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I THURSDAY EVENING, JANUAEY 1
L FACING THE NEW YEAR
y y NDER conditions discouraging
111 and distinctly disadvantageous,
I Vr businessmen of the country face
■ the new year as optimistically
■ as they may and with full deterinlna
■ tlon to make the best of a bad bargain.
I The passage of the new currency
■ hill, It Is hoped, will have a beneficial
■ effect. Money will In all likelihood
" become easier and Spring buying
should give a fresh impetus to mills
that have felt the stagnation which
began as soon as it became apparent
that the Democrats in Washington
meant to cut the mainstays of pro
tection from beneath the feet of Amer
ican industry. To what extent this
stimulus will manifest itself in the first
quarter of the year remains to be
American businessmen, displeased
with the Underwood law, have, detcr
mined to further injure themselves by
closing their mills, cutting off their
entire financial income or driving
themselves into bankruptcy as a mere
of "getting square" with an
with which they have
little sympathy.
On the other hand, there areindiea
lions of exactly the opposite. Manu
f facturers, with a steady eye on the
movements of their European competi
tors. are preparing to overcome as best
they can the heavy handicap under
which they have been placed. To their
credit, be it said that there bus not
bediji a single serious attempt at. wage
cutting to meet the foreign market.
Hours have been shortened and mills
have been closed, but American manu
facturers are making a brave attempt
to keep up the high wage for which
this country is noted the world over.
All good citizens will hope that they
will succeed in their efforts.
The. outlook is not for a panic, al-
ttjough a few such failures'as those, of
the Siegel interests might have a wide
ly disturbing effect, but, on the other
hand, there is no indication of any
early resumption of business on the
Hcale of htghtide prosperity upon
which the Wilson administration went
Into power.
Harrisburg is most fortunately sit
uated at this period of disturbance and
readjustment. The laboring man, the
man who works with his hands, is
always first to feel the stress of de
pression. lie is first to lose his job
and last to be re-employed. But in
•■'lhis city there should be plenty of
work for this class during the coming
xprlng and summer. The Pennsylva
nia Railroad is going ahead with its
plans for the construction of its new
I freight yards in the lower end of town»
I -with the incidental buildings and sub
f ways; the Cumberland Valley Railroad
* Company will rebuild the Mulberry
street bridge, the city will reconstruct
that at Dock street, the river wall re
mains to be completed, there is money
in sight for great park developments,
ihe State is continuing to demolish
buildings and fill up cellars in the
Eighth Ward, one or more school
houses are to be built, sewers are to be
laid and much street paving put down.
Altogether money and work both
should be plentifol in Harrisburg dur
ing 1914 and the effect of whatever de-
presjfion * there may be elsewhere
minimized here by our own
How many times did you write it
1913?
WHY DIBCRIMHNATK?
THERE appears to be no partisan
division of opinion as to the
merit of the railroads' request
for permission to raise their
freight rates 5 per cent. Indeed, our
Democratic friends have seized upon
this eagerly in the effort to show that
existing lousiness troubles throughout
■the United States are not due to the
Democratic tariff, the new currency
bill and other Wilson radicalisms.
"There is no depression," they say,
and then they hasten to qualify by add
ing, "and whatever depression there
is, is due to the fact that the rail
is roads have not the money to put into
improvements, which haft resulted in
general ,tnacti\ Ity In the steel trade.'
... Everybody admit 3 that the steady
THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG gfsftA) TELEGRAPH JANUARY 1, 1914,
increase In railroad wages mid cost
of operation have far outstripped the
earning? of the railroads, and, with
verv few exceptions, it Is conceded
that the requested 5 per cent, increase
in rates should be granted.
But if tills is done, to what extent
will it remedy existing conditions In
the business world at large and for the
railroads particularly? Estimates have
l>een made to the effect that railroad
business at this writing Is at !east 30
per cenl. less than normal. A raise
of 5 per cent, in the freight rates
would still leave the gross income far
below what it ought to be.
Every businessman knows that a 5
per cent, increase in the price of his
commodity could not mal'.e up for a
30 per cent, or a 25 per cent, or a 20
per cent, shrinkage in the volume of
his trade.
Regardless of what rates the rail
roads may charge—and, of course, it
goes without snylng that the rates
should be fair to them as well as to
their patrons—they must have traffic
bulk ir they are to have old-fashioned
prosperity.
They are dependent for this bulk
upon other branches of Industry—
upon the merchant and the manufac
turer. Unless the men who produce,
buy and sell goods are in a position
to keep on producing, buying and sell
ing, there will not be enough freight
to make the railroads as profitable as
they should be or as they must be if
their stockholders are to receive fair
dividends.
Why, then, should our Democratic
friends be so anxious to increase the
proportionate profits of the railroads,
and, at the same time, so determined
to decrease the proportionate profits
of the shipper? Why is it not just as
important that the dividends of the
textile mill or the steel plant or the
pottery factory should be safeguarded
as that the profits of the railroad
should be guaranteed?
Why discriminate between one
branch of Industry and another? Why
legislate for railroad prosperity alone?
Why not legislate for American pros
perity while we are about it?
Yet it has been shown again and
again that Americans can compete
with their fo-eign rivals in the
markets of the world if they apply
their natural sagacity and ability
to the task. The fact is at last be
ing more generally recognized.
That is one reason why the prophe
cies of the Cassandras of the
American Protective Tariff league
and the Home Market Club are be
ginning to fall on deaf ears.—The
Providence Journal.
We wonder if the editor who penned
these lines knew that Cassandra was a
Trojan prophetess, who was killed for
telling the truth.
THE NEW LIBRARY
THE dedication to-day of the
handsome new Colonial building
at Walnut and Front streets
gives to Harrisburg a public
library second to none in the country
for a city of* its size. It meets a long
felt need in the community and doubt
less will be patronized by thousands of
the people of Harrisburg and vicinity
who have had in tho past few library
privileges, the extensive State library
being by no manner of means a'local
Institution.
The new library was a long while on
the way, but Is all the better for that.
Had it bec.li built years ago with the
money then at lia.nd the city would
now be embarassed by a library build
ing too small for its nerds. Those in
charge of the very generous bequests
of Mrs. Sara. J. Ha.ldeman-Haly, which
have made the library possible, wisely
put. the money at. Interest and thereby
accumulated a sum large enough to
erect an adequate building and put the
institution on a firm footing. The
structure dedicated to-day is not only
a magnificent monument to the public
spirited woman who gave it such a
large share of her personal fortune,
but It is a tribute to the devotion and
business ability of those who have
been active in the management of the
Library Association's affairs.
MISS KELLER ,\\l) EDISOX
TWO great minds touched when
Helen Keller and Thomas BJdi
son met the other day, and the
spark of contact bids fair to
light up the dark places where live
the blind and to make birds sing and
music resound for those who cannot
hear.
Prompted by piiy Tor the wonderful
girl who has overcome the handicaps
of the eternal silence and the everlast
ing darkness from which she may
never escape, Edison sent Miss Keller
away with the promise that he would
devise for her an instrument that
would enable her to hear through her
finger-tips, and that he will turn his
attention also in the direction of cheap
books for the blind. What Edison
says he can do, that he does, so it is
safe to predict that shortly he will
announce their perfection. If Helen
Keller did no more in her life than to
inspire the genius of Edison to these
benefactions for stricken mankind, she
would not have lived in vain.
CIVII, SERVICE HERE AND THERE
IT is touching, on this opening day of
the new year, to observe the so
licitude of a certain element of
the Democratic party for the
maintenance of the civil service
principle, especially as it applies
to the retention of their brethren
in municipal jobs. But there is
apparently little heed given in the
same quarter to the breaking down of
the civil service system at Washington,
where, day after Jay, assaults are
made upon the laws providing for the
merit system in appointments.
All good citizens believe in the civil
service bulwark as the only safeguard
of our system of government, but it
will not do for Democratic spoilsmen
to berate Republican oliMals for doing
the very same things that they are
doing themselves.
Apropos of removals of Democrats
from Harrisburg municipal places and
the dreadful howl that it has occa
sioned, it is interesting to note that F.
O. Wetmorc, Republican United States
District Attorney at llrand Rapids, has
been removed "without cause" by Presi
dent Wilson, in order to give the office
to a Democrat. <
j Stoning (Eljat
Where the Public Library stands
to-day used to be one the show
places of Front street, indeed, of the
city, for It was the last of the old
fashioned gardens. This garden was
that of Mrs. Sara J. Haldeman-llaly,
whose benefactions made the hand
some library possible for the people
of the State's capital. There were more
formal. gardens, those of the late
James J. Dull, Mrs. John C. Kunkel
and others, for instance, but the gar
den of Mrs. Haly was one of the mid
dle nineteenth century type. It was
laid out when Stephen Hill, the archi
tect of the State Capitol, built the
residence long occupied by Mrs. Haly
and now the home of William B. Mc-
Caleb. It had quaint statues, a foun
tain, boxwoods and old-fashioned
shrubbery and flowers, the kind that
people pay good money for these days
to reproduce. We can all remember
the low brick wall with its spike Iron
fence in front and how we used to
walk along Its edge, holding on to the
rods while we looked Into the garden.
Then the Walnut street side with its
high wall was one of the reminders
of old times. In the rear the old stable
was for a while an armory, then a po
litical headquarters and Anally the
homo of the Mannerchor. The old
garden and its shrubbery, its statues
and its walls have gone, but a more
fitting and permanent memorial to
their owner has been reared on their
site.
The chimes of Zion Lutheran Church
have rung in the new year for almost
half a century In Harrisburg. The
chimes, in fact, have been a part of
the city for people within range of
the sound listen for them on Sunday
mornings and when midnight of Janu
ary 1 and July 4 comes the chimes
can be heard above the din of whistles
and other bells sounding forth "Glory
to God" and "America." The ringing
of the chimes has come to be a part
of every celebration In Harrisburg and
chorister after chorister has given
great pleasure to the people of the
city by the airs played on the bells
that hang far above Fourth street.
The Telegraph family dinner last
night at the Colonial Country Club
marked the decennial of such affairs.
The first dinner was given about ten
years ago when the employes of the
Telegraph were invited by President
Staekpole to a dinner at the old Grand
Hotel, now occupied by the Bowman
store. Just fifty sat down to that
feast, hast night there were, over one
hundred. These gatherings are uni
que and have always been marked by
that spirit of good fellowship that
marks the Telegraph's daily activities.
As if to remind everyone that the
bear season closed with to-day three
or four big bears were shipped
through the city last night from
northern counties. These bears were
shot in the northern tier where the
snow enabled hunters to track the
animals. It seems that, some of the
hears were surprised by the sudden
cold snap and hustled for their winter
uarters. The carcasses seen at the
stations were fat and promised good
euting.
"I don't believe I've seen a single
automobile without a 1914 tag" said
one of the policemen last night. "Here
it wants ft night until the black and
white tags have to be shown and every
car I've seen has been provided with
them. People evidently did nq> want
to be caught napping with old year
tags."
mors who were out to greet the new
year got to bed is a question. "I
went to work this morning about half
past t and I met three groups of mum
mers and they did not seem inclined
to go home," said a motorman this
morning. "They were not 'lit up,'
only having a lot of fun. it was cold
for that sort of thing, but they seemed
to be enjoying it hugely and they
guyed me and - everyone else that
crossed their path."
To-day was "farewell day" on the
traction lines. Men who had held
passes for years gave up fare and in
most instances their pass books. The
conductors were on-the .iob and when
a man flashed a book of passes the
knight of the fare cord would gently
take it away, remarking in some in
stances that he did so to spare the
holder pain. Bast night every man
who got Into a car and gave a pass
ticket was merrily "kidded" and told
to kiss the pass good-b.v, and admon
ished to have his nickel ready here
after. The political lights were espe
cially the targets of the merrymakers
and they had no end of fun with the
men who "produced" coin for rides
to-day.
| WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE \
—II. R. Fehr, the Allentown trac
tion man, is active in the recent con
solidations of electric companies in
that region.
—B. 11. Kcnshaw has been selected
as the magistrate at city hall in Phila
delphia. This is generally considered
as the Mayor's personal selection.
—-Bird T. Baldwin, of Swarthmore
College, has been elected president of
the State association of college profes
sors.
—B. C. Mulhern. of St. Mary's has
been appointed general manager of
the Pittsburgh, Shawmut and North
ern Railroad.
—Chief Justice Fell has sent a let
ter to a young relative. Miss Fell, of
Mercer, congratulating her upon being
the farmer in the family.
IT CAN BE DONE
Somebody said that it couldn't be done.
But lie, with a chuckle, replied
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would
bo one
Who wouldn't say so till he tried.
So he buckled right in, with a trace of
a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the
thing
That couldn't be done—and he did it.
Somebody scoffed: "Oh you'll never do
that;
At least no one ever has done it."
But he tookoff his coat and he took off
his hat.
And the first thing we knew he'd be
gun it;
With the lift of his chin, and a bit of
a grin.
Without any'doubting or qulddlt,
He started to sing as he tackled the
thing
That couldn't be done—and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it can
not be done;
There are thousands to phophesy fail
ure;
There are thousands to point out to
you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle In with a bit of a grin,
Then take off your coat and go to it;
.lust start in to sing as you tackle the
thing
That "cannot be done" —and you'll do
It. —Anon.
| A LITTLE I
Mrs. Watts—Mary Ann, these balus
ters seem always dusty. I was at Mrs.
Johnson's after church an her stair
rails are clean and smooth as glass.
Mary Ann—Yle, mUm. But she has
t'ree small boys.—Christian Register.
"Did your father evor lick you?"
"Once, but I got good and even."
"I low?"
"Why. wlipn the firms < HIUP TO town
shortly afterward 1 said I didn't care to
go."—Boston Transcript.
BIGSEST MEN WILL
SHNEXT FILL
Taft, tladley and Others Will Take
Part in the Congressional
Campaigns
BULL MOOSERS TO MEET
Will WaiL to See What Palmer De
cides and Light Council
Fire Here
Some of the biggest Republicans in
the country are expected to come into
Pennsylvania next year to aid in the
Republican congressional campaign,
and from the plans now being made
it begins to look as though the Repub
licans would regain their losses of
1910 and 1912 and ;ake away a Dem
ocratic district or so.
As indicated in this column before
Pennsylvania is to be the battle ground
of congressional elections and every
district, including the Palmer district,
will be fought over. There may also
be a chance in the citadel of Demo
cracy, the Berks-Lehigh district, be
cause of the fight for the Democratic
nomination between Congressman
Rothermel, Arthur G. Dewalt and
Charles B. Spatz.
Ex-President Taft, Governor Had-|
ley and other noted Republicans are
expected to visit the State.
The council fire of the Bull Moose
chieftains will be kindled here about
the latter part of January and at that
time William Flinn
and the rest will talk
over the situation and Bull Moosers
decide who shall be Plan Council
candidates for the in the City
leading places. The
Western Bull Moosers
are demanding the gubernatorial nom
ination and a. coterie seems to think
that Pinchot 6hotild be the candidate
for senator, especially as he has
money. Bull Moose chiefs do not
think that Congressman Palmer can
figure out enough strength to justify
his entering the Democratic race
for the gubernatorial nomination. Pal
mer has been throwing out his lines
and some of the returns have not
been pleasant. The Ryan people are
working overtime and making all
sorts of alliances. The Republicans
are just watching the parade go by.
Judge John M. Garman, of the Lu
zerne county courts, a former Harris
burger, was boomed for the Demo-
cratic nomination for
United States senator at
(•nrnuwt a dinner tendered him at
Itooined Wilkes-Barre last night,
at Ilonie Ban L. Hart, one of the
prominent Democrats of
the county, was toast
master and the judge was given an
ovation when he spoke. The diners
included not only lawyers in Euzerne
county, but prominent Democrats from
other sections. It is the intention to
launch the bootn for the judge about
February whether the Palmer crowd
likes it or not.
The West End Democratic Club
last night elected John 11. Maloney as
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H Next 20,000 cubic feet at .85 per thousand cubic feet.
I All over 50,000 cubic feet at .75 per thousand cubic feet. ♦♦
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cubic feet above the foregoing rates and subject to a discount H
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the company within ten days after presentation. 8
All bills rendered on the above schedule payable monthly. S
Minimum charge of 30 cents per meter per month. g
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president without opposition and he
was safely inducted in
to office before the new
year arrived. Tho West Maloney
Finders' meeting . was Now Head
well attended and there of Club
were a number of
speeches made at
which the Democrats wore urged to
stand together. Uptown it is said that
there is considerable Ryan sentiment,
just as there is in the Central Club.
In addition to Mr. Maloney the West
End Democrats elected Luther Kast,
vice-president; secretary, Harry S.
Stroh; treasurer, Frederick L. Mor
genthaler; trustees, for one year,
| Henry Peters. James Cahill and Wil
liam M. Allcher. All of the officers
were installed after the election.
Robert W. Irwin, Democratic leader
of Washington county years ago and
well known to many people here, was
last night selected
as judge of Wash-
Robort Irwin Ington county to
Waahington'x succeed the late
New Judge Now James F. Taylor.
The appointment
of Mr. Irwin by
Governor Tener was rather expected
because his appointment was asked
by a majority of the members of the
Washington county bar, including
many of the Republican attorneys.
Mr. Irwin Is a personal friend of the
Governor and stands very high among
the attorneys of the State. He will
assume office at once and probably be
a candidate at the election in 1915 for
a full term.
| POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS
—Next week third class cities will
air their charter troubles. The Demo
ocrats are already airing their's here.
—The dropping of heads began In
Philadelphia's city hall to-day.
—A wholesale shake-up and some
dismissals of policemen has been start
,ed at Wilkes-Barre by Commissioner
'Morgan. And he is not consulting the
mayor either.
—W. D. Gerlach to-day retired as
postmaster of Hazleton and became a
member of city council.
—Maypr Jermyn. of Scranton, has
retained just one member of the Von-
Bergen cabinet.
—Wllkes-Barre may try the initia
tive feature of the Clark act.
—The national administration can
remove a man for not being "in sym
pathy with" the administration, but
when any Democrats are removed
from the Harrisburg police force it Is
a crime in the eyes of some people.
—They evidently did not ask Mit
chell Palmer's permission to start that
Garman boom.
—Tho disregard which the Bull
Moosers are showing for Democratic
overtures these days is one of the
interesting things about the cam
paign.
—Billy Peffer seems to have landed
in a jol) again over the river.
A WINTER DAWN
Untouched by crimson or by gold,
Its pure and fleeting marble rose
Beyond the wall of eastern snows—
Ethereal, Pentelic, cold.
It's fragile towers were high and thin.
Symbol of beauty passionless,
Of all inviolate loveliness;
And not of earth the pearl therein—
The pearl too precious to endure.
Seen where the heaven's ghostly
shell
Holds In its vast and sapphire cell
A nacre infinitely pure.
So the marmorcan glory bleak
Spoke of the snows of beauty's home;
Then that blue sea withdrew its
foam,
Ami we that witnessed could not :peak.
—George Sterling:, in January Ains
lee's.
NEWS DISPATCHES
OF THE CIVIL WAR
(From the Telegraph of Jan. 1, 1864.jf
BLOCKADE RUNNER BURNED
Newborn, N. C., Doc. 27—The North
Carolina Times says the British
schooner G. O. Bigelow, which was
captured by the United States trans
port Fulton, and then abandoned,
made her way into Swansboro, near
Wilmington, unloaded her salt and
was about to run the blockade In bal
last. when she was captured and burn
ed by one of the United States steam
ers.
RUSSIAN OFFICERS HERE
Fortress Monroe, December 30.
The officers of the Russian fleet, visit
ed Newport News and other points of
Interest in this vicinity to-day, on the
steamer C. W. Thomas.
WHAT'S THE CHILBLAIN OITI.OOKf
fCleveland Plain Dealer.]
French scientists have discovered a
serum for the cure of typhoid fever. It's
only a matter of time now till corns,
antl-suffragisin and that empty feeling
before meals can be cured In the same
way.
THE SOUND IS FAMILIAR
I New York Evening Post.]
Futurist music Is credited with hav
ing made use of several new instru
ments at Milan, Including three buz
zers, two bursters, on thunderer, three
whistles, two rustlers, two gurglers, one
smasher, one strident and one snorter.
We are glad to learn, even in this
roundabout way, the names of some of
the instruments In common use in this
1 city on election nights and New Year's
Eve.
THE ADVENTtTRER
City of power and city of might,
Of plunder and passion and woe and
delight,
The sound of your voice is a trumpeter's
blare,
A challenge that's flung on the palpi
tant air.
A paean of battle, a taunt, and a call
To join in the conflict and conquer—or
fall,
To thrust and to parry, to feint and to
lunge;
So—lnto the tumult I plunge!
I fear you?—the city of opulent
dreams—
Because of your vastness that pulses
and teems?
Why, hero are my hands, they are
young, they are strong
As any two hands in the thick of the
throng;
And here are my eyes and my body
and brain
Alert for the glpry and gold I shall
gain.
So—fearless I face you, O huge, roaring
brute.
Besotted with splendor and glutted
with loot!
What peril of jungle or desert or sea
Has more of a thrill than your dangers
to me.
Or greater romance than the conflict
that rolls
On your vast battlefield of a myriad
souls?
I cry your defiance! Your masters
and slaves,
Your wasters and del vers and dreamers
and knaves,
I war for your palaces, pleasures, and
pelf;
I fear you no wlilt—for I fear not my
self:
I face you and fight you, nor whimper
for aid.
Since you crawl to tho feet of tho man
unafraid!
—Berton Braley, in January Ains
lee's.
Trolley Company Brings
Suit to Compete With
Hagerstown's Light Plant
Special to Th« Telegraph
Hagerstown, Md., Jan. 1. The
question of the right of the Hagers
town and Frederick Railway Company
to sell light and power in compe
tition with the city municipal lighting
plant is Involved in the suit of the
mayor and city council against the
corporation, argument of whioh was
heard by Judge R. R. Henderson in
court here. It is contended that the
defendant corporation furnished light
and power to about 400 customers in
Hagerstown, Involving a revenue of
about $40,000, which would go to the
city plant if the court grants the de
sired injunction and restrains the trol
ley company from being a competitor.
The right to sell power is claimed by
the trolley company under a franchise
granted by the city to Powell Evans
some years ago.
New Military Company to Be
Organized at Hagerstown
Special to The Telegraph
Hagerstown, Md., Jan. I.—The New
Year brings a new military company
to Hagerstown, to be recruited prin
cipally from former members of Com
pany B, First Maryland Regiment,
■which was disbanded last summer.
Captain John K. Beckenbaugh, of the
staff of Colonel C. A. Little, command
ing the First Regiment, will be the
captain of the new company, which
wil be united with the First Regiment
to help fill out the regiment's allotted
quota of twelve companies as required
by the "War Department. Captain
Beckenbaugh is a nophew of the late
General Henry K. Douglas, who wan
a member of Stonewall Jackson's staff
during the Civil War.
PURCHASES UPHOLSTERY BUSINESS
Joseph Coplinky lias purchased the
upholstery anri awning business of 11.
A. Vollmer, 1.208'/i North Third streot.
Mr. Coplinky has been associated with
Harris, the upholsterer, for a number
of years past. He will conduct the
business at the same location Mr.
Vollmer used in North Third street.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph of Jan. 1, 1864.]
DAYS GROWING l/ONGER
The days are increasing in length—
the "shortest" having passed away
with the old year.
COURT ON THE ICIGHTEENTH
The next term of court will com
mence on Monday, 18th Inst. All
prosecutors, witnesses and jurors
should be present the first day of the
session.
AX EVENING THOUGHT
Yea, 1 have found thee, God!
Thy breath doth fill me with a fire
divine —
And were a thousand worlds like this
my foes.
The battle would be brief —the vic
tory mine!— Anon.
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