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| King Edward VII. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, August 8, 1902.
ON THE EVE OF CORONATION
Signal Man Will Give the Word When Crown is Placed.
London, Aug. 8.—London is taking the proximity of the coronation with surprising calmness. Except for the decorations along the route which the royal party will follow from Buckingham palace to the Abbey and return, there is no sign of anything unusual afoot.
The quiet manner in which the people are taking this great event, is in striking contrast to the conditions during the week preceding the postponement of the coronation in June. Then the streets were crowded and the thoroughfares about the Abbey made impassable by the great hordes of sightseers. In many places today there is not even the usual business activity, as a number of houses have closed down till Monday, and the holiday keepers are either remaining at home or have gone outside the city to take full advantage of the rest.
Buckingham palace is the mecca of such visitors as are in the city today. They are hovering about the palace, waiting to see the king, but even there the crowd is not particularly large.
Decorators were giving the final touches today along the coronation route. Piccadilly, from Hyde park to St. James-st., is lined with red poles, tipped with gilt, and connected across and up and down with flags and streamers of all colors. Buildings along the route are decorated with crimson, blue and purple hangings, bordered with gold. White columns, surmounted with gilt crowns, are the chief decorative feature of St. James-st. Pall Mall is lavishly decorated.
The final arrangements for the ceremony at the Abbey are proceeding. A signal is being fixed from one of the galleries to the roof, with which to notify the roof man the moment the crown is placed on the royal head. When the roof man gets his signal he will immediately communicate by telegraph to Hyde park and the tower, where artillery men will fire cannon and thus notify the world that the moment to which the king and all England has been looking forward for nearly two years has come, and Edward is crowned.
Rockefeller Buys Two Farms.
Tarrytown, N. Y., Aug. 8.—John D. Rockefeller has added more land to his large estate. He recently purchased the Hudson Dion farm of 70 acres and the Sylvester Van Tassel farm of 20 acres. Mr. Rockefeller paid big prices for the land, but he wanted it to complete his holdings in the neighborhood of Buttermilk hill, which is the highest point in Westchester county.
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| Theodore Roosevelt taking the San Juan Heights--Vereshchagin. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Temptations of Prominence.
President Roosevelt is to have a picture of the charge of San Juan Hill painted by the great Russian realist Vereshchagin. When this became known some months ago the assumption was that the picture was designed to emphasize especially the part which the president took in that memorable charge. That assumption was based upon the familiar weakness of men who do big things for celebrating those events in the most public ways possible. The painter s latest account of his work shows that the picture is to be an historical treatment of one of the notable events in American history, one whose relation to our future development will be clearer to the next generation than it is now, and that Theodore Roosevelt is to occupy a subordinate position in it. The central figure is to be the national flag, carried by the regulars. The Rough Rider flag and the leader of the Rough Rulers will be there, but they will be among the lesser details.
That is as a great artist must see the scene. The national flag in that charge represented more than any temporary division of its army, however prominent at the moment, and the unknown bearer of the national colors was a typical figure of more magnitude than the leader of any band, however valiant. That is as the scene will look to history. But the leader of the temporary band might well be forgiven if the thing did not look so to him. Few men do a thing well unless they believe that thing to be of supreme importance at the time; unless able to wrap themselves up in it to the exclusion of other things of which they are not causes. Egotism is a necessary element of courage, as of achievement in many lines, and the men who achieve are not to be blamed if the egotism survives the event to which it was essential. But, says the Democratic Brooklyn Eagle, commenting upon this picture, it is none the less gratifying to find a man who is able to put his own share of events of great historical moment quickly into the correct historical perspective. It is a rare faculty, and the fact that the president resisted the temptations for his glorification which lay in a picture of San Juan Hill will commend him to people not in sympathy with the "strenuous" spirit which took him into the forefront of the Cuban campaign. It is a finer and rarer side of the man. If Vereshchagin's completed picture confirms his own statement of his design, its exhibition will prove more of a tribute to Theodore Roosevelt than a portrait of himself in khaki, with San Juan Hill as a background, would have done.
IS SHE IN CORTLAND?
Mrs. Nourse and Her Grandson, Who Has the Scarlet Fever.
The Binghamton, N. Y., board of health has been having a good deal of trouble with Mrs. Julia M. Nourse and her grandson who has the scarlet fever. Mrs. Nourse kept a boarding house, according to The Republican, and when it was discovered that the youngster had scarlet fever the boarders left and the house was quarantined. A day or two later it was noted that the house was closed and that the occupants were gone. The query was where had they gone and who had been exposed to scarlet fever. The Republican published the report of this and the paper was read in Afton and the people were located there. They had gone to Afton on a D. & H. passenger train. No one knows how many people had been exposed. Mrs. Nourse explained that her reason for going there was that since her boarders had departed she thought it would be a good time to go visiting and the boy was getting along well. He had reached the peeling stage, which is said to be the most dangerous time for conveying the contagion. They were brought back to Binghamton in a closed carriage and quarantine again established. The Republican this morning announces that the parties have again disappeared, no one knows where. The neighbors tell the officials that Mrs. Nourse had talked about coming to Cortland or going to Waverly to visit, and it is believed that she is in one of the two places. The danger of spreading the scarlet fever contagion is not yet passed by any means. If the Binghamton board of health gets them back again The Republican states that they will place an officer on guard day and night to enforce the quarantine.
NEW MATRON HAS ARRIVED
And Undertaken Her Duties in Charge of Cortland Hospital.
Miss Elizabeth MacDill of Syracuse, who has been chosen a superintendent and matron of the Cortland hospital, has arrived in the city and has entered upon her duties at that institution.
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| Judge George F. Lyon. |
INJUNCTION CONTINUED.
Benjamin Burdick Must Not Continue in Laundry Business.
Judge Lyon has just handed down a decision in the case of George M. Houghton vs. Benj. Burdick, which was tried before him in Cortland at the October term. He finds that the defendant, with another, was the proprietor of the City Steam laundry and that in May, 1900, they sold the business to the plaintiff, the defendant agreeing as a part of the contract of the sale that he would not directly or indirectly engage in the laundry business in the city of Cortland so long as the plaintiff was engaged in such business in the city.
In May, 1901, the defendant entered the employ of the Cortland Steam laundry and solicited work from his former customers. The plaintiff objected and secured an injunction restraining the defendant from so doing.
The court finds that such injunction shall be continued. E. C. Alger appeared for plaintiff, and B. T. Wright for the defendant.
ROOSTER STOPPED EXPRESS.
Flew Upon Bell Cord in Passenger Car After Escaping from Owner's Bag.
George T. Powell of Briarcliff, who has visited Cortland a number of times as the director and lecturer at the farmers' institute, will be remembered by many people of this county who will appreciate and enjoy this story which he tells in the New York Tribune:
"I had been lecturing at North East, Pa., during the day, and late in the evening I arrived at Dunkirk, where I had to change cars for Buffalo. I boarded a fast Chicago express at Dunkirk which made no stops from there to Buffalo. There were many passengers in the car, and nearly all were asleep. Being very tired, I took a seat, leaned back and had just fallen into a doze, when I was awakened by the loud chuckle of a rooster. Arousing myself and looking around, there, greatly to my surprise, was a large game rooster strutting up the aisle, with head erect, and every few seconds letting forth such a loud chuckle that in a moment nearly every one in the car was awake and craning their heads in great astonishment at the unusual intruder.
"The rooster strutted wonderingly up the aisle until he came to a large, portly man, who was leaning back with legs crossed, one knee as high as his head and still asleep, He took only one look and then flew up, alighting on the conspicuous knee. At this juncture every one else in the car became intensely interested, and nearly all the passengers were on their feet, anxious to see what the man would do when he awoke. It needed only one more sound from the rooster before the stout man opened his eyes, and with a sudden start backward he threw up his hands in astonishment, while roars of laughter came from every part of the car.
"This excitement was too much for the rooster, and with one jump he flew up on the bell rope which sagged down under his weight, and the Chicago express, thundering along at 50 miles an hour, came to such a sudden stop that many passengers were thrown from their feet in a confused muddle. The train had no more than come to a stop when an irate conductor came hurriedly into the car and demanded who had stopped the train. By that time the owner of the rooster had awakened and, taking in the situation, reached up and gathered in the wandering bird, restoring him to the bag from which he had escaped, and which contained two more fowls that had not found their way out.
"The merriment was too great for any sleep from there to Buffalo. A man from Chicago who stopped at the hotel with me, said: 'I have been traveling for thirty years, but that is by far the funniest incident I ever saw.'"
BREVITIES.
—The Protective Home circle meets this evening at 8 o'clock.
—There will be moving pictures at the park tomorrow night in connection with the fireworks.
—The new bank for Dryden seems now to be assured as all the $25,000 of stock has been subscribed for.
—The Misses Belle and Mary Atkinson gave a second thimble bee yesterday afternoon to another party of their lady friends.
— New display advertisements today are—New York store, Drygoods, etc, page 7; Baker & Angell, Shoes, page 6; F. Daehler, Flannel suits, page 4.
—Miss Frances Lighton entertained fourteen little girls yesterday afternoon at the home of her grandparents, Hon. and Mrs. L. J. Fitzgerald, the occasion being her 7th birthday, and they formed a decidedly merry little party.
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