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FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. 24
=
Something each day,—a deed
Of kindness and of good,
To link in closer bonds
All human brotherhood.
Oh, thus the heavenly zvill ■
We all may do while here;
For a good deed every day
Makes blessed all the year.
—George Cooper.
THK TOWN'S BIGGEST EVENT
THE Telegraph is in receipt of an
unsigned letter, a part of which
is as follows:
I note with Interest that your
town starts alhuost every one of its
celebrations and Its Improvement
campaigns with services in the
churches. Does it not seem odd to'
you to ask your preachers to Jink
up the spiritual and the secular,
and are there not things in your
public celebrations and your loan
schemes that the church should not
be asked to countenance? Person
ally I believe the church should
confine itself to things purely re
ligious.
To begin with, it may be said that
the biggest event of each week, judged
from the standpoint of attendance, is
the Sunday church service. More
people attend church in Harrisburg
than gather together, week in and
week out, for any other purpose. The
church, therefore, must be regarded
as the one ?reat institution in which
& large majority of our people are in
terested. It would seem only proper,
therefore, that tho church should par
ticipate in our celebrations and sup
port our public improvement enter
prises. Harrisburg has never encour
aged an improvement or planned a
public jubilee with which any church
could talte exception.
The Telegraph is quite aware that
♦ here are those who criticise the
church for entering Into the life of
the community, going Into the byways
to do social welfare work, giving at
tention to public philanthropies and
striving for better living conditions.
To these the church should be a thing
apart, a precinct sacred to worship,
and separated entirely from all forms
of earthly activities. But on the other
hand there are critics who take a view I
diametrically opposed to this and who
are sure that the church would be the
stronger to-day had its membership
begun earlier to participate in the
affairs of the community along the
lines indicated.
Surely there can be no harm in the
church giving of its dignity and char
acter to anything that its members
may undertake for the betterment of
their town —which, after all, means
also their fellow-residents.
THE CITY COMMISSIONERS
THE careful voter will study well
the local municipal situation be
fore casting his ballot for City
Council in November. He will not be
led away by the unscrupulous -attacks
of personal or selfishly ambitious ene
mies of any of the candidates in the
field. He will be governed by reason
f.nd his belief in what is best for his
city.
In this respect the Telegraph calls
the attention of the public to the rec
ords in office of Commissioners Wil
liam H. Lynch and M. Harvey Taylor.
Commissioners Gorgas and Bowman
are safely elected by the fact that they
received more than the 51 per cent,
lequlred by law at the primaries to
place them on the ticket as unopposed
candidates at tho November elections.
It is not necessary, therefore, to go
into the merits or demerits of their
candidacies, but it is extremely impor
tant that the voter should inspect
carefully the records in office of Messrs.
Lynch and Taylor, not to mention
Mayor Royal, who is a candidate for
commissioner.
Mr. Lynch has'been entrusted with
the affairs of tho Highway Department
and those duties formerly in charge of
the Board of Public Works. Under
his direction the formerly dirty streets
have been made clean and the awful
patchwork of holes and depressions
left in the asphalt by the carelessness
of a former repair contractor and the
mismanagement of Mayor Royal's
Highway Commissioner are being
smoothed out and the paving put into
first-class condition. He has procured
low prices Cor new paving contracts
FRIDAY EVENING,
and has prosecuted the work 6f public
improvements so vigorously and with
so much success that we are to-day
celebrating- the completion of the great
improvement schemes he took over
when he was elected commissioner.
Mr. Taylor, in charge of the Park
Department, has done much better
than his friends could have hoped. He,
too, has carried along the work of
development in a manner that has
won him the commendation of those
who have given the matter their
closest attention and all over the park
system there are marks of his improv
ing hand. Mr. Taylor has been too
modest to call the attention of tho
public to the fact that what he has
done along this line has been at a
cost much lower than heretofore.
Surely these things commend them
selves to the man who places his city
above any thought of party or per
sonality In politics. The two commis
sioners named have served well and
honestly. They have mastered the de
rails of these departments. To re-elect
them would be to continue their ad
ministration. To defeat them would
be to place in charge of their depart
ments men who are xitter strangers to
city affairs a? operated under the new
Clark act and inexperienced a3 to
details.
There remains Mayor Royal. Prob
ably tho least said about him the bet-
I ter. As Mayor he has had small oppor
tunity to display any great constructive
eblllties and' he has neglected the
small chance presented. He has
blocked Improvements wherever pos
sible. He has stood between the city
end progress. He has been a bad in
fluence in Council. He is the one mem
ber of the old commission who should
not be re-elected. He has made office
holding yield him a livelihood for
years. He has grown fat at the public
crib. His interest, is purely personal
and not patriotic and he has no par
ticular qualifications to recommend
him as head of any of tlta city depart
ments.
LOOKING FORWARD
LAST night's reception given by
the Chamber of Commerce in
honor of those who had part In
bringing the public improvements of
the past fourteen years to a successful
completion was well worth while in
many respects. But the keynote of
the gathering was distinctly what
those who planned the affair no doubt
hoped it would be. It sounded out
above all else the resonant, ringing
call of "Forward!"
Speakers cast hut a glance back
across the years to that little country
town long since swallowed up In the
great progressive city of to-day, and
then they turned their
and confidently toward the future.
Forward, forward, forward—lt was
the text of every speech, from that of
ex-Senator John E. Fox, the presiding
officer, to the illustrated talk of J. Hor
ace McFarland which brought the
evening to a close. And the enthusi
astic manner with which the speeches
were made testified to the popularity
of their text. Beyond all question
Harrisburg is on the threshhold of the
greatest growth and development In
its history.
Of scarcely less import than this
faith In the city's future so vigorously
expressed was the credit that all of
those who spoke gave to the self
sacrifice and the enterprise of the
people at large, who voted the loans
and bore the financial burdens. Few
attempts were made to glorify any
individual above any other. The rank
and file came into their own. The
people were given the full credit they
deserve.
And this was as it should be. for in
the final analysis it is the people who
make or mar a city. Wise leadership
and conscientious administration may
do much, but without the support of
the public either or both must fall.
It Is to its masses that Harrisburg
must look for its future growth and
development along right lines, and
unless all signs fail the people will be
found heart and soul behind anything
that will make JCr a bigger, better
city.
This is the spirit of the whole cele
bration.
RURAL DELIVERY
JOHN A. MCASPAR RAN, Master of
the State Grange of Pennsylvania,
does not approve of the attempts
of Postmaster General Burleson to
economize at the expense of efficiency
in the rural delivery service.
McSparran has personal knowledge
of the needs of farmers In the way of
mail service and also knows a few
things about the distance a horse can
travel. In both respects he has the
advantage of the Postmaster General,
whosS experience for fourteen years
was in Congress, where he never
serVed on the postofflce committee,
and, for eleven years prior thereto, in
legal offices In Texas.
In a signed article discussing recent
orders for the extension of rural
routes, McSparran points out that
longer routes will mean that carriers
will reach town late In the evening, too
late for outgoing trains, and as a re
sult the letter written by the farmer
the night before must lie over until
the following day before It is put on
the train.
The Pennsylvania Grange also as
serts that, judging by experience, a
horse cannot stand a thirty-mile trip
every other day unless he makes the
trip at too slow a pace to suit the
farmer who wants and is entitled to
reasonable good mail service.
Mr. McSparran does not always
speak as one with authority, but farm
ers In general will agree in this In
stance, at least, he haa fairly well rep
resented their case.
T>OLO«* IK
By the Ei-Oommlttßemw
General dissatisfaction with features
of the primary law, the uncertainty
about the nonpartisan sole nominee
clause, the delays in i«eturns and the
ease with which new parties may be
started is manifested all over the State
as the result of Tuesday's vote. The
Republicans seem to have "come back"
s-'th heavy force in the few counties
w here there was some insurgency
shown last Fall, while the Democratic
disorganization appears to be grow
ing worse since the primaries are over.
It seems to be generally admitted
that Judges Orlady and Head will be
sole nominees for Superior Court, with
J Henry Williams a possible third.
The official counts started in the vari
ous counties to-day and they will be
filed in the usual leisurely way.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says:
"With returns from half a dozen divi
sions still missing, according to the
reports to police headquarters, Thomas
B. Smith polled 130,179 votes for
mayor on the Republican ticket. Ow
ing to the confusion incident to the
tabulations of an unprecedentedly
large list of candidates, there were
many inaccuracies in the returns, and
when these corrections shall be made
and the vote for Mr. Smith on the
Personal Liberty primary ballot shall
be added the total, It is predicted, will
be nearer 135,000. The police reports,
revised yesterday, give Director of
Public Safety George D. Porter a total
vote on all ballots of 56,000. There
ma? be some additions to these figures
when the official count shall be made."
In Schuylkill county Prothonotary
John Reese, a candidate for re-election
on the Republican ticket, was defeated
by James R. Walton, warden of the
jail. Frank Ball, of Mahanoy City,
defeats William Moody, of Tremont,
for the Republican nomination for
register. W. R. Adamson has 3,000
plurality over three opponents for the
Republican nomination for county
treasurer. District Attorney C. A.
Whitehouse is renominated by the
Republicans, defeating C. Frank
Muehlhof.
W. M. Liggett and J. W. Mack,
cousins,' are fighting a close battle for
the Republican nomination for district
attorney in Indiana county.
Ex-Congressman R. E. Lee, of Potts
ville, saved a girl from being killed by
an automobile yesterday.
Isaac Ash is Republican nominee
for county controller in Chester by a
majority of seven votes..
Friends of J, Denny O'Neil are urg
ing him to run as an independent for
commissioner in Allegheny county.
Judge A, W. Williams ran third in
the Mercer primaries. J. A. McLaugh
rey is high man, with Senator Ben
Jarrett second.
Another new party is to be formed
in Philadelphia by reformers as a
"piotest" against the verdict of the
voters.
—There are some very entertaining
post mortems being held in Cumber
land county as the result of the sweep
ing victory of S. B. Sadler. Men who
believed that A. R. Rupley was a big
figure in the county have commenced
to revise their estimates, especially
since it has been shown that he did
not make good in any .district ex
cept New Cumberland.
—Senator R. V. Farley was beaten
out In" the contest for the Democratic
nomination for county commissioner
In Philadelphia by F. J. Gorman, the
Keystone leader.
—Webster Grim, candidate for Gov
ernor on the Democratic ticket in 1910
was nominated for school director at
Doylestown, but defeated on the Re
publican ticket.
—Late returns indicate that Ex-
Representative George A. Baldwin will
be a nominee for judge In Beaver
county against Judge Richard S. Holt.
—John Martin, the local boss of the
Democratic reorganlzers, won a nomi
nation for county commissioner in
Allegheny, defeating S. J. Toole, the
present commissioner and a Brennan
man.
—Judge J. McF. Carpenter, a Tener
appointee, goes on the Allegheny judi
cial ballot alone.
—Joseph Cauffiel, mayor of Johna
town, who was beaten for the Re
publican nomination for county con
troller of Cambria, will run on the
Washington ticket. Cauffiel says that
he has made a complete list of all
liars in . Cambria county.
—S. P. Emery, well known here,
may be the sole nominee for judge in
Lawrence county. He seems to have
run'ahead of Judge W. E. Porter, who
made the county "dry" and also of
James A. Chambers, the Democrat.
EDITORIAL COMMENT }
Having appointed plenty of talent
to show him how all that Secretary
Daniels now needs is a navy.—Phila
delphia Press.
All the Slates were slated at the pri
maries. The voters now have 40 days
in which to make up their November
minds as to what slates they will
smash.—Philadelphia Record.
With the primaries over it is pretty
nearlv time to make the suggestion
that it will not be long until you will
be advised to do your Christmas shop
ping early. Pottsville Republican.
PANORAMIC PERISCOPE MADE
FOR FRENCH SUBMARINES
France has at last developed a pano
ramic periscope which is capable of
providing a commander of a sub
marine a constant and clear view of
the horizon in all directions. The in
strument, which is the subject of the
cover design for the October Popular
Mechanics Magazine, represents one
of the most important inventions re
cently made . for facilitating the op
eration of submersible vessels. Of late
years much effort has been expended
in perfecting a periscope of this char
acter, but until now the results have
been unsatisfactory. Describing the
device. Popular Mechanics Magazine
says:
"At the top of the new instrument is
an annular lens, the exterior of which
has a spherical curvature, while the
interior is ellipsoidal. Images of
everything discernible about the whole
horizon are first refracted and then
reflected down the tube. They are
collected In a horizontal plane by a
condenser set midway in the tube and
thrown upon a five-sided prism at the
bottom, which reflects the rays twice
and projects them through binoculars.
The view given the observer is circu
lar; much the same in appearance as
i* he were looking at one side of a
globe.
"This describes one-half of the in
strument, which In reality is a double
periscope. Immediately below the lens
at the top of the tube is a second eye
and this may be turned in any direc
tion and focused on a specific object,
just as an ordinary periscope may.
The rays entering it pass down the
tube in the same manner as the others,
but without Interfering with them.
The image appears in the center of
the panoramic picture and is greatly
magnified in comparison with indi
vidual objects shown in the latter."
HARRISBURG TFSSFO TELEGRAPH
SHELL RACES ON
REMINDER OTHEi?
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OLD BOATHOUSE IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION, DESTROYED BY FLOOD OF *B9.
THE interest formerly taken in
shell-racing in this city was so
keen that it is a reasonable con
clusion, with the increased facilities
which the river basin now has to offer,
that this popular and beneficial sport
will be taken up again in the near
future and that the river events to
day will culminate eventually in the
organization of a Harrisburg rowing
association.
Scarcely ha:f xhe people witnessing
the races on the river to-day realize
that thirty years ago Harrisburg had
a boat club ranking among the best
in the country—a club that sent its
representatives to row in the largest
regattas, at Philadelphia, Newark,
Seneca Lake, Columbia, Sunbury, and
other places, where races for the Na
tional Championship were staged.
The Harrisburg Boat Club in 1889
had in course of construction on the
TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE"!
—Popular song of the visiting fin
anciers—"A Loan, All A-Loan."
—Before deciding that it's time to ,
chanffe underwear we await the arrival
of the roast chestnut man.
—First thing you know those Eng
lish bankers will be calling America
the Shylock of the world.
—The man who Invented the uniform
primary ought to be sentenced to tab
ulate the returns the day after.
—Emperor William is said to have
been determined to go down in history
as William the Great. If he isn't care
ful some compositor is going to set it up
Goat.
—"There'll be a Hot Time in the Old
Town To-night."
"NOTHING IMPORTANT
"Paris—The inventory of the pockets
of German soldiers taken prisoners is
as thorough as at the beginning of the
war, though it rarely discloses any
thing important. Tobdcco in some form
is always to be found mixed with
broken pieces of chocolate, and the last
thing that Is generally produced, hesi
tatingly, from some Inside pocket, Is a I
photograph of a woman or a child.—
New York World."
Even the men who fight for the
Kaiser are human, it seems. From the
terrible effectiveness of the German
campaign, from the methods adopted,
you get an impression of the German
soldier as a ferocious fellow. You re
call that their enemies have called
them "Huns."
And then you come across a simple
thing like the paragraph about what
they find In German soldiers' pockets—
and the humanity of it gives you a lit
tle thrill. Tobacco, broken chocolate—
small, homely creature comforts. And
last of all, "hesitatingly, from some in
side pocket, a photograph of a woman
or a child."* These men, the rank and
file, are not Huns. The Huns didn't
worry about women and children —not
even their own.
Such of the home letters of soldiers
as have appeared in American news
papers have shown the humanity of
these men. You hear of their lighting
little Christmas trees in the trenches —
and somehow It brings a catch to your
throat. It isn't the proper way for
Huns to act —It really isn't. Of a sud
den vou rind yourself feeling Immense
sympathy for these simple minded sol
dier folk, who go through hardship un
complainingly, who go to death singing
in a serene belief that they are per
ishing for the world's good.
They ought to be at home tilling their
ttdv fields, working in their excellent
factories which turn out honest goods—
thev ought to be taking care of the
women and children whose pictures
thev keep to the last and give up re
luctantly.—Kansas City Times.
HARRISBL'RG'S RECORD OF
PROGRESS
Harrisburg yesterday began a three
day municipal celebration to commem
orate the remarkable program of civic,
improvements which have been made
In that city between the years 1901
and 1915. During that time millions of
dollars have been expended In the ex
tension. Improvement and filtration of
the water supply, the enlargement of
the sewerage system, the purchase of
park sites and the progress of the city
generally. To do this It was necessary
to depart from traditional conservatism
and make three or four public loans,
Involving perhaps three million dollars.
The wisdom of this has been amply
demonstrated, not only In the greatly
Improved condition of the city, but also
In the fact that the assessed value of
the citv's real estate has jumped from
$26,138,'799 in 1901 to $50,336,754 In the
present v»-ar. Moreover, It has stimu
lated private enterprise and many
handsome dwellings and semipubltc
buildings have been erected, the entire
scheme of improvements combining to
make an adequate setting for the splen
did State Capitol building.
The Inquirer heartily congratulates
the»city of Harrisburg and its enter
prising citizens upon thjs unusual rec
ord of civic progress. It has always
posse.ssed solid foundations upon which
to build and Its location along the pic
turesque Susquehanna has been envi
able In many respects. Its awakening
indicates the possibilities that are In
herent In many cities of Pennsylvania
and should be an object lesson to all of
them, and not least to Philadelphia,
which feels that It, too. is or. the eve
of a civic development which will
eventually make It rank among the en
terprising as well as the Important
cities of the world. Harrisburg de
serves Its present success, and It does
well to celebrate the completion of these
years of hard wor,. with a municipal
glorification.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
SOME HOPE
France is calling her boys of 18 to
the colors. Well, hoys of about that
average age won the war for the
Union.—Erie Herald.
island, immediately above the Market
street bridge, a new and elaborate
boatliouse of tastefully designed brown
stone. Smith and Warner, who were
than the leading architects of the city,
were the designers of the beautiful
structure, a cut of which is herewith
given.
Charles F. Etter and Ed. C. Rauch
were the racing members of the old
association, which disappeared with
the flood of 1889. The boathouse, not
quite completed, was swept away and
the entire equipment, consisting of
two four-oared shells, three double
sculls, and four singles, worth $2,500
was carried with it. Since then the
association has boen allowed to die a
natural death, but there are some who
are reviving the old taste for the |
water and a new dub will be the in
evitable result. Mr. Rauch said to
day that he had been consulted on this |
EDUCA TING THE
By Frederick J. Haskin.
AST. LOUIS boy of ten was rest
less and troublesome in school.
He scraped his feet over the
floor, scratched his desk, scribbled in
his books and annoyed his classmates.
He seemed to spend little time in
study, yet he never failed to answer
a question in class and his written
exercises were the best in the room.
Week after week he was sent to the
principal's room for correction. One
day she took time to talk to the boy
at length. She found that for two
vears he had had practically no work
to do in the school room for fully
half the time because of a super
normal brightness which enabled him
to absorb knowledge in a fraction of
the time spent by the other children.
This boy mastered many lessons by
hearing the class above him recite.
He could easily have kept pace with
that class or outstripped it, but he
was permitted to advance but one
grade a year, his surplus time was
spent in annoying his teacher and de
veloping a mischievous spirit which
threatened to cut short his school
term.
The principal was a versatile
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
ALWAYS A HVBRISBL'RGER
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Germantown. Phlla., Sept. 22, 1915.
You will pardon this Intrusion. It is
a word from one who knows that once
a Harrisburger always a Harrisburger.
It is almost twelve years since 1 left
the good old town. My love for the
Capital City is the same as during the
days that my name was upon its regis
ters. That means a lot of love.
The entire city was beautiful to me.
Its location is one of the most beautiful
I know. Its main streets were beauti
ful so were Its avenues. Its splendid
people brightened everything. Harris
burg was always very kind to me.
With many others who are away I
wish it could be my privilege to be with
you all In the midst of your rejoicing
this week. You have myimost sincere
congratulations upon the improvements
you have accomplished. Generations
and generations will rejoice because of
that which you have so well done. You
have made the great River Front a gem
There Is nothing of the kind to equal it
in this country. It is fine to think that
the improvements belong to you all
alike, rich and poor, young and old.
When you made the River Front a park
vou kept the best for everybody. When
I think of It all, I am happy as though
you had done It all just for me and my
folks. Harrisburg seems like my
folks. You must pardon this note, but
when I saw that you were about to
celebrate because of the good work I
wanted to speak and say that here In
Philadelphia 1 am glad with you.
Very, Very Sincerely,
LUTHER DEYOE.
HOW WELL DO AVE REMEMBER
. "The wooden shingle Is a crime,"
say the Are preventioners. And many
a small boy agrees with them.—Allen
town Chronicle and News.
Our Daily Laugh ]
" I hear Wr&tt
married well.
* k '' 'yiWM I should say 80.
.'jell His bride lived in
* cheeßß factory.
A FAILURE. 1 |
Ma, is marriage .
I guess so my Vvaff
dear. I married
your father to re- -A
SEPTEMBER 24,1915.
. very matter. We use his words: "T
have been consulted by several young
men of athletic tastes as to the prob
able course to take In organizing a
new boat club. We would suggest that
a club be formed and the first at
tempt at crew rowing be in a gig or
a four-oared barge, until the men ac
quire proficiency enough to sit in a
shell. The construction of the dam
has made the river fifty per cent, bet
ter for shell rowing than it was dur
ing the existence of the Harrisburg
Boat Club."
Among the members of the old club
were such as Thomas T. Weirman,
Luther Gorgas. E. C. Kepple, Theodore
G. Calder, Dr. C. Westbrook, C. F.
Etter, E. C. Rauch, O. M. Copelin,
Chas. Covert, W. R. Denehey, F. K.
Sites, Herman Knisely, Domer Harris,
Will. Myers, Chas. Schriver, John D.
I Lemer and E. Bergstresser.
woman. "Will you behave better if
p V t ., you the higher class next
week. she asked. The boy prom
ised in some surprise. He was accus
tomed to being held back by the other
children. He was promoted the next
week. The next year by special ar
rangement he was permitted to make
two grades. The next year he en
tered high school three years in ad
vance of the class he had started with.
He was large and strong and easily
passed for a boy of fourteen, and the
age question was not pressed.
,I n _ Philadelphia, an ambitious girl,
aided by a similarly progressive prin
cipal, was ready for high school at
the age of twelve, but was refused ad
mission because fourteen was the re
quired high school age. She entered
a private school and at seventeen, in
addition to some academic work, had
completed a course of library train
ing which for most people required
six full years. Her application did
not affect her physical health. She
was sufficiently athletic to win a ten
nis championship cup and was fond
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f
I The State From Day to Day |
v *
The novel story of a criminal who
sawed the bars of his cell and made a
getaway is not aiways confined to
books, for that very event happened
in the l„eliigh county jail just a few
days ago and is graphically told in the
Aljentown Chronicle and News. The
prisoner, Richard Kruger, was be
lieved to have been a secret agent of
the German government, but was ar
rested for highway robbery. He is
still at large.
• • ♦
"Residents of the Swedenborgian
settlement of Bryn Athyn, Montgomery
! county, have applied for a charter to
have the section in which they llv\>
created into a borough." Those who
oppose the granting of the charter do
so on the ground that the attempt on
the part of the followers of Sweden
borg, who was a Swedish scientific and
religious author living in the early
part of the eighteenth century, is an
effort to form a close religious cor
poration to the exclusion of every one
else.
♦ • •
Up around Wilkes-Barre they seem
to have had considerable trouble dur
ing the primaries. The papers say
there was a great deal of personal
animosity shown in that section of
the State and that physical encount
ers were frequent. The enthusiasts
there must have believed in having 'a
hot time in the old town' while there
was some excuse for it.
• • *
The popular belief of cheap actors
that constant repetition of the words
"damn" "hell" is the safest way
to get a laugh is paralleled by the
use to which Conrad Hell, of Farrell;
Pa., puts his name in advertising his
product. Hell is in the ice-cream busi
ness and his sign reads "Go to Hell for
ice-cream." Not only is Mr. Hell tak
ing an unfair advantage of the lower
regions, but he is, moreover, entirely
inconsistent in thinking that the
maxim about opposites being true can
apply to hell and ice-cream.
* * *
Arthur D. Sheeley, member of a
prominent family of Vineland, N. J.,
as rumor hath It, has been arrested
in Reading for burglary. This Raffles
to a specialist and is called "the liter
ary burglar." His most recent ven
ture was to leave a note in the apart
ment of a Reading society woman
criticising some of the literary works
in her library and complaining be
cause there was nothing except bon
bons to eat.
• « »
The Great Unwashed, Mr. Owen
Tracy, who hasn't taken a bath In 26
years and prefers to spend his time,
waking and sleeping, in the cellar next
to the coal bin, rather than in the
company of his wife, is causing great
comment in the newspapers of the
State. He Is from Baltimore, but that
is not the fault of Baltimore.
j jEbentng (£t?at |
In all probability Harrisburg will
take the lead In the movement which
has already started throughout the
State to take kinks out of the non
partisan primary election act. From
all accounts the same conditions pre
vailed in Wilkes-Barre and other cities
that happened here when the primary
vote was counted. Candidates
mayor received big votes, enough
entitle them to the sole place and until
technicalities were straightened out
some of them were very uneasy. The
demand seems to be for a plainer
statute governing such maters. In re
gard to councilmen the provision that
candidates for city fathers' seats must
have a majority of all ballots given out
is declared in other places, as well as
here, to be a very complicated matter.
Just why there should be a difference
in regard to mayoralty and council
manic candidates Is not clear. In all
probability the next legislature will be
requested to clarify the law and to
make very plain and simple provi
sions whereby men who get the un
disputed majority of the primary votes
and are very certainly the people's
choice should be spared the turmoil
of a second election. It might be
added that a good many people who
were inclined to say things about the
nonpartisan act see in the majority
vote principle an excellent idea, al
though crudely provided by the law
makers.
• * •
It is doubtful if anything on the long
trip about the improved portions of
Harrisburg impressed the scores who
rode yesterday more than the disap
pearing portion of the Eighth ward.
Few had any idea that the commission
appointed by Governor Tener had ac
complished so much and there were
expressions of surprise at the bare
places and the impromptu playgrounds
into which the youngsters of that sec
tion had turned vacant lots. The com
pleted improvements were plain to
everyone and those in progress were
well exemplified in places, but the
Eighth ward furnished material for
an idea of what Harrisburg is going
to be like. Incidentally, there were
many who asked what would be done
with the State street bridge.
• m •
"I have never been in a city where
there was more public spirit than here
in Harrisburg," said Jerome K. Bar
rett, attorney and former newspaper
man of Scranton who was in the city
yesterday as the guest of Fred Hand
of the Department of Labor and in
dustry. "Your city looks It, too," he
continued. "There is evidence that
your faith is expressed In works as
well as words. Everywhere 1 go the
people are talking public improve
ments. I thought this celebration was
meant to mark the closing of the im
provement chapter, but unless I miss
my guess it is only a stepping stone
to even bigger things for the future.
You can't stop people as much In ear
nest as those of Harisburg appear to
be."
Two of the men successful at the
Allegheny primaries are well known to
many residents of this city. Joseph
N. Mackrell, legislative correspondent
of the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph,
has been nominated for Pittsburgh
city council after a hard fight, and
Addison C. Gumbert, of the Public
Service Commission, has been named
for county commissioner. Mr. Gum
bert, who used to play baseball, is
of the best campaigners In Allegheny.'*'
He is an inspector for the commission,
but has been on leave politicatlng.
« * •
The city's "front steps" appear to
have a use which the average man
never expected and which he is being
daily surprised to note. It is fine for
women to sit on the park benches in
some sections which are not much fre
quented and to dry their hair; The in
spection party passed several yester
day who were enjoying the sunlight
and getting their long hair dry at the
same time.
4 * *
William Draper Lewis, the Phila
delphia lawyer who was Washington
party nominee for a time last year,
was here yesterday before the Public
Service Commission and made some
remarks about bonding companies
that might object to making payment
under certain circumstances. It hap
pened that Thomas B. Smith, the next
mayor of Philadelphia, was interested
in the bonds. "All right, Dean, good
by for you for district attorney next
time," jested a friend.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Judge Bushong, of Berks, who
was renominated Tuesday, used to be
in the legislature.
—I. Carpenter, city engineer of Lan
caster, is an enthusiastic golfer.
—John A. Brashear, of Pittsburgh,
designated as the most eminent Penn
sylvanian, is visiting San Francisco.
—Henry C. Frlck has been making
a tour of inspection of his properties
in Pittsburgh and visiting Western
Pennsylvania lowns.
—S. L. Tone, former public service
commissioner, is working out some
improvements for the Pittsburgh Rail
ways service.
—Edward B. Smith, the Philadel
phia banker is being congratulated on
his birthday.
1 DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisbu rg's treatment of
Paxton «?reek attracted State at
tention ?
HISTORIC HARRIS BURG
John Harris, .Jr., founder of
Harrisburg, Is supposed to have
been the ilr.st white child liora on
the banks of the Susquehanna.
Calling Cigars by
Name
"When I ask for a cigar I
like to call for one by name,
said a businessman.
"It may be vanity but I like .
to choose that way. I |>
"And strangely enough the I
names that come to my lips are I
the advertised brands.
"Maybe there are better cigars,
but 1 don't know them. I will ,
stick to the names I know.' i
Men are newspaper readers
and the place for cigar makers
to educate them is in the adver
tising columns.
Any cigar manufacturer inter
ested in this subject can obtain
Information from the Bureau o*v
Advertising, American Newspa
per Publishers Association,
World Building. New York.
*
SECOND FLY CONTEST
of the Civic Club for 1915.
Aoguit lat to September 25th.
Five ceata a pint Car all flies, and
many prUea In *old.