8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established IS3I PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLE ftttident and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GITS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 218 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Assocl i ated Dallies. w Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. -jgßKejj*. Delivered by carriers at <uinMra/)tl»K> six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. Gvrora dnlljr nvrrnKc (or the three ★ months eliding Mar, 31.1813. 21,832 W Average for the year 1014—23,213 Average for the year 1013—21,577 Average for the year 1012—21,175 Average for the year 1011—18,851 Average for the year 1010—17.405 WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 28 : WELCOME ■rpHE TELEGRAPH to-day takes | groat pleasure in welcoming the Harrisburg Suffrage Association ito the Beautiful Harrisburg contest. 'The suffrage flower committee has -asked the Civic Club to award five five dollar prizes for the best yellow flower igardens grown during the coming ,summer, three of the prizes to go to ithe owners of yellow gardens and two to the owners of yellow window boxes. With $125 in prizes for gardens, porches and window box decorations, and almost as much again to be dis tributed by the Civic Club itself among juvenile gardeners, Harrisburg ought to bloom like a rose the coming sum mer. The season has opened very auspiciously for growing things. Dan ger of frost Is practically past and all plant life has a good start. The ground is warm and wet. Growing conditions for the present are ideal. Now Is the time to get the garden under way, whether it be large or small. HOLDS HIMSELF AIjOOF PRESIDENT WILSON'S refusal of Philadelphia's invitation to speak at the Quaker City's In dependence Day celebration—one of the big events of the year in Pennsyl vania—recalls the fact that he declined a similar invitation to attend the Get tysburg anniversary encampment, and wa£ fiersuadefa tri'chajige his mind only* after his political managers had told him that such a course would be sui cidal. Evidently the President does not care to mingle with his fellow citizens more than he finds necessary. This is one of his defects as President, and it reflects his years of comparative seclu sion as a writer, scholar and college executive. The people of the United States do not like aloofness on the part of their public officials any more than they like the Chautauqua activities of Mr. Bryan. They have an instinctive dis like that often amounts to distrust for the man who cannot or will not '"mix." The public official who speaks in pub lic only when he is a candidate is never very popular with the masses. TREES ALONG STATE ROADS GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH is a friend of trees. Anybody who has read his Arbor Day procla mation knows that. Recently he sign ed a bill permitting the distribution of young trees from State forestry reser vations. This is a good move, and it ought to be extended to the State high ways. New York State has passed a law for the encouragement of tree planting along its public roads, 6oth State and county, that has resulted in millions of young trees having been set out in the past year or two. Certain small re bates in taxes are allowed the farmers who plant and care for trees to Bhade the roadways. In a few years New York State highways will be shaded and sheltered by hundreds of miles of fctately trees. There is nothing more attractive in summer than a shady road, and few landscape vistas more beautiful. Penn sylvania ought not to be behind hand in this. Too often our road builders are careless of the trees they find. The average engineer appears to ad mire more a straight line than for all the beauties of nature combined. But to the man who uses the highways, a straight line means little and a tree means much. There ought to be some law on the statute books not only to preserve the trees that now stand along the roads, but to encourage the plant ing of millions more. MR. MANNING'S SUGGESTION ON another page to-day the Tele graph publishes a suggestive sketch by Warren H. Manning, the noted landscape architect, of the Capitol Park extension zone as he be lieves it should be developed. This drawing was made at the re quest of the Telegraph because of Mr. Mining's long and excellent service ,to*he city. For the reason that Mr. Manning designed the city's park sys tem and has been identified with the local public improvement work ever since its inception, it was thought per haps a suggestion from him along the lines of the Capitol Pari* extension might be helpful to legislators and State officials, enabling them U) get an WEDNESDAY EVENING, Idea of what the now very much torn up district will look like when properly developed. Pictures elsewhere, also from the pen of Mr. Manning, who has done work of the kind in all parts of the United States and Canada, show how other State capltols look and the methods of beautlflcatlon used. The whole series of views is educational and instructive and the Impression to he gathered from them is that when the improvement is completed Penn sylvania will have not only the finest capltol in the country, but the most beautiful setting for it. The Legislature is asked this year to set aside only the $300,000 neces sary for the purchase of the remaining land, and the whole transaction will be completed by 1917, as was contem plated. The commission is to be com mended Both for the energy it has dis played in the conduct of Its affairs and in the good business sense that has been shown in all of its transactions. The purchases will be made and the ground cleared in short order. Mr. Manning's sketches are the first pre liminaries looking toward permanent park improvements in the extension zone. SENATOR PENROSE'S SPEECH IN a speech that Is In perfect har mony with public thought on the subject. Senator Penrose, before the Americus club at Pittsburgh last night, said: Owing to an unfortunate division in the Republican party, which Is now happily passing away, the Democratic party was successful In the last Presidential election. The people have had the change, they have had a brief experience with the I'nderwood free trade tariff policy. They have felt the humil iation of the policy of watchful waiting. They have seen business paralyzed by hostile legislation of Congress, and now they are wait ing for the coming opportunity In 1916 to register their verdict by an overwhelming majority in favor of Republican policies and a restora tion of protection and prosperity and common sense in legislation. The Democratic party has been ever the promoter of splendid theories and ever a failure when it comes to putting them into effective operation. About once every generation its lead ers gain the popular ear. Young vot ers come to the front lacking the ex perience that has taught millions of older voters to differentiate between promise and performance, between theory and fact. It sometimes happens, as in 1912. that times are good, work is plenty and the country prosperous. The young voters are never theless discontented. Having much they very naturally want more, and to aggravate this situation it occa sionally occurs that leaders of the Re publican party have not kept abreast with public demands. The result has been a Democratic President, a Demo cratic Congress—and then four years of hard times. We are passing through just such an era now. The young voter and the dissatisfied voter have learned their lesson, even as they have [taught lagging Republican leaders the I folly of directing their forces from ithe rear instead of from the front. The time is ripe for a change and Senator Penrose is entirely in accord with public opinion when he predicts the ejection of. a Republican President in 1916. But there is another section of his speech that also Is well worthy of con sideration by both the party leaders and the rank and file. It is this: But after all, the Republicans will not be fully restored to power in a way in which they can bring about effective results such as the imme diate repeal of the present free trade tariff law and other remedial and amendatory legislation, to gether with the resumption of a vigorous foreign policy, unlqss the Republicans have control of the Senate of the United States. Voters and leaders must stand close together If this is to be accomplished and the Republicans returned to full power. Voters must sink all thought of the past, all differences as to per sonal selections and minor consider ations in the main issue, headers must so conduct themselves as to leave no room for doubt in the public mind as to their sincerity or willingness to bow to the will of the people. Failure in this regard has been one of the chief complaints against the Wilson admin istration And the Republican party must not be permitted to fall intoa like error, with its unlimited possibilities for grave disaster. Not an excuse for a third party in the United States next year must be permitted to remain. There must be perfect accord between rank and file and leadership. The opportunity is at hand for the greatest victory in the history of the Republican party. It must not be marred by the loss of the Senate. Yet that is possible unless care be taken to keep the party man agement absolutely responsive to pub lic opinion and popular demands. DREADFUL, DREADFUL AND now they are accusing the Colonel of having been friendly with Big Business! Yesterday they wept bitter tears because he had consulted with "bosses." What fresh horror will to-morrow develop, we wonder. Strangely enough, the Colonel un blushingly admits the awful accusa tions. Yea, he even volunteers more information than his inquisitors seek to pry from him. Evidently he is not ashamed of these affiliations. Of course, there will be those who will not see in the Colonel's con sultations with "bosses" much differ ence between such talks and the "con ferences with leaders" of the kind we heard so much about in the late Demo cratic campaign in Pennsylvania, for instance, and there will be others who no doubt will be base enough to har bor the secret suspicion that "Big Business" occasionally needs a friend. And lastly, one cannot keep down the thought that the Colonel has done a deal of talking in recent years purely for political effect: that some of his trust-busting tirades and his pleas for political perfection were delivered in an algebraic or Pickwickian sense, aa it were. AN EVENING THOUGHT An' you've got to get up airly If you want to take in God. *— Lowell. 1 EVENING CHAT 1 Jitney operators have been opening up some new lines of transportation about the city and folks who have paid & quarter to get some places are now producing "Buffaloes" and "Jits" and riding where they list. You can [take a ride up, or down, the unrivalled river front for a nickel whereas it cost you thirty cents before you had taken a seat in a taxi. Wlldwood park, hitherto Inaccessible unless the livery man or the to-hire automobile owner was interviewed and because there is no trolley line into the park district, is now touched by a jitney line. Before long there will be a regular line going through the park and all for a small amount of what a regular ride in a regular taxi would cost. The Reser voir park in on what one jitney opera tor calls a "loop." He takes you to the top for a nickel and turn* around and brings you down for the other nickel. One man last week conceived the idea of running his "loop" up to the Capitol, front or back door, and now there are half a dozen "jits" that are working over time members of the legislature, attaches and visitors pat ronizing them so well that they do not get time to pay much attention to what they call their regular routes. And when one comes to think about it walking up the Hill on one of the recent hot days is rather strenuous, especially when you are in a hurry and an automobile that will whirl you from Third and Market or the Square to the big doors graced by W. Penn in bronze is an institution that should be encouraged. One of the Jitney Oper ators says that patronage after' mid night Is not to be sneezed at and that the willingness with which people pay double rates illustrates that there Is a place for the night jitney to fill that has not been reached by the night hawk cab or the owl car. Speaking of automobiles it is an in teresting fact to record that a few days ago a man was arrested for run ning a car with only one license tag. The tag was issued in North Carolina and in that State it is part of the regulation that only one tag need be displayed. As Pennsylvania recipro cates with the turpentine State there was nothing doing in the way of a fine. One of the maddest men in Harris burg is a driver of a stone wagon. He was taking his team through the cen tral part of the city when the sun was the hottest and in some manner the bottom of his wagon was let go and a ton or so of crushed stone was dumped on the asphalt. He blames a gang of boys with pulling the lever. Jn any event the stone was dumped on one of the hottest streets at one of the hottest hours this year and he had to shovel the stone back into the wagon at the time he ordinarily ate lunch. "Talk about your high cost of llv- 1 ing," said a man who has just re turned from Erie. "The catch of blue pike on Lake Erie this year is so great that the warehouses are filled and people are being regaled with a fish diet. I heard that fish were being quoted at a cent a yound. That is the lowest known in a long time and 1 wish we could get some of it here." Men in charge of city parks have started their annual raid on dande lions and the yellow flowers are being cut out as rapidly as they can be reached. Property owners are co operating on stretches of grass near their homes and the removal of the yellow flowers is being pushed so that the nuisance will not be spread. Last Saturday a flock of about fifty wild ducks spent the day on the Sus quehanna river opposite Locust street. The ducks created quite a bit of atten tion from the strollers in the park. Every now and then the flock would fly up stream several hundred yards and then, heads up stream, they floated down all the while watching for floating food. Old rivermen say in past years flocks of ducks have made the channel opposite River Park their headquarters for the entire summer, spending the nights in the grass patches. Nature gave another example of her many curiosities Monday evening just as the thunderstorm was passing over the city. The sun which was just setting behind the light clouds north of the clty.where the storm was over, gave a deep red glow lighting up the mountains. Many of the people of Rockville and the other towns north of the city remarked that the moun tains must be on fire because of the red light. Shortly after Old Sol buried himself for the night, leaving only gray streaks instead of the red glow. "The hot weather of the last several days," said a local sporting goods merchant yesterday," is certainly boosting my business. Why I've sold more swimming suits, tennis rackets, golf clubs and balls, and canoes than I would have in four weeks of ordin ary weather. This 1s the way I'd like to see it the year round." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "1 —Mayor Jermyn. of Scranton, keeps In constant touch with the legislative situation in Harrisburg by telephone. —Ex-Auditor General A. E. Sisson is having a fine time with his two farms at Erie. He says he is watching politics now. —Hampton L. Carsoh, former At torney General, is preparing a new book, say his friends. —H. L. Elkins, Philadelphia banker, has resigned as head of the Colonial Trust Company. —Alfred M. Collins, well-known Phlladelphian. is home from an ex ploring trip to South America. Tliat Harrisburg l>ank clearings have Imm>ii showing steady gains? A JAIM.ESS COVXTRY (From the Christian Herald.l Iceland, a few years ago, started toward national prohibition. It has it In full effect this year, and Denmark, which gave her official sanction, is {>leased at the experiment. Iceland las a poor soil and climate, but it has no almshouses, nor inmates In jails, nor criminal courts worth mentioning; but it has newspapers, schools, churches, total abstinence for the Indi vidual, and prohibition for the nation. Your Money Market! Advertising is news of the money market your individual . money market. It Is a guide to what you should pay and where you should buy. V It Is a personal service news —the reading of which makes for your wealth and comfort. Advertising Is valuable to the man who pays for it only when he can make it valuable to you. Wise people read the advertis ing in their favorite newspaper and when they stop they ask for advertised brands by name. Advertising is one of the most helpful features in the dally newspaper. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MOMENT IS MUCH DISCUSSED Members Believe It Will Come Around May 13 If Child Labor Goes Through Easily SOME LOOK FOR MAY 20 NOW Many Prominent Pennsylvanians Visitors to the Legislative Halls This Week Unless the Legislature gets into a snarl over the child labor or work men's compensation bills, adjournment on May 13 Is likely and members of the two houses who have had long ex perience said to-day that they ex pected to get away two weeks from to-morrow. Some said that it would be May 20. The Senate committee in charge of the adjournment date has been giving consideration to the resolution passed by the House for May 6, and while some would like to concur, they rec ognize that it is impossible. To-day a few fears that the revenue raisers might make trouble were heard, but there seems to be a disposition to take the appropriations as they have been outlined and not make a disturbance. By the middle of next week the Legislature will have plain sailing and the House is now in fine shape to tackle anything that comes along in the way of changes by the Senate in bills. Of course, many matters will go by the board, but it was understood at the outset that this was not to be a session with too many laws. —The shirtsleeve wave struck the House yesterday and the example of the Governor, who frankly discarded his coat in his office, was "catching." The heat in the House was oppressive and shirtsleeves ruled during the ses sions. —Ex-Representative F. W. Hays, of Oil City, was among the legislative visitors. —Colonel "Bill" Adams, of Luzerne, Is preparing to hop right into a con test for the nomination for sheriff as soon as the session ends. —J. Benjamin Dimmick, former mayor of Scranton anil opponent of Senator Penrose for tho Republican senatorial nomination, was a visitor to the Capitol and attracted attention in the throng. He said he came to look over the session. -7-Representative Roney says that his constitutional convention bill offers a fine chance for the making of a monument for the session. He says the lawmakers should shove it right along. —Highway Commissioner Cunning ham, a former legislator, appears to be a very popular man among the members. He visits the halls and talks things over with them. —The remarks made by Represen tative Heyburn on the cold storage law bill last night were the first the Dela ware man has made in several years' service. —Roger Devers, prominent labor leader of Wilkes-Barre, was here for a legislative hearing yesterday. —Thomas J. Walker, staff corres pondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, who has been in charge of the Ledg er's legislative work this session, got the news yesterday that a daughter had been born to him. He was given heartv congratulations and taken be fore Governor Brumbaugh, who added his compliments and presented him with a State flag for the baby. —Philadelphia police officials were here yesterday to attend a hearing be for the Governor in behalf of the po lice pension bill. They raided the House and were given jocose greetings by the Philadelphia members. —Senator Crow knew what it was to be popular last night. Everyone want ed to talk to him on the child labor bill when he arrived and when he had no motion to make the Senate ad journed. —William Lauder, of the State Board of Education, is a Capitol visi tor. He helped frame the school code. —Representative Flynn, of Elk, was the object of a most unusual query last night. He had objected to a member voting because the member had admit ted he was out of the hall when his name was called. Mr. Kuhn, Greene, demanded to know the reason for the objection. The speaker ruled that the Elk man did not have to tell. The House had a laugh over it. —Congressman B. IC. Focht, of Lewsburg. looked in on the scene of his former legislative activities. —D. J. Driscoll. of St. Mans, for mer Democratic State chairman, was one of the legislature's visitors. —Two former senators, John J. Coyle and John C. Grady, were here yesterday in regard to the legislation affecting the Philadelphia city park way. They were colleagues years ago. —Dr. G. M. Phillips, principal of the West Chester normal school, was among the legislative visitors yester day. —J. H. Torrey, prominent Scranton lawyer, attended the hearing on the Catlin bill yesterday. —Ex-Senator E. H. James, of Hazle ton, spent several days here this week in connection with legislation. —The end of the session is in sight. The legislative correspondents had their picture taken to-day. —Francis Rawle, Jr., of Philadel phia, one of the country's famous lawyers, was here yesterday for legis lature hearings. —James B. Sansom, secretary of the AVild Life League, says that the last of the game legislation will be out of the way in a few weeks. —Four Philadelphians. Representa tives Roney, Walsh, Hackett and For ster, came to Harrisburg this week via Representative Hackett's auto. They reported a fine trip, without incident except when the auto shed a tire and caused the machine to be in danger of turning turtle. This occurred near Pottstown. They made the trip via Reading and Lebanon, as the roads on that route are much better than the via Lancaster route, and there is less toll to pay. Leaving Philadelphia at 1 p. m., they arrived at the Capitol at 9 p. m. . —Assistant District Attorney Maur ice J. Speiser, of Philadelphia, former member from the Second ward, Phila delphia. viewed the proceedings in the House to-day. This is his first visit to the Legislature since his incumbency of the Second ward seat In the House. Some of the members want him to re turn to participate in the "merrymak ing" which marks part of the conclud ing hours of each session. He was largely Instrumental in these proceed ings at the last session. SWEET INNO- /T| Mr*. Just wed V^(gj (to butcher): I S«Gf ' <JS want two pounds »f beofsteak, and I^S§s lave rare, BB . >lease, ISP f NO INDEED. V" To a wouldn't. I | marry a man just 1 because he had <\M| money, would j No, Indeed! He'd have to ~nJ»BMyiiiL^. agree to turn It 1, * * over to me. |j& g BRING BACK By Wing Dlngfr My family's away in the country, They've been there for some time, you see, And I have been figurine how X Could bring back my family to me. Chorus: Bring back, bring back. Bring back my family to me, to me, Bring back, bring back, Oh, bring back my family to me. I wrote that the circus is coming, , In answer a letter to me Says: "Dear Dad, get seats for the fam ily. We're coming the circus to see." Chorus: Good stunt, good stunt; That circus stuff worked well, you see, ynu see, I knew would do To bring back the family to me. NAPOLEON OUTDONE Tn a small town there was a veteran who was called Colonel Bingle. He was stored full of anecdotes about his life as a soldier, which had won him the unbounded admiration of a certain little boy in the town who was of a martial cast of mind. But never had the boy's admiration for the colonel found such complete expression as when he remarked to a little playmate: "Come on, Jimmy, let's play soldiers. You be Napoleon Bonaparte. I'll be Colonel Bingle!"—New York Times. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph, April 28, 1865] Johnston Surrenders to Grant Washington, April 28. Johnston's < I Were on the Sunny Side I of Prosperity Road I ese Spring days rush happily by, the house mmof good merchandise is fairly hum- MMW ming with activity—ministering Hrl ¥W to more P atrons > doing a larger TO I ||k volume of business than ever be- W| j m> fore in the Live Store's eventful ~ Jtß Truly the reward of good // lB work is more work—especially for // IM a store en l iste d in the service of /f Ijß/ so enlightened a public as ours. | II § And surely the fact that // ■ P eo P* e this community are ij coming to Doutrichs in such in creasing volume is full of meaning. COPYRIGHT 1015 THE HOUSE OF KUPPENHKIMKR It means for one thing that now, as never before, people know tne worth of every penny of every dollar and want equal value in return. It means furthermore that they know I exactly where such values are to be found. Spring Suits from such celebrated makers as The House of Kuppenheimer sls S2O $25 S3O 304 Market St. Harrisburg Pa. APRIL 28, 1915. | FOUR TIMES A . YEAR J We pay 3% interest, compounded every four months, on savings accounts of SI.OO and upwards. L. This means that in addition to being in absolute I "> safety, your savings when deposited with us will re turn you a good income. * # i The secret of wealth is found in the habit of syste matic saving—and this habit can best be cultivated with the assistance of a Savings Account in a strong • i ' financial institution. I I 'J Let us serve you. I | entire army surrendered to Grant on the 26th under .the same terms of fered to Lee. Johnston wants Jeff Davis and the rebel leaders pardoned. Taylor Ready to Surrender New Orleans, April 28.—1t was re ported here to-day by the authorities that the rebel leader, Dick Taylor, is ready to surrender. Change Day of Mourning Washington, April 28. President Johnson to-day changed the day of mourning for the late President's i death from May 25 to June 1. May I 25 is Ascension Day was the only rea son given. NEWS DISPATCHES OF THE CIVIL WAR [From the Telegraph, April* 28, IS65] Railroads Repair Bridges Railroads in the State are employ ing hundreds of men to repair the damage done to their bridges by the Spring floods. ■Court Session On Court sessions have been begun. The grand jury will give its report to morrow. Have President's Photograph Burnite Co., of this city, have the original negative of a photograph of President Lincoln and his son Willie.
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