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The Greatest Clearance Sale of
MEN'S CLOTHING
in Central Pennsylvania
SOMETHING NEW FOR US TO CUT CLOTH
PRICES IN HALF BUT WE HAVE A BIG
STOCK AND IT MUST GO. KKBSMJ
EVERY SUIT IS PERFECT IN STYLE, W 'lf|
THE FABRIC IS RIGHT, THE FIT IS iW Iglr
EVERY SUIT BEARS THE LABEL O
SIO.OO Suits Now $6.98
$12.00 Suits Now SB.OO
$15.00 Suits Now $9.98 /k
--SIB.OO Suits Now $10.03
$20.00 Suits Now $12.00 XJL
$25.00 Suits Now $15.00 \
$30.00 Suits Now SIB.OO
Some S3O, $35 and S4O Suite Marked Do wn to $lB jj
iCt m t|,<;n y ° u d ° n ' l p ay> " Ca " v 'A——
»/' J lln i we be fairer ' eßpecia,ly ' •i 'X
*ll Tr', '\ ' /
J{9 Quality and
" Kampus Clothes" •
I Willlif ■ It *^* B " not a " ra ' B ' n 8 sale" but a "room making sale" and the oppor.
l I'IIIII a tunity we offer to open up 500 new occounts with 500 new customers. Old cust-
I I If » omers need no solicitation. They know where they are treated best.
// I ¥ || If we had not 76 stores we could not offer such a sale as this of high grade
/ill I \ clothing at the price of "sweat shop suits".
*lf Refrigerators—-Go-Carts, and Ladies'
IjjiJ [ I Suits and
jP Own Price—
H«me Gately & Fitzgerald Supply Co. Family
Furnishers 29-31-33 & 35 South Second Street Clothiers
OUR LOCATION MEANS A aRE AT SAVING TO YOU
Business Locals
COTTLD IF TRKY WOULD
There are scores of tailors who
could please you If they would, just
as there are mechanics who can make
a good job if they want to. But indif
ference or carelessness may be the
cause of some misfits you have had,
and not lack of ability. Our constant
aim to please accounts for the patron
age wo enjoy of men "who care." A.
J. Simms, North Fourth street
YOUR POSTAGE BILL
Is Just as great for poorly printed and
cheap imitations of letters as it would
be for letters that look like the orig
inal typewritten one. Furthermore, a
Icheaply gotten-up letter is like a
elouchy-appearing personal represen
tative —he doesn't make the proper
Impression. Weaver fac-simile letters
llook as good as your own original,
iphone Bell 677, 25 North Third street.
A BATH ROOM
to be complete must have the neces
sary equipment such as towel bars
and racks, tumbler, soap and tooth
brush holders, bnth seats, medicine
cabinets and mirrors. We have a good
assortment of different styles. E.
Mather Co., 204 Walnut St., plumbing,
I mill and automobile supplies.
FRTDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JUNE 19, 1914.
Columbia Boy Poisoned
by Eating Roots in Woods j
Special to The Telegraph
Columbia, Pa., June 19. Joseph i
Dostcr, a 10-year-old boy, residing at j
1 Lititz, this county, while on a ramble
In the woods with a few companions, ]
ate a poisonous root in mistake for j
licorice root, and upon his return '
home lapsed into unconsciousness, j
The family physician was at first un- <
able to disaKnose the case, but after ]
hearing of tho ventures of the boys, •
concluded that the lad had been pois- ]
oned by eating roots, which was the J
. cause of his strange illness.
Letter List
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LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN j
• the Post Office, at Harrisburg, Pa., for s
, the week ending June 13, 1914:
Ladies' List Mrs. A. Arney, Mrs. ]
' Clara Barbour. Mrs. Betty Beckes, Miss
Edna Brown, Mrs. May Campbell. Miss ,
Mamie Cassell, Mrs. Ella Davidson.
Miss Halen Dean, Miss Gertrude Dicker- ]
son, Mrs. Frank Erkfeldt, Mrs. Carrie \
, Eckles, Mrs. V. S. Evans, Mrs. E. Gill,
1 "" '
CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Bears tne -
Jhe Kind You Have Always Bought Slgn o a t ture
Miss Roberta Griffith, Miss Elizabeth
Hayes (2), Miss Carrie E. Howe, Mrs.
Harriet Jones, Mrs. M. Kleiser, Mrs.
Alice B. Lord, Eva M. McCohn, Miss
Edna McCreary, Margaret Mickey (D.
D, Miss C. E. Miller, Miss Ethel Mil
ler, Miss Annie Pearl, Ida Putt (D. D,
Mrs. Delia Rynolds, Mrs. Henry Stein,
Mrs. John Taylor, Miss Edna Watts,
Mrs. J. W. White, Miss M. Eulalia Wil
liams.
Gentlemen's List Mr. and Mrs. R.
B. Anthony, Samuel R. Anthony, Loreto
Antonoiole, V. E. Balloon, John
Billett, A. L. Black, W. S.
Brown. Jusef Budzisreski, W. L
Donmoyer, John Fleshman, P. Ford,
Samuel Fridy, C. E. Harmlll, Walter M.
Harman, Twity Harris, C. M. Holmes.
John Jannory, John Johnson, William
H. Keenportz, Nathan Klmmelman, Jo
siah King, P. M. Long, George Mer
chant, George E. Messic, Walter Moran.
J. D. Morgan, Earls G. Mor
ris, George K. Newbery, Wil
liam Oliver, E. M. Ruch, J. Percy Ruth
erford, J. Schemnerger, H. A. Schmoll,
Grant Shade, Leroy Slichter, Edwin
Fonder Smith, Homer Smook, A. Sny
der, Robert Stauffpr, Lee Stuart, S. G.
Sturge, Henry Taylor, Dave Thompson,
John S. Tieger, Daniel Togans, Lewis
Townsley, Eugene Trayor, Mike
Walker, H. E. Wassen, Dr.K. D. Werley,
John L Zeller,| Henry Zilk.
Firms Crow Indian Medicine Co.,
Harrisburg Demonstration Co., Ormis
ton-Dlck Co.
Foreign Rev. E. Breeze, C. T. Dun-
£r ar (4 »V £ hlli P Hcarn. Miss E. M. Lewis,
Mr. McCoy, G. Meyerowitz, Polvie
Ts°s"iF ■ *®' ster Peter Quealy, Henry
Relltas Maunrer Sesbostlan, Donato D.
Tonin, Mitni Zdrengye, Zan Zurawskl.
Persons should invariably have their
mall matter addressed to their street
and number, thereby insuring l prompt
delivery by the carriers.
FRANK C. RITES,
_ Postmaster.
SEE lOCRSELP IN THE MOVIES
Harrlsburg Telegraph Pictorial
showing the complete Flag Transfer
parade at the Photoplay to-day and
Saturday.—Advertisement.
ALBRIGHT-TODD WEDDING
Special to The 1 elegraph
Dauphin, Pa., June 19.—0n Wed
nesday the M. E. parsonage at Dau
phin, Pa.., was the scene of a pretty
wedding when Miss Lillian M. Todd
and Clement N. Albright, both of
Christiana, Pa., were united in mar
riage by the Rev. Francis J. S. Mor
■ row. The bride was handsomely at
tired in white and after the wedding
dinner the young couple started on a
wedding tour. The bride is a popular
and efficient public school teacher in
Lancaster county. The groom is a
i young man of sterling ehararter and
was a successful farmer in Chester
county and has now entered into a
new business enterprise in Christiana.
Me is a personal friend of the otllciat
ing clergyman.
BETHELLTELLS
TELEPHONE STORY
Remarkable Testimony of How the
Business Developed in the
State of Pennsylvania
GROWING IS EXPENSIVE
Price of Telephone Service Is
Likely to Increase Because
of Wages and Laws
M, H.BETHELL
Testimony which amounted to a his
tory of the development of the tele
phone In Pennsylvania and an expo
sition of the theory underlying the
wonderful organization of the tele
phone business was given before the
Public Service Commission yesterday
by Frank H. Bethell, head of the Bell
companies in Pennsylvania, it was
practically the close of the Bell's ob
jections to the telephone rate schedule
proposed by the commission and next
September the commission will hear
those who object to the position taken
by the Bell.
Mr. Bethell testified relative to rate
making and gave a brief history of the
telephone business. He has spent
twenty-three years in the business and
during the entire period was connected
with companies with headquarters in
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington. Mr. Bethell said
when the telephones were first placed
on the market the management had
absolutely no Idea of exchange devel
opment. The telephones were rented
with the idea that the renter would
connect his house and store, or fac
tory, and it was not until 1878 that the
exchange idea was developed. Mr.
Bethel brought out that the telephone
companies now do not rent telephones,
but sell telephone service. He also
spoke of the development in New York
city, which in 1890, when he started
as a salesman in that city, consisted
of 12,000 telephones, whereas to-day
there are in service 640,000 telephones.
Really Began in 18!>l
Mr. Bethell then went on to say that
the telephone development as the tele
phone companies know it to-day really
did not start until 1894, with the es
tablishment of measured service con
tracts in large cities. At this time, too,
active selling methods and advertising
were used to aid in the telephone de
velopment. Relative to rate making
Mr. Bethell said that the telephone
companies were sailing in uncharted
seas and that they did not know what
to charge nor what was a proper basis
upon which to charge. When tele
phones were rented the price was S2O
a set, but with the development of the
exchange idea it was necessary to look
about for some basis upon which the
charges could be made. As a matter
of fact. Mr. Bethell stated, there is not
now, nor never has been, in the tele
phone business throughout the country
a uniform rate-making scheme, but
in all cases rates depend very largely
upon very many circumstances which
must be considered before rates are
established.
Taking Altoona merely as a typical
example. Mr. Bethell spoke of the es
tablishment of a telephone exchange
in 1881, when, with a crude switch
board as well as crude instruments,
with service to perhaps 50 other sub
scribers, the rate was S4B for a
grounded circuit. In 1892, when me
tallic service was established, the rate
was increased to SB6; a year later to
SIOO, and in 1898 was reduced to SSO.
In 1899 it was increased to $72 and
in 1909 reduced to S4B, just exactly
the same rate as was charged In 1881
for service with 60 subscribers, whereas
at the present time there are some
9,000 subscribers connected with the
Altoona switchboard. The rates men
tioned were for what Is known as un
limited individual line service.
One mistake that was made by the
early managers, according to Mr.
Bethell, w~s that there was too great a
difference between the individual and
party line rate. The result was that
too many subscribers took inferior
service. In other words, they were
served on party lines, and in very few
cases were there individual lines in
service on account of the great differ
ence in the rate. This resulted in an
unusually large number of busy re
ports being given and consequent poor
service.
How Scran ton Grew
Mr. Bethel! took Scranton aa an
other Instance where the rate for un
limited individual line service was S9O
and then cut to S6O, which might seem
like a drastic cut, but really made very
little difference in the revenue of the
company, for the reason that, although
a S9O rate was quoted, yet there were
very few subscribers at that rate.
When the rate was reduced, however,
to S6O it brought about a large in
crease in subscribers at that rate, and
this, according to Mr. Bethell, is what
has been history of the telephone de
velopment all over the state.
The business and residence rates in
Pennsylvania were the same until
1893, when a residence rate schedule
was set up.
Speaking of the toll line rates, Mr.
Bethell testified that the use of the toll
lines was a matter which required the
education of the subscribers. He said
that there was no systematic scheme
of toll rate making, but that rates
were based upon any number of cir
cumstances which entered into the
case. For instance, it very often hap
pened In the early days that in order
to reach a town ten miles away it was
necessary to make use of fifty miles of
toll line circuit. If a rate had been
miide based upon the use of these fifty
miles of circuit it stands to reason,
according to Mr. P.etheil. that there
would be very little use made of the
service. For that reason it was neces
sary to make a cheaper rate, very
Distinctively Individual
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often below that at which service
could profitably be rendered, but in
order to develop the toll system such
rates were absolutely necessary. While
there is not to-day any systematic
rate making scheme in effect, Mr.
Bethell testified that at the present
time his companies were working on a
scientific method and that they had
hopes of placing in effect before very
long toll rates based upon a systematic
scheme which would mean a reduc
tion in a number of rates and increases
in some others.
Revenue Falls Off
In speaking of the revenue which
the Bell companies in Pennsylvania
have earned Mr. Bethell said that in
1884, with 8,864 stations in service,
the average revenue per station was
s<>9.9l. This went to SBO in 1892, with
16,000 stations in service. At this time
file Bell companies discontinued very
generally the use of grounded circuits
and established in their stead metallic
circuits. In 1896, however, the aver
age revenue had fallen to $77, with
21,000 stations in service; in 1899 it
was $59, with 38,864 stations; in 1904,
$40.49, with 127,042 stations; in 1909,
to $31.67, with 166,195 stations in
service; while on January 1 of this j
year the average revenue per station |
in Pennsylvania was $30.42, with
394.789 stations served by the Bell and
central district telephone companies.
In other words, the average revenue
per station was more than cut in two
since 1892 and at the same time the
number of stations has gone up from
16,000 to almost 400.000.
In speaking as an expert Mr. Bethell
gave it as his opinion that the Bell
companies should earn a gross 30 per
cent, of the total Investment. In other
words, that if the Investment is SIOO
per station, then the average rate
should be S3O per station. He spoke
of tne companies just recently reduc
ing the number of working hours for
its men to eight hours a day. He
spoke of the increased expense on ac
count of the operators' wages in
creased, as well as those rearrange
ments of hours made necessary by the
labor law, and gave it as his opinion
that the expense per station will un
doubtedly increase each year, thereby
making it necessary that the revenue
per station should also increase.
The Bell's president offered in evi
dence an exhibit showing that while
foodstuffs generally have gone up in
price, very many of them increasing
over 100 per cent, in the last few
years, telephone rates have come
down.
Whole State Studied
Mr. Bethell told of having made a
study of every city, town and hamlet
in Pennsylvania in 1908 and 1909 and
as a result of this study the rates
which are now in service were put in
effect. Mr. Bethell, in response of
ex-Governor Pennypacker's question
whether population was considered in
making these rates, said that there
were really five principal elements
which are considered in rate making,
but that they must all be considered
together. These elements he mentioned
as being: First, the character of the
population, whether native or foreign
born; second, the population itself;
third, the valuation of the property in
the area to be served; fourth, the
amount of money in the banks as
showing whether or not the com
munity is prosperous, and fifth, the
area to be served.
Mr. Bethell said that in making
rates the company considered even
how streets are paved and whether or
not the residents of the city plant
flower gardens. This all goes to show
the characteristics of the inhabitants
of the town which is being studied.
Mr. Bethell said that if telephone
rates were based on the cost of fur
nishing the service it would mean hav
ing almost as many rates as there are
stations in service. For instance, if
the man living next door to the tele
phone exchange wanted service it
would cost very little to furnish him
with that service, but a man living
two miles from the central,office would
require the expenditure of quite a bit
of money to furnish him with that
service. Rates must be the same
within certain limitations or it would
be practically impossible to conduct
the telephone business with any sys
tem.
How Rates are Made
Mr. Bethell said that he had been
making rates for eighteen years and
has no formula because there are too
many <}lfterent elements which must
be taken into consideration. "Here is
what I think should be, done," said Mr.
Bethell. "Find out the value of the
entire property, how much you must
earn, and then make rates so that
each community contributes its share,
so that no hardship is worked upon
any one locality or community."
In response to a question Mr. Bethell
stated that in Pennsylvania for the
next thirty or forty years he estimates
that the telephone companies will re
quire from $3,500,000 to $6,000,000 a
year to take care of the new business.
At the afternoon session Mr. Bethell
explained the relations of the Bell
HOURS:
4 to 10 P. M.
Saturday
Evening 1 Market
THIRD AND BROAD STS.
150 Stalls Occupied
50 of them occupied by
Farmers and Truckers. They
all supply your needs in this
evening market.
THE
WEST HARRISBURU
MARKET IIOV.SE
COMPANY
companies with the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company where
by the Bell company leases its re
ceivers and transmitters, as well aa
receives legal and engineering advice
in return for which the Bell companies
pay 4% per cent, of the gross revenue,
after certain deductions. Mr. Bethell
stated that this arrangement was ab
solutely necessary if the companies
were to continue their slogan of "One
system; one policy; universal service."
He told of how the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company comes
to the aid of the subsidiary companies
in times of need and cited as an In
stance his experience as general man
ager of the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company, when, after the
Baltimore tire, a large amount of
money was needed. It was impossible
to secure any aid from banks. The
Chesapeake and Potomac company did
not pay any dividends from 1903 to
1908. But the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company aided the
Chesapeake and Potomac company by
lending them $8,000,000 at 5 per cent,
interest, which brought the Chesa
peake and Potomac company out of
its unfortunate position.
Business L,ooals
"MOTHER, I LIKE THESE"
She referred to the latest Norman
collars and organdie vestees and em
broidered crepe collars on display at
the Quality Shop, 204 Locust street.
Such rare judgment is exercised In the
selection of the newest and most ap
propriate that it seems as If Mrs.
Cranston had an intuition of what one
really most desires.
DO YOU WANT A PIANO?
There is no particular reason why
you shouldn't have one In your home
and enjoy>he same advantages as your
neighboring friends. Our easy-pay
ment plan makes it possible for you to
choose from a wide selection of splen
did instruments ranging in price from
$175 to $450. Why should you delay?
See Yohn Bros., 8 North Market
Square.
THE FLYING MERKEL
Is not an airship, but a high-grade
bicycle with original lines. Built in
a million-dollar factory by men who
have constructed bicycles for eighteen
years, the Flying Merkel bicycle Is a
mechanical masterpiece that is an em
bodiment of all that Is best in these
years of experience. See it at the
Keystone.
GOOD FOR NERVES
A person who is "all In," nerves
overwrought, tired and listless, should
try one of our Percussion Baths. A
small stream of water in control of
expert attendant follows the course of
the principal nerves and blood ves
sels. This bath is very stimulating
and has powerful tonic effects. Health
Studio, John H. Peters, H. D. p 207
Walnut street.
IT'S INSURANCE
Hints to the wise. "The time to
practice economy Is before you have
to." It's your move. The most cer
tain thing to happen is the unexpect
ed. "The time to help yourself to
tarts, Is when they are being passed."
Here's your chance. "Nothing is so
deadly as complacence and oblivious
contentment." Aetna-Essick.
YOUR EYES CHANGE
As you grow older, or your eyes change
for various other reasons; the glasses
you are wearing to-day may not fit
you now no matter how perfectly they
were adjusted when first fitted. When
your glasses do not seem to give the
proper service or your eyes trouble
you, consult Balph L. Pratt, Eyesight
Specialist, 807 North Third street
READY MONEY
A handy thing to have "about, but
not always there when you want It
Even the best of men with good finan
cial rating come to us for small sumi
of money they are In need of tem
porarily. Loans extended at lower
rates, even, than law allows us to
charge. Pennsylvania Investment Co.,
132 Walnut street.