Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, August 22, 1903.
REVOLUTION SPREADS.
Turkish Town Officials Brought to Bulgarian Frontier.
INSURGENTS BURNING VILLAGES.
Turkish and Christian Inhabitants of Kumanovo Fraternize—Sofia Paper Says All Districts of Macedonia Will Be in Revolt by Aug. 28—Mobilization of Turkish Troops.
Sofia, Aug. 22.—All the dispatches received here indicate that the revolution in Macedonia is spreading. The most alarming news relates to an outbreak covering a considerable area in the eastern part of the Adrianople vilayet, where the insurgents have captured the town of Vasiliko.
They took the chief Turkish officials prisoners and brought them to the Bulgarian frontier, where they liberated them.
The Turkish officials, fearing to return to Vasiliko, sought refuge of the Bulgarian authorities who sent them to a hotel in Burgas, where they are at liberty to remain or depart.
The insurgents completely burned Vasiliko and also 12 villages in the neighborhood. The Bulgarian officials arrested the insurgents who brought the Turkish officials at Vasiliko to the Bulgarian frontier.
Severe fighting is reported to be proceeding near Gehgele with heavy losses on both sides.
The Sofia Dnevjnjk declares that all the Turkish vilayets in Macedonia will be in full revolt August 28 and that the revolution is spreading from Salonika into the districts towards Seres. Several new bands have appeared in the district of Voden, southeast from Monastir.
A general panic prevails in the vilayet of Uskub, where the inhabitants are hiding their property.
The Turkish and Christian inhabitants at Kumanovo have agreed to mutually support each other in the event of an attack either by insurgent bands or Turkish soldiers. At Kratovo half of the Turkish garrison has deserted, the men saying that they had enough to do at home.
The Turkish authorities have mobilized their whole forces in Macedonia, numbering 18,000 men. A large body of Asiatic troops is ready to move. Twenty-four regiments are only awaiting marching orders.
DEATH OF CARROLL E. SMITH.
One of the Most Widely Known Editors in Central New York.
Syracuse, Aug. 22.—Carroll E. Smith, LL. D., a regent of the University of the State of New York and one of the most widely known newspaper editors in Central New York, died at 8:25 last evening at his residence in this city.
He was born in this city Christmas day, 1832. He early learned the printer's trade and at 19 entered upon the career of a journalist, being connected with the Syracuse Journal. He assumed editorial charge in 1860 and with different partners owned the paper until it was taken by a stock company of which he was president, serving as editor.
Six years ago he severed his connection with that paper and joined the staff of the Syracuse Herald, with which he was connected at the time of his death. He was frequently chosen delegate to state conventions of the Republican party, was member of assembly two terms, county clerk, postmaster of Syracuse under President Harrison, state regent, president of the Onondaga Historical association and six years president, of the New York Associated Press and for 22 years one of the board of managers.
THE ZIONIST CONGRESS.
Sixth International Gathering at Basel, Switzerland.
SCHEME ON GOOD CASH BASIS.
Colonial Trust Has Working Capital of $2,000,000 For Operation—What Has Been Accomplished at Previous Congresses.
Leon Zolotkoff, a delegate to the sixth international Zionist congress at Basel, Switzerland, writing to the Chicago Tribune says:
The sixth, Zionist congress, like the sixth day of the week of creation, will complete a cycle of organization. Out of the chaos of hopelessness, of confusion of ideas and of a vague and undefined yearning a powerful organization, well regulated and full of purpose, sprang forth, as if by magic. There was no model to pattern after, no precedent to consult. New conditions had to be created. The achievements prove how well the plans have been laid. The sixth congress will proclaim the consummation of the tremendous experiment, for it will record the completion of the worldwide organization in all its branches.
The Zionist movement, established on the sound basis of a worldwide cooperative effort among the Jews, discovered that it needed a financial instrument of the same character. A bank plan was mooted at the first congress held in 1897, the embryonic parliament of a Jewish nation. In May, 1898, the scheme was put to a practical test. A small committee was formed with headquarters at Cologne and provisional promises of subscriptions were invited.
So enthusiastic and so widespread was the response that within a year the Jewish colonial trust was established, with a capital stock of $10,000,000 divided into five dollar shares. The joint stock concern proposed by George Eliot, as a writer, and by Sir Laurence Oliphant, as a political writer, in aid of the reintegration of a homeless Jewish people on their ancestral soil has thus become a reality.
The trust speedily became the largest joint stock concern in the world. Its certificates are held from the Caucasus to Klondike, from Perth in western Australia to Aberdeen in Scotland. The shareholders number 130,000, who together hold 400,000 shares.
An undertaking of that kind, though not intended for gain, must have the advantage of commercial profits, and already a dividend was announced on the $2,000,000, for the first working year, which ended May, 1903.
The trust aims directly not at the purchase of Palestine, but at the obtaining and financing of such concessions shall, beyond commercial advantages, give the right of legal settlement in Palestine to those Jews who are in need of a home, and shall, moreover, give security of tenure for land and all forms of estate.
For the purchase of land in Palestine and Syria another resource was created—the Jewish national fund. This fund is being raised by means of the sale of stamps which Zionists use to adorn their private correspondence and stationery. A stamp represents the respective coin of the smallest denomination of every country. The administration of the fund remains with the congress. The business control is vested in the Jewish colonial trust. Over $500,000 has been raised in that way,
An as indispensable link in the chain of these institutions, the Anglo-Palestine company, was founded with a capital of $250,000 for the purpose of developing Palestine Industries and to assist Jewish colonists in finding markets for their products. This company recently opened its offices in Yafa and is doing well.
The machinery of the organization having thus been completed, the main problem which will occupy the attention of the sixth Zionist congress will be how to put the wonderful mechanism to proper and immediate use at this critical moment.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Profanity In Public.
It is to be hoped that the recent incident at Oyster Bay, in which a bicyclist was taken to task for using profanity because his way was momentarily blocked by the carriage of President Roosevelt on the way to church, will have the effect of lessening the prevalence of the disgusting and utterly useless habit of using profane and vulgar language in public places. In ordering the removal of the offender against common decency the presidents action was no more than it should have been. It would have been gratifying had the time and the circumstances permitted an immediate drastic punishment of the boor by primitive methods. Doubtless had the offending bicyclist known of the proximity of the president's carriage he would have been more discreet, but that made no difference in the degree of his misconduct. There is nothing to indicate that his rights were invaded, and even had they been his behavior would have remained wholly indefensible.
The habit of swearing in public, or indeed anywhere, is offensive and is usually condemned by the laws and police regulations, though it has become so common u to be almost a national evil. The street corner talk of loungers is often unfit for the ears of decent people. Men indulge in the grossest forms of expression without thought for the sensibilities of passers, and seldom do creatures of this ilk think to lower their voices in the presence of women and children. It would be well if an occasional prosecution served the excellent purpose of emphasizing the fact that society holds to certain conventions as to speech which cannot be lightly disregarded.
MAGNIFICENT FIREWORKS.
Of Fireworks, a Feature of the Cortland County Fair.
ON THURSDAY EVENING, AUG. 27.
Unsurpassed in Splendor and Extent and Brilliancy—An Unusually Attractive Program Arranged—Rockets, Set Pieces and Special Devices—No One Should Miss the Display—Make Entries Early.
Magnificent fireworks on Thursday evening, the third day of the Cortland county fair, is an attraction which bids fair to eclipse anything in this line ever before attempted in Cortland. The following program has been arranged and if the weather permits will be well worth coming miles to witness:
Magnificent Fireworks.
The following is the proposed program of Pain's Manhattan Beach fireworks to be shown at the fair grounds on Thursday evening:
Salute of three 9-inch aerial maroons, fired from steel mortars, making terrific reports.
Grand illumination of the park with twenty-five Pain's powerful colored lights, changing color five times.
Ascent of three mammoth meteoric balloons, ascending with dazzling brilliancy, changing as they rise to a spiral formation, leaving in their wake beautiful coruscations which fall to the earth.
The polychromatic canopy produced by the discharge of twenty-five rockets, containing Pain's latest tints and electric effects enveloping the entire sky with brilliant colors artistically blended.
There batteries of jeweled mines displaying beautiful tints as they rise into the air.
Display of eight 15-inch shells, primroses and violets, pansies, laburnum blossoms, passion flower, and heliotrope, etc.
Device, "flying pigeon" or "fiery phoenix" crossing and recrossing the grounds causing roars of laughter.
Three large batteries of colored saucissons [sic], filling the air with gyrating wonders.
Discharge of four national bombs, red, white and blue.
Display of Pain's electric rockets.
Pain's serial wonder, "The Southern cross." An artistic aerial novelty. Fired from heavy rockets.
Device. Fire picture (heads) of a prize bull, horse and hog.
Display Plain's dedication bombs, the sensation of the great St. Louis displays.
Flight of colored aerolites, and continuous discharge of electric comets.
Three St. Louisan rockets, forming pillars of fire as given at the dedication of the World's Fair, 1903.
Display of two Pain's new combination shells, mauve, magenta, canary, vermilion, terra cotta, Nile green and azure blue. Each bomb having from three to five separate and distinct effects.
Shower of pearls, making gentle, wavy light.
Field of the cloth of gold. Produced by the discharge of an immense shell, exhibiting golden stars, emitting glittering spangles.
Flight of four 2 lb. rockets, containing triple parachutes; bright as stars sparkling in the sky.
Ascent of ten mammoth prismatic whirlwinds, forming umbrellas of fire in ascent and descent.
Two electric shower mines, with diamond dust effects.
Three Louisiana Purchase exposition batteries, giving in proper sequence the colors of the Americas.
Display of thirty Pain's triple star candles, emitting cosmetic stars, 1,000 feet high, which, breaking into three parts, display red, green and amber globules.
Display of Pain's electric sunbursts. The twentieth century novelty.
Revolving bombs. (1903 novelty.)
Two Pain's triple chrysanthemum bombs, covering the heavens with gigantic Japanese blossoms, each break a different tint.
Peacock plume bombs, with rich trailing colors.
Device, "The Wheat sheaf," being an exact reproduction in designing and color.
Display of six Pain's 24-inch Manhattan Beach bombs containing northern lights, silver coruscations, turquoise, rubies sapphires, old gold and other combinations and effects.
Eruption of Sinbad's jeweled cave. Grand deluge of liquid gems.
Flight of three 4-lb rockets, discharging Pain's hanging chains of ever changing colors.
Three Devil-among-the-tailors, causing roars of laughter.
Two 15-inch Italian bombettes, opening with silver streamers, changing to golden rain, again changing to purple and amber.
Display of Pain's aerial novelties, forming showers of dazzling magnesium meteors, in three mutations, followed by loud detonations.
Three eagle scream rockets. The national bird's screech realistically reproduced.
Six aerial sleigh bells. (So named by Mark Twain.)
Five floating festoons of ever changing lights, forming necklaces of gems.
Five national streamers, the national colors in mid-air.
Flight of six floral bombshells. "Poppies in the cornfield."
Discharge of two golden shower batteries. Cosmetic and golden rain effect.
Salvo of three Pain's large bombs, with great combination and color effects, including whirligigs, prismatic torrents, aerial jugglery, fiery octopus, etc.
Device. "Mammoth silver fire wheel" with intersecting centers, cutting a silver spray 100 feet in circumference.
Volleys of six shells. Electric blue and sea shell pink.
Device, "Success to our fair." In large block letters in choice colors.
Our empire. This unique novelty is produced by a mammoth combination shell, which at 1,000 feet releases a large bomb with red, green, blue and white stars, representing the United States, followed by a gold shell representing Cuba, followed by a silver shell for Porto Rico, and finishing with a number of smaller shells for the Philippines. Explosion of two Manhattan Beach batteries. Glowing sparks of phosphorescent light.
Magical illumination of the park, with Pain's pyrotechnic compound.
Great silver clouds, introducing Pain's marvelous electric fire. One mass of shimmering, dazzling splendor.
The pyrotechnic cuttlefish, with long radiating fiery tentacles.
Final device, consisting of colossal fire portrait of a well known celebrity badge—motto or facade of building—correctly and elaborately produced. Four hundred square feet.
Grand bouquet of (100) large colored rockets.
"Good night," and "Feu De Joie.''
BREVITIES.
—The body of the 9-month old son of John Dugan of Syracuse, formerly of Cortland, was brought to Cortland this morning for interment.
—The death of Miss Ressie Osgood, aged 41 years, occurred at her home, 9 Owego-st., yesterday. The funeral will be held from the house at 4 o'clock tomorrow and the body will be taken on the 9:40 train over the Lehigh Monday morning to Trumansburg for burial.
—Where The Standard is sent by mail, the month and year to which subscription is paid always appear on the address label at head of first page of paper. Subscribers have only to look at this label to know just how their account stands.
—Major R. R. Riddell of Hamilton has received an invitation from his old comrade, Lieut. General Miles, to be his guest on a special car from Chicago to San Francisco and return to attend the meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic. Major Riddell is an uncle of Dr. F. D. Reese of this city.
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