8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established ISJI PUBLISHED BY THE TELBUItAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLE Fresident and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ if aliasing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 21* Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Robert E. Ward. Delivered by carriers at <HroSMhnChSI> six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at J3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Hsrris burg. Pa., as second class matter. Inurn daily average circulation for the three months ending Dee. 31, 1015. J* 22,412 it Average for the year 1014—21.858 Average for the year ISM 3 10,002 Avernge for the year 1012—10,040 Average for the year 1011—17.5H2 Average for the year 1810—10,201 The above figure* are net. All re turned, unsold and damaged copies de ducted. SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8. Pity and need make all flesh kin. — Bir Edward Arnold. THE STATE STREET MARKET TO-NIGHT, for the first Saturday night in more than a half cen tury, save only when Christmas fell on the last day of the week, the old State street market stands dark and silent. Its day of activity has passed. It soon will give way to the beautiful State park that is being planned to replace the "Old Eighth." The other market houses are pre paring to absorb its business, but they will never quite take the place of the State street market, which was an institution quite distinctive of its kind. Slowly but surely the old city is passing and from its ashes Is rising the new and better Harrisburg so many of us long have beheld only in our mind's eye. Sometimes the re moval of an old building, with the associations of years about it, and the handmarks of time upon it, is to be regretted, but in this case the old mar ket house had outlived its usefulness to a very large extent. The people It had served so long have been steadily removing from their former haunts and its trade had been decreasing proportionately. On top of the very drastic report of j the Maryland Vice Commission regard- j Ing the social evil in Baltimore another | association for the suppression of vice j lias Issued a counter statement In which I that city Is described, from a moral I standpoint, as "one of the cleanest In ] the United States." The trouble with < all these Investigations Is that tempta- 1 tlon to sensationalism often obscures the facts and places communities in a false position before the world. NEW LOCAL ENTERPRISES WITH the millions of dollars sub ject to loan In this community it would appear that Harris-' burg is about reudy for a step forward In the line of Industrial expansion. Most of our factories and plants are running at capacity, but there Is ap parently room for an enlargement of the activities in profitable local enter prises. This city can only grow and prosper when those who live here develop our resources and take full advantage of our unrivaled location us a distribut ing center. These matters have been called to the attention of Harrlsburg by the Chamber of Commerce and the local salesmen who act as missionaries In the larger field outside. More than one plant has been established here be cause the peculiar advantages of the city have been exploited by the public spirited men who havo their head quarters In this city, but who travel from day to day throughout the coun try. Much more of this sort of campaign ing could be done, and it might be worth while considering whether our merchants and all who have extensive correspondence should not send the message of good will and a word as to our opportunities far and wide so that all who read the message may be ad vised of what is here from an Indus trial and commercial standpoint. The Rev. Dr. Conwell, In his recent lecture here, pointed out in the most convincing manner that many oppor tunities are overlooked at our very doors through the mistaken notion that there are fortunes beyond and in remote places. We should study Har rtsburg In all Its phases and with re • gard to all Its advantages. It Is prob able that tjiere are waiting for Har rlsburg Investors right here at home much better Investments than can pos sibly be had elsewhere. During the last decade thousands upon thousands of dollars were sent out of this com munity Into wildcat schemes of every sort which were promoted by gllb tongued Individuals with the ability to persuade ordinarily reasonable men that the moon Is made of green cheese and that every flash In the sunlight is a diamond ready for the picking. There is no doubt whatever that all kinds of opportunities nre lying about us and it would seem to be the wise course for our men of means and for those who have funds to invest to first study the local situation before de ciding to plant their savings and their incomes away from home where per- SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH- JANUARY 8, 1916. sonal supervision cannot be given the investments. it must not be understood, of course, that every idea which may be devel oped in the mind of some visionary Is necessarily a practical business propo sition. Far from it. Many local enter prises In the past have failed because those who invested failed to give the doubtful propositions careful pergonal investigation, trusting only in the elo quent arguments of promoters whose chief business it was to get their money and exchange therefor some beautifully decorated stock certificates. This is not the sort of investment I which is to be considered. Our Chamber of Commerce has act ed with discretion and good judgment In refusing to approve many proposi tions which have been submitted to Ithat organization for its O. K. It is not part of the function of such an as sociation to promote local or other en terprises without first being satisfied that they are promlstng ventures with ordinary safeguards and reasonable as surance of protection and a fair return for those who provide the capital. Our t>oint Is that Harrlsburg is better located than tho average city for industrial expansion. It remains for out people to take advantage of their opportunities and not to assume that the only place to engage In pro fitable enterprise is somewhere outside the immediate range of their vision. It might be well perhaps to have an industrial survey made of Harrlsburg looking to a presentation of business and manufacturing opportunities. This Is the sort of work that could properly be done by the Chamber of Commerce •with a view to presenting for the con sideration of Harrisburg people and others the real conditions here. It is (jbvious that we need more em ployment and more kinds of employ ment so that our working people of all classes may bo busy all the time. Our merchants are doing their part admir ably, but unless we have a variety of labor In our industrial market neither the merchant nor the professional man nor the tradesman of any sort can prosper. There must be community co-operation In every direction and at the beginning of the year Is a good time to consider whether there Is any better place anywhere for developing some line of business that has not al ready been developed here. C. W. KNAPP THE sudden death of C. W. Knapp, In the office of the New York Times, to which newspaper he had gone as treasurer after a long and notable journalistic career in the Middle West, removes from tho newspaper world one of its most dis tinguished figures. The son of John Knapp, brother and partner of George Knapp, who acquired control of the St. Louis Republic in the forties, and incorporated it as George Knapp & Co., publishers, he prac tically grew up in the office, and on his emerging from college In 1867 began the career which ended In St. Louis on Christmas eve and for all time in the Times office ten days later. He served the paper as cub reporter and became its city editor, managing editor and editor-in-chief. He passed through all the stages of advertising and business management and attained to the office of president and publisher in 1887, which post he held continuously until his retire ment. He was one of the organizers of the Associated Press as a national and International newsgatherlng body and for more than a quarter of a cen tury has sat on Its directorate and been a tnember of Its executive com mittee. He was one of the organizers of the American Newspaper Pub lishers' Association and served as its president. When Mr. Knapp entered the serv ice of the St. Louis Republic, then the Republican, his family controlled the majority Interest in the paper, but this interest, except a small part, descending to Charles W. Knapp. passed into other hands, and now his death breaks a long connection that reminds one of that of the Walter family, which through four genera tions controlled the London Times until its recent purchase by Lord Northcliffe. THE GERMAN SETTLEMENT THE apparent yielding of Germany to the Just demands of the United States with respect to the sinking of the Lusitania, and the regu lation of submarine warfare in gen eral, is received with the hope that Germany really means what the fore cast of yesterday's message would seem to Indicate. But. we have been so often just on the verge of a full settlement only to be thrown back into the slough of hopelessness and humiliation by a fresh outrage the next day that the country must be pardoned if it receives this fresh assur ance very guardedly. If no more pas senger ships are sunk without warning and tf no more American citizens are murdered under the flimsy mask of military necessity, the nation may then believe that finis at last has been writ ten to the most disgraceful chapter of American diplomacy, but not before. Tim HOPE FIRE COMPANY THE Hope Fire Company has reached the rlpo old age of 102 years, but It displays all the vigor and activity of youth. The Hope Company Is one of Harris burg's most venerable institutions, and one of its most honored. Cherish ed on the rolls of the organization are the names of many of the men who laid the foundations of the city and who will be associated always with its early history. Few fire companies have more reason for celebrating than the Hope. It has always stood for the very best in citizenship and has never been found wanting In time of need. The Hope has traditions that any organization might envy, and It 1B living right up to the best of them. The increase of 100 per cent, for the unskilled employes of the United States Steel Corporation will affect about 175,- 000 peoplo and entail an Increase of between ?12,000,000 and $15,000,00 in the company's annual ---- roll. This la onu good way of distributing the 1 nrosllflrlLv uf the steel business. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE , —Lansdalc, Pa., prodigy aged four, plays piano classics all day long. Fine! We're glad he lives in Dansdale. —For the benefit of pocketbooks that are still suffering from that "all-gone" feeling incident to Christmas, we pause to remark that Easter does not come this year until April 23. —We wonder If there is anything significant in the fact Huerta and Boy- Ed both got crowded oft the first page at about the same time. —Somebody's always taking the Joy out of life. First we couldn't take ad vantage of the low price of gasoline be cause automobiles were so high, and now we can t afford a cheap automo bile because gasoline is so high. —New York club women are unani mous In the opiition that git'la are en title to propose this year. On another page we read that eleven New York bachelors have taken up residence in a houseboat anchored two miles oft shore. EDITORIAL COMMENT It can be taken as certain that with the end of the war will come such a readjustment in politics, business and finance as the world has never before known. We apparently are in position to take advantage of any situation. It will need only wise national policies and sound business judgment to ac complish such a desirable end.—Phil adelphia Inquirer. It is said that the grave of John Brown at North Elba, N. Y., is sadly neglected. His grave may be neglected, but who shall deny that his soul goes marching on?— Kansas City Times. The socltl center of New York's population has moved 600 feet in the last two years, which shows that the 400 possesses a degree of progresslv lsm not heretofore suspected.—Boston Transcript. When Senator Hoke Smith realizes that cotton is worth twenty cents a pound in the Berlin market his heart bleeds for the starving women and chil dren of flermany.—New York Morning Telegraph. The synthetic rubber which Germany Is now making is n boon. It is the syn thetic money her printing presses are turning out that is going to prove the greatest disappointment.—New York Morning Telegraph. TO-DAY'S EDITORIALS Philadelphia Keeord: That is a very interesting report, which comes from London, that the British Ad miralty has decided that not a Ger man llag nor any neutral vessel in which Germans have an interest shall "be permitted to ply the seven yeas until the indemnity which the allies will demand is paid in full." By its control of the ocean Great Britain is in a position to put such a policy in operation, if It really has been definite ly decided on. Germany and Austria may hold Belgium and Servia, but these are trivial conquests in com parison with the power to rule ocean commerce. When the time comes to talk peace Great Britain's trump card is bound to play an. Important part in the settlement of terms. Hartford Cournnt: When the New York World, the leading Democratic journal of the country and the most uniformly loyal devotee of Mr. Wil son, calls on him to name Taft for the Supreme Court it ought to count for something. Nor Is the World alone in its course. There is a deep seated sentiment in the country that Taft, admittedly one of the really great men of his time, belongs on that bench. Ilis candidacy for the Presi dency was forced upon him; he much preferred at that time to be a jus tice of the highest court, but he yield ed to his friends and became Presi dent. The New York Sun: Captain von Papen. just arrived at Hotterdam, has an opinion about the sinking of the Persia. It is that the boiler exploded. As the Persia sank in five minutes, it must have been such a boiler explosion as would blow out the bottom of a ship. The captain might better have suggested a mine. ENGLAND'S ILLS The ills, political and social, of Great Britain have nowhere their origin in democracy, but in governmental abuses and inequalities against which British democracy, one of the strongest and most devoted of all world forces, is manfully struggling. And the most dis astrous of all flemcnts of evil, the war system, is wholly undemocratic. It has been brought on. not because democ racies are "loosely organized, careless and disorderly," but because "compact brotherhoods which have been welded into a family-nation by the fostering care and the strict discipline of a pater nalistic Government" have become po litically so inconmetent that they are driven like sheep Into a war which they did not want, which could bring them nothing but ruin and which In its In ception and consummation constitutes In Itself the most heinous crime ever , perpetuated in the history of Christen dom. And all this at the dictation of a verv few men whom even yet the na tion has failed to identify. When the whole story Is told, the lesson we must read Is that the remedy for the short comings of freedom Is more freedom, that personal initiative counts more, even in national enterprise, than any form of enforced efficiency, that the need of fret- States Is not less freedom. 1 but more justice, for justice sets men free, and that the worst possible test of a nation's greatness Is found In the mischief she can do her neighbors In blind leadine- of the blind to the field of battle. That battlefields still exist is due to the failure of justice and ther fore of Individual freedom.—Chancellor David Starr Jordan in The Scientific Monthly. OUTFOF DEBT [From the Kansas City Star.] The Kansas State officials havo planned a pleasant little jollification for to-morrow morning on the occasion of the burning of the last bond outstand ing against the State. A number of years ago Governor Dorkery. of Missouri, planned such a celebration for his State. and one of the best business men in the State said: "Dockery thinks It is a celebration. He does not know that he is burning his legs off." What he meant was that the development of a State, the going ahead of the Commonwealth was dependent upon bond issues. When the State had no bonded Indebtedness It meant that progress had stopped. Here's Kansas burning its bonds to celebrate Its being out of debt, and at the same time it is celebrating Its golden harvest among ail the years. Its people never were so prosperous, show ing that Kansas Is not at all burdened with debt. Yet every Kansan who knows any thing übout his own State knows that its public institutions are suffering from lack of funds. Its Cheap John Legislature last winter refused to make sufficient appropriation for the proper maintenance of its schools, charitable Institutions or prisons. The condition of the Kansas prison at Lansing is a disgrace to the State, but the Governor last winter vetoed an appropriation for sanitary cells for the | prisoners because the State was so poor, i The Kansas schools are dropping to I second and third rate places among the schools of th« country. Its public roads! are mud holes. Kansas Is nrst In noth- | inpr now—except wealth. To one who has the right vision of | Kansas It would appear that the burn ing of Its last bond Is anything but an i ncuaaiou for celebration. j 'PtKKOijttfaKta By the Kx-Committeeman Failure of dozens of men elected justice of the peace throughout tho State in November to file acceptances of their election has resulted In legal vacancies existing in their districts and Governor Brumbaugh will be required to make appointments so that magis trates will bo provided. Tho number of such vacancies now existing is be ing figured out at the Capitol and It is thought that it may run into the hun dreds. For years justices were required to file acceptances of their elections, but a few years ago this provision was re pealed. Then it was found that some men elected to the ottlce failed to lift commissions, saying they had no thought of acting as justices. The no tice requirement was then restored, but quite a number of men elected jus tices have stated that they did not know about it. Commissions not taken' from the offices of recorders within thirty days become Invalid, consequently there are many vacancies. —President Wilson has upset the fat Into the fire In Wllkes-Barre by his appointment of Dr. C. C. Mebane, a boyhood friend, as postmaster of Wilkes-Barre against L. L. Casey, brother of the Luzerne congressman, and General C. B. Dougherty. It is charged that A. Mitchell Palmer, while ostensibly for Dougherty, who is a relative, was really for Mebane be cause the President wanted him and because it gave a chance to annoy Casey. It is also Said that Mebane, who is a druggist, was accused of making some unpatriotic remarks about the flag. He is a southerner by birth. —J. E. Lennon. president of select council of Philadelphia, has been ap pointed deputy recorder, too. He is a Vare man. —South Bethlehem's council, which is Democratic, elected as president E. H. Meglathery. —Some of the Pittsburgh council men have gotten after Mayor Arm strong's appointees and it was charged in council the other day that one man did not do anything but draw his salary. —Tho rows over appointments of mercantile appraisers throughout the state may lead to the whole question being referred by Auditor General Powell to the Attorney General. The situation in this county, where the de partment says there are two men claiming to be appraiser, may be the basis of a request to the Attorney General for an opinion. Allegheny county has the same situation. It is understood. —Philadelphia Democrats will have their Jackson day dinner to-night and it promises to be peaceful. —Mayor Smith yesterday dismissed the whole Philadelphia civil service board and named In the places Robert M. Griffith. Nicholas Albrecht and W. H. Kreider. The latter is a former member, Griffith is a merchant Rnd Albrecht a Democrat. Heads are com mencing to fall in the Philadelphia city hall. —The Philadelphia Record is keep ing up the discussion about the eli gibility of William H. Wilson to serve as a city official while a member of the Legislature and there may be a test. —Elwood W. Minster, former post master of Bristol, will be a candidate for member of the Republican state committee. —The Montgomery county commis sioners will keep the money set aside for the salary of County Controller Jacobs so that it will be there when he wants it. —Mayor Harvey, of Hazleton, has issued orders that there is to be no cussing In the city hall at that place. Anyone swearing will be arrested. —The Schuylkill county grand Jury has decided to go out and look over the roads against which complaints have been filed. —Senator W. C. Sproul and H. A. Beale, Jr., will probably be the Repub lican national delegates in the Chester- Delaware district. —Prominent men will attend the dinner of the Terrapin Cluli at Phila delphia to-night. lieutenant-Governor McClain will bo toastm aster. —Easton's city council last night re-elected M. B. Hulslzer as city treas urer; Joseph 11. Warner, city clerk; Newton R. Turner, city solicitor, and Chauncey Reese, city engineer. All are Republicans. Before Judge Stew art at Easton was heard argument on the quo warranto proceedings brought by Dr. Robley D. Walter to oust Georgo K. P. Young from the office of county controller. Young claims he was elected In 1913 for two years, dating from the first Monday of January. 1914, the constitutional amendments having extended his term. Dr. Walter contends that Young's election was for only two years, and that he (Walter) is entitled to the ofllce for four years from January 3 of this year. Thfc court's opinion will be filed Monday, as all funds are being held up in the county treasury, and money is neither received nor disbursed. I OUR DAILY LAUGH RUDE AWAKENING, f Didn't you askl me to tangok V y through llfo withlj^*^^ And now you [ expect me to put |\ gj i In a good part of XjTi .r"' "">![ 111 81 the time In cook- j J Bjl l tng, sweeping and 9H |w KJ I d;sh - washing. I What false I wretches you men I ar *' §IN SLOWTOWN. Turtle An nouncer: Sam Snail wins th« hundred yard dash Time: four days, thre* hours and six minutes. THE BEST GIFT By Wing Dinner For the kids we got at Christmas Lots of things, my wife and I, Got a lino on what they wanted Ere we started out to buy. Games and toys and books of stories, Useful things as well wo got, Everything their hearts could wish for We provided, so wc thought. All went well on Christmas morning. Both the lads were satisfied With their gifts, until they'd gone out And some other kiddies spied With their gift guns, shooting spar rows— (Gun was not upon our list)— Trouble then bobbed up In bunches; Best of all gifts we had missed. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY _____________J t "AW, WHO CARES WHAT HAPPENS?" i —From the Philadelphia Evening ledger. THE MEXICAN War From the Side Lines By Frederic J. Haskin V. J DOUGLAS, Texas, has just had an opportunity to study war at close range. Schools were j closed, business shut down, children land women crouched in th shelter of adobe walls, while Villa and Carranza fought out the question of Mexican su premacy a few yards across tho bor idor. Hundreds of shots fell in American territory, wounding civilians and United States soldiers. Forty bullets struck an American school building in a single night. The Bank of Douglas and the principal hotel were hit. Every second man you meet !s carrying a Mexican bullet in his vest pocket for a souvenir. It was a magnificent chance to watch a battle from the side-lines. From the first straggling approach of Villa's advance guard through the mountain pass 12 miles away, to the last desperate charge of his Yaquis that hurled Itself against the Carran s:a trenches like a breaker against a cliff, the whole engagement was fought in plain view. Most of • the Americans in Douglas gathered to look on, disregarding the possibility of a stray bullet. On tho first day, while the fighting factions confined themselves to a long range cannonade, spectators crowded up to the international line Itself. As the battle lines drew closer and rifle balls began to fly, the American army cleared a mlltiary zone in Douglas running back half a mile from the line, from which all civilians were excluded. Douglas was emptied up to Sixth street. Scores of American fam ilies found themselves ordered to abandon their homes. Many of them left for Tucson or other nearby cities, to wait until it should be possible to sit on their own front porches again without expecting to have an evening pipe smashed by a Mexican bullet. But most of them stayed to watch. The battle of Agua Prleta Is unique in history. It is the first battle to bo fought formally under the auspices of a referee. Enough United States troops to defeat both Mexican fac tions together were Intrenched along the international boundary wtihln a few hundred yards of the belligerents. They were there to see that the Mexi cans confined their warfare to their own side of the line. When It first became evident weeks ago that Villa v/ould make an assault on Agua Prieta, the Carranza garrison under Calles, following the best Euro pean precedents, began to dig them selves In. They dug trenches facing the west and south, and also facing the north, where the town of Douglas lay only three hundred yards away. They explained that they could not leave this side undefended, and allow Villa to slip between them and the Ameri can line to take them in the flank. But the modern high-power rifle has an effective range of more than a mile. You cannot fire It and arrange THE STATE FROM DWTODW i j A thlrty-five-pound red salmon Is not I to bo caught every day, you better be i lieve, ami so Miss Sara Stout, who lives : in Sunbury and has Just returned homo from 'i one-year, 10,000-mlle trip to Alaska In search of health. Is held In high esteem by her fellow-citizens bo cause she stuck to the fish and landed it after being pulled Into the water. "Bum," the mascot police dog of one of the Philadelphia stations, held a reception In the courtroom yesterday I and was presented with a wide collar ! studded with the regulation bruss but j tons. The recipient, a sturdy Dana, paid !close attention lo all tho compliments i that were showered upon him and seemed very well pleased with him self. j The obituaries of all the kings in Europe, says the Now Castle News, are iln evory first-class newspaper office, < so that time may be savto In case one of the foreign monarchs should die. j No doubt they would be flattered to i know that their future Is being so well taken care of. A river basin that is well planned , and cared for In tho most modern and approved style is a thing of beauty and a sourco of great satisfaction to a ' city. Sharon has a committee of the ! Chamber of Commerce for local Im provements. The committee Is deter mined to Improve the Shenango river, drodgo the channel, and generally beau tify tho banks. . I Ho or she who owns a pass on tho 'Pennsylvania Railroad henceforth will; feel like a guilty person every time ho ! boards a train because a new rule has j gone into effect which necessitates the giving up of one's seat, when one has a pass, in deference to a passenger who has paid his fare, if the car be crowd ed. "Mr. Past-holder," says a Philadel phia paper, 'will bo in the position of the man who goes to a theater on an admission ticket and drops 'nto a .seat on tho chance that the rightful owner will not show up." Albert Rider of Picture Rocks, a cripple since birth, is now able to walk, and tho entire town rejoices with him. Albert has won the love of the entire town and although he has never walk ed, everybody loved him and came to see him. The home folks have raised 540 to help him. SOME _ DOINGS [From the Winfield, Kan., Courier.] Some very laughable things occurrod at the public Christmas tree in the courthouse. First was the children's voting the Rev. Mr. Platter out of his speech, and then, when "Ed" Hnlloway was presented a baby and cradle, Bal win, Pryor & Co. a jug of "Grange bit ters," and, lastly, when Ex-Saint re ceived the jumpiugjack and six babies for the bullet to stop after three bun- I dred yards. Had the Mexicans carried their little program Into effect, Doug las would have been raked by volley after volley. The American troops at Douglas were promptly ro-enforced by several regiments from El Paso, Columbus and Naeo. Major General Funston, In command of the army along the whole Mexican boundary, came from .San An tonio to take charge of the situation in person. American trenches were dug and manned day and night, facing the trenches in Mexico. These prepar ations threw Douglas into a panic. All sorts of rumors were rife. Americans coming from the interior of Mexico reported that Villa intended to shell Douglas, that he had promised his starving troops food and plunder from the captured American town. Before long there were enough American troops in Douglas to reas sure the most timorous. Carranza's commander was warned against shoot ing toward the United States, and General Funston himself talked with Villa at the boundary. The interview was not made public, but General Funston reported laconically that Villa's attitude was satisfactory." Douglas settled down to watch the Sght. It was a battle that lasted for days. Those who watched have a new respect for tnc Mexican as a soldier, after see ing him die by hundreds. Villa opened with a long-range cannonade intended to explode the two hundred mines with which the garrison of Agua Prieta had sown the ground oyer which the at tacking force had to advance. Many of these mines were thus set off, but enough remained to kill later hun dreds of Villa's Yaquis. On the second day Villa advanced within rifle shot, and the fight was carried on hotly with small arms and machine guns. This was followed by a long and violent cannonade, to pre pare the way for a last desperate charge. Through a hail of Are, the flower of Villa's army dashed for the hostile trenches. They never reached them. Weary and gaunt with hunger, the advance over the tangled with barb-wire barricades, in the face of a Are from a garrison newly reinforced and amply supplied with ammunition, was too much for the men of the northern chieftain. Leaving the ground strewn with dead, they sullenly withdrew. From the trenches and the house tops American soldiers and American citizens watched the struggle. Stray bullets flew briskly over the border, whining their contempt for interna tional law. One American soldier was killed, several soldiers and two civilians wounded. For the most part, these shots were the result of chance, but cases were reported where a Mexi can soldier, crazed with excitement, leaped up and opened a wild fire on the American patrol. on a string, three white and three | black ones. •ST. I' A I I, TO BKK ITSEI.F A City rifinnlug Exhibition la Urged by a ('ommiiuilont'r [From the St. Paul Dispatch.] A city planning exhibition, in con junction with the budget exhibit sug gested by Mayor Powers, Is the pro posal of Louis Nash, commissioner of parks, playgrounds and public build ings, as outlined to the city council. He d< clares It of as much Importance | to know what the city needs as to show | what lias to be done. In this way. he says, it systematic plan for the future ! development of the city will be assured. "A proper planning exhibit would show 'ust what sections of the city are adapted to manufacturing and lobbing. whn» adapted to coai yards and feed and fuel distributing plants, and other Industries dependent upon trackage fa cilities, the proposal recites His plan would show where the homes of the employes in these Industries should be located. It would help sys tematize the laying out of additions with regard to open spaces, parks, play grounds. school and church facilities, and transportation and harbor accom modations would receive duo consldera ; tlon. In his exhibit he would show the lieneflt of systematic tree planting. He would emphasize this fact by motion pictures showing what has been done In other cities. Co-ordination in city development between the different de-, pariments should be a feature, lie says. l Housing accommodations for transi ents of limited means as well as the worthy poor residents, should receive consideration, and a city-wide survey should be made to point out the mis takes of the oast, he cites. He would show what obstacles under the charter, legal and otherwise, might Interfere with an attempt to control the resources of the cltv for the use of all; what industries are needing the de velopment: the establishment of build ing lines, location of future street car lines and extensions, and "last but not Wst." Mr. Nash says, "the location of the Union Depot r:nd Its approaches and the Capitol mall." SPENTMOO MILLION [From the Kansas City Times.] In the early days of Kansas City "Jim" Bridger, trapper and scout, used to come home from the Far West and tell of a big lake of salt water, of a spring that spouted hot water, of a river at the bottom of a canyon a mile deep. The folks of that dav did not mince words when speaking of Brldger Thev said he was the greatest liar hi all America." This year, because of the war, more people than ever before have been trav elin in America. Secretary Lane of the Interior Department, savs in ' his report that the people of this country spent $100,000,000 this year traveling about their own land. Instead of send ing It abroad. They have been seeing the things that "Jim" Bridger told the people of Kansas City about so many i years ago. j lEbmutg (Ehat Operation of Pennsylvania's new escheat law, whereby unclaimed bank? deposits andd other valuable thing.- must be reported to the auditor gen eral so that the Commonwealth may take steps to secure them is being at tended by no end of correspondence and some indignant inquiries from corporations to know how it can ef fect them. Under the law the re ports must be filed by January 31 an-v nually and failure to make a report • is punishable by a One which may go up to SIO,OOO. The law was drafted by Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown primarily to get for the State unclaimed bank deposits, but was elaborated. A blank was sent to every corporation paying a State tax be cause the law covers any valuable property which is unclaimed and a number of officers of corporations have written to the State. Capitol de manding to know why they should bo called on to make such reports, while one man at the head of a concern which manufactures machinery want ed to know why he was classed with a bank. The banks of the State, which have hundreds of small accounts, some started by a depositor and given up, or others which contain balances not used up, are making reports and some have been writing letters which indi cate that they will be glad to clear tlicir books of the inactive accounts. What the law' requires: reports on bank deposits which hive been in active for fourteen consecutive years, money or property held for storage or saf« keeping which has not been touched or visited by owners for seven years, dividends or profits not paid for three years, debts and interest due any creditor and not paid for three years and any property held for bene fit of a person and not demanded within seven years. Arthur B. Chapman, the member of the State Game Commission who died a few days ago just after having been reappointed for the third time, was one of tho prominent men in Bucks county. He was a native of old Doylestown and in 1809 graduated from Princeton. He was admitted to the Bucks county courts and was the last direct male descendant of a fam ily that has been prominent in Bucks county since the days of William Penn. Because of ill health after he was admitted to tile bar, Mr. Chap man soon abandoned the practice of law. He lived on a farm and spent much of his time in the open, llis skill with rifle and shotgun was re markable. He could duplicate the fancy shooting of Buffalo Bill and oth er professional experts and was a highly successful hunter. His knowl edge of natural history was extensive and he was a recognized authority on game subjects. He never married. Mr. Chapman was a cousin of Attor ney General Francis Shunk Brown, both being grandsons of Governor Francis Rawn Shunk. * • * Of all the thousands of Telegraph readers who saw the account :t few days ago of the death of Grenville W. Dodge, the railroad king, none read the little story with quite the samo feoling as City Kngtneer M. B. Cow den. Mr. Dodge gave the city engi neer his first job. 'Way back in 1872 Mr. Cowden was In faraway Marshall, Texas. He was very young—it doesn't matter how young—far from home, without a job and with scarcely five dollars in his pocket. Ho did have letters of in troduction from the Northern Centrolj Railroad and from some other in- v * fluentlal men In this section. So lie called upon President Dodge and told his story. President Dodge gave him a position as axman on his engineer ing corps. "That's the reason," said Mr. Cow den in telling the story. "I read tho account of Mr. Dodge's death with a little different feeling, I guess, than most of the readers of the Telegraph. He was surely a friend in need that time, and at that time the need was mighty urgent." Among visitors to the Stat© Capitol yesterday was Walter Warren, who is in charge, of one of the biggest pav ing enterprises in the western part of the countrv. He has headquarters at . Portland i • 1 came here to observe tho Slato Highway Department methods. » » • Owners of some turnpikes who have refused to quote prices which tho Commonwealth of Pennsylvania can entertain for the purchase' of then properties are liable to wake up sonic morning next Spring and find work under wav for parallelling their road*. The State has been working for months to buy a number of turnpikes so that toll gates can be taken down, a dozen negotiations being under way but in most cases the prices asked aro awav above market prices for stocks. The result has been that some sur vey of ways lo connect with other highways so that travel may flow around toll gates instead of through them have been made. - I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 ■ * —Walter Lyon, former lieutenant governor, who was here yesterday is as active In legal practice as ever. —E. V. Babcoek, one of the new Cambria Steel directors. Is one of tho big lumbermen of country. —W. H. Donner. the steel mag nate, lighted one of the furnaces he has just bought at Buffalo. L, jr. Nagle, long with the Worth steel mills at Coatesville, has re signed. —The Rev. Francis J. Sheehan, tho new rector of St. Thomas Acqulnr.s Church In Philadelphia, Is a well known professor at Overbrook. . D r . H. J. Gideon, head of th« compulsory education work In Phila delphia, says there Is not enough dis crimination in what is given to char ity. | DO YOU KNOW ~~ Tliut. Hnrrisburg leads in the amount of river coal dredge* from the Susquehanna? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The bounds of Camp Curtin hav. not been marked. Only the tablet on the Camp Curtin school rates the site. A Word to Dealers "To procure the kind of mer chandise people want tho storekeeper must know what people want." .Such is an axiom of one of our J great merchants, who practices what he preaches. One thing that the storekeep er docs know Is that there will be an Initial demand for goods which the manufacturer adver tises in tho newspapers. Ho kn<nvs that peoplo" will want to see these goods and that If they have merit they will find favor more quickly than un advertlsed wares. The dealer not only stocks with tliein, but he pushes them at the time the newspaper advertising Is running.
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