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| Ruins after fire at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, May 21, 1903.
HUNDREDS HOMELESS.
Disastrous Fire at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec.
SEVEN FACTORIES DESTROYED.
Three Hotels and 250 Houses Burned. Two Steamers and Hose Brought From Montreal—Practically Everything Burned to the River's Banks. Students Did Good Work.
St. Hyacinthe, Que., May 21.—A fire which broke out shortly after noon in the shoe factory of Cote Brothers destroyed that and half a dozen other flourishing industries, and 250 houses, leaving nearly a quarter of the city's population sitting homeless last night amidst heaps of furniture. The loss is placed at $400,000.
Nobody knows how the fire started. When it was first noticed it had secured a firm grip upon the Cote factory. The wind was blowing half ą gale at the time and the buildings in the immediate vicinity were of such a character as to fall easy prey to the flames.
The local fire department did its best, but the water pressure was poor, and it was not long before the fire had gotten entirely beyond its control. Then word was wired to Montreal for help, and two steamers and a supply of hose made the run of 36 miles in 44 minutes, the Montreal men being actually at work an hour and a half after they received instructions to leave their stations.
Their coming was opportune, for by this time the fire had worked its way up to St. Antoine street and was attacking the finest business blocks of the town situated on the Market square. Through the efforts of the Montreal men the Market building and the buildings on the other side of the square were saved.
By this time, 3 o'clock, the water supply was practically exhausted, and the flames were burning in a score of places. People were practically dragging the furniture from their homes and chaos reigned supreme, except when here and there a semblance of organized effort had been made by the priests to check the progress of the flames.
A large body of students from the St. Hyacinthe college did particularly good work under the guidance of their teachers. In the end, however, the flames burned everything which lay in their path.
The burned district is practically the same as that destroyed in 1876. The River Yamaska flows through the town in the shape of a letter "V." St. Antoine street runs along the top of this ''V" and practically everything south of that street was burned.
Beside Cote Brothers' Shoe factory, the industrial establishments burned include: Hudon & Allard, machinists, the Duplessis Pegging and Sewing company, C. A. Hamel & Co., Lussier Brothers, J. Girouard, J. Mathiew & Co.; The Frontenance, Union and Ottawa hotels were also burned.
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| President Theodore Roosevelt. |
PRESIDENT IN OREGON.
Did Little Speaking in Mountain Districts.
SPOKE AT DUNSMUIR AND SISSON.
Said He Left California a Better American—Necessity of High Standard of Virtue in Average Citizen—First Stop in Oregon at Ashland—At Portland Tonight.
Ashland, Ore., May 21.—President Roosevelt completed his tour of California and entered upon the last stages of his long trip which is to end at Washington, June 5.
His journey has been through the mountainous region about Mt. Shasta, where the towns are few and far between and consequently he has been called upon to do but little speaking.
The president made his longest speech of the day at Dunsmuir.
"I think I can say," he said, "that I came to California a pretty good American and I go away a better one. I pity no man because he has to work. If he is worth his salt, he will work. I envy the man who has a work worth doing and who does it well. It is the fact of doing the work well that counts, not the kind of work as long as that work is honorable.
"To the true American nothing can be more alien than the spirit either of envy or of contempt for another who is leading a life as a decent citizen should lead it. In this country ,we have room for every honest man who spends his life in honest efforts; we have no room either for the man of means who in a spirit of arrogant baseness looks down upon the man less well off, or for the man who envies his neighbor because that neighbor happens to be better off.
"It is a perfectly trite saying that in no country is it so necessary to have decency, honesty, self-restraint in the average citizen as in a republic, for successful self-government is founded upon the high average citizenship among our people; and America has gone on as she has gone because we have that high average of citizenship. We need to keep up that for the lack of which nothing else can atone in any people, the average standard of citizenship. In our life what we need is hot so much genius as the ordinary, commonplace, every-day qualities which a man needs in private life, and which he needs just as much in public life."
The president also spoke at Sisson [Mt. Shasta, Ca.] and at Montague.
He was greeted by 6,000 people as his train pulled into Ashland, where he made his first stop within the confines of Oregon. He made a 15-minute speech for the first time. He spent the night traveling and arrived at Salem this morning. Three hours were spent in the capital and the president delivered an address from the state house steps.
Governor Chamberlain will accompany the presidential party to Portland where they will spend tonight.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
The Manchurian Muddle.
The proceedings of Russia in Manchuria continue to provide the principal topic of international importance. It is not yet settled that the Russian demands which began the present excitement were ever officially presented. This, however, has ceased to be a matter of much importance in view of later developments. Russia may or may not have made demands upon China the granting of which would mean the virtual cession of Manchuria. Whatever the exact nature of her desires in this direction, she has shown that she is in a position to enforce them against the opposition of the rest of the world. Whether Newchwang [Yingkou] has been "reoccupied" or "re-evacuated," attention has been called very forcibly to the fact that Russia has more than 10,000 troops in the neighborhood and controlling the whole Liaotung peninsula and is in practical control of the situation.
The interests of the United States in Manchuria are purely commercial and yet political. The volume of foreign trade at the port where Russia is now asserting supremacy has doubled in five years, reaching a total of $40,000,000 last year. The value of Russian imports is less than 2 per cent of the total, while the value of America imports is more than 35 per cent. Seven-eighths of the trade of Newchwang is in the hands of England, the United States and Japan, which may be regarded as a sufficient explanation of their concern in the efforts now being made to give Russia exclusive control of the only point of ingress into the Manchurian market.
FOR THE JEWISH SUFFFERERS.
Ira Lowe Circulating a Subscription Paper to Aid Them.
Ira Lowe, cutter for T. P. Bristol the merchant tailor at 9 Railroad-st., Cortland, is circulating a petition in this city in aid of the Jewish sufferers from the Russian outrages at Kisheneff and it is being numerously signed. He will send this money to Syracuse, N. Y., to be added to the subscription that is being made there. Any who would like to add to it without being solicited can do so by calling on Mr. Lowe at Mr. Bristol's store.
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| Floral Trout Park sketch, courtesy Cortland County Historical Society. |
FLORAL TROUT PARK
Sold to J. Boone Who is Making Many Changes.
J. Boone of Syracuse has bought the old Floral Trout park which was opened and fitted up about thirty years ago by H. C. Blodgett, and which for many years was the popular picnic resort of the vicinity. In those days the ponds were full of trout and hardly a day passed in the summer season without there being a more or less numerous crowd in attendance. In recent years the park has been closed up and since the death of the owner it has been for sale.
Mr. Boone is to make quite a number of changes in the place. The ponds and water courses have been cleaned out and the water level raised. The trees have been trimmed, the old evergreen maze cut down, etc.
In addition to the sea lions which arrived from California on Tuesday Mr. Boone will have some sea turtles, alligators, swans, gold fish, etc. The dancing pavilion is to be enlarged to twice its natural size. There is to be a museum of curiosities, including miniature coal and gold mines in operation, cage of monkeys, tame animals, etc, Three tennis courts are being laid out, etc.
A bar room is being built in the southwest corner of the grounds. Mr. Boone intends to take out a beer license, but will sell no intoxicating drinks on Sunday. He has a large collection of stuffed birds in cases and many other attractions.
Move for Early Closing.
A petition is being circulated among the various store keepers by members of the Clerks' union asking them to close at 6:15 four nights in the week, or each evening except Monday and Saturday. Provision is made in the petition for keeping open every evening during Thanksgiving week and during the month of December. The great majority of the merchants are in favor of the movement, thinking that the clerks, many of whom have to be at work early in the morning, are entitled to their evenings while the merchants themselves will also have their evenings free and that without any injury to their trade.
Thomas Simms.
The Orlando, (Fla.,) Sentinel Reporter of May 15 says:
Mr. Thomas Simms, one of our oldest and most highly respected citizens, passed over the great divide at 2:30 o'clock p. m. Sunday, May 10, at tbe age of 72 years, 2 months, and 1 day. He was stricken down with paralysis on the 24th of February, and has been a great sufferer most of the time ever since—but he became unconscious the last few hours and passed away as quietly as an infant—going to sleep without struggle. His wife, and daughter, Mrs. Campbell, and grandchild, were at his bedside when he passed to that "home from whence no traveler returns."
Mr. Simms was born on mid-ocean on March 9, 1831, while his parents were crossing from Scotland to settle in America. His parents settled in Newburg, N. Y. Mr. Simms was a painter by trade, and was engaged in that business twenty-five years in Cortland, N. Y., where he accumulated considerable property. He enlisted in the Seventy-sixth N. Y. regiment during the civil war, and was promoted to lieutenant. His health became impaired from exposure, and he was honorably discharged from the service for disability. He returned to his home, but in the shattered condition of his health he could not stand the rigors of that climate, and in 1875 he came to Florida and settled at Altamonte on the shores of the beautiful Lake Orienta, where he has resided ever since. He was passionately fond of flowers and gained a wide reputation as a floriculturist. He was of a modest and retiring disposition, a kind and loving husband and father, and a congenial and obliging neighbor. He is survived by his devoted wife and daughter, Mrs. Campbell, both of whom have been in constant attendance at his bedside during his last sickness.
Gum Case Raided.
The gum case in front of C. F. Thompson's grocery store was torn from its place at the front of the store at an early hour yesterday morning and taken into the alley at the rear of the store and there broken open. What money there was in the case had been taken out the evening before, but about $5 worth of gum which was in the case was taken. [Cortland Police] Night Captain Baker heard a noise down in that direction, but thought nothing of it. It was no doubt the noise made by rending the box from its fastenings on the wall.
THE PONY AND DOG SHOW.
Last Exhibition Tonight at the Tent on Elm-st.
Darling's pony and dog show exhibited to well pleased audiences in the tent at the corner of Elm and Pomeroy-sts. yesterday afternoon and evening, and a third exhibition was given this afternoon, the last occurring tonight at 8 o'clock. The reputation of former appearances in Cortland was fully sustained. Ponies and dogs manifested almost human intelligence in the various tricks, while the clowns were as funny as ever. The admission is 25 cents.
Masterson-Cudworth.
Fred I. Masterson of 38 Pendleton-st. and Lola Cudworth, the very youthful couple who left town on May 12 unbeknown to their parents and whose whereabouts have since been the cause of much comment and conjecture, returned to Cortland on the milk train last evening looking happy and contented. When interviewed this morning at the home of Mr. Masterson, the happy couple stated that when they left Cortland they proceeded at once to the home of the young man's uncle, E. E. Clineburg of Lindsey, Steuben Co., where they were married. They will make their home with the groom's mother, 38 Pendleton-st., Cortland.
BREVITIES.
—There will be a special service at Grace Episcopal church tonight in observance of Ascension day. The services will include evening prayer and sermon. Every one invited.
—The new display advertisements today are—M. A. Case, Ribbon sale, page 6; Haight & Freese Co., Stocks, etc., page 6; G. H. Wiltsie, Dry goods, page 5; McGraw & Elliott, Kodacks, page 6.
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