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| Pan-American Expo 1901. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, July 13, 1901.
NOW FULLY COMPLETED.
Pan-American Announcement to the Public of Pan-America.
BUFFALO, July 13.—The board of directors of the Pan-American exposition has issued the following statement to the public:
"The exposition exhibit buildings, the installation of exhibits therein, the landscape work and the electric illumination, the most elaborate and successful ever attempted, are complete.
"There is here the fullest representation of the countries of the Western Hemisphere that has ever been brought together and the exposition is what it was planned to be and what the government of the United States by the joint resolution of congress proclaimed that it should be, an illustration of the marvelous progress and achievements of all the Americas during the Nineteenth century.
"The exposition has already been visited by hundreds of thousands of people and the predominant sentiment among these visitors was fairly expressed by the Hon. John Hay, secretary of state of the United States in his recent address before the National Editorial association in Buffalo, when he spoke of the courts and palaces of this incomparable exhibition; this grand and beautiful spectacle never to be forgotten; a delight to the eye, a comfort to every patriot heart that during the summer shall make the joyous pilgrimage to this enchanted scene.
"This great production of the allied arts, sciences and industries is the first distinctively all-America exposition, and after years of patriotic thought and strenuous effort on the part of representatives of the governments of the countries of the Western Hemisphere, the board of directors of the exposition feel that this announcement is due to those governments and to the public."
Tuesday, July 10, will be Chautauqua day at the Pan-American. On that day there will be special excursions running to the exposition from Chautauqua and the many unique and distinctive features of Chautauqua will furnish many visitors to the exposition during the summer. There will also be many Pan-Americans who will visit the assembly for a restful day during their stay at Buffalo. A Pan-American day was held at Chautauqua last Tuesday and a course of lectures were given at Chautauqua during the week by directors of departments of the exposition.
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.
National Educational Association Affirms It as Most Important Question.
DETROIT, July 13.—National Educational association last night at the last session of its fortieth annual convention adopted a declaration of principles declaring that the problem of elementary education is the most important one with which the state must deal. The work of the bureau of education under Commissioner W. T. Harris was indorsed and the association declared that its power should be extended so that it should have jurisdiction over educational matters in all of our new possessions. Compulsory educational laws and the consolidation of rural schools were indorsed and state support of institutions for the training of teachers is recommended. The last session was devoted to music.
Following is an abstract of the declaration of principles:
1. The problem of elementary education is the most important problem with which the state must deal. To provide for the universal education of youth is the duty of every state in the Union.
2. It is the judgment of this association that the powers of this (Bureau of Education) bureau should be greatly enlarged and that the general direction of public education in all the territory of the United States not under state control, including our new possessions, should be part of the duties of the bureau.
3. We reiterate the statement that the public school should be the center of the educational life of the community in which it is located. Especially should this be true in rural districts. Here should be found the public library for the use of all; here the educational extension courses should draw the old and young; here may literary and social meetings be held which will tend to uplift the mental, social and spiritual life of the people.
4. The subjects that may properly be taught in elementary schools include these that bear upon the ethical, physical and aesthetic nature of the child as well as its purely intellectual nature; sober, industrious, intelligent, honest, cultured citizenship should be the result of public school training in the United States.
Outbreak of Anthrax Near Rome, N. Y.
ROME, N. Y., July 13.—Anthrax has broken out among cattle in the vicinity of Higginsville, about 10 miles from here. Alfred Eastup has lost eight head, Kurt Yager three and Thomas Hyland seven. The state officials have been notified.
ST. LOUIS IS PLEASED.
ELATED OVER SUCCESS OF WINSTON CHURCHILL'S NOVELS.
The Place of Novelist's Birth and Early Education—Mound City the Scene of His Latest Work—Civil War Period in Fiction.
ST. LOUIS, July 8.—St. Louis is highly elated—and it is a very pardonable and proper pride—over the fact that the author of one of the most widely read novels of the year, Mr. Winston Churchill, is a native of this city, and that his life up to a few years ago was passed here. It is further a matter of pride that the scene of the novel, "The Crisis," is laid in St. Louis and abounds in local color. A better birthplace for one who wished to observe the many crossing and conflicting conditions of our national growth and development—and it is these conditions which furnish the groundwork for Mr. Churchill's "Richard Carvel" and "The Crisis"—could not very well have been selected, for north, south, east and west meet here as in no other city.
Winston Churchill was born in this city on Nov. 10, 1871, though he is of New England ancestry, his grandfather having been a merchant in the West Indian trade, with headquarters in Portland, Me., while on the maternal side he is descended from John Dwight, founder of Dedham, Mass., and that intellectual giant Jonathan Edwards. He received his early education at Smith academy, which of course is proud of so brilliant an output.
Principal Charles P. Curd, speaking of the author's school days at the academy, said: "Winston Churchill came to us when a lad of 7 years. We all liked him from the start because he was such a polite and elegant little fellow. He was always well up in his studies, but showed no particular fondness for books. He liked sport, but took no active part in athletic games. He seemed to be fonder of baseball than anything else."
In 1888, at the age of 18 years, young Churchill received an appointment to the Naval academy at Annapolis, and he continued to serve as a cadet until shortly after his graduation in 1894. The training which he received at Annapolis was, of course, chiefly technical, but it was nevertheless a good training for the work he was subsequently to undertake. Apart from the advantage of being thrown with students from all parts of the country, the severe mental and physical discipline to which he was subjected has given him a power of concentration and a habit of persistent work which ever since have stood him in good stead. At the same time it made him realize that he could never be permanently satisfied with anything but a literary life.
Much against the wishes and advice of his relatives and friends, who had pictured for him a brilliant career in the navy, he resigned from the service shortly after his graduation to accept a position on The Army and Navy Journal. During his brief connection with this publication he wrote his first story, "Mr. Keegan's Elopement," which was published in The Century Magazine. He then became managing editor of The Cosmopolitan Magazine, and after a year of editorial work he decided to devote himself to the writing of stories and particularly of historical novels dealing with American life. His first book, "The Celebrities," published in 1897, was indeed written in a vein of very lively comedy, but "Richard Carvel," upon which he was engaged for several years, is the first of a series of stories in which Mr. Churchill proposes to cover different phases of American social development. "The Crisis" is the second in the series and has for its principal characters the descendants of the dramatis personae of "Richard Carvel."
"The Crisis," as everybody knows, deals with the civil war period, and no better theater could have been selected for the exploitation of Mr. Churchill's characters. It is interesting to note in this connection that the novelists, north and south, are beginning to deal freely with this period, and some of the most entertaining and well constructed novels of the past few years have had the civil war for their setting. Among these might be mentioned Thomas Nelson Page's "Red Rock," Morgan Bates' "Martin Brook," John Uri Lloyd's "Stringtown on the Pike," Henry Borland's "Passing of the Chevalier," Captain F. A. Mitchel's "Chattanooga," "Chickamauga" and "Sweet Revenge." It is withal significant as indicating that the heat of that bitter conflict has passed, that the passions have died away and that in a true perspective, both of time and of feeling, the old discussion can be treated frankly and dispassionately. RICHARD TUPPER.
TWO LIVELY PRISONERS.
They are Now Separated Because They are Trying to Break Jail.
Another iron bed post was found broken out of a bed in the cell occupied by Dunn and Stafford at the [Cortland County] jail last evening, and as a result the two have been placed in cells alone. Dunn is kept handcuffed all the time in order that he may be kept from breaking up the furniture. The sheriff has ordered chains and balls, and will use these if the two continue in trying to escape.
FOUR DOGS CAPTURED.
The Dog Catcher Out With the Fire Team Gathering in Canines.
Yesterday afternoon the dog catcher began his work and four canines were gathered in by him to be released promptly on the payment by the owners of the dog catcher's fee of $1 [each unlicensed dog]. Officer Goldsmith had an up-to-date turnout for the work, as the city fire team reined by Driver Waters, was drafted into service. Many exciting episodes in connection with dog catching is told by the officer from yesterday's experience. The officer was out only about two hours, and an average of two dogs an hour is not bad. The officer is out again this afternoon looking after tagless dogs.
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| Cortland Park. |
AT THE PARK TONIGHT.
Concert by the City Band—Moving Pictures and Dancing.
There are plenty of attractions laid down for the park tonight. The City Band will give a concert at 8 o'clock with a fine program. Stereopticon views will be shown and also moving pictures. The stereopticon views are all new and attractive. The [Traction] company has been constantly adding new moving pictures till now there is quite an assortment of these, and all are excellent. There will be dancing of course with music by McDermott's orchestra. Electric fans in the dance hall. Eight minute service on the cars.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
More Trouble about Cleaning Up—The Public Dumping Ground.
At an adjourned meeting of the board of health last night at the office of the city clerk, Health [Officer] Paul T. Carpenter reported two cases where orders by him to clean up had not been attended to, and resolutions, calling the parties before the board at an adjourned meeting to be held next Monday evening at 7 o'clock, were passed. The nuisances were defined as follows: H. F. Benton, 166 Tompkins-st., unclean closet [toilet]; Delos Bauder, 10 and 12 North Main-st., decaying vegetable and organic matter and unclean ashes.
The health officer stated that 1,000 notification blanks were needed by him, also that he received bids from the Cortland Standard and the Cortland Democrat for doing the work and that the bid of the former was $3.55, while that of the latter was $4. The board by resolutions ordered the blanks of The Standard.
A resolution was also passed instructing the clerk of the board to request from the board of public works that several loads of dirt be drawn to the city dumping ground to cover up the obnoxious matter that is exposed at that place. The health officer reported that some such means must be taken to get rid of the foul stench at that place or else he would be obliged to cover up the same with lime at a much greater expense.
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| Fast mail train at Cincinnatus, N. Y. |
THE CINCINNATUS RIDE.
Everything Auspicious---Greatly Enjoyed—Another One Next Monday Night.
The ride to Cincinnatus, N. Y., last night on the observation cars were the best patronized of any yet given. There were 370 in the party and the open cars were crowded to their utmost capacity. Coming back through the gloom of the evening many went into the coaches which were attached to the train so that there was an abundance of room on the open cars.
From every point of view this was about the most enjoyable ride yet given. The evening was perfect and the air fine. The City band accompanied the party and played excellently. There was also considerable vocal music on the trip, some of the cars singing almost continuously. These rides are a very delightful feature of the summer evenings.
Tonight there will be a ride from Cincinnatus to Cortland, and the McGraw band will accompany the train. Next Monday night the railroad will have another ride from Cortland. The City band will go too and furnish music. Train leaves at 7:10 P. M. Fare 25 cents.
New York railway announces it will not be responsible for broken hearts resulting from the non-fulfillment of vows and promises made under the spell of the romantic trips on its observation cars to Cincinnatus. The next excursion will run on Monday evening. Fare 25 cents round trip. "A word to the wise is sufficient." [Paid ad.]
BREVITIES.
—Mrs. Ruth McNett Stuart will sing a solo at both the morning and evening service at the Presbyterian church tomorrow.
—New display advertisements today are—F. Daehler, Straw hats, page 6; Buck & Lane, Garden hose, screen doors and windows, page 6.
—The union service tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock will be at the Presbyterian church. The sermon will be by Rev. Robert Yost, pastor of the Congregational church. Theme, "Unconquerable Love."
—The Erie and the D. & H. railroads are planning to spend about $15,000 in repairs upon their joint station at Binghamton. Since the Lackawanna has moved into its new station the old one for the other railroads will not answer.
—The union young people's meeting will be held tomorrow night at 6:30 o'clock in the prayer-meeting room of the Presbyterian church. The theme will be "Individual Work for Christ," Acts viii, 26-40. The leader will be Miss Lulu Hinman.
—Measles are usually thought to be a child's disease, but that this is not exclusively so is shown by the fact that Mrs. C. B. Heath of 5 1/2 Greenbush-st., who has passed the three score and ten mark, is one of their victims and is having them severely too.
—The well drilling machine of C. D. Trapp of East Homer passed through Cortland this morning on its way to Slaterville Springs where it is to be employed in sinking a well at the creamery of John Bull & Co. The wells in that section average something like 60 feet in depth.
—Mr. Alvirus Stedman, formerly of South Cortland, died yesterday at the home of his granddaughter Mrs. Louise Blair in Fabius. His age was 95 years. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock in Fabius and the burial will be in Cortland at noon on Monday.
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