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| Theodor von Holleben. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 1901.
GERMANY IS NOT A FOE.
Her Minister Denies Several Stories of Her Antagonism.
NO INTEREST IN SOUTH AMERICA.
Report That She In Seeking Coaling Stations There Is False—Also All Talk of Emperor William Sanctioning European Alliance Against Our Trade.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Herr Von Holleben, the German ambassador to the United States, has just returned to Washington from his summer vacation in Europe and has resumed the duties of his post here. His excellency, when seen here yesterday seemed to be in excellent spirits and much benefitted by his leave of absence and by the complete rest from his responsible work. When asked about the existing relations between Germany and the United States he said:
"They have never been better or more cordial. The great sorrow which came to your country through the tragedy in Buffalo has greatly aroused the sympathy of the German people who are so closely united to the people of the United States by the many ties of [blood] and friendship.
"My countrymen," continued the ambassador, "look up to your new chivalrous president with admiration and full confidence, admiring the country, at the same time which can produce a man of such high abilities as your chief executive."
The ambassador before leaving Germany had been received by his majesty, the emperor, who instructed him to convey to Mr. Roosevelt his majesty's most friendly greetings and best wishes of success of his administration. "My sovereign," the ambassador said, "has the most frank admiration for America's progress and the most cordial and friendly feelings for the United States. His majesty has, as you know, just shown once more how he appreciates American skill and workmanship in having a yacht built in the United States. All talk that his majesty desires to bring the European nations together in a challenge of America's progress in the commercial world is of course without foundation."
Before closing the interview his excellency said: "I have one more thing to say. You are without doubt aware that at regular intervals reports appear in the newspapers to the effect that Germany is trying to acquire coaling stations or a foothold of some kind in South America or in the West Indian waters. These reports are started again and again by our enemies who don't like to see us on too friendly terms with the United States. I can tell you now that I am officially authorized to state that Germany has no such purpose. I want to deny now, once for all, these ever recurring reports in an emphatic and unqualified way. I have told this to the president, he was especially gratified by it."
TREATY FORMALLY SIGNED
Nicaraguan Agreement Completed and Ready For the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Nothing more remains to be done as far as the Hay-Pauncefote Nicaraguan treaty is concerned before the senate meets or indeed until the treaty shall have been ratified, rejected or amended. If it should be ratified the state department will proceed immediately to negotiate the treaties with Costa Rica and Nicaragua for which it already has arranged in protocols pending before the senate which will permit the canal to be constructed and prescribe the terms upon which the consent of Nicaragua and Costa Rica is given. It was in anticipation of this action, it is presumed, that the Nicaraguan government only recently denounced the treaty of trade and commerce with the United States. This treaty contained sections conveying rights as to canal construction which are to be replaced by more modern provisions.
There was no particular ceremony connected with the signing yesterday of the important convention. Lord Pauncefote had been indisposed for several days past and it was not expected that the treaty could be signed before the end of the current week. However to the surprise of the state department officials the ambassador appeared at the department about noon and the work of signing the treaty was soon dispatched. The scene was the historic diplomatic chamber of the state department and beside the principals, Secretary Hay and Lord Pauncefote, there were present Sidney Smith, chief of the diplomatic bnreau of the state department; Percy Wyndham, the second secretary of the British embassy; William Gwyn and Edward Savoy, the secretary of state's private messenger, whose duty it was to attend to the placing of the seals. The treaty was signed by Secretary Hay with a gold pen in a silver penholder which had been used in the signature of other conventions and is the personal property of the secretary.
LOCKJAW KILLS SEVEN.
Fatal Cases of Tetanus Follow Vaccination in Newark, N. J.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 19.—The alarm that has been caused by the nine cases of tetanus following vaccination in Camden, N. J., has aroused the city officials there to take official action in the matter. The board of health and the board of education each held meetings yesterday. The former decided to request physicians to cease vaccinating persons until an investigation as to the cause of the lockjaw cases has been made, and the latter rescinded the order of compulsory vaccination of all school children.
Of the nine cases of tetanus so far reported seven of the victims have died and the other two are still in a dangerous condition. The board of health appointed a committee of three to act in conjunction with the county physician and make a complete investigation of the whole matter.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Vaccination and Lockjaw.
Camden, N. J., is having a great scare over tetanus or lockjaw. Nine cases of tetanus have followed vaccination in that place and seven of the victims have died and two are still in a dangerous condition. The board of health has requested physicians to cease vaccination till an investigation can be made as to the cause of the lockjaw cases and the board of education has for the present rescinded the order of compulsory vaccination of all school children.
The first protest against vaccination came from a high school teacher, who refused vaccination. She was suspended by the school board and carried her case to the courts. The board was sustained and the teacher was dismissed from the service of the city. She has taken an appeal to the supreme court.
At Bridgeport, N. J., a music teacher is in a critical condition because of vaccination. She was vaccinated on one of her limbs and the whole side of her body is paralyzed and she is suffering greatly.
Seven children have died from lockjaw in St. Louis, and the coroner has rendered a verdict finding the health department negligent in the preparation of diphtheria anti-toxine, the administration of which caused these deaths.
For some time the city health department has been making anti-toxine for use in diphtheria cases. This was distributed among practicing physicians throughout the city free of charge and used in the city institutions quite generally. In many cases it is said to have saved lives. The serum was obtained from horses that are said to have contracted tetanus.
Limiting Women Students.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has lately explained why the number of young women students at Stanford university is limited to 500 at any one time. This restriction is not because she is opposed to the higher education of women. She favors it. She says she suggested to Senator Stanford before their plans became known to the public that women students should be admitted. Her husband assented to this, but he expressed the desire that the institution should be primarily one for boys. Mrs. Stanford says that neither she nor her husband in deciding to admit women could foresee that a time would come when the women might exceed the men.
It is doubtful whether anybody foresaw twenty years ago the desire for higher education which young women are now manifesting. Not long ago it was announced by persons connected with the Northwestern university of Chicago that unless the disproportionate attendance of young women could be checked the institution would be feminized and young men kept away. It is possible that the Stanford university would fall into the hands of the young women were it not for this limitation on the number of students, and the athletic standing of the university would suffer as a consequence.
Doubtless the preponderance of women in any university will keep some young men away, but that hardly ought to be regarded as a menace to the institution. The fact that they are becoming so important a factor in university life is highly complimentary to the young women of the country, which will not suffer by their higher education.
WOMAN NOW A MAN.
THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS NEEDED TO DISCOVER HER SEX.
No Suggestion of Her Sex Till Her Voice Began to Change and Beard to Grow—Lived in Retirement for Several Years—Application in the Courts to Change Her Name to a Man's Name—To Change Her Attire to Man's Clothing.
The Syracuse Post-Standard of Monday says:
Application will be filed before County Judge William Ross early this week by Clara Herriman of 316 West Onondaga-st., through her attorneys, Hancock, Hogan & Devine, for permission to change her name to Horace Hartson Herriman.
The application will lay bare a remarkable story of mistake in the determination of sex made at the time of the birth of Clara Herriman which has rarely been equaled in medical annals. By appeal to the law for permission to change her name, Miss Herriman will assume the position in society to which she is entitled.
The Herriman family is one of the oldest families in Syracuse. Richard Herriman, Clara Herriman's father, settled in this city when a young man early in 1829. He began business as a brick maker, and continued to follow that business until 1883, when he retired, possessed of considerable wealth and a reputation for business integrity which is rare. In 1840 be built a house at 316 West Onondaga-st., which his children now occupy. He was married in 1852.
Richard Herriman was essentially a family man, and it is stated that he rarely left his home in the evening unless accompanied by his wife. Mrs. Herriman was an artist of considerable ability. Evidences of her work are everywhere present in the Herriman home. She was a patron of Syracuse artists to a considerable extent, two valuable portraits of herself and husband by Thayer hanging on the parlor walls. Mrs. Herriman died in 1896 and her husband in 1892.
Clara Herriman was born at the family homestead in 1863. It is stated that at the time of her birth, there were congenital defects due to arrested development which made the determination of sex at the time an impossibility. Every effort was then put forth by her mother and family to learn the truth, and a consultation of eminent New York physicians failed to agree on a verdict.
Clara Herriman was brought up as a girl on the advice of physicians and although she was educated in the public schools, she was carefully guarded and led essentially a home life with few intimacies.
At the age of puberty Clara Herriman began to manifest signs of her true sex. Her voice deepened and she possesses at present a finely modulated, baritone voice, although not lower or rougher than often appears in many women of northern races. Her face became rough and her tastes were essentially masculine. The unfortunate position in which she found herself became more unbearable as time went by and she became more and more secluded.
Not long ago, finding her tastes and instincts more and more at variance with her place in society, she determined to submit herself to competent physicians for a final determination of her real sex.
The verdict of this examination by three physicians generally recognized as among the most accurate and painstaking in their diagnoses was that without any question she was essentially male. The proportionate breadth of shoulders and hips is that of the male and all the other anatomical measurements confirm this decision.
Miss Herriman determined to change her garb and assume the place which rightly belonged to her. Attorneys were consulted and a course of action which will culminate in a few days in the application for a change of name was determined upon.
Last Monday Dr. Arthur B. Breese and Dr. John L. Hefiron performed an operation which corrected a congenital deformity, from which Miss Herriman is now recovering in bed at her home.
She takes this opportunity to change her name. Her hair has been cut to the masculine length, and a suit of men's clothing is awaiting her as soon as she can be on her feet again.
Miss Herriman chooses the name Horace Hartson Herriman, the two first names being that of her maternal grandfather. Her brother, William C. Herriman, with whom she lives, cordially approves of her action. The two, Horace and William C. Herriman, will be associated hereafter in the management of the Herriman estate, which includes the Herriman tract in Geddes and the new Hartson flats at the corner of Seymour and Onondaga-sts.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Audits Bills of Coroners and Constables and Transacts Other Business. Seventh Day, Tuesday, No. 19, 1901.
The board convened at 9 A. M., and was called to order by Chairman Crosley. Roll call showed all members present except Messrs. Rowe and Shuler. The journal of the preceding day was read and approved.
A petition from the assessors of the town of Homer, representing that an error was made in the assessment of the Homer National bank, was read by the clerk. The petitions state that in compliance with the law relating to the taxation of banks, the Homer National bank made a report the assessors of the town, that the value of the real estate at the bank was included in the report, and that the state attorney general had given it as his opinion that the real estate of the bank was not intended by the legislative to be included with the term of surplus and undivided profits. The petitioners asked in view of this that $8 be deducted from the assessment of each share of the stock of the bank, that being the amount of the real estate standing on the books of said bank.
The statement of the county clerk to the board for 1900 was read and placed on file. The receipts were given as $6,306.53 and the disbursements as $1,811.78.
The committee on coroners' bills presented its report, which was read, adopted and referred to the committee on appropriations. The several coroners' bills were allowed as follows: R. L. Smith, $17.70; F. H. Green, $46.70; E. M. Santee, $151.80.
The committee on constables' bills presented its report, which was read, adopted and referred to the committee on appropriations. The bills of the constables and three policemen of the city of Cortland were allowed as follows: Ira S. Crandall, $38.45; Albert Goldsmith, $10; T. H. Moore, $6.35; Ira J. Barber, $19.85; J. J. Barber, $4.20; J. Wesley Babcock, $8.65; Geo. Bogardus, $21.30; R. J. Rounds, $9.98; W. W. Thompson, $21.45; Chas. W. Harrington, $12.96; F. M. Henry, $11.85; A. R. Greene, $5.80; M. C. Flint, $30.72; Edwin Perry, $2 35; Chas. Eason, $89.15; D. M. Mott, $9.50; Thomas Goddard, $4.40; Erving Barnes, $24.90; James A. Smith, $5; Day Baker, $8.20. Total, $295.06.
On motion of Mr. Phelps:
Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to visit the county almshouse and report to this board during the session.
At the afternoon session Chairman Crosby appointed Messrs. Jordan, Allen, Parker, Shuler and Johnson as such committee.
On motion of Mr. Shuler:
Resolved, That the clerk be authorized to add to the town abstract of Solon the bill of Fay C. Parsons for printing, amounting to $19, the same being properly verified, but not presented for audit.
On motion of Mr. Robinson:
Resolved, That the clerk be authorized [to add] to the abstract of the town of Marathon the bill of Adam Hilsinger, constable, for $11.27, the same being duly verified, and not having been presented for audit. Therefore,
On motion of Mr. O'Donnell:
Resolved, That the compensation of the janitor be $50 for the session.
On motion of Mr. Phelps:
Resolved, That the compensation of the clerk of this board shall be $200 for the annual session, $150 to be paid at the close of the session and the balance when the journal is completed.
The matter of the manner of payment of bills for the support of indigent children placed in various public institutions, which was brought before, the board by the superintendent of the poor the third day, being a special order of business for this time, the matter was discussed at length by members.
On motion of Mr. O'Donnell:
Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed by the chair to draft a resolution providing for the payment of such bills, and that the same be made a special order of business for Wednesday forenoon.
DR. SMITH ON "GOLD."
Interesting and Instructive Address Before the Science Club.
Dr. George H. Smith addressed the Cortland Science club on Saturday evening, his subject being "Gold." In view of the fact that there are several experienced prospectors living in this city, it would perhaps be unwise to say that the doctor was full of his subject.
This we know, however, that the paper was extremely interesting and held closely the attention of the club. The talk was illustrated by a number of specimens of gold bearing quartz, and other ores; also specimens of gold, both alloyed and pure; and gold leaf and sponge gold for dentist's use.
Perhaps the most interesting of all the specimens shown, were some nuggets of gold brought from within the Arctic circle in the region of the Yukon river. An old prospector's pan came in for its share of attention and was examined with a great deal of interest. One found himself wishing the old pan could speak and tell its tale of hopes and fears, failures and successes, dreams never realized and prospects that did not pan out.
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| Lehigh Valley railroad depot, Truxton, N. Y. |
THAT MISSING WHISKEY
How It was Stolen from the Lehigh Valley Station Twelve Years Ago.
Dr. E. M. Santee and James A. Wood of Cortland believe that they have solved the mystery which shrouded the theft of forty-four gallons of whiskey from the Lehigh Valley station in Truxton twelve years ago. The information was given them while traveling from Truxton to this city recently. On this trip they had a conversation with a man who had been taking something quite like the beverage that was stolen from the station, and who was very talkative. According to this man's statements a party, of which he was a member, found out that the barrel was in the station, and they took the location of the same. At night they crawled under the building and tapped the big cask with a bit and drew the contents off by a spout into a washtub, from which it was transferred to a barrel that they had placed under a church. From this they sold to any body who cared for it in gallon lots. The money thus procured was spent at the hotel to which the whiskey was consigned.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad company tried at the time to detect the parties to the theft but failed, and had to settle for the goods. Whether or not the railroad company will push the matter now, in the light of this evidence, is not known.
BREVITIES.
—A regular meeting of the N. P. L. will be held this evening in I. O. G. T. hall at 7:30 o'clock sharp.
—The Wide Awake Literary club will meet at the home of Mrs. Wm. Rounsevell, 122 North Main-st. this evening.
—The Ladies' Literary club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with Mrs. G. H. Smith, 6 East Main-st.
—The engagement of "The Deemster," which was booked for next Monday night at the Opera House, has been canceled.
—The sewing meeting of the ladies of the Presbyterian church which was to have been held tomorrow afternoon at the chapel is postponed for one week.
—The D. & H. railroad has a new freight house in Binghamton which is 200 feet long and constructed with all modern improvements. It will be ready for use about Dec. 1.
—The Syracuse Post-Standard in its account of the presentation of "Egypta" in that city last night says: "William E. Chamberlain (of Cortland) as Pharaoh acted the haughty monarch in a very satisfactory manner."
—New display advertisements today are—Bosworth & Stillman, Shoes, page 8; M. A. Case, Drygoods, page 6; Mitch's market, Meats, etc., page 5; City Steam laundry, Laundry work, page 5; M. W. Giles, Special prices, page 7.
—Each day it snows a little and thaws a little, but the snow is gradually accumulating, and each day it looks more and more as though it might remain through the winter. There is no frost in the ground yet, and the country roads are in horrible condition, it being neither good wheeling nor good sleighing. Both wagons and sleighs are seen on the streets.
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