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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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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
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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.