Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 1901.
CALL NOT YET ISSUED.
Shaffer Holding Off Until Last Chance For Peace Is Gone.
SEVERAL MILLS IN OPERATION.
Non-Unionists Rushed Into Hyde Park Plant—Five Mills Going at Wellsville. McKeesport Council to Give Strikers Work—Hint of a Miners Sympathy Strike.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 6.—Just a faint glimmer of hope that the great steel workers' strike will be settled was embodied in a statement given out by President Shaffer of the Amalgamated association last night. When asked if he would pursue the same policy in ordering a strike in the mills of the Federal Steel, the National Steel and the National Tube companies as he did in calling out the men in the mills of the American Tin Plate company, he replied: "If it had not been for this determination on my part the general strike would have been ordered on Saturday night."
In order to be fair to the constituent companies of the United States Steel corporation President Shaffer has sent notice to the officers of the Federal Steel company, the National Steel company and the National Tube company, stating that under a section of the constitution of the Amalgamated association he will have to call out all tin workers employed by the companies and giving them a week in which to make any effort they may desire to bring about a settlement, or he will put in force this same clause.
It is presumed that the delay in issuing the general order will be at least until the end of the present week. Possibly it will not be issued until early next week. In the meantime the men in the mills of these three companies will be prepared to come out when the strike order is issued. The possibility of a settlement of the strike is based on the bare hope that the officials of the three additional companies will bring to bear sufficient influence to urge an adjournment of the difficulties before the strike order is issued. President Shaffer did not express any hope that this would be done, nor did he even discuss the matter.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 6.—Strike history in Pittsburg itself is not prolific of results. Considerable, however, is doing in town's surrounding. In this city all of the idle mills are in the same condition as before the failure of the conference to settle the strike and no apparent move is being made by the manufacturers to start the mills; consequently there has been no break in the strikers' ranks.
The most important strike points seem to be Leechburg and Wellsville, with McKeesport a possible trouble center. From Leechburg the following news was received:
At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Hyde Park mill, which has been idle since the first of this year, was started.
E. S. Jargny, manager of American Steel association; Harry Davis, district superintendent, and Robert Lock, local manager, were on the ground. At 3:45 a train arrived at Hyde Park, coming from Saltsburg, Vandergrift and Apollo. The train stopped at the works and 55 men, clad in working garb and carrying dinner buckets, left the train and hurried into the works. There was no excitement and the millowners and managers claim they now have enough men in the mill to operate all of the five-plant mill. Sentinels are out and no one is allowed to get into the mill without a password.
Later six mill men from Leechburg sauntered down toward the mill, passed the guards and walked into the mills where they are now at work. This makes 61 men now employed at the works. By outsiders it is claimed that this number cannot operate the mill in full, but however this may be, the mill is running in good shape.
The amalgamated men, however, are on the ground making desperate efforts to keep all union men out. They make the bold assertion that in two days after President Shaffer issues his general strike order not a wheel will be turning in either Vandergrift, Apollo or Hyde Park.
From Wellsvllle, O., the following report is made:
The last four of the striking steel workers who were arrested Saturday, charged with riot, were released from jail late yesterday afternoon upon bail. There are warrants yet in the hands of the police for 17 more of the strikers, which have not yet been served. The officers, for some reason, seem to be afraid to serve the warrant.
Henry B. Henderson, a potter for whom the police have a warrant, has been trying to get himself in the way of the officers all day to have them arrest him, but they will not do it for the reason that Henderson is backed by the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters, and the officers fear the vengeance of the potters once they are aroused, as they would be if one of their number were put under arrest. Secretary Duffy of the potters, when seen today denied that the brotherhood had any intention of calling their members in sympathy with the steel workers.
There were four new men brought into the mill from Scottdale yesterday and four of the strikers, George Cartwright, Harry Davidson, Jabeth Rushton and Richard Kay, deserted the union and went back to work. Cartright and Davidson are rollers, while Rushton and Kay are heaters. Five mills were working yesterday, the largest number run any since the strike began.
Vice President John Chappell of New Castle was here yesterday between trains and said that all the steel mills belonging to the United States Steel corporation would be called out this week. Further than that, he refused to talk.
The condition at McKeesport is reported as feverish. Many strikers are on the streets around the National Tube Works. Men announce that they are only waiting for orders from headquarters before going out. Organizer Flynn of the Federation of Labor was here looking over the situation and conferring with local leaders. Persistent rumors to the effect that mine workers will refuse to furnish coal for the trust coke furnaces or mills.
An ordinance has been drawn up by Common Councilman James N. Wampler appropriating $500,000 for additional paving and sewering of streets of McKeesport. Only taxpayers are to be employed at the work. It is intended for the benefit of strikers in case the struggle is prolonged. Labor leaders will bring great pressure to bear on councilmen to have the ordinance passed.
Offers His Salary to Help Strikers.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 6.—Simon Burns, president of the National Window Glass Workers' association and general master workman of the Knights of Labor, made a proposition yesterday to the Pittsburg leader that he will agree to pay as high a percentage assessment out of his salary each week to aid the Amalgamated association as any national officer, ex-officer or member of any organization in the country. If they will agree to this he says he will give his entire salary as president of the Window Glass Workers' association. He has not drawn any salary as general master workman of the Knights of Labor on account of the order's financial condition, but will also include that when he receives it. The offer, he says, is intended particularly for the national officers of the American Federation of Labor.
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| Cipriano Castro. |
COLUMBIAN REVOLUTION.
News of Recent Movements of Insurgents Given Out In New York.
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—A. Diaz Guerra, agent in this city of the Colombian revolutionists, yesterday received information from trusted agents who had reached Venezuela that a bloody battle was fought at Palo Negro in the latter part of May. The conflict lasted for 17 days. The battle was drawn at the end of that period, the insurgents retiring when their ammunition was exhausted, the government troops being too badly cut up to pursue the revolutionists.
By the Red D liner Philadephia, which arrived here yesterday from Venezuela, Agent Guerra received a budget of information in the form of reports, cablegrams and letters from the scene of hostilities. These stated that General Benjamin Herrara, who is attacking from the Pacific side, is at present operating in the department of Cauca; General Gardilla, who is advancing from the Atlantic, is in the department of Santandar and in the possession of Ocana city; Generals A. Castillo and Clodmire Castillo have effected a junction of their forces and are at El Valle, in the department of Magdalena, and General Mario has fought an important battle at Jirardot, in the department of Cundinamarea, which is in the interior of the country about 100 miles from Bogota, the capital of Colombia.
Important and successful engagements have been fought by General Herrera at Tuninaco and Barbarcos, and other insurgent victories are reported from the southern portion of the department of Cauca. Great revolutionary army is said to be operating on the Pacific side of Colombia.
Information which came to Agent Guerra via Maricaibo states that Senor Valencia, minister of war, is on his way to Cucuta to take charge of the government forces on the frontier, and that at Bogota the merchants, not wishing to handle any more paper money, have closed their stores and that business throughout the country is at a standstill.
Senor Guerra says that he has not for some time received any information concerning the whereabouts of General Uribe, who has been appointed by General Vargos Santos in supreme command of the insurgent army. Continuing, he said:
"General Uribe is a personal friend of General Castro, the president of Venezuela. They have known each other for years. Castro lived for a time in Colombia and his wife is a Colombian. The friendship and recent meeting between Castro and General Uribe at Caracas has no significance in a revolutionary sense. The Colombian government officials, however, openly charge that President Castro has been aiding the insurgents, but such is not the case. I do not think he sympathizes with the movement because a year ago he ordered the seizure at La Guayra of two of our warships which had on board 1,000 Mannlicher rifles, 300 cartridges and three guns, a Maxim, Hotchkiss and a dynamite piece. The boats and military stores are still held and if Castro was on our side they would have been surrendered before this. At the battle fought at Jirardot by General Marin all the government artillery was captured and the regular troops routed. The Colombian government has now in the field about 20.000 men and the insurgents outnumber them and are equally well armed. The invasion of Venezuela by Dr. Rangel Girbiras was certainly supported by Colombian troops, but they were defeated last week at San Cristobal across the Venezuelan frontier with a loss of 1,000 killed and wounded.
''There will be no cause for the United States to interfere because of the revolution in Colombia. The insurgents will not disturb the operation of the railroad or the digging of the canal at the Isthmus. They were up in that section of the country before and these operations were not disturbed."
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The Epworth League.
The fifth international convention of the "Epworth league, recently held in San Francisco and attended by thousands of energetic and enthusiastic Christian young men and women, was a notable event in the religious world and cannot fail to have most beneficial results. Particularly notable in its programme of exercises was the prominence given to the moral and social interests of religion, a feature which has been observable in other recent conventions of similar societies, by such topics as "The Young Christian as a Citizen," "Civic Righteousness," "The City and Its Perils," "The Problem of the Poor," "The Church and the Newspaper," etc. Missionary and benevolent work, including systematic benevolence, formed another leading group of subjects, in connection with which there was a large exhibit of missionary and educational work.
The Epworth league, which ranks next in numbers among similar organizations of young people to the undenominational Society of Christian Endeavor, was formed in 1889 by the consolidation of various small societies previously existing. Its chapters now extend from Norway to Malaysia, in a score of foreign lands, and spread through four great branches of Methodism in the United States and Canada. There are now 20,000 "senior" chapters of the league and 7,300 "junior" leagues, the former increasing by a thousand chapters annually. Like other religious societies of young people, both denominational and undenominational, the Epworth league is a great force for good in the world.
◘ Russell Sage, the New York financier, was 85 years old yesterday. He is active in the directorate of twenty-six corporations, is president of the Poughkeepsie & Eastern railroad, the Chicago Elevator company and the Empire & Bay State Telegraph Co., and vice-president of two other corporations. He also gives considerable attention to the stock exchange.
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| S. S. Knox. |
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Rebate Ordered Paid on Cement Walks—Other Business.
The board of public works held its regular monthly meeting at the city clerk's office last night. Only three members of the board, Judge S. S. Knox, C. W. Collins and C. F. Wickwire, were present. Attorney B. A. Benedict appeared before the board and asked that a distance between the curbing and the sidewalk along the south side of Groton-ave. might be fixed upon. Mr. Benedict stated that he is ready to build a cement walk in front of his vacant lot on that side of the street, but he wanted the matter of where it was to be placed definitely settled before he undertook to lay the walk. The matter was placed in the hands of the superintendent.
A petition signed by nearly a hundred residents of the city who live in the vicinity of Otter creek, asking that the bed of this creek from Groton-ave. to Madison-st. might be deepened and straightened, was read by the clerk. The board seemed to think that the residents and property holders along the creek had been encroaching on the bed of the stream, and that it had been narrowed thereby. The matter was tabled after a very brief discussion.
Mr. Becker said that he had experienced no little difficulty in keeping traction engines off the asphalt pavement. One of these came nearly getting up on Groton-ave. yesterday, he said, and, if it had, it would have cut through to the concrete. A resolution was passed forbidding such vehicles to pass along the pavement. The common council will also be asked to pass such a resolution.
The following bills were allowed and ordered paid:
Pay roll, $455.51
Benton Lumber Co., lumber, 55.09
S. N. Ballard, rent, 12.50
Clara J. Rowland, typewriting, .90
Rebates for laying cement walks were then ordered paid. Mr. Becker reported that there had been built in the city thus far this season 7,060 linear feet of walk for which rebate had been asked, and that there are about 1,000 feet more already built for which no applications for rebate have as yet been received. This means that over a mile and a half of cement walk has been built in the city since the rebate of 3 cents per square foot has been given by the city. The names of the parties to whom rebates were allowed last evening, the location of the walks built and the amount of the rebate in each case follows:
T. Schiele, clerk of board of trustees, Homer-ave. M. E. church, $42.90; W. L. Wingate, 52 Hubbard-st., $10.95; Kate Ryan, 66 Lincoln-ave., $9; M. O. Clark, 67 Madison-st., $3; Mary Burns, 68 East Court-st., $8.25; Mrs. Frances Johnson, 34 Madison-st., $9; A. H. Watkins, 38 Homer-ave., $11.40; Della Cole, 66 Railroad-st., $7.50; Frank A. Phelps, 77 Pomeroy-st., $11.25; Wm. Riley, alley off Main-st., $3; Wm. Riley and Depew Mallery, alley off Main-st., $9.94; Martin Sheridan, 98 East Court-st., $27.87; L. Doyle, 216 Railroad-st., $26.18; James McAuliffe, 16 Hubbard-st., $6; L. Ousby, 129 Homer-ave., $44.14; E. M. Preston, 62 Groton-ave., $12.15; J. H. Seebert, 64 Homer-ave., $10.80; Mary Rease, 32 Madison-ave., $9.90; Fred I. Graham, alleyway off Main-st., $3; B. T. Wright, 8 North Church-st., $9; Geo. Towne, 58 Lincoln-ave., $9; N. P. Meager, 57 Groton-ave., $9.90; H. Dowd, 32 Port Watson-st., $12.76; E. E. Ellis, opposite Omnibus & Cab shop, Pendleton-st., $38.02; G. T. Davis, 105 Homer-ave., $9; Elsie A. Tanner, 60 Railroad-st., $7.50; Vern Skeele, 74 Pomeroy-st., $9.90; B. Peters, 2 9 Arthur-ave., $10.80; Mrs. Sophia White, 149 Railroad-st., $5.40; R. S. Lang, vacant lot. Groton-ave., $6.66; H. C. Hemingway, 130 Clinton-ave., $13.95; A. B. Corwin, vacant lot, North Main-st., $7.50; L. J. Fitzgerald, 66 and 70 East Court-st., $45.45; Kate Burns, 151 Railroad-st., $9.63; F. E. Perry, 61 Groton-ave., $9.90; Mary Hill, 86 Lincoln-ave., $9; L. A. Bloomer, 89 Lincoln-ave., $9; John Latimer, 101 Homer-ave., $12; Fred Hatch, vacant lot, Railroad-st., $23.85; James Riley, 23 Lincoln-ave., $9; W. F. Harvey, 153 Railroad-st., $6.10; D. Coon, 136 Port Watson-st., $9.90; E. A. Chubb, 16 Duane-st., $9.75; Permella Rowland, 34 and 36 Maple-ave., $19.05; E. M. Santee, Groton-ave., $10.20; Michael Roach, agent for Mary Woodward, 70 Lincoln-ave., $6; James Burns, 56 Hubbard-st., $7.74; F. P. Merchant, 163, Railroad-st., $8.17.
Sold on Mortgage Foreclosure.
The house and lot on the west side of Miller-st. near the skirt factory was sold at mortgage foreclosure sale at 10 o'clock this forenoon at the courthouse by Attorney E. C. Alger. There was a judgment against it of $1,441, which included mortgage, unpaid interest and costs. The assignee of the mortgage, Ettie Alger, bid $1,441 for the place and the only other bid was that of Hector Cowan, $1,450, to whom the place was struck off.
Closed on an Execution.
Sheriff A. R. Overton closed the grocery store of Poorman & Barnes, 22 Railway-ave. yesterday afternoon on an execution issued by Acting City Judge W. L. Loope.
WANT TO ENLIST.
Six Young Men Would Like to Serve in Uncle Sam's Army.
There have been six applications this week for enlistment in the regular army: Fred D. Seaman, Freetown; Harley Seamans, 71 Lincoln-ave., Cortland; James H. Ray, 8 Railway-ave., Cortland; Michael O'Brien, 126 Homer-ave., Cortland; Peter Burns, 55 Owego-st., Cortland, and one other whose name could not be learned today, as the recruiting officer had sent his applications to headquarters at Syracuse without retaining a memorandum of the name.
Two men went to Syracuse this week to enlist not having understood that there is a recruiting office at the Dexter House in Cortland, of which Sergeant Donavan is continuously in charge and where he is present every day. Captain John P. Finley of Syracuse, whose headquarters is in Syracuse, is also here every Tuesday, and Dr. C. D. VerNooy is the examining physician. Applications may be made to any one of these three men without going to Syracuse.
YOUTHFUL HOUSE BREAKERS
Made a Raid Upon the House of Volney Carpenter.
Volney Carpenter, a man about 75 years old, lives alone by himself near the East River road north of the county house. Yesterday morning at about 11 o'clock two small boys came to him where he was at work in his garden and told him that E. Fuller, who has charge of the Byram flour mill, wanted to see him at once over at the mill. Mr. Carpenter responded to the call, but when he reached the mill Mr. Fuller told him he had sent no such message. Suspecting that something was wrong Mr. Carpenter hurried back to his house and found one of the outside doors pried open with a crowbar. Investigation showed that some one had ransacked a part of the house and that quite a sum of money was missing. Knowing that the housebreakers could not be far away Mr. Carpenter notified his neighbor, William Byram. Mr. Byram went at once to the house of Constable Ira Crandall who lives near, and they two set out in hot pursuit. Three boys had been seen going south along the Salisbury hill road which passes in the rear of the Cortland park. The two men drove at once to the park. Mr. Crandall stated the case to a conductor on one of the trolley cars which was then up at the park. With the conductor the two men went from the pavilion out to the car. There sat three boys, 17, 16 and 11 years old, on the car just ready to start to Cortland. Officer Crandall laid his hand on the shoulder of the largest boy and instantly the other two leaped from the car right into the waiting arms of Mr. Byram. The three boys were taken back to Mr. Crandall's where they were given something to eat. Then they were taken by Mr. Crandall to Homer and brought before Justice E. W. Hyatt, Mr. Byram following with Mr. Carpenter.
The three boys were Earl Davy, James Kelley and Frank Larkin. The three were taken separately and questioned. Mr. Carpenter recognized the two smaller boys as being the ones who had summoned him to the mill. The little boy, Larkin, is reported to have said that they had been in the house and that the big boy gave each of the others five cents, while money they threw away while returning with the officer from the park to his house,
Some time ago Mr. Carpenter had a watch and a valuable gold nugget stolen from his house. The largest boy partly admitted that he had been in the house before. Justice Hyatt released the little boy, merely holding him as a witness. The other two were arrested and were held for examination which will be begun tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock before Justice Hyatt.
BREVITIES.
—One drunk paid a fine of $5 in city court this morning.
—The annual picnic of the Patrons of Industry occurs at the park tomorrow,
—At the regular meeting or the A. O. H. Wednesday evening, Aug. 7, nominations of officers to be elected in September will be made.
—Cortland Tent, No. 304, K .O. T. M., will hold a regular review in Vesta lodge rooms this evening. All members are urged to be present.
—New display advertisements today are—Mitch's Market, Meats, etc., page 5; Warren, Tanner & Co., Drygoods, page 8; A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 8.
—The Congregational East Side chapel has had a wet time for its picnic at the park today. About 200 have been over there, having gone over on special cars this morning.
—Mr. Dan H. Crannell of Marathon and Miss Edith Pearl Phillips of Cortland were married on Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Homer-ave. M. E. parsonage by the pastor, Rev. H. L. Rixon.
—The A. O. U. W. of Cortland and vicinity will picnic at the park on Tuesday, Aug. 20. A special train on the Lehigh Valley railroad will come from DeRuyter bringing people from that village and intermediate points and excursion rates will be given on all the railroads.
—The park rabbit has disappeared. It is thought to have been stolen. Manager Walsh thinks he has a clue to the guilty parties and is hot on the trail. The children will all feel bad as the rabbit was a great friend of theirs and seemed to thrive on rough handling, following the little people up for more fun, if fun it could be called, as they tumbled him over and pulled his long ears.
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