CHINA SAVED BY U. S. NAVY, NATIONAL GUARD, TRUCK CASE AGAIN, AND NEW CARPET ROOM

 

Lt. Richmond Pearson Hobson.

"China, the cake of kings and emperors." French political cartoon.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, Jan 31, 1902.

CHINA SAVED BY U. S. NAVY.

Startling Statements of Captain Hobson About Empire's Partition.

   Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, hero of the Merrimac, who spoke at Tremont temple in Boston on "The American Navy," made some startling statements in regard to China, says the New York Evening Journal.

   "It is my sincere belief," he said, "that it was the presence of the strong United States navy in Chinese waters that prevented the partition of China a year and two years ago. If the partition of China comes in the near future,  I believe that the world will be set on fire. It is my belief that under such circumstances the only preventive of a worldwide war will be the presence of a great American fleet.

   "China is to be opened up, and opened up soon. The United States by its geographical and industrial position has the strategic vantage ground. We should be the first in this vast industrial upheaval, which is sure to come with the opening up of China to the world. We have equal rights in China with the rest of the world, and we have equal rights in saying that China shall not be partitioned."

 

STATE RACING COMMISSION.

Opposed to Indiscriminate Establishment of Race Courses.

   New York, Jan. 31.—August Belmont, E. D. Morgan and John Sanford, state racing commissioners, have issued in pamphlet form their report for 1901, to the state legislature. The commissioners find the business of racing associations and the breeding industry for the year to have more than fulfilled expectations and say that the offering of premiums to greater value than formerly has done the breeding industry so much good that they will be justified in increasing these premiums.

   The commission believes the stability of the industry can be best maintained by breeding thoroughbred horses. Other points made in the report follow:

   Overnight races we must have, but no racing association should be permitted to confine itself to these overnight races.

   Racing to be successful must be conducted on business principles, but racing as a business and without reference to its effect upon breeding or upon the standard demanded is not to be encouraged.

   Race courses are being constructed or their existence planned at a time when there does not seem any good reason for their establishment, other than a pure desire to make money. The commission feels that the state should under the circumstances put some restraint upon the indiscriminate establishment of race courses, especially when their only excuse for existence is the obtaining of money. It recommends that it be given such power of passing upon the advisability of the incorporation of associations designed for the holding of running race meetings and steeplechase meetings as has the state railroad commission within its jurisdiction over the construction of railroads.

   The commission turned into the state comptroller for the benefit of the agricultural societies $128,581, the largest sum in any one year. The total since 1895 was $583,389. Exclusive of the value of plate which accompanied stakes, there was paid out to the owners of winning horses the sum of $1,434,406, also the largest sum by more than $120,000 competed for since 1895, the sum in the past five years being $5,875,000.

   Last year the sales of thoroughbreds at public auction in this state amounted to $1,621,788, a sum far in excess of any ever before realized in any single year.

   Of this amount $861,642 was paid for yearlings; $320,076 for brood mares; $315,070 for horses in training; $67,000 for stallions and $58,000 for weanlings.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Reorganizing the National Guard.

   The proceedings of the Interstate Association of the National Guard in Washington awakens renewed interest in the proposition to organize a national reserve militia.

   A bill conferring upon the president power to call out the militia in time of emergency and associating more directly the citizen soldiery with the regular army has been prepared with great care by officials of the war department. In its present form that measure has the approval of the president and of the secretary of war, and the endorsement of these representatives of the militia in the several states is now sought as an aid to its passage through congress. Some of these militia officers have expressed the apprehension that if the discipline of the regular army is extended to the militia it will be difficult to induce men voluntarily to enlist.

   This could hardly be urged as a fault in the bill. It is probable that these doubting militia officers underestimate the spirit of citizens who belong or who are willing to belong to the militia. The men who would shrink from discipline are fit only for parlor soldiery. As a matter of fact, well officered and consequently well disciplined regiments are the very ones with which young men of spirit are most likely to ally themselves.

 

A BIRTHDAY PARTY.

Mrs. Elvira Williams Surrounded by Children and Grandchildren.

   Yesterday Mrs. Elvira Williams of Homer, N. Y., was 80 years old. Her birthday was celebrated quietly, but in a very pleasant way by the home coming of all the family. Five of the six children who constituted the family are now alive, the youngest, a daughter, having died six years ago. All of these with husbands and wives and with children and grandchild were present. The family as assembled included Mr. and Mrs. Norman Smith of Union Valley, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Smith of Lincklaen, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Williams and Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Williams of Homer and Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Lane of Cortland. There were also five of the six grandchildren and one great grandchild in the company. There were also present a niece of Mrs. Williams, Mrs. F. F. Poole of Lincklaen with her husband and daughter. Mrs. Williams has since the death of her husband fifteen years ago made her home with different ones of her children. The gathering yesterday was at the home of Mr. E. M. Williams.

   A fine dinner was served and then the afternoon and evening were passed in a social way. Mrs. Williams was remembered by a host of friends with gifts of beautiful flowers—roses, carnations, violets and hyacinths. The roses were especially numerous and came from a half dozen or more different sources. As they were being admired some one proposed counting them. To their utter surprise there were exactly eighty, corresponding to the number of years celebrated. It was wholly a coincidence for no one had counted them before and there was no previous plan in the matter as too many people were the givers.

 

TRUCK CASE AGAIN.

ADDITIONAL PAPERS SERVED UPON THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

Attorney for Defense Secures Formal Denial of His Former Motion for New Trial and Now Serves Notice of Appeal from That Denial—Would Argue it Before Court of Appeals Feb. 10—Three Days Before Other Argument.

   There are new developments in the Truck murder case almost every day. It is one of the constantly changing cases in which something is new every morning and fresh every evening. The only feature of it that is constant is that John Truck, the convicted prisoner, still remains in one of the condemned cells at Auburn state prison, where he has been since March 19, 1900—almost two years.

   His attorneys, E. W. Hyatt of Homer and Nathan L. Miller of Cortland, saw no possible ground upon which they could ask for a new trial and consequently declined to do more for him. Then John H. McCrahon of Syracuse came into the case, and on June 11, 1900, an order was filed in the county clerk's office granted by Judge A. H. Sewell substituting Attorney McCrahon for Attorneys Hyatt and Miller as counsel for the defendant. Attorney McCrahon filed a notice of appeal and the steps toward the argument of that appeal moved forward in their regular order.

   Some weeks ago, as previously detailed in these columns, defendants counsel served notice on the district attorney that he should appear before Judge Sewell at special term at Norwich on Jan. 13 and make a notice for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence. The evidence was based upon certain affidavits, one of them and the principal one of them being that of Orville Pickert of Freetown who was confined in the county jail at the same time with Truck prior to and during his trial here in February and March, 1900. One of the witnesses was another prisoner there at the same time, one Tompkins. Pickert alleges in his affidavit that there was an understanding between Tompkins and the district attorney at that time and that because he swore to certain facts on the trial the indictment against him was never pressed, and on the ground of the information contained in this affidavit the new trial is asked.

   District Attorney Dowd went to Norwich on Jan. 13 to oppose the motion, but Attorney McCrahon never appeared there at that time to press it. Acting under the advice of Judge Sewell District Attorney Dowd did not press his request at that time for a dismissal of the proceedings, as the motion for a new trial was not before the court. Subsequently, however, Attorney McCrahon obtained from Judge Sewell a denial of that motion for a new trial.

   When Judge Sewell in June, 1900, granted the order substituting Attorney McCrahon for Attorneys Hyatt and Miller as counsel for the defendant he was in Brooklyn doing special judicial work under assignment by the governor and was outside of his regular judicial district. A doubt has been suggested as to whether Judge Sewell in Brooklyn had jurisdiction in making this substitution and to remove every question about it Mr. McCrahon appeared before Judge Mattice at special term at Elmira last Tuesday, Jan. 28, and was granted an order substituting himself for Attorneys Hyatt and Miller. The same order vacated and set aside the similar order of Judge Sewell which was filed in the Cortland county clerk's office on June 11, 1900, and substituted this order for the other nunc pro tunc as of said date, June 11, 1900.

   These two papers—Judge Sewell's denial of a motion for a new trial and Judge Mattice's order of substitution—were yesterday afternoon served upon District Attorney Dowd and filed in the county clerk's office, and with them was served and filed a notice of appeal from Judge Sewell's order denying the motion for a new trial.

   There are now, therefore, two appeals to be argued before the court of appeals, one an appeal from the decision of Judge Sewell denying a new trial and the other an appeal from the verdict of conviction rendered by the jury and the sentence of death pronounced by the presiding justice. Attorney McCrahon wrote to the county clerk when he sent the papers to be filed that he should expect to argue the first mentioned appeal before the court of appeals on Feb. 10 which is three days before the date noticed by the district attorney for the argument on the appeal from the verdict.

   The next move in this celebrated case will now be awaited with interest.

 

IN POLICE COURT.

Two Cases Where Men Entrusted with Horses Disappear.

   Theodore Carter of Groton was arrested today by Chief of Police Barnes on complaint of Everett Halliday, a liveryman of Groton, N. Y. Halliday claims that yesterday morning Carter started for Cortland with his team to bring a traveling man through, and that Carter agreed to return yesterday. When he did not return, the owner of the rig swore out a warrant, charging grand larceny. Carter will be taken by Sheriff Overton to Groton this afternoon to appear before a magistrate. Halliday, who came to Cortland today, also states that Carter is not an employee of his, but that he, Carter, wanted to come to Cortland to get some things and the rig was put in his charge.

   The hearing of Junior Colle is being conducted in police court this afternoon. Colle is charged with grand larceny in the second degree in taking and appropriating to his own use a horse, tin cart, goods and a harness belonging to W. H. Cooper, a junk dealer.

 

A NEW CARPET ROOM.

Warner, Tanner & Co. to Build an Addition to Their Store.

   Warren, Tanner & Co. have just secured a lease from B. E. Miller for a term of years for a plot of ground immediately in the rear of their store on Main-st. upon which they purpose immediately to erect a new frame building for a carpet room. The building will be the same width as their store, 50 feet, and 30 feet deep and two stories high. It will stand back from the rear of the store about 15 feet, for a driveway must be kept through at the rear of the line of stores, and besides there is no disposition to in any way impair the excellent light that now comes into the store through those large east windows at its rear. But a covered archway will be constructed connecting the rear door at the north side of the store with the new building. A fine cement walk will be put down across the drive, so that the passage way may always be dry and clean.

   The first floor of the building will be the carpet room. It will then be possible to carry even a larger stock of carpets, rugs and draperies than at present, and here they can be displayed to good advantage. The second floor will be used for the carpet making department and for a storeroom.

   As a result of relegating everything in this line to the new building the shelving and counters at the north side of the store where the carpets are now shown will be extended to the rear thus again relieving the crowded state. This change will be a great advantage and convenience to the firm and its employees, and it is believed that it will be equally a convenience to their patrons.

   Work on the building will begin at once and it is expected to be ready for occupancy in about six weeks.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The funeral of Mr. German Nye was held at his home in South Cortland at 1 o'clock Thursday.

   —The funeral of Harold Lowerre will be held at the house, 25 Prospect-st., Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.

   —An electric road from Oneonta to Utica is now being agitated and seems likely to be built during the coming summer.

   —Thirty new corporations were formed in Binghamton during the year 1901 having an aggregate capital stock of $2,243,800.

   —Cornell university hopes through the influence of Ambassador White to have a visit from Prince Henry and in that case will make elaborate preparations for his reception.

   —A Mothers' meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Emma Oakley, G Sand-st., Saturday afternoon, Feb. 1, at 3 o'clock. All mothers and friends are most cordially invited.

   —New display advertisements today are—M. A. Case, Dry goods, page 6; F. E. Brogden, Brogden's Leader, page 6; Glann & Clark, Shoes, page 4; C. F. Brown, Free Kidney cure, page 4.

—A general mass-meeting of the Five States' Milk Producers' association will be held at the Arlington hotel in Binghamton on Wednesday, Feb. 5 . All milk producers are requested to be present.

   —Mr. Benj. L. Webb bas bought the house and lot at 25 Prospect-st., formerly owned by Rev. Dr. J. L. Robertson and will move there with his family April 1. This was their home for some time after Dr. and Mrs. Robertson left Cortland, and it will be like returning home to go back there.

   —The ninth semi-monthly meeting of the Leisure Hour club of Homer was held this afternoon at the home of Mrs. Charles H. Stevens. One of the principal speakers at the gathering was Mrs. George J. Mager of this city, who read a very interesting paper upon "Early French Writers before the Renaissance." France has been the chief topic of the club this winter.

 

CARNEGIE INSTITUTE, MR. WU ON MARRIAGE, GILLETTE FACTORY, FIRE AT SCREEN FACTORY, AND KING'S DAUGHTERS ELECTION

 

Andrew Carnegie.

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, Jan. 30, 1902.

CARNEGIE INSTITUTE.

Meeting of the Trustees at the State Department.

MR. CARNEGIE PRESENTS DEED.

William E. Dodge of New York Elected to the Board on Account of Mr. Cleveland's Declination—Mr. Carnegie Explains Scope of the institution.

   Washington, Jan. 30.—An adjourned meeting of the trustees of the Carnegie institute was held at the state department and a long step was taken towards permanent organization and the initiation of the work of the institution. Abram S. Hewitt of New York called the meeting to order and Secretary Hay was elected temporary chairman and Charles D. Walcott temporary secretary. William E. Dodge of New York was elected to the board to fill a vacancy caused by the declination of ex-President Cleveland, who sent a letter regretting his inability to serve. After the roll call Mr. Carnegie made a brief address, presenting the deed of gift:

   "I beg to thank you deeply for so promptly, so cordially, aiding me by acceptance of trusteeship. A note from the president congratulates me upon the 'high character, indeed I may say, the extraordinarily high character of the trustees, such are his words. I believe this estimate has been generally approved throughout the wide boundary of the United States.

   "My first thought was to fulfill the expressed wish of Washington by establishing a university here, but a study of the question forced me to the conclusion that under present conditions, were Washington still with us, his finely balanced judgment would decide that in our generation at least such use of wealth would not be the best.

   "One of the most serious objections, and one which I could not overcome, was that another university might tend to weaken existing universities. My desire was to co-operate with all educational institutions and establish what would be a source of strength and not of weakness to them and the idea of a Washington university or of anything of a memorial character was therefore abandoned.

   "This gift, or the donor, has no pretentions to such honor, and in nowise interferes with the proposed university or with any memorial. It has its own more modern field and is entrusted to co-operate with all kindred institutions, including the Washington university if ever built, and it may be built if we continue to increase in population as heretofore for a generation. In this hope, I think, the name should be sacredly held in reserve. It is not a matter of one million or ten million or even of twenty millions, but of more, to fulfill worthily the wish of Washington, and I think no one would presume to use this almost sacred name except for a university of a first rank, established by national authority, as he desired. Be it our part in our day and generation to do what we can to extend the boundaries of human knowledge by utilizing institutions.

   "Gentlemen, your work begins, your aims are high; you seek to extend known forces and to discover and utilize new forces for the benefit of man. Than this there can scarcely be greater work. I wish you abundant success and venture to prophesy that through your efforts in co-operation with those of kindred societies in our country contributions to the advancement of race through research will compare in the near future not unfavorably with those of any other land. Again I thank you."

   After accepting the deed of gift of $10,000,000 from Mr. Carnegie, the trustees proceeded to adopt by-laws and then elected the following officers: Chairman of the board of trustees, Abram S. Hewitt; vice chairman. Dr. J. S. Billings; secretary, Charles D. Walcott; Dr. Daniel C. Gilman, late of Johns Hopkins university, was elected president of the Carnegie Institute.

 

Andrew D. White.

Prince Henry of Prussia.

Invited to Visit Cornell.

   Ithaca, Jan. 30.—President Schurman has cabled Ambassador Andrew D. White to extend to Prince Henry an invitation to visit Cornell university when the prince arrives in the United States. It is hoped by Ithacans that the invitation coming from Ambassador White, a former president of Cornell, will receive favorable consideration.

 

Minister Wu Ting Fang.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Mr. Wu on Marriage.

   In Washington the other day, Chinese Minister Wu fell to discussing matrimony, according to a Washington correspondent, and gave it as his opinion that the method of bringing about marriage in this country is nearly as full of faults as the peculiar customs of China. A month ago an estimable American woman residing in San Francisco arrived in Washington with a young Chinese girl in her charge. She became acquainted with the girl while engaged in mission work in San Francisco, and a marriage with her protégé and an industrious Chinaman in business in Philadelphia was arranged. The engagement was managed as is the custom in China, without either party seeing the other. Photographs were exchanged, however, and the two agreed that they could be happy together. The American woman brought the girl East to be married, and while in Washington called on Minister Wu. The latter got the cards announcing the marriage, and he understands that the couple are happy. Discussion of this incident led some one to remark that there was a great element of risk in bringing the girl a couple of thousand miles to marry a man she had never seen and that it was a strange proceeding.

   Then it was that Minister Wu gave his opinion. "Not strange at all," he said. "In fact, not nearly as curious as the way you Americans do, from our point of view. Marriages in China are always arranged in this way, and they usually turn out happy. Of course, it is very different from the custom here, but they are both radical. So I would suggest a compromise, to include the selection feature of Chinese marriages and the meeting feature of American courtships. But I dare say that parents are often more competent to judge of who will make good husbands and wives than their more interested sons and daughters. You can learn a good deal about a girl by seeing her photograph and having another tell of her charms. Your own custom of judging a girl by seeing her constantly has its faults, for they say that love is blind."

   The American young person is not likely to fall in with the minister's suggestion, although argument in concrete might be brought in favor of it. On the other hand, if arranged marriages always turned out like that of a certain unfortunate crowned head, concerning whom much has been printed of late, it is doubtful if even China would long follow its present custom.

 

FACTORY TO ENLARGE.

Gillette Cannot Keep up with Orders with Present Facilities.

   The expected has happened. Ten days ago it was apparent that the Gillette Skirt Co. could not keep up with its great rush of orders without increasing its facilities. But at the same time the management did not want to be hasty and it was thought that perhaps orders might diminish after a little, but on the contrary they have increased and it has been decided to enlarge at once and the contract for the new building has been let.

   An addition 38 feet wide and two stories high will be built forward 54 feet toward Homer-ave., from the front of the factory. The second story will be fitted up with shafting for more machines. The first floor will be used for a cutting room. There will also be a commodious and convenient dressing room and coat room for the lady employees. Of late they have been exceedingly crowded in this respect. The office will also be extended out into the part now used for a dressing room, thus affording another relief, as the office has been badly overcrowded since the business has so increased that more help was necessary. It is expected that the building will be completed in about six weeks.

 

Sanborn Insurance Fire Map 1902.

FIRE AT SCREEN FACTORY.

VARNISH BUILDING BURNED WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

Stood Apart from Other Buildings—Plentiful Use of Water Kept Flames from Lumber Which Was Piled Near—Fortunate Fire in Every Respect—Work of Rebuilding Already Begun.

   The varnish building at the works of the Cortland Door and Window Screen company was burned at about 8:30 o'clock last night. A plentiful use of water prevented the spread of the flames to other buildings or to lumber which in great quantities is piled near. The building which is considered an extra hazardous risk and upon which in consequence no insurance can be carried stood at least 60 feet distant from the nearest other building of the factory and is located upon a triangular plot of ground between the main track of the Lehigh Valley R. R. and a switch from that road which extends down into the yard to the shipping room. It was about 20 by 50 feet in size and one story high. Lumber, which is almost as dry as though from a kiln, is piled along both sides of that switch, and is in places very near to the varnish building. Fortunately last night it was covered with snow and fortunately, too, there was no wind blowing. Had the night been like the previous one when there was a perfect gale of wind from the south no power on earth could have prevented the destruction of the whole plant.

   The origin of the fire is unknown. The building is heated by steam and lighted by electricity and the company does not intend that any other form of light shall be taken into the building and, does not know that it ever has been. A train on the Lehigh Valley passed ten minutes before the fire was discovered and it has been suggested that a spark from the locomotive may have caused the fire, but this is uncertain. The fire was in the east side of the building next the track when first seen, but whether it took its origin from the outside or the inside of the building will probably never be known.

   The factory is now in its busiest season and with two forces of hands is being operated day and night. All through the early part of the evening two men had been carrying screen doors into the varnish building to be varnished today. They had gone to another building after a fresh supply and were just returning when they discovered the flames. The fire was also seen at about the same moment from the engine room by Night Engineer Byron Pratt. Mr. Pratt at once pulled down and left down the lever of his big steam whistle and the shrill screams from its gigantic throat carried terror not only to the scores of employees in the works themselves but to all the residents of that part of the city.

   One of the men rushed to the office to telephone an alarm of fire to the [fire] engine house. The office door was locked, but he burst it open. Whether he was unfamiliar with a telephone or in his excitement did not wait for the operator at the central office to answer is not clear, but in any case he could not get his message through. Another man ran to the corner of Port Watson and Pomeroy-sts. to pull the fire alarm box.

   Meanwhile the men poured out of factory eager to help in any way possible. It was remembered that two barrels of varnish, two barrels of benzene and a barrel of naphtha had been put into the varnish room yesterday afternoon and there they stood unopened and with the flames speedily drawing near to them. Instantly there was a rush for them and all five barrels were quickly rolled out of the building and to a place of safety. A line of fire hose was attached to the big pump in the engine room and the pump was started. A stream of water was turned first upon the burning building and then when it was seen that the building would be destroyed any way the water was devoted to soaking down the nearby lumber piles so that they might not be ignited.

   At first there seemed to be some difficulty about the fire alarm box and the bell did not strike correctly. But when it was pulled a second time it worked all right and the fire department responded quickly. Hitchcock Hose Co. attached to the hydrant at the corner of Port Watson and Pomeroy-sts., and took its hose across the back gardens and fields toward the burning building, but it wouldn't reach. Water Witch attached to the end and altogether 1,100 feet of hose were laid. The other companies attached to hydrants further up the street, but the hose would not reach and no water was thrown by these companies.

   With the two streams, one from the engine pump and the other from the city hydrant, the flames were soon extinguished. The officials of the Door and Window Screen Co. exhorted the firemen to let the fire in the varnish building burn itself out if need be as the loss in any case would not be great, but to save the lumber piles at any cost as their destruction would shut down the works, as no more dry lumber like that could be procured on short notice.

   After the fire was out the employees of the factory began at once clearing up the debris. The charred materials and embers and siding of the building still hot were piled into wheelbarrows and taken into the engine room and burned up. Everything was made ready for rebuilding as soon as morning should come, and today a gang of carpenters is at work hurrying up a new building to replace the old one. Except for a recess of an hour or two last night work in the factory was not interrupted, but was continued as usual this morning. It is said that the lack of a varnish room will delay the completion of work for about two weeks, but when the new varnish room is ready for use extra help will be put on to enable that part of the factory to catch up with the others so that the actual delay in shipments will be very slight.

   Taken altogether it was a very fortunate fire.

 

King's Daughters Election.

   The Loyal Circle of King's Daughters has elected the following officers for 1902:

   President—Mrs. S. S. Stearns.

   Secretary—Mrs. Jesse F. Bosworth.

   Treasurer—Mrs. C. F. Thompson.

   First Vice-President — Mrs. A. A. Sprague.

   Second Vice-President—Mrs. Henry Relyea.

   Third Vice-President—Mrs. J. O. Hammond.

   Fonrth Vice-President—Mrs. E. R. Wright.

   General Superintendent of Local Charity—Mrs. Ella McElheny, 29 Greenbush-st.

   Superintendent for First Ward—Mrs. J. J. Moore.

   Superintendent for Second Ward—Mrs. S. Doyle.

   Superintendent for Third Ward—Miss Annie Kingman.

   Superintendent for Fourth Ward—Mrs. E E. Ellis.

   Superintendent for Fifth Ward—Mrs. H. O. Smith.

   Superintendent for Sixth Ward—Mrs. J. O. Hammond.

   Chairman Fruit and Flower Committee—Mrs. H. J. Baker.

   Chairman Finance Committee—Mrs. E. D. Parker.

   Chairman Sewing Committee—Mrs. A. W. McNett.

   Chairman Literary Committee—Mrs. Stanley Bierce.

   Chairman Entertainment Committee—Mrs. W. K. Harris.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The population of Groton according to the census just completed has increased in the last two years from 1,342 to 1,400.

   —The annual public exercises of the Alpha Delta fraternity will be held at Normal hall tomorrow night at 8 o'clock.

   —New display advertisements today are—R. W. Mitchell, Meats, page 5; W. J. Perkins, Stomach tablets, page 6; S. P. Smith, Meats, page 5.

   —Mr. Horace W. Seaman of Marathon, formerly of Cortland, has purchased of Ryan & Hall the dwelling house adjoining their store on Port Watson-st. and will take possession March 1. This was formerly the Mrs. Dorliska Tisdale place.

   —Harold, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Łowerre of 25 Prospect-st., who has been very ill with pneumonia for several days, died at 11:30 o'clock this morning. He was a very bright and attractive little fellow and the blow is a hard one for the parents, who will have the sympathy of many friends in this hour of sorrow. He lacked a few days of being four years old. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made.

 

SOLDIERS' HARDSHIPS, HEATED SENATE DEBATE, GOOD ROADS, PURE FOOD LAW, JOHN H. ROWLEY, AND CORTLAND SCIENCE CLUB

 

Major General Adna Chaffee.

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1902.

SOLDIERS' HARDSHIPS.

Captain Porter's Marines Had a Trying Time.

WITHOUT FOOD FOR MANY DAYS.

Couldn't Find Edible Roots and Ate Two Dogs—Ten Men Delirious—Marines Angry at Natives—Campaign in Samar Retarded by Continuous Rains—An Elusive Enemy.

   Manila, Jan. 29.—General Chaffee curtailed his trip and returned here. He says he found the conditions apparently satisfactory everywhere, except at Samar, where continuous rains during the past two months has retarded the campaign, especially against such an elusive enemy.

   The condition of Captain David D. Porter's marines who took part in the expedition into the interior of Samar is much worse than previously described. They suffered fearful hardships and were without food for several days. The natives who accompanied the marines claimed they were unable to distinguish the edible roots, which the marines did not believe. The anger of the marines against the natives is intense. None of the latter returned with the marines.

   The marines suffered so acutely from starvation that they ate raw the flesh of two dogs.

   When Captain Porter and the first three of his men staggered into camp, they were delirious and difficulty was experienced concerning the whereabouts of their companions.

   Williams of the First Infantry headed the relief expedition in the face of a torrential rainstorm, which flooded the rivers. He succeeded in reaching the remaining 10 men who would otherwise have certainly perished. He found them all delirious. Two of the men were discovered in the branches of trees, barking like dogs. Some of the marines are so ill that they are not likely to recover.

   General Chaffee has endeavored to obtain full details of the trip of the marines but Captain Porter is not yet able to lucidly explain matters.

 

Senator Henry Teller.

Senator Henry C. Lodge.

HEATED DEBATE.

Acrimonious Discussion Over the Philippine Question.

   Washington, Jan. 29.—A Philippine storm was central in the senate chamber for nearly three hours, but was void of definite results. At times it looked very serious and the spectator« who thronged the galleries watched it with breathless interest.

   Acrimony in senate debates is not infrequent, but old senators say it has been years since there has been such a hurricane of bitter vituperation, of personal taunt, of ugly charges and of unmodified criticism as was witnessed. Not since the discussion of the resolution leading up to the Hispano-American war have any scenes occurred in the senate comparable with it.

   Irritation was aroused on both sides of the chamber and once or twice personal encounters between senators seemed imminent. Once when Senator Teller taunted the Republican senators by declaring they knew the statements made in a recent dispatch from Manila in which General Wheaton was represented as criticizing the opponents of the government's policy in the Philippines were true, a half dozen Republicans were on their feet in an instant. Senator Lodge, at whom the taunt seemed to be aimed particularly, hurriedly crossed from his seat in the center of the Republican side to the main aisle of the senate and white to the lips passionately challenged the statement of the Colorado senator and demanded that he withdraw it.

   Senator Teller so modified the statement and further hostilities at that time were averted.

   One of the sharpest colloquies of the session was between Senators Spooner and Tillman. The race problem involving the lynching of negroes was interjected into the controversy and much feeling was manifested by both senators.

   When the discussion finally was ended for the day the chair felt called upon seriously to admonish senators that the rules of the body had not been observed, and after reading the rule which had been violated he expressed the hope that in the future senators would have a care to observe it. Such an admonition has not been made by the presiding officer of the senate in many years.

   Prior to the outbreak on the Philippine question the senate concluded the consideration of the bill establishing a department of commerce and passed it. The name of the new department was changed to that of the department of commerce and labor.

 

FOR GOOD ROADS.

PROPOSITION TO EXPEND THE SUM OF $10,000,000.

Connecting Various Counties Through the State—Four Years to do the Work. Seventeen Years to Pay for it—Cortland to be Included in the Place—Discussion at Good Roads Convention.

   ALBANY, Jan. 29, (Special.)—One of the most interesting features of today's good roads convention was the plan submitted by state engineer and surveyor Bond of a continuous system of good roads. It is designed to cover the entire state, as far as practicable, connecting all the important county seats, and giving access to health and summer resorts. The cost of such a system of good roads as that proposed would be about $10,000,000 at the outset. Four years would be required to do the work. Eventually half of the expense would be turned into the state's treasury by the localities, so that the annual payment on the bonds would be but $760,000 a year for a period of seventeen years. This outlay would make necessary a state tax of not to exceed six cents on every $1,000.

   In dwelling upon his proposition State Engineer Bond said in the course of his address before the convention today that the chief criticism of the state's policy of road improvement up to date was that the work of road improvement was not continuous; that while localities which were building good roads were getting the benefit of their own local work, the state at large was not profiting materially from the work, and in the nature of things could not hope to for a good many years to come. His plan, he said, was not offered as the only one that could be adopted to meet the situation; it was merely put forward for the purpose of indicating what can be done in the good roads movement for an expenditure of $10,000,000. He hoped, he said, that it would serve to provoke discussion on the subject, even though it failed to accomplish anything else.

   "An expenditure of $10,000,000," State Engineer Bond continued, "would construct upwards of 1,250 miles of improved macadam road. Following along those counties which have thus far filed petitions for the largest amount of improved roads, it would seem that the first work should be taken up by connecting the counties running through the eastern, central and southern portions of the state. This would naturally form a continuous road from New York City, by way of Albany, to Buffalo; from Albany to Rouse's Point, and from Nyack through the southern tier to Mayville, Chautauqua county, aggregating about 1,090 miles. Out of the $10,000,000 fund there would be left sufficient for the improvement of about 160 miles of lateral roads, which added to the 175 miles of improved roads already completed and in process of construction, and for which funds have been provided, and which would be utilized in forming these lateral roads, would make a total mileage of 1,425 miles."

   An examination of State Engineer Bond's system shows that it provides for a road right through the heart of the Adirondacks from Lowville to Crown Point. Another road passes up between Lake Champlain and the eastern side of the Adirondacks, turns to the west and follows the northern boundary of the state through Malone and Canton, and passes down to Watertown, where it connects with other roads running southward to Rome. Syracuse, Oswego and Lyons, and there connects with a trunk road, crossing the state from east to west.

   By this system of roads it would be practicable to travel from New York to Buffalo by way of Newburg, Monticello, Deposit, Binghamton, Elmira, Corning, Bath, Belmont and Little Valley, or from Little Valley west and south to Jamestown around Chautauqua lake to Mayville, and thence north to Buffalo. It would likewise be possible to go from New York to Buffalo by a road along the Hudson river to Albany, and thence directly west over roads following generally the line of the New York Central railroad.

   Another line of good roads contained in State Engineer Bond's plan extends from Kingston through the heart of the Catskill mountains to Delhi, Norwich, Cortland, Ithaca and Watkins, there connecting with other roads reaching to the western part of the state. From Albany three lines of road are proposed; one going north to Troy and through the Adirondacks to Plattsburg; another along the west bank of the Hudson to New York City, a third west to Schenectady, and thence west to Buffalo over a central system of roads, following the line of the Central road. There are to be five roads from Syracuse—one east to Albany through Utica and the Mohawk valley; one northeast to Rome through Oneida, one north to Pulaski, and thence connecting with the road to the north; one north to Oswego, and one west to Auburn and Buffalo.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

National Pure Food Law.

   The bill lately presented in the house of representatives by Mr. Mann of Illinois and to be pushed in the senate by Senator Cullom gives promise of a substantial and effective movement in behalf of pure food legislation. It is regarded as the strongest pure food measure ever proposed.

   It is the outcome of a great deal of quiet work begun by the Retail Grocers' association of Chicago and finally taken up by the National Association of Retail Grocers. It strikes right at the root of the adulteration evil by placing responsibility directly upon the man who puts up impure goods. It does not seek the ruin of the retailer who innocently buys and sells them.

   Another strong feature of this measure is that it places as a protective agency, in conjunction with state boards of health and pure food commissions, a national bureau with power over impure goods manufactured in any state and shipped elsewhere.

   The need of such a national measure is shown by the support the proposed bill is receiving from the leading retailers and wholesalers of the country. They seem to be a unit in declaring that the state laws for detecting and punishing adulterations in foods have proved inadequate and that the only successful course to pursue is to punish the persons responsible for making the impure foods.

 

Elks at Auburn.

   About a dozen and a half of the members of Cortland lodge, No. 748, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, went to Auburn today and will be present this evening and help the Auburn lodge in dedicating their new and elaborate rooms. Part of the Cortland delegation started this morning via Syracuse, while the others drove to Groton in hacks this afternoon and will go from there to Auburn by the Lehigh Valley R. R.

 

JOHN H. ROWLEY

Found Dead in His Barn in the Town of Truxton, N. Y.

   TRUXTON, Jan. 29.—Mr. John H. Rowley, a well known and highly respected farmer who resides in this town on the north road near Labrador lake, dropped dead in his barn yesterday.

   Yesterday morning at about 9:30 o'clock Mr. Rowley went to his barn to do chore,. At about 11 o'clock his sister, Mrs. Rebecca Negus, who lives only a short distance from her brother's house, went to call upon her brother's family. Passing the barn she saw the door open and going in found her brother on the floor. She went to the house and notified Mrs. Rowley and her two daughters, who went to the barn. Thinking he was in a faint the women tried to get him to the house, but as be weighed over 200 pounds they were unable to carry him. Word was quickly sent to a large party of men who were cutting ice on Labrador lake, and also to Drs. Leonard and Dwinelle of Tully. The men arrived very soon and Mr. Rowley was removed to the house. The physicians soon came who found that he had been dead several hours.

   It is thought that death was caused by heart disease as he was subject to that difficulty. The funeral arrangements have not as yet been made.

   Mr. Rowley was born in the town of Truxton in 1838 and has always resided here. He has always been engaged in farming and owned several hundred acres of land in the northern part of this town. The charming resort, Tinkers Fails, is located upon his farm. In politics he was a Democrat. He is survived by his widow, two daughters, Mrs. William McKivers of Apulia, Miss Rowley of Cortland and one son.

 

CORTLAND SCIENCE CLUB.

Dr. Reese Speaks at Length upon the Subject of Tuberculosis.

   Dr. F. D. Reese addressed the Cortland Science club on Saturday evening last, his subject being ''Tuberculosis." The paper was extremely interesting and impressed the hearers with the fact that man, born of woman, hasn't a very long time to live, and is liable to trouble.

   After speaking of the knowledge the ancients had concerning the disease, the doctor told of how the disease was transmitted from one to another, usually by inhalation, or otherwise taking into the system the germs from the sputum of the consumptive subject. The doctor explained bow necessary it was to instruct the patient regarding the nature of his disease and how easily the infection could be spread, so that he might co-operate with the physician in an endeavor to stamp it out, by a close observance of the hygienic laws governing the case. It was shown how by disregarding these laws, a patient could keep on re-inoculating himself. Rest, sunlight and fresh air is the most rational cure, and this cure, the speaker claimed, could be performed as well at home, as at any of the resorts.

   Authorities differ regarding the transmission of the disease from cattle to man, the weight of opinion being, however, that bovine tuberculosis can be transmitted to man and that beef and milk from infected herds is a constant menace.

   In the state of New York alone, out of 1,200 cattle examined, about 18.4 per cent were found infected. Unclean money, both coin and paper, was regarded as being often the vehicle by which germs were conveyed. Cigars made in factories where tuberculosis persons were employed were also regarded with suspicion and the kissing habit is also put under ban. Now we can get along very well without such luxuries as beef and milk; we might even be brought to eschew the weed, but the necessaries of life we must have, science to the contrary notwithstanding.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The annual public exercises of the Delphic fraternity occur at Normal hall tonight at 8 o'clock.

   —Tomorrow evening in Normal hall will occur the annual debate of the Gamma Sigma fraternity.

   —The rehearsal of the "Rose Maiden" chorus will be held this evening in the prayer room of the First M. E. church at 8 o'clock.

   —New display advertisements today are—Opera House, "Our New Minister," page 5; Opera House, "The Volunteer Organist," page 5.

   —The population of Moravia under the census just completed is 1,459, of whom 1,097 are over 21 years of age and 326 are under that age.

   —The Home Missionary society of the First Baptist church will meet on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. James E. Tanner, 17 Lincoln-ave.

   —The game of basket ball between the locals and the Watertown team this evening at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium will undoubtedly be one of the most exciting contests of the season. Game begins at 8 o'clock.

   —Cottage prayer meetings of the First M. E. church will be held this evening as follows: Martin Edgcomb, 30 Grant-st.; J. L. Maritt, 89 Pendleton-st.; W. M. Swartz, 140 Port Watson-st.; Mrs. Mary A. Sperry, 10 Reynolds-ave., and on Friday night at the home of Dr. E. B. Nash, 30 Clinton-ave.