PRINCE HENRY GETS HARVARD DEGREE, TESLA, RECIPROCITY WITH CUBA, AND HOME MADE BUTTER

 

Prince Henry of Prussia.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, Mar. 7, 1902.

HAS HARVARD DEGREE.

Prince Made a Doctor of Laws by President Eliot.

DISTINGUISHED MEN GREET HIM.

Prince Speaks of Influence of Boston and Massachusetts on History of United States—Reception at Albany—Greeted by Governor Odell, Mayor and Legislative Committees.

   Boston, March 7.—Prince Henry of Prussia was the guest of Boston yesterday and his welcome to the city was stately and cordial. Governor Winthrop Murray Crane and Mayor P. A. Collins, acting for the state and city, extended the official courtesies and when the prince had ceremoniously returned their calls, he went to Cambridge to deliver to the Germanic Museum the gifts of his brother, the Kaiser Wilhelm, and to receive from Harvard the honorary degree of doctor of laws. Harvard's honor to the prince is a precedent, for never before was a degree conferred under like circumstances.

   A significant passage in the speech of President Eliot, who conferred the degree, was a reference to the prince as a grandson of Queen Victoria.

   Prince Henry's first act as a Harvard man at the Harvard Union, shortly after he received the degree, was to propose and lead three cheers for President Roosevelt, who is a Harvard alumnus. The prince received a cablegram from his brother, the emperor, offering congratulation on the new honor bestowed.

   At night the Prince was given a dinner by the city of Boston, and sat at a table with more than 200 of the representative citizens of the commonwealth.

   The heartiest part of Boston's formal welcome to Prince Henry was concentrated in the sumptuous banquet at the Somerset last evening. From his seat at the table at one end of the banquet room the prince faced the most representative men of the city and state.

   At the royal guests table, slightly raised from the floor, Mayor Patrick A. Collins had Prince Henry at his right hand. On the paneling behind and over them were crossed a United States flag and the royal German standard.

   The prince descended from his apartments in the hotel after all the guests had taken their places and his advent, accompanied by the mayor, was hailed with cheers. At the time appointed Mayor Collins made his preliminary address and called for a toast to the president of the United States, immediately following this by calling for a toast for Emperor William of Germany. Both of these were received with cheers.

 

RECEPTION AT ALBANY.

Visits City Hall and Senate and Assembly Chambers.

   Albany, March 7.—The prince's train arrived at about 8 o'clock and was greeted at the station by Governor Odell, Adjutant General Henry and the senate and assembly committees. After they had paid their respects to the prince they returned to the Capitol and the royal visitor was escorted to his carriage by the mayor and the committee representing the city. The party was then driven to the City hall where Mayor Charles H. Gaus formally greeted the prince. Troop B has been assigned as the personal escort of the prince, while the Tenth battalion and three separate companies from Troy were assigned to do guard duty at the station, the City hall and the Capitol.

   Upon leaving the City hall Prince Henry and party were driven to the Capitol where they were met at the east entrance by the committees representing the senate and assembly, Adjutant General Henry and the governor's military secretary Major Harrison K. Bird. The prince and his escort proceeded to the executive chamber and were formally welcomed by Governor Odell who was waiting to receive them on behalf of the state.

   At the conclusion of the formal exercises the entire party passed up stairs to the senate chamber, where the prince was presented to that body.

   The senate was convened at 9 o'clock, two hours earlier than usual. The judges of court of appeals occupied seats in the senate. Admission to the gallery was by ticket and no one was allowed on the floor of the senate except senators, judges of the court of appeals and the regular senate reporters.

   After leaving the senate chamber the prince was escorted to the assembly and presented to that body. He then devoted a short time to inspecting the Capitol after which he was driven to the Union station and left for West Point at 10 o'clock.

 

Cartoon image of N. Tesla.

Wardenclyffe Tower.

TESLA'S LATEST SCHEME.

Electrician Plans a Wireless System to Outdo Marconi.

   The immense wireless telegraph plant now being built at Wardenclyffe, Long Island, by Nikola Tesla marks the beginning of the real war between Marconi and the Serbian electrical inventor, says the Now York Evening Journal. The first of the three great power houses has just been completed and is rapidly being filled with new and expensive electrical apparatus. In a short time a 216 foot tower and a 500 foot well will be added to the plant, and then Tesla will begin the series of experiments which he thinks will cast the operations of his rival into the shade.

   Marconi has so far found only one way to send messages by wireless telegraphy—through the air. Tesla will try two methods. By means of his great tower he will send messages through the air. By means of his great well he will send messages through the ground.

   It is the latter method that Tesla thinks will achieve the greatest success. His belief in it is so great that he has declared in confidence to his friends that ten years from now Wardenclyffe will be the great telegraph and cable center of America. His confidence is so absolute that he is already moving his workshop from Houston Street, New York city, to that town and is planning a series of buildings that will cost several hundred thousand dollars. The plans for a workingman's village in the immediate vicinity have been drawn, and a number of model cottages are to be put up this spring.

   That Tesla does not intend his plant at Wardenclyffe merely for experiments is evidenced by the fact that the 100 foot power house already erected is to be duplicated by two others of equal size. Three towers, one for each power house, will be erected, and each of these will have a 500 foot well.

   One of the remarkable features of the well is that at the bottom the water will be warm. Digging down to moderate depth cold water will be obtained, but the well will be made tight to prevent this influx, and the excavation will be continued on down to the 500 foot point. The water in the bottom of the well will never be allowed to exceed a certain amount.

   The principle on which Tesla will send wireless messages through the ground is, as explained by a friend, that a straight line through the earth, say, between New York and London, is shorter than a line around the earth, like the one Marconi will employ.

   Tesla himself will live at Wardenclyffe, which in the summer time is an exclusive and pretty resort.

 

The Science Club.

   Mr. Lester Cooper will speak upon the subject "Coke" at the regular meeting of the Cortland Science club on Saturday evening, March 8. The historical, scientific and financial aspects will be exhaustively treated.

 

RECIPROCITY WITH CUBA.

COMMUNICATION FROM THE PEN OF IRVING H. PALMER.

It Will Be a Breach of Good Faith on the Part of the United States if Cuba is not Assisted by Opening to Her Our Markets on a Reciprocal Basis Since We Have by the Treaty of Paris Assumed a Protectorate over Her and Closed Other Markets to Her—Will Be Advantage to the United States as Well as to Cuba.

   To the Editor of The Standard:

   SIR—The differences which divide public opinion respecting the issues growing out of the proposed commercial reciprocity between the United States and Cuba recommended in the president's message are destined to become more acute and irreconcilable by discussion the longer they remain undetermined; and may possibly reach a stage where they will threaten the continued supremacy of the Republican party. This result might be reached very soon were it not for the fact that differences as great divide and paralyze the action of the Democratic party, if such a party may be said to have any existence. There appear to be many Democrats of many kinds, but they do not necessarily constitute a political party. Some degree of harmony and unity of purpose is necessary to the existence of a political party.

   Those interested in the protection of the producers of domestic sugar and tobacco display an activity and vehemence in their opposition to the plan and policy proposed by the president and appear to make up in zeal for their cause what they lack in the logic of their arguments in support of their contentions Their purposes and motives are so manifestly narrow and selfish,  as to easily discredit and weaken their position. While their numbers are few compared with those who favor the president's views and policy, the latter are without organization, unity or harmony, by which to make their efforts in behalf of reciprocity effective.

   By the treaty of Paris the United States assumed a practical protectorate over Cuba and has since exercised a power over the government and destinies of that island which is inseparable from responsibility for the domestic tranquility and general welfare of the Cubans, which responsibility was deepened, widened, emphasized and made more explicit by their acceptance of our terms, embodied in the Platt resolution, which they incorporated into their organic law under pressure exerted by the United States, which committed us to further obligation to render them an equivalent for the great privilege of controlling and directing their relations with European nations and the cession to us of three naval stations in a way to render the Monroe Doctrine invulnerable in the future. The consideration and inducement for this was commercial reciprocity with the United States which would afford markets for Cuban products on such terms as would create conditions which would enable the people of Cuba to exist in reasonable comfort and prosperity, upon the fruits of their industries and provide the means wherewith to defray the expenses of an efficient government in that island.

   The United States cannot now withhold its part of the consideration incident to its relations with Cuba without a breach of national faith and the sacrifice of national honor and respect.

   The changed relations of the Cubans deprives them of markets for their products upon which they depended when they were under the dominion of Spain, and now the United States must either open her markets to Cuban products on liberal terms, or the people of that island  must suffer for want of means to support an acceptable civilization and live in wholesome comfort to say nothing of defraying the expense of establishing and maintaining an efficient government upon a sound financial basis—a condition sure to produce disorders fatal to the interests of Americans and Cubans alike. An odious reproach will fall upon the United States, as the responsibility for the existence of such conditions will be easily traceable to the failure of the United States to perform its duty and discharge its obligation to the Cubans, growing out of the incidents, compacts, conditions, understandings and relations above mentioned. Much depends upon the manner, the promptness and the spontaneity with which this duty and this obligation is discharged. The condition which confronts us will not admit of delay. Unless the remedy is promptly applied dissatisfaction and disorders will develop, fraught with serious results to both Cuba and the United States, for which reciprocity, upon liberal terms, is the only adequate remedy at hand.

   It is worse than useless to inaugurate a government in Cuba which is not founded upon a sound financial basis affording full protection and opportunity for the enterprises and industries of this prolific island. Nothing so tends to the conservation and upbuilding of a state or nation as the prosperity of its people, while commerce constitutes a sort of national bond for good behavior, which is forfeited with loss of its profits as a penalty for any lapse from civilization of an acceptable standard.

   The disorderly and anarchistic conditions existing in the island of Hayti are sure to be repeated in Cuba, with increased turbulence and more sanguinary results, undoing all the work of pacification and reconstruction, so admirably performed, unless what has been accomplished shall be secured by a reciprocity, which will provide the means to continue what has already been so wisely, efficiently and humanely done.

   Reciprocity is not a one-sided affair. The commercial benefits to accrue to Americans will undoubtedly greatly exceed all that the Cubans will derive from it. Conditions which will make markets for Cuban products in the United States will also create markets for American products in Cuba. The increased carrying trade or transportation resulting from reciprocity will necessarily be conducted and controlled by Americans, who will realize the profits to be derived from it, which will prove a valuable aid in the upbuilding of an American merchant marine without resort to subsidies to stimulate its growth and development.

   It is for the interest of Americans who sell to Cubans that the latter should be prosperous and that they should be afforded a reasonable opportunity to become so, as prosperous customers are in every way more desirable than those who are not so; both on account of the promptness and certainty with which they pay for goods and also because prosperous customers will buy greater quantities. Whatever is done to make our customers prosperous benefits ourselves.

   The comparatively few who oppose reciprocity upon the narrow and selfish ground that a reduction of the enormous import duties on sugar and tobacco will serve to curtail the profits of domestic producers of these commodities, though it will benefit American consumers who outnumber them more than ten to one, should be made to yield to the interests of the larger number, in obedience to the call of national duty and honor, the expansion of American commerce and cheaper sugar and tobacco to American consumers, which are among the results which must inevitably follow the adoption of a liberal and well balanced reciprocity with Cuba, for which there is no alternative, consistent with national duty and honor, on the part of the United States.   IRVING H. PALMER.

    [Mr. Palmer was a Cortland attorney with railroad interest, a Democrat, and former two term mayor of the village of Cortland—CC ed.]

 

Home Made Butter.

   Mr. Leonard J. Stafford, who lives on the gulf road 4 miles west of Cortland, has become convinced that it is more profitable to keep the milk from his dairy at home and make it into first class butter than to draw it to the milk stations at the prevailing prices and existing conditions. He has purchased a separator and complete outfit of butter making machinery and has already commenced the manufacture of butter from the milk of his dairy of thirty-five cows. Mr. Stafford will devote his attention especially to the demands of the home trade.

 

Smith-Kenyon.

   A very pleasant home wedding occurred on Wednesday, March 5, at the residence of Mr. Ruggles Cass in Taylor, N. Y., when Miss Marcia Breed Kenyon, the foster daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cass, and Mr. Claude Andrew Smith, both of Taylor, were joined in marriage by Rev. W. P. Decker of Pitcher. Among the wedding gifts was a valuable gold watch presented to the bride by her foster parents in token of their appreciation of her filial devotion.

 

BREVITIES.

   —New display advertisements today are—M. A. Case, Drygoods, page 6.

   —The Cascade hotel property is to be sold on a mortgage foreclosure April 15.

   —John Kelley, a tramp, was sent out of town this morning by City Judge Davis.

   —Mr. J. W. Orr of James-st. has reported to the Robin editor a "well authenticated case of blue bird."

   —Dryden is bound to have better lights in the village, but is undecided as yet between electricity and acetylene gas.

   —The quarterly meeting of the Patrons of Industry occurs tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in Good Templars' hall.

   —Tioughnioga chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will meet with Mrs. George P. Hollenbeck, 10 Church-st., next Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.

   —The semi-annual entertainment of the Ladies' Literary club which had been arranged for next Wednesday evening, March 19, will be held one evening earlier, on Tuesday, March 18, at the home of Mrs. N. H. Gillette, 20 West Court-st.