Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, June 03, 1927, Image 1

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    INK SLINGS.
, —Lindbergh has probably come to
the point where he could argue from
experience that one could be happier
as a dead hero than a live lion.
—By way of givin’ the devil his
dues it can’t be said that the crime
. wave in Philadelphia has subsided
any since they go} rid of Smed. But-
ler.
, —When the. Sovetndiont starts to
make the paper money smaller the
. leather goods makers will produce
~ smaller bill-folds and then the girls
will have something new to give their
boy friends next Christmas.
—Capt. Charley Lindbergh: has
stalled on the pomp and circumstance
_of his marvelous feat which goes to
. prove that he is an unusual character.
Imagine how certain people you know
would have strutted under such
- adulation.
~ —May Queens had to wear their
woolen underwear to keep warm
while disporting on the green. Let
"us hope that June brides get a chance
to don the sleezy stuff they have been
. treasuring in their hope chests.
- Wouldn’t a June bride with mittens
and a canton flannel robe-de-nuit
‘make a hit on a honey-moon.
—Figures have not yet been an-
' nounced but rumor has it that the
_ hospital drive will probably not ex-
«ceed three thousand dollars. To some
this may be a disappointment. Not
so to us. The fact that a list of three
‘ thousand people who are willing to
. give a dollar a year to the: hospital
has been secured is proof that.it can
. be made grow into a list of five thous-
and and with: five thousand “dollars a
year, in addition to its other sources.
of income, the institution ought to be
. Tun very . satisfactorily for a long
time.
—The rumor factory is running
again and one of its latest outputs is a
. story to the effect that the Hon. Tom
Beaver has been made warden of the
new western penitentiary. Another is
to the effect that he has been made
superintendent of farms of the insti-
tution. The Hon. Tom denied knowl-
edge of any such appointments and
also stated, on Tuesday, that he was
not an applicant for either. Both of
his statements were undoubtedly true,
"but that doesn’t, necessarily, prove
anything. A good friend of the
- powers that be shouldn’t have to
apply for a job and Santa Claus
always hangs the presents on. the tree
while the good little boys are sleep-
ing.
—If you will dig up your file of the
Watchman of last year and look at
this column for the second week in
November you will see that we then
told you that there would be an im-
mense surplus in the Federal treasury }
at the end of the next year.. We also
told you that those on the inside in
Washington knew that it would be
there, but were refusing to permit tax
reduction so that they could show a
big surplus on the eve of a presiden-
tial campaign. Senator Dave Reed
has started already to work the sur-
plus as argument for the re-election
of himself and Coolidge. He puts it
at six hundred million and suggests
that there will be a three hundred
million cut in taxes. Why shouldn’t
there be a six hundred million cut?
—A homer by Ruth, that toppled
‘the Athletics in the eleventh, drew
a more conspicuous place on the front
page of Philadelphia’s ninety-one
vear old morning paper than the
President’s Memorial day speech at
Arlington. Forty-thousand frenzied
fans saw the Babe do it and probably
not more than four thousand heard
the head of the Nation say that “this
day had its inception in the desire to
do honor to those who had followed
the flag.” Except in the minds and
hearts of a very few Memorial day
is nothing more than a grand jam-
bouree. More people were thinking
of the flag that will be run up on
some base-ball field next fall than of
the graves on which tiny flags flutter-
ed on Monday. It was news, however,
and news makes money for the Cur-
tis-Martin Newspapers Inc. and
Memorial days make money for filling
stations and base-ball magnates.
—Lewis Faust died at Reading on
‘Tuesday. Probably none of our read-
ers knew or have ever heard: of
Lewis. Be that as it may, he
was a gentleman of importance
about any camp-fire because he
could always tell his version of
Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. He
saw it with his own eyes and there
was no gainsaying Lewis’ verbal
picture of how Bob acted on that
eventful day. Here’s where Centre
county links in with the passing of
comrade Faust. While he was watch-
ing Lee hand over his sword to Grant
our old friend Anthony Gatens was
swiping a silver sugar bowl from the
mess wagon of the defeated Confed-
erate. That sugar bowl pilfering was
Anthony’s reminiscence at every
Grand Army camp-fire. He exhibited
it, too, and it looked enough a
stranger in Anthony’s possession to
give color to his story. In his later
years he had a habit of making
“Indian gifts” of the bowl to his
friends. We had it for a while and
we often wondered who was lucky
enough to have been in Athony’s
favor at the time he answered the last
roll call. Whoever was is probably the
present owner of Robert E. Lee's
sugar bowl—if Anthony wasn’t mixed
in whose sugar bowl he got his. hooks
on at Appomattox.
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Faults of the Highway Department! AR
The Highway Department of Penn-
sylvania has achieved splendid re-
sults, in construction and mainten-
ance of highways, and it is only faint
praise to say that in this respect it
is beyond criticism. But these ex-
cellent results have been accomplished
at an immense expense to the people
of the State. From unofficial but de-
pendable sources it is learned that
from 1911 to 1923 the Highway De-
partment disbursed $180,000,000, and
from 1923 to 1925 it spent $68,078,-
864.16, making a total of nearly a
quarter of a billion dollars within a
period of 15 years. There is no pub-
lished .record of the expenditures of
the Department between 1925 and the
present time, but it may be assumed
that the ratio has not materially
diminished.
There is probably no just reason
for complaint of the cost of the oper-
ations of the Department, however.
The improvement of the highways of
the State is fair recompense for the
investment. It is claimed, and with
reason, that at this time Pennsylva-
nia has, as.good, if not better, roads
than any other State in the country.
The advantages of ‘this are various
and palpable. The farmer, the mer-
chant, and ‘manufacturer and in fact
every element of the people, have:
shared in. the benefits of improved
highways to the full measure of their
share in the expense. Besides the
reputation of the State for high
ideals and correct business principles
is greatly enhanced. It may be said,
therefore, that the money was wisely
spent.
But in some respects the Highway
Department is not above criticism.
Its methods of administration are, in
some respects, far from commend-
able. In an address delivered before
the Pennsylvania Motor Federation
at Uniontown, the other day, State
Treasurer Samuel S. Lewis, after re-
ferring to some delinquencies in Cid
system, said: = “Money is plentiful
and the main business is to spend it.
Hence salaries increase, positions in-
crease, favoritism flourishes, organi-
zation becomes luxurious and rank,
routine piles upon routine, jealousies
are rampant and red tape intertwines
and en ‘everything. In. general,
the law inishing returns asserts
itself and the only thing that saves
the day i is the fact that no accounting
is required. ”
rG0ud men are frequently “loved
for the enemies they have made.”
When Prince Henry, of Germany,
dodged a tribute to Von Hindenberg
on Monday, he made hosts of admir-
ers for the President of Germany.
Shop Worn Defense of Crime.
When the late and unlamented Boss
Tweed’s operations in looting the city
of New York, hal” a century ago,
were exposed, his only reaction to the
charge of corruption was a sniveling
complaint that denouncing his admin-
istration was damaging the reputa-
tion of the city. His imitators, in
whatever section of the country they
have been found, have been able to
frame no better defense since, though
progress has been made in every
other direction. The Vare machine,
in Philadelphia, professed to be
greatly distressed when a somewhat
famous sociological analyst pro-
nounced that city “corrupt and con-
tented.” Such accusations against a
community, true or false, they pro-
tested, would destroy business.
Recently an organization has been
created in Pittsburgh called the Citi-
zens’ League, the purpose of which
is to force a severance of what seems
to be a secret compact between the
municipal officials and criminals of
the city. An investigation of the
subject has convinced the League that
vice is not only protected but encour-
aged by those in authority, and in
pursuance of its moral obligations the
fact has been publicly declared. The
answer is that “the crusaders are
giving the city a black eye.” Follow-
ing that line of reasoning condemn-
ing murder, or burglary or arson
would damage the reputation of the
community in which such crimes are
perpetrated.
Commenting upon this declaration
of the League and the response of
the authorities the Pittsburgh Post
says: “What injures the fair name
of a city is toleration by the citizens
of a betrayal by the public officers
entrusted with law enforcement.
Then such a city gets the name of
being ‘corrupt and contented.’ The
more the Citizens’ League does to the
vice-protecting public officers the bet-
ter will the fair name of Pittsburgh
be served.” This summation of the
case leaves little to add. No com-
munity will suffer in reputation or
business that holds its administrators
to the enforcement of the criminal
laws, and no community will gain re-
spect by protecting criminals and en-
' Senate.
couraging crime,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA. JUNE 3. 1927.
Shand the Fruitless Efforts. 1
There appears to be a concerted
effort on the part of the Republican
leaders throughout the country to:
fasten on the public mind the impres-
sion that the industrial and commer-:
cial life of all sections are in a highly
prosperous condition. The so-called |
experts in finance and the statisti-
cians in business dwell fondly on this:
theme and invariably ascribe the hap-
py situation to the masterly manage-
ment of President Coolidge. Occa-
sionally one of them wil! admit that
the Federal Reserve banking system
has helped some and that here andj
there may be found an unfortunate.
community which is not sharing in}
the harvest of prosperity. This, of |
course, is to persuade every neighbor- |
hood that all other communities are
basking in the sunlight of plenty. E
At the outset of this enterprise in-
tended to “fool most of the people all
the time” Judge Gary, of the Steel |
trust, Mr. Schwab, of the Bethlehem ar
corporation, a few of the railroad |
presidents and a number of others, |
including Henry Ford, were induced |THg
to address the public in oral or writ- | €%is
ten statements, giving assurance of |
present prosperity, auspicious condi- "Trea:
tions for the future and eulogizing | creas
the President and Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon as the cause of these |
benevolent prospects. Then the ex-
perts were summoned into service to
paint rosy pen pictures of abundance | 0
to come to everybody during the next |
few years. The condition is always |t
that the present | Uf
asserted, however,
economic policies must be maintained
at Washington.
Unhappily the facts fail to support
these hopeful statements and predic-
tions. It is true that some of the
transportation corporations have been
able to declare big dividends and en-
gage to make extensive improve-
ments, and that a few of the larger
monopolies have been able ta “cut
juicy melons” within a few months.
But the records show that the country
at large is not in a prosperous con-
dition and that in both industrial and
commercial life the rewards of honest
effort are below the average of recent
years. Even in Pennsylvania, where
industry flourishes, if anywhere, the
‘Department of ~Eabor and - Ind hg ved mm
shows a considerable falling = off/as
compared with the record of last year.
The effort to fool the public may as
well be abandoned.
Millions of men and: women of
races other than his own* will join
in hope for the recovery of Nathan
Straus, of New York, critically ill.
Wise Move to Secure Justice.
The Senatorial Slush Fund commit-
tee was wise in taking steps to pre-
vent the destruction of ballots used in
the Senatorial election last year in Al-
legheny, Delaware, Lackawanna, and
Schuylkill counties. The attempt of
the Senate committee to impound the
ballot boxes in those counties has
been so stubbornly resisted by the
Republican organization of the State,
and the removal of them to Washing-
ton so needlessly delayed by the
courts, that their use as evidence in
the contest of William B. Wilson
against William S. Vare, is imperiled.
Under the law they may be legally
destroyed in November of this year
unless prevented by a court order.
That might cause a miscarriage of
justice.
The Philadelphia ballot boxes used
at that election are safely stored
away in Washington, but the Republi-
can leaders hope they will not reveal
sufficient fraud to overcome the ma-
jority returned for Vare and the Slush
Fund committee desires to reinforce
the evidence they will disclose by
proofs of frauds in the four other
counties named. Apparently Mr.
Vare’s friends are afraid that such
reinforcement will prove that Mr.
Wilsen had a clear majority of the
votes honestly cast at the election in
question and have exhausted every
expedient to prevent a recount of the
votes. The plan adopted by the Sen-
ate committee will guarantee the re-
count or expose the partisan bias of
the courts.
As a precautionary measure it
might be well to adopt some plan to
safeguard the boxes which have been
impounded but not yet removed into
the custody of the Senate. There are
some politicians in each of the coun-
ties concerned so adept in committing
ballot frauds that they may find a
way to alter the ballots so as to make
it appear that the original returns
were comparatively correct. Such
crimes have been committed in all
the voting districts under suspicion,
and there never was greater reason,
from a partisan standpoint, for such
an outrage than now. The ousting of
Vare and the seating of Wilson would
change the political Roriplexion of the
A ——————— fn tm ————
Captain Lindbergh is homesick
or tired of being lionized.
gress, and every Democratic news-
paper in the country, made the same
‘Expensive Party Slogan.
Senator Dave Reed, of Pittsburgh,
whose only achievement in public life
was a successful filibuster to protect
ballot frauds, after a conference with
the President the other day, predicts |
$300,000,000 |
an income tax cut of
‘during the next session of Congress. bk
The Senator is a trifle late with his
prognostication. Every Democratic
Senator and Representative in Con-
prediction a year ago and more. The
next session of Congress will be that
preceding the next Presidential cam-
_paign and tax reduction is a highly
effective medium of appeal to the
credulous. In fact it is the only hope
of the Republican party for next
year.
ent income tax law was occupying
time of Congress the Democrats. |:
both branches urged a much great-
reduction in schedules than that
y agreed upon. They declared
a cut of half a million dollars
be safely made from the then
i law. But the so-called “wiz-
of finance,” Secretary of the
ry Mellon, insisted such a de-
e solvency of the treasury. Now
accurate “hind sight,” an-
Hunter. Beat shore will bee sarin tot
of $600,000,000 at the end of the pres-
t fiscal year. In other words, the
payers have been looted to the ex--
it of that vast sum in order to.
ul te a claim for continuing the Re-
party in power.
only moral or legal right Con-
in has for levying taxes on the
people is to provide sufficient revenue
to pay the expenses of the. govern-
ment, “economically administered.”
During the present fiscal year, there-
fore, the wast sum of $600,000,000
has been wrongfully taken from the
people, not to defray the legitimate
expenses of the government but in
order to create a bogus claim for
public confidence in the Coolidge ad-
ministration. That sum of money left g
in he hands of the people for use in |!
keep such “misfits” as Senator Reed
in publie life,
—Gosh, what a miserable failure of
a season this has been. We're just
While the consideration of the pres- |
> the revenues would imperil | 10
Reed, gifted with a wonder- |
) past year. |
But the extortion was necessary to
terest many yersons ” h tore
he hal] a he
paper rather its
At last the old bills. righ :
folding in threes ever Shee
1 a few independents Yio
a fourfold principle—are to
be replaced by a smaller note. The
Government is careful to announce in
an admirably worded s
although the bills will be
are not to have any more of t
But it will be
Ss
our money.
indeed when the
tablished and the nea
passing from hip Teket
ills,
at least a year. y
calling in the resent ones and
in fie now ones, wore timejwill be
A before
ue ORB
Tit be a lot ore Sree t for
people who have use eurrency
i a antite’ ehitge
rou one period of
tlement. ee it were grote ovr for
the Treasury to make new-size bills
up until were on hand to make
the plunge, and then is: ‘a recall
for all the old stuff at Sng time! Then
the mix-up would be re 2
its Bh 1 a conéerning that
black sheep of our currency, the two-
dollar bill. Here is a , Perfectly
chance to drop the unlucky fellow, t
make an end of him and his duplici.
ties. Only upon one condition should
this bill be allowed to survive, and
that is that it be printed in a distine-
rarin to get at the lawn grass and
the garden and both are too wet; |
fishing ought to be good, but the |
water’s high and muddy and there
doesn’t seem to be a good fight in all
of the horde of candidates for office.
There’s not a cross word in an army
of them, so this bids fair to be our
summer of discontent.
————————— eee ———
———It is rumored that merchant
George Hazel is slated to fill the va-
cancy caused on the Bellefonte school
board by the recent . death of A. C.
Mingle. His election would be good
only for the current year as Mr. Min-
gle’s term would have expired with
this year. :
S—————— Ss ———
—If half what England is declared
to have discovered, when she raided
Soviet Russia’s headquarters in
London, is true it is time for Uncle
Sam to start a search for the spawn
of the Red germs in this country.
——Even Mussolini may “bite off
more than he can chew,” and his pre-
diction of another great war in which
he will be a leading figure indicates
that he is already “riding for a fall.”
mee
——It is safe to say that the young
Jerseyman who applied to the warden
of Sing Sing prison to be electrocuted
was joking. There are easier ways
of making the “happy dispatch.”
———— A ———————
——The observance of Memorial
day this year was wider and more
fervent than ever before, and the
signs are that it will increase in favor
as time passes.
——1If iodine is a certain cure for
scarlet fever the Ambruzzi Moun-
tains’ doctor who made the discovery
has performed a great service for
humanity.
——President Coolidge disappoint-
ed the pacifists in his Decoration day
at Arlington on Monday. He declar-
ed in favor of preparedness.
——Facism in New York may be a
fungus growth but assassination is
not the best remedy for such an evil.
————— ———————
——Now if the Philadelphia Polit-
ical gangsters would go to killing
each other it wouldn’t be so bad.
im femme
——1It is. to. be hoped that the
Women’s National Democratic club
tive color, which would change that
deadly similarity to the one-dollar bill
which has cost us quite a bit of money
in a long life.
When Pennsylvania Opposed Third
Term.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
Elsewhere on this page will be
found a communication dealing: with
the period in which Pennsylvania Re-
publicans and Democrats alike fought
the Presidential “third term” idea.
The Pennsylvania Republican state
convention in 1875 adopted a strong
resolution against more than two
terms, and this brought a letter from
President Ulysses S. Grant in which
he gave his idea on the subject. It
was not, however, until 1880 that the
“third term” issue, with Grant a can-
didate after an intervening term, was
fought to a finish in the Republican
National convention, Garfield, a “dark
horse,” receiving the nomination on
the thirty-sixth ballot.
It may be pointed out that while
Pennsylvania led in 1875 in opposi-
ion to a “third term,” it was carried
in 1912 by Roosevelt, who had served
practically two terms before, but the
vote that year, on account of the Re-
publican pary split and three major
tickets in the field, was scarcely a
test of the point in the sentiment of
the State. While Roosevelt carried
Pennsylvania, the combined vote of
the State against him was 327,948 in
excess of his vote, and he failed in the
popular vote of the country as Grant
had in the convention.
Motoring Tests and Arrests.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
Sane users of the highways of
Pennsylvania will see much hope of
improvement in motoring conditions
in two reports issued from Harris-
burg yesterday. One has to do with
the high standard of proficiency de-
manded of drivers and shows that 31,-
683 persons who applied for operators’
licenses in April, 5,445 were rejected,
an average of one in every six, main-
taining the rate of March, when only
19,796 applied. The increase in the
number of new motorists draws at-
tention to the fact that the season is
climbing to its peak, with the need
for extreme caution becoming great-
er with each day. The second report
deals with arrests on the highways in
April. The State’s patrols held 1,415
persons for violations and these ‘had
‘to pay $18,959 in fines."
These reports demonstrate that law
enforcement ' for: safety is gaining
Many who were refused licenses in
April will be’ more fortunate later
but their ‘experience will .lead them
to esteem the privilege of using the
will find a winning slogan.
roads of proper value.
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYTSONE.
to n, for
if they start
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Sold ge put.
of all denominations and stack them |
good J
—~State police have been notified of the
robbery of the L. 8. Sterns and Company
store Williamsport, some time Saturday
night, the thievés blowing the safe and es-
caping with $4,000 in cash, and $3,000 in
checks. The robbery was discovered
when the manager visited the store on
i Sunday morning. a oN
—Mrs. Caroline Smith, aged 2, who
lives near Middleburg, was taken to the
Geisinger hospital, at Danville on Sunday,
for treatment and on her way there saw
her first street car at Sunbury. She ex-
pressed surprise, and declared that she
never had been in an automobile until Ste
was taken to the institution.
—After returning a roll of bills amount-
ing to $680, which he found along the
tracks at NA tewer near Denholm, where
he is an operator, Framk Fasick, refused
a reward for his honest act. The money
was dropped from an eastbound passenger
train by Thomas Kronocich, of Winton,
Minn., who reported the loss and the money
was forwarded to the loser.
—Caught in a run of clay at a mine of
the Mineral Products company near Dills-
burg, Dauphin county, Luke R. Haar, 21,
of Dillsburg, was rescued by a fellow-
workman Thursday night after a strug-
gle of nearly an hour and a half. The
‘{ youth was praying when fellow workmen
dug close enough to see his hand in the
darkness. His body was covered by clay
and water ‘and only about two imches were
left for breathing.
—Caught in debris when the abandoned
house in which he sought refuge was des-
troyed in a storm near Renovo, William
Miller, 60, Sinnemaheoning, is.in a eritical
condition in the Renovo hosiptal. He is
suffering from a fracture of the skull and
lacerations and contusion of the face and
body. Miller, an employee of the Graseli
Powder company, was working outdoors
when the storm broke. He entered the
‘building a few minutes before it was
wrecked.
—William (Bud) Kriser, Washington, Pa.
High school athlete, experienced one of
the thrills that ¢emeés to seme people only
og | Once in a life time and never to others,
n | when he held a perfect bridge hand of 13
hearts while sitting in a game at Kappa
Sigma Fraternity house, Washington and
Jefferson College. Noticing five hearts,
o | Eriser bid “one heart” om the first round,
| then raised it to seven on the second. He
‘| then spread his cards on the table, Eriser
had dealt.
—For three days following am accident
at the boilermaking plant of Sotter Broth-
ers, Pottstown, Thomas Clark went abont
his home with a broken vertebra in his
neck and it was not until Saturday. that
he was admitted to the Homeopathic hos-
pital for surgical treatment. He was in-
jured when struck by a flue draft that was
being moved in the ‘shop where he was
employed and when taken to the office of
a physician an examination seemed to
show that the injury was net serious. |
—New York police are searching for
jewels valued at $8000, which were lost
by Mrs. Vance McCormick, wife of the
newspaper publisher, of Harrisburg, Pa.,
between the Cunard Line pier and the
Ambassador hotel. Mrs. ‘McCormick re-
turned from Paris on the Aquitania Fri-
day night and, in the confusion of loading
: do Daggase into two taxicabs, lost a
fois: Pra was met by her ‘husband aid
they left on Saturday for their home.
—Mrs. Maude Wakefield, 51, wag killed
and two of her sons were injured Fri-
day by the accidental discharge of a shot-
gun in their home on Beam Run road,
Jefferson township, Allegheny county. Mrs.
Wakefield had been arguing with her hus-
band, Milton, 55, who was holding the
shotgun. A son, FElmer, 22, took the gun
from his father and threw it on a table.
As it fell, it was discharged. Mrs. Wake-
field received fatal wounds of the back.
One of Elmer's fingers was blown off
while another son, William. 17, suffered
flesh wounds. -
—Herman Ross, 31, o. 7218 Tioga street,
Pittsburgh, a machanic, dropped into a res-
taurant at 603 Homewood avenue early
last Thursday for a light lunch. He is
reported to have eaten 24 scrambled eggs,
four pork chops, six slices of bread, two
slices of ham, an apple pie, a quart of ice
cream, and washed it down with seven
cups of coffee and 10 glasses of water. He
then told about 30 witnesses that he felt
fine and had to go home and go to bed
because he had to get up early for work.
It took him an hour and 15 minutes to eat
his “midnight snack.”
' —After placing flowers on the grave of
his twin brother at Fairview . cemetery,
Coatesville, on Sunday, Martin Segner, 72,
went to his home and in the presence of
his wife, he shot and killed himself. He
was dead before a physician arrvied.
Segner had mourned the passing of his
twin brother since his death two years
ago. While at the cemetery he told mem-
bers of his family they would not have to
wait long to place flowers nn his grave.
Then turning and addressing a grave dig-
ger he said, “You might as well get ready
to dig my grave.” One hour later he was
dead.
—While riding a boat which was wreck-
ed in the Juniata river, near Lewistown,
on Memorial day, Miss Bessie Cassidy, 28,
of Pittsburgh, was drowned. Miss Cas-
sidy was riding down the river to a cot-
tage with a party of Altoona people when
the boat struck an old foundation along
the river and was wrecked. When recov-
ered her body was taken to Dr. P. P.
Steel, of McVeytown, who phoned to the
Lewistown hospital for a pulmotor, but
all efforts to revive the drowned girl were
in vain and the body was taken to the
Booth undertaking establishment at Mec-
Veytown. The spot where the Pittsburgh
girl drowned is a very dangerous point as
several other persons have lost their lives
at the same place, it is said.
—Colonel E. B. Cope, superintendent of
the Gettysburg National Park and known
to thousands of persons in all sections of
the country, is dead. He was 92 and said
to be the oldest United States Civil war
employe in the country. Death, hastened
by a fall last September, came on Satur-
day night. Funeral services were held
Wednesday. Colonel Cope served through
the Civil war and at its close made the
first comprehensive survey of the battle-
field and afterward served as a guide in
laying out and marking the field. Two
large relief. maps, on the execution of
which he spent several years, were exhib-
ited at a number of world’s fairs. The
maps show every line of battle, every
important point on the battle field.