Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, December 7, 1898.
A WARLIKE GAME FOR BOYS.
Messrs. Parker Brothers of Salem, Mass., the inventors and manufacturers of games, have hit upon a novelty suited to the warlike spirit of the times in the game which they style "The War in Cuba." It combines skill and luck, and is played with small spring pistols which discharge wooden ammunition for the purpose of knocking over the toy Spaniards and Cubans who form the contesting armies in the game. The directions provide for placing the game in two ways, thus increasing its interest. In addition to this game, and along the same line, they publish "The Siege of Havana" and "Battle of Manila," besides a multitude of miscellaneous games. Their illustrated price list will be mailed free on application by addressing Parker Bros., Salem, Mass. Or any of their games can be had through the toy dealer.
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| General Lope Recio Loynaz. |
CLOSING UP ACCOUNTS.
Spanish Reign In Cuba Has Almost Ended.
GETTING BEADY TO SURRENDER.
Inventories of All Departments Taken In Havana and Pay Rolls Figured Up to December 31—American Syndicates Investing In Cuban Enterprises.
HAVANA, Dec. 7.—The Official Gazette publishes a decree signed by the governor general, dissolving the Colonial cabinet on Dec. 15, assuming personal control of all branches of the civil service and directing the present secretaries to prepare, between Dec. 15 and Dec. 31., complete inventories of their departments in their respective offices and to figure up the payrolls up to Dec. 31, in order that the employees may be immediately paid off.
The following warning has been placarded at the corner of the different streets recently cleaned:
"I, the Marquis Estaban, mayor of Havana, do hereby make known that this street has been cleaned and disinfected at the expense of the United States of America. All persons, who throw or deposit dirt or refuse of any kind here, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
A dispatch from Puerto Principe says the Cuban General Lope Recio will enter that city at the head of his troops who will then lay down their arms and be dismissed.
The latest advices from Holguin say there are over 1,000 cases of smallpox there and at Gibara.
The line of ferryboats plying between Havana and Regia, and the railroad running between Guanbacoa and Regia, have been purchased by an American syndicate through the Zaldo company. The sale is also reported of the entire block of buildings fronting on Central park, and it is added that a large American hotel is to be erected there.
The famous San Miguel sulphur baths and springs at Guamacaro, near Sagua, have been acquired by an American syndicate which proposes to build a fine hotel there and make the place a fashionable resort.
Evacuation Going On.
HAVANA, Dec. 7.—General Gonzalez Parrado, who was president of the Spanish evacuation commission, and General Valderrama, with about 2,000 Spanish troops, sailed for Spain on the Werra. The Spanish soldiery evacuated Regia and Puentes Grandes, suburbs of Havana.
Conditions at Santiago.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Secretary Alger has received a letter from General Wood as to the conditions at Santiago. The general says that matters of every kind are adjusting themselves to the new conditions and that people are returning to their homes and to work, that business is reviving, that churches and schools are opening and everybody looks to better and happier days.
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| Wreck of USS Maine. |
Monument For the Maine Victims.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Senator Hale has introduced a joint resolution authorizing the secretary of the navy to erect a monument in Havana, Cuba, to the memory of the sailors and marines who lost their lives by the explosion of the Maine. The bill is recommended by the navy department.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
◘ The American Health association has been urging President McKinley to appoint a commission to go to Cuba for the purpose of making a study of the yellow fever bacillus and the best means of preventing the disease, aside from municipal sanitation. It is probable that such a board of experts will be selected, including the most experienced men of this line in America.
◘ American naval officers are as much in the business of raising ships as of sinking them. Admiral Dewey expects to resurrect three of the Spanish warships which he sent to Davy Jones in Manila harbor. These vessels will be repaired and refitted, it is expected, at Cavite, where there is a naval arsenal.
◘ The imagination of General Longstreet, commissioner of railroads, has been fired by the possibilities of the new colonies as bearing on railroad traffic. He recommends the construction and operation by government of an line from Kansas City to San Diego, Cal., to accommodate the tremendous augment of trade which he foresees in the near future. General Longstreet considers the condition of our roads as exceedingly favorable. The aggregate presents a spectacle of many roads very recently in receivers' hands but now paying dividends on their preferred stocks and piling up surpluses. In his view all the bond-aided roads will within a short period be able to pay principal and interest to the United States.
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| Cortland Hospital, North Main Street. |
HOSPITAL DAY.
Opportunity for Parents to Aid Through Their Children.
Children's day at the Cortland hospital, which has several times been postponed on account of the [smallpox] vaccination of children and their consequent absence from school, has now been fixed upon for Friday of this week, Dec. 9. On this day an opportunity will be afforded the children of bringing to school money or articles of any kind that will be serviceable at the hospital. That includes food, either groceries, vegetables or fruit, fresh or canned, eggs, meats, old linen or anything that can be used. After school hours teams will call at the several schools and convey the donations to the hospital. In previous years parents have contributed liberally through their children on this day and the fact that the children are the medium through whom the gift is made gives them a personal interest in the hospital. This year there is special need of supplies of all kinds owing to the crowded condition of the hospital and the consequent demands upon the larder. Besides as the day has so long been delayed the management are hoping that the contributions will be larger than usual.
The hospital is the only local charitable institution and it does a good work in our midst. Here is an opportunity at this season to unite a general charity with both a Thanksgiving and Christmas gift. People who have no children of school age need not be deprived of the privilege on that account, but can probably borrow a neighbor's child for the occasion.
With Fatal Effect.
While Frederic Remington was in the West he observed a well executed portrait in a dark room on the wall of a cabin and asked whose picture it was.
"That's my husband," said the woman of the house carelessly.
"But it is hung with fatal effect," urged the artist, who remembered the fate of his first picture in the academy.
"So was my husband,'' snapped the woman, and the artist discontinued his observations.
"The Glad Hand."
"The Glad Hand," a one-act satire, will afford amusement to the patrons of the Cortland Opera House, Thursday evening. It is the work of Kenneth Lee, with melodies by John Stromberg, and is produced by Weber & Fields capable company. The scene is laid as Bashbury Beach, whose autocratic proprietor has stringent rules respecting propriety in dress and decorum, and is something of a confidence man as well. To this resort repair jolly girls, dashing bathers, Klondike miners, bunco operators, and a bewildering array of clog and skirt dancers, and the result is a half hour of funmaking, which does not suffer a particle from the absurdity and incoherence of the plot. Other features are Douglas and Ford, Haliday and Ward, Post and Clinton, Manning and Weston, and lastly, but not least, Fields and Wooley, German ambassadors.
Prices 35, 50 and 75 cents. Seats now on sale at Rood & Co.'s.
Death of Judge William H. Robertson.
We had only time and space yesterday for a brief announcement of the death of Judge William H. Robertson of Katonah—well known in Cortland, not only on account of his prominence as a state and national politician, but by reason of his having married one of the loveliest and most popular women who ever grew up in this village, a daughter of the late Hon. Horatio Ballard. The sincerest sympathy of many friends will be extended to her in the loss of a husband who was devoted to her, and to whom she was equally attached. Few men in the history of this state have been longer in public life than Judge Robertson, or been more honored and successful. He was the youngest member of the state senate when the father of the editor of The STANDARD was in that body in the early fifties, and he was in the senate twenty years later when we [William H. Clark] were in the assembly; and we shall always remember most pleasantly the courtesy and kindness of both himself and Mrs. Robertson to the son of his old friend and colleague.
President Garfield named Judge Robertson as collector of the port of New York in March, 1881, and it was as a protest against this nomination, and because their wishes were disregarded in making it, that Senators Conkling and Platt resigned. The following summary of the judge's public career we take from an article in the New York Tribune of March 20, 1898:
Judge Robertson was born in Bedford, Oct. 10, 1823, and there is probably no man in Westchester county who is better known than he. He was only 17 years old when William Henry Harrison ran for president, but he took an active part in the campaign, and from that time to the present he has always been a worker in the field of politics. He went to the assembly first in 1848, and began his first term as a state senator in 1853. His title "Judge" came to him in 1855 when he was chosen county judge of Westchester, to which place he was reelected twice. When the war broke out he was inspector of the old Seventh Brigade of the New York state militia and in 1862 he was appointed by Governor Morton as chairman of the committee to raise and organize troops in the Eighth senate district. Prior to that he had been a member of the Electoral college that elected Abraham Lincoln president and Hannibal Hamlin vice-president of the United States.
He was sent to congress by his constituents in 1866, but in 1871 he returned to the state senate, to which body he was re-elected in 1873, 1875, 1877 and 1879.
He has been a conspicuous figure at all the Republican national conventions, and at one of these—in 1880—it was by his efforts that the unit rule was broken, and James A. Garfield was nominated.
On Aug. 1, 1881, Judge Robertson laid aside the senatorial toga and assumed the duties of his office as collector of The Port of New York.
After leaving the customhouse Judge Robertson was returned to the senate in 1889, and was re-elected in 1891, and although he had continued to be the leader of his party in his district and the mentor of a large constituency, he has occupied no public office after his term in the state senate expired.
He is beloved by his townspeople and honored by members of all parties and all creeds.
Aside from his high standing among his political friends, Judge Robertson is greatly esteemed by his neighbors, and Mrs. Robertson shares with him the good will of the community.
POMONA GRANGE.
Hold Its Fourth Quarterly Meeting and Elected Officers.
Cortland County Pomona grange convened in Good Templars' hall on Tuesday, Dec. 6, Worthy Master N. F. Webb in his accustomed place. Reports of the officers were given, showing the Pomona grange to be in a good healthy condition, having added nearly a score of members during the past year, total membership being 157. The report of the treasurer was gratifying and encouraging. The secretary reported three meetings held in Cortland and one in Marathon during the past year, with a fair attendance.
Lloyd F. Rice gave a good common sense talk about good roads and how to construct them.
Frank Smith of Earlville, N.Y., county deputy of Madison county, gave a five minutes' speech rich with valuable thoughts relative to the grange.
The election of officers and delegates to the state grange was next in order and resulted as follows:
Master—N. F. Webb.
Overseer—B. R. Knapp.
Lecturer—W. L. Bean.
Steward—George W. Moore.
Assistant Steward—John L. Atkins.
Chaplain—Mrs. Geo. H. Hyde.
Treasurer—Mrs. Wm. P. Robinson.
Secretary—J. D. F. Woolston.
Gatekeeper—M. S. Nye.
Pomona—Mrs. Manley Kinney.
Flora—Mrs. George Sherman.
Ceres—Mrs. Julia A. Greenwood.
Lady Assistant Steward—Miss Nellie Byram.
Member of Executive Committee for Three Years—Frank Sears.
Delegates to State Grange—W. L. Bean, Mrs. B. R. Knapp, D. M. McNish, Mrs. M. S. Nye.
BREVITIES.
—New advertisements to-day are: Rosenbloom & Sons, pianos, page 7; Stowell, games, page 8; The National bank of Cortland, report, page 7.
—Division No. 1, Ancient Order of Hibernians, is arranging for its annual New Year's party, which will be held Dec. 30 in Taylor hall, supper being served in Empire hall.
—The Sunday-school of the First Baptist is arranging a special service for Sunday evening, Christmas day. On Christmas eve, Christmas exercises will be held in the church, and two Christmas trees will be hung with gifts.
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