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| Cecil Rhodes. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, March 27, 1902.
DEATH OF CECIL RHODES.
Great South African Imperialist Passes Away.
DR. JAMESON AT HIS BEDSIDE.
Body Will Be Taken to Groote Schuur, and Will Lie in State—Will Be Buried in Rhodesia—Government Intends to Give Him a Public Funeral.
Cape Town, March 27.—Cecil Rhodes is dead, passing away peacefully at 5:57 p. m.
Mr. Rhodes was conscious until 5:55 p. m., when he muttered a few words and sank quickly. The immediate cause of his death was two successive attacks of heart failure.
At his bedside were Dr. Jameson, Dr. J. W. Smartt, the commissioner of public works; Colonel Elmhurst Rhodes, director of signaling of the South African field force, and Mr. Walton of Port Elizabeth, a member of the assembly.
Mr. Rhodes' last words were the names of his brothers and some of the others present, which were meant to be good byes. The only person who attended him during his illness, and who was not present at his deathbed, was Dr. Stevenson; all his other boys and personal servants were admitted at the last.
The body will be taken to Groote Schuur, his residence near Cape Town, on a special train today. There it will probably lie in state for a day or two and the public will be admitted to view it. It has not yet been determined where Mr. Rhodes will be buried. It was his wish that he should be buried at Matoppo Hills, Rhodesia. Certain of his friends will proceed to Matoppo Hills to determine whether it is practicable to carry out this wish.
The features of the dead man are placid and a death mask of them will be taken.
The government bat decided to give Cecil Rhodes a public funeral. His remains will be brought here from Groote Schuur for the burial service which will be held in the cathedral. The body will then be taken back to Groote Schuur and will eventually be buried at Matoppo Hills.
Since Mr. Rhodes took his bed three weeks ago his friends had been anxious that he should recover sufficiently to be taken back to England. The cottage where he died was a simple seaside cabin, small and close to the railroad. It was ill-fitted to be a sick chamber, although the utmost was done to improve the ventilation and make it more comfortable. Dr. Stevenson slept by his patient every night that he might be in readiness to administer oxygen, which practically kept Mr. Rhodes alive.
Last Sunday he lost interest in everything and since then he dozed the hours away. His rally from the crisis of Tuesday left but the faintest hopes for his ultimate recovery. These were entirely abandoned with the renewed attack at noon yesterday.
The news of his death spread through Cape Town between 7 and 8 o'clock in the evening and caused profound grief. All places of amusement were immediately closed. An open air concert was stopped and the audience uncovered while the band played the "Dead March." The people then silently dispersed.
COMMENT OF LONDON PRESS.
All Agree That Mr. Rhodes Played a Large Part in World's Affairs.
London, March 27.—The estimates of the career of Cecil Rhodes and the effect of that career on the history of the British empire are colored largely by the political views of the papers making them. But the opinion is unanimous in the press here that in spite of the defects and the limitations of his forceful character, few men have more profoundly impressed the imagination of their contemporaries, or played a larger part in the world's affairs than Cecil Rhodes, and the empire is poorer by his premature death.
With the expressions of admiration for his great service are mingled kindly worded regrets for the disastrous mistakes made in the Jameson raid.
The Standard says: "There was a certain largeness and magnanimity even in his failings. He remains an impressive and inspiring figure and the real lover of his country, who sacrificed much to make England great and powerful."
The Daily Telegraph says: "If Cecil Rhodes was guilty of a great blunder in 1895 he paid as dearly for it as his most bitter foe could wish. Now that he has passed beyond the reach of malignity or censure, only the magnificent services he rendered the empire he loved will be remembered."
The Times says in an editorial: ''With all his undeniable faults, and the errors which marred his noble work, Cecil Rhodes stands an heroic figure around which the traditions of imperial history will cling."
The newspapers all devote much space to sketches of the career of Mr. Rhodes, to reminiscences of the man, and the expressions of foreign opinion concerning him.
Considerable curiosity is evinced as to the probable disposal of his property and interests. The general notion is that the bulk of his property will be bequeathed, not to an individual, but to public interests in South Africa, and that Dr. Jameson will be designated to succeed, so far as anyone can succeed, to the charge of his Rhodesian interests. It is understood that Mr. Rhodes wished to be buried at Matoppo Hills because this was the scene of his historic conference with the Matabele chiefs.
A dispatch from Cape Town, published this morning in The Daily Express, says that Dr. Jameson is authority for the statement that Cecil Rhodes left Groote Schuur, his residence near Cape Town, to the people of that city and large sums of money to charities.
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| Andrew Carnegie. |
PAGE FOUR—BRIEF EDITORIALS.
◘ That was a good temperance lecture in a very few words by Andrew Carnegie. "Glasses," he says, "are used over and under the nose. I always use mine 'over." Perhaps that little sentence helps to explain why he is in a position to distribute millions for libraries and such. The man who too frequently uses the glass under the nose not infrequently finds that the practice interferes with the accumulation of ready cash.—Troy Times.
◘ William Waldorf Astor, who now wants to be a member of the British Parliament, has wanted a good many things over in England that he hasn't succeeded in getting.
◘ Naturally the Frenchmen feel a little piqued at being obliged to put the Panama canal back on the bargain counter.
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| Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. Station, Cortland, N. Y. (Postcard image, year 1910). |
LACKAWANNA STATIONS.
PASSENGERS WILL SOON BE USING NEW STATION.
Freight Station is Now in Use—Two Splendid Buildings—Fitted with Every Convenience—Ornaments to the Town.
The new Lackawanna passenger station in this city is rapidly reaching completion, though it is not believed that it will be used until about the middle of May, as there is a great deal of work to be done outside in the way of putting down the platforms and in paving between the passenger and freight stations, all of which can be done to much better advantage if people are not in the way, to say nothing of carriages and cabs driving up to the platform with passengers.
The exterior of the station has for some time been familiar to all, and it is indeed an ornament to the city built, as it is, of rock faced blue limestone six courses high, and above with rock faced brick of a rich dark tint, and the square tower of stone 40 feet high adds much to the appearance of the whole.
But few have been privileged as yet to get a glimpse of the interior, and this is indeed very beautiful. The principal waitingroom, 40 by 50 feet in size, is at the south end of the station, adjoining Railroad-st. This has a floor of Tarazzo work, being crushed marble of five different varieties and colors laid in colored cement—a light colored cement in squares bounded by strips of cement of a darker color. The whole is polished and presents a beautiful appearance. Three rows of chocolate enamel brick form the base for the side walls, then agate enamel brick to a height of about 4 feet and above this a finishing strip of oak. The rest of the sides and ceiling is in a white finish with paneled ceiling. All the wood work is of quartered oak. Four clusters of three incandescent lights each will light the room.
The men's room, or smokingroom, is next to the north and is 27 by 30 feet in size. Its finishing is the same as that of the main waitingroom. The ticket office 12 by 12 feet in size is under the tower and has a window opening into each waitingroom. There are windows on three sides of the tower commanding a view up and down the tracks for a long distance, and a broad shelf in front of the windows will support the instruments of the telegraph operator and train dispatcher.
Toilet rooms open from both the main waitingroom and the smokingroom. Both are 7 by 11 feet in size and each has a stationary bowl and two closets.
The baggage and express room at the north end of the station will be 30 by 39 feet in size.
A covered platform of cement 170 feet long extends in front of the station. On the front side the platform will be 22 feet wide, on the other sides of the station 5 feet wide.
The freight building stands west of the passenger station and is 200 by 36 feet in size. It is of brick and has a gravel roof. The office of the agent is in the south end and here all the books pertaining to both passenger and freight departments are kept. The office is a large room with plenty of desk room and the large corps of assistants have abundant room to work.
North of this is the freight storeroom having eleven jointed sliding doors that open upon the platforms—five on each side and one at the north end. A platform 8 feet wide extends along the east side next the tracks, while at the north end is a platform 44 by 70 feet in size extending clear to Venette-st. The platform is long enough to enable seven long cars to stand beside it, while a second switch just begun, enables seven more cars to be drawn up alongside and load or unload through the cars on the first track.
The steam heating apparatus to heat both stations is located in the basement of the freight house beneath the offices.
The space between the stations and on the west side of the freight station, where teams drive up to the doors, is all to be paved, probably with brick. At present several tracks cross Railroad-st. to the yards on the south side. When the work is completed only one track will cross the street west of the main line, and that will go to the yards of the H. F. Benton Lumber Co. and on through this yard to the factory of The H. M. Whitney Wagon Co. The enginehouse and turntable which now stand near the lumber yard are to be removed to some other place yet to be decided upon, but out of sight of the stations, A new water tank has already been built north of the passenger station and this is 16 feet high above the support upon which it rests and 24 feet in diameter.
An engineer is now making plans for carrying all the surface water of Railroad-st. along the south side of the street instead of the north aide and carrying it under the tracks to be turned loose some distance east of the tracks. As a result all the brick pavement east of the new freight house is to be relaid to conform to the new plans and to the taking up of those tracks.
These buildings have been erected by the Grace & Hyde Co. of 7 East 42nd-st., New York, under the personal supervision of Thomas Davis, the representative of the company.
Fixing Up the Bunk Rooms.
The fire board is preparing to lay a new floor in the bunker room at the engine house, after which the two [Cortland] fire companies that keep members at headquarters, Water Witch Hose Co. and Excelsior Hook and Ladder Co., will decorate and refurnish the rooms throughout. All the wood work will be painted and the side walls will be papered. Four new iron bed frames will be put in for use by the men who stay at the engine house. The floor is to be of maple and will be polished.
Card of Thanks.
Mr. Alex Gerrard and family desire to express their thanks to all friends who rendered assistance or in any way expressed sympathy during the illness and death of their wife and mother and especially to the employees of Wickwire Bros. and the Carriage Goods Co., for flowers for the funeral.
BREVITIES.
—The first installment of glass for L. N. Hopkins' new greenhouses arrived in Cortland yesterday.
—The annual banquet of Canton Cortland will be held this evening in John L. Lewis lodge rooms.
—Only 394 Indians are now left upon the Onondaga reservation. The reservation includes 6,100 acres of land.
—Cooper Brothers had their new automobile out yesterday and it attracted a good deal of attention. It is a fine one.
—The Loyal Circle of King's Daughters will meet at the home of Mrs. C. F. Thompson, 23 Clayton-ave., Friday, March 28, at 3 P. M.
— Brookton, Tompkins county, is having a bitter famine according to the Ithaca News, and that article could not be obtained in the town on Monday.
—New display advertisements today are—Baker & Angell, Shoes, page 6; R. W. Mitchell, Meats, etc , for Easter, page 5: Glann & Clark, Shoes, page 8; Yager & Crandall, Homer, Millinery opening, page 8; McKinney & Doubleday, Easter novelties, page 6; Opera House, ''A Royal Guest," page 5.
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