TYRANNY IN FINLAND, DISORDERS IN RUSSIA, CORTLAND HOSPITAL, AND THEY SURPRISED THE CLERK

 

Czar Nicolas II, Grand Duke of Finland.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, April 26, 1902.

TYRANNY IN FINLAND.

Finns Warned Against Failure to Obey Recruiting Laws.

GAVE THE COSSACKS FREE REIN.

Communes Refused to Co-Operate in Securing Recruits—Heavy Fines Imposed Upon Them—To Petition the Czar to Withdraw Cossacks—Heavy Emigration From Finland.

   St. Petersburg, April 26.—A representative of the Associated Press who has just returned from Hełsingfors, Finland, interviewed the patriotic leaders and others there, who declared the government was distorting every report of the disorders in Finland, with the view in the near future of proclaiming martial law.

   This opinion is apparently borne out by an imperial rescript, signed on Sunday last, in which the period for recruiting is extended, and the Finns are warned against failure to obey the military regulations, which will "convince us that the administrative method which became customary in the course of the last century does not guarantee calm progress of public affairs and subordination to the authorities."

   The recruiting law is the origin of the present trouble. The communes refused to co-operate, in failing to select representatives for the recruiting board, whereupon the governor arbitrarily imposed heavy fines on the communes. Tammerfors was fined 33,000 marks ($6,000); Hełsingfors 30,000 marks ($6,000), and six others from 14,000 marks $(2,800) to 22,500 marks ($4,300). Then Dr. Salzmann, chairman of the state medical board, and many members resigned rather than assist in what they declared was illegal recruiting.

   The reports show the unvarying failure of the recruits to take the oath and the attitude of the populace of Winborg resulted in riot and collisions similar to those which occurred at Hełsingfors. Out of 150 recruits enrolled only 32 appeared and they were all rejected for physical defects.

   In many of the communes nobody appeared and at NyKarlby only one man, a cripple, presented himself. Such is the practical working of the law which General Sobrikoff (the governor) declared the people welcomed with enthusiasm.

   The official report of the Hełsingfors riots minimized the injuries sustained by the citizens and exaggerated the casualties of the troops. Eye witnesses characterize the action of the Cossacks as being worse than their conduct at the time of the St. Petersburg riots in 1901. The authorities apparently gave the Cossacks free rein. They invaded private houses, in many cases far from the scene of the disturbances, beating and slashing indiscriminately. They rode through the porticos of the great Protestant church, forced a physician to jump out of a window of his own home, beat women and children and cripples, and nearly killed a cabman who was a mile from the scene of the riots.

   The people of Hełsingfors are preparing to petition the czar to withdraw the Cossacks.

   Emigration from Finland is proceeding at an unprecedented rate. It exceeded 15,000 persons during 1901 and the number of emigrants now ranges from 500 to 1,500 a week.

 

DISORDERS IN RUSSIA.

Workmen Incensed Against Foreign Managers and Foremen.

   St. Petersburg, April 26.—The minister of the interior, M. Von Plehwe, has gone south in order to personally investigate the disorders in Southern Russia.

   Reliable information received here from Moscow shows that the labor movement there has assumed most dangerous forms. There have been many factory fires in Moscow and in the southern provinces, supposedly of incendiary origin, and factories have been placarded with Boxer-like posters, calling on the workmen to rise up against the "foreign devils" as the foreign managers and foremen are termed. These posters further declare that "cold steel and hot lead are cheap."

   The managers referred to have been subjected to various indignities on the part of their own employees. The English words "foreign devils" are frequently heard in the streets.

 

EGGS IS EGGS.

Family Must Have Food—The Magistrate Thought Him Excusable.

   New York, April 26.—Michael Brennan was brought into court yesterday charged with stealing eggs from the duck pond in Central park. It looked like a long term for the old man when in a rich Irish brogue he said, "I took the eggs, so I did, but times is hard with the likes o' me, what with being out of work and three children and the old woman to support. Sure the beef trust has took away our meat and we must have something to eat, and eggs is eggs, you know." The magistrate let him go.

 

Cortland Hospital on North Main Street.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Cortland Hospital.

   As announced in these columns a few days ago the financial affairs of the Cortland hospital have reached a crisis. The monthly expenses of conducting that institution exceed the receipts by from $80 to $100. The hospital property is now all paid for except for a mortgage of $1,000. The Hospital association has had a gift of some real estate in the West which would no doubt sell for $1,000 at forced sale and cancel the mortgage, so that practically the local real estate may be considered clear and unencumbered. All the outstanding accounts in this city are now settled.

   But the question arises, since the expenses constantly exceed the receipts, what shall be done for the future. In the past the annual deficit has been made up by holding fairs, and entertainments. The Crosley fund which was started a few years ago helped to tide over the situation, but those pledges have now all been paid and cannot be depended upon longer. The hospital has received some legacies and instead of laying these aside as should have been done as an endowment it has been necessary to use them to pay current expenses with.

   The sources of income for the hospital are receipts for care of patients in the hospital and wages paid to undergraduate nurses who are sent out from the training school to take cases in the city and vicinity. But the receipts from these two sources are inadequate to pay the bills, inasmuch as many of the cases received at the hospital are charity patients.

   The association tried to secure an appropriation from the supervisors of the county to pay for the charity patients, but the supervisors did not feel authorized by law to grant such an appropriation. An effort had previously been made to get the master before the voters of the town of Cortlandville to ask for an appropriation, but without success. An appeal has within a few months been made to the city to assist in caring for the poor, but under the provisions of the city charter this seemed to be impossible. There appears to be no way at present of securing public aid.

   Three courses are open. Either to go ahead as long as the credit is good and contract debts with the local grocers, druggists and others, and trust to luck to pay them, or trust to hard work in getting up entertainments with the possibility that they may not be financial successes and that in the end there will not be money enough to pay the bills. Or, in the second place, to mortgage the property to pay running expenses, and in two or three years have the whole institution sold out with nothing left and nothing to show for it. Or, in the third place, to simply close the doors and have no hospital in the city. It must be one of the three unless some extra money can be raised to cover the deficit.

   Common honesty forbids the first. The board of managers will not ask dealers to furnish supplies without having some intimation of where the money is coming from to pay the bills.

   Common sense forbids the second. The ladies who constitute the Hospital association have worked too hard to bring the institution up to its present state of efficiency and excellence to have it frittered away and vanish in thin air.

   Shall the hospital be closed? It must be and will be unless the management can raise $1,000 at once to cover the deficiency for the coming year. If they can do that, they feel sure they can meet the other bills.

   Within a few days a soliciting committee will go out among the residents of this city and county and ask for subscriptions. The pledges are to be conditioned upon the fact that the whole $1,000 is subscribed, otherwise they will be void. Five hundred dollars will not answer, $800 will not answer. The whole $1,000 will be required. This is not a large sum to raise if everyone will give a little, but it cannot be raised if three men out of four turn the solicitors down and the fourth gives but a dollar.

   It would be a great misfortune to this city to have the hospital closed. It would be a step fifteen years backward. It would be a change from a prosperous and growing city to the country village of two decades ago.

   Aside from its advantages as a place where the ill may go and be cared for; as a place where operations may be performed with all of the sanitary appurtenances and equipments of modern surgery: aside from the convenience to the public of being able to draw upon the hospital training school for nurses to assist in their own homes; aside from all of these, what would be done with the emergency cases of accident that are occurring all through the city and county where the unfortunate victims are now brought to the hospital for care?

   There was a collision on the Lackawanna railroad a few years ago. One man was killed, another dreadfully injured and was taken to the hospital. A citizen of Cortland was run over by the cars in the railroad yards two years or so ago. He was taken to the hospital, his foot amputated and he recovered. There was a collision between a train and a trolley car between Cortland and Homer. A resident of the latter place mortally wounded was taken to the hospital. There was a railroad accident at Preble a few weeks ago and several men badly injured were taken to the hospital and cared for. There was a man shot in Lapeer and he was brought to the hospital and after an operation and a week of suffering died there.

   There are accidents constantly happening in this city. Men are falling from roofs, being run over by teams, getting hurt in the factories, and they need immediate help. Where can they be taken? Who stands ready to open his house to have one, perhaps three or four, strangers brought in covered with blood, ready for a surgical operation—and needing all the equipments for it—perhaps unable to be moved for weeks afterward? Any one would do it from a humanitarian point of view if there were no other place. But there should be another place especially suited to it.

   But it is ridiculous to argue the question. The conclusion is as plain as daylight. There is not a man, woman or child in Cortland county old enough to have a thought who does not know that there ought to be a public hospital somewhere within the limits of this county. It is as necessary as a kitchen in a house. It is a part of the equipment of a city.

   But hospitals do not happen, they do not grow of themselves, they are not spontaneous, they will not run themselves. They need systematic, organized, regular and unfailing support.

   No one can take any exceptions to the conclusion the management has arrived at, that the hospital must close its doors unless it can pay its debts. But if it should be necessary to close up it would be an everlasting disgrace to the city.

   It is to be hoped, however, that no such step will be needed. It is earnestly to be desired that all who can aid in keeping it open lend their assistance when the subscription paper comes around. But it is $1,000 or nothing. Let no one forget that.

   Before another year is ended it is the idea that an effort should be made to have the city charter so amended that the proper authorities may be enabled to render needful assistance. It is but fair that the city should take care of its needy. The present charter limits very closely the way in which this can be done. There is no censure attaching to any official for the way in which he performs his duties under this charter, as it stands, but if it could be so amended that the city could be enabled to pay for the service it actually receives the course of the managers of the hospital would be greatly simplified and their way made much easier.

   ◘ A rooster in Brooklyn has been arrested and confined in jail for disturbing the neighborhood in the early morning. No one had enjoyed his morning greeting, but when a woman nearby fell sick his salutations became torture to her and complaint was made to the health officer who ordered his arrest. The New York Journal says: His voice is now heard at early dawn in the jail, where he awaits sentence. He is not in a death cell yet, and perhaps may escape with his life, but Dr. Walker has been ordered to see to it that none but dumb birds roost in back yards of houses on the Heights of Brooklyn.

 

AFTER THE FINES.

Cortland Board of Health Will not Clean up Premises for Nothing.

   At the meeting of the health board last night at the office of Dr. E. M. Santee, it was decided to collect the fine of $10 in every case where the city has been obliged to clean up, and in case a refusal to pay the fines is made the city attorney is directed to sue for the amount.

   Bills for the month were audited.

 

SURPRISED THE CLERK.

Mrs. Tuttle Knew of it in Advance, but Not Her Husband.

   Attorney W. D. Tuttle was last night the victim of a most skillfully devised and perfectly executed surprise. He learned among other things that a lady can keep a secret and that one of the ladies who have that faculty is a member of his own household. He has been the clerk of the First Congregational society of this city and of its board of trustees for the past eighteen years, and the regular monthly meeting of the board has all this time been held at his office.

   Yesterday was Mr. Tuttle's birthday anniversary and when he returned to his house at 26 Orchard-st., Cortland, he found a meeting of the board in session there which he had not called, and concerning which he had no previous knowledge. It also had this peculiarity, that there were ladies present—the wives of the members of the board, making nineteen in all. Mrs. Tuttle, however, assured him that she had been previously let into the secret and that it was all right even if she hadn't told him all of the particulars in advance.

   There didn't seem to be but one real matter of business to transact and that was the presentation to the clerk of a handsome black walnut Morris chair as a token of friendship and esteem. The presentation was made by B. T. Wright and Mr. Tuttle responded with much feeling. Refreshments which the party had brought with them were served and the evening was passed most delightfully in a social way.

BREVITIES.

   — Several bicycle riders have paid fines of $1 in city court today for sidewalk riding.

   —The work of grading and putting down cement sidewalks at the new Lackawanna station has been commenced.

   —Mrs. Wilson Amerman of Moravia, the mother of the Misses Kate M. and Jean K. Amerman, who are well known here, died of consumption at her home last Wednesday.

   — Street cars will run every fifteen minutes next Monday night between the Messenger House and the Gillette Skirt factory from 7:30 to 8:30 while the people are going to the latter place to attend the military whist.

   —New display advertisements today are: M. W. Giles, Special prices, page 7; E. M. Mansur, Codfish, page 6; Gas Light Co., Gas ranges, page 6; Opera House, "Our New Minister," page 5.

 

SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE, BEEF TRUST, THE KISS, AND SAUTELLE CIRCUS

 

Philander C. Knox.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, April 25, 1902.

SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE.

Mr. Knox Says Bill For an Injunction Will Be Framed.

AGAINST INTERSTATE TRADE.

Mr. Day in the East and Mr. Bethea at Chicago Were Instructed to Gather Proofs of Alleged Combination of Meat Dealers—Packers Protest Innocence.

   Washington, April 25.—Attorney General Knox made the following statement regarding the so-called beef trust:

   "On April 4 this department directed W. A. Day, Esq., of Washington, in his capacity as special assistant to the attorney general, to examine into, as far as practicable, the public charges to the effect that a combination of the large meat dealers of the United States, had been effected, contrary to the provisions of the laws of the United States. This preliminary examination resulted in instructions to Mr. Day and Mr. Bethea, United States attorney at Chicago, on April 7, to prosecute simultaneously in Chicago and the East a more particular examination into the allegations and proofs alleged to exist in support thereof.

   "From their reports I am satisfied that sufficient evidence is in hand upon which bills in equity for an injunction can be framed to restrain the combination mentioned from further proceeding under their agreement, which clearly appears to be in restraint of interstate trade. I have, therefore, in compliance with the law which provides: 'It shall be the duty of the several district attorneys of the United States in their respective districts, under the direction of the attorney general, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain violations of this act,' directed the district attorney at Chicago to prepare a bill for an injunction against the corporations and persons who are parties to the combination mentioned, to be filed in the United States circuit court for the Northern district of Illinois."

 

REFUSED TO MAKE A STATEMENT

Representatives of Packers Said They Welcomed an Investigation.

   Chicago, April 25.—United States District Attorney Bethea refused to make any statement about the action that he will take under Attorney General Knox's instructions.

   "I have absolutely nothing to say," he said when the Washington announcement was read to him.

   A representative of the packing houses said that the packers welcomed a full investigation of their relations with each other and the conduct of their business. In their behalf he entered a denial to all charges that they are in combination to control prices or restrain trade.

 

Theodore Roosevelt.

THE BEEF TRUST.

Attorney General Submits His Evidence to the President.

THINKS HE HAS A GOOD CASE.

Commended for His Prompt Action—Six Firms to Become the Defendants in Individual Actions—Belief That the Combine Can be Broken Up.

   Washington. April 5.—Before making his announcement last night that he would institute proceedings against the so-called beef trust, Attorney General Knox submitted to the president the results of the investigation made by Judge W. A. Day. of Washington, and S. H. Bethea, United States district attorney at Chicago. From the evidence obtained Mr. Knox was satisfied that he could make out a good case against the combine, and asked the president's approval before taking this course. The president displayed great interest in the reports of Judge Day and Mr. Bothea, and after going over them congratulated the attorney general on his promptness in making the inquiry, and his success in obtaining so much valuable material in so short a time. He gave his hearty approval to the attorney general's proposition, leaving it to that officer's judgment the form in which the prosecution should be undertaken.

   The suits, which will be directed against the individual members of the alleged combine, will be filed in the United States Circuit court at Chicago just as soon as the papers can be prepared. Six firms have been named as the ones likely to be the defendants in the case: Armour & Co., Swift & Co., G. H. Hammond & Co., The Cudahy Packing Co., Nelson & Morris Co., and Sulzberger & Schwarschild.

   The department will push the proceedings as rapidly as the machinery of the courts will allow, in order to afford the desired relief as soon as possible. From the positive character of the evidence already in hand, and the ease with which it was obtained, the attorney- general is confident of being able to break up the combine. Mr. Bethea was occupied only two weeks in gathering the testimony upon which Mr. Knox based his decision to bring the suits. If the contention of the department is upheld by the courts, it means the complete dissolution of the combine and that hereafter the packers must not independently or go out of business.

 

PAGE FOUR—BRIEF EDITORIAL.

The Kiss.

   A Kentucky jury gave a verdict of one cent damages against a young man who kissed a girl without her consent, while a Virginia court compelled a youth of that state to pay $1,000 for a similar offense. Here is something radically wrong. We are not prepared to say that the price is too high in Virginia, but it is certainly ridiculously low in Kentucky. No one will attempt to say that there is any such vast difference in the charms of the Kentucky and the Virginia girl. The kissableness of both is fully and freely admitted, and that, too, without the disparagement or the undue praise of either. We must look elsewhere for the cause of this unjust and flagrant discrimination. It evidently lies in the difference in the judicial systems prevailing in the different commonwealths and suggests the necessity of uniform state laws on osculation as well as banking, bankruptcy and divorce.

 

Sig. Sautelle.

THE SAUTELLE SHOW.

All Preparations Now Made for the Great Summer Trip of 1902.

WILL BE A RAILROAD SHOW THIS YEAR.

Larger Tents, Greater Ring Capacity—A Whole Brand New Menagerie, including the Baby Monkey—New Cages for the Animals—New Cars for Transportation—The Cost of the Elaborate Outfit—How Sig. Sautelle's Show has Grown—Exhibitions in Homer and Cortland May 2 and 3.

   Sig. Sautelle's big railroad show is nearly in readiness to begin the season of 1902, which marks the beginning of this celebrated showman's career at the head of a first-class and thoroughly up-to-date railroad show. Sig. has had long years of experience in the show business and has made a record for himself as a showman though he has previously visited the various sections of this country with his outfit by means of overland journeys with wagons.

   From year to year, however, this showman has steadily added to his equipment until now it has outgrown such means of transportation, and henceforth it will be a railroad show in every sense of the term. A large number of fine wild animals have been added, a much larger ring capacity will be used, more than double the amount of canvas will be spread, more trained animals will be exhibited, making in all, one of the best shows that has ever been put out upon the road.

Preparing the Equipment.

   A large force of men has been at work for several months past at the winter quarters near the old Tisdale mills between Cortland and Homer, and at the junction in Cortland where the new cars have been under process of arrangement for transporting the equipment. There are fourteen of these cars prepared for the show and they will present a first-class appearance when Sig. starts out from Cortland after the third of May. The brilliant array of cages, dens, tableaux, calliope, band wagons and chariots is now at winter quarters where they are being placed in showing condition. Everything is being put up in the most presentable shape for the great opening days which will be on May 2 in Homer and on May 3 in Cortland at the fair grounds.

The Menagerie.

   Perhaps the greatest innovation in connection with the change that Sautelle is making in running a railroad show is the addition of the large number of wild beasts of all kinds that have been collected from every quarter of the globe. A portion of these animals are now at the winter quarters, while a large number are being shipped from New York, having been ordered from a shipload that has recently been received at the metropolis. These will include several large elephants and camels, besides other large and costly animals. At the winter quarters there are now in readiness for the road, a large elephant, seven fine specimens of African tigers, a cinnamon bear, a Siberian wolfe, a pair of puma, two pairs of hyenas, a pair of deer, a den of three large and fierce looking lions, a Hong Konga deer, a pair of kangaroos, and an East India hog deer. Besides these are the monkeys, rat eaters, Guinea pig, cockatoos, and many other rare and beautiful birds [sic].

The Baby Monkey.

   Perhaps the most pleasing part of the whole show in the minds of the children will be the baby monkey that was born the 15th of last March. Baby monkey has all the attention shown him that any infant could desire and his parents are seemingly as proud of the youngster as though he had a chance to some time be elected to congress.

Cost of the Equipment.

   In all, the cost of the equipment will be more than $40,000. The twenty-five new cages, the five tableaux, the $3,000 ticket wagon, gorgeously embellished with twelve gold leaf figures, the chariots, the gaily trimmed band wagons together with the 150 horses will make a parade that will be worth coming miles to see. Aside from the forty wagons there will be a large 16-foot organ in the parade. This instrument was made in London and cost $2,250. It is said that it will make more music than a whole band. Then there is the steam calliope which is an instrument constructed like an organ in which steam is used instead of wind for producing the notes. This cost $15,000.

Sig. Hard at Work.

   Sig. Sautelle was seen by a Standard reporter at the winter quarters yesterday. At that time he was fitted out with a blue frock and overalls to match and was busily engaged in putting gold leaf on a figure for the ticket wagon and, by the way, Sautelle has made his show what it is by his own exertions, ably assisted by the help of Mrs. Sautelle, who always takes an active interest in everything pertaining to the show. He laughed heartily when the reporter stepped up to him and asked where Sig. Sautelle could be found. He said that his name was Sautelle, and related in a genial way his experience with a professional man who recently asked him the same question and who would not be changed in his belief that he was being bluffed. "My wife and I," said the showman, "started on the road in the show business with a blind horse and an $8 wagon, showing around at country school houses, and from this small beginning we have kept increasing the business until it is as you now see it." Sautelle takes great pride in the equipment that he now has, and well he may for it is a fine one.

Waterproof Tents.

   The canvass to be used is all waterproof. The main tent is a 140-foot round top with two 50-foot poles. The other tent is a 70-foot round top with three 40-foot poles. The side show will be given under a 60-foot canvas with two 30-foot poles.

   Every one within a radius of many miles of Cortland will be anxious to see Sig. Sautelle's new and big railroad show as it will be presented at the fair grounds on Saturday, May 3. Everything is new, fresh and thoroughly up to date and Sig.'s prices, 25 cents, are within reach of everybody.

The Advertising Car.

   The advertising car, which is a model of neatness and convenience, started out yesterday morning at 9:22 for Binghamton and thence to Middletown. It is under the supervision of Mr. B. K. Wilber. In the car is an office, diningroom, work room and sleeping apartments. In fact, in it the men live, move and have their being.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The new [bicycle] sidepath machine has arrived from Oberlin, Ohio, and will be tried tomorrow.

   —Rev. N. W. Bates of West Bloomfield will preach at the Congregational church on Sunday morning and evening.

   —Owing to Dr. Santee's inability to leave the house the mayor has called the regular meeting of the board of health at his office this evening at 8 o'clock.

   —There will be a social at the Presbyterian church this evening at 8 o'clock. All members of the church and their friends are very cordially invited to be present. Music will be furnished by Miss Marsh and Mr. Carpenter.

   —New display advertisements today are—Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 8; C. F. Thompson, strawberries, etc., page 5; Cortland. Fish & Oyster Co., Fish, page 5; S. Simmons, Clothing, page 6; New York store, Drygoods, millinery, etc., page 6; W. A. Case, Drygoods, page 6.

   —Yesterday was the greatest day so far at the local postoffice upon the fountain pen craze. On Tuesday noon 5,000 stamped envelopes were received at the office. They were all gone last night, most of them sold to the fountain pen endless chain writers.

 

APRIL FOOLS' DAY