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Youth should b* a tatingj bank.—Madame ,
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CANADIAN EXPORTS
C A CCORDING to the report of Con
sul General John G. Foster, Ot
tawa, Canada, our export trade
with that country fell off $119,000,000
for the calendar year 1914. as com
pared with 1913, while there was an
Increase in imports from Canada of
B| about $8,000,000, making a total loss (
■ to this country by reason of Canadian (
f competition of $127,000,000.
f The following are some of the ar- ,
tides given in the consul general's .
tabulation, showing Imports from Can- ,
ada into the United States, Canadian
valuations: Animals, (cattle, etc.), |
1913, $7,674,718, 1914, $13,104,754; ,
leather and manufactures of, 1918, .
$509,986, 1914, $3,758,401; milk and
cream, 1918, $1,405,681, 1914, $2,893,- ,
090; provisions, $1,358,287, 1914, $6,- ,
543,454; wood, manufactured, $4,- (
599.877, 1914, $7,217,810.
These articles went on the free list. ,
or the duties were materially reduced ,
by the Underwood law which went ,
j into effect October 3. 1913. ,
The report shows that, with the as
sistance of a Democratic tariff law, ,
Canada is able to raise large levies ,
I. of troops to send to Europe, as well ,
as food supplies to the allies, ,
and still" Increase appreciably her ex
ports to the United States to compete ,
with our own products.
EUTURE OF THE JITNEY
ALL the country is talking of the
Jitney, its present relation to
the transportation situation and
Its future. Anything bearing on the
matter is eagerly read. One of the
most interesting digests of the prob
lem Is presented in a report
of a committee to the Oak
land Chamber of Commerce and
Commercial Club after an Investiga
tion that included all of the leading
cities.
The committee calls attention to the
fact that in looking over the history
of urban transportation it finds the
horse car giving way to the cable car,
and the cable car (except under very
special conditions) to the electric trol
ley car. There was an economic Jus
tification for each change which made
it necessary and unavoidable. The
wiping out of investments in the
horse car, cable car. and earlier elec
tric car lines and equipment, and re
placement with the efficient and ex
pensive modern equipment, had its
Justification in the accompanying so
cial, physical and financial develop
ment and improvement of the people
and communities affected. It was re
flected in an incerase in property
values which greatly overshadowed
the immediate Investment in the
transportation system destroyed.
y Will the Jitney do this, the commit
-1 tee asks and then tries to answer tho
question from its findings.
It is quite conclusive that if the
motor bus comes to stay, it will not be
In the shape of the present Jitney, and
if the motor bus is to be the transporta
tion unit of the future, it will super
cede the electric car because It is
economically right, and in doing so, It
would Justify the replacement of the
present Investments by enhancing
the property values of the commu-
Ity, says the committee.
This Is the keynote from the stand
point of the report. Will the Jitney
relieve congestion in apartment or
tenement sections in the way that
every city in America is striving to
solve that problem, or will it only ag
gravate and increase the present diffi
culties? If i does not, what will be
come of the values beyond the
mile limit which the committee finds
to be the ultimate range of service of
the Jitneys? If the Jitney weakens the
present transportation systems which
draw the support for unprofitable lines
serving the outlying districts from the
section where traffic is densest, what
does it mean to the property owner
and the home owner in the suburbs of
Oakland, and the American city?
The committee believes that the Jit
ney bus, in a large measure, is due
to poor business, hard times and the
impossibility of men obtaining work
of any kind. "Many of these men al
ready owned small autos or had saved
enough money to buy an automobile,
i i n this way the; went into the
MONDAY EVENING,
Jitney bus business. For the present
they are doing something for them
selves and their families. Their time
is occupied and the nickels they take
In enable them to eat at tho expense
of their autobus. In other words, the
Jitney driver Is living upon his capi
tal. or the capital of some one else,
because tho Income la not sufficient to
provide for his living and the neces
sary operating expenses, plus fixed
charges and depreciation."
Extended investigations of the com
mittee showed them that the average
Jitney travels 137 miles per day with a
car mile Income of five and a half
cents. Considering depreciation and
coat of operation and allowing $3 to
the driver. It was found that even the
smallest Jitney could not run for less
than seven cants per mile. This em
phasizes the fact that most drivers
are living at the expense of their auto
bus and on their capital rather than
on their Income.
Investigation of certain standard
traction bonds In California, with a
par value of $107,422,000, showed a
shrinkage from December, 1914, to
March, 1916, of $8,887,000, or about
eight and rne-quarter per cent.
The ultimate effect of this Is appre
ciated by anyone who considers that
over $60,000,000 worth of California
electric railway bonds are held by
savings banks and local investors in
California, or, in other words, by home
people; $430,767,703 in outstanding
stocks and bonds was the total for
thirty street railroads on June 30,
1913. *The same applies, doubtless, to
other States.
California receives five and one
fourth per cent, of the gross income
of street railways, and the total tax
paid on gross income amounts to about
12 per cent. This means a total loss
to the public on principal lines of the
State $300,000 per annum, aside from
the other form of taxation placed by
the public upon street railways in the
building and maintenance of that por
tion of the street occupied by the
roadbed.
It was found In London, where
the motor bus has attained its great
est prominence, that whereas the
cost of maintaining a certain road
surface prior to the advent of the
motor bus was 6.483 d. per square
yard, it was increased to 13.403 d.
after one year of bus traffic, or
slightly over 100 per cent. In this
case it was the public—or in other
words, Middlesex County Council —
appearing in its own behalf to de
mand relief from a new burden of <
taxes imposed by the bus traffic.
During the rush hour from 5 to S
p. m., the average number of passen
gers transported in the. 6-cent limit
from the business center of Oakland
(a length of three blocks on Broadway)
Is 113,500. Approximately 13 Jitneys
would b.e required to give the same
carrying capacity as one street car.
In Oakland, to handle the above traf
fic requires 23 4 cars with a headway
of 15 seconds. To move the same
traffic with Jitneys at 13 to 1 would
require 3,000 cars.
No further argument need be ad
vanced as to the necessity for fewer
and larger transportation units in the
congested districts during rush hours
or normal, hours of .large trafpo.
The logical conclusion from the
committee's report is that if the pub
lic continues to support the Jitney, and
thereby weakens the street railways
and ultimately puts them out of busi
ness, they must expect a zone system
of fares, because the small Jitney can
not operate over a much longer route
than three miles at a profit. The
American cities have religiously
fought the zone system on account of
the destruction of property values and
the ongestion of population.
The report is not only interesting.
It is important and should be in the
hands of everybody Interested in the
Jitney question.
Governor Brumbaugh has passed the
Job of selecting the most distinguished
Pennsylvanian along to the news
papers. and the newspapers are passing
it along to their readers. Evidently
both are students of that eminent au
thority whose philosophy in life Is that
it is better to "Let George Do It."
THE ANTI-DRUG CRUSADE
THE government has Just com
pleted a round-up of violators of
the new anti-drug act at Erie.
Hundreds of prosecutions are now be
ing brought in the United States court
against persons who have sold habit
forming drugs in violation of the fed
eral statute. This was to be expected.
It is no matter of wonder that unscru
pulous persons have attempted to elude
the government agents in this line of
illicit trade. The returns are highly
profitable and the demand great on the
part of "drug fiends" who had ac
quired the habit previous to the enact
ment of the law and who were, and
are, willing to pay any price for means
of gratifying their cravings.
However, the federal web is drawing
around all of these. In a remarkably
short time the sale of habit-forming
drugs has become almost as rare as
the manufacture of "moonshine"
whisky or the counterfeiting of na
tional currency. Always we have had
criminals who would engage in either
and run the risk of being caught. Al
ways, also, secret service detectives are
apprehending these and sending them
to the penitentiaries for long terms.
The same will doubtless he true of
drug sellers, except that the demand
for "dope" will fall off steadily for the
reason that few, If any, new "dope
fiends" are being made. The pro
hibitory statute is being so vigorously
■ enforced and unscrupulous physicians
, and druggists are being so closely
! watched that few people In the future
! will have opportunity to contract the
t habit. And this Is the great benefit
that will come from the operations of
the new federal act.
Hudson Maxim says we spend enough
on chewing gum every year to build a
. battleship. But It wouldn't be so bad
If Bryan would only acquire the habit.
' The Sultan of Turkey is sick, and
; moat of us will agree that he has a
■ perfectly good excuse.
' There are worse places than Harrls
' burg In which to spend the month of
> June. ,
""PtKKQlffctfCuUa.
By the Ex-Oommlttecroaa
Pennsylvania's campaign for the Su
perior Court nominations seems to
have opened up with a rush. Nomi
nation papers for Judges Orlady and
Head are reported to have been started
out by their admirers In a score of
counties and papers are also reported
In circulation for Judge J. W. Bouton,
of McKean county, for one of the three
nominations and friends of ex-Judge
W. D. Wallace, of New Castle, are get
ting busy.
Nothing has come from the north
eastern part of the State as yet regard
ing the reported candidacy of Judge
11. A. Fuller, of the Luzerne bench.
The Judge was mentioned immediately
upon the announcement that Judge
Charles E. Rice would not bo a candi
date again and a boom was started for
him, but was not pushed.
Considerable Interest is being shown
here in the situation in the Miffltn-
Huntingdon-Bedford district, where
Judge Joseph M. Woods is a candi
date for re-election. What is inter
esting people here, is what Huntingdon
county will do, as Samuel I. Spyker Is
talked of as a possibleVandldate.
A boom was started in Philadelphia
last night for Joseph P. Rogers, assist
ant district attorney, for one of the
Judicial nominations. Rogers has often
visited here.
A New York story Is to the effect
that Justice A. Mitchell Palmer will
leave the Court of Claims to become
counselor of the State Department, the
place made vacant by promotion of
Secretary Lansing.
Representative William T. Ramsey,
who represents the district compris
ing the city of Chester, has declined
the proffer of support of his friends
for the Republican nomination for
mayor. He says the work of a legis
lator is entirely congenial and that as
matters are now he intends to be a
candidate to succeed himself In the
General Assembly.
Because Governor Tener, Repub
lican, named to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Judge Henry K. Wean,
a Republican, John Faber Miller, a
Republican, the friends of Judge Mil
ler argue and expect that the Repub
licans of Montgomery county will in
dorse the action of the Republican
Governor by according him the usual
nomination for the office to which he
was appointed. C. Henry Stlnson, of
Norristown, and William P. Young, of
Pottstown, a Bull Mooser, are other
announced candidates.
—The Kolb dinner in Philadelphia
has started much talk about the may
oralty in that city, probably the big
gest political factor in the State Just
now. City Chairman Lane is still
working to get a "neutral" candidate,
one that will tie acceptable to all sides.
The independents profess to be en
couraged at the outlook, but the Dem
ocrats are split up the back again.
—Wllkinsburg will have a special
elect on in August on a loan of $125,-
000 lor imporvements.
—W. M. McKean, former district
attorney of Northampton, will be a
candidate for Judge of that county.
NATURALIZATION INCREASES
[Washington Post.]
The great increase in the number of
applicants for citizenship papers in
Chicago and most of the other large
cities indicates that the hyphen is
gradually disappearing from Ameri
canism.
Originally there was a general belief
that the increase in naturalization was
due to the fear of many alien residents
of the United States that they might
be called upon to fight for the country
of their birth unless they became citi
zens of the United States. Lately, how
ever. it has become clear that the rea
son for the increase is simply that the
aliens wish to remove all doubt as to
where their allegiance lies.
It is pretty well known that there
are about 8,000,000 Germans and about
2.000.000 Austrians In the United
States, but these figures represent a
combination of those actually born in
Germany and Austria, with those born
in this country of foreign or mixed
parentage.
What is more significant is that
there are actually two and half mil
lion of foreign-horn Germans in this
country exclusive of those born of for
eign parents. Likewise there are more
than a million Austrians and half a
million Hungarians.
MORE GERMAN THOROUGHNESS
[St Paul Pioneer Press.]
The world has heard much of Ger
man preparation and thoroughness
since the beginning of the war and
new examples of it are discovered
nearly every day. Two very striking
illustrations have Just come to view.
The one has to do with Germany's
marvelous preparedness for war, the
other with her struggle so to utilize
her foodstuff resources as to prevent
famine.
Former Senator W. A. Clark, the
copper magnate, related recently how
for three years preceding the outbreak
of war Germany had taken half the
annual supply of copper produced in
the United States, or as much as the
rest of the world put together. Ger
many's purchases amounted to
6C0.000.000 pounds a year. Senator
Clark declared that it Vas impossible
for Germany to have used all this in
her industries, and that she must have
been hoarding it. as she would gold,
against the possibility of war.
The other illustration will Interest
housewives especially. One of the
American delegates to The Hague
Peace Conference, who also visited
Berlin, tells of an interview with Frau
Heyl, "the most powerful woman in
Germany." who has written five cook
books —"one for the North, one for
the South, one for the East, one for
the West and one for Central Ger
many. This enables us to utilize the
foods that grow in each part of the
country."
REVOCATION AS A REMEDY
[Pittsburgh Gazette Times.]
Commissioner Cunningham of the
Department of Highways at Harris
burg yesterday revoked the automo
bile license of a Johnstown man for
operating his car while intoxicated.
The culprit had pleaded guilty to the
charge before Johnstown's mayor so
there is no doubt of his offending.
This remedy for the evil of reckless
driving of motor vehicles, if applied
in every instance in which opportunity
is presented, ought to work a two
fold reform. It will make our city
streets and country thoroughfares
safer and It will contribute to tem
perance. Considering the enormous
number of automobiles In the State,
and the immense popularity they have
attained. It is a sure thing that when
men discover they may not run their
machines and be drunk at the same
time, without risk of losing the privi
lege of handling the steering wheel
inri the right to operate, thev will ad-
| just their habits to suit conditions;
and when that is done there will be
| less reckless driving.
If the police authorities are alive
to their duty they will inform the de
partment at Harrisburg of every case
like that of the Johnstown man, and
thus simplify the task of minimising
k a nuisance and a public danger. t
HARRIBBURG TELEGRAPH
This Is the second cartoon of a series by L.. R. Key, a young Harrisburg art student .of prominence. Mr.
Ney is drawing a series of these cartoons especially for the Telegraph. They will appear at Intervals of about
* one week during the summer.
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE
—A resident of Bethlehem sustained j
a stroke of apoplexy while picking •
cherries and a York man was painfully
Injured by falling from a cherry tree.
Farmer boys in search of excuses, at
tention!
—Perhaps It's only natural that straw
votes do not become popular untjl aftei
the harvest season.
—Many a man who bought a Panama
hat this year with the excuse that It
will do for three or four summers,
knows In his heart that he will buy a
new one next year.
—The funniest thing about the posi
tion taken by those who contend that
prohibition does not prohibit is the
efforts they are making to keep prohi
bition from not prohibiting .
■—The final plunge of the politically
lost is taken immediately after he de
nounces the newspapers enmasse.
—Straws show which way the wind is
blowing, but then, so do the flimsy
gowns the summer girl is wearing. "
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EDITORIAL COMMENT I
A GREAT JOKER
Villa offers to resign, but the min
ute they are congratulating htm he
takes second thought and a town or
two. —Atlanta Constitution.
MAYBE T. R. IS URGING HIM ON
It is said that Mr. Barnes will ap
peal that libel suit. How that man
must love to hear Roosevelt talk!—
Philadelphia Inquirer.
BEEN DONE BEFORE
"Billy" Sunday is accused by his
secretary of "borrowing" his sermons.
Many better preachers than "Billy"
have done this, but not many were
able to make it an act of savins
grace.—Rochester Herald.
NEW GLOSSARY NEEDED
Reinforced glossary of war and
medical terms is sadly needed. Just
confuses the ordinary mortal to read
that a man was wounded between
the Dnelster and the Pruth. New
York Evening Telegram.
GREECE AND ITS OPPORTUNITY
[From the New York Herald.]
Can Greece sit complacent under the
prospect of Italy joining In the division
of Turkish spoils? Can she conte-nplate
the possibility of that portion of Asia
Minor confronting the Aegean whore
Greek population dominates falling in
to the hands of any other nation than
herself?
The time is fast approaching when
Greeks must determine whether the
Greater Greece of national aspiration Is
to become a reality or a dream un
fulfilled.
1 BOOKS AND MAGAZINES"
Gertrude Atherton is now at home
from the hospital, recovering from her
serious illness. Instead of going to
California for the exposition, she ex :
pects to spend the summer In New
York and has taken an apartment
near Riverside Drive. The publication
of Mrs. Atherton's latest book, "Cali
fornia: An Intimate History," was
timed to meet the demands of exposi
tion visitors who might desire a color
ful account of California's history.
"Empty Pockets," Rupert Hughes'
new novel, Is published this week by
the Harper®. It la a baffling mystery
of the last year In a man's life, and of
the men and women who entered into
It. The hero was found murdered on
the roof of a tenement house and In
his hand he clutched strands of red
hair. Now each of the women In the
story, the young and charitable daugh
ter of a millionaire, the beautiful Rus
sian Jewess, the wife of a gun-man,
and others, all hnd red hair, and each
had cause to wish the murdered man
harm. Not until almost the end of
the book Is It possible to guess which
one is guilty. Like a Dickens novel,
"Empty Pockets" is a very hive of
men and women of different classes
whose lives and loves are tangled to
gether.
CHOOSING SIDES
CAREER OF BARON STIEGEL
(From New York Evening Post)
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pennsyl
vania. cherishes the memory of a
glassmaking Colonial, Baron
Stiegel. Legend tells of his eccentrici
ties and extravagances. The piety of
modern times holds annually, at Man
helm, where his factory was. a Feast
of Roses In his memory. Such is the
legend that Freedrick William Hunter,
in the handsome volume, "Stiegel
Glass," has investigated with scientific
accuracy. Naturally some abatement of
the legend results from Mr. Hunter's
discovery and sifting of actual docu
ments. For example, the only decu
mentary proof that Stiegel was ever
a. baron is the doggerel couplet on cer
tain stoves which he cast at Eliza
beth Furnace:
Baron Stiegel Ist der Mann
Der die Oefen glessen kann.
Evidently Baron was merely a nick
name. It was an appropriate one for
the man. Born at Cologne in 1729,
moving to Pensylvania in his twenty
first year, Henry William Stiegel
promptly married an ironfounder's
daughter and began a sensational ca
reer as a rpanufacturer. By his twen
ty-sixth year he had taken over Eliza
beth Furnace, his father-in-law's
property, with two partners. Char
acteristically, he soon quarreled with
them, and began to extend his activi
ties. From records and excavations
on the spot, Mr. Hunter proves that
Stiegel began making glass at Eliza
beth Furnace as early as 1763. The
next year he went to England, prob
ably to plan for the famous flint
glass works which were soon to rise at
Manheim. The first factory ran about
four years, and closed down in 1769 in
financial difficulties. Undeterred by
his bad luck, Stiegel was already build
ing on a larger scale, and adding to
his coarser product colored, cut, and
enameled glass in great variety. For
the time he advertised freely. His
agents in Philadelphia and New York
urged the purchase of Stiegel glass
as a patriotic duty. Boston, how
ever, would only buy his excellent
product when represented as import
ed. Visions of fortune hovered be
fore the Baron. His progress from
and to Manheim were made with four
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR^
SAYS UEKMAXY WILL WIN
To the Editor of the Telegraph;
Steelton. Pa., June 28, 1915.
I challenge your editorial of June
25th, anent, "War Is Not Over." The
heading I do not challenge, but your
arguments as well as Its conclusions.
Look at facts and conditions as they
are and not as you wish them to be.
The comparison of the North and the
South have not the least similarity on
German conditions or upon the con
ditions of the European war. Ger
many and Austria are able to develop
themselves. They have mighty big
factories, and an immense amount of
war material stored up, which will last
them for ten years. It would make
your eyes dazzle to see how the Ger
mans store up for the future.
Now, Mr. Editor, when you speak
of defeat you must show me the vic
tories of the Allies. There are none.
German strategists are just as able to
judge as those of the allies. When
ever the allies were defeated, they
withdrew for strategetical reasons.
The Germans do the same, but they
have not been overwhelmed yet in a
single case. The English navy is
paralyzed by German strategy and
when it comes to speak of victory
there is none on either side as yet,
although the English are the heaviest
loosers. Germany is able to send
nearly all English and. French men-of
war to the bottom of the sea. The
world has advanced since 1861-1865,
and let me tell you that Farragut was
in the same position as Germany Is
In regard to England. The number
alone does not win a battle. Russia
is done for; Franc© Is impoverished;
1 England has yet her money and men,
, but no lighting material. Italy Is no
1 good, It always played the black
handed game. Beggars, thieves, organ-
I grinders and blackhanders. But Eng
land is making the attempt to get
another class —the Balkan States—
which are the cut-throats.
Let. me tell you, that a victory of
these would mean the greatest calam
ity the world ever had seen. Will
they be victorious? Never! England
with all its hosts will get whipped;
even If the war would last 10 years,
England Is a sport-ridden country—
Land what is the saddest theory Is ttj
JUNE 28, 1915.
horses preceded by outriders and a
pack of hounds. Yet the Glass House
never really paid. The Baron was
careless about details, a ready bor
rower, a bad bookkeeper. As early
as 1773 he sought the desperate ex
pedient of a lottery to keep Manhelm
afloat. In August of 1774 Manheim
was advertised by the sheriff of Lan
caster county for debts approximating
£II,OOO. The bubble had burst. The
Baron sojourned for a time in debtors'
prison. An ejaculation in his book of
devotions • shows that, like most ad
venturers of his sanguine tempera
ment, his conscience was good. He
ignores his own recklessness and mere
ly invokes the Lord against his ene
mies.
To follow the sinking fortunes of
the Baron is unnecessary. As an em
ploye at his old Elizabeth Furnace, he
helped cast cannon balls for Wash
ington. He enrolled in the militia,
but apparently never fought. In the
last ten years he moved several times,
living as a dependent. In 1779 he
sold the two faithful slaves who had
long served him. There is a tradition
that he taught school. In 1785, in
his fifty-sixth year, he died, and no
body took the pains to ma,rk his
grave. It is odd that our earliest
type t>f the speculative manufacturer
should have been a German. Stiegel
in his energy, unbounded hopefulness,
lack of method, and waiver of ordi
nary prudence, is the spiritual father
of millions of subsequent promoters.
His interest, like theirs, is not in the
tedium of execution, but In the glor
ies of conception. There is something
of the artist in the type. Stiegel does
not seem to have invented much, but
at least he tried to put his product
on the level of the best that Europe
then made. Mr. Hunter has spared no
pains in identifying the Manhelm
pieces. He gives reproductions of no
less than 158, with eight separate
color plates. While the book is a
model of exhaustive research, its cau
tious antiquarianism is enlivened by
wit'and humor. It is indispensable to
collectors of Colonial American glass,
and it is equally interesting as local
history and biography. The buckram
clad ocavio is beautifully made at the
Riverside Press, the edition limited to
420 copies.
expects even the United States to take
up arms in favor of her. If America
would have a Jefferson or a Cleveland
as president, there would be trouble
with England, but not with Germany,
which is defending a just cause for
all nations on earth.
Tours truly,
C. F. TIEMANN,
Evangelical Lutheran Pastor,
206 S. Third St.
WORTH LEARNING
Miss Gladys was rather a flippant
young lady, and just so was her friend.
Of late meetings between the two had
been few and far between.
Gladys' friend could not fathom the
reason why. and In order to satisfy her
curiosity she called one afternoon.
"No, mum. Miss Gladys is not in," the
maid Informed her. "She has gone to
the class."
"Why, what class?" Inquired the
caller. In surprise.
"Well, mum, you know Miss Gladys
is getting married soon. So she's tak
ing a couple of lessons in domestic
science."—Exchange.
Our Daily Laugh
the po ° R
\Ty Mary Elephant:
Vs —) 0) Oh my goodnessl
that mouße
Ja&fJr f run up my trunk
jflr: f and I haven't ■
chair to stand on.
" <S ~'
NO CINCH.
How the hoe
looked to little
Willy Cityboy af- /jCjfl
tor his flrst hour
at farmwork!
icbrnmg Qlbat
*ih«j fact that quail, have been heard
calling In Reservoir Park and in
fields about Pajctang, grouse have
been beard "drumming" In Wildwood
Park and wild turkeys seen on First
Mountain within sigh' of the dome of
the State Capitol, to say nothing of the
deer swimming the river at Dauphin,
calls to mind that the State authori
ties are making good in a promise a
few years ago. When the hunter's
license act was first agitated the claim
was made, rather grandiloquently it
was thought that the game would be
brought back to Pennsylvania. Game
| has been bought and turned loose,
! some of It not far from Harrlsburg,
j but what has taken place has been an
Increase in public sentiment toward
hunting. It used to be that some peo
ple went hunting and fired on every
thing that had feathers or fur, chick
ens and dogs not escaping. But that
was ten years ago, before the laws
relative to killing of male deer with
horns only and forbidding killing of
turkeys as well as limiting the quail
season became operative. Since that
time there has been a marked change
in the public idea about game. Soma
hunters are just as keen as ever after
the birds and deer and hare, but there
are others who prefer the sport and
do not think so much of the size of
the bag. If a couple of counties in
this section could be closed to all
kinds of hunting for three or five years
the result would be a joy not only to
the hunter but the nature-lover. This
county abounds in places Ideal for
game to breed and undisturbed by
hunters from one year's end to an
other. Perhaps, Wildwood park would
become a sort of native Pennsylvania
zoo after all.
The tennis court at Melrose, out in
the eastern end of the East End, is
one of the prettiest places now to he
seen about the city. Roses of the
climbing variety have been trained
about the wire netting and they are
new in full bloom, affording red,
white, and pink blossoms. The court
attracts more attention than most
flower gardens.
A man who follows very closely the
movements of foreigners says that
the number of residents of Steelton
and this city who have gone back to
fight in the last year is far less than
one would suppose and that there are
men 'working here who are liable to
recall to military service who show no
intention of returning. Some of these
men have answered recalls to war
by inquiring of officials the require
ments for citizenship.
A Pittsburgh friend sends an inter
esting article on the way streets con
necting with Pittsburgh are being re
named by the boroughs and townships
through which they pass. Some tima
ago attention was called in this col
umn to the method adopted by tha
Wilkes-Barre City Planning Commis
sion in securing uniform names ol
streets, it being the scheme to have
the various small municipalities agree.
In Pittsburgh all streets and avenues
connecting the city with surrounding
municipal divisions are to be renum
bered to conform to the Pittsburgh
base. The city numbers will be con
tinued in all directions from the city.
The plan has the endorsement of va
rious district boards of trade, tha
post office and the city administration
as well as of numerous borough au
thorities. It would not be a had plan
for Steelton, Paxtang and Penbroob
to do the same thing with Harrisburg.
Harrisburg friends of Dr. J T.
Rothrock, the veteran forestery corn 4
missioner and conservationist, will be
interested to learn that he has agreed
to take charge of the publication
known as Forest Leaves, which is tha
organ of the State Forestry Associa
tion. This publication under the late
John Birktnbine was an interesting
1 one and dealt with conservation in a
! practical way. Dr. Rothrock's man
agement of It is expected to make it
exceedingly virile as he Is a vigorous
writer and the subject of conserva
tion is closest to his heart.
Market and Third streets had a fun
ny, and yet annoying, blockade tha
other evening. An automobile which
had been stopped to allow traffic to go
in the other direction suddenly stall
ed. The man got out and cranked
three times before he got under way
and as he was, exactly in the middle he
held up things four ways. When he
got started there were a couple of
parades of automobiles through grin
ning throngs.
Col. Harry C. Trexler, quartermaster
general of the National Guard, haa
been elected president of the city
planning commission of Allentown.
The colonel is one of the most progres
sive men in the city by the Lehigh
and his development of his own
properties has shown him to be
a m. t n of advanced ideas. He is well
known to many Harrisburgers.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Senator S. R. Catlin, of Wilkes-
Barre, has offered a right of way to a
trollev company if it will build a line.
The Rev. Dr. Maitland Alexander,
a former moderator of the Presbyte
rian Church, dedicated the new
church at Ebensburg yesterday.
—Senator T. M. Kurtz, of Punxsu
tawney. has gone to the San Francis
co exposition.
—President E. E. Sparks of State
College, has been making a tour of
the State's extension schools.
—Mayor Armstrong, of Pittsburgh,
is Just now the object of some suffra
gist interviewers.
—Ex-Judge Harmon Terkes, of
Doylestown. has been elected presi
dent of the Pennsylvania German so
ciety.
| DO YOU KNOW 1
That Harrisburg will make big
shipments of wheat this summer
and Fall?
CAN* W ORDS DO IT?
Mr. Bryan is inducing every editor
in the country to act as his press agent
while he discusses the "causeless war."
but he has not yet convinced us how
war is woing to be made an impos
sibility in the future. The Nebraskan\s
flow of words is amazing, and if wordn
will stop Von Hindenburg and Von ~
Mackenscn and the other vons, he
should be able to do it. Mr. Bryan
talked himself out of the presidency •
twice and out of the cabinet once, so
It can bo seen that his qualifications
are not to be despised.—New Castle ,
News.
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