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Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, August 16, 1902.
OUTBREAK NEAR CAMP.
Mob Chased an Alleged Unfair Workman.
WATCHMAN CAME TO HIS RESCUE.
Latter Was Thrown Into the Creek. Workman Ran to the Station Where Was a Company of Soldiers—Entire Twelfth Regiment and Part of Eighth Called Out.
Shenandoah, Pa., Aug. 16.—There was an outbreak last night right under the nose of the troops in camp and for a time it looked as though serious trouble would occur.
The disorder was the result of a mob chasing an alleged unfair workman near the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company's washery in the southeastern part of the town. There were 50 or 60 men in the mob.
As they chased the man up the railroad throwing stones at him the night watchman of the [coal] washery, named Anthony Flinn, tried to rescue the man. The watchman was promptly thrown into the creek running parallel with the railroad by some of those leading in the chase.
The crowd kept after the workman and he ran to the Reading railroad station, where a company of infantry was on provost duty.
The company was immediately called into formation and attempted to hold the crowd back. The captain of the company exercised great patience with the crowd and prevented any serious trouble. The mob caused a large crowd to gather from all directions and word was immediately sent to camp for reinforcements.
In nine minutes the entire Twelfth regiment and a battalion of the Eighth were on the scene. The crowd quickly scattered and three men, John Howe, Frederick Zimmerman and Matthew Bronse, who are alleged to have been participants in the assault on the watchman and the workman, were arrested and taken to the town lockup.
The troops were kept in the streets until a late hour at night. The affair created intense excitement in the town but all is now quiet.
The three men who were arrested were later given a hearing and held in $500 bail each for trial.
DIFFICULT TO BUY COAL.
Railroad Companies Are Not Supplying Retail Trade.
Buffalo, Aug. 16.—The strike among the anthracite coal miners in Pennsylvania, while not having the effect of raising the price of coal in this city, has made it very difficult for the consumers to get enough coal to meet their needs. With the exception of the Erie Railroad Coal company, there are none of the railroad companies supplying their retail trade. The transportation departments of railroads at the opening of the strike seized the coal on hand, and have been giving none at all, or a very small amount, comparatively, to their coal departments.
The price of coal has not been raised, and it is not thought that it will be raised. Prominent coal men are of the opinion that as soon as the end of the strike is definitely in sight, the price of coal in New York City and other places where it has been raised, will immediately go back to its former figure.
Head of Train Victin Found in River.
Cooperstown, N. Y., Aug. 10.—The head of John Hollenbeck, who was decapitated two days ago by a Delaware & Hudson railroad fast train near Otego, has been found floating in the Susquehanna river. Hollenbeck, a prosperous farmer, was returning home in the night from Cooperstown, and was walking on the tracks when he was killed.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Have We Frightened Europe?
One of our New York contemporaries has just informed us, with a wealth of detail from the usual ''authoritative source," that one of the reasons for the proposed reduction of European armaments, which is being energetically considered by the emperors of Germany and Russia and the king of Italy, is that the gain arising from the reduction of armaments could be devoted to a collective fight against the common danger of American competition. It is understood that the warfare is to be commercial, not sanguinary, and that energetic measures are to be taken to stifle American trade not only on the European continent, but wherever our commerce offers a vulnerable point. Although this combination of rulers has not been consummated and may never exchange its hypothetical existence for reality, it may be well for American producers and exporters to consider carefully whether such a union of hostile forces does not actually mean trouble for American trade.
That our growing commercial supremacy has aroused envy and dislike is neither doubtful nor debatable. You cannot expect a man to love you overmuch when you induce his former customers to buy your goods, and since that is what the collective American has been doing of late to the corresponding European it is not astonishing that the latter and his monarch look on us with feelings akin to hatred. That this feeling should find vent in words and deeds is also not astonishing, and the reported union of Slav, Teuton and Latin would be a natural outcome. It seems that union against a common enemy, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.
Whether this combination of rulers and nations, if consummated, will be able to work harm to our growing foreign commerce is a question for the future. What seems certain now, judging from recent statistics, is that unless these and other nations soon take effective measures to protect themselves from our invasion of their markets they will find themselves in the position of the rats who, having decided that the cat was a dangerous creature, resolved to tie around her neck a bell to warn them of her approach. It may be remembered that they could find no one to "bell the cat." Besides, there may be little foreign commerce left in the hands of Germany, Italy and Russia to protect.
AN INSURANCE SCHOOL
To Train College Graduates for the Work.
A PROJECT OF GAGE E. TARBELL.
How the Second Vice-President of the Equitable, Formerly of this County, Started and Carried Out the Scheme—A Success from the Start.
The August 6 number of the Insurance Press contains an account of the closing of the Equitable Life Assurance society's summer school for college graduates who intend to become insurance men, which was conceived and carried through by the active brain of Mr. Gage E. Tarbell, second vice-president of the company, formerly of this county, Marathon, N. Y. The school closed with a farewell dinner at which 138 sat down to the tables, nearly all of them graduates of the school, and representing some of the leading colleges and universities of the country. The occasion was a great success. When the last after-dinner talk on the program had been made, Mr. V. J. Lamb of Harvard, a member of the class, rose and in behalf of the entire class tendered to Mr. Tarbell a magnificent silver loving cup, appropriately engraved, "as a token of their appreciation of his efforts in their behalf." A set of engrossed resolutions accompanied the gift.. Mr. Tarbell was quite overwhelmed by the gift, but recovered himself sufficiently to thank the young gentlemen of the class most heartily for their gift and to make them some remarkably sound and timely business suggestions. At the close of his remarks "the boys" filed by him and all shook him cordially by the hand.
How the School Started.
The officers of the Equitable give Mr. Tarbell the entire credit for planning and carrying through the summer school. In March last he addressed a letter to the presidents of the various colleges in which he said:
His Invitation.
It is our intention on or about July 1, or very soon after the close of the present year of the leading colleges and universities, to start a class of instruction in life insurance, and it is our desire to have this class as largely as possible composed of young men who have worked their way through college, in whole or in part, or of men who are especially recommended to us as desirable by reason of their work during their college course. We would be very glad to have a few of the members of this class come to us from 'your university. It is our purpose to pay the necessary expense of the members of this class during the course of instruction, which will probably last from thirty to sixty days, and at the end of that time we propose to try to furnish to such of the members as show an adaptability to our work situations in connection with our various general agencies, where they can receive a guaranteed income, with the opportunity, through industry and perseverance, of making the income several times the amount.
We feel that there is no business or profession today that furnishes young men with a greater opportunity for advancement or a more honorable career than that of life insurance. We have several thousand young men in our employ and the number is constantly increasing, and we especially want to start in the business young men whose education, character and determination will fit them for responsible positions and be of assistance to us in carrying on our great work. To such men the opportunity that we can offer is a grand one.
The Result.
As a result of this letter twenty-five colleges and universities sent from one to seven representatives. The school under the direction of Mr. Tarbell proved so successful that already applications have been received from young men who will be seniors in different colleges next year, asking to be included in the roll of the insurance college for 1903. It is now fully decided that the college is to be a permanent annual institution. It has excited wide interest both within and outside of insurance circles, and articles illustrative and descriptive of it have appeared in various publications.
The Projector.
The Great Round World magazine speaking of the projector and creator of this school says:
Mr. Tarbell is a man, heart and soul in his business. He began his career at the foot, where quick lunches are a luxury, and long hours and hard struggles are things to be expected. His progress, however, has been rapid. Possessed of remarkable persuasive powers, of a magnetic temperament, of a keen mind for organization and an unswervable habit of sticking to the point, he sways people because they believe him, Unlike some people who have risen from small beginnings, he does not believe in pushing the "under-dog" farther down that he may rise higher himself; on the contrary helping young men to get on in life is the vulnerable spot in this successful character. Touch on that point and a new light comes into his eyes and his tones ring with a deeper heart-interest. This interest in young men (he has thousands of them under his eyes continually) is partly responsible for Mr. Tarbell's experiment in bridging the chasm between graduation and a situation.
Some of His Ideas.
The kind of spirit which Mr. Tarbell has striven to infuse into his students may be judged from the following report of a part of his farewell talk to them:
He told them that, as they went out of the room that night, they were going into business life—a strenuous business life. He said furthermore, that their college education would not make a success for them; their youth would not make a success for them; their enthusiasm would not make a success for them; nothing would enable them to achieve success but hard, earnest work. If they would work hard and earnestly and determine to succeed, their college education and their youth would give them a great advantage over less fortunate men. He warned the young men against the evil of business procrastination, told them that henceforth they were to be their own masters practically, and if they made task-masters of themselves their success would be much less than if they set themselves the full measure of work and lived up to it. He told them that wishing to be successful is of no use, that willing to be successful, and then working out that will, would carry them to whatever heights they may put their minds to. He said that man's only limitation is himself and that whatever any man makes up his mind to do, and wills to do, he can do. "One of the greatest things a man has to combat in this life," he said, "is lack of confidence in one's self." He begged the young men before him to make the first few years of their business careers a great and undoubted success, "for a man who makes a success at the start is a thousand times more liable to be a shining light in the future than a man who goes in and starts for mediocre achievement."
CALVERT FAMILY PICNIC
Held at Home of G. H. Hyde at South Cortland, Thursday.
The second annual Calvert picnic was held at the home of Mrs. G. H. Hyde, South Cortland, on Thursday, Aug, 14. Forty-five of the friends were present. After a bountiful dinner had been served under a tent on the lawn, the president, Mr. M. R. Wood, made some remarks, followed by short talks by Messrs. James Sturtevant, Jaquish, Webb, Hyde. Mrs. Lamont Calvert gave a short history of the Calvert family as found in a book entitled "Founders of America." Regrets were read by the secretary, L. Calvert, from a large number of the relatives who were not able to be present. Recitations were given by Earl and Frankie Haskins and Kathryn Calvert.
A motion was made that the same officers retain their positions for another year.
Those present from out of town were: Mr. James Sturtevant, Binghamton; Mrs. Emily Calvert, Truxton; Mr. and Mrs. Lamont Calvert and daughter and Mr. Dell Clark, Syracuse; Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Jacquish and two daughters of Flatbush.
ENTERTAINED AT PREBLE, N. Y.
At the Home of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Nye—A Fine Time.
The following company of ladies were most delightfully entertained yesterday at the pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Nye, Preble: Mrs. H. B. Greenman, Mrs. J. A. White, Mrs. D. G. Moore, Mrs. J. W. Orr, Miss Dorothy Orr, Mrs. Esther Johnson, Miss Jennie Kinney, Miss Edna Allport, Miss Jennie Spencer and Miss Anna Hoffman. They left Cortland on the 9:45 train and found carriages awaiting to convey them to Mr. Nye's home about one mile from Preble station. A sumptuous dinner was served at 1 o'clock, after which the whole party drove to Tully lake park, returning in time for supper and a drive to the train, thus concluding a most enjoyable day.
BREVITIES.
—Washington Star.
—The annual Scotch picnic will be held Wednesday, Aug. 20, at the home of Mr. Nelson Shaw in the town of Locke, N. Y.
—The union service tomorrow evening will be in the First Baptist church at 7:30 o'clock with sermon by Rev. H. A. Cordo, D. D.
—Mrs. F. Daehler gave a thimble bee yesterday afternoon to a number of lady friends, and a very pleasant afternoon was spent.
—The open air concert by the Cortland City band which was scheduled for the Messenger House corner on Monday evening has been postponed till Thursday evening on account of other engagements of some of the players.
—If the one who on Friday mailed at the Cortland postoffice a copy of the daily Standard of each of the dates of Aug. 12, 13 and 14 and addressed the wrapper to "F. M. Geer, care of Smith & Horton Co., Warren," will call at the postoffice and inform the mailing clerk which of the twenty-seven Warrens in the United States he intended these papers to go to that official will try to get the papers safely started. No state being named on the wrapper and the mailing clerk not being a mind reader the papers have gone as far as they can till a better address is furnished.
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