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| Charles Columbus "Count" Campou. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, September 8, 1902.
RIOT AFTER A BALL GAME.
Syracuse Hoodlums Attacked Players. Albany Wins the Pennant.
Syracuse, Sept. 8.—The closing State League baseball game here Sunday was followed by a miniature riot, incited by some hot headed Syracuse partisans, who vented their feelings against Binghamton for shutting out Syracuse, by attacking them first with cushions and later with sticks and stones.
Third baseman Callopy was badly hurt, one stone gashing his cheek and another one mangling his ear. He revenged himself by hurling a stone at a man whom he claims hit him, laying him out.
The Binghamton bus drove away from the park in the midst of a perfect shower of stones. Every player was hit and all more or less injured, but none badly except Callopy.
President Farrell of the league is here and states that if the second game played Sunday between Albany and Schenectady is a legally postponed one, as is claimed in the Albany dispatch and has not been played off heretofore, it will stand, and Albany wins the pennant. But if the game of May 27 has been played off in some previous double header, it will not count. He says he will render decision as soon as he can examine his records and ascertain the facts.
Binghamton Claims lt.
Binghamton, Sept. 8.—Manager Captain Campau was seen on the return of the Binghamton team from Syracuse at 1 a. m. this morning. He said: "You can say that we win the pennant. President Farrell told us that Albany did not notify him that they were to play two games Sunday and according to State League rules he must be notified of all Sundays games at least 24 hours previous to the time the games are called. This gives us the pennant by two points."
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| Theodore Roosevelt. |
SETTLEMENT COMING.
This Week in Coal Strike, According to President Roosevelt.
Wheeling, W. Va., Sept. 8.—While here Saturday, President Roosevelt discussed the strike situation in the anthracite coal fields with Senator Scott, who had just returned from a conference with Senator Hanna in Cleveland on the same subject. Senator Scott last night said President Roosevelt assured him that the strike would be settled the first days of this week and that the crisis will have passed by Wednesday when it is expected the strikers will again take up their tools.
PAGE FOUR—BRIEF EDITORIAL.
During his recent brief stay in Hartford President Roosevelt took occasion to rebuke sharply the snobbishness of a lot of the leading citizens of the Connecticut city. It seems that Hartford's mayor, before his election, was not a "leading citizen,'' but merely a simple salesman in a clothing store. So the leading citizens determined that Hartford's chief magistrate was quite unworthy of the honor of welcoming the nation's chief magistrate, shunted him into the background, and put forward one of their own number to represent the city.
Which little performance, being perceived by the president, he took especial pains to show that he regarded the mayor as the proper representative of the city, and that he disapproved of the snobbery of the "leading citizens." The president is a good-natured man, not given to cherishing dislikes, but he hates a snob.
OFF FOR SARATOGA.
Cortland Sir Knights Leave on Special Train this Morning.
Cortland Commandery, No. 50, Knights Templar, left on the Lehigh Valley railroad this morning for Saratoga to attend the eighty-ninth annual conclave of the Grand Commandery, State of New York. The special train came from Ithaca and left Cortland at 9 o'clock. Fifteen members of St. Augustine Commandery of Ithaca were on the train and accompanied the Cortland Sir Knights from this city.
At Canasota they were to meet the Geneva, Auburn and Syracuse commanderies and all were to proceed together to Saratoga. A large number of ladies accompanied the Sir Knights. Among them were: Mrs. Geo. G. J. Mager, Mrs. George L. Warren, Mrs. J. W. Angell, Mrs. W. A. Smith, Mrs. Kate Ingham, Mrs. Henry T. Dana, Mrs. Chas. E. Van Brocklin, Mrs. S. L. Palmer, Mrs. E. N. Loomis, Mrs. A. L. Boyce, Mrs. H. F. Bingham of Buffalo, Mrs. B. W. Rood, Mrs. A. D. Wallace, Mrs. Arthur, E. Brainard of Freetown, Mrs. D. E. Call, Mrs. T. P. Bristol, Mrs. M. E. Sarvay, Mrs. Dorr C. Smith, Mrs. Otis D. Patrick.
Tuesday afternoon the grand parade will take place, followed by a concert in Congress park by a combined band of 125 pieces. One of the leading events of the conclave is the grand ball which will be held at the Grand Union hotel Tuesday evening.
Excursions to various points near Saratoga will occupy Wednesday. The Cortland Knights expect to return to Cortland Wednesday evening. Congress Hall is the headquarters for the Cortland Commandery while they are in Saratoga.
The Cortland City band of twenty-two pieces accompanied the Commandery and will participate in the grand parade.
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| Hatch Library, Cortland, N. Y. |
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
Address by Prof. W. M. Booth Before the Cortland Science Club.
The Cortland Science club met at the Hatch library on Saturday evening to reorganize for the year. Nearly all the regular members were present besides several associate members and visitors. The new president, Mr. A. J. Murray, in opening the meeting urged the members to do all in their power to keep the work of the club up to the high standard it has already set for itself. The new department taken up by the club, the museum, was touched upon and commendable progress was reported.
The lecturer of the evening was Prof. Wm. M. Booth and his subject, "Wireless Telegraphy." It was handled with great thoroughness and skill. The nature of the aether—the intangible substance which fills all space—was discussed, as this is at the basis of the whole matter of long distance communication. The earliest form of the telegraph was the semaphore system inaugurated in France in 1794. By means of this, communication was established between Marseilles and Paris. Next came the heliograph system in which mirrors flash messages as far as 183 miles. From 1750 to 1800 the electrical machine was a mere plaything, no practical application being dreamt of. Finally in 1844 Morse turned it to practical use in the modern telegraph.
It is within the last five years that the energetic young Italian, Marconi, has astonished the world by his marvelous feats in projecting an electric current over vast distances, with no medium except the aether [sic]. But Marconi is not the discoverer of wireless communication. He was inspired by the writings of the German scientist Hertz, who hit upon the theory of electric waves and the use of induction currents.
The discovery of the coherer, the delicate instrument which completes the electric circuit, is due to the English scientists Lodge and Bramwell. It is Marconi's enthusiasm and practical adaptation of the scientific discoveries of his predecessors that has given us the system with all its wonderful possibilities.
Prof. Booth gave a very clear exposition of the uses of the different parts of the apparatus and exhibited a plant made by himself to illustrate the lecture. It worked to perfection.
Messages were first sent from a short distance in the room itself; then an electrical machine was taken out of the room to a distance of 50 or 60 feet, the doors were closed, and still the electric wave passed from one part of the apparatus to the other. Walls and doors are no obstacle to the mystic influence.
An interesting discussion followed the lecture.
THIS IS A WARNING.
Serious Disasters that Befell the Stingy Paper Borrower.
A man who was too stingy to take his home paper sent a boy to borrow the copy taken by his neighbor. In his haste the boy ran over a $4 hive of bees and in ten minutes he looked like a warty squash. His cry reached his father who ran to his assistance, and failing to notice a barbed wire fence, ran into that, breaking it down, cutting a handful of flesh from his anatomy and ruining a $5 pair of pants. The cow took advantage of the gap in the fence and got into the corn. Hearing the racket his wife ran, upset a four-gallon churn full of rich cream into a basket of kittens, drowning them. In the hurry she lost a $7 set of teeth. The baby, left alone, crawled through the cream and onto a brand new $20 carpet. During the excitement the oldest daughter ran away with the hired man, the dog broke up eleven setting hens and the calves got out and chewed the tails of four nightshirts. The man could have had a paper of his own at $1 a year and saved all the trouble and expense.—Ex.
BREVITIES.
—The Primary Union will meet Tuesday evening from 7 to 8 in the parlors of the Presbyterian church.
—The regular meeting of the Y. M. C. A. Auxiliary will be held Tuesday, Sept. 9, at 8 o'clock in the association parlor.
—The Loyal Circle of King's Daughters will meet at the home of Mrs. E. R. Wright, 16 Groton-ave., Tuesday, Sept. 9, at 2:30 o'clock.
—Mr. F. B. Nourse received Saturday a basket of exceptionally fine peaches from Mr. Gage Peckham of Grand Rapids, formerly of Cortland.
—The September number of the School Bulletin contains the beginning of a series of articles upon "The Control of Pupils" by Arland D. Weeks, formerly of Cortland.
—St. Vincent de Paul's church in Syracuse recently held a picnic the proceeds of which were to be devoted to the completion of the new parochial residence. Over $1,800 were netted.
—The Ladies' Literary club will hold its first meeting for the fall on Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the home of the Misses Adams, 36 North Church-st.
—New display advertisements today are—S. Simmons, Specials for this week, page 6; G. H. Wiltsie, Carpets and mattings, page 6; C. F. Brown, Trusses, page 8; Bingham & Miller, Fall lines of woolens, page 8.
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