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| S. S. Philadelphia. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, Feb. 10, 1902.
LONG COMMUNICATION.
Liner Philadelphia Receives Messages 150 Miles Out.
SENT MESSAGES FOR 36 HOURS.
Encountered Severe Weather—Put Into Cherbourg to Avoid the Storm. Lucania Also Met With Rough Weather—Distinguished Passengers Aboard—Talks With the Umbria.
New York, Feb. 10.—The steamship Philadelphia of the American line which arrived yesterday broke the record for having the longest communication with the land by means of the Marconi wireless telegraph system.
At noon Saturday, the 1st of February, the steamship was a few miles off the Lizard. Messages were then exchanged and the telegraphing was kept up until midnight of the following day. The last message was sent when the Philadelphia was 150 miles distant from the land. This is the longest distance in which wireless communication has ever been had between a steamship and the land.
On account of the severe weather the Philadelphia had to put into Cherbourg, where she was delayed for over 16 hours. The Marconi system was continually working while the vessel was lying to, the connection at all times being perfect.
Captain Mills said that he had never experienced such terrific weather before as that which was met on the voyage. The waves continually washed the decks of the ship and the wind was bitterly cold. On Sunday the gale had increased so in violence that Captain Mills was afraid to put out to sea and so the stop at Cherbourg was made.
CUNARDER LUCANIA.
Has a Rough Passage —Talks With the Umbria.
New York, Feb. 10.—The Cunard steamer Lucania reached her dock in this city yesterday.
Captain McKay reports fine weather all the way across until he reached the eastern edge of the banks. From there, he says, they had a lively gale all the way.
The operator in charge of the Marconi plant on the ship held a wireless telegraph talk with the Umbria in mid-ocean for several hours, during which something over 100 telegrams were interchanged, to be sent from the Lizard and Nantucket lightship respectively to friends of passengers on this side and in England. The operators indulged in a friendly chat after the commercial messages were disposed of, in the course of which the Umbria's man said that they had experienced unsettled weather, but did not mention any extraordinary storm,
Edward Corrigan, the turfman, who went to England early in January last, was among the passengers on the Lucania. He recently bought two famous horses in England, Scintllla, 6-year-old stallion by Screen, that won the Ceasarewitch in 1879, and M. De Lormes, 3-year-old colt by Orme.
Sir Charles Cameron, bart., a former M. P., also came on the Lucania. He is the father-in-law of Commander Clifton Slater of the British naval ship Condor, which is supposed to be lost in Pacific waters. He is going to Esquimault, B. C., to join his daughter Mrs. Slater, and look after her affairs.
Rev. Spencer Walton of Toronto was also a passenger.
Election of Senators.
Albany, Feb. 10.—Assembłyman George M. Palmer of Schoharie, Democratic leader in the assembly, will on Monday night introduce a resolution, asking congress to adopt the concurrent resolution, now pending in that body, for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people.
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| Paterson ruins after the fire. |
AFTER THE FIRE.
PATERSON RECOVERING FROM SUNDAY'S CONFLAGRATION.
The Burned District—Meeting Called by Mayor—Few Fatalities—Firemen Still at Work—Homeless Cared For—No Reliable Estimate of Insurance—Paterson's Industries
PATERSON, N. J., Feb. 10—Citizens and officials started in with a vim this morning to bring order out of the chaos created by the great fire. With shouldering and blackened ruins extending over territory covering twenty-six city blocks staring them in the face, hundreds of citizens homeless, thousands thrown out of work and $10,000,000 gone up in smoke, Patersonians energetically began to dig themselves out of the ashes. The burned area presents a remarkable sight. In the center it is a seething mass of steam and smoke, with here and there a tongue of red shooting upward. The firemen are throwing water on this mass by the ton. The streets just on the border of the burned district are filled with debris. Most of the clothing and household furniture is the property of persons whose homes were not burned, but who, for hours, were in danger. Stores on the danger line did not open for business this morning.
Mayor Henchiffe has called together a meeting of city officials and of prominent citizens to discuss the situation. They met at 10 o'clock.
There has been no serious suffering, so far, among those whose homes were destroyed. All are being temporarily cared for by householders who escaped the flames. The fire was remarkably free from fatalities. One woman, Mrs. Sarah Brown, 72 years old, indirectly lost her life. She had been rescued from her own home and taken to the house of a friend. There she stumbled on a stair way, rolled down and broke her neck. Thirteen men, chiefly firemen, were injured while fighting the flames.
There is no reliable estimate of the insurance this morning. Practically every fire insurance company doing business in the United States will be affected by the conflagration.
Paterson is the thirty-second city in the United States. It has a population of 105,171. It is one of the chief manufacturing centers of the country. As the main seat of the silk industry in the western hemisphere, it is called the "Lyons of America." It has more than six hundred manufacturing establishments representing seventy odd separate industries, employing nearly thirty thousand workers.
Paterson lies in the heart of Passaic county, in a bend of the Passaic, the falls of which are the source of the water power to which the city owes its prominence as a centre of industrial activity. The city is seventeen miles from New York, with which it is connected by three trunk line railways and by more than 150 trains a day.
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| William C. Gorgas. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
A Remarkably Good Showing.
According to the report of Major W. C. Gorgas, chief sanitary officer of Havana, the death rate for the month of December was 20.47, thus ranking the Cuban capital in the class of the world's healthy cities. The total number of deaths for the month was 463 as against a minimum of 517 and a maximum of 1,900 for the same month in the last nine years of Spanish rule.
Major Gorgas manifests especial satisfaction when he says that Havana has not had a case of smallpox since July, 1900, and none of yellow fever since Sept. 28, 1901. Not for a hundred years before has the city passed three consecutive months without sacrificing a single victim to the terrible "vomito," and the major boldly ventures the prophecy that "yellow fever has been rooted out of Havana." In the previous eleven years, including two under American rule, the December minimum of fever cases has been 8, the maximum 147 and the average 29.90. Here is the explanation: "The only year in which any attention has been paid to mosquitoes in connection with yellow fever is 1901. In the two preceding years of American occupation, 1899 and 1900, every means known to science and which money could command, backed by unlimited military authority, was used to destroy fomites on the theory that fomites were the means of propagating yellow fever. In 1901 the same efforts were directed to the destruction of mosquitoes on the theory that the mosquito is the only means of propagating this disease, and the hygiene of yellow fever was carried out from this point of view, the effort to destroy fomites having been entirely laid aside. These are the facts in the case, and I leave the department commander to draw his own conclusions therefrom."
Altogether this is a remarkable showing in the way of results achieved, and Major Gorgas does not even pretend to conceal the honest pride he feels in what he and his fellow laborers have done for the Cuban capital. He has ample reason for self gratulation [sic], and all friends of Cuba should accord him and his associates full praise.
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| Gen. John B. Gordon. |
GEN. JOHN B. GORDON.
Superb Lecture by the Celebrated Confederate Commander.
No ordinary attraction on such a night as that of Saturday would have filled Normal [school] hall almost to the doors, but so great was the desire to hear Gen. John B. Gordon that howling blizzard and snow drifted to the knees formed no hindrance, and a large and enthusiastic audience assembled and sat almost spellbound for two full hours while the great southern orator told in thrilling words the story of "The Last Days of the Confederacy."
The veterans of the Union army were out in force and no one enjoyed the lecture more than they, for many of them had participated in the very battles and scenes which he described. Just at the last the speaker told almost with tears in his eyes of how affected the broken hearted Confederates were upon the field of Appomattox as they marched down between the ranks of Union soldiers to stack their arms for the last time and lay down for the first time their battle scarred flags when the triumphant Union troops paid them the marked honor of presenting arms. They had expected to be humiliated in this march, but instead they were given the most distinguished mark of honor.
After the lecture General Gordon was surrounded by the old soldiers and others who pressed forward to shake his hand. Among them was Mr. D. F. Wallace of Cortland who told General Gordon that he was one of those same Union soldiers at Appomattox who presented arms on that occasion and that he had seen him there as he rode at the head of his troops.
The speaker said that the last days of the confederacy really began in 1863 when upon the same day the northern troops won at Vicksburg in the West and at Gettysburg in the East. From that time forward the southern men began to do some pretty serious thinking. He said that it might seem strange that the Confederates came north that summer of 1863 and then turned back so suddenly. They hadn't expected to do the latter. They had made arrangements to be away from home all summer, and they wanted it understood that it was from no lack of courtesy toward their northern brethren that they did go back. It was because of circumstances over which they had no control. They had come up there for two reasons. In the first place, they were hungry and they had looked with longing eyes upon the great wheat fields and the fat cattle of Pennsylvania. In the second place, they believed in social reciprocity. The northern men had been down visiting them for two years and now they thought they would return the courtesy. But they concluded that they bad not chosen the most auspicious time for their visit and so went back.
General Gordon related several incidents of the battle of Gettysburg and then passed on to Spotsylvania which he characterized as the most bloody battle of any war in the world's history. He spoke of Gen. Grant coming to assume charge of the Union army and of how the boys in the southern army felt superstitious over his initials "U. S." and they always referred to him as "Unconditional Surrender" Grant. Then he told of the last days of the war and the final surrender at Appomattox. Warm personal tributes were paid to both Gen. Grant and Gen. Lee.
The private soldiers in both armies were eulogized as men without personal animosities, men who fought for a cause, but would be glad to be friends and were friends between the battles. There is not a parallel to this in the world's history, said the speaker. He told a number of incidents of the pickets of the two armies getting together for social intercourse.
General Gordon spoke with much emotion of the unknown Union officer who had set a guard of troops in Richmond after its occupation by the Union army about the house which sheltered Mrs. Gordon who was dangerously ill and who had a two days' old babe by her side.
The patriotism of the southern soldiers, he said, is now unquestioned and their loyalty to the flag. He spoke of the fact that all his sons and every grandson who was old enough to bear arms was in the United States army in the Cuban war fighting for the "immortal flag," as be characterized the Stars and Stripes, and he said that it was a grand thing to see the sons of the former wearers of the blue and the gray marching shoulder to shoulder and shoulder for the same flag.
No report of this lecture can convey an adequate idea of its thrilling power. It was full of patriotism 'and loyalty to country, though telling of the strife of those who then opposed the Union. In places the speaker became eloquent. At times there was scarcely a dry eye in the audience and again the hearers were convulsed with laughter at some funny story.
The lecture was certainly one of the most effective ever heard in Cortland from any speaker. General Gordon has another lecture, "The First Days of the Confederacy," and it would no doubt gratify very many and prove a very strong attraction if the Normals could secure this for their course next year.
SNOW ON TROLLEY LINES.
Hard Work to Keep Track Clear and Cars Moving—Some Narrow Escapes.
The Cortland County Traction company is having its share of trouble with snowbanks all along the line, but principally between Cortland and Homer where the snow is piled up in heaps that in many places had to be shoveled by hand. A car was sent out from the car barns for Homer at noon Saturday with a big snowplow and a gang of shovelers and was until early this morning going to Homer and returning to Cortland.
This trip was full of hard work and exciting experiences. Three men, Electrician Buegler, Conductor Edward Dowd and Ed Hartnett, had narrow escapes from being crushed under cars Saturday afternoon, while attempting to jump on the rear end of the forward car of two that were fastened together. Mr. Dowd slipped and fell under the second car and was dragged a car's length before the two could be stopped. Had it not been that he was seen when he fell, he would certainly have been killed.
Mr. Buegler fell under a car from off the snow plow and had a lively scramble to extricate himself. Fortunately for him the car was stuck at the time, but the power was on and the car wheels whizzed around as they slid on the tracks, and it seemed to the electrician that the wheels were bearing down upon him at the rate of 40 miles an hour, when in reality they did not advance at all. He was dragged out from under the car little the worse for his experience except that he was badly scared. Hartnett, too, was little hurt, but none of the men care to repeat the experiments.
The road is today cleared all the way from Cortland to Homer and from Cortland to McGraw.
BREVITIES.
—Ash Wednesday occurs this week, Feb. 12, and Lent then begins.
—The regular meeting of the Cortland Lodge of Perfection will be held this evening at 8 o'clock.
—The Primary union will meet tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in the chapel of the First M. E. church.
—The Prohibition Alliance will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at Grand Army hall. Subject, The Sunday Opening of Saloons.
—An important meeting of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. will be held at the association parlor this evening, Feb. 10, at 8:15 o'clock. State Secretary Fred M. Hill will be present.
—New display advertisements today are—Warren, Tanner & Co., Mill end sale continued, page 6; Chas. F. Brown's Not one complaint, page 6; The Corner grocery, Maple sugar, page 6.
—Mr. M. F. Cleary, who went to Rochester this morning, called there by the critical illness of his daughter Mrs. Brenton Bierbon, has telegraphed to his family this afternoon stating that Mrs. Bierbon is thought to be dying. Mrs. Cleary is still in Rochester.
—Invitations have been issued for the wedding of Mr. Albert J. Sears of Cortland and Miss Leva Jeanette Butler of Homer, which is to take place at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Butler, Homer, N. Y., Wednesday evening, Feb. 10, at 8 o'clock.
—The number of the telephone at the office of City Clerk E. C. Alger has been changed from that previously stated to 138 which was the number of the telephone at the Office of City Clerk Hatch during his term of service. This will avoid confusion as the Home Telephone company 's telephone list gives the number of the city clerk's office as 138.
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