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| Cipriano Castro and Herbert Bowen. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, February 6, 1903.
IRRITATED AT BOWEN.
Question of Preference to Be Submitted to the President.
PROTOCOL TO BE DRAWN UP
For Submission of Whole Question to The Hague If President Will Not Act—Cash Payment Offered to Each of the Allies—France May Want the Same.
Washington, Feb. 6.—Irritated by the note of Minister Bowen, Venezuela's representative, addressed to the British ambassador Monday last, refusing to accept the allies' proposal for a scheme of preferential payments by which Great Britain, Germany and Italy were to receive 20 per cent and the remaining eight creditor nations 10 per cent of the customs receipts of La Guaira and Porto Cabello, the allied powers have instructed their representatives here to submit the question of preferential treatment for settlement to President Roosevelt and in the event that he declines to act as arbitrator to take this and possibly the entire Venezuelan controversy to The Hague for settlement, thereby breaking off negotiations with Mr. Bowen.
At 10 o'clock today at the British embassy there was a conference of the representatives here of the allies. In view of the fact that the London government is taking the lead in the negotiations, the British ambassador presided at this conference. He expects to have an interview with the secretary of state whom he will sound as to the probability of the president's acceptance of the allies' request. If it is found that President Roosevelt is not disposed to allow himself to be dragged into the negotiations the instructions of the allies are such as to permit them to forego the embarrassment of a rejection at the hands of Mr. Roosevelt and instead of making known their wishes to him, steps will be taken to draw up a protocol with Mr. Bowen for a reference of the case to The Hague as suggested by him in his note of last Monday.
The British ambassador was the first of the representatives to receive instructions to this effect and the matter was discussed at the noon day conference between the three representatives of the allies.
Whether President Roosevelt will accept this invitation of the allies is not known. An official of the administration expressed his surprise that the allies would be willing to submit this question to the president in view of the fact that their representatives within the last few day have informed them by cable that the president views with disfavor the contention of the allies for preferential treatment.
There is the best authority for the statement that neither Great Britain nor Germany are desirous of submitting their interests to The Hague.
The instructions received by the British ambassador are not quite clear as to the alternative to be pursued in the event that the president declines to act as arbitrator of the question of priority payments.
It is not known whether the protocol which will be drawn up with Mr. Bowen will provide for reference of the entire case to The Hague or whether the allies are willing to stick by what they have secured here and will consent to have The Hague arbitrate the one question of preferential treatment.
The drafting of a protocol will, it is expected, occupy some time, but it is the understanding that upon the submission of the matter either to the president or The Hague the blockade is to be raised at once.
It developed that during a call of Count Quadt, the first secretary of the German embassy, upon Mr. Bowen the latter expressed to him his willingness to make to Germany and Italy a cash payment of $27,000 each, This was done\ because of Mr. Bowen's action in the early part of the negotiations in conceding to Great Britain a similar amount for satisfaction of the alleged indignities which the British government claimed its citizens have suffered in Venezuela. This amount was named by the British ambassador.
It was intimated that France might now come forward and ask for the same cash payment for herself as that given the allies.
In the event that the matter goes to The Hague, the allies will only be accepting the proposition made by Mr. Bowen in his ultimatum addressed to the British ambassador last Monday.
Forty New Cases of Typhoid.
Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 6.—Forty new cases of typhoid fever and one death were reported to the city health authorities. The total number of cases is now 340. Dr. C. F. Curtis of the state board of health is here investigating the situation. He agrees with the city authorities that the cause of the epidemic is the city water supply. Water for drinking purposes at present is being brought to Ithaca from wells in surrounding towns. Many of the fever patients are students at Cornell university.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Blow to South Dakota Divorce.
In the federal court decision of the Massachusetts case of Andrews versus Andrews a heavy blow bas been delivered against the South Dakota divorce system. The case involved the right of administration on the estate of one Charles H. Andrews and also the determination of which one of two women, each claiming to be the wife of the decedent, was entitled to the estate of Andrews father, who had devised it to the "wife of my son, Charles H. Andrews."
The facts were undisputed. All parties had been lifelong residents of Massachusetts, and disagreements arising between Charles H. Andrews and his wife, the former went to South Dakota, sojourned there for six months, obtained a divorce and returned to Massachusetts, where he took unto himself another wife and died shortly afterward.
The divorced wife applied for letters of administration on the ground that she was the lawful wife of Andrews, and after a long contest the supreme court of Massachusetts decided for her on all points. The decision was that while the Dakota courts had undoubted jurisdiction over their own citizens in matters of divorce they had none over citizens of Massachusetts and therefore, none over Andrews, whose sojourn was held by the court to have been in bad faith and did not at any time rise to an actual bona fide residence. The second Mrs. Andrews appealed from this decision to the supreme court of the United States, which has now affirmed the judgment of the Massachusetts tribunal, declaring that the South Dakota divorce was invalid and that the first wife was entitled to the letters of administration.
The courts of several States have refused to admit the regularity of South Dakota divorces, but this is the first case on which the supreme court of the United States has passed. Its practical effect will be to render invalid all divorces obtained under like circumstances. However, the legality of the decree in such cases is seldom challenged unless the courts are called upon to administer the estate of one or both of the parties affected. But where questions of estate are involved a vast amount of troublesome litigation is likely to follow South Dakota divorces.
The federal court decision in the Andrews case once more emphasizes in the public mind the necessity of a national divorce law establishing uniform conditions and requirements as a basis for decrees of separation.
CORTLAND HAS A CHAMBERLAIN
Who Collects all the Taxes—$40,000 Uncollected at Ithaca.
According to the Ithaca News the city of Ithaca has $40,000 of uncollected taxes lingering on its old assessment rolls. In this city a very different state of affairs exists. Cortland has not one penny on the old rolls that remains uncollected. All of the 1902 assessments were collected before the present tax roll was received by the city Chamberlain, who had also cleared up the amounts standing over from former years. The credit for this excellent showing in relation to Cortland's finances is due to the city Chamberlain G. J. Maycumber, who is untiring in his efforts to keep the city's finances in proper condition.
DRYDEN'S TELEPHONE LINES.
Plans to Reach Farmers in Every Direction from the Village.
About a hundred farmers surrounding Dryden, N. Y., have subscribed for telephones upon the new line to be built. The committee appointed to arrange the matter recommends connecting with the Home Telephone Co. of Cortland for long distance connections. It recommends using No. 14 iron wire and setting the poles 10 rods apart and says that on that basis the line can be constructed for $40 a mile. It recommends that stockholders be permitted to work out part value of the stock instead of paying money. It advises building lines out from Dryden as follows and stock is rapidly being taken on these lines:
One is from Dryden village west to Willow Glen, thence south to the Irish Settlement schoolhouse, hence west to Edsalls corners, thence south to Slaterville Springs.
From Dryden village south by the main road to Harford village.
From Dryden to Virgil by way of the back or hill road, leading past the residences of Eugene and Fred Space and Will McClintock.
From Dryden to the residence of E. C. Dedrick and to McLean.
There will also be a line reaching those residing on the east side of Dryden lake, the exact route not fully determined.
Silence the Church Bells.
The Ithaca Journal says as many are ill in that city that the request has been made that there be no ringing of church bells till people are better. It is thought that all unnecessary noise should be avoided for the present, as every slightest sound disturbs the ill.
Wickwire Factory, Cortland, N. Y.
THE FIRST HEAT
Tapped at the Furnace of Wickwire Brothers.
ROLLING MILL TO START AT ONCE.
Splendid Addition to Cortland's Great Industry—One Hundred Fifty New Men Employed there—Employees now Exceed a Thousand—Pay Roll this Week More than $11,800.
For several months past the attention of all passersby upon South Main and Port Watson-sts. has been attracted to the new buildings steadily rising at the plant of Wickwire Brothers great wire mill next the Lehigh Valley tracks. They are now completed and last night at about 1:30 o'clock one of the new open hearth steel furnaces was tapped for the first time and the first heat was successfully taken off. A single one of these furnaces has a capacity of 30 tons at a time. The full capacity of the plant when in operation will be 150 tons each day. Into these furnaces scrap iron and pig iron is cast for melting and when in a molten state it is drawn off to form ingots.
The new rolling mill was expected to start up this afternoon and that will transform the ingots into billets which heretofore the company has had to buy.
The furnaces, of course, have to be run day and night with different shifts of men from Monday morning till Saturday night. At present but the single furnace is in operation for the men have to be trained to their duties and not enough have yet come to understand the work to be able to handle them all. Others will be started up a little later.
This one addition to the plant of the wire mill adds over 150 men to the payroll, and the number of employees now exceeds 1,000. The payroll of the concern this week is a little over $11,800, and is increasing each week. This is an industry of which Cortland may well be proud.
CHANGE ON THE LEHIGH.
Some Marked Changes in Time in Effect Next Monday.
The Lehigh Valley railroad will on Sunday, Feb. 8, make a radical change in the time of running its trains on all of its divisions. There will be several changes in the time of trains on the Elmira and Cortland branch of the Auburn division. The afternoon train running from Elmira to Auburn and return will be taken off entirely, consequently the train that now arrives in Cortland at 1:10 p. m. from Freeville and that connects with the train from Elmira will be taken off, as will also the train that starts from Cortland at 3:40 o'clock p. m., and connects with the train on its return from Auburn to Elmira.
The morning train from Camden will arrive in Cortland about a half hour later than it does at present. Its leaving time at the Cortland station will be 9:10. The evening train from Camden will be placed back on its old schedule, leaving Cortland at 8:02. The morning train from Elmira to Camden will leave Cortland at 10:05, instead of 9:45, its present leaving time. The evening train from Elmira will not be changed, but will continue on the present schedule, leaving Cortland at 6:25.
The New York, Philadelphia, Rochester and Buffalo connections will be given later.
THE ILLNESS IN ITHACA.
Caused by Impure Water—All Water Must be Boiled.
The board of health of the city of Ithaca became satisfied that the epidemic of typhoid fever in that city must be caused by impure milk or impure water. Au examination of the milk found this satisfactory. It was suggested that the disease might come from impure ice, but the fever exists in many families that have not used ice at all throughout the year. Samples of the water were examined by Prof. Chamot of Cornell university who declared that it was not fit to use. The board of health has passed a regulation requiring every person to boil all water to be used for domestic purposes. The next thing will be to enforce this regulation, but the people are so disturbed over the prevalence of the disease that it is believed they will pretty generally obey. The water has been shut off from all the schools, so that none of the students can secure any for drinking. Meanwhile the fever continues though not as many new cases are reported each day as a few days ago.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements today are—M. A. Case, Specials for Saturday, page 6.
—The net income of the water works plant of the city of Oswego for 1902 exceeded $25,000.
—Rev. U. S. Milburn, pastor of the Universalist church, is connected with the telephone, his number being 155.
—Cortland Commandery, No. 50, Knights Templar, will hold a special conclave this evening and confer the order of Temple.
—The Knickerbockers of Buffalo will be in Cortland next Thursday night to try their skill in basket ball with the Athletics. A good game is in prospect.
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