PANORAMIC VIEW OF TRACT OF KEYSTONE STATE FAIR AND
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CO. HIS PLMIS
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Large signs hearing the announce
ment of the purchase as a fair site and
the date of opening as 1916 were
erected to-day.
H. J. Hamme, who Is a wholesale
wall paper dealer of Harrlsburg, sec
retary of the fair company, said that
the corporation has been going along
in a very modest way since its or
ganization last winter and had not
intended to make public its plans at
this time, but had deemed it best to
do so following many inquiries since
the increase of the capital stock re
cently to $1,500,000 and numerous
rumors as to its purposes.
The officers of the company are
William Albright, of the American
Book Company, Camp Hill, president;
C. D. Stewart, general sales agent of
the Abbott Motor Car Company, treas
urer: H. J. Hamme, secretary, and A.
T. Stewart, Pittsburgh, for fifteen
years manager for the Deering Har
vester Company, general manager. It
was said that Mr. Stewart will short
ly take up his permanent residence in
Harrisburg and devote all his time
to the fair company.
Mr. Hamine's Statement
Following the meeting Secretary
Hamme gave out the following state
ment:
"The Keystone Company is incor
ated under the laws of the State with
a capital of $1,500,000. It was or
ganized last winter and has been op
erating very quietly in order to com
plete its negotiations. It is now ready
to begin the actual work of develop
ment.
"Surveys have been made for the
construction of a two and a half mile
automobile speedway, inside of which
will lie one mile and half-mile horse
race courses. Plans are also under
way for the erection of a grandstand
to seat 60,000 people, together with
fireproof auditorium, buildings for the
display of all manner of farm pro
duce and manufactured products, gar
ages and machine shops, stabling for
1,000 horses. 1.000 cattle, 800 sheep.
fiOO pigs and thousands of chickens,
ducks, geese, dogs, cats and pet stock.
The proposed buildings contemplate
an estimated expenditure of $750,000,
and almost if not quite a million and
a half will be invested eventually in
the enterprise.
"The fair is to have its own filter
plant and pumping station. Telegraph,
telephone, electricity, gas, trolley and
railroad service are already on the
ground.
"We will not depend for revenue
alone on two weeks of annual fair
exhibition, but will have an automo
bile meet in the Spring and automo
bile, poultry and other shows and
conventions in the winter.
"The first fair will he held in 1916,
the management finding that it will
he impossible to carry out its build
ing program before that time and it
does not want to open the exposition
until everything is complete and it
so on a large scale.
* Harrishurg Central Point
"Harrishurg was selected for the
fair because of its central location,
the United States Census Bureau
figures showing that 18,000,000 peo
ple reside within a radius of 300 miles
of the city. It is one of the most
easily reached points in the United
States. The ground purchased was ,i
part of the old Camp Meade site in
the. Spanish-American war days and
was later used for farming purposes
by the Heinz interests of Pittsburgh.
"For many years efforts have heen
made toward the organization of a
great State fair for Pennsylvania. The
State is wonderfully behind hand in
this matter, Ohio, Indiana, New York,
Oklahoma. Kentucky and almost all
of the more Important States have
their fairs and expositions. It has
remained for the Keystone Company
to round out the project and make it
possible. •
Carefully Considered
"This State fair idea has not been
entered upon without careful con
federation of its every phase. Those
back of it know that Pennsylvania,
the Second State in the union, should
have and Is amply able to support such
a fair and exposition as we propose to
give it. We know that the modern
fair must exploit the science of agri
culture, that it must he educational
and inspirational, and above all else
interesting to the masses who will he
Its patrons. The fair as we plan it
will appeal to young and old of both
the town and the country. In fact it
will be a big family affair and will
provide in a most generous way for
the edification and pleasure of women
and children as well as men.
"Four hundred and sixty thousand
feet of floor space will be allotted
for exhibits of agricultural, horticul
tural and floracultural nature. There
will be displays of fruit and vege
tables and livestock will play an im
portant part in the exhibits. There
will also he a Grangers' building and
It is hoped to induce the various
Granges to make collective exhibits
for substantial cash prizea
"We will arrange for the building
of a two and a half mile speedway
and automobile racing will he one of
the big features of the exhibitions.
This will be designed by experts.
"We also hope to have an automo
bile meet of national importance once
each year, and to give the manufac
turers opportunity to meet on com
mon ground for the testing of their
machines we will have a machine shop
and ample storage facilities adjacent
to the big track. We have not for
gotten horse racing and have provided
for a mile and half mile track, with
rmple stabling facilities. Farm ma
chinery will be one of our principal
exhibits.
'lndeed, everything is "being done
that can be done to give Pennsylvania
what it has'long needed, a big State
fair. All that we want Is the support
of the farmers, manufacturers and
business men in general."
Mi"' Hamme said that the company
will have ample financial backing to
carry out all its plans. He said that
so far as possible all of the prelimi
naries have been worked out and that
everything has been done systemat
ically. A. T. Stewart, who has gone
to Pittsburgh on business for the com
pany, saiij before leaving: "This is
a new company and a big one. It is
natural that the people should be in
terested in it. We understand this
and shall he glad to have anybody
caring to take the trouble to visit us
TUESDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JULY 7, 1914.
at our headquarters In the Kunkel
building and go over our plans with
us. It Is going to have a State-wide
appeal and I feel that we owe it to
the public to take it entirely into our
confidence. We have been moving
quietly in this matter but along,defi
nite lines and with a very clear un
derstanding of just what we can and
cannot do to make this project suc
cessful and profitable. None of the
stockholders hope to get rich quick,
but those who havcwlready put their
money into it expect certainly that it
will be reasonably profitable. We
make this assertion after a very care
ful study of what other fairs have
done and are doing."
Mr. Stewart said, in reply to a
question as to whether the promoters
of the enterprise hoped to get aid
from the Legislature:
"That is a matter that has nothing
in common with the company. We
have not taken it Into consideration.
At all events we would not be in posi
tion to ask the Legislature for an ap
propriation until we had demon
strated our ability for some years to
handle successfully this proposition."
Mr. Stewart further said that dur
ing the coming Fall the streets on
the fair ground will be laid out, trees
planted and other preliminary work
done. During the winter it is the
I plan of the company to have fair an"d
exposition experts of national repu
tation design the buildings so that
contracts may be let in the early
Spring and work started as soon as
the frost is out of the ground.
Asked whether it was true that sev
eral prominent Pittsburghers are in
terested in the fair, Mr. Hamme said
that announcement of the company's
directors will be made In a week or
ten days and that the board will num
ber among its members at least one
well-known Pittsburgher, one Phila
delphian and others representing
every important agricultural and
manufacturing section of the State.
Convicts Make War
on Old Demon Rum
Philadelphia. July 6.—Out of a total
of 1,478 prisoners confined in the East
ern Penitentiary 1,008 have signed a
petition which will be submitted to
the next Legislature asking State-wide
prohibition.
The petition is probably the strong
est sociological argument ever made
against the liquor traffic. Without a
word or even a suggestion from War
den McKenty the prisoners confined
signed their names and in many in
stances volunteered to go before a leg
islative committee and tell how drink
has wrecked their lives.
The vote was taken on Independence
Day and was made public to-day. On
each petition was an appeal to make
Independence Day memorable by sign
ing the petition.
"It Is unique and the most manly
document ever sent from a penal in
stitution,'' was the terse comment of
Warden McKenty last night, "It Is an
appeal to the decent men serving in
the Legislature to come to the aid of
unfortunates confined in this institu
tion. Seventy per cent, of the pris
oners claim that their dawnfall is due
to rum. It is certainly a wonderful
argument against the liquor traffic."
HAVE YOU A 65-NOTE PLAYER.
PIANO?
Don't miss this week's sale of 1,000
standard rolls at 10 cents, 15 cents and
20 cents each. J. H. Troup Music
House, 15 South Market Square.—Ad
vertisement.
STEEL CO. CHEMIST WEDS
William Floyd Geary and Miss
Bessie Alma Royer were married at
11.30 this morning In the Ridge Ave
nue Methodist Church by the Rev. J.
H. Daugherty. The ring ceremony
was used. Mr. Geary is a son of Mrs.
Sidney Geary, of 1513 Penn street, and
Is employed in the chemical laboratary
of the Pennsylvania at
Steelton. The bride is a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Royer, of New
Bloomfield. They left on a honeymoon
trip to Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Niagara
Falls,- and upon their return will livo
at 1513 Green street, Harrlsburg.
Letter List
LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN
the Post Office, at Harrlsburg, Pa., for
the week ending July 4, 1914:
.. Ladles' List Miss Mame Bard. Miss
Maggie Bell (D. L), Miss Lillian L. Bit
ner. Mrs. C. O. Bressler, Mrs. Harry J.
Brown, Miss Mamie Brown, lionise
Burkhnlder, Mrs. I'. Courest, Miss Helen
Dean, Sister Delila, Mrs. Fred Depew
(D. 11), Mrs. A. L. Ferrandon, Elizabeth
Gross, Miss Ethel Hamilton, Miss
Blanche Harvey, Mrs. Jessie Hetrick,
Mrs. Kathrine Heyne, Miss Mary John-I
son, Miss Florence Lutz, Mrs. McClure,
Mrs. Thriza Meissenhelter. Miss Cora
Moles, Mrs. C. G. Myers, Mrs. Pauline E.
Pope, Irene and Emma Raffensberger,
Miss Margaret Reneker, Mrs. Arttuir
Robinson, Miss Clara Sheesley, Mrs.
Henry M. Sherman, Mrs. Louise Sher
man, Miss Betty Sherwood, Minnie H
Shoemaker (D. L.), Mrs. Addie Snyder
(2), Miss Sadie Stare, Rena Stauffer (D.
L), Miss Bird Steen, Mrs. Maggie
Stryker, Mrs. David Vaughne, Mrs. Liz
zie Zerby.
Gentlemen's List Hersha Allen (D.
L), R. L. Allen, J. Anderson, M. Baker,
Mr. Bastlne, Isaac Beck, Joshua Bell,
Milton Bretz, James Brown, George A.
Devine, H. B. Doherty, J. L Dorris, Jr.,
Lee Dorsey, Thomas Earhart, Pat Ell
wood, G. R. Eppley, M. L. Feehrer, Rev.
M. Forster, Wilson Forster, Harrj
Goodyear, J. H. Greenell, Warren D.
Grove, Charles Grunden, Harman Ham
maker, Alfonzo E. Harris, J. Harris, A 1
Hood, Abe Hoy, Orvid Jolianson, A. Jo- i
seph, Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Keck and
Family, Robert. Koons, Dr. Uukelhouses
Korol, Chester M. Llckel, Ralph Logan,
John C. MfCarrell, Robert Mcßride, B.
B. Miller, H. H. Mitchell, Clarence Mor
ris. M. B. Nan. H. T. Patterson. Chas.
D. Perk (D. L), W. C. Peck. G. S. Pet
ers, Mr. and Mrs. H. I). Pettlt. D. Eeßoy
Reeves, Harry Rose, M. C. Sexton, Ed
win Fonder Smith. John Stahl, J. Her
vey Sternberg R. C. Wadrtell, Charles
Washington, Edwin Nelson Watson (2),
Wm. Weise, George A. Winkle (D. L),
James Wright, Samuel Wylie, G. W.
Tompson, Walter Turner.
Firms —Bingham & Thornton (2).
Harrlsburg Hive, No. 257, Manor Real
Estate and Trust Co., Premium Supply
Co., Superintendent Special Certificates
Dept. Congress.
Foreign DlLutus Donato, M. S. T.
Dunbar, Jakob Grill.
Persons should invariably have their
mall matter addressed to their street
and number, thereby Insuring prompt
delivery by the carriers.
FRANK C SITES,
Postmaster.
SIMM POOH
DIES IT HIS HOME
Eventful Life of Old Organ Builder
Comes Suddenly to a
Close
MUBL . .WLM
BWBk '■
SAMUEL POORMAX
While sitting quietly at his home,
211 Boas yesterday at 5.30,
reading the evening paper, death came
suddenly to Samuel Poorman, a vet
eran organ builder of this city. Mr.
Poorman had not been ill, and just a
few minutes before had ordered sup
per from his housekeeper. Miss
Stober.
On June 7 he celebrated his nine
tieth birthday. He was hale and
hearty, a great reader, and loved to
tell of his experiences in the navy and
discuss important topics of the day.
Mr. Poorman was born on his
father's farm —now the Stauffer farm
—beyond Shoop's Church, June 7,
1824, entering the United States navy
at the age of 18 as a ship carpenter,
on the frigate Cumberland, which
soon after sailed on a cruise to the
Mediterranean Sea. He was transfer
red to the United States sloop of war
Plymouth and honorably discharged
from the navy in 1847 at New York.
lie then came to Harrlsburg and
followed his trade and cabinetmaking
for several years.
January 30, 1850, Mr. Poorman was
united in marriage with Miss Eliza
beth Stees, who died in Harrishurg
October, 1907, after a wedded life of
fifty-seven years. At the breaking out
of the Civil War they removed to New
iVork. where Mr. Poorman worked at
'church organ building and repairing,
for which he always had a natural tal
ent.
Built Many Organs
In 1899 Mr. Poorman was called to
Harriaburg to overhaul the organ at
St. Patrick's Pro-Cathedral, which had
been damaged by fire, and he also
enlarged and repaired the Calder Me
morial organ at Grace Methodist
Church.
He has since resided here with his
daughter, Miss Ressie E. Poorman,
who with her sister, Mrs. S. E. Thomas
of Palisade Park, N. J„ and three
grandchildren survive him.
Funeral services will be held Thurs
day afternoon at 2 o'clock from
Shoop's Church, in which Mr. Poor
man was christened and confirmed,
with the Rev. John Henry Miller, pas
tor of the Holy Communion Lutheran
Church officiating. The pallbearers
will he all relatives, S. A. Fishburn,
S. D. Fishburn, Ilenry Stees, Calvin
Fishburn, John Poorman. L. E.
Thomas and Charles Schell.
CHILD DIES
Dorothy Gladys Ulrich, three-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Ulrich, 724 Ash street, died at noon
to-day of blood poisoning following
an operatipn for appendicitis. The
funeral will take place Thursday aft
ernoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Henry
Hanson will officiate. Burial will be
made in Harrlsburg Cemetery.
RETIRED RRAKEMAN DROPS DEAD
Philip Stlmmel Updegrove, who was
a retired Pennsylvania Railroad brake
man living with his brother, William
C. Updegrove. at 120 State street, died
last night with heart disease in the
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. He
left here yesterday for a visit to Bal
timore. and returning, reached Phila
delphia at 7 o'clock. He was sent to the
Hahnemann Hospital, hut was not alive
when the body reached there. The
body will be sent here to-day. and the
funeral will take place Thursday after
noon. at 1:30. Services at the home
will be in charge of the Rev. Harry B
King, of Paxtang. former pastor of
Calvary Presbyterian Church, this city.
Burial will be made In the East Harrls
burg Cemetery.
FUNERAL. OF ABRAHAM nOAK
The funeral of Abraham Boak, pio
neer ironworker, will take place from
the home, 122 Verbeke street, Thursday
afternoon, at 3:30. Burial will be mae'e
in Harrlsburg Cemetery.
"Perils of Pauline," 7th episode,
Wednesday at the Photoplay.—Adv.
WHY NOT DANCE AT HOME?
The Vlctrola furnishes perfect
dance music, and you can easily own
a Vlctrola on our liberal credit plan.
J. H. Troup Music House, 15 South
Market Square.—Advertisement ,
FEDERIL RULES
ABE CRITICIZED
State Game Commissioners Hear
Report by Dr. Kalbfus on
Game Regulations
Members of the State Game Com
mission are in session to-day discuss
ing the game propagation work for
the coming half year and the effect
of the federal regulations regarding
the shooting of wild fowl. The com
mission has before It an elaborate re
port by Dr. Joseph Kalbfus. secretary,
in which he says that the closing of a
number of counties in the central part
of the State to deer hunting has re
sulted in an increase of deer and
brought about good prospects. The
commission secretary also says that
in his opinion the liberating of elk
in A wild state was a mistake. The
project of having game farms is criti
cised as not possessing the advantages
of the system of gnme preserves In
which game is protected at all seasons
of the year and allowed to breed nat
urally.
The question of federal regulations
is to be given much consideration as
it is held that the rules promulgated
are not what they should be. Dr.
Kalbfus to-day urged that sportsmen's
ideas should be given some considera
tion in framing rules Inasmuch as the
sportsmen are paying liberally through
the hUnters' license act.
Much of Dr. Kalbfus' report is de
voted to consideration of establishing
a game farm wherefrom the fields and
forests of the State may be restocked
with animals and birds. "Because of
State laws forbidding the shipment of
game, either living or dead, out of
almost every State in this Union," says
Secretary Kalbfus, "it is now impossible
to secure game birds such as quail and
wild turkeys even in limited numbers
for propagating purposes." Dr. Kalb
fus takes the view tnat not only must
the State be stocked with game under
ordinary circumstances, but that it is
due the hunters who pay the $1 tax
and that the licensed hunter who de
lights in pursuing quail, for instance,
ought to find this quarry just as much
as the deer hunter ought to find deer.
Ruffed grouse have wintered well
naturally notwithstanding deep snows
and cold. "Wild turkeys have, because
of help given them- through the dis
tribution of food .by this office and by
sportsmen, wintered well" and the
supply of wild turkeys is greater than
it would have been if last year would
have been an open season for these
birds. Dr. Kalbfus finds that "quail
have almost entirely disappeared from
certain sections of the state. In other
sections of the state, through the care
given them by this office and sports
men, many birds have been saved, but
not enough to supply good shooting
during the coming season."
The commission proved that turkeys
can be raised in semicaptivity by rais
ing sixty on the Perry county preserve
last year. Half of them retreated into
the woods and could not be captured.
About twenty were set free in Frank
lin, Northampton, Lehigh and Clinton
counties, while ten or more were kept
on the Perry county preserve and are
now propagating. A number of wild
turkeys were also raised by the com
mission on the Ligonier preserve, but
none were distributed from that point.
Dr. Kalbfus has "very serious
doubts" about the possibility of raising
quail In captivity and from ob
servations which he has made at the
preserve of the American Game Pro
tective and Propagating Association at
Cape Core, Mass., and at the New Jer
sey state game farm on Barnegat Bav
he doubts the feasibility of raising
them in semicaptivity. He says that
rather than attempt to raise quail on a
game farm a greater number of birds
can probably be obtained for the same
amount of money by leasing hunting
privliegea on certain farm lands and
giving the game Increased protection
from vermin and by giving them feed
when necessary.
Information about Hungarian quail
and ring-necked pheasants differ!,
widely and Dr. Kalbfus is unable to
obtain any very encouraging data
about raising these birds anywhere in
the United States except in a few
isolated spots and he knows of no
place In Pennsylvania where any suc
cess has been attained.
r>r. Kalbfus says that if the commis
sion decides to Introduce more game
into the state it will be better to pur
chase mature game, either birds or
animals, tlfan to attempt to raise the
same on a Karne farm in this state
"and that the methods already adopted
by the Game Commission are the best
under all the circumstances except for
quail. In order to increase the num
ber of quail some other method must be
devised. He recommends that a game
preserve such as now exists on forestry
reservations in six counties should
be established in every county, for th<»
State owns sufficient land. The ex
periment of re-establishing elk in a
wild state, which was Started in Clear
field county, is not an unqualified suc
cess, particularly because the dis
position of the elk to raid the farmers'
grain fields. The elk which were
brought here from Wyoming, however
seem to be increasing slowly.
Fayette, Somerset. Westmoreland
Cambria, Jefferson, Clarion, Forrest
Warren and Chester counties have been
closed to the killing of deer for a
term of years under the act of April
2!>, 1913. and ninety-eight deer from
the Mosser preserves in Clearfield
county have been raised In Fayette
Somerset, Cambria, Westmoreland and
Jefferson; It is expected to put deer
into the other four counties next fall.
The deer from the Mosser preserve
were obtained on credit through the
intervention of Colonel H. C. Trexler
of Allentown, as none of the hunters 1
license tax money was available, and
Dr. Kalbfus recommends that early in
the next session of the Legislature an
appropriation be made to pay this bill
and also to pay for such other game as
it may be necessary to purchase and
to pay for feeding birds for next win
ter, If it should be a severe winter
Funds were limited last winter so that
Dr. Kalbfus could buy no food for
birds except to be distributed By the
employes of the Game Commission,
but he says many sportsmen them
selves bought grain and fed the birds
Dr. Klbfus sets forth at some length
the troubles which have arisen over
the national regulations controlling the
killing of migratory birds, especially
because the regulations applying to J
Pennsylvania and New Jersey are dif
ferent, and he expresses the belief that
a satisfactory adjustment will soon be
made. Dr. Kalbfus' opinion is that
the troubles have arisen because scien
tists have been charged with drafting
the regulations and enforcing the law.
Dr. Kalbfus concludes his report as
follows:
"To summarize, game in Pennsyl
vania, with the exception of quail,
seems to have Increased during the
past year and I believe we have more
gfme of various kinds at this time
than we have had for years in Penn
sylvania.
"The deer released In the several
counties that have been closed to the
hunting of deer appear to be doing
well.
"Because of the disposition of elk
to wander far and to destroy growing
crops. I consider the releasing of elk
In Pennsylvania to have been a mis
take.
"The effort to raise same in cap
tivity In various sections upon what
are known as frame farms does not
appear to have been rewarded by the
desired measure of success and it
seems me that our method of rais
ing game in its wild state upon sanc
tuaries whereon additional protection
is accorded through the extermination
of vermin and in other ways is the
true solution of this problem.
"I believe for various reasons that
hunting is a national necessity; that
because this is so it Is the duty of the
State to supply to the fullest extent
possible lands whereon men may hunt
without running against trespass no
tices. and also to supply game of vari
ous kinds to be hunted..
"I believe it Is the duty of the State
to bring hunting as near to the home
of the sportsmen as is possible. How
this Is to be accomplished is nn open
question.
"1 believe our laws relative to hunt
inc should be fair and reasonable and
uniform and that sentiment should not
be given undue consideration in mat
ters of this kind. I believe that sports
men are better lltted to draft game
laws than are scientists or any other
class of men. Sportsmen in Pennsyl
vania to-day are not paupers, but are
supplying the money through which
protection Is given not only to game
but to song and insectivorous birds,
and the sportsmen's ideas should be
given consideration in matters of this
character. I believe that through the
unfair and arbitrary regulations formu
lated by the committee of three at
Washington concerning seasons for
game that more harm has been done
to the cause of protection to migratory
birds than could have been accom
lilished in any other way and by any
number of men in the United States,
and It seems to me that what has been
done now is but the beginning of the
trouble that will come to sportsmen
from this source."
Business liocals
USED PIANOS AND ORGANS
The more new pianos and player
pianos we sell, the more used pianos
ind organs are taken In exchange as
part payment. These Instruments are
thoroughly overhauled so as to give
excellent service. We have a number
of these on hand now that will be sold
at exceptionally low prices. • Yohn
Broe., 8 North Market Square.
A CHEAP BICYCLE
r.-.ay cost you twice as much as it is
worth in up':eep. The Flying Mer
kel Is the most up-to-date bicycle in
the market. Each part entering into
the construction is made in their own
factory where the - jst careful atten
tion is given to every little detail.
Keystone Supply Co., 814 North Third
street, bicycle repairing and electrical
fans.
YOU'D PICK VP $3 OR SIO?
We are offering you a special reduc
tion of $3 to $lO on a custom-made
suit or overcoat? It's real money sav
ing while the value continues to be
sewn Into the garments as before. Be
tween seasons we are obliged to sac
rifice profit in order to keep our ef
ficient working force busy. George F.
Shope, the Hill tailor, 1241 Market
street.
GROWING FEET
Of children require special care in
summer. Light weight, cool and com
fortable footwear should be selected,
pur white canvas shoes for children
at sl. $1.25, $1.75 and $2 are the most
dressy as well as comfortable shoes
for the summer days. Deichler, Thir
teenth and Market streets.
WHERE SHALL I GO?
To the Victoria, of course! When
you are strolling around aimlessly and
have no particular place to go and
nothing of importance that needs im
mediate attention, step into the Vic
toria Theater and see the humor,
drama or scenic attractions of the
world. The new films first and always
the best at the Victoria.
TO BE A WELL-DRESSED MAN
be a Slmms man. It is the tine atten
tion to detail that makes the Slmms
custom-tailored garments stand out
among all the rest. It is the rersonal
time, attention and supervision that
Simms gives to the building of a gar
ment from the choice of a fabric to
the finished product that win favor
with "men who care." 22 North
Fourth street.
"BERKEY & GAY
Tho mark of quality in furniture.
When you see a piece of furniture
with the name of Berkey &
Gay In or en it, you know that It is
produced by the firm that made Grand
Rapids famous as a furniture city
and the greatest producers of furni
ture of the better sort. On display
at Goldsmith's, 206 Walnut and 209
Locust streets.
TOO MUCH STARCH
If your negligee shirts have too
much starch in them they will be un
comfortable on hot summer days. This
is one of the things we try to give
especial attention to; Just enough
starch to give the shirt a proper ap
pearance consistent with cool and com
fortable wearing qualities. For good
laundry work try the Troy. Either
phone brings our wagon. Hoffman &
Schooley.
THE HAPPY PAINTER
Will be pleased with his job when he
comes and finds that you have ordered
the famous Davis paints from the
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priation section of the act, as super
sedeas and thereby prevent any pay
ment of money was presented to the
judge this morning.
Thomas A. Crichton, cashier of the
State Treasury, who appeared for the
petitioners, claimed that constitutional
questions affecting the auditing system
of the state and involving millions of
dollars should be settled befo.'i :;,e
fiscal officers should be required to
make payments as directed by the
court in passing on the act.
Bell Makes Charges
"What is this grave constitutional
question that has heen so much talked
about and never argued?" demanded
Mr. Bell, who recalled that the con
stitutionality of the act was not dis
cussed in the hearings. He contended
that the act specifically appropriated
the income from automobile licenses
to highway purposes just as a bequest
of "all" of the estate of a decedent was
valid without specifying an amount.
Then he said:
"It is conceded that the State roads all
over the commonwealth for which the
State is responsible are in a condition
that jeopardizes life and limb and per
sonal property. The Highway Com
missioner has been haled to the bar of
courts for neglect when it is not his
neglect. He can't repair roads if the
fiscal officers refuse to pay the money
he requires. There is a public de
mand, a demand all over the state,
that the roads be put In safe con
dition."
Pointing out how the fiscal officers
had blocked the determination of the
question they had raised, he said that
their conduct had bordered on official
contumacy and that the application
bordered on an "Insult to the Intelli
gence, dignity and orderly adminis
tration of affairs of the people of the
state."
"Now," said Mr. Bell, "after the
Supreme Court has adjourned for va
cation they have the legal effrontery,
the temerity, to come with an appeal
that cannot he argued until fall. It
will be the eve of winter before it can
be decided. King Frost will possess
the earth and the time for road mak
ing will have gone by. The highways
are, bad now. What will be their con
dition then?"
Resorted to Delays
The Attorney General said that the
records showed tbat Young and Pow
ell, lawyers themselves, had lawyers
at their eblows and had resorted
to legal subterfuges and technical de
lays. Speaking on the situation with
regard to roads, he said:
"The action of these officials is
against the welfare, Interests and
safety of eight millions of people
whose money has gone into the Treas
ury, been specifically appropriated by
the Legislature and whose mandate is
defied. The highways are intolerable
and will be impassable soon. It Is a
living disgrace to the state that the
highways are forced to remain a men
ace to the safety, life and limb of
every one who travels on them."
Mr. Bell said that those who drew
the act appropriating the auto income
foresaw political conditions when they
provided that the Auditor General was
required to pay to the Highway Com
missioner requisitions on the fund and
he pointed to the present holdup as an
instance of how an Auditor General
might paralyze the arm of the State.
Mr. Crichton contended that if the
officers were required to pay and a
supersedeas refused it would compli
cate matters and that in the event of
an adverse decision recourse might be
made on the bonds of officials. He
said that there was danger of elimi-
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natlng the State's whole auditing sys
tem.
Deputy Attorney General W. M.
Hardest closed by saying that tha
Auditor General and State Treasurer
were very zealous to have sustained
the anthracite coal tax, which con
tained an appropriation provision simi
lar to that to which they objected In
the automobile license act. In the
coal tax act the half of the tax is to go
to coal-producing counties.
When Judge McCarrell asked Mr.
Crichton to discuss the grave consti
tutional questions he declined to do so.
The judge gave Lower Merlon town
ship, Montgomery county, right to In
tervene in the case because its roads
.ire suffering from want of care and
its commissioners want a decision. No
action was taken on the application
for a supersedeas.
Hell's Tnrt Answer
The answer of the Attorney General
sets forth in detail the "dilatory tac
tics" employed by the defendants in
their conduct of the case. The ans
wer states that the defendants do not
allege that they have conducted the
case with promptness or vigilance and
further says:
"As a matter of fact, as the records
of this court show, these defendants
have or one of them has interposed,
contrary to an agreement made with
the Attorney General's Department,
every conceivable obstruction and
technical objection possible to the
determination of the sole constitu
tional question involved in the case."
The Attorney General then recites
the provisions made by the Legisla
ture for the appropriation of moneys
derived from registrations and license
fees of automobiles and drivers for
the purpose of construction, mainte
nance, improvement and repair of the
highways of the State and asserts that
the present suit was "instituted for
the purpose of determining whether,
when the Legislature 'specifically ap
propriated' certain funds for road
purposes, that constituted 'an appro
priation made by law' within the
constitutional provision, the petition
ers having said that they considered
this a doubtful question."
Million Hold Up
Pointing out that the funds thus
appropriated have been collected and
now. to the extent of well over one
million dollars, lie in the State Treas
ury; that the roads have fallen Into
disrepair and In many cases are In
dangerous condition and that, if the
funds are not available within the
immediate future, not only will the
repair expense become much greater,
but also there will be injuries to per
sons and properties arising from the
bad condition of the roads, the answer
then asserts that there is no question
but that the State Highway Commis
sioner intends to apply these funds in
a proper manner.
The answer then, to emphasize the
nature of the hold-up, sets forth a
brief history of the litigation thus far
over the fund, as brought out in the
trial of the case. This resume recites
the effort smade by the State High
way Commissioner from February 17
to the present time to force the Audi
tor General and the State Treasurer
to honor requisitions drawn on the
automobile funds. The delays and
evasions of the Auditor General and
the State Treasurer are fully set forth
with dates.
Additional evidence of procrastina
tion are set forth in the answer where
in it calls attention to the fact that
the Dauphin county court decided
against Messrs. Powell arid Young on
iine 8 and that no appeal was taken
until June 24, more than two weeks
thereafter, although it was well known
that the Supreme Court would meet
on June 30 and might have heard the
case at that time if an appeal had
been taken promptly.
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