POPE'S INTERVIEW, SETBACK FOR SCIENTIFIC FORESTRY, BUILDING AND REPAIR, BOUGHT OUT HIS PARTNER, AND TOO HOT FOR SPARROWS

 

Pope Leo XIII.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, July 11, 1903.

SERVICES OF INTERCESSION.

Interesting Story of the Pope's Interview With His Nephews.

   Rome, July 11.—The vesper services in Rome last night were transformed in many churches into special services of intercession for the pope. One service in particular attracted interest. It was held in the church of St. Andrew of the Quirinal. From the side altar, under which lie the remains of St. Stanislaus Kostka, from the exact spot where nearly 70 years ago, the pope celebrated his first mass, priests solemnly invoked the intercession of St. Stanislaus in behalf of the afflicted pontiff and kneeling men and women reverently echoed the prayers.

   An interesting story is told of the recent interview between the pope and his nephews. When they were admitted to his apartment, the pope promptly asked for the news of his birthplace.

   "When did word of my illness reach Carpineto?" said his holiness.

   "On Saturday, holy father," replied Count Ludovic Pecci.

   "Strange," replied the pontiff, "I only felt ill last Sunday."

   As his nephews were leaving the pope called his valet, Centra, and said: "Be sure to serve these children," as he calls his gray-haired nephews, with ices."

   Then turning to his nephews he said laughingly: "If there is any left, leave one for me."

 

POPE HAS GAINED.

General Condition Ameliorated According to the Bulletin.

   Rome, July 11.—The Pope's physicians issued a bulletin at 9:30 this morning, which stated that the Pope had gained somewhat during the night. The bulletin read:

   "The Pope slept during the night at intervals. His pulse is now 90, and has been without irregularity since yesterday evening. His respiration is 30, his temperature 36 degrees centigrade. His renal functions are still deficient, but his general condition is somewhat ameliorated. (Signed). Mazzoni and Lapponi."

 

Cornell School of Forestry at Saranac Lake.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

A Setback For Scientific Forestry.

   People interested in scientific forestry will regret to learn of the suspension of the Cornell College of Forestry. This is a serious setback for a movement in practical education from which very much in the way of good results was expected. Instead of the blow being administered by ignorant outsiders it seems to have been given by the scientific foresters themselves.

   According to all accounts, the suspension of the institution was due to the inability of the heads of the college to use good judgment in construing the purpose of the grants of $166,000 worth (30,000 acres) of forest and $50,000 in money. Since this was done on account of complaints of denudation of forests by lumbermen, the plain purpose was to aid and demonstrate the preservation of forests. Preservation does not mean denudation. But the college took the ground that the purpose was to teach the pupils how to utilize forest products and proceeded to give the instruction which they could have obtained in any lumber camp by denuding 1,500 acres of land in three years and replanting, according to the legislative report, only 275. The instruction that the state intended to secure was how to preserve the forest by removing only the fully matured timber, leaving the forest as a whole intact. This [purpose] the college appears to have wholly failed to do, and it is fairly chargeable with the failure to continue the appropriation. In view of the efforts being made throughout the country in the direction of forest preservation and the urgent necessity for such efforts, the failure of this experiment in New York is to be regretted.

 

Main Street, Cortland, circa 1900.

BUILDING AND REPAIRING.

Great Amount of This Work Being Done in Cortland.

   In taking a trip through Cortland's business or residential streets one cannot help being impressed by the large number of buildings that are going up this summer. Masons, carpenters, plumbers, painters, and paperhangers are at a premium at the present time.

   Among the buildings in process of erection at present are the Goddard block, F. H. Cobb & Co.'s warehouse, Dr. Jennings' house, E. H. Brewer's house, and others too numerous to mention. On Stevenson-st. and Harrington-ave., seven houses, all within a stone's throw of each other, have been built within a year.

   It is not new buildings alone, however, that are keeping the craftsmen busy as the number of new buildings, when compared with the number that are being renovated and improved or enlarged, is inconsiderable. A man in a position to know said yesterday that he had seen more buildings in the process of erection in Cortland before, but never so many that were being fixed over. This certainly is abundant proof of Cortland's present and general prosperity.

   In marked contrast to this is the condition of affairs in several other cities on account of labor troubles, etc. In a nearby city all building has been practically at a standstill for several months on account of disagreements between the master mechanics and the journeymen. Many of the latter have left town despairing of reaching any satisfactory agreement. The master mechanics claim that they have conceded all that they think they can and will try to get men from other places.

 

Cortland Traction Park.

Popular Family Picnics.

   During these hot days Cortland park has become a very popular place for small family picnics, and no day passes without at least half a dozen small parties seeking a quiet afternoon in the shady grove. The accommodations at the park are excellent for these gatherings and courteous treatment to patrons is the attempt of the management. Cars run regularly every day, commencing at 9:30 in the morning, and continuing until late in the evening. Lunches may be carried up and special tables are provided in the grove for public use. There are also facilities for each party to prepare their own coffee, etc., using the stove in the pavilion.

   Moving pictures are shown every evening except Monday and Saturday, but on Saturday evenings the Cortland City band will give open air concerts. This gives an opportunity to spend a warm afternoon and evening in comfort including excellent entertainment free of charge.

   Dancing Wednesday and Saturday evenings in the pavilion which is well supplied with electric fans. Dance 10 cents to gentlemen and ladies free.

 

Cortland City Band.

Band Concert at Park.

   The following is the program of the concert to be given by the City band at the park tonight:

   March—The Strollers, Englander

   Overture—La Vestale, Mercadante

   Intermezzo—Anona, Vivian Grey (Miss McKinly)

   In the Sweet Bye and Bye and Please Let Me Sleep, Von Tilzer

   Selection from The Prince of Pilsen, Luders

   Morceau Caracteristique—The Dawn of Love, Bendix

   Down Where the Wurzburger Flows, Von Tilzer

 

ROUND TRIP ONE FARE

For a Continuous Ride on Trolley Cars on Either Division.

   Beginning today the Cortland County Traction Co. will give continuous round trip rides on through cars on both Homer and McGraw divisions of the road for one way fares, provided that the trip is made purely for pleasure and the person riding does not leave the car at any point on a trip. This rate will be maintained every day in the week during the heated season and is not confined to any particular car. The trip may be started from either end of the two divisions. This will afford a fine pleasure trip at a small expense, the round trip to or from Homer being only 10 cents and the same for McGraw. On all warm days and evenings open cars will be run on the McGraw division. Tickets may be purchased on the cars.

 

Bought Out His Partner.

   W. T. Hughes has purchased his partner's interest in the barbering firm of Hughes & Snow, Railroad-st., Cortland, and commencing Monday next will conduct the business individual1y. Hughes & Snow have been in business together in their present location for a little more than a year and have built up a very large trade. In continuing the business for himself Mr. Hughes will maintain the high standard of excellence which has brought to the firm the liberal patronage of the past. Mr. Snow will remain with Mr. Hughes for the present and the shop will continue to run four chairs as has been done for some time. Thomas Brick now has the fourth chair.

 

Too Hot for Sparrows.

   Yesterday was too hot in New York for the English sparrows which are very numerous, and dozens fell exhausted in the vicinity of City Hall park. The New York Sun says: During the fifty-three years that sparrows have been in New York it has been said that only one thing ever happened to cause them extreme discomfort. That was the blizzard of 1888. In the spring, when the snow melted away, hundreds of sparrows that bad been frozen to death were found.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The K. O. T. M. will meet Sunday afternoon at Empire hall to observe memorial day.

   —The Loyal Temperance legion state convention at Hornellsville has decided to meet at Ithaca next year.

   —The Cortland Stars, the pick up team that played in Marathon yesterday, were defeated by the score of 17 to 12.

   —The morning train on the E. & C. N. Y. had two coaches crowded with excursionists from Cincinnatus this morning, this being the special bargain day at Cortland stores.

   —Owasco Lake is a rather shallow one. Its maximum depth is 187 feet, Skaneateles lake is 320 feet, Cayuga is 300 feet, and Seneca's greatest depth is 520 feet. Keuka's maximum depth is 200 feet. [Finger Lakes.]

   —A number of the Ithaca jail gang employed in road making in the town of Lansing yesterday in the boiling hot sun took French leave while the officer's back was turned and have not yet been recaptured.

   —After several months of legal contest George W. Miller has been declared by the court to be the mayor of Ithaca and was sworn in Thursday night. The matter had been in litigation ever since last November.

   —The Oneonta Normal school will add two new departments next year—a department of manual training and a kindergarten. Miss Blanche S. Van Auken has been elected to have charge of the former. The kindergarten teacher has not yet been chosen.