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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
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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.
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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
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