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| Adirondack spring log drive. |
Cortland Semi-Weekly Standard, Friday, April 3, 1903.
A TERRIBLE DEATH.
Neal Van Siclen of Solon, N. Y., Crushed by a Saw Log
WHICH ROLLED OVER HIS BODY.
Getting Out Logs on the Side Hill—No One With Him But Two Small Boys—Log Slipped While Loading it Upon a Bobsled and Killed Him.
Neal Van Siclen, who had just moved to the William Chappell farm near Solon, N. Y., met with a horrible death at about 5 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. While loading logs on a steep side hill in the woods one of the logs slipped when nearly loaded and rolled over the man, almost instantly crushing out his life.
Mr. Van Siclen was hauling logs down the steep hill and out of the woods on bobsleds. Two lads, D. L. Finn and Ira Stevens, each about 10 years of age, were with him. Van Siclen had loaded one large log upon the sled and had another nearly loaded, when it slipped and fell, catching the man and rolling over his body. He was terribly crushed from head to foot.
As soon as the accident happened the two boys ran at top speed to the farm house and informed Mr. Chappell of it. They then spread the news in the village, and ere long a large number of people had gone to the scene of the awful accident.
Van Siclen had moved to Solon to work the Chappell farm. He had a wife, but no children.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Factories or Domestic Service.
In an appeal for assistance for the Young Woman’s Christian association of Rochester the following statement appears: “Many young women of this city are supporting themselves on salaries of $3 to $6 a week. It does not require much figuring to calculate how well one person can live and dress on $3.” Commenting upon this the Democrat and Chronicle says: Girls at domestic service can get from $3 upward in wages and their board, lodging and many privileges in addition to their regular pay. There is a large demand for such service.
“Hundreds of good homes with a comfortable living are open in this way to any girls who have grown tired of the monotony, the poor pay and the sometimes dangerous associations of factory life and are willing to engage in domestic service. There are thousands of girls in Rochester today who are scraping along on $3 and $4 a week, out of which they have to pay board, rent or lodgings, dress themselves, pay doctors’ and dentists’ bills and meet all other expenses of living. They have no prospect of promotion before them, and many have little prospect of marriage. Who will deny that it would be better for many of these girls to attach themselves to good families and thus secure comforts and some of the guarantees of home?”
Somewhat the same thing could be said in Cortland and in hosts of other places. In the stores and factories the time is occupied from morning till night, while in domestic service most of the girls have the greater part of their afternoons at least to themselves. But there seems to be a prejudice against housework, though many of the girls in the stores and factories have very little left after paying their board, while in domestic service they have the whole of their wages. And the question is, why?
A CORTLAND VISIT.
And All Present or Former Residents are Invited.
The question has been raised whether present residents of Cortland county are invited to attend the annual reunion and dinner of the Cortland county society of New York and vicinity, as well as the former residents who now live in or near New York. The secretary of the association, Dr. Charles O. Dewey, would like it to be understood that all present or former residents of the county are cordially invited. “It is,” he says, “a Cortland visit, and guests from Cortland will only increase our opportunities for sociability.” The secretary would like to know a little in advance who expect to be present, so that arrangements can be made for the comfort of all.
The reunion will be held this year in the same place as last year, the rooms of the Aldine association, corner of Fifth-ave. and 18th-st.
Since the publication in these columns of the former notice of the dinner, a number of new addresses have been sent to the secretary of people who have moved to New York within the past year and who expect to be present at the reunion. If others desire to reach him, his address is Dr. Charles O. Dewey, 747 Macon-st., Brooklyn. The reunion this year promises to be the best attended of any in the series.
Tickets to the reunion and supper are $2.50.
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| Miss Mary F. Hendrick, English Dept., Cortland Normal School. |
A RAINY DAY AT JERUSALEM.
Extracts from a Letter Written by Miss M. F. Hendrick.
We are permitted to publish extracts from a personal letter written to a friend in Cortland by Miss M. F. Hendrick, who is taking the Mediterranean tour with the Clark party. Miss Hendrick says:
Olivet House, Jerusalem,
March 8, 1903.
You can’t imagine anything more forlorn than a rainy day in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, the golden, has lost much of its romance, if not all of it. We had a most favorable landing at Jaffa, getting ashore there as easily as at any other point. I only hope it will be so when we return. We had hoped to get some mail here, but were doomed to disappointment. Two papers of the 17th and 18th were all. Some are getting a little anxious, but I try to feel that no news is good news.
The car ride from Jaffa is very interesting. Most immense groves filled with golden fruit lie just out of Jaffa. We bought fruit for almost nothing there. The road first comes through a very fertile country, gradually ascends the steep rocky mountains when after a ride of five hours for 52 miles we reach here. We are stopping at a small house outside the walls. Twenty-five are here. The rooms are very spacious, single beds, stone floors, but plenty of rugs. It is cold and damp except in the parlor, where we are all sitting where there is a fire. It has rained all day, but just now the clouds are breaking away and the sun is trying to shine. I rested this morning, not getting up until time for luncheon.
On Friday morning we went to the Mosque of Omar, supposed to be built on the site of Solomon's temple. We have an excellent guide, an Englishman, the hotel proprietor. He knows everything and takes us everywhere. We were obliged to walk, as the streets are many of them too narrow for carriages. They are really only alleys. All of the filth or refuse of the houses is thrown into the streets, through which we must pass. Occasionally we back up against the wall to let the donkeys and camels pass. It seemed to me that we walked miles.
In the afternoon we drove to Bethlehem. All of the sacred places are covered by churches. The manger where Christ was born is a long ways down among the rocks, a Greek church over it. We went about the town a little and never saw before such squalor and filth. Hands are out for “backsheese” everywhere. We are advised not to give, as it only tells them where your purse is, and they are watching for a chance to steal it.
On Saturday we saw the Jews wailing against the wall. It rained the night before, so the streets were terrible. I had lost one rubber, so you can imagine the condition of boots and skirts. I sent them to be cleaned, so am staying in today. We saw also the church of the Holy Sepulchre. In the afternoon we drove to Mount Olivet, saw the Stone of the Ascension, the Garden of Gethsemane. We are told so many untrue things that we lose some of the reverence that was once associated with these places. Our hotel looks out on Olivet. Mrs. Briggs looks blue today, as she has heard nothing from home. She doesn’t quite like all the dirt. I am tired, so will write no more.
We expect to return to the [SS] Kaiserin on Tuesday and be in Alexandria that night. We shall then be turning our steps homeward.
In another letter written at about the same time Miss Hendrick writes that the season had been unusually rainy in Palestine and, in consequence, all the mountain roads were so slippery as to make traveling very dangerous, since it must all be done on horseback. As a result twenty-six of the party of thirty-six who had planned to put in ten days in a trip through Samaria gave it up and decided to go with the others to Egypt and make the longer stay there. She does not say whether Mr. Wallace and Mr. Howell of the Cortland party who had planned to go through Samaria continued in their purpose or changed the plan for the Egyptian trip.
BREVITIES.
— Prof. P. R. Parker has moved his residence from Tompkins-st. to 82 Port Watson-st.
— Until further notice McEvoy Bros. furniture store will he open evenings beginning tonight.
— George B. French, the popular driver of the U. S. Express Co., is moving into his newly purchased residence at 14 Cleveland-st.
— The office of Dr. Halsey J. Ball at 18 Tompkins-st. has been connected with the Home Telephone company’s exchange. Dr. Ball’s number is 654.
— The date for the presentation of “Rip Van Winkle” in Cortland by Thomas Jefferson and a strong company will be Friday evening, April 17.
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