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| Samuel Gompers. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, Aug. 9, 1901.
WAITING FOR THE CALL.
Each Side of Strike Nursing Its Strength.
SHAFFER AND GOMPERS CONFER.
Result Not Given Out—First Act of Violence Occurs Near Pittsburg—Move to Have Anti-Trust Law Enforced Against Steel Corporation.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 9.—The contending sides in the steel strike are centering their energies for a show of strength on the day that the general strike order becomes effective. The United States Steel corporation is reopening mills closed by the first-strike call to show its independence of unionism and gathering strength wherever it may to lighten the effect of the general strike order and the Amalgamated association bends its energies to the extension of its membership and to obtain the support and co-operation of the American Federation of Labor.
The general strike order becomes effective on Saturday night and the claims put forth on either side as to the result that will accrue from it are widely at variance. Officials of the steel companies admit that thousands of men will obey the order of President Shaffer of the Amalgamated association and go out, but they positively deny that the tieup will be general. They point to their success in reopening four mills that were closed and say they have strongholds at points where the amalgamated claims the greatest strength.
The steel officials are inclined to minimize the sympathetic assistance which the Amalgamated association will get. One official stated the matter this way:
''What can the machinists do? Have they not just been beaten? And the mine workers. Did they aid the firemen?"
President Shaffer and his associates on the other hand insist that the strike order will be generally obeyed and that they will obtain more than enough support to cripple the steel corporation. "We have these people licked to a standstill already," was the way that Vice President-elect Gibson voiced the feelings of the Amalgamated people.
With both sides arming for the conflict and a general strike but 36 hours away, many ordinarily well-informed persons hold the belief there will yet be a settlement of the strike. Varyl Preston came here yesterday and his presence started the rumor that he was here to ask for another conference in behalf of the steel corporation. Mr. Preston pointedly denied that he was doing anything of the kind, and during the day made no effort to see any of the strike leaders.
Some of the men who predict settlement believe there will be outside intervention from powerful interests and a submission of the dispute to arbitration. Different men of national reputation, including Archbishop Ireland and Senators Hanna and Scott have been named in this connection, but if efforts are being put forth in that direction they have not yet appeared on the surface.
Shaffer and Gompers Confer.
President Shaffer devoted yesterday to a conference with President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor who came here for a personal study of the situation before committing himself or his immense organization in any manner. The conference reached no conclusion and unless there is an alteration of plans, will be resumed today.
President Gompers came here in company with Frank Morrison, secretary of the Federation, and was met at Amalgamated headquarters by President Shaffer, Secretary Williams, Assistant Secretary Tighe, Vice Presidents Rees and Chapell, National Trustee John Pierce and Ben I. Davis. They sat in executive session from 11 o'clock until 3:10 o'clock when they went out for lunch. They returned to the strike headquarters shortly before 5 o'clock and after a brief talk parted for the day.
President Gompers declined to state the result of their deliberations and would say nothing other than that he had come here to look the situation over and consult with President Shaffer. President Shaffer also declined to talk about the conference.
The steel corporation succeeded yesterday in getting one mill at the Lindsay and the McCutcheon plant and another mill at the Clark works in operation. They also received reports that at Hyde Park four of the mills did perfect work and an announcement from Wellsville that the strike was virtually over there. They met with no opposition at any of the four points where they have reopened mills, and expressed their satisfaction at the progress made.
The strikers insist that there are not enough men at the Lindsay and McCutcheon establishments to operate the one mill started and predicted that it would close down yesterday. It was kept going, however, until last night. It is planned to open another mill at Lindsay and McCutcheon and also to start the Painter mill and the Chartiers plant at Carnegie, but just when they will be started remains to be seen.
The Steel corporation is evidently putting forth its greatest effort at Pittsburg, the headquarters of the strike, for the moral effect elsewhere.
At New Castle last night the Raney and Rosena furnaces were shut down, leaving 600 men without employment. The order directed that the furnaces be blown out, which means a long shutdown.
First Act of Violence.
The first act of violence in this neighborhood occurred at Nations Wednesday night, when a foreigner, whose name could not be learned, was shot, presumably by strikers. He was employed in the copper extraction department of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing company and was shot in three places but not seriously injured. There were six or eight shots fired from the hill back of the works. The company has succeeded in filling the striking furnacemen's places, and the strikers are trying to frighten the new men away by throwing rocks and shooting at them while at work. A heavy guard of special officers has been put on for the protection of the workmen.
The strike lenders plan a series of rallies for Saturday, the closing day of their preliminary campaign. The largest will be held at Cascade park, New Castle, and its managers claim that 25,000 workmen will participate in it. Special trains will be run from New Brighton, Sharon, Sharpsville and other adjacent towns. The affair is to be a picnic lasting a day. President Shaffer and other Amalgamated leaders will speak and President Gompers of the Federation may also deliver an address.
There will be another gathering at McKees Rocks and night demonstrations at Monessen and McKeesport.
President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor made the following statement last night:
"I cannot say anything for publication at present. I shall be glad to see any of the press when the time comes to speak but in the meantime I cannot discuss these matters. I expect to remain in Pittsburg and will hold another conference with Mr. Shaffer. When we have reached a conclusion I will call you all in and give you our decision.
BLOW THROUGH THE COURTS.
Knights of Labor Seek to Have Sherman Anti-Trust Law Enforced Against Steel Corporation.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—District Assembly No. 66 of the Knights of Labor last night authorized its legislative committee to bring quo warranto proceedings against the attorney general of the United States to show cause why he does not enforce the anti-trust law known as the Sherman act.
This action is aimed at the antitrust law known as the Sherman act. This action is aimed at the United States Steel corporation, which will be, it is alleged, operating in violation of the Sherman act.
Labor lenders in this city say this will hasten a solution of the strike now in progress.
They say that laws similar, or nearly similar to the Sherman law have been enacted in nearly all the states and in several of them, notably in Ohio and Texas, the county attorneys have the power of the attorney general of the state in quo warranto proceedings and the Amalgamated association has a large fund on hand with which to institute proceedings similar to those to be begun here.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Colorado's Liquor Law and Suffrage.
The recent decision of a Colorado judge declaring the law of that state unconstitutional which prohibited saloon keepers from selling spirituous liquors to women has been used by not a few newspapers as an argument against woman suffrage and pointed to as an object lesson showing the evil effects of it. Some of them editorially ask such questions as this: '"Will it be any better for politics to be controlled by drinking women than by drinking men?" One would suppose that it was owing entirely to the fact that women were prohibited from drinking in the saloons that they were not constant patrons of it and that now, since they had equal rights in the saloon as well as at the ballot box, they would improve the opportunity and become a class of drunkards.
"If there is," writes Elnora Monroe Babcock, "any lesson to be drawn from this decision of the Colorado Judge, it is to show the beneficial effect of woman suffrage, for if the women were at one time so much worse than the men that it was necessary to enact a law forbidding saloon keepers selling them intoxicants while permitting their sale to men they have certainly been greatly benefited by voting, as it is now considered safe to abolish this restriction.
"The only conclusion that can be drawn from this libelous law is that the women of Colorado were phenomenally dissolute at one time or that the legislators who enacted this law were phenomenal fools. While women are not without their faults, at no time in the history of this nation have they been chargeable with drunkenness, and for a set of men to enact laws forbidding saloon keepers selling to women and at the same time allowing them to sell to the men, who are the drinkers, makes one think of the prayer of Dr. Lyman Beecher when he said, 'O Lord, grant that we may not despise our rulers and grant, O Lord, that they may not act so we can't help it!'"
The law as it stands is a libel, at least by inference, upon the women of Colorado and should be promptly expunged from the statute books of the state.
THE CORONER'S VERDICT
As to the Death of John E. Bond—Certain Recommendations.
Coroner E. M. Santee has completed the examination of witnesses in the matter of the death of John E. Bond and renders his verdict as follows:
STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF CORTLAND.
In the matter of the death of John E. Bond.
Inquisition taken at the city of Cortland, N. Y., Aug. 2, 5, and 9, 1901, before Ellis M. Santee, one of the coroners of said county, upon view of the body of John E. Bond then and there lying dead.
On the morning of July 30, 1901, the said John E. Bond, in company with a fellow workman, was sent by his employer to finish painting the roof of Fireman's hall in the city of Cortland, N. Y., which had been begun by them the day before. About 10:45 A. M. of that day while the said Bond was engaged in painting the edge of the roof of said building, his right arm came in contact with an electric light wire that was suspended nearly parallel with the edge of the roof, about six inches above and about the same distance off the edge of said roof at this point; he was severely shocked and fell to the ground about 25 feet below, sustaining a fracture of the skull at the base of the brain, from which he died about fifteen minutes after the fall.
There is no direct evidence as to whether or not there was contributory negligence upon the part of said Bond as no one saw the beginning of the accident.
The wire from which the shock was received was a primary one, carrying 2,080 volts of electricity; it was poorly insulated by reason of long exposure to the elements which had entirely obliterated its weatherproof qualities and left but one badly decayed braid of insulation; thereby rendering it more dangerous than a bare wire by reason of its deceptiveness.
This coroner finds that the said John E. Bond came to his death as the result of the almost criminal carelessness of the Cortland & Homer Electric company in maintaining such a wire in such an exposed place, and the authorities of the city of Cortland in allowing such a wire to be so maintained.
In view of the above facts the following recommendations are most respectfully made:
First—That a very careful inspection of all the electric wires within the city of Cortland be caused to be made by a expert; and
Second—That in each instance where wire is found to not comply with the recommendations of the Code of the National Board of Underwriters, such action be taken in relation thereto as to render impossible a repetition of this lamentable occurrence.
In witness whereof the said coroner has hereunto set his hand and seal the 9th day of August, 1901.
ELLIS M. SANTEE, (L. S.,) Coroner.
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| Black Diamond Express. |
BLACK DIAMOND WRECKED
Lehigh Valley's Crack Train Comes to Grief at North LeRoy.
ROCHESTER, Aug. 9.—The east bound Black Diamond express, the Lehigh Valley railway's prize train, was wrecked at North LeRoy at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Six persons were injured. The accident happened while the train was running at the rate of a mile in a minute and was due to the rails spreading. One coach only left the track, but the occupants of the others received a severe shaking up.
FOUND DEAD AT ITHACA, N. Y.
Miss Seelee Happened to Have Been Killed by Lightning.
Miss Alegra Eggleston Seelee was found dead on the edge of Ford creek gorge at Ithaca yesterday afternoon and the theory is that she was killed by lightning. Her body was hanging by the feet which were entangled in a bunch of roots.
Miss Seelee was the granddaughter of Edward Eggleston, historian and novelist. She was graduated from Cornell in 1900 and was a member of the Kappa Gamma fraternity. She was noted for proficiency in philosophical studies. She was living in the Seelee Ithaca home in University avenue, while her people were living at their summer home at Lake George. She had been entertaining a house party here and afterwards went for a walk. The supposition is that she met her death in the manner indicated while seeking shelter from a storm.
NEW RURAL DELIVERY ROUTE
Proposed South of Cortland—Considerable Opposition to It Manifested.
Some of the residents south of Cortland are getting up a petition for another rural free delivery route from the Cortland postoffice which would include the road over South Main-st. hill to the Sager farm on the state road leading from Virgil to East Virgil; thence east along that road for a short distance and back over Snyder hill to Blodgett Mills. This petition has not yet been presented, but will be soon. While this route would be a great convenience to some of the farmers whom it would serve, it is meeting with opposition from residents of Blodgett Mills and from the farmers who deliver their milk morning and night at the Blodgett Mills milk station, as its establishment would probably mean the closing of the postoffice at Blodgett Mills. Many of the former patrons of the Blodgett Mills office living on the east side of the river are now served from the McGraw rural delivery and if this route were established it would include about all the patrons on the west side of the river and the closing of the office would doubtless be one of the results. The rural delivery would give mail but once a day, while they now get it several times at the office. For this reason the establishment of this new route is still a matter of question.
Fresh Air Children.
The twenty-two fresh air children who have been spending two weeks in Cortland left at 9:27 this morning on their return to New York. The children have had excellent treatment at the hands of the ladies of St. Mary's church, and they left feeling very much refreshed. Mrs. B. T. Harper of New York had charge of the children.
A Birthday Party.
A very enjoyable party was held at the home of Edithe Topping, 44 Union-st., Thursday afternoon, the day being her 4th birthday. About twenty friends of Edithe and her sister Mona were made happy by the thoughtfulness of their parents and from 2 to 4 o'clock the lawn was fitted with the children and the older ones as well who did their best to give the children a good time. A supper-pleasing and dainty in the extreme was then served. In the center of the table was a large birthday cake decorated with lighted candles which afforded much pleasure to the children especially when the time arrived for the little guests to blow them out.
One pleasing feature of the occasion was the presence of members of four generations from little Edithe and Mona to Great Grandfather Butterfield. At the time of the home going each guest departed with souvenirs of the occasion, and in giving and receiving all very happy.
Those from out of town were B. M. Butterfield, Mrs. Frances Isaacs of McGraw, Miss Ella Gale and nephew Manley of Groton and Mrs. Libbie T. Curtis of Norwich, Mrs. Lizzie Woodworth of Homer; and also Ethel Allen, Lenodine Camp, Florence Cole, Myrta Calkins, Grace Somers, Willie Roethig, Irene McCarthy, Eleanor Cowan, Edithe and Mona Topping, Gussie Garbarini, Arthur Lynch, Francis McCarthy, I.eon Murphy Manly Gale, and Earl and William Hanrahan of Cortland.
Her Fifth Birthday.
Little Helen Cone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Cone of 8 Grant-st., observed her 5th birthday yesterday afternoon by entertaining ten of her little friends from 4 to 7 o'clock. Children's games were played and a very pleasant season was enjoyed. Each little guest was presented with a dainty and artistic hat of silk paper made in different colors, and the little hostess was herself the recipient of many pretty presents. Fine refreshments were served. The guests were Elizabeth Bristol, Clara Arnold, Ruth Jenkins, Mildred Miller, Anna O'Connell, Katharine Howes, Lois Jayne, Helen Jennison and Fannie and Helen Saunders.
BATES FAMILY REUNION.
A Large Attendance and a Good Time—Officers Elected.
The third annual reunion of the Bates family was held at the park yesterday, and although the rain kept many away yet a goodly number assembled and an excellent time is reported.
The Bates family holds its annual gatherings at the park for two reasons: first, because of the attractions it has for the members of the family and the excellent accommodations afforded, and second, for the reason that Cortland is nearly in the center of the region in which the members live, and so the reunions are held here.
After a bountiful dinner had been served, to which the picnickers did justice, a short literary program was given. Miss Delphine Bates of Homer gave a very interesting account of her trip to the Pan-American exposition. Mrs. Belle Borthwick of Freetown gave a reading. Messrs. Henry and Edward Bates of Syracuse made opportune remarks. Miss Mina Bates of Cortland furnished a very interesting history of the Bates family.
The people who make up the party at the reunions are descendants of Lemuel Bates and Hepsibeth Bates White. Artemus Ward was a cousin of the members of the two families, so the Bates come honestly by the tendency to be Jokers, and this tendency was given full swing at the gathering yesterday. Two letters of regret were read from Mrs. M. A. Sawyer of Moravia and Mrs. Clinton Talmage of Willseyville. It was decided to hold the reunion next year at the park, at the regular time, the first Thursday in August.
The following officers were elected:
President—S. S. Bates, McLean.
First Vice President—Henry Bates, Cortland.
Second Vice-President— Horton Bates, Homer.
Secretary and Treasurer—Miss Mina Bates, Cortland.
Committee at Large—Mrs. Chas. White, Ithaca; Mrs. Dale, Ithaca; John Severance, Cortland; Martin Bates, Freetown; Frank Borthwick, Freetown; Mrs. Owen Brooks, Dryden; Edward Bates, Syracuse.
Literary committee—Mrs. Belle Borthwick, Freeville; Martha Bates, Freetown; Mrs. Ora Robson, Cortland; Mrs. James Severance, Cortland; Miss Delphine Bates, Homer; Mrs. M. A. Sawyer, Moravia; Rev. W. L. Bates, Dryden; A. Earl Bates, Cortland; Nellie Wiles, Delaware, O.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements today are—M. A. Case, Drygoods, page 6.
—There were seventy-five people busy all day yesterday at the canning factory, and only a beginning is being made upon the work of the season.
—The annual reunion of the Davis family will be held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Davis at Messengerville on Saturday, Aug. 17.
—Mr. Clarence J. Winter of Cortland, and Miss Grace Griffin of Homer were married last night by Rev. G. H. Brigham at his residence, 8 Charles-st., in Cortland.
—The Home Telephone Co., has now connected in operations more than 500 local telephones and has begun upon its sixth board, and this independent of all toll lines.
—Fifty young people in Binghamton yesterday took Normal school entrance examinations under the direction of Superintendent D. L. Bardwell. Some of them at least will probably enter the Cortland Normal in the fall.
—Two thieves stole thirty-six watches from a pawnbroker's in Syracuse yesterday. They were supposed to have passed through Cortland on a freight train last night and officers along the Lackawanna were requested to be on the lookout for them.
—The All-Cortland baseball team starts at 9:27 tomorrow morning for Lestershire to play the team of that place. Two cents rates have been secured for the team and those who wish to accompany it. It is said that over 2,000 tickets have been sold for the game.
—The second part of the old Dr. Hyde house on Tompkins-st. is now being moved further down the street to the Lester lot to make room for the new house Mr. F. J. Peck is soon to erect there. The little office so familiar to so many of the older residents who were patients of Dr. Hyde has been moved to the rear of the lot and will be retained by Mr. Peck for some use later on.
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