LORD CHARLES BERESFORD SPEAKS, HENRY MOTEN, SHIP SIGNALING, PANAMA CANAL, SIDNEY NOVELTY CO., AND JARED SANFORD

 

Lord Charles Beresford in Naval Uniform.

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, February 5, 1903.

LORD CHARLES SPEAKS.

If He Were an American He Would Fight For the Monroe Doctrine.

   New York, Feb. 5.—Lord Charles Beresford was the guest of honor at a dinner given at the Waldorf by "The Pilgrims" of London, a society whose object is to promote good fellowship between the United States and Great Britain and her colonies. The society was represented by the American members of its executive committee, Joseph Wheeler, Senator Chauncey M. Depew, George T. Wilson and Lindsay Russell.

   About 200 were present including members of the Pilgrim society of the United States. The list of speakers included Lord Charles Beresford, the Rev. Donald Sage Mackay, Ferdinand W. Peck, Don M. Dickinson, Simon Ford, Job E. Hedges, John W. Griggs and Captain Charles D. Sigsbee.

   The king and president were toasted, after which Lord Charles was introduced and said in part:

   "The two great English-speaking nations can get together without an alliance, and if this is brought about it will help to maintain the peace of the world which, if assured, will give a trading and commercial century. All peoples will be benefited and the time may be hastened when countries will relinquish such gigantic armaments and devote most of the large sums of money thus expended to the good of the population."

   The Monroe doctrine, he said, originated in England and has been supported by the British ever since. It is almost as much to the interest of England as to America, he said, that the Monroe doctrine be maintained.

   "If I were an American," he asserted, "I should fight for the Monroe doctrine, but as I am an Englishman I favor it, as most Englishmen do."

   Lord Charles said he had been asked to speak of the present Venezuelan troubles, but he thought he had best say nothing. He interrupted the laughter that followed this remark by saying:

   "And I will tell you why. I believe it is the work of public men to allay irritations."

   Upon his return to England, the speaker said, he might speak and speak frankly about this same matter but to speak here would, he thought, be unwise and not nice. The signs of the times and the circumstances which obtain, he thought, would make a century of peace.

   Referring to the Alaskan [boundary] question he said he was glad to see that the two English-speaking countries are to settle that question, In conclusion he said:

   "Be in a position to enforce the freedom of the sea and then reunite the United States, Great Britain and America."

 

DEAD AT AGE OF 118.

Henry Moten Remembered Burning of Washington by British in 1814.

   Washington. Feb. 5.—Henry Moten, a negro, the oldest resident of the District of Columbia, who was born 118 years ago in Virginia, was buried here yesterday. He served under seven masters before being freed. Moten had a distinct recollection of the war of 1812. He remembered the appearance in the Potomac of Capt. Gordon's fleet, and of the burning of the city by the British in 1814.

   During his youth he was employed in hauling stone for the erection of the first capitol.

 

TO PERFECT SHIP SIGNALING.

Marconi's New Apparatus Will Register Distance to Vessel at Sea.

   Montreal, Quebec, Feb. 5.—Announcement was made yesterday at a meeting of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph company that it promises to revolutionize the signaling to ships.

   Marconi has almost perfected an apparatus to measure the distance between a ship at sea and a station on land. This will be accomplished by means of a movable disk, which will be affected by the current from the ship.

   Naturally the further the ship the weaker the current. The disk will have stationary marks, which will thus register the exact distance from ship to shore. Stations will be established all along the St. Lawrence river and Gulf to Belle Isle.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Now For the Isthmian Canal.

   Now that an agreement has been reached between the representatives of Columbia and the United States for the Panama canal, the work of constructing the great isthmian waterway ought speedily to begin.

   Under the terms of the treaty signed by Secretary of State Hay and Dr. Herran, representing the Columbian government, the United States is to pay $10,000,000 for a charter giving control over a strip of territory extending three miles on each side of the canal and is to pay $250,000 annually in rent.

   The principal disagreements between the two governments were on the points of annual rental and terms of occupation. The Columbian government asked too much, and the United States government offered terms considered by the other party altogether inadequate. The United States wanted indefeasible title and the rights of sovereignty over the canal itself and enough territory on either side to amply protect it. The difficulty pleaded by the Colombian government was a provision in the constitution preventing alienation of territory. The two difficulties were finally adjusted, the first by a compromise which gives to Columbia and annual payment of $250,000, a sum based on what it now receives for the traffic by rail across the isthmus and which is less than two-fifths of the Colombian demand, and the second by what amounts to a perpetual lease of the strip of territory needed. The lease is for 100 years, renewable indefinitely at the will of the United States and not at that of the Colombian government. There is to be joint action in police and judicial control of the waters of the ports of Colon and Panama is vested in the United States so far as may be necessary for the complete operation of the canal.

   All things considered, the treaty is regarded as reasonably satisfactory. The perpetuity of American interests on the isthmus appears to be amply safeguarded, and while the annual rental is somewhat greater than had been regarded as a sufficient remuneration, there is little reason for complaint on that score. We could afford to be generous rather than niggardly in the treatment of the Colombians, even if their dickering methods have been somewhat annoying. Let ii suffice that an agreement has been reached and that another step has been taken in the establishment of an isthmian waterway, built and controlled by the United States, which for half a century has been the dream of the American people.

 

SIDNEY NOVELTY CO.

Has Been Somewhat Reorganized in Recent Days.

MAY NOT COME TO CORTLAND.

Report of the Committee of the Board of Trade Upon its Visit to Sidney—Found Everything Exactly as Represented and a Very Desirable Industry to Secure—Company will Take a Week to Decide.

   Messrs. D. W. Van Hoesen and Edwin Duffey, the committee of the Cortland board of trade to go to Sidney to confer with the managers of the Sidney Novelty Co. with reference to the removal of that concern to Cortland, returned last night. The committee found everything concerning the business and the factory of the company exactly as represented and was more than ever impressed with its desirability as an addition to the industries of Cortland, but it also found that an important change had taken place in the personnel of the company which may have a very decided bearing upon its coming to this city. In fact, the committee is far from feeling as confident of securing it as it was when it found that probably the money could be raised.

   Last Monday a telegram was received from the Sidney Novelty Co. inquiring as to the progress of the work of the soliciting committee and if the matter could be closed up that day. A reply was sent that the committee was still at work and that a special meeting of the board of trade had been called for that night and that a final and decisive reply would be sent Tuesday morning.

   At the meeting that night it was reported that about $12,500 had been pledged and that the committee was quite confident of its ability to secure the other $2,500 necessary to meet the proposition of the Sidney Novelty Co. Tuesday morning at the long distance telephone this fact was communicated to Sidney and an appointment was made for a committee to go over there.

   When the committee reached Sidney it found that a partial change in the ownership of the company had been made on Monday night and that extra efforts were being put forth on the part of the people of Sidney to retain the factory in their midst. It is quite possible that if the committee had been in a position on Monday to have replied that it was ready to meet the proposition and close matters at once the change in ownership would not have been made, though this is not altogether sure. At any rate with the new interests now represented the reply was made to the committee that the company was not prepared at once to say that it would come to Cortland, but would like to take a week in which to consider the proposition further. And with this answer the committee returned home.

   The board of trade fully appreciates the efforts of the residents of this city to secure this new and desirable industry. Many people have subscribed generously and if the conditions at the other end of the line had not changed the work would have certainly been successful. It may be so now, though the prospects are not so bright. But the way in which the board of trade has been supported and backed up in this matter by the people of the city in general has given it great courage to keep its eyes open for new opportunities, and when another chance comes to secure a plant that will be a genuine help to the town, as it is felt that this one would be, it will be prepared to put forth every effort to bring it here.

 

BROKE HIS LEG.

Ice Chute Turned and Let a Piece of Ice Out.

   While unloading ice at the Little York Ice Co.'s storage house near the Lackawanna station yesterday afternoon, Frank Moran had the small bone of his right leg broken by a cake of ice falling upon it. A chute that was used to move the ice in turned and allowed the piece to fall out.

   He was taken to the hospital where Dr. F. D. Reese reduced the fracture.

 

Death of Miss Crofoot.

   Miss Elizabeth Crofoot died yesterday at 2 o'clock aged 15 years. Death was caused by a complication of spine and brain troubles. Funeral Friday at the house, 115 Railroad-st., at 9 o'clock and 9:30 at St. Mary's church.

 

JARED SANDFORD

Died in Mount Vernon, N. Y.—Well Remembered in Cortland.

   Hon. Jared Sanford, the first mayor of the City of Mount Vernon, N. Y., died of heart disease at his home in that city yesterday at the age of 65 years. Mr. Sanford was born in Ovid, Seneca county, and was for several years a student at the old Cortlandville academy in this place. While here he made many friends who proved to be lasting throughout the whole of his life. While here he was one of warmest of the friends of Rev. H. R. Dunham, then pastor of the Presbyterian church, and Mr. Dunham afterward married his sister, and upon her death married a second sister, who also passed away last year. A third sister is the wife of Rev. A. L. Benton, D. D., the brother of Mr. H. F. Benton of Cortland. Mrs. Benton with one brother, Mr. Montgomery Sandford of Geneva, are the only surviving members of the family.

   Mr. Sandford was at one time county clerk of Seneca county, was afterward elected sergeant-at-arms of the state assembly, and was twice president of the village of Mount Vernon and was its first mayor as a city. He also served for one term as deputy superintendent of public instruction of this state. Cortland friends learn of his death with sincere sorrow.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The eastern sky was full of lightning last night between 6 and 7 o'clock. No lightning today, however.

   —The police board held its regular monthly meeting at the office of the city clerk last night. The police pay roll was audited.

   —Cortland encampment, No, 147, I. O. O. F., will work the patriarchal degree in the lodgeroom this evening. A full attendance is requested.

   —It is surprising what a day can bring forth—yesterday balmy spring-like temperature with the snow almost gone; today a regular howling winter blizzard, the air full of snow and with a decided drop in the mercury.

   —New display advertisements today are—Warren, Tanner & Co., Red ticket sale, page 4; Angell & Thomas, Dissolution sale of shoes, page 8; McGraw & Elliott, Midwinter necessities, page 5; Opera House, "Human Hearts," page 5; Bingham & Miller, Clothing, etc., page 8.