Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, February 21, 1903.
TWO ARMIES ROUTED.
Success of Castro Against the Matos Revolutionists.
ANOTHER BAND NEAR CARACAS.
Third Army Has Lost 800 Men From Desertions—Government Troops Sent Against Them—President Castro's Strength Increased Since Blockade Was Raised.
Caracas, Feb. 21.—A revolutionary army, estimated at 2,800 men, has reached a point about 20 miles south of Caracas. The revolutionists and the government troops sent out against them, occupy strong positions.
During the course of the blockade of the Venezuelan coast by the allied warships, the Matos revolution was reorganized, and three armies formed.
One, under the command of Antonio Fernandez, numbering 1,800 men, was routed near Calaboze in the state of Miranda, 120 miles southwest of Caracas, several days ago.
The second army, 1,200 strong, was defeated last Wednesday near Urachiche, state of Lara, 140 miles west of Caracas.
The third army, which was expecting to meet the first two armies, arrived Thursday at a point about 10 miles from Potare, which is situated 10 miles southeast of Caracas, after having lost 800 men from desertion en route.
The force of the third army is estimated at 2,800 men. It is not believed to be strong enough to attack and if a few days are allowed to elapse without the rebels taking the offensive against President Castro, who since the conclusion of the blockade has been receiving reinforcements, it is regarded as certain that they will be defeated.
Captured Ships Not Yet Returned.
Caracas, Feb. 21.—The morning papers here published a protest directed to Venezuela, the United States and the European nations as follows: "In order that the public may know how Germany, Great Britain and Italy execute their engagements, we call attention to the grave fact that up to today, Feb. 20, the ships taken by the three powers have not been delivered to the government of Venezuela as stipulated in the protocols."
To Be Restored Monday.
Caracas, Feb. 21.—The German commodore has notified the authorities at Puerto Cabello that the Venezuelan gunboat Restaurador, which was captured by the Germans, will be returned to Venezuela on Monday, Feb. 23.
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| William "Buffalo Bill" Cody. |
Buffalo Bill in London.
London, Feb. 21.—There was a great scene of enthusiasm at Buffalo Bill's show when over 3,000 boys from the London schools attended the performance, carrying little American and British flags. They vociferously sang the "Star Spangled Banner" when Colonel Cody appeared in the arena. The colonel made a patriotic speech and predicted that the two flags would continue to wave in unison and that the peace of the world would thereby be maintained.
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| Captain William Saxton. |
WAR REMINISCENCES.
By Captain Saxton of the 157th Regiment, N. Y., Vols.
THE ORGANIZING OF THE ARMY.
First Enlistments from Cortland County—Seventy-Sixth Regiment Raised—Cincinnatus Academy Raises a Flag—The Writer Trying to Get Through School—McClellan Slow to Move—Wooden Guns of the Rebels—Peninsula Campaign Begun.
CHAPTER 6.
To the Editor of The Standard:
Sir—On the 25th of July General McClellan was summoned from West Virginia, where he had conducted a successful campaign, to Washington to take command of the army of the Potomac. He came by the way of Philadelphia where he received a most enthusiastic reception. When he arrived in Washington instead of crossing the river and taking command in the field, he secured a house and established his headquarters in the city, and soon surrounded himself with a staff and numerous bodyguard.
The three months' men were sent home and their places taken by troops which had enlisted for the war. Most of the three months' men returned into the service in other organizations.
General Scott, who never lost a battle where he commanded in person, on account of his age and disability resigned his command of all the Union forces Oct. 31, and the next day General McClellan was appointed in his place.
The defeat of the army of Bull Run had stimulated enlistment and that fall and winter volunteers just rushed into the army.
Cortland County Enlistments.
Quite a good many of our past and present students enlisted. I can't recall all of them, but as I remember, John Ford, my former chum, afterwards killed at Aldie, Va., Harlan Thompson, Henry Hays, Albert Hays, Reuben Ford, Albert Clark, Johnny Cowles, Clark Rockwell, Charles Huntley, Emmett Butler and others went in the Tenth New York cavalry. Frank Place, then attending Hamilton college at Clinton, a former student of the academy, also went with them. He came home in July '62, raised our company and went out as its first captain, was afterwards promoted successively to major, lieutenant colonel and brevetted colonel of the regiment. The Tenth cavalry was not mounted for nearly a year and in the winter of 1861-2 it was stationed at Gettysburg, Pa.
The Pennsylvania college is located there and Place became acquainted with the president and professors and quite a number of citizens, and when we marched down through the streets on that eventful day, the 1st of July, 1863, into the battle of Gettysburg, Captain Place would stop and shake hands with the citizens he knew.
The Seventy-Sixth Raised.
The Seventy-sixth New York Infantry was raised in Cortland and Otego counties, and rendezvoused at Cortland, our county seat. A number of our boys and citizens went in that regiment. Dr. Barnes went as assistant surgeon. Then there was Eli Peck, Theron Blackman, Adin Seeber, Moses Whitney, Mr. Cahill and a number of others. Dr. Stuart went as assistant surgeon in the Twenty-seventh New York along with Miletus Hotchkiss, Charley Winters, Jo Dunning and others. Charles Sturtevant went in the Twenty-third New York. Hial Ford went in a Pennsylvania regiment. Mr. Hatch went in another regiment. I can't remember all who went at this time, but there were a good many.
Flag for Cincinnatus Academy.
Our school was very patriotic and we decided we must have a flag for the academy building. So the girls and boys met together and made a large one. We could not buy flags in those days as we can now. We boys procured a flag staff and erected it on the cupola of the academy, and one day we got a half holiday, raised our flag and saluted it by firing off an anvil, had speeches and singing, and a patriotic time generally. This stirred up the copperheadism of some of the citizens, and threats were made to tear the flag down. Edgar Harkness and myself stayed inside the building that night and watched the flag, but no attempt was made and it floated there till it was worn out.
Trying to Get Through School.
That winter I did not teach school. I was very anxious to finish my course and graduate, this being my last year.
My father had suffered financially through the dishonesty of one whom he had trusted, and he came to me one day and told me he did not have the money to pay my expenses. You may imagine I felt very badly. I did so want to go on through. In looking back over it now it seems as though providence stepped in to help me, for I soon received a letter from my former chum, John Ford of the Tenth cavalry, inquiring if I knew where he could loan a little money that he had accumulated by teaching school and earned in the army. I told my father if he would borrow this money, give his note for it, I would pay it back from the first money I earned. He did so, and I went on and finished my course, graduated July 2, 1862, and paid off the note with the first money I received from Uncle Sam.
Organizing the Army.
There was not much done that fall and winter in the army of the Potomac but organize. "Little Mack'' was a great organizer, but for sheer want of room our troops were pushed forward to Fairfax courthouse. He had in and around Washington, Baltimore, Fortress Monroe and nearby, nearly 200,000 men. President Lincoln was very anxious for McClellan to make an advance movement, and attack the enemy around Manassas, but McClellan had developed a wonderful capacity of overestimating the force of the enemy opposed to him. In one of his reports he said there were in his immediate front, 115,000 men and 300 cannon, and he wanted more troops, but it is a fact there were not over 50,000 or 60,000 men. The president urged him to advance for the moral effect on the army, but be held back, he wasn't ready. He wanted this and he wanted that. Everything that the government could furnish him was supplied; but he didn't move. Finally, as commander in chief of the army and navy of the United States, President Lincoln ordered all the armies east and west to begin an advance movement on the 22d of February, Washington's birthday. McClellan didn't move. The president urged him to divide his large army into army corps, and place over them generals of his own choosing. McClellan objected to this, but the president insisted and himself divided the army of the Potomac into four corps. On the 11th of March, the president relieved McClellan from the command of all the armies except the army of the Potomac.
Activity of the Rebsls.
General Beauregard had left the Confederate army around Manassas, and gone west to look after affairs there, and General Joseph E. Johnston had succeeded him. Johnston immediately began quietly to move his army back behind the Rapidan river. McClellan did not learn of this till the day after his last regiment had gone. Then he did advance on Manassas March 10, and found the forts manned with wooden guns, and the army gone. McClellan thought it was not the proper thing to do to strike the rebel army in front, but to advance on Richmond by way of the James river, The president preferred that he make a direct attack on the rebel army, but finally consented to McClelland's plan, providing enough troops should be left behind to protect Washington.
The battle, between the Merrimac and the Monitor in Hampton Roads, March 9, disarranged McClellan's plans somewhat, and he decided to land his forces at Fortress Monroe, and march up the peninsula between the York and James rivers. He himself left on April 1, and on the 5th of April the assistant secretary of war reported that be bad transferred by boat to Fortress Monroe, 121,500 men, 14,592 animals, 1,150 wagons, forty-four batteries, seventy-four ambulances, telegraph material and an immense amount of equipage. Then McClellan marched up the peninsula to Yorktown, where Lord Cornwallis surrendered his British army to General Washington, eighty years before.
W. S.
BURGLARS AT WORK.
Riddled Safe of Chaplin & Peckham—Tried for the Horses.
When the office at the coal yard of Chaplin & Peckham on Squires-st. was opened this morning the room was found to be in a state of disorder which was absolutely astounding. The doors of the safe stood open and the floor was covered with books and papers. Desk drawers were pulled out and their contents dumped upon the floor. It was apparent that some one had made a lengthy call at the office since the doors had been closed at 6 o'clock last night.
The burglars had secured an entrance by breaking the window over the scales. The safe is never locked and so was easily opened. The proprietors know that the office is somewhat retired and that the safe could probably be blown up without arousing any one and so to protect the safe itself they never lock it, and to protect themselves they never leave any money or other valuables in it.
So all the burglars had to do was to open the doors and help themselves. But they evidently thought that money must be concealed about it somewhere, for they ripped out all the partitions and drawers. They seemed to have had plenty of time to pursue their investigations undisturbed, for it would appear that all the papers were carefully examined and then thrown upon the floor. The same course was followed in connection with the drawers of the desk.
In one of the drawers of the safe, however, was an open face silver watch of about $10 value that had been left with the proprietors to secure the payment of some coal. This has disappeared; also a pipe that lay on the desk and a gray mackintosh coat plaid lined that hung on a hook.
It is believed that the burglars intended to steal the three horses, for they were found loose this morning in the yard instead of being comfortably housed in their stables. The harnesses too had been taken down from their hooks and lay beside the sleighs. It is thought that the burglars were probably preparing to decamp when the fire broke out in that vicinity and that they were frightened away and did not dare to take the horses.
One of the proprietors said this morning that if burglars expected to secure money they might better tackle a peanut stand at any time than to try their safe.
Death of Daniel Hayes.
The funeral of Daniel Hayes, who died Friday afternoon at the home of his brother, Mr. Cornelius Hayes, 12 Fifth-ave., Cortland, will be held Monday morning at 9 o'clock at the house and at 9:30 at St. Mary's church.
Besides the brother with whom he lived he leaves two brothers and three sisters: Frank Hayes and Timothy Hayes of Cortland, Miss Mary Hayes of Brooklyn, Mrs. John Burns and Miss Margaret Hayes of Cortland.
DIED IN ITHACA.
Melville M. Crane, Proprietor of Clinton House—Buried at Homer.
Melville M. Crane, proprietor of the Clinton House at Ithaca, died in that city this morning after a long illness from Bright's disease. His age was 65 years. He was a brother of George I. Crane, proprietor of the Farmers' hotel in Cortland, and is well known throughout Cortland county. The funeral will be held Monday at 2 p. m. at his home and the burial will be in Homer, N. Y.
FIRE IN WAGON SHOP.
Allen & Chubb's Shop on Duane-st., Burned After Midnight.
At 1:15 this morning fire was discovered bursting out of the paint room upon the second floor of the wagon shop in the rear of the dwelling of E. A. Chubb at 16 Duane-st. An alarm was rung in from box 125 at the corner of Tompkins and Duane-sts., but though the firemen responded quickly at their respective hose houses, it was a long run down to the fire and the snow was deep, and it was some time before they arrived at the fire. By this time the whole building was enveloped in flames and before long collapsed entirely.
The building was a two-story frame structure 30 by 40 feet in size and was originally used by Allen & Chubb for storage purposes while they were conducting their wagon repair shop in the Wickwire building on the north side of Railroad-st. When preparations began to be made for taking this down after his purchase by Mr. Goddard, the whole shop was moved down here. There was a forge in the west end of the building, but there had been no fire in it for several days. The second floor was used as a paint shop and the first floor for storage. Two coal fires were going in the building, one on each floor, but both were in excellent stoves and both well protected. The origin of the fire is consequently a mystery.
It is not possible to learn exactly what the building contained last night as Mr. E. A. Chubb has been out of town for a few days and has not yet returned. His brother who worked for him said that not much work had been going on there for a few days and they had been trying to clear out all of the work upon wagons belonging to others as fast as it was completed to make ready for the time when the snow should so off [sic] and the shop would fill up with work to be done during the spring. Nearly all the wagons remaining in the shop belonged to the proprietors. The automobile which is owned by F. C. Parsons and S. W. Sherwood and which had been there to be painted had been taken away but a few days before.
Frank Cołe's Close Call.
The building stood in very close proximity to the dwelling house of Frank Cole at 23 Park-st., just around the corner. Mr. Cole was roused by the violent ringing of his doorbell, and when he jumped out of bed his room was so light he thought his own house was on fire. A glance out of the window showed what the fire was.
Hastily dressing he ran out of doors to find that the side of his own house was already blistering and that the shingles upon the roof of a little wing were even then on fire. He hastened to his cellar and turned on the city water for the sill cock which had been shut off for the winter and quickly attached his garden hose of which he has a long piece. With this water he extinguished the fire in his own roof and kept the sides of his house wet down so that it was no longer in danger of taking fire.
Loss and Insurance.
It is not possible to get an exact estimate of the loss on account of the absence of Mr. E. A. Chubb who owned the building personally. His brother thinks there is an insurance upon the building of $500. Allen & Chubb had an insurance of $1,500 on the contents, including wagons, paints, tools, etc., which will go pretty well toward covering the loss.
WHAT A TERRIBLE FELLOW.
Three Charges of Murder Against the Frozen Footed Italian.
Angelo Rose, the Italian who was arrested in this city last Thursday by [Cortland Police] Chief Barnes, charged with firing two shots at a Solvay trolley car in Syracuse, was taken to Syracuse last evening by the chief. The Italian was taken before a justice of the peace at Solvay last night and committed to the Onondaga county jail to await the action of the grand jury. Rose's frozen feet had healed sufficiently for him to be removed from the hospital.
It is claimed in Syracuse by police officers that Rose is wanted in a Pennsylvania town to answer to the charge of murder, and that in a Connecticut town he knifed a fellow countryman. It is also claimed that he murdered a man in Italy.
BREVITIES.
—Beatrice Mayham entertained seven of her little schoolmates this afternoon at her home, 25 Maple-ave., the occasion being her 7th birthday.
—Washington's birthday occurs tomorrow and the legal holiday will be observed on Monday. Banks will be closed and the usual holiday hours will be kept at the postoffice.
—Asbestos towels are among the curiosities of the day. When dirty it is only necessary to throw them into a red hot fire, and after a few minutes draw them out fresh and clean.
—The stock market is closed today in New York and will be on Monday, consequently there is no report of quotations. They seem to celebrate Washington's birthday at both ends in New York.
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