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| Shamrock II. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, Sept. 6, 1901.
BIG BET ON CUP RACE.
PITTSBURG MILLIONAIRES PUT UP $250,000 AGAINST $150,000.
Odds of 3 to 5 Demanded by Englishman--Hackensack Meadows to be Reclaimed—Young Lady Hiccoughing to Death in a Hospital—Infuriated Tenants—Farmer Met a Bunco Sharp.
New York, Sept. 3.—On Friday last $150,000 in English gold was wagered against $250,000 in American money that Shamrock II will "lift the cup" and win the blue ribbon of the sea. Walter J. Kingsley, an English newspaper man, takes the British end as the representative of a syndicate of Englishmen. The men who back Constitution against the Lipton flyer at odds of 3 to 5 are W. J. Mustin, President of the Pittsburg Exchange, and several other Pittsburg millionaires. The details of the colossal wager were practically arranged on board the Hamburg-American liner Deutschland that landed her passengers in this city Thursday morning. Mr. Kingsley and the Pittsburg millionaires were the fellow passengers. No sooner had the news of the young Englishman's financial mission leaked out than the patriotic capitalists from the Smoky City offered to cover the whole British syndicate fund of $150,000 at the prevailing odds. Great was Mr. Kingsley's surprise. He had looked for considerable difficulty in placing all the money.
◘ Confirmation of a recent announcement that capitalists are about to develop the great Hackensack meadows by the establishment of a large shipbuilding plant, immense docks and possibly a belt-line railroad, which will connect with all the trunk lines now entering Jersey City and Hoboken, was furnished yesterday when a mortgage for $7,500,000 by the Bethlehem Steel company was filed with the Register of Hudson county, N. J.
The securities deposited under the mortgage include 5,555 acres of land on the Hackensack meadows. An important feature of the big Anglo-American steel deal is thus brought to light.
The prime mover in the scheme is reported to be J. Pierpont Morgan. The railroads in which Mr. Morgan is interested, including the Jersey Central, Reading and Erie, will before long want a large amount of terminal property near Jersey City, and the Hackensack meadow lands will meet the requirements. Should these roads desire to build more grain elevators the meadow lands will be cheaper for this purpose than land along the North River.
◘ A young lady named Goldstein is hiccoughing to death in St. Mary's hospital. Over a week ago she was taken to the hospital, and since that time she has been racked by convulsions. The case perplexes the doctors. From a vigorous young woman she has become a mere skeleton. The hospital physicians attribute the spasms to fright. Sleeping draughts were administered, but even in sleep the hiccoughing continued. Yesterday she was so weak that she could hardly lift her head. The physicians say she may fall into a slumber from which she will awaken cured of the mysterious malady. Should the hiccoughing continue much longer they say she must die.
◘ Infuriated by what they believed to be an attempt at arson which threatened to destroy the block in which they live, the tenants of flats on East 109 street in this city attacked Herman Jonas, a real estate dealer, and it was with some difficulty he was saved by the police from serious consequences. He was arrested. The tenants say that they found fire in the apartment occupied by Jonas in the five-story building in which they live. When the fire was discovered the tenants streamed out in all sorts of dishabille. Then the report was spread that Jonas had set fire to the house, the attack followed and Jonas was badly beaten before the police came to his rescue.
◘ The enormous scale on which business is being done here in almost every line is illustrated by the fact that a single construction company which, by the way, pays a seven per cent dividend on a big capital, now has on hand contracts covering constructions which will aggregate thirty millions of dollars. This is the company which is preparing for the erection of the big hotel at Fourth avenue and Forty-second street.
◘ An honest old farmer from Indiana was fleeced out of $70 last week by the old method of bunco. He and wife had been spending some days in the city, and when about to depart for his home the farmer fell into the hands of two or three young sharps, who fleeced him out of $70. It is the same old story.
Fun That is Costly.
Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock II is a fair specimen of what it costs the wealthy sportsmen to furnish amusement for people, not to speak of their own profit.
The expense of getting up a racing machine is hardly conceivable to the man of small means. Without a doubt $150,000 were spent on the Columbia in 1899, and it costs $50,000 to carry her through the season.
The great designers are not unlike those who build ships for the government. They charge several thousand dollars, it is said, for each minute of speed over the recorded speed of the racer's predecessor.
Following these deductions the Constitution has unquestionably cost not a cent less than $200,000 to build. She has a large tender, the steamboat Mount Hope, and a crew of sixty-eight men. She has three or four suits of sails, extra spar and the like, and she will go into dry dock before the cup races. Outside of the $200,000 spent on her construction she will probably cost the Belmont syndicate about $80,000.
It also costs a small fortune to man a racer. The Columbia has carried as trial horse a crew of forty men, each of whom will receive $35 a month in wages. That makes $2,200 a month, $11,000 for the five months she will be in commission. The wages of Captain Barr and the first and second mates will aggregate for those five months $6,000; the tender will cost $7,500. Uniforms for the men have already resulted in an expenditure of $1,000, and there is the cost of feeding them to be considered. This makes $25,000, and her sails and spars and overhauling and other particulars will easily cost another $25,000. It will thus be seen that, all in all, $350,000 is a conservative estimate of the cost of defending the cup this year.
What the two Shamrocks have cost no man knows but Sir Thomas Lipton and his associates in the business of cup-lifting. It is plain, at any rate, that only men of enormous ready assets can support this fun. But there is no telling how much satisfaction, glory and profit there may be in it, especially if Sir Thomas succeeds in lifting the cup.
[Gold cost $20/oz. in 1901—CC editor.]
EMPIRE CORSET CO.
A NEW INDUSTRY TO BE LOCATED AT MCGRAWVILLE.
Composed of Experienced Men and Backed by Ample Capital—Work Will Soon Begin on Erection of New Buildings—All to be Complete and Ready for Business Before January 1 Next.
The Empire Corset company has lately been organized and they will be located in McGrawville, N. Y., where corsets will be manufactured on a large scale.
At the head of the new company are W. J. Buchanan, present foreman of the McGraw factory, H. E. Alexander, book-keeper, and H. C. Chaffee, billing clerk of that factory and some other gentlemen. The new company is backed by large capital and they propose to be ready for business before the first of next January.
The plans for the large new buildings necessary are in the hands of the contractor and work will be begun within a week or two.
McGrawville is to be congratulated that the new enterprise is to be located there for, with so old and thorough a corset man at the head of it as Mr. Buchanan, who has been in the business for years, and with the excellent business men associated with him, the concern is bound to be a success.
P. C. WHEELER, POSTMASTER AT CINCINNATUS, N. Y..
Philo C. Wheeler, whose portrait appears above, is one of Cincinnatus' most prominent business men and postmaster of the town, which appointment he received in 1897. He was born in the town of Pharsalia in 1852, and received his education in the district schools of his native town, and at Cincinnatus academy. In 1882 he removed to Cincinnatus and the following year purchased F. C. Lewis' interest in the general store of Kingman & Lewis.
In 1893 Mr. Kingman retired from business and the firm became Wheeler & Baldwin, N. J. Baldwin purchasing Mr. Kingman's interest. This firm conducted the business for four years, when Mr. Baldwin retired on account of poor health, selling to his brother, A. Ray Baldwin. This firm has since conducted the business and is now probably enjoying the largest trade of any general store in the Otselic valley.
Mr. Wheeler married Miss Hattie A. Bolster of German, and to them have been born two children, a daughter, who is the wife of Mr. Wheeler's partner in business, and a son.
Mr. Wheeler is treasurer of the school district, and has at all times taken a lively interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare of Cincinnatus.
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.
News Gathered and Condensed From Our Wide-Awake Exchanges.
Lyons has contracted for coal to heat the union school at $3.64 per ton.
Six wooden-legged men had a reunion in Oneida the other evening.
The Sidney Novelty company is to move its plant to Earlville. It will employ about forty men.
It seems to be settled that Binghamton will not get the Lackawanna car shops, but that they will remain in Scranton.
The Phelps Citizen says that produce dealers paid as high as $20 per ton for cabbage recently, but that they are now offering only $10.
The Binghamton board of education reports the average cost per pupil last year at $22.72. At the High school the average cost per student was $41.72.
A pet cat in the Butterfield House, Utica, is bringing up two rats in her basket behind the bar. She is fond of them and seldom leaves the basket except for food.
A Hancock man was lodged in jail on a charge of non-support preferred by his wife, although he declared his willingness to support her but not her mother's family of seven.
The bodies of three Indians were unearthed near Owego a few days since. The only trinket of Indian manufacture found was the bowl of a pipe in which the odor of tobacco still remained.
A dentist in Bath has gained a somewhat enviable reputation among members of his profession by a recent operation in which by pulling a tooth the hearing of his patient was restored.
At the outlet of Otsego Lake a big boulder marks the spot where Gen. Clinton built a dam in revolutionary days and then sailed his army down the river in the flood of water caused by opening the dam. Otsego Chapter, D. A. R., has succeeded in securing, to be placed on the boulder, a ten-inch siege mortar thirty inches long and weighing 1,971 pounds.
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| Charles Rufus Skinner. |
Supt. Skinner on Schools.
State Superintendent of Schools Charles Skinner has made a statement on the present school system which will be endorsed by every parent. "I am fully convinced," he says, ''that the most urgent need of our public school system today is more thorough work in elementary subjects, such as language, arithmetic, history and geography. The truth must be faced that these subjects are neglected in the everlasting and never-ceasing pushing of a child into higher grades. This is most convincingly demonstrated by the result of the examinations which this department holds for various purposes every year. These examinations are of varied enough degree and uniform enough in results to prove that the defects are not local, but general; that they are confined to no class of schools, but affect all, and must be incident to the system. In the examinations for teachers' certificates, bad grammar, worse spelling, and a careless knowledge of history abound. This recurring result proves beyond question that proper drill in these subjects is lacking in elementary and secondary schools. The craze for enriched curriculums is indulged in at the expense of essential drill in the so-called common branches.''
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| Gen. Grant (center) and staff. |
HOW GRANT LOST HIS "HIRAM."
It Was a Friend's Mistake that Deprived Him Forever of His Real Name.
Not many Americans know that Hiram U. Grant was the eighteenth President of the United States. Yes, it is true, for "Ulysses Simpson" was never legally the name of our greatest General. This interesting fact is brought out by Franklin B. Wiley in The Ladies' Home Journal for September, in "Famous People as We Do Not Know Them." The story of how it came about was told by a member of Congress —Thomas L. Hamer—who recommended young Grant as a candidate for West Point in 1839. Mr. Hamer had long been a friend of the Grants, but when he came to make out the application papers for Ulysses he could not recall the boy's full name. So, deciding that he was doubtless named for his mother's family, he wrote it "Ulysses Simpson Grant." Thus it was recorded at West Point, and though the attention of the officials was several times called to the error they did not feel authorized to correct it. This name was gradually adopted, and by it Grant was, and always will be known. But as for any record of the birth of "Ulysses Simpson Grant," that does not exist.
HERE AND THERE.
Ithaca band tomorrow afternoon and evening and Sunday afternoon.
It is rumored that the H. M. Whitney wagon shops will be re-opened in the near future.
One-half of the red store started yesterday on the way to its destination on Port Watson-st.
For the first time in its history, Venette-st. is rejoicing over an electric light, turned on Monday evening.
The Misses Wells entertained a company of ladies at tea Wednesday evening in honor of Miss Julia Sugerman of New York.
Wm. F. Hoar and Fred Ritter have formed a partnership in the barbering business, and will occupy Mr. Hoar's former location in the Standard block.
Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Norris gave a progressive whist party Monday evening, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Call, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. George Blanchard of New York City.
The annual harvest festival of the Salvation Army will be held Sept. 21 to 24. It is proposed to have a sale of produce on Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 21 and 24. Donations of vegetables, wearing apparel, furniture, etc., will be thankfully received at headquarters in Port Watson-st.
Yesterday morning at 7 o'clock Miss Eunice Taylor, a Normal student who boards at the home of Chas. Allen on Elm-st. was operated upon for appendicitis at the hospital. The operation was performed by Dr. Sornberger, assisted by Drs. Higgins and Carpenter. The patient is doing well.
The drawing of children for the kindergarten class in the Normal school for the coming term will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 10, at the rooms in the Normal building. All those who desire to have the names of their children among those to be drawn should send them either to Dr. F. J. Cheney or to Miss Lillie H. Stone, before that date.
''Thelma," Mr. Chas. W. Chase's dramatization of Marie Corelli's well-known novel of the same name will be presented by Aiden Benedict's company at Cortland Opera House this evening. ''Thelma'' far surpasses any of Mr. Benedict's successes. The scenery and electrical effects are wonderful, and nothing like them has ever before been produced upon any stage. Prices 35, 50 and 75 cents. Sale at usual place, Wednesday at 9 a. m.
The Cortland County Traction Co., in recognition of the flattering favor in which the Ithaca band, under Mr. Conway, was received at their appearance on August 1, have at great expense arranged to again bring the band to Cortland Park on Saturday and Sunday, September 7 and 8, for a series of three concerts. There will be two concerts on Saturday, September 7, at 3 and 8 p. m., and a grand sacred concert on Sunday, September 8 at 4 p. m. The same band that appeared at the previous concert will again appear at these concerts. The concerts will be absolutely free. Mr. Conway will give an entirely new program at each concert. The sacred concert on Sunday will include some of the grandest selections from the great religious compositions of the masters.
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