Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, April 23, 1901.
TRACTION COMPANY SALE.
C. D. SIMPSON BIDS OFF THE WHOLE PROPERTY FOR THE BONDHOLDERS.
Only One Bid and That Was $50,000—Everything Included—Franchise, Tracks, Powerhouse, Carbarns, Park, Right of Way, Rolling Stock, Stock in Old Horse Railroad Company, Some Shares of Electric Light Stock—Company to be Reorganized and Property Improved.
All the property of the Cortland & Homer Traction Co. was sold at mortgage foreclosure this morning at 11 o'clock at the car barns between Cortland and Homer, by the referee James M. Milne, Esq. There was but one bid and that was for $50,000. It was put in by C. D. Simpson of Scranton, Pa., who is understood to represent the bondholders. No one else showing any interest or inclination to bid, the property was knocked down to him at the figures named.
The Cortland & Homer Traction company built the railroad between Cortland and Homer and Cortland and McGraw and to the park in the years 1894 and 1895. There was a capital stock of $300,000, and the property was bonded for $300,000 more. There never has been a time when it was able to pay the interest upon its bonds though as an electric road it has done a good business. The result was that three mortgages were given to the Farmer's Loan and Trust Co., of New York, dated respectively April 2, 1894, Nov. 12, 1895, and April 7, 1897, which covered all the property of the company. On October 15, 1900, as a step in the foreclosure of these mortgages, the company went into the hands a receiver and Edwin Duffey, Esq., was appointed the receiver. James M. Milne, Esq., was appointed referee with power to sell the property. That sale occurred this morning.
Shortly before 11 o'clock a special car left Main-st. for the car barns, bearing many of the interested parties. These included among others Frank Battles and Herman Bergholtz of Philadelphia, C. D. Simpson and H. P. Simpson of Scranton, and Mr. Blanc of the firm of Turner, Rolston & Horan of 22 William-st., New York, attorneys for the plaintiff. In addition there were a considerable number of local people all interested in the outcome.
At 11:03 o'clock Referee Milne began the reading of the lengthy notice of foreclosure which has been published in these columns and it took him twenty-two minutes to read it through. The property to be sold included in addition to the franchise about 11 miles of track, the carbarns, the power house, the park of twenty-seven acres, the right of way through private lands where the highway is not followed, 1991 shares of stock in the old electric company at $25 a share, 800 shares of stock in the Cortland & Homer Railroad Co. (the old horse railroad) at $50 a share, together with all the rolling stock and stationary property of the company.
When the property was offered for sale Mr. Simpson put in the one bid of $50,000. The referee waited a reasonable time for other bids and as they failed to come struck it off to him. Mr. Simpson then laid down the necessary $5,000 in cash required in the terms of sale and signed the memorandum of sale and the transaction was completed. The whole party then returned to Cortland.
This afternoon an examination of the property has been made with a view of seeing what permanent improvements are needed.
It is understood that a new company will be organized at once with preferred and common stock; and that the road will be bonded for $180,000 at four per cent. Officers will be elected as soon as the articles of incorporation can be arranged.
Every effort will be made to improve the property and to give to the people along its lines the best possible service. Whether or not the road is to be extended in any direction remains to be seen, though there is no intimation of it yet.
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| Emilio Aguinaldo. |
AGUINALDO IN EARNEST.
Says Advice In Recent Address
THINKS OTHERS WILL SOON YIELD.
Had No Idea Natives Had Such Strong Desires For American Sovereignty and He Knows Now That They Were Right—Predicts Golden Era Under Civil Rule.
MANILA, April 23.—A press representative visited Emilio Aguinaldo yesterday at 56 Solano street, whither he was removed from the Malacanan, and found him in a large room upstairs furnished with a table, a typewriting machine, three settees and 20 chairs. His wife, who was entertaining a number of Filipino women friends, sat at one end of the room, while Aguinaldo, smoking a cigar and chatting with Benito Legardo, occupied the opposite corner.
Others present were Lieutenant Colonel John S. Mallory of the Forty-first volunteer infantry, who has charge of Aguinaldo, Lieutenant Gilbert A. Youngberg of the Third artillery and Mr. Fisher, General MacArthur's private secretary.
Aguinaldo, whose bearing was courteous and dignified, was dressed in white, looked well and altogether made an excellent impression. Legardo, who but recently returned from the United States, was telling him about the trip and he seemed intensely interested, smiling frequently and asking numerous questions. He inquired particularly as to what President McKinley said and seemed anxious to know what was thought of him in the United States.
He was rather reluctant to talk for publication and considered every question carefully before answering. He said he was doing all he could to assist in the pacification of the Philippines and expressed himself as surprised at what the Americans had accomplished. When he was first captured, he went on to say, he was greatly astonished to find that a majority of the Filipinos entertained the opinion that American sovereignty was preferable to independence, but now he was inclined to believe that way himself. He explained that since the dissolution of the insurgent congress and the declaration of guerilla warfare the chiefs had operated to all intents and purposes independently. They recognized him as commander-in-chief, sending him reports occasionally and he issued some orders; but for the last several months communication had been difficult and he had been almost disconnected.
"I am now urging in the strongest possible manner," said Aguinaldo, "that al1 insurgents should surrender and swear allegiance to the United States."
He expressed the opinion that Tinio Luchan, Malvar and other representative insurgents will surrender as soon as they come to understand the nature of the amnesty offered them. He said he hoped that when the work of pacification was complete and conditions were settled the prisoners in Guam would be released.
After referring in grateful terms to the courteous treatment accorded him by the military authorities, he declared his conviction that the civil government which would follow pacification would realize the highest hopes of the Filipino people.
When questioned regarding the report that he would visit the United States he replied that he would like to do so but had made no plans as yet, placing himself entirely at the disposal of the United States government. In concluding the interview he observed:
"Every word in my address to my countrymen, the Filipinos, came from my heart I hope the Americans believe me thoroughly sincere in my efforts to promote the welfare and prosperity of the Philippines."
BURIED BABY BOY ALIVE.
Laborer Saw the Fiendish Act and Saved the Child's Life.
NEW YORK, April 23.—Patrick McEvoy, a laborer employed by the New York Central railroad in Hastings-on-the Hudson, saw a man and woman bury a 2-weeks-old baby alive yesterday.
As soon as McEvoy realized what was being done he ran to the rescue and succeeded in removing the loose earth from the child in time to save its life.
The man and woman ran away, but McEvoy gave a description of them to the police and an Italian man and woman were arrested in Yonkers on suspicion that they were the would-be murderers.
By the merest chance the baby was discovered by McEvoy, a laborer of Hastings, just in time to save it from death by suffocation.
The child had been thrown alive by the man and woman into a hole about three feet deep, which the couple had scooped out with their hands. A little cape worn by the baby had in some way fallen over the face. This kept away the earth and held the air for a moment.
With frantic haste McEvoy, who had been attracted to the spot while the couple were digging the grave, threw aside the freshly upturned earth and brought to light the little victim, just as it was about to give its last gasp.
The man and woman held answer in every way the description of the couple furnished by the baby's rescuer.
The prisoners, who were taken in custody by the police of Yonkers, were captured on a trolley car. The man said he was married and had three children. The woman said she was Francisca Stinella, 18 years old, a dressmaker and unmarried. She declined to say where she lived, but to Roundsman Brady at police headquarters in Yonkers, volunteered the information that she was a niece of her companion. They were hurried into cells and a strong guard was placed over them, preparatory to their arraignment in court, the police fearing that when the story became known there would be danger of violence.
The woman denied that the babe was hers. She said she had never had a child. She appeared very little concerned over her arrest.
After being questioned by the police they were arraigned before City Judge Kellogg, who turned them over to Chief of Police Hurry and Commissioner of Charities Hill of Hastings, who took the prisoners back to Hastings.
Last evening the prisoners were given a hearing before Justice Tompkins of Hastings. They refused to say anything when a formal charge of attempted infanticide was entered against them and they were committed without bail to the county jail at White Plains.
MARCUS A. MILLER
Former Manufacturer of This City, Died in Binghamton.
The Binghamton Republican of this morning contains the following notice of the death of a former resident of Cortland who will be remembered here in connection with the old Cortland Desk company, manufacturer of the Economy wall desk:
Marcus Addison Miller, a prominent resident of this city and known throughout a large part of the United States as a commercial traveler, died yesterday morning at 5 o'clock at his home, 28 Exchange-st. Mr. Miller had been ill with Bright's disease for several years and for the last few months had only occasionally left his home and then to take but short drives or walks. His suffering was intense during his last hours.
Mr. Miller was born at North Fenton on Oct. 18, 1855, and was the son of Addison Miller and Rocefa Martin Miller. His early boyhood was spent on a farm; he attended the district schools during the winter and worked on the farm in the summer. Leaving the farm when still young he went to Syracuse and entered the employ of Cook, Carpenter & Cole, organ manufacturers. He entered the Whitney Point academy and after being graduated from there he became shipping clerk for the wholesale firm of S. Mills Ely & Co. in this city. While working in that position Mr. Miller spent much of his spare time in reading and studying and as he had had some experience in teaching. When he was 24 years of age he was appointed principal of the West End school, now the Helen-st. school. He remained there for two years when he was promoted to the position of principal of the Oak-st school or what was then known as the intermediate department of the high school.
Mr. Miller went to Cortland in 1887, and organizing a stock company, began the manufacture of a wall desk which he had invented. At the end of eighteen months be sold out his interest in the business and went to Kansas City, Mo., where he became manager of the Mosier Safe company. He went to Chicago in 1890, and assumed the position of Western manager of the Smith Premier Typewriter company. He held that position for three years.
In 1893 he was one of a company at Cleveland, O., which published a book containing views of the World's Fair, then being held in Chicago. The duration of this company was short and for the next two years Mr. Miller acted as traveling agent in the Southern and Western states for various firms. He returned to Binghamton in 1895 and for a while was connected with the C. T. H. A. of A. offices in this city.
During the campaign of 1896 he wrote the book, "Is a Man Worth as Much as a Horse?" a book presenting political arguments in favor of the Republican party. As the campaign advanced he wrote another book, "Gold or Silver?" which argued in favor of the gold standard as advocated by the Republican party. It is said that 70,000 volumes of this book were sold in seven weeks. In 1897 Mr. Miller became connected with the 1000 Washer company and for the last eighteen months had been connected with the Binghamton Zinc and Lead Mining company.
Mr. Miller was a member of many fraternal organizations, being a thirty-second Mason, a Shriner, a member of Binghamton lodge, F. & A. M., of branch No. 87 of the Binghamton Iron Hall, was a member of the Wamsutta Tribe, I. O. R. M. and was also a Haymaker of that order.
He was married on Aug. 9, 1880, and besides his wife, Ida Garrett Miller, is survived by a daughter, Iva B. Miller, and by his father and stepmother. The funeral will be held to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the West Presbyterian church where the Rev. Samuel Dunham will officiate. Burial will be in Floral Park cemetery.
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| American Baseball Lithograph. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
The Baseball Season.
The baseball season of 1901 is now in full swing. The opening games have been played by both the National league and its healthy rival the American league. The lining up of the teams as they appear on the field shows many familiar National faces in the ranks of the Americans, but it is doubtful if the actual playing strength of the larger organization has been materially affected. A great deal of fresh and ambitious young blood has been infused into many of the National teams by the wholesale exchange of players, and consequently an increased interest will be manifested in the game by the variety loving public.
The fight now being carried on against President John T. Brush and the National league by Ban Johnson and the American contingent promises to be "to the finish" in every sense of the word. The National has had many rivals in the past and has, without exception, come out victorious. None of its former opponents, however, has had the financial backing and formidable personnel now possessed by the American.
The announcement, that the smaller organization will charge but 25 cents admission to its games is an indication that its managers are men of daring. This is a decided innovation in the baseball world, and the result of the experiment is being awaited with interest. There is no question that this minimum fee will attract thousands of spectators from the National turnstiles, but whether these added shekels will be sufficient to give the American league a balance on the credit side of the ledger is open to substantial doubt. It takes a large number of 25 cent pieces to make up $2,000, which is the average player's salary paid by Ban Johnson's teams this year.
There are many people who think that the ultimate outcome of the baseball war will be a compromise. The managers of both leagues, they say, realize that to be at odds is to play a losing game with the public and that for the sake of their pocketbooks they will eventually come together on a fixed basis of rates, salaries, etc. This is the only logical thing to be done. There is plenty of room for two major baseball leagues on a profitable standing if harmony be maintained, but discord will naturally exert a pernicious influence on each league and in the parlance of the "quick talkers and slow thinkers" will "work both ends against the middle."
CONCERNING THE SUN.
Popular Talk by N. H. Gillette Before the Science Club.
Before the Science club last Saturday night Mr. N. H. Gillette gave a careful and interesting compilation of facts gathered from many sources concerning the sun. The paper was an exceptionally popular one, as dry statistics were for the most part omitted and fresh and timely comparisons introduced.
Sun worship among primitive people, the speaker stated, was quite natural, in fact it would seem quite strange if they should do otherwise, and he cited the supposition given by the astronomer Young, of the first man on the earth, witnessing the sunset for the first time. The light and warmth of the day, replaced by the darkness and chill of the night, have left him to fall asleep in terror, not knowing of a sunrise to follow. Such a person must have been ready to worship the sun which brought to him the resurrection of the morning.
To the Sun, the speaker said, could be traced all the energy involved in all the phenomena, mechanical, chemical or [vital]. The world would die if the sun's rays were cut off for a single month.
The distance of the sun from the earth and its size were discussed, and some interesting comparisons were drawn. The moon, which revolves around the earth, he said, is a comparatively near neighbor, but the orbit of the moon was shown by chart to be much smaller than the circumference of the sun. If the sun were hollow and the earth at its center, the moon could still revolve around the earth and be far inside the surface of the sun. A cannon ball would travel the distance from the earth to the sun in about fifteen years. Had the members of the Science club boarded the Empire State express for a trip to the sun at the time the Pilgrim Fathers set sail on the Mayflower and the usual speed of the train been maintained, they would still be several years' ride from their destination. The fare, at the New York Central rate of 2 cents per mile, would be nearly $2,000,000. The velocity of nerve transmission, known as sensation, is not absolutely instantaneous, but occupies a very short time in traveling along its route. If a child puts his finger in a candle there is about one hundredth part of a second before he feels the heat. If the child's arm was long enough to reach to the sun, he would have to live to be over a hundred years old before he knew his fingers were burned.
As to the size of the sun, he said that if worlds like our own were strung across the diameter, it would take over one hundred of them to reach from side to side. The mass of the sun would make more than a million of our worlds.
The speaker traced the idea of calculating time and noticing the seasons by means of the sun from primitive man to the present time. At the Washington observatory one may see a wonderfully exact instrument in which circles of brass have replaced circles of stones. These are so bolted together between massive piers that the sun can be observed by it only once daily as it crosses the meridian. This is the completed attainment of which the efforts of primitive men were the initial steps.
The prime object of astronomy until recent years has been to determine where any body is, but now a new branch of the subject has arisen which treats of sun, moon and stars in relation to what they are and in relation to ourselves. The study of the sun in this manner gives the conclusions that in a physical sense it made us and recreates us daily. The sun was shown by charts in its three divisions, the photosphere or daily visible surface, the chromosphere, a rose colored stratum of gaseous matter with prominences, and outside of this the corona, a faint pearly light composed of filaments and streamers which radiate from the sun to enormous distances. Of sun spots, Mr. Gillette said that they were observed by the naked eye before the telescope was invented, but they were supposed to have been planets passing before the face of the sun. It is certain that the surface of the sun would cool from its enormous temperature if it were not supplied with fresh heat, and it is almost certain that this heat is drawn from the interior. Owing to the fact that different zones of the sun rotate faster than others, whirlwinds analogous to our terrestrial cyclones, but on a vaster scale, are let in motion and suck down the cooled vapors of the solar surface into the interior to be heated and returned again. This theory has not been either accepted or rejected, but seems very reasonable to many astronomers.
The speaker then gave an extended description of the chromosphere and the corona, saying of the latter that it is possible to conceive of it, especially of its outer portion, as made up very largely of minute particles such as form the scattered dust of meteoric trains.
In speaking of the energy of the sun he asked his hearers to imagine the number of trains on the bank of the Tioughnioga that would be required to bring to the river's source what so easily flows down, and then to consider that this volume of water is only a drop in the bucket in comparison to this kind of work going on the world over by the noiseless action of the sun beams. Of the fuel to keep burning such a fire as the sun affords, he stated that the products of the coal fields of Pennsylvania would last it only a fraction of a second. It has been supposed by some that meteors striking the solar surface might generate heat by their impact, but this could not furnish all the heat. It is now believed that it is in the slow settlement of the sun's own substance toward its center as it contracts in cooling that a sufficient cause is found for the heat developed. Astronomers are able to estimate the amount of shrinkage going on in the sun and to figure from this that the present heat supply will last four or five million years before it sensibly fails, and that the whole future radiation cannot last more than ten million years.
Defendant Was Discharged.
Francis M. Beardsley, who was arrested by Deputy Sheriff John Miller in South Dakota and brought to Marathon, N. Y., last week to answer to the charge of grand larceny in the second degree, was discharged yesterday in justice's court at Marathon, and has started back to South Dakota.
The motion for the discharge of the defendant was made by Attorney C. V. Coon on the ground that there were no papers or depositions upon which the warrant was issued on file with the court, and there was no evidence that the defendant was guilty of the crime of grand larceny or any other crime. The motion for discharge was unopposed and the court granted the same.
A MANAGER CHOSEN.
M. T. Roche Will Again Direct the Cortland Baseball Team.
Last night the executive committee of the Baseball association met at the Emerald Hose parlors and did the right thing in placing M. T. Roche again in the position of manager of the team. Mr. Roche understands the game and the men who play it, and will stand ready to embrace every opportunity that is offered to better the team and give Cortland a good exhibition of baseball again this season.
Murray, a left-handed pitcher, has been added to the Cortland team. Murray's career as a baseball player started at Hobart college. Afterward he played at Weedsport, and last season he twirled for Ilion. He is a fast player and will add much strength to the team.
Roche's men will report in Cortland next Saturday, and will be given sharp practice. The first exhibition game will be played in Cortland May 1 with the Binghamton team, which will also play here the following day. Cortland will spend the 3rd and 4th at Binghamton. The rest of the schedule for exhibition games has not been made out. The Cortlands open the league season at Schenectady, while the first league will be played in Cortland May 13 with Albany.
Wife Gets the Wages.
James Sheridan, whose wife swore out a warrant yesterday for his arrest, was arraigned in city court this morning and pleaded guilty to the charge of not providing support for his family. Sheridan meekly submitted to the court's demands that he sign an order allowing his employers to pay his wages to his wife, as he liked this prospect much better than the six months in jail threatened him.
BREVITIES.
—Chief of Police Barnes appeared on the streets yesterday resplendent in a brand new uniform.
—The Ladies' Literary club will meet to-morrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with Mrs. E. M. H. Johnson at the Cortland House.
—James Donovan pleaded guilty to a charge of public intoxication in city court this morning and was sentenced to pay a fine of $5. He went to jail in default of the payment.
—A regular meeting of the Fortnightly club will be held to-morrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with Miss Grace Mead, 13 Argyle Place. The quarterly entertainment of this club will be held in Vesta lodge rooms on Friday evening of this week at 8 o'clock.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Glann & Clark, Shoes, page 7; Miss Lamb, New millinery store, page 6; C. F. Thompson, Tea, page 5; Home Telephone Co., Telephones, page 5; Opera House, "Alvin Joslin," page 5; C. F. Brown, Enamel paints, page 4; M. A. Case, Drygoods, page 6.
—Word was received in Cortland this afternoon of the death this morning at 11 o'clock, at his home in Cuyler, of Mr. S. E. Curtis, formerly junior member of the firm of Kellogg & Curtis. He was thought to be as well as usual and was about the house till a half hour before his death. No particulars are yet known in Cortland.
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