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WEDNESDAY EVENING. FEB. 10
THE BOWMAN ORDINANCE
MR. BOWMAN'S ordinance, hav
ing for its object the removal
of coal wharves from the River
Front to Hardest Island, is a
measure of very commendable char
scter. If passed by Councils, as it
no doubt will be, the River Front will
be freed from much of the clutter
snd dirt that would otherwise mar
the new promenade along the river
wall in the very heart of the city.
The Harrisburg Light and Power
Company, the biggest river coal oper
ator in the city, also has been gener
ous and considerate in the matter, it
having agreed, for certain reasonable
considerations, not only to remove its
wharves from the river wall, but to
pay to the city in coal every year the
equivalent of about $1,140 for the
privilege of using the island landing
places.
Thus Mr. Bowman has devised a
plan which at one and the same time
will remove what threatened to be
come a nuisance along F'ront street
nnd will contribute materially toward
the payment of the city's fuel bill at
■the filter plant. It Is seldom that
such an absolutely worthy piece of
legislation has come before City Coun
cil and no time should be lost in put
ting it through.
The wooly worm having made his an
nual Spring appearance, the early robin
may be expected at any moment.
MOTOR CLUB OF HARRISBURG
THE MOTOR CLUB OF HAR
RISBURG. with a dinner that
was one of the pleasantest af
fairs in the history of that or
ganization, lias rounded out another
year of its activities. The club is
more than a mere social organization,
as is shown by the constructive work
in which it has been engaged. It will
be remembered that this organization
did much toward procuring the im
provement of the river road between
Division street and Fort Hunter and
some of its loss important campaigns
have been designed for the protection
of local highways from broken glass,
to break up the practice of reckless
driving and the proper observance of
road rules.
Those at the head of it have done
a great deal to place motoring on a
higher plane in Harrisburg and to
improve the relations between pedes
trians and drivers of the automobiles.
Much of the hardships which certain
communities have placed in the way
of the unoffending automobilist have
been due primarily to careless disre
gard of public rights by the class of
automobile owners that the Harris
burg club has been endeavoring to
discourage. Because of these efforts
many so-called road traps have been
abolished and a kindlier feeling has
been engendered toward motorists in
general. This is about as good a
service as the club could hope to ren
der. both from the standpoint of the
public and its own members.
Dear Mr. Groundhog: Please do bet
ter. or we will .take sides with the
AVeather Man. who says you are a
Signed. Suffering Public.
I ARRELL OPTIMISTIC
JAMES A. FARRELL, president of
the United States Steel Corpora
tion, is not one of those who be
lives that the country is to be held !
back long from that prosperity of j
which for some months now we have
seemed to be almost upon the thres- j
hold. Indeed. Mr. Farrell is distinctly !
optimistic as to the outlook for the,
coming year. Before a banquet of j
the Engineers' Society of Western
Pennsylvania the other night he said '
that the tide has turned and each day !
records a marked improvement in the i
general situation.
Mr. Farrell hit the nail right on the
head when he said that future pros
perity depends largely upon the co
operation of businessmen, who have
it in their power to bring about con
ations which will result In a larger
employment of labor. He is no theo
rist, and, instead of reading a little
fssay on experimental economics, as
, is now the popular practice, he told
his hearers that, to his mind, the best
way to solve the industrial unrest
about which we have been hearing .so
much recently is by creating work,
by oiling and spinning, and bringing
about a normal circulation in the ar
teries of commerce. This is true. The
problems of capital and labor are not
so widely separated but that they
t depend for mutual profit upon the
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
| employment of the workingman.
Mr. Karrell sees in the business
world of to-day possibilities for Amer
ica of a wider scope than ever he or
any other enthusiastic believer in
the future of this country ever dared
hope. He points out that not only
has America become the banker of
the world, but that it is now the
world's granary as well, and that when
the great war in Europe shall have
been ended, America, of all the na
tions of the earth, will stand with
mills and working forces unimpaired
to take up the great work of recon
struction that must follow this tem
porary period of international mad
ness.
The president of the Steel Corpora
tion is in a position to read the future
as few men in the world are to-day.
Especially is he conversant with the
present state of business. He is not
given to idle forecasts, so that when
he pronounces judgment his utter
ances are to be given more than or
dinary consideration.
The Mayor's thought for the unem
ployed is praiseworthy, but it would
have been much more practical if he
had gone to Council with some definite
pian whereby work might be provided.
As usual, he was chasing the spotlight
so furiously and trying so hard to get
somebody else into a false position
politically, that he failed entirely to
r.iake any recommendations upon which
action could be taken.
'l'm: BINNER INCIDENT
THE suicide of Alvin Binner,
cashier of the SchacfCerstown
First National Bank, points
again the old, old lesson of the
folly of faithlessness to trust.
Indications are that Binner, without
a thought of dishonesty in his mind,
placed himself in a position where
friends were permitted to use the
funds placed in his care for their own
purposes. Of course, at the outstart,
the understanding was that the money
all should be returned and that no
body would be the wiser. That is the
way nine out of every ten of our bank
discrepancies occur. Tt is so easy to
take money from the cash drawer and
so difficult to put it back, l'ossibly
there are those who have done so and
escaped the penalties that so often
follow acts of this kind, but the pro
portion is so small as to be negligible.
"Be sure your sin will find you out"
Is just as true to-day as when first it
was written, and the man who trifles
with the trust placed upon him, or
who borrows from the money of
others in his care, is face to face with
disgrace, a prison cell or a suicide's
grave.
The Natural History Soeietv is to be
heartily congratulated upon giving
Ilarrisburg people opportunity to hear
Sir Douglas Mawson, the noted ant
arctic explorer, tell of his thrilling ex
perience in the land of the eternal
snows and to see the even more won
derful moving pictures he and his com
rades brought with them from the re
gions never before traversed by the foot
of man. It was like being transported
for an evening over the towering
Southern seas and across the great ice
barrier to the frozen continent of the
antarctic, there to live the life of the
explorers, see what they saw and ex
perience everything that they experi
enced save the terrible cold and the
privations of the long marches over the
vast stretches of ice and snow. We in
Harrisburg have never had a lecture
to equal It in interest and we owe a
debt of gratitude to the Natural His
tory Society for its part in affording
the opportunity, which, it is gratifying
to note, the public was not slow to
grc-sp.
THE I/AFOLLETTE resolution
IT is a peculiar fact that while every
body in America has been praying
for peace and hoping for the early j
cessation of hostilities in Europe,
nearly six months were allowed to
pass following the .declaration of hos
tilities before a single move was made
in this direction by anybody. It re
mained for Senator LaFollette to pre
sent to Congress a resolution that
embodies what is unquestionably the
sentiment of every right-minded man
in the nation.
Whatever may be the fate of this
measure, and its author promises to
test the feelings of his colleagues in
that respect at a very early date, the
LaKollette resolution must go down in
history as the first concrete effort in
America toward peace in Europe r.nd
perpetual peace on an international
basis through the good offices and in
strumentality of a "congress of neu
trals."
Mr. LaFollette's measure is so gen
eral in its application and so wide in
its scope that It cannot be accepted in
any but a friendly spirit by even the
most pugnaciously inclined of the
European powers. More and more it
becomes apparent that it is the duty
of the United States to step into the
breach as peacemaker. Whether or
not the warring governments are
ready as yet to accept our proffers in
this respect, our own national in
terests demand that we shall lose no
time in letting them know exactly
where we stand, and that we are
ready and anxious to do what we may
in restoring Europe to a sane and
civilized condition. All of the neutral
nations are in precisely the same po
sition as ourselves and they ought to
enter willingly into such an arrange
ment as Senator LaFollette proposes.
Such a gathering would have plenty
of work to do if it did no more than
deal "with the rights of neutrals un
der existing conditions" with the idea
of working out a "policy for the pre
servation of their own peace."
There can be no chance of any
harm resulting from such an assem
blage and all of the powers that be
in Europe could not but feel the
pressure for peate that such a con
ference of peace advocates represent
ing all the neutral nations would
bring to bear upon them.
Whether or not the time is ripe for
the consideration of international dis
armament, and whether or not ihc
warring nations are ready to quit
'fighting, we in America ought to make
ourselves absolutely clear on this
point—that we stand ready to co
operate now. and at all times with any
nation or nations in any effort to make]
| International warfare very difficult, If
, not altogether impossible, and to that
end the LaFollette resolution ought
j to be passed without delay and the
I machinery put in motion for an early
convention of the kind it proposes.
I EVENING CHAT I
North Tenth street north of Mar
ket resembles a line of coke ovens
these evenings because of the build
ing operations on the big warehouse
of the Emerson-B ran tingham com
pany which is being pushed in spite
lof the winter weather. In order to
keep the material soft and workable
big fires arc built in the sand and
earth and other stuff entering into
the construction. These tires arc built
in cylinders of tin, old boilers, stove
pipes and other things and when dark
ness comes there is a line of flaming
mounds for a block or more. The
workmen keep the fires going until
after 10 when operations are suspend
ed and their activities and the fires
attract much attention. The fires also
have a great attraction for crowds of
boys who gather round and have lots
iof fun helping the men keep them go
ling. The builders are protected by
(large sheets of canvass and have lots
lof electric lights strung along to fur
!nish the illumination for night, the
j effect of the glow lieing seen far off.
During the dav time there are screens
.erected to save the men from the wind
and the snow. The progress on the
building has been rapid and has at
tracted general notice from people
passing in trolley cars. This building
operation has established something
like a record in the city as it has gone
ahead, rain or shine, and the men in
charge have been pushing things at
a rate, that has heen noted by visitors
and by local builders.
"It would liave been better for the
groundhog had he seen liis shadow,"
said a man in market this morning as
lie looked over u stand on which were
the carcasses of three plump, fat
groundhogs all trussed up for the
roasting pan. They are the first to
be seen on sale here for some time.
Nearby, on another stall, were several
opossutus. The man who brought
them in said that "possums" and
groundhogs are unusually plentiful
this winter and that for some reason
they aro unusually fat for this season
of the year.
Congressman W. D. B. Ainey. of
Montrose, who spoke in the hall of the
Mouse last night, was formerly a cap
tain in the National Guard, and it hap
pened that when he was getting out
of Siberia the Russian mobilization was
beginning. He was much impressed
with the enthusiasm of the Russian
soldiers and of the populace when it
became known that England was go
ing' t> join in the war against Ger
many. Mr. Ainey had a narrow es
cape in crossing the Baltic and got out
of Europe through Sweden.
Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh
was last night elected to membership
in the Country Club of Harrisburg
and when the robins nest again he
will take some more lessons in golf
from "Tim" Dinan. the club profes
sional. "Tim" taught the governor
the rudiments of the game on the
Aronomlnk links at Philadelphia and
the Governor will probably be one of
his pui.ils again. Secretary of the
Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods will
also be a member of the Country
Club's golf playing squadron.
"The presence of the dam will, X be
lieve, mean a more productive river
coal area in the immediate vicinity of
the city than ever before," said City
Commissioner Harry F. Bowman, su
perintendent of public safety, yester
day in discussing the possibilities for
obtaining the fuel from the stream for
the next fifteen or twenty years.
"■While the coal lias a tendency to
float —it is more bouyant than sand by
far—much of it will become lodged
among the rooks above the darn in
stead of being washed over the breast.
That means that the coal area from
the obstruction northward will na
turally be much greater and contain
infinitely larger possibilities in this
respect than the area immediately be
low the dam. Each year the volume
of water will deposit more of it and
so," continued the commissioner, "I
don't think there is any liklihood of
a lack of the supply—not at least,
within the fifteen year contract period
which the ordinance relative to the
construction of the electric light com
pany's landing wharf and hoist on the
island provides."
Congressman-elect L. T. McFadden,
who was a visitor here yesterday, is
a baker in Canton up on the northern
tier and a farmer on the side. He
has been chairman of the committee
on agriculture of the State Bankers'
Association and has made the com
mitee something worth while. He
was elected to Congress in a district
that has gone Democratic every now
and then and now feels that it is Re
publican once more.
Commissioner Hans Wasncr, of
the State Fisheries commission, was
drawn as a juror in Allegheny county
but got off because he said his duties
would prevent him serving. Wagner
is a famous short stop and angler.
f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—The Rev. Dr. Ethelbert Warfleld,
former president of Lafayette, has re
moved to Atlantic City.
—E. P. Kibros has been elected
president of the Wayne County Society
of Pennsylvanians in New York.
—R. M. K. Lewis, elected to one of
the grand offices in the Knights of the
Golden Eagle, lives at North Wales.
—Archbishop Prendergast, of Phila
delphia. sent a gift of $21,000 to Pope
Benedict from Philadelphia people.
—Sumner E. Ely was toastmaster
at tho banquet of the Western Penn
sylvania Engineers Society.
—William Shaffer, prominent Frank
lin resident, is in Florida.
—William Connor, register of wills
of Allegheny county, admires a good
horse.
—The Rev. Henry D. White, a mis
sionary to Slam, has been visiting his
home in Beaver.
—Dr. H. M. Goehring went from
Pittsburgh to Phiadelphia to examine
Billy Sunday's throat.
I DO VOU KNOW—I
That Harrlsburg could be made
a great produce distributing cen
ter? It lias tile country around
uhout and the railroads.
A Prosperity Bulletin
If you want to do your share
towards bringing about a busi
ness boom, start here at home.
Read the advertising in this
ft paper.
If you want some business
yourself put your own advertise
ment here.
Patronize the advrrtlsers or
at least do them the honor to ;
read what they have to say.
Jf goods are needed "buy now." i
Prosperity is .oniing; full I
■wing and each citizen can do
bis or her share right at home.
This is going to be a busy year
for those who get busy.
0 . "
HARRISBURG t£36B& TELEGRAPH
WILLIAMS READY
TO TAKE UP BILLS
Law and Order Committee Chair
man Will Re Prepared With
Local Option Measure
CONGRESSMAN TO MEMBERS
Mr. Ainey Discusses Foreign Rela
tions in the Hall of the
Representatives
George W. Williams, of Tioga,
chairman of the House law and order
committee, will take up a program for
the local option bill next week with
members of his committee and the
bill will be taken good care of. Mr.
Williams is ojie of the most respected
members of the Mouse, and everyone
has confidence in his fairness.
The committee organized yesterday
afternoon and has arranged to serious
ly consider the prohibition amend
ment and the other bijls dealing with
the liquor problem, but the local op
tion bill will not be programmed un
til Mr. Williams has had a chance
to confer with the governor and with
men active in temperance work. That
It will be. reported out is a foregone
conclusion.
The boxing commission bill is alf.)
ih the hands of this committee ami
its disposal is problematical Sam
Perry, author of the bill, is said to de
sire action.
The various third class city bills
will be taken up actively by the muni
cipal corporations committee next
week. Practically all of the third
class cities are represented on the
committee. Mr. Wildman being the
llarrisburg member. Some interest
ing hearings are expected on the bills.
The third judge bill is attracting
much attention among 'he members of
the House. It. is now on the calendar
and a statement of what is done in
the Dauphin county court will be pre
sented when the time comes.
—Congressman W. D. H. Ainey. of
Montrose, who addressed a public
meeting in tUe House last night on
America's problems in the Pacific was
most interesting in his remarks on
| Japan, where he spent several weeks.
He said that the time was coming
when some settlement of the ques
tions between the countries was neces
sary. He gave descriptions of Ameri
can possessions and pointed out their
relation to Japan and then discussed
the Japanese power. Part of liis talk
M as a plea for better relations.
—The State Grange legislative and
executive committee at its meeting
here yesterday named John A. Mc-
Sparran, William T. Creasy and Allan
D. Miller as a committee to draft a
highway program. The committee
promised early action. A statement
j was issued heartily endorsing the Wil
jliams local option bill as an eminently
j fair measure and predicting that it
would pass.
—Ex-Mayor William A. Magee was
here yesterday discussing Pittsburgh
legislation. He is chairman of the
Ship Canal board and is working out
plans.
—The House municipal affairs com
mittee had a lively hearing on the
trading stamp bill yesterday after
noon and it was stated that the com
panies which take millions from the
State do not pay a cent in return.
Wilmer Crow, for the state merchants
made a strong speech against the
stamps. :>nd E. B. Smith, Pittsburgh,
also spoke. The committee will give
the companies a chance later on.
—The Payette county mothers'
pepsion board filed its report yester
day with the House. Its conclusions
show the necessity for additional
money.
—Superintendents and officers of
county insane hospitals liad a meet
ing yesterday in the Senate caucus
room and decided that some institu
tions needed to be brought up to the
standard set by others. The resolu
tions adopted favored an increase of
25 cents per week per capita for main
tenance for those that make an effort
to give good service to their unfor
tunate charges.
I —The deficiency bill was signed
yesterday and sent to the Governor,
the first to reach him.
—People connected with the State
government were recalling to-day that
a few years ago the pemocratie news
papers were very eager to obtain the
advertising of the constitutional
amendments and that on one occasion
the chairman of the Democratic State
committee sent a list of names of
newspapers to receive the advertising.
The Harrisburg Patriot was on the
list of the Democratic State chair
man. Since that time some newspa
pers linve frothed every time consti
tutional amendment advertising is
mentioned.
—The suggestion was made last
night that the officials of the State De
partment of Labor and Industry
should act as a board in the operation
of workmen's compensation, much as
the industrial board operates.
—Senator McNichol thinks Phila
delphia should go slow in bonding it
self for $100,000,000 for transit and
be ready to meet the fixed charges
when they arise.
FROTH, THIS IS THE WAY
llj Winn Dinger
Doar Froth, the Scribe of Market
Square,
Did publish yesterday
In his colyum a bit of verse
To demonstrate the way
That I would write the words to fit
The Tipperary tune.
But he is wrong, 'tis thus I'd write
The chorus of my rune:
It's a long way from the primary.
It's a long way to go
To be crowned during January
As the Governor, don't you know.
Good-by dear Kampaign Kitty,
Farewell Governor's Chair.
If the voters hadn't been contrary
Why, I'd been right there.
lEPITORIAL COMMENT | j
CLEAR NOTE FROM THE SOUTH
LAND
[Columbia State.]
Corn pone ueber alles.
HERE'S REAL STATESMANSHIP
[Baltimore Sun.]
West Virginia proposes to banish
hay fever by law.
[l'roiu the Telegraph of Feb. 10, IS»5.]
Hie. In 'lfbrl l'rl»on
I'red 1 longer. Middletown. dieil in the
rebel prison at Salisbury. N. C.
Heavy Snows
Heavy snow in the West is delaying
arrival of trains in this city.
Brine Dead Home
Coffins containing bodies of dead sol
diers being shipped home pass through
the Union Station daily.
PEX N'SY liV VNIA TO lOKGRKSft
[From Tiie l?rie Dispatch.)
The Dispatch believes that no act of
* lie present legislature would do more
good or carry such a far-reaching con
sequence as to send a memorial to
Congress in substance as follows:
Whereas, Tlie great industrial Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania has suf
*< red more than any other State in the
l ; nion because of the present 'tatiff,
und
Whereas. Under its operation our. Im
portant steel plants, our textile mills
I
This Half-Yearly I
MARK-DOWN
CAT T? Of Our j
Entire Stock I
Is a straightforward business-like propo
sition. We've learned from observation and ex
perience that it's best in the long run to dispose of |
every dollar's worth of merchandise during the
season for which it was made—even though we
have to lose money to do it—rather than let any
thing grow old on our hands.
I THAT'S why no choice lots are reserved, but |
everything included in our immense stock of Good Clothes,
Furnishings and Boys* Clothes in selling at such sweeping
■ reductions from our former low prices.
It's a stiff dose of medicine, to be sure
but it keeps this Live Store a live one ALL the
time, and gives you the opportunity to get Kuppen-
I heimer and other such high-grade clothes—all brand
new this season and fully guaranteed at the actual
savings of good, hard cash indicated below.
We Quote Former
1 work "Values'' |j
I $15.00 Suits (IJIA JC 1
I and Overcoats|
| $20.00 $25.00 $30.00 |
Suits and Suits |
Overcoats Overcoats I
$14.75 $18.75 $21.75
I> ' f $5.00 & $6.50 Suits and Now $3.69 & $4.95
DOyS j $7.50 & SIO.OO Overcoats Now $5.75 & $7.75 1
304 Market St. Harrisburg Pa I
FEBRUARY 10. 1915.
end other industries have been operat- |
lug only about one-half capacity, and j
Whereas. The army of unemployed I
In our cities and towns has brought I
<ontlnued distress through inability to i
cl.tain proper food, raiment and shelter,
and
Whereas, We believe present condi
tions will become worse instead of bet
ter at the close of the war, It is there
fore
Kesolved, That the. Legislature of
Pennsylvania, now in session, do peti
tion the Congress of the United States !
to repeal the pufesent tariff law and !
replace it by ar law giving adequate j
protection to our labor and Industries,
and, under normal conditions, sufflci- ,
cut revenue to warrant the repeal of
the present unjust and uncalled for ;
special methods of taxation now in op-i
eratlon.
We are not optimistic enough to |
have confidence that Congress would .
heed such a petition, but If the me- >
inorial were sent and If the great In
dustrial States of New York. Ohio, New ,
Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, Connec
ticut and Rhode Island should follow
our example the moral effect would be
Inestimable. The suggestion Is sub
mitted with the hope that favorable ac- I
tion may follow. '
i NEW o s f
[l-'roni Ihe TrlVgriiih of Kfli. 10, 1 Hor>. I
tumranlliler Killed
Philadelphia. Feb. 10. Genera) Peg
ram. rebel commander, was killed in
the light yesterday at Matcher's Hun.
Olivia Refuse*
I .1 e(Y Davis announced to-day that un
| I'i.nditional submission to the law were
j the only terms offered at the recent
| peace conference.
Kxehmisina Prisoners
j Washington, Feb. 10. - A general ex
l change of prisoners is taking place.
KQI'AL JUSTICE I'Olt Al l.
[Grand Hapids Press.]
If the loaf of broad for the house
wife must have a label showing the
I weight, why not protect the bachelor
with a like pastor on his ham sand
'wlch and slab of apple pieV