Benoa Bain
INK SLINGS.
—There are usually three groups of
people in a community. One tries to
build up, another busies itself tearing
down and the third sits tight criticis-
ing and reaping whatever benefits ac-
crue from the work of the other two.
—Just by way of a bit of friendly
advice to those who are trying to push
more drastic supplements to the Gov-
ernor’s enforcement bill through the
Legislature we rise to remark that
when things get too dry very often
they crack. :
—Having stuck three rows of on-
ions just before the gentle rain of
Tuesday evening we are looking for-
ward to the time when our breath will
command as much attention in a
crowd as will that of the fellow who
has just gotten outside of a slug of
new corn moonshine.
—The announcement that young
John D. Rockerfeller is one hundred
million or more richer than he was
this time last year excites no envy in
us. Last year seventy-nine million-
aires committed suicide in this coun-
try and we'll bet there wasn’t one per-
son as poor, and as happy, as we who
went west by that route.
—We note, with a degree of suspi-
cion as to the uncontrolled status of
several metropolitan newspapers, that
since Mr. Stotesbury ieturned from
Florida the Dorothy Keenan affair, in
which his son-in-law figured conspicu-
ously, has dwindled from scare heads
on front pages to two or three inches
sandwiched in on the advertising
pages.
—The Democrats have elected the
mayor of Chicago by the greatest ma-
jority ever given any candidate for
that office. We mention the result,
not with gloating and we don’t bank
on it as an indicator of what Chicago
will do in 1924. It was purely a local
fight and had we been Judge Dever
we would rather have lost than won
with the support of the Thompson fac-
tion—if that was the balance of pow-
er in his election.
—Science is getting down entirely
too pat for us. A Chicago professor
has invented an “emotional reaction
machine” which will tell whether a
man is a coward or not. A “lie-detec-
tor” is another device, the product of
some savant who might have been bet-
ter employed in other fields. We
wouldn’t fear going up against that
“emotional reaction machine” but we
might appear a bit nervous if some
one were to spring the lie-detector on
us after we get home from the fish-
ing excursion we hope to have on the
16th.
—It matters little to us whether
“Mr. Lasker succeeds in ousting Johr
T. Adams from his position as chair-
man of the Republican ‘National com-
mittee or not. We admit that it is
going to take more pep than Adams
has to even keep Harding in an “also
ran” place in the 1924 race, but Las-
ker, being an advertising man, won't
be able to sell Warren G. to the coun-
try by his methods either. The next
President of the United States will be
a Democrat and the row about who
shall lead the opposition interests us
not the least.
—The Pennsylvania State College
was sixty years old on Sunday. Three
score years of service to the people of
Pennsylvania certainly deserves re-
tirement from its biennial struggle
for funds enough to keep the institu-
tion going. If the Legislature of
Pennsylvania had properly conserved
the land that the Federal government
gave this State as an endowment for
the College it would be getting mil-
lions today, instead of the paltry thir-
ty thousand a year interest on the five
hundred thousand that the lands were
sold for. New York held her lands
until they came into value enough to
give Cornell an annual income of a
million or more. State would be rich
in her own right today if Pennsylva-
nia had had a Cornell in 1862.
—The spirit of “clean up” has en-
tered a part, at least of the circus
business. All of the tented exhibitions
in the United States are under the
control of two rival organizations.
One of them, that has the guidance of
the one really big show and many of
the good smaller ones, has issued an
edict that no gambling, no hootchy-
kootchy dancing, nothing immoral or
unclean will be tolerated on a lot on
which any of its circuses are exhib-
iting. All the joy of the side-show
will be gone for many spectators and
a lot of us “hicks” ’ll forget how to
guess which shell the pea is under.
If these reformations continue their
progressive interference we view our
posterity as a race of ninnies who
have never had their eye teeth cut.
—-If Governor Pinchot wishes to re-
tain the respect and confidence of the
reasonable people of Pennsylvania
he'll quit spoofin’ and get down to
brass tacks. He knows that his plan
of governmental reorganizatién can’t
effect economies enough to provide
funds for the schools, the road build-
ing and the forest land purchases he
advocates. In the same breath that
he tells the Legislature that it must
provide for these pretentious enter-
prises he insists that there shall be no
new taxation. We admire the adroit-
ness with which he has brought the
remnants of the old machine to the
humiliating position of eating out of
his hand but when he attempts to
force it to add two and two and try to
make the public believe the result is
five we have nothing but contempt for
him. :
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 6.
i. NO. 14.
VOL. 68.
Ballot Fraud a Quarter of a Century
Ago.
On the first day of April, 1898, ac-
cording to the esteemed Philadelphia
Record, of April 1, this year, “due to
the many pardons of persons convict-
ed of election frauds in Philadelphia,
a local grand jury recommended a bill
to the State Legislature that would
make illegal voting and ballot-box
stuffing unpardonable crimes.” That
was twenty-five years ago but the
State Legislature has not yet enacted
complained of has been abated some-
what. There are fewer pardons to
that type of criminals now than then,
but it is for the reason that a differ-
ent form of protection has been adopt-
ed. Illegal voters and ballot box stuf-
fers are not brought to trial now.
Twenty-five years ago the Repub-
lican machine in Philadelphia and
Pennsylvania was a cruder organiza-
tion. Quay was the dominant figure
in the State and Durham in the city.
Their methods were those of “cave
men.” They put down opposition with
strong arm processes and paid little
attention to public opinion. Money
was less abundant and force more
easily applied. The courts had not
then been corrupted while the pardon-
ing board was a servile creature of
the machine bosses. Since then more
refined methods have been introduced.
Then voters were coerced and discon-
tented. Now they are bought and
satisfied. The courts do the work
now the pardon boards did then and
with greater safety and more satis-
faction.
A quarter of a century ago ballot
box stuffing and illegal voting was a
comparatively new industry. Since
then it has become the controlling
force in elections throughout the
State. It is practically admitted that
‘the last three gubernatorial elections
have been decided by illegal votes and
stuffed ballot boxes. The honest vot-
ers of the State have protested in
vain but the beneficiaries of the crimes
have set their faces against any legis-
lation which might result in honest
and fair elections. The present Gov-
ernor has had his attention called to
‘the matter officifllly and otherwise but
he seems oblivious of this great evil.
He is wasting his time and energy on
worthless or bogus reforms.
——A news dispatch states that “a
cold wave of Augusta chills Harding’s
party.” Maybe so but Harry Daugh-
erty’s announcement of Harding’s am-
bition gave the Republican party a se-
vere chill.
Pinchot’s Meaningless Platitudes.
“The mountain labored and brought
forth a mouse.” That is the first
thought that comes to the mind on
reading Governor Pinchot’s much ad-
vertised speech delivered to the Gen-
eral Assembly in joint session on
Tuesday. We must plan wisely, he
says substantially, and the mainte-
nance and improvement of our public
schools is essential. We must promote
higher learning, conserve the lives of
workers and foster agriculture. Most
people will concur in these proposi-
tions. Then our commercial interests
must be fostered, good roads main-
tained and our forests protected and
developed. That is the gist of his
oration.
In addition to these things the Gov-
ernor wants “a giant power survey
leading to the planned and orderly de-
velopment of all available sources of
power in Pennsylvania and in the pro-
tection of Pennsylvania’s right to a
due share of the power produced in
adjacent territory,” and last but not
least “the enforcement of the law
itself in order that the reproach of
law breaking may pass from our Com-
monwealth, and that Pennsylvania
may become again what she was in the
beginning—the leader among the
States in respect for law and in de-
fense of the National constitution,
which is the bond of our common un-
ion.”
Certainly “simple words in a sol-
emn way.” Is there a man, woman or
child within the borders of the Com-
monwealth who will oppose these sug-
gestions? We firmly believe not.
Then what was the use in wasting the
time of the Legislature in stating
them? How will it help to “clean up
the mess at Harrisburg.” The reck-
less if not criminal profligacy of
previous Republican administrations
has plunged the State into a bottom-
less pit of debt and the Governor's
only cure is a bunch of platitudes as
meaningless as they are silly. But
Pinchot has again captured a place
on the first page of the newspapers.
——*“Pride goes before a fall,” ac-
cording to the adage, and Easter prov-
ed that it also takes a tumble in the
presence of a hard frost.
——Wilhelm has lost his empire, his
honor and his wife but his bad repu-
tation clings to him. :
the legislation requested. The evil
| Signs of Mischievous Deal.
Political gossip is running at a
rather high rate of speed throughout
the State concerning the vote of the
Pinchot enforcement bill in the House
i of Representatives at Harrisburg, last
| week. According to current rumors
| “the votes necessary to put the meas-
ure over were recruited through the
i medium of deals in which the alleged
| party leaders were involved.” In this
| connection State chairman W. Harry
i Baker, of the Republican State com-
| mittee, and Austin McCollough, chair-
man of the Democratic State commit-
i tee, are linked together as partici-
| pants in the transaction and consider-
| able indignation has been expressed
by voters of both” parties at this
strange if not exactly “unholy” alli-
ance.
It is an easy matter to conjecture
the cause that influenced Mr. Baker
to come to the assistance of the Gov-
ernor to put over his most cherished
piece of legislation. What is known
as the “Beidleman machine” in Har-
risburg is really the Baker machine,
and it has something like 500 em-
ployees on “the Hill.” The Governor
is said to have indicated pretty plain-
ly that his official favors would be
limited to those who helped him force
the enforcing bill through and Baker
was anxious to save the faithful five
hundred. But McCollough’s action is
utterly inexplicable from a party
viewpoint, except upon the hypothesis
that Congressman Greist, of Lancas-
ter, hypnotized him to act as cat's
paw.
If the matter were to end there it
would be of little consequence for the
reason that nobody actually regrets
the passage of the enforcement meas-
ure. It is “neither fish, flesh nor
fowl,” so far as it affects the liquor
traffic or the public morals. But the
gossip indicates a spirit of resentment
in the rank and file of both parties in
as well as out of the Legislature that’
may work mischievous results in the
future. Bi-partisanship, whether in
the form of a conspiracy to control
legislation or an agreement to manip-
ulate nominations or elections, is ob-
noxious to well-intentioned, minds and
tive Democrats. We shall await the
; results of this affair with anxiety.
——The Senate appropriation com-
mittee on Monday night reported for
passage as committed, Senator W. I.
Betts’ proposed constitutional amend-
ment for an eight million dollar bond
issue to provide additional buildings
and equipment for The Pennsylvania
State College.
Let the Monroe Doctrine Alone.
Thoughtful men and women of the
country will learn with grave fear
that the Pan-American conference in
session in Santiago, Chile, will take
under consideration “a project provid-
ing for the establishment of a code
of international law for the Ameri-
can continent incorporating and am-
plifying the principles of the Monroe
Doctrine.” Any system of interna-.
tional law worth while ought to be
sufficiently comprehensive to cover all
international relations and the chances
are more than even that any attempt
to create a code of limited jurisdic-
tion will be a botched job. European
nations, for example, might feel jus-
tified in creating a code in conflict
with ours and the result would be bad.
But that is not the greatest cause
for alarm because of the declared pur-
pose of the conference. The menace
is in the proposition te “amplify the
That time-honored and almost sacred
declaration of the fifth President of
the United States needs no amplifica-
tion. Within the last quarter of a
century it has been more or less jug-
gled by pretended interpretations
which caused confusion and might
have led to conflicts. But thus far it
has survived all such assaults and is
as strong and as clear today as when
President James Monroe threw it into
the teeth of the “Holy Alliance” in
1823. It was ample enough and plain
enough then to serve its purpose.
The last attack upon the Monroe
Doctrine was the late Colonel Roose-
velt’s attempt to construe it as con-
veying to him authority to wield it
over Central and South America like
a policeman uses his club or a school-
master his switch. He did no great
harm because nobody outside of his
own official family took him seriously
and all other nations of the world
were amused rather than frightened.
But there is no telling what might
come of an attempt to amplify it by
a conference of the calibre of the del-
egates representing the United States
government at Santiago. The Monroe
Doctrine is all right in its present
form. It has increased in force and
public confidence immensely and
should be left alone.
——There may be doubt as to who
is the goat of the administration but
Secretary Work is easily the bluffer.
principles of the Monroe Doctrine.”
is especially ddious to sincere and Hes |
Daugherty Causes Alarm.
President Harding was not altogeth-
er pleased with Attorney General
Daugherty’s announcement of the sec-
ond term aspirations, according to the
newspaper correspondents attached to
the southern junket. “It was unnec-
essary and inopportune, in the opin-
ion of the President,” these usually
well informed writers declare. The
previous declaration on the subject by
Senator Watson, of Indiana, gave am-
ple information to the public and the
subsequent announcement by Daugh-
erty who assumes to be the real
“guide, philosopher and friend” of the
administration carries an impression
of over-anxiety. Many of the Presi-
dent’s followers add the complaint
that it is too early to open a campaign
for 1924.
In the history of the Republican
party there has never been a time
when party conditions were so crit-
ical. The failures of Congress, the
disappointments over cherished legis-
lation, the attempt to get into the
League of Nations through the side-
door of the court of international jus-
tice, and other incidents of recent oc-
currence, have set the factions on
edge and the least discordant note is
liable to cause an irreparable disrup-
tion. The too frequently repeated an-
nouncement of the President’s ambi-
tion is irritating upon the minds of
those who might prefer another can-
didate and it looks as if the Daugher-
ty declaration may supply the dynam-
ic force for an eruption. It is a deli-
cate situation.
Others of the President’s friends
regret the incident for another and
equally potent reason. Daugherty
seems to be the goat of the adminis-
tration. His reputation as a lawyer
is shady, some of his official actions
questionable. His very intimate re-
lations with the President have been a
source of annoyance toa great many
leading Republicans of the better type
who hoped that the end of the present
term would serve to eliminate him.
But his assumption of authority over
the future purposes of Mr. Harding
disappoints this expectation and
broageasts the seeds of discontent.
Fthe sane reason that Senator Pep-
per complains ofthe appointment of
Alex. Moore others complain of the
power of Daugherty.
——At the regular meeting of the
Philipsburg borough council, on Mon-
day evening, an ordinance was passed
finally providing for a bond issue of
$30,000 of 42 per cent. thirty year
bonds to be used in street paving. An
application is now pending with the
State Highway Department for the
building of a highway in that town and
the bond issue is to provide the money
to pay the borough’s share of the cost
thereof. A special election will be
held on Tuesday, May 15th, at which
time they will vote on the bond issue.
——The Altoona Tribune made its
appearance on Monday morning so
changed in apearance that it was al-
most impossible to associate it with
the conservative newspaper built up
under the guidance of the veteran
editor W. H. Schwartz. The change
is no doubt in keping with the pro-
gressive policy editor A. E. Vorse has
outlined in his salutatory, in which
he promises to give the people of Al-
toona such a paper as the city de-
serves.
——There is a good deal of uncer-
tainty in the public mird as to wheth-
er LaFollette’s prediction that gaso-
line will be a dollar a gallon was a
threat or a promise.
——= Senator Capper predicts a
twenty-five per cent. increase in the
cost of living within a year, and he
voted for most of the things that will
cause the increase.
——We expected something start-
ling from Postmaster General New
but never dreamed it would take the
form of making letter carriers hos-
pital runners.
——Lord Robert Cecil may not have
said anything new about the League
of Nations in his New York speech
but he said some things startlingly
true.
——About the only people who were
April fooled on Sunday were the la-
dies who purchased a lot of spring
finery for the Easter display.
——March is said to have broken
the weather records in various ways
but it didn’t diminish the rejoicing at
its passage.
——John D. Rockerfeller Jr.’s in-
come is only a million dollars a month,
yet he manages to keep up appear-
ances.
———— i ————
——Possibly the ex-Kaiser refused
to beat the parlor carpet and lost his
“happy home,” for that.
“Tired of Aloofness.”
From the Philadelphia Record.
- Ex-Governor Allen, of Kansas, may
not be empowered to speak for the Re-
publican party, but he is a Republican,
he has just retired from the office of
Governor, and he comes from the sec-
tion of the country which assumes a
special right to reign over the United
States. When he says that “the coun-
try is tired of aloofness,” the issue on
which his party carried the country
three years ago, his opinion is entitled
to some consideration. Is the Repub-
lican party ashamed of itself? Is the
country sorry that it elected the Re-
publican candidates for President and
Congress?
What makes this question particu-
larly insistent is that President Hard-
ing recently urged upon the Senate
the participation of the United States
in the Permanent Court of Interna-
tional Justice, and, the Senate having
received it coldly and evaded action
thereon, the President is now propos-
ing to appeal te the people, making
twenty speeches in the centres of
various sections. Is the Republican
party hedging on its isolation policy
of 1919 and 1920?
Just before going to Europe Gover-
nor Allen conferred in Washington
with leading Republican officials, and
after this, in Paris, he ventured his
statement that “the country is tired
of aloofness.” “The outstanding fea-
ture of the next Republican platform,”
he said, “will be a declaration of our
foreign policy—an effective foreign
policy. I mean, one that will have an
effect on the world.” Mr. Allen does
not care to admit that his party finds
it has made a mistake, and is con-
vinced that it cannot win a second
time on a policy of isolation, so he ex-
plains that the election did not mean
what it was supposed at the time to
mean. “There is a growing realiza-
tion,” he says, “that President Hard-
ing’s overwhelming defeat of Wood-
row Wilson (sic) was not brought
about by the desire of the people to
reject the Wilson foreign program so
much as it was the desire to put the
reins of government back in the hands
of the Republican party. While it
meant the rejection of the League of
Nations, as set forth in the Versailles
covenant, it did not mean the rejec-
tion on the part of the American peo-
ple of the idea of national relation-
ships.” :
. We are not sure that there is-gnuchs
in this explanation, but it is at least
an indication that the Republicans of
the West realize that the policy of
aloofness is impracticable. Of course,
if the country has reached this con-
clusion it should elect a Democratic
President next year. Josh Billings
said that success in life does not con-
sist in never making a mistake, but
In never making the same mistake
twice. We do not believe the Ameri-
can people will repeat the tremendous
mistake they made in 1920.
———— ett ———
Tightwads.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
. Does it require a government pub-
lication to define that well-known
type, the “tightwad?” The authori-
ties at Washington have printed “How
Other People Get Ahead,” as a timely
preachment inculcating thrift. The
“tightwad,” by their finding, is a-man
who saves sixty cents out of each. dol-
lar he gets, spends thirty-seven cents
to keep alive and invests a cent apiece
for education, recreation and charity.
If the picture is not ingratiating,
the likeness of the “spendthrift” is no
more amiable. He saves nothing. Out
of each hundred cents he bestows fif-
ty-eight on food, raiment and shelter,
forty cents to keep himself variously
amused and a cent each for alms and
education. Held up for emulation is
the model “thrifty man.” This para-
gon puts up twenty cents against the
lean years and the rainy days. He al-
lots half a dollar to the domestic rou-
tine. Ten cents each he apportions
to education, charity and play.
No fixed economic scale for one
man is likely to serve his fellow. It
is always a complex matter to deter-
mine a “living wage” either for an oc-
cupation or for the occupied. It does
not follow that those who do the same
work live in the same way and want
the same things. But it is certain
that a mark of success is the ability
to save. The thrifty man is the hap-
py medium between the man who
saves too much and becomes penuri-
ous and the man who saves too lit-
tle and becomes a wastrel. There
need be nothing mean about thrift.
Some men win a reputation for gener-
osity in public by a lavish distribu-
tion of money they ought to spend at
home and on the family. If only the
tightwad suffered from a penny-wise,
cheese-paring policy of needless econ-
omy—if miserliness hurt none but the
miser—then a man might hutch his
riches and gloat over his hoard, and
it would matter little. The spend-
thrift is far less displeasing than the
tightwad who makes others suffer
from his close-fistedness, as if the dol-
lar were the biggest value in our lives.
E——————— tee
——William F. Shope has resigned
his position as . local editor of the
Bellefonte Republican, effective to-
morrow, to go with his father and
brother at their lumber yard and plan-
ing mill. He will continue his work,
however, as correspondent for Harris-
burg, Williamsport and Altoona pa-
pers. : :
pm —————
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Mrs. Jane Worrell is dead at her home
at Mountainville, Lehigh county. She was
the pastry cook in the restaurant of her
brother at Columbia borough, seven years,
and in that time she baked 229,915 pies.
—George D. Hess, of Beech Creek, has
declined a re-election as superintendent
of the Sunday school of the Beech Creek
Memorial Presbyterian church, a position
he has filled continuously for forty-six
vears, having been elected in 1877 and an-
nually thereafter.
—When a medical examiner went to a
cheap Park Row lodging house in New
York, on Sunday, to examine the body of
a supposed pauper who had died, known
to other lodgers as T. Hawley, of Hawley,
Wayne county, Pa., he found $1990 sewn
in a small bag suspended from the man’s
neck by a cord.
—Rushing a moonshine still in upper
York county, after a siege of three hours,
members of the Harrisburg troop of the
state constabulary early on Sunday shof
and killed George Alekesick, who had bar-
ricaded himself in the house. The police-
men confiscated a 25-gallon still, 25 gal-
lons of whiskey and 20 barrels of Mash.
—One man lost his life in a Monday
morning fire at Lancaster, which destroyed
the truck department of the Rowe Motor
company and caused damage estimated at
$300,000. Monroe Geist, truck driver, at-
tempting to save some of the machines in
the shep became confused by the smoke
and flames and was burned to death. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
—~Contending that damage to the amount
of $25,000 has been done to plants and flow-
ers at its farm at Springdale, Allegheny
county, by smoke, coal dust and gases, the
Elliott Nursery company on Monday filed
a bill in equity against the Duquesne
Light company, which operates a power
plant on property adjoining the farm. The
bill asks for an injunction to restrain the
light company from maintaining the al-
leged nuisance.
—Alimony paid for fourteen years by
George Rufenbach, of Pittsburgh, to his
former wife was without legal obligation,
Judge Ambrose B. Reid ruled on Friday
in rescinding an order made in January,
1909, directing payment of $2.50 weekly to-
ward her support. Ten days after the or-
der was made Mrs. Rufenbach was grant-
ed a divorce, which, the court ruled, re-
lieved Rufenbach of legal obligation to
continue payments. He told the court he
paid a total of $1800.
—Railroad companies are responsible
for injuries suffered by persons jostled in
crowded stations, according to a verdict for
$0166 given by an Allegheny county jury
on Thursday in favor of Mary Spagnel, of
Export, Pa., and against the Pennsylvania
railroad. The plaintiff was about to board
a train at Export April 19, 1920, when she
was caught in a crowd and thrown under
the train before it had come to a stop.
Part of her right foot was amputated and
she suffered other injuries.
—The second summer extension course in
forestry will be given at a mountain camp
adjacent to the State forest school at Mont
Alto under the supervision of the State De-
partment of Forestry. The course will -be
given by the regular forest school faculty,
and will extend from June 16 to July 28,
sessions being held each morning. Locat-
{ed on the Mont Alto State forest reserve,
in the heart of-the Seuth mountains, this
eamp is excellent for the study of forests,
trees, flowers and the wild animals of the
forest.
—A jury in the Northumberland county
court on Friday awarded Miss Anna Ab-
romitis, - of - Kulpmont, $213.51" damages
from John B. Hencke, a Shamokin hotel
man, whom she sued for breach of promise.
Each member of the jury wrote on a piece
of paper what they thought she should
have. Then they averaged the total and
agreed upon this as a verdict. One mem-
ber wanted to give her nothing, another,
$67.25, the cost of her trousseau that she
never used, and a third $625, for the kisses
she said she never got.
—Mrs. John T. Woolens was burned to
death on Sunday morning at her home near
Oxford, Chester county, presumably when
she suffered a paralytic stroke and fell
across the kitchen stove. Neighbors, who
saw smoke coming from the lower part of
the house, found the kitchen and dining
room a mass of flames. The woman’s char-
red body was recovered after the fire was
put out. Mrs. Woolens had a stroke some
months ago, but had rallied sufficiently to
go about with the aid of a cane and crutch.
Her husband was away at the time of the
fire.
—Chief of police Hiram D. Yeaman, of
Lewistown, secured six quarts of honest
to goodness Gordon gin Sunday night as
the result of an April fool joke. A stran-
ger approached the chief with the infor-
mation that he just saw a “bootlegger” go
up the alley in the rear of the Temple op-
era house with a sack of gin on his back.
The chief meandered up the alley where .
he found an automobile apparently desert-
ed and, making a search, dug up a suit
case containing gin. The chief says the
owner of the automobile must come to him
under the new “dry” law of Pennsylve-
nia if he wants his automobile which is a
valuable one.
—Five dwelling houses in Northumber-
land, occupied by Noah Leitzell, George
and Harry Bastress, J. D. Roush, Marjorie
Vincent and Henry Barringer were almost
totally destroyed by fire on Sunday after-
noon, entailing a loss of $25,000, partially
covered by insurance. About 8 o'clock the
same night another fire was discovered in
the drug store of James Lloyd, on Queen
street, in the same town, which spread to
the moving picture house of D. A. Fisher,
the art shop of Carrie B. Walker and the
Van Kirk hotel, the leading hotel of the
town. The first three named buildings
were totally destroyed and the hotel was
wrecked. Loss over $25,000.
—The Lewistown Motor company plant
was burned on Saturday, destroying six-
ty-four motor cars, with a total loss es-
timated at $125,000. One fireman, E. 8S.
Hashen, was injured by burns about the
face and arms while fighting the flames.
Several homes nearby were partially de-
stroyed as the high wind drove the blaze
against them. Herbert Gallagher, of Mid-
dletown, Pa., and Albert Ayre, of Wash-
ington, D. C., proprietors of the Lewis-
town Motor company, place their loss as
follows: Fourteen new Cadillac, Nash and
Dodge automobiles, received from the fac-
tories the day previous, $28,000; fifty cars
in the plant for storage and repairs, the
property of individuals, $50,000; stock and
fixtures, $15,000. O. O. Orner, owner of the
‘building, $15,000 with an additional loss of
$1000 to his residence mext door and $18,~
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000 to adjacent property.