Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, July 17, 1901.
THIRD DAY OF STRIKE.
Amalgamated Officials In Satisfied Mood.
MANUFACTURERS WILL NOT TALK.
Attempt May Be Made to Run Wellsville Plant With Non-Union Men. Tinworkers Say They Will Render All Assistance Necessary.
PITTSBURG. July 17.—The third day of the strike opened with the amalgamated officials in a satisfied mood and claiming to have made good every promise as to results. On the other hand the manufacturers will not say a word concerning the strike and refused to be quoted in any way.
Repeated efforts to secure statements from President Corey of the American Sheet Steel company, and General Manager I. W. Jenks of the Hoop company have been met with the response that there was no change and nothing to be given out.
The Amalgamated people say nothing has been said to them of any plan for mediation or arbitration and they will continue to carry out their program as originally considered.
The closing down of the Clark mill and of the Monessen sheet mill are looked upon as telling victories. But one tin mill, that at Monessen, and one sheet mill at Duncanville, remain at work.
The fact that the National Tube mill men (non-union) received a substantial advance in wages Monday has caused discontent among the union men employed by the National Tube company at their Second avenue plant, and Republic mill on the south side. The men here think they are entitled to a similar increase. To consider the matter meetings were held last night on the south side and it is said a demand will be made today.
"The Wellsville rolling mill will run and it will be run non-union. It will start tomorrow. If it could not be run non-union, it never would be run at all."
This statement was made yesterday by Persifer F. Smith of Pittsburg, district manager for the American Sheet Steel company. He was at Wellsville yesterday and. made an address to the striking mill men. He told them he had no grievance, they had been well cared for in the past and would be in the future. The announcement that the Wellsville mill would be started and started non-union has given rise to no little speculation and no little uneasiness among the citizens.
Many of the strikers expecting prolonged idleness have left Wellsville for hunting and fishing camps. No new men have been brought in and how Manager Smith expects to start is a matter for conjecture. Today, as yesterday, only a few laborers are working.
What the result may be if an attempt is made to operate the Wellsville plant none of the amalgamated people will predict. All they will say is "it cannot be accomplished."
Wellsville is looked upon by both sides as un important point, and developments are anxiously awaited by all. The position of the Tin Workers' Protective association in the strike was settled yesterday by the following telegram to The Leader:
"Elwood, July 10.
"Our association is bound by an agreement with the company to work providing they live up to their contract. If the company introduces black plate work by non-union men our men will be called out. The Amalgamated people will have our full support if necessary. POWELL."
According to the official statement made by the manufacturers' conferees who met the Amalgamated association representatives and failed to agree on a settlement of the strike, the manufacturers did not refuse the Amalgamated association the right to organize their mills. According to the declaration of President Shaffer of the association all that was asked of the officers was the right to organize the non-union plants of the companies interested. The strike, therefore, has not been clearly explained.
President Shaffer, when questioned regarding the position of the manufacturers on this point, said:
"No matter what they now say the fact remains that they refused the amalgamated men the right to organize their non-union plants."
He did not believe the accredited statements on this point from Vice President W. A. Aarms were correct. "If they are, and the manufacturers are willing to allow the Amalgamated association to organize the non-union plants then," and the leader of the iron workers grew intensely in earnest, "I say the strike is all off.
"We have never once asked the manufacturers to compel the men in their non-union plants to join our organization. We do not want coerced men in the Amalgamated association. If the manufacturers will abrogate that part of the contract with the non-union men in their mills, that makes them agree to keep from joining our organization or any other and remove the restrictions that are now on those men and allow us to quietly work, unmolested, among them and seek to induce them to come to us, we will not ask anything further. Our demand was that they should do this. We asked that they sign the union scale so that the men could become union."
PROGRESSIVE JAPAN.
American Methods of Doing Business Very Generally Adopted.
YOKOHAMA, July 17.—American stock is booming in Japan at an unprecedented rate. The celebration of the Fourth of July transformed Yokohama into a veritable American town and the scene at noon, when the warships in the harbor joined in the salute, responding to the shore festivities, was a most inspiring one. The day closed with exhibitions of fireworks which recently arrived tourists pronounced finer than anything ever seen in America.
A notable feature of the times is the influx of Filipinos who are now arriving in large and increasing numbers. They are mostly of the better class and seem to be coming for the educational advantages which Japan affords. Already they are winning high praises for their general behavior and their eagerness to learn. Another sign of the times is the movement on foot for the general teaching of the Russian language in the empire. It is felt that events are rapidly shaping themselves to bring Russia into closer contact with all national and commercial relations here, it being recognized that the northern power is to be the most important factor in Oriental politics and trade.
The growth of the Jigi Shimp, the leading journal of the metropolis, a paper established by the late Mr. Fukuzawa, well illustrates how thoroughly western and especially American ideas are dominating the country. The special editions of the paper on important occasions and holidays rival in size and in special features the leading journals of New York. The latest ^enterprise inaugurated by it is the adoption of the "Fresh Air Fund" movement and large numbers of children from the streets of the capital are now being sent into the country for outings of a week or more. The movement is attracting much attention and will doubtless be emulated by many others of the metropolitan journals.
The financial situation is slowly but steadily improving, the bettered aspect of Chinese affairs beginning to be felt, and political matters at home being unusually quiet and stable.
While the assassination of Mr. Hoshi was a great shock to the country it is generally felt that his influence upon the empires politics was a very dangerous one, and there is a corresponding feeling of relief. The papers are full of encomiums upon his ability, but there all praise of him ends.
COLLEGE EDUCATION.
Merely a Fad, Says Professor Starr, Lacking in Proper Earnestness.
Professor Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago believes the American people are suffering from a surfeit of higher education, says the New York World. The desire for a college education, he declares, has become a fad and is not in the majority of cases inspired by a genuine thirst for knowledge.
"Ten times too many persons go to college nowadays," says Professor Starr. "No one should go except from a bona fide desire to learn. Most people go for some social prestige which a college education confers or because of the pecuniary value which the possession of a college degree carries with it in business life. As a result the students at our colleges get only a smattering of scientific hodgepodge, falsely called science, and go into the world with wrong notions because they merely dabble in philosophy. Furthermore, the average college student commits an ostrich-like fallacy in swallowing everything that is given him without question. The result is detrimental in its effects on our social and industrial activities and is sapping the mental strength of the country."
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Conscription and Civilization.
The Beacon, a Boston publication which calls itself "a magazine of helpfulness and hopefulness," finds a queer dilemma confronting the military authorities of those countries wherein service in the army is not compulsory.
On the one hand, The Beacon says, men nowadays will not enlist, except in times of great excitement due to peril of foreign attack, unless they are well paid and fed, provided with amusements and recreation and subjected only to the lightest of discipline. On the other hand, declares The Beacon, "men who are kept in a fairly comfortable frame of mind, who are well fed and who find plenty of wholesome amusement do not make good fighters. The rough fare, the strict discipline, the drill, the constant restrictions on his liberty, the punishment for petty offenses, put the soldier in an irritable mood, in which it is a positive relief to him to go out and kill somebody."
So The Beacon thinks that it will not do to make army service too easy, because in that case the army will not be a good fighting machine, while if army service is not made attractive it is going to be more and more difficult to get recruits. The conclusion is that before long little wars will be given up, and then, sarcastically, "that, of course, would be a sad blow to civilization, but it would be a great thing for the comfort of those who sit in darkness and incidentally for the people who have to pay the bills."
What special knowledge of war and warriors this hopeful and helpful magazine possesses is not revealed, but its notions as to what constitutes a good soldier and makes him efficient in battle is certainly novel.
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| Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Depot, Cortland, N. Y. |
LACKAWANNA STATIONS.
PLANS NOW COMPLETED AND WORK SOON TO BEGIN.
Passenger Station to Be of Rough Blue Stone and Pressed Brick. Freight Station of Brick—Both to Stand North of Railroad-st.—Will Be Models of Convenience and Ornaments to the City—Ready for Use Before Snow Flies.
Superintendent A. H. Schwarz of the S. & B. division of the Lackawanna railroad is a happy man. For several years he has been doing everything in his power to secure for Cortland new passenger and freight stations. He has claimed to the other officials of the road that for a great railroad like the Lackawanna the old shells of stations which are a relic of the fifties when the road was first built was not adequate to the needs of a thriving town like Cortland and were not a fitting recognition on the part of the road of the large patronage it receives from this place. And now he sees approaching fulfillment the end for which he has sought. Additional land has been bought, the plans for the new stations are complete, the specifications are drawn and contracts will be let within a few days and before snow files the city of Cortland will be able to take pride in two as fine stations as are to be found on the road anywhere between New York and Buffalo.
Mr. Schwarz brought the plans to Cortland last night, and a STANDARD man was given the privilege of examining them. The passenger station will be located on the north side of Railroad-st. and on the west side of the main tracks. Its material will be rough blue stone to a height of 5 feet with [red] pressed brick above it. A square tower of the same rough blue stone will rise from the front side at a point a little south of the middle of the building. The roof will be of slate with red tile cornice. The structure will be one story high, 109 feet long and from 30 to 50 feet wide exclusive of platforms. At the south end of the station where the general waiting room is situated it is 50 feet wide, this room being 40 by 50 feet in size. Next north of this is the smoking room, 30 by 30 feet in size. The floors of these two rooms will be of tile. The ticket and telegraph offices 14 feet square are upon the front of the building under the stone tower with a bay window projecting far enough to the east to command an unobstructed view in both directions upon the track. The ticket office will have windows opening into both the general waiting room and the smokingroom. There will be a toiletroom for ladies opening from the general waitingroom and one for men opening from the smokingroom. North of the smokingroom will he the baggage and express room 30 by 39 feet in size. A platform of cement or concrete will surround the entire building. Upon the front adjacent to the tracks it will be 19 feet wide, on the other three sides 6 feet wide. The roof will project 5 feet from the sides of the building.
The freight station will be of red brick 200 by 35 feet in size, with a gravel roof and will stand in what is now the maple grove on the plot recently purchased from the Ingersoll property west of the passenger station. The south end of the building will be about 25 feet back from the sidewalk on Railroad-st., and it is the intention of the railroad company to save the row of maple trees between the walk and the curb and the first row of trees back of the walk. At the south end of the building will be the offices 35 by 15 feet in size, and the rest of the building will be devoted to the storage and handling of freight.
There will be two tracks on the east side of the freight station, one adjoining the platform and the other adjacent to it so that freight can be transferred through a car standing on the first track to one standing upon the second track. All trucks and drays for handling incoming and outgoing freight will approach the building upon the west side. There will be a free driveway through from Railroad-st. to Venette-st. upon the west side of the freight station and also one for teams driving up to the passenger station or to the express or baggage rooms on the west side of the passenger station and east of the freight tracks. This driveway will be at least 30 feet wide. The west line of the passenger station will be near the covered scales as they now stand adjoining the Ryan & Hall building, and the east line of the freight station will be west of the first row of maple trees of the grove.
Only one track will cross Railroad-st. west of the main track when the new arrangement is complete and that will be the east one of the freight tracks extending into the yard of the H. F. Benton Lumber Co. Now there are three tracks, one to the lumber yard, one to the railroad yards and enginehouse, and one to the Maxson & Starin coal dump. The railroad yards will probably be transferred to the east side of the main tracks and be located where the freight house now stands. The switch leading to the coal dump will depart from the main track south of Railroad-st. from a point where the passenger station is now located.
Locomotives on the road now take water from two pipes, on the southbound track at the water tank, on the north bound track near the freight house. The location of these will have to be changed, but no decision has yet been reached as to where they are to be placed. The water now comes from a well and is pumped by the railroad company. Negotiations are pending with the water company for city water. If a rate can be given as satisfactory as the cost of pumping, a contract will probably be made for city water.
ALVIRUS STEDMAN.
One of the Long Time Residents of Cortland County Passes Away.
The death of Alvirus Stedman at the home of his granddaughter Mrs. Louise Blair in Fabius, Onondaga county, on Friday evening, July 12, removes one of the oldest and most respected residents of Cortland county, Mr. Stedman having spent nearly a century in this immediate vicinity. His father, Joshua Stedman, came from Connecticut and was one of the pioneers of South Cortland. The father was twice married, the first wife being Hannah Rice and Alvirus was the eldest of their three sons and one daughter, Alonzo, Elijah and Hannah. Of the second wife three sons and two daughters were born, Revilo, Alfred, Ellihugh, Chastina and Almira. Of all these children Alvirus was the last one called to his reward.
After his marriage to Eliza Cogswell of Port Watson, Mr. Stedman purchased a home from a military tract at South Cortland, and remained there nearly seventy years, signing the deed of sale on his 94th birthday; only leaving it because of the infirmities of age and going to Homer where some months were spent with his son Albert. Last fall he was taken to the home of his granddaughter in Fabius where he passed away, having no particular illness excepting the general breaking down caused by old age. His faculties were retained in a remarkable degree, but for the last few months he was very helpless; still always cheerful, finding some good in everything and fully appreciating all that was done for his comfort.
Although not a professing Christian, his Bible was the book most frequently perused during the closing years of his life, and his often expressed wish "to do right" was exemplified in his dealings with others, while his fondness for old-time friends was unchanged, and he often regretted being so far away that they could not call as in the past.
In his early days Mr. Stedman used to play the fife at general training and his love for music continued until the last, while a short time before his death he was able to sing some of the old familiar hymns with his friends, while time and tune were as strictly observed as when in the prime of life.
Two sons, Albert of Homer and Seymour of California are the only survivors of his five children; but his memory will be blessed to his many grandchildren, great grandchildren, and large number of nephews and nieces with other friends who knew and loved him best.
The remarks of the officiating clergyman at the funeral were in keeping with his life, and will long be treasured by those in attendance. The burial was on Monday at Cortland, where brief services were conducted at the grave by Rev. O. A. Houghton, D. D., pastor of the First M. E. church, and where the presence of old time friends attested in no small measure, the esteem in which he was held. The relatives from out of town present at the burial were Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stedman, Mrs. Flora M. Woodward and son Harry of Homer, Mrs. Aaron Blair, Mrs. Louise Robinson Blair, Miss Ada Blair and Mr. William Estes of Fabius, N. Y.
Deceased was 95 years of age.
TOUCHED A LIVE WIRE.
Two Assistants Saved Him from a Fall to the Ground.
George H. Gleason, the well known tinner and plumber, had a narrow escape from serious injury yesterday afternoon while repairing the tin roof upon Hotel Brunswick. A flat root adjoins a shingle roof that slopes at a sharp angle toward the alley below. Gleason with two assistants, Joseph Call and John Dalton, was at work upon the flat roof. Two electric light wires extend over the slanting roof crossing a corner of the flat roof and resting upon a support about 6 inches high at the edge of the flat roof. It was under these wires that Mr. Gleason was attempting to lay a square of tin. Realizing the character of the wires he was working very carefully, but in some way his right arm near the shoulder came in contact with one of the wires and he received a shock. Mr. Gleason says that the current seemed in some way to lift him bodily and to change ends with him. His head and the upper part of his body were thrown over the edge of the roof and his face and neck came in contact with the wires again. He fell forward head first on the edge of the flat roof toward the slanting roof and was about to slide off into the alley below. Just as his foot went over the edge Call caught him by the shoe. He received a slight shock, too, but he held on like grim death and assisted by Dalton succeeded in hauling him up to a safe place on the roof.
The shock received off the wires rendered Gleason unconscious for an hour and a half besides quite badly burning his face and arm where the wires touched him. Dr. H. S. Edson was summoned and treated him. Today the plumber is working again, but he states that he feels lame yet from his adventure. He received about 500 volts from the wires when he was in contact with both wires.
BARNEY'S OPENING.
Many People Enjoyed Music, Electric Fans and Cooling Draughts.
Barney & Co. of the Grand Central restaurant, formerly the Candy Kitchen conducted by Rood & Co., held their opening last night. During the evening a very large number of people dropped into the place and were pleasantly greeted. The decorations were the cause of many complimentary remarks from the visitors. The colored electric lights in the large chandeliers in the center and the groups of three at the side and the cut flowers on the tables added largely to the attractiveness of the place. Everything was neat and clean and gave the assurance that an experienced hand was back of it all The electric fans gave cooling breezes, and the cool drinks and the splendid ice cream served tended to increase the good opinions formed in the minds of the visitors by a mere inspection. McDermott's orchestra furnished music and the Grand Central was fittingly launched out.
ADSIT-BUCKLEY.
Two Cortland Young People Married at St. Mary's This Morning.
Mr. Edward Adsit and Miss Mayme Buckley, both of Cortland, were married at 6 o'clock this morning at St. Mary's church by Rey. J. J. McLoghlin, the pastor. The bride was attended by Miss Maria Otis and Mr. Thomas Buckley of Homer, brother of the bride, was best man. The bride was costumed in a white silk waist, steel gray skirt with Eton jacket, and a chiffon hat to match. The bridesmaid wore a tailor-made suit of Venetian blue. Amid showers of rice Mr. and Mrs. Adsit took the 6:11 train this morning for a trip to Watertown, after which they will be at home to their friends at 19 Elm-st., Cortland.
THAT OLD WHITE HORSE
DRIVEN FROM TRUXTON TO HALSTEAD, PA., ON SUNDAY.
Pretty Badly Blown When Arrived, But Capable of Being Swapped Several Times—Found by Sheriff and Hustled Back to New York State in Time to Avoid Replevin—Marvin Boys on Trial in Truxton, N. Y.
The white horse that was stolen from the pasture of William Jones of Truxton last Saturday eight was found by Sheriff A. R. Overton yesterday at Smoky Hollow. a rustic place near Halstead, Pa., about 25 miles south of Binghamton. The animal was brought to Binghamton last night and lodged there for the time being. It showed signs of very hard usage on the road.
The Marvin boys, who are held under suspicion of stealing the animal, have friends at Smoky Hollow, who tell of the boys coming to that place last Sunday afternoon with the white horse. According to this, nearly 85 miles, the distance from Truxton to Smoky Hollow, must have been covered between about 2 o'clock A. M. Sunday, the time the two were recognized near the Benton farm, and Sunday afternoon when they reached their destination. This is a long distance for any horse to travel, especially under the conditions that the white horse was driven, and for a farm horse such as it was, the trip must have been particularly tedious.
At Smoky Hollow the boys were charged by those who knew them, as these people stated to the sheriff, with stealing the horse, but this did not prevent a series of swaps, and the white horse had changed hands several times when it was picked up by the sheriff and hustled over into New York state just in time to avoid a replevin. The sheriff worked all night in the wild and to him unknown country and ferreted out the badly abused animal, started with it to Binghamton and reached the place just in time to catch the early morning train for Cortland.
The Marvin boys are still emphatic in their denial of having anything to do with the theft, or that they returned from the direction of Binghamton on the D., L. & W. milk train on Monday afternoon, but that they did, it is stated by the officers, can be proved by the train men, who claim that they got on at Binghamton, had tickets for Cortland, but got off at the junction instead. It is stated by the railroad men that they remember the two better from the fact that they wished to go into the baggage car to smoke.
Yesterday afternoon the two boys were taken before Justice M. M. McGraw in Truxton by Deputy Sheriff Goldsmith. Here they were represented by Attorney John O'Donnell who asked for the discharge of the boys on technical grounds. This was denied, and the case was adjourned till 10:30 o'clock this morning. Ball was fixed at $500 each, and Mrs. Susan L. Welch, their grandmother, and Mrs. Cora Phillips each swore that she was the possessor of $800 worth of property that was free and clear. These two parties thought that the bail bonds had been signed, but they had only sworn to the amount of their property, and when they were wanted to sign the bonds they had started for home so the boys were committed to jail again.
Today the hearing is being held in Truxton before Justice McGraw. District Attorney T. H. Dowd is representing the people and John O'Donnell, it is understood, was to appear again for the Marvins.
The defendants were held by the justice to await the action of the grand jury and were committed to the county jail.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements today are—F. F. Fenn, Photographic announcement, page 5.
— Plans are being made for a hop at the Glen Haven hotel Saturday night. Further particulars later.
— Eron C. Van Kirk, recorder of the city of Ithaca, died at his home in that city Monday of Blight's disease.
—A game of ball will be played between the A. O. H. baseball club and the all Cortland's on Athletic field next Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
—Mrs. G. E, Chambers gave a reception from 3 to 6 o'clock this afternoon to a large number of her lady friends at her home on Tompkins-st.
—The slip of a pen or of a thought yesterday afternoon on the part of a reporter made D. H. Bingham the purchaser of the two houses and lots, 20 and 22 North Church-st., instead of H. F. Bingham who was in fact the purchaser. The purchase price was $5,500.
—Florence Emily Rice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Rice, died at 6:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon of typhoid fever. Her age was 15 years. The funeral will be held at the house, 49 Clinton- ave., Thursday at 3 o'clock and will be private. The burial will be made in Cortland Rural cemetery.
—It is commonly reported that Dr. C. E. Bennett who has been occupying one of the houses on North Church-st. which was yesterday sold to Mr. H. F. Bingham is about to remove his residence to the Bosworth house at 100 Tompkins-st. Dr. Bennett was interviewed in regard to this today, but refused to affirm or deny the report.
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