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| Empress Dowager Ci Xi. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, Jan. 9, 1902.
AT HOME IN PEKIN.
Dowager Empress Still Disposed to Take the Lead.
DONT LIKE FOREIGN GARRISONS.
Emperor Melancholy and Listless. Americans and Japanese to Be Decorated—General Tung Fu Siang to Be Decapitated—Charged With the Murder of Belgian Missionaries.
Pekin, Jan. 9.—All the evidences indicate that the Emperor of China is now more completely under the domination of the dowager empress than he was before the Chinese court went into exile. Several high officials were granted audiences yesterday during which the emperor filled the role of figurehead. The dowager empress sat on his majesty's left and conducted the conversations. According to the accounts of two of the officials who were received yesterday, the dowager empress ignored the emperor and the latter did not attempt to take any part in the affair. These officials say his majesty appeared melancholy and listless. The principal topic of conversation during those audiences was the presence in Pekin of the foreign garrisons. The dowager empress seemed impressed with the necessity of a conciliatory policy.
Evidence accumulates pointing to the timidity of the dowager empress about coming back to Pekin. Her first remark upon alighting at the Machiapu station Tuesday was: "Where are the foreign soldiers?" Upon seeing a number of newspaper correspondents at the station, the dowager empress bowed to them obsequiously.
Before leaving Pao Ting Fu in the special train the dowager empress requested Traffic Manager Foley of the railroad not to use the locomotive whistle, explaining that she was extremely nervous and that the whistle frightened her.
The dowager empress proposes to decorate the American and Japanese officers who guarded the imperial palace during the court's absence. She will also confer decorations upon the officers and engineers who had charge of the imperial train during the railroad journey from Pao Ting Fu.
The dowager empress has signed an edict ordering the decapitation of General Tung Fuh Siang, the notorious anti-foreigner. A Tartar general in Kan Su province has been ordered to carry out this sentence.
Yuan Shai Kai, the viceroy of Chi Li province, and a number of other influential officials memorialized the throne, charging Tung Fuh Siang with the murder of Belgian missionaries and urging his execution before he could institute rebellion and involve China in trouble with foreign governments.
Nicaragua Bill In the House.
Washington, Jan. 9.—The debate on the Nicaraguan canal bill in the house developed sentiment to favor of giving consideration to the recent offer of the Panama company to sell its franchises and property for $40,000,000, this sentiment taking the form of advocating the Morris amendment to empower the president to select the latter route if the canal commission, upon considering the company's offer, recommends it and the required concessions can be obtained from Columbia. Of 16 members who spoke yesterday nine favored the Morris amendment. It was agreed that general debate should close today at 2 o'clock after which the bill will be open to amendment under the five-minute rule. The final vote probably will be taken today.
ABOUT PRIVATE PENSION BILLS.
Mr. Gallinger States That None But Absolutely Meritorious Cases Would Be Reported by the Committee—No Pension Exceeding $50 Per Month to Be Recommended.
Washington, Jan. 9.—During consideration by the senate of private pension legislation some statements were made by Mr. Gallinger, chairman of the committee on pensions, in respect to regulation adopted by the committee to govern it in consideration of private pension bills. He announced that none but absolutely meritorious cases would be presented to the senate for its consideration. He said that no pension exceeding $50 a month would be recommended by the committee for the widow of a general officer and that pensions for the widows of other officers would be scaled down proportionately. The senate did not convene yesterday until 2 o'clock, an adjournment having been taken Tuesday until that hour in order that senators might have opportunity to attend the wedding of Senator Foraker's daughter which occurred at noon.
At the conclusion of routine business bills on the calendar were considered and among the measures passed were a considerable number of private pension bills.
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| Frederick T. Ward. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
American Influence in the Orient.
The announcement coming from Peking that the Chinese court, now returning to the imperial capital, has decided to engage an American advisor in its foreign office is, in view of the events of the last two years, not surprising. The policy of calling on Americans in critical times in China, however, is not new.
Frederick Townsend Ward went to China as United States envoy in 1859. He refused to submit to the humiliating ceremonies then imposed upon foreigners and excited the indignation of the court circle, but the outcome of the controversy was that Ward became the military adviser of the emperor and admiral general commanding the army and the navy.
That was at the beginning of the Taiping rebellion, when the Chinese authorities were dismayed by au uprising that threw the empire into confusion. Ward superintended the organization and drill of the armies and before his death had won a good many victories for the imperial party.
Later Anson Burlingame went to China as a representative of the United States government and in a few years became the adviser of the Chinese government. Rev. William A. P. Martin went to China in 1850 as a missionary, won the confidence of all classes of the Chinese people and was appointed president of the Peking university and later adviser of Chinese authorities on matters of international law in disputes with European powers. So great were Mr. Martin's services to the empire that he was made a mandarin of the third class in 1885 and of the second class in 1898.
When China was confronted by disaster as a result of the Japanese war, she did not turn to Europe for advice, but to the United States, and John W. Foster was called to China as the adviser of the government in that crisis, and his services were of the greatest value.
In the crisis precipitated by the Boxer movement no government in the world was more helpful to the Chinese than the United States. The position taken my Admirał Kempff and General Chaffee in the relief of the beleaguered envoys at Peking and the attitude later assumed by our diplomatic representatives, Minister Conger and Special Envoy Rockhill, undoubtedly did move than all other influences combined in saving the empire from partial if not entire disintegration. It is therefore not surprising that the Chinese should again turn to the United States for an adviser.
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| Wickwire Bros. Manufacturing Plant, Cortland, N. Y. |
TO EXTEND THE PLANT.
WICKWIRE BROTHERS TO BUILD A ROLLING MILL.
Have Purchased Ten Acres More from the Randall Estate—Contracts Let for New Open Hearth Steel Plant and Rolling Mill--Will Manufacture Their Own Steel Billets—Work to Begin in Early Spring—Completion Expected by Sept. 1—Many More Men to be Employed.
Wickwire Brothers have just purchased ten acres more of land from the Randall estate adjoining their property on the east and lying along the south side of the Lehigh Valley R. R. tracks and are about to further enlarge their wire plant. This will give them a total of twenty-five acres of land, which will all be in actual use and will very nearly all be covered with buildings. The contract has already been let to The Wellman-Seaver Engineering Co. of Cleveland, O., for the erection of an open hearth steel plant and a rolling mill from which will be turned out the steel billets for their own use in drawing wire such as they now purchase elsewhere. The new buildings will all be of steel construction and of the most modern and up-to-date type in every particular, both as regards construction and equipment, and with this plant they will be enabled to turn out the best quality of steel at the lowest possible cost. The plans are all prepared and work will begin as soon as the frost is out of the ground in the spring. It is expected that the plant will be completed and be ready for operation by Sept. 1.
Few people perhaps realize what the presence of this great wire plant means to Cortland and what the city would be without it. It has grown from small beginnings, but bas grown steadily and constantly. It now has over 830 people on its payroll, and it never shuts down except upon Sundays and holidays, but is in constant operation throughout the year, a considerable portion of the time employing double shifts of men and running day and night. With the addition now contemplated in full operation the number of employees will undoubtedly exceed one thousand. And there is no reason to believe that a limit to the extension will have been reached with the completion of this steel plant, for ever since the mill was started there have been additions each year and more and more men have been employed. It is in every case a benefit to Cortland, and it is to be hoped that prosperity will follow this firm and that the plant will still further grow and extend, for upon its prosperity depends the welfare of hundreds of families in this city.
PURE MILK ASSOCIATION.
List of Stockholders and Directors—Purpose of the Company.
Articles of incorporation of the Little York Pure Milk association were filed at the county clerk's office Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1902. This association is made up of twenty-eight milk producers living at or in the vicinity of Little York. The purposes of the organization are to produce and sell pure milk and cream and all the products of these; to bottle and sell milk in bottles as well as in cans, to manufacture and sell different brands and grades of milk, such as certified milk, sterilized milk, bottled milk, canned milk and buttermilk; also to manufacture high grade butter, cheese, pot cheese and other milk and butter products.
The amount of capital stock is fixed at $8,000, divided into 300 shares of $10 each. The principal office of the association is to be in Little York, and the duration of the incorporation is for a period of forty-nine years. The directors for the first year, with postoffice of each, are as follows: Byron Maxon, Homer; M. J. Pratt, Little York; Horace L. Bronson, Cortland; Daniel M. Cummings, Little York, Robert Wright, Little York; James H. Clark, Homer; John Gillett, East Scott; Frank Salisbury, Little York; Hamill Coon, Little York. The subscribers and number of shares taken by each are: Byron Maxon, Homer, 16; Daniel M. Cummings, Little York, 10; Henry M. Gates, Homer, 8; J. H. Clark, Homer, 12; George A. Warne, Little York, 6; John S. Gates, Little York, 9; Horace Hiscock, Little York, 14; John Hall, Homer, 6; M. J. Pratt, Little York, 12; Albert Riehlma, Little York, 8; F. F. Pratt, Little York, 10; George Atkinson, Little York, 7; Horace L. Bronson, Cortland, 20; Frank Long, Little York, 46; W. T. Perkin, Little York, 7; F. A. Gallup, Little York, 7; John Gillett, East Homer, 10; Austin L. Wright, Little York, 10; J. S. White, Little York, 3; Wright Bros., Little York, 10; Mrs. H. F. Carver, Little York, 8; Frank N. Salisbury, Little York, 8; O. P. Gallup, Little York, 4; Mrs. E. M. Ives, Little York, 2; H. T. Coon, Little York, 8; A. R. Gates, Little York, 8; W. A. Coon, Little York, 4; W. H. Foster, Homer, 16.
FORMERLY OF GROTON.
One of the Victims of the New York Railroad Accident.
Mr. H. G. Diamond of New Rochelle, assistant general manager of the American Bridge Co., who was killed yesterday morning in the railroad accident in the tunnel in New York, was formerly a resident of Groton, and was for several years the engineer of the Groton Bridge Co. When that concern became a part of the American Bridge company Mr. Diamond went with the new company and was promoted from time to time till he became the assistant general manager. He married a daughter of Sidney Gooding, one of the most prominent residents of Groton, and is survived by his wife and five little children. All Groton is in mourning today because of the death of Mr. Diamond who was so generally known there and by every one highly esteemed.
Death of Mrs. Proctor.
Mrs. Margaret Proctor died at the home of her son, Dr. P. M. Neary, 17 Tompkins-st., at 8 o'clock this morning from heart disease. Her age was 64 years.
Mrs. Proctor was born in Ireland and came to this country when a young girl. She was married to Philip Neary, who died in 1876. Since that time she married Richard J. Proctor, who survives her. Mrs. Proctor lived near Groton City. She was the mother of Dr. P. M. Neary and Mr. John Neary of this city, Mr. H. C. Neary of Homer, Mrs. Thomas Barry of New York and Mrs. John McGuire of McLean.
The funeral will be held from Dr. Neary's home, Saturday, Jan. 11, at 8 o'clock and at 8:15 o'clock at St. Mary's church. Burial will be made at Ithaca.
FROM THE PHILIPPINES.
TRUMAN H. WEDGE, A NORMAL GRADUATE, GIVES IMPRESSIONS.
Has Confidence in the Capacity of the Filipinos—The Country—The Seasons—The Day of a Lady in Polite Society—A Filipino Wedding in Which a Brass Band Figures Largely.
The following letter to The Standard has been received from Mr. Truman H. Wedge, a 1901 graduate of the Cortland Normal school, who has gone to the Philippines as a teacher.
To the Editor of the Standard:
Sir—The Philippines—an appropriate present for a deadly enemy. The climate—pleasant and healthful for leaches, tarantula, alligators, scorpions, centipedes and snakes. The soil adapted for raising foul odors and disease. The islands—a God-forsaken cannibalized, Aguinaldo-infested blot on the face of God's green earth.
While the above approximates the ideas of many in the states, the six islands which I have visited have proven a decided exception to this.
These islands produce sugar, hemp, tobacco, cotton, coffee, rice, maize, cacao beans, pepper, ginger and vanilla. For fruits they have mangoes, bananas, pineapples, limes, etc. The forests abound in many valuable woods such as cedar, ebony, and logwood and many new varieties equally as valuable. The following minerals have been found: granite, limestone, marl, coal, copper, iron, gold, lead, mercury, graphite and sulphur.
These islands have three seasons, the cold, hot and wet. During the cold season the mercury ranges from 77 degrees to 80 degrees F. which is from November to March. The hot season is from March to July which has a temperature of 80 to 100 degrees F. From July to November is the wet season. During a part of the latter season there are frequent heavy rains.
Not all of the Filipinos take readily to the control and improvement of the United States government, for in Samar and Mindoro there is fighting and there are quite a good many ladrones who are formed into bands which annoy several localities. But those err greatly who think the native is incapable of appreciating anything done for him; and who are confident that he is incapable, ungrateful, dishonest; will lie rather than tell the truth; is lazy; and, in general, is incapable of having much done for him in his own country in its development.
I find him inventive, imitative, appreciative and prompt in his civic relations.
The 115,000 square miles of land area of the islands is inhabited by 7,000,000 people, among whom are 30,000 Chinese, 20,000 Spaniards. The remainder are mestizos (half-breeds) and natives; the two chief languages are Tagalag and Visayan. The Tagals and Visayans are Catholics. The Moros are Mohammedans.
Ini bocan imocalo? (Vasayan.)
Itol hindi imo samalilong? (Tagalag.)
No es este su sombrero? (Spanish.)
Is this not your hat? (English.)
The ladies who have read this letter thus far may be interested in the Filipino lady of society. She breakfasts at 6, then comes the morning duties, weaving, sewing, embroidering, washing or cooking. The midday meal is taken at 12 o'clock, in order that the warmest hours of the day may be devoted to rest, about two of which are consumed in the siesta. At 4 o'clock the afternoon tea is served. This consists of rice cakes, and chocolate or tea. At 6 o'clock our young lady takes her drive or walk. Next comes dinner after which she may spend the evening hours in attending the theatre or entertaining. A conventional way of receiving her "young man" is for her to sit in the curved grating of the window seat having him stand on the walk underneath. Perhaps "gugu eyes" follow. (The natives are called gugus.) When she retires for the night she does not drop into the enfolding arms of a feather bed but spreads her petate, or mat, which has a long roll for a pillow and is overhung by useful mosquito netting.
Last week I attended a Filipino wedding in the province of Komblon. At 7 o'clock the brass bank escorted me to the home of the bride, where was held a dance and a feast. The next morning at 10:30 o'clock the wedding ceremony was performed at the home of the groom, after which another feast and dance. The ceremony was somewhat novel. After the magistrate read the data from the record book in Spanish, the president talked advisedly to the bride and groom in Vasayan for a few minutes after which the couple rose and joined right hands, the band playing some ragtime tune. Then the bride, groom and witnesses signed the record book which completed the ceremony.
The school for which I am responsible is held in a large frame building situated near the sea shore. Nearby on the west is a river, and in the distance to the east and south are mountains whose foot hills are covered with rice, grass and cocoanut and banana trees. The school consists of 212 pupils, four native and two American teachers. More about the schools in a future letter.
Kind regards to friends. Am well and happy.
Very truly yours, TRUMAN H. WEDGE, Department of Education, Manila, P. I., Nov. 14, 1901.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements today are—M. W. Giles, Make room sale, page 7; R. W. Mitchell, Meat, etc., page 5; S. P. Smith, Looking for meats, page 5.
—The publisher of the Tully Tribune has concluded that Tully is too small a town to support two papers and has suspended publication. He has had about three months' experience in starting a newspaper and doubtless paid well for it.
—The Loyal Circle of King's Daughters will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock with Mrs. E. R. Wright, 16 Groton-ave., instead of with Mrs. Boice as announced at the last meeting. The change is made because of illness at the home of Mrs. Boice. Members will please note the change.
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