6 OABRISBURG TELEGRAPH Bttabluhti il}i |PS== ' 1 = PUBLISHED BT ID TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. tj. •TACKPOI.E, Prei't and Treaa'r. R. OYSTER, Secretary. ■Cra M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Itabllihed every evening (except Sun dar), at the Telegraph Building, til Federal Square. Baetern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Haebrook, Story ft Brooks. !Wo«torn Office, 123 Welt Madison atreet, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscriber! at IS.OO a year In advance. Bntered at the Post Office In Harrle burg aa second class matter. ®Th« Association of Amor- J 1 lean Advertisers baa ox- ( •mined and certified to i| the circulation of this pub- i l H cation. Tho figures of circulation i !' oontalwod in tho re- i 1 1 port only ar* guaranteed. <; Association of American Advertisers ; i \ Ne. 2333 Whitehall Bldg. N. Y. City Iwow daily ATtrtge for the month of December, 1913 * 22,210 * Average for tt>« year 1915—21,577 Average for the year 1012—31,175 Average for the year 1911—18,851 Average for the year 1910—17,485 THI.KPIIONESi Bell fctvnte Branch Exchange No. 2040. United Business Office, SOS. Mtterlal Room 585. Job Dept. 201. TCKSDAY EVENING, JANUARY IS DOWN WITH THE VICE DENS COLONEL JOSEPH B. HUTCHI SON, Chief of Police, delivered a forceful blow at the vice dens ' of Harriaburg yesterday when ho reported to court not only the street numbers of places under sus picion and the names of those reputed to be their proprietors, but the owners of the properties as well. His action will be commended by every right thinking: man and woman in the city. He has done a splendid piece of re strictive work in a characteristically fearless manner and it is to be hoped that he will continue his investi gations until he is able to complete the list of houses of ill-repute for the information of the court and the public. District Attorney Stroup, to whom the list of suspected places was turned over, may go on with his part ot' the proceedings with the full knowl edge that he will be supported by the police, the court Itself and the public. Doubtless his task of obtaining first hand evidence to convict will not be easy, now that those who have been frequenters of the tenderloin district have been more or less frightened by the wide publicity Colonel Hutchison's report has been given, but Colonel Hutchison should not be criticised on that Bcore. The interest in the public lies in the suppression of the vice dens more than in the prosecution of those who have been conducting them, although that is desirable, too, and the District Attorney will not be ex pected to make any sudden or sensa tional moves. His duty will be to keep the suspected places constantly under the surveillance of trusted offi cers and to raid them at the first sign that "business" has been resumed. Above all else not one of those places mentioned by Colonel Hutchi son must be permitted to continue its work of moral and physical destruc tion. Neither Is it to be tolerated for an Instant that any of those whose names were published yesterday as pro prietors of disorderly places shall be allowed to transfer their evil activities to other parts of the city. Both the Chief of Police and the District Attor ney will be able to prevent this and doubtless they have already laid their plans to do so. The war on vice dens in Harrisburg has just begun. The sensational ex posures of yesterday were but the opening skirmish. Colonel Hutchison is committed to It and District Attor ney Stroup is vigorously supporting him. Indeed, the District Attorney has in some recent instances himself furnished tlio evidence for arrests. The court can be expected to deal vigorously in all such cases. The authorities are standing shoulder to shoulder. Wherever the ugly serpent shows its head it will find a club lifted to smite It. This is no mere spasmodic effort. It is part of the great sustained move ment that is sweeping over the coun try and having for fts object the preservation of young manhood, the protection of innocent girls and women from a fate that is worse than death, the deliverance of wives from the perils of disease, the saving of unborn children from blindness or ill-health, to spread the gospel of right living, to teach the folly of "wild oat» sow ing" and to iiisuro for future gen erations their rightful heritage uf nor mal bodies and normal minds. The time ban long since passed when the house uf r\il resort was regarded as a "necessary evil." It is recjogniaed now for what it always has been, a festering sore in tho com munity, a poison-spreading pest that must give way before modern thought and an awakened public conscience. Colonel Hutchison hit upon an ex cellent plan when ho caused to be published the names of the owners of the properties given over to these evil purposes. He has struck at the very root of the evil there and a few more such exposures will no doubt cuuse those who own real estate to be more careful as to the uses to which they permit It to be put. What will becorno of the farmers it the manufacturers adopt the ideas of th« automobile makers and begin turn ing out new model threshing machines •nd reapers every year? TOTSDAY EVENING, RE-ELECTION OP MR. MANNING THE re-election of Warren H. Manning as consulting engineer is ... guarantee given the public by Commissioner Taylor and the advisory park board that there is to be a continuance of the wise policies of park development In Harrisburg that have given the city such an ad mirable park system In bo short a period of years. Mr. Manning has been identified \ with the parks of H&rrlsburg since I tholr very inception. He it was who ! outlined the system when the city un- I dertook Its first big public lmprove j merit enterprises. Ever since he has j been the consulting engineer of the i park board, and as such has a more comprehensive knowledge of the parks and park needs of the city than any other one man. Added to his famili arity with local conditions is his fame as a landscape engineer, which Is world-wide. Harrisburg is Indeed for tunate to be able to renew its contract with him at a sum so easily within its ability to pay. Evidently Commissioner Taylor, and the park board acting with him, pro pose to continue the work of mainte nance and development along the lines ] of efficiency 'that have characterized It l in the past, with as few changes as possible in the existing order of things. President Taft has lost elsrhty pounds since leaving the White House, which will only strengthen the belief of many that the Presidency is a pretty fat job. SHOULD MEET HERE IT is to be hoped that Chairman Baldwin's legislative committee to Investigate the methods of fire in surance companies and their or ganizations will see fit to add Harris burg to the list of places where hear j ings are to be held, because this city offers a fruitful field for an inquiry of this sort. We have lately received a voluminous report, telling us how to reorganize our fire department and this came right after we had spent thousands of on extension of the water mains, revamped our build ing laws and authorized a loan of ?25,000 for purchase of additional fire apparatus. Kates in Harrisburg have not been coming down lately, although It is now not permitted to build a wooden structure within the old city limits and many of the fire traps, so called, have disappeared in the march of im provement. Furthermore, a good part of the Eighth Ward, which insurance people always said kept them awake nights, has been cleared of buildings by the Capitol Park extension. The legislative committee could at least obtain for the people of this city some information as to why rates are fixed as they are in Harrisburg. "Medical ethics" is often made a cloak for professional jealousy, as in the case j of Dr. Kelly, censured by some of his j less able brethren for telling what lie ! knows about the radium cure for ! cancer. THE LABORER AND HIS HIRE ' MANY interesting thoughts have been brought out in the world wide discussion which has fol lowed the announcement of Henry Ford's great beneficence. A manufacturer of our acquaintance asserted the other day that Instead of increasing efficiency in the Ford auto mobile plant by paying "even the man who sweeps the floor" $5 a day, and splitting up 510,000,000 a year among a comparatively small number of wage earners, the head of the concern was laying up trouble for himself. "Within a year Mr. Ford's organiza tion will have lost 50 per cent, in effi ciency, if it is not absolutely dis rupted," said this manufacturer. "A man who makes S3O a week will con sider himself too good to sweep floors. He will soon own a Ford auto and in sist upon cheaper men doing the menial work. The very boys in the office will be too wealthy to run er rands. They will flick the dust from their patent leather shoes with their silk handkerchiefs and tell Mr. Ford to run his own errands." This may be a somewhat exaggerated view of the matter, yet there is an element of truth in It. What saith the Scripture? "The laborer is worthy of his hire." But is he worth MORE than his hire? If Mr. Ford means to give each one of his employes an inde pendent fortune, enabling them all to live in a manner befitting his new station in life, that is one thing. But if he expects them to keep on being janitors, floor sweepers, etc., while re ceiving Incomes out of all proportion to the market value of such services as unskilled laborers, that is another thing. The Ford experiment is by no means a closed incident. Its results will bq watched and recorded for years to come. Emperor William is cutting down trees in order to keep in good physical condition. Nov.! now! Didn't he real ize that the Colonel has a patent right on that idea? BIUSTOW TOO REACTIONARY KANSAS Progressive, it is said, are dissatisfied with Senator Joseph 1,. Bristow. They con sider him "reactionary." Too I Ijau Emma Goldman would not be oil- j giblc for the Progressives of Kansas. ! There are not many people outside| of that State, whether they he Pro-) gressives or not, who would be Willing! to confess that Senator Bristow is! overly conservative. On the contrary, ' he has been one of the staunchest of! Progressives, consistently advocating Progressive doctrines and following Progressive leaders. As late as last Spring he was cam paigning for the Progressive party In the State of Michigan. If he is too much of a "pull-back" for the radicals of Kansas, heaven spare us from a United States Senator who would come up, or down, to their plans and specifications. But think what the peopie or San j | Francisco would have said about the ! Itetch Hetchey grnli if any other city! | but their own had been interested lewnmfr cftdri Miss Violet Oakley's remarkable series of paintings in the Governor's reception room at the State Capitol, re P r ® s ® n tlng t ' l ® religious influences which led to the founding of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania, are Just commencing to be appreciated. They aro now being lithographed and spread broadcast in a manner that P them within the reach of the ordinary person who cannot afford to spend a couple of dollars for a copy right photograph and art critics are beginning to refer to the talented Pennsylvanlan as a successor to her preceptor, Edwin A. Abbey. The Philadelphia Publio Ledger did a real service in its issue of the colored re productions of the panels and placed the splendid works in the hands of those for whom the artist labored. The Literary Digest gives two pages to a comprehensive review of the paintings, reproducing two of them, and saying in the course of' its re marks that the mantle of Abbev seems to have fallen upon the Philadelphia girl, but also calls attention to the that Miss Oakley's own creative ability, coupled with her long study, resulted in the series for the recep tion room, the whole being the "great est artistic achievement" that a woman has ever undertaken. It will be with considerable interest that the people of the State await the com pletion of the series for the Senate chamber, which Miss Oakley is to have finished by next Januarv. The sketches for these works, which will be illustrative of events in the history of Pennsylvania, have lieen made and Miss Oakley is about to start on the canvases at her studio in the suburbs of Philadelphia. This studio, by the way, had to be enlarged to care for the forty-five-foot panel which will be the great feature of the mural deco ration in the Senate. That the Harrisburg Public Library is filling the place which the Tele graph claimed half a dozen years ago was awaiting it is illustrated by the number of people who have registered for free book service. When the plea was made that the opportunity here was great for a well-equipped, well run library people asked where were the people who would use it. This remark has even been made since the new library building, ono of the orna ments to the city, was put under roof. The answer to this remark and to the people who did not agree with the policy of the Telegraph In urging the erection of a building years ago is in the fact that 2,G00 or more persons have registered their names as desir ing books. Of this number four-fifths are adults and you can run up against people in any part of Harrisburg and even in its suburbs who are saying that they intend to get books. The library is just commencing to be ap preciated. The city has a real library for the first time, and its own, and when folks get to know what It con tains and thoroughly understand that It does not r-ost a cent to take out a book, that its rooms and tallies are free to people to go and read books, magazines and papers, and that its reference work is free, just that soon will the wisdom of the course of the Telegraph in urging building be more than vindicated. •Speaking of the library, it is worth while to note the remarkable interest taken by the children in its juvenile department. Close to 800 youngsters have put down their names as desiring books and they have literally been from the highways and byways or Harrisburg. the place where State Librarian Montgomery, in his remarks at the opening, said that the library would find its greatest field of useful ness. The pursuit of knowledge in Harrlsburg is well illustrated by the attendance at the reading hours and unless all signs fail the library is go ing to occupy a big place in the edu cational activities of the State's capital. Speaking of unique addresses which carry letters to their proper desti nation, a letter once passed through the Harrisburg Post Office and reached the right party with this simple ad dress, o o o oo o o 000 o o Wm. G. which, being Interpreted, meant Wil liam G. Underwood. "Sl* TICKS FOR DA ftIART" By Whiß Dinger O, say, Meester Board of Directors, Why don't you be heep bigga sport, And giva da peeple who ride on Your trolleys, six ticks for da quart? You hava one nice, beega business, You getta da mon in advance; Don't geeva it all to da stockholds, But geeva da rider a chance. Dey say you have heep big expenses, And alia dat sort uva talk. Bout taking a great bigga fortune Whenever you water da stock. I say to my friend eet is funny. Dees talk about watering stock, You'd think dat da trolleys got thirsty And had to have water each block. Den he laft and say, "No! No! Carranza You are wrong, butta dees Is da way— For da stock what de people are hold ing There are beeg dividends for to pay." But he say dey make heep much more money, And after da stockholds they pay. They taka da wee smalla fortune And to surplus dey salt eet away. Me no understand surplus aim stock hold. And all other talk of dees sort. But I think da poor devils who make you Should hava six ticks for da quart. | WELL-KNOWN PEWLT[ —S. Parker Smith, who closed up the borough of Verona under the old blue laws, is a Presbyterian clergy man, who was elected burgess last fall —James Slieakley, justice of tho peace of Greensville, is 84 and served in Congress an.l Commissioner and Governor of Alaska. He has just tu ken office. —Congressman W. D. H. Ainey. mentioned for senator, commanded the Montrose company of the National Guard for years. —The Rev. James W, Diggle.i, of Johnstown's St. Mark's Episcopal Church, says it is folly to call dancing a sin just hecause it is dancing. lie was formerly stationed in this part of the State. Rabbi M. Noot, of Williamsport has been preaching in Protestant pul pits and declaring that men of all re ligions should get together because they have a common father. —B. M. Clark, head of the Bltnmi nous Miners' Association, is an attoi ney at Punxsutawney and an active man of affairs. —Ralph K. Weeks, the head of the Scranton Board of Trade, has landed another industry for his town. AX i;VKMM; THOUGHT Possession is nine points of the law; self-possession is ten. ' Anon. &ARRISBURG ftflSjiftg TELEGRAPH MIHI DISTURBS THE BOSSES' DREAMS Allegheny County Man Hops Into Harrisburg and Starts Ryan Boom Going RED HOT AGAINST PALMER Democratic State Machine Will Call the Roll at a State Committee Meet William N. McNair, chairman of the Pittsburgh division of the State Democratic machine, who has left the reservation and shaken his war hatchet at Big Boss Palmer, made a raid into the Dauphin county Demo cracy last night and to-dav, and set the reorganization chieftains flutter ing. McNair was one of the reorgani zation gang's staunchest lighters and he did not mind how many times the Guffey-Brennan road roller ran over him In the western end. He bobbed up and last year got at the levers him self. Now he seems to be bent on making Michael J. Kyan the Demo cratic nominee for governor and will not lie down and play dead Indian as demanded by Palmer. McNair stopped off here on his way home from Philadelphia where he made an assault on Palmer that Jar red the Monroe man, and while here visited relatives at Middletown and some of the numerous Ryan men in this section. The indications are that an organization of Ryan's friends will be formed within the party and a determined effort made to swing the Democratic vote in this county to the Philadelphian. The Progressive party chiefs will not pitch upon a slate until Thursday. To-night and to-morrow will be de voted to talking over the prospects and call ling the role to see liuil Moose how many have died Slate Will in the cause or who lie One have quit the fight. It is said that the men tion of William Flinn for governor was without his sanction and that he does not regard it as necessary for him to sew up the matter until he can get a suitable cadidate as has been done by Palmer. Flinn is said to desire a western man for governor on his Bull Moose ticket because Pinchot is to be senatorial nominee. Eastern Pro gressives want Young to run and are willing Flinn should have 11. D. W. English or even Julian Kennedy lor lieutenant governor and James M. Galbreath for Supreme Court justice, as the Moosers will Indicate their pref erence for that nomination. William Wilhelm, of Pottsville, is also being groomed for some otfice and might take a notion to run for governor. A meeting of the Democratic State committee may bo called by Scout master Chairman Roland S. Morris within the next month for tho purpose of Hole to He making the rules of Called for the State machine con- Dead Ones form to the require ments of the primary law of 1913. Whether will be anything done about changing the rules relative to election of a State chairman is problematical. Morris was elected to serve out the unexpired part of Guthrie's term and then for a full year commencing Jan uary 1, 1914. The bosses are not cer tain whether the law would require a chairman to be elected after the State committeemen are elected in May, but the antlreorganlzers will force the is sue. Preparations are being made to call attention of county chairmen to the requirement that they notify coun ty commissioners of party offices to be filled this year. The Democratic city committee of Philadelphia last night took cogniz ance of a request from representatives of more than two thirds of the wards that a meeting to re- Farley to vise its rules be con- Preside at vened. As a result it Meetings was decided to hold such a convention on next Monday night, January 19, at tho committee's headquarters. State Sen ator Richard V. Farley was elected temporary chairman of the convention and it was determined that the mem bership should consist of all mem bers of the cominltteo and tho chair man, vice-chairman, secretary and treasurer to each ward committee. The committee elected two members, Mark J. Donahue, representing the newly created Forty-eighth Ward and f'om mon Councilman Charles E. Gill, of the Thirty-fourth ward. As a result of the ripper in the cur rency deficiency bill signed by Presi dent Wilson, taking deputy revenue collectors out of the classified service, Fred lUpper W. Cranston, Republican, Humps who has held the posf- Oflice tion in Reading for six teen years, is about to be supplanted by a Dem ocrat. Congressman Rothermel has recommended Cyrus J. Rhode, of Kutztown, for the place. What great ly puzzles the incumbent. In view of the developments, is the action of the new collector of the First district, Kphraim Lederer, of Philadelphia, a Democrat, in recommissionlng him only about a month ago, if the inten tion was to oust him and put in a Democrat. It now turns out that the recommissioning was merely tempo rary and that the incumbent was marked to go when Congressman Rothermel had decided on a Demo crat to recommend as his successor. Democrats of Armstrong countj v are in a row over Federal patronage. The Senate committee on post offices and postroads has receiv er protests from the Democrats of that Armstrong county against the Democrats confirmation of John lip In Air B. Parks as postmas ter at Tjcechburg. Sena tor Oliver started to read this protest in the opfti session of the Senate yes teiMay. when the Vice-President ruled that it was executive business, and the Senator was obliged to stop. The protest states that "our county chair man, William A. McAdoo, of Kittan ning. has recommended this man against the wishes of a large majority of the patrons of this office, and we do most earnestly request you not to confirm the appointment." . It is signed by forty-five Democrats. Fol lowing the custom prescribed for dis tricts that are represented by Repub lican congressmen, Representative A. Mitchell Palmer, the distributer of federal patronage In Pennsylvania, ac cepted the suggestion of Chairman McAdoo, of the Armstrong county Democratic committee, and recom mended Parks. "Why did the great pianist refuse to play?" "Temperament. He got rna<l be cause bis name was printed in smaller type on the program than the tiam« of the piano on which he WHS to perform." —Chicago Keeord-Herald. INSURANCE PROBE STARTS THIS MONTH Five Cities Will Have Hearings and Harrisbnrf May Come Along Later BALDWIN GIVES HIS IDEAS Means to Hear All Comers Whether They Are Prop erty Owners or Not Harrisburg may be added in April to the schedule of five hearings to bo held in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton, Eiie and York outlined last nißht by the legislative commission to investigate the practices and methods of lire insurance companies, associa tions. combinations and pools as its program for this year. The commis sion plans to have all hearings open and property owners, manufacturers, merchants and managers of all kinds of establishments as well as insurance people will be given an opportunity to present their complaints or views. Subpenas may not be Issued unless necessary. The commission is charged wltfc making a report to the next legislature, togethor with such bills as it may deem necessary for regu lation of the making of schedules, rates and charges. State Fire Alarshal Josoph L. Bald win was asked to-night for his co operation in the inquiry and gave sug gestions from his experience in Inves tigations of buildings and fires In the last eighteen months. Chairman R. J. Baldwin stated after the conference that it Is also the plan of the com mission to confer with officials of cities and boroughs and to include all classes of tiro insurance officials in its requests for information. He said that the first meeting will be held at Phila delphia on January 27 and will last three days. The commission will meet February 10 in Pittsburgh, February 24 at York. March 10 at Erie and March 24 at Scranton, other hearings to be arranged as required. People in the vicinity of the meeting places will bo heard on any of the days desig nated. Ex-Senator Frank E. Baldwin, of Austin, will be counsel for tho com mission. The commission is coin posed of Representatives li. J. Bald win, Delaware; R. S. Frey, York; Sen ator William E. Crow. Fayette; Jo seph S. Alexander and Frank McCann, Pittsburgh. | POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS —The Patriot says the Democratic rank and lile will pick the State ticket this year. There is no doubt about that and Palmer is likely to find It out. —McNair is unkind to the reorgan izes. who used him to the limit. —Just what will happen to Scout master Morris if the old Guffey crowd comes back will be worth commenting upon editorially. —lt is unkind of Sheriff Wells' friends to boom him for sheriff when tho bosses would like to see Eby get the job. —Kirkendall is probably astonished at the number of patriots. Sixty jobs are a fine hand to hold. —The Democrats can give the Pro gressives some ideds about running a machine when they meet here to morrow. —Palmer probably thinks Ryan is an ingrate to start tho row so soon. —lt would bo interesting to know what Palmer said to Lynett after the Berry boom was launched. —The only thing needed now to start a Democratic rough house in any county is a post office appoint ment. —One thing about McNair. Ho, does not mince words when he assails a boss. He got the habit hitting Guffey when he wore the Palmer livery, i —Secretary Bill Wilson was a very canny lad. Letters to the Editor SIX FOR A QI'ARTEK AGAIN To the Editor of The Telegraph: Tenth Warder lias nothing on us out in the Reservoir district in his letter to your paper last night on why we should linve six trolley tickets for a quarter. The people living up Second street get a chance to sit down once in a while, but when "rush time" comes on our line we stand. And we stand regularly. I think, considering the number of peo ple that have to stand in the cars the traction company should sell six tickets for a quarter. It would even things up. RESERVOIR PARK. THE TRACTION SIDE To the Editor of The Telegraph: Some of my fellow-cltlzens who have been unbosoming themselves In letters to your columns, the last few nights, probably do not realize that there are many Harrisburg people who hold stock in the Harrisburg Railways Company, and that they are entitled to a fair re turn on their investment. I have no WMM—M>M— I Fackler's Big Store On the Hill j Offers Some Great Values in i Carpets, Rugs and Remnants of Linoleums j I This Week. j | Also a few specials In furniture. We have a few Whlttall rugs which we will sell at a sacrifice, also a nam- 5 | her of other makes. We must mako room for a very large stock of Incoming rags. Heacs the jario®. Coma Z I in and share in an actual nnd unusual saving. >'ote the following prices: S Two Anglo, Persians 9x12. $60.00, this sale, 949.00 Three Wilton Brussels rugs, Persian designs, 13',a strands to the inch, $60.00, this sale, 940.00 Six Royal Wiltons 9x12, $42.00, this sale, 932.00 Five Worcester Wiltons 9x12, $38.00, this sale, 930.00 Five Royal Wilton S-3xlo-6, $38.50, this sale, 930.00 Made up rugs in body Brussels. One body Brussel 7x13, $32.00, this sale, ..935.00 One body Brussel 7x14-6, $35.00, this sale, . .920.00 One body Brussel 6-Ixlo, $24.00, this sale, . .917.00 9x12 Axminster rugs 9x12, $22.00, this sale, 917.00 Wool rugs 9x12, $14.00, this sale 912.00 See us for special prices In carpets, enough for small and medium sized rooms at way down prices. Specials In furniture for this week. One eight piece quartered oak dliUng suite, $120.00, this sale, ..., 995,00 I PACKLER'S Derry Sts. j JANUARY 13. 1914. A RECORD FIGURE The filling at the Apollinaris during the year 1913 Exceeded 40,000,000 Bottles *sl\bt that in good time the company i will grant concessions to the people. I it is putting on new and up-to-date cars, and I think that if the question was put up to General Manager Musser ne would be glad to make some state ment about the company's Intentions. It depends for its business on the people of Harrisburg and its suburbs, and is not golnK to do anything to lose their good will. H. B. W. NEWS DISPATCHES OF THE CIVIL WAR [From the Telegraph, Jan. IS, 1864] Carries Uighty Prisoners Fortress Monroe, Jan. 11. Tho steamer John Tucker arrived here this morning from Baltimore, with but eighty rebel prisoners, bound to Point Lookout. Fifty-eighth Ite-enltsts Newbern, N. C., Jan. 9.—Tho Fifty eighth Pennsylvania Regiment has re enlisted for the war, and will soon leave for home on a furlough. Several batteries have also re-enllsted as well as a majority of the men of various regiments. GRADE CROSSINGS (Pittsburgh Dispatch) Following an exhaustive report on grade crossings In the State, tho new Public Service Commission has in structed its investigator to prepare recommendations for dealing with the question. Within the past six years 531 persons have been killed and 1,718 Injured on grade crossings in Pennsyl vania, the number of fatalities, curi ously enough, increasing from 73 in 1908 to 111 in 1913, whilo the num ber injured lias averaged about 285 | annually. Tho report shows that there are approximately 12,000 public grade crossings in thp State and possibly :l 0,000 private crossings. Of the pub lic crossings but 1,600 are protected, 600 by ilaginen, something over 300 each by electric bells, gates and flag men, and others by bells and flagmen. Seventy-five of the 114 steam roads have no protected crossings. The danger of accidents at such crossings varies, of course, greatly, both from traffic conditions and from surroundings. Country crossings clear ly visible at a distance require least protection. But there are others where trees, embankments, curves or build ings obstruct the view. The removal of obstructions where possible may I Last Week of Sale Tailored- to-Measure Garments For Gentlemen All winter woolens are being offered in this clearance tailored over your own meas urements, according to the Simms standard. Prices were S3O to SSO. This week, ONE-THIRD OFF |||| SIMMS, TAILOR I 22 North Fourth St. One mahogany labia, eight teat by H Inches, ! $32.00, this sale *21.00 J One white enamel chiffonier, $20.00, thla Bale, < $15.00 < One mahogany prinoeas dresser, 18x40 mirror, ( SIB.OO, thla sale, ( One 8-plece solid Quartered oak bed room suite, j $90.00, this sale , The best value ever offered. ' One bird's eye maple princess dresser SIS.SO, thla lale i $12.00 [ One bird's eye maple princess dresser and ohlfTonler i to match each, $20.00, this sale, each $15.00 i Two fireside chairs, upholstered In Bilk vercma, ] $22.60 each, this gale $15.00 ] One three piece fumed oalc library suite, $60.00, ( this sale $35.00 { This January clean up sale offers an excellent op- i portunlty to aave money on dependable goods. 1 save lives. In populous OMtera, of course, adequate protection should be required. The former Sta:e Rail road Commission was without rower to act, but tho new PUbllo ServlcV Com mission is vested with authority* With out laying an unreasonable burlen on the railroads it should be pnssble to avert the annual sacrifice of llfc and Umb at the crossings in this Sfets If the proper regulations and co-opera tion are adopted. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the telegraph, Jan. 18, 1864 To Describe Vicksburg On to-morrow (Thursday) evening Colonel F. Montgomery will deliver an address in the hall of tho House of Representatives, on which occasion ho will give a graphic description of the bombardment of Vicksburg. Zouaves to Meet A meeting of the First City Zouaves (late Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylva nia Volunteers), will be held In Brant's Hall, lower floor, this (Wednesday) evening at 7 o'clock. EDITORIALS l.ltcrnr.v IVotc [From the Tacoma Tribune.] It is announced that Robert W. Chambers' new novel will be different from those that preceded it. He must, have found a heroine who docs not drink or smoke cigurets. When Talking, For Inttion [From tho St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1 Sometimes tho President's only vice, as Mr. Marshall calls himself, is a thorn in the llesh. > HEADQUARTERS FOB SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES
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