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| Mt. Pelee eruption, May, 1902. |
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| Angelo Heilprin. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, June 2, 1902.
WENT TO CRATER'S TOP.
Professor Heilprin With Three Guides Ascended Mont Pelee.
FOUND THREE SEPARATE VENTS.
Party Went on Mules to Ancient Line of Vegetation, and Then the Professor Proceeded Alone on Foot—Lake Dried Up—Edge of the Crater Had Fallen In.
Fort de France, Island of Martinique, Saturday, May 31, 8 p. m.—The National Geographical society has scored a great triumph through its representative here, Professor Angelo Heilprin, who this morning with three guides ascended to the top of the crater on the summit of Mont Pelee. Professor Heilprin is also president of the Philadelphia Geographical society.
Professor Heilprin had gone to the Plantation Vive, which is near the crater, in company with Fernand Clerc and Mr. Ried, landed proprietors of Martinique. This expedition had been especially organized by United States Consul Ayme and Professor Heilprin and was led by the latter.
The expedition left Fort de France last Thursday, May 29, at noon. Friday was spent in studying the newly formed craters on the north flank of the mountain.
Looked Into Huge Crater.
Saturday morning Professor Heilprin determined to attempt the ascent to the top of the crater and with this purpose in view he set out at 5 o'clock. The volcano was very active but amid a thousand dangers Professor Heilprin reached the summit and looked down into the huge crater. Here he spent some time in taking careful observations.
He saw a huge cinder cone in the center of the crater. The opening of the crater itself is a vast crevice 500 feet long and 150 wide.
While Professor Heilprin was on the summit of the volcano several violent explosions of steam and cinder-laden vapor took place and again and again his life was in danger. Ashes fell about him in such quantities at times as to completely obscure his vision. One particularly violent explosion of mud covered him from head to foot with the hideous, viscid and semi-solid matter thrown out. Professor Heilprin still persisted in his study and observations, however, and twice more was he showered with mud.
He learned, as had been suspected, that there were three separate vents through which steam issued. Full details of the professor's observations cannot be had until he returns to Fort de France.
Professor Heilprin's journey down the side of the mountain was fully as perilous as the ascent.
Professor Heilprin made the important discovery that the crater at the head of the River Fałlaise has synchronous eruptions with the crater at the summit of the volcano and that it ejects precisely the same matter at such times.
The River Fałlaise crater and the crater at the summit showed, during Professor Heilprin's visit, a new phenomenon. Mud was thrown up in high columns. Heretofore the mud has bubbled or boiled out and flowed downward in huge streams. In the course of one eruption of the River Fałlaise crater an enormous mass of intensely hot mud was ejected.
This flow reached the rum distillery on the Vive Plantation and extinguished all the fires there. This torrent of mud may invade the plantation and as Vive is the center of one of the richest districts of the island it is feared the damage there may be great.
Professor Proceeded Alone.
Mr. Clerc furnished the following further details of Professor Heilprin's ascent. The party proceeded on mules to an altitude of 700 metres, the ancient line of vegetation. From this point Professor Heilprin continued on foot leaving the mule that had carried him up the steep hog back to the tree line. Upon reaching the site of Lake Palmiste, Professor Heilprin found it to be completely dried up. He crossed the bed of the lake and continued on up the gently rising slope to the crater. Formerly the edge of the crater was a high bluff or shoulder. This, the explorer found, had fallen inward into the great crater and he thinks this change probably occurred at the time of the great explosion of May 20. This is the first important topographic alteration in Mont Pelee, which has been noted and verified.
Professor Heilprin arrived at the edge of the summit crater at half past 1 and remained there for over 2 hours. When he returned to Vive he resembled a statue of mud. The weight of ashes and mud he carried on his person, the horrible atmosphere he breathed and the fearful difficulties he encountered reduced Professor Heilprin to a condition of extreme fatigue, notwithstanding the fact that he ascended Mont Pelee from the most accessible and easiest side. Professor Heilprin may return to Fort de France today if he has sufficiently recovered by that time to travel.
George Kennan and his party which went to Morne Rouge found on their return trip that a bridge across the road had been carried away by a torrent of hot mud. Negroes managed to get the party across the obstruction; they took the [carriages in pieces] and carried them and the members of the party to the other side of the river of mud which was still hot. All the members of Mr. Kennan's party are well.
STRIKE OF GARMENT WORKERS.
Nine-Hour Day Demanded—2,000 Employees Idle.
Syracuse. June 2.—The strike of garment workers of this city commenced here Sunday, when none of the Hebrew shops of which there are some 15 were opened. This morning every shop in the city is closed and no work whatever done and nearly 2,000 employees are idle. There is no indication of violence, unless the manufacturers attempt to ship garments to New York or St. Louis to be made. Committees of the strikers have been appointed to prevent this.
The strikers demand a 9 hour day at the same pay as has been given for 10 hours, which the manufacturers say would have been granted had the application been made two months ago, before prices had been made to the trade on goods ordered. The boss tailors, who take contracts from the manufacturers, are with the strikers. The tie-up may last several weeks. The strikers believe that they will be able to work the year around at nine hours a day instead of being laid off for about three months a year.
WAITER GIRLS STRIKE.
Wouldn't Serve the Non-union Men with Meals.
Hazleton, June 2.—The twenty-five non-union men who came here on Saturday from Philadelphia under the guise that they were deputies, left town in buses this morning for the Beaver Meadows and No. 40 Lehigh collieries. They will man the pumps there. Strikers hooted them as they drove away. The men stopped at Hazleton House and the waitresses there went on a strike last night rather than serve them with meals. The girls paraded Broad-st. supported by striking miners.
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| Solomon H. Bethea. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
The Case Against the Beef Combine.
The vigor with which the federal department of justice is proceeding against the so called beef packers' combine is commendable and is likely to have tangible results. United States District Attorney Bethea, who is pushing the case at Chicago, has unearthed a considerable amount of extremely compromising correspondence showing that, even if an actual trust does not exist among the great houses in the meat business, there is something very like criminal conspiracy to produce conditions in disobedience of the specific provisions of the Sherman antitrust law.
With the granting by United States Circuit Court Judge Grosscup at Chicago of a temporary injunction against the defendants named in the government's petition, the issue is now fairly joined and the fight begun in real earnest against the packers. Judge Grosscup's restraining order is so wide in its scope that if the packers or their agents continue with their present alleged uniform arrangements they will be taken into court on contempt proceedings, and the burden of proof will be on them to show that they have not violated the order in any particular.
Presumably the next step in the proceedings will be an effort upon the part of the packers to have the temporary injunction set aside. Unless they decide to make a fight at an early date to have the order vacated, they will have until Aug. 4 to make reply to the government's complaint. Whatever form the litigation may take, it is likely to be one of the most vigorously fought legal battles of recent years.
It may be difficult and perhaps impossible to show the existence of anything to which the legal definition of the term trust may be made to apply to the packers, but it may not be at all difficult to establish the fact of a conspiracy to advance the price of food products and to restrain trade, which under the provisions of the Sherman act would be punishable by either fine or imprisonment or both. The confidence with which District Attorney Bethea has thus far moved in the proceedings warrants the belief that in addition to the evidence he has shown he has a good deal "up his sleeve" which the counsel for the defense will find decidedly perplexing.
REV. EDWIN L. TANNER
Ordained to the Priesthood in Homer, N Y., on Friday.
AT CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
An Impressive Service Conducted by Right Reverend F. D. Huntington, Bishop of the Diocese of Central New York, Assisted by Many Other Clergymen— His Son Had Just Been Ordained to the Diaconate.
On Friday morning last in Calvary church in Homer the Rev. Edwin Lee Tanner was advanced to the priesthood by the Rt. Rev. F. D. Huntington, bishop of the diocese of Central New York. At the appointed hour the choir entered the nave of the church singing hymn 490. Immediately behind the choir came Mr. Tanner's son, the Rev. Wilson Tanner, who was ordained to the deaconate last Wednesday. Then followed the preacher for the day and visiting presbyters and last came the Rev. Edwin Tanner, attended by the Rev. Theodore Babcock, D. D., of Syracuse.
Morning prayer was said by the Rev. Wilson Tanner. The Rev. Grant P. Sommerville, D, D., of Moravia preached the ordination sermon, taking for his text, "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ as the Christ did beseech you by us." Dr. Sommerville in a most forcible manner pointed out the relation which the priest bears to his people and how the people should esteem Christ's valid representative. He also clearly set forth the church's doctrine concerning absolution as contrasted to both Roman and Protestant teaching on the subject. His charge to the candidate was filled with words of sound advice and solemn warning, delivered in an earnest and impressive manner.
After the singing of the hymn, "The Church's One Foundation," the candidate was presented to the bishop by the Rev. Theodore Babcock, D. D., dean of St. Andrews hall, Syracuse, and the stately service of the ordinal began. The following priests united with the bishop in "the laying on of hands." The Rev. Theodore Babcock, D. D., of Syracuse, the Rev. W. G. Coote of Whitney's Point, the Rev. Theodore Haydn of Dryden, the Rev. H. E. Hubbard of Greene, the Rev. J. H. LaRoche, D. D., of Binghamton, the Rev. Grant P. Sommerville, D. D., of Moravia, the Rev. W. W. Way of Cortland.
After the ordination followed the administration of the Holy Communion the cup, being delivered to the people by the newly ordained priest.
The services lasted about three hours, most of the congregation remaining to the end. The chancel was beautifully trimmed with cut flowers and growing plants and the lighted candles on the altar enhanced the solemnity of the occasion. The vested choir under the direction of Mr. Chas. Creque, rendered the chants and hymns with good effect.
The Rev. Edwin Tanner expects to continue in Calvary parish at least for the present. He is held in high esteem, not only by his own people, but by the community in general. Mr. Tanner was born in Richmond, Va., during the civil war and though he has travelled much in the states and Canada. He always regarded Richmond as his home until he came to Homer. The Rev. Wilson Tanner will reside with his father assisting him in his work and he will also be minister in charge at St. Marks, Jamesville, N. Y.
CONFIRMATION SERVICES.
A Large Class Presented at St. Mary's Catholic Church.
A very large congregation attended the 8:30 o'clock mass at St. Mary's church yesterday morning at which time the Rt. Rev. P. A. Ludden, D. D., bishop of Syracuse, officiated and administered Holy Communion to the candidates for confirmation.
The bishop also presided at solemn High Mass at 10:30 o'clock and the sermon was preached by Rev. P. F. McEvoy, chancellor and secretary of the diocese.
At 3 o'clock solemn vespers were sung, after which the bishop administered the sacrament of confirmation to a class numbering 181. The members of the class and also the members of the Knights of Columbus, the A. O. H. and the C. M. B. A. to the number of 150 met at the church about 2:30 o'clock and formed a procession which marched down the east side of Main-st., as far as Clinton-ave., crossed, and marched up the west side to the parochial residence, where they were viewed by the bishop, and from there they acted as an escort to the bishop and the attending clergy as they marched to the church.
The procession was led by the superintendent of the Sunday school, Mr. Luke J. McEvoy, and by Prof. James Shea. Then followed the altar boys and next the confirmation class. The middle aisles were reserved for the class, the boys on the left and the girls on the right. The members of the societies mentioned occupied seats just behind the class. The girls all wore white and with their veils and wreaths presented a very beautiful appearance.
The side aisles were filled long before the class entered and by the time the services commenced every seat was occupied. The main altar and side altars were handsomely decorated with cut flowers and palms.
The service opened with vespers, after which the bishop administered the sacrament of confirmation. Rev. P. F. McEvoy or Syracuse, Rev. J. J. McDonald of Binghamton, Rev. J. T. Conway of Truxton and the pastor, Rev. J. J. McLoghlin, were present and assisted in the ceremonies.
The bishop made appropriate remarks to the children, taking for his theme, "Ye are Bought With A Price." He cautioned them to always bear in mind that Christ died to save all and that each and every one could truly say "Christ died to save me." He said as he went from place to place he always felt it a great privilege to say a few words to the young as their young minds and young hearts might be compared to an unstained tablet, upon which words of counsel could be easily written. This he said was not always true of adult congregations who knew more of the world and its ways. He admonished the boys to be particularly watchful to avoid all cursing and swearing and to mention the name of Jesus with the greatest possible reverence. To the parents and guardians he said a few words cautioning them to be especially careful of the company they permitted their children to keep and said above all to set them a good example of true living and thereby gain for themselves and children a heavenly crown.
The services closed with benediction and the repeating by the class of the "Our Father, Hail Mary and The Apostles' Creed."
Rev. J. J. McLoghlin and his efficient corps of teachers have been most zealous in their work in the Sunday school as this large class plainly attests.
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| Cortland City Band. |
OPEN AIR CONCERT
By City Band from Cortland House Piazza at 8 o'clock Tonight.
The Cortland city band will give and open air concert at 8 o'clock tonight from the piazza of the Cortland House. The program will be as follows:
March—With Sword and Lance, Starke.
Medley Overture—The Dazzler, Mackie.
Characteristic—Monkey Shines, Austead.
a. Quartet from Rigoletto, Verdi.
b. Celebrated Minuet, Paderewski.
Grand Selection—From La Vestale, Mercadante.
Serio Comique—Trombone Sneeze, Sorenson.
Intermezzo—La Rose, Archer.
March—Revelation, Chambers.
CAUGHT TWO ITALIANS
Who Are Charged with Attempt at Illegal Fishing.
A wicker fish trap was pulled out of Otter creek near the river last evening by Officer Bowker, and at about 3:30 o'clock this morning Officers Bowker and Townsend landed two Italians who had evidently come to the spot to get fish out of the queerly constructed willow trap. When the wicker was discovered in the evening it contained one trout about 9 inches in length, twelve suckers and two or three white fish. The dagos were arrested and are held, awaiting an interpreter.
When the two Italians came to the creek and found their trap gone there was much confusion. Their jabbering and gestures told of their surprise. They were arrested as John Doe and Richard Roe, as the officers could not tell what the names they gave were meant to be. They were from the gang that have been at work on the Elm-st. crossing.
The trap that they had set was a home-made affair, but was well and ingeniously made. It was about 3 1/2 feet long and nearly 18 inches in diameter at the base, tapering to a point, which was woven into a handle. The base was conical in shape, and at the apex there was a small hole for the fish to enter. The fish go up stream at night to feed, and this crude net was placed so that all the fish that tried to go up went into the trap. They will be tried for illegal fishing.
BREVITIES.
—A regular meeting of the N. P. L. will be held Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock sharp.
—The Church Protective union meets Tuesday night at the W. C. T. U. rooms at 8 o'clock.
—The Purvis will contest was resumed today before County Surrogate J. E. Eggleston.
—Chief of Police E. Barnes blossomed out in a new regulation blue suit this morning.
—The trustees of the Congregational church will have a regular meeting this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—A regular meeting of the W. R. C. will be held at the G. A. R. rooms Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
— Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M., will confer the second degree at its regular communication Tuesday evening.
—A special meeting of the Brotherhood of St. Paul of the Homer-ave. M. E. church will be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—The Farther Lights circle of the First Baptist church will meet this evening at 7:30 at the home of Mrs. G. H. Brigham., 8 Charles-st.
—The Binghamton Republican this morning gives a lengthy and highly complimentary reference to the first Sunday's services of the Rev. A. B. Browe, late of McGraw, as pastor in that city.
—New display advertisements today are—S. Simmons, Clothing at half price, page 6: Gas Light Co., Gas ranges, page 6; Glann & Clark, Shoes and oxfords, page 6; McGraw & Elliott, Bath tub enamel, page 6.
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