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SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. Si.
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NEW IDEAS IX PRISON'S
HOW some of the ideas John
Francies, warden of the West
ern Penitentiary, proposes to
put into operation when the
new prison now being erected by the
State is completed, are being worked
out elsewhere is shown in an inter
view with Warden Edmund M. Allen,
of the Joliet State Penitentiary, Il
linois. The interview is published in
"The Joliet Prison Post," a newspaper
edited by prisoners and printed be
hind the prison walls.
Mr. Allen believes thoroughly in
open air work for the men. With |
Warden Francies he contends that the I
State has no right to confine a prisoner i
for a period of years in surroundings '
that sap his vitality and then liberate
him handicapped by ill health or the
actual prey of deadly disease. He
contends that every prison should be
a reformatory, where the influences
shall be for the improvement of the
inmates morally, mentally and physi
cally.
He is working out his theories to a
very successful conclusion. A pris
oner who was driving was made stable
boss four months ago. He has re
duced expenses and improved the>
service. A plumber and steamfitter
of seven years' experience was !
changed from polishing furniture to'
work at his trade and has given en- i
tire satisfaction. A detail of pris-1
oners under the direction of two un- i
armed prison attaches has been en- I
gaged for six months in the construe- |
tion of roads. These are only a few ]
Instances of many.
Warden Allen does not believe in
the sale of prison-made goods in com- \
petition with those of legitimate in- ]
dustries when prisoners can be em
ployed profitably at other kinds of <
work. The open air and muscular ex- !
ercise in healthful surroundings, he
asserts, are saving graces for prison- '
ers. He, therefore, favors their use
upon the public roads. The result of:
putting this idea into practice has:
greatly improved the morale of Joliet i
and bettered the health of the pris
oners.
Warden Francies, of the Western
Penitentiary, is the leading exponent
of this new kind of prison adminis
tration in Pennsylvania. The new
penitentiary, situated in the midst of
rolling farm country, will provide
farm work for hundreds of prisoners.
The "honor man" will work outside
the walls of the prison proper and
■without guards wherever po.ssible. In
side the walls, but still in the open
air, tasks for those who cannot be
trusted so implicitly will be provided.
Mr. Francies believes that every pris
oner should be given opportunity to
work out his own salvation and he
thinks that blue skies and the open
country are much more conducive to
moral and physical regeneration than
the prison shop and the solitary cell.
Yes, Maude, dear, the borrowing of
an umbrella comes under the heading
of long term loans.
THE REWARD OF EFFORT
FROM faraway Montana comes a
story that has in it a lesson or
two for Harrisburg boys and
girls, and for older ones, too.
The Crazy Mountain schoolhouse is a
10 by 12 shack, with a roof which
slants but one way and is covered with
black tar paper. Cracks in the floor
were so big that pencils easily fell
through them. The only light that
came in was from three tiny windows,
two in the rear and one on the left.
The hole cut through the roof to ac
commodate the stovepipe was so large
that when it rained the water ran into
the stove and put the fire out. Rain
also beat In at the door, which was
held shut by a chain hooked over
a nail. The desks were borrowed
from a neighboring school which had
thrown them away as useless. The
aeats were held up by sticks of wood,
unless a pupil was fortunate enough
to find a box of the right size to use
as an individual chair, and the
teacher s desk was a plank nailed to
two sticks and set against the wall.
Into this school las: Spring came
Miss Angellne Barker, as teacher, and
nine pupils, representing four differ
«nt families. Although the weather
SATURDAY EVENING,
was damp, for the first three weeks
they had no fire. Most of the pupils
had no books. But teacher and pupils
went to work to do the best they
could with what they had and to get
better equipment as fast as they could.
One day a premium list of the Mon
tana State fair came to this little
school. Both teacher and pupils began
to read to see what there was they
could do. "Best kindergarten work;"
they knew they could not do that.
"Best shop work;" that sounded even
more hopeless. "Best collection of
wild flowers, pressed and mounted,
with a description;" everybody shout
ed: "Of course we can!" and the
race was on.
The Mexican children who lived far
! up on the mountain plucked the flow
| ers belonging to the higher altitudes,
while the rest brought in those pecu
liar to the lowlands and meadows. At
school the flowers were placed In text
books and magazines, and in the ab
sence of a flower press the boys and
girls would sit on them. At home
the flowers were put In books under
the heaviest weights that could be
found. One boy placed two sacks of
flour on the books, another a tool
chest, while a third said the heaviest
thing he could find was the large
"bucket" in which his father carried
the feed to the pigs. The girls re
sorted to just as ingenious expedients,
utilizing trunks, bureaus, and even one
leg of a bed in which adults were
sleeping, in order that the necessary
amount of pressure might be obtained.
When the days of collecting and
pressing the flowers were over, ail of
the specimens were brought together,
and after the very best ones had been
selected, each was carefully mounted
on white cardboard, and the entire
collection ol sixty-eight wild flowers
was sent to the State Department of
Education to be entered at the fair.
When the judges gave their decision
it was found that the Crazy Mountain
school had won the first prize, the
blue ribbon and the $5. for the best
collection of wild flowers from any
school in the State.
On the day of the prize award the
rural inspector stood in the little
booth and called the attention of the
bankers and businessmen to the
splendid exhibit and to the pictures
of the little school. When one of the
leading merchants saw it, he said:
"Go and tell the people of Park coun
ty that boys and girls who will do
work like that are entitled to a better
schoolhouse and better equipment, and
tell them that as soon as they get the
house they can come to my store and
get anything in it without money or
without price."
And the lessons? First, that boys
and girls who do faithful work with
what they have will make the men
and women who will do good work
when the time of larger opportunity
comes to them. Second, that effort
always brings its reward and that
faithful work brings returns often un
expected and from unlooked for
sources.
It is a good story for Sunday perusal
and Sunday moralizing.
The small boy's definition of wasted
time is a rainy Saturday.
KEEP THE GARBAGE CONTRACT
EVERY householder in Harrisburg
should carefully study the in
structions issued yesterday by
the Department of Public Safety
relative to the providing of garbage
receptacles.
Complaints are received almost
daily at the office of the City Board
of Health of violation of the garbage
collection contract on the part of the
Pennsylvania Reduction Company.
Doubtless if the reduction company
wished to complain it could report
many an instance of contract vio
lation on the part of householders.
Under the contract every house
holder in the city shall provide him
self with portable receptacles with
proper outside handles and a tightly
fitting cover. On inspections of cer
tain sections of the city the sanitary
officers have found many flagrant vio
lations of this clause.
As the city officials pointed out yes
terday. handling improvised recep
tacles causes much waste of valuable
time and causes much unnecessary
dirt to be scattered about yards and
alleys.
Doesn't it seem that, .without con
sidering the fairness or unfairness of
the matter of contract violation, the
householder should obey the recep
tacle clause merely from the stand
point, of civic cleanliness, health and
sanitation?
The backbone of the cold wave was
broken by hot air coming down from
New York State. From the vicinity of
Albany, we presume.
ONLY A HCXDRED DOLLARS
WllfLE the principal aim of the
Associated Charities of Har
risburg is the organization
and development of the sys
tem of co-operation with charitable
and philanthropic associations and in
stitutions in helping the poor and
needy, the problem of temporary re
: lief has been a serious one during the
; winter months just past, and the con
j sequent drain on the Charities' finan
' cial resources, naturally, has been un
usually heavy.
Scores of men who are eager, anx
ious for employment, and who
tramped the city over seeking a job
whereby they might provide food and
warmth for wife and children; weary
travelers from other points who got
as far us Harrisburg on their way
home; widows with children who
needed immediate help while their
cases were being investigated with a
view to providing permanent relief;
these are Just a few of the Instances
wherein the Charities was called upon
to lend a helping hand instantly.
And the effect on the treasury has
been noticeable: the appropriation al
lowed for administration purposes has
been cut into sadly. To-day marks the
closing of the Charities' fiscal year,
and at least SIOO is necessary to tide
the association over into the new year
without carrying along a deficit. And
that is why the appeal for subscrip
tions is going out to the charitably in
clined folks of Harrisburg. . I
evening char
Although the third class cities of
the State are just commencing: to get
the commission form of government
Into operation, there are rumors
reaching the Capitol that the next
Legislature will be asked to make a
change in the method of governing
the third class cities which will pro
vide an additional form or else create
a new class. Objections are being
made In some citlfes to the expense
and plan of operation under the act of
■ 1918 and statements that it has caused
confusion and not produced results
have been made and denied with equal
vigor. The advocates of the reclassi
tication are contending that the group
ing of all municipalities having be
tween 10.000 and 100,000 Into one
class works a hardship upon the
smaller classes and 1 there is some talk
of reviving the bill offered in 1913 to
create four or five classes, those hav
ing over 1,000.000 population to be
the first, those between 500,000 and
1.000,000 the second, those between
100,000 and 500.000 tho third, between
50,000 and 100.000 the fourth and all
between 10,000 and 50.000 to be the
fifth. The Supreme Court refused to
allow more than three classes In a
decision given about a dozen years
ago. Advocates of the change in plan
of government are demanding that the
power to legislate be taken from ex
ecutive officers and are urging the
Pittsburgh plan of 1911, which does
not give the mayor power to legislate
as is done by the third class city act.
These people would have the mavor
and directors of public safety and
public works constitute the executive
branch and have a small council, the
size depending on population and the
manner of election to be either at
large or by districts. In all the dis
cussion heard there does not seem to
be much desire to return to the bicam
eral legislative system, but the small
council with members paid for ser
vices is apparently favored.
The meeting of the State Board of
Agriculture held here during the week,
while not marked by large attendance,
attracted more attention than this or
ganization has ever experienced. To
begin with, it started off with an un
usual program, designed, says Secre
tary Critchfield, to let the representa
tives of the great rural population
know just what the State is doing, and
some very practical papers, notably
that of Commissioner of Health Dixon
on waste of fertilizer through failure
to apply sanitary methods, were pre
sented. Then Governor Tener stirred
up the board by asking it to give some
practical aid in solving the highway
problem and Auditor General Powell
got the farmers talking on the ever
important subject of taxation. More
topics of real interest to the State at
large were discussed at that meeting
than for years and years.
The first shadflies of 1914 have been
reported, and duly attested, along the
Riverside road. Arrival No. 1 was
noted on Thursday when the thaw
came along and he roosted on the
pillar of a veranda. No. 2 was re
ported from North Front street and
No. 3 was noted at the Commonwealth
Hotel yesterday. The flies were not
much to brag of, being small and
not very frisky.
"What is the reason left-handed
people always try to put a revolving
door on the blink?" asked a man yes
terday afternoon as he watched a large
and perspiring colored person en
deavoring to extricate herself from a
door machine and leave enough of it
for ordinary traffic. "I have noticed
that they go right in and try to push
the door around to the left, notwith
standing the fact that the door is
always very hard to move. If they
would reverse when they find the
movement is slow and difficult they
would get through a mighty sight
quicker and the same time facili
tate travel."
"Well, is the National Guard ready
to go to war?" a friend joked with a
prominent guardsman, reviving a jest
which it was thought had been buried
some time ago.
"Always," replied the captain, "but
why worry about it now? This isn't
April."
"What does April have to do with
it?" demanded the first speaker.
"When did the United States ever
go to war except in April?" demanded
the Guard captain in return by way of
settling the matter.
Members of the Royal Fire Com
pany and the Harrisburg Railways
Company management have rigged up
an arrangement whereby the motor
men on the Nineteenth street line can
beware of colliding with the com
pany's apparatus. The Royal fire
house entrance is close to Nineteenth
just below Derry and when there is an
alarm a red light flashes out over the
door. This is a signal to the trollev
men that there is a fire alarm and
that the apparatus may come out. It
means "stop and wait."
Fifty million more cigars are made
in the Ninth internal revenue district,
which includes Dauphin countv and
thirty-four other counties in the'state,
than any other revenue district in the
United States. During the four-month
period ending October 31, 1913, the
report, which is just out, shows that
330,362,288 cigars were manufactured
in this district.
The three revenue districts of Penn
sylvania In the same period produced
747,923,956 cigars. No other State in
the country has a similar record. In
addition to being the greatest cigar
producing district, the Ninth shows
the greatest increase in the industry.
A comparison of the same four-month
period of 1912 and 1913 ending with
October shows an increase in the in
dustry of 31,895.506 cigars.
kweu^Known^peoPLgFT)
—J. A. Herr. active in the meeting
of the State Board of Agriculture this
week, is owner of fine Lancaster coun
ty farms.
—Senator Penrose used to take ora
torical prizes when he was a student
at college.
—Edwin A. Seabrook, Philadelphia
manufacturer, has been visiting Ohio
towns and making addresses to local
associations of sheet metal men.
—Leonard Peckitt, of the Empire
Steel and Iron Company, has been re
appointed one of the trustees of Rlt
tersville State Hospital.
—George D. Ogden, the Pennsylva
nia freight agent, who worked out the
statement of how rates affect retail
prices, used to be stationed here.
—William Brlqe, former judge of
Bedford, is seriously ill in a hospital.
SEVERE BLOW TO EDITOR
[From the Kaw City (Mo.) Democrat.]
Lost, strayed or stolen: One read
headed pig, masculine gender; weight
about 40 or 50 pounds; crop off his right
ear. We hope some one will find this
pig and bring him home, as he is the
only pig we've got (or had) and is the
only hope we have (or had) of eating
spareribs and sausage next Spring
The Editor.
P. S.—We forgot to state that he
answers to the name of Piggy,
(iIOAXTIC EI.M
[From the Indianapolis New s. J
An elm was recently cut down in
Limye Center, N. H., which measured
twenty-one feet in circumference and
had cast a shadow, when in full leaf, 150
feet in diameter. It was brought from
Tolland, Conn., and set out as a small
tree in 1779.
WHITE MAN'S PARTI
(From the New York Sun.]
Progressivism knows no sectional
ism. no prejudice of race.—Philadelphia
North American.
Then it is not true that the Progres
sive party In the South is to be a white
man's party?
HARRISBURG fftjftl TELEGRAPH
B. PENROSE SAYS
EVERYONE KNOWS
No Need of Any Formal Statement
About His Candidacy For
the Senatorship
GROOMING MR. MESTREZAT
Fred Reynolds May Be a Candidate
For Congress in the Belle
fonte District
Senator Boies Penrose last night re
marked In Pittsburgh that it was not
necessary for him to announce that he
was a candidate, as everyone knew it.
This significant statement was made
after n couple of days in conference
with the big men of the western end)
of the State, especially Mayor J. G. j
Armstrong, of Pittsburgh. The sena
tor received good reports and his cam
paign will go forward. When asked
if he would run he said:
"What do you mean by a formal
statement? Everybody knows that 1
am a candidate. It Is not necessary to
shout it from the house tops."
He continued:
"After being here for two days 1
can say that I have found a strong
aggressive sentiment among tfce Re
publicans of Southwestern Pennsylva
nia. I am told by the Republican
leaders that mere are a rew rougn
edges to be smoothed off. but they
are confident that Allegheny county
and the other Republican counties of
this end of the State will give big
majorities for tho Republican ticket
this year."
Senator Penrose of an in
quiry as to what he thought would be
the effect of a speaking tour in Penn
sylvania by Colonel Roosevelt by say
ing:
"There is no certainty that Roose
velt will come into the State." He
refused to make further comment re
garding Roosevelt.
The report that he and Senator Oli
ver no longer were working together
in politics was again emphatically de
nied by Mr. Penrose.
Supreme Court Justice Mestrezat is
being trotted out again as a candidate
for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination and it is
said that prominent
bosses in the party Mestrezat
have been urging him Is Boomed
to announce himself. Once More
especially since Guth
rie does not show much
inclination to help pull the reo-bosses
out of the hole. The Uniontown jur
ist is said to have a boom ail ready to
launch. In fact for some time he is
said to have been on the brink of
making: an announcement. Mestrezat
is strong, but whether he can com
mand the united support of the Dem
ocrats. which will be necessary to get
anywhere, is doubted. Another thing,
he would not take orders.
John Alladay, of Franklin county,
has refused to be shunted off the
track for the Democratic congres
sional nomination in
the Seventeenth dis-
AUaday trict in spite of pr o -
Develops tests by the friends of
Thoughts Congressman Frank
Dershem and the
snorting of the reor
ganization bosses of the first division.
He seems to think that this is a free
country and that any man can enter a
race for any nomination regardless of
what tin gods in Harrisburg, Lewisburg,
New Bloomfield or any other place
may think to the contrary. If he stays
i in the fight under the mistaken belief
that things are free for all in the
Pennsylvania Democratic party he
may find the national administration
taking a hand to convince him that
Democrats hereabouts must have their
thinking done for them.
Congressman C. E. Patton, of Clear
field, may not be a candidate for re
election from the Twenty-first district,
and has so announced
to his personal friends.
He has opp os i t i on Reynolds
from two sources. The May Succeed
Washl ngt on party C. K. Patton
members gave him a
larger vote than the
regulars, but they will support their
own ticket this year. Patton's recent
demand that Penrose retire from pub
lic life for the good of the party has
incensed Republicans. The Republi
cans in Center county are now groom
ing Colonel W. F. Reynolds for the
place, and J. Linn Harris, of the State
Forestry Commission, is also likely to
seek the nomination. This situation
has awakened the Democrats and a
movement has been organized to nom
inate the Rev. John M. Hewitt, rector
of the Bellefonte Episcopal Church,
for Congress on the Democratic ticket.
The reo-bosses have not yet made up
their minds.
PPOUTICAL^SIpeLI&hTSq
—Cumberland county seems to have
a Judicial candidate behind every
barn.
—Representative Kaufman, of Leb
anon, will be a candidate for re-elec
tion.
—Congressman Dlefenderfer is ill
at his home in Montgomery county.
—They are getting ready to beat
Senator Crow again—in the newspa
pers.
—Judge Bushong, of Berks county,
is said to have higher .aspirations.
—Some folks in eastern counties are
talking about Judge Kunkel as timber
for governor as well as Supreme Court
bench.
—Mayor Lafean informed York's
councilmen that they should think
more about legislation and less about
places.
—John Monaghan, well known here,
has been appointed assistant district
attorney in Philadelphia.
—Bruce Sterling is said to have
abandoned senatorial aspirations in
Fayette county «ince appointments
have been made.
—Senator Washers' appointment as
postmaster of York may be opposed
I by western senators.
—William Smith, one of the former
mayors of Philadelphia, may be a
candidate for the legislature.
—Harry A. Fricks, member from
Philadelphia in 1907, wants to re
turn.
—Senator Oliver will make an ad
dress In a Philadelphia church to
morrow. Since his newspapers cut out
liquor advertising the senator has been
much talked of in the western end
of the State.
—Congressman Palmer may make
that statement in Philadelphia to-day.
—The burgess of Birdsboro has es
tablished a pile of ties In the corner
of the lockup yard for exercise of
drunks.
—J. Fred Greenwood will oppose
George S. Graham for congress.
—Philadelphia single taxers
[have another fight to-morrow.
PRE-EMPTIONS HAVE
STARTED IN STREAM
Numerous Party Names Have Been
Taken For the Coming Elec
tion Campaign
VERY BUSY AT PHILADELPHIA
Half a Dozen Have Been Pre
empted For the State Cam
paign as Well
Although tho primary campaign of
1914 will not open until February 21,
which Is the first day for securing sig
natures to nominating petitions for
the primary on May 19, the names of
nine political "parties" have been pre
empted In papers filed in the Dauphin
county court anil at the office of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth. Most
of these names have been pre-empted
for the nomination of State and Con
gressional tickets, but there are many
taken for various districts in Phila
delphia and Allegheny counties. It is
expected that there will be more,
but the record of 1912 may not lie
attained. Parties which pre-empted
names In that year contained sole
rights to use through votes polled.
The party names pre-empted for
the State are Progressive, Progressive
Republican, Keystone, United
and Organized
stances thes names have also been
pre-empted for Congressional and
legislative elections.
The Anti-Penrose party has pre
empted that name in thirteen Phila
delphia districts and In four in Mont
gomery; the nonpartisan name has
been taken for three Philadelphia dis
tricts: Organized I-abor for several
Philadelphia districts: Keystone for
eight districts of various classes In
Philadelphia: Bull Moose Tor three
In Philadelphia and several in Alle
gheny; Roosevelt Progressive in Phila
delphia and Allegheny and Progressive
Republican for the Klrst Judicial dls
triot, while Progressive has been taken
for all Congressional elections.
ADDITIONAL SUNDAY TRAIN
VIA RKADING RAILWAY
Between Harrisburg and New York,
commencing January 25th. "HAR
RISBURG SPECIAL" will run daily,
leave New York 8:45 a. m.. arrive
Harrisburg, 1:40 p. m.: leave Harris
burg 4:35 p. m., arrive New York 9:35
p. m. Dining car service (n this train
Sundays.—Advertisement.
i A-LiTTLe-nonsetyse I
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She overheard her daughter talking
about Cape Hatteras, and she supposed
that must be where hats came froi^i.
Ed. Howe, in his January Monthly,
takes such a violent fling at politicians
that we are tempted to believe Ed. must
have been turned down by the machine
for burgess of Atchison, Kan., or some
such lucrative office.
Carranza. the Mexican rebel, is an
economist deserving of a better job. He
makes the prisoners he intends to exe
cute dig their own graves.
Long Live the Germ
By WING DINGER
Up In der county of Perry this veek
Der district school teachers did meet,
Und during der session a question
came up
Dot brought every last vun to his
feet
Vun member got up und said: "Ladies
und gents
Some vun has discovered der bug
Vat gets in der chests of two people at
vunce
Und comes out mlt a kiss und a hug.
"Dls germ like all other bacilli," he
said,
"Can be knocked out the system mlt
ease,
Und der people who suffer can quickly
get rid
If dey vish, of dis awful disease"
In a jiffy dose teachers got up un dere
feet,
Such excitement you neffer did see;
Und for harmony's sake a committee
vus named
To decide vat der bug's fate should
be.
Der committee reported in time that
der bug
Should not be molested, which
pleased
All der folks in der meeting, which
leads me ter think
Dat dey all mlt der germ are dis
eased.
Und mlt them I agree dat der fellow
who'd kill
Oft dls bug vere far better, by heck,
Vere he took to sea und upset over
board
Mlt a mill stone encircling his neck.
One Must Have One'* Reverses
[From the Columbia State.]
James Bryce has been reduced to the
peerage.
Well, There's the Poisoned Needle
[From tiie Chicago News.]
Probably It will be a long time be
fore humanity discovers anything else
half so exciting as radium.
Makes No Great Pretenses
[From the Washington Star.]
Tammany, by seldom assuming su
perior standards, has managed to es
cape a great deal of criticism.
•Tvrould Hardly Be Possible
[From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
Secretary Daniels wishes it to be dis
tinctly understood that the reason he
has asked for more chaplains In the
navy Is not because the navy Is wick
eder under a Democratic than under a
Republican administration.
JANUARY 31, 1914.
Letters to the Editor
HOUSING CONDITIONS
To flit Editor of The Telegraph :
The miserable housing conditions in
portions of the old Eighth Ward, as ob
served recently by some city offlclals,
are not of recent origin, nor are they
confined exclusively to that section. In
various articles for the Telegraph, t
have, from time to time, brought In,
Incidentally, some of the unsanitary and
repulsive conditions existing within a
short distance from the heart of the
city.
I will give but one quotation. In tho
Telegraph of February 17, 1909, In the
article prepared on the subject of the
"Population of Harrlsburg and the In
accuracies of the U. S. Census of 1900,"
l called attention to tho fact that "One
can find houses In Seventh street, and
In every section of the city with a largo
foreign element, containing from eight
to twenty or more adults."
The article then proceeds with this
statement: "A few years since when the
improvements at Enola were being
rushed, I obtained twenty-one names
from a house in Short street and It
wasn't much of a house to look at,
either.
'These Illustrations are taken from
the foreign element. 1 will give another
of a house Inhabited by American clti
xens In the manor born. There is a
dwelling In the Eighth Ward once In
habited by a prosperous colored cltijien
who reared In it a numerous family
and found It not too large. In the
mutations of time It passed Into the
hands of a speculator, ivho cut It up
Into little dons. In April, 1907. I found
in It ten families, one In the cellar,
nve on the first floor, two on the sec
ond, and two In the garret. L>y tho
term families. I mean separate house
keepings. Sometimes the family was a
single individual, man or woman: some
times. a man and wife, with or with
out children. The dismal cellar was oc
copied by a man, wife and two little
children.
By April, 1&08. a couple of additional
cubby holes or closets had been put in,
increasing: the number of families to
twelve.
The building: alluded to in this ar
ticle was the one at the southwest cor
ner of Short and Cranberry streets. The
darkness and dirt of overy portion of
the tenement defy description. It was
Impossible for the persons crowded in
there like sardines in a box to observe
the simplest sanitary conditions or the
ordinary decencies of life.
I recall that on one occasion, whilst
taking: the enumeration there, I en
countered my genial friend. Mr. Frank
L.eib, vainly endeavoring to locate an
aged colored lady to whom some insur
ance money was due. I can never for
-18.18.I 8 . 10 ,9 ks and words expressive of
mailable disgust at the conditions there
presented.
The above is but one illustration of
several that might be Riven of ex
amples of bad housing: conditions pre
sented in my articles in the Telegraph
in past years.
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In Effect November £O. 1913.
TRAINS leave Harrlsburg—
For Winchester and Martlnsburc at
6:03, *7:61! a. m.. *3:40 p. m.
For Hagerstown, Chambersburg, Car
lisle, Mecbanlcsburg and lnterniudlata
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6:30, 9:30 a. in.
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