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• • . *•••.•-• ..-, . . . L..•<••. ,. •:• ... .,.,..p..,,',..'.>i.,;i 4 ,,>/4.;-.!.,,i.u(jJtf)ri =^frTR^t-hig= : ^perieiice^ th^issjue ;of the" Herald preceedihg tBiBr the waiter took pains to gather items of ocean disaster during the same series of storms, two of which r we~w11 reMmoYno^iBWfDlf - Weiobtaihed ^at that time a letter ifrniTgDr^rSrrWr-Wetmore-of—Buffalo oHwhich;;:we give-a synopsis. --We left New York in the City of Berlin, the crack liner of the company. She had just been newly painted, refurn- ished and all her metallic embellish- tubea-haarburat^andputgQUt;—the^ad^ joining fire.''•-"But the other boiler was good, and the steamer was Mill heading .windward when the greater misfortunes came. The after-gear i ^aVe^ay^n*=«n^ = nTJblF s VBHireMi^t^ by a committee. ?rnatr-rn-tHe-vrgrniYv--of J -TunD_er vessel drifted on and on toward the ments burnished like mirrors. -_:-r^esented^tbe_mos.t_. ma5nificent__apji. Two day after we Bailed, the wind became terrific; and we ran before it "~~"from 14 to 16 knotsr^an hour.r—From » Tuesday to Friday night"" there was broadside at the mercyof- the-waves; "an^"by~the~Tme'of"an~af ter-Bai l~to-get- her up to the wind. But she fell off again and again for want of steering power, and sea after sea washed over her extinguishing the last 6re. And now all^hope^wasrlpstrrrThe^oomed^^TOps-^-Oritario county thiB year little cessation in"its violence. The barometer was-falling^apidly-^ndicaa. ^tye^halsuiuelhiiigro^adfiri-^as^Gom^ -ing. Then^J3egan^be_jnojJ^4ej^ibJ(a, storm the Berlin had ever encounter- ed. At 3 p. m. her saloon and state- rooms were drenched with water., _It had broken.in windows/skylights and -doorB-and-rushpd down th^xompanjoni ThenJhe life belts were served out, just one each and not one to spare. At last the jteamer struck ojni_a rock_ off Neven,. two miles „from_ shore. Amid the blinding surf the distress signal could not be seen. No life lace:—The Bay Improvement association JieId an athletic day and water carni- mented successfully with sand for ex .iinguiahing a fire in a, lumber yard.'_ ^E£hymcrana!rH:£eportB;bbuWd20;GgTCS-i^^^<^SQduarbi»-S^te>tday and Satur^ of typhoid fever in the Tonawandas in two-days. The epidemic is severe. Wyoming county supervisors have voted to place the sheriff's office on a salary basis, the amount to Denx'ea" lake in the Adirondacks, have ruined many fields of potatoes during the past week. Every indication points to bumper day evening Augus'tlSthV A pair of wilddeer are,aaid to have been seen several times recently, .near Oaks Corners in Ontario county, where and swamp""land, "which" 4:aoge„J^Jh£j»iary,game^, affords a Farmers~are keenly alive to their bp- -portunitreB-and-are -anticipating-some nice balan^ces"fc^~th'e^eSiOtt'8'"wprkr^ Buffalo aldermen have granted the LehighXaljey railroad affinal extenr sion of three months within.JarilicJh, boat could live - ways like rivers. .-At..7 J^PJi__there^ came a -dreadful crash-caus^d^'ihe^e^I^lng'CruslI^ ed in the apartments" of the chief en- gineer, _and ihose^Qfjttie third_ and fourth officersT-^and—4fae— directors' room. Three of the lifeboats were carr4ed^away^r_crushed» Several men one after another with lifebelts 'Sr^uTld^h^iiniimped'nntortbe-boiHn sea, and struck out bravely .for 1 the shore. Two firemen who went down below were never seen again. .- The last man that Btood upon the deck~was-~Captain—-John-A-r-Strachan r aged 30 years, of Crosby near Liver time they must start their_new pass- enger station at Main and Scott Streets: .^- ••..-.—r-—-—-—TT: sailors and passengers were injured. washed overboard and back again sav- ing himself by seizing a post The prospects for a bumper crop of aprpVes™ln""Castile this fall' is assured and-many-of-the—owner s-of—orchards are planning to handle-only the best. They have men going over the trees now, picking off all of the small and This ""Twenty carloads ot bricks, 2507^ 000 in number, destined for'^use^ri re- pair work on the Geneva turnpike in the eastern part of the city^ have been rejected by the State—highway com- mission as not being up.inspecifica- tions. «- . rNeifcYoik^ "See NewTork First" may "Well be~the title^of the ^ew^Tjinfticlitrdrr that is to be put out by the State Automobile 'association after their coming 3000-mile swing about the ^there^l8^h:oTl8ldeMble^r^gt^^^gm^#^^ '.•"'T - *• ' • "" ', -I-have—withm—tha_laat-twa_weeks been privileged' to.see quite a bit of Central drk"^by r aut6mobile~irP' IflrHinman fiTtfraT localttyT -^The^ying-boat^merka-Avhich-has. ^eys^ot-the^unties-of^Gorttendr ^ j g b ^ j ^ been in process of building^ and ex perimentation at Hammondsport dur- ing the last -few months, will not cTbs¥~th"e~Atlantic this year, because of the war in Europe. . Lieutenant John C. Porte of the British navy, whn wni th pilnf~the host" has beeli compelled to'return home, his servic^ es being heeded at this time. impeTfect apples. This will also lighten the weight on the trees, and by'the side'"of bur own glbribuTTJohn Mainyard, who stood at the wheeLJtiLL -thefrheavy—loadsrr the fire burned the flesh from his bones, to save the lives of those aboard. Just as the Captain was buckling nnhis—lifelbelt.:^-and_wartaking' a supported or they will break under last look at his noble, vessel, he saw -eraw-ling —alung-Uie- tilting—deck—a .Through the night of Friday I as- sisted the surgeon in .hi8"dutie^rd* ess - ing wounds, broken arms, dislocations, etc. About X a.~nu Saturday we went into the smqke-rpomT~lS by 25 !^tf^30Tfeteii#m^^ The eighth annual field day, under the auspices of the Improvement com- pany, will be .held at Bristol Center ^n-Eniday-, August 14. Grand parade will start at 10 a. m., and there-will In addition to the .paving already" under construction on the Main st. in the village of Dansville a complete •system—of-bouleva rd—el ectr-i c—14 ghts will be installed. All poles will be cidentalto"the good fortunes of a va- cation. - The lot of myself and family was with relatives who reside in Cin- cinnatus, Cortland county, and being wil 1 ir^^gWststtn^autom'oTiile parties enjoyed to-the full -extent several de- lightful trfps-iirnong theiills. and Yal Chenango, Madison, Otsego, Dela- ware and Broome. . ----- Several Side Trips. This mode of travel enables one to see parts of the country that can be BPHn in nn nth»r way, and with tfre ton,"my choice for governor, who is FefeTrredrto~by"the^Ne^v-York^SurL-.aszr "The Pride of Pitcher/' * Mr. Hin- mah's widowed mother and One o f h i s brothers live on the old homestead, andthe senator often runs up there •y-ai m in^hia—automobile^from iinghamton^ to see them. Needless to say, it is •;jA Colgate University. Our second all day trip took us in somewhat the Ba'me direction, ' but o ver_entirely different ..roads.. Leay-.„ ing Cincinnatus we went over through 'WtisriB^krib^vrTTfai the7"Br^klJ7Jn7 Chennago ~ county ~and —over~ lt the- « - removed and the -W*"spIaMdJnjai^^ ork-is-al 1 com- ^;^:^^En^s7r=f t-*7i-r cbriduitT-^'WBen tbe pleted Dansville will have one of the finest streets in the state. The thirty-third annual reunion and picnic of the Case family will be held at Sencea Point, Canandaigua lake, The boat improy^TO^dB^rtB7B~delightfui-w to^pass-a-few-days-of-a-vacationr—=In all,^wejtrjLveiadJ3y_au.tomoj3iie-jBeven or eight hundred miles, managing to get back to Cincinnatus every night with one exception, covering from 50 to lUlTmlles every~Hay. Qffour of these trips I will speak dirty, ragged boy, with a face white as •-•. ashegi—from-sickness confinement, -andJEear.—"Who are^you,?'.,' < ^d the Captain. "0 please sir, Lam a stowaway. ' 1 He-TVBTrT>nly _ a tittle sneak, a young fOoi trying to steal a passage, Reserving punishment. Yet Ta^fellow= Tn^nTnT creature. There was no time for be 'BaseBaTTgames" "rli'OTriiifrg^affd'af ter- noon. The East Blobmfield and H61- cbmb bjalid^wilt*!urnish^music. Dim: trtirthu hall frum 11* to'3,'"and supper from 5 to 8 o'clock. A prominent speaker will deliver an address -at 2 p. m.,—and_aports_will Ibegl"—at 2:30. ' Hallock's orchestra gentleman-who had been injured. We had . just entered when occurred tKe . most frightful event of my life. -Without warning we were struckJ>y_a _T^Aimfwin WRVPJ which crushed , in the BTd^flTiTr^dmT-^o^errog-Tis^^ thlspyear words. The poor waif had a life to be saved: "Here" said the Captain asheunbuckled-the-belt-wbich-was-his very life, and buckling it round the" •nnft—ft'^water. I HUTOnflPf^-fftE^hQ : L-^ r!TTt .^ T , U»^ TO ^mi_^nlt_LJ__Qg«r moment I was in- the sea, but present ly the water subsided and I found my self in the companion way leading to the great'saloonr^HeTe-HTrapparHng- sight confronted me. Men women and children, were up to theif.waisjs tables, will furnish music for dancTng~ih the evening.—Over a hundred - prizes - of cash and merchandise will be awarded in the parade and field sports. on. Saturday, August lb.. leavear -GanandHiguu^at"^© Over 300 invitations have been sent xmt-to different memhera of the fam- 1TincmnlfuT i ff61 ; tb"tb^DeRuyter7"Mad-" J8on.cou.nty, . where our party_of five had dinner— Wliile-there„JL._made a call at the .office of the DeRuyter Gleaner, but Editor Ames, happened to be out of -town- that day. The "force" were on the job, however, "The plank" refers to a plank road that was in existence years ago fol- lowing a winding creek ten oirtwelve miles into Norwich,—Mucb of-this is now a state road. We never saw so many little bridges and sluices in a m Jtance as over~this road. Nor- yich-is—thfr-county-eeat—of-Ghenango- county, the home, of the famous _M ax- dole hammer manufactory.— A large djug manufacturing house is located there and numerous other manufactur- m ing concerns. After an appetizing dinner at the Eagle hotel, we started i IKeseat "of'"Colgate" UniVeris ty7 "This" led us over good roads and through a fertile valley^ devoted to dairying. The first town of importance we passed waB Sherburne, but of this vil- lage more later. Leaving Sherburne we-went to Earlvilie' and from there ay. ^O: Gleaner. Editor Ames is also Post master at DeRuyter, and the bulk of |iyL..-A."lLmnmharq nf the family are [the newspaper editing devolves on his ;cprdialiy invited to attend, whether they have received invitations or not. ^ wood-r-Middlberookj^son, of Mr. tftr^edjjtJOD^of^b 6 - -north^o—Hanrilton. Hnmilton-JB—an _ ftpjftei R°WrJ ,MMdj_ebrqok.___who reside north' of Manchester, was a victim of a motorcycle accident near his home on Saturday afternoon. He was learning to ride, when the ma- The crops of-Seneca county are re- j chine-got the start of him, leaving Thelbay-Uhe_ro^d^ thr.pMng_..him ajgajnst_ja_ and wheat have been gathered, the ; fence, breaking his wrist '.and-badly went the stowaway lifted like a cork on-the-waves,-and.oveiL.went the Cap wheat in many iristHmreB-avera^tng-^o-cu^tmg^isHWee-and-^e^dx son, C. W. Ames, a husky 200-pound-, er who is one of the village's popular citizens, and. .also secretary of the Four County Fair association. enangcTFa'llsV From DeRuyter - we went "over "good dirt~roads to Cazenovia, one of the beautiful villages of Madison coUnty.' This~is the seat of the Cazenovia sem- inary, and the home of a great many people of wealth. Broad streets and Trunks, chairs. .in—water cushions and clothing aroundT were floating The-electrie-14ghts--flicker^ ing would leave us in utter darkness for some moments. The wails of tain with strength enfeebled by long watching, work and anxiety, but struggling hard with all the force of his own great will. ' But-swimming anguish~and pleading prayers.-jn-aeveiv: al tongues for God to save us, otill ringing in my eniB t are 'Among~tbfillihg" incidents the -doc* tor relates is one_of_a Jady whom he met-on the steps,ofIhe saloon, crying in anguish, "0 God, I have lost my dear-,boy.-—He-grasped .her by ihe. waist with one arm as with the other bejjhung to the bannister, thus carry- ing her to.the foot of the stairs where his foot Btruck the little one floating in the water, which he rescued in time-~t<Tbe resuscitated, and tells how they_finally arrived a^ Liverpool with but one of 8 Iifeboats; Jhd with the ftf t-bridgej the gallant and royal tops, the"maiir hatch', all "the ' ventilating funnelBand the main binnical. swept aWay and the baggage almost destroy- -without-aid-in-suchia-raging_aea_jyjBj, utterly impossible, andTtie soon sank ^f rom-sight,— 1 Thus perished a real hero. The stowaway with'the life belt on was thrown on^H^-welch~-eosatr-bruised: and battered, but he lived to tell of Caplain-Straghan's self sacricfie. ed. ' The following account gives an in- stance of heroic self sacrifice such fcs and "'ocean disaster by the h&rdy sonfl bf-the-aea. The: name of Captain John A. Btrachen, a name made illustribus in thataeaBon 'of great"at'brma of which we write; and one worthy of being" immortal ized. ing billows between his weary frame and the shore, to put it on a little thief stealing a passage in his ship, giving up his only chance of life, for one ofJ h e least and mbst unworthy, who stood -helplessly by, is indeed a God-like spectacle—' _ "Tell it out in tones of triumph,*"" Or with tears an^bBited-breath, - How manhood's stronger far than storms ' And love is mightier than death 1 ." W, B.C. we+l-kept lawns gave the town a very pretty appearance to the visitor. I noticed—the-absence—of— troHey—ears old town and of course is noted for its Colgate. The university buildings are" located"~oni an eminence" "aT~fh"e" ^5 edge of the village, and some^dfthem show their, years, being built of quar- ried stone,, but solid and as. enduring as those of more-modern constructiom n^F«tTrort-Hmow-eonsidei of— Colgate-lrom.^the number of its graduates and students who are among our leading citizens. Retracing our-path-to—Earlville, a- m •m •'•isSi m m '. -if brief stop was made to call on friends. Rov.-E.- E. KnpapT-formerly-of-FBir-^ -•m port, but-now-—preaching at Drydeh, there and was told that the residents has a nice farm here. Homeward bound from Earlville. our route lay -.a:i w had so far successfully kept trolleys from being built "to the village from all points. They prefer to. keep tbe the rustle and bustle incident to cars passing through ^he streets is con through Smyrna and Otslic and through Pitcher again. ™— Automobile Club Run. While Cincinnatus has not the pre- rtentmnB-of-being-an-incorporated-vil-^^ . ill r£2 -'II lage it is a mighty busy place, and in- cidentally is full of automobile own- VrSH r JPhTmoral - ojrfh"rBtofy~iH^contained in Jts recital, and rich enough to gjface a sermon—John Strachan. unlashing.. his life belt with two miles of rbar-| Washington, August 10—Last bul letin gave forecasts of disturbance to cross continent Aug. 10 to 14, warm wave 9 to 13, cool wave ._19_ to 16. This will bring the last of the hot -waves of Aug. and it will also bring hopes for relief to the drouth sections. But no general relief—4s expected from it. Scattered thunder showers The first cheese factory in the United States, built 65 years ago by Uro oftcn^flde^n^imeB-of-Bhipwreck-l-j^gyB—Wittiimre;—now—stands—near- Hitks Mills; north of Rome and is still used for a limberger cheese fac- tory. . Medina will-soon Jiave . the best 'BMHsagaisw rfor^^-MedUerrarieanr ports;—On-? board :; ^'—b^Bid^ th<r-crew,—there=was,_« ^n Anyone a-Httle wretched-stoWaway -who-had-^ecretedJiimaell^mojlgJhe merchandise. He was some 14 years )UL equipped cold storage plant in West" ern New York.. The new plant will 19, great central valleys 21, eastern .^^^^^SIXM^^^^^^ ^ii^^fttorflge^apacitv^for^^O^ Bectloiu23 f mw WmtHtGBlltofSU will cause rains of small extent but the drouth," ""In a general "way," wi 11 continue south of latitude 40 while more rain than is needed-will continue north~of"th"aT"l ine^ T~~~ t ~ Next disturbance will reach' Pacific coast about Aug. 16, cross Pacific slope by close of iY, u great central valleys 18 to 20, eastern sections 21. Warm wave will cross -Pacific slope about Aug. \Q, great central valleys 18 eastern sections 20. Cool wave will-cross Pacific slope about Aug. cause " notable disturbances .in th"e nature^ of electrical storms and .our readers should watch the news columns for accounts of such events. Wheat sowing continues to be the im- portant feature of Agriculture. Win- tet.wbeat is sown daring the -winter months in the southern states and of: course.they .wijl wait till after Sep- tember in order to sow in moist Boil. TbTeVe will be an"abuTrdance"of mois- "ture*laier -on in^he's^utberir^tateTR' In the. mid-latitude states the winter wheat is sown in September or last of August.—irwiirtie"teBHt--to-wairtiH- middle of September. this year. In some parts of the middle west very bErte^BOwrng—wtH-bo-best—becauae_ol dry weather till in September. A succeaBful wheat crop depends so much on the nature of the soil of each locality that we cannot give advice in a general letter-but personal inquiries cerned. In this they are uccesasful, and still-there seems—.to-be.nodetri^ irfeiit ttrthlP"viilage-in following-thia policy. Just north of the village is Cazenovia * |ake, _ lined_on either side with beautiful homes and spacious grounds o.f -the-wealthy——. Leading still north from Cazenovia is the Chittenango creek, about six miles, to Chittenango FallB. The ride over the road winding in and about the hills with the creek, shaded practically all the way, is a delight- ful one, and the pleasure is not in*the least diminished upon reaching the fallsT The-water drops over a preci- pice of several hundred feet,-and the scene is a very^pretty one,'-indeed a .miniature Niagara. .„ .,„ Some Hilly Country. - _Jtetraeing--=^our»way to Cazenovia, ^ve~went~Hastrfrom~Cazenovia-to-Mor» risville over eleven miles of the cream of state roadB. It had just been open- pd to travel and was as smboth aa a waxed floor. ers. Some of the more enthusiastic of-these-owners conceived -the^idea^of=~ hWihg~a" fr r"IiTi7 TT which" was—pulled— off August 4th. Twenty seven auto- mobiles carrying 148 people made the 1 happened to be irT IFe" partment. wiH hold 1»200 tons 'JTThT Wanye^Cbunt'y' Ffui£G rowers' ^"iriooTPixa^rmjatmckdhfl^pim-ifift they ran into a hurricane. The waves surged under ohj oyer .h«*..!g.ithjfemr» ful force. " For many hburd "shb stood - the-aw^al-atrain^ when -suddenly-the -^fbro^teeringljear-in the..afterparU)£ the ship gavo way. Still they had ihe- reserve gear in the afterpart of ," the ship. And so kept hdr <ipfto the wind forftwhile. But presently -an engineer came to the: overstrained -4:apjLaip^4 ^Hil^MJktSgllJ*: summer meeting will be held Aug. 22r-on-tha.farm8.of W. P. Rogera in %m come a great drop in temperatures thaPwill ^ffe^TTnlftrortbe eonttirentr -the-wftFm^av^ollawingJjdlLbcJliOCL r"w^s~de7!ldcd~ilmt l the public- urntu arfd^htrTOoi-wave , to~foHoW--wil4- r—^heHEuropcarrwar-flcnreR-iipseUour- Witiiamsbh. TlleWo ed: President, Willis P. Rogers; vice president,•'--- K. L. Whitbcck of Sodus j-Bceretary, Mr^f leming; treas- urer, ^d^dornwall; executiv§ com ; mltre^irnvr^alch^IeT^RoleT George Wignall, Walworth; W. R. Teats, Williamson. .. - "For Sale*' and " T o Reqt" Cards always in stock at the Herald office. elext^ ^Ilt^mirnnr^brtlforiBlltuiir^O-bTit go to lower degrees than-usual. No great storms are* expected. Rains attention;" It is believed that millions ofr-doHars—mny-bc-sayed-by-knowing- what and when to plant and sow. market -calculations but with war At MorrisvitleT is lo- cated a state agricultural school,, us- ing the buildings that.were formerly the county bulldingB. The"county seat of-Madison^-was—fnoved-^-to—Wamps-- ville, farther north,-a few-years ago,- days trip, pacemaking-car, which had instruc- tions-to-go 15 miles per hour- on dirt- road and 20 miles on state road. The party went to .Hatch's lake, just north of Georgetown in Madison county, where all went into the orchard of a hospitable farmer, and from the over- loaded baskets of good things a picnic dinner was enjoyed on the lake shore. The water from this lake is used as a supply for the Erie canal,by the state./-fit-is several mi}es from-tha canal. ^-The„state_has.£Ojn^inicte.d__ft_ Reservoir at its outlet to store the water tijl needed; In this vicinity al80_are_other_rese"rybir^.or_Ahje_8^me_ purpose;" Across the lake from where we ate our dinner stands a little clump of trees, where as a. small boy Postmaster-Eisk-of-Eairport has .time, and time again left his clothes while in swimming. His boyhood home was not far from there, and he "knows all" that region we'll. m 1 -X'l ;M m fTom^lnirvTffuaTTarmers who are .sufrr ^or^^^iSfllnT6Kvt "M After dinner, our route lay through » i^r^^^^hjiw^^bTrnjtewi^ hilly country up to this pointy but now came "buinesss" for the auto- m "Til I L only showers south of that line. The drouth will continue to-^damage cot- ton. tween Jupiter"anTThe §urT an3~*aT there is surely an . electro-magnetic line connecting those two bodieB that line will disturb the earth when the latter passes thru it.. On some part of the earth that event will surely mobile, a Hudson. Six. From Morris VII1 V •6var^1mnrgh~WT-ir , --Sn : t()n > to, Georgetown was about the hilliest and toughest road we saw, and if you covering* 60TnileB^ "and scarcely~no; trouble being reported by any of the 27"caf8. '-*-• ..\-..x3& l4Htorio-Cooperetown, . , »fll -/ BI1U VUUK ,,cofc IVDU «c OUVT, aiiu 11 JVIU opinion-ihar~thlB^la nottho-time to sell grain or cotton. • The crops are not yet made and our advice for this year has been to •ell. nothing till the croW^corhpIete theif growth."" " ^Th^^inT^^KeSl'-ycTrantTy -^wl 11 freeze wet and that will be very en- couraging «. for the next year's crop. Half the battle is' won for the next crop when the soil is full of moisture at the frail freezing) The last trip of any considerate ~-*~ length was a two-day trip to Coopers- there ask Postmaster E. J. Fisk. He knows all about them. The Pride of Pitcher. - ' -After - negotiating—the—hills—to GeoTgetownT~it~waa—clear-'driving over macadam and good dirt roads through South Otselic and Pitcher to Cincinnatus.' In going through Pitch- er we passed the boyhood home ,qf Hon. Harvey D. Hinhian of Bingham- l0 . Wn » JPi^egg' *M»iy• "•'"M vujf,jywly were ten people riding in two auto- mobiles. This makes a veryenjoyable way"'to..travel,' Going north .from Cincinnatus _we^_bent j^stjB^_North !OisfiliiD^nd^paasjei-ihifiu and Smyrna to Sherburne. At Sher- burne one of the cars needed some at- tention at a garage, and so we had. dinner here. Sherburne'is a nice vll- m •V.J; :-' ., -Continucdon-pjiflfl 2L. II ti. L m m m '"<%* T i^-ir;-.^" i%? L™JJ^L!"^ * JLHl mm -*7?. Jl I Hit ;c&£M Y?? \M^ \ : i-n §WTS ..iA»j.*;«.v»», :^n ititiia &¥&aj 4*AiftKi!sA»a

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=^frTR^t-hig= :^perieiice^ th^issjue ;of the" Herald preceedihg tBiBr the waiter took pains to gather items of ocean disaster during the same series of storms, two of which

rwe~w11 reMmoYno^iBWfDlf - Weiobtaihed ^at that time a letter

ifrniTgDr^rSrrWr-Wetmore-of—Buffalo oHwhich;;:we give-a synopsis. - - W e left New York in the City of Berlin, the crack liner of the company. She had just been newly painted, refurn­ished and all her metallic embellish-

tubea-haarburat^andputgQUt;—the^ad^ joining fire.''•-"But the other boiler was good, and the steamer was Mill heading .windward when the greater misfortunes came. The after-gear i^aVe^ay^n*=«n^=nTJblFsVBHireMi^t^

by a committee. ?rnatr-rn-tHe-vrgrniYv--ofJ-TunD_er

vessel drifted on and on toward the ments burnished like mirrors.

-_:-r^esented^tbe_mos.t_. ma5nificent__apji. „

Two day after we Bailed, the wind became terrific; and we ran before it

"~~"from 1 4 to 16 knotsr^an hour.r—From » Tuesday to Friday night"" there was

broadside at the mercyof- the-waves;

"an^"by~the~Tme'of"an~af ter-Bai l~to-get-her up to the wind. But she fell off again and again for want of steering power, and sea after sea washed over her extinguishing the last 6re. And now all^hope^wasrlpstrrrThe^oomed^^TOps-^-Oritario county thiB year

little cessation in"its violence. The barometer was-falling^apidly-^ndicaa.

^tye^halsuiuelhiiigro^adfiri-^as^Gom^ -ing. Then^J3egan^be_jnojJ^4ej^ibJ(a, storm the Berlin had ever encounter­ed. At 3 p. m. her saloon and state­rooms were drenched with water., _It had broken.in windows/skylights and

-doorB-and-rushpd down th^xompanjoni

ThenJhe life belts were served out, just one each and not one to spare.

At last the jteamer struck ojni_a rock_ off Neven,. two miles „from_ shore. Amid the blinding surf the distress signal could not be seen. No life

lace:—The

Bay Improvement association JieId an athletic day and water carni-

mented successfully with sand for ex .iinguiahing a fire in a, lumber yard.'_ ^E£hymcrana!rH:£eportB;bbuWd20;GgTCS-i^^^<^SQduarbi»-S^te>tday and Satur^ of typhoid fever in the Tonawandas in two-days. The epidemic is severe.

Wyoming county supervisors have voted to place the sheriff's office on a salary basis, the amount to Denx'ea"

lake in the Adirondacks, have ruined many fields of potatoes during the past week.

Every indication points to bumper

day evening Augus'tlSthV • A pair of wilddeer are,aaid to have been seen several times recently, .near Oaks Corners in Ontario county, where

and swamp""land, "which" 4:aoge„J^Jh£j»iary,game^,

affords a

Farmers~are keenly alive to their bp--portunitreB-and-are -anticipating-some nice balan^ces"fc^~th'e^eSiOtt'8'"wprkr^

Buffalo aldermen have granted the LehighXaljey railroad affinal extenr sion of three months within.JarilicJh,

boat could live-

ways like rivers. .-At..7 J^PJi__there^ came a -dreadful

crash-caus^d^ ' ihe^e^I^lng 'CruslI^ ed in the apartments" of the chief en-gineer, _and ihose^Qfjttie third_ and fourth officersT-^and—4fae— directors' room. Three of the lifeboats were carr4ed^away^r_crushed» Several

men one after another with lifebelts 'Sr^uTld^h^iiniimped'nntortbe-boiHn sea, and struck out bravely .for1 the shore. Two firemen who went down below were never seen again. .-

The last man that Btood upon the deck~was-~Captain—-John-A-r-Strachanr

aged 30 years, of Crosby near Liver

time they must start their_new pass­enger station at Main and Scott S t r e e t s : . - • • . . - . — r - — - — - — T T :

sailors and passengers were injured.

washed overboard and back again sav-ing himself by seizing a post

The prospects for a bumper crop of aprpVes™ln""Castile this fall' is assured and-many-of-the—owner s-of—orchards are planning to handle-only the best. They have men going over the trees now, picking off all of the small and

This

""Twenty carloads ot bricks, 2507^ 000 in number, destined for'^use^ri re­pair work on the Geneva turnpike in the eastern part of the city^ have been rejected by the State—highway com­mission as not being up.inspecifica-tions. «- .

rNeifcYoik^ "See NewTork F i r s t " may "Well

be~the—title^of the ^ew^Tjinfticlitrdrr that is to be put out by the State Automobile 'association after their coming 3000-mile swing about the

^there^l8^h:oTl8ldeMble^r^gt^^^gm^#^^ '.•"'T - • *•' • " " ', -I-have—withm—tha_laat-twa_weeks been privileged' to.see quite a bit of

Central drk"^byr aut6mobile~irP' IflrHinman fiTtfraT localttyT

-^The^ying-boat^merka-Avhich-has. ^ e y s ^ o t - t h e ^ u n t i e s - o f ^ G o r t t e n d r ^ j g b ^ j ^ been in process of building^ and ex perimentation at Hammondsport dur­ing the last -few months, will not cTbs¥~th"e~ Atlantic this year, because of the war in Europe. . Lieutenant John C. Porte of the British navy, whn wni th p i l n f ~ t h e host" has beeli compelled to'return home, his servic^ es being heeded at this time.

impeTfect apples. This will also lighten the weight on the trees, and

by'the side'"of bur own glbribuTTJohn Mainyard, who stood at the wheeLJtiLL -thefrheavy—loadsrr the fire burned the flesh from his bones, to save the lives of those aboard.

Just as the Captain was buckling nnhis—lifelbelt.:^-and_wartaking' a

supported or they will break under

last look at his noble, vessel, he saw -eraw-ling —alung-Uie- tilting—deck—a

.Through the night of Friday I as-sisted the surgeon in .hi8"dutie^rd*ess-ing wounds, broken arms, dislocations, etc. About X a.~nu Saturday we went into the smqke-rpomT~lS by 25 !^tf^30Tfeteii#m^^

The eighth annual field day, under the auspices of the Improvement com­pany, will be .held at Bristol Center ^n-Eniday-, August 14. Grand parade will start at 10 a. m., and there-will

In addition to the .paving already" under construction on the Main st. in the village of Dansville a complete

•system—of-bouleva rd—el ectr-i c—14 ghts will be installed. All poles will be

cidentalto"the good fortunes of a va-cation. - The lot of myself and family was with relatives who reside in Cin-cinnatus, Cortland county, and being wil 1 ir^^gWststtn^autom'oTiile parties enjoyed to-the full -extent several de­lightful trfps-iirnong theiills. and Yal

Chenango, Madison, Otsego, Dela­ware and Broome. .

- - - - - Several Side Trips. This mode of travel enables one to

see parts of the country that can be BPHn in nn nth»r way, and with tfre

ton,"my choice for governor, who is FefeTrredrto~by"the^Ne^v-York^SurL-.aszr "The Pride of Pi tcher / ' * Mr. Hin-mah's widowed mother and One ofhis brothers live on the old homestead, and the senator often runs up there

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m in^hia—automobile^from iinghamton^ to see them. Needless to say, it is

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Colgate University. Our second all day trip took us in

somewhat the Ba'me direction, ' but o ver_entirely different ..roads.. Leay-.„ ing Cincinnatus we went over through 'WtisriB^krib^vrTTfai the7"Br^klJ7Jn7 Chennago ~ county ~and —over~ l t the-

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pleted Dansville will have one of the finest streets in the state.

The thirty-third annual reunion and picnic of the Case family will be held at Sencea Point, Canandaigua lake,

The boat

improy^TO^dB^rtB7B~delightfui-w to^pass-a-few-days-of-a-vacationr—=In all,^wejtrjLveiadJ3y_au.tomoj3iie-jBeven or eight hundred miles, managing to get back to Cincinnatus every night with one exception, covering from 50 to lUlTmlles every~Hay.

Qffour of these trips I will speak

dirty, ragged boy, with a face white as •-•. ashegi—from-sickness confinement, -andJEear.—"Who are^you,?'.,' < ^d the Captain. " 0 please sir, Lam a stowaway. '1—He-TVBTrT>nly_a—tittle sneak, a young fOoi trying to steal a passage, Reserving punishment. Yet

Ta fellow= Tn^nTnT creature. There was no time for

be 'BaseBaTTgames" "rli'OTriiifrg affd'af ter-noon. The East Blobmfield and H61-cbmb bjalid^wilt*!urnish^music. Dim:

trtirthu hall frum 11* to'3,'"and supper from 5 to 8 o'clock. A prominent speaker will deliver an address -at 2 p. m.,—and_aports_will

Ibegl"—at 2:30. ' Hallock's orchestra

gentleman-who had been injured. We had . just entered when occurred tKe

. most frightful event of my life. -Without warning we were struckJ>y_a _T^Aimfwin WRVPJ which crushed , in the

BTd^flTiTr^dmT-^o^errog-Tis^^ thlspyear

words. The poor waif had a life to be saved: " H e r e " said the Captain asheunbuckled-the-belt-wbich-was-his very life, and buckling it round the"

•nnft—ft'^water. I HUTOnflPf^-fftE^hQ:L-^r!TTt .^ T, U»^T O^mi_^nlt_LJ__Qg«r moment I was in- the sea, but present ly the water subsided and I found my self in the companion way leading to the great'saloonr^HeTe-HTrapparHng-sight confronted me. Men women and children, were up to theif.waisjs

tables,

will furnish music for dancTng~ih the evening.—Over a hundred-prizes-of cash and merchandise will be awarded in the parade and field sports.

on. Saturday, August lb.. leavear -GanandHiguu^at"^© Over 300 invitations have been sent xmt-to different memhera of the fam-

1TincmnlfuTiff61;tb"tb^DeRuyter7"Mad-" J8on.cou.nty, . where our party_of five had dinner— Wliile-there„JL._made a call at the .office of the DeRuyter Gleaner, but Editor Ames, happened to be out of -town- that day. The "force" were on the job, however,

"The plank" refers to a plank road that was in existence years ago fol­lowing a winding creek ten oirtwelve miles into Norwich,—Mucb of-this is now a state road. We never saw so many little bridges and sluices in a m

Jtance as over~this road. Nor-yich-is—thfr-county-eeat—of-Ghenango-county, the home, of the famous _M ax-dole hammer manufactory.— A large djug manufacturing house is located there and numerous other manufactur- m ing concerns. After an appetizing dinner at the Eagle hotel, we started i IKeseat "of'"Colgate" UniVeris ty7 "This" led us over good roads and through a fertile valley^ devoted to dairying.

The first town of importance we passed waB Sherburne, but of this vil­lage more later. Leaving Sherburne we-went to Earlvilie' and from there

ay. O: Gleaner. Editor Ames is also Post master at DeRuyter, and the bulk of

|iyL..-A."lLmnmharq nf the family are [the newspaper editing devolves on his ;cprdialiy invited to attend, whether they have received invitations or not.

^ wood-r-Middlberookj^son, of Mr.

tftr^edjjtJOD^of^b6- -north^o—Hanrilton. Hnmilton-JB—an _

ftpjftei R°WrJ ,MMdj_ebrqok.___who reside north' of Manchester, was a victim of a motorcycle accident near his home on Saturday afternoon. He was learning to ride, when the ma-

The crops of-Seneca county are re- j chine-got the start of him, leaving Thelbay-Uhe_ro^d^ thr.pMng_..him ajgajnst_ja_

and wheat have been gathered, the ; fence, breaking his wrist '.and-badly

went the stowaway lifted like a cork on-the-waves,-and.oveiL.went the Cap

wheat in many iristHmreB-avera^tng-^o-cu^tmg^isHWee-and-^e^dx

son, C. W. Ames, a husky 200-pound-, er who is one of the village's popular citizens, and. .also secretary of the Four County Fair association.

enangcTFa'llsV From DeRuyter-we went "over "good

dirt~roads to Cazenovia, one of the beautiful villages of Madison coUnty.' This~is the seat of the Cazenovia sem­inary, and the home of a great many people of wealth. Broad streets and

Trunks, chairs. .in—water cushions and clothing aroundT

were floating The-electrie-14ghts--flicker^

ing would leave us in utter darkness for some moments. The wails of

tain with strength enfeebled by long watching, work and anxiety, but struggling hard with all the force of his own great will. ' But-swimming

anguish~and pleading prayers.-jn-aeveiv: al tongues for God to save us, otill ringing in my eniBt

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'Among~tbfillihg" incidents the -doc* tor relates is one_of_a Jady whom he met-on the steps,ofIhe saloon, crying in anguish, " 0 God, I have lost my dear-,boy.-—He-grasped . h e r by ihe. waist with one arm as with the other bejjhung to the bannister, thus carry­ing her to.the foot of the stairs where his foot Btruck the little one floating in the water, which he rescued in time-~t<Tbe resuscitated, and tells how they_finally arrived a^ Liverpool with but one of 8 Iifeboats; J h d with the ftf t-bridgej the gallant and royal tops, the"maiir hatch', all "the ' ventilating funnelBand the main binnical. swept aWay and the baggage almost destroy-

-without-aid-in-suchia-raging_aea_jyjBj, utterly impossible, andTtie soon sank f rom-sight,— — 1

Thus perished a real hero. The stowaway with'the life belt on was thrown on^H^-welch~-eosatr-bruised: and battered, but he lived to tell of Caplain-Straghan's self sacricfie.

ed. ' The following account gives an in­stance of heroic self sacrifice such fcs

and "'ocean disaster by the h&rdy sonfl bf-the-aea. The: name of Captain John A. Btrachen, a name made illustribus in thataeaBon 'of great"at'brma of which we write; and one worthy of being" immortal ized.

ing billows between his weary frame and the shore, to put it on a little thief stealing a passage in his ship, giving up his only chance of life, for one of J h e least and mbst unworthy, who stood -helplessly by, is indeed a God-like spectacle—' _ "Tell it out in tones of triumph,*"" Or with tears an^bBited-breath, -

How manhood's stronger far than storms '

And love is mightier than death1." W, B . C .

we+l-kept lawns gave the town a very pretty appearance to the visitor. I noticed—the-absence—of— troHey—ears

old town and of course is noted for its Colgate. The university buildings are" located"~oni an eminence" "aT~fh"e"

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edge of the village, and some^dfthem show their, years, being built of quar­ried stone,, but solid and as. enduring as those of more-modern constructiom

n^F«tTrort-Hmow-eonsidei of— Colgate-lrom.^the number of its graduates and students who are among our leading citizens.

Retracing our-path-to—Earlville, a-

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brief stop was made to call on friends. Rov.-E.- E. KnpapT-formerly-of-FBir-^

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port, but-now-—preaching at Drydeh,

there and was told that the residents

has a nice farm here. Homeward bound from Earlville. our route lay

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w had so far successfully kept trolleys from being built "to the village from all points. They prefer to. keep tbe

the rustle and bustle incident to cars passing through ^he streets is con

through Smyrna and Otslic and through Pitcher again. ™—

Automobile Club Run. While Cincinnatus has not the pre-

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rJPhTmoral-ojrfh"rBtofy~iH^contained in J ts recital, and rich enough to gjface a sermon—John Strachan. unlashing.. his life belt with two miles of rbar-| Washington, August 10—Last bul

letin gave forecasts of disturbance to cross continent Aug. 10 to 14, warm wave 9 to 13, cool wave ._19_ to 16. This will bring the last of the hot -waves of Aug. and it will also bring hopes for relief to the drouth sections. But no general relief—4s expected from it. Scattered thunder showers

The first cheese factory in the United States, built 65 years ago by

Uro oftcn^flde^n^imeB-of-Bhipwreck-l-j^gyB—Wittiimre;—now—stands—near-Hitks Mills; north of Rome and is still used for a limberger cheese fac­tory. . Medina will-soon Jiave . the best

'BMHsagaisw rfor^^-MedUerrarieanr ports;—On-? board :; ^'—b^Bid^ th<r-crew,—there=was,_«

^n Anyone a-Httle wretched-stoWaway -who-had-^ecretedJiimaell^mojlgJhe merchandise. He was some 14 years )UL

equipped cold storage plant in West" ern New York.. The new plant will 19, great central valleys 21, eastern

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will cause rains of small extent but the drouth," ""In a general "way," wi 11 continue south of latitude 40 while more rain than is needed-will continue north~of"th"aT"l ine^ T~~~t ~

Next disturbance will reach' Pacific coast about Aug. 16, cross Pacific slope by close of iY,u great central valleys 18 to 20, eastern sections 21.

Warm wave will cross -Pacific slope about Aug. \Q, great central valleys 18 eastern sections 20. Cool wave will-cross Pacific slope about Aug.

cause" notable disturbances .in th"e nature^ of electrical storms and .our readers should watch the news columns for accounts of such events.

Wheat sowing continues to be the im­portant feature of Agriculture. Win-tet.wbeat is sown daring the -winter months in the southern states and of: course.they .wijl wait till after Sep-tember in order to sow in moist Boil. TbTeVe will be an"abuTrdance"of mois-"ture*laier -on in^he's^utberir^tateTR' In the. mid-latitude states the winter wheat is sown in September or last of August.—irwiirtie"teBHt--to-wairtiH-middle of September. this year. In some parts of the middle west very bErte^BOwrng—wtH-bo-best—becauae_ol dry weather till in September.

A succeaBful wheat crop depends so much on the nature of the soil of each locality that we cannot give advice in a general letter-but personal inquiries

cerned. In this they are uccesasful, and still-there seems—.to-be.nodetri^ irfeiit ttrthlP"viilage-in following-thia policy. Just north of the village is Cazenovia * |ake, _ lined_on either side with beautiful homes and spacious grounds o.f -the-wealthy——. — Leading still north from Cazenovia is the Chittenango creek, about six miles, to Chittenango FallB. The ride over the road winding in and about the hills with the creek, shaded practically all the way, is a delight­ful one, and the pleasure is not in*the least diminished upon reaching the fallsT The-water drops over a preci­pice of several hundred feet,-and the scene is a very^pretty one,'-indeed a .miniature Niagara. . „ . , „

Some Hilly Country. - _Jtetraeing--=^our»way to Cazenovia, ^ve~went~Hastrfrom~Cazenovia-to-Mor» risville over eleven miles of the cream of state roadB. It had just been open-pd to travel and was as smboth aa a waxed floor.

ers. Some of the more enthusiastic of-these-owners conceived -the^idea^of=~ hWihg~a"frr"IiTi7TT which" was—pulled— off August 4th. Twenty seven auto­mobiles carrying 148 people made the

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partment. wiH hold 1»200 tons 'JTThT Wanye^Cbunt'y' Ffui£G rowers'

^"iriooTPixa^rmjatmckdhfl^pim-ifift they ran into a hurricane. The waves surged under ohj oyer .h«*..!g.ithjfemr» ful force. " For many hburd "shb stood

- the-aw^al-atrain^ when -suddenly-the -^fbro^teeringljear-in the..afterparU)£

the ship gavo way. Still they had ihe- reserve gear in the afterpart of

," the ship. And so kept hdr <ipfto the wind for ft while. But presently -an engineer came to the: overstrained

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summer meeting will be held Aug. 22r-on-tha.farm8.of W. P. Rogera in

%m come a great drop in temperatures thaPwill ^ffe^TTnlftrortbe eonttirentr -the-wftFm^av^ollawingJjdlLbcJliOCL

r"w^s~de7!ldcd~ilmtl the public- urntu arfd^htrTOoi-wave,to~foHoW--wil4- r—^heHEuropcarrwar-flcnreR-iipseUour-

Witiiamsbh. TlleWo ed: President, Willis P. Rogers; vice president,•'--- K. L. Whitbcck of Sodus j-Bceretary, Mr^f leming; treas­urer, ^ d ^ d o r n w a l l ; executiv§ com;

m l t r e ^ i r n v r ^ a l c h ^ I e T ^ R o l e T George Wignall, Walworth; W. R. Teats, Williamson. . . -

"For Sale*' and "To Reqt" Cards always in stock at the Herald office.

elext^ ^Ilt^mirnnr^brtlforiBlltuiir^O-bTit

go to lower degrees than-usual. No great storms are* expected. Rains

attention;" It is believed that millions ofr-doHars—mny-bc-sayed-by-knowing-what and when to plant and sow.

market -calculations but with war

At MorrisvitleT is lo-cated a state agricultural school,, us­ing the buildings that.were formerly the county bulldingB. The"county seat of-Madison^-was—fnoved-^-to—Wamps--ville, farther north,-a few-years ago,-

days trip, pacemaking-car, which had instruc-tions-to-go 15 miles per hour- on dirt-road and 20 miles on state road. The party went to .Hatch's lake, just north of Georgetown in Madison county, where all went into the orchard of a hospitable farmer, and from the over­loaded baskets of good things a picnic dinner was enjoyed on the lake shore.

The water from this lake is used as a supply for the Erie canal,by the state./-fit-is several mi}es from-tha canal. ^-The„state_has.£Ojn^inicte.d__ft_ Reservoir at its outlet to store the water tijl needed; In this vicinity al80_are_other_rese"rybir^.or_Ahje_8^me_ purpose;" Across the lake from where we ate our dinner stands a little clump of trees, where as a. small boy Postmaster-Eisk-of-Eairport has .time, and time again left his clothes while in swimming. His boyhood home was not far from there, and he "knows all" that region we'll.

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tween Jupiter"anTThe §urT an3~*aT there is surely an . electro-magnetic line connecting those two bodieB that line will disturb the earth when the latter passes thru it.. On some part of the earth that event will surely

mobile, a Hudson. Six. From Morris VII1V •6var^1mnrgh~WT-ir,--Sn:t()n> • to, Georgetown was about the hilliest and toughest road we saw, and if you

covering* 60TnileB^ "and scarcely~no; trouble being reported by any of the 27"caf8. '-*-•

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opinion-ihar~thlB^la no t tho- t ime to sell grain or cotton. • The crops are not yet made and our advice for this year has been to •ell. nothing till the croW^corhpIete theif growth."" " ^Th^^inT^^KeSl ' -ycTrantTy -^wl 11 freeze wet and that will be very en­couraging «. for the next year's crop. Half the battle is' won for the next crop when the soil is full of moisture at the frail freezing)

The last trip of any considerate ~-*~ length was a two-day trip to Coopers-

there ask Postmaster E. J. Fisk. He knows all about them.

The Pride of Pitcher. - ' -After - negotiating—the—hills—to

GeoTgetownT~it~waa—clear-'driving over macadam and good dirt roads through South Otselic and Pitcher to Cincinnatus.' In going through Pitch­er we passed the boyhood home ,qf Hon. Harvey D. Hinhian of Bingham-

l0.Wn» JPi^egg' *M»iy• "•'"M vujf,jywly were ten people riding in two auto- • mobiles. This makes a veryenjoyable way"'to..travel,' Going north .from Cincinnatus _we^_bent j^stjB^_North !OisfiliiD^nd^paasjei-ihifiu and Smyrna to Sherburne. At Sher­burne one of the cars needed some at­tention at a garage, and so we had. dinner here. Sherburne'is a nice vll-

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