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| Senator George R. Malby. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, August 12, 1903.
DAM IN ST. LAWRENCE.
Public Hearing Held by Major Bingham at Ogdensburg,
PERMISSION ASKED BY CANADA.
Question as to Whether It Will Affect Level of Lake Ontario or Rights of American Citizens—Vessel Interests In Favor—Objection by Owner of Galoup Island.
Ogdensburg, N. Y., Aug. 12.—By order of the secretary of war, Major Theodore A. Bingham, commanding the United States engineers in this district, held a public hearing here to ascertain whether the construction of a dam across the channel between Adams and Galoup islands will materially affect the level of Lake Ontario or the rights of citizens of the United States.
The Canadian government has constructed a new channel to the head of the St Lawrence rapids and finding that strong cross currents interfered with traffic in the channel by forcing many vessels aground, has petitioned the United States government for permission to construct a dam 300 feet long at low level to obviate the difficulty.
A. W. Fraser, king's counsel for the Canadian government; T. S. Rubidge, superintending engineer of the Canadian canals, and his assistant A. L. Kellaly of Ottawa; J. C. Quintos, assistant engineer of Oswego; Senator George R. Malby, representing the George Hall Coal company and the Ogdensburg Coal & Towing company, and other representatives of American forwarders appeared in favor of the plan.
It was opposed by Alban Dawson, owner of Galoup island, who claimed that the erection of a dam would raise the water level three feet, causing a strong current and also that the water would overflow about 60 acres on the island.
Mr. Dawson filed an objection to further proceedings before Major Bingham. He will also contest the constitutionality of the act of congress placing the consent or rejection of permission to construct the dam with the secretary of war.
General Miles at Omaha.
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 12.—General Nelson A. Miles stopped half an hour in Omaha. He was met at the station by General John C. Bates and other army officers stationed here, Governor Mickey and staff and local posts of the G. A. R. He was given an informal reception. He was also presented with a floral tribute. General Miles was asked if he was a candidate for commander-in-chief of the Grand Army and had this to say: "I am not seeking it. General John C. Black is a good man for the place."
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
The Panama Canal Treaty.
It is reported that the Panama canal treaty, instead of being either rejected or ratified by the Columbian congress, will be amended and returned to this government.
This is most unsatisfactory and discouraging. The result will be that the treaty must go back to the dilatory senate of the United States for consideration. There will be another long and weary fight with those who, because of their preference for the Nicaraguan route, or for less respectable reasons, are opposed to the Panama treaty. There will be an indefinite postponement not merely of the Panama canal project but of any isthmian canal project. The Columbian congress could not have taken any course more likely to serve the purposes of those abroad and in this country, who do not wish an isthmian canal constructed and controlled by the United States than that which it has adopted.
It is asserted that the Columbian congress has been guided in this course by American citizens, representatives of the great transcontinental railway lines, who are in Columbia lobbying for the defeat of the canal project. If this report is true the course of these American corporations which, for the sake of their own comparatively petty interests, are wickedly and shortsightedly fighting against their own country's progress and prosperity and imperiling its most important interests, cannot be too severely condemned. They are giving aid and comfort to the commercial enemies of the United States and their conduct is little short of treasonable.
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| Orris U. Kellogg. |
STRANGE FREAK OF LIGHTNING
Killed O. U. Kellogg's Horse and Did Not Fire the Hay.
The bolt of lightning that struck O. U. Kellogg's barn [in Cortland] during the thunder shower yesterday afternoon and killed a valuable horse is another illustration of the freaks of lightning. The bolt struck the horse, or weather vane, on top of the barn and then divided, one part following a guy wire down to a tin gutter and so into the ground, and the other followed a wire down to the rafters and through the framework of the barn to the floor, where the horse stalls are located. From there it jumped about five feet to the stall in which the horse that was killed was standing. The lightning left no trace here except where the boards in front of the stall are matched together and there two small splinters about six inches long were torn off.
Painters at work nearby saw the lightning strike and smoke issuing from the barn. All at once hastened for pails and the hose was turned on, but strange to say there was no fire, though the barn was full of hay. No damage was done to the barn aside from splintering two or three rafters. The metal horse on top of the barn was uninjured.
The horse that was killed was a valuable one and one that Mr. Kellogg intended to train for the track.
A COMMUNICATION.
Honor to Whom Honor is Due—Mayor Complimented.
To the Editor of The Standard:
Sir—The people of the city of Cortland may congratulate themselves upon having a mayor who has the courage of his convictions. For a long period of time Charles F. Brown has been known to the people of Cortland, and vicinity as an honest, obliging and successful business man. For nearly three years he has been the mayor of the city of Cortland, and during this period of time he has, by his able, honest and faithful discharge of the duties pertaining to his office won the confidence and esteem of the people of this city, irrespective of party lines. His recent action in vetoing the resolution passed by the board of aldermen of this city, giving a foreign telephone company unlimited rights upon our streets, is but another evidence of Mr. Brown's fidelity, and thoughtfulness as a public official. The reasons given by Mr. Brown for refusing his approval of the resolution referred to are clearly stated and will meet the hearty approval of the citizens of this city.
It is now apparent that the action of the board of alderman was hasty and inconsiderate, and so clearly is this shown in the mayor's convincing and well reasoned message that the aldermen will doubtless gladly avail themselves of this opportunity of correcting a mistake now apparent to all.
Very respectfully, Riley Champlin.
[Mr. Champlin was an attorney from Cortland County, N. Y.—CC ed.]
They Had a Fine Ride.
A note from N. H. Gillette received this morning says that he and his two sons had a fine ride to Watertown yesterday in their Rambler automobile. They went through to Syracuse without getting out of their seats and took all the hills on their high speed gear. After stopping at Syracuse four hours they pushed on to Watertown, 110 miles from Cortland, arriving before dark. The roads were good and the trip was a fine one.
COMPLIMENT TO CONSERVATORY.
Pupils May Enter Emerson College of Oratory.
The Emerson College of Oratory of Boston is so well pleased with the work of the department of oratory and physical culture at the Cortland Conservatory of Music, Miss Maud Cody, teacher, that it has notified the managers that hereafter it will gladly admit to its senior class without examinations students who have completed the first three years' work here at the Conservatory, and then after taking the other year's work they may be graduated with a diploma as from a full course at that institution. This is a decided compliment for the local Conservatory and one which reflects much credit upon the instruction and instructors.
BREVITIES.
—The Gilbert family held its annual reunion at the house of Mrs. Warren Livermore at Lisle today.
—The Barnum & Bailey circus in Syracuse yesterday was attended by 25,000 people at the two performances.
—The new display advertisements today are: S. Simmons, Inventory sale, page 5; M. A. Case, Blankets, page 6.
—The prayer meeting at the Presbyterian church tomorrow evening will be conducted by Rev. S. H. Howe, D. D., of Norwich, Ct., who is supplying the pulpit in that church this month.
—The annual reunion and picnic of the Morse-Robinson families was held in Ross park, Binghamton, today. Twenty-two members of the families left Cortland on the 9:20 train this morning.
—About fifty people took advantage of the excursion rates to New York yesterday via the Lackawanna. Twenty-eight tickets were sold from Cortland to New York for the special low rate excursion Saturday night.
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