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| Charles Winslow Hall. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 1901.
WOMAN LIVED AS A MAN.
For Three Years Miss Hall Kept Up Deception, Secret Being Disclosed by Death.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.—The strange story of a woman who preferred to pass for a man was revealed by the death of Miss Carolina Hall of Boston, a cabin passenger on the steamship Citta di Terino, which arrived from Naples and other Mediterranean ports on Sunday. On the passenger list Miss Hall appeared as Mr. Charles Winslow Hall, and with "him" on the ship was Mrs. Hall. It was not until the former was stricken with a mortal illness that the ship's surgeon made the discovery that supposed man was a woman.
The dead woman was 39 years old and is said to have been the only daughter of a Colonel Hall, a well-to-do retired army officer living in Boston.
After ''Mr." Hall was taken ill the ship's surgeons were called in and then the secret came out. The patient begged that it be kept, but the surgeons were forced to tell it to the captain who, however, did not disclose it to the 75 other cabin passengers. The surgeons said the patient was suffering from consumption.
All day long in the saloon of the Terino "Mrs." Hall remains near the dead. She was there last night waiting for the dead woman's relatives to come for the body. She is an Italian of about 38 years of age and rather good looking She cannot speak English and did not seem willing to tell all of the strange story. It was learned, however, that she had known "Mr." Hall for some years and was well aware that her companion was a woman. In the evening a telegram from Albert Hall was received aboard the steamship for Miss Carolina Hall, saying the sender would come to New York. It was dated Boston Highlands.
It was learned through the Italian woman that Miss Hall had resided abroad about 10 years and met her companion, Guisepina Poriana, in Milan about three years ago. According to the story Miss Hall decided that men get along better in the world than women and so adopted male costume. She traveled thus with the other for two years and, as she was an artist, went about the art centers painting and working at her profession. Being a good rifle shot Miss Hall is said to have entered several tournaments and won prizes. When she decided to come home she asked the Italian woman to accompany her.
New Big Telephone System.
ALBANY, Oct. l.—The Frontier Telephone company of Buffalo, with a capital of $50,000, was incorporated yesterday, to operate a telephone system connecting Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Albany, Poughkeepsie, New York city, Tonawanda, Niagara Falls, Lockport, Dunkirk, Erie, Pa., Cleveland, Jamestown, Elmira, Binghamton and Hornellsville, the directors being J. A. Stearns of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Alvin Mokle of Hazelton, Pa.; J. M. Thomas of New York city, E. C. Lufkin, J. B. Weber and C. B. Hill of Buffalo, and F. R. Greene of Fredonia.
SCRANTON TIED UP.
Not a Street Car Runtime on 30 Miles of Track.
SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 1.—A complete tie-up of street car system of this city went into effect at 3 o'clock this morning. There is not a car moving and the strikers say the public will have to walk until their grievances are settled.
About two weeks ago conductors were discharged. The street car men's union wanted to have them reinstated. Their committee waited on General Manager Silliman before whom they presented their case, but the manager ignored all their demands and is now determined to fight the union.
The tie-up extends from Forest City to Pittston, a distance of nearly 30 miles.
The strikers declare that their demands now will not only be for the reinstatement of the two discharged men, but for a complete new adjustment of wages to take the place of the agreement entered into last January, when their previous strike was ended.
The company declare [period verb usage—CC ed.] they will make an effort to run their cars with nonunion men. If such an attempt is made it is very likely that a serious clash between the two labor elements will occur, for the strikers are in no mood to see their places taken by "scabs."
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Our Horses In South Africa.
That the American horse and mule possess qualities of size, strength and hardihood unequaled by those of other nations has been proved by the record of their work during the Boer war. Most of the animals used for military purposes have been imported from the United States. Horses from other countries can stand the climate, but they cannot survive the work and climate together, while the animals from this country, especially the mules, live longest and do the most work in South Africa.
Former Consul General Stowe of Cape Town is of the opinion that the demand for our horses and mules is likely to increase rather than decrease after the close of the Boer war.
Our export trade in horses to South Africa has increased wonderfully in the last two years. During 1899 it amounted to only $16,600. In 1900 the value of this trade increased to $988,000. In the fiscal year 1901, ended last June, the horses exported to Africa were worth $3,468,000 and the mules nearly $3,000,000. Nearly all these animals were needed for military purposes and were subjected to usage that killed or wore out large numbers of them. Recently the authorities have been selling animals unfitted for army use, offering them at nominal prices to farmers who have suffered losses of live stock during the war.
Undoubtedly Consul General Stowe is correct in his prediction that there will be an urgent demand for many thousands of American horses and mules on South African farms as soon as farming and stock raising are resumed. A trade built up during war will continue in peace. The war has destroyed most of the native horses. The Boers commandeered large numbers of farm animals, nearly all of which have perished. The sacrifice of horses on both sides has been unusually large. Many of the Boers will be too poor to buy new horses, but all who can will do so, and the British settlers will need large numbers of animals. The prices offered are good. It is evident that American stock raisers with plenty of good mules and farm horses will have little difficulty in finding a market for their animals during the coming year.
THE SCHOOL BUDGET.
The Amount to be Asked for by the Board of Education.
The Cortland board of education held an adjourned meeting last evening for the purpose of making up the amount that the board will ask for in the regular tax budget. Sixteen thousand six hundred dollars was the amount fixed upon by the board. This sum is leas by $1,800 than was asked for last year. The amount is divided as follows:
Teachers, $12,000
Janitors, 1,500
Fuel, 1,200
Buildings and grounds, 1,000
Supplies, 500
Insurance, 300
Library and apparatus, 100
Total: $16,000.
The charter states that the statement of the sum deemed necessary by the board for the fiscal year beginning with the first of January, shall be made on or before the fifteenth day of October. Mayor Charles F. Brown met with the board last evening and asked that the budget be cut to as low a figure as possible. The statement has not been presented to him officially for his approval.
A FINE EXHIBIT.
Twenty-Eight Pieces to be Shown by Cortland Wagon Co.
Today is exhibition day at the show room of the Cortland Wagon Co., and a large number of people have taken advantage of the invitation to call and inspect the work there to be seen. On the week beginning Oct. 14 the annual convention of the National Carriage Dealers' Protective association is held at the Grand Central Palace, Lexington-ave., 42nd and 43d-sts., in New York. Last year over 700 pieces of work were shown at the exhibition; this year the expectation is that it will be still larger than before. No one is entitled to admission to the exhibition even as a spectator except genuine carriage manufacturers and their employees or accepted and identified carriage dealers, and by a carriage dealer is meant by the by-laws, a party who keeps constantly on the floor of his salesroom not less than six four-wheel vehicles. And even with these restrictions over 10,000 people visited the exhibition hall last year.
The exhibit of the Cortland Wagon Co. was last year one of the very finest to be seen at the convention, and this year it promises to be still better. It will consist of twenty-eight pieces of work, and all are beauties. Among them are an English brougham that is built exclusively for the English trade and which has never been put on the market in this country. It is finished in daft blue cloth with satin head linings and silk shades. There is a coupe rockaway painted wine color throughout, trimmed in cloth of the same shade, with satin head linings and silk shades. There is also a Princess cabriolet with black running part and trimmed in light colored cloth. There are two breaks, for four and six passengers respectively, finished in coaching red and upholstered with genuine pig skin. There are two golfing surreys of new and original designs, one in primrose and blue and the other in coaching red. In addition there is a large line of top buggies, stanhopes and runabouts. All of them are superb pieces of workmanship and of finish. It makes a collection of which any concern might well be proud, but it is simply a selection from the ordinary lines of manufacture. Such pieces may be seen almost any day in the show room or in the shipping room ready for the regular trade.
The Cortland Wagon Co. will be represented at this convention by Messrs. L. J. Fitzgerald, Hugh Duffey and John C. Barry from the management and business office. The following foremen of departments will also attend: George M. Chalfont, wood department; Eugene Buckley, blacksmithing department; Myron Medes, trim department; John Lonergan, paint department. Ten traveling men for the company will also come in off the road and be present.
Mill at Onondaga Valley.
Messrs. R. D. Eddy and W. S. Hoxie have formed a milling firm and have rented a mill at Onondaga Valley, where they will begin operations at once. Both of these gentlemen are well known in Cortland, where they have resided for many years. Mr. Hoxie is a miller of many years' experience and Mr. Eddy is a practical machinist, therefore the combination of the two for this business ought to make a good one. Mr. Eddy moves his family to Onondaga Valley but Mr. Hoxie's family will remain here for the present.
Marathon, N. Y.
MARATHON, Sept. 30.—Fred Livingston of Ithaca stopped in town on Thursday on his way from the Knights Templar conclave at Binghamton.
Mr. E. W. Webster has returned to his home in Vermont.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mills of Collinsville, Conn., are guests of their uncle, John Mallery.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Manning with their daughter and her husband were in town on Sunday.
Myron Lowell and family of Cortland were at Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Smith's on Sunday.
The harvest supper at the Presbyterian church Friday was a success also the sale of homemade bake stuff and cream at the Methodist church on Saturday afternoon and evening.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Wards returned home Saturday evening.
The funeral of Eliza Masia Lyde, wife of DeWitt C. Lynde, of Messengerville will occur in Marathon Tuesday afternoon, the services at the grave will be under the direction of the Chapter of the Eastern Star of which she was a faithful member. Lila as she was familiarly known was 55 years of age and is survived by a husband, a daughter, Mrs. Will Crandall, a sister, Mrs. Randolph Mack of Marathon and brother, Henry Husted of Syracuse, have the sympathy of the whole community. Mr. and Mrs. Lynde with their daughter and her husband removed from Lynde hotel last spring to their farm at Messengerville. On Sunday at about noon Mrs. Lynde stole out of the house where she had been busy baking and on going to the river walked in up to her waist bending her head down and in that position was found by the family and Noah Davis. Medical aid was at once summoned but life was extinct and Undertaker Dellow was sent for. Mrs. Lynde was the daughter of Eli Husted who met a tragic death twenty years ago this fall.
Rev. Rollo Branch a former resident of Texas Valley but now of Wisconsin assisted Rev. Dr. Blue at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning. Very beautiful flowers adorned the pulpit. Rev. Mr. Branch and Dr. Blue preached at Texas Valley in the afternoon and assisted at the [reunion] services at the Baptist church in the evening.—C.
Some Lake Shore Side Trips.
Have you seen Horseshoe Falls at Niagara? Have you seen Goat Island, Bath Island, Three Sisters Islands, Cave of the Winds? Have you tried a trip on the Maid of the Mist? On the Inclined Railway? There are dozens of other points of interest in and about Buffalo, besides an interesting and inexpensive trip across the border to Canada. Whether you go East or West see that your ticket reads over the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railway, which allows long stopover privileges. This is the most convenient, most comfortable, safest and fastest road to go on, and the only line that is double-tracked all the way between Buffalo and Chicago, thus insuring absolute safety.
BREVITIES.
—The regular meeting of the N. P. L. will be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—The Fortnightly club meets tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the home of Miss Fitzgerald, 39 Tompkins-st.
—There will be a meeting of the Republican city committee at the office of G. J. Maycumber this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—The ladies of Grace church are preparing for a rummage sale about the middle of October. Full particulars will be given later.
—A session of the Cortland County Pomona grange is being held at Good Templars' hall today. The meeting is largely attended and full of interest.
—Pecos tribe, No. 357, Improved Order of Red Men, will confer the adoption degree at the council next Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock sharp.
—The late Phil Armour said: "The man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters; any one will do."
—Mrs. S. Carry and her daughter, Mrs. E. S. Hawkins, last evening entertained a few friends in honor of their guest, Mrs. W. J. Tyson of New York. It was a very pleasant affair for all concerned.
—The school room in the corridor of the second floor of the Central school building, which has been fitted up to accommodate the overflow from the class rooms, is now being used. It will seat thirty-eight pupils.
—New display advertisements today are—C. F. Thompson, Sweet potatoes, page 5; Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 8; W. J. Perkins, Cure for colds, page 4; Warren, Tanner & Co., Dry goods, page 4; Buck & Lane, Stoves, etc., page 6; M. A. Case, Dry goods, page 6; Baker & Angell, Shoes, page 4; C. F. Brown, Drugs, etc., page 4.
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