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| Joseph Hodges Choate. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, July 31, 1901.
RECIPROCITY IN EDUCATION.
Novel Treaty Advocated by Ambassador Choate in an Address.
LONDON, July 31.—United States Ambassador Choate, while delivering an address at the commencement of University College school, evoked great enthusiasm by advocating a treaty between Great Britain and the United States providing for the interchange of the prizewinning students of the two countries. Mr. Choate said:
"I unhesitatingly recommend that the boys of this school who win prizes be transferred to the United States to complete their education, and that the boys of similar schools in the United States be brought to England to finish their training at the great universities."
Lord Reay, chairman of the London school board, responding, said: "Mr. Choate's proposition is more practical than it seems at first sight. It will be well to give it careful consideration. If such an interchange should take place England must insist that when her boys go to America they become second Carnegies and return to their native country to place their wealth at the disposal of its institutions of learning."
Mr. Choate said: "My idea is that the transference of students could be accomplished by establishing scholarships in each country good for the universities of the other. I know no way by which England and America could be more firmly knit together."
POTATO CROP A FAILURE.
Prices May Reach $5 a Barrel—Fair Crop in Maryland.
BALTIMORE, July 31.—There is likely to be a potato famine throughout the country. Maryland at present is the only state in the Union having even a fair crop. The early crops in the Northern, Southern and most of the Western states are over. Those in the latter states were considerably damaged by heat and drought. The early crop in New York has not yet come in. The damage there by heat and drought has also been great.
As the result of this condition Maryland is being called upon to supply the demand in nearly every state in the Union, but the merchants here in many instances have refused to fill orders, large or small, there being less risk in shipping to the nearer markets. The supply in the Western states is so limited and the demand so large that Baltimore merchants have been asked by the dealers there to make their own prices. The Western merchants, besides, have offered to assume all risks of shipping.
Potatoes that brought from $1.25 to $2.50 a barrel this time last year are now being sold at from $3.50 to $4 a barrel. It is predicted that prices will reach the $5 mark. The relief will not come till the late crops are in three or four weeks hence.
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| Mrs. Carries Nation. |
Carrie Nation Pardoned.
TOPEKA, Kan., July 31.—Mrs. Carrie Nation,
who is serving a sentence in the county jail for "joint smashing,"
was yesterday pardoned by Governor Stanley. She would not at first accept the
pardon, because the fine and costs were not remitted, but afterwards decided to
do so. The County commissioners will allow her to pay the fine and costs,
amounting to $150, in installments.
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| Rear Admiral George Melville. |
DRIFT OF BEARING STRAITS.
Fifty Casks to Be Placed on Ice Floes to Test the Direction of Polar Currents.
WASHINGTON, July 31.—Arrangements have been made by Captain Shoemaker, chief of the revenue cutter service, to place a number of specially prepared casks, designed by Rear Admiral Melville, engineer-in-chief of the navy, on ice floes in Behring sea, to test the direction of the currents that flow from the polar region. There are 50 of these casks, each 28 inches long and 10 inches in diameter, painted black so as to be seen easily and pointed at each end. Inside each are directions in half a dozen languages to be followed by anybody who finds a cask. He is asked to write to the nearest United States consul, giving the latitude and longitude, when the cask was found, the date and the number of the cask. He is also asked to plug up the cask again and turn it adrift. It is expected that in this way some information of value to mariners and Arctic explorers will be obtained.
Admiral Melville said that the idea was to demonstrate the drift of the Behring strait. The casks, he explained, were to be placed on the highest hummocks of flow ice. The revenue cutter Bear is going as far as possible to the American archipelago to deposit them. Admiral Melville said that the casks were expected to demonstrate whether the pack drifts from the Arctic were to the westward or to the south and east, into the Atlantic. If they came out between Spitzenberg and Greenland they would go across the north pole, he said, and if they came out between Nova Zembla and Franz Josef Land the current would have a southern cant.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
National Education Association.
The National Educational association, which semiofficially represents the great body of public school teachers of the United States, at its recent fortieth annual session in Detroit, issued a very significant platform. It demands provision for free education under the auspices of the federal government in all federal territories, including the new possessions. It urges that all such public education in United States territory should be placed under the direction of the bureau of education; the schoolhouse in every state and territory should be the center of the educational life of the community, the place where literary and social meetings may be held and where the public library should be housed. Education should include the development of the ethical, physical and aesthetic nature of the child as well as its purely intellectual nature. The system of education should include every grade of school, from the kindergarten up to and including the university, open to every boy and girl of our country. Legislation respecting education should be under the general direction of educational experts and should lead rather than wait upon public sentiment. Children should be protected by law from ignorance as from abuse, neglect and hunger, on which ground compulsory education is defended. Expert supervision of schools in country as in city is needed, and the consolidation of rural schools and the transportation of pupils, already attempted in some states, should be extended. Normal schools should be maintained in all the states, and thorough provision should be made to secure high standards both for school architecture and for teaching.
A more complete and comprehensive statement of the educational needs of the country and the methods of providing for them could hardly be made than this platform, and it should have the indorsement [sic] of the friends of education.
CONCESSIONAIRES DAY
TO BE OBSERVED AT THE PAN-AMERICAN ON SATURDAY.
Carnival of All Nations—All the Business of the City to be Suspended—A Series of Gigantic Attractions Arranged That Will Interest Every One—Bands Galore--All the Midway Attractions to Take Part.
Probably the most unique day in the history of any exposition heretofore given will be that of the carnival of all nations, a day which has been set aside by the Pan-American directors to the midway concessionaires in order to demonstrate their ability to furnish a booming day.
The result of the committee canvassing for funds to properly advertise this day, shows the astounding result of $25,000 raised in the incredibly short space of twenty-four hours. With this fund the midway concessionaires have been enabled to send throughout the country a staff of nearly fifty of the most accomplished advertisers known in the records of boomers.
On Saturday, Aug. 3, the carnival of all nations will begin in Buffalo within the grounds of the Pan-American exposition at 6:30 in the morning, and will last until 12 at night.
So general has been the enthusiasm throughout the city of Buffalo that at a meeting of the council of the city, it was unanimously voted to make the day a municipal holiday. Added to this the entire business community of the city, comprising some 800 great firms, have signed an agreement to close their stores upon this day, making it for the first time during the exposition, a general closing holiday.
It will be impossible to describe the multitude of grand features which have been especially prepared for this great occasion. Its many features are of a stupendous and sensational nature. To particularize, no less than forty bands will lend their music to the occasion, and nearly 8,000 people of all the strange races that inhabit the Midway will turn out in a great procession, the most unique ever attempted.
There will be seen for the first time in this city a human bomb—a man enclosed in an aluminum bomb, discharged from an immense mortar into the mid-air, releasing the man who slowly descends by means of a parachute from an altitude of 3,000 feet.
A terrific high dive from the top of the beautiful electric tower, a height of 310 feet, into the basin of the cascade of fountains as its base. A sensational slide for life from the top of the tower by Vaseo Gameroni to the pond of water in the center of the stadium, a distance of nearly one quarter of a mile, Gameroni being suspended by the tensile strength of the teeth between which he clutches a narrow strip of leather which is attached to a traveling pulley running over a stretched cable.
A display, for the first time in the East, of the great Chinese dragon, which was the principal feature of the Chicago fall festival held two years ago in that city. This monstrous dragon has a length of 386 feet, and a head of wonderful construction, which measures 13 feet in diameter. The dragon was obtained through the courtesy of the Chinese mayor of Chicago, and was originally used in the ritual of the dragon festival in the forbidden city of Pekin, China.
A unique race in which the contestants are to be an elephant, a camel, a Mexican vacquero, a Texan cowboy, a zebra, an automobile, a trained athlete, an ostrich, and a bicycle.
A charming feature will he the bouquet ballet, which will be danced upon a glass stage located in the center of the cascade of fountains underneath which is placed a battery of calcium lights. Upon the glass platform fifteen beautiful dancers clad in costumes a-la-Loie Fuller will perform their graceful movements under the glare of the double battery of electric search-lights thrown from the illuminated tower. The ladies will be clad in soft, clinging, white mousseline de soie, many hundred yards of which will be swirling in graceful folds, and the whole effect reflected in the mirror-like surface of the fountain.
Positively the grandest display of fireworks ever given at a similar exposition will be fired by the great firm of Pain of London, New York and Chicago. A running cascade of Philippine fire will flow through the midway from one end to the other in the myriad sparks of which the great dragon, with its bead emitting streams of red fire and its eyes glowing like live coals will crawl.
Another feature which will be especially pleasing to the ladies will be the marriage of a couple in the captive balloon, the ceremony being commenced at the beginning of the ascent, and finishing at a height of 3,000 feet when the couple will have become by this time, man and wife.
As a culminating climax to this stupendous army of sensational features, a grand ballet of Kiralfy's ballet Constantinople, comprising 600 premiere assoluti, premiere secunda, and coryphae will dance a pretty movement of the principal ballet from the grand spectacle Constantinople now running at the Teck theatre, Buffalo. This will be danced upon a floating stage in the middle of the pretty lake which adorns the grounds.
Nothing more bewildering or dazzling can be conceived than the double reflection which the water will give to the performance upon the floating stage.
Special railroad rates have already been granted for this, the first booming day the exposition has received since the inception. The great railroad potentates have united in the project heart and soul. The United Press of Buffalo and its surrounding territory are working in unison to make Aug. 3 the carnival of nations at the Pan-American exposition, Buffalo, a record breaker.
TO RAISE ANGORA GOATS.
Hon. O. U. Kellogg Purchases a Few and Will Get More.
Hon. O. U. Kellogg has bought of W. C. Cruser of Montrose, Pa., eighteen thoroughbred angora goats and expects soon to secure about fifty more. He bought these primarily to aid him in clearing an a pasture on South hill which had become over grown with berry bushes, noxious weeds and shrubs. The angora goat is really a browser rather than a grazer, and it is said that a herd of goats will clear up a pasture like this in two years.
The angora goat is something of a stranger to the majority of people in this vicinity. The animal is about the size of a good sized sheep, is white and has horns. It is raised chiefly for its fleece which is called mohair. This is similar to the wool of the cotswold sheep that used to be raised so largely in this section, and is about 12 or 14 inches long and curly. A thoroughbred goat will shear a fleece of from six to ten pounds, a grade from three to six pounds. One pound of the mohair is worth from three to four pounds of wool.
The meat is also a consideration. It is frequently sold for venison and is used in hotels and restaurants for venison. When the goat is browsing on bushes and weeds its flavor can hardly be told from venison, but if fed on hay or grain it is more like mutton.
The goats which Mr. Kellogg has bought are all thoroughbreds, chiefly the stock of imported sires. Such animals sell in the market for about $25 and upwards each. The recent duty placed upon angora goats has made importation of them practically prohibitive, as an imported goat will cost $500 and more. A grade goat is probably worth $7 or $8.
Will Soon Begin Collecting.
The Cortland Garbage Reduction company will begin collecting garbage in about ten days. Send in your orders by phone or mail at once as we are now arranging routes. Get in your order for a can at cost so we can get lowest rates. Phone 128 Cortland Garbage Reduction Co. [Paid ad.]
WATER PIPE OBSTRUCTED
And Trolley and Electric Light System Temporarily Interfered With.
An obstruction of some kind got into the water pipe that feeds the boilers at the power house last night and shut off the supply. The engineer had to draw his fires very quickly to prevent damage or an accident or both. The result was that both the trolley and electric light systems had to be shut down for a half hour or more till a new arrangement for furnishing water could be made. This let the steam down and time was required to get it up again.
An investigation was at once made to see what was the trouble. The water used comes from the river through a 6-inch main into a well. The end of the in-take pipe from the river is screened. The well was protected and it was supposed nothing could get into it. There was no screen over the in-take pipe from the well. Investigation showed that a muskrat had dug through from the river into the well and had been swimming too near the mouth of the pipe through which water is pumped to the boiler. The suction of the pumps had drawn him into the pipe and he filled it so completely that no water could get past him. This was a novel situation and one that could hardly be anticipated. It is safe to say that steps will now be taken so that it can never be repeated.
A POINT FOR EVERY ONE.
Stamps Cut from Stamped Envelopes Not Accepted as Postage.
It should be distinctly understood by every one that an oval postage stamp cut from a stamped envelope or stamped newspaper wrapper, even though previously unused and uncancelled, is not accepted by the government as postage when pasted upon another envelope or newspaper wrapper. When such cases are found by the mailing clerk a card is sent to the party addressed saying that such a letter or packages or paper is at that office named held for postage and that if the requisite postage is sent the mail matter will be forwarded, otherwise it will not be.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements today are—City Cycle Co., Fishing tackle, page 6.
—Mr. H. F. Benton is having a new Star windmill erected upon his farm north of Cortland on the Truxton road.
—The A. O. H. baseball team will play a team from Ithaca on Athletic Held on Saturday, Aug. 3, at 3:30 o'clock.
—The Baraca class trolley ride that was to have been given by the class of officers this evening has been postponed till Friday evening.
—The H. F. Benton Lumber Co., is having its office fitted up with electric lights and having an electric fan put in to relieve some of the heat.
—The weather forecast for to-morrow, "fair and cooler,'' will be good news to those who want to attend the concerts tomorrow of the Ithaca band.
—Rev. A. H. Hobart, D. D., of Crosier Theological seminary, Chester, Pa., will preach at the McLean Baptist church next Sunday morning, Aug. 4.
—Six carloads of people with the City band enjoyed a trolley ride last night to Homer and McGraw with an hour's stop at the park to see the moving pictures.
—This is the season when Uncle Eben's remark is especially appropriate that "De man dat keeps his min' on de thermometer am pow'ful li'ble not to do much else in dis wo'ld."
—The Cortland County Agricultural society has rented the rooms in the Samson block, recently vacated by Dr. C. H. Jones, and will use these for office rooms till after the fair, Aug. 27 to 30, inclusive.
—Every one should be sure that the house is securely locked, windows included, when he goes to the park tomorrow afternoon and evening to hear the great concerts of the famous Ithaca band.
—The Traction company is arranging for three new open cars to be delivered in Cortland at the earliest possible date to assist in handling the crowds that throng the park on every concert evening. They are expected soon.
—The residents of Port Watson-st. below Greenbush-st. are now compelled to take to the second stories of their houses if they would see more to the south than the tops of the hills, as the corn crop has now reached the height of about twelve feet and is growing daily at a marvelous rate.
—Leader Conway of the Ithaca band has said to the managers of the park that he had a splendid list of encores ready in case they were needed for the concerts tomorrow afternoon and evening. They will be needed all right, and called for too. A Cortland audience never fails in this.
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