8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Eslabltshtd ill/ PUBLISHED BT TBB TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLE Prttidtnt and Editar-in-Chntf , F. R. OYSTER Stcrttary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, lit Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Asaoct ated Dallies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building; New Tork City, Hasbrook, Story It Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at "•* cents a week. Mailed to subscribers gt $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class mattep. tixirp drily average circulation far the three months ending Aug. 31, litis it 21,083 ★ Average for the rear 1014—21.85S Average for the year 1913—19.90T Average for the Tear l»l!—10,t4» Average for the year 1911—17,509 Average for the year 1010—18.201 The above figures ara net. All (anted, unsold and damaged copies de ducted. TI'ESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 28. He tcho cannot smile ought not to keep a shop.—Chinese Proverb. PARKS THEN AND NOW IN his talk at Chestnut Street Hall the other evening. J. Horace Mc- Farlund drew attention to the growth of parks in popular esteem In Karrisburg during the past fourteen years. Those familiar with the first improvement campaign will remember there were many who expressed the belief that the proposed park loan would carry the other Items down to defeat. Parks were looked upon by n.any us needless luxuries. Frequently speakers called upon to address public meetings in fa cor of improvements were asked to "put the soft pedal" on the park proposals. But the park loan .went through, for all that. an.e Capitol to-day were that Frederic A. God charles, of Milton, would succeed Wil liam Hertzler, Port Royal, as d ;puty secretary of the commonwealth. Mr. Godcharles is the personal choice of Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods, with whom he served in the Senate. Mr. Godcharles was here to day and ealed upon the Governor. Mr. Hertzler, it is said, will resign to-mor row. Mr. Godcharles is a Lafayette graduate, a member of Harrtsburg clubs and well known socially in this city. He served In the House of Rep resentatives in 1901 and was later elected to the Senate. He is a mem ber of a family prominent in manufac turing in Northumberland for years Mr. Hertzler. who formerly served in the Senate, was secretary to Congress men Mahon and Focht. —Greene county, whose judge was refused renomination, is in the throes ct a red-hot fight between J. W. Ray md C. W. Wayshoff. Both candidates are well known in the county and are making a strenuous canvass which is attracting attention in other counties. —Controller F. R. Hendershot, of Luzerne, says that his re-election is a cinch. —The usual end has come to the effort to bring about harmony among the Democratic voters of Schuylkill county. The slate was broken and the men supposed to have been emis saries of the State machine managers were told to go back and sit down. That county has no time for the Mor tis management. —The election of ex-Congressman Temple is said to be assured in the Twenty-fourth district. The Repub licans have lined up with him in each county. —Alicliael Lynch, chief of police of South Bethlehem, ran afoul of the au thorities and was suspended for a couple of weeks. —The Philadelphia Ledger says to day: "A fusion county ticket was placed in the field by the Democratic and Washington parties of Bucks to fiay. The Democratic county commit tee met this afternoon and voted unanimously in favor of the propo sition. Several of the lower end com mitteemen were not enthusiastic over the movement, but after party leaders had addressed the committee they voted for it. A subcommittee was ap pointed to confer with a similar sub committee of tne Washington party in session in Doylestown for the pur pose. The agreement for the fusion ticket was speedily agreed upon." Uncertainty marks the situation in the Lawrence county judicial situation over the selection of Judge W. E. Por ter's successor on the common pleas bench. Attorney S. Plummer Emery obtained more votes at the primary than were cast for both his opponents, Judge Porter and Attorney James A. Chambers, but he did not get a ma jority of all votes cast on the nonparti san ballot. Many voters failed to regis ter any choice for common pleas judge, while many erroneously marked two names where only one "could be voted for. —Only a court decree can determine whether the supervision of employ ment agencies is vested jointlv in the State Commissioner of Labor and the Department of Public Safety of cities o( the first class, or in the former alone, according to an oninion given to Director Dripps yesterday bv City So licitor Ryan in Philadelphia. It was the first request that Director Dripps had transmitted to the city solicitor, and, incidentally, it raised the ques tion as to whether employment agen cies after October 1 shall pav sepa rate license fees of SSO each to the State and to the city. —No action will be taken toward placing the $1,250,000 transit loan be fore Philadelphia people for their sanction at the November election, ac cording to Indications in couficllmanic circles yesterday. It Is said that there Is money available for transfer from the Broad street subway work to the northeast elevated work and that the increasing of the city's borrowing ca pacity at that early date will not then he necessary. No action has been taken by councils toward placing the question before the people and unless seme action Is taken before next Mon day it will be impossible to make a move at this time. SHARON AND HARHISBITIC. [Sharon Telegraph.] Some years ago Professor Charles Zueblln of Chicago, then connected with the University Extension Course, had for the subject of one of his lec tures "The Redemption of Harris burg." The lecture was illustrated with many views of the banks of the Susquehanna taken before and after the good ladies of Harrisburg had ex pended much time and money in beautifying what at one time was an eyesore to all. Now comes the an nouncement in the Harrisburg Tele graph that the citizens went many steps further ahead in beautifying the State Capital to such an extent that it claims to have "front steps" that will rival "The Balcony of Europe" at Dresden. We congratulate Harrisburg and her wideawake citizens on the accom plishment of one of the most import ant improvements in fifteen years. The start was made, however, when the river bank was converted from an ugly, disgraceful looking mass of debris into grass lawns and flower gardens. What is being accomplished in Har risburg could be done in Sharon in other ways. Sharon fortunately en- Joys having as a valued citizen, Mr. P. H. Buhl, who has made it possible for the city to have many things her citizens never could have had. had It not been for the far-sightedness and generosity of this estimable gentle man, whom we all love to honor and praise for his benefactions. Through a tactical error. Germany's submarines overlooked a tine oppor tunity in not torpedoing Jimmy Archi bald's confidential correspondence.— WashinirtoJi Pn«l. i "THE PIGEON LADY" AND HER FRIENDS I v « 4 % + '•» « MISS HELEN JONES. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 28.—This Is Atlanta's "pigeon lady." Doves and pigeons seem to accept her as their particular mistress. Even strange ones she has never seen before will come at her call. This photograph wa£ made at a time when she was illustrating the unusual power she has over her little friends of the air. The "pigeon lady" is Miss Helen Jones, age 18 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Jones, of 128 Lafayette Drive, Ansley Park. The pigeons are prize "rollers" owned by Forest Adair of Druid Hills. Until last week the "pigeon lady" and Mr. Adair's pets had never seen each other. It is true that the "rollers' had been tamed by kindness and would fly near their master. But they were timid of strangers. Thev won't go near other visitors. But when the little "pigeon lady" called to them, they swooped down and perched on her shoulders, on her hair, and covered the ground at her feet. It was as though she had beckoned to the whte clouds, and a torn patch with dots and dashes of color had whirled softly down. The one that perched on top of her hair was like the figure piece of a helmet. Another, resting on her shoulder, seemed trained for picture posing. A third, his little claw feet on her wrist, reached out for the grain of corn she held between her lips. All about her the ground was a carpet of fluttering wings, like St. Mark's square in Venice, where the pigeons fly down from the tall Doges palace to be fed. At one instant she stood with her hands outstretched and the pigeons streaming toward her. They had dropped from high in the air and seemed to be flying straight' into her arms. It was like an Imaginative picture that an artist had done very daintily. But when she lay on the grass and called to them, and they swooped from the air, forming a coverlet of beating wings, hiding all but her face, it was as though an ar tist with imagination run riot had drawn a picture of the "pigeon lady." She says doves and pigeons just take her for their very good friend, and that's the only reason she can give. 1 CUTTING OUT THE SHOCKS By Frederick J. Haskin. s, . PROTECTION from electrical ac cidents is the latest phase of the "safety first" movement. Cities, corporations, scientific societies and insurance companies are all work ing to cut down the immense loss of life from electrical shock. An annual saving of at least 1,000 lives is expected to result from the ratification of the National Electrical Safety Code by a great conference of State and municipal commissions and electrical and industrial organizations to be held in Washington, October 2' to 29. This code consists of rules formu lated by the United States Bureau of Standards with the help of various in dustrial organizations. It will be adopted by firms in all parts of the country. The utilization of electric energy in its different applications has more than quadrupled during ten years. The danger to electrical workers and the FIFTEEN" YEARS OF UPBUILDING [Reading Herald.] The people who disapprove of mu nicipal loans may well view with dis may the celebration in which Harris burg is engaged this week. It is a shameless and unapologetic jubilation over the achievements of the last fif teen years, nearly all of which have been due to great borrowings. Har risburg has spent about five million dollars since 1900, and much more than half of this were city loans. The rest came from sums paid by prop erty owners on the foot frontage as sessment plan. Harrisburg bought all sorts of im portant things with these five million dollars. There was no graft there. At least we have heard of none. The money seems to have had a large pur chasing power. The results are highly gratifying. Harrisburg's streets are no toriously well paved and provokingl.v clean. Provokingly, that is, to the people of towns where filth accumu lates and slop decays. Which is not quite the way that Oliver Goldsmith put it, but which has a familiar sound and a present-day meaning. There are in Harrisburg over sev enty miles of paved streets, mostly sheet asphalt. The parks and play grounds cover hundreds of acres. In one of the parks Is one of the finest niiie-hole golf links in the country. Of Harrisburg's tennis courts and baaeball diamonds there is no end. These and the golf links and the swim ming facilities and everything else are free. The playground system is not so well developed as Reading's. But the playgrounds are there, and they were there long before we started ours. There is a first class water fil tration plant, and a concrete retaining wall along the river park front, mak ing, as the capital city's Tody Hamil ton explains, "the Susquehanna river front unique in the world." There is a formal city entrance, which is unique too. There Is a swamp converted Into a vast pleasure lake. Sluggish and disease breeding Pax ton creek has been paved and e'eansed. Intercepting sewers have been uutlt, and a dam across the Sus quehanna serves the purpose of cov ering sewer outfalls and providing a green smooth surface for water sports. All this took years. It also took much Ingenuity and harmony. It re quired moreover the service of expert advisers from afar • • • In Harrlsburg the people paid for their owrpaving, and scarcely one of them pr .eated because the value of «hAir urjbertv xvas at once enhanced SEPTEMBER 28, 1911; public from electricity is fully 75 per cent, greater now than ten years ago. Over 1,600 deaths occurred last year from electrical accidents. At least 1,000 of these might have been prevented with proper precautions. In addition to these deaths are the fire losses due to electricity. These are being minimized by the use of lire prevention rules, with regard to the In stallation of wiring, and the equip ment of buildings. Fire underwriters associations have made the granting of insurance largely depend upon con formance with these rules. The loss of life from electrical acci dents is about evenly divided between electrical workers and the general public. All oi the latter, and a large percentage of the former, could be protected by a greater care in the in stallation of electrical equipment and a campaign of education which would [Continued on Page 10.] and they were getting their money's worth. What Harrisburg has done should serve as a fair illustration of what other towns can do and ought to do. The capital city was a place to be ashamed of and avoided when the new century dawned. It is now a place far famed for its health and its beauty and its many admirable features. Reading might learn a lesson with profit to itself. Indeed Reading would he very slow and careless if it failed to learn a lesson and ignored the plain teaching of Harrisburg's consistent and continued development. I.\ BAD [From the Kansas City Times.] Mayor Joseph E. Bell, of Indianapo lis, on trial for alleged conspiracy in connection with the last election, prom ised better times for saloonkeepers, according to the testimony of a former saloonkeeper.—News item. Did anybody ever hear of a decent movement in politics hitching up with the saloons? Did anybody ever hear of saloons going to the front on election day for right things? Was there ever a prosecution of elec tion crooks that did not involve the saloon on the side of the crooks? Whether every particular charge against the saloons is true or not, it is the kind of business that seems to be Inevitably on the wrong side of every issue of politics and social betterment. Yet the liquor trade is right peevish in its wonder why the people don't like it! Our Daily Laugh fA WAT SHE You say your wife never loses Never. If the game goes her way, she wins. But If It goes against her, I SURE. i /jgj. fcfr. Pup>p:When I get sunburned, Mr. Hare: I suppose the bark J ©mtutg CMtat While there are a good many people who claas even the rudimenta of mili tary Instruction as among the "dread ful things, one only to observe the youngsters about the schoolhouses to get a line on what they think of It. There are probably a dozen schools In Harrlsburg where dally ••battles" are fought between "Germans" and IWil lles or else where the boys are ranged, for belligerent purposes, as " R .V sslans " Objection may , * tl ? at setting up" exercises or marching by platoons or fours may be inculcating militaristic thoughts, but the fact remains that at three school houses on Allison HIU this week, and probably at more throughout the citv, ha Y, e been engaged in strenuous 'wars" and have been hav ing parades ' and other juvenile mili tary exercises, in Steelton the little irte«^n r i 8 " ft S pear .J° have the sanle charges on comrades who ma> be across the street are not un common. It is no use talking, the bo>s hear their elders talk about war and as a consequence there are many of them who snow It In their plav More broomstick guns could be found than a we "-P°Pulated block than the peace advocates would admit Z%L? OSB tu ] ' e - „: Vhen b °vs dash out of school yelling 1 m a Russian" or cry ing out. that the "Turks" are going to be chased they arc well nigh hopeless ?iSV peuce standpoint and a little military training would come in handy for purposes of discipline. • • • When one comes to think of it, the S trces alon * the River- Par \ and some of the streets In the older portion of the city have that Very weU under the storms that ha\e swept over Harrlsburg this A couple of the monarch' Front have lost, some of wimJ™* t> bu £ they stin s,anci - in ,X!'dj* ood Park some of the oaks w=i Ve r e^* Br v winfr w^en Braddock wl tk u ow sisns of " 1G stress of weather, but a few of the oldest ones are as straight as ever. * * • Some of the finest fruit to be seen in many miles is now being shown in the stalls of the Harrisburg ntark raiwrt L frUit ,S nearl >' aM home raised and some of the specimens sale at mod erate prices command far better in larger hi !h„t general opinion appears to be that in spite of weather, pests and other causes the fruit raised here abouts is excellent. • * • Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, of Phil adelphia, well-known to many resi dents of the city, is a candidate for the presidency of the Pennsylvania firemen's Association which win hold Its annual meeting in Phil adelphia next month. The judge has been prominent in politics and has been president of one of the fire com panies near Philadelphia and also of the Delaware County Firemen's As sociation. He is vice-president and solicitor of the State association. • » * Harrisburg's colony of martens has started for Brazil. They have been living under the awning of the Bates establishment in Market street near the Harrisburg Club, and Robert Ma gee, who keeps tabs on their antics from the Stanley, says that their departure is a sign of winter. The birds, which resemble swallows have been here since early in the Spring. The colony numbered twenty birds, and left between two days, the of their departure having been fixed as last Thursday. Compensation appears to be the theme of the bulk of the letters now being written to Capitol Hill. The or ganization of the State Board has started a large number of people to inquiring about the methods and while there are numerous inquiries as to the procedure quite a few are concerned with places. The Legislative Refer ence Bureau is busy answering ques tions from other States and there are many employers of labor who are keenly interested in the procedure which will be worked out. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. John A. Brashear is to ad dress the Pennsylvania ironmasters at their Atlantic City meeting. —P. Gutekunst, the dean of pho tographers of the State, spent his sev enty-fifth birthday working. —A. S. L. Shields, the noted Phila delphia lawyer, was given a birthday party by his friends yesterday. —General George P. Schriven, chief signal officer of the United States army, is the new head of the Carabao Society. —The Rev. Dr. J. K. McClurkin, prominent Pittsburgh clergyman, cele brated his twenty-fourth anniversary as pastor of his church. The con gregation was twenty-four years old at the same time. | DO YOU KNOW That Ilarrlsburg hud one of the earliest, of the G. A. R~ posts in Pennsylvania outside of Phila delphia and Pittsburgh? HISTORIC HARKISBCRG Some of the first American steel rails were rolled experimentally in thle city. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From The Telegraph, Sept, 28, 1865.] Ask Bids for Grading Council's street committee is ad vertising for bids for grading Sixth street. John Cottrell Pies John Cottrell, proprietor of the store known as Wise's Stand, in Third street, died at his home last night. Typhoid Fever Increasing The number of cases of typhoid fever in this county is increasing. Residents of this city are warned no! to make an extended visit in any of the nearby towns. Pi f \ Bring Results Manufacturers should be inter ested in the experience of one of the great corset manufacturers. He says: "The obvious purpose of na tional corset advertising is to bring trade to the local retailer. Make a canvass of the retailers in New York or KnoxviUe, in Chicago., or Kankakee, and it's a safe bet that 100 per cent, will urge the use of the local dally newspaper in preference to all other mediums. "And that's a conclusive test. The local dealer knows what brings results to him." Does not the same principle apply to any other good prod uct'/