6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Estabhtkea iSji PUBLISHED BY TIIK TELKC.RAPH PRINTING CO. I. J. FTACKPOLB Pr tiUe* i and Ec*:orm-Chltf T. R. OTPTER Stcrttary Co'S M. STEINMETZ Manatittz Editor Published every evening (except Run day) »t the Telegraph Building, Jl( Federal Square. Both phones. limber American Newspaper Publish' «r»" Association. Audit Bureau «1 Circulation and Pennaylvania Assoc!- ated Dailies. Baitarn Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New Tork City. Haabrook, Story A Brooks. ITastern Office. Advertising Building; Chicago, 111., Allen St Ward. ■ ■ Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers It 13.00 a year in advance. tatared at the Post Office In Harria- Pa., as second class matter. (Sworn dally average for the three mouths eliding Feb. 2S, 11*15. m j IT 21,745 TT Average for the year 1914—23,213 Average for the year 181 X—21,577 Average for the year 1912—21,175 Average for the year 1t1t—18,651 •ATerage for the year 1910>-17.4P5 WT:I>\BSDAY EVENING, MARCH to THAT WEST END BRIDGE WEST END people who insist upon a subway or driveway bridge across the tracks of tho Pennsylvania Railroad at Division street base their contentions upon the very reasonable proposition that, a foot bridge there can be re garded only in the light of a tem porary structure which would hold tip unduly the construction of a proper crossing at that point and in the end be uneconomical from the standpoint of both the city and the t-ailroad company. It is scarcely possible to look upon the proposed foot bridge as anything more than a crossing for the benefit of railroad employes, whose safety must be regarded by the company, nnd who are now greatly delayed in Retting to and from the big freight Iransfer sheds by train blockades. 0 he needs of the public are not met by such a structure as is proposed, R 'though, as one member of the West Knd Improvement Association has said, a half-loaf is better than none. the public has, beyond question, a I'ight to ask for at least one safe crossing between Maclay street and Hie subway at the head of Wildwood lake, a distance of nearly three miles, end Division street would seem to be the logical location. The city has • rown rapidly to the west of the tracks, but developments will be ex -1 cedingly slow on the very desirable liigh ground to the east of Wildwood 3'ark until proper crossing facilities are provided north of Maclay street. Beside, the people have spent thou sands of dollars for the acquisition of Wildwood Park, and it is a ques tion whether the Public Service Com mission would not decide that they nre entitled to reasonably easy ac cess to It. Just now the Pennsylvania Rail load is spending hundreds of thou sands of dollars in freight station improvements in Ilarrisburg at a time when few other corporations are do ing any constructive work. This city is getting more than its share of railroad expenditures. Times are ex cessively dull with the company, as ihe recently issued annual report "hows, and for that reason it might Jiot be reasonable to ask for the build ing of a driveway bridge or subway • his year. While such a crossing is "badly needed, nobody in Harrisburg ■desires to put additional burdens on •the company. But the people of the city, and particularly those of the JWest End, are fearsome lest the foot 'way proposed will stand in the way of ■the adequate and permanent improve ment they want and should have. If [the company cannot afford the neces sary outlay for a driveway bridge mow might it not be better to lay the ■whole thing over until business im proves? TEACH TIIEM GARDENING THE Johnstown Leader very prop erly commends the Johnstown School Board for having voted to meet the expense of main taining the school gardens of that city for another season. Johnstown has done something that Harrisburg might well imitate. v Gardening for children is not only but highly beneficial from ,a physical standpoint, and enjoyable, |loo. We pay big salaries to playground instructors to teach our children sys tematic methods of play. These men (Rnd women direct the activities of the (boys and girls along helpful lines dur ing the recreation period of the sum imer months when the schoolhouses i* re closed and much of the ordinary • restraint is removed from the lives or the pupils. This is all very well and nobody for a moment would put any thing in the way of the splendid work that is being done on the municipal .playgrounds, but would it not be well to vary the play program with exer cises that would teach the boys and girls something of gardening while be ,ing Just as pleasurable as some of the |RRmes in which they are encouraged jto Indulge? Johnstown proposes to so occupy ftlie time of its boys and girls that they ,«hall be producers instead or merely .consumers, which Is observing an eco nomical principle of no moan impor tance. There is no exercise more iWholcsome than that of growing things. The boy or the girl who does ,not TiudersUnd the fundamentals of iflower and vegetable gardening has [missed very much of life indeed. Dlg [finr and cowing, planting and cultl- WEDNESDAY EVENING, vating. and reaping and harvesting have been the occupations of man since he first passed from the obscurity of savagery .toward the civilization of to-day. All wealth comes from the soil. The nation of intelligent farmers is invariably a nation of prosperous people. The more our boys and girls know of agriculture and the more they enjoy putting their knowledge Into practice, the better and more thrifty they are likely to be. N It is to be hoped that Harrisburg will find some way in which to follow Johnstown's lead in this respect. | PROFITS OF FINANCIERS THE evidence of James Speyer during the recent investigation into Rock Island affairs by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion shows that the firm of which he is the head had within eight years handled more than $170,000,000 worth of bonds and notes at a total profit to itself of about eight-tenths of 1 per cent. Tho editor of the Boston News Bureau draws attention to this as in strong contradiction of the general opinion that bankers make immense sums from railroad and industrial financing. In this connection it is to be remembered that J. Pierpont Mor gan, when called upon to make public his profits in certain deals, showed that in many instances they were smaller than those the Speyer com pany acknowledges. It would appear therefrom that while returns for financial transactions of the kind are tremendously large, this is true because of the opportunity they offer to collect commissions on extraordinarily large sums and not be cause of a heavy percentage or earn ings. Few business houses could live on a profit of eight-tenths of 1 per cent, for a period of eight years. THE EASTER ARGOSY THE Belgian Relief Committee's appeal to the boys and girls of America to send an Easter Argosy laden with food and clothing for the i>oys and girls of stricken Belgium is reminiscent of tho plea of the charitable people of tho country at the time of the Crimean war, when children went about beg ging "a cent for Scbastopol, please." The little banks that were provided for collectors accommodated a dollar or more, and thousands of them were given to children throughout the cities of the United States and in this way large sums were raised for the relief of the starving people of the war de vastated area. "fa-day the number of those who must be fed and clothed, if they arc not to perish for lack of the necessi ties of life, is greatly in excess of tho small army of sufferers left in the wake of the Crimean campaign. But, also, there are more in America to extend the helping hand than during the day of the penny bank, and doubt less the Easter Argosy will sail away loaded to the gunwales with the Easter gifts of generous American lads and lassies who hove inherited the gener ous spirit of their fathers and moth ers. BOTTLING MII.K THE decision of the Board of Health to require the bottling of all milk in Harrisburg is a step in the right direction. But it will have little effect except to make conditions worse, unless the ruling is accompanied by another requiring tho sterilization of all bottles. The possibilities or contamination that He in the indiscriminate use of bottles are hot difficult to understand. If it is permitted, as at present, for a milk dealer to gather the empty bot tles from one doorstep, fill them in his wagon and deliver them to customers along the route, the way is left open to all manner of evils. This has been done and is being done, as may be proved by an early trip about the city any day. Physicians say that not infrequently they find milk bottles used as flower vases and put to far more objection able services in sick rooms where not infrequently diseases of a communi cable character exists. In carelessly managed households the milk bottle is the handy and common receptacle for all manner of liquids. Unless some way is found to make it absolutely clean when the milk is poured into it, the bottle is apt to be just as danger ous if not more so than the old fashioned open-topped pitcher, which has been condemned so severely and properly, too. The only safeguard is 'sterilization and a stiff penalty attached for viola tions. THE JEWS IX THE WAR THE editor of the Jewish Daily News, an influential New Tork newspaper, has suggested the calling of an American Jewish conference for the purpose of bring ing to the attention of the nations the dcporable plight of the Jews of Eu rope.- particularly since the outbreak of the war. Nearly a half-million Jews are fighting in the ranks of the armies of the belligerent nations, battling in behulf of the countries in which thoy have suffered and are still suffering terrible injustices through the depriva tion of rights accorded to all other peoples. While husbands and sons are on the firing line, news dispatches ro- port that wivc-s, daughters and moth ers are at the mercy of anti-Semites, who, notwithstanding this display of Jewish patriotism, are In some in stances inciting the populace against them. TTJTS IS notably the case in Po land, where, in addition to such out. rages, it is reported the savage Cos sacks have been guilty of even worse outrages than the Germans have been accused of committing in Belgium. The editor of the News has the right, idea. So long as the Jews of Amer ica remain supine it is scarcely to bo expected that public opinion will be aroused on this subject. It is the duly of Jews everywhere to raise their voices against, a continuation of such conditions in Europe as appear to exist. Following such a display of Interest it is reasonable to suppose that America, once fully acquainted with the situa lion, will align itself as always on the side of decency and fair play. And a strong expression of public opinion In America appears to have more weight, with the warring nations than whole batteries of 4 2-centimeter guns, much as European ciplomats endeavor to conceal the fact. 1 EVENING CHAT 1 The almost entire absence of cat tle cars from the trains in the Penn sylvania railroad yards shows the manner in which the quarantine for the foot and mcuth disease is being con ducted. Ordinarily at this season or the year there are hundreds of cars moved through here daily and every afternoon until the quarantine was put on there were a couple of solid train loads of cattle sent through thei city on a fast schedule. This train' used to attract comment among thei railroad men who said that it wasl worth more than a train load of silk and had a freight train beaten a mile as far as value went. Now a cattle car .. a train is a novel sight and attracts I 'attention. Most of the cars moved through here have been on the way to sidings to be stored or to the vicinity ° w ' iere they will be assembled until the time when cattle can be mov ed again. Practically all of the cars now seen are slashed with disinfec tants, having been treated some time! ago to prevent any spread or the d's- I ease. They are hair coated with white! and can be spotted a long distance! away. j People who follow the cattle busi ness say that in a short time the na tive cattle will make their appearance in the trade and that over 50,000 cat tle will be on sale between now and the middle of summer. These cattle are all native born and native raised and are being fed for market. Tlicv will either be extremely valuable or a drag on the market, according to the conditions that prevail when they are ready to be sold. The State cattle business is far greater than the aver age person knows, although in recent years it has been forced "to depend more and more on western animals. The Pennsylvania industry of cattle raising used to be one of great size, but it has declined. It all depends up on the way things turn out in this epi demic of cattle dlseaso what the fu ture will be. It will either mean a revival of cattle raising and a tre mendous boom in that business or else people will be so disgusted with their losses as a result of the killing of herds to stamp out the foot and mouth plague that they will give up cattle entirely. People at the« Capitol yesterday con gratulated Howard M. itoke, secretary to Attorney General Brown, upon the completion of twenty-eight years in his place. Mr. Hoke, who is noted as a short story writer and epigramist, has been secretary to Attorney Gen erals Brown, Bell, Todd, Carson, Hen sel, Elkin. McCormick and Kirkpat rick. Ho is one or the best known on Capitol Hill and has a host or rriends throughout the State. He is a mem ber of a family prominent in the Cum berland Valley for many years and actively identified with literary and newspaper work. One of the most singular sights wit nessed in the streets in a long time was noted yesterday in Fourth street when blind literally led the blind. Six blind men had been at the Capitol on a hearing and led by one who could partly see, they started for the sta tion. Three were together, all tapping canes on pavements and followed by the others. They did not need any one to lead them. They got through some way. Professor J. A Singeiser, of t*he Cen tral high school faculty, is studying maps these days. He is arranging to take students out on hikes to study natural history and will cover nearby country. Responses to invitations.to become members of the organization of for mer councilmen are being received at the rate of a dozen a day. There is a large representation of former coun cilmen among the active men of the city and the organizers have found much interest. Ross R. Seaman, who receives the applications for member ship, says that the new organization is going to be an influential body and that it will include men who served in almost every year from the seven ties. Few people know that there is an organization of former senators which is somewhat akin to the new council manic organization. This society was started a few years ago and has a dinner every year at the seashore. To he a member a man must liave serv ed as a senator. The badge is a tittle red keystone. A couple of kids were walking along the street yesterday afternoon carrying baseball bats and baseballs when a man old enough to be their father told them of the days when baseball used to be played in the streets, especially streets which offered a chance for posting of pickets to spot the police men. "Did they used to play right out in the street'.'" asked one. "Yes. and telogrupli poles and man holes were bases." answered the man. "Aw. say. wouldn't it be great now to hit grounders? They'd go a mile," was the comment of the kid who was brought up to paved streets. —Bishop W. T. Copes, of Texas, is visiting in Philadelphia. —William T. Tllden. prominent Philadelphian. celebrated his sixtieth birthday yesterday. —Colonel .1, M. Shoonmaker. Pitts burgh railroad president, has been in Florida and was fined for refusing to attend a court case. —Francis J. Torrance, head of the State Board of Charities, was guest of honor at a luncheon given in Pitts burgh yesterday by charity workers. —John Hampton Bornes, Philadel phia lawyer, is spending part of the month in Virginia. I M VOU KNOW—I Tliat Hnrrl-biirg makes steel for oil tanks? An Early Easter This Year Kaster comas on the flrst Sun day in April and that means early Spring business for the stores. It means the new styles will be ready earlier and that the stores are now in full Spring attire. Many decided changes In de signs und fabrics will bo shown this season. The advertising columns are already tolling the story which will grow more interesting from day to day. To miss *ho advertising In the Telegraph these days will bf to miss some of the best news of the. paper. ELAJEttUSBURG (66&1 TELEGRAPH MORRIS BUTTS 111 TO HE CHPITHL I Democratic State Chairman FioaUy | Undertakes to Line Up Some of the Democrats • GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER Prominent Men Among the Visit ors to the Hill-Milliron Makes a Hit in Debate Invitations from Roland S. Morris, Democratic State chairman, letters from Vance C. McCormick, late Demo cratic and Washington party candi date for Governor and quiet words from Warren Van Dyke, secretary of jthe Democratic State committee, man aged to assemble less than a dozen !of the forty-one Democratic members lof the legislature in the olfice of Mr. McCormick yesterday afternoon for discussion of ways to make capital out of the situation on Capitol Hill. It ap peared to be the general impression of the members who listened to the summons that valuable time had been lost and that it would not do much good to start anything now. The Democratic members who ignored the word to appear at the throne room or who were considered too opposed to machine domination to be asked said openly that it did not matter what Morris and McCormick did. According to what was going the rounds on the Hill to-day Morris asked the Democrats whom he saw person ally at the Capitol and in McCorinick's office to vote for local option. Most of them are pledged that way anyway so he did not get much credit out of it. Democrats classed as doubtful on local option paid no attention to him aud it they do line up for the Governor's bill will let it be known that Morris, McCormick and Palmer had nothing to do with it. The anti-local option Democrats of whom there are a num ber, will pay no attention whatever to the discredited bosses. In addition to talking about local option Morris is understood to have said that the Democrats should sup port Democratic legislation. When members asked where it was the in formation was given that it was not ready yet, although the session will soon be on the home stretch. It is be lieved that some of the bills thrown into the discard last session will be recopied and reintroduced to furnish! Morris with campaign thunder. As far as known none of the Demo cratic senators paid much attention to the State Chairman and have not con tributed toward wiping out the debt. —Members of the House woke up to the fact that there is a pretty effective member on the side aisle yesterday when Miles A. Milliron, of Armstrong, put the Dunn bill to give Philadelphia high schools to confer degrees out of business. Mr. Milliron had been lead ing the fight against this bill every time it showed up and yesterday after noon he took the floor and simply Ironed out. the bill in two speeches. His remarks were forceful, well pre pared and attracted much attention by his delivery. —The biennial light over the "pure paint" bill occurred in the Senate yes terday afternoon. The committee heard bo}h sides and Senator McNichol jollied some of the speakers on their regular appearance here on the legis lation. —Representative Henry I. Wilson is protesting against the flood of mail sent in because of full crew and local option legislation. "We have been memorialized on these subjects in un precedented way and I hope the flood will stop," said he. It is getttng be yond our ability to handle and mem bers are complaining. I hope people will send in the communications in bales and label them. —Ex-Representative F. H. Rock well, of Tioga, spoken of for judge, was at the Capitol. —Congressman L. T. McFadden, of Canton, was among the visitors to the Hill yesterday. He is intcrestd In agricultural legislation. —Congressman S. Taylor North, of Punxsutawney, chairman of the House appropriations committee last time, was a legislative visitor "X just came to see the folks," said he. —Ex-Congressman and ex-Repre sentative H. B. Packer, of Wellsboro, called on Representative George W. i Williams. ' —The House Glee club gave a re hearsal in the Senate caucus room last night and sang and sang to a large au dience. .Lieutenant-Governor McClain, who is a noted singer, was attracted by the melody and went down and sang for the audience. Quay Hewitt, assistant reading clerk of the House, also participated in the singing. Talking about a constitutional con vention last night Governor Brum baugh said that he had an open mind on the subject and that if a hearing was held on the project he would like to attend it or to give one. —Congressman A. G. Dewalt,former Democratic State chairman and Sen ator was a Hill visitor. —Representative W. 11. Wilson, chairman of the judiciary general committee, says the bill for a consti tutional convention will come out of committee as soon as its sponsor is ready. —Mayor J. G. Armstrong and Coro nor S. O. Jamison, of Pittsburgh, were at the Capitol to-day on a hearing. —Senator William K. Crow says he watits to read over the workmen's compensation bill before he presents it. —Samuel Gompers and John Mit chell are to be two of the speakers in behalf of the labor objections to the rate for workmen's compensation at the public hearings to be held late this month. i i [From the Telegraph. March 10, 1865] Promote Soldier James T. Woodall, of the Pa. Res., ha»recently been promoted to the rank of captain. Short Session The Legislature will adjourn final ly March 24. Bills Unpaid Gas company officials announced that a number of the citizens are not paying their bills. [.. coming 6ufT~ uuiidrim causes a feverish irritation of the scalp, the hair roots shrink, loosen and then the hair comes out fast. To stop railing hair at once and rid the scalp of every particle of dan druff. get a 25-cent bottle cf Dander- \ Ine at any drug store, pour a little l in your hand and rub it Into the scalp. After a few applications the hair stops oointng out and you can't find any dandruff. —Advertisement. , I OUR DAILY LAUGH I N6T ALIKE. Oiir faxles <r * T,ry f jjf? self, but I'm not. j TILLTE LOSES Thjs Tnlentinf> !r o m Willi# iOmh mist have cost it lea«t 8 cents. WV;^V Too bad! Too md! I could lever marry a " ipendthrlft! HOW IS IT DOXEt Hy Wins Dlnser One will find much of interest at The Motorcycle Show. Which is now being held in town, As probably you know. But cne thing's had mo guessing since I saw It run around,. And just what keeps it going right As yet 1 haven't found. It is the cycle with two seats Placed on it side by side. On which a very fat man with A nerson lean can ride. But how the darned 1 old cycle can Be kept in balance, gee, Is something I have tried to solve. But it's too much for ine. I NEW 0 m p «uri [From the Telegraph, March 10, IS65] Will Atlnck Mobile Philadelphia. March 10.—The U. S. S. "Bermuda" arrived here from Key west. and reports that Admiral Pal mer's fleet is ready to attack Mobile, and that General Granger is marching toward the city with an army to assist the fleet. Slaves lv-eapo Washington, March 10.—Reports re ceived here are that hundreds of slaves are escaping from the South. Made to melt in your mouth— and they do! Wilhurbuds Are deliciously good morsels of the richest chocolate. The buds are crudely imitated, but the Wilbur way cannot be dupli cated. For convenience ask for "Wilburbuds" the full name is "Wilbur's Chocolate Buds" (trade mark registered U. S. Patent Office). ft j Fancy boxes, forty and eighty cents; pocket packages, ten and twenty-five cents. At all eonfec tioners, druggists and depart gr nient stores. H. 0. Wilbur & Sons a M»iLEoßMfflw. Incorporated Philadelphia, Pa. EASTER EXCURSION 'in Atlantic City Cape May, Wildwood, Ocean City. Son Inlc City, Anulc *c«, A viilon, Stone Harbor Saturday, April 3, 1915 $4.50 F*"°ni Harrisburg 25 cents addljkinal to Atlantic City via Dwlalvare River Bridge Route. Tickets will be accepted on reg ular trains and will be good re turning within sixteen days, stop-over allowed nt I'hllnrielpliin Full particulars of Ticket Agents or A. K. BUCHANAN, Division Passenger Agent, Harrisburg, Pa. Pennsylvania R. R. FOVHEAL TfiANoSTBENGTH DEPTONOI | MADE IN A HEALTH RESORT. AT DRUG STORES: SI.ooPfrBOTTLE THE PEPTONOL CO. ATLANTIC CITY Try Telegraph Want Ads. MARCH 10, 1915. WANTED! 25 Women Easier Housework Club and Get a Rege twenty-live more members to ofrni* D « Cf <f* T A /™v several different Kegent oweeper, $7.00 kinds of vacuum Dues SI.OO Monthly This low price for a Regent Sweeper is only ren- work of the Re tlered possible by the large amount we can purchase at one time, and sell them on the Club Plan. Wo do Kent tnat she in away with all selling expenses, such as canvassers and duccd several of commissions. .loin to-day, and make cleaning day a . _, . , . , . pleasure by the use of a Regent—the machine that friends to join cleans and sweeps in one operation. the club. Try it a Week if Not Satisfactory We'll Call For it. Easier Housework Club Burns & Company 28-30-32 S. Second St. 0 I ——i The Union Trust Company Receives accounts subject to check, time de posits and savings accounts. Furnishes drafts, letters of credit and trav elers' checks. Acts through its Trust Department as ad ministrator, executor, trustee or agent, with , all the powers that arc given to individuals. Union Trust Company of Pennsylvania Union Trust Building LOOK! 1915 FORD CAR GIVEN AWAY Souvenir to Each Lady Music and Dancing At Harrisburg's Biggest and Best AUTO SHOW KELKER STREET HALL FOURTH AM) KELKER STS. MARCH 13 TO 20 OPEN 11 A. M. TO 11 P. M. ADMISSION 25 CENTS , HBsiyi I Whom Shall 1 Appoint As My Executor? 1 From whatever standpoint the matter may be view- I ed there can be no doubt as to the advisability of appointing a thoroughly established trust company— an institution especially organized and equipped to handle estates—as your Executor. The appointment of this company as your Executor will insure the faithful carrying out of the provisions of your Will and the safe and efficient administration ' of your estate. Consult us.
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