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MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11.
Blessed is he who has found his work;
let him ask no other blessedness.—Car
lyle.
REPUBLICAN SUPREMACY
REPUBLICAN supremacy at the
polls in November is indicated
at every turn of the campaign in
Dauphin county. The party Is not only
united for the ticket, but the ticket
is strong enough to appeal even to
Democrats, sickened as many of
them are by the deals of the bosses of
that party who set up and pushed
through at the primary a so-called
"fusion" slate which will have the
effect of eliminating entirely the
Washington party in this county this
year.
Even with this "slate" nominated
there is no apparent disposition to
support it as a whole. Officers of the
Democratic county committee, who i
might be expected to stand for the
whole ticket are divided on it. Each
is playing his own little game, hoping
by such trades as may be possible to
make sure of his own job for another
four years. Party loyalty means
nothing to them and old-line Demo
crats are openly repudiating their
methods wherever two or three of
them get together.
The Democratic campaign differs
entirely from that of the Republicans.
Confident both of success at the polls
and of the excellence of their ticket
as a whole, the Republican candidates
and the county committee officials and
committeemen are standing together
as one man. It is one for all and all
for one with them. There will be no
reason whatever for trading within
the ranks of the Republicans, for
every one of the nominees who has
been up and down the county knows
that the tendency is all toward a big
Republican victory this Fall.
Secretary Redfield Is not to resign.
He says so himself. Furthermore, he
is reported to have received the un
qualified commendation of the-President
for his conduct of the "Eastland" in
vestigation. So Mr. Redfield, his
whiskers and his other idiosyncracies
will remain with us for another year
and a half. On the whole, this is well.
The President lias shown repeatedly
that he has no liking to have a pos
sible rival near him, and Mr. Redtield
is so impossible that he quite tills the
bill for a Cabinet oflicer on these
terms.
DOES IT PAY?
ATTENDANCE figures read at the
rally day services of the Derry
Street United Brethren Church
yesterday afternoon show most conclu
sively that church advertising pays.
The big men's class of the school
and the publicity committee chairman
of the church decided to try out dis
play advertising for the rally day
event and placed a two-column, ten
inch advertisement in the Telegraph
and another of the city papers. We
quote the results from a report of the
meeting sent to the Telegraph office
this morning by H. O. Miller, publicity
chairman of Derry Street Church:
. to be th ® most success
ful Rally Day ever held bv any
church on the Hill. All records for
attendance were broken when the
secretary announced a total of
1,1237 present.
According to the officials of the
church the results were far greater
lhan anyone had imagined. Of course,
the display advertising was not wholly
responsible. A great deal of personal
work was done by the members of the
school and other forms of advertising
were employed beside newspaper pub
licity. But to quote the officials of the
church:
"It helped!"
TAKING BREAD FKOM US
IN the latest Issue of Its monthly
magazine, the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States pub
lishes some pertinent facts and fig
ures regarding the commercial de
velopment of Germany.
Among other things. It Is recorded
that In May, 1914, before war was even
dreamed of, Germany shipped to the
United States goods valued'at more
than $14,500,000. In May, 1915. the
exports from Germany to this coun
try amounted to only $3,172,000.
Tn other words, the war saved the
producing classes of this country more
than $11,000,000 in expenditures in,
MONDAY EVENING,
' one country in one month. It Is dtffl
icult to comprehend how any wage
earner or any other man interested
In the industrial prosperity of this
country con read those figures and still
advocate a tariff law that invites Ger
many and other nations to supply our
markets with the products of their
workmen -while American workmen
are idle.
The balance In the general fund of
the Federal Treasury September 27
was $41,870,422. On the same date in
1913, when revenue laws and appro
priations enacted by Republicans were
still in effect, the balance was $127,-
091,178. Since July 1, 1916, the adminis
tration has spent $27,914,719 more than
its revenues.
GIVE THEM THE LABORATORY
THE) civilian advisory board has
asked the government for a
laboratory in which a battleship
may be docked. The laboratory is to
be surrounded by a high wall and will
cost $5,000,000. The operations for a
year will cost $3,500,000 more. No
body but members of the board, their
assistants and certain officers of the
navy who are to act with the board
arc to be admitted.
The outlay may seem like a large
one, but If the government is to profit
by the brains of this inventive body It
must supply the tools, and in this case
the tools are expensive. However, the
ls-boratory should be provided at the
earliest possible moment.
It will be remembered that the
steel-clad battleship is the product of
American genius, and most of its
equipment originated in the United
States. The American inventor has
more to his credit along- this line than
have fhose of all the other nations of
the world combined. But what he has
developed has been freely appropriated
by other countries. Now it is proposed
to let this inventive genius of ours
loose upon our naval problems and to
keep what we work out for ourselves
as much as possible. The naval board
should have Its laboratory. Beyond
question the practical ideas that will
be developed there will far more than
repay the nation for the outlay. The
problems presented are big and they
must be solved In a big way.
It remains to be seen whether the
Democrats are going into next year's
canvass with the war cry, "He kept
us out of war." But It is very certain
that the Republicans will assert: "He
kept us out of work."
It's a contest between the food
values of Boston beans and Philadel
phia scrappel.
THE WINTER STORMS
TIME was, and not so far back,
either, when every household
about this season of the year
began to lay In its winter stores of
vegetables, fruits, meats and every
thing that could be preserved for use
during the season when the earth is
nonproductive. The corner grocery
and the city market house have made
this old-fashioned thrift unnecessary
now, but it is a wise housekeeper who
keeps up the practice. Foodstuffs
bought In quantities at this season are
far lower in price than they will be in
the middle of next winter or early
next spring, and not a little saving
may be thus effected.
But aside from that there is a satis
faction in a well-stored cellar or but
tery beside which even the thrift it
exemplifies is a small thing. There
are few more pleasurable experiences
than to stand in one's "cold room"
amid a plentitude of hams, shoulders,
bacons, pumpkins, potatoes, apples and
foodstuffs put away against the rigors
of the winter months. "What matter
how the night behave; what matter
how the north wind rave; blow high.
How low, not all its snow can quench
our hearth fire's ruddy glow" nor de
stroy our sense of comfort and security
if the food supply is stacked high in
storage and the cellar is filled with
wood and coal.
These speedway contests are becom
ing almost as bloodless as a French
duel.
And now we have another reason for
preferring America to Bulgaria as a
place of residence.
THAT HALL OF FAME
it were not for the fact that the
New York University's Hall of
Fame has been very much a joke
ever since its foundation, one might
be excused for waxing indignant over
the refusal of the electors to grant a
place therein to the name of John
Paul Jones. As it is, American sense
of humor -will prevent any such bit
terness as might otherwise arise.
Paul Jones needs no niche in any
man-made Hall of Fame to enshrine
him in the hearts or his countrymen.
So long as American blood runs red
and Americans love to read of the
brilliant achievements of their naval
and military heroes John Paul Jones
will stand pre-eminent as the per
sonification of American dash, re
sourcefulness, skill and courage. He
is one of our great national figures
and nothing any man or group of men
may do or may not do will affect his
standing. The University electors have
not hurt Paul Jones by their stupid
vote. If anybody has suffered in
popular respect it has been the elec
tors themselves.
By the way, who are they?
When John Skelton Williams loses
his job as Comptroller of the Cur
rency—the date being somewhere in
the first six months of 1917—he ought
to be able to get elected Mayor of
Richmond, Va., without the slightest
difficulty. John Skelton came up to
Washington with the idea of doing
something for Richmond, and he did
it. First of all he made Richmond a
Federal Reserve City, for which, geo
graphically and In every other man
ner of speaking—except socially—
Richmond Is about as well fitted as
Medicine Hat is. And now Richmond
leads all the other Federal Reserve
cities in the amount of its rediscount
business. In July, out of thirteen mil
lions of Federal Reserve rediscounts.
Richmond bagged 32.9 per cent.—or
more than twelve times as much as
New York and more than six times as
much as Chicago. John Skelton Is
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certainly doing something for Rich
mond and If the folks back home don't
do something for him when he finds
himself out of a government job—as
he soon will—they will be mighty un
grateful.
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The developments in Allegheny
county appear to have attracted more
attention throughout the state than
anything else the last few days. The
Philadelphia contest has long been set
tied and the Superior Court nomi
nations are practically determined, so
that interest naturally has gone to the
place whore the row is the fiercest.
1! now seems probable that there will
be an independent movement in the
county. Such things have happened
before and this year it looks as though
G'Neil, Flinn and others who have not
been pulling together will make com
mon cause. The names of a couple of
new parties have been pre-empted and
a full-fledged fusion movement is
threatened. However, it is not re
garded as probable that it will extend
outside of the county and it will have
nothing to do with any independent
movements started preliminary to next
year.
Lancaster Democrats are having
their troubles again. It is all because
one of the candidates takes the bosses
of the Democracy at their word and
says that there are no orders out.
Amos S. Hess, of Gap, one of the two
candidates for county commissioner
nominated at the late primary election,
has declared that he will not withdraw
from the ticket. Democratic leaders
have always contended that F. P. D.
Miller, the present Democratic repre
sentative on the board of county com
missioners, was elected through Re
publican votes, and to prevent a re
currence of the tactics which elected
him the Democratic county committee
in July adopted a resolution decreeing
that only the name of'the party can
didate having the highest vote at the
primary should so on the ballot. Mr.
Hess declares he was not bound by
that agreement. The Democratic lead
ers fear that Mr. Hess' action may
result in splitting the party and also
injure the chances of Dr. M. L. Chad
man. the Democratic candidate for
mayor.
Trouble over Montgomery's judicial
ticket was averted Saturday when an
agreement was entered. Into whereby
the name of William D. Dannehower,
of Norrlstown. secretary of the Mont
gomery County Bar Association, will
appear on the ballot at the November
election with that of Judge John Faber
Miller, of Springfield township. The
parties to the agreement were the
attorneys for the two candidates and
the solicitor for the county commis
sioners. The agreement, which is the
outcome of mandamus proceedings
brought agalnat the county commis
sioners to compel them to put Mr.
Dannehower's name upon the ballot,
was made at the opening of the court,
with Judge Endlich, of Berks county,
sitting.
—lt is regarded as unlikely that any
election will be held this year for a
successor to Senator John P. Moore.
His term as senator would have ex
pired next year in any event.
—The will of Justice John P. Elkin,
just probated, leaves everything to his
widow. The justice was not a wealthy
man, but had accumulated a fair estate
in his home county.
—Ex-Governor Samuel W. Penny
packer is now being proclaimed in
favor of woman suffrage. He is said
to have stated that he will vote for it.
—The Franklin party is starting to
make a noise in Philadelphia very
much like what has been heard for
the last half century.
—Chester county people believe that
Judge R. S. Gawthrop will be elected
for the full term in November. In a
review of conditions in the contest a
West Chester dispatch says: "J. Frank
Hause, about whom the Democrats are
chanting their war songs, is a lawyer,
pure and simple, skilled In all the in
tricacies and ambiguities of the law.
As attorney for numerous license ap
plicants and for the Liquor Dealers'
Association, he will have the solid
saloon vote and that affiliated. This,
rather than a pillar of strength, will
prove a sunken mine in that It will
antagonize the 2,700 Arthur T. Parke
dry votes that fell at the primary and
which will naturally be thrown to
Judge Gawthrop, insuring his election.
Some Democrats have the temerity to
claim these, but it is utterly impossible
to conceive of a dry vote aroint to a
w«t Judsa."
.
HARRISBURG TELEURAPH
1 TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE
—The President would have a fine
time making his neutrality Ideas apply
to the baseball situation.
—lf this thing keeps up they'll have
to build a bridal chamber in the White
House.
—As yet none of the Allies has sug
gested that the eruption of Vesuvius
is the result of a German plot.
—The" things we have been discov
ering in many of the roast chestnuts
in the street leads us to the suggestion
that the men who roast them might
be Investigated by the S. P. C. A.
—We may not all believe in letting
women vote, but we are all willing
to let her do the housecleaning.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
The government has ordered sixteen
rew coast defense submarines and
iiine different concerns are bidding for
their construction. Uncle Sam isn't go
ing to have any difficulty in getting
"prepared."—Erie Evening Herald.
Secretary Josephus urges the build
ing of forty-eight battleships at an
average cost of $18,000,000 each.
Eighteen million dollars multiplied by
forty-eight equals $864,000,000. Bil
lion-dollar Congress, eh? And then
some! Cincinnati Commercial Tri
bune.
If the United States financiers can
lend a half-billion dollars to the allies
for the military defense of the allies,
the United States government cer
tainly cannot afford not to "negotiate"
whatever sum is requisite to put its
own nation in a fit condition of mili
tary defense.—Easton Daily Free Press.
"President Wilson's Victory," cap
tions a Herald editorial. German,
Suffrage or Gait?— Erie Dispatch.
A newly discovered planet in the
constellation of Pisces is reported to
have a "rapid retrograde movement."
Possibly It is "retiring for strategic
reasons to a more advantageous po
sition."—New York Sun.
Our Daily Laugh
NO BIGAMIST.
She: You're
going to support
us suffragettes,
aren't you? TPwgj
He: 3*aybe one I
jf'j THE DRAW-
George saya af
ter we re married
* can have every
t< thing money can
That would be
r if j, # had
HOPES BLASTED
By Win* Dlicer
'Along some baseball fr.ends I wan
dered
Some authentic dope to get,
After which upon the Phillies
I did place a little bet.
When they won the first game Friday,
By a number of good plays,
I was glad to hear on all sides
Naught for them but words of praise.
I could almost fee 1 the winnings
Stored away down in my jeana—
But on Saturday, dad blame It,
They fell down and apllt the beana.
All day yesterday crepe hangers
'Round about me seemed to bloom.
And with dope on how the Red Sox
Would win out, filled me with gloom.
All those things I'd thought of buying
After I had won my bel.
Distant, though they seemed before,
friend.
Now seem much too far to get.
Fact Is. when the Phillies came out
FYlday, with a winning score,
I went out and got those things, but
. Mow thor *o back u> tb* aituuv
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Electricity For the National Capital
By Frederic J. Haskin
L
PLANS are under way to build for
the city of Washington what will
probably be the most elaborate
water and power plant that has ever
furnished these utilities to a city.
To accomplish this, It will be neces
sary to build a great dam across the
Potomac at the point where it enters
the District of Columbia, forming a
picturesque lake among the palisades
of the upper river.
A dozen miles above Washington
the Potomac cascades over a series of
rock ledges and produces Great Falls,
a point of wonder and scenic beauty
that delighted George Washington and
L'Enfant, his engineer, who laid out
the capital in the wilderness. Even
earlier. Captain John Smith explored
the Potomac to this point, and wrote
in his diary that the fish were accumu
lated below the falls in such numbers
that it was impossible for him to push
his canoe through them.
For many years the possibility of
harnessing these falls and thus gen
erating sufficient power to operate the
public utilities of Washington has been
advocated. Here, it was argued, was
sufficient "white coal" to provide for
all the needs of the capital city.
Finally Congress was sufficiently
impressed to make an appropriation
to cover the expense of drawing plans
for the sort of plant that the govern
ment engineers should deem advisable.
These plans have now been completed
and Congress will be asked to provide
the money to carry the great work to
completion.
To Erect Great Da in
The engineers do not recommend
the harnessing of the natural falls
of the river. They wotild go ten miles
further down stream, and there erect
a great dam which would raise the
level of the water 115 feet. This would
form a lake that would wind among
the bluffs and back the water up al
most to the falls. The waters of the
Potomac would tumble over the cliffs
into the upper reaches of the lake, and
would enhance the beauty of Wash
ington's show place rather than disfig
ure it.
The dam, as it is planned, would
resemble the great Gatun Spillway at
Panama. Likewise would it resemble
In other particulars the dam that
creates the Roosevelt Reservoir in
Arizona. This latter structure, in the
Far West, has had a good deal to do
with the decision of the government
to erect the great plant at Waahing-
f The State From Day to Day
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Gertrude Fischer, who is said by
the convention of the nation's pho
tographers to be "the prettiest girl in
America," lives in Philadelphia, is 19
years of age, with a short nose, mis
chievous mouth and a voice like an
angel's with a slight cold. She wants
tc be a concert singer and have lots of
children and her ideal man is 35 and
fcas gray eyes and iron-gray hair. The
picture appeals to us.
Anita King, the Paramount picture
girl, who is touring alone in her car
from New York to San Francisco in
order to prove that a woman can take
care of herself and incidentally to -get
a few thrills from motor traveling,
passed through Pennsylvania the latter
part of last week.
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Put away the low shoes and summer
underwear and get out the fur-lined
gloves, because the weather man has
predicted snow in the vicinity of
Greensburg. The expected flakes
haven't appeared as yet, but it doesn't
do any harm to look for them.
• • *
Woman suffrage is certainly gaining
the support of men high in the service
of state and nation. The movement
has been gathering force and momen
tum like a snowball rolling down a
gradually sloping hill.
• * •
The New Castle News suggests that
the North Braddock man who had his
legs run over while he was repairing
hiß car from beneath would do well to
hang red lights on his toes the next
time he crawls under his car at night
• • *
The colors adopted for Bristol's Hal
lowe'en demonstration were orange
and green, says the Dally Courier. It
Is easy to guess the green, but what
we want to know Is, In whose honor
i was the orange selected ? Even the
encyclopedia falls us In this momen
tous research.
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Battery E, Third United States Field
Artillery, is back at Gettysburg after
a few days spent at the York Fair,
where several exhibitions of their drill
ing pleased thousands <who attended
the fair.
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. DoHleetowa tonmwt M« •orarad
OCTOBER 11, 1915.
The Washington plant, according to
estimates, will cost $15,000,000. Of
this, $5,000,000 will be charged up to
furnishing a better water supply to
the capital city, and $10,000,000 to the
power plant. This is but a little more
money than was spent on the big res - -
ervoir In Arizona.
The engineers of the War Depart
ment have made extensive estimates
of the cost of the power that would
be generated from such a plant. Fig
uring in all elements, such as interest
on the investment and depreciation of
the plant, they estimate that a kilo
watt hour, the measure In which elec
tricity is sold, would cost the govern
ment, as the consumer. 8.7 mills. The
present price which the government
pays for electricity is a little more than
two cents a kilowatt hour. The elec
tricity so brought amounts to $666,000
a year.
Both and Water
So the original purpose in mind is
the construction of a plant that will
furnish more water for Washington,
and power for use in the government
departments and in the District. For
these ends there would be immediately
needed 10,000 horsepower. Estimating
the future growth of the city, there
will be needed twenty years hence,
35,000 horsepower.
The proposed plant would develop
much more than even this latter iig
ure. It could be depended upon quite
regularly to produce 65,000 horse
power, and, with a little supplement
ing in dry weather, it could be worked
up to a steady production of 100,000
horsepower. The government already
has a plant at the Capitol for the pro
duction of sufficient electricity for that
building, and its satellites. This plant,
burning coal, is capable of producing
10,000 horsepower. It could be held
in reserve and used for the few days
in the year when low water prevented
,the great power plant from supplying
the amount needed.
There is no other city in the world,
so far as the authorities know, that
has such a plant as that which is con
templated for Washington. The na
tional capital Is a national model In
many ways and the men who stand
back of the proposed project hold that
the demonstration of the practicabil
ity of installing this most modern sys
tem of municipal development of
power will be an example that may be
followed in many localities.
over the maliciousness of some per
sons who taavo been recklessly shoot
ing up horses, cows and bulls. Target
practice seems to be the only assign
able motive.
• * •
At the third annual convention of
the Octogenarians' Association of Mon
roe County, held at Stroudsburg last
Thursday, the sum of the ages of the
thirty-two present totaled up to 2,597,
making the average 81 years. One old
soul attributed his longevity to his
having drank sauerkraut Juice in his
youth.
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The Hummelslown Sun advocates
the following:
Save up your money.
Save UD your rocks.
And you'll always have tobacco
In your old tobacco box.
The threats written and spoken
against the Anglo-French delegation
of financiers now In New York may be
explained, perhapv, on the ground that
they are hero to borrow money. If they
had money to loan for the purpose of
establishing peace societies and neu
trality leagues, the worthies who are
now menacing them would form a «olid
phalanx in their defense. New York
Philadelphia suffragists have decided
not to hand out campaign cigars. A
little of this wisdom at Christmas
time might have won them the ballot
twenty years ago.—-Boston Transcript
IN HARRISBURO FIFTY YEARS }
ACQ TO-DAY J
[From the Telegraph of Oct. 11, 1866.]
City League Meets To-night
The Capital City Equal Rights
League will meet this evening in the
Bethel Church.
Republican Senate and House
| Returns from a majority of the elec
tion districts of the state Indicate that
the Republican party will have a ma
jority In both the House of Repre
sentatives and the Senate.
Professor Day to Speak Here
Professor William Howard Day,
noted colored orator from New York,
will give the second address of the
season to the members of Garnet
Lodse to-morrow evening.
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Violets are blooming again In tho
gardens and the hedgerows of Daupliin
county and small bouquets were worn
yesterday by a number of people at
churches, the flowers having been
plucked In the morning. Most of the
flowers were small, but were perfectly
formed and has a slight, sweet odor.
Violets have been noticed in quite a
number of places in the last week ijr
so, their belated appearance being dua
to weather conditions. In the woods
a number of flowers are blooming
again, some flowers akin..to dogwood
having been found not far from the
State Hospital, while on the hills back
of Reservoir park there are a num
ber of beautiful late bloomers to bo
found. It's rather odd to think about
violets when the corn has been
"shocked" and when the dahlia,
chrysanthemum, zinnias, scarlet sane
and similar flowers represent with the
larkspurs the last of the glories of
summer gardens. In a few gardens
about the city some fruit trees are
displaying flowers or some small buds
as though reluctant to give up the
season of Increase.
• * *
Ten years ago there were probably
four or five licenses for the sale of
oleomargarine in Dauphin county and
they were conspicuously displayed on
rear doors or some other part of the
shop not likely to strike a cus
tomer in the eye. The latest bulletin
of the State Dairy and Food Commis
sioner shows that there are fifty-two
retail and one wholesale oleo licenses
in this county, most of them in Har
risburg. These licenses are now dis
played in conspicuous places and oleo
is a matter of dally sale. In some
stores it has the dairy butter business
beaten a mile. In Lancaster county
there are almost as many licenses as
in this county notwithstanding Lan
caster is the premier agricultural
county of the nation. Cumberland,
another rich agricultural county has
thirteen licenses syid Lebanon four
teen. Even Perry has four.
• • •
Recent outbreaks of typhoid fever,
which have been reported from time
to time from counties near here have
caused considerable inquiry about,
protective measures and a number of
physicians say that they have had ap
plications for vaccination. One physi
cian says that typhoid vaccination is
by no means uncommon in Harrls
burg.
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"It has become necessary to put on
the billboards in Harrisburg what are
moving picture shows and what are
not," said a man with an eye for
things yesterday. "The other day t
saw some posters on billboards and
below was printed 'This is not a
movie.' Another poster bore this le
gend 'A real, not a reel show.' The
moving picture men have countered
with this 'Best moving picture of the
year for Harrisburg' and 'A motion
picture that reaches the emotions.'
The best of all is a poster which bears
just 'Movies'."
Travelers on the Second street car
line received a shock the first dav
work was started replacing of the old
rails and laying of new paving in the
car tracks between State and North
streets. As the cars, one after an
other, bumped and shook over the
temporary rails from one track to the
other in order to pass the obstruction,
many thought the car had jumped tm>
tracks and visions of broken glass anil
wreckage rose before their eyes. Now,
however, the most nervous have be
come thoroughly inured to the
change, and although the conductor
occasionally forgets to transfer the
trolley to the other wire, things are
running smoothly. The tracks are
completely torn up from a point a
little below the monument at State
street to a point several yards above
North street on the east side of the
street and the genial foreman in
charge of the work states that it will
probably remain in that condition for
four weeks or more, provided they
can keep enough men on the job. The
new rails along that stretch were
badly needed and the correction will
make traveling on the Second street
line considerably more pleasant.
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Steelton is commencing to look pros
perous again. The smoky pall that
was so characteristic of the borough
half a dozen years ago is to be seen
hanging over the valley in which the
big works are located and it is visible
for a long way to trains coming up
and down the Susquehanna and even
from the Cumberland valley. Steelton
has long been known as one of tlia
smokiest places in Central Pennsyl
vania. but all seem glad to see tha
smoke.
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Ex-Governor Samuel TV. Penny,
packer sat all through the meetings
of the Public Service Commission last
week in spite of his broken arm. lie
took his usual keen interest in every
thing going on and his injury did not
interfere with his habit of firing
numerous questions.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Judge Charles L. Brown, of Phila
delphia, has a building and loan as
sociation named for him.
—General Wood reiterated his senti
ments on military preparedness at
Haverford on Saturday.
—A. Hayes Jordan, Easton news
paperman, has bought a Dansdale
paper.
—George W. Elklns has announced
some big additional donations to
Abington hospital.
—General J. W. I,atta, former
secretary of Internal afTalrs, is at
tending the monument dedication at
Gettysburg this week.
| DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg has largo .slag
banks that have not been utilized?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The lirst Methodist services
were held In Harris burg In 1802.
A "National" Point
of View
Mr. Manufacturer, when you
figure out the profits of your
sales force, do you take the
force as a wi.oie, or by indi
viduals?
Don't you want to know
whether Bill Jones is as good a
salesman as Tom Brown?
Don't you eliminate the sales
men who do not hold up sales.
Why not consider your national
advertising with the same point
in view?
The minute you do you will be
convinced that newspapers are
the logical media.
And once you realize this you
will get dovn to a business basis
and know wi.at pays and whut
does not.
Informatljn helpful to man
ufacturers -vlll be given on re
quest to tie Bureau of Adver
tising, American Newspaper
Publlsherf Association, World
Building, New York.
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