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| Pennsylvania National Guard troops at Shendandoah, Pa. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, August 9, 1902.
ON ERRAND OF MERCY.
Rescued a Family From Violence of Neighbors.
PERSECUTION OF POOR WOMAN.
Platoon of Cavalry Visited the Section and Escorted Sick Woman and Child to Hospital—Bad Feeling Among the Foreign Strikers—Numerous Arrests For Beddal Murder.
Shenandoah, Pa., Aug. 9.—A platoon of the governor's troop of cavalry went to Turkey Run hill on an errand of mercy and rescued a small family from violence of the neighbors. There had been petty acts of violence from that territory nearly every day for a week.
General Gobin received a pathetic letter from the wife of a non-union workman employed in the Gilberton colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company, in which she told of the treatment accorded her by strikers in that vicinity.
Among other things she said rocks had been thrown through the windows at night, one of them nearly striking her sleeping child; the house was damaged and while she was out doors one night a shot was fired at her.
She also said crowds gathered around the house, hooted and jeered at her and the child and hung crape on the door. Her husband, she concluded, was compelled to stay in the mines in order to earn money to keep them from starving and as he could hot leave his work she asked the commanding officer here to protect her.
Turkey Run Hill has no police protection and General Gobin decided to help the woman. He learned that she was not in the best of health and it was decided that she better be taken to the Pottsville hospital. To carry this out the general ordered a platoon of cavalry to make a demonstration in that section and while there to escort the woman and child to the railroad station. This was done.
The troops rode all over this territory and found that the population which is made up of many foreigners was not in the best frame of mind. The soldiers were hooted and jeered and called uncomplimentary names.. Only one stone was thrown at the horsemen and this was done by some one in a crowd on a high ridge out of reach of the soldiers. The cavalrymen stopped their horses and the crowd scattered instantly.
The two Lithuanians who were held responsible for the death of Joseph Beddal in the riots of last week were committed without bail to the county jail at Pottsville on the charge of murder. Another Lithuanian charged with rioting was released on $2,000 bail.
It is understood that a large number of other arrests will be made and more charges of murder will be brought. The police are having much difficulty in ferreting out the participants in the riots. The foreigners are standing together and are not volunteering any information.
CORONATION IS OVER.
Announcement Greeted With Salutes of Artillery.
London, Aug. 9.—King Edward was crowned at 12:21 o'clock. As soon as the signal was flashed from the gallery of the abbey to the roofman, he in turn telegraphed the news to Hyde Park and the tower. At these places when the word was received that the real act of the coronation had occurred, the artillery fired salute after salute, and this joined with the ringing of the bells, made the whole city reverberate with acclamations of joy.
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| Mark Hanna. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
The Real Mark Hanna.
The Brooklyn Eagle says: People who have absorbed their ideas of Mark Hanna from the Davenport cartoons must be surprised at the speech which the senator made before the Chautauqua at Urbana, on the relation of labor to capital. The friends of Senator Hanna know that, while he has been one of the largest employers of labor, he has never had a strike among his own men and that he has always lived on good terms with the labor unions to which his men belonged. The cartoonists have represented him as an incarnation of the capitalistic idea, as it existed in the imaginations of the Bryanites; as a wild beast seeking to crush and eat up the working men. That was because Hanna, a man of unequaled force, directed the McKinley campaigns, because the Bryanite cause rested upon the cry that McKinley was the tool of "the trusts," and because there was a cartoonist just impish enough to embody in one figure the vague off-givings of the overheated imaginations of a thousand socialistic scoundrels. Hanna, intent on electing William McKinley, never bothered with the personal side of the campaign as it related to himself and so the misconception grew. It became so general that when the senator from Ohio appeared as an active figure of the Civic federation, whose aim was to end strikes by promoting a better understanding between capital and labor, the surprise was general. His attitude was even represented as a bid for the nomination for president in 1904 and for the labor vote in that election.
This speech at Urbana shows that his work for the Civic federation was the outcome of his experience of thirty years ago, when he was in, although not a party to, the great coal strike in the Tuscarawas Valley in Ohio. He says that after this strike he came to the conclusion that there was a better way to settle such disputes than by the conflict of brute force. His own experience as an employer of thousands of men as miners, as coal handlers, and on the lake shipping, proves that he found a better way. He says that this thirty years' experience has confirmed his opinion that a better way is still possible. That way is, briefly, the Golden Rule, and his belief in its practicability in the control of labor accounts for his activity in the Civic federation and for his appearance on a Chautauqua platform. It looks like a metamorphosis. It is, in fact, the putting into words of a policy which has kept Hanna's mines working, his steamships running, and the freight on his docks moving peaceably for twenty years. The senator does not expect to bring in an era of good understanding and good will at once. He says that this is not a political question, with a remedy in legislation, but an economic question. For its settlement he relies largely on education, which shall teach foreigners who come here the real meaning of American liberty. He says also the necessity for the education of people brought up under the American system, else he would not be engaged for a series of addresses before assemblies like the one at Urbana. Much has already been done in that direction, as may be seen from Mr. Hanna's statement that the Civic federation has succeeded in settling every labor dispute In which its intervention had been sought save the present strike in Pennsylvania. Every citizen will wish Senator Hanna success, for, next to honest money and the preservation of law and order, this matter of the relations of the men who pay with the men who take wages is the most pressing before the people of the country, while it is far more complex than either. Senator Hanna does not pretend to have found any system which will enforce itself or which can be enforced by legislation. That he, as an employer, believes that a peaceable adjustment can be reached by the voluntary action of the parties themselves, is encouraging at a time when any [arbitration], save that of the musket, seems futile in the one strike which is focusing public attention, because that strike has become identical with anarchy and been made the occasion for murder, by men opposed to work and unfit to live.
NATHANIEL MEAGER.
Death of One of Cortland's Oldest Residents.
Mr. Nathaniel Meager, one of the oldest residents of the city of Cortland, died at his home, 16 Woodruff-st., shortly after 7 o'clock last evening, aged 80 years, 3 months and 25 days, Tuesday, July 29. Mr. Meager suffered from a shock which resulted in paralysis of his right side and since that time he has been gradually failing until the end came peacefully last night. Previous to the shock which resulted in his death Mr. Meager had been in his usual health and for a man of his years was particularly active and took an interest in general affairs and all that was going on about him. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade, having served his apprenticeship and worked at both trades at his native home in England before coming to this country.
In 1872 he came to Cortland, where he settled with his family and where he has since resided. His death marks the first break in the family circle. He was of a jovial nature, cheerful in disposition, a man devoted to his home and family, with a kind word and cordial greeting for all and a man respected by his friends and all who knew him. In England he was a member of the Masonic fraternity, but had never become affiliated with any of the local organizations.
Nathaniel Meager was born in Saltash, county Cornwall, England, April 14, 1822. His parents were James Meager and Catharine Stroude Meager. On Oct. 6, 1846, he was married to Miss Valentina Heathman and they continued to live in England until 1872 when they came to America and settled in Cortland, where they have since resided.
Mr. Meager's father was a mason and builder. The latter trade was learned by Nathaniel and be made that his business and followed it for many years after coming to Cortland. He was at one time for over two years in the service of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, as ship joiner in the Devonport dock yard near Plymouth.
To Mr. and Mrs. Meager eight children were born and all of these, with Mrs. Meager, survive. They are Mrs. Mary Stroude Meager Vosper of Saltash, England, Nathaniel P. Meager, Miss Valentina, H. Meager, Mrs. George E. Dickinson and Mrs. Harry L. Hartwell of Cortland and Messrs. John E., Alfred W., and James Meager of Syracuse.
Desiring to come to America, Mr. Meager left England in 1872, and on March 16 of that year landed at the port of New York. From there he came to Binghamton, and learning that a great building boom was in progress in Cortland, he came here where he readily found employment, and where he decided to locate permanently. Mrs. Meager with six of the children came to America in September of the same year, having been preceded in June by the eldest son, Nathaniel P. Meager, now a contractor and builder of this city.
Mr. and Mrs. Meager celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding Oct. 6, 1896, at which time all their children, except the one living in England, and many friends were present and extended congratulations.
Mr. Meager used to point with pride to the fact that for thirty-eight years before coming to this country he was a bell ringer in twenty-seven different churches in England. He was once called upon to ring 5,040 changes, the most that can be rung are six bells in St. Steven's church, Plymouth, where he was the treble man. He witnessed the coronation of Queen Victoria and of her uncle and predecessor, William IV, and had not the coronation of King Edward been postponed Mr. Meager would have been living to have known of three sovereigns of his native country being crowned.
The funeral will be held at his late home, 16 Woodruff-st., Monday at 3 p. m. Burial in Cortland Rural cemetery.
Didn't Come to Cortland.
Health Officer Paul T. Carpenter received a communication this morning from Health Officer Hix of Binghamton in regard to Mrs. Julia M. Nourse and her grandson who had broken quarantine in Binghamton, and who were reported to have gone either to Waverly or Cortland, as stated in yesterday's Standard. The Binghamton health officer assures Dr. Carpenter that the woman had gone to Waverly.
THE ITHACA BAND
To Begin its Week's Engagement at the Park Monday.
The celebrated Ithaca band of thirty pieces under the leadership of Mr. P. Conway will begin its week's engagement at the park Monday afternoon. Two concerts will be given each day, at 3:30 and 8 p. m. The programs are varied and all of them contain gems of popular and classical music. The concerts are free and the public is invited. Frequent service on the electric road. The bandstand at the park has been enlarged to accommodate this band and two new arc lights have been put in. The programs for Monday afternoon and evening are as follows:
MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUG. 11.
PATRONS PICNIC
Held at the Fair Grounds Wednesday—An Enjoyable Affair.
The Patrons of Industry of Cortland county held their third annual picnic at the fair grounds Wednesday. On account of the recent unusually wet weather the patrons are too busy finishing up their haying to leave their work in very large numbers even for so important and enjoyable event as the annual picnic, but notwithstanding this, about 200 were present during the day. The fair grounds is a fine place for holding such a picnic. There is plenty of room for everything, a place for horses and fine shade in the rectangle between the buildings for setting the tables.
The dinner was one of the principal features of the day. Tables were spread under the trees and to a large extent each association represented had its individual table. All the substantials and delicacies of the season were to be found upon the tables and shortly after 12:30 all were enjoying the bountiful spread.
Following the dinner the patrons adjourned to the grandstand where the following program was rendered, County President H. B. Stevens of Tula presiding:
Music, Happy Bill Daniels.
Address—Observations and Conclusions, Prof. L. A. Clinton, Assistant Agriculturist, Cornell University.
Recitation, Maude Thompson.
Address, Grand President George H. Rogers, Cigarville.
Remarks, A. J. Rose, County President of Oswego Co.
Song, Maude Thompson.
Address, John F. Ross, Grand Secretary.
Recitation, Maude Thompson.
Music, Happy Bill Daniels.
Song, Maude Thompson.
Prof. Clinton's address was the principal address of the afternoon. It was practical, sensible and full of excellent suggestions for all who heard it and he had careful and thoughtful attention.
BREVITIES.
—One drunk appeared in city court this morning and was given a suspended sentence.
—A large carryall load of Cortland people went to Groton last evening to attend the Groton band dance.
—The Epworth league of the First M. E. church will meet tomorrow evening with the young people's society of the Congregational church at 6 o'clock.
—New display advertisements today are—J. W. Cudworth, "Optical Talks," page 6; Opera House, Quinlan & Wall's Minstrels, page 5; McGraw & Elliott, Sponges, etc., page 6.
—Miss Marsh and Mrs. Head will be assisted in the music at the union service at the Presbyterian church Sunday evening by Mrs. James Walsh and Miss Aria Hubbard of the Congregational church choir.
—Rev. L. Bane of the "Open Door Prison association" of Syracuse will speak at the Young Men's Christian association rooms at 4 p. m. Sunday, Aug. 10, to a mixed audience of ladies and gentlemen. His subject will be "The Boy at the Prison Gate, Where Will he Go?" Everybody invited.
—On account of the work of renovating the church, there will be no services at the First M. E. church tomorrow. The teachers' meeting will be held next Monday evening with Mrs. George T. Chatterton. There will be no Sundayschool [sic] tomorrow at the church.
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