WAR IN PHILIPPINES, COMMERCE WITH SOUTH AFRICA, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, AND FOUR DEATHS RECORDED

 

General J. Franklin Bell.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, Jan. 6, 1902.

WAR IN PHILIPPINES.

General Bell Conducting a Vigorous Campaign.

OPPOSED TO PEACE ADVOCATES.

Wealthy Lopez Family Arrested and Their Property Confiscated—Gallantry of Captain Schoeffel of the Ninth Infantry—Two Factories and an Arsenal Captured.

   Manila, Jan. 6.—General J. Franklin Bell is conducting a vigorous campaign in Batangas province. Every available soldier is in the field. The columns under the command of Colonels Wint and Dougherty are doing excellent work and driving the Filipinos in all directions. A number of the latter are fleeing to Tayabas province, where the native constabulary are rendering valuable assistance in capturing men and rifles.

   The advocates of peace at Manila deprecate the stern measures employed by General Bell. In reply General Bell says that these peace advocates have had numerous opportunities to use their influence as they have been given passes through the American lines almost for the asking and that it has been afterwards proved that they often only went through the lines for the purpose of assisting the insurrection. General Bell says that the best peace method now is a rigorous warfare until the insurrection is completely subdued.

   The arrest of members of the wealthy Lopez family and the confiscation of their steamers and rice, as well as the arrest of three members of the religious corporations who were known to be instigators of the insurrection, has had an excellent effect upon the natives.

   Conditions in the island of Samar are still unsatisfactory owing to the difficulty of finding the insurgents.

   Captain Schoeffel of the Ninth infantry (who was wounded in a severe hand-to-hand fight last month at Dapdap, Samar island, between 18 men of Company E of his regiment and a large force of bolomen) has practically recovered from the effects of his wound. In an official report of the encounter in which Captain Schoeffel was hurt, it is said that Schoeffel killed three men before he received his wound and that the remnants of the detachment of 18 men with him were saved by his personal courage and daring.

   The civil authorities say that the island of Leyte is now perfectly peaceful. On the other hand, the military authorities consider Leyte to be dangerous on account of its proximity to Samar, if for no other reason.

   Last Friday Major Albert L. Myer of the Eleventh infantry captured quite an extensive arsenal and plant for the making of cartridges at Ormoo, on the northwest coast of Leyte. Major Myer also captured another powder factory, large quantities of ammunition, four cannon and several rifles.

 

Abraham Lincoln's Birthday.

   New York, Jan. 6.—The American Missionary association has issued an appeal to the Congregational churches of the country to observe Sunday, Feb. 9, as a memorial of Abraham Lincoln whose birthday is Feb. 12. The churches and especially their Sabbath schools and Endeavor societies are urged to emphasize Christian patriotism. "Abraham Lincoln." Says this appeal. "was born in the mountains of the South where schools and churches have been established by this association. The negroes have grown into a great multitude of more than 8,000,000, among whom this association has planted its institutions and missions. Through its missionaries the colored people are being trained in shop, on the farm, in the school and church and home, for safe citizenship and Christian responsibility. President Lincoln urged the kind and Christian treatment of the Indians. The negro and Indian departments of missionary work carried on by this association are, therefore, naturally suggested by his name."

 

Natural Gas Causes Fire.

   Coudersport, Pa., Jan. 6.—The village of Roulette, Potter county, was visited early Sunday morning by a destructive fire, caused, it is believed, by over-pressure of natural gas. The stores of Brown & Co. and R. L. White, the Hotel Brehmer, Cavanaugh's saloon, the Odd Fellows' Temple and Opera House and several smaller buildings were burned. Only one store is left standing. The town is without fire ext1ngu1ahtng apparatus and the fire burned itself out. The loss will exceed $30,000, which it partly covered by insurance.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Commerce with South Africa.

   The Buenos Ayres Herald, discussing the trade relations of the United States and the South American republics, wisely urges the necessity of better shipping facilities and suggests the establishment of a line of fast steamers to ply between New York and the Argentine metropolis which, with its nearly 700,000 inhabitants, is the chief city of the southern continent.

   The triangular route by which goods are now shipped from New York and English ports and thence to South American countries is admittedly ridiculous and the greatest drawback to the growth of our commerce in that direction. Passenger traffic between the southern republics and this country or England must also follow this roundabout route. With the establishment of a fast line of steamers connecting North and South America and adequate facilities for freight the natural trend of trade between the American nations would be no longer impeded by artificial and absurd obstacles, and we might reasonably expect a large and profitable increase in the exchange of commodities with our neighbors on this hemisphere.

   What other countries are doing in the way of extending their merchant marine service into fields which ought especially to attract us is illustrated by the recent inauguration of a new German line from Bremen to Havana, calling at Spanish ports. While cultivating friendly political relations with the Spanish Americans and devising schemes of arbitration and international comity we ought to bestir ourselves in a practical way to get and hold their trade.

 

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

In Special Session to Consider the [Tax] Protest of the Town of Preble, N. Y.

   Every member of the [Cortland] board of supervisors was in his seat at 1 o'clock this afternoon, at which time the board convened to take action in the matter of the Preble appeal. After much deliberation Supervisor Bennett introduced a resolution to the effect that the chairman of the board appoint a committee of five members of which the chairman of this board should be a member and the chairman of the committee, to proceed to defend the action. The resolution was adopted by a vote of sixteen for, four against and one excused. Chairman Crosley appointed as the other members of the board Messrs. Bennett, Kinyon, Webb and Peck.

 

A. O. H. Auxiliary.

   A Ladies' Auxiliary of the A. O. H. has been organized in Cortland with the following officers:

   President—Mary Dowd.

   Vice-President—Anna Dalton.

   Corresponding Secretary—Alice Sheridan.

   Recording Secretary—Anna Mellon.

   Treasurer—Mrs. F. J. Burns.

   The auxiliary was instituted under the direction of County President M. F. Cleary, assisted by Division President D. M. Roshe. Over 100 charter members were enrolled.

 

Primary Teachers' Union.

   The Primary Teachers' union will meet in the lecture room of the Presbyterian church, Tuesday afternoon from 4 to 5. These meetings are very helpful, and all interested in primary work are earnestly invited.

 

Judge George F. Lyon.

SUPREME COURT.

A Long Calendar but it Promises to be Quickly Finished.

   A trial and special term of the supreme court convened at the court house this morning, Hon. George F. Lyon of Binghamton, the justice presiding.

   The forenoon was largely taken up with the charging of the grand jury and the hearing of motions. Henry Howes of Cuyler was appointed foreman of the grand jury and Harvey Z. Tuttle of Freetown was made clerk.

   There were thirty-six cases on the calendar but for one reason and another nearly all of them were put over the term or reported settled when the calendar was called.

   The case of the Wallace Wallpaper Co. vs. M. Rolfe was called. This was an action on a note. An inquest was taken and judgment was rendered for $154.81 for plaintiff, the whole amount claimed. Kellogg & Yan Hoesen for plaintiff. Morehouse & Jones for defendant.

   Howard S. Wood vs. Geo. H. Brooks. This was an action to recover $ 91.55 alleged damages together with interest to the amount $5.95 for a lot of barrels purchased on account. This case went over the term at the last term of court on condition that defendant pay the costs amounting to $10. Costs were not paid and the court in consequence dismissed the answer and judgment was taken for plaintiff for the amount claimed. John H. Miller for plaintiff. J. & T. E. Courtney for defendant.

   The list of cases put over and settled will be given tomorrow.

 

DEATH OF MRS. EDWARD WEBB.

A Long Time Resident of This City is Now at Rest.

   Mrs. Emily Loder Webb, wife of Edward Webb, passed away at 11 o'clock last night at her home, 14 Monroe Heights, after an illness of some weeks. The deceased was born in New York City Dec. 29, 1824, and was married to Mr. Webb Oct 17, 1849. With the exception of two years spent in Cortland their early married life was passed in New York and in Rye, but in 1873 they returned to Cortland which has since continued to be their home.

   Two years ago they celebrated their golden wedding. All their five children, with grandchildren, were present, and the occasion was a very joyous one. The death of Mrs. Webb is the first break in the family. The children are Mrs. S. W. Broaddus of Bowling Green, Va., Mrs. J. S. Bull of Cortland, Benj. L. Webb of Cortland, Arthur Webb of New Britain, Ct., and Prof. Walter L. Webb of Philadelphia.

   Mrs. Webb has been almost a lifelong member of the Episcopal church and in her more youthful and active days was an energetic and constant worker in it. She was a tender and loving wife and mother and was always the central figure in her home.

   The funeral will be held at the home on Wednesday at 2 o'clock. Burial in Cortland.

 

Death of James S. Ormsby.

   Mr. James S. Ormsby, who was taken to the hospital on Christmas day ill with pneumonia, died there this morning at 10 o'clock. Mr. Ormsby was born in Homer sixty-six years ago and all of his life has been spent in Homer and Cortland except for a few years when he resided in Utah, Colorado, and Montana and one year at Syracuse. He was by trade a skilled watch maker and jeweler and has followed that occupation wherever he was located. Mr. Ormsby was of a genial and kindly disposition and had a host of friends everywhere. He was never married, but is survived by two brothers and a sister: Mr. Miles G. Ormsby of Pittsburg, Pa., Mr. E. D. Ormsby of Syracuse and Miss Emily C. Ormsby of Cortland.

   The funeral will be held on Wednesday at 11 o'clock at the boarding place of his sister, the home of Mrs. Jane M. Poster, 34 Tompkins-st. Burial at Homer.

 

Death of Levi S. Johnson.

   Mr. Levi S. Johnson died at his home, 24 North Church-st., at 6 o'clock last evening after a long illness from Bright's disease. Mr. Johnson was born in Otisco Nov. 15, 1826, and was the last survivor of a family of ten children. His brother, Marvin G. Johnson, died in this city of the same disease on Oct. 20 last. The two brothers had been sufferers from the same cause for some months and it was a question which would go first.

   Mr. Johnson came to Cortland about forty-five years ago, and with the brother above referred to, was for a number of years engaged in the meat business. Since 1884 his attention has been almost exclusively directed to market gardening and In this pursuit he was a leader in every sense of the word. Mr. Johnson was twice married, the first time to Miss Sarah Mallery of Cortland who died Feb. 19, 1875, and again on March 28, 1877, to Miss Julia Pease who survives him. No children were ever born to him. Mr. Johnson had been for a number of years a member of the Congregational church

   The funeral will be held on Tuesday at 2 o'clock at the house. Burial in Cortland.

 

JOSIAH H. BROWN.

   Josiah H. Brown, one of the most prominent men of the town of Harford, died at his home in Harford, N. Y., last Saturday after an illness of about four weeks, at the age of 71 years and 12 days.

   Mr. Brown was born in Harford and passed his entire life at that place, where he was honored by his townsmen for his integrity and honesty of purpose. His father Morris Brown came to Harford from Norwich in 1808. In the year 1855 Mr. Brown married Elmira Hanchett of Richford, N. Y., who survives him. Three children were born to them, Mrs. Lora B. Snyder of Cortland, Mrs. J. S. Hough of Batavia, N. Y., and John M. Brown of Holley, N. Y. He is also survived by a brother, Mr. Morton L. Brown, who lives in Harford and who is past 80 years of age.

   Mr. Brown was always a Republican in politics and was elected in 1892 as supervisor of his town, which office he filled to the entire satisfaction of his constituents for nine consecutive years. He was always an energetic and earnest worker in the Methodist church at Harford. In all public matters relative to the good of the community Mr. Brown was always found to be doing that which seemed to him to be the right thing, and in all such matters his influence was strong.

   The funeral will be held from his house Tuesday, Jan. 7, burial at Willow Glenn cemetery in Dryden.

 

BREVITIES.

   —Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M., will confer the first degree at their regular communication on Tuesday evening.

   —The first meeting in the new year of Grover Relief Corps, No. 96, will be held tomorrow, Jan. 7 at 2:30 P. M. in Grand Army hall.

   —New display advertisements today are—McKinney & Doubleday, Fine Art goods, page 6; C. F. Brown, Almond cream, etc., page 4.

   —The Beakes Dairy Co. has replaced the dam at East Freetown that went out with the flood. The pond has filled up again and ice has formed and the company's ice house is now filled with first-class ice. It takes East Freetown to get on a genuine hustle when there is an occasion for it.

 

SEEKING INFORMATION, APPALACHIAN PARK, OLD DAYS IN SOLON, AND TIOUGHNIOGA CLUB

 

Theodore Roosevelt.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, Jan. 4, 1902.

SEEKING INFORMATION.

To Gather Data For a Special Message.

INVESTIGATION IN CHICAGO.

Packing House Representatives and Railroad Men Served With Subpoenas—Those Interested In the Northern Securities Company Asked to Attend.

   Chicago, Jan. 4.—The Record-Herald says:

   The interstate commerce commission will begin a series of three investigations in Chicago next Tuesday which are said to have for their purpose the gathering of data for a special message by President Roosevelt to congress.

   It is said in this special message President Roosevelt will deal with three subjects as follows:

   1. Railway combinations.

   2. The inter-state commerce commission.

   3. Legislation governing inter-state traffic.

   Originally it was the purpose of the president to cover those subjects fully in his annual message to congress but owing to the inability of the interstate commerce commission to get all the facts necessary these subjects were touched upon but briefly and were left to be handled in a supplementary message.

   United States Marshal Ames' deputy was busy yesterday serving subpoenas on representatives of packing house interests. He had six summons and succeeded in serving two. Several of the men sought are said to have escaped service by leaving the city hurriedly.

   No subpoenas were issued for the railroad men, but in their stead letters were received from the commission requesting their attendance at the investigation. It is said that every person in charge of traffic on a road centering here and known to carry packing house products and dressed beef has received a copy of the letter.

   It is doubtful if the investigation into the Burlington deal can proceed Wednesday, as President Harris of the Burlington and Darius Miller, vice-president, will not be in the city. They have asked the commission to postpone the date and unless the St. Paul people interested can get here a postponement may become necessary.

 

SENTENCE OF TRAITOR.

Charged With Deserting to the Enemy.

FOUGHT HIS FORMER COMRADES.

Served Under General Cailles Until the Latter Surrendered — Sentenced by Military Commission to Be Shot, but Was Commuted to 20 Years' Imprisonment at Hard Labor.

   Washington, Jan. 4.—Among the court martial records that have just reached the war department from the Philippines is one in the case of Frank O. Meekin, formerly a private in Company B, Thirty-seventh volunteer infantry. He was tried on a charge of "entering the service of the enemy in violation of the laws of war." Meekin absented himself from his regiment in September, 1900, and served under insurgent General Juan Cailles until the surrender to American arms on June 24, 1901. During his nine months sojourn with the enemy, Meekin was chiefly employed in the work of repairing arms and preparing ammunition under the direction of the enemy. He made no effort to escape and admitted to a solider of his regiment who was held captive by General Cailles, that he had joined the enemy of his own free will and did not intend to return to his regiment. On one occasion he joined a party of the enemy and armed with a rifle, marched against a detachment of United States troops and he accepted appointments as second and then first lieutenant in the insurgent army. Meekin's defense was that he was captured while drunk by the enemy, taken to General Cailles' camp and there held as a prisoner of war.

   General Cailles and other insurgents testified in favor of the accused on this point but General Chaffee found that their evidence failed to corroborate in any substantial particular the testimony of the accused. Meekin was sentenced by military commission to be shot but General Chaffee commuted this sentence to 20 years imprisonment at hard labor.

 

Columbia Beats Cornell.

   New York, Jan. 4.—Columbia defeated Cornell in the first round of the second annual chess match, played at the Manhattan Chess club yesterday with six players on each side. The score at the end of the two sessions of the day gave Columbia 5 1/2 games to 1 1/2 games for Cornell, Columbia winning every game except that between Tucker and Storey which was adjudicated a draw. The second round will be played today.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Proposed Appalachian Park.

   The friends of forest preservation will approve the action of the president in sending to congress a letter accompanying a report from the secretary of agriculture on the creation of a forest reserve in the southern Appalachian region.

   Mr. Roosevelt says in effect that the facts given by the secretary show an economic need of prime importance not only to the south, but to the whole nation, in this proposed reserve, since the influence of the mountain region "flows far beyond its borders with the waters of the rivers to which it gives rise." As a reserve for hardwoods, the president points out, this region is unsurpassed.

   The Appalachian, or Alleghany mountain range extends from Canada through New England and the middle Atlantic states to the northern part of Alabama. The Adirondacks are "outliers" and the Catskills a link of it. The name Alleghany, like Appalachian, is of Indian origin. The former was adopted by the English and the latter by the Spaniards. Alleghany means "endless," and it would seem that some operators have regarded the forests as endless by the way they have been cutting them away. It is to check this waste, which increases with the years that the national reserve is recommended.

 

Charles Grandison Maybury.

OLD DAYS IN SOLON.

MR. MAYBURY TELLS OF SOME OF THE SOLID FAMILIES.

The Pritchard Family and Their Descendants—Oldest Son for Several Years as Officer of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad—The Randall Family—Five Sons Grew to Manhood—The Seymour Family.

   It is with pleasure that we present to our readers the portrait of Mr. C. G. Maybury of Winona, Minn., a former resident of Solon and the author of the letters concerning the "Old Days in Solon" which have been followed with such absorbing interest, as he has spoken of the different families once so prominent in that town and in the county and of their descendants.

   To the Editor of The Standard:

   SIR—One of Solon's solid men in the old days was Garret Pritchard. Mr. Goodwin says he came from Litchfield county, Conn., in 1807—with a pack on his back, having but $16.50 in money. He was a man who was not afraid of hard work. The county was then but a wilderness, the surface covered with a dense forest, but he went to work with a will and finally died one of the largest land owners in the town. It was said his father came the year before—financially embarrassed. Garret shouldered his father's obligation and earned and paid $500 for him.

   Mr. Pritchard kept a public house for several years. And in the days of militia training Pritchard's was one of the meeting places. He was a reticent and modest man, never intruding himself upon any one and in his younger days he could be found in the field laboring with his men, of which he kept many in his employ.

   The eldest son, Albert L., went west to Watertown, Wis., in an early day, where he prospered in business and several years later the Chicago & Northwestern railway elected him as secretary and treasurer of the company. Finally he took up his residence in New York City in connection with the office. That great Corporation now owns and operates 8,722 miles of track. It is often said that corporations have no souls, but I think this company is an exception to that rule, for when they find a faithful employee, he remains with the Northwestern and they seldom discharge a man unless for a grave cause. Again in case of accident where life is lost or injury they promptly send their claim agent to the parties concerned and most generally make so liberal a proposition settlement is effected without going into the courts for justice. Such is the reputation of the Chicago and Northwestern railway, located in nine western states. This is a digression from my subject. But the reference shows that our Solon boy in his venture in the line of railroading fell into good company. The writer is not informed as to whether he is still living.

   Chauncey, another son, owned and lived on a farm located three miles north of Cincinnatus. He died a few years ago.

   Loureza was the wife of Perrin H. McGraw, a lady greatly admired by all who knew her intimately. She has also passed away.

   Mr. Pritchard married for his second wife a Miss Ford of German, Chenango Co., N. Y. Children were born of that union who have grown up since the writer left the native soil. Therefore I am not able to speak of them understandingly. A son married a daughter of John Stevens, an old resident of Solon, formerly of McGrawville.

   Henry L. Randall and Jonathon, his brother, early settlers from Sharon, Conn., settled in Solon in 1808. Henry drove a two-horse team, bringing a few necessary articles such as needed for immediate use in his new home. He reared a family of five sons, Henry G., David, William, Linus and Orrin—all were good citizens who lived and died in the town except Linus, who went West in 1854, and, I think, settled in Illinois. David owned a farm just east of his father's farm, adjoining that of Samuel Emerson. Harriet married Hulbert Cady, a son of Rev. Mr. Cady, for several years pastor of the Solon Baptist church. Albert and George went West. The first named is now a resident of Onalaska, Wis., a suburb of the city of La Crosse. The writer met him one year ago. We had not met previously for about half a century. We were formerly schoolmates. William was a shoemaker. Orrin married Lydia Bean, daughter of Joseph Bean, an early settler. He owned and resided on the home farm of his father for many years. Orrin died a few years ago, but Mrs. Randall is still living. They had a son who was killed in battle during the civil war and this was a crushing blow to the parents and the family. A daughter is the wife of Verne Palmer, a jeweler of Marathon. B. H. Randall, who I think is the youngest son of David, is a resident of McGraw and I learn through The STANDARD that a son Floyd has recently located at Grand Rapids, Minn. Orrin Randall when a young man was one of the sporty boys, who so vehemently importuned Jehiel Johnson of the canal boys mentioned last summer, to get up and go down and take part in the impromptu dance and recently through Dr. Nesmith of Iowa, the identical Jehiel Johnson, likely has been located after about sixty years at Waukon, Ia. The doctor says he had known Mr. Johnson as a resident for thirty years, and a few years since in conversing with him it was revealed that he had lived in Solon as a canal boy. The doctor showed him the reminiscent letter, which mentioned him, and he was greatly pleased. Truth is stranger than fiction.

   The writer does not so well recollect the family of Jonathan Randall, yet he remembers both men clearly. They both died at a good old age.

   Joseph Bean was one of the early settlers, and for several years was a brewer of mints. Among the children remembered was Samuel, who lived many years on East River, Josiah, Thomas, Jeremiah, Albert, Jacob and Chauncey, sons, Mary and Lydia—Mrs. Randall. Mary married Lyman Jones of Cortlandville and emigrated in the early forties to Walworth county, Wis. Jeremiah, when a young man went with William Randall, the old merchant of Cortland, and learned the mercantile business. He located in Cincinnatus, where he conducted a profitable business until 1858, when he sold out to his brother Chauncey, who had been his business partner with Allen and Delaney Halbut, who conducted the business. Mr. Bean then located in Binghamton, soon after the Erie railroad reached that town. He at once engaged in the wholesale grocery business with Moses Morgan, a brother-in-law. The firm prospered and after a few years Mr. Morgan retired and Chauncey, the brother and former partner, went in as a partner under the firm name of Bean & Co. Jeremiah died about 1883. The firm is still in business under the old style and title and of the Bean family. In the firm are Chauncey and Irving W., son of Josiah Bean. Representatives are now living in McGraw. The family has proven an honored one for the old town,

   James Seymour, although not a pioneer, was a citizen who commanded the respect and confidence of the community. He was a man of fine presence and occasionally held town office. He had two children, a son, James Edgar, and Jane. Both are residents of McGraw. Jane married a Mr. Boynton. James E. has a son. Arthur E. Seymour, whom I notice by the columns of The STANDARD is considerable of a politician and an orator, now holding an important position in the census departments in Washington.

   C. G. M., Winona, Minn., Dec. 20, 1901.

 

A CHANGE IN BUSINESS.

Hollister Brothers To Succeed the Firm of Cramer & Hollister.

   A change In the hardware and plumbing line of Cramer & Hollister is to be made at the close of an inventory that is now under way in that store. L. S. Cramer will retire and William K. Hollister of the present firm, with his brother, T. N. Hollister, will carry on the business. The new firm will be known as the Hollister Hardware and Plumbing Co.

   The firm that is to be dissolved has been doing business at 10 Railroad-st. for the past six years. Previous to that time the business was conducted by Cramer & Mellon, and before that by Seaman & Cramer. The business was begun on Orchard-st. about seventeen years ago by Mr. H. T. Hollister. Mr. William K Hollister at that time began a clerkship with his brother and has been connected with the business ever since. Mr. T. N. Hollister, who is to join his brother in the business, was a salesman in the drygoods store of Warren, Tanner & Co., for a period of fourteen years and he, as well as is his brother, is well and favorably known in Cortland and vicinity.

 

ATTENTION, VETERANS!

Order to Report at G. A. R. Hall on Monday Evening, Jan. 6.

 

   HEADQUARTERS IN THE SADDLE, Cortland, Jan. 4, 1902.

   Attention Veterans:

   You are ordered to report at G. A. R. hall Monday evening, Jan. 6, at 7 o'clock sharp to deploy for skirmish preparatory to general engagement which will begin at 8 o'clock when the reserve Corps will report and take the advance, Gen. S. L. Palmer in command. Rations will be issued after the engagement. The irregulars are especially requested to report and draw rations. Bring one night's sleep in your knapsack. The doctor's call will be sounded after rations are issued so that no one who needs it may lack medical attention. Joint installation. By order of, H. R. BURROUGHS, Commander.

 

Grover Relief Corps.

   The ladies of Grover Corps will meet at G. A. R. hall Monday evening, Jan. 6, at 7:30 o'clock, where we will be admitted at 8 o'clock for the purpose of installing the officers elect for the coming year. SOVENA A. BURROUGHS, President.

 

TIOUGHNIOGA CLUB.

Changes to By-laws to be Submitted to Vote in February.

   The board of directors of the Tioughnioga club has deemed it advisable to change the by-laws of the club in regard to the age of new members, the number of members, the admission fee of new members and the amount of the annual dues for the support of the organization. A public meeting of the members has been called for Wednesday, Feb. 5, at 8 o'clock, P. M., at the club-rooms at which time the proposed amendments will be voted upon.

   The first proposition is to change the age limit for new members from 21 years, as Article 1 of the by-laws now provides, to 18 years. It is thought by the directors that this change will not necessarily make a marked difference in the age when new members will be admitted, as another change in the same article provides that the club shall be limited to 150 members instead of 200, as it now stands. It is thought by the directors that this change in the number of members will create a large waiting list for membership in the club and that new members, as a consequence of this probably largely increased waiting list, will have to wait for a long period after they have applied for admission before they can be taken in as members.

   The change in regard to an admission fee is in reality a continuation of the former practice of the club in this matter, except that only $5 is the fee suggested, instead of $15 the former amount. For the past few years no admission fee has been charged by the club. Clergymen are exempt from the admission fee proposed.

   The annual dues of resident members are to be changed from $10 to $12, payable semi-annually in advance on the first days of June and December. Non-resident members under the proposed changes will pay one-half of this amount, or $6 per year. This change will not affect the fees of present members of the club until next June.

 

BREVITIES.

   —New display advertisements today are—M. W. Giles, Make room sale, page 7.

   —The Normal school will reopen Monday morning after a two weeks' vacation.

   —The "Lovers' Lane" company went to Binghamton this morning to fill an engagement in that city tonight.

   —The regular meeting of the board of managers of the hospital for January will be held at the home of Mrs. Julia E. Hyatt, Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock.

   —Quarterly meeting services will be held at the Homer-ave. M. E. church tomorrow. Love feast at 9:30 A. M., preaching by Presiding Elder Theron Cooper at 10:30 A. M., followed by communion; preaching by pastor at 7 P. M.

   —Miss Lucy I. Marsh will sing two solos at the morning service at the Presbyterian church tomorrow. Miss Marsh was formerly the soprano in the Presbyterian church choir, but for the past year has been singing in Syracuse.

 

ADDRESS BY DR. KNOPF, RAINFALL IN CORTLAND, CITY BAND FAIR, AND KELLEY-FALKEY NUPTIALS

 

Dr. S. A. Knopf.

 

 

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, Jan. 3, 1902.

ADDRESS BY DR. KNOPF.

Says Tuberculosis Is Not Contagious.

STAMPED WITH UNJUST STIGMA.

Takes Issue With the United States Government—Recommends a Commission Be Appointed to Inquire Into the Disease and Find a Specific if Possible.

   New York, Jan. 3.—Dr. S. A. Knopf, the well-known authority on tuberculosis, addressed the Academy of Medicine. He said that contrary to the opinion of the United States government tuberculosis was not contagious. A man with well defined tuberculosis could do his daily work if the proper precautions were taken and the sputum removed and destroyed. The government, he said, had stamped all of those afflicted with the dread disease with a stigma that was not proper.

   Dr. Knopf declared that the exclusion of immigrants because of alleged tuberculosis symptoms and tendencies was wrong. They were in the major portion of cases well provided not only to care for themselves, but their families as well.

   He took up the recent action of the city officials of Liberty, N. Y., who classed tuberculosis as a dangerous disease and put it on the same basis with smallpox and diseases of that character. The doctor said that if the officials referred to the boarding houses where tuberculosis patients were taken without proper medical inspection and attention, then it was dangerous, but to place the properly conducted sanitariums in that class was an injustice.

   Dr. Knopf in conclusion recommended that a commission be appointed by the government to inquire into the disease and find if possible not only a specific but the best and most approved ways of treatment. The medical profession, said he, would welcome such a commission.

 

TREES IN BOSTON COMMON.

Unless Better Protected Most of Them Will Be Lost.

   Boston, Jan. 3.—To the millions of Americans who have visited this city to see its landmarks in history, Boston common has been pointed out as the most charming spot. Its natural beauty has been in the wealth of trees, chiefly its elms. When, periodically these trees have suffered from heat, cold or insect life, a great cry has gone up that the city take greater measures to protect and nurture them. Recently the matter of an inspection of the trees was ordered and yesterday the report was submitted by Samuel Parsons, Jr., superintendent of parks in New York city. He says that all the trees, young and old, are very generally in bad health. The soil bas been neglected and the pruning, he says, has been poorly done. The report closes as follows: "There may be a few, a very few trees on Boston common, which are beyond the hope of restoration by methods familiar in the cultivation of trees; but there are many that might be kept in beauty for many years."

 

CALLED ON THE PRESIDENT.

Dr. Horace N. Allan, Minister to Corea, and Rev. I. Garland Penn of Atlanta.

   Washington, Jan. 3.—Dr. Horace N. Allen, United States minister to Corea,  who is in this country on leave of absence, called on President Roosevelt yesterday. Dr. Allen will return shortly to his post, travelling via St. Petersburg to Port Arthur. Dr. Allen expects to be the first American official to make the trip over the railroad.

   Rev. I. Garland Penn of Atlanta, who had charge of the negro exhibit at the Atlanta exposition, yesterday called on President Roosevelt and arranged for the reception Saturday, Jan. 18, of a delegation who are to invite him to attend a young negroes' Christian congress in Atlanta next August. President Roosevelt told Dr. Penn that he looked upon the movement to be promoted by the Atlanta congress with favor.

 

Rainfall at Cortland.

   The readings of the rain-gauge given below are for each 24 hours during which there was rainfall.

   The days of the month given are those on which these 24-hour periods end, the periods extending from 3 o'clock P. M. of one day to 3 o'clock P. M. of next.

1899.

 

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Marconi's Latest Achievement.

  The attempt of the Anglo-American Telegraph directors, who claim an exclusive monopoly of all telegraphic rights in Newfoundland, to enjoin Signor Marconi from receiving wireless messages or signals in that country is a frank admission that the transatlantic cable company regards the Italian invention as a dangerous competitor, that it is afraid of his invention and this the syndicate of capitalists which secures control of it will drive existing cable companies from the field or compel them to reduce their rates and improve their service. While the action is shortsighted and futile, it is the highest recognition of the importance of Marconi's achievement and its ultimate success and practicability. Such an injunction as the Anglo-American company sought, even if granted by a court of competent jurisdiction, could not long restrain the development of Marconi's discovery. The elemental powers of nature are not supposed to be patentable or subject to exclusive grant, and it would be impossible for an injunction to prevent the sending of wireless signals from one continent to another. There is no apparent reason why Marconi's signals should not operate with even more success between the summits of Mount Snowdon in Wales and Mount Washington in New Hampshire than between the coast points he has chosen, Cornwall in England and St. John's in Newfoundland.

   It is not claimed even by Marconi himself that wireless telegraphy has yet advanced beyond the experimental stage, though it is apparent that his latest experiment has demonstrated the extreme probability of its ultimate successful consummation. While the net result of Marconi's experiments to date has been the transmission across the Atlantic of one of the simplest forms of telegraphic signals—three ticks at an agreed hour mechanically recorded—it apparently establishes the foundation upon which may be built the transmission of intelligent messages. The letter "S" thrown into the air, as it were, in Cornwall and picked up on the very instant in St. John's may represent a new and marvelous method of communication between the hemispheres. So far as the success of the experiment is concerned it does not matter how faint or simple the signal was, since it was really sent and received. That establishes the principle, and future experiments must demonstrate its practical application to the uses of mankind. If this shall be done, Marconi's name will stand through the ages among the very first of the world's great inventors. The accomplishment of wireless telegraphy appeals powerfully to the imagination. The vastness of its effect upon the social life, the business and political relations of the peoples of the earth would be almost beyond present comprehension.

 

Cortland City Band in 1898.

CITY BAND FAIR

TO BE HELD IN TAYLOR HALL WEEK OF FEB. 3.

New Uniforms and Instruments are Needed—This Method Taken to Raise Money—Fine Program in Preparation—Some of the Attractions—Officers and Committees.

   The Cortland City band has made its plans for a grand fair and series of entertainments to be held in Taylor hall the week beginning Feb 3. It is now nearly ten years since the band has made any call for money to aid in its maintenance. Everything wears out and gets out of date with age. New instruments are needed and new uniforms. The band numbers among its members some excellent musicians, but they are handicapped if they have not good instruments. Some of the instruments will answer pretty well, others are nearly useless und all have seen their best days. And the uniforms are badly faded to say nothing of being almost ragged. There is the material in this band for a first-class organization, and Cortland may be well represented when it goes forth, but it is hardly in condition now to make any one as proud of it as he might be under other circumstances.

   A band in a very marked degree represents the musical sentiment of a place. Cortland is decidedly a musical town, and it goes without saying that Cortland ought to have a first-class band—first-class musicians, equipped with first-class instruments and wearing a first-class uniform.

   Now is the time to help the boys. A little from every one will tend to swell a grand total and provide the necessary funds. But this fair as proposed is not to be a begging concern. In the first place one of its features will be the total absence of all contest books and of everything which looks like begging. The band is planning to give a first-class series of entertainments. It invites the public to attend and to purchase tickets, but it proposes to give to every one in return the absolute value of his money. He may go to these entertainments the same as to others and go away feeling that he has not bestowed any charity on any one but has paid his money and received his fun.

   Officers of the fair have been elected and committees appointed as follows:

   President—Fred I. Graham.

   Secretary and Treasurer—J. F. Byrnes.

   Soliciting Committee—J. C. Seamans, F. W. Barney, J. Kernan, C. B. Maas.

   Entertainment and Music—F. W. Lanigan, George C. Murphy, J. McDermott, J. F. Byrnes.

   Hall, Booths and Decorations—W. Harvey, J. Murphy, J. D. Clark, E. Maas, W. Quinn.

   Printing—F. W. Barney, W. Harvey, S. Dillon, J. F. Byrnes.

   The entertainments will include a concert each evening and dancing. On one evening there will be a minstrel first part and a vaudeville entertainment. Cortland is fortunate just now in having a good deal of professional talent at home and much of this has been secured to assist. The week will be an event in Cortland. Fuller details later.

 

KELLEY-FALKEY.

Married Under an Arch of Wishbones at Phelps New Year's Day.

   Mr. Wilfred Kelley, foreman of the office of the Cortland Democrat and one of the most highly respected of the young men of this city, was married on New Year's day to Miss Wilhelmina H. Falkey at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Falkey, at Phelps, N. Y. The ceremony was performed by Rev. S. F. Blakeslee, pastor of the M. E. church of that place, in the presence of a small company of the immediate relatives and friends of both families.

   A unique feature of the decorations was an arch of cedar adorned with wishbones, beneath which the bridal couple stood during the ceremony, and thereby hangs a tale. Several years ago at a chicken pie supper at the parlors of the Homer-ave, M. E. church some of Mr. Kelley's friends began joking him about his bachelor state and inquired of him when he expected to be married, if ever. In that same spirit Mr. Kelley replied that when he had saved a hundred wishbones he would begin to consider the matter. At once his friends set out to save wishbones for him and soon he began to receive them by the dozen and the score, by hand and by mail. When they believed he must have at least a hundred the inquiries were redoubled and continued—perhaps with reason, for the present bride was to a certain extent a Cortland young lady, being a student of the Normal school, from which institution she was graduated in the February class of 1901. And so it came about that the wishbones in great numbers were present at the wedding, and many of those who have saved them will be glad to welcome Mrs. Kelley back to Cortland, whither they will return after a short wedding trip.

   Mr. and Mrs. Kelley will be at home at 14 Harrington-ave. after Jan. 19, and a host of friends will be glad to extend to them their best wishes for a long, happy, prosperous and useful life.

 

The Ithaca News' Greeting.

   The Ithaca News' carriers greeting is unique. It is in the form of a dainty booklet with folder and has the appearance of being tied with a lavender ribbon. Within is a chronological history of leading events in Ithaca during the past year, together with half-tone views in and near Ithaca, including a look down the lake, several fires in progress, a Lehigh Valley wreck with train in the lake and a number of views of the recent flood. The home of The News is also pictured. Upon the last page is a portrait of the late President McKinley and on the last page of the [greeting] cover are the names of the carrier boys. The whole effect is very tasteful as the printing and press work is first class.

 

BREVETIES.

   —Rumors say that the Lackawanna [railroad] is soon to pass under the control of the Wabash.—Ithaca Democrat.

   —New display advertisements today are—Bosworth & Stillman, "More Little Talks," page 8; Glann & Clark, Shoes, page 6.

   —Union services will be held in several of the churches during the week of prayer instead of in the churches individually and separately.

   —George Nelson of Chenango Forks was given three days in county jail by City Judge R. L. Davis this morning. The charge was public intoxication.

   —Rev. J. J. Keyes has resigned the pastorate of the Baptist church at Cazenovia, having been there since Sept. 1, 1893. The resignation will take effect on the last Sunday in March.

   —The net receipts of the Charity ball in Syracuse on Christmas night were about $2,000. Nine hundred people attended the ball. The proceeds go to the Women's and Children's hospital.

   —Invitations have been received in Cortland for the wedding of Mr. Charles Lewis Viele of New York, formerly of Cortland, and Miss Mabel Carolyn Burton of Brooklyn, which will take place at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. William Lewis Burton, 192 Schermerhorn-st., Brooklyn, at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday evening, Jan. 15, 1902.