10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established iSti PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACICPOLE Fresident and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 218 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building. New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at <2gl{>:.». JTitO slx cents a week. w ' Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Sworn ilally averaae circulation for the three months ending AUK. 31, 1015 ★ 21,083 Amare for the year 1014—21.^ ▲▼erase for the year 1913—10.063 Average for the year Average for the year IPU—I7..IM Average for the year 1910—10^01 The above figures are net. All -e --turned. unaoid and damaged copies de ducted. FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. 17. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.—Franklin. AS OTHERS SEE VS THROUGHOUT the whole state there is an attitude of friendli ness on the part of the news papers toward Harrisburg and its public-spirited expansion of the last fourteen years. Time was when it was a very common joke—almost as common as the mother-in-law bit of Wit —to refer in disparaging terms to this city. All of this has changed and Instead of adverse comment the press of the State now speaks in flattering terms of the city and its splendid en terprise and development. This friendly comment has been em phasized recently in view of the ap proaching municipal celebration and the many pleasant things that are be ing said of Harrisburg at this time eerve to heal the old wounds and to place the city en rapport with the whole Commonwealth. It was inevitable that the State rhould observe with interest and pleas ure the growth of this city, its im provement along esthetic lines and Its substantial bgttermjent in every direc tion. As the capital of the State it was proper that Harrisburg should take its place at the head of the pro cession of cities of its size and import ance. We have our political difficul ties and our municipal dissagreements end our individual notions of men and things, but upon the whole the people are working together for one pur pose—the making of a still better and more attractive city. The children of the city of Harris burg have benefited • marvelously through the public improvements of recent years and we have no doubt those who send their contributions to the Telegraph in its essay competition which closes next Tuesday will express some interesting views from the stand point of the girl and boy. THE FOREIGN LOAN THAT foreign loan of a billion for war purposes—or whatever the amount finally decided upon— may help to restore conditions to nor mal in the American money market. With the Fall season here when the domestic market is usually much con cerned over the requirements for mov ing crops and when the United States Is ordinarily looking to England to help us tide over the period, the sit uation is just the reverse of that. In stead of a scarcity of gold we find the New York banks with an accumu lated surplus' of reserves amounting to nearly $200,000,000, the largest sum of the kind in history, and while loans are at a maximum loaning rates are ctill not high. In London the re serves are at low ebb and discounts frave averaged higher than in many years. The need of the moment Is an interchange of credits that would re lieve the situation both here and in Europe. Perhaps the proposed loan, although the money Is to be expended here, will have a tendency in that direction. At least it will absorb the cumbersome and ever-growing surplus fund, which will be helpful if it does not tend to restrict domestic loans by running up the rates of interest unduly. Great radial highways leading into the heart of Harrisburg must be es tablished for the city of the future and now 1® the time to lay out these high ways so that enormous expense to the citizens of future Harrisburg may not be entailed through lack of vision. CUT-OUT AND SEARCHLIGHT IF the paving of a certain locality which most of us are desirous of avoiding as a future place of abode consists of good intentions, as we pre told, the contractors must have been busy .with many extensions down there in the pasL few weeks. Only a short time ago the Telegraph pub lished an editorial calling upon auto mobillsts to avoid the use of the cut-out in the city and to use their large headlights only on country roads. Letters of commendation followed, tho police were quietly instructed to do their part and many motorists volun teered to this newspaper their inten tion of complying with the very rea rbnable request. But the cut-out con tinue* to "pop-pop," especially at FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 17, 1915. night, and the oiectric light stares the pedestrian and approaching automo bile driver In the face from dozens of streets every evening. Harrisburg is providing his satanic majesty with large quantities of free paving ma terial these days. Nothing in all the future work of the city wfil attract more attention than the development of the Susque hanan river basin for the pleasure and health of the people. This basin Is a natural aquatic playground, and with the completion of the dam during the next few days and the further improve ment of the embankment on both sides of the river no city in the world will have anything more attractive. Every citizen should make it his business to visit the River Front at least once next week. AS TO OUR FUTURE BACK in the very beginning of the improvement compaign. now reaching its culmination in the municipal celebration next week. War ren H. Manning, in an official report to the first committee on improve ments, said: The phenomenal increase of population In the United States is almost entirely urban, so that it is apparent in the future the great mass of population will live in cit ies. The average citizen who has made his home in a city has the right to expect and is entttled to enjoy the best conditions with respect to health and general welfare that the j environment in which he lives will permit. He is not satisfied, and in deed ought not to be satisfied, with anvthing less and no city of the present dav can answer the reason able demands of the citizen in that regard unless it has established and maintains, so far as existing conditions will permit, a system of public parks and playgrounds in which the entire community will have an interest. Mr. Manning's vision is the vision of every other landscape designer who has studied problems confronting the congested cities of the United States. His recommendations for Harrisburg fourteen years ago have led to a com prehensive system of parks, play grounds, walks and drives. No other city is more favored with respect to fresh air spaces than ours, and while some mistakes have been made, the results upon the whole have been most gratifying. But we must be careful in every move of our development that we do not lose sight of the future city and its needs. Provision must be made, as previously has been suggested, for a more populous city in every direc tion. Developing commercial centers in various sections of Harrisburg will require larger residential areas for those whose present homes must give way before the expansion of business. This is the great work of the City Planning Commission, to which refer ence in these columns has been fre quently made. It ought to be also t-the duty of the pulpit and the speaker upon every rostrum in the city to develop a public sentiment that will make easy the work of this important commission now and hereafter. IF THINGS WERE DIFFERENT WONDER what would happen in little old Harrisburg and all other cities and towns, if instead of the baiting of officials for this, that and the other alleged fault by politi cal critics and jealous rivals, every thing that these officials do in a credit able way for the promotion of the best interests of their communities was reasonably commended and brought to the attention of the people at large. If, instead of abusing the official for some lapse of Judgment, he should ! be praised for a fine bit of construc tive work, as is constantly attracting the attention of visitors to Harris burg, would there not be an atmos phere uplifting in its effect upon the entire population? We must admit in our saner mo ments, when the heat Is less oppressive and when politics is not consuming so much of our thought, that the pub lic servant in most cases gets little or no fair consideration, that his every shortcoming is magnified into a crime and that nothing he does is satisfactory to the people whom he serves. Now and then there is an exception. Occasionally the public servant gets a word of commendation and when this happens he can hardly appreciate the sincerity of the kind word. He is apt to suspect some ul terior motive in the praise and grows skeptical of the sincerity even of those who would support him in his efforts to do the things which are of bene fit to the community and in accord ance with right ideas of public ad ministration. THE STRANGER'S VIEWPOINT FAMILIARITY, it is said, breeds contempt, and if not contempt certainly Indifference. There are Harrlsburgers, for Instance, who have never been inside the Capitol and who do not know that we have one of the finest museums in the State. There are others who are just as ignorant of our municipal enterprises. But from the viewpoint of the strang er within the gates Harrisburg has many remarkable things to show. Scarcely an architect, designer or en gineer of note who visits this city who does not inspect one or more of our municipal improvements to get ideas on the manner In which this city has worked out its problems. This week Howard B. White, engineer for Graham, Burnham & Co., here on business for the Keystone State Fair Co., made a trip to the Wildwood dam and spillway which he pro nounced one of the cleverest flood prevention developments he had ever seen. Our filter plant, sanitary dam and River Front wall are also uni que features. One of the most com mendable things about our whole pub lic improvement scheme is that we originated rather than copied. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —No lady finds it necessary to de clare she is one. —ln the international marriage bu reau a count without an account is fast becoming a no-account. —Life has begun to print love stories. From funny to silly, If the first is a sample. —Don't worry! The big trouble of to-day will be laughing material to morrow. I —lf you didn't register or enroll at least you will have a good excuse for refusing to vote for some of the can didates who are buttonholing you these days. —About this season of the year the grasshopper begins to tell his com panions that old Mr. Busy Bee cer tainly is a lucky fellow. EDITORIAL COMMENT " The only trouble with some of the peace propaganda that is bein£ dis seminated in this country is that it is likely to arouse a peaceful country to a state of belligerence against the propagandist—Nashville Banner. Von Tirpitz has apparently taught his young men th° "rule of the sea:" Wo men and children first! —New York Evening Sun. The Industrial Relations Commission has made the Interesting discovery that social unrest is due to a deplorable lauk of tranquility.—Washineton Herald. The German crown prince is said to be in a state of collapse. As he has been killed and injured several times, it is quite natural he should break under the strain.—York Dispatch. "OUR HANDSOME SUBURB" The Hershev Press, a bustling, pro gressive contemporary, makes the fol lowing complimentary reference to Harrisburg and its accomplishments: "We are delighted that Harrisburg is preparing to celebrate herself In a manner worthy of her new beauty and hei new clothes, not only her finely adorned municipal body, but her splen did and attractive outskirts. As Her shey's largest suburb Harrisburg has an appeal to the model town and we advise all our peope to go to the cele bration next week. There will be three days of it and it will be worth seeing. "Great credit is due to the people of Harrisburg for the regeneration and beautificatlon of their lovely city. They have been most fortunate in having enlightened newspapers. Some places are content to make a little improve ment and then stop. Harrisburg— thanks largely to a progressive press —has moved steadily and zealously toward a constantly widening vision. It has acquired that most valuable of all municipal assets, a civic spirit, and the workings of this spirit are really superb. Do not miss the cele bration next week. You will find then what the spirit is. "Or you may see the spirit any day >ou visit HarrisLurg. Truly there is nothing finer in the world than its noble river front. The landscape treat ment of it is the best example of its kind in America. Have you ever taken the drive up the road all the way to Dauphin? If not, you have some thing to live for. But in every part of the city Harrisburg shows its new life. It seems to us big as it is it will double Itself within the next two dec ades. All this glorious section of Pennsylvania is destined to a won derful population growth, and always our beautiful State capital will pros per with it. "Towns in Harrisburg's reach should cultivate the Harrisburg spirit and be gin to launch community campaigns. The trouble with all of them Is that they are afraid to spend money. Let them go to Harrisburg and see what has come from a few loans. The re sults are worth ten times the cost." A SONG OF HATE A song of hate in our song to-day, Hatered of war and the price we pay. Forty thousand lives and hriore Is the dally price and the deadly score. Forty thousand lives a dav Is the price of war that the world must pay. Hatred and horror when hearts are wrung, Hatred that clings and climbs among Rich and poor through the world to day, Hatred of war we hear all say. Hatred of slaughter, when hearts are wrung, Hatred of misery on each tongue. Forty thousand lives and more Is the daily toll and the deadly score. While a world is bowed in grief to day. It hates the high cost of war, I say. —C. Whitlock Cole, in the Christian Herald. THE TEMPERATE ZO.VE (Samuel Osgood. The practical man Is not, indeed, in fallible. for to err Is human; but he has studied chances till he has found the main chance; and in his ruling policy the elecent of certainty Is so combined with the element of risk that the risk serves to quicken and vitalize the whole combination, as the oxygen of the atmosphere—in itself so inebriating and consuming—gives spirit and life when mingled in moderate proportion with the more solid and nutritious nitrogen To change the figure—he aims to live and work in the temperate zone of sound sense and solid strength, and he is not In clanger of running off Into tropical fevers or polar Icebergs; for he is content to be warm without being burned, and to be cool without being frozen. ® THE PICXIC [From Life.] Scornful Spouse—lt needn't make you so grumpy because you swallowed an ant and spilt jam on your trousers snd sat on a bumblebee. Good heavens a picnic's a picnic, you know! AUSTRALIA TO SAVE ITS TREES In Australia there has been started a popular movement for the preservation of the giant "stringybark" trees of that country, the tallest in the world. Our Daily Laugh THEY DO N'T REALLY DO IT. Tradition in a no- T V™ bit thing. I # But &ii you | evor hear or A graduate who'd "Beyond the HE KNEW. Chol 'y ; When IvvV r( v -/I V- your sister'* ftsjM birthday, young Bobbie: Let's Bee —ehe had on* a we « k ago—eh* /■jfm won't have an jji? U other for about • W | couple of month* T>oOt£c* £n> By the Ei-Committeeman Renominatlon of Superior Court Judges Orlady and Head appears to be pretty certain among men who fol low politics In the State and there la a very pretty contest on between J. Henry Williams, of Philadelphia, and ex-Judge W. D. Wallace, of New Cas tle, for the third place. The former judge is making as strong a campaign in the western counties as are the par tisans of Mr. Williams in the East. The Lackawanna county bar yes terday endorsed Judges Orlady and Head and Mr. Williams after adopting resolutions deploring the fact that President Judge Charles E. Rice was not a candidate for another term. The action of the Lackawanna bar is sig nificant as it is one of the largest in the State. —Governor Brumbaugh got to Phil adelphia too late to register yester day. A telegram was sent here to tell him that it would be too late, but it was not delivered until the train passed Lancaster. The governor was told about it when he reached Phila delphia. "Well, if I can't register I can't that is all there is to it," said the governor. —The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day says: "When the Public Service Com mittee of One Hundred meets to-day the Issue will be determined as to whether George D. Porter, Director of Safety under the Blankenburg ad ministration. or Sheldon Potter, Di rector of Public Safety during the lat ter part of Mayor Weaver's term, shall be indorsed for Mayor whether it shall be decided to make no choice and leave the problem to be settled by the voters at the primary election next Tuesday. There is a clean-cut fight between Potter and Porter and the committee may conclude that the best interest for the reform movement is to let the primary vote settle the ques tion." —The Democrats of Lackawanna county appear to have adopted the tactics of the Democratic bosses who are seeking to frame up fusion in this county because at a meeting held in Scranton a few days ago the executive committee of the Democratic county committee ratified the action of the city committee In endorsing the can didacy of L. J. Williams for county commissioner. Representative Wil liam Luxemburger for county control ler; Dr. J. J. Bendick, of Olyphant, for coroner, and A. B. Dunning for county surveyor; also the candidacies of William F. McGee and Thomas Evans for school director in the city of Scranton. —Schuylkill county grand Jury, which has been investigating alleged registration frauds in Mahanoy Town ship, yesterday reported to Judge Brumm that they found no gross ir regularities. They said the enroll ment Act was not well observed last year, because it was new and not un derstood, but this year it was more generally enforced. In the Mahanoy Townships some of the assessors live at a great distance from the voters and for their convenience, voters were allowed to leave their slips at Justice William Kelly's office. Judge Brumm sharply disagreed with the jury. He said the plea that the laws were not understood was a poor excuse for their violation. He said it was shown that many registry slips were turned in by one man and in the same handwrit ing, although the law requires that the assessors interview the voters per sonally. After telling the grand jury that the practice of transferring large bodies of voters from one party to an other each year in order to meet poli tical exigencies had to stop, Judge Brumm discharged the jurors. —Speaking at Philadelphia last night on the Smith candidacy, Gover nor Brumbaugh said: "My letters were a sufficient explanation of my reasons for taking the action I did, and I certainly .<ee no reason for apol ogizing for anything I did, nor have I any Intention of so doing," he de clared. "I did not discuss the Mayor alty with Mr. Smith, and while it was true, as my letter to him indicated, that he had been mentioned as a can didate for Mayor, I had no reason then to believe that he regarded the use of his name seriously. I was not in terested in Mr. Smith as a candidate for Mayor, nor, in fact, was I directly interested in the candidacy of any other man. I did not even know Con gressman Vare's mind as respects his candidacy. I did not question him on the matter and he did not tenllghten me. If I have anything further to say on the Mayoralty situation I will Issue a formal statement, but I do not know that I will have anything more to say." —The Rev. George W. Sheldon, a Pittsburgh minister, who traveled part way with the Governor, Is quoted as saying at Pittsburgh: "On the way back from Fort Wayne Governor Brumbaugh repeatedly spoke of Mr. O'Nell's prospects for re-election. He was very anxious to learn all particu lars regarding his campaign. I told htm that we felt assured of Mr. O'Neil's election if the people who had registered would vote on election day. Governor Brumbaugh was much pleased and said that he would do all that he could to further the cause of Mr. O'Nell for the reason that Mr. O'Nell and he stood for the same cause." —Announcement was made at Scranton yesterday by Internal Reve nue Collector Fred Klrkendall for the 12th District of two registrations in his office, and the consequent appoint ments to fill the vacancies. Warren B. Dreher, of Stroudsburg, for many years secretary to Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer, was named chief clerk in place of G. N. Lemaster, of Lancaster. John Mulligan, of Lans ford, who has been an internal reve nue collector, is succeeded by T. F. Mullaney, of. Scranton. Leo A. Cros sin, Scranton, Is -transferred to Phila delphia, to look after delinquent in come taxes. —Politicians' Day, which the man agement of Mount Holly Springs Park plans to establish as an annual field day for politicians in that section, was held yesterday at that resort Gabriel H. Moyer, Palmyra, and A. Nevin Detrich, Chambersburg, State chair man for the Washington party, were the principal speakers. WHEN? "When will it end?" I asked the sage; He answered softly: "Wit'h this age." "That will be—when?" with hope I cried; "In God's due time," the sage re plied. "And God's due time—when may that •be?" "When man knows his extremity." "Ah, then It must be soon,"I said: He smiled, but sadly shook his head. "Oh, tell me what you know," I urged; "When shall our universe be purged Of all its wrongs and discords rife?" I'When Death is swallowed up of Life!" —Ophelia Bunnlng Adams, in the Christian Herald VIEWS OF OLD HARRISBURG - The etching shows Market street looking toward the river when the "Daily "J!? J V , eekly Telegraph occupied the corner of Third and Market streets. The old Telegraph is now the remodeled Bergner building. And somehow or other there seems to be a dirth of automobiles in the street. The horsecar, however, kept plugging along on the single track street. HOW THE GOVERNME By Frederic J. Haskin v i The United States Government has decided to put up for its own uses a great structure of the office building type. Never before has it erected this kind of building, but having decided to do so, it has gone all the way and the new home of its Interior Department is destined to be one of the biggest office buildings In all the world. The ground for It is already broken and the work is going forward in Washington. It will occupy a full block and each side of that block is •400 feet long. So it happens that this block is unusually large for few cities have them with sides of more than 300 feet. It is therefore rarely pos sible to put up so large an office build ing even when an ambition to do so is entertained. It Is doubtful if there Is another office building In the world that covers so much ground. There will be almost four acres of land under it which is a pretty good sized farm. There may be office buildings in some of the cities that contain more rooms and more floor space because they are so much taller. The Interior Department structure will be eight stories in height. At that it will sur pass in height the other departmental buildings for these are mostly but four stories. The government has always held to the classic types in the erection of those buildings in which it took spe cial pride. It set a pace for itself when it erected its capitol building. The authorities all agree that a divine providence must have guided the hands of those who were responsible for the development of that building which stands on a hill and toward which a nation looks. For a hundred years architects have pointed to it as the best structure in America and have been unable to pick a flaw in it. Sir Aston Webb, who built the Vic toria Memorial in London, and who Is recognized as the best British architec tural authority, not long ago visited Washington and gave it as his opinion that the American capitol Is the great est building in the world. Classic Structure It is a classic structure of pillars and domes and great flights of steps. The White House is a high type of that American adaptation of the classic which came to be known as colonial. It has likewise escaped criticism for a century. The Treasury Building is magnificent in its array of huge pillars. The Patent Office Building, one of the ancient structures, Is still regarded as an architectural masterpiece. But after it had built those the government ran riot for many decades and such structures as the State, War and Navy Building, the Post Office De partment Building and others were erected, ginger-bread piles with Gothic pretentions, and Uncle Sam as a build er came in for much condemnation. Then the pendulum swung back and for a decade or two all government structures have been severely classic and have mostly been admirable in the opinion of the critics of architec ture. But the classic structure is open to much criticism from the utilitarian. Deep set windows, It is argued, let in little light. Rows of classic columns In front of these windows shut out more of it. Architectural effects take up much space and cost much money. If a building is put up as a working f The State From Day to Day 1 «■ J Something new in the way of en tertainment will be given to-day at the eleventh annual exhibition of the Corry Fair. A wedding will take place in front of the grandstand, and although the name of the participants therein are not to be divulged until the time of the ceremony, the promo ors promise a very agreeable surprise to all who care to witness the event. This is the first time we have ever heard of making a wedding furnish entertainment for a hot afternoon. By the will of Elizabeth Laury, of Egypt, the deceased directs that the sum of $1 be given to the heirs of her oldest daughter, and the same sum to Sarah Knerr, a widow, and her heirs. We note with pleasure that there was no string attached to the heritage and the heirs will have no trouble getting possession of this sum, as there are no disputants. Something startling In the female line put Ebensburg on the map again yesterday when she swept Into a bank of that place. "Gimme five ones for this fiver," said our heroine In a melo dious voice, perhaps; the cashier hastened to obey. She leaned over, a suspicious snapping sound followed, and she straightened tp. "There's one bank won't go under till I go un der," she gurgled to everybody in sight as she exited. The boy scouts of Lancaster, re cently organ-zed, have made prepara tions for holding a "Jitney" social sometime next month. This is the acme of flattery to the jitney. Soon we will be wearing Jitney hats, smok ing Jitney cigars (If we can transcend the twofers) and drinking jitney high ball*. A mausoleum containing four hun dred crypts and a number of bodies has been, seized by the sheriff of Blair county 'for a debt claimed to be owed to a contractor. What thr sheriff can do with his find is a matter of con jecture. Little Miss Dorothy Strunk, aged fourteen months, of Reading, is the happiest and best fed baby in the city. office for a department why should it not be made strictly utilitarian? At which suggestion the architec tural school, which holds that govern ment buildings should be monuments as well, fly into a frenzy and, in most cases, have been supported by those to whom the government has looked for guidance. The Land Office with its myriad of filed records, will have a wing. The Geological Survey will occpy much space and there are specially built laboratories, photographic dark rooms, press rooms for the production of its maps. The Bureau of Mines will be provided with other laboratories built especially to fit its purposes. There it will test the samples of all the coal that the government buys, experiment infinitely in mine damps and the gases that cause explosion underground, develop new uses for the products of American minerals. There will be housed the Indian Office and the Rec lamation Service. The building will cost $2,500,000. To convert it into a classic structure, an art monument, would require a mil lion or a million and a half more. It would then be a less fit office building. All of which raises a very nice ques tion. Of late years the government has had under construction three or rout hundred buildings all the time. It has been finishing these up at the rate of 150 a year. Most of these buildings are post offices. If the government completed buildings at the rate of 150 a year it would not take many de cades for it to accumuate a goodly number of them. But, as a matter of fact, it owns less than a thousand sep arate buildings aside from such groups as occur at army posts and In dian agencies. Buildings Are Increasing These nonmilitary buildings have increased rapidly in number in the last two decades. In 1853 there were but twenty-three such government owned buildings. In 1885 there were 187, in 1901, 363. In earlier days the government rented most such struc tures. Pot offices were formerly rent ed in most of the smaller towns. Steadily they have been built all over the country. The architect's office of the Treasury Department has charge of the erec tion of all such buildings. Twenty years ago there was chaos in such structures. There was nothing distinc tive about them. Ppst offices in one part of the country looked nothing ilke the same class of buildings in another section. Then came a sort of renaissance in government architecture. The Treas ury Department came to hold that government buildings, wherever con structed, shoud be of a correct and distinctive type. In selecting the de sired types the architects went back to the old masters, to the classic structures that were developed when the art of building was at its height. The best structures of Greece and Rome, the models that are still held to by all men who go forth to build magnificently, furnished the ideas that were to be used for post offices located in little towns scattered all about the map. Uncle Sam held that thus might he give all his people an object lesson In art and thus might he cause them to more wholesomely respect the gov -1 ernment. At least, she won the prize at the meeting of the Baby Welfare Center, which is quite an honor, for this healthy specimen of babyhood had much competition among other tots of the city. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS [ AGO TO-DAY ] [From the "Telegraph, Sept 17, 1865.] Man Found Dead on Car Richard Fleming, a printer of this city, was found dead sitting on the bumper of a car last evening near the roundhouse. Landlords to Picnic Landlords of the city will hold a pic nic on Independence Island on Wednes day. Chess Clnb to Meet The Harrisburg Chess club will hold a meeting this evening at 8 o'clock in their rooms. Important business will be transacted. WHAT A MISSING LETTER DID A proofreader, anent the import ance of trifles, says an exchange, read from his notebook these sentences, each made absurd by the omission of a single letter: "The conflict was dreadful and the enemy was repulsed with great laugh [ ter." f "When the Presidertt's wife entered the humble sitting room of the house she was politely offered a hair." "A man was yesterday arrested on the charge of having eaten a cabman for demanding more than his fare." "An employe in the service of the government was accused of having stolen a small ox from the mail. The stolen property was found in his vest pocket." "The Russian soldier, Knacklnoffos kewky, was found with a long word sticking in his throat." * " SECOND FLY CONTEST of the Civic Club for 1915. Ancut Ist to September rive cent, a pint for all fltea, and nan> prises la sold. ■ Vaa lEimting (Cljat The Book of the Highways. Just tosued in pocket form by the branch of the city government of which Wil liam H. Lynch is the chief, is prob ably the most complete list of the thoroughfares of Harrisburg ever is sued and suggests the thought that it would be an excellent thing for a list of the roads radiating from Har- forty miles. Other cities of the State have such books or lists or guides according to what oitfL. E to call them and these t, £ e sald ' have nothing like the highways to show that Harrisburg enjoys. State road routes spread out from this city like the spoke of a wheel. It is literally the hub of Pennsylvania roads, as it should be. Yet, there are comparatively few roads leading to Harrisburg suffi ciently marked. These roads could be marked by club or private enter prise, or even by the city because of the advertisement it would give to the municipality. The State has done something toward marking, but there is much more to be done. Then, with the list of roads Harrisburg would be as well known to the traveling public, at least the automobile sec tion, as its highways will be to its own residents through Commissioner Lynch's book. The Book of the Highways furnishes the names of streets of which the average man has heard very seldom and then only casually. The Cameron layout and the Bellevue Park devel opment added a number of names to the city and they have been chosen with some regard for nomenclature. Duck, Cleander and some other places were not seized upon as in years gone by. There is something attractive about Briarcliff; Geary is suggestive of a governor and Monroe of a coun ty and a president. And so Allison, Spencer, Sumner, Norwood, Wood lawn fit In better than Persimmon and Cream. In this connection it might be added that avenue, lane and court no longer figure in official desig nations of streets in Harrisburg. Meadow Lane has passed out after 150 years of use as a highway and Christy Court has gone before the Eighth Ward gives up a considerable portion of its area for Capitol Park extension. Neither does the name of the historic Jonestown road, which survives within the city for a short space up the hill just north of Cam eron street, appear as a highway, while there are no avenues at all. Everything less than a certain width is an alley. There are several roads, notably in the Bellevue section; there are Cloverly Terrace and Berkeley Place, Rudy Place and so on. Some streets appear to be laboring under two names, but Broad street is offi cially given as Verbeke. Hop, Ice, Prune and Ruby streets survive, but Oil is no longer on the list. * • * The naming of Ex-Auditor General A. E. Sisson as the Erie county dele gate to the farmers' national congress in Omaha appears to have interested a number of people. The former au ditor general is a farmer neverthe less. although he is better known as legislator, lawyer and auditor gen eral. He owns a couple of the finest farms in Erie county and what ia more lives on them and sells his pro duce to the commission men and wholesalers himself. • • • A good story is told by a man of unimpeachable veracity about the nar row gauge road to Eaglesmere with whose tortuous course many Harris burgers are familiar. It seems that this has been a good year for pheas ants on the mountains and they have been seen frequently on the track. The other day the engineer of one of the snorting engines found a covey on the track. He blew the whistle, but the birds did not move. So he stopped the train and "shooed" away the birds. » • • Among Harrisburg visitors yester day was Walter Lyon, former lieuten ant governor, now practicing law In Pittsburgh. He met a number of friends while here. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —William Conner, register of wills of Allegheny county, who has been ill, is home again after a short trip. —Judge Ralston, of Philadelphia, has been spending a few days at New port. —Charles R. Cragin, of Philadel phia, has been spending a month in Virginia. —William Filnn has taken to golf ing with ardor. The other day he told Mayor Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, he ought to learn the game. —E. A. Burke, of Scranton, mo tored to the seashore. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg has the larg est production of river coal of any place In the State? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harrisburg had its first inaugura tion of a governor 102 years ago. OUR CELEBRATION Under the direction of the Chamber burg are preparing for a great munici burg- are preparing to ra great munici pal celebration September 23, 24 and 25, to commemorate a remarkable pro gram of civic Improvements, 1901-1915. This celebration will Include a spectac ular river carnival, with decorated floats and aquatic sports; a public re ception by of ncia Is and others prominent ly Identified with the several loan cam paigns. a street cabaret; general dec oration* of the city under proclamation of the mayor, and other features. This same period of fourteen years has been featured in Harrisburg by the erection of a splendid new State Capi tol, several big office buildings, Y. W. C. A. and two new Y. M. C. A. buildings, the Mulberry Street viaduct over the Pennsylvania Railroad, a Masonic Tem ple of white stone, handsome residences and many other fine structures, of which the city Is Justly proud. Leba non Times. Getting the Push Behind Your Goods The push of the local dealer li mighty helpful to the manufac turer with a good brand to sell. It is the key link in the chain of distribution. That "push" can often be se cured as a co-operative factor to newspaper advertising. The dealer Is S. newspaper reader and he knows conditions in his city. He knows that the manufac turer's newspaper advertising will create a demand which he can feel. He knows it profits him to get behind newspaper advertised goods and he does It. Manufacturers needing the "dealer push" are Invited to ad dress the Bureau of Advertising, American Newspaper Publishers Association, World Butldlnr, New York.
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