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| Governor Miles B. McSweeney. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, June 1, 1901.
M'SWEENEY SAYS NO.
Refuses to Accept Resignations of Senators.
TILLMAN AND M'LAURIN STOPPED.
Governor of South Carolina Says People Do Not Want Strife of Primary In Off Year and That Campaign Would Be One of Personalities.
COLUMBIA, S. C., June 1.—Governor McSweeney acting, he said, in accordance with the wishes of the people who did not wish a primary with its incident strife and unrest yesterday refused to accept the resignations of Senators Tillman and McLaurin. These resignations were made at a political meeting in Caffney, May 25, and were mailed the governor that night. He received them the following morning when about to leave for Chickamauga to participate in the unveiling of a monument to South Carolina's dead. The governor returned here early this morning and announced his decision shortly after noon.
He wrote a communication to the senators, in which he first said that he "returned their resignations for further consideration" as their action might have been taken in the heat of debate and without full consideration of the effects upon the people.
In the closing paragraphs of his letter however, the governor unequivocally declined to accept the resignations. His reasons he said may be put in a few words. A canvass between them would result in bitterness; stir up the people just at a period when they are trying to get together for the material progress of the state and it would be a campaign of personalities instead of education.
Next year there will be ample opportunity for a full discussion. Holding these views, the governor says his duty is plain.
MRS. BABCOCK ARRIVES.
Widow of Clergyman Who Suicided at Naples Reaches New York.
NEW YORK, June 1.—Mrs. Maltbie D. Babcock, widow of the late pastor of the Brick Presbyterian church of this city, who died in Naples on May 18, arrived here yesterday on the Hamburg-American liner Fuerst Bismarck. She was accompanied by the Rev. George A. Paull and the Rev. G. L. Curtis and their wives of Bloomfield, N. J. They were members of the party with which Dr. Babcock made a tour through Palestine. Dr. Babcock killed himself while returning
Mrs. Babcock was met at the pier by William D. Barber, treasurer of the Brick church. She was in a feeble condition and was not allowed to see callers last night.
Messrs. Curtis and Paull were requested by Mrs. Barber to make no statements concerning Dr. Babcock until after there had been a consultation. Mr. Barber said later there would be a consultation soon and a statement would be given out then by them. Mr. Barber said that no arrangements had been made for the funeral. The body will arrive on the [steamer] Trave, reaching here about June 10. Arrangements for the funeral will be completed before the body reaches here.
SOUTH CAROLINA SITUATION.
Senator McLaurin Acquiesces in the Governor's Decision.
WASHINGTON, June 1.—Gov. McSweeney's refusal yesterday to accept the resignations of Senators Tillman and Mcl.aurin, followed by the latter's announcement that he will comply with the governor's request and retain his seat, has attracted much attention here. Among the friends of Tillman there is a disposition to say. "I told you so," and it is even intimated that friends of McLaurin, realizing the false position in which he had been placed, went to the governor and urged him to refuse to accept the resignations.
There is no doubt that McLaurin's friends are delighted with the new development in the situation. They say that the campaign could not have been confined to a discussion of the issues involved and because of Tillman's peculiar temperament would have inevitably descended to a plane of personal mud-slinging. For this reason they praise the governor for his refusal to allow the peace of the state to be disturbed by a contest of this character now when there is bound to be another campaign next year.
The comments that will be made by Mr. Tillman are awaited with interest. He has intimated the line he will take, by arguing that the governor has no right to refuse to accept the resignations, the limit of his authority being to advise their withdrawal. McLaurin's prompt declaration that he will acquiesce in the governor's views, is expected to bring forth some criticism from the senior senator.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
H. G. Wells, the English Jules Verne, who has contributed to modern literature some highly imaginative works of fiction, is now indulging in serious scientific predictions in The Fortnightly Review. He believes that in another century the great and congested cities of the present day will be things of the past. While each nation's industries and business will continue to be concentrated in these commercial capitals the people will no longer be herded in the small area to which they are now confined. This prediction is based on the expectation that railway trains will run at a rate of 100 miles or more an hour and that omnibuses and cabs will go by self propulsion at a speed of at least 30 miles an hour. In the days of horse cars a city could not spread conveniently beyond a radius of eight miles. Electric cars and improved train service already have lengthened this radius, and it is not unreasonable to suppose that if the vehicle used by the working people were to run 30 miles an hour the masses of the city population would scatter off into the country to live. Such conditions would assuredly help diffuse the population of crowded centers over the surrounding country and improve the conditions of life to a corresponding degree, but before Mr. Wells' dream can come true the rates of fare must be correspondingly reduced. Otherwise the item of expense will continue to keep people as close to the places of their employment as they can get.
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| Rev. Maltbie Babcock. |
In Memory of Dr. Babcock.
The members of the Brick Presbyterian church of New York have set out to raise a fund of $250,000 in memory of their recently deceased pastor, Rev. Dr. Maltbie D. Babcock, the income of which shall be devoted to Mrs. Babcock's personal use during her life time. It is thought the church numbers in its membership 250 men who will give $1,000 each. The Brown Memorial church of Baltimore, of which Dr. Babcock was for thirteen years pastor, has begun the gathering of a fund of $50,000 for the erection of a mission church which shall be known as the Babcock Memorial church. This move was set on foot by Rev. John Timothy Stone, formerly of Cortland, who succeeded Dr. Babcock at Baltimore.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Discusses Guinea Hens and the Hatching of Poultry.
The board of health held a regular meeting at the city clerk's office last night, at which were present Mayor Chas. F. Brown, Health Officer Paul T. Carpenter, and Commissioners Henry S. Bliss, E. M. Santee, Fred Ryan and W. A. Stockwell. The board discussed plans for proceeding in cases where the health officer had notified parties to clean their premises, and finally concluded that a separate resolution in each case, notifying the parties to appear before the board to show cause why they had not complied with the order, was deemed necessary. Formerly blanks that intimated that a special resolution had been passed had been made out and served on all who failed to comply with the health law, but Clerk Hatch stated that he did not like the idea of sending out something that purported to be a certified copy when there was no original back of it.
The matter of the health code being in effect was then taken up, and on advice of the city attorney, who claimed that the distribution of the pamphlets containing the code met all the requirements in relation to their being published, the code was declared to be now in effect.
Health Officer Carpenter reported that of those he had notified to abate nuisances, four had failed so to do, and had done nothing in the matter. Resolutions were passed calling these delinquents before an adjourned meeting of the board next Thursday evening. The place and nature of the nuisance in each case is given: Burnett E. Miller, 79 Main-st., garbage and ashes; Burnett E. Miller, 31 Clayton-ave., cess pool and closet; J. A. Graham, 156 Port Watson-st., obstruction on highway; F. P. Howland, 34 North Main-st., closet; Dr. H. D. Hunt, 6 Orchard-st., garbage and ashes.
Commissioner Ryan asked if any one could tell when the city water tank on Prospect hill had been cleaned. No one volunteered to answer this and the matter was placed in the hands of the commissioner of the ward in which it is located.
The health officer reported that he had listened to a complaint from one of Commissioner Santee's neighbors, who stated that the commissioner's guinea hens made such a noise mornings that it was impossible to sleep. The health officer gave the information to the one complaining that Dr. Santee was soon to move all his poultry out on the farm he had purchased for that purpose. This led to a discussion of poultry in general, and the mayor stated that the theory that the blowing of a whistle would keep chickens from hatching from eggs in the vicinity of the whistle had been exploded by a citizen near the Lehigh railroad and the Wickwire Mills, who had had the phenomenally good fortune to raise forty-five chickens from forty-eight eggs that had been placed under her brooding inclined hens.
The committee on an ash dump reported that Mr. John Garvey was willing to have ashes dumped on his lot between Pomeroy-sts.[sic], and a resolution was passed, changing the dumping ground from the Nash lot to the Garvey lot. The health officer was made a committee to procure a man to keep the grounds leveled. On motion, the meeting adjourned till June 6.
AN APPEAL FOR EARLY CLOSING.
Employees of Groceries and Markets Complaining of Long Hours.
The grocery clerks and meat cutters of Cortland who are said to number one hundred and fifty or thereabouts complain, and apparently not without reason, of the long hours they are required to put in for a day's work, and are desirous that The STANDARD should appeal to the unthinking public to show a little consideration for them by intimating to the proprietors of the various groceries and meat markets where they happen to be doing trading in those respective lines, that they would be just as well satisfied if they would close their places of business at 6 or 6:30 o'clock in the evening instead of at 9 o'clock as is the case in most instances at the present time, in order that these clerks may have a little time to devote to their families, to recreation, or to making garden.
The requirements of the public are such now that a grocery clerk or market employee is obliged to open up for business as early as 5 o'clock in the morning, thus necessitating steady work for at least fifteen hours per day the year around, which is more than should be required of human beings. These clerks feel that they have cause to envy those who are employed in shops, in the hardware and drygoods business and in other mercantile pursuits from whom but ten hours per day are required.
The STANDARD is informed that nearly all the proprietors of groceries and meat markets recognize the justice of the complaint of this class of their employees and are quite willing to comply with their request to close at 6 or 6:30 o'clock at least during the months of July and August, the two hottest during the year in this section of the country, provided the two or three employees who are thus far holding out against them, will join the majority. The clerks are living in hope that the patrons of these stores will come to their assistance in this matter. It would certainly be acting in the cause of humanity for them to do so. Fifteen hours is a pretty long time to put in at hard labor from one year's end to the other.
CLINE-OLDS.
A very pleasant wedding occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Olds, when their daughter Maggie was united in marriage to Fred Cline of Solon. At 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, to the strains of the wedding march which was played by Bessie L. Hinds, the bridal party entered the parlor. They marched to a bower of evergreens and white lilacs with a background of potted plants and evergreens. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. P. Garrett of the M. E. church of McGraw in the presence of sixty relatives and immediate friends. The bride was becomingly attired in white mull and carried a bouquet of white carnations. The bridesmaid, Lulu Hildreth, wore a dress of blue mull and carried red carnations. The groom and best man, William Taylor, wore the conventional black. After congratulations had been offered to the happy couple bountiful and delicious refreshments were served. The contracting parties have hosts of friends and they were the recipients of useful and elegant presents of which a goodly number were of silver. The friends of the newly wedded pair kept reminding them of their situation by showering rice upon them.
Mr. and Mrs. Cline left for a short wedding trip and will be at home to their friends at the home of groom's parents in Solon after June 15.
NO MONKEYING BUSINESS.
Nevertheless, These Educated Animals do All Sorts of Tricks.
The sun has never shown on anything so absolutely new as the Sipe educated animals and Lilliputian shows. During the parade there are miles of smiles and smiles from the spectators who line the thoroughfare to witness the most novel procession of modern times. Lilliputians, dwarfs, midgets, mites and little things of every description are presented. Ponies, dogs, monkeys, baby elephants, little elks, antelopes, deer and the smallest of wild animals from the jungles of Africa and Asia pass by in review in their cages, drawn by blue ribbon, prize winning Shetlands of the Irish isle. Two performances are given daily at 2 and 8 P. M. when the public will have an opportunity of witnessing the most unique entertainment of modern times. A marvelous mob of monkeys will entertain the little ones, and an educational entertainment, properly presented will please everybody. The ponies perform all the equine tricks known, without any show of horse play; the dogs turn somersaults, walk tight ropes and indulge in antics which would make a dog laugh; the monkeys dress up and go visiting, fight duels and prize fights, and refuse to stand for any monkey business. Two performances are given here next Monday afternoon and evening. The exhibition will be on the lot at the corner of Pomeroy, and Elm-sts, Cortland.
The Last Appearance.
On Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock P. M., June 4, the colored people of the A. M. E. Zion church will give a benefit concert for Rev. G. C. Smith, their pastor. Rev. Mr. Smith has been with the people of Cortland for nearly two years. He has been of benefit to the people with whom he has come in contact and his going is regretted. An excellent program has been prepared and a good attendance is hoped for at the concert, June 4. Admission 25 cents.
T. R. PERSONS, Chairman.
BREVITIES.
—There will be a meeting of the hospital board of managers at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon at the hospital.
—Mrs. Earle Bourne and Mrs. Chas. A. Ingalls of Willet are the guests of Mrs. G. V. Clark, 13 North Church-st.
—New display advertisements today are—Baker & Angell, Shoes, page 8; F. B. Nourse, Music boxer, page 5.
—Binghamton is about to offer the Lackawanna railroad a free gift of twenty acres of land if it will move its railroad shops from Scranton to that city, as now seems likely to be the case.
—A horse belonging to Wm. C. Lyman fell on the slippery pavement in front of Mr. Lyman's sewing machine office on Main-st. this morning. The horse was not injured, but a broken thill resulted from the fall.
—Four candidates took the examinations for Cornell university scholarships which were held at the courthouse today. They were: William N. Brown, Charles B. Dowd and W. B. Phelps of Cortland, and Isaac C. Forshee of Willet.
—The Cortland Science club meets tonight in the Hatch library at 8 o'clock. The speaker will be Prof. L. H. Tuthill of Homer and his subject will be "Geology of New York." The paper of two weeks ago will be reviewed by Dr. G. H. Smith.
—Rev. H. G. Appenzeller, for nine years a missionary at Korea, will preach at the First M. E. church tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock and at the Homer-ave. M. E. church at 7:30 P. M. Rev. W. P. Garrett of McGraw will preach at the Homer-ave. M. E. church tomorrow morning in exchange with the pastor, Rev. H. L. Rixon.
—Mr. F. J. Peck has purchased the house and lot occupied by the late Dr. Fredrick Hyde on Tompkins-st., and as soon as the present buildings can be removed and plans drawn purpose to erect there a fine residence. The lot is one of the unfit upon the street and Mr. Peck is exceedingly fortunate in securing it. The house which he will erect upon it will also probably be an ornament to this beautiful street and to the city as well.
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