8 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established itji PUBLISHED 1 BY TBS TELEGRAPH PRINTING 00. X. J. STACK POLE, Pres't and Treas'r. R. OYSTER. Secretary- OUS U. BTEIN34ETZ, Managing Editor. Published •very evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building. 216 Federal Square. ■astern Office. Fifth Avenue Building. New York City, Haslirook, Story & Brook*. Western Office. 12S West Madison street, Chicago, 111.. Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg as second class matter. ' I /ETN Association of Amor- ( 1 |i (|l|l|] ic*n Advertisers has ex- ( ' \|Ulf a mined and certified to i i the circnlatioa of this pab- i' i lication. The figures of circulation i 1 ! 1 contained in the Association's re- i 1 1 port only are guaranteed. 11 Associatioa of Americas Advertisers ;> J, No. 2333 Whitehall Bltfg. N. T. City / •WOT* dally average tor the month ol December, 1913 if 22,210 * Average for the year IHIS—II.BTT Average for the year 1912—21,173 Average fer the year 1(11—1H.S51 Average for the year 1P10—17.4H5 TELEPHONES! » Bell Txivtti Branch Exchange No. JO4O. United Business Office, 203. XfllterlaJ Room 585. Job Dept. 20$. rmXRSDAT EVENING, JANUARY 8 LAUGHTER, NOT TEARS MAYOR JOHN K. ROYAL I 9 taking himself too seriously. He might fill a place in opera bou.ffe, perhaps, but any at tempt to essay the leading role in the serio-comic performance of "How to Fool the People" only invites laughter when he expects tears. A year or two ugo this sort of appeal to the people might have been successful, but our hold-over Mayor seems to have over locked an Important element in the situation—th« fact that a large major ity of the people of Harrisburg have up the Royal administration and Lassed judgment upon it. I They have waited with great pa lllence for Mayor Royal to fulfill all [the expectations of a wonderful ad f ministration for the people, but they have waited in vain. Solemn pledges were Eh en to the voters of a "nonpar tisan business administration," but in stead of that sort of administration Mayor Royal aided in the building up of a Democratic machine without re gard for the principle of civil service. t-.»ne after another of admirably quali fied and faithful employes of the pre vious administration were compelled to walk the plank in order that places might be found for those who were useful to the Democratic machine. Under the circumstances, Mayor Royal's present performance will hardly impress the average citizen as an expression of the honest resent ment of an official whose first thought Is the welfare of the community. There seems to be no doubt that, under the Clark act, it is entirely with in the province of a majority of the oommission to dismiss any member of the police force with or without charges having been preferred against bim. It has not been forgotten by those familiar with more or less recent municipal history that it was Mayor Royal who tried to catapult into the police department certain unsavory persons who were so unfit that it was tfecesgar> for the old Select Council to refuse confirmation. . After this experience it would seem |hat our indignant Mayor has little ground upon which to ptand in hie declaration that, "if better men can be j>ut on the force than are there, and It Is shown that they will benefit the ■ervlce, I am in favor of a change," especially as it has been charged over and over again that experienced of ficers were removed simply because they had not voted for Mayor Royal. It is fald to be the attitude of the Republican members of the commis sion that the nonpartisan act does not contemplate the retention of all the appointees of a partisan administra tion, and that the dropping of an em ploye here and there cannot be con strued as a violation of the nonparti san law in spirit or letter. Mayor Royal la not looking toward Washington when he insists, in a more or less strained voice, that charges shall be preferred before employes are removed. If there has been any break ing down of the civil service principle, here or elsewhere, the example of the "Wilson administration has been largely responsible. PROTECT!XG CHILDREN" THE death oi two New Hampshire children recently as the result of a Christmas tree lire, draws attention to the necessity of guarding children from flames. While fatalities from burning are but u minor fraction of the mortality from pre ventable causes, they are sufficiently numerous to warrant an attempt to prevent them. This is especially true of deaths of children from that cause. In this country there are few avail able correct statistics on the subject. In England, however, it is different; there the statistics are not only de pendable, but available. Dr. Brend has complied and analyzed the data regarding deaths of children from burning. The results are reprinted and commented on in a recent tissue of The Journal of the American Medi cal Association. From the years 190(5 to 1911 he found that up t«> the age of 1 there ■were 214 hoy* and 234 girls burned: from 1 to 4, there were l.titii boy.- and THURSDAY EVENING, 11,818 girls: fropi 4 to 5, 36S boys and 775 girls; from 5 to 10 389 boys and 1,427 girls, and from 10 to 20, 80 boys and 630 girls. It is at once evident that there is a marked difference between the mor tality of boys and girls. This differ ence is probably due to the different type of clothing worn by the two sexes. Up to about the ages of 2 and 3. boys and girls are dressed alike. From 3 to 4 the boys put on the simpler male attire and there Is an abrupt and marked fall in the mor tality from burning. There has been much condemnation of the material known as flannelet, which is very Inflammable cloth, although from the figures quoted it would seem that It Is not so much the material as the style of clothing which leads to loss of life. For other rea sons as well, namely, freedom of move ment. better hygiene and general cost of clothing, there would seem to be a demand for a further simplification of the manner of dressing girls, particu larly those of the younger ages. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OUT of the tomb of the Board of Trade has arisen a broader and more comprehensive organiza tion—-the Chamber of Com merce. Harrlsburg never Intended that the recent dissolution of the old association should be Interpreted as a decadence of public spirit In this com munity, and whatever was best in'the old form of the central business body has been Incorporated in the new, which will stand for the real spirit of the city this year and In the years to come. Many of those who were identified with the old organization are active In the new, and It is believed that be fore many weeks shall have passed practically every "live wire" will be connected with the dynamo of the or ganization launched last night. Harrlsburg has a great future and It is the duty of every good citizen to touch elbows with his neighbor in pushln? forward those things which make for the betterment and prosper ity of the whole community. Youtig and old are associated in the Chamber of Commerce and Its future is bright with promise of a still greater Harris burg. FORESIGHT IN CLEARING SI,ATE THE foresight of the Dauphin County Court and District At torney Stroup in continuing hold-over September sessions cases to a special term In October is clearly shown by a glance at the huge trial list for January term. When the continued session was finally concluded In the Fall the county's criminal calendar was prac tically free of cases for the first time in years. And something like 200 new cases are already listed for the court which begins on Monday. How seriously the capacity of the court, juries and district attorney's office would have been taxed had many of September's defendants been held over for trial next week, can readily be imagined. Furthermore, a couple of murder trlwals are scheduled for the January quarter sessions. Not that this Is un usual; the criminal f rial lists for the last several terms have contained at least one. Homicide trials quite naturally require considerably more time than the ordinary felony or mis demeanor; frequently the considera tion of the highest crime against the State requires two days or more. And of course this serves to reduce the time for clearing the calendar of other causes. Whether or not any of the murder cases listed for next week will get far ther than the grand jury at this term, is a question; the impression seems to be that the State's attorneys cannot hope to finish any murder trials at this court. But the clearing of the calendar of the petty cases will surely mean that the graver charges can be considered not later than March term. So th» administration of justice in Dauphin county will be so much fur ther advanced. PEN CONSERVATION FROM the vast forests of Alaska to the tiny pin that holds to gether our women folks is a long step, but the Louisville Courier- Journal does not hesitate to take It in the interests of conservation of our resources, suggesting pin-saving as a very important national economy. Many persons wonder what be comes of the pins, and a French sci entist has deemed the question of suf ficient moment to make a painstaking investigation. The pins, he says, go back to the dust of mother earth. His experiments have shown that an ordinary pin left exposed to the ele ments will disappear in eighteen months. A common hairpin will dis solve into dust in IS4 days. A steel pen will vanish into dust in eighteen months, but a polished steel needle will withstand the ravages of time for a period of two and a half years. It is a matter of common knowledge that pir.s and similar articles which become imbedded in the earth will gradually melt away and finally be come a part of the soil. Nobody ex- 1 cept a scientist, however, would un dertake to keep time on the process of dissolution and figure out the exact I life of a pin which has been lost in the mud or swallowed in dust. Pins are useful, but they are cheap, and no one gives much thought to their conservation. Billions of pins are lost in this country every year and are resolved into parent dust, but if the people took a sudden notion to be economical in this respect half the pin factories would have to go out of business, and members of the Pin makers' Union would be out of a job. Even In the waste of pins, therefore, there is stimulus to Industry. The schoolboy's composition had it that "pins have saved thousands of lives by people not swallowing them.'" In other anil more substantial ways they aro ••life-savers,'' which the world, thought ofttimcs I 1 uses thuu, cannot get along without. ©jetting Cljat , Just to illustrate how the practice or giving In a manner that will pro duce beneficial results, eyes open charltf - as it has been called. Is taking hold in Harrishurg. it is only neces- Sl^" 5 1° cite n "'tie Instance from the office of the Associated Charities. A night or so before the time when the great visitor of the chimneys was due to mount his sleigh someone called up the office of the organization and asked if a list could be given to him of places where a tree would be wel come. Whether the man was a tree merchant who could not see a market for his goods or whether he was chari tably Inclined, deponent knoweth not, but the point is that here was a mail whose idea of making some people happy was to provide trees, and he called up the place where he thought he could find out. There have been many inquiries made at the office since the charitable associations got together and arranged t,o handle their affairs in a way that would be practical, avoid duplication and prevent impositions, but this Christmas tree idea was origi nal. In other cities the organized charities have succeeded in driving out of town some of the professional beggars who have thousands of dollars on interest in banks, a striking Illus tration ot' this type being a beggar who held down a cellar door in this city a month ago and who the day before he left the city went to one of banks and secured a draft on New York for $45, the amount of his haul in dear, charitable, easy Harris burg. This city has its share of "pan handlers," but the police have them pretty well "spotted," and if people before handing out cash to some itin erant cripple would ask a policeman or seek information from the pepole whose business it is to know where want prevails and where succor is really needed many dollars would be more usefully employed than they are in Harrlsburg' to-day. The celebration of the Greek Christ mas at Steelton' the last few days has attracted much attention to the quaint customs of the Greeks. Bulgars. Mace donians. Servians and others from the Near East and a number of people who have a !>ent for study of foreign folks have been nosing around in the foreign quarter of the borough. This section is not the pleasantest place in the county to visit, but if one can get. used to the odors and the boorishness that sometimes characterizes the Eu ropean. especially after a celebration, he will see a good bit of interest and perhaps be invited to eat roast pig garnished with garlic and other hlghlj flavored things, get a drink of some liquid tire and a mouthful of a cheese which may be a great delicacy. These people are'really worth studying and when you get a real insight into their ways and customs they afford much of Interest. Some of their pranks, how ever. are a little trying, especially that custom which allows women to throw water on the men indiscriminately on one day in the year, which comes some time between Christmas and New Years, old style. The fire alarm that caused the fire apparatus to tear through the parade of the Hope fire company on its way to the centennial banquet caused the genial Old Fireman to recall a rather odd experience of the Citizen tire com pany when it was about to celebrate its semicentennial. It was on October 11. 1886. when the No. 3 company was fifty years old. that its members had planned for a banquet in the Bolton House. The banquet was to be at 9 o'clock. At 6.15 an alarm was turned in from Box 4, at Third and Market, and it was found that the kitchen of the Bolton was on fire. The. kitchen was just getting ready to prepare the banquet for the firemen. They made» short work of the blaze, however, and at 9 paraded from their house to the hotel and had a joyous banquet. The Hope's banquet the other even ing was marked by the greetings from most of the fire companies in this sec tion. In Harrisbnrg almost every company organized ire the last twenty years has men who were, formerly affiliated with the second oldest com pany in the city. THOSE CHRISTMAS CIUARS B.v Wine Dlngrr. I Heaps of trouble 'round at our house, Been some ugly little jars, AH about a box of father's Killed with fifty-cent cigars. Christmas eve pa said to mother, I brought home a box of smokes You may give to grocer, butcher, letter man and other folks. To the humidor went mother. With the cigars straightaway. Told the maid just where to find them \\ hen she wanted them next day. Father also placed beside them. In the little humidor. A box of good ones to him given Never thought about them more. New Vear's night pa had some company. Thought I'll give them all a treat Went to get some of his cigars. Almost flew clean off his feet. All his high-priced smokes had van ished. Maid had given them away Byrnistake, of course, but now a New girl's working round our way. . | WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE ] —The Rev. Dr. Samuel Callen, of Pittsburgh, will sail for Europe and will deliver three lectures on seaboard. He goes to the Holy Land. —Bishop Rogers Israel, of Erie, is a member of that city's planning com mission. —S. B. Drake, prothonotary of Montgomery, makes a point of being at his office every morning at 6.30. —G. B. Herwick, the new treasurer of McKeesport. was formerly cltv con troller of the Tube City. —C. E. Palmer has just !»een elected for the twenty-fourth time as chief of police of Punxsutawney. H e has helped capture fifty murderers in his time. —A. W. Day. Bloomsburg lawyer, is president of the Columbia County Bar Association. —George B. Greaser, a Blair county justice, has just entered on his eighth consecutive term. —Postmaster James Hamilton, of Chester, takes pride in the fact that he has not had a complaint against him. —-D. C. Confer, a Duneansville phy sician, has been teaching the same Sunday school class for thirty-five years. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph of Jan. 8, 1864] Slfigliliu; Excellent Snow has fallen to the depth of sev eral inches. No doubt the sleighing will be excellent, and all the nags in the neighborhood will be brought into service. Conference Here Today The Harrishurg quarterly conference of Free Baptist Churches assembles with the church in this city to-dav. The usual discourse will be delivered this evening by the Rev. J. \V. Plan nett, of Latrobe. A\ EVENING THOUGHT It is the right to be contended with nliat we lia\e but never | with what we arc.—Anon. I HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH lens TO VOTE I OH WOMMf SUFFRIEE I Legislative Committee Decides to Let the Men and Women Rnle in That Matter DETRICH IS REAL CONFIDENT Arranges For Meeting; Palmer Said to Favor Bill Wilson For Governor Now The legislative committee of the Pennsylvania State Gr&ngo to-day per fected plans for a referendum vote among the subordinate granges on the question of woman suffrage. The sub ject came up last night and the com mittee decided to let the 70,000 mem- 1 hers flght It out, there being ardent partisans of both sides in the organ ization. The vote will be taken in •June and the legislators who have granger constituents will be guided accordingly. The committee last night sent a telegram to President 'Wilson demand ing that he name a practical farmer on the reserve board. The committee then got Into action on State issues. recommending $7,000,000 a year for good roads, en dorsing the anti-treating bill and get ting into line with Governor Tener on the club license and recommending a budget form of appropriations for charities. It was discussing good roads and oleo and other things to day. The Democratic bosses of the Sixth district, personally or by proxy, gath ered to meet State Chairman Morris and other masters of the hoy scout faction of the State Democracy at l,ew- Democratic isburg yesterday. The Gangsters I meeting was declared to Foregather he enthusiastic. All of the gangsters from that portion were on hand and gaily voted for resolutions typewritten here and they will be forwarded to Washington as proof that the machine is still able to do business. The gangsters were closely interrogated by the bosses present as to the sentiment for Con- Kiessman Palmer for Governor, but did not have very encouraging re ports. It is also passing strange that the Patriot, organ of the gangsters, does not have a word to say about Congressman Frank U Dershem, an ardent reorsanidation gangster, who lives in Lewisburg, where the meeting was held. According to A. Nevih Detrich, of Chanibersburg, the State chairman of the Washington party, who is here arranging for next week's two-day conference of Dctrich the progressives, there I/ooks For will be 500 men and Big Crowd women here next week to plan the 1914 cam paign. He says every county will be represented and that the State committee will be called to start things going. After that there will be an op»n parliament with Wil liam Flinn and all the big Bull Moos ers on hand. Mr. Detrich said thnt the proposed women's auxiliary committee would be named at the conference and that it would consist of Mrs. Edward W. Rid dle. Carlisle; Miss Jean Brumm, Mlnersville: Mrs. Nicholas H. Muhlen burg. Reading; Mrs. John L. Stewart, South Bethlehem; Miss Mary H. Ingham. Philadelphia; Mrs. Mary E Mumford. Philadelphia; Miss Marv Flinn. Pittsburgh; Miss Mary 1,. Allen, Pittsburgh, and Miss Jane W. Press ley, Erie. This committee will be organized on Wednesday night. The following day the legislative committee, which will make the Washington party platform, and sev eral of whose members were members of the Republican State convention committee in 1912. will make a report. This committee will be named the night before. | A UTTUNONSENSE^ "John, you've been drinking." "Ish all a mishtake. m'dear." "It's not a mistake." "Tell yer 'tis. Had bad coungh an' got up in dark for counßh medsliun an jush m'luck 1 Kot hold of wruni bottle."—Detroit Free Press. Aunt Agnes Well, Ethel. I hear you're studying English history. Have you got as far as the Crusades vet' Kthel—Yes. Aunt Agnes Then you can tell me what a Pilgrim was? Kthel—A holy tramp.—Puck. They'll Gel Some Pointers TFrom the Washington Post ] I Paris designers view their future I \V feeling of intense gloom, now that .ifm It am L#ewis has been appointed ambassador to a r«ondon conference. I I Tailored to Measure Suits tor Gentlemen JANUARY CLEARANCE At a Third Off All Winter Woolens Including Tweeds, Cassimeres, Cheviots, Serges and Worsteds Designed, draped and constructed to your personal measurements with the same care as if original prices prevailed. Original prices were S3O to SSO, now one-third off. $20.00 to $33.33 jpKjjlj' SIMMS TAILOR 22 North Fourth St. i Announcement to the Public F. W. REUWER-Registered Plumber will continue business at 1928 Logan street. I wish to thank my many patrons for their many kind or ders and will give all future work my personal and careful at tention. ALL WORK GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTION Bell Phone 1110 L Estimates Cheerfully Given. Merer Get Any Hlskrr [From the Atchison Globe.] Some men who get in on the ground floor will also remain in the basement. Hade a Lively Finish [From the New York Tribune.] This Is the first time the old year was caught tangoing himself out. __ Wfcat'e the Route, Please [From the New York Evening Post.] The announcement that a new steam boat line will connect Chicago, Chatta nooga and Kansas City with New Or leans will cause old people unfamiliar with waterways development to wonder how they could forget so much geog raphy. |j OF THE CIVIL WAR |i [From the Telegraph of Jan. 8. 1864] Many Recruiting New Orleans, Dec. Sl.—Recruiting is rapidly going on. Refugees are con tlually coming Into Brownsville, and all join the army. All citizens that remained there have taken the oath of, I allegiance and are loyal. All others are forced across the Rio Grande Into 1 Mexico. 4 No Rebels Near New York, Jan. 7.—The following special dispatch has been received by the Herald: "Cumberland, Jan. 7. General Kelly this evening received the follow ing dispatch: With the exception of McNeil's company, which Is several miles back of Moorfleld, no force of rebels Is near." | POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS I —Wonder why Dershem did not get a bouquet at I.ewlsburg. —Philadelphians seem to be heed, lng McNlchol'B advice to quit scrap, ping. —Now Congressman Ix>wis insists on being Bull Moose nominee for sen ator. —South Bet hlehem's charter troubles will be heard in court at Easton. —The President must feel proud of those stereotyped Democratic division resolutions. —Mayor Armstrong made a cleaji sweep In his civil service commission in Pittsburgh yesterday. —"Farmer" Creasy says he is still a Democrat. Wonder for how long. —Maybe the Sixth division Demo crats were too busy endorsing Morris to think about Dershem. —Hugh MclCenna is the new post master of llazleton designate. There are a number of persons who are in dignant. too. —The burgess and council of Coates ville are fighting over the police jobs How like llarrlsburg. —The Poor Board's appointments of doctors require a knowledge of county, geography to understand. —William Potter, an ex-minister to Italy and once candidate for mavor of Philadelphia, is now being boomed for senator. —Ex-Judgo Trexler, of Allentown, is the latest man to be spoken of for Governor. —ln Philadelphia they say that Pal mer will not run for Governor, but will switch the lightning to Secretary W. B. Wilson. No Berry "for him. KDITOWIAL TIDBITS The average politician who announces that he hears the people calling- him is usually a pretty good ventriloquist. Columbia State. Now that Elihu Root has s-ot the Nobel pea<~e prize, it looks as if he really ought to accomplish something for the Republican party.—lndlanapn. list News. Now that the parcel post weight limit has been Increased to flftv pounds. It will be possible for our fishermen to shin home some of the large fish they tell about.—Newark News. Th#» Coru Club boys are raising' 100 bushels to the acre, but the old farm ers feel that this is all wrong 1 , as their grandfathers didn't do such things Henedrson (Ky.) Gleaner. HEADQUARTERS FOR SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES AMUSEMENTS , EVERY DAY IS BAItGAIN DAY VICTORIA THEATER TO-DAY of Fate." 3 Arts. "The Fir leaf of Fate." "Mrs. Brown's Hurt lar." "Cnpld's I.tentrnnnt." ADMISSION ('online to-morrow "I HEt KF.HS " In 8 Arid. I «■ JANUARY 8,1914. H Annooncement to the Public as Well as to Our Friends Glad to inform you that the Metropolitan Hotel Dining Room is open for business. Main entrance on Fourth street side, the best of everything the sea son can afford is to be found. We furnish a Club Breakfast from 6 to 8.30 a. m., from 25c to 50c, a business man's luncheon from 12 to 2.30 p. m., at 50c, a regular dinner, the best in the land from 6 to 8.30 p. m., at 75c. j Again the public, as well as oui friends are cor dially invited to inspect the new remodeled Metro politan Hotel, an extra addition, the seventh story, on which is located eleven of the finest sample rooms ever shown in any city, for the accommodation of the commercial trade to display merchandise; thirty two additional sleeping rooms added on the sixth, as well as on the second floor with nineteen baths, making a total of ninety-two sleeping rooms of which sixty are with bath and balance have running hot and cold water, including eleven sample rooms, making a total of 103 rooms for the new remodeled Metropolitan Hotel. We would be glad to show you through our model kitchen and take special pride for the public to know that our refrigerating plant has been installed which is used in the kitchen as well as the storage boxes, can frankly say there is nothing better equipped in any hotel of the largest cities, therefore, making everything sanitary, can furnish the public the fresh est food and the best up-to-date service. Thanking one and all for the past patronage, I remain, Yours very truly, LOUIS W. KAY, . Proprietor Metropolitan Hotel. - AMUSEMENTS AMU SBMKXTB MAJESTIC THEATER, To=n io-ht SATURDAY, 1 1 V SKATS SOW After H Brilliant York Spnmin— And.- Her Coidfd> Co.. In Goldsmith's I Tl l e Melodramatic lilt In (•lowing Comedy of Voiith nn.l —,^L. P . lay That Ha " Ht'En"' SHI ' * ,OOPS TO CO*-! 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