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| William McKinley. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, Sept. 28, 1901.
WILL WAS PROBATED.
Mrs. McKinley Made Legatee of Entire Property.
ESTATE VALUED AT $250,000.
His Mother Receives $1,000 a Year During the Remainder of Her Life. Judge Day and Secretary Cortelyou Have Been Appointed Administrators.
CANTON, O., Sept. 28.—Secretary Cortelyou came here yesterday to assist Mrs. McKinley in disposing of matters connected with the late president's estate. He arrived yesterday morning and was at once driven to the McKinley home. After meeting Mrs. McKinley, the question of filing the will was taken up. The trying task of reading it to her was undertaken by the faithful secretary.
Mrs. McKinley made a heroic effort to bear up and succeeded in doing so, although the ordeal was difficult for her. She was resting well last night. All legal formalities necessary for her to subscribe to were disposed of.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon Judge Day and Secretary Cortelyou went to the office of the probate judge and offered the will of President McKinley for probate. They carried with them the following:
"I, Ida S. McKinley, widow of William McKinley, deceased, hereby decline the administration of his estate and recommend the appointment of William R. Day and George B. Cortelyou as administrators with the will annexed."
This recommendation bears the date of Sept. 27, 1901.
Following is the text of President McKinley's will:
"Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C.
"I publish the following as my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills:
"To my beloved wife, Ida S. McKinley, I bequeath all of my real estate wherever situated, and the income of any personal property of which I may be possessed at death, during her natural life. I make the following charge upon all of my property, both real and personal. To pay my mother during her life one thousand dollars a year, and at her death said sum to be paid to my sister, Helen McKinley. If the income from property be insufficient to keep my wife in great comfort and pay the annuity above provided; then I direct that such of my property be sold so as to make s sum adequate for both purposes. Whatever property remains at the death of my wife, I give to my brother and sisters, share and share alike. My chief concern is that my wife from my estate shall have all that she requires for her comfort and pleasure, and that my mother shall be provided with whatever money she requires to make her old age comfortable and happy.
"Witness my hand and seal, this 22d day of October, 1897, to my last will and testament, made at the city of Washington, District of Columbia.
"WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
"The foregoing will was witnessed by us this 22d day of October, 1897, at the request of the testator and his name signed hereto in our presence, and our signatures hereto in his presence.
"G. B. CORTELYOU,
"CHARLES LOEFFLER."
It is given out on authority that the McKinley estate will total $225,000 to $250,000, including life insurance of $67,000. Aside from this insurance the estate consists of real estate here and contiguous to Canton, and of deposits in Washington banks. Monday morning has been fixed by the probate court for a hearing prior to probating the will. Then it is expected Secretary Cortelyou and Judge Day will be finally appointed administrators of the estate, with will annexed and will give bond.
Secretary Cortelyou made the necessary affidavit yesterday as to the genuineness of the signature of the president and of his own. Mr. Loeffler will reach here today and make affidavit as to his signature and to having seen the president attach his name to the document. The will is in the president's own handwriting and is on executive mansion letter paper.
Murderer Closely Guarded.
AUBURN. Sept. 28—Czolgosz has regained his normal condition and seems to have fully recovered from his collapse. There are five cells for condemned men in the prison, and Czolgosz was placed in the only vacant cell, so all are now occupied.
Two keepers are constantly on guard in the room, which is separate from the main prison, but to guard against an attempt on Czolgosz' part to commit suicide, two more guards have been added, and one will constantly sit in front of Czolgosz' cell and will have a key, so that any attempt at self-destruction can be easily frustrated.
BIG TUNNEL SCHEME.
Company to Construct a Tunnel From New York to Long Island City.
NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—President Baldwin of the Long Island railroad yesterday made application and filed plans with the Rapid Transit commission on behalf of the Long Island Railroad Extension company for a tunnel from a point in this city in the vicinity of Longacre Square (Broadway and Forty-fifth street), under Seventh avenue to Thirty-third street, thence to East river and Long Island City. The plans represent an outlay of $5,000,000 and call for a double track tunnel its entire length for the carrying of both freight and passengers.
The applicants bind themselves to begin work on the tunnel within 30 days after the franchise shall have been granted and to complete it in four years after the work shall have commenced. Motive power other than steam is also specified.
The applicants state that they are willing to pay the city three per cent of the gross earnings of the road, or any such reasonable amount as the commissioners might think proper to stipulate.
The Long Island railroad is controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad company.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Prisons and Prisoners.
Hon. William J. Mantanye of Cortland contributes a very interesting and thoughtful article to The Syracuse Post-Standard on the subject of "Prisons and Prisoners," in which the state prison is considered as a great and beneficial charity. To many this may appear as a novel and somewhat questionable method of treatment, but it is t o be said of Mr. Mantanye that he presents the case with much force, and in a spirit which shows true devotion to the public welfare. The Troy Times comments as follows upon this paper:
Mr. Mantanye is a gentleman who has done his country and his state valuable service, first as a brave and faithful young soldier of the Union in the civil war, during which he was wounded in battle, and later in public life. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1894, being one of its most industrious workers, and later was a state commissioner of prisons, in which capacity he was noted for his practical efforts toward making the prisons self-maintaining and at the same time means of improving the condition of those committed to them. He is thoroughly in sympathy with the modern sentiment that prescribes rational and humane treatment of convicts which, while keeping in mind the primary object of punishment for crime, aims at rescuing the prisoner and making him of some use to society and not its confirmed and irredeemable enemy.
The article by Mr. Mantanye is noteworthy for the manner in which it sets forth this principle, and for the broad spirit of charity it displays. In it he says:
It may seem strange to speak of a prison, heretofore generally considered as a place of retribution, where the law is supposed to correct by a species of revenge those who have disregarded its provisions, as a great charity. Yet, for the benefit of the state, the prison should be administered as a great charity.
This does not mean that the prison should be made a place of refuge where sympathy is extended by way of care and alms-giving, but that the law should take hold of those who have become lawless and imbued with a spirit of anarchy and communism by reason of former environment and lack of training, and while in the interest of justice it secludes them for a time for the relief of society, the punishment should be guided by reason.
By a stern discipline and rigid training during the period of their punishment they should be made to change their habits and learn to respect rather than hate the government and the law, and be taught the ways of industry, economy and manliness and good citizenship. By such a course the state may turn a criminal into a good citizen and relieve the state from the expense of future arrests and trials and the people from danger of further depredations.
It is the state that is benefited when a degenerate or criminal is made over into a safe and self-supporting citizen. In place of a robber or bird of prey to take the result of the labor of honest people without recompense he becomes a producer in some line of industry by the accumulations from which he is enabled to purchase from' some other industries, and thus help to increase the demand for their greater production.
Even if the former experiences under purely retributive or vindictive laws for punishment of crime in England and the United States had not taught us the futility of such laws to decrease crime, the penal system of Russia, which has been the most vindictive of all countries during the last half century, has demonstrated their ineffectiveness. There, under the sternest of laws vigorously executed for the suppression of nihilism as well as other crimes, anarchy and communism and their attendant crimes of murder and robbery have only increased. A greater hatred of government and law was inculcated, and cruel punishment instead of being deterrent caused disrespect and even hatred for the officers of the law.
Mr. Mantanye makes it very clear that charity, in the common acceptance of that term, may be the means of doing serious injury to the state. He observes that "a large part of those coming to the prisons of the state were of those who had been supported by the organized charities or were inmates in earlier life of charitable institutions." The free aid they had received had debased and degraded them, and so proved mischievous and not beneficial. Mr. Mantanye added:
They had come to believe that the state or public owed them a living, and when the public institutions turned them away as of sufficient age or growth to earn a living, they had no knowledge from experience what to do. Hence with their vague communistic ideas and lack of training, they felt free to take by force or stealth the accumulations of others and became thieves, burglars and robbers. The truer and greater charity is that which not only furnishes a temporary relief, but so educates and trains the recipients of the benefits that they become self-supporting men and women and relieve the state from further watch over them. Thoughtful men in the last thirty years studying the social problem have discovered the defects mentioned, and have shown the way of building up the truer and better charity and institutions that will give great public good.
Instances are given showing how well this principle has worked and affording encouragement for extending it. The inmates of the institutions mentioned are educated and taught industries so that they go out self-supporting and intelligent and less likely to fall into evil ways. Mr. Mantanye's belief that the principle could be put into operation in the prisons under state control, and that they "may be and should be a great charity working hand in band with other great charities founded and continued on true principles of charity to benefit the state as well as the individual."
The subject is one of much importance, and never more timely than now. And it may be said that the present administration of the state prisons has shown that while enforcing necessary and legal restraints, it is imbued with the spirit that would do away with all unnecessary harshness and would encourage the prisoners to better and more useful ways of life when they have served the sentences imposed upon them and are free to enter the world and take up the duties that comfort them. It is the purpose of prison management in this state to save whatever is worth saving of the men under its charge.
THE GREAT TOURNAMENT.
CINCINNATUS FAIR CLOSED UP IN FINE STYLE.
Lee Cryster of McGraw the Winner—Miss Addie Davis of Pharsalia Crowned the Queen of Love and Beauty—Other Prizes to Earl Edwards, Irvin Person and Dr. J . C. Stevens—Maids of Honor Chosen and Crowned, Misses Maude Huntley, Maude Corning and Jennie Crum.
The Cincinnatus fair came to an end last night after scoring a most gratifying success. The weather was simply perfect throughout, all three days being glorious autumn days. The ticket sales for the three days shows the attendance to be respectively about 2,000, 5,200 and 3,080. Though the grounds were not enclosed with tight fences and people might have gotten in without paying if they had been so disposed, it is recorded to the credit of mankind in general that not one person was seen to sneak in and so far as known all entered by the gates.
The great event of the last day was the tournament. Three arches were built 30 yards apart, suspended from each of which was an iron ring 2 1/2 inches in diameter. The riders were to pass under these arches with horses at full speed and pick off these rings with the lances which they carried. In order to be eligible for a prize it was necessary for the riders to ride the 90 yards from a point 30 yards in advance of the first arch to the last arch in nine seconds or less. A stop watch was held upon them all. Some of the riders made the course in 7 seconds and one went as high as 10 seconds, but it was a noteworthy fact that the winners were all fast riders and fell considerably below the limit.
As it came time for the event to begin the riders all came in in double column, headed by the Cortland City band, the chief marshal, T. Melville Pearce of My Lady's Manor, Md., the aides, Misses Hattie Holmes, Addie Davis, and the fourteen contestants. The crowd lined up along the ropes forming a lane about 20 feet wide through which the contestants rode under the arches. The timer was C. A. Ingalls of Willet. The judges were Dr. Benj. Kinyon, of Cincinnatus, Dr. J. M. Milne and City Judge R. L. Davis of Cortland.
As a preliminary the knights were all assembled before the judges' stand where District Attorney T. H. Dowd charged them in inspiring and eloquent words to deeds of chivalry and fame.
The contest then proceeded with the following result:
As a result of this score Lee Crysler of McGraw was declared the winner, having accepted and taken every possible point. Four men, however, were tied for second place: Dr. Stevens, Edwards, Harrington and Person. The small rings, 1 1/2 inches in diameter, were put up and all tried for them. Edwards took two and none of the others got any. That gave him the second place. In the next trial Person got two and none of the others got any. That gave him third prize. In the next trial Stevens and Harrington each got one. They tried again and both got two. Still another trial was made and this proved the last for Dr. Stevens took all three and Harrington got none. This gave the fourth prize to Dr. Stevens.
When the final charge had been made and the result had been declared all adjourned to the dancing tent. The crush here was something terrible and those short of stature were utterly unable to see anything. The police cleared a space in the midst of the floor where the four prize winners took their places. Each selected a young lady to become the recipient of his honor and homage and temporarily to become the partner of his joys and sorrows. The management then handed to each knight a beautiful floral crown that had been prepared by Mrs. A. H. Watkins of Cortland. The ladies removed their hats and bent low while each knight placed upon the brow of the chosen one the crown that was emblematic of his honor and esteem.
Mr. Crysler chose as his queen Miss Addie Davis of Pharsalia, while Mr. Earl Edwards chose as a maid of honor Miss Maude Huntley; Mr. Irvin Person chose Miss Maude Corning and Dr. J. C. Stevens chose Miss Jennie Crum. The ladies then joined with their partners in a dance, the music being furnished by McDermott's orchestra, while the crowd manifested its approval by loud applause.
Cash prizes were also given to the four winners, respectively $10, $8, $6 and $4.
After this ceremony there was a grand rush for the trains. The E. & C. N. Y. sent out two trains to Cortland in short order. The first train had five coaches on all loaded to standing room and the second had three coaches and the four open cars used on the observation train of the summer. And so closed up the great fair.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Discussed the Garbage Question—Unsanitary Drain—Dumping Ground.
At the regular meeting of the [Cortland] board of health last evening at the office of the city clerk, only a small amount of business was transacted, and the time was taken up principally in a discussion as to the method to be observed in imposing fines for noncompliance with the health ordinances. Some of the members had the erroneous idea that the fines could be imposed by the health officer, and some criticisms were made because the same had not been levied in several cases by the officer. The health officer, however, defended his position by bringing to the minds of the members that the fines could be fixed only by the court, where the defendants of the actions would have the privilege of defending themselves. The point was readily seen by the board, and it decided to adjourn till next Monday night in order to get the city attorney's advice in regard to the proper way of proceeding against those who are not observing the ordinances. The board signified its intention of enforcing these very strictly.
In regard to the garbage matter, Dr. E. M. Santee stated that the new garbage company had only sixty or seventy contracts for disposing of garbage, and that the project was not a paying one only as far as the feeding of it to hogs was concerned. He was of the opinion that the only solution to the question was to place the collection of garbage in the hands of the city, a certain amount per ton being paid for the same.
Health Officer Carpenter reported that a drain was being maintained on the premises of Mrs. Alexander Lansing, Hubbard-st, that was not sanitary, and the same was ordered to be removed. He also suggested that, as there was not much refuse matter being taken to the city dumping ground at present, the time of the keeper of the dump might be reduced. It was decided to employ the keeper only one day in each week to level off the grounds.
The following bills were approved and recommended to the common council:
Fay C. Parsons, printing, $8.25
Daniel Hurlehy, labor, 19.50
Harvey Dickerson, labor, 2.55
GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
"Egypta" to be Given by Local Singers on Nov. 1 and 2.
Arrangements were completed here yesterday for the wonderful spectacular "Egypta" which will be given at the Opera House Friday and Saturday nights, Nov. 1 and 2. This beautiful work has been given with unbounded success in nearly all the larger cities of the country and is the most elaborate entertainment now before the American public. Several hundred participants are required to adequately interpret the score of "Egypta." It is proposed to organize a great festival chorus of adult singers, and also a chorus of several hundred young girls from the various Sunday-schools of the city. There are forty or more leading roles and a number of charming drills for young lads and lasses. All the magnificent scenery and hundreds of rich oriental costumes used in its metropolitan engagement will be brought to Cortland especially for the festival. Rehearsals will begin at an early day.
AT THE CANNING FACTORY.
Corn Season Ended—Now It is Time for Sauer Kraut.
The season for canning corn closed at the canning factory yesterday, and now the proprietors, Messrs. Yager & Halstead, have turned their attention to the making of sauer kraut. The factory has turned out about 336,000 cans of beans and corn this season, and the firm has the assurance from the producers of a largely increased acreage next year.
Aid for the Veterans' Home.
Inasmuch as Grover Relief Corps, No. 96, has been solicited by the department of New York, W. R. C., to keep in remembrance the W. R. C. Home at Oxford, N. Y., for veterans and their wives, and during the present fruit canning time to send cans of fruit, or pickles, or tumblers of jelly, it is hereby asked that each member of Grover Corps who can and will, willingly, give from her store of such delicacies; also old cotton cloths for use in the Home, and that she bring them to the next meeting of Grover Corps, which will be held Oct. 1 at 3 o'clock P. M. in Grand Army hall. Any other patriotic and generous persons who might like to give for this good work, would also receive the sincere thanks of the W. R. C. if inspired to do likewise.
BREVITIES.
—Tomorrow will be Rally Day in several of the Sunday-schools.
—The benevolent offerings are due tomorrow at the Congregational church.
—The first student reception of the term occurs at the Normal parlors this evening.
—The new Presbyterian church at Ithaca is expected to be ready for occupancy on Sunday, Oct. 6.
—The Epworth league of the First M, E. church will meet at 6 o'clock instead of 6:30 tomorrow night.
—New display advertisements today are—Baker & Angell, Shoes, page 7; Glann & Clark, Shoes, page 7.
—All men are invited to attend the reception tonight at the Y. M. C. A. rooms. Fine music will be one of the attractions.
—Rev. W. G. Puddefoot will speak at the Congregational church next Thursday evening at the regular church prayer meeting hour.
—The funeral of Mrs. M. O. Perry, who died yesterday in Binghamton, will be held at the church in Taylor tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon at 1 o'clock. Burial in Taylor.
—Bosworth & Stillman have had a very attractive sign painted on the corner of the Dexter House block adjacent to their boot and shoe store. John J. Murphy was the artist.
—The Twilight club held a dancing party in Empire hall last evening. Kane's orchestra furnished excellent music, and a very fine time was enjoyed by the company of about fifty dancers.
—The contract for the mason work on Mr. F. J. Peck's new residence on Tompkins-st. has been awarded to Messrs. Beers & Warfield and work on the foundations will be commenced Monday morning.
—Rev. O. A. Houghton, D. D., expects to preach his farewell sermon at the First M. E. church tomorrow morning, having completed a five years' pastorate here and conference meeting the coming week.
—At the supper at the First M. E. church, given last evening by the members of the Ladies' and Pastor's union, Dr. O. A. Houghton, who expects to leave the charge, was presented with a purse of $25 in gold, as a mark of appreciation in which he is held.
—In the baby show at the Dryden fair, the $35 loving cup offered by the Pictorial Monthly was won by Helen Adele Hines of Dryden. The society's prize of $10 was won by Elizabeth Cole of Cortland, and the second prize of $5 was won by Roland Maxwell Lathrop of Dryden.
—A reunion of the jurors who sat through a long murder trial and rendered a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree is perhaps rather a novel affair, but it is not unheard of for the jury who tried John Truck in this county is today holding its second annual reunion at the home of D. P. Ayres, one of the jury, in McGraw. Truck is still occupying a cell in Murderers' Row in Auburn state prison. If he could have been present with them at the reunion it might have made the affair seem more realistic.
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