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| William J. Greenman. |
Cortland Semi-Weekly Standard, Tuesday, April 28, 1903.
A FORTUNATE ACCIDENT.
W. J. Greenman’s Locomobile Wrecked, But No One Hurt.
W. J. Greenman’s locomobile, manufactured by the Locomobile Co. of America, has been one of the finest machines of that description in the city. Wednesday night, accompanied by his son, he was giving two friends, S. Smith and A. L. Rosa, a ride.
It was 9:30 when they were near the Bean place on the McGraw road and running about eight miles an hour. The machine struck a little obstruction in the road and the forward axle snapped and the forward end dropped in the road. Mr. Greenman was thrown fully 20 feet over the dash and landed on his hands and knees in the road. The others went a lesser distance, but no one received any injuries to speak of.
The fall of the machine broke off the pipe leading from the gasoline tank which contained thirteen gallons of the explosive fluid. This instantly took fire, but owing to the tremendous air pressure on the tank the gasoline was blown out through the aperture before the fire could even find its way back into the tank. As a result there was no explosion, but everything about the machine was at once on fire. So quickly did the fire begin that it even ignited Mr. Greenman’s ulster as he was thrown from the machine and when he regained his feet the whole back side of it was on fire. He lost no time in stripping off the coat.
As soon as the fire had burned itself out Mr. Bean was engaged to bring the wreck up to Cortland on a lumber wagon and the four men came on a street car. The wreck of the machine looks complete, but it will fall far short of that, for except the body which was of wood and was completely destroyed the rest of the machine is practically uninjured, though it will need to be newly enameled and re-nickled. The rear tire will also need to be replaced.
An examination of the broken axle discloses an old flaw which extended a third of the way through the steel. How long this had been there is of course unknown.
Mr. Greenman is exceedingly gratified that no one was hurt in the accident. He has already begun arrangements for having the machine rebuilt and re-equipped and it will not be long before it will again be on the streets.
A NEW WINTON AUTOMOBILE.
Purchased by W. J .Greenman and Brought from Syracuse.
A trifling incident such as the accident to his automobile which occurred on Wednesday night and was described in these columns on Thursday is powerless to phease [faze] a veteran chauffeur like W. J. Greenman even for a minute. After viewing the condition of his machine he was satisfied that it could again be put in a first class condition and perhaps at not a great expense, but it would take time, and time at this season of the year is a consideration. For a single day he fell back upon so common a thing as a bicycle, but the very idea of pushing pedals and moving at bicycle speed when one has been able to fairly glide through the air by a simple turn of a wrist, it was not to be thought of, even for the interval till the other machine could be rebuilt.
So Friday Mr. Greenman went to Syracuse and purchased a new Winton touring car, than which it is said that not a better machine is constructed. Lester and George F. Cooper and Harold Gillette, all automobile experts, were with Mr. Greenman in Syracuse Friday, and all came home together in the machine that night, leaving the city after 9 o’clock. No attempt at speed was made as the owner wished first to become well acquainted with the new machine, and also because it was dark and the roads rather rough, but Mr. Greenman does not believe he will have to take dust from any machine in this vicinity. The engines are particularly powerful. It is said the machine will be able to go with ease anywhere a man can walk or climb. With the four passengers, none of whom are feather weights, the automobile came up Christian Hollow hill that night at a twenty mile an hour clip. To those who know the hill that means a good deal. It has been out on the streets since and it is a beauty and has aroused the admiration of all who have seen it.
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| Hatch Library Building, Court Street, Cortland, N. Y. |
DR. W. M. BEAUCHAMP
Speaks at the Opening of the D. A. R. Historical Case.
The new historical case of the Tioughnioga chapter of the D. A. R. in the Cortland Science club’s museum was formally opened Wednesday night at the Hatch library. The two organizations held a reception at which as many guests were present as could be conveniently accommodated in the library building. The rooms were tastefully and appropriately trimmed with flags.
At 8:30 o’clock the president of the Science club, A. J. Murray, in graceful words introduced Rev. W. M. Beauchamp of Syracuse who is an authority upon the Indians of the United States and who spoke for an hour in a most interesting way upon the early Indians who had inhabited this county and who used to pass through it. Dr. Beauchamp said that this matter had never been published. He might have added that this was probably on account of the unspeakable and unspellable names of the different tribes which, however, slipped from his tongue without the slightest difficulty. Most of the lecture was devoted to the period of 300 years ago or more. But it appears that the first white man who ever set foot within the limits of Cortland county was probably Stephen [Etiene] Brule in about 1620 as he was leading a war party of 500 Indians to aid Champlain in an assault upon an Indian fort in Madison county. It was an interesting fact to know that for 150 years the capital of all the Indian tribes of the United States was in Onondaga Valley and all official action was taken there [sic].
After the lecture as well as before it much interest was manifested in examining the cases of the museum upon the second floor, and a conspicuous one among these was of course the D. A. R. case which had been arranged by Mrs. G. H. Smith. A list of articles in this case is at hand but its publication will have to be deferred till tomorrow.
The reception was a very pleasant one, the members of the D. A. R. serving light refreshments after the lecture. The general chairman of the evening was Mrs. S. W. Sherwood; committee on decorations, Rev. Robert Clements; committee on program, H. L. Smith, committee on D. A. R. case, Mrs. G. H. Smith.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Immigration From Japan.
The Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance of the United States just issued from Washington shows that the rate of increase in Japanese immigration to this country has been greater than that of any other nationality and that their total number now surpasses the immigration from England and almost approaches that from Ireland. The figures are for the eight months of the statistical year ending in February.
In those months Japan sent us 13,853 people as against 7,151 in the corresponding months of the preceding year, a gain of almost 100 per cent. In the whole of the fiscal year 1901-02 the Japanese immigration was only 14,270, while the year before the Japanese immigrants numbered only 5,269.
While the 13,853 immigrants were coming from Japan 11,916 came from England, 15,221 from Ireland, 19,603 from Germany and 21,116 from Sweden. The immigration from Italy, Austro-Hungary and Russia was 267,745 in this period, and the entire immigration into the United States was 402,759.
These figures are significant and show the changing character of immigration into the United States, which is most marked by the great preponderance hitherto attained by the Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Russian nationalities.
◘ Dreyfus demands of the French minister of war an inquiry in regard to the document in which, it is alleged, the Emperor William in a marginal note declared that the Jewish captain had supplied documents to Germany. In a letter he earnestly asks for a reopening of his case by the minister, as the supreme head of military justice. Certain officers high in the French army will doubtless fight against a reopening of the case, but eventually the truth must be established and a much wronged man be fully vindicated.
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