CONGRESS ADJOURNED, SOCIALISTS IN BAY STATE, PROHIBITION, FORTNIGHTLY CLUB, MILK PRODUCERS, AND SAUTELLE'S ANIMALS

 

David B. Henderson.

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, March 5, 1903.

CONGRESS ADJOURNED.

Speaker Henderson Retired as Presiding Officer and Member.

   Washington, March 5.—The Fifty-seventh congress expired at noon yesterday by limitation. In many respects the closing scenes were similar to those at the end of every congress, but there has not been in many years such a demonstration in the house as occurred owing to the fact that Speaker Henderson was retiring not only as presiding officer but from the house as a member.

   Bitter partisan feeling that has sprung up in the house of representatives during the past week reached a pitch which prevented the speaker from receiving the unanimous approval of the house when the usual resolution of thanks and courtesy was offered. More than this, the resolution had to come from the Republican side, and while this has occurred before, it is not the usual custom.

   The usual resolution of thanks to President pro tempore Frye was unanimously adopted in the senate.

    Two years ago when the Fifty-sixth congress expired it was remarkable not only for the second inauguration of William McKinley but also for the fact that Senator Carter of Montana talked the river and harbor bill to death, which occupied the time of the senate up to within a few minutes of the end.

   Yesterday Senator Mason, whose term expired at noon, also talked an unimportant bill to death, but in his valedictory he lectured the senate for its unlimited debate which allows bills to be killed in that manner, and also made a final plea for the freedom of the Filipinos.

   As all of the important supply bills had passed before the two houses took a recess no legislation was necessary, and none was attempted. The bills which had passed and reached the stage of enrollment were all signed by President Roosevelt, who with members of his cabinet occupied the president's room in the senate wing of the Capitol.

 

State Board of Health Inspection.

   Ithaca, N. Y., March 5.—Dr. George H. Soper of New York city came here yesterday at the instance of the state board of health to thoroughly investigate the typhoid fever conditions. Miss Edna Wensley of Albany, Cornell '04, was taken to the Cornell infirmary annex with symptoms of typhoid. The situation in the city is improved and no deaths occurred yesterday. The committee of one hundred located two test artesian wells, and work will begin today.

 

SOCIALISTS IN THE BAY STATE

Show Material Gains in all the Town Elections.

   Boston, March 5.—This week for the first the Socialists as a party have participated in the town elections of Massachusetts and the results show gains for the new movement in every town where the party nominations were made.

   Not only is the tremendous increase shown at the recent state election maintained, but in every instance the vote for local candidates exceeds that for the party's candidate for governor in November. In the towns contiguous to Brockton the most activity on the part of the Socialists was manifested although the biggest victory was gained in Amesbury where almost a complete sweep was made.

   In Stoughton there occurred the biggest surprise of the campaign. The Socialists had been organized as a club hardly more than three weeks and yet of the 17 offices which they contested they secured seven, tied for two and lost one by only nine votes.

 

Guest editorials.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Prohibition That Doesn't Prohibit.

   While Maine has a prohibitory liquor law, it does not seem to be enforced in some of the larger cities. Instead a peculiar method of collecting license fees is followed. Bangor has a plan by which, it is said, all dealers are fined once a year and are then allowed to go free from molestation for the rest of the year provided they conduct orderly places. There are said to be over 200 liquor saloons in that city. Recently complaints were made of about fifty dealers, nearly all of whom appeared voluntarily in court and paid fines, the minimum rate being $210, and $10,522 was collected in that way.

   The men who pay the money proceed with their saloon business, feeling that they are safe for another year if they keep orderly places. If public sentiment sustains such a practice, it is probably useless to try to enforce the prohibitory law.

   ◘ Speaker Henderson will now quit Iowa and become a corporation lawyer in New York. Superintendent Merriam of the United States census is to resign, it is reported from his home in Minnesota, and become attached to a financial institution in New York. He is disappointed in not having been made secretary of the new department of commerce. The drift New Yorkward of ex-statesmen is becoming as strong as the drift thereto of western millionaires and managers of trust monopolies.

 

Attorney Edwin Duffey.

THE FORTNIGHTLY CLUB

And Guests Enjoy a Stereopticon Talk by Edwin Duffey.

   One of the most enjoyable entertainments among the long series given at stated intervals by the Fortnightly club in the course of each year of its study was the stereopticon talk at the [Cortland] Central school building last night by Mr. Edwin Duffey upon "Monasteries and Abbeys of England and Scotland." The members of the Ladies' Literary club were the special guests of the Fortnightly and, in addition, each member of the hostess club was privileged to invite a single additional guest. As a result one of the class rooms of the school building was completely filled by the audience.

   In the absence of Miss Celia Hinmam, the president of the club, the speaker was gracefully introduced by Miss Elizabeth Turner. Mr. Duffey prefaced his remarks by saying that what was to follow could not be dignified by the term of a lecture, but that he should show about fifty views of prominent monasteries and abbeys which he had visited and in an informal way should describe them to some extent and mention some features of note concerning them.

   By way of introduction Mr. Duffey spoke for a few minutes upon monasticism and the growth of monastic institutions, calling attention to the occasion for them and how in the years gone by they were scattered at intervals throughout the whole of England and Scotland. Then came the change in the national religion and the decree for their destruction. About 700 of them were first stripped of all that was of value and then they were burned. Built as they were of stone, the walls remain. Nearly all are in consequence now in ruins, but every one regrets the destroying of them, and the united effort is now as strong to preserve all the ruins as it was 300 years ago to lay them waste.

   With this preface the room was darkened and the pictures began to be thrown upon the screen, the lantern being operated by Mr. J. R. Brown. Mr. Duffey had made an admirable selection of views, beginning with some of less prominence and minor interest and concluding with Westminster Abbey itself. During the past year the Fortnightly club has been making a special study of architecture, and the speaker called particular attention to the architectural effects shown in the different monasteries, their age and place in history being plainly marked by the style of the architecture employed. The distinguishing features of the early English gothic or perpendicular gothic, the decorated gothic in its various styles and the Norman architecture were pointed out. The pictures included both exteriors and interiors and detail work in architecture. Mr. Duffey was full of his subject. Historical incidents in connection with the pictures shown were noted, descriptive quotations from Byron, Wordsworth, Scott and others were frequent. The audience seemed to accompany the speaker in a trip to the places which he had visited and with which he was so well acquainted, and appeared in a marked degree to catch his enthusiasm. The views were remarkably fine, a number of them being colored and the lantern gave very clear effects. From every point of view the evening was a very enjoyable one.

 

THE MILK PRODUCERS.

The Five States Association Meets in Binghamton.

ALSO CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERIES.

Two Organizations to Work in Harmony—Resolutions Adopted—Price of Milk Increased—Pledge Best Efforts to Secure Unadulterated Milk and to Enforce Pure Food Law.

   The Binghamton Republican of this morning says:

   A joint meeting of the members of the Five States Milk Producers' association and the Independent Co-operative creameries of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey was held at the courthouse yesterday for the purpose of forming a closer relationship between the two organizations.

   At 11 a. m. a meeting of the Co-operative Creameries' association was held in the supervisors' room at the courthouse, with President Markham presiding. A report was read by B. A. Capon, secretary of the association, which showed that thirty creameries had joined the association.

   President Markham also appointed the following committee on resolutions: J. C. Latimer of Tioga Center, C. H. Clark of Slaterville, Howard Myers of Kingston, Charles Schermerhorn of Grand Lodge, Maryland; O. P. Gallup of Little York.

   At the meeting in the afternoon of the Co-operative Creameries' association, the committee on resolutions which was appointed in the morning, presented the following resolutions, which were adopted:

   We congratulate the milk producers on the success already gained by organized effort:

   1—In increased price of milk.

   2—In gaining recognition as an element in the milk problem sufficiently to be consulted.

   3—In organizing co-operative creameries controlled by milk producers capable of making butter and cheese sufficient to use up all the surplus milk.

   We declare that the purpose of this organization is to bring in close touch all co-operative creameries in order that by united effort we may hasten the accomplishment of the work undertaken by the Five States Milk Producers' association to secure uniform and remunerative prices of milk.

   We ask the good will- and co-operation of all producers of milk, whether they belong to the Co-operative Creameries' association or not.

  We pledge to the public our best, efforts to secure unadulterated milk and we ask the aid of consumers, dealers, and the public generally to aid us in enforcing the pure food law.

   A resolution was also adopted protesting against the sale of skimmed milk at improper prices, and authorizing the advisory committee to take action toward securing proper legislation against the practice.

 

PICKED UP BY HAND CAR

Just as He Stepped from a Lehigh Valley Passenger Train.

   Mr. Henry Howes of Cuyler was unceremoniously loaded upon a hand-car at the Lehigh Valley station in this city yesterday as he stepped off the train from Cuyler. He was somewhat bruised by the sudden pick-up that was given him by "Finnigan's special" and his back and neck were badly wrenched. It was several hours before he could navigate, but this morning he is apparently none the worse for his encounter.

   When Mr. Howes got off the train at the rear end of the last car, steam was escaping from a pipe under the platform and be did not see a hand-car that was being pushed along on the tracks between the train and the station. He stepped over upon the tracks just in time to be picked up by the car, which struck his legs and tipped him over on its flat-top.

 

Sig. Sautelle.

SIG. SAUTELLE'S ANIMALS.

New Installment Purchased for Next Season at a Cost of $15,000.

   Dr. Dick H. Fitzgerald, the general representative of the Carl C. Hagenback Wild Animal Co. of Hamburg, Germany, is spending a few days at the [former Kremlin] Commercial hotel in this city. His particular errand at this time is to sell to Sig. Sautelle, the owner of that hotel, $15,000 worth of trained and untrained wild animals for his circus. The Hagenback company furnishes all the large circuses and "zoos" with animals, and Dr. Fitzgerald is himself a trainer of repute. Sig. Sautelle's latest purchase includes a mixed group of performing seals and sea lions, trained and untrained elephants. Dr. Fitzgerald ventnres the assertion that in five years Sig. Sautelle will have one of the largest shows in the country.

   In conversation with Dr. Fitzgerald a citizen of Cortland was heard to offer the criticism that he understood that the animals of Sautelle's circus were kept in a cold building, and this expert trainer was quick to catch this up with the declaration that he had that very day taken Sig. to task for keeping the animals too warm and feeding them too much beef. All of these animals are used to out of doors weather. They require shelter and they are abundantly sheltered, but they do not want much artificial heat, nor do they want too hearty a diet of beef while in winter quarters and not getting the exercise of traveling about.

   Dr. Fitzgerald came to Cortland from the winter quarters of the great circus of Ringling Brothers and he declared that Sig. Sautelle's animals are fully as well cared for in every respect as those of the larger circus and in some respects are much better off. He is confident of making another sale of animals to Sig. next year and expects to every year as the circus grows in size.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The police board held its regular meeting at the office of the city clerk. The bills for the month were audited.

   —Cortland encampment, No. 127, I. O. O. F., will confer the Golden Rule degree this evening at the regular meeting in the John L. Lewis lodge rooms.

   —The annual meeting of the Foreign Missionary society of the First Baptist church will be held in church parlor Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Officers are to be elected for the coming year. A large attendance is desired.

   —The new display advertisements today are—G. H. Wiltsie, Special values for Friday and Saturday, page 6; Perkins & Quick, Medicines, page 6; R. H. Beard, Funeral director, page 8; J. W. Cudworth, Optical Talks, page 5; F. E. Brogden, Fresh Candies, page 5.