Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, October 6, 1903.
ARMED MADMAN.
Crank Asked to See the President and Drew a Revolver on an Officer.
Washington, Oct. 6.—Later in the afternoon the police surgeon, after a careful examination of Peter Elliott, who created the disturbance at the White House and fired at a secret service officer, certified that he was insane. An order was issued immediately for his removal to the St. Elizabeth's hospital for the insane.
At the station house Elliott said he was a Swede and gave his occupation as that of a machinist. He said he had lived in this country for 11 years, most of the time in Minneapolis. He said he came to Washington from Paterson, N. J.
Elliott also said he had been in Lancaster. When locked up at the police station he made a long, rambling statement as to the reasons for his action.
Elliot was removed from the police station late in the afternoon to the government insane asylum without difficulty.
Among Elliott's possessions were numerous clippings from newspapers throughout the country describing incidents in President Roosevelt's life and cards of the Minneapolis Patent company. In one pocket were manuscripts written by him in the Swedish language on political and religious subjects. On one of them was an address to the American people written in a rambling and incoherent fashion. It was laudatory of President Roosevelt.
In his talk at the police station Elliot declared he went to the White House because the president asked him to. He said he carried a pistol to protect himself and did not intend to do any harm to the president. All efforts to connect him with the anarchists failed. The prisoner requested that word be sent to A. A. Swan of Minneapolis. Swan's card was found on the prisoner; also a letter addressed to P. O. Oloffsson, Binghamton, N. Y.
Considered a Crank at Home.
Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 6.—Inquiry developed the fact that Peter O. Elliott, a machinist, who rooms at 245 Cedar Avenue in this city, has not been seen about his old haunts for several months and that no one seemed to know where he had gone. He had been a familiar figure in the neighborhood and was generally considered rather peculiar. He talked much of socialism.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Both Register and Vote.
If every elector who votes the general election ballot on Nov. 3, also votes upon the barge canal resolution it is morally certain that the resolution will be voted down. Whenever in the past a resolution bas been voted upon at a general election, the number of votes cast in the state for the ordinary election ballot has always been very many thousands larger than the number of votes cast for and against the resolution. It is therefore, vitally important that every elector opposed to saddling the state with a debt of $100,000,000 to construct a barge canal should register, so that he can vote, and then vote against this resolution.
When a man has registered and voted against this resolution, his duty as a citizen has only been discharged in part. He should also see that his neighbor registers and votes against it.
◘ The women of Kansas have won a famous victory. They quietly organized a very effective campaign service and succeeded in electing women school commissioners in most of the districts of the state. They caught the men napping and beat them thoroughly. The issue was whether women teachers had a right to receive the attention of male friends and to marry while in school service, and the result seems to show conclusively that this new declaration of emancipation in approved by the people of Kansas. At any rate, while the new female commissioners run school affairs the women will have their way. But come to think of it, when doesn't woman have her way when she really wants it?
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| Alice Cately Ettling. |
"DAUGHTER" OF CONVENTION.
Mrs. Alice M. Ettling the Guest of Honor in Boston.
Mrs. Alice M. Ettling of Cortland last week attended, as usual, the Carriage Builders' National convention in Boston. She is always the guest of honor at these gatherings and the masculine members of the association vie with each other in showing her attention. While at this convention nine Boston papers published more or less extended items concerning her, and five of them had portraits, The News having one in double column size on its first page. The Boston Herald is one of the papers that very seldom fails to get whatever it starts after. It failed, however, to get her photograph for her portrait, but it had the following to say concerning her:
"But the Carriage Builders' National association has also 'a daughter'—Mrs. Alice M. Ettling of Cortland, N. Y., a very bright woman, who is a manufacturer herself, carrying on one of the oldest concerns in central New York. She is the only woman exhibitor in the great exhibition which the association opens in Mechanics' Hall tomorrow morning."
Because of her sex she is not enrolled as an active member, but she was adopted by the national association as its "daughter" more than fourteen years ago and this is the fifteenth consecutive national convention of the Carriage Builders' association which she has attended. She is continuing the business of the old manufacturing firm of Cately & Ettling, established more than seventeen years ago, and one of the largest in its line in the middle states. Her father died several years ago and since his death she has been the head of the establishment, employing many operatives. She is the only woman who ever went over into Canada to take out and leave a patent on her invention in connection with the branch of the carriage trade in which her establishment is engaged.
Mrs. Ettling received a Boston Herald man, who called upon her at the Brunswick yesterday. Her eyes twinkled merrily when he asked [for] an interview.
"I'm here for business," she said, "and I really don't like to talk of myself. My father had at one time the largest business in his line in the country, at all events in central New York.
"It devolved upon me to continue it, and I have been at the head of it for the past four years.
"Very many of the men attending this convention, who now have plants of their own, grew up in my father's employ and some were employed by our company. It in continued under the old name, although I control it now myself. I could not be a member, under the rules of this association, but I hold an honorary membership in it, and I never have yet missed a convention since I was taken into it.
"When asked for her photo, Mrs. Ettling shook her head emphatically."
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| George Jean Mager. |
LETTER FROM G. J. MAGER.
Greatly Enjoying His European Trip—A Stop at Interlaken.
A Cortland friend of G. J. Mager has received the following letter from him which will interest all his friends and which we are permitted to publish in part. It is written from Beau-Site pension, Interlaken, Switzerland, under date of Sept. 20, and is as follows:
Here we are at Interlaken, a most charming Alpine resort between Lakes Thun and Brienz. As I am seated here in front of our temporary home, Hotel Beau Site, (Hotel Beautiful View) most appropriately named, I cannot refrain from writing you a few lines to share with me the inexpressible feeling of admiration and enthusiasm which has taken hold of me as I am gazing at the awful grandeur of the Alpine mountains. Having been here yourself you have some conception of their majesty. They are particularly grand just now on account of the recent cool spell and consequent heavy fall of snow. The three loftiest peaks, Monk, Eiger and Jungfrau, are but a short distance from here and in full view of the naked eye. They seem like mighty giants raising their icy helmets far above the clouds into the clear sunlight apparently touching the very sky.
Mrs. Mager, with a few other American' tourists, is enjoying today by cog-wheel railway, a tour among the snow capped mountains and glaciers, a trip which I deemed inadvisable for me to undertake on account of a cold and cough I contracted in New York City the day before sailing, and which has clung to me with more or less severity until the present. I did, however, while in Luzern, make the ascent to the top of Pilatus, 7,000 feet high, distance three miles, time ninety minutes. During our stay on its summit a snow slide obstructed the tracks, and on our return we were delayed a half hour while a force of men removed the avalanche.
We arrived here yesterday over the narrow gauge railroad, and by the aid of a cog rail made an ascent of one hundred ten meters, so you can form some idea of our present altitude. The scenery along this route is most grand—the numerous little lakes and their turquoise blue waters, the fertile valley, orchards, cottages, churches, cattle, sheep, etc., and the mighty rockies on both sides, form a sight which a tourist can never forget.
There is an English and American congregation here. They hold services in an edifice over four hundred years old—formerly an annex to a Romish monastery. This morning's services were largely attended by tourists from all over the world. During its progress I almost forgot that I was so far from home. In the prayer, "for all those in authority, etc., " all the English continental clergy pray for King Edward, the President of the United States of America, and some times also for Emperor Wilhelm. Yesterday and today have been delightful, warm and bright, the first we have had in many days.
Tomorrow we proceed to Lausanne and Geneva, and from thence to Paris.
Fraternally, G. J. Mager.
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| [Retired Judge] S. S. Knox. |
CORTLAND BOARD PUBLIC WORKS
Grants Usual Rebate on Fifty New Cement Walks.
AND ORDERS MORE NEW WALKS.
Audits a Quantity of Bills—Petition Concerning the Grade on Stevenson-st. and Harrington-ave.—Request for a Walk on Pomeroy-st.—The Lackawanna Culvert on Clinton.ave.
The regular meeting of the board of public works was held in the office of the city clerk last evening. Those present were Chairman S. S. Knox, F. H. Cobb, C. W. Collins and C. F. Wickwire.
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Knox and the minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved.
The following bills were audited and ordered paid:
BII.LS AUDITED.
Waterworks Co., $70.08
S. S. Stearns, $21.60
Cortland STANDARD Printing Co., $14.50
F. C. Parsons, $8.00
Jennie Lamont, $10.00
Cramer and Spencer, $15.44
Allen & Farrington, $48.50
P.H. Whitney, 12.35
Price & Co., $150.00
Pay Roll, $289.08
James Grant, $79.50
Rebate was allowed for fifty new cement walks that have been laid.
Superintendent Becker said it was difficult to get men enough to lay walks so great is the number of walks that are being built at the present time.
The following new walks were ordered:
Mrs. B. A. Benedict, North Main-st., east side.
Frank Peck, E. J. Bowdish, Groton-aye., south side.
Fred I. Graham, Groton-ave., south side.
Lackawanna Railroad, Pendleton-st., west side.
A number of the residents of Stevenson-st., and Harrington-ave., came before the board with a petition signed by all but one of the residents of the two streets requesting that a quantity of dirt that was placed in the roadway on Stevenson-st., at the time of paving Groton-ave., be removed. They claim that the center of the roadway on Stevenson-st., is above the sidewalk grade and that water from Harrington-ave., which should run into the gutters on Stevenson-st., now flows across private property and leaches down upon Groton-ave. They asked that the roadway at the top of the hill on Stevenson-st., be lowered and that the dirt be used in bringing the low place on Harrington-ave., up to grade.
Superintendent Becker, being called on, said that the center of the street was slightly above grade and that he thought it could be lowered and the fill on Harrington-ave., be made as requested. He was directed to consult with the city engineer and act according to his own judgment.
Theodore Stevenson presented a petition signed by a number of business men and residents in the vicinity of the Pomeroy-st., school requesting that a walk be laid on Pomeroy-st., from Clinton-ave., to Elm-st., for the accommodation of the school children. No action was taken in the matter last evening.
The matter of the culvert under the Lackawanna Railroad tracks on Clinton-ave., was next taken up. City Attorney Fred Hatch was directed to write the Lackawanna officials in regard to the matter.
On motion of Mr. Wickwire, seconded by Mr. Cobb, the board adjourned for two weeks.
RETURNS HOME MARRIED.
Ceremony In Homer—The Happiest Girl in the World.
The notice of the marriage of two Ithaca parties by Rev. C. W. Negus, pastor of the Baptist church in Homer, was published in these columns yesterday. In reference to this marriage the Ithaca News of Monday says:
When Miss Winnie L. Hausner returned yesterday afternoon from a drive to Homer she informed her surprised relatives and friends that she was Mrs. Roy Westervelt and, incidentally, the happiest girl on earth.
Mr. Westervelt and Miss Hausner had been life-long companions and, although they had been intimate friends, their private affairs and intentions had not been communicated to their friends. They drove to Homer yesterday and were there married.
Mrs. Westervelt is the daughter of Will Hausner of Prospect-st.
BREVITIES.
—Regular meeting of Grover Post, No. 98, in G. A. R. hall at 7:30 o'clock tonight.
—Regular meeting of the common council in city clerk's office [tonight] at 8 o'clock.
—The Fortnightly club meets tomorrow at 3:30 p. m. with Mrs. H. L. Smith, 53 Prospect-st.
—The Ladies' Literary club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with Mrs. Burdett Howard, 46 Grant-st.
—At the regular meeting of the A. O. H. tomorrow evening the third and fourth degrees, will be given. A social session will follow.
—The call for the Republican city caucus appears at the head of the editorial column today. The caucuses will be held Thursday evening, Oct. 8, from 7 to 8 o'clock.
—The regular monthly business meeting of the Y. P. S. C. E. of the Congregational church will be held in the church Wednesday evening, Oct. 7, at 7:30 o'clock sharp. A social will follow.
—The new display advertisements today are—S. Rosenbloom & Sons, Dry goods, etc., page 7; Geo. H. Wiltsie, Suits, cloaks, etc., page 5; L. & K. Freeman, Millinery, page 5; M. A. Case, Blankets, page 6; A. Mahan, Pianos, page 6.
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