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MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 1«
WILSON AND BUSINESS
WRITING of the general busi
ness conditions, an expert
analyst of the Philadelphia
ledger gives the AVilson ad
ministration a severe jolt. He says:
There is a growing danger that
the upshot will be disastrous alike
to labor, to investors, to employers
and to the administration.
Capital has made up its minrl not
to submit meekly and silently to
any more governmental misrepre
sentation or unjust attacks.
President Rea. of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad, voiced the new atti
tude last week in a formal state
ment heavy with underlying signifi
cance. He warned the authorities
that antagonism and burdensome
legislation, if continued, might
drive the country into an abyss, lie
spoke thus gravely, he said, "to
prevent calamity."
The hoped for revival in general
business has not yet made satisfac
tory headway. Unemployment Is
rife and is exciting uneasiness in
certain cities. I'nfortunatelv. em
ployers—particularly the railways
and the hundred and one industries
affected by them—do not feel en
couraged by events at Washington
to adopt any conspicuously optimis
tic course that would heip to pro
vide additional work.
.Anti-business legislation propo
sals are being hashed and rehashed
daily without any manifest master
mind to guide the rank and file
toward any definite sensible goal.
Notwithstanding the manifest desire
of all classes of people to avoid what
might appear as a calamity attitude
with respect to business conditions,
there Is a growing conviction among
those in position to understand the !
situation that the radical legislation
which has already been enacted and |
much that is proposed is responsible in i
a large measure for the lack of conv
tidence and general hesitation to push
ahead under full steam.
President Wilson and his associates
must realize that a more conservative
attitude is necessary for the restoration
of confidence and the building up of
the broken business lines.
There are those who will be ready to
believe that the Groundhog is disposed
to make a hog of himself.
PAYING TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN
THE one great effect of the repeal i
of the free tolls clause for United I
States shipping through the!
Panama Canal would be to force '
Americans to pay tribute to Great;
Britain and other maritime nations for j
alt time on every shipload of goods j
sent by water from points to and from i
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
The cost of upkeep and a fair re- |
turn on the money invested should not j
be charged up to the American people. !
No man builds himself a house and f
then charges himself rent for the use
of it. If there is any rent to be paid,
he makes the other fellow pay it. The
real estate owner who would agree to
pay half or more of the lease price of
any of his properties would be laughed
out of business. Yet that is just what
President Wilson proposes in the mat
ter of the Panama Canal.
If there be any treaty rights in
question—Etnd there are many eminent
statesmen who believe that no foreign
relation is involved —let the matter be
settled by The Hague tribunal. It wil"
be time enough in the event of an
adverse decision in that court of last
appeal to place the shippers of tho
United States on a par with those oT
foreign nations. Surely, if the people
of the United States were willing to
spend their money to build the canal,
the. combined nations of the world
ought not to object to paying for it
upkeep
English authorities claim that they
are powerless to keep suffragettes in
prison, due to their adoption of the
"hunger strike." Why not let one or
two of 'em continue to strike?
RUFFLES!
THERE is more than a grain of
truth in the thought expressed
by Professor Maria L. Sanford,
of the University of Minnesota,
who said the other day that "children
are spoiled by frills and ruffles; let
the modern mother put less embroid
ery on her child's body and more on
Its mind."
Correct Bpeech Is an asset of no
small value. There is nothing more
Incongruous than line clothes and bad
grammar. Even the boy and girl In
school know the advantage of mental
training over rich clothing. The child
who knows how to use English, whose
MONDAY EVENING,
thoughts are well expressed, who has
a store of useful literary knowledge,
has a handicap over his less cultured
fellows that not only obtains for him
leadership in school affairs, but gives
him a poise and a self-confidence that
extends to his advantage in grown up
years.
Our schools have improved so rapid
ly and life of to-day is so strenuous
that the modern parent is apt to trust
too much to the teacher. It might be
well, as Professor Sanford advises, for
the mother of to-dav to send her child
to school with a little less embroidery
on its dress and a few more trimmings
!on its mind.
! The baby intellect is so easily led.
|lt is keen to learn. Put the good in
'its way and it will absorb it. Let it
ichoose for itself and it will gather
'much chaff with the grain. The mother
lias it in her power to put pure, ele
vating thoughts into Its mind that will
go with it all through life.
The embroidered dress will wear
out. Ruffles will go out of fashion.
And at all events a taste for costly
dress Is to be discouraged rather than
engendered. But fair speech and a
knowledge of the classics are always
in style and are helpful in whatever
walk of life one finds oneself.
It is now apparent that Colonel
I'oosevelt had nothing to do with the
revolution in Brazil. It lasted only
three days.
OI K MINING OPERATIONS
FAMILIAR as we are with the gi
gantic mining operations of the
Pennsylvania coal fields, it never
theless is surprising to learn that
the hard coal miners of this State are
better diggers than those of the Pana
ma canal zone, in that they excavate
every year more than the total
amount of the entire excavations nec
essary for the construction of the big
ditch.
The figures just issued by the pub
licity department of the anthracite
companies are highly interesting and
apparently authentic. The average
number of net tons of coal produced
from the anthracite mines during the
years 1904 to 1913, inclusive, was
approximately 5i,000,000. Each long
ton of this coal measured at least one
cubic yard in the vein. A long ton
of 2,240 pounds is over ten per cent,
more than a net ton of 2,000 pounds.
The tonnage of coal therefore ac
counts for at least 90,000,000 of the
195.323,000 cubic yards of excavation
originally necessary for the Panama
Canal. Add to this the fact that more
rock and refuse than coal is hoisted
out of the anthracite mines, and this
accounts for another 100,000,000 cu
bic yards. Finally the gigantic strip
pings. estimated by one contractor at
12,000,000 cubic yards a year, and the
miles of drainage tunnels cut through
the solid rock easily bring up the total
annual cubic yardage of excavation to
a total equal to, if not greater than,
the total yardage of the Panama
Canal.
It should be remembered in addition
to this that the Panama Canal is being
dug in the open sunlight, while the
vast majority of the work in Pennsyl
vania is done in dark, narrow passages,
far below ground, and the material has
to be transported greater distances
and hoisted from 300 to 3,000 feet.
The thicker veins are being rapidly
exhausted and the proportion of rock
and refuse to the amount of coal
hoisted is increasing steadily year
by year as the narrower veins are
worked. If the companies are able to
maintain the present rate of produc
tion of coal the annual amount' of
excavation will far exceed the Panama
Canal In the next few years.
"What are political conditions in
Pennsylvania to-day?" asks the Phila
delphia Press. Doesn't the Press know
what General Sherman said war is?
Well, then, that's it.
EXPRESS CO. LIQUIDATION
THE Harrisburg representative of
the United States Express Com
pany expresses astonishment at
tHe reported liquidation of that
corporation. He says that receipts
here show an increase and that the
outlook for a prosperous business year
is bright. He expresses the belief that
it will be a long time before the office
of the United States Express Company
in this city is closed.
In this belief many others are be-
| ginning to join. When the directors
of the company announced that they
would "go out of business" it was gen
erally conceded that their given rea
son —the encroachment of the parcel
post —was the true one. But since
that time developments have been
such as to arouse the suspicions of
those who are familiar with Wall
Street transactions of the kind.
In the first place, it is to be noted
that the Harrimans control the United
States company. It is also the Harri
) mans who own a voting majority of
the shares of the Wells Fargo Com
pany. The express companies are in
bad repute with the government and
the public. What better business than
to sell the property and franchise of
the United States company to tho
Wells Fargo, with the statement that
th" parcel post had forced the United
States company out of business'.'
Liquidation would drive down the
stock valuations and let those in con
trol buy in outstanding shares at a
fraction of their former value —and
there is pretty good evidence that
somebody has been a very ready buyer
of the United States stock as it came
to the market in the past few weeks.
None of the other express companies
has displayed any signs of serious dis
tress, and while the government has
no right to enact any legislation that
will be confiscatory to legitimate in
dustry, we should pause a moment be
fore extending a full measure of sym
pathy to the Ilarrimans and their
United estates Kxpress Company liqui
dation.
That neighborhood meeting for Judgo
Kunkel affords you opportunity for a
pleasant evening.
WP trust that our friends who pro
fess to he fond of "old-fashioned
winters'' are fully satisfied.
lew Din- cbai
There's a very plain, ordinary look
ing poster in the window of the public
waiting room of the Harrisburg Rail
ways Company in Market Square and
because it appears like an advertise
ment of some form of amusement
probably the average passer-by has
not stopped to read it. Yet that pos
ter is a part in a humble way of a
campaign that is being conducted all
over the United States and Canada
for you and yours and your neighbors
and which will be In full swing in this
city before many months through the
interest of the industrial and utility
corporations and the public-spirited
men and women who have been think
ing about physical welfare when a
good many have been devoting time
and thought to dollars, dividends, food
and amusements. This poster is only
half a dozen lines long, but it winds up
with these words:
BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY.
In short, it is one of the "safety
posters'' that are now so common in
New York and Chicago, the cities
where it has been charged human life
and limb is at matter of minor con
sideration. There are probably tens
of thousands of posters of similar im
port staring into the eyes of people in
those cities and maybe a million or so
in the country. It is part of a great
campaign that was beglin years ago
and which has enlisted the earnest
consideration of thoughtful men. It is
an outgrowth of the work of that
little understood official, the efficiency
engineer, the speed man, the fellow
who hunts up lost motion. Ten years
ago the placing of such a poster would
have been regarded by the man in
charge of a works, a factory, a trol
ley line or anything else as something
altruistic, a charitable act. Now it's
plain business. Loss of skilled hands,
damages and, above all, public opinion,
have impelled employers or managers
to regard accidents of a preventable
character exactly as the grand scheme
of nature makes them: sheer waste.
The poster over in Market Square
contains the advice not to attempt to
cross a street behind a car. The
reader is told to be sure that there is
no car or vehicle coming in the oppo
site direction, or. in other words, to
see that the coast is clear. It brings
to the mind of every reader that strik
ing sign with which everyone who has
traveled along the Reading railway is
familiar, "Stop, look and listen." It.
has been said that those words, at
tributed to Judgo Paxson, have saved
many lives and no end of dollars, if
the two could be mentioned in the
same breath. The Reading's signs
have been up for half a generation, but
it is because their warning has been
burned into the minds of so many
people that there are not more acci
dents in the midst of the great growth
of automobile traffic. It's going to
take years to abolish the grade cross
ings. but so long as the traveler on
wheels is accustomed to regard a cross
dog and a grade crossing with caution,
the signs serves its purpose.
But to get back to the that poster
on the Railways office window. One
of these days, through the co-operation
ol the trolley officials and persons in
terested in cutting the number of accl
dents in the United States, Pennsyl
vania and Harrisburg in half, there' is
going to be posted all over this com
munity stinilar warnings. Over the
East river the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company has placed in every Brook)vn
schoolroom a calendar showing twelve
ways in which a pupil can get hurt by
a trolley car. Some of the pictures
are pretty crude, but the very look of
terror on the faces of the victims
strikes the lesson home. For each
month there is a separate illustration
showing a kid being thrown Into the
air because he dodged behind a car
and was hit by a car coming from
another direction in just the manner
that the liarrisburg Railways poster
seeks to warn against: or showing how
a roller skater can go into the jaws
of death by reckless curves on the
asphalt: how jumping cars will bring
injury or death, or some other form in
which the trolley car can harm those
who do not use the care dictated by
modern traffic conditions. It is sought
to instill into the minds of those voung
Broklynites that they have got 'to be
careful not to get hurt. Now the Har
risburg poster with its "Better Safe
Than Sorry" means the same thing
and the railways company could do
nothing better than hammer that
phrase into the minds of the children
of Harrisburg. There are ways of
reaching the schools, the homes and
the playgrounds of the youngsters
Some of the advertising space in the
cars might be employed and there is
always the billboard and the news
paper. Great industrial plants like the
Pennsylvania Steel Works spend thou
sands of dollars every year for safety
of employes alone and the works are
full of warning signs. You can't roam
about the great plant like sightseers
used to do with imminent risk of life
limb or neck, and John Hunk is apt
to get a verbal ripping up the back
from his boss if he disregards a sign
or warning that he is not to go some
place where he is liable to be hit on •
the head b> a chain from a crane or
where he might be in the position of
trying to buck a dinkey. The work of
the Pennsylvania Railroad for safety
is famous the world over and no more
magnificent project was ever launched
by a transportation company than
safetj first, although stockholders
have moaned, according to some
rumors, over the money it cost. It
was adherence to such propaganda, as
they used to be called a few years ago.
that enabled the railroad to make that
showing for 1913 in regard to mishaps
to passengers. So that posting of the
poster with its striking coupling of
safety and sorrow means the localizing
of the safety movement here. And it's
the duty of everyone to help it along
by doing what he or she was intended
to do in this world: Ixiok Out.
YESTERDAY WD TOD V V
Yesterday I took a stroll.
Out to the park I went
And sat me down upon a bench
—An hour there I spent.
My coat I peeled off quickly.
And laid it by ray side,
And in the balmy sunshine
Myself I fairly fried.
flut gee, I wish 1 hadn't
Done all this yesterda> .
Because to-day I'm feeling
Like what some folks would f,aj.
My head feels three times larger
Than what it ought to be,
M.v eyes are swelled so badlv
l That I can hardly see.
1 have a splitting headache.
With medicine I'm filled;
.1 feel as if somebody
Had me about half-killed.
'Twas fine, I thought, when I went
Out yesterday to roam;
To-day. though, I am wishing
That I had stayed at home,
THE CLARION CALL
"I got up with the robins this morn
ing," said a charming young society
woman, to her fiancee, "and wrote
some letters."
"You mean, dear, he said, "that you
added spots Into one."—ln National
Monthly.
AN EVENING THOUGHT y
Even so it is not the will of
your Father who is in Heaven,
j thai one of these little ones should
| perish. Jesus.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPEC
KUNKEL FAVORED
IN MANY COUNTIES
Greensburg Newspaper Endorses
Him and Lawyers Are Every
where For Him
PAPERS ARE IN CIRCULATION
Philadelphia Press Shows Pennsyl
vania Democracy Is Divided
Against Itself
Keporta received here by members
of the Dauphin county bar committee
favoring the nomination of President
Judge George Kunkel for the Supreme
bench indicate that the candidacy of
the judge is supported in more than
half the counties of the State and that
hie papers are being signed in Frank
lin. Adams. Cumberland. Lancaster,
Lycoming. Luzerne, Westmoreland,
Mifflin and other counties.
The Judge is being supported by
many men who are familiar with State
taxation business, which is the big .end
of the business appealed to the Su
preme Court from the Dauphin County
Court, and his splendid record in the
Capitol cases Is remembered all over
the State.
The Greensburg Tribune, edited by
Robert W. Herbert, one of the best
I>ostecl men on political conditions in
Pennsylvania, says editorially: "George
Kunkel, president judge of the Dau
phin county courts, has thrown his
hat into the ring and will be a can
didate for a place on the Supreme
Court bench at the May primaries.
Judge Kunkel was exceedingly capably
as a lawmaker and he has been won
derfully successful as a law dispenser.
Therefore, if not, why not?"
The Lewistown Sentinel says: "Mem
bers of the Mifflin county bar are
signing a paper indorsing the candi
dacy of George Kunkel, of Harris
burg, president judge of the Twelfth
judicial district, candidate for justice
of the Supreme Court."
The Socialist State conference at
AVilliamsport concluded its work on
Saturday night and recommended this
ticket for the May pri
maries: Governor. Jo
seph Allen, of Montgorn- Socialists
ery county; Lieutenant- Select a
Governor, F. J. Scholar. Full Ticket
Altoona; Secretary of In
ternal Affairs. Robert B.
Ringler, Reading United States .sen
ator, F. W. Whiteside, Philadelphia;
judse of Supreme Court, J. J. Kint
ner, Clinton county; judge of Superior
Court, A. M. Fuller, Allegheny county;
congressmen-at-large, Edward Hayden,
Allegheny county; Charles Sehl, Phila
delphia; Charles F. Quinn, Luzerne,
and E. D. Fulton, Fayette county.
Charles Maurer, of Reading, was
named for State chairman. The liquor
question caused a spirited discussion,
several of the delegates urging that
the party take a stand in favor of
local o.ption. The majority, however,
voted for the committee report declar
ing the present economic system to be
the cause of intemperance and urging
the abolition of private ownership as a
means of promoting temperance.
While admitting that a fight in the
party for a nomination was a good
thing, Dauphin county Bull Moosers
Saturday neatly sidestepped
declaring for either Brumm
Dauplitn or Lewis and will await the
Moosers word from the source of
Sidestep supplies before taking any
part. The Dauphin county
people lined up back of the
conference when it declared for Lewis
and Dr. J. H. Krelder, the late county
chairman, who took part in the slate
making, was for Lewis a while ago.
There is no question but that Brumm
is strong in this county and the men
who have favored a militant candidate
rather than a man like Lewis will line
up back of Brumm. The friends of
State Treasurer Young are keeping
quiet, but do not conceal their dis
appointment that he declined to be a
candidate. Some are expressing the
hope that tilings might so shape them
selves that he would enter the field as
a compromise.
Just at present the popular pastime
of men in politics appears to be talk
ing about invasions of Pennsylvania
by men active in affairs.
It has been stated that
Senators Borah and Invasion
Cummins would come Popular
into this State to speak Just Xoiv
for Dimmlck. To-day it
is stated that Borah will
not come here. Secretaries Daniels
and Wilson are to come to boost the
Jersey ticket for the Democrats. Os
|car King Davis says Col. -Roosevelt
will give three weeks to Pennsylvania.
Senator Penrose remarked on Satur
day that he would like to have some
candidates stand on their own bot
toms.
The Philadelphia Press in a series
of articles to-day makes a startling
statement regarding the policy of
President Wi 1 son,
accusing him of in
! Interference terfering in the
: Irritates the Democratic politics
Democrats Mow of several States de
spite promises of
neutrality in local
affairs. The Press says the interfer
ence was open in New Jersey and Ala
bama and is but thinly veiled in Penn
sylvania. New York and Illinois. In
some instances the inteference has
been so raw as to cause protests from
national committeemen. The Press
makes a poll of the State on the
Democratic row and finds the Demo
crats split everywhere, the presiden
tial interference being one cause of
the dissatisfaction that exists.
Nominating petitions for Superior
Court Judge Frank M. Trexler for the
full term are in circulation in many
parts of the State. Following the dec
laration in behalf of the judge by his
home bar committees nil over the
State took up his candidacy on a non
partisan basis.
I iroLiriCAbsioeEiSßfgl
—St. Patrick's day will be a great
occasion for orators.
•—Edwin O. Lewis, eminent Phila
delphia reformer, is out with a strong
speech advising Democrats to nomi
nate Ryan.
—Senator Penrose says that Dim
mick should not hide behind Borah's
coat tail.
—McCormick and Berry start on an
invasion of the northern tier to-mor
row.
—William T. McMullen, of Sha
- mokin, is .a candidate fo»- the House
; in Northumberland,
s —Congressman Palmer says he will
not do any Chautauqua debating un
-1 less all senatorial candidates go on the
.1 platform with him.
—A. H. Ladner, counted upon as a
reorganizer, is out for Ryan in Phila
delphia.
—Thus far no great enthusiasm over
Marshall's boom for the House has
been shown iri .Market Square. It's
all l.ybarger there.
—V. K. P. B&rltntlti Ims been
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An Important Announcement!
fQ flig Pponle of f
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Hamsburg and Vicinity
a people who have learned to depend upon this store for the major por- !>
| |M I tio'n of their household and personal wearing needs have at various times |
| fcSBHI urgently requested that we add to our stocks certain articles that would fill |
| Ranis' in some of our lines, but which could not be sold between one and twenty- Q
| five cents. [j|
3 For instance in dress goods, better grades have been wanted than could be sold |
| at twenty-five cents or less a yard. Likewise petticoats and other articles of wear, [j]
■ household articles, and other needs were sought which could not be supplied within |
II our price limits. a
m So we conceived the idea of |i
1 TWO PIECE PRICES |
ICI For SOme time we have put them int ° prac ~ CI The plan will in no way effect the original |
I Til tice in certain departments. For instance, Til purpose of this business. We will in the a
Q certain dress materials have been sold at 15c, future, as we have in the past, devote our en- j
| 20c or 25c the half yard. Combination Suits, ergies to supplying to the public dependable I
|] petticoats and other articles have been sold at, merchandise of better quality at prices rang- I
| say 25 cents for the material and 25 cents for ing from lc to 25c. It is only in a few in- E
the making. Two-piece kitchen utensils at so stances to complete certain lines that we will |jl
| much for the one piece and so much for the conduct the two-piece price plan. |'i
j other and so forth. Our advertisements each week will carry jn
| The success with which our plan has work- TJI mention of a few items which come un- If
: J ed out has been sufficient evidence of the der the two-piece pricing system, but for the W
j public's approval of our desire to make this most part will be devoted to articles at 25 m
] store more beneficial to them, and we have, cents or less the idea on which this business
therefore, decided to continue the idea per- was founded—the keynote of its gratifying q
I manently in certain lines. growth during its existence in Harrisburg "[j
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elected chairman of the Bedford
Democrats.
—William Flinn says Brumm can
stir up a fight that will help the Pro
gressives in their campaign.
—Senator Penrose plans a series of
speeches this week.
The Jefferson dinner committee
will outline work at the Central
Democratic club to-morrow.
—Dr. Isaac. Sharpless has declined
to run for Congress in the Delaware-
Chester district.
—Bedford and Greene Democratic
committees have endorsed McCor
mick. Ryan seems to be gathering in
the Philadelphia committees.
—The row among Allegheny Demo
crats is the most bitter in years.
—District reports show Bull Moos
ers returning' to the Republican party.
—Oh, laws. The primaries are not
until May 19. either.
f/WeUrKDQWr^PeQPL&M
—Dr. Jesse Cope Green, the oldest
man in West Chester, celebrated his
birthday by taking a long walk.
—George Wharton Pepper, distin
guished Philadelphia lawyer, is cele
brating his birthday to-day.
—John A. Topping, the western
Pennsylvania steel manufacturer, says
all business wants is to be let alone.
—Judge C. N. Brumm, who enters
the race for the Washington nomina
tion for Governor, is over 74, but
mighty active.
—J. T. Richard, tile Pennsylvania s
noted engineer of way, made an ad
dress to the P. R. R. Y. M. C. A. in
Philadelphia last night.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE «
[ Prom the Halifax Gazette.]
So manv personal and political
friends of Harry M. Fairchilds, of Mil
lersburg, have been urging him to be
come a candidate for Representative in
the State Legislature from the upper
end of Dauphin county, and have been
so insistent in their urgings that he
may be induced to stand at the pri
maries in May.
Mr. Fairchilds is a native of Halifax,
a business man of good repute, a
worthy citizen in every way. As Bur
gess of Millersburg for a term of four
years he served so acceptably that had
a succession to the office not been pro
hibited by law he would have been
elected for another term.
During his administration, and great
ly through his influence, 'a mile of the
streets of Millersburg were paved with
brick and other needed and substantial
improvements were made.
He has been earnestly and thorough- j
lv interested in every forward move
ment in the interests of his home town
and the general community. Of good
moral character and most excellent
reputation, he would make a most ex
cellent member of the legislative body
of our Commonwealth. We need men
of business experience and ability to
represent us. and Mr. Fairchilds fully
meets these requirements.
i Should he consent to stand for the
nomination, his election would be be
yond the range of possibility and would
assure to Dauphin county an honest,
painstaking and intelligent represen
tative.
lIHOIvKN PROMISES
[From the Scranton Truth. I
Now the voters are beginning to ex
hibit uneasiness. They are putting
forth the question: "Why should these
unhappy conditions exist in face of all
the rosy promises of prosperity made
by Democratic spellbinders during the
campaign of 1912?" When a newspaper
writer or an orator ventures to talk
upon the subject he Is at once dubbed
a "calamity howler" by the Democratic
organs.
That is quite an argument from a
Democratic standpoint: but it does not
prevent the people from thinking,
29H1
MARCH 16, 1914.
news*DißP&rcf> es~
CIVIL* VEA.R
[From the Telegraph of March 16, IS64]
II ring In Primmer*
Fortress Monroe, March 14.—'Twenty
three rebel prisoners, captured in the
recent raid on the Peninsula, reached
here to-day from Yorktown. About
fourteen others were brought from the
same place yesterday.
Hflcasf Deserter.*
AVasliington, March 15. This morn
ing eighty-six deserters from the rebel
army were released from the old Capi
tol prison upon taking the oath. They
desire to go Nortli and were according
ly furnished with transportation.
in-hARRISBURfe-fMPTy-
y&ARS • AQ-0-rO-DA>-
[From the Telegraph of March 16, 1864]
Want FlrebnKN
The City Council offers a reward of
SIOO for such information as will lead
to the detection and conviction of the
person or persons who caused the re
cent conllagrations in our city.
To Nominate
The citizens of the Sixth Ward will
hold a meeting at the Marcella House
this evening, at 7 o'clock, for the pur
pose of nominating a candidate for
Councilman. All the voters of the ward
are requested to be present.
PRESIDENT REVS WARNING
[From the Lancaster New Era.]
The note of warning sounded by
President Rea, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, against the very
apparent tendency to hamper the coun
try's railroads by various forms of leg
islation, both State and national, will
be carefully considered by every right
thinking person. The trend of nearly
all legislation latterly has been against
the large corporations, both transporta
tion and productive, the lawmakers
evidently trying to appease what they
are led to believe to be a deep-seated
public antagonism against large indus
trial organizations. In their eagerness,
however, to satisfy this demand to
"get back" at the big capitalizations,
the legislators have been overreaching
themselves, and have been passing laws
and adopting regulations that have re
sulted in hampering the operations of
these corporations and have greatly de
creased their earning capacities. This
has been especially the case with rail
road legislation, notably the passage of
the full-crew laws in several States,
which, according to President Rea, have
required the expenditure of very large
sums, whicn have, of course, cut down
the road's profits.
If you have any doubt
I about it, let our illu* J
ninating engineer *
place a few
Edison Mazda Lamps
m your store and show windows, and watch
the result.
i In the meantime ask him to give you the latest
facts about light and lamps. He will tell you
how to increase the attraction of your store,
without increasing your present light bill.
Harrisburg Light & Power
Company
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Letters to the Editor
HOUSING CONDITIONS
To the Editor of The Telegraph:
As your newspapers always seems
ready and willing- to agitate a question
or further a movement that is tor th&
welfare of the community, X would sug
iv™ 1 , f ~l no. s t, Important question
that should be taken up is housing re
nown 'though a large number of
people are deeply interested in the mat
ter, and see the urgent need of active
steps being taken in the matter, thev
llliL m llelßy to P usll the movement
, Tll f press is always the most
! a ,M, voca ting a move
lnent of this kind. The first step should
IYL se P ure , fat ;ts of existing condl
ions, and make them public; this would
June a tendency to create a strong pub
lic sentiment 111 the communitv for
housing reform. The recent investiga
tions made by Dr. Raunick and party,
did not half tell the tale. Homes just
: , ,0,. f 3ad .P 1 " worse are to be found in all
parts of this city.
A HARRIS BURGER.
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