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| John Mitchell. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, January 19, 1903.
UNITED MINE WORKERS.
Fourteenth Annual Convention Began Today at Indianapolis.
Indianapolis, Jan. 19.—The 14th annual convention of the United Mine Workers of America began here this morning. President Mitchell arrived here Sunday afternoon. Vice President Lewis and many members of the executive board are here and the others will arrive today.
President Mitchell was met at Greenfield by reception committees representing the Central Labor union of Indianapolis, the citizens and the Elks. On arriving here he was taken to his hotel, where he held an informal reception. He made a brief speech to the reception committee in which he said in part:
"To live up to the measure that has been set for me by the people of the United States is indeed difficult. I have perhaps been honored by organized labor as much if not more by one of its many leaders today. Whether I deserve these honors or not I cannot say. I have tried to do my duty toward the men who have chosen me as their leader and I have striven hard for them.
"I am not here to speak of the merits of the controversy between the operators and the miners in the anthracite fields. Strikes and lockouts, however, are foreign to the purposes of organized labor. I do not believe in strikes. I regard them as horrible and the creators of suffering. But I do believe that the laboring men of the country should never surrender the right to strike and to protect themselves against organized capital.
"I, for one, do not regard the interests of capital and labor as so much opposed to each other that they cannot be reconciled. I have abiding faith in the citizens of this country and believe that they can solve the great labor problem which confronts us and solve it rightly."
WORKING OVERTIME.
Collieries and Washeries Worked Saturday Night and Sunday.
Scranton, Pa., Jan. 19.—As an experiment, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western company operated its Brisbin, Cayuga and Diamond collieries in this city Saturday night until 10:30 and its Storrs colliery until 8 o'clock, making 15 and 12 hours respectively for the day.
The output of the collieries for the day was 8,500 tons or 2,200 more than their normal output.
The result was entirely satisfactory and the mines can be run every night if the men will work.
A canvass was made of the men working at the different collieries of the company, but only at the mines mentioned would the men volunteer to work, The company has two washeries that ran all Saturday night and four that worked Sunday. The Saturday and Sunday shipments of the company aggregate 64,000 tons. Up to date the shipments of the company from its collieries exceed by 75,000 tons the shipments for the same period of December.
Coal Seized at Toledo.
Toledo, O., Jan. 19.—A mob, including over 200 men, women and children, Sunday seized five carloads of soft coal which had just arrived. Neither the police nor the officials of the railway company attempted to stop them.
HAS NO USE FOR COAL.
Lives in a Cave With a Squirrel for Company.
New York, Jan. 19.—Policeman Stewart of the Kingsbridge Station was riding through the Riverdale woods yesterday when he came upon a man sitting at the entrance of a small cave playing with a squirrel. The man said he had lived in the cave for three months and intended to spend the winter there. He had filled in the chinks of the cave, which was about 10 feet long, with newspapers and had made a bed of dried leaves. When Stewart told him to come to the stationhouse the man asked to take the squirrel too. The man said he had tamed the animal and that it had been his only companion. At the station he said he was Joseph Usterland of St. Louis. He was locked up.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Coal Shortage and Dearer Oil.
The hard coal famine remains practically unbroken in many sections of the country, though the mining of anthracite has been in progress nearly three months upon a scale which, the operators insisted, would furnish an ample supply at reasonable prices for the public needs. Instead of this the prices have continued to advance, and it is now impossible to get hard coal in many places at any price.
In this emergency many people have turned from coal to oil, and now find the price of this fuel steadily advancing. Almost at the same time that the Standard Oil company announced another dividend, bringing the aggregate of the year up to 45 per cent on its $100,000,000 of capitalization, it advanced the price of oil a cent a gallon in barrels and 2 cents a gallon in cases, and the price is still going up. The midwinter outlook for the shivering public is anything but encouraging.
The Standard Oil company, which controls the petroleum product of the country, has so frequently been cited as an illustration of the possibility of lower prices through the monopolization of an industry that it is of interest to compare present prices with those prevailing when the monopoly was established in 1882. An examination of the record shows that oil today is actually dearer than it was twenty years ago. Prior to that time the price of refined oil had fallen, as a rule, from 7 to 10 per cent each year ever since petroleum was first put upon the market at the beginning of the civil war.
In the decade preceding 1882, before the Standard got control of the industry, the export price of oil by the barrel in New York fell from 24 cents a gallon to 7 1/2 cents. During the two decades following this event the price of oil by the barrel has risen from 7 1/2 cents a gallon in 1882 to 8 1/2 cents a gallon in 1903.
It is apparent that if improvements in manufacturing and economies in production have gone on as in the days of competition in the oil industry the public has not received the benefit.
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| Cortland City Band, 1898. |
THE BAND FAIR.
Minstrel and Vaudeville Under Direction of Gren Bowker.
The annual fair of the Cortland City band will be held the week beginning Feb. 2. The soliciting committee is meeting with very good success.
Mr. Gren Bowker, late of Barlow & Wilson's minstrels, has been engaged to take charge of the minstrel and vaudeville performances which will be given each evening with a change of program nightly. There will also be dancing every evening.
FUTURE OF THE Y. M. C. A.
Hopeful Prospect—Work to Continue Without Interruption.
There was a very large attendance of directors of the Y. M. C. A., members of the Women's auxiliary, pastors and others interested at the home of Mr. H. F. Benton, 79 Railroad-st., Saturday night. The meeting was called to consider the future of the association work. State Secretary Fred Hill of New York was present. General Secretary Tibbitts gave a full and comprehensive report of the work and of the financial situation. It appears that there are now 276 active members of the association which is the largest number in the history of the organization. This assures the largest income from membership fees ever known here. A hopeful view was taken of the finances of the association from the statements made, and it is believed that the people of Cortland will all assist in pushing the work forward.
A committee was appointed to look up and select a successor for General Secretary Tibbitts who has resigned.
The meeting adjourned with a more hopeful and confident outlook than for many months.
H. H. GOURLEY
Former Resident of Cortland—Funeral held in Syracuse.
Past Grand Frank G. Kinney, Past Grand E. E. Barnes and Messrs. F. L. Pearson, C. R. Kinney and A. J. French of Vesta lodge, No. 255, I. O. O. F., went to Syracuse this morning to attend the funeral this afternoon of H. H. Gourley, a member of Vesta lodge.
Mr. Gourley left Cortland about twenty years ago. While here he was a sewing machine agent. He joined Vesta lodge about thirty years ago when Mr. F. G. Kinney was noble grand of the organization.
To Attend Good Roads Convention.
Messrs. F. A. Crosley of Scott, chairman of the board of supervisors, A. R. Rowe, supervisor from the town of Cortlandville, and J. A. Wavle, supervisor from the town of Harford, started this morning for Albany to attend the State Good Roads convention, which will be in session in Albany for two days. The three constitute the committee of the board of supervisors that was appointed to attend the convention.
COLLIDED IN THE DARK.
Runaway Horse Had a Mixup With F. C. Roe's Rig.
Francis C. Roe, who has lately taken possession of Allen's second hand furniture store on Main-st., had a thrilling experience while returning to Cortland from Marathon last evening. Just as he reached the McGraw road he spied a runaway horse without a driver coming at break-neck speed toward him. A collision was inevitable, as the horse that was running kept in the beaten track, and the snow was so deep that Hoe could not get his horse and cutter out of the way.
Aside from the horse that the new Cortland man had to handle, he had with him in the cutter a little girl, Mary Pendl , and a portion of his attentions had to be given her. The horse that was running was a large gray one, hitched to a cutter, and it was no time before it had come upon them. The force of the larger horse brought Roe's horse to its knees when they collided, and the harness was broken by the force. The cutter, to which the running horse was hitched, was wrecked in the mixup, and was left in a badly rumpled condition directly upon the street car tracks. The motorman and conductor of the first car after the collision had to remove the debris from the tracks before they could proceed.
Mr. Roe was unable to find out whose rig had caused him so much inconvenience. No one could be seen following the horse. He is thankful, however, that neither the little girl nor himself was hurt in the melee.
Mr. Roe states that he is going to establish an upholstering house where the second hand store has been kept and that he is going to close out all the present stock.
BREVITIES.
—A regular meeting of G. A. R. will be held at 7:30 o'clock this evening.
—The regular meeting of the W. R. C. will be held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
—The Wide Awake Literary club will meet with Mrs. Myron Meads, 47 Fitz-ave., Tuesday evening.
—Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M., will confer the first degree at their regular communication Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—The First Presbyterian church of Binghamton took up a collection of $2,697 yesterday to make some repairs on its Sundayschool [sic] room.
—The regular meeting of the National Protective legion will be held at Lincoln lodge rooms tomorrow evening, Jan. 20. Every member is urged to be present as there are matters of importance to be attended to.
—The new display advertisements today are—Warren, Tanner & Co., Muslin underwear garments, page 5; S. Simmons, January sale, page 6; G. H. Wiltsie, Muslin underwear, page 6; Rev. E. E. Davidson, Services for this week, page 5.
—The Primary union will meet tomorrow evening at 6:45 o'clock in the primary room of the First M. E. church. All interested are requested to note the change of place from that announced in the several churches Sunday. The change is due to the fact that the First M. E. church is to be kept warm all the week for the revival meetings.
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