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Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, September 10, 1902.
AGUA DULCE TAKEN.
Colombian General Berti Surrendered to Herrera.
TOWN BESIEGED SINCE JULY 28.
Surrendered General and Officers Paroled—Generosity of the Victor—General Salazar Perfecting the Defenses of Colon and Panama—Battle Expected on Isthmus.
Panama, Colombia, Sept. 10.—The surrender to the Colombian insurgents of General Morales Berti and the troops of his command at Agua Dulce has been confirmed.
The news reached Panama through some former conservative prisoners of the insurgents, who were liberated at San Carlos as ą result of the landing there of an expedition from the government fleet of gunboats.
General Berti, who had been besieged at Agua Dulce by the insurgents since July 28, only surrendered when his cause was hopeless. In the act of surrender the insurgent General Benjamin Herrera declares he recognizes the abnegation of General Berti and his men, whom he succeeded in dominating because of superiority of his forces and the quantity of munitions of war of all kinds at his disposition.
He promises to hold inviolate the lives and honor of his prisoners, and he allows General Berti to retain his sword as a mark of honor in recognition of his heroic defense of Agua Dulce.
The surrendered generals and officers have been paroled at Penonome and Santiago de Veraguas. The act of surrender also sets forth that in consideration of General Herrera's respect for the bravery of the men who withstood his siege, they will not be compelled personally to surrender their arms.
General Herrera is expected to change his field of operations to the isthmus, and he will probably locate his camp somewhere on the railroad line between Panama and Colon. It is believed that a big battle will take place somewhere between these two ports.
The insurgent general deplores the fact that he is unable to accord more generous terms to General Berti and his men who well merit better treatment. He says the necessities of war compel him to keep them as prisoners but that he may exchange them for some of the thousands of Liberal prisoners now in possession of the government.
In the last article of the act of surrender General Berti makes it known that he only capitulated to the enemy when compelled to do so by absolute lack of food of any kind for his men and the conviction that the government could not send him timely help
It is believed in government circles, that the surrender of General Berti at Agua Dulce simplifies the situation for General Salazar, governor of Panama, who now can devote the forces of his command to the defense of Panama and Colon. That the national government has confidence in General Salazar is proved by the fact that his appointment as commander of all the government forces on the isthmus has been received by telegraph from Bogota.
There is great uneasiness here now that the details of the Agua Dulce affair has become known. The strong entrenchments which have been erected in and around Panama are defended by 2,500 men, and there are over 1,000 government soldiers at Colon.
A dispatch was received from the minister of war at Bogota saying that a large number of reinforcements had left Ronda, on the Magdalena river, for the isthmus and 3,000 more are expected to come in this week.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
The Result of "Speed Madness."
The deplorable accident which marked the closing of President Roosevelt's otherwise enjoyable New England tour may in part at least be attributed to the "speed madness" now prevailing throughout the country. Such accidents every day—indeed, almost every hour of the day—cut off from the living one or more American citizens, and very little is thought of them outside the neighborhood of their occurrence. It is when the life of the nation's chief executive is imperiled that the public at large is brought to a realizing sense of the dangers of modern "speed madness." The president's life is justly held more precious than that of the average citizen, and there is rightly a prevailing sense of profound thankfulness over his seemingly miraculous escape, but this does not lessen the reason for protest against the public apathy with which the obscure victims of automobiles and electric cars meet mutilation and death and the public indifference which turns the common highways over to every kind of swift and ponderous vehicle, frequently operated with the utmost recklessness and disregard for the rights and safety of others.
The motorman whose car plunged full speed into the president's carriage may have had, as he insists, what is denominated "the right of way." Doubtless the motorman honestly believes that all persons who cross the rails of his trolley line, whether president or humble citizen, do so at their peril.
They have the privilege of looking sharp, whipping up or jumping quick. Failing their exercise of this privilege, the motorman has the "right" to run them down. In this he doubtless treated the president just as he had daily been accustomed to treat his Berkshire fellow citizens.
But, after all, it is not so much the individual who is at fault as the system which makes speed the one desideratum. It is the "speed madness'' of the age that is mainly responsible. We are inclined to assent to the theory that the place is for the swift and accept the hazard of being run down by a motor car or electric train as a part of the day's work. It is natural that the swifter should hold the slower in disregard and should finally come to take a sportsman's pleasure in "flushing" him from under swift trotter or racing automobile. Motormen, too, are not exempt from this sporting impulse. All along the line it works. The 2:30 trotter is a warning to all pedestrians and slow coaches to clear the track; the automobile is also a terror to the trotter; the trolley car, with its great weight and momentum, lords it over all moving and creeping things except the railroad trains.
This spirit of recklessness which insists that the swifter the vehicle the more reason it has to claim the "right of way" must be checked in the interest of public safety. We live in an age when quick transportation is a matter of necessity, but the "rules of the road" need not be dictated by "speed madness."
THE TRACTION COMPANY
Files its Annual Report With the Railroad Commissioners.
Albany, Sept. 9.—(Special,)—The Cortland County Traction company has filed its annual report with the railroad commissioners for the year ending June 30, as follows:
The number of passengers carried was 745,210. The fifty employees received $16,881 in wages. The length of the road, single track, is 9 ¾ miles.
The rolling stock includes 180 passenger cars. One person was killed on the road.
SUPREME COURT.
Trial and Special Term Sept. 15, Judge Forbes Presiding.
A trial and special term of county court will convene at the courthouse in Cortland on Monday, Sept. 15, Justice Gerrit A. Forbes presiding. The calendar contains fifty-six cases, of which three are preferred. All three are damage suits. One is an action brought by William Fitzgerald, an administrator, vs. The Lehigh Valley R. R. Co. This seeks damages for the death of Edwin Fitzgerald, 8 years old, who was struck by a milk train at Pierce's crossing two miles south of Truxton on the night of March 17, 1901. The other two actions are brought by Jennie Bennett, as administrator, against Orson A. House, John H. House and John C. House to recover for the shooting of her husband, George Bennett, last spring. There are also on the regular calendar several other damage suits, in one of which the city of Cortland is a defendant. The usual quota of divorce actions appear.
THE MCGRAW EXCHANGE.
List of Home Telephones Now in Operation in that Village.
Three are now thirteen telephones in McGraw that are connected with the Home Telephone company's exchange, and new ones are being added each day as rapidly as they can be installed. The places already connected and the number of each are:
McGraw Corset Co., 2-L-34
H. K. Alexander, 2-L-27
C. D. Corey, 2-L-31
H. L. Chapin, 3-L-31
B. T. Burlingham, 2-L-30
Dr. D. E. Ensign 2-L-25
F. G. Isaacs, 3-L-28
Empire Corset Co., 2-L-28
P. W. Chaffee, 2-L-21
Dr. H. C. Hendrick, 2-L-22
Central Paper Box Co., 3-L-23
George J. Stafford 2-L-26
Sełler Bros., 3-L-34
In calling any of these places from Cortland add "McGraw" after giving the number desired.
INGALLS-BRISTER.
Quiet Home Wedding in Auburn, N. Y., at Noon Today.
Mr. Joseph Randall Ingalls of Cortland and Miss Grace May Brister of Canastota were married at noon today at the home of the bride's uncle Mr. Charles W. Brister, 34 Franklin-st., Auburn. The ceremony was performed by Rev. George H. Brigham of Cortland and was witnessed by a few of the near relatives of the bride and groom. Mr. George L. Sweetland of Cortland was best man and Miss Helen Brister, a cousin of the bride, was bridesmaid.
Mr. and Mrs. Ingalls left on an afternoon train for their wedding trip. They expect to be absent two or three weeks and upon their return will be at home at 37 Homer-ave., Cortland.
Mr. Ingalls is a well known and highly respected young business man of this city. The bride is not an entire stranger in Cortland, having been a student in the Normal school from which she graduated in 1899.
The following left Cortland on the Lehigh Valley train this morning to be present at the wedding: Mrs. Susan C. Ingalls, mother of the groom, Rev. and Mrs. George H. Brigham, and Mrs. M. E. Jewett of Cortland, Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Ingalls and Mrs. I. P. Felch of Bushnell, O., Mr. Fitch H. Ingalls of Vineland, N. J., and Mrs. George L. Felch of Monroe Center, O.
CHANGE IN A SHOE STORE.
Glann & Clark Sell to W. W. Walters of Utica, N. Y.
Glann & Clark have sold their shoe business at the corner of Main and Railroad-sts. to W. W. Walters of Utica, who will take possession in a few days, Their store will close for the last time under the present ownership on Saturday evening of this week. On Monday the taking of an inventory will begin and will continue for three days, reopening on Thursday morning under control and direction of Mr. Walters.
This change drops out of existence one of the oldest and best known shoe houses in this city. Mr. Clark has been all his life in the shoe business in this city. Mr. Glann was for some years associated with J. A. Jayne in the same line in Cortland, but in 1888 became the senior member of the firm of Glann & Clark, which firm has since done a large and increasing business, having built up an excellent reputation in the city and all out through the county for first-class goods and fair and square dealing. Both members feel some regret at closing their store, but a good opportunity came for an advantageous sale and they accepted the proposition. It is gratifying to know that neither contemplates leaving the city, but they already have a plan in mind which they are not yet ready to make public, but the execution of which will engage their time and attention.
Mr. Walters is a shoe man of long experience. He knows every part of it thoroughly. He intends to continue this store as an up-to-date establishment, perhaps introducing some new features in it.
TICE FAMILY REUNION
Held at Lake View on Sept. 6—Many Were Present.
The fifth annual reunion of the Tice family was held at Lake View Saturday, Sept. 6. About sixty-five were present from Binghamton, Homer, Marathon, Cortland, German, McDonough, Upper Lisle, Cincinnatus and Little York.
The members of this family are descendants of John and Adam Tice, two brothers who settled and lived in German, N. Y. The only one of the older members of either family now living is Mrs. Laura Tice, wife of Adam Tice.
The day was pleasantly spent in a social way, a bountiful dinner being served, after which the following officers were elected for the coming year:
President—Mr. Howard Tice.
Vice-President—Mrs. Wellington Warren.
Secretary and Treasurer—Miss L. Pearl Smith.
Committee of Arrangements—Randall Tice, Leander Tice, Mrs. Eliza Sharpe, Mrs. Emerson Smith.
Program Committee—L. Pearl Smith, Mrs. Wellington Warren, Mrs. William Briggs, Mr. Arthur Tice.
Table Committee—Mrs. John Darrin, Mrs. Randall Tice, Mrs. George Tice.
The place for holding the next meeting is left for the committee of arrangements to decide.
Although some were detained by illness this year it is earnestly hoped that every member of the family may be present another year, for surely, when the goodbyes were said we all felt "that it was good for us to have been there."
L. Pearl Smith, secretary.
W. C. T. U. COUNTY CONVENTION.
Sessions Upon Two Days—Interesting Addresses—Election of Officers.
The Woman's Christian Temperance union of Cortland county held its sixteenth annual convention in the parlors of the Presbyterian church on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 3 and 4.
The opening devotionals were conducted by Mrs. Kate Greenman, president of the Cortland union. The convention was then called to order by the president, Miss Libbie Robertson, and after the appointment of committees, etc., a few words of welcome were given by Mrs. C. W. Collins, to which delegates from the various unions responded in a very interesting way. Reports of the departments of Sabbath schools work, franchise and parliamentary usage, and soldiers and sailors were given by the superintendents and were in most cases encouraging.
Rev. D. B. Grant of Solon and Mrs. Mary B. Wood of Ithaca were introduced to the convention and each responded with a few words of greeting.
Wednesday Afternoon.
The afternoon session was well attended and the program was an unusually good one. After the opening devotionals, led by Miss Helena Bryant, attention was given to some matters of business, then came the president's address which was listened to with the closest attention. The corresponding secretary's report showed the present membership of the W. C. T. U. in the county to be 313, and the amount of money raised during the past year, $383.61. Reports of the various departments were continued in the afternoon, but space will not permit giving even a brief outline of the many good points contained therein. Those who somewhat doubtfully ask the question, "What is the W. C. T. U. doing anyway?" will find it answered, at least in part, by attending the regular meetings and conventions.
A recitation by Master Floyd Stafford, came next on the program.
The convention then had the pleasure of listening to a very earnest presentation of the work of the Loyal Temperance Legion by the state secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Wood of Ithaca. "The foundation of all temperance work," the speaker said, "lies in reaching the boys and girls, since they are seldom unfaithful to their principles later in life. Even though the children are given scientific temperance instruction in the school and once a quarter a temperance lesson in some Sabbath schools they need more special instruction, for we cannot throw too many safeguards around them. The liquor traffic uses all its power to win the young and we should not be less diligent." The plan of work in the Loyal Temperance Legion is to give a systematic course of study in such a way that it enlists the interest of the children.
The convention was then favored with a recitation by Miss Anna Hull, who won the silver medal in the contest recently given at the East Side chapel. Special mention should be made of the fine music furnished during the afternoon session by the ladies trio, consisting of Miss Stout, Mrs. Norton and Mrs. Bentley.
Wednesday Evening.
The evening session was opened with devotional exercises led by Mrs. Owen of Cortland. Rev. James Rain, pastor of the Congregational church, was introduced and in earnest words spoke of the work of the W. C. T. U. and of the attitude that all Christian people should take towards what is commonly called the liquor question, but what is really the liquor sin, there being no question about it. A beautiful duet was sung by the Misses Hubbard and then the banner which is given annually to the union making the highest per cent of increase was presented to the president of Solon union, Mrs. Baker. This union has increased its membership from about thirty to eighty within the year. A very pleasing recitation was then given by Mrs. Wilfred Kelly.
The address of the evening was given by Mrs. M. M. Allen of Syracuse, state and national superintendent of Non-alcoholic Medication. The speaker in a very clear and logical manner brought out the fact that there is much delusion in the minds of many so-called temperance people in regard to the value of alcohol as a medicine. While they would refuse to take Port wine, beer or whiskey, for instance, as a beverage, believing they would work destruction to body and mind they unhesitatingly take the same things out of a different glass calling them medicine and believe they will get from them strength and health. It is rather absurd to think that the effect of these stimulants will be any different when taken from a medicine glass than when taken from a beverage glass since the bottle from which the supply comes is the same in both cases. Scientific investigation has already proven that alcohol is not a food in the correct use of that term, neither can it impart health, except for the moment, or strength, while its effect upon the brain is to make it less active and accurate. It has been estimated that a person would need to drink $292 worth of beer in order to get as much nourishment as is contained in an ordinary loaf of bread; while of wine, which is more expensive, $300 worth would be required; a rather costly and round-about method of building up strength, as well as a dangerous one. The evening program closed with a duet by Miss Stout and Mrs. Norton.
Thursday Morning.
On Thursday morning the devotionals were led by Mrs. E. A. Cass of Taylor. Reports of temperance literature, state and national papers and medal contest work were given by the superintendents. Then came the election of officers for the ensuing year.
Miss Libbie Robertson having served as president for four years tendered her resignation which was accepted with much regret. A vote of thanks was given Miss Robertson for her faithful and efficient service.
The newly elected officers are as follows:
President—Mrs. Emma Briggs, Homer.
Vice-president—Miss Libbie Robertson, Cortland.
Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. E. L. Nottingham, Cortland.
Recording Secretary—Mrs. Ella Hillick, Cortland.
Treasurer—Mrs. Jennie Boynton, McGraw.
At the close of the convention a dinner was served in the church parlor to nearly forty delegates and visitors.
The next quarterly convention will be held at Solon in December.
Supt. Press Work, Sept. 8, 1902.
BREVITIES.
—The regular meeting of the L. C. B. A. will be held this evening at 8 o'clock.
—A regular meeting of the L. O. T. M. will be held tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock. A good attendance is desired.
—New display advertisements today are—M. W. Giles, Special prices, page 7; G. H. Wiltsie, Dry goods, etc., page 6.
—A second rural free delivery route will be started from the McGraw postoffice [sic] on Oct. 1. The line of its course is given in our McGraw letter today.
—Mrs. A. L. Cole and Mrs. W. R. Cole entertained about twenty-five ladies at a thimble bee at their home, 140 Main-st., yesterday afternoon. The affair was a very pleasant one. Refreshments were served.
—Cortland county friends of Henry E. Wilson, late of Marathon, have received the formal printed announcement of the law partnership which he has just formed with Charles P. Wortman in Syracuse as announced in these columns last week. The firm name is Wilson & Wortman and their offices are at 628 University block.
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