8 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established It} 1 PUBLISHED* BT THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING 00. S. J. STACK POLE. Pres't and Treaa'r. T. R. OYSTER. Secretary. ©OB M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun day). at the Telegraph Building, 116 Federal Square. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story A Brooks. Western Office, 128 West Madison street, Chicago. 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at ©nSUflrulnL six cents a week. Mailed to aubscrlberi at $3.00 a year in advance. Sintered at the Post Office in Harrls burg as second class matter. ! 1 /HN TT - Association of Amer- ( > 1 (a/A\f| ' c * n Advertisers bas ex am hied and certified to / , the circulation of this pab- <' 11 lication, Tho figures of circulation 1 1 1 contained in tho Association's re- 1' 1 1 port only are guaranteed. ■ 1 11 Association of American Advertisers j, No. 2333 Whitehall Blig. N. T. City ![ •wom dally average for the month of December, 1913 * 22,210 * Average for the year 19 15—21,577 Average for the year 1012—21,175 Average (or the year 1811—18,851 Avenge tor the year 1910—17,495 TELEPHONES! Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 2040. United Business Office, 201. XAltorlal Room 685. Job Dept. 20S. THURSDAY EVENING. JAN. 15 THE REAL ISSUE DIFFERENCES between the two wings of the Republican party In Pennsylvania are so unim portant that It ought not to be difficult to compose these differences and present to the common enemy— the Democracy—a solid front for the strenuous and exciting campaign upon which we are about to enter for the election of a United States Senator and State officials. Since the Legislature has placed upon the voter the entire responsi bility, it is clearly his duty to give serious thought to tho real Issue anil not permit his judgment to be warped or his attention diverted by loud calls to perform a "patriotic duty" when this appeal simply means a vote for the Democratic ticket. No voter should be deceived by the constant cry of "gang" this and "gangster" that. This is the worst sort of dust-throwing and is discounting, In practically every case, the intelligence of the voter whom it is intended to bewilder and deceive. There is no "gang" now, nor can there be, unless the people themselves choose to be regarded in that light. The direct primary places the power nml the responsibility squarely up to the voter. In the last analysis the whole ques tion is one of principles and not of in dividuals. It becomes a matter of what you believe in. Are you in har mony with the Republican principles os they are understood to-day, con forming as they do to the expressed will and desire of every member of the party? Do you believe that an bonest effort has been made to reform the Bbuses and arbitrary methods which crept In under the old convention system ? Surely it will not be contended that, with the adoption of uniform prtniarj laws and nonpartisan ballot features find much else in the way of legisla tion assuring the control of nomina tions and elections by the people, the Republican party is still in the hands of bosses. True, there are still those "pro gressives" who merely want a change for tlie sole reason that It will mean something different, and others so "conservative" that they believe any change is R dangerous experiment, But we feel quite certain that the great body of real Republicans will find un der the banner of the party of achieve ment common ground upon which to Stand in a determined effort to pro tect our institutions and our commer cial and Industrial wellbeing from the menace of theoretical and reckless legislation. We have neither sympathy nor pa tience with those of either wing of the Republican party who persist In a hopeless attitude of Indifference one to the other, on the score that there cannot be two opinions on any politi cal question or party procedure. Thou sands of good Republicans who sup ported Colonel Roosevelt believe when they thus uttered their protest against what they conceived to be arbitrary party action at Chicago, they did that which wae demanded by the occasion; but, having thus made their protest and having seen all the important electoral changes demanded enacted; Into law by the last Legislature, these | men see no reason for a continuance of a factional struggle that will mean simply Democratic supremacy and the defeat of the very principles which hoth wings of the Republican party favor. Whether the leaders of the two fac tions will recognize the necessity of a burial of petty ambitions and differ ences for the welfare of the party as a whole remains to be seen; but It is as certain as that night follows day that the great body of the Republican host Is coming together. Men may como and men may go, but the principles upon which great parties are founded are fundamental, and it is the opinion of honest students of current political hlatory that the reunion of the Re publican factions in this State, as throughout the nation, is inevitable, the prophecies of a few ambitious leaders to the contrary notwithstand ing. Once more three loud, long cheers for the inventor of the wireless. THURSDAY EVENING, j Dr. Taylor, of Philadelphia, asserts I that the fewer clothes a woman wears the more she has to eat to keep warm. No use, fellow husbands. It's only a cholco between the department store and the grocer. | CITY PLANNING COMMISSION THE City Parks Association of Philadelphia bears much the Fame relationship to the civic development of that city as the proposed City Planning Commission ts designfcd to have to Improvements of that nature In Harrlsburg. This city ! may therefore draw a lesson from the operations of the Parks Association in Philadelphia and judge of the suc cess of a Planning Commission here by the results attained there. Some light is thrown on the situa tion in tho Quaker City by "Penn," in an article 011 the editorial page of-the Philadelphia Bulletin, in which he says: It used to be that the sugges tions of the City Pftrks Association concerning municipal improvement were pretty generally regarded as aesthetically farfetched and finan cially impossible. "Pretty enough to read about on paper," was tne usual comment of public men, "but not of much uso when it comes to devising the ways and means." When the association published Its reports from year to year, It was the prevalent fashion to comment on them as if they were the ro mantic dreams of poets or the fan tastic conceit of architectural ped ants. But in the past years there has come to be a gradual, and to day a marked, change in the atti tude of tho public mind toward the sort of ideas and projects which are promoted by tne association. These are 110 longer treated as If they were either somewhat irra tional or somewhat visionary. On the contrary many of those which It used to advocate have made their way to the front, have been Incor porated into the policy of the city, or have been taken up in the midst of much approval on all sides. A generation ago when thoughtful men pointed out our shortcomings, how haphazardly we were making "Improvements" In all parts of the city and how much more costly they became as a whole In consequence of the lack of co-relation to one another, the Idea was viewed by Councllmen as extravagant and ab surd. But In the past decade there has been a remarkable conversion to It, and It is now thoroughly ap proved by most Intelligent Philadel phians. Even hard-headed poli ticians In the town who are not usually disposed to be much inter ested In such matters of their own initiative, admit that people are In terested In them, especially since they have come to realize what parks and playgrounds and points of public pleasure mean to them in their dally life. The Legislature has wisely placed it within the power of Harrisburg to have even a more effective City Plan ning Association than that which has done so much for Philadelphia. Why there should be any hesitancy about naming the commission and getting it to work on the important public improvements confronting us as the result of the passage of the municipal improvement loans last November is difficult to understand. The law is mandatory. The city authorities have no choice in the matter. They must name a commission and they have one ready-made at hand the Park Board, which In make-up and experi ence is well qualified to take up the work. Philadelphia's success should inspire Harrisburg to even broader and more effective planning, as is made possible by the terms of the new law. The Moose and the Suffragists both in town and not a 3train of music! What's to become of the brass bands under these now political conditions, we would like to know? And how are the red fire manufacturers expected to earn a living? Mexico is bankrupt and Huevta is the | receiver. BANK FOR PHII/ADKLPHIA HARRISBURG bankers subscrib ing to the new currency act y try properly favor the loca tion of one of the regional banks In Philadelphia. Pennsylvania is the second banking State in the union and its resources are three-quarters of a billion dollars greater than the third State and al most a billion dollars in excess of the fourth State. It Is extremely prob able. that the amount of real business done in Pennsylvania every year, mer cantile. agricultural. Industrial, manu facturing and financial, exceeds that of any other one State and ia equal to that of some half-dozen of the States that are making apparently successful claims for regional banks. Pennsylvania should have a federal bank because the money is here, be cause the business is here and because it is so located that other States may have easy access to it.. And Philadel phia is logically the city for such a bank. Wo suspect that the Washington man who asserts that there is more alcohol in grape juice than in beer is hunting an excuse to break a New Year's reso lution. The proverb maker who manufac tured that one about there being "no fool like an old fool," didn't know any thing about the extent of foolishness some modern middle-aged men can be guilty of. If the heart is hardened with the arteries there would be fewer fool mar riages of old men and young girls. FAIR PLAY FAIR play requires that it he said of the management of the Ma jestic Theater that it did not at tempt to exhibit the recently sup pressed "white slave" pictures without first having them passed upon by the Harrisburg Ministerial Association. Notwithstanding that the Alms were shown In Philadelphia, Reading, York and elsewhere without public protest, the theatrical management here of Its own volition arranged for a special exhibition, to which the ministers wer« invited to sit as judges. If there was more of this sort of thing there would be fewer criticisms of things theatrical and fewer attempts on the part of producers to foist objection able plays and acts upon the public. Remorse is a good Intention post poned until it is impossible of ful fillment. AN EVENING THOUGHT Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. —Longfellow. lewmne- CHAT Ordinarily a meeting of men In Public or political life brings folk* to Harrlsburg in their best and they generally can be told at a glance. But the meeting of the Progressives here this week has emphasized, as perhaps nothing has done for some time, the passing of the high hat. Time was when every man in politics used to wear a high hat. It was % part, of the distinctive attire and the natives could always tell when a convention or po litical gathering was being held by the number of ••silkies" or ••stove pipes' 1 about the hotels or the Capitol. Tears ago they used to wear white or pearl-gray high hats. Anyhow, the high hat was a part of tho statesman's makeup and it was generally worn with a frock coal, although some men s ideas of sartorial elegance uul not go that far. Now the high hat is used for parade purposes. It is not even worn to any extent in the church parade, but kept for the political pa rade, and, so that the vintage mav be correct is bought annually or blen- Pv. ' n a " °' crowd yesterday there was ,lust one man wearing a high hat, and he was a marked man. Most of the men wore soft hats. Olf ford Pinchot sports a black slouch of the Colonel's pattern and Dean Lewis wears a derby. William Fllnn has a dark soft hat of a fedora shape with th« steering gear behind and the rest of the Pittsburghers had the same. E. Valke nburg has the inevitable cady" and the rest "wore what suited them. Such a thing as uniformity in headwear among men in politics is as little known as the high hat. And they used to go head to head. The recent meeting of the Social Club, one of the best known clubs of this part of the State, for the election of its officers for 1914 WSB notable in that three well-known residents of Harrisburg were again chosen to office. H. E. Hershey, park commissioner and widely known in business, was again selected as the president of the club, an office which he has held for many years. Another Hershey, H. L., the former revenue collector, was elected vice-president, and George E. Etter, who has been treasurer for so long that the records antedate the Revolution, was again selected for that position. Joseph M. Means, an other well-known Harrisburger, was elected secretary. The inspection to be held of the National Guard organizations this win ter will be entirely different from that which will be held in April. The in fection announced in the Telegraph last night is the regular inspection, which takes place every year, but that in April will be by officers from Uncle Sam's army. This inspection will be for field service. Being a guardsman Is no joke, for it means three inspec tions a year—winter, regular army and camp. Major Isaac B. Brown, of Corry, who Is so well known here that he can almost be considered a Harrisburger, intends to take a unique trip this sum- 1 mer. He will start with a party of members of the Sons of the American Revolution and travel by automobile over the route Washington took when he went to Cambridge to take com mand of the American army. The trip will be over the very roads and the stops will he at the places where Washington lodged. "Harrisburg is moving along, mov ing along, and her river front is as pretty as ever," remarked William Flinn yesterday. The former senator took a walk along the river, which he much admires. It only goes to show that Harrlßburg's natural beauty Is appreciated by everyone who knows it. Some of the members of the newly organized Harrisburg Chamber of [Commerce have received copies of a very pretty booklet entitled "Winona the Beautiful." It is issued by the Winona Board of Trade of which James Kinsloe, formerly of Harris burg. Is secretary and manager. Mr. Kinsloe will be remembered as man ager of the branch of Bear and Com pany in this city and as first president of the Harrisburg Rotary Club. The Winona booklet is as artistic as any city prospectus that has ever come to Harrisburg and if one may judge by its make-up. design ancf the illustra tions it contains, its author does not go far astray when he asserts, "The Father of Waters on his winding way to the gulf passes 110 spot fairer than Winona, Minnesota, the beautiful." In one respect at least, Winona resembles Harrisburg. It lias a beautiful river front park, and although it is not so extensive as our own, being only 1,600 feet, in length, still It is well worth while and very beautiful. Winona has other parks, too, as large a pro portion to its 24,000 population as Harrlsbjjrg can boast. Judging from the booklet Winona Is a prosperous, progressive, up-to-the-minute co m munity in which It must be a great pleasure to be. engaged in the con structive work which Mr. Kinsloe is so ably doing. Judge W. Rush Giilan, of Franklin county, who Is assisting President Judge Kunkel in January quarter ses sions this week, owing to the illness of Additional Law Judge MeOarrell, took exception to the near Knglisli of a witness on the stand yesterday after noon. The witness, who was testifying against a woman, persisted In prefac ing his statement of her actions with the expression. "And so she went to work and did." etc. Judge Gillan's patience finally was exhausted. "Just go on and tell us what she did," he advised. "Well," resumed the witness, "she went to work and told me" "Cut that out," thundered the court, "she didn't 'go to work' and do any thing. Go on and tell your story." NEVER MIND By Winn Dinner. Remember how last summer You grumbled at the heat. And longed for just one little taste Of winter snow and sleet? You have it now—you're not content— Half frozen are your feet. And thoughts swing back to last July— You long for summer heat. To make up weather all the time That would please everyone, Would be a tough job, and I guess It couldn't well be done. So when it sizzles, rains or blows, Don't grumble, growl and fight, But live again the days you thought The weather was just right. It may be raw and mean to-day— Such la the will of fate— But take the past two (lavs we've had-*— Say, weren't they Just great? AN EVENING THOUGHT There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and. onsets of things.—Lord Bacon. I A LITTLE NONSENSE 1 Blx—Has your wife many speaking acquaintances? Dix—Not very many—they are near ly all listening ones.—Boston Tran script. "Johnny," the teacher asked, "can you tell me anything about Christopher Columbus?" "He discovered America." "Yea. What else did he do?" "I 'spose he went home and lectured about It." —Chicago Record-Herald. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH NO FUSION FOR THE BULL 10SE CLAN Flinn Says That the Way to Deal With Democrats Is to Beat Them at Polk CONFERENCE IS UNDER WAY Party Voters Will Be Asked to Contribute of Their Sub stance to Cause "The best way to deal with the Democrats Is to go to It and beat therq," declared William Flinn, the national committeeman of the Pro gressives yesterday afternoon In his speech in which he declared against fusion In the coming campaign. Flinn j predicted that Wilson would be un- j able to save the Democratic party from domination by the Tory element in Its ranks and that sooner or later it would go on the rocks. The opening of the conference was marked by speeches in which Flinn, Senator Moses E. Clapp, of Minne sota, and Lex H. Mitchell, of Punxsu tawney, declared that the Progressive party should not fuse on nominations this year. Mitchell presided and the conference began with a meeting of the State committee, during which Flinn presented a draft of rules for the party and made a speech declaring that the party should make its own nominations and finance its cam paigns from the contributions of its members. He announced that Col. Roosevelt would make speeches in the State during the campaign and urged that nothing be done in the way of nominations that would "em barrass" him. The Senator scored legislators for failing to pass bills urged by the party and said that while he considered the party enroll ment act an outrage yet he found it had its compensations because it en abled the leaders to find out the militants and get them to pay. The women's auxiliary committee was announced as Mrs. Mary E. Mum ford, Miss Mary H. Ingham, Phila delphia; Mrs. J. L. Stewart, South Bethlehem; Mrs. N. H. Muhlenberg, Reading; Mrs. E. W. Biddle, Carlisle; Miss Joan Brumm, Mlnersville; Miss Jane E. Pressley, Erie; Miss Mary Fllnn and Miss May 1,. Allen, Pitts burgh. The speakers referred to woman suffrage and a declaration in Its favor is expected. A resolution was adopted on mo tion of William Draper Lewis, of Philadelphia, for the legislative com mittee, named in 1912, and continued, to han- Cominltteos die all resolutions with- Are Named out debate and report FOP Work to-day, It being also provided that ten should be added to the com mittee for the conference only. These ten were named as follows: Dr. J. B. Rendell, Chester; E. A. Hempstead, Crawford: George R. Wallace, Alle gheny; W. W. Conrad, Jefferson; W. A. Stone, Fayette; Melvin P. Miller, Lancaster; Maxwell Chapman, Lacka wanna; Dr. C. F. Swift, Beaver; T. A. Crichton, Tioga, and D. M. Rosser, Luzerne. When the conference was organized H. D. W. English, Alle gheny, and Miss Kate A. Chapman, Lackawanna, were elected vice chair men, and B. F. Madore, Bedford, sec retary. Outside of the speeches and action on rules there was little busi ness except the adoption of resolu tions for committees and of a resolu tion endorsing the Scranton Daily News and commending it to the mem bers of the party. The conference was unusual in its opening as it be gan with a prayer by Rabbi R. I. Coffee, Pittsburgh, and minutes of the State committee were read at length. After the opening session there were a number of conferences of group committees and the women's auxiliary, but the legislative com mittee, which was in KTeryone charge of the platform, Getting was the big point of ln an Honor forest. The women's com mittee elected Mrs. E. W. Biddle. Carlisle, as chair man aud heard talks by Chairman Detrich and others on tyow to work for the cause. The Scranton group heard Pinchotanrt then endorsed Rob ert D. Towne, of Scranton, for Con gr» ss-at-large. The group which re volves around Harrisburg elected a formidable list of officers, planning that no one should be left unhonored or unsung. W. H. Sponsler, of New Bloomfleld, is the chairman and the committee elected these officers: Vice chairman, Dr. J. H. Kreider, Harris burg; secretary, Charles E. Landls, Harrisburg; treasurer, Samuel McCall, York; marshal, R. W. Thompson, Miffllntown. This advisory committee was formed: M. P. Miller, Lancaster; F. H. Lehman, Lebanon: Harry llcrtz ler, Cumberland; E. P. Sachs, Adams; W. F. Snyder, Juniata; F. M. Bowl inger, Huntingdon; R. W. Thompson, Mifflintown. The other five groups met in rooms at the Commonwealth and Bolton Hotels. State Chairman Detrich also organized two new groups, which now completes the organization of the State. Group No. 7 includes Somer set, Bradford, Blair and Cambria counties. Mahlon H. Myers, of Johns town, was chosen chairman. Group No. 8 consists of Erie, Crawford, Mer cer, Venango, Wai'ren and Forest counties. Edward Hemsted, of Mead ville, is chairman. The greatest feature of the confer ence is the booming. Although Flinn and his associates noisily aver that conventions and all of their ways have passed, yet the confer- Booms Bump ence is nothing more in Corridor than a convention, and and IlaUs w«<- committee that met last night adopted a platform. And by the same token, If there is anything in the way of difference between the secret confabs of Flinn, Van Valkenburg and others and the gatherings of bosses like Pal mer, McCormick and their kind to make slates, it is not apparent. The slate is not announced, but that it will be made up and go, just like the slates of Palmer and his associates, is beyond question. Dean Lewis has been snuffed out as a possibility for Gov ernor and that leaves State Treasurer R. K. Young and H. D. W. English as the two to be considered, with Young likely to draw the tire of the anti- Van Valkenburg folks. Lex N. Mitchell, for Lieutenant-Governor; Major I. B. Hrown, for Secretary of Internal Af fairs, and Glfford Pinchot. for senator, appear to be settled. Art Rupley an nounced fourteen times yesterday and sixty-two times last night that he would run for Congress-at-large again. The boom of Robert D. Towne, of Scranton, may put a crimp in Fred Lewis. A. H. Walters, of Johnstown, is being mentioned for another nomi nation for Congress. The most nmusing and yet the most significant thing about U»e conference - ,j " """ PI I I The Last Call -►JOIN THE<- tmas Savings Club ->AT ONCE«- Tell the Family to Join Tell Your Friends to Join IF YOU WAIT—YOU WILL BE TOO LATE Open Except Saturdays From 9 A. M. Until 3 P. M. Saturdays 9 A. M. Until Noon and from 6.30 Until 8 P. M. UNION TRUST CO. of Pen na. Union Trust Building u is the way that Flinn has told the folks he will not put up the sinews of war any Fllnn to longer. He said yester lU-qulrv day that he, with accent Donations on the "he," proposed to send a dun to each one of the militant 125,000 Wash ingtonians that registered demanding a contribution. This put an awful damper on some of the sub-bosses who failed to get offlc.es from Powell and Young. They had hoped that Flinn and Plnchot would open the barrels. Flinn, however, says that if the people are to rule they must pay the bill. One-half of the contributions to be exacted will be for the State committee, one-fourth for the national and one-fourth for local machines. Office holders on the "Hill" owing allegiance to the Bull Moose must come across. I POUTiCALSIDELIGHTS | —Now ex-Governor Stuart is being suggested as a candidate for senator. —Congressman Palmer is due to make an announcement at Philadel phia to-morrow. —Flinn's announcement, about, financ ing the campaign will cause chills on the "Hill." —And now General C. M. Clement, commander of the Third Brigade, says he would like to be a candidate for the Republican nomination for Gov ernor. —lt Is said that Palmer is hunting an eastern candidate for Congress-at large. —The rule of the people at the con ference seems to be a good bit like it used to be. —Local option appears to be dis turbing dreams of the Progressives. —That outburst for Lewis may have been a compliment, a farewell or a notice. —The Dripps faction of the Bull Moosers seems to be on deck with a row as usual. NEWS DISPATCHES OF THE CIVIL WAR (.From the Telegraph of Jan. 15, 1864.] Repair Damages Fortress Monroe, Jan. 14.—Tho Pe tersburg Daily Register of January 9 contains the following: Charleston. Jan. B.—No firing to day. Yankees busy repairing dam ages to their batteries caused by the storm. Gunboat Aground £*ortress Monroe, Jan. 14. - 'The navy dispatch steamer Newbern has arrived from off Wilmington. She left that place last Monday, at which time the gunboat Iron Age was aground, under the fire of rebel land batteries, on the eastern shore of the entrance to AVilmington harbor. The Minne sota has gone to her assistance. | LIBRARY'TABLE | AS THE SEED FLIES A hard and often heartbreaking crisis in a woman's life is that which comes when she feels that her child is slipping away from her. During infancy he has no real indi viduality. He is a part of his environ ment. He is still enfolded in the per sonality of his family, thinking their thoughts, even as lie imitates their speech and gestures. This period is full of sweetness to the mother. It is the reward of her travail, the ,ioy and light that redeems lier constant self-sacrl flce. But the law of nature is that this shall come to an end. In time the child develops his own opinions, ambitions and tastes. And right here, unless the mother he wise and self-controlled, is the occasion of bitterness if not trag- ! edy. Ijlttle by little she sees that her boy has notions "of his own." He begins to (luestlon things that heretofore he has alwavs acepted. He asserts himself In strange and sometimes rebellious ways. He wants to be "let alone." He selects companions of which his parents do not approve. Gradually he adopts an attitude of half-defiance toward the family precedents, habits and doctrines. —Dr. Frank Crane, In Woman's World for February. ADMIRJIUI.K SELF-RESTRAINT fFrom the Kansas City Times.] A Kansas man raised a pumpkin this year that weighed 11-' pounds and was more than six feet in diameter. The Brooktleld Gazette says that the re markable part of the story, however, is not the size of the pumpkin, but the tact that the grower refrained from sending it to President Wilson. HEADQUARTERS Foil SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES ' ■/ JANUARY 15,1914. Letters to the Editor AGAINST THE DAM To the lidiior of The Telegraph: After being required by law to re move Its dam from the head of Duffy's or Three-Mile Island to the Dauphin county shore, the York Haven Water and Power Company now asks per mission from the State Water Supply Commission to reconstruct, or build, a new dam across the eastern channel of the river. The eastern channel means the same channel from which it was compelled to remove the former dam, and one wonders why that, almost upon the heels of the court order for removal, the company should expect permission to again close the entire Susquehanna river. While no one denies the value of the York Haven plant for industrial pur poses, it is not understood that any company or corporation can block or entirely close a State stream as the York Haven company asks permission to do. After the dam from the bead of Three-Mile Island was thrown up sev eral years ago, what bad onco been a beautiful stretch of river three miles in length became one of its most un sightly portions. There was a succes sion of stagnant pools and mud holes, from First Lock to below Falmouth, in the ordinary stage of the river in the summer. Adjacent property owners vainly protested, until finally John B. Rider entered .into litigation and pro cured its removal. The. claim of the company is that the water is needed to operate its tur bines when the river is low, and there is no doubt but that this is partially true. One way to remedy that trouble would be to increase the height of the dam running from the plant to the western side of the island. Of course, this plan is not feasible to the qpm patiy, because it owns the island, and sooner than take a chance of damage during high water, it prefers to build another dam, no matter if the other fellow is damaged or not. Residents along the York county shore have a beautiful river view, so have residents on this side now, but if the York Haven company is allowed to close the eastern channel the view from below the proposed dam will return to Its former unsightliness. From all over the upper sections comes the complaint of poor eel fish ing. Fish dams have been abandoned one by one. until at the present time scarcely any are used. The reason is that for several years past neither eels or shad could ascend the stream be cause the entire river was closed, there being no adequate flshway in the York Haven dam, and the one at the head 55-Minute Evangelistic Services Especially Arranged For Busy People Every Night Except Saturday—Punctually at 7.45 to 8.40 P. M. Stevens Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church Thirteenth and Vernon Streets Dr. Clayton Albert Smacker, Evangelist. Ross K. Bergstresser, Director of Men's Chorus. COME AND BRING A FRIEND | . 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 g|g| TAILOR | I 22 North Fourth St. | of Three-Mile Island being tight from shore to shore. Until the York Haven company guarantees to construct a fishway in the dam at York Haven that fish can ascend without flying, the fishermen and a great many others in this sec tion wish to enter their protest to the Water Supply Commission against, granting permission to close any more channels in the Susquehanna river. H. B. FOX. Middletown, Pa. THANKS THE TELEGRAPH To the Editor of The Telegraph: At a meeting of the board of trus tees held Monday, January 12, 1914, the ) secretary was instructed to express the thanks of the trustees of the Harris burg Public Library for the liberal pub licity given to the opening ot the li brary, for the attention given to daily news concerning it and for the heartr support of the Institution and its ob jects by the Harrisburg Telegraph. Yours truly, D. BAILEY BRANDT. Secretary. EDITORIALS < Others Still On the Job [From the Washington I'ost.l A careful canvass shows that thus far Mr. Whitacres is the only Con gressman who has sworn oft looking wise. No Great Loan Anjnay (From the Springfield Republican.] Tf world's fairs are to lead to Inter national exhibition of bad temper, thu sooner they are given up the better. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph of Jan. 18, 1864 ] Tells of Marriajre The minister who married Zodoc Morgan (now confined in our prison on a charge of bigamy) and Miss Lauer informs us that they were mar ried in the early part of last Septem ber, as stated yesterday. We ob tained our information from the offi cer who committed Morgan. Counterfeit Plentiful Counterfeit money is now so plenti ful that In almost every payment in small change there is apt to be some bogus specimens among it Thers seems to be a large quantity of bogus postage currency in circulation, and when the paper becomes defaced it requires the most expert judge to de tect it.
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