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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|
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want two pounds
»f beofsteak, and I^S§s
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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.