Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, Aug, 31, 1901.
CRISIS IS IMMINENT.
Steel Strike Rapidly Approaching a Climax.
BITTER ATTACK ON SHAFFER.
Labor World, Official Organ of Several Trades Closely Allied With Steel Workers, Demands His Impeachment—Burns Continues Efforts For Peace.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 31.—While there is no actual change in the strike situation, much transpired yesterday calculated to produce results in the near future. The conference between the Bay View committee and the Amalgamated officials; the continued efforts of President Burns of the Window Glass Workers association to bring about arbitration on conciliation; the scathing editorial in the Labor World, calling for the impeachment of President Shaffer; the march of the strikers of McKeesport to Duquesne and the decided effects of the injunction proceedings at Canal Dover, O., all indicate that the crisis is approaching and that an important change in affairs is not far distant. What the outcome will be no man can tell.
The details of the conference of the Bay View convention and the Amalgamated officials have not yet been divulged by either party but the fact that the committee is here at all would indicate that the Bay View strikers are uneasy. J. D. Hickey and J. F. Cooper of the committee have been here since Monday but their presence has not been generally known. The general belief is that the main object of the committee's visit was for the purpose of arranging some compromise by which the Bay View plant may resume. President Shaffer, on the contrary, says the two men did not come here as representatives of the Bay View lodge. They were simply here as individual members of the Amalgamated association to explain in person the reason for their action in regard to the general strike order and the reversal of that decision after Tighe's visit to Milwaukee.
The two gentlemen left for home last night and it is said a meeting of their lodge will be held upon their return to take action on their report.
Notwithstanding the report from New York that no conference had been held or arranged for between C. M. Schwab and Simon Burns looking to arbitration, the latter has not relaxed his efforts in this direction and seems determined to bring about some sort of a compromise.
"I am interested in this matter," said President Burns last night, "as the big strike is affecting all lines of business, including the window glass trade. My purpose is to get the two sides together and start the mills. If President Schwab is still opposed to my plan of arbitration I will request him to suggest whatever modifications he desires. I feel confident that something can be done to bring about a settlement that will not be dishonorable to either side and result in the starting of the mills."
Bitter Attack on Shaffer.
The editorial in the current issue of the Labor World, the organ of the International Tin Workers' Protective association, and the mouthpiece of the Pittsburg district of the Mine Workers' union and the Pattern Makers' association, is a long and bitter attack on President Shaffer and demands his impeachment for calling the present strike. The demand for impeachment is made because it is charged Shaffer compelled the steel workers to violate contracts; because he expelled the Chicago men and revoked their charter without constitutional hearing and because the whole strike is unconstitutional and has brought ruin and wreck to men who have made the Amalgamated association. The editorial gives 24 reasons why President Shaffer should be impeached.
The fact that George Powell, president of the Tin Plate Workers' Protective association of America; L. E. Thomas, president of the Pattern Makers' National league and Patrick Dolan, president of the United Tin Workers of Pittsburg district constitute the board of control of the publication and President Shaffer himself up to within a year was a member of the board would seem to lend considerable weight to the utterances of the paper. When shown the editorial President Shaffer said: "The article is beneath my notice and I shall not advertise the paper by commenting on it."
The editorial is entitled "Sacrifice Shaffer; Save the Amalgamated."
The editorial, which is a long one, says in part: "Is the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers to be sent to slaughter in a lost fight and sacrificed on the altar of mad and selfish ambition of this creature Shaffer? This is no time for sentiment. It is a time for facts and plain speaking. The fight against the steel trust is lost but no order comes from Amalgamated headquarters, where Shaffer cowers to spare the brave men at the front. Leaders of organized labor! Forbid it in the name of the cause you hold dear, but which is menaced as long as Shaffer is allowed to live. Forbid it in the name of labor's honor and honesty, which Shaffer's acts have impugned."
The march of the McKeesport strikers to Duquesne yesterday was a disappointment to the strikers, partly because of a heavy rain during the parade and the meeting in an open lot and partly because of a lack of enthusiasm. It was expected that at least 5,000 of the 12,000 strikers would participate in the march but by actual count there were 553 in line. The men marched without any cheering or noisy demonstration and no trouble of any kind developed.
Injunction Effective at Canal Dover.
The injunction granted the American Sheet Steel company at Canal Dover, O., against the strikers had the effect of doing away with all picketing about the mill. The withdrawal of pickets was on the advice of local counsel, who advised the course until after the counsel of the association at Pittsburg should make known what course to pursue in the future.
President Shaffer yesterday sent circulars to all the lodges of the association reviewing the strike situation, which he says is in good shape. He cautions all members against the South Chicago men who refused to obey the strike order, denominates them non-union men and declares their cards void.
Great preparations have been made for Labor Day. A grand rally of allied trades and labor unions of Western Pennsylvania is to be held at Ross Grove, at which Shaffer, Dolan, Burns and Churchill are advertised to tell the story of the strike. The rally will be under the auspices of the Amalgamated association. A parade of immense proportions is scheduled for this city on that day, the big majority of trades unions having arranged to participate.
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| William J. McGee. |
NEVER WAS AN ADAM OR EVE.
American Association For Advancement of Science Supports Prof. McGee.
DENVER, Aug. 31.—The American Association for the Advancement of Science decided that there never was either an Adam or an Eve. Professor W. J. McGee, the Chesterfieldan ethnologist, who knows all about the men who have inhabited the earth, was down on the programme to read an innocent-looking paper entitled "Current Questions in Anthropology." He said that for centuries students had adhered to the supposition that mankind had sprung from a common parentage. Modern research had shattered this theory. It must be apparent that the negro, the Mongolian, the Malay and the Caucasian could not have descended from the same pair. Talk of Adam and Eve having set up housekeeping in the Garden of Eden was, in the opinion of the professor, absurd. There must have been several couples.
Professor McGee continued along these lines for thirty minutes, and then the supporters of the common parentage idea got the floor. Professor George, who occupied a front seat at all gatherings of anthropologists, being the curator of the anthropological section of the Field Museum at Chicago, defended Adam and Eve, and gave exhaustive data to make his argument effective.
He was ably seconded by Professor Frank Russell of Harvard, but the rest of the members went over to McGee, and it was soon apparent that the latter had won the day, and the story of Eden and its occupants would have to be placed on the shelf with William Tell, Santa Claus and other interesting but ephemeral personages.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Making Schoolroom Patriots.
One sometimes wonders if the American schoolmistress realizes her opportunities for making good citizens for her country. Too often she does not, for she is frequently merely the machine to carry out the plans and put into execution the ideas of the head of an institution in which she is only one of many.
System is a great thing, but system seldom develops individuality, and school principals who are wise give their teachers as much freedom from routine as the success of a school as a whole will permit.
Very often it is the incidentals in life that have the greatest influence. The curriculum, no matter how entertainingly presented day after day, will sometimes pall on the student's taste, and then a quarter of an hour taken to rest the young minds will result in more and better work when the lessons are renewed.
The average child is not well enough acquainted with the happenings of the world in which he lives. News in the abstract interests him very little, but if he is told that President McKinley, Admiral Dewey or some one whose name is familiar to him is doing such and such a thing he is at once interested.
The teacher can, one by one, introduce her pupils to the different public characters of the day, showing the school a picture of each man and telling what he has done, what sort of a boy he was, etc., until the chief actors in the world's drama are familiar friends instead of mere names. Children should be allowed to form opinions of public events, and when they understand them they will be capable of surprising the teacher by their clear judgment.
No better way of making patriotic citizens can be found than in this daily study of contemporary events. To be interested in public affairs one must understand them, and it is remarkable how few men and women comprehend the contents of the newspapers sufficiently well to give an intelligent opinion in regard to them.
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| Cortland County Fairgrounds, post 1900, courtesy of Cortland County Historical Society. |
BROUGHT TO A CLOSE.
THE CORTLAND COUNTY FAIR SCORES ANOTHER SUCCESS.
Pronounced by Patrons and People to be One of the Best on Record—The Crowd an Orderly One—Good Work of Officers of Association and Cortland Police—Some Stock Exhibits—Special Premiums—Fridays Races.
Cortland county has scored another success in the fair which has just closed. Pronounced by all to be one of the very best in the history of the association, the first fair of the twentieth century will serve as a model in many respects for similar events in years to come. Active and well directed efforts on the part of the officers of the association and their assistants have brought about an almost perfect system of handling the immense amount of work in connection with the fair and to their untiring industry, experience and ability is due in very large measure the success which has come to them in connection with the fair which has just closed. The secretary, Mr. W. J. Greenman, is the right man in the right place who knows what he wants done and how to do it. President F. H. Sears has given valuable assistance and Treasurer Chas. F. Brown has been more than busy with his part of the business. To the superintendents of the various departments much praise is also due as well as to the judges for the difficult work which fell to them in awarding premiums.
The attendance yesterday was unusually large for the closing day. The rain which began shortly before noon ceased in time for the races, the balloon ascension and all the special attractions. Much interest had been manifested in the of premium stock which was to have taken place at 1 o'clock but which had to be declared off on account of the rain. There were some exceptionally fine herds of cattle, and the parade would have been one of the features of the day. The interest, however, centered in the award of special premiums and a general review of all the attractions.
The police supervision of the fair grounds was never so adequate to the need in this particular as it was this year, and Chief of Police Barnes is deserving of the compliments he is receiving for the efficient protection that was afforded. The proprietors of shows on the grounds were notified by the chief that as soon as any pickpockets were reported to be operating he would close up all the shows and the like on the ground, and when three of them did appear the show men fell all over themselves in their haste to notify the officers, and the light fingered trio were given the bounce at once. Not even one case of pickpockets on the grounds has been reported.
THE RACES.
F. D. Smith's special premium, a Red Cross parlor stove, to be given to the person making the nearest estimate to the number of passengers carried by the Cortland County Traction Co. during the fair, was awarded to Mrs. Sarah E. Fargo of Lincoln-ave., Cortland. The number of persons carried by the Traction Co. by the fares rung up on the registers was 37,377 and the estimate made by Mrs. Fargo was 37,389, or within twelve of the correct number.
G. Archie Turner of Horseheads, N. Y., who purchased W. J. Greenman's stock of poultry about two years ago, had a fine collection of his feathered tribe at the Cortland fair. He returned home last night with the birds and about $125 in premiums.
Mr. J. Crofoot of Montour Falls, N. Y., is the owner of a very promising two-year-old colt, "Pride," sired by Star Hal, which was exhibited at the fair. On Thursday afternoon the colt was driven on exhibition, one-eighth in 16 seconds.
The prize piano offered by the society and Mr. A. Mahan was awarded to Mr. A. Sties of Como.
L. B. Hall of Cortland secured the building lot offered as a special premium.
Mrs. Eliza Schutt of 149 Tompkins-st. received Coon Bros.' special premium offered to the oldest person on the grounds during the fair. Mrs. Schutt is in her 92nd year.
A. N. Lounsbury secured the overcoat offered by the Model clothing store for the biggest pumpkin, and now the bachelor proprietors are queered to know how the big round yellow whopper that fell into their possession is going to get made up into pumpkin pies.
The Champion Milk Cooler Co.'s booth took first prize for the most attractive booth in the hall.
Mrs. Ezra Corwin was awarded the New Home sewing machine, offered by M. L. Decker for the best hand-made gentleman's night shirt.
ON HER HUSBAND'S GRAVE.
Mrs. Ida Gray Takes Laudanum With Suicidal Intent.
Mrs. Ida Gray of this city was found on the grave of her husband at about 10 o'clock this forenoon in Cortland Rural cemetery in an unconscious condition after having tried to end her life by taking laudanum. She was found by her son Willie, a lad of about 13, who notified the keeper of the grounds at once, and Dr. Sornberger was hastily summoned and he administered a powerful emetic which will doubtless save the woman's life. She was taken from the scene of the terrible tragedy in Wright's ambulance to the hospital where she lies still in critical condition.
Mrs. Gray, who lives at 8 Townley-ave., is the widow of William Gray, who died two years ago from the effects of falling from the Riley block on Main-st., after receiving an electrical shock from a live wire. Since that time Mrs. Gray has supported her two young children by working at Wickwire's wire cloth factory while suffering greatly at times from rheumatism. Last night the family went to bed as usual, but this morning between 7 and 8 o'clock when the children woke up they were startled to find that their mother was not in the house, but a not saying "Good bye children, I can't work any longer," was found. The boy Willie at once began a search, and for a while hunted about the woods west of the city. Returning from there, he went over into the cemetery and to his father's grave, where his mother often went. Here he found the mother, wet and nearly exhausted, and the grief of the little fellow was pitiful indeed.
It is not known how long the woman had been at the cemetery nor how long it was from the time she took the poison till the time she was found. Discouragement and the almost impossibility of working for her children's support were doubtless the causes of her attempt to end her life.
BREVITIES.
—The banks will all be closed Monday, Labor Day.
—Grace church choir will hold a rehearsal this evening.
—W. D. Tuttle's office has been connected with the Home telephone exchange.
—Monday being Labor Day and a legal holiday, no paper will be issued from this office.
—Services will be resumed in the Congregational and Presbyterian churches tomorrow.
—A regular meeting of the hospital board will be held at the hospital on Monday next, Sept. 2, beginning at 3 P. M.
—Notice has been served by the town board upon members of the Cortland County [bicycle] sidepath committee that no more sidepaths are to be constructed in Cortland county without first obtaining the consent of the supervisor and town board.
—Five members of the Cortland City band, Messrs. J. D. Clark, W. F. Lowre, Chas. Maas, Carl Maas and Fred Barney, who are to assist the Groton band at the firemen's inspection in that place the 5th of September, went to Groton last night in Liveryman Yager's fine new turnout to practice with the Groton boys. Mrs. Barney, Miss Hesket and Mrs. Chas. Maas accompanied them.
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