8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established its' PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE trtlidft and Editor-in-Chief r. R. OTSTEU Secretary GUS M. STETNMETZ Managing Editer Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Tlegraph BulMlng, 216 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Buroau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City. Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Buildlnr. Chicago, 111., Robert E. Ward. Delivered V carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at |3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Iwors dally average clrralatlim fur the three months rniilnc Sept. 30, 1013. ★ 21,307 ★ Average for the year 1014—21.5R8 Average for the rear tI)t3—III.IHI2 Average for the rear 101 M— 10.H40 Average foe the year 1011— 17,r>«: ■Average for the year 1010— The above figures are net. All re tnrnnl. unsold and damaged copies de ducted. THURSDAY EVENING. OCT. 28. Remember on every occasion which ! leads thee to vcration to apply thisl principle, that this is not a misfortune, hut that to hear it nobly is good for tune—Marcus Aurelitis. THE ISSI'E THE issue of the campaign in Dau phin county now coming so rap- j idly to a close is simple and! may be stated in a sentence. It is i ills —Do the voters of a county that tiie registration and enrollment lists • how to be overwhelmingly Republi tn want to elect candidates on an other ticket when their own party pre sents superior nominees for every of fice? Run down the list of Republican candidates in your mind and compare them one after another with those on the slate put through by the so-called fusion bosses in September. If you are a voter and you do not make this comparison you do not da your full duty, and having done so'there can be but one answer. You will vote a straight Republican ticket this year. There are some voters whose nat ural spirit of American independence prompts them to rebel at the old fashioned "straight ticket" advice, no matter from what party the sugges tion comes. But in this Fall of 1915 iio Repuhlican'in Dauphin county need have any fear of supporting the ticket i as presented, from one end to the other. In the first place, the nominees are the unquestioned choice of the Re publicans of the county in a fair and open primary. In the second place they are one and all honest, un pledged, capable candidates and a de feat for one of them would be a dis couragement for good men to present themselves as candidates. Fortunately, however, there is little chance of any of them being beaten. From all parts of the county come re ports of party harmony and satisfac tion with the ticket. On the other hand the opposition is all split up. Rubendall is trying to save his own job by working for Danner alone. Eby is cutting Wells for county com missioner and Wells is telling his friends that only one Democratic com missioner can be elected at this time and he is the man. The McCormick faction is lukewarm on Frltchey with the result that Frltchey's friends are sending out the call "anything to save Fritchey." And with almost no ex ception the Washington party leaders are lined up with the Republican ticket, knowing that their party has been sold out by those who framed up the fusion slate. It Is a carnival of butchery, with the Democratic-fusion candidates be ing led to the slaughter. What a weak excuse is given by ! their political opponents for refusing to support City Commissioners Taylor, j Lynch and Bowman. Shutting their eyes to all that these officials have done during the last two or three years in the way of public service, those who would defeat them clamor about political bos.°ism while aiding and abet ting the worst form of dictation ever known in the community. TKE FIRE LOAN" JUST as the big business man has sold his horse-drawn vehicles and substituted therefor motor-driven and delivery wagons, so ihe cities of the country that are really abreast with the times are disposing of their obsolete fire apparatus and purchasing gasoline propelled engines, hose-carts and ladder wagons. The change is logical. The motor driven apparatus is as superior to that drawn by horses as the horse-drawn ap paratus was to the old time hand en gines of the days when the firemen used to "run with the machine." Harrlsburg has some very excellent apparatus of this kind—notwithstand ing the criticisms of the underwriters which should have been urged at the time the bids were asked instead of months after the motors were bought —and it needs more. Next Tuesday the people will be asked to increase the bonded indebted ness by the sum of $60,000 for the motorUftUou uf the flje department. THURSDAY EVENING, Very little has been said on the pro posal, but It Is very important never theless. Eventually every piece of fire apparatus in the city will be motorized. Now, therefore, would ap pear a very good time to begin. NONPARTISAN BUNCOMBE WE hear much in these latter days of the nonpartisan patriot who places loyalty to the people— the dear people—far above any other consideration. But political condi tions now arc not greatly different from those which have existed from the beginning of political controversy. We may talk of nonpartisanshlp until the cows come home, but it is going to be more and more difficult to per suade any voter of average intelligence that the nonpartisan scheme is any thing more or less than a clever little arrangement through and by which the minority endeavors to get a strangle hold upon the majority. There is nothing else to it and the empty) character of the pretense has been Iso conclusively proven in the catn j paign now coming to an end in this | city and county that there Is no longer [ serious discussion of the real meaning j of the term. It may be possible to continue the nonpartisan theory in the selection of judges, but it is absolutely out of the question to utilize the scheme success fully for the promotion of good gov ernment in any other contest. The government of this country and its constituent elements is based upon parties, and properly so. Efforts to break down political divisions among the voters have utterly failed In times past and it is not likely that the pro posed nonpartisan election provisions will ever become popular with the people. They Invite hypocrisy, double dealing, insincerity and a general flirn flaming of the voters. A tine example is presented right here in Harrisburg. Under an alleged nonpartisan law, we are expected to elect next Tuesday four members of the City Council. Eight candidates will appear upon the ballot, four to be elected. Of this number three are Democrats and a fourth, an ex-mayor, has apparently determined to cast his lot with the Democratic group. The four remaining candidates are Re publicans and make no effort to con ceal their party affiliations. It is common rumor that Messrs. Royal, Copelin, Gorgas and Gross have the endorsement of the Demo cratic bosses: it is also currently re ported that City Commissioners Tay lor, Bowman and Lynch, with ex-presi dent of Common Council Stelner, are being largely supported by Republi cans. Of course, all are "nonpartisan." Even Mayor-elect Meals, who had more than 51 per cent, of the total vote in the primary and was thereby assured of election as the only candi date for the mayoralty,, places the nonpartisan halo upon his brow and rolls his eyes heavenward as he de clares in favor of the great principle of nonpartisanshlp. But when all shall have been said and done the whole matter resolves itself into the fitness of j the men who are seeking these four important places in the municipal gov ernment. The Telegraph, with mighty little patience for the "nonpartisan" pre tense, reaffirms its position in support - 1 ing Messrs. Bowman, Taylor and Lynch on the ground that they have given tho city effective, practical and satisfac tory service. Friends of Mr. Stelner ! likewise urge his selection on the ' ground of his former experience as a j councilman and his intimate knowl | edge of the city's needs. Of course, ; these candidates will have their non j partisan supporters, voters who are j indifferent to party lines and who vote 1 independently of party organizations. ! But this fact does not change the view ' of this newspaper that the nonpartisan ' law is practically a dead letter and 1 that its only effect is to confuse the i voter and encourage political bosses in i scheming and insincerity. Cp-town citizens are not going to forget the good work of Harvey Tuy lar when they go to the polls next Tuesday. They have not forgotten what he has done for the large section of the city north of Verbeke street, and will show their appreciation in the casting of their ballots. District Attorney Stroup is being as sured of the support of a large element of this community who have not for gotten his effective work as prosecut | Ing attorney and who refuse to be I stampeded by appeals which have no I substance of fact. Every voter should familiarize him self with the ballot which he must cast In the election next week. Our alleged ballot reform laws have made it al most impossible to avoid mistakes in the exercise of the franchise, but with a little preliminary study before elec tion day the danger of errors In voting will be minimized. While the autumn Arbor Day was not generally observed in Harrisburg, It must not be understood that there was'any failure of tree planting. Many private citizens have been busy setting out trees, but there should be a more general movement before It is too late this Fall. There is still time enough to place hundreds of shade trees along the streets of the city and It is to be hoped those who have overlooked this matter will get busy without delay. "Po&tcC4 LK iflca,Kid Ity the Ei-OommlttMnaa In the midst of the contests for elec tion of city and county officers on partisan tickets which are stirring up Pennsylvania from end to end this week and the interesting battle over the woman suffrage amendment the judicial contests appear to be holding their own and in five counties of the State battles for the associate judge ships have created local excitements that are comparable only to the bat tles in the cities. This Kail there are two. "side" judges to be elected in Adams icounty and one each in Forest. Bedford, Perry and Snyder. These elections are not partisan and that in Adams county is one of the hottest in the State. The nominees are X. R. Reamer, S. Gray Bigham, W. Howard Dicks and E. P. Miller. In Perry Harry I* Jones and William A. Meiser are contending while the Snyder battle is between John Fields and Charles M. Ingram. The Bedford contest is between John W. Houff and A. I. Lyon. In Perry the battle is more or less about the liquor issue which figured in the re cent judicial election. —Considerable stir has been caused | in Allegheny county by the work of| the committee of 1,000 to clear the voters' lists. This committee has been busy and will keep up its activities until next summer. The Allegheny and Lackawanna campaigns will probably lead to Improved conditions in those counties as the movements for better things are being undertaken as a matter of civic duty and not as part of political propaganda to get people back on the map. —ln Adams county an assault on the managers of the judicial campaign of Donald P. McPherson haS resulted in warrants being issued for a num ber of arrests. The informations were made by John D. Kieth against men whose names appear at the bottom of a letter issued in behalf of J. L. Butt, who is making a losing light against McPherson. on the ground that they make unwarranted statements. It Is generally believed here that McPher son will carry both Adams and Fulton counties without difficulty. —The Philadelphia campaign has gotten heated up about as hot as any mayoralty contest in a generation. Mayor Blankenburg is kept busy an swering questions and there are at tacks on his administration from al most every quarter. The Republicans are finding sentiment very strong for Smith and he is making friends among the Democrats and Bull Moosers. —Considerable amusement has been caused in other counties by the pop lire of the Dauphin County Law and Order League, which according to rumors spread out from this city in tended to make a sweep of all sorts of things. Compared to the way things have been done in similar crusades in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh the move ments here are as mysterious as the backers of the league who have not been announced, but who may be guessed. —Senator Penrose and Congress man Vare spoke from the same plat form for Thomas B. Smith in Phila delphia last night and caused great pain among the reformers who have not reformed. They spoke at several places. —Rabbi Krauskopf has joined James Gay Gordon and John C. Bell as an advocate of suffrage. - —Another bunch of phantoms has heen dug up in Schuylkill countv and list purging appears to be general. '—The Philadelphia ballot will be 4 4 by 31 inches in size. —A Wilkes-Barre dispatch to the Philadelphia Ledger says: "Methods of entertaining the political friends of the Luzerne County Democratic league have brought that organiza tion into the hands of the law. To day, upon various buildings and tele graph poles, are to be found notices of a constable's sale to satisfy a claim which Hugh Sweeney, a hottler and | wholesale liquor dealer of the West I Side, says he holds against the league. The sale is advertised for Nobember 1, and among the articles to be dis j posed of are desks, typewriters and I other office fixtures, the property of the league. Sweeney says that in the campaign four years ago he furnished whisky, beer and soft drinks to the value of $425 at the order of the Luzerne County Democratic League." —"While there is temporary pros | pority in spots in this country and Chester happens to be one of these spots," Congressman J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia, told 330 men at the Chester Young Men's Republi can Club banquet, "God help Chester and the other cities similarly situated when the European war stops." Mr. Moore was the chief speaker at the banquet which was the 32d annual dinner of the club and which was marked with record attendance. He urged a good Republican majority ut the coming election as a forerunner to the national contest next year. JAMES COVZEN'S OF DETROIT [Kansas City Star.] Fourteen years ago James Couzens was a clerk in the office of a coal deal er in Detroit. Henry Ford was organ izing his automobile company and Couzens had a chance to invest in it. He looked into the project and decided that it was going to be very profitable. Having once, come to that decision Couzens put into it every dollar he had and could borrow. He w#.s a poor man on a small salary. He had saved S4OO and he invested that in the" new i business, and SIOO he borrowed from I his sister, and SSOO he borrowed from his employer. Also he gave his note for $1,500, making a total investment of $2,500. He had embarked his all in I the new venture and had gone heavily in debt besides. The new company paid a 2 per cent, dividend when five months old. a 10 per cent, dividend a month later and a 68 per cent, dividend when nine months old. Last year Couzens got $5,000,000 in cash dividends and $5,- 200,000 in stock dividend. Couzens did not simply pay back to his sister the SIOO she loaned htm, but he has paid her dividends of $97,- 000 on that SIOO, and his employer has made $175,000 on his investment. Some will says that good luck made Couzens rich. But good luck had lit tle to do with it. Good judgment, energy, character and courage enabled him to take advantage of an oppor tunity which a man with these quali ties in lesser degree would have over looked. Many men have judgment, but lack the courage to back it. Many others have courage, but their judg ment is so poor that they back the wrong things and lose. Still others are wanting In their character which gives credit and makes it possible for men to enlist the co-operation of their fellows. The combination of these qualities is what counts. HARDENED "Mr. Bditor. the mayor spoke very feelingly when welcoming us here and sympathized with us in the hardships we endured while prisoners In Q. S. \V. A., hut 1 rAii nssure you all those hard ships can be considered as a pleasure when comparing them with the mag nlflf-ent reception that was extended us."—Letter from a released prisoner of war in the Capetown (B. S. A:) Cape 1 Times. 1 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH S Suspects in German Bomb Conspiracy and Materials Found Among Their Effects [ ' wmmmtmmmmmm Bono A»/irec/itwftnyo in f»YS /eoo*i. /rtsatr- XOA£*r **F * W/U-t&G C. SHQCX, « mvL BASCH£ The picture shows some of the bomb making materials found in the room of Robert Fay, who with Walter It, Schola and Paul Daeche is under arrest, suspected of being the leader In conspiracy to blow up munition ships leav ing: N'ew York and factories making munitions for the allies. Fay is said to be a" lieutenant in the German army, Scholz is u German reservist and Daeche said he was a graduate of the University of Cologne. All three are tinder arrest at Weehawken. N. ,T. A high-powered motorboat, together with bomb making materials, several bombs and a map of New- York harbor were also discovered by the police and secret service men who have been following the men for several weeks. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE ] You can usually tell whether a man owns or rents his house by the fre quency with which he strikes matches on the paint. Of all the mean men, "Cappy" Swartz, city truant officer, takes the cake. He broke up a fishing party of youngsters the other day by way of celebrating his birthday. Why is it that the less a woman has on, the more it costs? Our idea of a young man that's on the job is the youth who tells the girl what pretty teeth she has when she yawns we.arily along about 10.30 in the evening. What we need is not A more elastic currency but a more, adhesive one, es pecially since Christmas is only two months off. EDITORIAL COMMENT - The announcement that the loss of the beef-cargoes confiscated by Britain will fall on the Chicago packers will be received with some skepticism by the meat-eating American public.—Boston Transcript. Prohibition may prohibit In Russia, because anything in the language can't be called a speak-easy.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. Things would be much simpler and pleasanter for Czar Ferdinand of Bul garia if he knew which side would win. —Springfield Republican. There were upwards of forty thou sand in the suffrage parade in New York the other day, so many that all of the ladies could not get their pic tures in the papers. All those who did, however, were pretty. Philadelphia Press. Billy Sunday is to make the attempt to clean up Chicago, and the universal opinion is that he will have his hands quite full with the job. But if his work is no more thorough than In other big cities there are a few of the corners that will i.ot be absolutely swept out clean.—Wllliamsport Sun. Indiana man at his wedding anni versary wore the same shoes that he did fifty years ago. , And he no doubt is the original bridegroom who thought two could live as cheaply as one. Brooklyn Times. Yesterday was the 500 th anniver sary of the battle of Aglncourt, which was regarded in its time as rather an important military engagement. In the same region to-day are transpir ing events which should considerably astonish the shades of any of those "gallant knights" which may be hov ering over the scene. ( any are watching they will do well to "hover" high, out of reach of aeroplanes and shells. —Erie Herald. OMAHA'S BEAU MONDE [From the Omaha Bee.] The audience was made up oC peo ple of every station and degree. Not far off sat an Omaha business man and the wife of a lawyer, chewing gum. They are of the city's social elect. f" Our Daily Laugh | _ You can see sha wants him, even A*-"*-") you can't un-. 1 derstand why. '> Perhaps his rat _ >■ IBS is excellent in Bradstreet's. But R'WriJ we are drifting. LwJ This is a Fourth of July stunt. Wa on 'y drew Bob \j, f»'J* bie's arm to save i trouble. Watch it. th°SSSH. I hear that Dob- A-( •ins is on his up- jjl——-J lers, is it true? I guess so. 1 7 51 jTlflA net him this LjrV |f \ oorning an'd he rfN V |1 aid he expected L I n| \|\ obe on his feet U Ijj jj n a few days. AT THE MOVIE By Win* Dinger A lot of people have the bug, "The Movie-Bug" I mean And every day they take some time To sit before the screen. I like the pictures, like to hear The picture machine hum But. gee. I cannot lose myself As is the case with some. To me it's funny how some folks Will givo a piercing shriek When someone falls two hundred feet i From too of clitt to creek. \ THE NEW WHALEMAN By Frederic J. Haskin V J A SHORT time ago, one of the oldest newspapers in the United States wrote its own obituary, published a brief but dignified account of its long career, and ceased publi cation. It was the Whaleman's Ship ping List of New Bedford, Mass. Ever since 1842, it had recorded the goings and comings, the tragedies and succes ses. of the great American whaling fleet. Slowly, during the last half cen tury. the Greenland whale and the wooden ship and the stout New Eng land whaler have disappeared all nf gether. The Whaleman's Shipping List diminished from a prosperous eight-page commercial paper to a single printed sheet, and then expired because there was no longer any rea son for its existence. •The whaling business of the world at large, however, is by no means over. In fact, during the last decade it has experienced something of a revival, but the whalers of tradition and story, who braved the Arctic, seas in wooden sailing vessels and harpooned their whales by hand from rowboats, are gone forever. In the palmy days of the New Eng land whaling industry, killing whales was a sport that ranked with hunt ing grizzlies. Now it is a business about as difficult as gathering oysters. The great change has been due to two things: In the first place, the right | The State From Day to Day Schumann-Heink made as notable a conquest in Reading a few days ago as the reception of Melba in this city on Monday evening was enthusiastic. Lovers of real music are more numer ous than the scarcity o;' opportunities to hear the same would seem to indi cate. C. A. Edson, field commissioner of the" Philadelphia Boy Scouts of America, talked before an interested audience at Bristol last evening. He described the aim of the organization, which is found in the oath, as follows: "On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the scout law; to help other people at all times, to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. The near approach of election day is causing the air all over the State to be tilled with an ominous, foreboding of defeat for some and the bright and I cheering vision of victory for others. Election day is much like a coffee grinder—the candidates are thrown to gether and mixed in the crusher of public sentiment and are finally chop ped to dust and powder by political and personal attacks, coming out more or less battered. Women will lead in all things. Wit ness the record number of patients at the RittersviUe Hospital, in Allentown. There are 957 in all and 500 of them women. A spirit of suppressed, but festive gavetv heralds the coming of Hallow e'en. and the preliminary nights of "Tick-Tack" and "Pancake" do but ac centuate the joy of the season. You can lead a mule to water. If the paraphrase may be pardoned, but vou can't hit it playfully with a stick, or it will become angry and kick you in the face, to your great discomfort. T,ittle 11-year-old Gale Miller, of Car- I lisle, discovered this a short time ago. The seventh ward in New Castle was i possessed of somebody's goat yesterday t and the animal consumed a mass of rose bushes and shrubs before giving himself up. T. R.'s double has committed suicide, but it is hardly fair for anyone to jump to the conclusion that his self-imposed death was ilue to melancholia resulting from his likeness to the Colonel. "Big Pole goes down, in westling match." Item from a State contempo arv. 'T wou'd seem to indicate that Hercules or Atlas had returned from the land of the mythical departed and had engaged in strife with some of our modern day apparatus. CONODOG tTINET CREEK In his recent report on the Susque hanna basin and referring to the Cono dogulnet creek, which joins the Sus quehanna at West Fairvtew, the fa mous landscape architect, Warren H. , Manning, said: "It is possible to canoe from Car lisle down to the river <>n this creek. The lower dam which is located about a mile above the Susquehanna, has been washed out, so that it is diffi cult now to navigate from this point to the second. Oyster's Dam. When there is a sufficient interest in using this stream, undoubtedly permission could be secured to establish a suffi cient dam to hold the water back for pleasure boating. There is only a dif ference of about three feet between the Susquehanna river and the base of this dam, so It would be entirely feasible to make a channel from the proposed channel on the easterly side across the river to accommodate the ferry and also the pleasure boats to the Conodoguinet creek." COMMON COMPI.AIXT A Tonunv at the front writes home that life in the trenches wouldn't be so bad If it wasn't for the people op posite.—Boston Transcript. OCTOBER 28, 1915. whales of Greenland and the North Atlantic, which yielded the oil that lighted the way of our ancestors and the bone that formed the figures of colonial dames, are almost extinct. In the second place, their products are not the necessities that once they were. It is a curious fact that just about the time these whales of Amer ican waters became almost extinct, petroleum in its numerous forms came to take the place of their oil. Steel has replaced whalebone not only in bodices, but in many of its other uses. Still a Demand The demand for whale products, however, is by no means at an end, and whales arc still being killed by the thousands every year. They are not, however, the right whales, but the humpbacks, linbacks 'and sulphur bottoms which range almost all the unfrozen seas of the world. The bone of these smaller whales is much short er than that of the right whales and therefore much less valuable, but they yield whale oil of an excellent quality. Their meat is to some extent used as food, and their carcasses are ground up for fertilizer after the oil has been distilled out of them. Thus modern Industry has made a good thing out of whales, which the old-time whalers would scorn to kill. [Continued on Page 2.] BOOKS AND MAGAZINES" Nearly three years ago a story of Edna Ferber's, "The Roast Beef Me dium." was published in the American Magazine and it has now been put on the stage. Ethel Barrymore is to play the part of Emma McChesney because Miss Barrymore is convinced of her resemblance to Emma and will simply be acting herself. In the November issue of the Ameri can Magazine "Sid" says regarding weman suffrage, under the heading of "Let's Break Away from Granddaddy": "Frankly, I presume that an extended suffrage might mean a worse world for I the time being. I have an idea that | things might grow worse before they got better. But what of It? It seems to me that unless there is something inherently wrong in the ballot it is fcolish to keep it away from this per son and give it to that person. If it is inherently right, a good thing in Itself, how can you pi edict who will make the best use of it? If it is aimed to benefit all those who are using it, why might it not benefit others?". The World's Work for November is out and tilled with articles, editorials and pictures, all relative to the na tional defense propaganda. It is well worth a careful perusal by those in terested in reading the opinions of thinkers on world subjects. The Fortunes of Garin, by Mary Johnson. The author of "To Have and to Hold," "The Long Roll," "The Witch" and other popular works has produced a story of love, romance and adventure Infinitely richer than any of the books mentioned. The scene is laid in the beautiful background of Southern France at the period of the Crusades. The hero is a happy-go lucky sort of a knight-errant, who is ptrforce handsome and bold, and in the approved old-fashioned style wins his spurs, defeats the villain who is besieging the castle in which the prin cess dwells, and rescues the heroine in the nick of time. The lover of ro mance will enjoy accompanying the knight on his adventuresome Journeys and will appreciate the relief of being tarried out of our own world of hum drum and business into the refreshing atmosphere of gentle princesses and gallant knights. (Houghton, Mifflin Co.) Emma McChesney & Co. —lt is a pleasure to announce another of the famous McChesney stories, by Edna Ferber. This time it is "Emma McChesney & Co." and Emma is de picted as a brainy business woman, as a mother, and as a homemaker; but best of all does she stand out as a human being, full of sympathy and radiating good cheer to all with whom she comes in contact. (Fred. A. Stokes Company, publishers.) "NO KNIFE, NO LIFE" [Kansas City Times.] This paragraph, quoted by Rear Ad miral Peary in a recent address at Portland, Maine, is about the most effective statement of the reason for pre paredness that has to this office: "The last year has proved that no human institution, no government, no region on the earth's surface, is safe unless it can dtfend itself. Treaties, laws, customs and theories have been swept away and mankind Is defending his belly with his knife. No knife, no j life—that is the red signal flying [throughout the world." J iEtenmg (Wjat A couple of men were talking about, people with memories the other day and one man when asked to name those in public life in Harrlsburg who could give valuable information right off the reel replied: "City Clerk 'Charley' Miller and 'Dan' Hammel baugh, secretary of the School Board. Both of these officials have been long in the service of the city, Mr. Milton, having recently finished his silver an niversary as city clerk and having a few more years' credit, while 'Dan' has been in charge of the secretarial duties at the Chestnut street offices since 1595. Both men have frequently told nie things without hesitation which I wanted to know and know badly in my business. Mr. Miller used to he a printer before he went into Council and the Legislature and he absorbed about as thorough a line of information about this community as can be found, and he has not forgotten anything that has happened sinco. 'Dan' knows the front name of everyone who has had anything to do with the school system for about thirty years and woo betido anyone who tries to manhandle figures in talking about the school district. You might add that two men who also had remarkable memories who were not in public life were the late W. K. Alrioks. president of the Dauphin De posit Trust Company, and the late James M. Lamberton, the lawyer. Both were exceedingly well Informed on this community and could give names, dates, initials and facts with out thinking much about it." The lawyer who had perhaps the 'V ost won<i erful memory of anyone at the Dauphin county bar," went on my informant, "was the late Congressman Murlln E. Olmsted. He never scented to forget. I have heard htm recall incidents connected with the davs when he was connected with the Audi tor General's department and the fact that he held a very important place when he was barely over 21 was in itself recognition of the fact that he was a brainy man. In court and at hearings I have heard him cite cases with references and present facts in that remarkable way of his without very much preparation. I do not think that in years I ever knew him to be taken at a loss and he could recall many matters which the ordinary lawyer would have been fortunate to remember where to And." L p at the Capitol they ask Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart when they want to get any information about the National Guard just as people about the city ask Theodore B. Klein, presi dent of the Dauphin Countv Historical Society, when they want local history. "General Stewart is a living com pendium of military information" was the way a newspaperman long in the harness referred to him. "I have known him to be talking about some thinpr when one would mention a resri ment. Then Stewart would say 'Oh, >'es. that was So and So's regiment. He's dead. And So and So was the lieutenant-colonel. 1 guess So and So. who was the adjutant or captain of Company A, is about the only one liv ing.' And when you would go to Bates' history of the Pennsylvania volunteers you find it just so. The general never has any notes when he talks about the organizations and the personnel of their officers. He knows them all. their initials, and T think he could give their street addresses. When it conies to specialized information there are few men in the State to compare with the memory of 'Tom' Stewart." Another official who has a remark able memory for names and dates and incidents in the governmental life or Harrlsburg for the past thirty vears or more is Henry W. Gough, former councilman, former city controller and now county controller and candidate on the Republican ticket for re-elec tion. Mr. Gough is frequentlv con sulted by persons desiring information not easily accessible. The other even ing a debate arose as to an early re election of City Engineer Cowden, which is a period lost In antiquity to any but the oldest inhabitants. But Mr. Gough not only readily remem bered the date, but gave the vote, Cowden's opponent at the time and re called with some amusement how a councilman had been rushed home from Philadelphia just in time to break the deadlock that was impending. VELL KNOVN PEOPLE —Dr. E. E. Sparks, president of State College, in a speech in Cleveland deprecated the zeal for amusements in this country. —James A. Smythe. of Renovo, ha? been invited to go to Massachusetts to act as mediator in a labor dispute. He has handled a number of similar matters while in government service. —Councilman John H. Baizley ha? been re-elected vice-president of the South Philadelphia Business Men's As sociation. —Norman D. Crawford, who re signed as head of the Reading transit system, started in life in Ohio and came to this state from Toungstown. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburs: is a distributing <-enter for telephone appliances? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Allison Hill used to be noted for the number of springs which dotted it?! sides. They were picnic places in thi olden time., IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY (From the Telegraph, Oct. 28, 1865.) Visiting Pastors in Pulpits The Church of God ministers at tending the Eldership sessions have been assigned to fill the pulpits of churches of that denomination in this city on Sunday. Price of Pork High Hogs are selling at $lB and S2O a hundred pounds, with no immediate prospect of the price declining. Falls From Train Into Stream Jacob Bener, a prominent business man of Middletown, was seriously *r-< jured last night, when he fell from tJ* rear end of a moving train into a small stream beside the railroad tracks at the Middletown Junction. \ "Amazone" It'B a word that means a great deal tf many women. Never heard of it? Well, /perhaps, you would if you had been a reader of news paper advertising. It is one of the words that signify a new note in Parisian millinery—a note that echoes the vital part women are taking In war's work. Reading the advertising in a live newspaper like the Tele graph is part of the day's edu cation. *
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