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| William McKinley. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, Sept. 5, 1901.
MCKINLEY AT PAN-AM.
President's Day at Exposition a Great Event.
IMMENSE CROWD IS ON HAND.
Chief Magistrate of the Nation, Attended By a Majority of the Diplomatic Corps, Tendered a Royal Welcome—Delivered Address and Reviewed Troops.
BUFFALO, Sept 5.—Glorious weather, "President's weather," ushered in the crowning event of the Pan-American exposition today. It is President's day and the tremendous crowd which began pouring into the grounds as soon as the gates were opened attested the drawing powers of the chief magistrate.
The president arrived by special train from Canton, O., at 8 o'clock last night. The train was switched to the Belt Line tracks and landed President McKinley and party at the north gate of the exposition. Accompanied by the escort of exposition officials, which had met them at Dunkirk, the presidential party, consisting of the president, Mrs. McKinley, the president's nieces, Misses Ida and Mary Barber and Miss Sarah Duncan, Secretary Cortelou, Dr. Rixey, two executive stenographers, and a nurse and maid for Mrs. McKinley, entered the waiting carriages and were driven through the exposition grounds, and to the home of Hon. John G. Milburn, president of the exposition. Here the president spent a quiet evening. Mrs. McKinley was somewhat fatigued from the journey and retired early.
This morning the marching of troops told of the coming events. At 10 o'clock the president and Mr. Milburn, with members of the party in carriages, all escorted by a troop of mounted police and a platoon of the Twenty-fourth Signal corps under command of Lieutenant Colonel Chapin, proceeded to the Lincoln Parkway gate. Here the Sixty-fifth and Seventy-fourth regiments of the National Guard, the United States Marine corps, the United States Seacoast artillery, the Fourteenth United States infantry and the Corcoran Cadets were drawn up in line ready to receive the president.
As the president's carriage entered the grounds a salute of 21 guns was fired. The column, under command of General Samuel M. Welch, proceeded through the grounds to the esplanade, now a sea of humanity, packed in a solid mass both ways from the Triumphal bridge to the electric tower.
It was 10:35 when the president reached the stand. The United States Marine band played "Hail to the Chief" and the president began his address. He was received with tumultuous cheering and waving of flags and handkerchiefs.
To the president's right were seated the representatives of many foreign countries, headed by the venerable Spanish ambassador, the Duke of Arcos, the most brilliant company ever seen outside of Washington. Besides the Spanish ambassador there were present the Japanese minister, Kogoro Takahira, and the chancellor of legation, Mr. Hyami; the Corean minister, Min Hui Cho and his second secretary of legation, Sin Teh Moo; the Mexican ambassador, Senor Aspiroz and his son, and Captain Barron, the third secretary of the embassy; the Ecuadorian minister, Mr. Carbo; the Chinese minister, Mr. Wu, and Mr. Chung, the secretary-interpreter, and Mr. Ou, the Chinese second secretary of legation; Minister Calvo of Costa Rica and his two sons; the Peruvian minister, Mr. Calderon, and Mr. Pulido, the Venezuelan charge d'affaires.
The president congratulated the exposition in his address on its splendor and glory and spoke earnestly of the cementing of friendship between the United States and Latin America.
After the address the president was escorted to the Stadium, where he reviewed the column of troops. Here there was another crush. The crowd from the Esplanade poured into the entrances, to find thousands who, despairing of getting close enough to the stand to hear the president, had already filled the great amphitheater. The guards fairly fought their way out when the review was over and the president, under the guidance of Marshal Babcock, left the Stadium.
He went first to the Canada building and after inspecting the exhibits there visited the Agricultural building, which had been roped off and cleared for the occasion. President McKinley then called upon the commissions from Honduras, Cuba, Chile, Mexico, Porto Rico and Ecuador in the buildings erected by these countries.
Luncheon was had at the New York state building. The entire state commission, headed by President Daniel N. Lockwood, met the president and he presided at the luncheon. Two hundred guests sat down with the president.
This afternoon Mr. McKinley will inspect thoroughly the government exhibits. The Government building will be closed to the crowd while the president inspects the excellent work of his staff.
Tonight the president will witness the fireworks from a specially constructed stand. Previous to this he will witness the crowning glory of the exposition, the illumination, from the Triumphal Causeway.
The diplomatic train from Washington reached Buffalo at 8 o'clock last night. Members of the corps were met by reception committees and escorted to their hotels, the guests of the exposition. The military arrangements were perfect and the Twenty-fourth Signal corps was most efficient.
Every provision was made for the care and comfort of Mrs. McKinley. Mr. Harry Hamlin and Mrs. John Miller Horton and a committee of the board of women managers saw that the wife of the president was given an opportunity to enjoy this visit to the exposition.
While the president was being lunched at the New York state building the board of women managers were giving a luncheon at the women's building in honor of Mrs. McKinley.
Tomorrow the president will visit Niagara Falls and will return in ample time to give the public an opportunity of attending a public reception to be held in the Temple of Music at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
President and Mrs. McKinley will return to Canton on Saturday morning, leaving at 9 o'clock.
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| Charles M. Schwab. |
ONLY ONE SOLUTION.
Strike Can Be Settled Only On Steel Trust's Terms.
PEACE CONFERENCE THAT FAILED.
Steel Corporation Resubmitted Its Terms and Strikers Must Take the Initiative in Any Further Action Toward Peace—Uneasiness in the Ranks.
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.—Terms of peace in the steed strike were discussed at length yesterday at a secret conference in which sat officials of the United States Steel corporation, leaders of union labor and representatives of civic organizations which have intervened. Unusual safeguards of secrecy were resorted to in order to preserve the privacy of the proceedings, but it was evident that no conclusion was reached and that the decision either to terminate or continue the strike must be made by the strikers.
The nature of the agency from the Amalgamated association held by the labor leaders who participated in the discussion is not known, but it is believed they possessed at least an outline of the terms from President Shaffer and that they will place before him and his associates the terms resubmitted by President Schwab of the United States Steel corporation. It was also apparent at the conclusion of the discussion that it is not to be resumed or if any further action toward peace is taken that the strikers must take the initiative.
The labor leaders were in communication with Pittsburg during the day and it was anticipated that they would further discuss the subject with the Amalgamated men before they proceeded any further with the peace plan.
The participants in the conference were President C. M. Schwab of the United States Steel corporation; President W. E . Cory of the Carnegie Steel company; Veryl Preston of the United States Steel corporation; President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor; President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers' association; Secretary Harry White of the Garment Makers' association; Professor Jenks of the industrial commission and Ralph M. Easly, secretary of the National Civic Federation.
Several officials of the companies controlled by the United States Steel corporation were called to the conference chamber during the day.
The conference was asked for in behalf of President Gompers and President Mitchell, and the request reached President Schwab early yesterday. He made favorable reply at once and at 12:15 o'clock the two labor leaders, accompanied by the other intermediaries who had participated in the Pittsburg meetings of last week, reached the office of the United States Steel corporation. The session lasted continuously for more than six hours. No statement as to the proceedings was made by any of the participants.
President Gompers said later that he would be in New York today and that statement was taken as an indication that he has not given up his effort to effect a settlement.
One of the steel officials made this brief statement: "Nothing was accomplished by the conference. The strike is just in the same position as before it was held. Future action is with the strikers. I do not know of anything that is to be done. The steel corporation has restated its position and the men themselves must elect what they will do."
It is said that Charles M. Schwab's proposal to the strikers was that the company shall retain as "open" mills all those which it has succeeded in starting and operating since the strike was declared off. All mills which the strikers have kept closed Mr. Schwab agrees shall remain union mills.
A Roosevelt Boom.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—The political gossips in Washington are paying unusual attention to the Roosevelt boom just now, interest having been awakened by the cordial reception which the vice-president received in the West. It is firmly believed that Col. Roosevelt will be the choice of the Illinois people for president in 1904.
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| D. L. & W. Freight and Passenger Depot, Cortland, N. Y. |
WORK PROGRESSING
On The New D., L. & W. Freight Depot.
The work of completing the foundation walls for the new D., L. & W. freight house is being rapidly carried on, and two or three more days will serve to complete that part of the work. The brick work would have been started at the north end of the building before this time if a delay in getting the brick from the yards at Horseheads, N. Y., had not been experienced.
The back part of the main building, which is being moved by Ryan & Hall to Port Watson-st., Cortland, was started this morning. The smaller buildings are already placed at their new location, and the firm is doing business right along.
POLICE COMMISSIONERS
No Appointment Made at Last Night's Meeting.
The board of police commissioners met last night, but did not appoint a policeman to fill the vacancy on the force, as the civil service commission had not made out a list of eligible candidates to present to the board.
City Judge R. L. Davis came before the board and asked that the responsibility for the janitor work at Fireman's hall, in which city court is held, be fixed.
The police board thought that an arrangement had been made with the fire board by which the janitor of the fire building was to clean the room referred to, and it was thought that matters could be adjusted so that the building would be cleaned.
The report of Chief Barnes showed that during the month of August thirty-three arrests were made and that $37.45 in fines had been collected. The [monthly] salaries of the members of police force were audited as follows:
E. Barnes, $65
Day Baker, $55
E. Townsend, $55
F. Bowker, $55
The meeting was adjourned till Wednesday evening, Sept. 11.
AS IN ANCIENT GREECE.
Picturesque Hillside Celebration of Greek Festival and Dance.
In accordance with their national custom of celebrating at this season of the year the annual holiday in harmony with the Greek Legion, a party of nearly twenty Greeks and their friends journeyed yesterday afternoon to a quiet and entirely fitting spot just over the brow of the hill, back of the wire mills, and just in the edge of the big Randall woods. Here the party roasted a lamb as is done on such occasion in the mountains of their mother country, and then the same was feasted upon by the party, which sat in a circle about the table of green boughs upon which the lamb was served whole.
After this spread the party indulged in ancient games, and the old Greek dance in exact imitation of the festive days in Greece. Away over the hill and out of sight of all civilization these sights looked strangely grotesque and apparently real for one of the party remarked while the dance was at its height that it seemed to him that he was again in dear old Greece. The sports were entered into with a spirit of rivalry that brought out some excellent results, but athletic George Connellus of Cortland was unquestionably the champion. His broad jump of 19 feet was a special feature.
The old time dance to the strange weird music was of much interest to the onlookers. This dance is the dance of the mountaineers of Greece, and it is one that has been common to them for centuries. The Greeks gave it yesterday just as they had been wont to do at home and as they had seen their fathers do it. A circle was formed, but not connected, leaving a head dancer. This one led the dance till the tune changed, and then went to the foot, leaving another to take the lead. Even the ancient form of paying the musician was observed, and it looked queer indeed to see occasionally one of the party break away from the circle and place a crisp bill under the band of the musician's hat, as an especial favorite or a near relative of the donor took the lead in the dance. When the dance had been concluded there were bank notes of various denominations sticking out from under the musicians hat and dangling around his face.
Their musicians never have a stated price, but are paid in the manner described.
The banquet and merry making of yesterday afternoon were given by Mr. Peter Zaharis to his countrymen and friends in honor of his guests Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vambel of Buffalo, a newly wedded Hellenes couple. Strange to say all the Greek boys present were either brothers or cousins and all came from the same town, Tsintsina, Greece.
Some of Mr. Zaharis' guests yesterday were: Mr. and Mrs. Vamble of Buffalo, S. P. and Paul Chacona of Ithaca, John and Harry Cannellos of Geneva, George Cannellos, Spears and James Conomakeis and James Zaharis of Cortland.
BALDWIN-SLATER.
A Pretty September Wedding at East River.
A very pretty wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Slater of East River Wednesday, Sept. 4, when their daughter, Lula E., was united in marriage with Mr. Ralph C. Baldwin of North Pitcher. The ceremony was performed at high noon by the Rev. Geo. H. Brigham of Cortland, under a horseshoe of myrtle and snowballs.
The bride was attired in pink organdie over white lawn, trimmed with lace and [she] carried a bouquet of white asters. The bridesmaid was Miss Ethel Slater, a sister of the bride, who wore a dress of pink lawn, with white trimmings and carried a bouquet of sweet peas. Mr. Thomas Walker of Solon was best man. An elaborate wedding dinner was served after the ceremony.
About 4 o'clock the happy pair left amid a shower of rice in a carriage with appropriate decorations. The presents were beautiful and useful including money, silverware, etc. Those present numbered about seventy and included:
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baldwin, father and mother of the groom, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Fairbanks of North Pitcher, Mr. and Mrs. George Baldwin and daughter Ruth of Delphi, Mr. and Mrs. Elwin Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baldwin and children Neal and Nina, Mrs. E. A. Chubb and son Arthur, Miss Etta Slater, Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Knapp and son Willis and Rev. and Mrs. Geo. H. Brigham of Cortland. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Edsell and Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Oaks and daughter Cecil of Virgil, Mr. and Mrs. Damon Davenport and children, Harry and Eva of Preble, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Slater and daughter Freda and Mrs. Lafe Rose of East Homer, Mr. Thomas Walker of Solon, Mrs. Olive Sheldon and Mr. Leonard Sheldon of Dryden, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stevens, Mr. Floyd Curtis and Miss Addie Curtis of Lincklaen.
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| George Jean Mager. |
MAGER-POWERS.
A Well Known Cortland Man Married at Norwalk, O.
The Norwalk, (Ohio) Daily Reflector of Monday, Sept. 2, contains the following which will be of interest to Cortland readers:
A very quiet and unostentatious wedding took place in this city at high noon today, when two prominent non-resident persons were united in the bonds of holy matrimony according to the ritual of the Protestant Episcopal church. The contracting parties were Mrs. Jennie Weed Powers of Waterloo, Ia., a niece of Mrs. E. Peters of 45 West Main-st., and Mr. George J. Mager, a prominent resident of Cortland, N. Y., and a president of the Second National bank of that city.
The ceremony was performed in St. Paul's Episcopal church by the rector, Rev. C. S. Aves. The bride was given away by her cousin. Mr. Willis H. Peters. Only personal friends and near relatives were admitted to the church edifice. The happy couple left on the 1:46 o'clock P. M. train for Toledo and northern Michigan and from thence by lake to Buffalo and the Thousand Islands to pass a few days fishing and sight-seeing before returning to their home in Cortland.
Mrs. Mager is not a total stranger in Cortland and is quite well known in Homer, having lived in that place with Mrs. Kneeland nearly two years, nursing her during her last illness. She is a niece of the late Hon A. J. Kneeland of Homer, and has during her life been a resident of Ohio, Iowa, and California before coming to Homer.
RECEPTION AND TEA
Given by Mrs. J. E. Eggleston at Her Home Tuesday Afternoon.
Mrs. J. E. Eggleston gave a very delightful reception and tea to a large number of friends from 3 to 6 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at her home, 144 Clinton-ave., in honor of Mrs. A. O. Bliss and Miss Bliss of Washington, D. C. Mrs. Eggleston was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Helen J. Moore, Mrs. Arthur D. Kinne of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Chas. Francis Dell of Syracuse. The other unbonnetted ladies were: Mrs. D. W. Van Hoesen, Mrs. W. A. Stockwell, Mrs. Ezra Corwin, Mrs. George C. Hubbard.
The dining room and ice room were very prettily decorated, the prevailing color being yellow. The dining room was in charge of Mrs. N. H. Waters, and she was assisted by Miss Grace A. Dunbar, Miss Maude A. Kinney, Miss Louise Wallace, Miss Frances Pierce of Homer, Jessie Pauline Dexter of Philadelphia, Aria Hubbard and Anna H. Saunders.
Misses Florence Hubbard and Sarah Sherwood were flower girls.
After the tea an elaborate supper was served, to which a number of gentlemen, the husbands and friends of the ladies who assisted during the afternoon, were invited.
Darby's orchestra furnished music throughout the afternoon and evening.
BREVITIES.
—The choir of Grace church will meet for rehearsal tonight at 7:30 o'clock.
—New display advertisements today are—C. F. Brown, Paints, page 7; Opera House, Klark-Scoville Co., page 5.
—Cortland Commandery, No. 50, K. T., will confer the order of Red Cross tonight after which a banquet will be served.
—A regular meeting of Cortland lodge, No. 351, A. O. U. W., will be held Friday evening in their lodge room at 8 o'clock. Several candidates are to be initiated. A large attendance is desired.
—The choir of St. Mary's church are requested to meet for rehearsal tonight at 8 o'clock. High mass, Sunday-school and vespers will be resumed next Sunday afternoon after the usual vacation.
—Invitations have been issued by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred H. Winchell for the wedding of their daughter, Miss Anna E. Winchell, to Mr. George Henry Garrison, to take place at the Congregational church in this city, Sept. 18, 1901, at 8 o'clock P. M.
—The members of the chorus choir of the First M. E. church were entertained at the parsonage last evening. The house was prettily trimmed with clematis, ferns and cut flowers, arranged by some of the lady members of the choir. Ice cream and cake were served, and a right good time was spent.
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