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BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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it 21,084 ★
Average for the year 1914—21,858
Average for the year 1918—19,963
Average for the year 1912—19,340
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FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13
Light is above us, and color is
around us; but if we have not light
and color in our eyes we shall not
perceive them outside us.—Goethe.
A PLEASING CHANGE
NOT only will the season of 1915
go down in Harrisburg's play
ground history as j a record
breaker for attendance, but in the
years to come several unique features
of the present .summer's work will
stand out with extraordinary promi
nence. And of course these will be
demonstrated at the romper day
celebration, August 27.
Romper day itself will differ widely
from the celebrations of previous
years. Instead of a long, more or less
tiresome program of games, folk
dances, etc., a great open-air play will
be produced, by some 500 children on
the slopes of Reservoir Park. Then,
too, there will be demonstrations of
what has been done this year In ar
ranging the "story hour" on the play
grounds.
The playlet itself will be written in
such a way as to show from time to
time what the thousands of youngsters
on Harrisburg's recreation places
learned during the season Iri the way
of athletics, sewing, basketry work
and so on; pretty folk dances will in
tersperse the program; music by a
big children's chorus will be a feature.
The trend of the times will be kept in
mind, too; the' differences of the suf
fragists and the anti-suffragists will
bo interestingly brought out and the
antics of a rather notable "movie"
hero will figure effectively'in-the pro
gram.
"The Princess of Playburg" Is to
be the title of the play and Playground
Supervisor George W. Hill, who ar
ranged this unique method of closing
Harrisburg's playground season for
1915, is already coaching the big group
of child actors.
The one regretable feature, per
haps, is the fact that something of
this kind could not have been arranged
for Harrisburg's big improvement cele
bration in September. Vacation days
will soon be over, however, and the
thousands of children will have gone
back to the schoolroom, instructors
wil| have scattered to school, to col
lege .or to regular winter vocations,
and the playground organizations will
have been disintegrated.
But what an opportunity to demon
strate what Harrisburg's thousands of
youngsters have done and are doing
for their old home town!
When, in after years, Harrisburg
folks look with commendable pride up
on the three-mile length of River Front
wall, the great concrete gutter of Pax
ton creek, and watch the Susquehanna
rolling gently over the river-wide dam
on its way to the sea. they will grate
fully remember the part that Joel D.
Justin, principal engineer of the Board
of Public Works, bore in working under
extraordinary difficulties to complete
these great constructive improve
meats. By September 1 Mr. Justin's
connection with the Board of Public
Works will have been severed and he
will probably be somewhere in north
western Wisconsin preparing to assume
charge of the construction of a two
million-dollar hydro-electric plant. In
regretfully saying good-bye Harris
burg will add a kindly "take keer o'
yourself, J. D."
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THE "DUMPING"' SYSTEM
NOT solely or chiefly for the pur
pose of disposing of surplus
stocks is the "dumping" policy
practiced by European countries. It
is a recognized method of keeping their
factories running at 100 per cent,
efficiency, thus reducing the unit cost
of production to a minimum. Having
supplied the domestic and continental
trade at the lowest unit cost, there re
mains, as a result of this high rate of
efficiency, a large accumulation of sur
plus stocks, the disposal of which is
undertaken at little or no profit. This
adds heavily to the disadvantages un
der which American factories are
placed, for the Democratic tariff law
In times of peace, and we must reckon
on that basis, for peace is the nominal
condition, makes this country the
dumping ground for these surplus
stocks. It has<been estimated that this
handicap amounts to 30 per cent, be
cause of difference in cost, 20 per cent,
by reason of elimination of profits and
15 per oent, because of inferior quality
of many foreign-made goods—a handi-
FRIDAY EVENING,
cap far too great for any factocy em
ploying American labor under Ameri
can conditions succeasfully to over
come.
It is apparent, therefore, that a
tariff law which encourages such a
high rate of factory efficiency abroad,
by supplying a market here for sur
plus stocks, does Just that much
toward increasing the unit cost of the
American article at home, because of
decreased output of the American fac
tory which Is obliged to meet this cut
throat competition. The efficiency of
the foreign factory Is increased at the
expense of the efficiency of our domes
tic concern. The half-time article can
not compete with the full time output.
The American mill closes and the
American laborer sits on the park
bench. •
It was to meet such conditions that
Canada enacted what is known as the
"anti-dumping clause," which has done
away with most of the paralyzing ef
fects of dumping. This clause pro
vides that goods of a class or kind
made In Canada are subject to special
duty when sold for exportation to
Canada at a less price than for home
consumption in the country of export,
whether such goods be otherwise free
of duty or subject to specific .or ad
valorem duty.
A half-hearted attempt was made
by the Democratic House, when the
Underwood law was being debated, to
apply a dumping duty to articles on
the dutiable list. The Republicans
argued that It should also apply to the
free list because many articles not
subject to duty would be dumped In
this country in unfair competition with
domestic production. When the bill
got to the Senate the whole dumping
clause was thrown out, and should the
end of the war find this country still
burdened with a Democratic tariff law
we would be at the mercy of the in
dustrial syndicates which will be or
ganized all over Europe.
THE PLIGHT AT BINDNAUGLE'S
YOU might think that life at Blnd
naugle's Church would hang
heavy on the resident's hands.
Or, possibly, you do not know that
Bindnaugle's Church is a thriving lit
tle community—with emphasis on the
little—lying near the wooded hills that
fringe the Dauphin-Lebanon county
line. At all events you wouldn't pic
ture the aforesaid Bindnaugle's as a
rival of Broadway or a seaside board
walk in the way of amusements. But
list to the plaint of the Telegraph cor
respondent in that town:
Many in our midst are in a pre
dicament. for next Friday. August
20, is the date of the Palmyra union
picnic, the county fair at Lebanon,
wlesh Bros.' show at Palmyra, and
campmeeting at Cleona. Brother
and sister, attend the one nearest
your conscience, and all will be
right.
Thus we see that the Telegraph
numbers among its correspondents
not only keen observers of public
events, but at least one philosopher
and social adviser as well. Life is
indeed too short for the solving of
such problems as that presented by
tho choice of attending a circus or a
campmeeting, a Sunday school picnic
or a county fair. The Telegraph
agrees with its reporter in Bind
naugle's. In the language of .the
man who presides over the destinies
of the elusive little ball in the guess
ing contest popularly known as the
three shell game, "you pays your
money and you takes your choice."
And as for the size of a town when
considered in the light of its im
portance as a center of social activi
ties "you never can tell."
ONE. BENEFIT FROM THE WAR
ON the part of the French at least
the great war is not all destruc
tion. French science has been
quite as busy with the problem of the
preservation of life as French soldiers
have been with the effort to destroy it,
and since the beginning of this year
the success, under practical conditions,
of two important discoveries has been
demonstrated.
The first of these is the new anti
septic based upon hypochlorous acid,
which was developed by Drs. Carrel
and Daken. As a solution this is said
to be an almost perfect dressing for
wounds and it has been giving the
utmost satisfaction in the French mili
tary hospitals. But, according to cables
from Paris this week, Drs. Leclainche
and Vallee have gone even beyond that
poipt, and are now making prepa
rations to supply in large quantities a
serum which when used preventa-
as antitetanus serum is now,
will prevent infection in the most ter
ribly mutilated men. The new serum,
which has been named polyvalent, has
been thoroughly tested as a cure with
the most astonishing results.
This is striking remarkably close to
the ultimate object of bacteriological
science. It may be doubted that such
a long step in advance could have been
taken at this time but for the war,
which has made possible tests that
would have required years under nor
mal conditions. To that extent the
world Is the richer as a. result of the
war. And it would be a rash man
who would now undertake to say that
in the long run the good will not out
weigh the bad. It does not require
much imagination to realize, for In
stance. that It would not take long for
a perfected preventative medicine to
repair the human waste of the war and
then open the way for an era in which
mankind will be free from many of
the Ills that now afflict it.
DOWN GOES PRICE
AS one contribution toward the
fulfillment of the Democratic
promise to reduce the high cost
of living, the Bureau of Mines an
nounces that It can now produce
radium for only $36,050 per gram.
This will enable the Impoverished
speculators In "war order" securities
to have radium on their tables at least
once a day, and will be of tremendous
encouragement to workers in other
enterprises who are now on reduced
time, lower wages or laid off alto
gether.
There's one consolation about this
rainy weather. It came along while the
. team was away tram iionu.
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'Pc-KKOij&rtUtla
the Ex-Oommltteeman
Theodore Roosevelt having declared
that he will remain a Progressive, Gil
ford Plnchot and William Draper
Lewis have announced similar inten
tions, although their call to the Bull
Mocse to stand firm appears to have
fallen upon times which are not favor
able to reviving a disintegrating party.
In fact, between the Philadelphia
mayoralty 'situation, the Governor's
strategic appointments and the war,
the Progressives' call does not seem to
attract much attention.
The statement assails the old parties
and whacks the Republicans, but it
stings the Democrats this way: "After
sounding promises, the Democratic
party has failed to reduce the cost of
living or solve the nation's other eco
nomic problems. Its domestic and
foreign policies have failed to secure
the safety, honor or welfare of our
people, either at home or .abroad. It
is saved from hopeless discredit only
because the attention of the nation is
fixed elsewhere." Then the statement
says: "In our own state of Pennsylva
nia, however praiseworthy much of
Governor Brumbaugh's record has
been, he cannot if he would rescue
the Republican party from Penrose-
McNichol-Vare control. Colonel Roose
velt has recently declared that he will
continue to fight for Progressive prin
ciples as a member of the Progressive
party. Victor Murdock, chairman of
the Progressive national committee,
has announced emphatically that the
Progressives are preparing for a vig
orous fight as a party in 1916. We
propose to help all we can."
A. L. Long, of Millerstown, has an
nounced his candidacy for the nomi
nation of associate Judge of Perry
county at the September primaries.
Mr. Long served one term as sheriff
of Perry county and is the fifth can
didate to announce himself for this
office. The other candidates are Harry
L. Jones, of Newport, and Isaiah E.
Stephens, of Buffalo township, who
hold the Perry County No-License
League's endorsement; Dr. W. A.
Meiser, of Newport, and ex-Associate
Judge Jacob Johnston, of Buffalo
township.
■ —Friends of J. Lee Plummer,
county solicitor of Blair county, who
wae here yesterday attending "a con
ference.of county officials, say'that his
campaign for the Republican nomina
tion for State Treasurer will be in full
swing within a short time. Mr. Plum
mer served in the legislature and has
been the mainstay of the Republican
organization in his county. His friends
are quietly at work in several coun
ties in the interior building fences.
—Chester county is indulging in a
very interesting contest over the
Judicial nomination. Judge R. S.
Gawthrop will be a candidate for the
full term and Messrs. Hause, who is
well known to many rcr?aenis of this
city, and Park are also In the field.
Their papers are to be filed shortly it
is understood.
—Postmaster Davis, of Pittsburgh,
who retires this week, has held the
office since 1906 and is one of the best
known postmasters in the country.
—McKeesport socialists have put up
a whole municipal ticket.
TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE )
—lf the farmers of Pennsylvania
can't thrash their grain, why not get
up a party and thrash the weather
man. t
—George- Ade says that the reason
so many people are crazy about the
movies 1s bc-cause it is the only amuse
ment known without the element of
talk predominating. Maybe he's right
at that. It Is sort of restful to one's
ears to sit in a movie theater a couple
hours.
—The ladles are wearing August
furs. To be cure they'll soon be wear
ing December gossamer.
—Not'every man who stays at the
foot in his chosen line is a failure. How
about the chiropodist?
—lt may be true that many married
men have no conscience. But with their
wives around to "tell 'em about It," do
they really need them?
—Too much liquor that is red in the
cup will give a man a dark brown taste
in the mouth ard the blues all over.
—Many a man, and many a woman,
too, mistake loud talk for forceful
argument
1 EDITORIAL COMMENT""]
In Mr. Phillips Oppenheim's latest
novel a diplomatist from Vienna speaks
in Austrian. The reply should have been
in Swiss..—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
In his effort to keep Germans out of
American munition-factories the Kaiser
will receive the earnest co-operation of
every manufacturer in the country.
Boston Transcript.
Minister Sullivan has learned that
while being a "deserving Democrat" is
sufficient to enable a man to get hold
of a good Government Job, It does not
always insure his retention of it.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
A cotton-planter's notion of the good
old days are thoße in which the sisters
used to wear three petticoats at a
time.—Columbia State.
IN HARRISBURO FIFTY YEARS [
AGO TO-DAY J
[From Telegraph, August 18, 1865.]
Demand For Iron Increases
Since peace has been declared the
increasing demand for Iron is being
shown by the big orders on hand at a
number of plants near here. Large
railroad orders are also expected to
be given out soon.
Teachers to Meet
The National Teachers Convention
will open its sessions on the 16th in
the House of Representatives. Gov
ernor Andrew of Massachusetts is ex
pected to be present at the sessions.
More than 500 delegates from all parts
of the country will be in the city.
COXEY IS HERE
By Wing; Dinner
Say, fellers. Coxey's in the burg;
Naw, not de army guy,
But Coxey who brings Joy to hearts
And makes your troubles fly.
It's Coxey who is at the head
Of the big Wild West Show
With, Indians, rough riders and
The bucking brown broncho.
When he shows up around the burg
Just start to save your dough,
Because it is a certain sign
We're going to have the show.
He's havin' bills put on the boards
Around the town to-day
That tells you what you'll witness
when
i Tha Mar show camaa this *u.
PARRISBURQ ffißig TELEGRAPH
When a Feller Needs a Friend . By BRIGGS
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THE RECRUITING OFFICE
By Frederic J. Haskin
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THAT the first love of the men in
the ranks is a fight is indicat
ed by the influence of foreign
affairs upon enlistments in the mili
tary services of the United States. Re
cent reports of the war and navy de
partments show that recruiting is
greatly increased after the Mexican
trouble reached Its climax in the
Spring of 1914, and this increase has
been steadily maintained since trouble
arose in Europe. War abroad has ap
parently turned the thoughts of Am
ericans to the possibility of war at
home, and recruits are plentiful when
there seems a chance for active ser
vice.
At the present moment it is practic
ally impossible for any one to enter
the navy—not because men are not
needed on the battleships, destroyers
and submarines which guard our
coasts, but because congress has spe
cified the number of sailors who may
sign under Uncle Sam and the lists
have been full for nearly a year.
Navy Has "Waiting List"
At present, therefore, the United
States navy is in the enviable position
of having a "waiting list" of men who
want to serve the flag, even though
there is a decided shortage of men
aboard ships for actual fighting. Ef
forts will be made to induce congress,
at the next session, to increase the
number of enlistments which the navy
may legally accept and thus make it
possible to bring this branch of the
service up to its full necessary
strength.
The condition of the army Is not
quite as fortunate as that of the navy
—possibly because of the superior at
tractions in the manner of life and in
travel offered with the fleet. But,
even so, the rate of enlistments in the
larmy have increased some 20 per cent,
since the flag-saluting Incident at Tam
plco. Just as the impetus given by
this occurrence was commencing to
die down, the European war began,
and it brought home the fact that the
United States needed more men to
guard her shores in case of conflict.
This also stimulated enlistment and
discourage desertion—the one having]
increased and the other decreased ma-;
terlally in the past year. Uncle Sam
does not believe In supporting huge
standing armies, as are favored
abroad, but he trains his men to the
minute and every man, who has en
listed within the past year is in a con
dition to give a good account of him
self in the event of war.
, Improvement Recently-
Some years ago the army and navy
were not in such good shape with re
gard to numbers as they are at pres
ent, and the authorities at Washington
cast about for a means of stimulating
enlistments . To this end they con
sulted a number of efficiency experts,
all of whom mentioned the old maxim,
"It pays to advertise." So Uncle Sam
entered the ranks of advertisers. In
newspapers and magazines, by means
of posters and even through the me
dium of moving pictures, he exhibited
the alluring life of a soldier or sailor
or marine. The results were most
satisfactory and the government's ap
propriation for advertising Is still con
siderable.
Gaily colored posters are to be
found in nearly every post office, de
picting the Joys of a life on the ocean
wave or the fascinations of a soldier's
career. These posters direct the ap
plicant to the nearest recruiting office,
where he finds officers who tell him
of the duties of a soldier or sailor, the
pay they receive, the chances for pro
motion and the many advantages to be
found In serving the flag. Exclusive
of those rejected because of physical
disabilities, it Is estimated that fully
80 per cent, of the men who seriously
apply for Information concerning the
military service enlist for at least one
period. All of which speaks well for
the persuasive abilities of the recruit
ing officers.
In the Recruiting Office
But the recruiting otfice is far from
being colorless or without Its share of
the romantic. Men come there from
all walks of lift—the gay young blood
who has been cast off by his family
and who wishes to retrieve his repu
tation and rebuild his physique by
three years in the service of his coun
try; the patriot who considers that he
owes at least a portion of his life
to the service of his flag; the unem
ployed who enlists solely because he
can find work nowhere else; the dis
appointed in love who seek solace from
their heartaches; the man in trouble
who knows that he can start aaiew in
the army or the navy. All these and
more drift to the recruiting stations
and from them there flows a
never-ending stream of human inter
est, sad or happy, drab or colorful.
Consider, for example, the story of
George and Edmund Carson, brothers
who, although not twins, were almost
exactly alike. George, the elder and
black sheep of the family, got into
trouble in his home town in the Mid
dle West and ran away. The only
news of him that filtered back was
some echo of his wild career in the
submerged tenth of one of the big
eastern cities. He was given up for
lost and the hopes of the family were
pinned upon Edmund Carson, who was
sent to West Point, whence he gradu
ated with high honors.
Unknown to any of the members of
his family, George Carson had enlist
ed in the army and the long arm of
coincidence, which causes so much
trouble In real life and the movies,
pulled the strings that moved Lieut.
Edmund Carson to the same army
post where his brother was stationed
as a private. The elder Carson rec
ognized his brother almost imme
diately, but Edmund saw nothing fa-1
miliar in the tace of a private who i
would have borne a striking resem-j
blance to him had his features not:
been lined by premature age and the
life that he had led.
Sentenced By Brother
Not wishing further to disgrace his|
family by the possibility of discovery I
that Lieutenant Carson's brother was i
serving as a private under an assumed
name and with a none too savory rep
utation, George Carson tried to have
! himself transferred to another regi
ment. But in vain. He therefore de
cided to take matters into his own
hands and picked a fight with one of
the noncommissioned officers, for
which he was sentenced to serve two
years in a military prison. Fate
again intervened in the person of co
incidence, and it was none other than
Lieut. Edmund Carson that sentenced
his brother to prison. The incident
was not discovered until several years
later when George, after a.complete
reformation, made himself known to
his family and informed his brother
that it was he who had "sent him up."
Reformed in the Army
Another man who enlisted in the
army as a moans of reformation was
George J. Esterbrldge of Philadelphia,
who came to the recruiting office in
Philadelphia one day accompanied by
a very attractive young woman. Es
terbrldge told the recruiting officers
that he had been a criminal for twelve
years and that he had served a term
in prison. He had met the girl who
accompanied him to the office, he said,
and had fallen in love with her and
asked her to marry him. She had ac
cepted. with the proviso that he re
main "straight" for two years. He
wanted to enter the army because
that was the beet training he could
receive and because, as a soldier, he
was certain that he could achieve mor
al reformation. He was accepted and
his marriage took place at the end of
the two years.
But not every man enters t,he army
for reasons of this nature. There
is on record at least one In
stance of an Enlistment caused by the
glamor of brass buttons and the pos
sibility of heroism which active ser
vice holds out. John H. Collins.' of
Cleveland, Ohio, applied for enlistment
and when asked why he wished to be
come a soldier said that his sweet
heart would not marry anyone who did
not have a chance to be a hero. Col- j
11ns was a shoe clerk and his fiance j
gave it as her emphatic opinion that]
AUGUST 13,19T3.
there was no opportunity for hero
ism in that employment. Therefore,
he wished to enter the army, even if
he never went to war. He was ac
cepted, served for three years and then
got married. Whether he ever had a
chance to demonstrate his heroism
does not appear on the records of the
War Department.
Case of Warren Adams
There is more than a touch of
pathos in the case of Warren Adams,
who was born in the South, but edu
cated in the North, one of the negro
troopers who met death dliring the
fighting in Cuba in the Spanish-Amer
ican war. Because of his color he
could find no work of a kind which he
wished to do. Finally, hungry and
without a cent, he enlisted. In the
pocket of his coat, when he was killed,
was found a letter addressed to the
recruiting officers of the station where
he had been recruited.
"I, in death, want to thank you
gentlemen for* having been the only
white men in your fcity to give me a
chance," read the letter. "Even now
the others will probably say. when
they read my name among the dead,
'Oh, well. It doesn't rrtatter—he was
only a nigge!' But I want you to
know that this negro is grateful to
you for having given him the oppor
tunity to prove that though his face
was black his heart and purpose were
white."
Another tragic story of the recruit
ing office is to be found in the record
of William Tracey, of Chicago, whose
wife eloped less than a year after
their marriage. Worry and tuberculo
sis undermined Tracey's constitution
and he had to give up his position.
From city to city he traveled, trying in
vain to enter the army where he hoped
to bury his worries in service of his
country. But everywhere his hacking
cough and hectic coloring betrayed
him and no recruiting officer dared ac
cept him, despite his pleading. "They
| won't let me forget-" was all that was
i written on a scrap of paper found be
jside Tracey's body in a gas-filled rooiA
:in a cheap lodging house In Detroit. <
| The men who serve Uncle Sam on
I sea or land have to be healthy in body
'and mind, for upon them may depend
I the safety of the nation. A strict phy
sical examination is one of the fea-
Itures of enlistment and the men who
pass It successfully know that they
are sound "in wind and limb" and
well prepared to withstand the rigors
of camp life and the march.
Our Daily Laugh
MAYBB.
Pop: No, you
f x _yjL can't have anoth
[ jfa Sfi».er quarter for
fireworks. I need
4 jUm It myself.
Bobble: What
\v. y 0 u K
g spend It for—flra-
THE FIRST PA-
Young Doctor's y-vf J|^H
Wife: Mary, go tfOfh
and tell the doc- M
tor there's a pa
tlent waiting to / \j 1
Maid: I wish
you'd go, ma'am. iHfP
He maybe would
not believe me.
HIS OCCUPATION
Mrs. Knicker —Whisky is shocking.
Weary Willie Yes'm; I'm looking
tor a job as a shock absorber.
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SECOND FLY CONTEST
of the Civic Club for 1915.
August Ist to September 25tfc.
Five seats ■ pi»« tor *ll (lies, and
many prtsci In gold.
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j Batting QLifnt
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If th» amusement Dark proprietors
had known at the opening of the sea
son what kind of a season was ahead
of them there would have been no out
door amusements of that kind In this
vicinity this year. The dally rains
have ruined business and if they coula
do It without embarrassment every
park within fifty miles of Harrlsburg
would be closed at once. They have
not only not paid, but have been op- m
ere ted at a loss all summer, and no
matter what the weather may be after
September 1 there will be no mors
picnics, the opening of schools putting
an end to such festivities. The rail
road and trolley officials say the same
thing about the weather conditions and
their business and it Is said that at
least two amusement propositions
which were being considered for open
ing in this vicinity next summer have
been definitely laid on the shelf. Whtla
the weather has played havoc with big
picnics It Is also said to have effect
ually stopped the smaller family and
neighborhood affairs. It has put a
stop to the old-fashioned plan of tak
ing a basket and going to eat supper
on one of the islands near the river or
in woods near the city or Steelton.
* * *
A motorcycle balked in Third street
the other evening Just about the time
a Rockville car was stopping at Mar
ket street. The cycle was so close to
the car that passengers had to squeeze
by. By the time the machine had been
steered to the curb it had stopped two
cars, three jitneys, another motorcycle
and two automobiles. "When the man
started it It Jumped the curb .and
started toward a store door.
• * •
The home coming of the Harrlsburg
Indians to-morrow promises more
baseball history. Fans have been lone
some. Manager Zimmerman and his
players starred on a trip three weeks
ago. Interest over the return of the
team recalls similar enthusiasm dur
ing previous baseball seasons. Har
risburg baseball teams have welcomed
home local champions at all hours of
the night. Crowds numbering from
200 to 400, with a band, have escorted
the manager and players through the
main streets to their hotel, where a
warm welcome and cheers were given.
During the days of Jim Farrlngton,
when there was bitter rivalry £-«iiveen
Harrlsburg, A'tocce. and York, these
nightly receptions were frequent. Citi
zens ha*'e turned out in big crowds for
former State League and Tri-State
teams. During the reign of the lato
E. K. Meyers baseball enthusiasm was
at high pitch and the club seldom re
turned without receiving a welcome
from a big crowd. Due to the fact
that the Harrlsburg team will not
reach home until early Saturday morn
ing, it betng a long jump from Provi
dence. there will not likely be any
boosters at the station, but according
to reports, an old-time welcome awaits
the team on its appearance Saturday
afternoon on the island.
The Hazleton Sentinel contains the
following abo.ut a legislator who la
well known to many residents of this
city: "William L. Adams, of BeaVer
Brook, representative for this district,
has been named chief of staff for the
national convention of the United
Spanish-American Veterans, which will
be held at Scranton August 30 and 31
and September 1. The local legislator
•was the sponsor of the bill that gave a
State appropriation for the financing
of this convention, and the appoint
ment which has Just been announced
is made in recognition of his services
to the Spanish veterans In that line.
The convention will have about eight
hundred delegates from all parts of
the country. In addition to this sev
eral thousand of the men who fought
in the Spanish war will attend to hold
reunions with old comrades, and tha
members of the Ninth and Thirteenth
Regiments, National Guard of Penn
sylvania, will take part in the festivi
ties and the parade that will be held
In connection with the convening of
the convention."
While oil a visit to this citv recently
Lieutenant Richard C. Dußois, of
Washington, D. C., recalled to his many
old friends incidents occurring during
his service as a soldier at Camp Cur
tin in the early months of 1861. Mr.
Dußois was for some time orderly to
Colonel George A. C. Seller, com
mandant at Camp Curtln, and was
later commissioned as first lieutenant
and adjutant of the One Hundred anit
Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers,
Colonel David B. McKlbben command
ing. Lieutenant Dußois had some in
teresting experiences during his serv
ice at Camp Curtin and in the city in
keeping order among the turbulent
soldiers and others.
• « ♦
Allan Sangree, the short story
writer, has been spending a few days
in the city with his mother and is be
ing greeted by numerous Harrisburg
friends. Mr. Sangree has been In "New
York during the summer and is plan
ning to put out a new series of stories
this Fall.
• • •
A. Leo Well, the Pittsburgh attor
ney, here yesterday on the milk rate
cases, has been the moving spirit In
the league which stirred up political
and municipal affairs in that city. Mr.
Weil is not taking much hand in poli
tic!? just now and has not staged an
exposure for some months. He is still
keeping an eye on things, say his
friends.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"""
—Dr. W. P. Wilson, head of the
Philadelphia Museums, has issued a
warning to American manufacturers
to be ready for a battle for trade when
the war is over.
—Judge Willis Martin, of Philadel
phia, has returned from San Francisco.
—Dr. R. V. Mattison, the Ambler
manufacturer, is spending the summer
at Newport, R. I.
—Walter S. Cramp, the shipbuilder,
is home from a visit to Italy.
—Mayor George Lysle, of McKees
port, is going to Canada for a vacation
trip.
—H. M. Brackenridge, of Pittsburgh,
former water supply commissioner, Is
active in the reorganization of the
Allegheny Plate Glass Company.
—H. W. Douglass is the head of the
new motor club of McKeesport.
j DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg makes consid
erable steel for works that make
millions of pins?
\
The Tail Wagged
the Dog
Many manufacturers have been
induced to take up newspapers
as supplemental advertising.
After awhile they discovered
that "the tail was wagging tho
dog."
In other words, the "news
papers were selling the goods."
Newspapers need no co-oper
ative advertising *%o make them
reach customers with their mes
sage.
They constitute a complete
campaign In themselves.
They create consumer demand
and dealer influence at the same
time.
They sell the goods.
Vi-M. *