Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, July 25, 1901.
TO BREAK THE STRIKE.
American Sheet Steel Company Assumes the Aggressive.
SHIPPING MEN TO WELLSVILLE.
Impression Strong That From Now on the Steel Corporation Will Use Every Effort to Break the Strike, Starting Isolated Mills First.
PITTSBURG, July 25.—Two moves, it is reported, were made by the aggressive officials of the American Sheet Steel company .yesterday toward the breaking of the strike. One was the shipping of some of the non-union men that have been employed in the Vandergrift mills of the company to Wellsville to assist in the starting of the plant there. As a consequence of this report there is a suppressed excitement pervading Wellsville, which at any moment may break out into serious condition.
Both strikers and officials of the company are on the alert and ready for any emergency. The impression is strong that the general officers of the United States Steel corporation have became determined on the subject of the early breaking of the strike and to ultimately force the operation of all the idle plants.
The second move that is understood to have been initiated is the starting of the long idle Hyde Park plant of the American Sheet Steel company. This plant was taken into the combine burdened with objectionable contracts made by the former owners and has remained idle since the American Steel company took hold of the property. The long idleness of this mill has caused most of the men formerly employed there to leave Hyde Park for other places and the company believes there will be less difficulty in starting this plant than where the Amalgamated association has control.
It was apparent in Pittsburg last evening that fresh and decidedly important developments in the strike of the steel workers were about to take place. At the amalgamated headquarters the two leading officials of the association were absent during the greater part of the day. It was stated that President Shaffer was away on personal business. The absence of Secretary John Williams was also accounted for in the same manner. The conference held on Tuesday night, which kept President Shaffer and Secretary Williams out until early yesterday morning remains as mysterious as before. Whatever the object of the meeting it is believed to have continued yesterday and much of importance is expected to be developed from the conference.
The question of the manufacturers securing injunctions against the Amalgamated association was discussed guardedly during the day. Those best acquainted with the feelings of the manufacturers say there is, in their opinion, little cause for believing that such harsh measures will be resorted to at this time.
The seeming indifference of the combine people concerning its hoop plants that are idle may have its explanation in information received yesterday to the effect that the American Steel Hoop company intends to eventually abandon most of its plants and concentrate its business in the new mills now building for the Carnegie company at Duquesne. This new plant will be the largest hoop and tie mill in the world if present plans are carried out, and will be large enough to take care of all the business of the hoop combine single handed. The Duquesne plant will be operated on a strictly non-union basis.
In the absence of President Shaffer and Secretary Williams from Amalgamated headquarters yesterday little could be learned from that quarter of the condition of affairs in the strike centers. Concerning the issuance of a general strike order by the Amalgamated association, President Shaffer said:
"It will be issued when the necessity arises. I do not propose to fix a time in advance. The men are all prepared and. will obey the strike order when requested. Developments will determine any change from the present situation."
SHAFFER AT WELLSVILLE.
Went Disguised as a Ragged Tramp and Held Conference With Chapell.
PITTSBURG, July 25.—The explanation of the absence of President Shaffer and Secretary Williams from Amalgamated headquarters was given in a telegram received from Wellsville. It says:
"Disguised as a decrepit, half-blind, ragged tramp, President T. J. Shaffer, the head of the Amalgamated association, skipped into Wellsville this afternoon, remained here an hour in conference with Vice President Chappell and other officials and boarded the evening train at East Liverpool to return to Pittsburg. Not half a dozen persons in Wellsville knows that chief of the workers' organization was in town. On the same train with Mr. Shaffer from Pittsburg came nine non-union men from Adlo and Duncansville, five of whom evaded the strikers' committee and went to work in the mill here, while the other four, after going through an experience with the 100 strikers, which at one time seemed likely to end in violence, agreed not to work in the mill and returned to Pittsburg.
President Shaffer would not state the object of his mission to Wellsville.
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MRS. NATION HYSTERICAL
Pounds on Her Cell Door Three Hours. Governor Refuses to Pardon Her.
TOPEKA, Kan., July 23.—Mrs. Carrie Nation, who is serving a jail sentence for smashing private property in which a saloon was located, began operations on the county jail Tuesday, but the big iron doors and the steel bars were too strong for her. She pounded on the cell door three hours while the thermometer was at 106, and while Sheriff Cook advised her to keep cool she persisted in her laborious exercise. Mrs. Nation refused to be comforted.
The county commissioners and Governor Stanley were appealed to for a remission of costs and a pardon, but both were refused. Her sentence is 30 days in jail and a $100 fine.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
The Maine to be Raised.
The second-class battleship Maine which was blown up in Havana harbor prior to the war with Spain and which was really a very prominent cause of bringing on the war is at last to be raised. Ever since that fateful 15th of February, 1898, the ruins of the Maine have been lying in the mud at the bottom of Havana harbor. Now it is to be raised. The Chamberlain company, a vessel raising concern, is to do the work, and is also to raise the beached Wainsport, Alfonso XII.
Under the firm's contract with the United States government, the two vessels are to be raised free of cost to it, the firm relying on the salvage for its profit, and of this the government is to receive 3 per cent. The firm has given a bond of $25,000, conditional for the faithful performance of the contract. The cost of raising both vessels will be very heavy, but the salvage, it is expected, will be sufficient to leave big profits. According to the government schedule there is now in the Maine a large amount of ammunition, 100 tons of brass and copper, and many engines, large and small, which were required to work every door and gun in the ship, and the armament and fittings are figured to be worth a good deal of money.
The Chamberlain company's method of raising the Maine is that of constructing a cofferdam about the wreck, and the work will be a gigantic undertaking. The cofferdam will be so built as to include every piece of wreckage from the battleship, and its component parts will include brush, rock, earth gravel, and sack sand, so combined as to form a structure impervious to water. The base will be 80 feet and the top 35 feet wide, thus allowing teams to travel it with safety. It will be 45 feet high with outward elopes. The Alphonso XII will be raised and hauled to shore by means of a huge and intricate system of blocks, tackles, cables, etc. Mr. N. F. Chamberlain, senior member of the firm, who will personally superintend the job, has never raised an ocean vessel, but he has raised several on the lakes, and he is confident that the work in Havana harbor will present no insurmountable obstacle.
When the Maine is raised a careful examination can be made of the wreckage to determine whether the explosion that sent it to the bottom was external or internal. The Spanish government contended that the explosion was inside the vessel. The United States government, after an examination by divers and an official report as to their discoveries, insisted that it was from the outside, that therefore it must have been caused by a torpedo, and that the destruction of the battleship was thus the carefully planned and deliberately performed act of Spanish military officers stationed at Havana at the time. Spain's persistence in maintaining that the explosion was of internal origin, its disinclination to make any investigation, and the suspicion that the Madrid government actually incited the outrage, were what brought on our war with that country. Had the Maine not been blown up Spain's sovereignty would doubtless still have extended over all the colonial possessions now forever lost to her.
MUST CONNECT WITH SEWERS.
Health Officer Making a List of Unconnected Places in the City.
City Attorney N. L. Miller disclaims the report that appeared yesterday in an out of town paper crediting him with advising the health board that it can compel property owners to connect with sewers and to abandon the use of cesspools. He also states in reference to the matter that he has not been asked for an opinion in the matter by the health board. He says that he did talk with the clerk of the board in regard to the matter, but be was not giving advice, nor did he know at the time that there was any question as to the right of the board of health to compel owners of property along streets where sewers are maintained to connect with them. He had taken it for granted that the health board had the authority. Since there seemed to be a question he will look up the state health law.
Health Officer Carpenter, however, says that he has looked the matter up very thoroughly and is preparing to make a list of dwellings in a section of the city that is provided with sewer pipes. Wherever a dwelling is found that is not connected with the sewer, the closets and cesspools will be condemned. This will be kept up till all parts of the city will be using the sewers.
As to the use of water for flushing, the doctor states that it is, of course, outside of the jurisdiction of the board of health to compel the people to use water. The matter of flushing will be left to the people to do as they prefer. It is quite probable that action will be taken in this matter at the regular meeting tomorrow night.
RELATIONS SEEM STRAINED.
Matrimonial Difficulties Thoroughly Aired in Police Court.
Police court was this morning the scene of the meeting of an aged bride and groom of six months' duration, after having been separated for nearly all of their honeymoon season. On Jan. 20 of this year Eugene T. Owen and Mrs. Elizabeth A. Moon were wedded by Dr. O. A. Houghton in this city, but Owen soon wearied of matrimonial life and he left for parts unknown. Mrs. Owen was left without support and liable to become a city charge. Owen was located in Scott and yesterday he was arrested by Chief Barnes for nonsupport and brought to Cortland. Mrs. Owen claims that he provided only $2 for her support since Feb. 20, the time he departed for Scott.
Last night Owen was arraigned in city court, the charge was read to him and the matter explained. The case was held open till 9 o'clock this morning and Owen was given the choice of going up and spending the night with Mrs. Owen or of going to jail. The latter proposition was hastily accepted and he spent the night in jail. This morning, when he was brought into court, his bride was there to meet him with outstretched arms, but she met with a very cold response.
In reply to questions of the court, Owen said that he had married Mrs. Moon to keep out of the almshouse, and that Mrs. Moon had told him that she owned the house on Railway-ave., where she lived. He had found that this was not the case and that there was no likelihood of getting support, so he went away. Mrs. Owen said that she married Owen because she loved him, and that she would stick to him as long as the breath of life remained with her. At this Owen hitched, but did not get far away, as a tight embrace with the left arm kept him very close to her.
In regard to their marriage they related to Commissioner Price that he at that time had a dollar and that she had a half dollar. This they thought ought to be sufficient for the pastor, but he said he could not think of doing the job for less than $2. Consequently they floated a loan of fifty cents, and he then married them. After the matter had been talked over between them and the commissioner of charities, Judge Davis stated that he would adjourn the case for a month, and that if Owen showed a disposition to live with and support his wife he would not call up the case again. If matters did not move off pleasantly, he said, the case would be called and Owen would have to be sent to Pennsylvania, where he came from, before he was here long enough to obtain a residence. At this Owen brightened up materially and wished to be sent to York county at once, and settled back in his seat and pulled his wide brimmed straw hat over his face in a grouty manner when told that he would have to stay. He, however, walked away with his wife at a slow, hesitating pace saying he would be back in a month to be sent to York.
TEACHERS' EXAMINATIONS
Normal School for First District—Homer Academy Second District.
Regular uniform examinations for certificates of the first, second, third grade and Normal entrance will be held at the Normal school building for the First district and in the academy building, Homer, for the Second district on Thursday and Friday, August 8 and 9, 1901. Examinations will begin at 9 A. M.
LUKE J. McEVOY, Commissioner, First district.
KATHERINE C. MacDIARMID, Commissioner, Second district, Cortland county.
THE SUMMER SCHOOL.
Attendance This Year Is Larger Than Last Year.
The summer school conducted at the Normal school building by School Commissioner McEvoy and a corps of assistants began on Monday. It will last for fifteen days. The list of teachers has already appeared in these columns. Sixty-five are registered thus far and a half dozen more are coming next Monday. This is an increase over last year as then the total registration was fifty-four. The pupils come not only from the different towns of Cortland county, but from adjoining counties as well. The eighteen subjects required to be passed to secure a first grade teachers' certificate form the basis of the instruction and are the only subjects taught this year.
THE ITHACA BAND COMING.
Two Concerts at the Park on Thursday, Aug. 1.
The news that the Ithaca band of forty pieces is to give two free concerts at the park on Thursday, Aug. 1, has aroused much enthusiasm throughout the county. There will be crowds to hear this famous band that has won championships and prizes at firemen's conventions. The afternoon concert will be at 3:30 o'clock and the evening at 8:15 o'clock. The Traction company is under heavy expense in securing this splendid organization. It will include on that occasion five solo artists from New York. Following are some press notices of the band:
The Ithaca band is now the champion of New York state and Pennsylvania. Judge D. W. Reeves awards the first prize to the Ithaca band at the New York State Fireman's convention in the band contest.—Binghamton Republican.
There wasn't a better band in town this week than that which came from Ithaca with St. Augustine's commandery. Ithaca is not a large town, but they have musicians in Ithaca.—Syracuse Evening Herald.
The Ithaca band caught the crowd. It has several of Sousa's recent employees in its make up, and every member is a soloist.—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
A Call for the Chief.
Chief Barnes received a telephone call from residents of Wheeler-ave. this morning stating that a man was trying to kill Madam Harris, the fortune teller, who lives in the last house on the street. When the chief arrived on the scene, the fortune teller claimed that the man had not struck her. Both were told in emphatic language that if any more complaints were heard from the neighbors in regard to them, that he would lock up the offender.
BREVITIES.
—The Assembly club will hold a dancing party at the park tomorrow night.
—New display advertisements today are—Cortland Fish & Oyster Co., Fresh oysters, etc., page 7.
—Architect M. F. Howes is preparing the plans for the additions to be made to the Marathon Union school building.
—The Dryden Agricultural society will this year add ten acres more to its fair grounds. Each year it seems to find it necessary to make an addition.
—The choir of Grace Episcopal church will meet this evening for rehearsal at 7: 15 o'clock. Members will please note the change of hour and be prompt.
—The Fresh Air children who were expected to reach Cortland this morning did not arrive, but will come tomorrow morning on the 6:11 train by way of the D., L. & W.
—On account of the absence of the pastor of the Homer-ave. M. E. church next Sunday, who will then be away upon his vacation, there will be no service at that church except that the primary department of the Sunday-school will meet as usual.
—Yesterday, James Belcher, who has been confined in the county jail on the charge of knifing a cow belonging to A. W. Graham, was released yesterday on bail, in the penal sum of $500, Orson A. Buck and Benson H. Wheeler signing the bonds.
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