6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Httabluhtd lljl . .I, saaaaaa PUBLISHED BY , THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING 00. X. J. STACK POLE, Pree't and Treasll F. R. OYSTER, Beoretary. OUS M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening - building of Ills native place. Mr. C4H liert was a modest and unostentatious man who did quietly but nevertheless effectively the things which would benefit the community and promote the welfare of the people, lie was one of thoso men who had no taste for spectacular display of his own achieve ments nor was he accustomed to make public his many benefactions. "He who gives in secret shall be rewarded openly" is a promise which applies with particular force to Mr. Gilbert in his attitude toward his unfortunate and needy fellow men. Those who knew him best were conscious of the bigness of his heart and there are scores and hundreds in Harrisburg to day who will pay tribute out of grate ful memories to the great lawyer who has dropped out of the ranks. Mr. Gilbert was a many-sided man, but only those who were in intimate touch with him appreciated his line sense of humor and the wit which made him one of the most delightful members of any circle, lie was the personal friend of many eminent lead ers and statesmen and his reminis cences of these men were so delight ful in their quaint humor and the ability of the distinguished lawyer to analyze the qualities of bis friends that on every occasion those about him endeavored to draw from Mr. Gil bert's great fund of stories further knowledge of the men of his day. He was fond of the best in litera ture and with his keen, discriminating and appreciative mind he got all that was good out of the classics and the later authors. Probably no man in Pennsylvania has written more platforms for the Republican party than Mr. Gilbert. He was frequently called upon to pre pare resolutions on important public questions and his power and felicity of expression were recognized by his fellow members of the Bar. He loved the practice of law and was an up holder of the best traditions of the legal fraternity. Another strong man in this com munity has fallen. The good that he has done and the charity which he has dispensed and his public spirit will constitute the best features of his life's memorial. Many a man who would shudder at the mere thought of carrying out the ashes from the kitchen range will spend whole days canvassing for votes for a man who will turn up his nose at him the day after election. I'AHK EXTENSION EFFECTS WONDEIi how many people of Harrisburg have given any thought to tho development of building activities and the in crease of real estate values resulting from the operations in the Capitol Parle extension zone. When the enlargement of the park was first suggested there were many good citizens who were apprehensive that tho blotting out of this largo area of improved property would involve a serious loss to tho revenues of the city. There was somo danger on this score, but the matter has been so admirably handled by thu commission in charge, of this work on behalf of tho State and tho com missioners have acted so fairly, not only with the Stato but with the city and the property owners, that all in terests have been fully conserved. Instead of the elimination of this property proving a detriment to the city it is likely to prove a real benefit In the end. Most of the manufac turing concerns have located else where in the city and have replaced their old buildings with larger and more modern structures. Also most of those who lived in that zone and who have been forced to move to plher parts of tho city have found MONDAY EVENING, more desirable dwellings—either new or remodeled houses. As a matter of fact, the trans formation of the area covered by the extension of the park has been a bless ing in disguise for Harrisburg and a proper improvement from the stand point of the Commonwealth. Splendid headway has been made in the pur chase of the property and it is ex pected the commission will be able to make a most favorable report of its operations at the next session of the Legislature. Governor Tener would be justified in submitting in his last message to the Legislature a recommendation looking to the proper landscape treatment of the whole park zone from Third street to the railroad and from Walnut to North streets. As the Governor who made possible this fine improvement, he is the one to outline the iinal treatment of the park district. The Democratic administration took hold in Washington with the promise to introduce economies. Yet almost without exception the laws it' hat* passed have reduced revenues and in creased the number of Federal em ployes. The only President to seriously and successfully practice economy was Taft. GENERAL SICKLES HE death of General Daniel E. T Sickles removes from life one who will be longest remembered, possibly, for his military service. As one of the graat commanders of the Civil War he won a fame that classes him among the foremost of the world's dashing fighters. Longstreet said it was Sickles who saved the day for the Union army at Gettysburg. t>n a dozen less important fields he led his men to victory. But Sickles possessed a type of cour age higher than that which took him sword in hand to the cannon mouths of rebel batteries. After he had slain the despoller of his homo, and had been acquitted, on the ground of tho "un written law," he took back his erring wife, and to those of his friends who expressed surprise he said: I am not aware of any statute or code of morals which makes it in famous to forgive a woman. I can see in that almost universal de nunciation with which she is fol lowed to my threshold, the misery and peril from which 1 have rescued the mother of my daughter. 1 shall strive to prove to all that an erring wife and mother may be forgiven and redeemed. In the light of his turbulent life General Sickles could hardly be, held up as an example of Christian man hood, but there is in this splendidly courageous declaration more than a hint of the gentle spirit of the Master, when He said: "Let him who is with out sin cast tho first stone." Italian workmen on Government owned railroads are about to strike for a minimum wage of sixty cents a day. Notwithstanding which passenger fares are higher and the service poorer in Italy than in the United States. Being an argument for Government owner ship in til© United States? Yes? No? BUSINESS AND POLITICS WE quote from a generally optimistic and always author itative publication, the Phila delphia News Bureau: The number of employes at the Baldwin Bocomotive Works to-day is 7,800. On May 1. 1913, the num ber employed was 17.200. These fig ures indicate tile effect of the in dustrial depression on labor. Bald wins is not alone affected but other establishments have largely re duced their working forces. Again, we note the following in this week's issue of the Black Diamond, the official organ of the coal trade: What lias been to the business men a sense of uneasiness for some months lias ueveloped into a sense of depression. The uneasiness over our foreign complications has dis turbed our trade abroad and re flected upon our trade at home. Uneasiness over the trend of legis lation at Washington has brought caution into our construction pro grams and has slowed down busi ness at home. Also, the change that is gradually and slowly taking place in the banking system has brought about caution on the nart of the banking people with the re sult that money is tight. All of this caution and conservatism has been a little too much for business men who have been accustomed to go ing at a rapid pace. Business gen erally has slowed down. Only one railroad is reported as being in the market for coal this week, and it took only 25,000 tons. Only one other railroad was reported as be ing in the market for contracts im mediately and it was demanding- a sharp reduction in price as the only inducement which would lead it to buy now. The steel trade is dis posed to suspend shipments on coke rather than place orders for new supplies. Yet our Democratic friends, led by Secretary Redfield, have "the face" to tell us that the country is prosperous, that "legitimAte business" has not been disturbed by the Wilson Adminis tration, that all the Democratic legis lation has been stimulating to trade and that the Underwood tariff law is a good thing for both employer and employe. If these things are true won't the Democratic statesmen at Washington tell us what in the name of good times is the matter? Things must do pretty bad at Wash ington when that Prince of Disturbers, William Randolph Hearst, cries enough and demands respite from the legisla tive attacks on business. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF IT is interesting to note the simi larity of comment on conditions now and just previous to the Mex ican War. For instance, how nearly the words of President Jackson in his address to Congress at that time describe the situation to-day. Said the President: "The length of time since some of the injuries have been committed, the re peated and unavailing applications for redress, the wanton character of some of the outrages upon the property and persons of our citizens, upon tho offi cers and flag of the United States, in dependent of recent insults to this government and people by the late extraordinary Mexican minister, would justify in the eyes of all nations im mediate war." He accordingly recom mended reprisals, enforced by the use of the navy, in case Mexico shoud re fuse to settle "upon another demand • • * made from on board one of our vessels of war on the coast of Mexico." Truly history does repeat itself. But in this Instance it has failed lament ably in the White House end of th» Job. I EVENING CHAT 1 Two such days as Saturday and yes terday make the call of the flowers pretty strong and thousands of people of this part of Pennsylvania spent hours admiring the blossoms in the yards of the cities and towns and walking along country roads or into mountains and valleys. Nature is sing ing now and the flowers of every .hue are the notes which tell that it Is Spring throughout the Susquehanna Valley and that the time for visiting Wildwood Park and the First Moun tain is at hand. For weeks arbutus has been in the markets, having come with the dandelion but now the violet is carpeting the roadsides and the fruit trees are gorgeous with their flowers of white, pink and that reddish tint, which we hail, apple blossom. It is really worth while now to take an hour or so in the early evening to go on one of the trolley lines radiating from the city to get the air of the open country and to see the splendor of the pledges of fruitfulness which are to be lound by the thousands throughout this part of Dauphin county and which can be seen from the city brightening the landscape of Cumberland and York counties and even distinguished in Perry county from the heights of Keservoir LI ill or the slopes of the Susquehanna Water Gap. The people who took walks into the country came back yesterday with their hands laden with violets and, it must be confessed, with some branches of flowering ap ple, pear, plum or peach trees. But no one begrudged them. The season is late and everyone is glad to see tho flowers. While some of tho gardens in Har risburg which have been notable for years for their displays of tulips and other early flowers are brilliant with i ho colors ot the great bloom of Spring time, Capitol Park is really the great show place. In front of the building, skirting the plaza, are two beds of tulips, an aggregate of about 400 feet of blooming tulips. They are in six sections, red, white and the gay red and gold of one of the varieties which has won such favor in this country. The colors alternate and the Capitol officials arc taking a big pride in the display. In addition the several hya cinth beds are now bright with flowers and a walk through the Capitol will repay tho busy man, just as will a stroll through Reservoir or Wildwood Parks reward the man or woman with more leisure. School students took advantage of the tine weather on Saturday after noon to go "botanizing." No doubt there was a good bit of attention paid to the flora of such sections of Dau phin and Cumberland counties as were visited by tho groups of students, but the boys and girls seemed to be as glad ot the opportunity to get out into the open after the long weeks of the deferred Spring as to trace the de yelopmniit ot th© hujmble "johnny jumpup or to dissect the blossom of a sour apple tree. Probably to-day there was a pood bit of learned discus sion ol various leaves and iiowers "dis covered" on the foothills and inquiries about the soldier blackbird and the habits of the song sparrow in the schools of the city, and it is to bo sin cerely hoped that next Saturday will be lino so that the study of nature at first hand and in the flower tide niuv be pushed. It is good practical edu cation and the teachers maintain school spirit amazingly by excursions. On only commences to find out how many fruit trees there are in a city like Harrisburg at this season of the J ea V'i trees, resembling gigan tic blooms of snowball bushes, are to be seen rising from many of the yards of the city and the delicate color of the peach trees is to be "spotted" by the younger generation. Really, when one thinks of it it is astonishing the number of fruit trees in the built-up portions of Harrisburg and. flowering fruit trees are to be found in unsus pected number within a few blocks of the C ourthouso mid how upricots j?row not far from one of the. chief theaters and a man in one of the central resi dential districts cultivates strawber ries, which, by the way, are blooming now. Magnolia trees throughout Harris burg are adding to the attractiveness of nature's dis play and there is noth ing more attractive for a lawn. The wonder is that there are not trees of this notable beauty in the parks. Some Of the magnolias are well known, one being on the Keily property at Front and Reily. Although fifty years of age, if is covered with blooms, and is perhaps the finest of the variety in Harrisburg and the country round about. I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE*"! —Congressman Robert E. Lee, who is figuring in Democratic news, used to be a smithy. —Lieutenant-Governor Reynolds and Secretary Ilouck have birthdays one day apart. The Rev. C. H. Woolston, promi nent Baptist minister, has created much talk in Philadelphia by a ser mon in which he criticised William"J. Ryan. —Cyrus H. IC. Curtis, the publisher, has sailed for home from Europe —The Rev. Dr. M. H. Stine cele brated thirty-one years as a Lebanon pator yesterday.. —George A. Clark, former post master of Bloomsburg, rode 13,000 miles on his wheel last year. OUt FLAG "MADE IX ENGLAND" [Philadelphia Bulletin.! Sentiment sometimes deserves rec ognition and public opinion will en dorse the plea of Congressman Rogers to Secretary Daniels that the bid of English manufacturers for the bunting contract of the navy be rejected and tlie American product used, even If at a higher cost. The contract amounts to but $40,000 a year, the difference in the bids cannot be of great importance, and although it is of no material con sequence where the cloth is woven, the sentimental interest involved will greatly overbalance the paltry saving which might be made in the accept ance of the English bid. And oven though it be fully consist ent with the party principles which the Secretary of the Navy represents to buy in the cheapest murket of the world and to disregard the interests of higher-paid and better-circum stanced American labor in patronizing the product of foreign workshops and mills, it is to be remembered that its free trade program does not hold ukase from a majority of the voters and that there is little or no reason to believe that protection, reasonably adjusted, has finally been abandoned or that it soon shall be. Certainly this administration cannot afford to'have its flags tagged "Made in England." IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph of, Mav 4, 1864.] P. R. R. GIFTS TO ORPHAN'S The Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany has donated $50,000 to the State, for tho orphan children of soldiers and sailors. SHAD 25 CENTS EACH The price of shad are declining This morning the species of fish named could be had from 25 to 35 cents a pioco. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DIMMICK COMES TO CITY FOR VISIT Candidate For Senatorial Nomina tion Will Spend the Night in Harrisburg LEE JOLTS THE REORGANIZERS Gitt Goes After Reorganizer Brod beck in the York Adams Dis trict again J. Benjamin Dimmick, former mayor of Scranton and candidate for Repub lican nomination for United States sen ator, will be greeted by many Repub licans of Dauphin and Cumberland counties at the Senate Hotel this aft ernoon and evening:. It will be Mr. Dlmmlck's only visit to Harrisburg in the course of his campaign and it is expected that many Republicans will extend a welcome to the man who was mayor of Scranton and who is making his light striStly inside party lines. Mr. Dimmick will arrive from Phila delphia about 3.30 and remain at the Senate until evening. Owing to the death of Lyman D. Gilbert, a dinner which had been arranged for Mr. Dim mick will not be given. Mr. Gilbert was Deputy Attorney General under Mr. Dimmlck's father, who was Attor ney General in 1873, and there was a strong friendship existing between them. While here Mr. Dimmick will be a guest of Thomas T. Wierman. To-morrow Mr. Dimmick will go to Gettysburg and thence to Chambers burg and McConnellsburg on Wednes day. Thursday ho will be in Bedford. Friday in Somerset and Saturday in Uniontown. When Mr. Dimntick fin ishes this tour he will have visited over half of the counties of the State. The final week will be devoted to mass meetings in large cities. H. N. Gitt, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the York-Adams district, lust night made an attack on Con gressman A. R. Brodbeck, in which he makes serious Brodbeck charges against the con- Assailed greasman. These charges at Home are contained in a letter sent to Brodbeck and made public by Gitt. Gitt asserts that the congressman is unlit to represent the people of his district for the rea sons that while sheriff of York county he overcharged the county for feeding prisoners and that during the cam paten of Messrs. McClean, MeSherry, Ktese.v and Zeigler, Democratic candi dates for Con Kress, Brodbeck used his influence against them, and in several instances did so in response to Repub lican influences. Gitt says he will pro duce documentary evidence to prove his charges. Brodbeck is very strong with the reorganization faction. A special dispatch from Altoona says: "Enrollment just completed in this city with that of the country dis trict of Blair county shows conclusively that Republicans many voters are getting (iuiniiii; in back to their former Blair County political faith and neither Washington nor Socialist parties will poll much more than 5 per cent, of the vote which they cast here in the re cent past. The Blair county voters, particularly Republicans, are aroused to the importance of the offices to be tilled this year and from all indications a big vote will be polled at the ap proaching primaries. It is conceded that practically the unanimous Repub lican vote of the entire county will be accorded Martin G. Brumbaugh, com ing from the neighboring Huntingdon county, for the nomination for Gov ernor. In the Democratic fight the sentiment here appears to favor Michael J. Ryan, of Philadelphia, over his opponent, Vance C. McCormick, for nomination. In the United States senatorship contest it is manifest that Senator Boies Penrose has gained wonderfully in strength throughout this section. Congressman Robert E. Bee, one of the conspicuous Democrats in Con gress and the man who was hailed as a possiblo candidate for Governor a year ago, has stirred up Democracy by Lee Comes asserting that he favors Out Openly Ryan over McCormick. lor Ryan "1 am convinced that the only hope of Democratic success in Pennsylvania in November depends on the nomination of Michael J- Ryan for Governor," said he. "I would not now offer an opinion if I aid not foel that the success of our entire party ticket, local, state and national, is in grave danger. Our party in Pennsylvania lias the Uest chance it has had in more than a generation to achieve a sweeping victory in Novem ber, provided ordinary horse sense is exercised and a broad, conciliatory spirit shown in the election of candi dates. I have of late been in touch with many sincere Democrats from many sections of the State, men who want nothing more than the glory of sharing in the victory that is possible, and they are of one mind as to the means by which that victory can be won." Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, candi date for the Republican nomination lor Governor, has written to the Child Labor Association: "X think you will find me in entire accord and sympathy with the thing in which you believe most earnestly," in reply to the Child Labor Association's questions as to his stand on a Juvenile eight-hour law and prohibiting employment of anvone un der 1G in night work. Senator Penrose begins the second week of his Western Pennsylvania tour to-day. With Pittsburgh as his head quarters he will visit Woodlawn, Rochester, Reaver Palls and other points to-day. To-morrow he will bo in Pittsburgh and on Wednesday in Butler, the following days being spent in industrial centers around the Smoky City. I POLITICAL SIBEUGHTS —"Billy" Wilson's letter appears to have created excitement only in Mar ket Square. —Congressman Palmer's candidates for senatorial and congressional nomi nations in the "home district" appear to be having a hard time. —And Kaufman seems to be just walking away with Prizer. —The Pa-Mc League will not open a branch in Steelton, all reports to the contrary being a mistake. —The McCormick caravan headed for Carlisle, Shippensburg and points south this morning. —Snyder county's Democratic com mittee met Saturday and played foxy by pledging support to the winner at the primary. It would not endorse anyone. —Wonder what the Dauphin Demo crats would do if they met. —Ryan last night predicted for the fifth time that he would clean up McCormicfc. —Congressman Lee was one of the men the reorganizes delighted to honor until he began to think for him self. —Senator Penrose will bo in Pitts burgh and vicinity all week [ OUR DAILY LAUGH ) I'aed Itf T often wonder "Let's see! The who those fellows first State in are that loaf which women got around watching a chance at law- a new building making was Colo- going "P --rado, wasn't it?" Easy. They are "No- thev ifot men who start out their 'first chance J 1 ™ morning to at law-making in look for f fO l k a "} d the state of matri compromise by mony/' looking at it. In a Bad Way Fame is easier s „i * ll ® to gain than it trouble, old man. used to be. T si a , Yes. but It isn't "n TO™ so lasting. nights thinking about my work. Then, when I'm at work, 1 keep K ° inK Sl '"