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| Ida Saxton McKinley. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, May 13, 1901.
MRS. M'KINLEY IS ILL.
Taken to San Francisco For Rest and Treatment.
GLOOM CAST OVER THE PARTY.
Her Condition Is Not Alarming But She Was Ailing Before She Started on the Trip and Fatigue Has Affected Her—May Change Plans.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 13.—A special train bearing President and Mrs. McKinley, Miss Barber, Dr. Rixby, Secretary Cortelyou and Henry T. Scott arrived here yesterday afternoon from Delmonte. Mrs. McKinley was brought here by the president in advance of the regular program that she might obtain complete rest. Upon arrival here the president and party were driven to the residence of Henry T. Scott, which they will occupy during their stay here.
Only a few hundred people greeted the president upon his arrival in this city. His coming was not generally known. The president, in order to avoid the crowd that was expected to assemble at the Southern Pacific depot, left the train with his little party at Valencia street, a station in the southern part of the city. When the train stopped at the station Mrs. McKinley was carried in a steamer chair by two colored porters from the private car to a closed carriage in waiting. She was heavily veiled and the president and Dr. Rixey followed close behind. Mrs. McKinley was gently placed in the carriage and the president and Dr. Rixey took seats in the same vehicle. The president was quite pale and looked serious. Mr. and Mrs. Scott had arrived at their residence ahead of the president and were waiting to receive their distinguished guests. Mrs. McKinley was again lifted out of the carriage and placed in an invalid chair and carried into the house.
Secretary Cortelyou when questioned stated that there was nothing alarming in her present indisposition and that perfect quiet and rest for a few days would restore her to her usual health. It was the impression, however, of those who saw Mrs. McKinley that she is very ill and that her present state may result in an entire change of the president's program.
Should his wife's health improve the president will carry out his intention to attend the celebration at San Jose.
Last night Dr. Rixey made the following statement:
"Mrs. McKinley stood the trip from Delmonte much better than I expected. Her condition is not serious. She will stay here at least a week and have perfect rest. I think by that time she will be able to continue the journey."
Mrs. McKinley's condition is said not to be alarming, but she has not been well since the long journey began, and the trip has fatigued her very much. Saturday night she did not respond to medical treatment and both the president and Dr. Rixey considered it wise to take her to San Francisco where she could have complete rest for a few days at Mr. Scott's residence, and where Dr. Hirschfelter, Mr. Scott's physician, could be consulted if necessary.
The cabinet and other members of the party will carry out the program as arranged, going to San Jose today and arriving at San Francisco on Tuesday. The present understanding is that the president will join the party at San Jose if Mrs. McKinley's condition permits. Dr. Rixey said Mrs. McKinley was much better today than she had been last night.
Mrs. McKinley bruised her hand while the train was rounding a sharp curve in Texas and she has suffered considerably from the bruise since. Her delicate health has aggravated the injury and Dr. Rixey was twice compelled to lance it. The lancing relieved her very much for the time being.
GLOOM OVER THE PARTY.
Mrs. McKinley's Indisposition Produces the Utmost Sorrow and Deep Sympathy.
DELMONTE, Cal., May 13.—Mrs. McKinley's illness has cast a shadow over the other members of the party who remained here and there was talk at first of abandoning the entire schedule between here and San Francisco, but Mrs. McKinley especially requested that the plans of the party should not be disarranged by her departure, and when the president left the understanding was that the program originally filed should be carried out. The president has himself said he would rejoin the party as soon as Mrs. McKinley shall be made comfortable.
The party as scheduled left here at 8 o'clock this morning and after a 10 minute stop at Parajo will go to Santa Cruz for a glimpse of the big trees. It was not the expectation of the president that he could be at either of these places, but he thought he could meet the cabinet at San Jose, where great preparation have been made to receive him and where the program was for the party to spend the night. In that case he could enter San Francisco Tuesday afternoon as originally contemplated without disarranging the plans for the ovation arranged for him there. It is possible that Mrs. McKinley's condition, if it shall not improve as rapidly as hoped, may necessitate a curtailment of the program in San Francisco and for the remainder of the trip.
The day after leaving New Orleans a bone felon appeared upon Mrs. McKinley's finger. Her hand became swollen and gave her considerable pain and produced fever that prevented her from sleeping. Dr. Rixey twice lanced the felon and gave her some relief in that way. Mrs. McKinley bore it bravely and urged that the program at the cities and towns should not be modified in any particular on her account.
It was hoped that the rest here would do her good, but she slept little Saturday night and, although her condition had improved, she reluctantly agreed to go to San Francisco at once. The party got away from the hotel so quietly that many of the guests did not know until evening that the president and Mrs. McKinley had gone.
MISSED HIS POCKETBOOK.
Albert Rice Begins to Take Interest in Current Events.
The STANDARD'S Geebrook correspondent sends word that a visit was made Sunday to the home of Albert Rice who a week before had been so badly beaten over the head by some one. The correspondent was informed by attendants that there was not much change in his condition. He is rational at times and Sunday missed his pocketbook for the first time and asked Mrs. Counselman, his housekeeper, about it. He said there were some bills in his memorandum and it was in his vest pocket and that his change was in a canvas bag in his trousers pocket. Not thinking it best to tell him at present the circumstances, she informed him that it was all right and she thought it was in the safe. Mr. Rice replied that if it was in the safe it was all right. He is delirious most of the time only at short intervals like that. Miss Emily Schannee of Buffalo, a trained nurse, and F. Harvey of Cincinnatus are caring for Mr. Rice.
RUN OVER BY CARS
Joseph Townsend, Colored, Struck by a Lehigh Passenger Train.
The 9 o'clock passenger train on the Auburn division of the Lehigh Valley railroad going south Saturday evening ran over and killed a negro by the name of Joseph Townsend, aged 22 years. It happened near the Willow crossing about a mile and a half north of Harford. Coroner Santee of Cortland was notified and ordered the remains moved to Harford where he viewed them Sunday at about 10 o'clock. They were then removed to Wright's undertaking rooms in Cortland where an autopsy was held. The last seen of Townsend was Saturday at Dryden Lake fishing. It is said that he was not intoxicated. He seemed to the engineer to be asleep on the tracks when noticed. A letter was found in his pocket from a brother in Pennsylvania, a box of tablets and broken bottle which might have contained medicine, also a teaspoon. He had been working on a farm near Harford for the past week. During the winter he was employed in Thurston's winter garden at Cortland. The body was pretty badly cut up and mangled. The inquest will be held in Harford on Saturday, May 18. Townsend's home was in Lounsbury, and he was unmarried.
LIGHTNING'S QUEER WORK.
Entered the Home of W. A. Smith—Ball of Fire Rolled About.
At about 5 o'clock Saturday night there was a very brilliant flash of lightning followed almost immediately by a crash of thunder. This was very much in evidence at the home of Commissioner of Highways W. A. Smith next the Lackawanna crossing between Cortland and Homer. An electric light wire extends from the trolley wire to the house, placed there two years ago to transmit power to operate an electric fan in the bedroom of Mrs. Carrie S. Smith, Mr. Smith's mother, who was at that time an invalid. The fan was taken out in the fall of that year and has not since been used, but the wire came down through the ceiling and simply hung there.
Mr. Smith had been sitting in that room talking with his mother, but arose and stepped about two feet outside in the next room to fill his pipe. Just then the flash of lightning came and a ball of fire dropped from the hanging wire into the room tearing the plastering off in the vicinity of the wire and scattering it about the floor. The ball of fire dropped to the floor, rolled two or three times about the floor, rolled out in the other room and circled two or three times about Mr. Smith's feet and disappeared no one knew where or how.
The family supposed the house was struck and probably on fire, but it was not and no damage was done except to the plastering. The carpet was not burned. Mr. Smith's legs up as far as the knees were very numb for some time, but within a few hours all trace of this had disappeared.
THE MECHANICS' SON.
Practical Paper by Prof. W. M. Booth of the Cortland Normal.
The following paper from the pen of Prof. W. M. Booth, head of the department of science in the Cortland Normal school, appeared in the self-help department of Science and Industry, published at Scranton, Pa., and is here reprinted by the permission of the publishers:
The American mechanic occupies an enviable position. He has earned the reputation of being able to originate and manufacture, at literally a moment's notice, whatever is needed in the business or commercial economy of any people of the earth. He stands today the backbone of American industry as represented upon land and sea by the most efficient machines ever built by man. But he is modest, works hard and says little; his hands and trade are his capital; he has his family and is fond of his home; Sunday finds him at church or with his friends, to whom he is loyal. Treated fairly he is ready to spend his [life] for his cause. We honor this man, the best representative of true Americanism. In a still higher sense is he to be commended for his attempt to educate his boy and girl beyond the limit of his own scant opportunities.
We remember the degree of self sacrifice exhibited on the part of the foundry man, the blacksmith, and the machinist to keep the boy in school that "he may have a better chance than his father.'' The principle is right, but the education the boy often gets, leads him to ignore his father's trade, find fault with his home surroundings, and sigh for another sphere which one man in a thousand may possibly occupy; concluding by being ashamed to own himself the son of a mechanic.
Such conditions are prevalent in every manufacturing town. Our public educational system is largely responsible for the failure on the part of the father to make a more broadly educated work man of his son than he himself has been able to become, through lack of opportunity or application. We are teaching 10,000 workmen's sons to become political economists and poor lawyers, and ten to become educated workmen, whereas we need 10,000 workmen and perhaps one politician. Hard work and overalls never degraded any man.
When our educational fathers teach the workingman's son how to do something; when the school has given the boy a start in the fundamentals of the mechanical trades—facts to be applied in the daily routine of the shop; when he is educated toward and not from his father's business, we shall have less men out of sympathy with their surroundings, better citizens and more contentment; for after all that has been said regarding riches, honor, and power, the middle-class man, the backbone of the American commonwealth, lives the envied life.
Any means tending to educate the mechanic's son toward rather than from the shop, is to be heartily commended, for the mechanic's wage-earning power is increased through his theoretical knowledge more rapidly than that of any other class of employed.
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| Sig. Sautelle. |
SIG. SAUTELLE'S CIRCUS.
Large Audiences Pleased with the Fine Exhibition.
Sig. Sautelle's circus gave two exhibitions in Cortland on Saturday to large crowds. The forenoon was rainy and the weather seemed decidedly unfavorable for the affair, but soon after noon the sky cleared and the afternoon was fine. Probably not as many country people attended as would have been the case had the promise for the day been more favorable, but as it was nearly every seat was occupied.
In the evening the clouds gathered again and it seemed as though the windows of the heavens were opened, for the rain descended in torrents. The greater part of it, however, came after the majority of the people had arrived, still the people continued to come with the arrival of each street car for a full hour after the performance had begun till the tent was full. The waterproof qualities of the tent were amply tested and with the exception of a single place where the water got caught in a pocket and couldn't run off proved satisfactory for it was dry inside. And the rain stopped too before the show was out.
The performance was an excellent one. It is of course not to be expected that a circus of this size can have the variety of program that will be shown by a three ring circus, and it did not have that variety, but it had the advantage that one's attention was not distracted and the eyes were not trying to turn in three directions at once. One could see all that there was to be seen, and everything was well done. Sig. Sautelle has some artists indeed in his company. His boneless man was a wonder indeed, and is probably not surpassed anywhere in his ability to tie himself up in knots and do other tricks. The acrobatic feats performed by several of the people were full of skill and daring and are rarely ever surpassed in larger circuses. There were athletes in tumbling, athletes in trapeze work and upon revolving ladders and in various novelties. The work of the dogs and ponies was good and the riding was excellent. A special feature was the strong man who held upon his outstretched arms and chest the entire band of ten men while it played "Dixie." Taken altogether it was a show to afford enjoyment, especially when one remembers that the admission fee is but half of that charged at the big circuses. The owner has brought together a series of attractions that cannot fail to give satisfaction wherever he exhibits.
George J. Felt.
The funeral services of Geo. J. Felt who died suddenly of heart disease on Saturday, May 11, in his 77th year, will be held at his late residence on Fisher-ave. at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. Burial at Pitcher, N. Y. Mr. Felt is survived by a wife and the following children: Horace Felt, Mrs. Edwin Foreman and Frank J. Felt, all of Cortland. Mr. Felt was a kind loving husband and father, a true Christian, one who was highly respected by neighbors and acquaintances for his integrity.
WON THIS GAME.
Schenectady's Perfect Record Spoiled by Cortland.
Cortland made a great rally at Schenectady yesterday and Lee shut out the top-notchers with four scattered hits. The game was the best exhibition of ball that the Schenectady fans have witnessed this year, neither side making an error. Three thousand five hundred people witnessed the exciting contest.
Cortland made the only score of the game in the third on a single by Molesworth and a two-bagger by Gannon. The last inning was the most exciting of all. With no one out Schenectady succeeded in getting a man on second and third, but Lee was equal to the occasion and struck out two men. Then it came Barber's turn at bat, but Schenectady wanted those two runs; so Betts, their best man with the stick, who was on the bench, was delegated to take his place, make a clean single and run the two men in, and so win the game. The tactics of the hard hitter, however, were known to one McCormick who guards third base, and when a hot grounder came shooting directly over the third bag the clever fielder was there to pick it up and with a neat throw to first the side was retired.
Frank Maycumber, formerly a Cortland baseball enthusiast, who now makes his home in Schenectady, was an interested spectator of these plays. It is unnecessary to add that the Cortland boys had one ardent supporter in the great crowd.
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BREVITIES.
—The board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. meet this evening at the association parlors at 8:15 o'clock.
—The city engineer is in town for a few days. If any parties want sidewalk grades established, if they will notify Commissioner Becker of the fact at once, he will have it attended to, but the engineer will not be here long this time.
—New display advertisements today are—Mitch's market, Meats, etc., page 5; Baker & Angell, Shoes, page 8; W. J. Perkins, Whisk brooms, page 7; J. W. Cudworth, Optician, page 5; Palmer & Co., Bicycles, page 2; Boy Phenomenon, "Magnetic Cures." page 4.
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