8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH hslabluhed ißll PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. B. 3. STACKPOLB President and Editer-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 216 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story A Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building; Chicago, 111., Allen A Ward. Delivered by carriers at nix cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at SB.OO a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. ■worn daljy average circulation for the three months ending Jnne 30, 1015 ★ 21,231 ★ Average for the year 1814—21,5 M Average for the year 1018—10,092 Average for the year 1012—10,640 Average for (lie yenr 1011—17,M3 Average for the year 101ft—ld,5M The above figures are net. All re turned, unsold and damaged copies de ducted. TUESDAY EVENING, JULY •. Every m<m should measure himself by his earn actions.—Homes. MR. KENNEDY AND CONCERTS TO George G. Kennedy, formerly head of the city water depart ment, and as such at that time in charge of Reservoir Park, whose death occurred Friday night, the peo ple of Harrlsburg owe a debt of grati tude for his making free band concerts a feature of summer life in Harrlsburg. In the very early days, when Reser voir Park seemed a long way from the center of the city and when it was not the popular resort it is to-day, Mr. Kennedy conceived the Idea of giving free band concerts there. At that time the city had no golf courses, no playgrounds, no tennis courts, no oaseball diamonds, no public camping places, no municipal amusements or recreations whatsoever. Neither had it any money with which to give band concerts, so Mr. Kennedy went out among the public-spirited men of Har rlsburg and faised a fund for the pur pose. Not only one year did he do this, but many. Single handed and alone he did this work year after year until the free band concert became a permanent Institution In Harrlsburg. Mr. Kennedy was for many years prominent In the public life of the city, but he will be remembered as the founder 1 of the free band concert long after his other activities have been forgotten. The Carnegie Hero Fund has made swards for fifty-two deeds of daring; but the list does not contain the name of the man who tried to keep his fac tory running on full time under the Underwood tariff law. FATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE MORE is being written upon the subject of what is to become of Constantinople after the war than of ..ny other phase of the hostili ties now in progress in Europe. Aside from the Importance of this ancient port on the future of Europe in peace and in war there is a historic interest in the fate of Constantinople beyond that of any other city in all Europe. The great question is, Shall the "veil and the sword of the prophet" pass forever out of Europe? Shall Islam be sent scurrying across the Galata bridge, back into Asia, the cross raised anew over St. Sophia, finis be written to the long, blood-smeared chapter of the khaliflate in ancient Byzantium? And, if so, what shall be the future of the city of Constantine, queen of that wonderful world-water separating the senior continents of the earth, age-old rival of Rome and of Athens, one with the Eternal City in its "seven hills" and epoch-making history, richer even than Athens in its nature-endowed tnrone perched where but half a mile of swift-flowing current divides Europe and Asia? Shall it pass into the hands of the Czar as a new winter capital, to be Russia's long-desiped maritime me tropolis, her "window looking out onto the Levant?" Possession of Con stantinople would linpiy control of the Dardanelles. Control of the Darda nelles would open to the great Inland S'3a the floodgates of Russian com merce, thus far bottled up within the Black Sea and the Caspian. Would England assent? Would France as- Bent? Forty per cent, of the total export anil import trade of Constantinople is British. British "Jingoism"—the term "Jingo" as now applied—had its birth In British determination that Russia shall not own Constantinople. In Jan uary, 1878, Russian guns were trained upon the last line of defense of the Sublfrne Porte. A Russian fleet and Russian armies threatened Constan tinople from land and sea. The doom of Turkey in Europe seemed sealed. England was swept by a renewal of the war fever of twenty years before when Russia was humbled by British steel and British bravery at Balaklava. and Sebaatopol. Then a British fleet made its ap pearance on the Bosphorus. Russia did not get Constantinople. Constantinople is the key to the great trade routes of the Near East. As far as one can Judge, the French are not more eager than the English to present this key to Russia. Constantinople in the hands of the Anglo-Franco-Russian allies may TUESDAY EVENING, tl<reaten the durability of the alliance —unless these three world powers re solve upon some common policy which would remove Constantinople from in ternational political jealousies. Can this b« done? Many students of the eastern question believe it Bhould be done. Kussia has at least a moral right to an outlet Into the Mediterranean. She can be given such an outlet without making her sole mistress of the Golden Horn and the Hellespont. While as the recognized leader of the Greek, or Orthodox. Christian Church Russia very naturally aspires to succeed the Sultan In possession of Ylldlz Kiosk, political control of Stamboul is not es sential to Russia's safety or commer cial success. An "open door" into the Levant would suffice. The neutralization of the Darda nelles would provide this "open door." Certainly Russia will be entitled to de mand at least this much if the fortunes of war permit Russia and her allies to dictate favorable terms of peace. But the neutralization of the Dar danelles cannot be effectually guaran teed with Constantinople, the key, in Turkish hands, in Russian hands or in the hands of any one nation. Inter national jealousies require international supervision, international control. This fact suggests a permanent solu tion of the eastern question—which Is very largely Constantinople—along lines which would give realization to an ideal, old as civilization Itself, but very recently crystallized into concrete shape for serious consideration—a world city, a world center—a city of peace, and for peace, upon the site of the "Thorn of Europe"—the Stamboui of Gladstone's "Unspeakable Turk." Why not a world city of peace, as someone has suggested, as the mod ernized evolution of the city of Con stantino? The suitability, the avail ability of the site itself, would solve a serious problem. There, on soli made sacred by the most heroic and most tragic events in the long period of contest between western and eastern civilization. East and West might meet in amity, in in telligent comprehension, in world thought and In world effort for a bet ter, more peaceful, more progressive universe. The New York Mall declares that Roosevelt has not "come back." He "was never out," it says. All right, we will not quibble about words. The main thing is that most of his party has "come back," anyway. HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS A STRANGE fatality appears to accompany every holiday sea son. Turn thousands of people away from their ordinary pursuits and permit them to go their ways in search of pleasure and almost inevitably the front pages of the newspapers the day following are covered with accounts of accidents and tragedies to the exclu sion of almost any other kind of news. Yesterday was no exception. Har risburg, Hummelstown, Lewistown and Philadelphia figured large in the fatality list. There seems to be no remedy It, for ihe reason that t 'ere is no set reason; no cause that may be definitely pointed out as something to avoid. Probably the real reason lies in the unusually large number of people abroad who are either not accustomed to doing the things In which they are engaged or are made careless by the laxness of the holiday spirit to which Americans give themselves with so much zest when the occasion offers. The Wisconsin anti-treating law per mits one to offer refreshments to his relatives only. That's the way a good many Democrats feel about Federal patronage. LANSING'S OPPORTUNITY IT took years of persistent and con sistent effort on the part of such able statesmen as John Hay, Ellhu Root and Philander C. Knox to bring the American diplomatic service to a standard of excellence that aroused pride at home and commanded respect abroad. But it only took a few months of management of the State Depart ment under the plan of finding places for "deserving Democrats" to make American diplomacy a laughing stock among all foreign nations. The disgraceful incident in connec tion with the short-lived appointment to St. Petersburg was but an Intro duction to other misfit appointments. Appointment of Democrats by a Demo cratic administration was to be looked for, but the American people had a right to expect that the search would be for "qualified" Democrats and not merely "deserving" Democrats. Herein lay the difference between success and failure, the dividing line between re spect and contempt. This was to have been expected, however, from a Secretary of State appointed merely to pay a political debt, and It is also to be expected that there will be no more such disgraceful incidents with Secretary of State Lansing in Bryan's chair at Wash ington. THE NEW ASPHALT PLANT THERE is work aplenty for the new asphalt repair plant. The streets of the city are in bad con dition, in a large part due to the heritage left the present administration by the unwillingness of the former Highway Commissioner to Insist on the contractor living up to the terms of his agreement. However, not a little of the present trouble can be traced to the cutting of the asphalt for the laying if pipes. Of course, much of this cutting has been unavoidable. Repairs and the growth of the city are to some degree re sponsible. But there has been much damage done also by the laying of pipes that should have heen placed be fore the paving was laid. The city would he Justified in re quiring by ordinance that all public service and municipal pipes be put in before the asphalt Is laid. In this way only can a repetition of much of the present damage be avoided. By the Ei-Oommltteemu ■'" ■ ■ ■■■' A good many people in this part of the State are taking an Interest In the candidacy of J. Henry Williams, of Philadelphia, for the Superior Court and it is expected that his entrance into the field will mean many more candidates. The terms of three of the present Superior Court judges expire this year. They are President Judge Charles E. Rice, of Luzerne, and George B. Orlady, of Huntingdon, Re publicans, and John B. Head, of West moreland, Democrat. Judge Rice does not aspire to succeed himself. Judges Orlady and Head are candidates for re-election and have been indorsed by many members of the bar throughout the State. Under the provisions of an act passed at the recent session of the Legislature, minority representa tion on the Superior Court has been abolished and each voter both at the primaries and the general election will be entitled to vote for as many candi dates as there are to be elected. For some time friends of City So licitor Michael J. Ryan have been urg ing him to become a candidate for the Superior Court, but up to date he has declined to give them any encourage ment to look for him to enter the race. Among those in the interior of the State whose names will appear upon the primary ballot for the Superior Court are ex-Common Pleas Judge Harold M. McClure. of the Union- Snyder district; Common Pleas Judge Joseph W. Bouion. of McKean county; Common Pleas Judge Emory A. Wall ing, of Erie, and ex-Judge W. D. Wal lace. of Lawrence county. It is ex pected that there will be a number of others enter the contest and that the struggle will be one of the most In teresting in recent years. There is an unquestioned sentiment among mem bers of the bar in favor of the re election of Judges Orlady and Head. People in the upper end of Dauphin county and a good many In the lower end, as well as the city, were grinning to-day over the announcement by County Commissioner John H. Eby that he would be a candidate for Democratic nomination as county com missioner. There are some recollec tions, say folks, of a statement made by Eby when he was elected commis sioner that he would not seek renomi nation. It is not believed that Eby will be a serious contender If he should be nominated, as he represents onlv one segment of the badly shattered Democracy. —Down in Montgomery county the Bull Moosers have adopted a new plan to get back into the Republican fold. They have formed what is called the Republican League and the object is to prevent the ticket being made up this Fall of old-time Republicans. The ex-Bull Moosers want a share. —Philadelphia people are waiting to see for which court George McCurdy and Joseph P. Rogers make a move. They have not announced which court they will try. Judges Finletter and Shoemaker will not be opposed. —Republican leaders of the Twentv fourth congressional district will have a confab in Pittsburgh this week to agree on a candidate. Among those mentioned are C. E. Carothers, former member of the House from Washing ton; ex-Congressman C. N. Matthews, New Castle; John Elliott, Beaver, and J- C. Sutherland, Washington. Henry W. Temple, former congressman, who won in the Bull Moose year, would like to be nominated, but the Repub licans have not heard of his retire ment from the Washington party as yet. —»lt is expected that formal an nouncement will be made in a few days of the candidacy or Sheriff Harry C. Wells as a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for county commis sioner. The sheriff has had his eve on the nomination for some tinie. Samuel Taylor will also be in the run ning. —The political ruction caused in Al legheny by the retirement of Senator Oliver has caused a multitude of can didates to enter the field for city and county nominations and the 'most complicated campaign ever known in that county is in sight. —Victor Burchel, the new chairman of the Lackawanna county committee, is making every effort to get harmony in the ranks of the Democracy. The kickers now assert that the newVrules take the power away from the people and that the reorganization element will be able to do what it wills. The new chairman is trying to dispell this idea. —People in Philadelphia generally believe that Congressman Vare has about made up his mind to make a try for mayor and an announcement is expected in a few days. It is said that the Vares count on the support of the Governor, who had been supposed to favor the naming of Louis J. Kolb. —Alfred L. Reichenbach, city treas urer of Allentown, well-known here, is a candidate for mayor of the city on the Lehigh. —Henry Butler, county commis sioner of Lackawanna, is a candidate for re-election. Patrick J. Boland, Joseph Jennings and John T. Loftus, well-known Democrats, are also can didates for the nominations. The Re publicans have somewhat of a fight on hand. too. —"Farmer" Creasy is out with a new assault on the system of appro priations by the legislature and does not like the way they were handled by the chairmen of the appropriations committees or the Governor. He uses the statement of State Treasurer R. K. Young as a text for a broadside. [ TELEORAPHPERISCOPE —Charles M. Eberhart has received $2,600 by the will of Samuel Walston, Newcomb, N. Y., for sitting up nights telling him stories. This beats the Job of the lady who is said to be re sponsible for the tales of the Arabian Nights. —A Windham, N. Y„ man found a pint of rtiilk and a punch in the stom ach of a snake, which he says he killed when he found it milking one of his cows. Probably the snake was employ ed during working hours as a street car conductor. —Farmers are complaining over the low price of wheat, due to the large acreage last Fall, but the baker con tinues to smile as he loafs along. —The fruit crop looks big, but not a bit bigger than the crop of political candidates that are ripening for the plucking. —"Jitney argument date to be set this week," says a newspaper head line. We thought there were jitney arguments every day. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT "Freedom of the sea" Is progressing nicely, and the sea will soon be free of Pacific Mail ships.—Wall Street Jour nal. Of course, one has to keep in mind the practically inexhaustible territory Russia has to fall back on.—Washing ton Post HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH "NOW FOR HOME" The cartoon represents a scene In front of the Capitol that may be witnessed any day. It tells its own little story in a way that needs no words to explain. Mr. Key. the artist, is a Harrisburg student. He is drawing this series for the Telegraph, from impressions gathered, in walks about the city. Our Daily Laugh NO RUSH. Weary: Say ypHtn boss, kin I have SggPJO one of dese ap- ? Farmer: Why, JJSy they won't be ripe for six months wlStfg Weary: Oh, I ' s2_«rl r ~fiP ain't in no hurry! .feaT I'll wait. SOME GAME. Well how'd the game come out t/pR| three black eyes one busted WORSE: THAN POWDER Bj- Wing Dinner The family's home from the country. Where it spent the Fourth safe and sane. Each moment was brimful of pleasure, On that score it cannot complain. The kids have no powder-burnt fingers From cracker, or pistol, or gun, For all of the time was devote^ To safe and sane methods of fun. Baseball and such games were Indulged In, A trip 'round the golf course, or two. And probably ten sets at tennis Were some of the things we did do. And while we were not burnt with powder While having this safe and sane fun, I'll tell you we all got a good dose Of burn from the blazing hot sun. IN HARRISBURO FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph of July 6, 1565.] Arrival of Soldier* The One Hundredth Pennsylvania Regiment arrived here this morning, numbering 800 men. f;rent Hunter Here Seth Kinman, the great California hunter, passed through this city on his way East to-day. Counties Oppose Secession Residents in Warren. Venango and Crawford are opposed to the formation of a new county from land taken from each of the three divisions. r Beat the Drum, Mr. Retailer What's the use of having a drum if you never beat It? In other words, what good are opportunities to you if you don't use them? When the manufacturer ad vertises his brands In this news paper he is tuning up a drum fdr retailers to beat. They must do their part by showing these newspaper adver tised goods. Then the public read about the goods and see the goods at the same time. Sales follow this sort of "drum beating." PALMER WRITES By FREDERICK PALMER British Headquarters, France, July 6.—"How are the turrets? Still hold ing out?" they ask up and down the Hues of any one who has come from Ypres. Everybody has a tender per sonal interest in the turrets of the old Cloth Hall which deepens with each day that they survive in defiance of the German gunners above the wreck age wrought by German shells. People are still living in Rheims and Lou vain, but Ypresis absolutely a dead city; dead as Pom pel; dead as a deserted mining camp in Alaska. No face appears in any door or window that can still be called a door or win dow; no figures are seen .moving] through the shell holes in walls that are still standing Before the war Ypres had some I eighteen thousand inhabitants. Now it has not a single one. No one is making any effort to make any ruin habitable. The only signs of life ex cept occasional soldiers coming out and going to the lines are cats grown wild which become streaks of fur dis , appearing among the ruins of their former homes. i The Cathedral which stands back of the Cloth Hall was a noble edifice no doubt; but there are a great many cathedrals in Europe. The Cloth Hall is unique; the best of its kind. Any one who ever saw it always remem bered its turrets. Different conquerors of Ypres put her women and children to the sword but no one had even harmed the old Cloth Hall beyond tak ing away a few statues. Last February perhaps four or five thousand people remained in Ypres. They were going and coming about the streets as usual keeping their shops open and doing what business they could at the old stand. A visitor could get a meal in a restaurant or have his shoes cobbled. Only one house in the big square had been hit. Its roofs dropped over the edges of a corner section which had been torn out of the main floor. Germans Fire on Cathedral The Germans threw In occasional shells mostly directed at the cathedral with some of the misses bound, to hit the Cloth Hall. Restoration work which age required had just been finished on the Cloth Hall before the war begun. The people paid for this in their civic pride and let other civic improvements wait. For the Cloth Hall gave Ypres a civic distinction. It was the historical soul of Ypres. The old frescoes on Its walls told the city's early history. It meant to Ypres quite as much in its way as Westminster Abbey to London of Fanuell Hall to Boston. Every man or woman born in Ypres had been brought up to tell the time of day by the raised gilt figures of the old golden clock face. By February the people's sense of horror was exhausted. Destruction of things sacred to them had become routing. When they heard another explosion and word was passed that the Germans had scored another hit they went around to the Grande Place to see If the turrets and the gilt clock face were still unharmed. And they said: "The Cloth Hall still can be re stored " these stubborn Flemish who would not let shell fire drive them away from their old town. The next time the Associated Press correspondent went to Ypres there was not a single house left on tho Grande Place that resembled a house any more than a rubber bag with the gas out of it resembles a balloon. In the second battle of Ypres when tho Germans had another try for the Channel ports the sensation of their attack with asphyxiating gas over shadowed what they did with their guns. Heretofore their practice on Ypres had been comparatively teasing playfulness. This time they went at the job of destruction systematically; jumping from one space on the check erboard to another they smashed Ypres section by section. As they meant to take the town this seemed poor policy for they would find no roofs for shelter when they moved In. But their object was con fusion for British reinforcements hur rying up along roads crowded with refugees; wholesale death for men In billets In town and destruction and JULY 6, 1915, delay for supplies and munitions com- I in* through the streets. This was ex cellent theory which did not work out in practice. The British were not bil leting troops to any extent in Ypres and you could count the number of army wagons hit on the fingers of one hand. One shell in the British trenches accomplished more than ten into Ypres. The main result was that the homes and offices and cafes of eighteen thousand people were de stroyed. Work of 42 Centimeter The 42 centimeter (17 inch mortar) had its part in the work. When a seventeen-inch shell struck a house the remains of the building not dis tributed on the pavement were in an enlarged cellar. Debris in the streets still remains where it fell. There is no purpose in cleaning it up in an un inhabited town. Paving stones are scattered about from the explosion of a seventeen-inch shell which struck in the center of the Grande Place and made a crater about fifteen feet across and ten feet deep. This two thousand pounds of steel and powder did not kill anybody so far as could be learned. It would not take a paving gang long to make repairs. Another which could have brought down a cathedral tower dug a still larger crater in the soft earth of the cathedral grounds. Big shells or little shells, they do not count unless they hit.. On the principle that lightning never strikes twice in the same place probably the safest cover you could find in case of another bombardment of Ypres would be to sit in the bottom of one of those craters. Another bombardment would seem as bootless as flailing last year's straw or kicking a dead dog. However the Germans | keep on throwing shells into the i wreckage at intervals as if they could [ never be satisfied that they had prop erly finished the Job of chaos. Every standing wall was chipped with shrapnel. If there was a house which looked from the outside as if it were unhit, it would be found that It had been eviscerated by a shell through tne roof. Yet only one of the figures of that golden clockface had been bent and three out of the four turrets hold their place untouched in relief against a genial afternoon sun of June above the desolation of that dead city. "Well, what do you think of Ypres, as a place of residence?" asked an officer who rode by. "Pretty rotten," the visiting corres pondent replied. "I know one that is rottener," he re plied with a suggestive nod back to ward the trench line beyond Ypres. Were the turrets still holding out? The visitors could report that they were. To the German gunners they must be like the high apple on the tree that will not come down for all the small boy's stone throwing. It must have cost about two hundred thousand dollars in shells to destroy Ypres by manufactured piecemeal earthquake and it will cost several millions to restore it. Occasionally a father of a family who had to leave the town during the bombardment is able to secure a cart and permission to return to the sal vage of the remains of this house. He finds that nothing has been disturbed except by shell tire. Ypres Is forbid den bad lands where no one may go ex cept on military business. In a sense It is policed too in the same way as a rattle snake's nest. The citizen who goes to glean a mattress, a bureau and the family Bible from the debris of his roof takes time to see if the turrets and the clock face of the old Cloth Hall are still holding out. LiINKS FROM "EURIPIDES" Thou hast heard men scorn thy city, call her wild Of counsel mad; thou hast seen the Are of morn Flash from her eyes in answer to their scorn! Come toil on toll, 'tis this that makes her grand, Peril on peril! And common states that stand In caution, twilight cities, dimly wise— Ye know them, for no light is In their eyes! Go forth, my eon, and help! Burning Harrishurg was not always as quiet In its observance of the Fourth of July &3 It has been In the last half-dosen years and there are many who can re call when Independence Day was the occasion for all the unearthly rackets that anyone could make. But even the celebrations of twenty years agof seem to have been tame compared to some of real long ago. And It might be added that. Judging from old news papers, two things entered Into the celebration which are not the rule now. These wete the firing of cannon and the holding of banquets. And there were toasts drunk with tha proper and usual accompaniment, ac cording to our ancestors. The Oracle of Dauphin recounts In Issues of this very day In 1796 how the day was ushered In by the firing of cannon by Captain John Kean's artillery company and the big feature was a banquet where toasts were drunk amid the firing of volleys by the Infantry com pany of Captain Fisher with noisy as sistance from the artillerymen. The next year the same rule was observed, according to tljis old-tfme chronicle of Harrlsburg events, emphasis being laid on the firing of salute, the banquet and the toasts. Apparently very few events were celebrated without the military and the toast and old records show that considerable sums, for those days, were expended for gunpowder, Madeira and punch. One account of a Fourth of July celebration says that It was held on what is now Island Park and wa.« addressed by a number of promi nent men. In the same paper the editor notes that the ladies of the town celebrated in their own way in a woods on the Hill, probably out about what Is now Fourteenth and Walnut streets, which was a noted picnic resort. The ladies appear to have witnessed the parades, but betook themselves to their own enjoyment when the strenuous pert of the day began. • • • Back of the presentation of the flag of ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin to the Bellefonte post of the G. A. R. by hia family the other day is an interest ing story of how the Curtin flag came to return to the ownership of the war governor. It seems that when Governor Curtiji's term ended he re moved most of hts goods from the South Second street house, which was for a number of years afterward the home of the late C. A. Spicer, and sold the rest. In some way the fine flag which was always flown from the Executive Mansion on high days and holidays was sold along with the rest. The flag came into the possession of Henry A. Kelker, who, upon meeting Governor Curtin some years after, mentioned the fact. The war governor remarked that he had always regretted the fact that the flag had been dis posed of at the sale and very grate fully accepted it when Mr. Kelker offered It to him. The flag was flown many times after that from the Curtin home and when the war governor died It is said to have covered his casket. • « • Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods has been asked if he will not kindly find a lad of sixteen who left New York two years ago to work on a farm in Pennsylvania. The rcouest is made by John Manly, who lives in Flushing, and gives the in formation that his brother's name is Francis and that he is about sixteen. There is a human note in the letta*! because It mentions the death of the lad's mother and says that the writer would be "very thankful" for any in formation, as "We have been away from each other a long time." Unfor tunately, the State has no means of locating people, although the secre tary would be mighty glad to help if Vie could. In spite of the fatit that the police had a ban on firecrackers, there were a good many of the loud report kind fired In all parts of the city yester day, e\'en Market, Square haying: a couple which were: shot off by young men who were in tl-olley cars. In one of the uptown streets a regular fusillade was fired at Intervals and finally po licemen succeeded In stopping: it by the simple expedient of taking: away a big tin dishpan which was being used as an assistant noise maker. Hoffman's Woods "came back" yes terday as an acknowledged favorite picnic grround, the basket picnic of the Trainmen's Band attracting: many people to the shade of its old trees. Many of those who went to the woods had lived for years within a few blocks of the tract and did not know of its beauty spots. With a little care the woods could be made as popular as of yore, when it used to have half a dozen picnics a week and was a stamping ground for the club giving festivals to buy uniforms. ♦ • • One has only to glance at the regis ters of the city's hotels for the last few days to get a line on the popularity of Hnrrisburg as a stopping place for automobile parties. One hotel housed a dozen SGnday night and before leav ing the city they all went to the Capitol. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —T. DeWitt Cuyler is on a trip to the Pacific coast. Ex-Congressman E. E. Bobbins made the speech at the dedication of the Ligonier monument. —Hampton L«. Carson, former Attor ney General, is at Cape May for a short time. —W. E. Sproull has resigned as president of the Traffic Club of Pitts burgh and has gone to Philadelphia to become connected with the Chamber <jf Commerce. —Senator J. P. McNichol was 51 on Saturday. Walter S. Frees, well known here, it the new president of the Berks County Firemen. —John P. White, national head of t|ie miners, is planning a tour of Lnckawanna an<} Luzerne counties. DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrisburg has an excellent record for sane and safe Inde pendence Days In the last flTe years. MUCH TO CONTEND WITH , It must be hard to be a farmer: Uncertain is his bi*. Ho nearly always wants it warmer j Or damper than it is. The pesky insects get together And raid his growln* stuff. He has to face both wind and weather When both are very rough. He has to walch for hail and thunder; His troubles never stop. In fact, it really is a wonder He ever gets a crop. CIVIC CLUB * Fly Contest June 1 to July 31 S Cents a Pint Prizes of $5, $2.50 and several *I.OO ones duplicated by Mr. Ben Strouse I ■■ 1 ■'
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