6 HARSISBURfi TELEGRAPH Established llji PUBLISHEET BT THB TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE, Pres't and Treas'r. P. R. OYSTER, Secretary. 6US M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published evsry evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, lit Federal Square. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story m Brooks. Western Office, 123 West M*dl»on street Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at sir cents a week. Mailed to aubscrlber •t SB.OO a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg as second class matter. 1 1 /fK The Association of Amor- ( 1 'i |a|l|a| icaa Advertisers has ox- / Uyif amined and certified to i I tho circulation of this pnb- / i lication. Tho figures of circulation i 11 oontained ia tho Association's re- < | 1 1 port only are guaranteed. i Assadatiw ef American Advertisers ; > i No " 33 _ WMtel '*" 1J ' ■won dully average (or the month ol May, 1914 Average for the year 1913—21,877 Average for the year 1912—21,175 Average for the year 1911—18.881 Average tor the year 1910—17.498 TELEPHONES! Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 104#. United Business Office, 203. Editorial Room 586. Job Dept. IIL WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 24 FINISH THE WORK NOW that the public work of the summer Is In full swing is it unreasonable to hope that the. City Planning Commission, co operating with the Department of Parks and Playgrounds, will quickly finish the negotiations for the remain ing stretches of the parkway, so that this Improvement may be completed during the year. Only a few links are In dispute, and as there Is no longer any question as to what must be done, It would seem to be the proper move to at once accept the donations of those generous property owners who e tendered the rights of way through their properties and then proceed in proper legal fashion to take over the remaining sections which cannot be purchased without con demnation proceedings. So much has been accomplished quickly and without fuss and feathers by the old Board of Park Commis sioners, and likewise under the pres ent park administration, that it ought not to be necessary to further delay In bringing about a complete adjust ment of the remaining points of dif ference between property owners and the city. As a matter of fact, there will al ways be controversy and always more or less objection to any of the factors in the city's development; but progress can be made nevertheless, and there is nothing now in the way of going ahead with what is necessary to be done to complete the parkway oval. The only stretches in dispute are those between the present terminus on the road near the Almshouse and Wild wood Park, and these links are not continuous. Superintendent of Parks Taylor and the gentlemen of the City Planning Commission are in touch with the de tails and about all that Is now neces sary Is the pressing of the button and the closing up of the whole matter. Paxtang as a borough is simply an other step toward its final merger with the city. Let us hope that in all its de velopment the new borough will con form with the water and street lines of the eastern section of the city which it adjoins so that in the future there may not be Involved unnecessary expense in taking the new town into the city proper. TAKE YOUR PICK PRESIDENT WILSON admits that hard times do exist, but says they are "merely psychological." Congressman Palmer says there are no hard times and that the coun try is prosperous. By which we are to judge that Mr. Palmer's massive intellect is imper vious to the subtle suggestions of psy chology, or that one or the other of the two doesn't know what he Is talk ing about. THE RIGHT OF PROTEST THE press and the public have clamored against President Wil son's objection to the petition ing of Congress and himself for a cessation of business-affecting legis lation. And the President again ex plains. What he resents, he would have it appear, is the cumulative pro test by the public in the shape of form letters. But why? Does he question the integrity and honesty of purpose of the men who sent them? What other inference can be drawn? Whether the petition he drafted by the signer or by another is of little consequence so long as the petitioner is willing to stand sponsor therefor. But President Wilson objects. Amer ican citizens must not annoy him with wholesale protests against his plans —they must be silent, and. In the in terim, the Administration and its stal warts in Congress will jam through Administration legislation, regardless of its effect upon business. The public, however, will not be throttled for long. Next November it will be dictator once again, and the master will indicate to its minions that it will not longer tolerate abuse of the scepter of power. Nowhere can this be more effectually car ried out than In Pennsylvania. A. Mitchell Palmer may be the hand- WEDNESDAY EVENING picked candidate of the Administra tion for Senator from Pennsylvania, but the voters will say whether by his election the Administration shall be strengthened In its defiant stand, or whether, by his defeat, this shall continue to be a government "of the people, by the people and for the people." Recently some Important improve ment has been made on the Llngles town Road between Harrlsburg and Paxtonia. This has been done by the State Highway officials and the few stretches that have been repaired have aroused much favorable comment. One of the worst stretches along that entire highway is through the town of Pen brook, where there Is now being dis cussed a movement to have the street paved with brick from one end to the other. No other town contiguous to Harrlsburg is so much in need of high way improvement, and It is expected that the borough on the eastern edge will go right ahead with the work. PENROSE AND PALMER HE has his enemies and his faults and the ordinary shortcomings of the average man in public life, but Senator Botes Penrose is not a hypocrite nor is he an op portunist or a four-flusher. Ho is not a player to the galleries nor does he fondle his phylacteries while placing upon his own brow a halo and unctu ously thanking the Good Lord that he is not as other men. He is, in short, just a hardworking statesman, who believes in common sense admin istration of public affairs and no fur belows. That's why he gives his Democratic antagonist, one of the White House twins, this belt between the eyes: The revulsion has set in. The people are dissatisfied with the Democratic party, its policies and Its acts. They are displeased with the business situation and the pros pect. They want protection and prosperity and they are turning to the Republican party to get It. I tell you the Republican ticket in Pennsylvania will be elected by a plurality of -more than 100,000. There are 100,000 Democrats in the State who will vote the Republican ticket this Fall. Protection and prosperity will be the battle cry in Pennsylvania, as It will be throughout the country. My Democratic opponent, Mr. Pal mer, says there is a twin Issue, the national administration and its policies and Penroseism. I accept his challenge. I cheerfully will account to him and to every other' voter of the State for each and every act, vote and speech of my public life. But Palmer cannot escape. He, too, must make a public account ing of his acts. Palmer Is a boss and the manner In which he has mismanaged the Democratic party is a matter of serious concern. The Democratic ticket was made up at the White House and sent to Penn sylvania to be endorsed by the Democratic voters. And the man ner of making the Democratic platform was just as objectionable. The voters of Pennsylvania are wide-awake now. They may have been asleep at the switch two years ago, but no gong will be necessary to get them to the polls next November. It's going to be a Republican sweep. IjOOK THE TOWN OVER j EEING Harrisburg" ought to be the next important stunt of the Chamber .of Com- merce. This good old town has been booming along so quietly during the last few months that many of our own people fail to realize what progress is being made in many direc tions. Even the public Improvements which are now under way are well worth an automobile tour of the city, but these are not the only points of interest. Much has been done in the way of new building and new Indus tries and enlargement of old plants. And these things all Indicate the con stant development of the city. Those who do not get around as they should will be astonished when they have pointed out to them in some definite way just what has been achieved here during the last few years. HAIR-TRIGGER MEN SOME light is thrown on the so called "massacres" of the Col orado mining camps by happen ings in Butte, Mont., yesterday. During a battle there waged between warring factions of the miners' union three men were shot, one killed and attempts made to blow up a hall and to dynamite a mine. Officers had to interfere to keep the two antagonistic factions apart, and Charles F. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, fled town to escape the anger of seceding union miners. When members of the same union try to murder each other it is not difficult to understand how the Col orado strikers —who resemble closely in general character those of Montana —provoked the National Guardsmen and deputy sheriffs sent in to preserve order, for most of these militiamen and officers were recruited from much the same type of hair-trigger men as the miners themselves. TIIE NORTHERN CENTRAL LEASE THAT the lease of the Northern Central Railway to the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company, which has been approved by the State Public Service Commission, will work no injury to the minority of contend ing stockholders is very evident from the fact that yesterday the stock, with par value of SSO, sold at $127 In Wall Street. Northern Central for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1913, showed net income of $1,865,068, equal to 8.82 per cent, earned on the present $19,- 342,550 capital, or more than enough to pay dividends. On a capitalization of $27,079,600, It will require $2,166,- 368 annually to pay the dividends. The property has been kept up to the usual high standard of the Pennsyl vania Railroad and If the rise in value of the shares counts for anything there Is no question of the ability of Northern Central to earn the guaran teed dividend on the Increased amount of capital. AN EVENING THOUGHT Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your reputa tion, for It Is better to be alone than In bad company.—George Washington. I EVENING CHAT I Dr. Carson Coover, who has been pursuing his medical studies in Europe for several months, will return home about the end of June. He has been writing a series of most interesting letters to his father, Dr. F. W. Coover, and these letters constitute a rather complete study of the customs and characteristics of the Europeans. He says the European hospitals are con ducted on a somewhat similar basis as those in America and have changed greatly in character within the past ten or fifteen years. Many of the hos pitals are now the finest In the world, especially those In Munich and Vienna. His observations upon the clinics of the hospitals which he has visited are o£i special interest to the medical fraternity and there Is no doubt that he will be heard with In terest by his brethren of the profession when he returns home. He says every thing is supplied in the German hos pitals with a liberal hand and nowhere are there signs of enforced economy. This same apparent disregard of cost Is shown In another way in the loca tion of the city's hospitals, which are often ideal, being situated even in the large cities in a park, and all having been given plenty of room, so that there are well-kept lawns and flower beds between the buildings. Dr. Coover was much impressed with what he saw at Heidelberg. He says the air of the place Is quite demo cratic. He spent some time in Ger many visiting the ancestral home of tho Coovers and In looking up some ancient records. At one railroad sta tion he saw from the car window a firemen's parade "that was exactly like our own." Some time was spent by the Harrlsburg tourist in Paris, where ho visited the hospitals and other places of special Interest to the phy sician and surgeon. He was particu larly pleased with tho train rides through France, owing to the flowers and well-kept places along the way. He says the ride across France was the fastest one he had on the conti nent, but was not unpleasant, because the roadbed was well laid. He also says "the ride to the hotel was excit ing, for the streets of Paris are more congested than any I have ever ridden In and the taxi-auto drivers are more daring." Speaking of his Paris impressions, he says: "The street scenes here are characteristic. Vienna and Berlin are poor forced imitations, the first being the more successful and less forced. Dress and facial makeup are every where evidenced and one sees morn good appearing (!) women than In any other city. The men do not keep pace in dress or looks." One of Dr. Coover's observations, which will be interesting to the shoe manufacturers of Harrisburg and else where, Is "that the only good looking shoes in Europe are from the United States." He concludes his last letter with tho suggestion that he has man aged to get around the city of Paris without any trouble, but will be glad to get to the country where they can speak the language. Colonel P. C. Boyle, the Oil City editor and dean of the members of the Board of Public Charities, who was here yesterday, has almost entirely re covered from the fall he received in Philadelphia last winter. Ho broke one of his arms and was badly shaken up. The colonel, who Is well on in years, rode to the Capitol yesterday in a cab. He was charged 50 cents for the ride and asked if it was not rather steep. He was told that it was the rate of that line and that the other line cost a quarter. When the time came to leave the Capitol In the heat the colonel asked an attache to order him a cab. "Please get the cab here so that I can get away when the hear ing ends," said he. And then he added: "Be sure to make it one of the 25-cent kind. I'm going to encourage competition." According to State Zoologist Surface there have been a number of Inquiries made lately as to the best remedies for potato blight and judging from tho number and widespread nature of the inquiries there must be a large acreage planted In potatoes this year. Some of the inquiries also come from districts where potato raising has not been carried on extensively. This is the time of the year to take precau tions against the late blight, the dis ease which causes the leaves to turn black and the potatoes to rot in the bins. There is no remedy for this blight once It gets started, but it can be prevented. The work on the construction of the annex to the federal building is at tracting much attention from people who visit the city and it is a subject of remark the care being taken to provide for the insertion of the steel beams which are to carry the weight of the oil structure where it will join the new. One of the men in chargo explained yesterday that the granite required the utmost care in handling to avoid splitting and that the stones taken out had to be kept in good order to be used again. A number of people on Capitol Hill will learn with regret of the sudden death yesterday at Chester of Thomas M. Entwhistle, of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Mr. Entwhistle was here during a part of the legislative session of 1913 and took a great in terest in Harrisburg municipal affairs He had been editor of the Chester Times and was later city editor of the Ledger. { WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 John H. Fow, the Philadelphia legis lator, celebrated his sixty-first birth day yesterday . —M. Hampton Todd, former Attor ney General, will sail for Europe within a few weeks. —Dr. J. H. VanLennep, dean of Hahnemann for many years, has re tired from that position. —C. S. Belsterling, attorney for the industrial roads in the Public Service hearings, was formerly in the Car negie steel traffic department. —John H. Landis, retiring head of the mint, used to be in the State Sen ate, where he was an active member from Lancaster county. I [From the Telegraph, June 24, 1864.1 FIGHTING STILL ON Washington, June 22.—The steamer Thomas Powell arrived at noon to day from City Point. She reports that considerable fighting has been going on in the direction of Petersburg since Monday, and when she left City Point at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, heavy cannonading was heard there. ATTACK WHITE HOUSE Washington, June 23. Yesterday morning at 4 o'clock Thompson's rebel cavalry, with artillery, attacked the White House and continued the as sault till halfpast four in the after noon, the date of the latest dispatch from there. Our loss had not exceeded two or three in killed and wounded. "No. IS Washington Square," by Leroy Scott. Houghton, Mifflin coun ty, Boston, publishers. $1.35 net.- A rollicking account of a society leader's attempt to keep her presence in New York a secret. Handsomely illustrated. HARRIBBURG TELEGRAPH GUILLOTINE WILL BE PUT INTO SERVICE Reorganization Bosses Will Chop Off the Heads of the Phila delphia Committee ONLY ELECTED BY PEOPLE The City Committee Declines to Stand For the Hand Smoothed Platform The Inside ring of the Democratic State machine is getting ready to chop off the heads of the members of the Phiadelphia Democratic city commit tee, which has refused to accept the platform put out by the bosses with out the State committee having passed upon it. This action is contemplated notwithstanding the fact that the city committee was elected by the Demo cratic voters of Philadelphia. Rumors that the guillotine was to be erected within a few days, perhaps for a Fourth of July celebration, reached the city to-day. The Democratic wind mill in Market Square was fluttering over the report that the State execu tive committee would be called to con sider charges by John M. Hill, who lost his fight for a seat on the com mittee, to act on a request that a new city committee be organized for Phila delphia. Just how the State execu ti\e committee, which professes to be guided by the will of the people, can decapitate a city committee elected by the people is one of the things which dees not bother the bosses. State Chairman Morris, who is angry at the rejection of the platform by the Philadelphia men, is quoted as saying: "The indorsement of the State ticket was to be expected from a Demo- How Bosses cratic committee. I re- Will Chop gret, however, that the Off Heads city committee did not see fit to approve the party platform indorsed by a large majority of the Democratic voters of the State, but judging from the pub lished reports the matter is still open and I have every confidence that a Democratic organization will without doubt indorse l'ully the Democratic platform." Reorganization leaders in discussing Mr. Morris' statement declared that it would be possible for the State com mittee, under Its new rules, to utilize the failure of the local organization to approve the platform before the elec tions as an excuse for removing Old Guard members from their seats in the Philadelphia committee. They contended that charges of "disloyalty" could be submitted to the executive committee, consisting of Chairman Morris, ex officio, and the twelve di vision chairmen of the State. Under the rules, it was further claimed, the executive committee would have power to act. The fact that the State com mittee "authorized" its special com mittee of nine to co-operate with the candidates in preparing the platform, they declared, made the issue of prin ciples the official party declaration. The Philadelphia Press of to-day says: "Expulsion from the party coun cils of the Democratic city committee, in which the Old Guard faction is dominant, may be the answer of What Papers the Democratic State Hay About committee, • in which the Ruetlon the Keorganizers are supreme, to a move ment which has local encouragement for the organization of an independent Democratic party. Factional feeling has grown so among Democrats that each side looks on the other as trai tors to simon-pure Democracy. Har mony at the polls in November is practically impossible." The Ledger says: "Despite the re fusal of Democratic leaders in Phila delphia to predict the outcome of the trouble between the so-called Old Guard faction and the. Palmer-McCor mick following, there was a general feeling yesterday that the party would split wide open in the coming cam paign by the local option plank in the State platform. Speaking at Washington, Senator Penrose said about the prospective campaign in the State: "I propose to fill as many speaking en gagements during July and August as I am able Penrose to. I have a great many Talks of invitations and it will not Campaign be possible for me to ac cept them all. When the campaign opens in September, after the meeting of the State committee and the adoption of the platform, county chairmen will be arranging with the State chairman for speakers, and all the candidates will be out upon the stump. Dr. Brumbaugh and I will appear together at a number of meet ings, and the other candidates will form campaigning parties that will ad dress the voters in all parts of the State. "It is yet too early to make definite plans for the battle, but you can take U for granted that there will be no dull moments. The Republicans will have speakers out all over the State, ready to meet every issue and to make issues of.our own." The resignation of ex-Senator John H. Landis as superintendent of the Philadelphia mint has stirred up the animals in the reorgan ization menagerieand there I are a number of patriots Everyone demanding that the $4,500 Sits Up Job be given to them. Nowadays Dr. Horace Hoskins, who had some adventures as a member of a State board, is believed to be the "high card," but the friends of Senator J. T. Nulty and W. H Belcher are insisting that they be rec ognized. It is expected that the ap pointment will be announced very soon, as the "Big Four" considered it at the conference this week. Whoever gets the appointment will make the others mad and add to the fuss in Philadelphia. Ira J. Mosey, the Bull Moose county chairman, will lead a brave little band of Progressives to the conference at Pittsburgh the latter part of the month. The Moosers For a while there was Won't Have talk of chartering a Special Car special car, but when It was learned that the Colonel was not going to take an active part in the campaign and would only appear at the confer ence for one speech this scheme was given up. Dr. J. H. Kreider, the can didate for Congress, plans to attend and there will be a handful of others. Colonel W. F. Pascoe will be in charge of the Cumberland delegation and the men from York, Lebanon, ■ Berks and other counties will gather here. They will not go in as much state as they went to Chicago two years ago. Victor Murdock, Bull Moose leader In Con gress, has declined to attend the con ference. FULL BATHING SUITS IN THE JERSEYS [From adv. in Montclair Times.] Ladies' bathing suits of the moat exquisite style; made of wool, brllllan tlne silk and other materials. The full outfit consists of shoes, hat and rubber hand bag. All sizes. ( OVR DAILY LAUGH ) Sorry He Spoke The doctor said A Slow Crop that I must take Reggy Yes, plenty of exercise. I'm trying to raise He advised me to a moustache, and do a lot of walk- I'm wondering ing. what color it will Sensible advice! be when it comes I hope you will out. follow It. Peggy Gray, Yes. But I need I should say, at a new walking the rate It ap dress. pears to be grow- Dangerous to the Widely Chosen Diaphragm "I wonder what Jack Keggie makes June sucn Imagines that he a popular month he ii? a lady killer. for weddings." Ruth Well, "It gives the he isn'tfarwrong. present buyers six We girls almost months to recover die laughing at from their Christ hlm. mas shopping." OFFICER, HE'S OUT AGAIN Hy Wing Dinger There he goes again, the villain, Twenty times to-day, my path He has crossed, and each time spoken Words that call forth all my wrath. Every time that I have seen him I have summoned all my strength To be calm, but, gee, my patience Now has gone to its full length. Hold me, lest I do him damage, I can't help now what I do— Quick, take hold, he's going to say It, "Is It hot enough for you?" IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph. June 24, 1864.] FIREMEN HOIJ) PICNIC The Citizen Fire Company had the picnic of the season yesterday. It was largely attended, and is said to have been the most orderly and respectable gathering of the kind held this sum mer. PHEW! By reference to the head of our local department it will be observed that this has been one of the warm est days of the season. POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS I —There does not seem to be any more "complete harmony" in the Democratic camp in Philadelphia than there is in Harrisburg . —The Philadelphia, mint appoint ment will be anything but fragrant for some Democrats. —The mint bids fair to become a bono of contention. —Register Sheehan and Receiver of Taxes Kendrick, elected on the same ticket in Philadelphia last Fall, cele brate birthdays to-day. —Chairman Christy, of the Alle gheny Republicans, is well pleased at the outlook. —Pinchot is busy making early morning visits to Philadelf>hia indus trial plants. —Philadelphia Bull Moosers will have a dinner to-night to boost inter est in the Pittsburgh meeting. ROOT'S SERVICE A NATIONAL ASSET [Philadelphia Public Ledger] It will be a national misfortune should Senator Elihu Root refuse to be a candidate for re-election. Were he to become a candidate and be de feated it would prove a lamentable commentary upon the capacity of New York State to govern its affairs with credit and put at the same time a stigma upon the whole nation. TWO TREATIES [New York Sun.] The proposed treaty with Nicaragua should be ratified. We gain something What does this say? It says: "Shorthand is time wasted." It's un necessary. &CcsLOJJL-« to t£a— /9^itcZ^c^ And your stenographer writes letters all day long without one minute spent in making pencil marks. Reach for your m telephone and JL \ M. ask for a dom- Agency at jloseph (fiolhsmtth 206 Walnnt 209 Locust St. nUMCAKTUf MB 1 SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES . JUNE 24,1914. J**v /«#"