed her place as a power to be reckoned with, and that she must hereafter be taken seriously.
PROTECTION GUARANTEED.
Chinese Plenipotentiaries Will Guard Foreigners if Foreign Troops Withdraw.
WASHINGTON, April 24.—It is understood here that the Chinese plenipotentiaries at Pekin, Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang, are prepared to give a guarantee to the powers for the protection of all foreigners in China if the foreign troops now stationed there are withdrawn. This is understood to be the basis of the withdrawal of 10,000 French troops, and it is earnestly hoped among Chinese officials that this will be followed by a similar movement on the part of the other foreign forces in China.
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| General Adna Chaffee. |
Want Americans to Remain.
PEKIN, April 24.—Many applications have been made to Mr. Rockhill and General Chaffee by Chinese of all degrees for the retention of the troops of all the powers. Many of those who are making this request think the withdrawal of the Americans will make the others remain longer. There are also people who do not desire to see any of the soldiers go, fearing anarchy and an uprising against foreigners. The soldiers who return do so with all the honors of war.
Field Marshal Von Waldersee has made application that the gate of the Forbidden City be guarded by German troops after the departure of the Americans. General Chaffee has replied that American soldiers will continue to guard the gate. At this the Germans are indignant, saying this impugns their honesty and that if the United States desires to do her share of policing the city she should leave behind enough troops for that purpose; that merely a few men belonging to the legation guards should control the gate which will be within the German quarters cannot be allowed. If General Chaffee persists in this course, diplomatic representations will be made in the matter.
The ministers of the foreign powers are meeting daily. They do not at present show a disposition to reduce the claims which many think to be extremely reasonable.
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| William McKinley. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The President's Trip.
That will be a noteworthy tour of the country on which the president is to set forth next Monday. There are tokens aplenty that the people are looking forward to the event with an anticipation that has in it a ring of hearty good will and never a note of partisanship. It is more than an even guess that the president himself is eager to make the trip. Were there no thought of relaxation from official care to recommend it and none of the intimations that a prosperous and united land was awaiting to do him honor, the love of "the Open Road" which is in the blood of every veteran political campaigner, says The Mail and Express, would be enough to make William McKinley a pilgrim across the face of the continent.
But there is more than the romany [sic] reason for the presidential progress. There is a good time coming to the administration's chief and the people. The old rivalry of the sections has been nearly wiped out, and for the moment a new and better one is taking its place. It is the generous emulation of the South, the Middle West, the mountain commonwealths and the Pacific slope, each to do the most honor to the nation's head. We observe that New Orleans, in which is domiciled the Confederate post that warned Memphis not to invite Mr. McKinley to the reunion of veterans, intends to do a little more than any other city; that the legislatures of Arkansas and Texas have passed unanimous invitations to Mr. McKinley to visit their capitals; that the gushers of the new oil field of the Lone Star state are to be turned loose with a bang in his especial honor and that the Pacific coast, which has not seen a president in a decade, is "planning for a big time," as one of a citizens' committee tersely phrased it.
What ought to make any president cheerful will be the evidences awaiting him on every hand that the country is unprecedentedly prosperous and is amiably suspicious that as "the advance agent of prosperity" he had something to do with it. He will pass through a land green with great crops, aflame with huge mills, picketed at night with the light of countless contented homes. In cotton fields and orange groves and cattle ranches and rolling seas of wheat, in swarming cities, in resounding factories and in the busy blackness of the mines he will read the chapters of an unexampled story over which are written his name and policies, the sane counsels of his party, the energy of his country and the favors of Providence.
In the last four years the American people have felt an unsuspected strength swelling their sinews. They have come to a partial and sudden realization of their unusual destiny. The honor that they will pay to their president will be what is due them as well as him.
◘ That the Pan-American exposition will be no one-horse-show is demonstrated by the fact it is to be "run" by 5,000 electric horse power brought from Niagara Falls. And old Niagara is no one horse affair either.
ABOUT A SIDEPATH.
Courts to Decide the Responsibility for Its Destruction.
As previously noted in these columns a section of the McGraw [bicycle] sidepath was plowed up and destroyed last week while the adjacent road was being repaired and the matter has gone to the courts. The section disturbed was about twenty rods long and was in front of the premises of Eugene Gates and George Carrigan in the town of Cortlandville near the line of the village of McGrawville. The road was being repaired under the direction of pathmaster W. L. Bean and with the approval of Commissioner of Highways W. A. Smith. The sidepath disturbed was constructed in the spring of 1898 according to the law and as a result of a written permission given by Commissioner of Highways H. M. Phillips, which document is now on file in the town clerk's office. The path has since that time been used without question by any one.
The place where the path was disturbed is in a rather narrow part of the highway, though said to be wide enough for two teams to pass. The path was built on the north side of the road under the edge of a bank that rises above it upwards of twenty feet. The sloping edge of the bank was dug out to give space for the path. It is claimed that the place where the path was built was not before that time used for highway purposes.
The men employed on the highway have now plowed up the path and scraped it into the middle of the road. The pathmaster claimed that it was necessary to widen the road at this point. Chairman Santee of the Sidepath commission made a formal demand upon Commissioner of Highways W. A. Smith to restore the sidepath to its original condition and this demand was refused. They had some talk about the matter in a perfectly friendly way and differed as to the legal points in the matter. Commissioner Smith claimed that he had a right to repair the street and widen it if necessary. Chairman Santee claimed that the state law protects sidepaths and imposes a penalty upon any one disturbing them. Commissioner Smith claimed that if the sidepath was desired along that road it must be set back further from the highway. But that would entail a heavy expense as it would call for the digging off of a bank in some places 20 feet high for a distance of upwards of 20 rods. It would probably cost a hundred dollars or more according to Chairman Santee. Furthermore that gentleman claims that the sidepath law is a very broad one and that according to its provisions wherever a path may be placed, if it is established in the legal way by first securing the written consent of the commissioner of highways, there it is protected.
As a result the two agreed to take the matter to the courts and try it out in a friendly action and let the courts decide who is responsible for that sidepath. The two men have been good friends and do not intend to let this difference of opinion in a matter of law interfere in any respect with their friendship.
As a preliminary step an affidavit needed to be secured from James B. Healey of McGraw who saw the path plowed up. He came to Cortland on the streetcar, but inasmuch as he had no team and would have to be carried out to the office of Justice of the Peace Clinton Lamont near South Cortland the justice was intercepted while in Cortland one day and consented to hold court here at this central point for a short time. He took Mr. Healey's affidavit while in Cortland and issued a warrant for the arrest of Commissioner Smith. The warrant was returnable yesterday before Justice Lamont. Mr. Smith appeared at the appointed time with his counsel J. H. Kelley.
Attorney Kelley objected to the whole proceeding and asked for the discharge of his client on the ground that the affidavit of Mr. Healey had been taken in the city of Cortland and that Justice Lamont had issued his warrant in the city of Cortland and that he had no jurisdiction whatever, in the city and, therefore, that Mr. Smith should not be held. There was no disposition to dispute this logic, though it was explained that the deponent came from the east end of the town and t h e justice from the west end and that they met in the city in the center as a matter of convenience. What both sides were trying to get at, however, was the merits of the question without technicalities, so Justice Lamont discharged Mr. Smith and they began the whole proceeding again.
Mr. Smith then agreed without the service of a second warrant to appear before Justice Lamont at his home this afternoon at 3 o'clock to answer to the charge.
Last night Chairman Santee and Justice Lamont drove to McGraw to get a new affidavit from Mr. Healey taken in the town of Cortlandville. On the way they stopped at the home of Pathmaster Bean to get him to appear to answer to the charge of destroying the sidepath. Mr. Bean demurred and at first declined to pay any attention to the matter, but finally consented to appear at Justice Lamont's office on Saturday at 10 A. M. to take the next steps in the case.
This sidepath law is comparatively new and is probably not as well understood as it will be after it has had more years of use. Chairman Santee has not brought his action against either of the parties in his official capacity as a town officer but personally and individually, and he bases his action upon Sec. 7 of Chapter 640 of the laws of 1900, which says in essence: "No person shall willfully injure or destroy any sidepath or section thereof in this state." Another section a little further along imposes a penalty of from $5 to $25 or of one day in jail for each dollar remaining unpaid for violation of this law.
These cases will now be tried and a decision will be reached in this county which, whatever it is, will probably determine further action in regard to similar cases.
A New Ice Crusher.
Mr. M. B. Filzinger the enterprising milk and butter dealer and ice cream maker at 14 North Main-st. has recently placed in his establishment what is believed to be the first ice crusher ever used in Cortland. The machine can be regulated to mash up the big chunks of ice that are fed it to any degree of fineness desired. A new and much larger churn has also been added to meet the demands of his increased butter trade.
FUNERAL OF DANIEL NYE
Conducted at First M. E. Church by Pastor and by Masonic Fraternity.
The funeral services of Mr. Daniel Nye, who died in Owego last Monday at the advanced age of 95 years and 2 months, were held from the First M. E. church of Cortland at 10 o'clock this morning. Rev. Dr. O. A. Houghton, pastor of the church, read the regular ritual service of the church and made fitting remarks upon the life of the deceased, referring to the fact that he was sexton of the church for the long period of twenty-two years. He also referred to the fact that when he began his ministry in Cortland the church was rich in the possession of old men, but that now these had nearly all passed away.
After this service the Masonic ritual and burial service that are usually given at the grave, but which were given in the church on account of the inclement weather, were conducted by Past Grand Geo. S. Sands and Chaplain S. S. Knox. The bearers were Messrs. S. N. Holden, Gideon Wright, Maj. A. Sager, Geo. J. Mager, H. M. Kellogg and A. E. Buck. The Masonic lodge of Owego and Vesta lodge, I. O. O. F. of Cortland, each sent delegates to the services. The remains were laid at rest in Cortland Rural cemetery.
FELL INTO BOILING SAP.
Timothy Maher May Lose the Use of His Right Arm.
While assisting in boiling sap in the woods at Summerhill a few days ago, Timothy Maher of this city slipped and struck his arm into a vat of boiling sap, cooking the flesh in a terrible manner. He is now only slightly improved, and he may lose the use of his arm.
A year ago, while working at his trade of a mason, Mr. Maher lost the use of one of his eyes by a piece of stone from a block he was dressing, striking it. This recent misfortune, by which he may lose his right arm, following the loss of the eye, makes it clear that Mr. Maher is having more than his share of hard luck.
Protts-Brown.
A quiet home wedding occurred at the home of Mrs. A. Brown, 105 Maple-ave., Cortland, this morning when her granddaughter Miss Arietta W. Brown, was married to Mr. Robert M. Protts, a clerk in Poorman & Barnes' grocery store on Railway-ave. The ceremony was performed in the presence of a few invited guests by the bride's uncle, Rev. B. Day Brown of Binghamton. Miss Nettie L. Stout of Cortland was bridesmaid, and Mr. I. T. Blowers of Cortland acted as best man. After the ceremony an elaborate wedding breakfast was served. Mr. and Mrs. Protts left at 9:18 this morning for a short wedding trip and will then return to Cortland and be at home at 49 Railroad-st. after May 1.
Tailoring for Women.
The Gillette Skirt Co. announce [sic, period usage—CC ed.] that they have reorganized their ladies' tailoring department. The changes made are with the view of prompt filling of orders for city customers. It is expected under the new system to reduce to a minimum the number of times customers will need to call to be fitted; that their work will be ready at the time appointed, and that it will be a perfect fit when delivered, without need of alteration.
Of the fourteen employees in this department, all have been retained who are considered essential to the successful carrying on of the business. Others have been engaged this week and more will be added as the business demands The head cutter, Mrs. Belle Doherty, has just returned from an extended visit to New York, where she has been perfecting herself in the very latest methods of the McDowell system which she has used successfully during the past year. All the coat tailoresses have been retained, also the waist fitters, and our customers may be assured that the highest standard of work will be maintained. [Paid ad.]
BREVITIES.
—The funeral of Mr. S. E. Curtis will be held at his late home in Cuyler to-morrow afternoon at 1 o'clock.
—A regular meeting of Canton Cortland, No. 27, I. O. O. F., will be held at the lodge rooms to-morrow night.
—Cortland Chapter, No. 194, R. A. M., will confer the M. M., P. M. and M. E. M. degree at their regular convocation this evening.
—There will be a meeting of the Kindergarten association at the Normal kindergarten Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.
—Rev. Sam Small will speak at the First M. E. church next Monday night, April 29, upon "Twentieth Century Citizenship." Admission free.
—The supper at the Presbyterian church last night was well patronized considering the inclemency of the weather. A fine supper was served.
—There have been five arrests so far for riding on the sidepaths without a license and tag. All have pleaded guilty and have paid fines of $5 each for the violation of the law.
—The Broome county sidepath commission has decided to offer a series of prizes aggregating $150 in value to the people who will sell the most sidepath badges before July 15.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Baker & Angell, Shoes, page 6; Opera House, "The Power Behind the Throne," page 5; Hudson Crockery Co., Lamps, page 7; Mitch's Market, Fish, etc., page 5; McKinney & Doubleday, Wallpaper, page 6.
—Pecos Tribe, No. 357, improved Order of Red Men, will confer the adoption, warriors' and chiefs' degrees at their regular council fire to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. It is expected that Adirondack Tribe, No. 380, of Homer will confer one of the degrees.
—If any one can furnish us information as to the temperature of Cortland during the week corresponding to this week in April, 1888, it will be very thankfully received by one of our subscribers who is trying hard against heavy odds to maintain an argument and an assertion.
LEADS A BUSY LIFE.
Rev. Dr. T. T. Munger to Become Pastor Emeritus of His Church.
Rev. Dr. T. T. Munger of New Haven, Ct., a former resident of Homer, whose letter to the Society of Immigrants from Cortland county to New York was published in these columns a few days ago, writes in a personal letter to a friend in town, "I close my ministry of forty-five years on May 1, though I remain as pastor emeritus. But I am still a very busy man and have engagements ahead that will keep me from doing such work as I would like to do—namely, recalling the past. On the two last Sundays in May I preach in the Brick church, New York, for Dr. Babcock, whose father was a Cortland county man and a classmate of mine in the academy."
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