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| President Theodore Roosevelt. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, November 3, 1902.
AT CEDAR MOUNTAIN.
President Visited a Famous Virginia Battlefield.
PARTICIPANT TOLD THE STORY.
Saw Monument Erected Last August by Survivors of 28th New York Infantry Which Lost Heavily—Guest of Representative John Rixey—Returned Today to Oyster Bay.
Brady Station, Va., Nov. 3.—President Roosevelt passed several hours Sunday afternoon on the battlefield of Cedar Mountain. Accompanied by Secretary Root, Secretary Cortelyou and Dr. Rixey, the president drove to the site of the sanguinary struggle and there received from an eye-witness and participant an account of the fight. It was the most interesting event thus far of his present trip. The day was perfect and the drive to the battlefield was as pleasurable as could be desired.
The president, accompanied by Secretary Root, Secretary Cortelyou, Dr. Rixey, Judge D. A. Grimsłey and two or three ladies, arrived at the battlefield shortly before 3 o'clock. They were followed by a procession of carriages containing people from Culpepper and surrounding country.
The president drove to the battlefield over the road which years ago was the stage route between New York and New Orleans. On arrival at the battlefield, which is dotted here and there by monuments marking the positions of the troops during the fight, the contest was explained to the president by Judge Grimsłey who now is a member of the bench of this judicial circuit.
The judge was a captain in the Sixth Virginia cavalry and was a participant in the fight.
The president, a cavalryman himself, was interested particularly in the account of the famous cavalry charge made during the battle of Cedar Mountain.
The Union and Confederate cavalry met in a depression not far from Cedar Mountain. While the battle did not last long and was brought on quite unexpectedly, it was frightfully sanguinary, the losses on both sides being about 3,200.
The president was notably interested in a monument erected last August, on the anniversary of the battle by the survivors of the Twenty-eighth New York Infantry, which lost in the engagement 59 per cent of its men, including nearly every commissioned officer.
In the very heart of the battlefield, President Roosevelt held an informal reception. Many people had gathered from the surrounding country, and after Judge Grimsłey had described the battle, the president received informally those who had assembled on the field.
During the reception the president was photographed by Mrs. Frances B. Oddie of Culpepper, both alone and in a group with Secretary Root, Secretary Cortelyou, Dr. Rixey and Judge Grimsłey. Subsequently the president was given a shell which had been dug up on the battlefield as a memento of his visit.
In the morning the president and his party attended religious services at the Baptist church of Culpepper, about five miles from the home of Representative Rixey. Until a short time before the services began it was not known that the president was to be present. No special services marked his presence.
The Rev. E. W. Winfrey, pastor of the church, one of the oldest religious organizations in Virginia, made a touching reference to the president in his opening prayer, but did not allude to him in his sermon.
The church was crowded and at the conclusion of the services President Roosevelt cordially greeted the pastor and many members of the congregation and introduced them to those who accompanied him.
Subsequently the party took luncheon at the residence of S. Russell Smith, a brother-in-law of Dr. Rixey, who is treasurer of the county of Culpepper.
At night the president was again the guest of Representative John F. Rixey at his country home near this village. Every precaution possible was taken to insure his safety. Two headquarters men from Washington, in addition to the regular detail of secret service and postal officers, were on guard at the Rixey home.
The presidential special train arrived in Washington this morning at 11:15. Half an hour later the president left Washington on a special train over the Pennsylvania railroad for Oyster Bay, where he will vote Tuesday.
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| Amb. Andrew Dickson White. |
AMBASSADOR WHITE'S BIRTHDAY.
Germans will Give Him a Reception on November 6.
New York. Nov. 3.—The German Social Scientific society will on Thursday, Nov. 6, tender a reception to Andrew D. White, who will retire from his post as ambassador to Germany. Mr. White will be 70 years old on that day and will also arrive in this country from Germany the same day.
The reception will take place at the rooms of the society in Maennerchor hall, 205 East 56th-st., Manhattan. Dr. F. W. Holls and Joseph C. Hendrix will make addresses in German and English. An informal banquet will follow, at which Dr. J. H. Senner and President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia will make speeches.
A movement is also under way by the society to endow an Andrew D. White chair of history of German civilization in Columbia university.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Election Tomorrow.
The work of this political campaign is practically at an end. It only remains now to get out the voters. Every Republican voter should be on hand early and not require some one to send for him. If any voter, however, is feeble or disabled, that is a different matter. A team will be gladly sent for all such and so no one under these conditions should hesitate to let it be known that he would like a team sent for him.
Vote early and vote straight. Statistics show that fifteen per cent of all split ballots are defective. The voters haven't known how to prepare them properly so they can represent their sentiments and still be in correct form. The only safe thing to do is to vote the straight Republican ticket. It is a ticket worthy of support from top to bottom—state, county and city. A single cross with a black lead pencil in the circle under the emblem of the eagle is all that is necessary.
If any Republicans in Cortland county have been thinking of cutting the ticket, here or there, it is hoped they will change their mind. The ticket is composed of good citizens from top to bottom. Every man named is at least the peer of his opponent, and competent to discharge the duties of the office for which he has been named. Everyone is entitled to his party's support. Vote straight and elect every Republican candidate.
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| Emerald Hose Co. building, 24 Church St. |
THE POLLING PLACES
Where the Residents of this City Will Vote Tomorrow.
Tomorrow is election day. The poles will open at 6 a. m. and close at 5 p. m. Every one should vote at the place where he registered. The following is the list of polling places in this city:
First Ward—Barn of E. M. Yager, 68 Maple-ave.
Second Ward—Fireman's hall, 38 Main-st.
Third Ward—Potter's barber shop, 118 Main-st.
Fourth Ward—Mulligan's blacksmith shop, rear of 27 Main-st.
Fifth Ward—Hitchcock Hose Co. rooms, 42 Elm-st.
Sixth Ward—Emerald Hose Co. rooms, 24 Church-st.
Election Returns
Election returns will be received tomorrow night by the Republicans at Republican headquarters at the Kremlin [Hotel], and at the Tioughnioga club. This last place will be for members only and refreshments will be served there.
FOOTBALL TOMORROW.
The Normals to Meet the Onondaga Indians.
Without doubt the best game of football to be played on the local grounds will be seen tomorrow between the [Cortland] Normals and the Onondaga Indians. The game will be called at 3:30 o'clock at Athletic field.
This game was put on in order that the shopmen and clerks might be given an opportunity of seeing a good game. Ordinarily the games are played on Saturday and many who enjoy the game are not able to get away to see it. This will be a splendid chance for them to see the sport.
The Normals will put forth their best efforts to make good their present record of not losing the game.
The lineup of the Normal team will be the same as last Saturday and is published elsewhere in the account of Saturday's game.
Those Drop Handle Bars.
An automobile going east on Tompkins-st. and a bicycle going north on Main-st collided at the corner of Main and Tompkins-sts., Cortland, yesterday afternoon at about 5:30 o'clock, much to the disadvantage of the latter. The rider was leaning forward over his drop handle bars and consequently was in much better position to inspect his own toes than to see where he was going or who he was going to meet. Both were going at a fair rate of speed. The wheelman was thrown and his bicycle considerably damaged. The auto stood it all right, its chauffeur who saw the other in advance having slackened speed and tried his best to avoid a collision.
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| Edith Roosevelt. |
They all Take Exercise.
Mrs. Roosevelt has horses and carriages at her command, but she is fond of walking, and on Thursday walked from her house at Oyster Bay to the hall where a meeting of the St. Hilda society of Christ church was held and back. The distance between the two places is 3 miles, so Mrs. Roosevelt had a 6 miles walk, besides doing some knitting at the society meeting. Love of exercise runs in that family.
Coal Lasted One Hour.
Maxson & Starin received two carloads of egg and grate coal Saturday and yesterday. This morning it was all put out in an hour of time. It was sold for $6 a ton.
SEWING MACHINES.
Many Millions Invested In a Great American Industry.
More than twenty million dollars, says the New York Herald, is invested in the manufacture of sewing machines in the United States, and more than twenty-one million dollars' worth of machines is turned out every year. Yet the sewing machine industry is of comparatively recent growth.
The technical beginning of the industry in this country was Sept. 10, 1846, when Elias Howe, Jr., obtained a patent for what grew into the first really practical sewing machine. Only three of the first Howe machines were made, however, and one of these was deposited in the patent office in Washington, as a model. It was not until after 1850 that a factory for the making of sewing machines was built, so the enormous business of today has grown up in a short half century.
While Howe's invention marked the beginning of a successful industry he was by no means the pioneer in efforts to substitute mechanical for hand sewing. As far back as 1770 Thomas Alsop patented, in England, a machine for embroidering. Another machine for embroidering in a loom was invented by John Duncan in 1804 and twenty-five years' later another Englishman named Heilman patented still another embroidering machine.
The first recorded attempt at mechanical sewing was the invention of Thomas Saint, who took out a patent in England in 1790 for the machine which executed the old crochet stitch. It was not a success, but some of the features of the Saint machine appear in the perfected machine of today.
Bartholemy Thimonnier patented in France in 1830 the first sewing machine put into practical use. Eighty of his machines were in use for sewing army clothing in 1841, when a mob destroyed them because convinced they would drive seamstresses out of employment. Thimonnier built new and better machines, but all his work was again destroyed by angry artisans in 1848.
John J. Greenough took out the first patent for a sewing machine issued in the United States in 1842. It was intended to sew leather, but was of no practical use.
Walter Hunt of New York built a sewing machine in 1834 but failed to protect it by a patent. After Howe's machine appeared Hunt declared it embodied the ideas of his machine of 1834 but he was unable to establish his claim.
A small army of inventors appeared after Howe's patent had proved successful, and their genius was devoted to perfecting every part of the machine. How well they have succeeded is shown in the 8,500 patents for sewing machines and attachments issued by the United States since 1850 and in the fact that the American sewing machine leads all others in every country in the world.
BREVITIES.
—A regular meeting of Grover Post, G. A. R., will be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—The primary union will meet Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock in the parlors of the First Baptist church.
—The Brotherhood of St. Paul of the Homer-ave. church will hold a meeting at 7:45 this evening.
—The annual inspection of the W. R. C. will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. All members are urged to be present.
— Election returns will be received at the Y. M. C. A. parlors tomorrow evening. A gramophone will entertain during the often too long intervals between dispatches.
—The new display advertisements today are: G. H. Wiltsie, oriental goods, etc., page 6; Warren, Tanner & Co., dry goods, page 6; C. F. Brown, drugs and medicines, page 7; Bingham & Miller, clothing, page 8.
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