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| New York Senator Chauncey M. Depew. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, August 25, 1902.
SENATOR DEPEW HOME.
Says That Europe Is Getting Used to American Invasion.
New York, Aug. 25.—Senator Chauncey M. Depew was a passenger on the American line steamship Philadelphia which arrived here Saturday.
Accompanied by Mrs. Depew and his son, Senator Depew sailed for Europe on June 11. He divided the time he was abroad in London, Paris and Lucerne. While he suffered a week's illness in Paris, he shows no trace of it now.
Asked about politics, he said he had been out of touch with the situation so long that he was not familiar with what was going on, but turning to European affairs, he said:
"The most noticeable change in Europe since my visit last year is the disappearance of the American terror. Then there was a panic of industrial fear of American invasion. The productive possibilities of the United States were exaggerated until cabinets were consulting seriously about protective measures, either in tariff walls or in concerted action by the powers. That fear has disappeared. It was too hysterical to last.
"The foreign mind is now not so much to keep the products of American mills, factories and furnaces out, as to copy American methods, and then with their cheaper labor they hope to hold their markets at home and abroad. Their study of our industrial developments and success, which is very careful and exhaustive, has produced a widespread desire to combine with us.
"The negotiations with the Vatican on the question of the friars and their lands in the Philippines have done more in a few weeks to educate Europe about our position in the war with Spain and our possession and government of the archipelago than all the diplomacy and literature since the beginning of the contest. Particularly on the continent is this noticeable.
"Our attitude and purposes have been the theme of discussion in the press and ecclesiastical circles. There is a general concurrence in the opinion that the action of the American government is necessary for peace and order in the islands and eminently just and fair.
"I met leading men in political and church circles, and did not anywhere hear any criticism of our propositions. On the contrary, they all agreed, and so does the European press of all shades of opinion that the negotiations have been carried on in a most creditable spirit, and there is general admiration of the tact, wisdom and moderation displayed by President Roosevelt and Governor Taft."
WORK OF PUBLIC ALLIANCE.
President Mitchell In a Railroad Wreck In Illinois.
Wilkes-Barre, Aug. 25.—The committee from the Public Alliance of this city which waited on Senators Quay and Penrose at Atlantic City last week and urged them to use their good offices to bring about arbitration in the coal strike, performed a like mission in this city Sunday when they called on President Mitchell and requested him to co-operate with the Pennsylvania senators in bringing about a settlement of the strike.
Mr. Mitchell said he would do anything that was honorable to bring about an adjustment and he furnished the committee with the statistics of the strike from the miners' point of view, which were forwarded to Senator Quay.
It has been just learned that President Mitchell was badly shaken up in a railroad wreck at Reising, Ill., early last Monday morning. The train ran into a washout and nearly all the cars left the track. The sleeper in which Mr. Mitchell was riding left the rails and he was thrown with much force from his berth. The engineer and fireman of the train were the only persons who were injured.
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| President Theodore Roosevelt. |
President Asked to Call Congress.
New York, Aug. 25.—President Roosevelt will be asked to call a special session of congress to take action to end the coal strike. This was decided at a meeting yesterday of the Central Federated union representing 250,000 workingmen. A mass meeting under the auspices of the labor unions of New York and vicinity will be held at which resolutions will be adopted urging President Roosevelt to immediately call congress to meet and decide upon plans which will bring the strike to a speedy termination.
STRIKERS AT HAZLETON, PA.
Turbulent Scene at the Mines this Morning.
Hazleton, Pa., Aug. 25.—The most turbulent scene that has occurred during the anthracite miners' strike in this vicinity took place between the hours of 5 and 7 o'clock this morning. Rumors, current for a week, have been that an attempt would be made this morning to open the Cranberry and Number 40 collieries. Both are practically in the heart of the city.
About midnight strikers began to gather on the streets and at 5 o'clock this morning 10,000 miners had formed a cordon about both the Cranberry and Number 40 colliery yards. This demonstration either forestalled the attempt to open or the rumors that operations would be commenced were false, for only a few non-unionists, about forty in all, appeared at the mines.
The most serious feature of the demonstration occurred when August Scheuch, a foreman, while attempting to rescue his son from the mob, was seized, beaten to the ground, and stabbed three times by unknown parties. Scheuch was taken to the Hazelton hospital, where he now lies desperately wounded. The physicians there discovered internal injuries which they think will cause the foreman's death.
The city at 10 o'clock was practically deserted and everything was quiet as on a Sabbath day. Sheriff Jacobs is investigating and arrests will follow. Practically every union miner in Hazelton and its immediate environs engaged in this morning's demonstration.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
The Hungry Monster Downstairs.
The average citizen who has been paying but small heed to the coal strike during these summer months is now becoming seriously interested in that mighty struggle between labor and capital. He is beginning to figure out just how much in dollars and cents this affair means to him and, in the language of the campaign speaker, he has come to the point where the situation is one "to be viewed with alarm."
Of course the habit of each thrifty householder is to stock his coal bin some time before Sept. 1 with enough coal to feed his cellar furnace, his kitchen range and his open grates for all winter. His August order to the retail coal dealer is for from ten to twenty-five tons, varying with the size of his house, fifteen tons being an average winter's consumption in a house of ten or twelve rooms. The time has come to fill the coal bin, but heads of families shrink from giving an order that means the addition of $75 or $100 to their yearly living bills.
Those empty coal bins yawn menacingly to the man of moderate income. He looks at the idle furnace, now a useless, dormant thing, but soon to become a voracious, hungry monster demanding toll and homage, and he shivers with anticipated dread. Feed the monster he must when November comes, and he wonders if, like the price the British paid for conquering the Boers, his winter coal must be acquired "at a cost that will stagger humanity."
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| Ginseng root. |
GINSENG IN CORTLAND.
A New Industry Springing up in the City.
Cortland is rapidly becoming a ginseng city. More than an acre of land within the corporation limits is now devoted to the production of the plant that is held in high repute by the hundreds of millions of Chinese. Cortland is going in to do her share to supply the demands of the devotees of ginseng root. Gardens are being torn up and converted into ginseng yards, buildings are moved to make room for the costly roots, fruit trees and shade trees fall beneath the axe of the ginseng invaders, and even the ground under porches and steps is being converted into miniature yards for the production of the celebrated ginseng.
There are two ways of starting a ginseng yard. One of these, and of course the quickest way to get into the business, is to transplant the roots. These are set in very carefully prepared ground or beds, which are 4 feet wide. The roots are set 6 inches apart each way by the most of the growers, but some prefer them 6 inches apart in the rows across the beds, with the rows 8 inches from each other. The roots cost from 20 to 30 cents each.
The other way to start a yard is to plant the ginseng seeds in beds, placing the seeds 2 inches apart each way. The seeds are sown in October. They cost from $120 to $150 a pound, or about one and one half cents for each seed. The seed must be one year old before it is planted, else it will not sprout. It will not produce seed until two years after it is planted, and it will grow them for five years after it begins to bear.
Among the ginseng planters in Cortland are M. J. and L. W. Peck, who are setting about a half acre of ground with roots. Their yards are just below the Lackawanna tracks on Elm-st. E. F. Jennings is establishing one at 9 Church-st., 100 feet long and 60 feet wide. Dr. C. E. and Dr. L. S. Ingalls have 16 square rods of ground very nearly covered with roots at 55 North Main-st. and Warner Rood has a good start on a half acre yard at 16 Madison-st.
The yards all have to be tightly fenced to keep out all kinds of intruders. It is too risky to bury several thousand dollars in a small plot of ground without some safeguard about it. Then the yards have to be covered over to provide a shade to take the place of the forest trees that keep off the sun's rays in the ginseng's natural abiding place.
A number of Cortland ginseng growers are in Tully, N. Y., today attending the meeting of ginseng producers.
THE HAMMOND FAMILY.
Twenty-Seventh Annual Reunion at the Park Friday.
The twenty-seventh annual reunion and picnic of the Hammond family was held at Cortland park Friday, Aug. 22. There were present about eighty of the members of the family, several being detained on account of sickness. J. S. Conger and wife of Chicago, Ill., Mrs. Mabel Lankton and son of New York City and Mr. H. D. Hammond and wife and two daughters of Brooklyn were among those present from out of town.
The weather was fine in the morning but showers broke up the out of door amusements. The tables were set in the hall which were amply provided with good things.
At 2:30 o'clock the president called to order and the minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
The Rev. Mr. Hammond of Marathon was called on and spoke briefly of the pleasure derived from associating together in family reunions.
On motion the following officers were elected for the coming year:
President—S. S. Hammond.
Vice-President—Henry Hammond.
Secretary and Treasurer — L. A. Strowbridge.
Registrar—Mary Allen.
Executive Committee—Samuel Hammond, S. S. Hammond, L. A. Strowbridge, Henry Hammond.
In the absence of the registrar her report was read by the secretary. From August, 1901, to August, 1902, there were three births, six deaths and three marriages.
The treasurer reported $3.05 in treasury.
Samuel Hammond of Marathon gave a cordial invitation to all to meet with him at his home next year, which was accepted in the same spirit in which it was given. After an hour spent in social intercourse the company separated hoping to meet again.
FOX FAMILY REUNION
Held at Freeville Saturday—An Enjoyable Gathering.
The fifth annual reunion of the Fox family occurred at Freeville on Saturday, Aug. 23. Owing to the serious illness of Rev. A. D. Webster at the home of his sister near Cincinnatus the Webster branch of the family was not represented. This fact so reduced the number in attendance that only forty of the relatives were present. The day was a perfect one, the tables fairly groaned beneath their weight of good things, and the hours of pleasant intercourse passed all too quickly. A touching tribute to the "loved and lost" who had crossed the river since we met one year ago was read by Miss E. A. Fox. The following officers were elected for the year 1903:
President—H. W. Roe, Freeville.
Secretary and Treasurer—C. E. Chapman, Peruville.
Executive Committee—James H. Fox, West Dryden; C E . Chapman, Peruville; A. S. Fox, Cortland; Mrs. F. M. Snyder, Cortland.
The second Thursday in August was appointed as the day of meeting for 1903. All relatives of the Fox family are invited to be present.
Price Family Reunion.
The annual reunion of the Price family will be held at the Cortland park, Sept. 4, 1902. All relatives and friends of the family are cordially invited.
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| First Cortland County Farm and Poorhouse. |
Services at the County House.
Services are being held each Sunday at the county [poor] house and are greatly enjoyed by the inmates. Rev. Mr. Rain preached Sunday, Aug. 10. The praying band were there Aug. 7 and Rev. H. L. Rixon preached yesterday. At the close of the sermon there was a season of song and testimony in which a goodly number participated. Mr. E. L. Dodd conducted the singing.
Davis-Browne.
Mr. Eugene Davis, the popular, efficient, and painstaking local editor of the Cortland Democrat, was married Saturday evening in New Milford, Pa., to Mrs. Etta Browne of Endicott, formerly of Cortland. The wedding was a very quiet one. Mr. and Mrs. Davis will be at home after Sept. 1 at 88 Groton-ave., Cortland.
Entertained at Dinner.
Mrs. G. J. Mager gave a dinner today in honor of Miss Ruth W. Ranney and Miss Harriet Phinney of Rangoon, Burmah. A few of their relatives and friends from Homer were present. The Misses Ranney and Phinney are missionaries to Burmah and have been engaged in that work for about fifteen years. They have been granted an eighteen months' furlough during which they are visiting their former homes. They left Burmah in March and arrived in this country in May last.
CORTLAND COUNTY FAIR.
Everything in Readiness for the Big Event.
Secretary Greenman of the Cortland County fair association is wearing one of the most complacent smiles imaginable today. And no wonder, for brighter prospects of a week of good weather for the fair or of a large and better exhibit of all kinds of produce and merchandise were never before known in Cortland. All roads leading to Cortland are alive with wagons full of produce and with all kinds of fancy live stock. The fair house is being transformed into a palace of beauty. It is a busy place and will be well worth seeing.
Oliver W., the racing ostrich, is here and ready to do his stunt. He, with four of his mates, was brought to Cortland yesterday from Saratoga by F. B. Cornell, who drives the high headed and high-stepping racer. There are among the plumed specimens three females and two males. When the birds reached Cortland yesterday a 5-pound egg was found in the car. This was sent back to Saratoga to be placed in an incubator and hatched.
Oliver W. has a record of 2:22 but he has made a half in the surprising time of 1:04. He is a tall, proud bird and draws the four wheeled pneumatic-tired wagon with ease. The ostriches will be kept in an enclosed court south of the fair house, where they will be on exhibition. The first exhibition of Oliver W. on the track will be tomorrow afternoon.
W. H. Freedborne of New Woodstock is in Cortland again with the miniature cow that he exhibited on the grounds last year and that was so satisfactory to all who saw her then. The cow is 32 inches in height and is one of the leading attractions in the line of curiosities that will be shown on the grounds.
BREVITIES.
— Bicycle thieves are operating extensively in Auburn.
—The annual convention of Spanish war veterans began in Binghamton, N. Y., today.
—Chinese Minister Wu Ting Fang will deliver an address in Binghamton on Labor day, Sept. 1.
—Charles Baker, who was arrested Friday night for carrying concealed weapons, was discharged in city court this morning.
—The Ladies' Aid society of the Universalist church will meet Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 3, in the church parlors for work.
—New display advertisements today are—Warren, Tanner & Co., Corset sale, page 7; Opera House, "The Prisoner of Zenda," page 5.
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