BY RP. GRAY MEEK. — | | po —Whenever eversthing elve fails there is | always that ABRUZZI-ELEINS affair to drag out again. | —1t Cook's two Esquimanx didn’t know | anything aboas the pole how much more did PEARY'S one. —Straw hats have been called in, but whas is the fellow to do who basn’s she price of auvother oue. —Even the Grangers seem to have lost their little kink of bringing rain every time they get together for their ausnual picnic as Centre Hall. —Colleges have opened and already the likely candidates for the line and back eld positions are of more importance than she ourriculoms cr the professors. ~The performance of the stock market for the past few days seems to indicate thas Mr. HARRIMAN'S going dido's sake all of the bullishness out of it anyway. —A snow storm in Colorado and beat to 105° in Texas in the same day larnishes a variety of olimate that ought to please both the pole sharks and the ice cream fiends. —Was it envy or emulation of Mr. HuUxsTER'S feat of Killing a cow with his automobile that prompted Mr. WAGNER to knook one of his lights off on a hovine head ? ~The Board of Pablio Grounds and Buildings ie atill wrestling with the Quay statue. Even the effigy of ‘‘the old man” seems a most difficult thieg for some of them to tackle. —The Standard Oil Co. paid a goarterly dividend of six dollars a share on Wednes- day. Whatever may be the condition of other concerus is is evidens thas she Oe- topas still octopes. —We hope chairman HOWARD SARGENT, of ove of Philipsburg’s *'Old Home Week" committees, is feeling better than be looks in the piotare the North American publish- ed yesteaday morning. —*The North Pole Hat" is the new thing for the fall in women’s head gear. We baven’s seen it yes, bot we presume it will look like an inverted ice cream cone, with a few cookies on is. —Another American girl bas married into the nobility. Miss ANITA STEWART, of New York, is the bride of the Portugese Prince of Braganza. While she was after the BREAGANZA be was probably after a "bonanza and be got it. .=It will cost one hundred avd eighty- four million dollars to ran the government of New York city next year. Twenty-five years ago it didn’t cost that much to run the United States government. We Amer- ioans are going some, though. ~The President’s trip is to cover 12239 miles. In every inch of it he will see sights that should convince him that a tariff that promised revision downward, when it actually revises upward, is not making the land blossom like he probably hoped is would. —The deposed Sultan of Tarkey is writ ing a history of his reign. If he should de- vote a chapter or two to telling how he man- aged his hundreds of wives lots of poor fel- lows we know ol who can’t manage one would bail it asa light ip their wliderness of darkness. —Mr. and Mrs. ANTHONY PETLIN, of Rice's Landing, certainly bad a hos time the first night of their married lite. Their house took fire and burned down giving them merely time to escape in their night- ies. Of all times, what an unpropitions one for a fire. —PEARY is gettiug entirely too gabby abous his trip to the Pole. Is is well that Dr. Cook has sense enough to keep quiet ; elee the public would soon put them in the olass with the pugilistic pugs who fight most of their battles by calling each other names through the sporting pages of our metropolitan papers. —The postal business of the world is in- creasing at the rate of seven per cent. per year. Bt is not a surprise. The population is increasing at nearly the same ratio and as education advances and the postal serv- ice expands there cannot bat be a constant ly increasing use of the mails for social, educational and business purposes. ~The President had five pounds of candy with him when be boarded she train at Utica, N. Y., for his long journey around the country. Possibly he has some gum drops io the package. Cook is said to have used gam drops with good effect on the Esquimanx and it would be just like Tarr $c undertake to keep the dissatisfied west. erners in 8 good humor with candy. —United States Senator OLIVER was at the Granger's picnic yesterday and while there may not have been any surface in- dications as to the rivalry among local Re- publican leaders for hie smiles, the rivalry was there all right enough. And the long political prophet looks forward toa time when another Republican editor in Belle- fonte might think tbat he is entitled to the postoffice. The seed is planted. Wateh is grow, —That Saratoga conference of] promi” nent Demoorats of New York was a fine gathering. The principles enunciated were traly Democratic and all that,but the tron. ble with it was that the fellows who can be depended on to get out the vote when eleo- tion day comes round were not there. "Tis true thas our leaders would help much by together but the greatest results yo. 5 Falae Pretense of Candidates, Io opening the Repablicac campaign at Allentown, she other day, both the candi- dates of that party who parsicipated in the meeting ealogized the administration of their respective offices by Governor STUART, Auditor General YoUuxG and State Treas. urer SHEATZ. “Vote for Vox MoscH- ZISKER, SrssoN aud STOBER,” they said substantially, *‘is order to guarantee the continaance of the wise policies of the pres. ent officials.” Because the presens officials have not been as bad as shey might bave been S1ssoN and STOBER ask the people to elect in their places men who are certain pos to disappoint the worst expectations. RoseRT K. YOUNG, the present Aaditor General, wae a Representative in the Legis. latare during the session of 1899 and J. A. STOBER was a Senator in the Geoeral As- sembly daring the same session. Mr. YouNG was among the leaders of what were then known as ‘‘the insurgents,” and STOBER was a servile follower of the regu: lars. It is safe to say that they dido’s vote on the same side of any political question daring the entire session, though professing to represent the same party. Every legis- lative day for nearly four mobths they eat together in joint session and never in a sin- gle instance voted for the same candidate for United States Senator. Daring the ses- sions of 1902 to 1906 JoHX O. SHEATZ sat in the House while STOBER occupied a seat in the Senate and the records show that in nine times ous of every ten they voted on opposite sides of party measures. Mr, SHEATZ was not a consistent reformer. He was not always able to assert his inde- pendence of the machine. But in most oases he defied the authority of the bosses whiie STOBER was invariably the most serv- ileand obedient creasare in either branch of the Legislature. Sevator S1ssoN, the Republican nominee tor Auditor General, hecame a Senator in the General Assembly with the beginning of the session of 1901 and from 1903 until the close of the session of 1907 sas in that body while Mr. SHEATZ occupied a seat in the co-ordinate branch. Daring that time much of the iniguitons iegirlation which brought shame aud disgrace to the Com- monwealth, was enected. As we have al. ready stated SHEATZ was not always moral. ly strong enough to vote against the man- dates of the machine bat SissoN was al. ways sufficiently subservient to sapport the most infamous measures. In private ocon- versation he freely deplored the degeneracy of the body of which he was a member,but whenever he was called so vote or give public expression to bis views on questions in issue, he obeyed the orders of the hosses. The railway franchise bills, tbe ripper bills, the PUBL and other measurea designed to protect the white-slave trade in Pbiladel- phia, aud in fact all legislation which the machine desired, was supported by Sisson, He koew better, He may have been asham- ed of bis work but he performed it ander boss orders. What right have these recreants to hide bzhind the persons of Governor STUART, Auditor General YouxGg and State Treas: urer SHEATZ? Even they bave been de- linquent. They lack the militant integrity which is needed in the offices they occupy. If there bad been a genuine reformer io the office of Governor duriag the pass two years and a-balt for example, there would be no question now as to whether or not the cap- itol grafters should be punished. It ie noticeable that since the retirement of WiL. Liam H. BERRY there bave been no ex- posures on ‘The Hill.” It is not because there is nothing to expose, but for the reason that exposures hurt the party. Therefore the present officials are not models bat they are far better than the present candidates of their party would be if elected and Sis. soN and STOBER ate impudent false pre. tenders when they ask voters to support themeelves in order to prolong the policies of the present officials. Mr. Peary and Mr. Cook. Commander RosERT E. PEARY may have beew at the North Pole on that day of April, 1908, upon which he claims to have discovered that important pars of the globe, But be doesn’t act Mke a man who had achieved such a resnlt in the interest of science or hamanity. Men of great hero- ism and achievement are usually unselfish, As a rale they care less lor the pecuniary side of their enterprises than for the altruis. tic consequences. They strive for the bet. terment of mankind and the world. They are sustained in their perils and privations by the enthusiasm which flows from a heart throbbing with benevolent emotions. Commander PEARY appears to be differ- ent. His impulses are purely commercial. He reveals more the spirit of Chatham street than the hopes of s hero. Before he started ou his journey he sold the informa- tion which he hoped to acquire, largely at other people's expense, and hedged the good he might accomplish so completely that it was certain to give him the greatest smonnt of pecuniary advantage and the public the least usefal information and at would come il our workers were to get together the highest price. DR. Cook didn’t pursue STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. so selfish a course. He proceeded with his work notil it was finished and then gave his information to she public as free as air. Then Commander PEARY might not bave been at the North Pole at all. He might bave beep some piace in the direction of the pole where the information of Cook's achievement could bave reached him and when be heard of the discovery by Cook he might bave hurried back to present his claim and organize his absurd quarrel with the real discoverer. There is nothing in his statement inconsistent with this conjeo- ture. The data be bad acquired in pre- vious attempts to reach the pole and thas be is alleged tp have seized ip COOK'S camp on his last trip might easily make up bis story. Men who achieve great things don’t act as be has acted. False Hopes of Prosperity. A short time ago Mr. James J. HiLL, the best authority in the country on in- dustrial conditions and crop prospects, admonished the public against false hopes of prosperity. There has been some im- provements, he said, in consequence of the vast orope of this year. Lahor was em- ployed in barvesting and marketing the fraits of the s0il and generons wages paid for the work. Bat there bas heen no sub- stantial or enduring improvement in the industrial conditions of the country, and there can be no snch improvement while wages continue low and the necessaries of life high. The margin between the receipts aod expenditures of the average family, where there is any margin at all, is too small to build bopes upon. It is all weli enough to read in the metropolitan papers of industrial activity in one section and another and we have no doubt the improvements relerred to are actual. But with eggs, meas, vegetables aod clothing at record prices even the workingmen who get the benefit of the em- ployment in question are unable to save anything ous of their wages to meet the exigencies of sickness or other forms of mis. fortune. The price of olothing is to be ad- vansed from $2.50 to $10 a suis, we notice in the commercial columus of our city con- temporaries. The price of shoes will be increased from fifty cents to a dollar a pair, we learn through the same source of information and in view of these facts we can’t see how the average workingman can view the approach of winter with con. fidence. There ought to be abundance in this country for every industrions man. With a yield of eight billions of dollars from the fertile soil the prices of necessaries of life ought to be so reasonable that every work- iugman would have a safe margin between his receipts and expeuditures. Bat the policy of the Republican party has created trusts and fostered such combinations to regulate prices that while the producers ges comparatively little out of their abund- ance, the consumers are ground hetween the upper and nether millstones of cor- porate greed until there is nothing before them except dispair. The remedy is in voting those responsible for the conditions that weigh so heavy upon the great masses, when everything is in such great plenty, out of power and this year is the time do is. Tatt's Unhappy Campaign Speech. President TAFT started on his 13,000 mile dectioneering tour the other day wish a speech in Boston which must bave great- ly discouraged his friends. The features of his address were first an eulogy om Sep- ator ALDRICH, secondly a plea for central- ization of the money power of the country and last a puerile attack upon Govervor Jouxson,of Minnesota, whom he imagines may be his competitor in the next Presi- dential campaign. Neither of these fea- Jura will appeal to intelligent popular avor. Probably the most important of these features is his attempt to popularize the Wall Street proposition ofa central bank of issue with absolute authority to control not only the but the volume of the currency. ith euch an institution in operation it wonldn’t be worth while for anybody to run against TAFT if he hap- pened to be the candidate of the ‘‘financial machine.” HARRY Traw or HARRY ORCHARD would ke equally certain of election under such circumstances for the *‘Central Bank’ would have power to cre- ate. prolong or stop panics at ite pleasure. Alter his election and before his inauga- ration President TAFT declared in a speech delivered in New York that umless Con- grees fulfilled its obligation to reviee the tariff downward in purenance of the pledges of the Republican party, he would be ashamed to hold the office to which be had been elected and the party would be unworthy of future popular confidence. Congress didn’t revise the tariff downward and TAFT not only approved the violation of the pledge with indecent haste but now fulsomely enlogizes the man responsible for the reoreancy. His puerile attack on Governor JOHN- SOX may easily be dismissed as the poison- Me Bp lei r dinoer es are nently digested and apprehension of she future appears to have inflamed the President's spleen to such an extent that he can’t be exactly just to Governor Jomxsox. In any event, bowever, there is nothing in what Governor JOHNSON bas said abot the east and west to justify the bad-tem- pered criticism of the ent. BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 17, 1909. Popular Education Menaced. The Philadelphia schools opened on Monday with 15,000 children ‘‘outside of the breastworks.”” That is to say there are that many children of school uge and entitled to the privilege of attending the public schools of the city who are unable todo so because the scbool facilities are inadequate. The council chambers are models of elegance and luxury. According to the local newspapers there is nothing to be desired with respect to shem. There are marble galleries and alabaster railings everywhere and luxuriously (furnished rooms for the members of municipal legie- latare and their friends to lounge in. The Mayor of the city bas been provided with a room in which every modern convenience is present. Bus 15,000 school children of that city are withoant the facilities to exer- cise not only their natural right to attend sohool bat their legal right to the oppor- tunities of she school system. Mayor REYBURN is urgently in favor of expensive boulevards for the use of owners of automobiles and she machine which is responsible for his administration is ever ready to borrow money to invest in snch luxaries. Philadelphia business men and bossés, raise yearly hundreds of thousands of dollars, to debauch elections and protect the villians who commit she crimes, but any proposition to appropriate public fands to provide essentials for the primary edu- cation of the children of the community is frowned upon as a waste of materialjand opportanity. Popular education contrib. ates nothing toward the maintenance of the machine. In fact the public schools are a menace to machine government. The moment people acquire sufficient education to reason from cause to effect the citadel of the political boss is threatened. Ignor- ance and servility go baad in band. Iilit- eracy is the source of partisan supersti- tion and providing funds for public schools is equivalent to contributing support to a movement to abolish partisan political ma- chinery. Until recently the infamous municipal machine which bas misgoverned Philadel- I : gs > it may be said that thelate Senator QUAY would not permis soch a usurpation of power. Loos the city to your heart's con- tent, he said substantially, to DURHAM, MARTIN, MCNICHOL and the VARES, bat keep piltering fingers ont of State aflairs. Upon bis death, however,conditions chavg- ed, and the Philadelphia bosses began ae- serting themselves in State conventions and assumed anthority to direct the busi- ness of the Legislature. In the recent State convention which nominated Vox Mosca ZISKER, S1ssoN and SroBER, Senator Mc- NicHOL was the directing force and the people of the State may soon expect to see the educational policy of the city, which leaves 15.000 children without sohool facilities, extended to all parts of the State. on Faise Pretenses, In his speech at Allentown last Satur. day, Senator S1ssoN, Republican candidate for Auditor General, attributed the com- wercial and industrial improvemens, which is said to have set in, to the ALDRICH tar- iff law recently enacted. The ALDRICH tariff law, according to tbe experts who have been wrestling with it, increased the DINGLEY schedules on a great number of articles and reduced them on a few. Al- together, however, the ALDRICH bill made Claims Based —— a considerable increase in the tariff rates of recent years, and il thas polioy bas worked av improvement in industria! and commer: cial conditions, President TAFT must have been mistaken when he advocated tariff re- vision downward before and after his elec tion. At the same meeting former State Sena- tor STOBER, machine Republican candidate for State Treasurer,spoke of the freedom of the Ssate from debt and asked for a vote of confidence in the Republican party, through his election and that of Sissox, as a reward for wise financiering. Yet during their terme of service in the General As. sembly both Sissox and StoBer did dll in their power to delay the payment of the state debt, by voting for every profligas. expenditure that was proposed in the in- terest of the machine. The policies under which the State debt have been paid were adopted long before the Republican party came into power in the State and the Re- publican machiue had nothing to do with the achievement. Thes both the Republican candidates have predicated their claims wpon popular favor on false pretenses. If there have been any real improvements in the indus. trial and commercial conditions of the country they are ascribable to other causes bry pai tap Ag CE Rig aggregate value t ons dollars it bie be cally impossible to keep industrial life inactive and though the overtaxation of the people will impair the advantage of such a yield of the soil to some extent, it cannot entirely destroy it. With respect to the state debs the Repub- lican machine would have multiplied it if conditions oreated belore it got control had not prevented. This is induced by the fi nancial condition of every county and y every municipality in the State that ite creatures ol. X0.3%. Prosperity is Returning. From the Omaha Herald, From Chicago comes the cheeriog news of a radical advauce in the price of meats. This advavce follows similar advances, made with monotonous regularisy every three or six months ever since the famons “‘smav<hing of she Beef Trust’’ by Roose: velt, Sag 9a Stal. Avan nieans greater prosperity for poor ers. Recently the price of milk was radically advanced in Omaha. When the city an: thorisies, however, sought to prevefs, by enforcing the strict letter of the law, she sale of milk from suherculous cows, a com- plaisaot jadge stepped in with a writs of wojuoction. Itis all right for the milk men to cowbine to raise prices. Thecourts bave nothing 10 say as to that. Bat when the city officials insist that their dear milk must be reasonably free from filth and poi- son and disease, the ready writ of injunc- tion elips easily into place. This means greater prosperisy for the poor milk men. Immediately following the passage of the Aldrich tariff bill it was aopounced that the average suit of clothes will cost some §5 more this coming winter than is cost last winter. This means greater pros- geri for the poor woolen mill proprie- It is also aunounced that cotton and woolen goods generally, of she kind used to make dresses for mother aud the little girls, are already started for a long march up the incline of higher prices. This means greater prosperity for a lot more of poor mill owners. The prices of provisions of all sorts, in- cluding butter, eggs, poultry and all re. frigerated products, though they have held up at unprecedentedly high prices daring the summer, are ex to olimb this winter $0 new notches, that will make even Dr. Cook’s North Pole record look sick by comparison. This means more prosperity for the combine, which the Beet Trust is backing, if indeed it does not con. trol is, that bandies practically all farm products except the staple grains and cereals. All along the line prosperity is return: ing. Its other name is High Prices. It is a prosperity produced by trusts and com- binations for the exclusive benefit of the owners of those trusts and combinations. Is isa’ ty’ produced in open and in- solent defiance of she anti-trust laws on the federal statute hooks and on the state statute books. Bat for the man who has to pay for this prosperity, who bas to furnish is, not much of it is returning. We mean the M a 5 salaries, maintained a pretty even level, being lower on theaverage, however, than they were a couple of years ago. If the wage-earvers anywhere try to assert their right to some share in the general prosperity, as in Pennsylvauia recently, they are likely to be evicted from their homes, shat out from their jobs by stook- ades and left to starve with their families, while cheaper labor is shipped in from other places to work under a guard of re. peativg rifles and gatling guns. This cheaper labor is paid ‘‘high American wages,’’ ranning from 60 cents to $1 20a day. Owmaba wage-earners may rejoice in re- tarning prosperity. It means much to them, with Sheir wages at the same old figure, to be permitted to pay a cent a quart more for milk, several cents a pound more for meat and butter, several centsa dozen more for eggs, a few dollars more for a cheap sait of clothes, a few ceats a yard more for dress goods for the wife and ohil- dren, and perbape a few dollars more rent ‘‘because e thing else is higher.” It means a great deal ! It means smaller Suanta io we means a poorer equipment for the obil- dren as they start the battle of lite. Is means more skimping and self denial. It means more worry and sleepless nights. It means more heart-ache for mother. Bat, at the other end of the line—it means more multi-williovaires, bigger dividends, more water in the stocks, a wilder satarnalia of flanuting extravagance, a dissipation, moral, social and financial, run riot. Prosperity is returning—by the simple process of running the bodies of the poor through the cider will, while privilege stands ready and expectant with a bigger dipper. be ed A Gigantic Lottery. From the Portland (Ore.) Journal. Io railroad fare'and other expenses, §3,- 000,000 was paid out hy those who recent Ivy played bands in the gigantic land lot- tery oondacted by the government on vorth west Indian reservations. The same authority estimates that an additional §1,- 000,000 will he similarly expended by those who drew prizes. Further informa. tion is shat in many cases the lands drawn are of little value as an asset for remunera- tive endeavor. The upshot of the whole incident is a wide conviction that a ocolos- sal blunder has been made by those who were in charge of affairs for she govern- mens. It has mes, as it ought to, with condempation by the press throughout the country. The enormons sum extracted from the people makes of the prooess one of the most Siilatie games of history. Eight million ollars us a part of the stakes, and waie than 300,000 people in the list of the players, puts this government lottery in a class by itself and places the government officials who sat as ‘‘dealers” at the head of class in any known game of obance. It is a proceedings of which all those who rep- resented the goverument ought to be ashamed. The government of the United States should be in better business. Pri: vate citizens accessory to a lottaty of one- thousandth the magnitude would be sent to jail or be made to pay a heavy fine, or both. What of the statesmavsbip that this bosiness upon the ocoun- try? What,of the officialdom that insists that the only way to equitably distribute Indian laude is to entice the people into playing a game of chanoe for them? ———————— ~Subsoribe for the WaTcHMAN. / vv 5 spawis from the Keystone. ~The man hunters who were searching Lewistown Narrows for the lone bandit whe eld up the Peunsyivania railroad train were paid §3 a day aud their meals. Many Lewis towners availed themselves of the op~ portunity. ~The Spangler Water company has let the contract for the building of a large reser. voir on Brown's run to supply Barnesbore with water. Polo Azra, of Barneshoro, was the successful bidder, his consideration be- ing $23.000, | =—Nine families bare moved to Williams- vort from Reedsville during the past week, | on account of the removal of the plant of the | Smith Printing Co., from Reedsville to Wil- liamsport. The company employs about thirty five hands. ~As the result of the recent raiding of slot gambling machines in Johnstown fifty are rests were made. Some of the merchants are going to fight the thing out in court. Three warrants have been issued for men who are charged with distributing the machines. ~The plant at Yeagertown, Miffiin coun~ ty, of the Yeagertown Water Power com- pany, is vow completed. It is along the Kishacoqnillas creek and is one of the most ap to-date electric power plants in the State. There is a total invested capital of $100,000. — The new Frankitn and Clearfield branch of the New York Central gives that system access to the bituminous coal district. One wile cost $2 500,000 to complete. The reason for the high cost of this was that it contains three bridges aud two tuunels of 1,000 feet each. =Ou Sept 20 next, Rt. Rav. Eugene A. Garvey, bishop of the Altooua diocese of the Roman Catholic church, will have completed forty years of service in the priesthood, and the event will be celebrated in an wppropri- ate manuver by the clergy of the Altoona diocese. —While excavating ou the land of Charles Ferguson, about two miles out of Blairsville, the bones of fifty Indian warriors were dis- covered. Among them were arrowheads, spearheads, lanceheads and articles made of flint and obsidion. The whole collection will be sent to the Smithsonian institute. —Fravk Falkeuostive, of near York, saved $750 by carelessness. He put the money into a drawer avd forgot to lock it up. The family went to a picnic and when they came back all the locked drawers in the house were pried oper and valuables taken from them, but the money was undisturbed. —Two new kilns are very uearly come pleted at the Silica Brick company's works in Mouut Union. The demand for the pro- duct of these works is so great that two more kilns are to be built, adding fifty per cent. to the capacity of the institution. This will make it possible to put on the market 60,000 bricks a day. ~=During the past twoand a half years Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust has been in charge, 330 prosecutions for viola~ tious of the oleomargarive law have Con i FYB RIE we cases have enriched the treasury $33, —John Wheeler, a wealthy farmer of Dixonville, Indiana county, received threats ening letters from blackmailers who threat. eued to blow up his house if he did not put $15.000 under a certain bridge. He put the money there and put detectives to watch the place. Nobody turned up to take the money and the sleuths are unable to ind any clew to the culprits. «Ail hopes of ever running down the ban. dit who held up and robbed theexpress train in Lewistown Narrows, almost two weeks ago, has practically been given up and Mon. day the last of the force of men stationed about the mountains, were recalled. The Adame Express company has also given up hope and the lonely mountains along the Juniata have returned to their nsual calm and peacefulness. —JIu his barry to catch Philadelphia ae. commodation, at Petersburg, to go to his home at Huntingdon, Monday afternoon, ex. Sheriff Balzer Rumberger, of Huntingdon county, rushed across the railroad tracks at thatstation in frout of a westbound freight train and was fatally injured, dying ou the train as he was being taken to his home. He was born at Gatesburg, this county, and was seventy six years old, —Tweuty five widows, all dressed in the deepest mourning, filed into the Uaited States circuit court of Pittsburg and satinas row, with several rows of children behind thew. They were the plaintiffs in damage suits for from $10000 to $50,000 against the Pittsburg Coal company. The women's husbauds were killed in the Darr mine disaster. The verdicts awarded were from $500 to $1,000. There are thirteen more like cases to come up for trial, Four through passenger trains a day will be run on the new Franklin aud Clearfield railroad, starting on Sunday, September 26. Two passenger trains a day will run from Chieago to New York city over this new di- vision and about seventy miles or more will be saved in the distance between these two big cities. The Lake Shore officials have decided to run a through and a local freight daily, over the new road. Freight traffic starts on the same day as does the passenger traffic. —Encouraged by the success attained by the students who have gradua from its school of telegraphy at Bedford, , the Pennsylvania Railroad is to endeavor to se- cure this fall the largest earollment the school has enjoyed since it was established in 1007. Located at the headquarters of the Bedford Division, the telegraph schoo! has the personal supervision of practical railroad men, while Mr. J. B, Fisher, superintendent of telegraph at Philadelphia is in charge of its operation, with ©. F. Emerick as resident mansger. The time required to complete the course is from six to eciznt months, and immediately upon its completion graduates are provided with salaried positions in direct line of prom The bulk of the expense of the school is assumed by the railroad com. pany, as the cost of the course to the student $2.00 monthly, is merely nominal. Since the ia railroad established its school of ‘telegraphy there have been enrolled a of 218 students, of which number 117° - ve graduated.
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