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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.
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