6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Eitablishtd i!]i | PTJBLISHBI7 BY ' THE TBI.EUHAPH FRUITING CO. B. J. STACK POLE, Preat and Treas'r. F. R. OTSTBR, Secretary. DOS M. STBINMETZ. Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun day). at the Telegraph Building, 211 Federal Square. Xaatera Office, Fifth Avenue Building. N«w Tork City, Haebrook. Story A Brooks. "Western Office, 123 Wast Madison street, Chicago, 111.. Aileu & AVard. Delivered by carriers at six cents 9 week. Mailed to subscribers At IS.OO a year In advance. Bntared at the Post Office In Harris burg a* second claFs matter. ®The Association of Amer- j 1 ican Advertisers has «x- <' •mined and certified to i' tha circulation of this pub- 1 1 ! I lieatiom. The figures of circulation 1 ! I Mntained in tha Association's re- 11 1 1 part only are guaranteed. 1 1J Association ®f American Advertisers \ Ne. 2333 Whitehall Blo|. N. Y. City i[ ■wan dlatly average fer the month ol December, 1913 * 22,210 * Average for the year 1018—21.87T Average for the year 1912—21.175 Average for the year 1811—15.831 Average for the year 1910—17,495 . TELEPHONES! Bell •Hvate Branch Exchange No. 2040. United Business Office, JOS. Room BSS. Job Dept. 203. SATURDAY EVENING. JANUARY HI UNION STATION PLAZA the Pennsylvania and allied railroad interests are v V about It why should they not create a spacious plaza in "front of th» Union Station that would constitute a dignified and attractive gateway from the railroad to the city proper? Inasmuch as the company already owns the property along Grace avenue and for a considerable distance in Market street, there would seem to be no good reason for longer neglecting the Improvement of the entrance. Under present circumstances It is necessary for pedestrians to walk a long distance from Market street to the station building without any pro tection whatever from the weather. It •would be a simple matter, and cer tainly not unduly expensive, for the company to provide a covered walk from Market street to the entrance. The rather plain open space in front of the Union Station could easily be transformed Into a most attractive feature by the landscape architects of •company and the expert florists— done some admirable work approach to the Rock bridge—without interfering in any degree with the necessary drive ways. This might be a proper matter for the consideration of the new Cham ber of Commerce. We believe the railroad officials are In entire har mony with the new Harrisburg idea and will cheerfully co-operate with whatever plans are adopted along rea sonable lines. UNWILLING PATRIOTS IN the attitude of Congressman Pal mer and Secretary of Labor Wilson toward the proposal that they fore go their present certainties at Washington for the uncertainties of the gubernatorial campaign in Pennsylvania on the Democratic ticket, there is no Indication that either of gentlemen Is yearning to offer up as a personal sacrifice for •'the cause." Mr. Palmer would rather be gover nor than a congressman, but he would rather bo an unbeaten congressman than a beaten governor. Secretary Wilson consider# that his cabinet office Js moro of an honor than it would be to Inhabit the Executive Mansion in Jlarrisburg. The welfare of the State end of their party in the State does >iot appear to have entered into the calculations of Mr. Palmer and Mr. JWUson at all. It is merely, "what iwould we get out of It?" Some of their good friends who complain bitterly about this unpatrio tic attitude say that it does not square ' VHh the previous professions of dis interestedness which have been the | very essence and flower of their polltl- I cal strength and success. As for us, never having supposed that either Mr. Palmer or Mr. Wilson •ntered politics through any desire for martyrdom or sacrifice, the disillusion Is no great shock. " WATCHFUL WAITII N'G" WE have watched and waited for the beneficent results which it was predicted would follow the policy of "watchful wait ing" adopted by the Administration to ward Mexico. As yet nothing has turned up. The incomprehensibly mixed-up revolution pursues the uneven tenor of its way. To-day one side wins; to-morrow an other enjoys a brief victory. Now It is the federals who are slaughtered, and again the bones of the rebels whiten the field of battle. But, always, hu man lives are being sacrificed, human liberties are being 1 destroyed and prop erty is being wiped out. k Certainly, watchful waiting has not ■ been very satisfactory to date, r When we contemplate President ■Wilson's Mexican policy we are forcibly Reminded of that other watchful waiter ao graphically described by Mr. Dick ens. Never was the policy of watch ful waiting so perfectly apotheosized as in the person of the alert and ready Mr. Micawber. Never was any man bo watchful, never was any man so %-aitf it I as Mr. Micawber. With what superb patience he com posed himself against that mythical SATURDAY EVENING, time when something was going to "turn up." How cheerfully he "fell back" again and again for a "new start," just as Mr. Wilson's special am bassador falls back from Mexico City to Vera Cruz and from Vera Cruz to Mexico City and from Mexico City to Pass Christian and from Pass Chris tian to A'era Cruz or Mexico City, once more. We have always thought that Mr. Micawber did it rather better than anybody else, but there can be no de nying the fact that he will have to look to hie laurels. The watchful waiters at Washington are close on his heels. i CITY PLANNING BURDENED as they are with many Important mattors at this time, which involve painstaking care, it is still the hope of all who are interested in the progress of the city that the new rulers of the municipal ity will act promptly in creating the City Planning Commission authorized by the last Legislature. It is be lieved that Mayor Royal and his as sociates are practically of one mind regarding the desirability of this commission. The experience of other cities In this country and abroad is such as to justify the placing of the important planning of Harrisburg un der the direction of men who are qualified by experience for the duties that will devolve upon them under this act. Harrisburg has need at this time for more harmonious development along many lines and a commission making city planning its business would result in immeasurable good for the whole community. SAVE THE BIRDS WHAT a splendid service Dr. Kalbfus has suggested for the Boy Scouts of Pennnsylvania in his letter to the public pleading for the feeding of our wild birds during the period when snow covers the fields and forests and places hundreds and thousands of our little feathered friends in danger of starva tion. Here Is just such a work as should delight the heart of any boy. Ranging the snowclad woods is delightful enough at any time for the warmly clad, outdoors loving lad. Bound on a mission of mercy and carrying food for the famishing' birds should only add to the zest of the excursion of the Boy Scout who is thus living up to the high tenets of his Scout code. Boy Scouts everywhere should as sist the Game Commission in this laudable work. > Doubtless they will need no urging to do so. A MEMORIAL WORTH WHILE HERE is a memorial that is far more to be desired than marble —an apple orchard of 2,000 trees planted in honor of the discoverer of the Baldwin apple. , Did you know that all the Baldwin apple trees in the United States were descended from one tree? Mrs. Nellie M. Baldwin Farmer says they were, and, as the apple was named for her great-great-uncle Loammi Baldwin, she ought to know. She has decided to perpetuate the family fame, and has purchased a tract of 173 acres at Hampton Falls, N. H., where she has had 2.000 young trees set out this month, as a starter in orcharding and as a memorial to the originator. Mrs. Farmer's story of how the Baldwin apple was discovered is in teresting. She says: Loamml Baldwin, my great-great grandfather's brother, was out hunting near Wilmington, Mass., one autumn many years ago be fore the outbreak of the War of the Revolution. He came upon a wild apple tree, laden with beautiful fruit and, on tasting, found that the appleß upon it were the most delicious he had ever eaten. Realizing that here was some thing worth far more than the rab bits he was after in an afternoon's fun. he took a handful of scions from the new tree and. arriving home, quickly grafted them onto young apple trees of suitable points. Baldwin might have eaten his fill of the splendid fruit he fout\d and have gone his way. But he did not. He saw the possibilities in that tree and has handed down as fine an apple as one could nsk and his name to gene rations upon generations to come. Many another doubtless passed that way but saw nothing more than a particularly fine apple tree, the fruit of which he found good, of which he ate and then forgot. Thus do oppor tunities for fame and fortune lurlt in unexpected places, and few see them. GEKMOPHORIA THOSE scientists who have un dertaken to suppress the Chau tauqua salute on the ground that it is a distributor of colds, influenza and tuberculosis, are in dan ger of arousing the rage of a patient and long-suffering people. We may submit quietly when we are told that death lurks in the com mon drinking cup and disease in the common towel; we may be meek enough to throw open our windows in zero weather for the purpose of com bating invisible germs within, but we rise up in our might and protest when [we are denied the privilege of stand ing up and exclaiming "Wheel" and waving our handkerchiefs at platform heroes who command our admira tion. The subtle insult conveyed in the resolution adopted by the Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis against the Chautauqua salute, does not escape our notice. The society intimates that our handkerchiefs are not clean, whereas, most of us are very particu lar to put a newly-ironed-and creased one in our pockets when we imagine that there will be occasion for a sa lute. Who that has ever looked over an enthused saluting audience can have failed to be impressed with the spotless whiteness of the waving hand kerchiefs'.' A soiled and crumpled handkerchief would just be no salute at all. it would be like drinking a man's health in ice water. The germ theory, like candy, is all right if you do not take too much of it. but we fpar that science is inclined to carry the matter to extremes. < >nly a few days ago, we were reading the report of one painstaking Investigator who announced that after you hai! washed your hands with hot water and soap and dipped them Into a solution of absolute alcohol, they were still dirty. He said that typhoid fever germs were quite indifferent to such careless and slip-shod pretenses of cleanliness. The only way to make them get oft" was to scrape the cuticle. Wo have a very high regard for science, but we trust that it will not run away with itself. evening char A friend who follows up local his tory for his entertainment and who read the reference to the part that Meadow Lane, which is rapidly dis appearing in the mar<-h of railroad development, has played in Harris burg. gives us some interesting infor mation about the old Indian trails that passed over the land that is now occupied by the buildings and high ways of Harrisburg. Tt will be re called that the other evening we men tioned that Meadow Lane gut a place on the map because it was an Indian trail and was adopted by the traders, being preserved in the laying out of the city. There were four well de nned Indian (rails in and about Har risburg when ohn Ilarrts built his v arehouse in what is now Harris' park. One of these trails was the line of Meadow Lane which went on out toward Manada Gap practically by way of Jonestown road ahd other mghways which now connect with it. Another went up from the Susque hanna along Paxton creek, going up the hill through Mish's hollow, about where Sacred Heart church stands, and thence by way of a ravine which formerly out across Berrvhill street near Seventeenth, thence out through the okl Rudy and Haelienlen proper ties. now Beverly Place and Beltevue park, south of the present Reservoir park to the hollows back of Paxtang whence it went on down the Lebanon valley with a branch toward the gaps in mountains in Lebanon county. An other trail led along the Susquehanna from Middletown to the Harris ferry or ford, as it originally was, but weil back from the river. The trail by which the Indians came down from Rockville or Susquehanna Gap ran o\er along the base of First moun ta n almost to the line of Wildwood lake and then followed the Paxton creek down to the ferry. That the ford, which became the excuse for Harrisburg. was well known is shown by reference to various trails leading to it. Harris, according to tradition found it a gathering place of Indians before he built upon it. People connected with the automo bile division of the State highway de partment are accustomed to odd re quests. but the other day men came asking- for tags No. 44,444 and 50,055 in the same day. The practice of getting combinations of numbers has been prevalent for a long time, J 5 "* t,lis year, probably because of the Increased number of machines there are more than ever. Almost every number has been gobbled up that has any significance. Florists say that although the holi day season is over there are a good many people buying the small Christmas trees, pines, spruce, holly and box of which such fine displays Vwere made before the holiday season began. In fact, they say that people are buying these trees for decorative purposes and that many of the homes in the upper part of the city and out on the Hill, where ground about a house is demanded, have the trees planted. The old time boxwood tree seems to have as many friends as ever. This interesting story about a for mer Harrisburger has just been printed in New York. It concerns the Rev. Dr. .T. Wesley Hill, Tor years pastor of Grace church, who was pastor of the First church of Ogden. Utah, in his younger days. One night, so runs the story, he preached a strong sermon on the marriage certificate and what it meant to a home. The following day the young divine was called on to perform his first marriage ceremony. The couple who presented them selves were typical westerners, and had been married twenty-five years before under the ceremonies of the Mormon church. While the husband had not practiced polygamy, the wife was afraid that he might, and in or der to make sure of monopolizing her husband she had insisted, after hearing the sermon, on another cere mony. Dr. Hill had reached the part in the service when he asked the groom: "And do you take this wom an to be your wedded wife, to have and to hold. • « • an d forsaking all others, cleave only unto her so long as ye both shall live?" At this point the groom blurted out: "I say, | parson: that's what I've been doing j these twenty-five years." The brido | objected to this interruption and sig- I naled to the domine to proceed. When the ceremony completed she burst into tears. "This is the hap piest moment of my life." she sobbed. "God knows," returned the groom, "that if this makes you happy, we will come around here every week and have your marriage certificate touched up." With that he handed Dr. Hill SSO. "Come again," said the pastor; "God bless you." DON'T TEASE THE BUTTON By Wing Dinger. Push buttons on the trolley cars Are promised us quite soon And to the riding public They will surely prove a boon. No need then when the trolley Draws to your street quite near To waken the conductor Who's sleeping in the rear. Don't be in too much hurry To touch the button flat, Ix-st you should peeve your neighbor By knocking off his hat. You mustn't get excited Or nervous, no, by heck: Or you may stretch your arm too far About a lady's neck. Just be the least bit careful. Turn gently in your seat, The button push—get off with ease— And save the people's feet. | WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE I —Leonard Peckitt, of the Empire Steel and Iron Company, is one of the organizers of the new American Pig Iron Association. —J. H. Frigar, of Philadelphia, is out with a suggestion that Pennsyl vania. New Jersey and Delaware unite in a nautical schoolship. —George Burnham, Jr., the Phila delphia banker, has sailed for a Euro pean trip with Mrs. Burnham. —Secretary Garrison, who thinks the United States Army is getting too much publicity, was one of the of ficials "riled" by the Carobao dinner He comes from Jersey and he used to be a judge. —H. J. Wightman, the Lower Mer lon school superintendent, is being mentioned for superintendent of the Scranton schools. --D. J. Driscoll has been elected solicitor of St. Mary's town council, lie was formerly Democratic State chairman and is one of the well known men of Elk county. HARRIBBURG 8668P TELEGRAPH PENROSE, PALMER ID PUT, TOO Letter P Appears to Figure in Names For Pennsylvania Senatorial Seat SITUATION IS INTERESTING Democrats Want to Get a Chance to Whack State Chairman Roland S. Morris It begins to look as though Penn sylvania would have three leading can didates for United States Senator next year, all of whose names will begin with P. They are Boles Penrose, Re publican, who Is a candidate for re election; Gilford Pinchot, who conies from Pike and is the Progressive's slated candidate, and A. Mitchell Pal mer, of Stroudsburg, the Democratic boss. There will be others, of course, but these three men with the same initial to their family names will he on tho ballots, In the opinion of many. The llrst two are avowed candidates and Palmer can he whenever he says the word. It is not believed he wants to enter the very uncertain campaign for the Democratic nomination for Governor. Other men named are Garnian and Gordon, the former a Judge in Lu zerne and the latter a former judge in Philadelphia. Garman has been more or less a partisan of James M. Guffey, the old leader, who intends to make an effort to come back, and Gordon used to be his political foe. The gubernatorial situation is at tracting the greatest attention, largely because of Palmer's effort to sidestep it, and his attempt to get some Demo- Guhcmatorial crat who would be Situation Is acceptable to the Interesting daily increasing number of his ene u>ies. Just who will be the sacrifice dors not appear since Secretary Wilson has declined to be the goat. The Progressives are debat ing between State Treasurer R. K. j Young, 11. D. Ay. English, of Pitts | burgh, and Fred E. Lewis, of Allen [town, who will not run for Congrcss man-«t-large again because he does not know where he will light. The Republicans have an abundance of first-rate timber, with ex-Governor Stuart, Lieutenant-Governor Reynolds, Speaker Alter and a dozen other well known men available. The Repub licans are perfecting organizations and daily taking in men who were Bull Moosers in 1912, while the. Democrats are split worse than known in a dozen years. The second place on the Republican ticket has been suggested for James Scarlet, the Danville attorney; John S. Fisher, Indiana; ex- Judge F. M. Trexler, of Allentown, although The Other there are others equal- Places On ly well known men- Tickets tioned. The Demo crats have Joe O'Brien, the Scranton lawyer; W. A. Wltman, the Reading pagoda builder, and "Farmer" Creasy as possibilities. The Progressive slate has not yet been made. Anyhow, Lieutenant-Governor is something that is not considered except at the last minute, although it is possible that in open primaries some one might run away with It. Secre tary of Internal Affairs Henry Houck will be a candidate for another term and the Bull MooserS are said to think about letting the place open. The. Democrats will have to fill it and would like a wealthy man to try for it. The four nominations for Congress-at large promise an interesting' situation. The Republicans appear likely to name John R. K. Scott HS one candidate, and maybe a man from Pittsburgh. Claude T. Reno, of Allentown, is another Re publican suggested. The Supreme Court justiceship is not to be Tilled by partisan nomina tions, although it is expected that the Democrats will try some stunts to get a Democrat Supreme on the ballot. Men sug- Oourt's gested have been our own Vacancy President Judge, George Kunkel; Judge R. S. Fra zer, the Allegheny jurist; Judge E. A. Walling, of Erie; Judges Martin and Ralston, of Philadelphia; Major Everett Warren, Scranton; ex- Senator Webster Grim, Doylestown; Judge H. O. Bechtel, Schuylkill; Judge Garman, ex-Judge Trexler, Judge Criswell, Venango. Roland S. Morris, the titular scout master of the boy scout faction of the -Pennsylvania Democracy, is the sub ject of an interesting story in the Philadelphia Press to-day. The Press says a split In the Morris Democracy of the State is at Dodges hand and intimates that Mr. Inquiry Morris dodged when asked whether he did not think that the election of a Democratic State chairman, ought to be made an issue at the cominlg primary. The State chairman claims that his term will not end until the end of 1914, but other Democrats contend that he will go out of office in May under the terms of the direct primary act. Reorgani zation Democrats have not given up the hope that William B. Wilson will be a candidate for the nomination lor governor. lie appears to be their oniy hope. Could You Sign This? "I believe I have amply provided for the comfort of my family after my death. "I have execute*a will, In which I have made proper and ample provision for each member. "I have named as Executor an institution that will relieve my family of all worry, and Insure the proper attention to their Interests, In the settlement of my estate." If you cannot append your name to such a statement, don't you think you'd better take the matter up with us and talk it over? COMMONWEALTH ' TRUST COMPANY 222 Market Street HEAUdUAIITEKS roll SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES V J I POLITICAL SI —Now Pottavillo's city officials, just In office, are being Indicted on the "charge that they do not keop up streets. -■Scoutmaster Morris is something of n dodger when it comes to talking about election of chairman. —Bethlehem and South Bethlehem are talking about uniting in one city. —York's council has abolished tho detective bureau. —Wllkes-Burre councllmen have dropped seventeetl policemen. The mayor is not kicking eittier. —Judge Gorman has named a per manent district attorney's assistant to work before that body. —A. V. Dlvely, of Altoona. has been endorsed by Democrats for the reserve board. —Congressman Rothermel and Ar thur G. Dewalt, who wants the con gressional seat, had a lively argument at the Allentown Democratic club din ner last night aa to who was the orig inal Wilson man. —Opposition to Congressman Brod bock, of York, is brewing in his own party. - -Congressman Rothermel blames Berks reactionaries for the opposition to him at home. —Philadelphia is having lots of ac tion but whether it Is the right kind to get a greater city no one knows. —Another day and not an outburst from Boyer and Walters. —John Marron, tlie Pittsburgh law yer who died yesterday, was well known here and was noted as a vigor ous man in politics. NEWS DISPATCHES OF THE CIVIL WAR [From tho Telegraph of Jan. 10, 1864.] Quiet Along; 'the It. & O. Baltimore, Jan. 9. Reliable infor mation from Cumberland. Aid., this morning, says there