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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
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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
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Every Night Except Saturday—Punctually at 7.45 to 8.40 P. M.
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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.