Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, July 30, 1901.
WATCHING EACH OTHER.
Both Sides in Strike Awaiting Result of Conference.
PEACE CONFIDENTLY EXPECTED.
Strike Leaders Disinclined to Talk of the Situation, Though Expressing Hopeful Feeling That Settlement Is Near—Manufacturers Equally Reticent.
PITTSBURG, July 30.—The following terms of settlement of the strike and the program for today come from an authoritative source and can be relied upon in all human probability as the outcome of the meeting of the conferees. Terms of probable settlement:
The Amalgamated association is to drop contention for the signing of a scale for all mills. All mills are to be "open" mills in the fullest sense of the term. The company is to have the right to place a non-union man in any place and keep him there. In addition to the plants covered by the expired scale it is to be signed for the following: Dewees-Wood of McKeesport, Painter, Lindsay & McCutcheon and Clark mills of Pittsburg, and Monessen plants of the American Steel Hoop company. The question of making the Wellsville Sheet plant and the Monessen Tin Plate plant directly covered by the scale is to be settled by the conferees.
The Amalgamated association is to have the privilege of organizing the men in any of the plants.
Settlement program for today: The executive committee of the Amalgamated association will meet at headquarters at 10 o'clock in the morning and is expected to ratify the terms outlined by the New York conference.
An informal meeting of conferees to represent the three operating companies in the joint conference is to be held at the same time.
Manufacturers' conferees of the last meeting will be in readiness to meet the Amalgamated people possibly at the Amalgamated headquarters in the Bissell block possibly in the afternoon to sign the scales.
Jumped to Death In Fall Creek Gorge.
ITHACA, N. Y., July 30.—Mrs. Hannah Smith, aged 73, committed suicide in Fall Creek gorge, near Fall Creek mill, yesterday by jumping from a ledge of rocks 30 feet high into the shallow creek. Thirty years ago this month her husband was killed in practically the identical spot by falling from this bridge with a heavy engine. Formerly Mrs. Smith was an extensive land owner in Ithaca and very wealthy.
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| George Kennan. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Expelled from Russia.
George Kennan, the well-known writer, has been arrested in St. Petersburg and directed to leave the city and the country within twenty-four hours. During the period before his departure he was not permitted to communicate with any one nor to leave his house. He was, however, well treated.
Mr. Kennan is known to American readers as a keen observer and a strong writer. As a traveler in Russia he has described what he saw, and he has done it so as to excite the indignation of his readers against the Russian government and their commiseration for its victims. But he has done all this in foreign countries and in a foreign language. Of course nobody suspects him of stirring up sedition in Russia, or of taking any part in Russian politics. The censorship affords the Russian government a convenient and congenial method of preventing his writings from doing any mischief by keeping them from the knowledge of Russian readers. The bureaucracy is not content with that, but must show its resentment of his criticisms by expelling him from the country as "politically untrustworthy."
Mr. Kennan didn't take kindly to the idea of his expulsion, but he may consider himself as a monument of the forbearance of Russia, for a more revengeful government would have placed him in chains and sent him to Siberia.
Such an incident as this, says the New York Times, illuminates for us the bureaucracy. It explains Nihilism, and goes far to justify it. What can an active-minded Russian possibly be but an opponent of the government, desirous of putting an end, in any feasible way, to a system that aims to crush out every breath of intellectual life, and that persecutes every Russian who presumes to think for himself? No wonder that Russian thought, denied its natural vent and suppressed, should at times explode with frightful results. In this view the poor "Autocrat of all the Russians" appears as having been strapped by the bureaucrats to the safety valve of an engine which is carefully prevented from blowing off steam by any other aperture.
HIS SKULL WAS FRACTURED.
John E. Bond Fell from the Roof of Fireman's Hall.
Was Painting the Roof—Came in Contact with Live Incandescent Light Wires—Thrown Forward Upon the Wires and then Fell to the Ground—Struck Squarely on His Head—Breathed but a Few Times—Wife was Away Visiting—His Companion was Shocked in Trying to Save Him.
John E. Bond of 28 Maple-ave., a tinner in the employ of W. W. Bennett, met with a horrible death this morning at about 10:45 o'clock by coming in contact with live wires while on the roof of Fireman's hall and falling to the ground, a distance of about 25 feet. Bond and David Hammond were painting the roof of Fireman's hall. They first painted the roof of the main building and then set out to paint the roof of the two-story addition at the rear of [the main] and it was while doing this that the accident occurred.
Hammond says that when they first went upon the main roof they talked about the network of wires that are up there, for telephone, fire alarm and electric light wires cross this. They were very careful at first, but about the first thing he did was to get against some kind of a wire that didn't hurt him any. Bond did the same soon after, and as no bad results came they grew more fearless. When they went down upon the roof of the addition they found other wires there. They knew nothing about these wires and Hammond says that he made the remark then to Bond that they ought to be more careful about taking hold of the wires or they might get hold of one that would burn them. Hammond had a long handled wide brush with which he was painting the body of the roof. Bond had a small narrow brush and was doing the fine work.
Along the rear of the building hung two parallel incandescent light wires, the nearer one being about six or eight inches distant from the edge of the roof and about six inches below it. Bond was painting the flashing, or the piece of tin that folds over the edge of the roof. In doing this there are evidences that he was reaching around the nearer wire because two burns are found on the inside of his right arm above the wrist.
The first Hammond knew about the accident he heard a peculiar buzzing of the wires behind him. He looked around and saw Bond lying across the two wires with feet and body entirely clear of the roof and with both hands grasping the wire. Absolutely horrified Hammond called to him, but got no answer. Then he sprang forward to assist him. Just then one of Bond's hands relaxed its hold upon the wire. Hammond says he reached forward and with his right hand took hold of this hand to draw the man back upon the roof, but the instant he touched him he himself received a terrific shock and was thrown backward. He struck twice on the roof before he finally landed fifteen feet back from the edge. He says he felt dazed and weak. He felt the electricity go out of the fingers of his left hand. He slowly got upon his feet again. Bond was still on the wires. Hammond started toward him, but did not dare to touch him again. He concluded to go for help. His only route was up the ladder to the main roof, draw the ladder up after him and lower it through the scuttle at the top of the building and down through the attic. He went as fast as he could, but as he felt he couldn't go very fast. He was two-thirds of the way up the ladder to the high roof when he saw Bond's body slide off the wires and fall head first toward the ground.
Bond struck full on his head in the back alley. The distance was about 25 feet. Before Hammond could get down to the alley some firemen who were in the bunk room and who had seen the body shoot by a window had gone down to his aid. He was unconscious of course and breathing only in gasps. Medical attendance was summoned, but the man died inside of ten minutes. The skull was found to be fractured at the base of the brain and crushed in. This in itself would have caused death independent of any shock by the wire.
Undertaker Wright's ambulance was called and the remains were taken to his undertaking rooms. Coroner Santee was summoned and viewed the remains. He found several burns on the right arm. He will hold an inquest Thursday morning at 9 o'clock.
Just what happened and how it came about will probably never be known. It would seem that Bond should have been more burned than he was if the wires were alive all the time he lay upon them. They are well covered and the insulated covering is still on them except in a spot about eight feet away from where Bond was at work. There it is burned away for a distance of about two inches as though brought in contact with each other. But what should have brought them together here and held them together long enough for the insulation to burn off is a question. Certain it is that at just this time a circuit breaker at the powerhouse was thrown out by wires coming in contact somewhere in the city and all the lights all over the city went out for a few minutes till a new one could be put in. If the wires had come in contact at first and the circuit breaker was then thrown out and the wires at once became dead that would account for the reason Bond was not burned where he lay across the wires, but this explanation would be inconsistent with the idea of Hammond getting the shock when he tried to help Bond. An explanation of this mystery may come out at the inquest.
How he came to be upon the wires at all is another question. Whether he lost his balance and fell forward upon them or whether he touched the wire he was painting around and was shocked and then was drawn forward upon them in the convulsion that followed, the shock is another possibility. No one saw the occurrence and probably no one will ever know just how it came about.
At the time of the accident, Mr. Bond's family, consisting of his wife and two children, was in Chenango Forks, visiting Mrs. Bond's parents. The sadly afflicted wife was immediately notified of the death of her husband, but they cannot reach here till late in the afternoon, consequently no funeral arrangements have been made.
Mr. Bond has lived in Cortland since the spring of 1898, when he with his family moved from Chenango Forks here and began working for Mr. Bennett. He was a native of Nova Scotia. In 1890 be married Miss Minnie Ockerman of Chenango Forks, and to them were born two children, Ivan, 9 years old, and Gladys, 6 years old. The funeral arrangements will be announced later.
FARE TO BE REDUCED.
Ten Cents Between Cortland and McGraw After Aug. 1.
On and after Aug. 1 the fare on the electric road between Cortland and McGraw will be 10 cents, the same as between Cortland and Homer. The middle point where the fare will be increased from 5 to 10 cents in going either way will be the Stevens watering trough a mile beyond the Port Watson bridge. This will be a very agreeable notice to all the residents of McGraw. Labor tickets will be sold on this line the same as on the Homer line which will within certain hours still further reduce the fare to about 8 cents.
The round trip trolley rides on this division will now be made for 10 cents the same as on the Homer division, provided one goes and comes on the same car. This division has recently been reballasted so that it rides very smoothly, and this will now be a favorite trip for Cortland people to take.
IT WAS A WET TRAIN
But the Tickets Will be Good on any Other Excursion.
The Homer excursion to Cincinnatus over the E. & C. N. Y. railway line in open cars was abandoned last evening when the train had gone as far as Maybury on account of the rain that came with great force and drove the excursionists into the closed cars. The railroad officials did not take up the tickets on the trip, as they appreciate the fact that the success of the open air trips is dependent upon the public, so the tickets will be exchanged at the office of the company for tickets on any other excursion trip over the road. Any one who purchased a ticket for the ride last night can take another ride over the road on any evening or afternoon that the open car excursion trip is made.
A large number of people, mostly from Homer, started on the trip, which made fair to be a very pleasant one, but by the time the train had reached McGraw the rain descended in torrents and the wind blew a gale. All who could get into the closed ears did so and the rest protected themselves as best they could, and then the train returned to Cortland, getting here at 8:20.
The Homer people should remember that on the first Cortland excursion the party got wet and there has not been another rainy night since till last night and in the meantime there have been many delightful excursions. Don't be discouraged. It will be better next time.
AND NOW FOR A DOG CATCHER.
Mayor Brown Looking for the Right Man to Appoint.
Mayor Chas. F. Brown has asked for and received the resignation of Dog Catcher Goldsmith, consequently that office is vacant. Mr. Brown gives assurance that the work of catching dogs is going to be carried out, and intimates that the city will pay the catcher for every untagged canine he gets hold of. The office is now vacant and there is a good chance for a hustler to do something.
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| Conductor Patrick Conway with the Ithaca Band. |
THE ITHACA BAND.
Splendid Programs for the Two Free Concerts on Thursday.
One has only to think of the known excellence of the Ithaca band and to glance at the two programs published below to realize what a rich treat the Traction company is preparing for those who go to the park on Thursday afternoon and evening of this week. And it is absolutely free. The public will no doubt be largely in evidence there on both occasions. The afternoon concert begins at 3:30 o'clock and the evening concert at 8:15. There will be a ten minute service on the electric road. The following are the two programs:
A PHYSICIANS' LEAGUE.
Effort to Compel Payment from Those Who Are Able to Pay.
The physicians of the city have started a movement toward organizing a doctors' league for the purpose of aiding in their collections. A meeting was held at the Y. M. C. A. rooms last Friday night for the purpose of discussing plans for the league, but no definite course was settled upon. A committee of three was chosen to draft a constitution and by-laws, and this committee will report at a meeting of the physicians next Friday night. At the last meeting, fifteen of the twenty-one doctors of the city were present.
Several plans were discussed at the meeting. In all probability a delinquent list will be made out from the books of the different doctors. This list, however, will not include the names of those who are too poor to pay, and it is not the object of the league to cut out this class of people, but it is their object to get a class of people who pay for the luxuries of life, but who forget the physician as soon as the call has been made.
The plan was discussed of depositing $10 each as a guaranty that no one whose name appears on the delinquent list shall be made more than one call by any of the doctors. Many of the doctors are in favor of giving all delinquents sixty days in which to place themselves in good standing before the list is made out, and this will probably be the idea of the league.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements today are—Mitch's Market, Meats, etc., page 5.
—The Cortlandville grange will have a social at A. V. Smith's on the Groton road Friday evening of this week. It is hoped every member will attend. Ice cream and cake to be served.
NEW SCHEDULE OF PRICES.
Adopted by Three Hotels In Cortland to Begin Aug. 1.
The Cortland House, The Kremlin and the Messenger House have adopted a new scale of prices for table board which will go into effect on Aug. 1, as follows:
Table board, per week, $4.50.
Dinners and suppers, per week, $3.50.
Single meals, .50.
Dinners by the week, each .40.
Mrs. DORR C. SMITH, Cortland House.
ALBERT ALLEN, Kremlin.
J. H. MOURIN, Messenger House.
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