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| John Hay. |
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| Wu Ting Fang. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, July 10, 1902.
MR. HAY'S SUCCESS.
Evacuation of Tien Tsin Soon to be Accomplished.
UPON APPEAL OF MINISTER WU.
Secretary Hay Addressed Communication Direct to Governments Interested—Answers From Nearly All Are Favorable to His Views—Conditional Obstacle Removed.
Washington, July 10.—Secretary Hay's prompt action upon the appeal of the Chinese government through Yuan Shi Kai and Minister Wu relative to the evacuation of Tien Tsin has met with success, and it is believed that Tien Tsin will soon be turned over to the Chinese authorities.
Secretary Hay, doubting whether anything could be accomplished directly through the diplomats at Pekin, though action there had been contemplated, decided to address himself directly to the governments interested in the Chinese question and maintaining forces in Tien Tsin. This was done through the American ambassadors and ministers resident at the various European courts and Tokio.
Answers have been received from nearly all of these and they have all proven favorable to the United States' contention. The powers are now agreed to instruct their generals at Tien Tsin to abandon the condition as a precedent to evacuation, that save the small police force of 300 men, the Chinese military forces must be kept at a distance of not less than 36 kilometers from Tien Tsin. As this obstacle has been removed a speedy conclusion is expected of the Tien Tsin negotiations.
COLOMBIAN TREATY.
Believed at the- State Department It Will Be Signed Within a Week.
Washington, July 10.—Final negotiations for the conclusion of the definitive treaty between the United States and Colombia, which is to authorize the construction of the Panama canal, began at the state department at a meeting between Secretary Hay and Mr. Cromwell, representing the Panama Canal company, and the Colombian legation here.
Mr. Cromwell also laid before the department of justice all the papers in his possession calculated to assist the attorney general in his work of settling the title.
Secretary Hay turned over to Mr. Cromwell a mass of papers which the counsel examined very carefully. While a definite conclusion was not reached at yesterday's meeting, it is stated that a distinct advance was made toward the end. Some correspondence must be had with the Colombian government. It is believed that the treaty can be signed within a week.
MINERS ENTOMBED.
Eight Hundred Caught Underground by Explosion
IN THE CAMBRIA COAL MINES.
Occurred About Noon—Loss of Life Will be Terrible—Families Are Brokenhearted and Almost Crazy.
Johnstown, Pa., July 10. An explosion occurred in the Cambria coal mines about noon today, and 800 miners are entombed. It is feared that none of them can be reached in time to save their lives. The town is in terrible excitement and the lamentations and tears of the families is awful to behold.
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| Attorney Orris U. Kellogg. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Thanks Are Due.
The thanks of the residents of Port Watson-st, and Clinton-ave., Cortland, are due to Hon. O. U. Kellogg and to Hon. L. J. Fitzgerald for the forcible way in which they called the attention of the board of public works at its recent meeting to the wretched condition of those two streets, but the fact is to be deplored that the board did not venture to accept Mr. Fitzgerald's invitation to take a carriage ride over the two streets, though it would no doubt have been true that had they done so they would have received a worse shaking up than they have experienced at any time this season, but they would have realized in a way beyond the power of verbal expression the condition of the streets.
Of course it is understood that this is no ordinary summer in the matter of rainfall, and all streets are showing the effect of the steady downpour, but these are two of the principal streets leading into the city and the traffic over them is heavy and they should receive some kind of attention from the city and be put in better condition than at present. If the streets are ignored no doubt the two gentlemen will be heard from again.
CORONER'S INQUEST
As to the Death of the Little Barber Child.
NOTHING CRIMINAL ABOUT IT.
Child was not Fully Developed and Would not Take Sufficient Nourishment to Sustain Life—Coroner Finds no Willful Negligence, but Medical Attendance Should Have Been Continued.
The inquest in the matter of the death of the infant child of Elmer J. and Eva Barber was concluded yesterday before Coroner E. M. Santee. The following witnesses were sworn: Emma Eisaman, Lyman F. Eisaman, Ernest F. Knapp, R. Fred Brooks, Arthur Bean, B. Frank Park, Joseph Palmer, G. H. Maricle, Alice C. Barber, Minnie B. Palmer, Eva B. Barber, Elmer Barber, Dr. F. W. Higgins, Dr. P. T. Carpenter, Dr. H. P. Johnson and E. R. Wright.
A great mass of testimony was taken from which it appears that Mr. and Mrs. Elmer J. Barber live upon and work the farm of Lyman F. Eisaman upon the hill south of Cortland and occupy part of the Eisaman house. A male child was born to them upon June 13, 1902, the mother being attended at the time by Dr. H. P. Johnson, and mother and child being afterward cared for by Mrs. Alice C. Barber, the grandmother of the child, who testified that she had had fifteen years practice as an obstetrical nurse, and also for a few days by Mrs. Minnie B. Palmer, the aunt of the child. The child weighed three pounds at its birth and appeared to be of about seven month's development. The attending physician expressed his belief at the time of the birth that the child had about an even chance of living or of dying. The physician was not again called to see the child, its care being left to the nurse and the mother. The child died early upon the morning of July 3. During the period of its life it appears to have taken very little nourishment and to have gradually grown weaker. It was once thought that life had departed before this was true, but the child rallied again for a little.
Dr. Johnson issued the death certificate assigning as cause of death lack of development. The father then applied to Town Clerk G. H. Maricle for a burial certificate. That official inquired who the undertaker was to be and the father replied Briggs Brothers of Homer, and then the burial certificate was issued. It appeared, however, from the testimony that no undertaker was employed but that the father and mother took the little body to the home of Mrs. Alice C. Barber, the grandmother, in Little York. That lady prepared the child for burial. A wooden box was procured and was lined with white cloth. The child was clothed in a long white slip and under clothing. Roses and geranium leaves were strewn over the body and then the box was buried under a lilac bush in Mrs. Barber's yard and a geranium was set out over the grave.
After this had been done complaint was made to Coroner Santee by certain parties asking an investigation as to the cause of the death and as to the regularity of the procedure. Coroner Santee and Undertaker Wright went to Little York, exhumed the body and brought it to Cortland where an autopsy was performed by Dr. Higgins and Dr. Carpenter, and subsequently the sixteen witnesses above named were sworn at the inquest.
Coroner Santee has rendered his verdict. He recites the facts and concludes:
"This coroner finds that the said infant came to its death July 3, 1902, on the Lyman F. Eisaman farm in the town of Cortlandville, in the county aforesaid, from lack of nourishment; that the parents were not willfully negligent of it, but should be severely censured for not procuring medical assistance for it; that the method of certifying its death was a fair sample of the average Cortland county way of doing in such cases and that the attention of the medical profession should be called to its illegality."
GOOD ROAD BUILDING.
O. U. Kellogg Underbids all and Gets Contract
AT THE ENGINEER'S ESTIMATE.
Others Would not Do It for That—Material is Ready at Hand—Hill Road Below Tracks to be Widened—Building the City's Road Too.
Work on the Kellogg road from the city limits south to the Lackawanna tracks toward Blodgett Mills is well under way. The improvements are being made under the good roads law, and Mr. Kellogg has the contract for the work. The road is now being graded, a stonecrusher is being placed on the grounds and incidentally the narrow roadway that leads down the hill to the Lackawanna tracks from the south is being greatly improved by being widened.
Mr. Kellogg's Contract.
The contract price for which Mr. Kellogg is to build the road is $5,512, and this amount is the estimate of State Engineer Allen for doing the work. The strip to be improved is exactly three-quarters of a mile in length and the contractors who bid on the job were about $2,000 above the figures for which Mr. Kellogg is doing the work. None of the contractors would take the job for the amount of the engineer's estimate. Mr. Kellogg is not a contractor, but he had promised the board of supervisors when the resolution for the improvement was passed that he would guarantee a bidder at the engineer's estimate. Consequently he is doing the work. Yet he believes that it can be done for the amount for which he has contracted to do the job, and he gives his reasons for thinking as he does.
The Road Building.
In the first place the stone for the first or under layer of the work lies near at hand and can be easily quarried out of the side hill on Mr. Kellogg's farm. Samples of the stone have been sent to the state engineer and were pronounced to be excellent in quality for the work. This first layer of crushed stone is 4 inches thick after it has been rolled with a heavy roller and is the bulk of the material used in the road, hence the advantage of having the stone for this close at hand.
The stone will be crushed and drawn to the roadbed without any transportation by railroad. The crusher plant is being placed at a convenient spot near the Lackawanna tracks. The stone has to be hauled only a short distance to the crusher, and then only a little way to the roadbed. This is another decided advantage.
The grading upon the roadbed will receive the closest attention and will be done even better than the specifications call for. For instance the sag between the E. & C. N. Y. railway tracks and Mr. Kellogg's house will be filled 3 1/2 feet where the specifications call for a fill of only 1 foot. It can be relied upon that Mr. Kellogg will have the work done in proper shape, and when it is done it will be a delight to ride over it.
The top dressing of trap rock which is to be shipped from New Jersey will be 2 inches thick.
The Hill Road.
The dirt for filling is being taken from the bank just south of the Lackawanna tracks. The road on the side hill at that point is very narrow, and the highway will be greatly improved by being made considerably wider. It is not in the contract to improve the road south of the tracks, but it is being done just the same and it will be a decided improvement.
Mr. Kellogg has secured J. I. Hibbard of Onondaga Valley to superintend the work for him. Mr. Hibbard has built many miles of new road under the recent good roads enactment and understands the work well. He superintended the building of the Truxton road. Assistant Engineer Clark of Waterloo has charge of the work for the state. He has to help him, George Lucy, of this city.
The City's Road.
Mr. Kellogg will build 500 feet of road for the city from the south line of the city limits north. He owns all the property on both sides of the road that is to be built within the city boundaries, therefore he will have to pay for two-thirds of this improvement. Fifteen per cent of the cost of the road outside of the city will also fall to him, as he is the only property holder along the three-fourths of a mile strip outside of the city that is now being improved.
DEATH OF MISS BOSWORTH.
Had Been Ill Since Christmas and Steadily Growing Worse.
Miss Lillian Ann Bosworth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bosworth, 41 Maple-ave., died this morning at 5:30 o'clock from paresis, aged 47 years, 1 month and 3 days. The funeral will be held from the house Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. The body will be taken to Paris Hill, Oneida Co., on the 1:03 train for burial.
Miss Bosworth came to Cortland seven years ago from Waterville, where she was a dressmaker. She was taken ill about Christmas time of last year and had been constantly growing worse until her death.
Besides her parents she is survived by three brothers and two sisters, Messrs. A. D. Bosworth of Cortland, Frank Bosworth of Portland, Me., Herbert Bosworth of Springfield, Mass., and Mrs. L. C. Jones of Waterville and Miss Clara Bosworth of Cortland. She was a member of the Congregational church of this city.
Buried in Cortland.
The remains of Mr. Richard Heaphey, who was killed by being run over by a train near Weedsport last Tuesday arrived in Cortland at 1:03 this afternoon from Syracuse for burial. He was about 60 years of age and unmarried. He formerly lived in Homer.
DAMAGE SUITS
Now Threatened Against City of Cortland.
THEY ALL GROW OUT OF WATER.
Surface Water on Railroad-st. Dams up Against Lehigh Valley Tracks, Backs up and Floods Cellars and Covers Lawns.
One of the hardest showers of the season passed over Cortland last evening. It was a drencher and filled the streets to overflow. Main-st. was a lake for nearly its whole length and the water in many places along the street came up over the curb and flooded the walks.
On Railroad-st. below the Lackawanna the water again flooded lawns and went into cellars. The water dammed up on the west side of the Lehigh Valley tracks for considerable distance. Mayor Brown looked over the situation on that street this morning and is of the opinion that relief could be given by digging a sluiceway under the tracks. The grade is sufficient to carry the water off if there was a place for it to run. The gutter on the south side of the street leads into a pond along the Lehigh tracks, and when this pond is filled the water backs up on the street. The mayor is of the opinion that the work of digging a sluiceway under the tracks could be done quicker and probably as cheap by the city as to fool around with blue prints to send to the railroad officials for them to do the work by.
The residents of the street are talking damage suits today, and they claim that they can no longer bear the annoyance that the water gives them. A. J. Barber, 123 Railroad-st., states that he will begin an action at once against the city. He has 10 inches of water in his cellar. He claims that he was never bothered with water until the city took the water on the street under the Lackawanna tracks.
It is thought that the question of carrying off the water on the street could be solved by extending the cobblestone gutter down to the Lehigh Valley tracks and to give it a good outlet under these tracks. From the tracks to the river the grade is such that it would nearly take care of itself.
BREVITIES.
—The National Protective Home circle will meet tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock.
—A regular meeting of the L. O. T. M. will be held tonight at 8 o'clock. All members are requested to be present.
—The Woman's Baptist Foreign Mission circle will meet with Mrs. W. R. Curtis, 66 Maple-ave., Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
—The Ithaca band, which gives concerts at the park July 16, afternoon and evening, is filling an engagement this week at Lakeside park, Syracuse.
—New display advertisements today are—Cortland Fish & Oyster Co, Fresh fish, page 6; S. P. Smith, Meats, page 6; E. H. Medes, Fancy groceries, page 5.
—Preliminary negotiations have been entered into by George B. Jones for the sale of his house and lot on Tompkins-st. to Harris T. Burgess of this city.
—Over 100 from the East Side Congregational chapel picnicked at the park yesterday and had a fine time and all reached home before the shower came up.
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