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| William Howard Taft. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1902.
TESTIMONY BEFORE COMMITTEE.
Governor Taft Says Commission is Opposed to Admitting Chinese.
Washington, Feb, 11.—Governor Taft said that the members of the commission and their families had been transported free to the islands and that it had been President McKinley's especial wish that the families should be taken because of the effect on the Filipinos themselves.
Senator Carmack reverted to some of Governor Taft's former testimony to the effect that the Filipinos are not industrious and asked whether this condition would render necessary the importation of Chinese. Governor Taft said that it was to be profoundly hoped that this would not prove to be the case.
"Has the commission ever recommended the admission of the Chinese?" asked Senator Lodge. The reply was an emphatic negative.
Senator Carmack asked what would be the effect of expressions of utter contempt for the Filipinos by Republican orators and referred to a speech, which he said had been made by a United States senator, placing the native Filipinos on a level intellectually with Caribou bulls.
Governor Taft said that any article which would have the effect of arousing the Filipinos usually finds its way to the Philippine islands and he illustrated this remark by saying that the recent utterances of a member of congress derogatory to the character of the Philippine people already found their way to the archipelago and had aroused considerable discussion in the native press. "The Filipinos are a sensitive people," he said, "and resent any impeachment of their intelligence."
In this connection Senator Lodge asked the effect of the utterances calculated to encourage the Filipinos to resist the authority of the United States to which the reply was, "such utterances are a great obstacle to the success of our efforts."
To this inquiry several senators at the Republican end of the table made vigorous protest, and Governor Taft begged to be excused from replying.
There was more or less discussion as to the presence of American troops in the islands and Senator Lodge drew from Governor Taft the explanation that the military force of the United States had been reduced from 71,000 to 41,000 troops. The governor added that he had been informed by the secretary of war that it was the intention to reduce the force in the immediate future to 30,000.
"Has the withdrawal of the troops produced trouble?" asked Mr. Lodge.
"On the contrary," replied Governor Taft, "in the pacified provinces the effect has been to increase tranquility." The committee at this point adjourned until next Friday.
Will Use Tunnel.
New York, Feb. 11.—The Press says: In order to compete with the trolleys for suburban traffic, all the railroads now having terminals on the Jersey side of the Hudson will be brought into Manhattan through the great tunnel of the Pennsylvania system. This announcement explains the meeting of great railroad magnates at a dinner given by P. A. B. Widener in Philadelphia where J. Pierpont Morgan had a long conference with A. J. Cassat, the president of the Pennsylvania railroad.
STOCKING SOCIAL AT TRUXTON, N. Y.
The Town Again in the Grasp of a Blizzard—Other News.
TRUXTON, Feb. 10.—Another blizzard equally as bad as the one of last week visited this place Saturday night and Sunday. Nearly all the roads are again drifted full of snow and travel is suspended. Yesterday only two teams went through on the Cheningo road. Only a few farmers were able to deliver their milk to the station. The Lehigh Valley railroad is blocked and no teams are running. Surely this is a record breaker for blizzards.
Those of the music loving public who enjoy jubilee singing missed one of the best entertainments of the season at Woodward hall Wednesday evening if they failed to hear the Western Star Jubilee singers. The hall was packed to the doors with an appreciative audience. The program was fine and was well rendered, every number being heartily encored. If they return here they will be greeted with a full house. The receipts were about $35.
No one should fail to remember the stocking social to be given at Woodward hall Wednesday evening by the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor of the Methodist church. The idea of a stocking social is a novel one and has met with decided success in places where they have been held. Small stockings made of yellow and white cloth (the society colors) have been made. These stockings enclosed in an envelope, together with a card bearing the following inscription: "This is the request of a tiny stocking. Fill me with pennies, and let them agree with the size of your hose you purchased when shopping, then return to the giver who called upon thee," have been widely distributed. Over 500 of the stockings have been made. Already stockings have been returned filled with pennies from Cortland, Syracuse and many other places where they were sent. A fine musical and literary program has been arranged for Wednesday evening and it is expected that there will be a large attendance. Supper will be served. Every one is invited.
Mr. Josiah J. Meldrim spent several days in Cincinnatus last week.
A large force of men are employed in filling the large ice house of Sam Levy. The ice is shipped over the Lehigh Valley R. R. About thirty carloads were received Thursday.
Mr. Daniel McAuliffe, who has been so seriously ill at his home in Crain’s Mills, is improving slowly.
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Crandall attended a reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Hathaway in Little York Friday.
Miss Elizabeth Crandall is the pleasant guest of her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Beattle.
Mr. Fred Youngs, who is so seriously ill at his home near the town line, remains about the same.
The last of the cheese of the Dairymen's union factory has been sold and the patrons have received their dividends. The net ratio for the month of September was $.8843 per 100 pounds; for October it was $.872.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Thompson were in McGraw Sunday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Thompson’s sister Mrs. James Healy.
Miss Anna Robbins has gone to Rose Hill where she has a position with F. B. Mills.
Mr. Caleb Robbins is to move onto his farm on the north road April 1.
W. D. McDonald has leased the Warren farm recently occupied by Ellis Wilson and takes possession March 1.
All those having items for the Truxton letter of The STANDARD will confer a favor upon the correspondent by sending to post office box 131.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Steel Famine Threatened.
One of the results of the country's unparalleled prosperity is a scarcity of structural steel that threatens to cause serious inconvenience and loss. Already the United States Steel Corporation has been forced to refuse offers of foreign contracts and it is expected that large imports of steel from Germany will be necessary.
The home demand has been greater than the supply for several months and prices have advanced considerably. While the United States Steel Corporation is still selling structural material at $31 per ton, a few days ago the concerns outside the combination found no difficulty in placing their prices at $35 per ton. Another jump in rates is not unlikely before the end of the present month. As a result of the enormous demand the foreign trade in steel which has sprung up within the last few years is dead. Not a ton of steel is now being exported, excepting that which has already been contracted for. Soon these contracts will be filled, and then all the structural steel rolling mills throughout the country will be engaged solely in supplying the home market. Germany will be called on to make good the deficiency expected in the late spring and early summer, England being left out of the consideration of outside supply, owing to the extraordinary activity of mills in that country, in satisfying a demand almost as pressing as that now felt in the United States.
It is several years since any structural steel has been imported. German iron makers turn out structural steel very close to our standard of excellence, although trouble is experienced in using it from the fact that the Germans measure in meters while we measure in inches. This results in a trifling difference in the lengths of the respective pieces of steel, small in itself, but important when taken into consideration on an entire structure.
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE.
E. & C. N. Y. R. R. TO BE SOLD ON SATURDAY, MARCH 29.
John R. Bland as Trustee and Successor to the Hamilton Trust Co. is the Plaintiff and the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. the Defendant—No Bid of Less Than $50,000 to be Received—Whole Franchise of Proposed Road from Syracuse to Deposit to be Sold.
As a result of a decree of foreclosure and sale made and entered by the circuit court of the United States for the northern district of New York, which decree is dated Feb. 5, 1902, the Erie & Central New York railway, its property of every description and its franchise will be sold at mortgage foreclosure on Saturday, March, 29 at 12 o'clock noon at the door of the passenger station used by the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. in Cortland.
This sale is the result of an action brought by John R. Bland as trustee and successor to the Hamilton Trust Co. of Brooklyn as plaintiff against the Erie & Central New York railway, defendant. The foreclosure sale is brought about to secure the $300,000 in bonds and the accrued interest. No bid will be accepted for the property for less than $50,000, and every bidder who desires to bid must previously deposit with George A. Kernan, the special master of the sale, a certified check for $1,000 before his bid will be received, and in case the successful bidder fails to make good his bid or comply with his bid in respect to future payments the check is to be forfeited. Otherwise this check of the successful bidder will be applied upon the purchase price.
The franchise which is to be sold includes all the railroad now constructed and that to be constructed between Syracuse and Deposit in the counties of Onondaga, Cortland, Chenango and Broome. The rolling stock includes three locomotives, three passenger cars and five flat cars. There is also included all the other property of the road of every description.
The outcome of this sale will be awaited with interest by every one in this vicinity. It is known that both the Erie and the D. & H. R. R. would like to buy this road with the idea of extending it as permitted by the franchise to join with their own roads at Deposit or at Ninevah, respectively. In this way they might get a line into Cortland and perhaps ultimately to Syracuse. It might be for the interest of either the Lackawanna or the Lehigh Valley R. R. to purchase it to insure the fact that it is not extended to the east and so that it might not cross either of those other railroads and thus secure all the traffic to and from the fertile and productive Otselic valley. On the other hand there is a strong probability of parties entirely outside of any of those roads buying it and reorganizing the old company on a paying basis, as would easily be possible if the fixed charges in the shape of the great interest account were to be cut off. Whatever may be the result Cortland county is interested and will look with eagerness to behold the outcome.
SHOVELING OUT THE DRIFTS.
E. & C. N. R. R. R. Have Only Another Mile of Snow Remaining.
The Erie & Central New York railway is being cleared of the big snow drifts that were piled up along the line, and it is thought that a train will be pushed through from Cincinnatus to Cortland this evening. At noon today the tracks were clear from Cortland to Solon and from Cincinnatus to East Freetown. Between Solon and East Freetown is a mile of continuous drifts that are now being shoveled out. When these are cleared out the E. &. C. N. Y. will have clear sailing.
BALMY IN FLORIDA.
Twenty-two Cortland County People Now at Winter Park.
We are permitted to make a few notes from a personal letter to a Cortland friend from Mrs. L. D. Garrison who with Mr. Garrison is spending the winter at Winter Park, Fla. Mrs. Garrison says that they are keeping very close watch on happenings in Cortland through the columns of The STANDARD and as they read of our blizzards and blockaded railroads they can hardly realize it, for they are sitting upon plazas with the thermometer up to from 75 to 80 degrees. There were twenty-two Cortland county people then in Winter Park (and since that letter was written a number of others have gone to join the colony.) Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Wilson and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Newton are at the Seminole hotel, half a block from the Garrisons. Mr. E. H. Brewer's family are across Lake Osceola from them, fifteen minutes walk around, and Mrs. John Murray's cottage is in sight. They are all enjoying the winter there very much indeed, though it seems anything but like winter.
Sleighride to Little York, N. Y.
The Cortland Merrymakers will hold their first annual sleighrlde party at the
Raymond House, Little York, next Saturday evening. The party will start from the Cortland House at 6:30 P. M. The whole trip, including the ride, dancing and supper, costs only 50 cents. A. Hartnett of 8 Rickard-st. is getting up the party.
Blizzard a Year Ago.
A year ago now there was a great blizzard raging in Cortland. It was a year ago tomorrow that Engineer Joe Reddy on the Lehigh Valley R. R., was swept from his cab by the rush of snow going through a drift and it was a year ago next Saturday that the Lehigh Valley trying to open its road to the east of Cortland had the wreck near East River when one engine tipped over into the river.
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| M. F. Cleary in volunteers fireman's uniform. |
Hope All Gone.
A telegram this morning from Mr. M. F. Cleary, who is in Rochester at the sick bed of his daughter, Mrs. Brenton Bierbon, states that all hopes of recovery are gone. Mrs. Robert Ennis, Mrs. James Porter, Mrs. S. P. Bloomfield, Mrs. John F . Byrnes and Miss Susie Cleary, sisters of Mrs. Bierbon, went to Rochester last night.
Father of Thirteen Children.
Walter Delevan, who died at the home of his sister in Herkimer on Saturday, Feb. 8, aged 86 years, was born in Freetown, Cortland county, in 1816, and was the father of thirteen children, eight of whom survive. He is also survived by a sister, Mrs. Ira Waters of Cortland.—Binghamton Republican.
BREVITIES.
—Vesta lodge will give a dancing party in their rooms Saturday evening.
—Binghamton is to have five new rural delivery routes established in the near future.
—The Ladies' Literary club will meet tomorrow at 8:30 at the home of Mrs. F. D. Reese, 16 Tompkins-st.
—An elevator fell in the Osborne factory at Auburn yesterday and killed one man and seriously injured three more.
—The Wide Awake Literary club will meet at the home of Mrs. H. J. Lewis, 10 Harrison-st., this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—Cortland Chapter, No. 194, R. A. M., will confer the P. and M. E. degrees at their regular convocation Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock.
—At Grace Episcopal church tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock there will be morning prayer, litany, penitential office and holy communion, and at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night evening prayer and sermon.
—Six two-horse sleighs loaded with milk cans from up Truxton way came to Cortland in a single line today, bringing the milk down for shipment, as the Lehigh Valley railroad is snowed up in that vicinity.
—High mass will be celebrated at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, Ash Wednesday, at St. Mary's Catholic church. On each Friday evening during Lent at 7:30 o'clock there will be services including the Stations of the Cross.
—New display advertisements today are—C. F. Thompson, Molasses sale, page 5; F. Daehler, Spring hats, page 6; R. W. Mitchell, Meats, page 6; The Corner Grocery, Fire and brimstone, page 4; M. A. Case, New silk waists, page 4; J. B. Kellogg, Great special sale, page 6.
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