6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Hitabliihcd it} I . PUBLISHED BT THE TEI.EURAPII PRINTING C» Advertisers has ex- , S May amined and certified to i' I | the circulation of this pub- i 1 ) lication. The figures of circulation i 1 j contained in the Aesociatioa's re -5 port only are guaranteed. ( Association of American Advertisers > No. 2333 Whitehall Bldg. N. Y. City I Stror* dully avcruge for the month of February, 1914 * 22,493 * Avcrsge for the rear 1013—21,577 Average for the year 1012—21,178 Average for the year 1011—18.8B1 Average for the year 1010—17,485 TELEPHONES! Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 2040. United Business Office, 20S. fjdltorlal Room 685. Job Dept. JOS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH S REPUBLICAN ECONOMY THE United States Census Bureau —now controlled by a Demo cratic administration, and cer , tainly not to be accused of coloring facts in favor of Republicans •—makes the offlclul announcement that of all the States of the Union, Pennsylvania stands at the head for economy of financial management. While the per capita of State debt In the United States has been con stantly increasing in recent years, that of Pennsylvania has been steadily di minishing until now, according to the Census Bureau, we have no State debt. There is in the State Treasury at this time sinking fund deposits to more than cover the outstanding bonds and their interest. In other words, Penn sylvania now has less than no State debt, if the phrase be permissible. "When the last bonds are redeemed and the last interest paid, there will re main a substantial balance In the fund set aside to pay the State debt. New York, with its frequent Demo cratic administrations, is among the States that show an increase of in debtedness. These facts, in the face of the charges of extravagances and mal administration, on which Democratic and Progressive candidates are basing their campaigns for election to State office next Fall, come as a ringing call to Pennsylvania voters to vindicate the party that has been so grossly misrepresented by ofticeseeking politi cians bent on attaining their own ends even at the cost of the good name of the Commonwealth they claim as home. When a Democratic census bureau feels called upon to admit that re publican Pennsylvania is a well-man aged State, there can be little doubt of the truth of the statement. Vagabonds of Philadelphia plun to entertain Coxey's army when it reaches that city. Proper company for the "army." THE TRACTION REPORT THE first annual report of the Harrisburg Railways Company, which has taken over and con trols all of the trolley lines now operated In and out of Harrisburg, with the exception of tlie Valley Kail ways system, submitted to-day, indi cates that tlio new corporation lias had a very prosperous year. Not only that, but the largo sums set aside for repairs, extension of track, cars and street paviug improvements are proof that the former policy of efficiency nnd service is to be continued by the new management. The surplus for the first years operations is $31,321.71, after the de duction of all expenses and dividends on preferred stock from tolal gross receipts, amounting to $1191,871.86. Thus it will be seen that the company begins its second year with a balance on hand sufficiently largo to enable it to meet any emergency that may arise and well able to make such im provements and extensions as may be found advisable. An interesting fea ture of the report is the fact that the people of Harrisburg and vicinity spent during the twelve months cov ered by the report approximately a million dollars for street car rides. It is a wise public service corpora tion that keeps its plant and equip ment up to its needs and which strives to give its patrons the service they have a right to expect. Generally speaking, Harrisburg has been very! fortunate in this respect. The new company bids fair to follow in the footsteps of the old. Cigarmakers here may strike. Let's hope it all goes up In smoke. VOCATIONAL TRAINING VOCATIONAL, training in the Technical High School, as urged by F. E. Downes, City Superintendent of Schools, and Dr. Charles B. Fager, Principal of the Technical School, is worthy of serious consideration on the part of the School Board. Harrisburg tovk a big step forward when it established manual training for the boys- who some day will have TUESDAY EVENING, , to, or will want to, work with the hand i las well as the brain. The time ia ] doubtless now at hand when courses | .should be established in the public j schools of the district where boys can practically complete an apprentice ship to some trade or other. Manual training does much, but It does not do enough. Complaint has been heard from parents ever since the opening of the Technical High School because it tended to make the student a "jock | of-all-trades and a muster of none." j Under the system urged by Dr. Downes and Dr. Fager this objection | would bo overcome, and those boys I who wished could go into the shops 1 and mills of the city, practically mas , ter mechanics of the line of work they I had studied. i If Harrisburg does establish a sys tem of vocational training, it should he remembered that we merely will be following in the footsteps of many other larger and more progressive | cities of this country and Europe. And in this regard, let us not forget the girls. A llazloton man has been sent to jail for refusing to help support Ills mother. And yet there are those who call the chain gang a barbarous method of pun. isluncnt. THIS MODERN FACTOR V ANNOUNCEMENT that A local manufacturing company has placed in Its otherwise well equipped rest rooms one of the latest and most up-to-date concert talking machines brings to mind the remarkable Interest which the mill owner of the present day is taking in the welfare and comfort of his em ployes. Time was when the average factory was an illy ventilated, poorly lighted, miserably equipped place of drudgery to whfeh the girl went each morning with feelings of dread and left each evening with a sigh of relief Factory owners apparently cared little or not at all for the interests of the employes; nothing mattered but the amount of I work which was produced each day. These days ure past. Every effort is made now to make the modern fac tory a place where the workers will like ami not hate to be. Time, thought and money are expended to give the employes-—especially women employes —opportunity to develop the better sides of their natures. Meetings are held weekly and oftener in many cases by such organizations as the Young Women's Christian Association, where the girls hear the best talent in the city. Rooms are provided for the girls in which to lounge during tlie rest hours. And now conies the installa tion of musical instruments for the employes' pleasure. Naturally the question arises, does the manufacturer do these things purely for unseliish motives? Perhaps not, Probably the mill owner realizes that better working conditions produce inevitably better and more work and incidentally larger profits. But what of it; if this be selfishness let the Ogre of Self do his worst. Henry C. Snavely, Democratic As semblyman of Lebanon county, will not be a candidate this year. Mr. Snavely lays no claim to being a prophet. He merely knows when not to run. THE NEW BANKEK BF. HARRIS, vice-president of the First National Bank of • Champaign, 111., and editor of The Banker and Farmer, sets forth on the cover of his attractive and very forceful little magazine the following creed of the "new «banker," which is well worth reprinting: I believe no man can be a good banker who is not first a good citi zen—in all tlie term implies. I believe good citizenship rests on ability and willingness to pull one's own weight—with capacity in t only for sturdy self-help—but also due regard for the rights of others. T believe that the more points at which we touch human nature and human Interests—the more alive Ave become and the longer we stay so. I believe we cannot prosper by applying yesterday's methods to tu-day—that each man Is in some measure masffcr of his community's destiny—that good government is a matter of business —not politics— that to assist in all material— moral and spiritual upbuilding Is the fundamental of enlightened selfishess. I believe we need more men of every class who will appreciate this who will stand for something be side themselves. I believe in Efficiency—Servieo and Fraternity—ln a close-knit community of Interests and Hopes —in a sane—broad-visioned Stand that shall make for the Banker— Farmer and the Banker—Every body. Tlie popular conception of a banker used to be—and not so very long ago, I at that —an ogre with a money bag instead of a heart and a.big stick la beled "interest" by his side, with poor little Mr. Common People, empty handed and cowering abjectly in the background. But tho newer under standing of tho functions of the banker, his relations to tho commun ity, his dependence upon popular favor for prosperity and his willingness to serve •have been steadily dissipating the old belief that he stood ready to take all and give nothing, and it is such bankers as Editor Harris that have helped materially to bring about the change. The truth of the matter is that the banker is vitally interested in the wel fare and prosperity of the community in which he does business. If its peo ple are making money every branch of the banking business feels the en couraging stimulus. If they are labor ing under heavy debt, are over-bur dened by taxation or the victims of business depression, the banker feels It more than any one of them. Tho banker who is operating under any other code of rules than those laid down In the Harris creed has a mis taken idea of hIH duty to the com munity and is grossly ignorant of direction in which his own best 1 • terests lie. He is preparing to ha some other bank opi .utlng alon modern lines come in and take his 'customers away. Farmer* fond of quail shooting will not forget to insure next Fall's suppl.v by feeding the birds now. lewemnd' cftar Blizzar weather of the lost tow days lias brought to the minds of many persons tlie suffering endured by the city in the groat blUaard of 1888. This storm, which was accompanied by eero weather and a terrllic snowstorm with cyclonic wluds, also occurred in March, being the latest date on which a big storm was ever known. It be gan on the night of March 11, 1888, and was at Its work the next day, although on the 13th people just be gan to venture out. The city almost starved, as peoplo could not get In from the country with supplies and the trains were all tlod up. The other blizzards that have swept this city have occurred In other months, only the awful visitor of 1888 and that of the last few days being recorded In March. A blizzard hit the city on January 18, 181)5, and tied up things generally and one that was worse came along on February 10, 189 U. The 1896 storm brought temperature of 4 degrees below zero and GO-mllo winds, but that of four years later was marked by temperature 13 degrees be low zero, or Just one degree less than the lowest recorded here, or 14 de grees below, on February 14, 1915!. We have had big snowstorms, but gen erally the mercury has not gone much below 5 degrees. However, in 1895 there were three or four zeros re corded aside from the blizzard and this winter has been doing some record making of Its own. March also recalls the? fact that the Hood of March 2,- 1902, twelve years ago yesterday, caused the destruction of two spans of the Market street bridge. This flood came from heavy rains, which caused Ice to give way, and the huge cakes'knocked the old third pier of the "walking bridge" to pieces, dropping first or.o span and then another about 1 o'clock In the morning. Half the town remained up to see the bridge break and there are many who can recall the suspense be tween the time the spans gave way until they hit the Cumberland Valley Kairoad bridge. The spans were so well put together that they were found down about Mlddletown some days later. This section of the bridge was not the "camelback," but the por tion built after the destruction of the eastern section of the bridge in 1866. The.western half, or the real "cam elback, went through Are and flood and was a tough job to tear down. While a prisoner was being taken tp jail yesterday afternoon, carefully chained to a constable, his hat blew off and went on down the street. The officer did not see the use of going after it and the man could not. So a newsboy chased It and brought it to the shivering man. Then the hat blew off again. This time it went across the street and had to be chased a block. Meanwhile the prisoner stood linked to the officer and saying things about fate. Some of the new "cops'' have run up against the hardest kind of duty in their lirst forty-eight hours of ser vice. One man who was employed in a rolling mill and up against hot metal during his work got an outlying dis trict to patrol with the coldest winds of winter blowing. Apparently hydrophobia is no more a summer disease anymore than is small pox a purely winter ailment. Recent experience in Harrisburg has demon strated that they come at all seasons and the officers of the State Livestock Sanitary Board are now busy quaran tining districts of the State because of the biting of dogs by animals which have been pronounced infected with hydrophobia. Half a dozen quar antines have been established lately. John >l. Phillips, a member of the State Game Commission, has organ ized, with the aid of Mrs. Phillips, a junior civic club in his home borough of Garrlck which will bear study. Mr. Phillips believes that the place to make good citizens is with the young ■tnd an organization has been effected which includes most of the youngsters, who will be given plain talks on their duty to the community. Prominent among visitors to the city last evening was Edgar C. Gerwig, who was secretary to William A. Stone when Governor. Mr. Gerwig is now practicing law In Pittsburgh and tak ing very little interest in politics. The slopes of the city's bridges got attention bright and early from the Highway Department's men. Some of the slopes were carefully gone over with shovels and ridges cut on the icy surfaces. This gave horses a chance to get up without struggling onjslip pery pavements. kweuu-KDOwn^peopij^Tj —W. E. Snyder, vice-president of the Bethlehem Steel Company, has returned from Europe. —Dr. W. R. Longshore, the oldest physician in Luzerne county, cele brated fifty-four years of practice by working at Hazleton. —A. J. Shattuck has been borough clerk of AVellsboro for twenty-live years. —A. I. Aarons, prominent Pitts burglier, is spending the winter at Pasadena. —Major D. 1. Ashworth, burgess of Crafton, has been elected president of tho Association of Burgesses of Alle gheny County. —The Rev. Dr. James B. Ely says that if saloons were open business would fall off, and he would abolish the screens. —George C. Shane, a Philadelphia Hour man, says that llour is the cheap est food of all. IfoUTlCALfSlD&iahrei -—The interesting situation will be after Palmer leaves Pittsburgh and the men who are hunting offices start to compare notes. —Again we woqder why Joe GufTey left the reorganization Bhip. —A visit by Penrose or even by Washington party bosses to Pittsburgh like that of Palmer would cause every Democratic paper to yell boss confer ences. —Bruce F. Sterling, of Fayette county, was among those who greeted Vance C. McCormick at Pittsburgh yesterday. —Scoutmaster Morris may have bet. ter luck in getting contributions from federal officeholders in Western Penn sylvania. —Probably the blizzard hit that Prizer congressional boom before it got out of Middletown. —Mayor Blankenburg and Solicitor Ryan are at it again. —Wonder if Pat Craven got permis sion to run as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the House In the upper end. —Lowry Humes' judgeship boom does not seem to have lived very long. —Representative D. J. Shern, of Philadelphia, will be a candidate again. —The snow does not seem to be dis couraging candidates for federal judge ships. —J. Gundy Wolf filed a nominating petition to run as a candidate for the Hepublican nomination for the House in Union county to-day. —Judge Garman'u senatorial boom does not seem to have been approved by the judge. —The Democratic Club of Philadel phia doeH not seem anxious to endorse candidates in advance of the primaries. AN EVBNTXO - THOUGHT The smaller our would the larger Its ears. Maarlen Alaar teens. ijAfUUgBUfIO SHEATZ TALKING OF ENTERING RACE Ex-State Treasurer Liable to Be come Candidate For Republi can Ticket's Head ALTER DECLINES TO TALK Speaker Here Today on Business at Capitol—Brumm May Make Trouble Senator John O. Sheatz, former Statu Treasurer, may decide to got into tlie contest l'or the Republican i nomination for Governor, for which Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, Philadel phia school superintendent, is being actively boomed, and for which Speaker George E. Alter, of Allegheny, has been urged to stand. Air. Sheatz lias been endorsed by a couple of ward organisations in Phila delphia and urged to stand by Key- t stoners and last night in Philadelphia said that he would be more than pleased to hear State-wide demand that ho. stand for Governor. "I will give my answer In due course. Should 1 decide to be a candidate, iny plat form will be broad in its scope, but at the same time sane and conservative," said the former Treasurer. Speaker Alter wus liero to-day to attend a hearing before the Public Service Commission, but declined to niuke any comment on the demand that he run for Governor. The Speaker has endorsed the candidacy of Dimmlck for senator, but whether he will accede to the wishes of Dimmlck and run for Governor'he is not saying. Dr. Brumbaugh is expected to make an announcement In a day or so. Friends are circulating his petitions in many parts of the State. Senator Penrose yesterday gave Pinchot a broadside on the former New Yorker's announcement of his candidacy for the senatorial nomination *of the Wash ington party which has Penrose I been cinched for him. In- Thumps ' cidentally the senator gave Pinchot the Democrats a siap by saying that if any biparti san alliance existed it was between Bull Moosers and Democrats. Pen rose said when asked for a statement ; on the Pinchot announcement: "The | use of such threadbare campaign ar guments as Mr. Pinchot has dragged ; into his announcement will not satisfy the electorate. His use of the term 'bipartisan machine' is meaningless now for If there was a bipartisan alli ance it certainly was exhibited in the lagt campaign, when the Washington and Democratic parties effected com plete fusion on the ticket, dividing up the offices as so many loaves and llshes. But perhaps such bipartisan ship was in the view of those who thought to benefit through it. In the present campaign the only suggestion of bipartisanship is in the desultory exchanges between Progesslves and Democrats. At this time the people are demanding of candidates not , threadbare phraseology, but consist- I ency, truth and logic. It is the inten tion of Republicans to nominate a ticket without factional or personal in terference, but through the personal appeal of as many candidates as choose to announce themselves. That is the spirit of the State-wide primary act and that is the spirit of Repub licans. Republican issues will be pre sented directly, squarely and in a manly, straightforward way. The effort will be to win victory on plainly stated issues; on their intrinsic value and on the worth of the nominees. It is apparent everywhere that the peo ple. are wearied of the antics of the politicial faker." Congressman Palmer and his train of Democratic bosses encamped in Pittsburgh last night and assisted some hundreds of other Dem ocrats in hearing the Palmer uud campaign keynote. To llis Train day the crusaders tire In in West Butler. There was quite a dinner in Pittsburgh, the result of weeks of careful effort, and the lack of Alle gheny county Democrats was made up by a delegation from Fayette county which figured extensively in the last Legislatiure, Palmer fjiade a speech, McCormlclc made a speech and some others made speeches, and a number of still others made overtures for fed eral jobs. John H. Wilson, L. AV. Doty, Lowry Humes and W. H. S. Thompson were suggested for the place of the lato Judge Young. M. M. Cochran, of Uniontown, was boomed for Congress at-large in place of Bruce Sterling, who evidently does not think this is his year, and Captain Hasson trotted out again to scare off other candi dates. J. N. Crosby, of Crawford, and W. 11. Mechling, Butler, were flirted with for State nominations. Palmer tried to settle some of the fights over prospective nominations, but gave up in disgust. An interesting story conies froiri Schuylkill county about possibilities in tho Bull Moose campaign to-day. It seems that friends of Judge Charles N. Brumm arc not at ull Bruitiiii Mow pleasedr. r ith tho slating Mauling of Dean Lewis fur Gov- in Gossip ernor and are inclined to buck in the name of the bird of freedom. It will be re called that when the men mentioned for the Progressives slate's top place were called Into the room at the con ference last week to "swear in" Judge Brumm did not swear to support the ticket, but predicted victory for it. Brumm is uno of the wiliest politicians in the whole Bull Moose corral and if he Bhould take a notion to load the militants there would bo a disturb ance. Ex-Bepresentative James M. Yeager, of Mifflin county, who is a candidate for the Bepubllcan nomination for Congress in the Seventeenth district, to-day issued a statement, in which he said that he voted and spoke for local option away back in the Legislature of 1907, of which he was a member, and that if a prohibitory amendment to the Constitution were submitted to him, In tho event of his nomination and election to Congress, he would vote for It on the ground of its tinal submission to the American people. He added: "Let the people rule." I'ln-hARRISBURft-PIPTy- ye-ARs- Aft-oro-u^y [From the Telegraph of March 3, 1864.] HUH N«W Office Captain G. p. Hammer, late of the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry, has opened an oflice in the room formerly occupied by C. M. Shell, Esq., in Mar ket street, near Third, where he is pre pared to make out enlistment papers, etc., on short notice. Stone For l,«rlilrl Proposals will be received up to tho 6th or March for the furnishing and laying in place 2.400 perch or stone (more or less) at the Lochiel Iron Works, 1,000 perch to be of common masonry, the balance of tlrst-class masonry, of cut dimension stone. Pro posals may be addressed to William ('alder, chairman building committee. WILLIAM CALDIiR, ' .1 R. KBV. G. W. DAWSON t'OLIO.MAN. Building Committee. I ft-uTfife-nonaenae i Her brother told her that hia old college-mate, Jaekey Jonea, had won a derby In ISngland, but alio didn't see why he should be so elated, as tho hat was probably a cheap one. GEK, MORIS COAL llr Wl*( Dinger I don't care how good-humored you may be, As wintry blasts 'round you do blow, There is ono time when you will be peevish. That's when you sec the coal pile get low. You aaid to yourself not a month back, I'll Just order three more tons of coal, Which will last me the rest of tho winter. In my funda It won't knock such a hole. Then you tried mighty hard not to waste it. Your fire you watched with much care, But despite all your careful attention Right now there Is little to spare. So at last you loao patience and order, tons—this time there'll be enough— And immediately the weather gets warmer, And you've more than you need of the stuff. But there's no use in howling about It, And wishing you were a coal king, Just order a few tons and maybe 'Twill be helpful in bringing on Spring. MARTIN O. BRUMBAUGH If Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh! super intendent of the great school system of Philadelphia, should listen to the sentiment that is unquestionably spreading all over Pennsylvania and submit his name to the primaries, the Republican party would have a candi date for Governor who is unassailable, unimpeachable and, in ability, un rivaled. A strong man, a progressive man, a man of force. The Republican party would honor itself by nominating him, and the State of Pennsylvania by electing him. Letters to the Editor THE CAMP HILL WATER KATE To the Editor of The Telegraph: Two articles have appeared in the Telegraph recently. The lirst was a statement by the Riverton Consoli dated Water Company, on January 23, and the second an advertisement for them on February 21, 1914. As there are two sides to every question, the people's side might as well be given. In the earlier communication there are several paragraphs with which issue can be taken. Complaint is made about the meter users. It is well to remember that they conserve the use of water and pay for all they use because there is no guess involved as to quantity. Camp Hill's contention for a Har risburg rate is stated as being "clearly unjust." What are the facts? A mu nicipality is allowed the option to pro vide its own wuter supply or to get it from a company incorporated for that purpose. Some boroughs try to be foresighted enough to see that rates are definitely agreed upon and are not too high. They know that they can supply water at a lower cost than a company because they must pay less interest cost on money invested. In the belief that tho proposition was fair, a contract with the water com pany was made by this borough. Is there no protection for the borough that tries to protect itself? Had the present condition been foreseen there probably would have been a public rather than a private supply. The ordinance does not call for "raw Susquehanna river water," but the In tention of tho parties to the contract certainly was reasonably pure water, wholesome, and fit for domestic use. ; The company admits that the filter ! plant was erected to supply adequately "other patrong of the company" as well as the lower end borough. Camp Hill insisted on wholesome water and the Alter expenditure is cited as neces sary for that borough only. A "huge trunk.line" would have been two miles Instead of six if the borough had fur nished its own supply; the long one wan necessary because other communi ties were to be provided for as well as Camp Hill. A part of this line was laid in one position and within two months taken up and relald in a different location. Who pays for this unnecessary expenditure? One part seems uncalled for and this is the statement "appreciation has come In the shape of a bill ot equity." Anyone familiar with the methods of the water company during the last few years will realize that the situation Is not as rose-colored as their statement makes it appear. There was insufficient pressure, some Inadequate service- pipes, unwholesome water (first-class water now) and little busi ness courtesy. In many of the newer homes it Is'necessary to have water for flushing purposes. When water failed to flow It waa the part of wis dom to know for what probable length of time the shortage would prevail. The company's oflice refused to answer any phone inquiries. Appeal was made to the Btata Department of Health; relief did follow. About a year ago the company sought to have the con tract rates doubled because of filtered water. The citizens met them in a very fair spirit and sought a com promise of 00 per cent. Increase. These negotiations ended because the company suddenly demanded that the contract rates be multiplied by three Instead of by two. Why was there such a sudden change of base? About this time authority was given to increase the bonded Indebtedness from $300,000 to $1,000,000. The "annual minimum charge of $10" is misleading. The new minimum quantity supplied for this rate costs exactly three times the contract rate, I yet the impression given is that the I minimum has only been doubled. The illustrated advertisement given a generally unfair impression. Most I of your readers are unacquainted with * MARCH 3, 1914. MONUMENTS to be what tliey should be, demand pri marily quality In the stone. Good work is possible on no other kind. From the selection of the stone to the last tap of the mallet; Luckenblll's monuments typify ©very wish of the sentiment that lien back of the person. A postcard will bring representative or catalog. A. H. LUCKENBILL N. Union St. U«it«4 Nmm Middletown, Pa. FORTHEGGDDOFHARRISBURG •*IOMeDARTICLt«BYMRJO«*OF-»ftOH««k*te-OH-TOPItJ-^TtM«LYL.etAL-IMTe*i3T- A New Hotel For Harrisburg It iias often been asserted that the clergy are impractical men, that there is little "rime or reason" for them to rnise their voices In affairs of practical nature. Their special concern should be tho things that take them into the realms spiritual and that are not an interference with the practical affairs of life. A change has taken place In recent decades whereby the ministry, with eyes open, are privileged to raise their voices on things not always inti mately related with the spiritual side of man. It Is for this reason that In my observation on "Community Needs," I depart for tho time being from those things which are mainly my life con cern and point out what I consider one of the needs of Harrisbrug. I doubt not that in time past others with greater fitness have likewise treated of this matter and assuredly with greater ability. I have been hero for seven months. Thus far I have not learned the rea son why there is not a new, up-to-date and modernly equipped hotel In Harris burg. It should be a matter of com munity and civic pride to have such an hotel as well as to have nice, clean and well-kept streets, nice public parks and playgrounds, new well-equlpp«d public school buildings, a new Public Library or any of the other things that are an accompaniment to a modern, up-to-date cltv. For in our hotels we are for the time being the hosts of those who remain as guests In our midst. It is proper that we house and treat them well, that they may speak well of us. A city Is judged by its hotels. Let me tell you of a recent experience of mine. I was on tho train going to Washington. A fellow-passenger open ed conversation with me. "Did you stop over in Harrisburg last night? I told him that I was a resident, "Well, there was some kind of a convention, the layout of the communities on the i West Side and so are misled. The statement concerning the expenditure of "1500,000 in an effort to give Camp Hill and other West Shore towns" ap pears in the beginning (second line) of the article. Half way down the standpipe is mentioned "erected at large cost in order that Camp Hill and other towns supplied" would havo at all times a proper flow and ade quate pressure. (Pressure failed as late as June 18, 1913.) The other towns happen to be New Cumberland, Lemoyne, Shiremans town, Wormleysburg and West Pair view. No emphasis is given to the fact that while the filter plant and possibly the standpipe serve Camp Hill, they are equipped to serve six towns. The four reservoirs shown in the illustrations are not required for Camp Hill: one, however, is necessary If the standpipe is not used. That the quality of filtered water is first class has not been denied, but there is a standard which all filtered water must conform to without special credit to anyone. The equipment of reservoirs, dis tributing mains, filter plant, etc., are summed up and the total cost given as about a half million dollars. Perhaps some light on the trouble can be given by the capital and bond charges. The company accepting the ordinance was capitaliized at $40,000, which was in creased to $50,000, with an indebted ness of $50,000. A merger was then formed and it was called the Riverton Consolidated Water Company, with a capital of SIOO,OOO. Later the capital was increased to $200,000 and the in debtedness to $300,000, with authority to increase the latter to $1,000,000: at the present time it is $348,000. What the cost of tho Camp Hill proportion is, the people do not know: the com pany says $500,000 for a plant sup plying six communities. Harrlsburg's water supply may furnish a side light. The total cost is given as $1,755,000 for a filter plant, reservoir capacity, two main pumping plants and mains. There are 88 miles of mains from 6 to 42 inch (West Side 40 miles 12 to 4 inch), 1,071 fire hydrants and 1,967 stop valves. Harrisburg and the West Shore are not alike, hut the Harris burg figures are supposed to repre sent bona fide investment. In separate communities no two are alike: then rates need not be the same for all. When contract rates are raised to the highest exacted In a given territory, the unfairness 1b ap parent. Another phase is seen In con sidering six single filter plants to serve six communities. Erect a Joint plant to serve the six and it will cost more than any single one. The cost of the latter to each community will cer tainly be less than for a single plant; such is the Camp Hill proposition. The company is entitled to the larger part of tho benefits of consolidation, but a part is supposed to belong to each community. In this case a single one is to carry the entire fixed charges with benefits left out. W. B. K. new« *t> ispatcd es - -Of-The* CIVIL* WAR [From the Telegraph of March 3, 1804.] IVo News of Sherman Memphis, Feb. 29. A private letter from an officer at Vicksburg, dated th* 23<1 ult., says: "Wo hear nothing of a definite char acter from Sherman, but no doubt he has takcti possession of Selma, Ala. It is said Hhennan captured five gunboats at Selma." ConeernluK Exchange Washington, March 2. Arrange ments for the exchange of prisoners have at length been effected. For some time past an unofficial correspondence between General Rutler and the rebel commissioner, Ould, has been carried on. This correspondence has resulted in a declaration of exchange, In whlcH* It is agreed that all prisoners delivered nt City Point up to the 24th of January, 18G4, are declared exchanged. ——eg—— V I ANOVER j CtAUDB M.MOMH.Np PHILADELPHIA jfIHE 12th and Arch Cmtralb located. ! uptodatenn* MwfpfemUhM Dollar a Day Til sl-50 with both TaHa/Hat* Dinner ■■■■■■■■■| Music wl4. Undk. * v»''Pinnrr shipper J tWßrffi OR WtKE VOUB RESERVATION gjj (It was tho conference of the Pro«re»< sive party) and I couldn't get Accommo dation at a hotel and I had to go to get a room for which the charge was 100 high. The man, I learned, had a poor impression of our city, and carries tho word to others. His case mint bo typical. More be ours the shamo if such must frequently happen! It may be like "carrying coal to New castle" (I was about to say "to Penn sylvania'), to say that Harrisburg needs a now hotel. When I lived in Salt Lake tourists stopped off to se« tho City. They toured the city In "sight seeing cars." AmotiK other things, this Is what these tourists heard: "Yonder is the site of the new Capitol building, when completed it will lie the fourth finest capltol in the United States. New York Is first, Texas second, the State from which you coino third and Utah fourth." Well, Harrisburg can boast of having one of the finest capltol build ings in the United States. People often Btop off here, I take it, to see the won derful capltol building. They need hotel accommodations. At such times, guests of the city, they should have tho est that Is to be had. A first-class hotel Is an excellent advertisement for a city. To revert to Halt I.ako—lt has a magnificent $2,000,000 hotel, and all who stopped at it spoke well of the ac commodations and were given an added favorable Impression of the city. It is timely then that those who have llar rlsburg"s interests at heart be not backward, but go ahead and see to It that Harrisburg has a new hotel. Wo would then be Justified in soliciting conventions to come to Harrisburg, for we could then properly house whu come, with decent and proper accom modations. People would not have to go room-hunting with the provocation of slight meetings which burden hotel facilities. Verb sap! RABBI CHARLES J. PREUND. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT! Nothing Like Appropriateness [Prom the Louisville Courier-Journal.) Tho Norfolk Leader-Dispatch says there should be a new name for life boats. Well, how about deathboats? Told n Pew Extra whoppers [From the St. Louis Post-Dlspatch.l General Villa's statement on Febru ary 22 scarcely showed proper defer ence to the veracious traditions of the \ | Watching The Wheels Go Round When you follow the advertis ing in the newspapers from day to day you are watching the wheels of tho world go round. You see the fruits of genius and labor being brought to mar ket. It is a wonderful panorama of Industry. These wheels are turning for your service to make life easier and pleasanter for you. To follow the advertising in this newspaper from day to day Is to be In touch with oppor tunity when it comes. Life's good things come to those who are ready to receive them. Tho message that may mean most to you may be in the ad vertising in to-day's Telegraph. If your message is not here to-day It may come to-morrow. Be prepared to receive It. The place to Insure Is where you are a full part ner in the management, benefits, privileges and profits. 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