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| Senator John Tyler Morgan. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, October 18, 1902.
SENATOR MORGAN SPEAKS.
Thinks There Will Be Much Attempted Legislation In Congress and Legislatures.
Baltimore, Oct. 18.—Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama, now visiting in this city, had this to say on President Roosevelt's success in bringing about arbitration: "I am very glad that a modus vivendi apparently has been formed, and I should think the Republican situation would be relieved considerably. In a matter where the comfort and prosperity of the whole people are concerned we should not entertain any question of party advantage but should consider the general welfare.
"But the strike has only been put to sleep for a time. You will find much debate and attempted legislation this winter in congress and in state legislatures concerning the status of mines.
"Mr. Hill in New York has taken the wrong idea of handling the fuel question—through the exercise of the right of eminent domain. It is a municipal matter, the regulation of public utility, such as a ferry, a turnpike or a Street railway. Attorney General Knox expressed the right idea when he said, in effect: 'Let the common law define the wrong and then frame the statute to apply the remedy.' The common law has defined the right of the state or municipality to make regulations for the health, comfort, convenience and protection of the public for hundreds of years.
"Speaking of congress, I have never been able to see what particular advantage it would be to the Democrats to control the next house of representatives. I can not see how we Democrats could gain anything and on the other hand we might lose much."
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| Dr. Adolf Lorenz. |
RUSH TO SEE DR. LORENZ.
Two Thousand Witness His Operations—More Unable to Gain Admission.
Chicago Oct. 18.—A persistent crowd of a thousand medical students surged about the entrance to the county hospital yesterday eager to break in and see Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the eminent surgeon of Austria, demonstrate his wonderful accomplishments upon charity patients before a public clinic of physicians, nurses, and medical students. There was only room in the great amphitheatre for 2,000 persons consequently the great doors were swung shut upon half as many more who scrambled for admission.
Scores of crippled children with their parents braved the crushing throng in order that they might be cured of hip dislocations.
Before beginning his first operation Dr. Lorenz lectured to his medical brethren upon each of the twenty subjects selected for him. There was not a single dislocation that he pronounced incurable."All can be righted by putting the bones in the sockets where they belong," he said in broken English.
The audience of professional met and women applauded this calm and boasting remark loudly. The venerable surgeon looked a patriarch as he stood before the operating table with flowing gray beard.
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| Grover Cleveland. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Cleveland Corrected.
The Democratic Washington Post, referring to former President Cleveland's recent comment on the political situation, does not agree with the gentleman by any means in all that he states.
On the contrary it calls his attention to some very stubborn facts of history and of present conditions, which lie squarely in the way of Democratic success. It says:
"If the Democracy is ever going to get back into power, it must make a beginning some time, and Mr. Cleveland is fully justified in regarding the present as a great opportunity. By way of warning to his political brethren Mr. Cleveland says:
The present restlessness in Republican circles on this subject often amounting to protests against Republican protective theories, should warn the Democracy of an impending danger. I mean by this the possibility that our opponents may crowd us from our position on this subject if we allow them to do so by our lukewarmness and indifference, and occupy our ground just as we permitted them to crowd us from the ground that belonged to us on the question of sound money.'
"It is a mistake to suppose that the dissatisfied Republicans are hostile to protection. On the contrary, they are the most loyal supporters of that doctrine. The only way that the Democracy can win their favor is by surrendering its animosity to protection per se and advocating such a readjustment of the tariff as will reform all abuses of that doctrine. In that way free trade might be strongly and wholesomely promoted by additions to the free list and reduction of schedules that are unnecessarily high."
"But there is one clause in the above quotation that we do not quite understand. When, where and how did the Republicans crowd us from the ground that belonged to us on the question of sound money?' We cannot recall any such crowding, and history makes no mention of it. Mr. Cleveland certainly will not contend that in 1868 the Republicans crowded or pushed the Democracy on to a platform that called for virtual repudiation of the bonded debt—'redeeming' the bonds with irredeemable paper. Nor will Mr. Cleveland assert that it was Republican compulsion that set the Democracy in solid array against resumption of specie payments. The ex-president, if he considers the matter with due care, will have to admit that there was no crowding in either of those cases, nor yet in 1896 or 1900.''
"The Republicans found the road to sound money long and difficult. Many fell by the way and others halted too long. They came nearer to landing themselves in the rotten currency swamp than to pushing the Democrats into it."
There is only one way in which the Democratic party can again become successful, viz: By abandoning the economic and financial heresies which have become so closely associated with its name, making no further blunders of its own, and taking prompt and intelligent advantage of any blunders made by its opponents. Heretofore, however, its follies have helped to make Republican capital and it has shown little capacity to seize such opportunities for success as from time to time have presented themselves.
A GREAT FIRE.
Plant of the Cortland Specialty Co. Destroyed.
ORIGIN OF THE FIRE UNKNOWN.
Burst Out all Over the Building at Midnight—Nothing Saved But a Typewriter—Other Buildings in Danger, Some of Which Caught Fire—Valiant Work of the Firemen—Wickwire's Men Helped in Fighting the Flames—Loss and Insurance.
The Cortland Specialty company's plant on Crawford-st., just south of the Lehigh Valley railroad tracks in this city, was entirely destroyed last night by fire, and only by the vigorous efforts of the firemen were the neighboring buildings kept from burning. Nothing was saved from the Specialty company's building except a typewriter which was taken from the office.
The fire broke out shortly before midnight, and when first discovered it was blazing furiously. The first intimation that the community had of the disaster was sounded out upon the stillness of the night by the whistle at the Lehigh Valley car shops. Arthur E. Summers, night watchman at the shop, saw the fire in the neighboring novelty works, and immediately began to send out loud tones of warning from the big whistle. It was about five minutes before 12 o'clock when the whistle was blown.
In a very few moments thereafter Officer Bowker, upon seeing the flames, sent in an alarm from the engine house. An alarm was about to be sent in from the box at the corner of Main and Union-sts., but before this could be done the bell was striking off the number at the engine house.
While all this was taking place and even before the bell sounded Henry Hakes and Harry Haynes were starting for the fire with one of the Wickwire hose carts, the hose being attached to the hydrant at the Wickwire factory. Fred Wilkins turned on the stream, and soon the small company was playing a stream upon the building and upon the dwelling house of John Kelley, near the east end of the burning factory, and which from the first was in danger of being burned. Two other lines of hose from the Wickwire factory were laid and when the great pumps in the Wickwire engine room were started there was a tremendous power behind their streams. When all the companies arrived, eight streams were playing upon the building and the neighboring houses.
ORIGIN of Fire.
How or where the fire started is not known. Three persons, each of whom claims to be the first one to discover the flames, locate the origin of the fire in three different parts of the plant. The building was left at 6 o'clock in the same condition as usually the case. When the fire started the flames seemed to go all through the building at one time, and it was only a short time before the whole building was wrapped in flames, and no possible aid could save it from burning.
Sparks Start Other Fires.
Over a part of the building was a felt roof and as this burned it floated off upon the light breeze and was carried burning over that section of the city. The roofs of two houses on Railway-ave. were ignited, and a close watch of all buildings in that section had to be maintained.
Hardly anything was saved from the wreck or was worth picking from the heap of debris this morning after the flames had done their work of destruction, except the safe, which came out of the ruins safe and sound. The rest was a mass of ruins.
It Was a Hot Fire.
The fire was a very hot one and the building burned with a roaring sound that could be plainly heard blocks away. Houses across the street had the paint blistered upon them, and cars standing upon the tracks several rods away were also blistered. The Kelley house was kept deluged from the time the companies reached the place until the great heat had been reduced by the efforts of the fire laddies.
Plenty of Orders Ahead.
The Cortland Specialty company was incorporated last December and had been doing a large and constantly growing business. It has a large number of outstanding orders to fill. At this early date the company cannot tell what its future plans will be. A temporary office has been fitted up at the Kremlin, where the business of the company will be conducted for the present. The company was protected by insurance, which will partly cover the loss.
The Insurance.
The building was a large partly brick and partly wood structure which was put up several years ago by the McKee & Webb Manufacturing Co., which still owned the plant, together with the engine and boiler. There was $4,500 insurance upon the building and $23,000 upon the equipment and stock. The insurance upon the building was all placed with Davis, Jenkins & Hakes, and was divided among the following companies: New York Underwriters. $2,250; Fireman's, $1,500; British American, $750.
The insurance upon the equipment and stock was divided among the following insurance companies: Pennsylvania, $1,500; Glens Falls, $1,000; German Alliance, $1,000; Fire Association, $1,000; Rochester German, $1 000; New Hampshire, $1,000; British American, $1,500; Connecticut, $2,000; Prussian National, $1,500; Fidelity Association, $1,000; German of Freeport, $1,000; Associated Underwriters $1,000; Phoenix of Brooklyn, $1,000; Springfield, $1,500; Liverpool, London and Globe, $1,500; Westchester, $2,500; Home of Baltimore $1,000; America of Boston, $1,000.
Of the $23,000 insurance upon the equipment and stock, Davis, Jenkins & Hakes carry $11,500; G. T. Maycumber, $5,000; F. W. Kingsbury, $3,000; and Theodore Stevenson, $3,500.
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| Lt. Martin Edgcomb. |
GROVER POST CAMP FIRE.
Interesting Reports to be Given of the National Encampment.
There will be a regular meeting of Grover Post, G. A. R., Monday evening at 8 o'clock. All comrades are especially invited to be present as the "survivors" of the last advance on Washington will make a report on the doings at the National encampment held last week.
Comrade Kellogg will speak on "How I Captured Richmond with a File of Two Men," a feat which foiled the entire army of the Potomac for years. Comrade Edgcomb will relate his experiences at Fredericksburg and his cordial (?) reception by a representative of the Southern Confederacy. Comrade Birdlebough will be asked to speak on "How I Lost and Found my Satchel," and Comrade Hinman will be brought before the Post and made to tell "Who Stole the Tin Cup from the Darkey?" Many others are expected to answer to their names and give their experiences. Homer comrades are especially invited.
READY FOR BURGLARS.
Mrs. C. L. Kinney Experiments With a Revolver and Learns How.
Mrs. C. L. Kinney of 54 Port Watson- st., Cortland, is now ready for any burglar that may decide to call, but woe be to the burglar if he does. He will wish he hadn't. Mr. Kinney concluded to attend the annual convention of the Carriage Dealers association at Philadelphia this week and when he spoke about it to his better half that lady inquired what she should do if a great big burglar should come around in the night to look for Mr. Kinney's trousers and the trousers shouldn't be there, nor the one who customarily wears them. Mr. Kinney said he had thought of that and proposed getting a revolver for his wife if she wouldn't be more afraid of the gun than the burglar. Mrs. Kinney thought it all over and decided to take her chances with the weapon rather than with trying to satisfy the burglar that there weren't any trousers in the house to take.
So Mr. Kinney bought a Smith & Wesson New Departure revolver. This is one of the hammerless variety. It requires no cocking and a very slight touch upon the trigger sets it off. He showed Mrs. Kinney how to use it and departed for Philadelphia. When he got back yesterday he discovered a great big hole in the wall of their sleeping room with a very black smoke spot about it, and when he inquired regarding it his little son Wesley burst into a fit of uncontrollable laughter and looked straight at his mother. Mrs. Kinney hadn't much to say and Wesley laughed all the harder. Mr. Kinney was decidedly mystified and quite curious and urged an explanation. At length he got it.
It appears that Thursday night before retiring Mrs. Kinney thought that would be a good time to experiment a little with that revolver. There might be a burglar under the bed already and if so it would be well to let him know that she was armed. She got the gun and examined it closely. Mr. Kinney had shown her about it before but she hadn't tried it herself. Wesley was an interested spectator, but fortunately he kept in the background. Mrs. Kinney drew up the revolver as if about to let drive at a bold bad man. She looked at a little spot on the wall and imagined it to be the heart of a burglar and a good target. The wall wasn't but a few inches away from the muzzle of the revolver as she pointed it at the imaginary heart of the imaginary man. The spot hypnotized her. She put her finger upon the trigger and pressed it just a little, only a little, but bang ! ! ! went the revolver. Mrs. Kinney was so surprised and so scared that she nearly dropped it from her hand. There was a hole in the wall, a hole that went clear through and out of doors, and the wall blackened with powder smoke. Wesley looked a minute and then fairly shrieked with delight.
But there was a shriek from another part of the house and it was not a shriek of delight either. It had no resemblance to Wesley's hilarity. It was a feminine cry of terror. It came from the maid servant of the family who thought the burglars had actually arrived. Mrs. Kinney went to assure her of her error, but the young woman wouldn't admit her to her room at first and not till she recognized Mrs. Kinney's voice did her fright lessen.
Mrs. Kinney then told Wesley to go to bed and go to sleep and stop his laughing, and putting the revolver under her pillow she too retired and didn't dream about burglars either. But she declares that she knows now how that revolver works and isn't afraid of it and can and will use it if necessary.
And Mr. Kinney—well, after he had got the particulars all together he began to wonder if he would ever dare come home again at an unexpected time in the night without telephoning in advance that he was in town and would like to be admitted quietly to the house without peril to his person.
BREVITIES.
—Mr. Roscoe C. Thompson of Virgil and Miss Lena C. Fletcher of Harford were married this morning by Rev. G. H. Brigham at his home, 8 Charles-st., in this city.
—Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Lucas very pleasantly entertained the members of Mr. Lucas' class of young ladies of the First M. E. church Sundayschool [sic] at their home, 64 Prospect-st., last evening-.
—New display advertisements today are—Bingham & Miller, Opening sale of underwear, page 8; Perkins & Quick, White Pine Cough Syrup, page 7; The Corner Grocery, Michigan peaches and grapes, page 8.
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