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Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, Aug. 8, 1901.
WORKING FOR PEACE.
Independent Influences Said to Be Sounding Morgan.
TRUST IS SCHOOLING WORKERS.
Strike Breakers to Be Trained In Distant Mill and Sent to Reopen Closed Plants. Schwab and Shaffer Say Neither Will Speak First.
NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—The Commercial Advertiser says: "As far as can be learned no communication has been received by J. P. Morgan & Co., or by any of the steel companies here, from the labor leaders since the conference of Saturday last.
"Peace, however, may not be far away after all. It is learned that independent influences are at work, which may surprise everybody within the next few days.
"Mr. Morgan will not say a word, but it is believed in some quarters that he has received important communications from persons strong enough, and independent enough to bring about a settlement before Shaffer's orders to strike takes effect. Those who know Mr. Morgan say that he will welcome any move that will hasten the end of the controversy, providing the fundamental objections he urged on Saturday last are respected.
"That something is being done in the direction of amity is apparent from the manner of the steel men here and the course of the steel stocks on the exchange."
PITTSBURG, Aug. 8.—In the big steel strike honors are easy in this section. The Amalgamated association succeeded in closing down the big steel plant at New Castle and the manufacturers partially broke the strike at the Clark mill in this city. Neither side is exulting, nor is there any expression of discouragement. Victory or defeat of either at this early stage of the warfare can have but little difference beyond indicating the probable line of battle to be pursued by each.
Up to this hour not the slightest trouble has occurred at any point in this immediate territory, and Amalgamated men are correspondingly happy, because this condition would seem to be the carrying out of the association's new departure in the handling of strikes. The quiet waiting of the strikers may be one of the surprises hinted at by the national officers. From one or two points the strikers are reported as restless and eager for action but, so far, have kept faith with their leaders and refrained from committing any breach of the peace.
Recorder A. M. Brown does not anticipate that there will be any disorder in Pittsburg owing to the steel strike. If there should be disorder, he says, it would be the duty of the bureau of police to suppress it, and arrest all who are concerned in it.
Recorder Brown incidentally remarked that there would be no discrimination between strikers and employers and that all are equal under the law and will be so treated.
The United States Steel corporation, it was learned from an official source, will at once proceed in a systematic manner to start its closed sheet mills, making the non-union plants of the Kiswiminetas valley the cradle where strike breakers will be trained and then sent to the mills that are closed.
Neither Will Speak First.
So far as President C. M. Schwab is concerned no overtures will be made by the Trust to the Workers. In a talk with a Pittsburg man in New York yesterday he said: "We have made our last proposition to the Amalgamated association and will proceed to start our works."
President Shaffer makes this counter-statement: "The next proposition must come from the United States Steel corporation officials."
Thus the two executives stand. It seems as if only outside efforts can bring them together.
The trust officials have decided to go ahead slowly in the matter of starting mills and to do so with as little publicity as possible.
The strongholds of the sheet company are the mills at Vandergrift, the largest in the country; Leechburg, Apollo and Scottdale. It has been decided to take as many skilled men away from these places as possible without retarding operations there and start the mills where there is the least danger of an outbreak. The places left vacant at the mills mentioned will be filled with men deserving of promotion, and they will be given better positions. This move will be undertaken slowly and with caution. The plan further contemplates that after a time many of the strikers will return when they see one after another of the closed mills resuming. This plan was tested the first few days of this week and found to be feasible so far as the mills at Hyde Park and Wellsville go, and it has been decided to adopt it so far as the sheet and hoop mills are concerned.
Plans for starting the closed tin plate mills have not been completed. In this branch the situation is different. The tin plate company have only six of their 232 roll trains going, while the sheet company have a few less than half.
The officials of the Amalgamated association say that this move in a measure will play into their hands. At McKeesport President Shaffer said that he himself would lead men from Vandergrift into the Wood mill. The officials feel that if they can get the Vandergrift men away from their environments little trouble will be found in bringing them into the association. In discussing the move, Assistant Secretary M. F. Tighe said:
"That effort will not extend very far, because there are only a few skilled men available and before enough can be trained to operate mills snow will fly pretty thick. A move of that kind might be attempted in Bessemer, or open hearth steel mills, but in a sheet mill, where the skill required is of the highest order, the plan cannot do anything but ultimately fail. A sort of a showing may be made for a time, but it will not last long."
Structural Iron Workers' Position.
The action of the structural iron workers in the present strike was tersely outlined by J. W. Bryale, secretary of the bridge and structural iron workers, who said: "There are no union mills making structural steel or iron and our men have been working the material furnished them and will continue to do so. If there was one union mill making the material used by us we would possibly act differently. I took this matter up with President Shaffer two years ago, but he did not see then of what benefit an alliance with our organization would be to the mill workers."
Secretary Joseph Bishop of the Ohio board of arbitration is in town and is visiting several of the combine officers, it is said in the interest of another conference. He refused to discuss his movements, saying he was here on other than the steel organization affairs.
The continuation of the strike and the fact that it is to be extended to greater proportion augmented the scramble that has been on in Pittsburg for two weeks to secure sheets and tin plates. A canvass of the jobbers developed that the supply of both sheets and tin plate is rapidly running behind the demand, especially in tin plate. The American Tin Plate company has not changed its quotation of $4.25 per box, but consumers have paid this week as high as $5.50 for boxes for immediate delivery. The combine price for sheets is $60 per ton, but $70 and $75 have been paid for sheets available at once. The independent mills are reaping a harvest. They are taking contracts at prices as high in some cases as $70 a ton for future delivery.
The sales department of the American Steel Sheet company has given notice to jobbers that it cannot take any orders for some time as the capacity of the operating sheet mills has been contracted for.
Advisory Board of All Trades.
One of the most interesting factors of the strike is beginning to develop. It was intimated that a plan is on foot for the formation of an advisory board for the purpose of aiding President Shaffer in carrying on the struggle, which will be composed of the presidents of the various trade organizations with headquarters in Pittsburg. This board would, it was argued, prove a powerful factor in carrying the weight of public opinion with the strike. No one in the offices of the trust seems to expect any settlement of the strike except by the destruction of the organization of the Amalgamated association in all trust mills.
The whole plan of campaign will be one of silence and no statement will be made by the officials of any kind. It is said that the officials have received assurances from many of the men that they will return at the proper time and they could start several of their mills if it was not for the desire on their part to avoid any open rupture or create riots or violence.
A rumor was current yesterday that President Shaffer was to leave Pittsburg on another mysterious trip east. President Shaffer denied this and said he would not go away, but would be in Pittsburg for the rest of this week. Tonight he will speak to the men in Lawrenceville and on Saturday he is billed to speak to the mass meeting at the Amalgamated picnic in McKeesport.
An unsuccessful attempt was made yesterday to start the eight-inch mill, the Lindsay and McCutcheon plant of the United States Steel corporation in Allegheny. Fires were lighted on Tuesday night, but not enough men appeared to run the mill. It is stated another attempt will be made to start the mill. The strikers seem indifferent and say the mill cannot be run successfully by the new men.
It is said that emissaries of the company are out trying to secure enough for two crews to start the Painter mill at an early date.
Secretary Williams yesterday explained the cause of delay in issuing the strike order. He said that if the order had been sent out when negotiations were broken off last Saturday the sudden closing of the steel mills would have resulted in serious loss of property to the United States Steel corporation..
"We would not have expected public sympathy," said he, "if we had done this. Instead we give the company sufficient notice to prepare for a shutdown, and if there is any loss incidental to the closing of the plants it will not be our fault. Of course the more radical people will criticize our action and allege that by not stopping the mills a week earlier we unnecessarily prolong the strike. This may be true, but we prefer to act honorably and by so doing can retain the public sympathy."
Big Strikers' Picnic Saturday.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 8.—A mass-meeting and picnic will be held at Phoenix park, near McKees Rocks, Saturday afternoon under the auspices of McKees Rocks lodge of the Amalgamated association. All the strikers from this city are expected to be present. The speakers will be Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor: Theodore Shaffer, president of the Amalgamated association, and Patrick Dolan, president of the Pittsburg district, United Mine Workers of America. At this meeting it is expected that Samuel Gompers will state just what support the American Federation of Labor will give to the striking steel workers, and Patrick Dolan will state the position of the miners.
MULLEN'S GREAT SLIDE.
He Was Playing Ball in His Sleep When He Dived Through the Window.
The Binghamton Republican of this morning says: Mickie Mullen, the State league pitcher was playing ball when he dived out of the fourth floor window at the Lewis House yesterday morning. The game as well as the opposing team was an imaginary one but never was there a game into which Mr. Mullen put more spirit than in the one yesterday morning. When Mullen let go those jubilant cries signalizing a victory, which awakened Pitcher Ging his roommate, he was sliding home but the plate was never reached, for Mullen landed four stories below on the sidewalk. It was the longest slide that Mullen ever took, but nevertheless the collar bone was the only bone broken and he is now resting quietly at City hospital and it is expected that he will recover.
Mullen was to have pitched the game at the Northside park on Tuesday against the Bingos. The rain interfered and while the players stayed around the hotel Tuesday afternoon Mullen was heard to say that he was sorry it was raining for he expected to win.
That night he went to bed rather early and was accompanied by Pitcher Ging, his roommate. They were soon asleep. Mullen is a somnambulist and his wife who was in the city yesterday said that on several occasions she had awakened in the night and found him walking about the room in his sleep.
It was about 2:50 o'clock yesterday morning when Ging was awakened by the shouts from Mullen. A second cry was given; such a cry as a man would give when exulting over a victory. By that time Ging was thoroughly awake and saw Mullen as he dived, hands extended in front of his head, through the window. Some of the glass was found later in the middle of the street.
Ging called Bert E. Gurnsey, the barber at the hotel, who slept in the next room and they went down stairs. Mullen had made a straight dive out of the window and with sufficient force to clear a chair in front of the window and to carry him over the railing three feet beyond the window and on the same level. He landed on the porch roof even with the third floor window and from there rolled off onto the sidewalk. His head lay on the walk and his body was in the gutter. He was unconscious and bleeding freely from the cuts on his head made by jumping through the window. After being taken into the hotel he regained consciousness.
Dr. Moore was called and he was taken to the City hospital. It was found that the collar bone was broken. He is badly bruised and unless he is injured internally he will soon recover. Mrs. Mullen who lives at Cortland was notified and was at the hospital yesterday afternoon.
THE CORTLAND POLICE BOARD
Holds Its Monthly Meeting and Transacts Routine Business.
The police board held its regular monthly meeting at the office of the city clerk last evening. A few bills were audited and the report of the chief of police for July was read and accepted. This was all the business that the board transacted. The bills [for the month] audited were:
Police payroll, $230.00
E. Barnes, disbursements, $3.29
Smith & Beaudry, supplies, $10.69
Chief Barnes' report for July showed that there had been twenty-six arrests made during the month, of which he had made sixteen, Night Captain Baker six, and Patrolmen Bowker and Townsend three and one respectively. Seventeen doors on Main-st. were found unlocked. The fines for the month aggregated $33.
ALL TRACTION ENGINES
Must Now Keep Off the Asphalt Pavement in Cortland.
An adjourned meeting of the common council of the city of Cortland was held at the office of the clerk of said city on the 7th day of August, 1901, at 8 o'clock P.M.
There were present Mayor Chas. F. Brown, Aldermen T. C. Scudder, R. S. Pettigrew and Vern W. Skeel.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. A bill from the Eureka Fire Hose Co. for $350 for hose purchased was approved and referred to the board of fire commissioners for payment.
Mayor Brown reported that the city attorney recommended the passage of the ordinance that was passed by the board of public works at its last meeting, prohibiting the running of traction engines over any of the streets that are paved with asphalt, and on motion of Mr. Scudder, seconded by Mr. Pettigrew, and declared carried:
Resolved, Be it enacted that from and after Aug. 7, 1901, any and all persons are prohibited from running, hauling or propelling any traction engine in or along any street paved with asphalt within the city of Cortland, N. Y. Any person violating this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to fine or imprisonment or both.
On motion, duly carried, the foregoing ordinance was directed to be published in the official papers in this city once a week for two successive weeks.
The minutes of the present meeting were read and approved. On motion, meeting adjourned.
Approved, August 7, 1901, CHAS. F. BROWN, Mayor.
GEORGE H. HART.
Tompkins County Man, Well Known in Cortland, Passes Away.
Mr. George H. Hart, a well known resident of Dryden, N. Y., died at his home in that village last night, aged 54 years. Death was due to a shock of apoplexy which he suffered Thursday night, Aug. 5. Friday morning he was found on the floor of his room in an unconscious condition. He regained consciousness after a time, but did not recover the power of speech, and gradually sank until death came. He leaves a wife and seven children, three sons and four daughters: Mrs. Jerry Hougland of Groton, Mrs. C. B. Peck of Cortland, Miss Mary Hart of McLean, Arthur Hart of Cortland, and Grover. D. W. [sic] and Mildred Hart of Dryden. He is also survived by one brother and two sisters: Mr. A. J. Hart, Mrs. Daniel Rowley and Mrs. Jerome Fitts of Mclean. Mr. Hart was well known throughout Tompkins county and surrounding sections and will be greatly missed.
The funeral will be held at his late home Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
DEATH OF MRS. METZGAR.
First Death in the Family in More Than Fifty-six Years.
Mrs. Clarissa M. Metzgar, wife of James Metzgar, died at her home in Freetown yesterday after a week's illness from heart difficulty, though she had been in failing health for a year past. Mrs. Metzgar, whose maiden name was Wildman, was born in Freetown 77 years ago and has always lived in that town. On Nov. 10, 1,842, she was married to James Metzgar of Freetown who survives her. There are four children also living and there has not been a death in the family in over 50 years. The children are Mrs. Lucetta Isaacs and Mrs. Arza Chapin of McGraw, Almeron H. Metzgar and Mrs. Harvey Z. Tuttle of Freetown. There are also two brothers and three sisters living; John Wildman of l.udlowville, Tompkins. Co., Mrs. David Rogers and Mrs. William Matteson of Andrews Settlement, Pa., Mrs. Edgar Matteson of Branchport, Yates Co., N. Y., and Rockwell Wildman of Cincinnatus. The funeral will be held at house Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and the services will be conducted by Rev. A. S. Anderson, pastor of the M. E. church, of which Mrs. Metzgar had been for many years a member. The burial will be at Freetown.
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| Glen Haven schoolhouse and library well preserved. |
THE GLEN HAVEN LIBRARY.
MONEY WANTED TO EQUIP THE NEW BUILDING.
Old Friends of the Glen and Visitors There Are Appealed to for Assistance—A Worthy Object, Which Should Find Friends in Cortland.
Miss Anna R. Phelps, formerly of Syracuse, a Vassar graduate and a successful teacher, who has just completed a course in the Library Training school at Albany, has been a visitor at Glen Haven for a number of summers, and some years since became much interested in the establishment of a public library in the school district at the head of the lake. Largely through her efforts, aided by the contributions of friends and acquaintances, an excellent selection of books has been available to the district for the last eight years. It has from the outset proven a valuable educational influence to the surrounding country, as well as a source of refined pleasure; and in summer, when least used by residents of the district, it has contributed largely to the enjoyment of visitors at the Glen. It outgrew its accommodations in the little schoolhouse, and then Miss Phelps addressed herself to the work of securing the erection of a new and larger building. In this she has also been successful. How it was accomplished can best be told in her own words, as published in the Syracuse Post-Standard. And these words also make the best presentation of the remaining needs of the library. Several former residents of Cortland have aided Miss Phelps in her work, and she hopes for further assistance from residents of this city and county, as the school district in which this library is located lies partly within our county limits. Contributions may be addressed to her at the Glen Haven hotel, Glen Haven, N. Y.
Miss Phelps says in the Post-Standard:
"The attention of your readers has been called recently to the declaration of principles of the National Educational association, adopted in Detroit at its fortieth annual convention.
"One of its recommendations is of especial interest to those of us who see in the rural district school new possibilities for serving the isolated residents in many a remote hamlet.
"'The public school,' it asserts, 'should be the center of the educational life of the community in which it is located. Especially should this be true in rural districts. There should be found the public library for the use of all; here may literary and social meetings be held which help to uplift the mental, social and spiritual life of the people.'
"In one country school district, well known to many Syracusans, including in its area parts of three counties, of which Onondaga is one, the experiment has already been tried of putting the school and the public library under the same roof. The school is here, the one building used for all purposes of assembly. Until recently it served as church, as public hall, as place for general social gatherings, and here a public library has been maintained and greatly appreciated for the past eight years.
"A few years ago it was suggested to the district, by some interested to improve the condition of both the school and the library, that they determine how much they could contribute toward a new building that should meet the needs of both these educational agents.
"The taxpayers fixed upon the sum of $400 and agreed by vote to raise it this year. Their friends have done the rest. A building to cost $1,500 is now being erected on the school grounds. The old schoolhouse has been removed and will be converted into a church, and we are awaiting eagerly the day when the books may be set up in the new book room and the whole building may enter upon an era of usefulness such as was not possible in the little cramped single room of the old house.
"To many of your readers Skaneateles lake means much in the way of bodily refreshment and comfort. To them as well as to those who know the actual conditions at the head, where this new building is situated, and who can recall happy hours spent amid its charms, an opportunity is being offered to help make this praiseworthy undertaking more completely successful.
"A supplementary fund for properly furnishing the building and replacing worn-out books is very much needed, and an effort is being made by the board of trustees to secure enough to enable them to see the building completely equipped for the purposes it is designed to serve.
"They will be glad to receive any contributions that friends and well-wishers may feel disposed to offer them."
BREVITIES.
—Moving pictures at the park tonight.
—Cortland tent of Maccabees will run an excursion to Auburn on Wednesday, Aug. 21.
—The fourth annual reunion of the Fox family will be held at Cortland park, Aug. 15. All relatives invited.
—A regular meeting of Canton Cortland will be held this evening at 8 o'clock. A full attendance is desired.
—The West End Terriers defeated the Dryden baseball team yesterday in a ten inning game, by the score of 12 and 11.
—New display advertisements today are—C. F. Brown, ice cream soda, page 4; McKinney & Doubleday, Bicycles, page 4.
—Mr. S. Earl enters the ranks of the competitors for tall corn. His Ninety Day Monarch corn now measures 12 feet and 3 inches.
—Rev. W. M. Vines of Asheville, N. C., will preach at the First Baptist church next Sunday morning and at the union service there in the evening.
—The case of Martin H. Wiles, who is charged with stealing a wagon from James H. Johnson over a year ago, was adjourned till Tuesday morning, Aug. 20, at which time a jury trial will be given.
—The twenty-sixth annual picnic and reunion of the Hammond family will be held Friday, Aug. 23, at the Cortland park. All relatives and friends are invited.
—Teendese Tribe, No. 415, Improved Order of Rod Men, will hold a smoker Thursday evening, Aug. 8, at 8 o'clock. All members are requested to be present. The rooms are at 14 Orchard-st., second floor.
—Peter Higgins, who was arrested for public intoxication by Night Captain Baker last night, was given five days in county jail by City Judge Davis this morning. Higgins claimed to be from New York.
—The pay checks on the Lehigh Valley railroad, recently received by the men, differ materially in form and appearance from those formerly used, and are void if not presented for payment within sixty days.
—Rev. Dr. Charles E. Hamilton of Rochester, formerly pastor of the Homer-ave. M. E. church of Cortland, will preach at the M. E. church in Homer on Sunday morning, Aug. 18, for his father Rev. Dr. B. W. Hamilton, who is the pastor of that church.
—Pupils of the primary and the intermediate departments of the Normal school may secure free admission tickets for the public school day at the county fair, Aug. 28, by applying to Commissioner McEvoy in the Normal building tomorrow (Friday) afternoon.
—The Patrons of Husbandry have an excursion to Ross park, Binghamton on Wednesday, Aug. 21. The special train will start from Apulia. Fare from Cortland 75 cents. Arrangements are made to accommodate people along the line of the Lehigh Valley and E. & C. N. Y. railroads. Further particulars latter.
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