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FRIDAY EVENING, IKB. I.
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Let me but find it in my heart to say,
"When vagrant wishes beckon me
astray;
"This is my work, my blcssiny. not
my doom:
Of all who live, I am the one by whom
This work can best be (lone in the right
way." —HKSKY VAN DYKE, j
THF. NATIONAL Gl \RI>
WHEN Secretary Garrison says !
that "The National Guard has
always stood in the way of the
organization of a federal force on
• sound lines" he does not state the
truth. His reply to those who have j
contended that some use should be !
made of the National Guard in the
scheme of national preparedness is
weak indeed. The secretary talks like;
H school boy and makes assertions
■which neither he nor anybody else
can prove.
Garrison is obsessed with his Con- j
tinental army idea to the extent that
he can sec 110 good in the National
Guard. The President is crying for
immediate preparation, yet we find
liis chief military aide urging that the
only emergency force now at our com
mand be thrown into the discard in
tavor of the untried experiment of a
Federal army that may require years
to put on a war-footing. The coun
try is out of patience with radicals of j
any sort. What it wants is results, 1
nnd it would seem to the unpreju- j
diced that some compromise could
l>e reached whereby the National
Guard could be made the nucleus
around which to build the efficient j
» lighting machine the nation needs, but
docs not now possess.
The Pennsylvania National Guard,
for example, is as ready for service
i • cis any in the country, but it is not
equipped as it should be. It is
trained and officered, and is made up
of a devoted and highly inteligent
membership. What it needs is en
couragement. It is capable of becom
ing all that a <"ontinental army ever
could be, and in much shorter time.
3t would be folly to do other than
make the most of it.
FALSEHOODS ABOUT BANKS
BE careful how you talk about a
bank. If you can't say some
thing good, don't say anything.
Out in Pittsburgh this week a run on
a bank was caused by the circulation
of a falsehood that may have been
trivial when It started, l uit which came
•within a very narrow margin of ruin
ing a perfectly solvent institution. A
reward of $5,000 has been offered for
Ihe apprehension of the person who
started the lie. It is to bs hoped he
■will be caught and punished, as the
law has wisely provided. Not only
hanks but thousands of depositors are
Injured by false reports of bank
troubles.
MARSHALL AND THE FILIPINOS
VI C E-PRESIDENT MARSHALL
is the "me-too" of the present
administration and it is hardly
to be expected that he would do
otherwise than vote for the Clark
amendment to the Philippine bill,
which provides for the withdrawal of
the sovereignty of the United States
In the archipelago not sooner than
two years anil not later than four.
The Vice-President had the deciding
vote on the measure, showing how
closely the Senate divided on this
Important matter, it is extremely
doubtful, however, whether the
House, which is not so subservient to
"White House beckoning as was the
case a year ago, will concur in the ac
tion of the Senate.
The more the situation is studied by
conservative and thoughtful men the
more vital becomes this question of
Philippine Independence. All who are
intimately acquainted with the ad
ministration of the affairs of thel'nited
States In the I'hilippines are of one
mind regarding the attitude of the
|\Vilson administration on this ques
tion. Private letters and public state
ments all go to show that the natives
mo not reatly for independent gov
ernment and their last estate will be
infintely worse than their first under
the rule of Spain should the present
scheme of withdrawing the United
States sovereignty succeed.
Under the amendment adopted Con
gress alone can give the Filipinos po
litical freedom and the President in
FRIDAY EVENING," HARRISBURG t&sf&Z TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 4. 1916
the absence of other legislation will be
obliged to carry out the mandate of
the Clark amendment.
Furthermore, the Senate action in
dicates that the Filipinos are to be
cast adrift on the world without any
agreement among the nations as to
recognizing their neutrality and inde
pendence. The Clark amendment, as
{originally drawn, provided that the
I United States should negotiate treaties
of this character with the Powers of
the world and if none would enter
| into such conventions then the United
States was authorized to guarantee
I their sovereignty and independence for
i five years. This clause was voted out,
j leaving merely the bare declaration
| of independence.
WILSON AND CLARK
CHAMP CLARK is about to take
another cup of coffee. At least,
that is the impression one gains
j from reading the Washington dis
: patches nowadays. The Speaker's
I friends believe that the President has
made little headway with his own
| party in his swing around the circle
1 this week and it is manifestly their
i opinion that Clark, who was the choice
of the majority at the Baltimore con
! vention. may yet be catapulted into
first place at the approaching roundup
of the Democratic party in convention.
Leaders of the anti-preparedness
j wing of the campaign are declaring
that the President's speeches are cal
j culated to cast distrust upon the good
faith of the administration in endeav
oring to preserve peace. There is no
'concealment of an active movement
among members of Congress who are
opposed to the President's idea of na
tional defense to bring about the nom
ination of Speaker Clark. Their posi
tion is that the Speaker has never been
in tavor of a large standing army or a
formidable navy and that he most
nearly represents those who are be
hind the peace propaganda at Wash
ington.
Incidentally, it is suggested that
William Jennings Bryan is ready to
launch his campaign against the Presi
dent and surface indictions lead to
the conclusion that he would not now
be so ready to oppose Clark as he was
in the Baltimore convention.
CRYPTIC HINTS
MAYOR MEALS is given to
making cryptic statinents
with respect to police regula
tions. The other day he was asked
about his policy regarding the so
called red-light district and what
would be done in case such a district
was re-established in Harrisburg. He
replied with the old doggerel:
Mother, may I go out to swim?
Yes, my darling daughter.
Hang your clothes on a hickory limb,
But don't go near the water!
Pressed for an interpretation of the
foregoing lines. His Honor explained
that the mother might as well have
told her daughter not to go swimming
at all as applied to the vice situation,
and as he further explained, it means
that all the trouble these people go
to will amount to simply this—that
the department will not tolerate any
viciousness.
All of which is very interesting and
mayhap reassuring. It has been
stated that the scarlet women of Read
ing and elsewhere have indicated
since January first their intention of
returning to Harrisburg, and under
these oircumstances it might be well
for the publicity department under
Mayor Meals to let his views be known
where those views will have a bear
ing upon the subsequent actions of
the persons presumably headed this
LOCAL HOUSING CONDITIONS
IT is high time that a building code
worthy the name is provided for
the city of Harrisburg. Scarcely
a day passes that a rank offense
against humanity is not perpetrated
by some contractor who cares for
nothing save the dollars he may ac
cumulate through rotten building
practice.
It has been reported to this news
paper that In one case a builder,
deliberately ignoring rules of safety,
comfort and health, has erected in
the back yard, so to speak, of a prop
erty in one section of the city two or
three small houses over garages,
where the tenants will probably die
like rats in a trap in ease of fire.
What is the use of building inspec
tion and building regulations and all
that sort of thing unless we have
actual results in improved housing
conditions? It is an open secret that
contractors and builders of a certain
class snap their fingers at the Build
ing Inspector and in effect tell him to
go to. These builders care nothing
for the regulations and intimate that
they cannot be enforced.
It Is reported in another instance
that a builder erected a three-story
dwelling with nine-Inch walls that
would probably crumple like paper
under any unusual conditions of
weather or stress. It may become a
question whether the city at some
time may not pay a heavy sum in
damages for life and property as a
result of present conditions here.
Harrisburgr is too far along the
way of civic progress to permit this
sort of thing to go on unchallenged.
This Is a matter for the City Council,
and as the conservators of the city's
welfare no time should be lost in cor
recting a manifest evil. Let the
Buikling Inspector go before Council
and tell his story and not be baffled
by that class of builders who now
treat him. if we are correctly In
formed, as a joke.
Those helpless dwellers in weak
and ill-constructed houses, who accept
the conditions as they are and who
cannot do otherwise, must be pro
tected from the cupidity and the in
difference of men who are placing
personal gain above considerations of
health and safety.
In this work the Chamber of Com
merce and all the loral civic organ
izations have a part. They should co
operate with the City Council in
bringing about as speedily as possible
the enactment of a building code that
will mean what it says and be capable
of vigorous enforcement.
CK
By the Ex-CommlttMnuui
Men interested in the revival of the
Democratic party tn Pennsylvania as
a good, strong opposition force have
almost given up hope of getting the
warring factions together and the pro
posed "harmony" slate for delegates at
large has not proved popular even
with its sponsors'. Several of the men
said to have been suggested by Com
mitteeman A. Mitchell Palmer are re
ported to have declared that both fac
tions should go into retirement and
allow the Democrats of Pennsylvania
to select new leaders.
The truth is that between appoint
nients to positions in the federal serv
ice, tilling of post offices and the
juggling of rural delivery routes Pal
mer and his pals have managed to get
the national administration into as
much disrepute with the mass of
Democratic voters as they are them
selves. Tlie Democrats in the state,
according to what is being said and
printed, are for Wilson, but they do
not like his self-appointed.' but un
recalled. representatives in the Kov
stone State.
As pointed out by the Philadelphia
Record yesterday, the party has trouble
getting men to sacrifice themselves.
\ ears ago that was regarded as party
duty.
Reuben H. Tracli, legislator from
Northampton county, has resigned as
deputy treasurer of that county.
—Dr. J. T. Butz has been elected
health officer of Allentown.
—Mayor Smith has declined to be
come mixed in ward committee tights
in Philadelphia. City Solicitor Con
nelly also says lie is a neutral.
—Congressman S. Taylor North, of
Punxsutawney. has announced his can
didacy for re-election.
—A dispatch from Hazletou to the
Philadelphia Ledger says: "Judgment
for $165.70, with interest from June 1,
1915, was given by Alderman It. W.
Hcidenreich in the suit of Henry W.
Jacobs, manager of the Pennsylvania
Brewing Company.against Representa
tive W. L. Adams, of Beaver Rrook.
The money was loaned to Adams, it is
said, to pay campaign expenses. Jacobs
swore that lie had loaned Adams
money at various times and had tuken
judgment notes as security. He de
clared that the Filsenheim Brewing
Company held some of the notes of
Adams, and after the hearing former
District Attorney J. H. Bigelow in
formed G«>rge Harris, counsel for Ad
ams. that the legislator had got close
to $3,000 from the Pilsenlieim concern.
Adams was not at the hearing."
Fred T. Mac Donald, Republican
county chairman of Chester county,
has been appointed a bank examiner.
This is regarded as taking him out of
the race for senator. Ex-Senator O.
E. Thomson is believed to have the
call.
The Philadelphia Record of to-day
says: "The return of United States
Senator Penrose front Washington yes
terday led his followers to believe that
the senior senator's threatened decla
ration of war on the B rum ban gh-Vare
alliance would soon be forthcoming.
Senator Penrose declined to announce
his plans, however, and declined to
comment on Congressman William s.
A'are's statement, issued on Sunday,
that Governor Brumbaugh was his first
choice for the Republican nomination
for the presidency. Influential Inde
pendent Republicans and Washington
party workers, who are about to af
filiate themselves with the Penrose
camp, assert that Senator Penrose ac
cepted the congressman's statement as
a challenge to his leadership and that
he assured them before lie left for
Washington that he would make a
public declaration."
In court at Pottsvllle yesterday
Judge Brumm widened the scope of
the probe into the alleged frauds in
the Lost Creek division of West Ma
hanoy township last November. He
decided that he would ascertain by
counting the ballots from this district
what was the vote cast for every
county official. The box having been
opened yesterday, the count proceeded
all day, under tellers appointed by
court. In deciding to enlarge the
scope of the investigation Judge
Brumm said the developments may
cause court to throw out the vote of
the entire district. This would elect
P. J. O'Neil as county poor director
instead of Michael Brennan, who has
been sworn into office. It -would also
elect Thomas Cosgrove and Frank Ed
monds school directors instead of
Thomas Donahue and Thomas McCoy,
who have been sworn in.
—-Congressman Benjamin K. Focht,;
of Lewisburg, one of the active men in
the Pennsylvania delegation in Con
gress, to-day announced his candidacy
for Republican renomination and
friends in the eight counties of the dis
trict have lined up for him. The con- :
sressman swung the district back to
the Hejiubiican column in 1914 and
will make a strenuous campaign such
as he is capable of doing. Mr. Focht
is standing 011 his record and in his an- :
nouncement says: "Throughout my in- :
cumbency as your congressman I have '
always striven to be promptly respon
sive to the popular wish, and to ascer- !
tain the will of the people 1 have made i
it my business to become personally
acquainted with a vast majority of the ■
splendid citizenship peopling the eight
great counties constituting the Seven- !
teenth district, which I have the honor
to represent. In the presence of the
fast moving and swiftly changing
events in the world and our country I j
feel assured that with problems so '
grave before us you do not desire a i
break in the continuity of your repre
sentation in Congress for any uncer- |
tainty."
—Men interested in politics and in
the advance of the temperance move
ment in Pennsylvania are watching the
developments in license courts this
month and plans for the local option
campaign for election of members of
the Legislature will be based on the
results. Jefferson county W'as added to
the dry list yesterday by Judge Corbet,
sitting at Brookville. and the local op
tion forces are looking to the new
I judges in Beaver and Mercer to make
! those counties dry as well. There are
fears that Lawrence, which was put in
: the dry column a few years ago by
| Judge Porter, will become wet. Indi
ana has been granted licenses and in
all probability the new judges will be
1 liberal with licenses in Tioga and
Mifflin. The counties which are dry
1 now number ten, as follows: Greene,
! Wyoming, Juniata, Mifflin, Bedford,
| Huntingdon. Jefferson, Venango, Tioga
and Lawrence.
A GOLFER'S DICTIONARY
[ From ijife..]
Niblick: A light iron scoop designed
to help the golfer lift his ball over a
; bunker, or to drive a handful of sod into
; his caddie's mouth as a gentle hint to
i him to keep it shut.
Turf: Grass-covered sods put on the
surface of the links to act- as a buffer
between the player and the center of
1 gravity.
Twosome: Two portions of golf serv
ed with a couple of caddies on the side.
Threesome: A twosome plus one in
I which the player's chances of winning
t are Increased from two to one to three
| to one.
Foursome: An attempt to monopolize
I the links by four nersons for a ' all a
j hole.
! Fore: A number frequently set down
on the score card by expert accountants
when they have done a hole in anv
-1 where from seven to thirteen
- THE CARTOON OF THE DAY 1
THE SPIRIT OF 1912
-The New York Sun.
I TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE j
—Recently produced evidence leads
to the conclusion that the "Wolf of
Wall Street" got a few bulls and bears
as well as lambs.
—That loud ha ha you beard as you
passed the Federal Building this morn- j
ing was the Weather Man laughing at ;
the Groundhog.
What, we pause to ask, has become j
of those robins and bluebirds seen in ;
Wildwood last week?
—The man who is too lazy to clear !
the ice from in front of his house '
might at least pour ashes on the slip- j
pery spots.
—Jefferson county goes dry when j
forty-four licenses are refused. This is '
Local Option without the option.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
noahllfM Considered It n Crime
[From the Columoia State.]
No wonder the infuriated Mexicans
captured two of our soldiers. They saw
'em taking a bath.
StvlNN Didn't Hvfii Qualify
[From the St. L#ouis Post-Dispatch.]
The Swiss ski jumper, who '-imped
167 feet the other day. lias nothing on
the politicians who were not expecting
the appointment of Mr. Brandeis.
Will I'owor of the Mlilille-nKeil
[From the Houston Post.]
The average half-centenarian's will
power is easily indicated by the circum
stance that he will proceed to take on
large slathers of pork roast and sweet
potatoes and then rely on bicarbonite
to extract him from the jaws of death.
Doeiin'l Apply to Whisker*. ThuiiKb
I From the Albany Journal.l
The men who pledged themselves not
to cut their hair until Mr. Bryan was
elected President may be relieved by
baldness.
"PAYS TO ADVERTISE"
Shareholders of the American Tlier
» mos Bottle Company, of New York,
received on New Year's Day checks
i to cover dividend, No. 9 of $3.50 per
share on the $1,000,000 capital stock.
The company started a few years ago
with a cash working capital of $20,-
i 000. of which $15,000 was necessary
ito equip its first small plant. The re
maining $5,000 was invested in five
full-page advertisements in five lead
ing New York dailies. The company,
through accumulated profits, has ex
-1 pended close to $1,000,000 in public
ity.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
CONCEITED.
mBMPtI V*BS? George Is just
crazy about me.
i y'* Don't take so
j 7 Y TJt much credit to
j fcL/luY MA yourself. He was
I r MiMB J&Siik crazy be * ore y°"
eVCr met * l ' m "
HERS.
She: You know
A man is Judged Cf-Qj
by his clothes.
He: Not if he's . \
married. 1 1 ■js'
ALWAYS THI S
Hj- Win it Dinger
All the shows I've longed to see
Come along. It seems to me.
At a time when I must be
Under quarantine.
Big course dinners, what is more
; Dances, bridge parties, galore "
| I have missed since on the door
"Measles" has been seen.
MANAGING THE CITY
The Ups and Downs of Des Moines
By Frederic J. Haskin
DES MOINES, lowa, Feb. 3. —
This city has recently been wit
nessing a demonstration of
some of the imperfections of commis
sion government. The commissioners
have been squabbling and bickering
among themselves, opposing each
other's projects, getting their person
al ambitions between the spokes of the
Wheels of government..
The story of Des Moines for the last
eight years is the story of the rise,
and to some extent of the fall, of
civic righteousness. It shows most
clearly how commission government
will work —and how it may stop work
ing. Above all, it proves that unless
the average citizen keeps one eye on
his municipal interests, they are apt
to get away from him.
Undoubtedly, one of the chief rea
sons for the success of commission
government is that the campaign for
the reform attracts public attention
jto public business. How to keep that
| public attention awake is a problem |
j that nlany of the reform cities will
;liave to face in the future. Des
; Moines, which adopted commission
government in 1907, may be said to
I have faced it already, and therein
j lies the importance of her story.
Before the change, conditions in
this city were picturesquely bad. Ward
i politics, which are the pettiest polities
{on earth, had the city by the neck.
iThe present commission occasionally
| quarrels, but in those good old days
! council meetings used occasionally I
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
i —— —>
ASPHAI/r AND ICE PLANTS
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Harrisburg. Pa.. Feb. 3, 1916.
The annual report of Highway Com
missioner Lynch upon the operation of
!the municipal asphalt repair plant is t
Iboth interesting and gratifying. It
' shows that the city not only obtained j
the highest efficiency in service from |
the plant but that it acquired a con
siderable revenue. To be exact the ;
; cost of operation of the plant for the j
! year covered by the report was $8,500 j
j while the revenues amounted to $12,-,
694.15, the difference being the profit;
f of the operation.
j One could hardly ask for better re- j
I suits than that but as a matter of fact
Commissioner Lynch's report Indicates
vastly better results. That is, he
shows that notwithstanding a profit
accruing to the city from all the
operations of the plant he shows- that
the estimate of expenses on each Job
was less than that previously charged I
for similar work by the private con
tractor who previously performed this
service for the city.
As most of my friends know, my
hobby is a municipal ice plant. For
that reason the report of Commission
er Lynch has a special interest to me
because it suggests that if the munici
pal asphalt repair plant has achieved
so much why not take advantages of
I the possibilities of a municipal ice
1 plant. An hundred-ton Ice plant
| would be able to deliver ice to con
sumers at the cost of five cents for
a 25-pound chunk and operated to
full capacity for a year would yield a
net profit of $90,000.
This is not conjecture. During my
campaign for city commissioner last
September I gave an itemized estimate
of the cost of the plant, the expenses
of maintenance and the revenues. It
provided better wages for labor than
the trust pays and guaranteed 66 per
cent, more ice to consumers for a
given sum. Yet it made certain the
earning of $90,000 for the city, thus
relieving the taxpayers of that amount
of taxes of securing that much addi
tional improvement.
I congratulate Commissioner I-ynch
upon the success of his enterprise and
invite him to a more careful consider
ation of the advantage of a municipal
ice plant. It would avert a charity ice
fund at least.
Very truly yours.
I j, EDUAK KODENHAVEK.
to end in fist fights. Graft was openly
charged and its existence commonly
believed. A mayor upon leaving office
boasted of the money he had received
from contractors. The quality of the
city officials is indicated by the fact
that one retiring mayor went to work
as a barkeeper, while another one
drove a dirt wagon shortly after his
term expired.
The citizens finally awoke to the
fact that they were not getting any
thing for their taxes, and a commis
sion government was instituted. There
was an instantaneous change from
black to white. The new commission
was on the Job early and late. Big
city improvements were launched and
completed. Party and ward politics
were eliminated by the nonpartisan
ballot. The city administration in
every respect was almost incredibly
good.
The people of Des Moines were as
pleased with their commission govern
i ment as a boy with a new sled. They
liked to try it and see It work. A man
who had been trying in vain to get an
abandoned telephone pole removed
from his parking, called up the com
mission and had the pleasure of see
ing the pole hauled away the same
day. Little things such as this, and
big things such as paving and play
grounds. gave the people complete
faith in their commission. They con
cluded that they could forget all about!
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THE STATE FROM m TO DW~|
Is a man merely "something to be
endured ?" Is it right that one's wife
should deride one's musical ambi
tions, take keen delight In one's fail-
I ure to put through a concert with
j financial success, even to throw a hair
brush and a live-pound book at one?
Certainly not! But when the wife
puts senna in the husband's food "to
make him sit up and take notice,"
then divorce proceedings are the next
I step, In the opinion of Mr. Snedecker,
| of Reading.
[ "Tony, I want you to kill Tony Col
latta, and I will give you $200," is
I the statement Augustine Vitale Is said
to have made to Rocco Tassone, of
[ West Chester. This cold-blooded
i commerce in lives was revealed in the
I court proceedings which followed the
killing of Collatta at the alleged insti
| gatlon of Vitale, a competing fruit
| merchant.
Meat in 1905 was worth twelve cents
| a pound. Groff Brothers In Elizabeth
town own a meat market. In 1905
a stranger entered the store and no
body came to wait on him. So he
picked up a piece of beefsteak and
left. Yesterday he came into the
same store, looking prosperous, and
paid the proprietor a quarter. Meat
having been twelve cents a pound, and
the amount which he had taken hav
ing been two pounds, the prosperous
gentleman evidently paid one cent
interest. Query—Did he rob himself?
What is a "character dance." One
of those things "was enjoyed" at South
Fork the other evening, and we would
certainly like to know its history.
The Bertillon system of identifica
tion is unnecessary so long as a crim
inal has bow legs, according to a con
i stable up in Lycoming county. You
: can't make a mistake when that pos
sibility of discovery exists.
"Gung he fat toy," says the Johns
town Tribune, "means Happy New
Year." The first day of the Chinese
I New Year was celebrated day before
! yesterday, so if you step into a Chinese
laundry within the next few days, be
sure to smile and repeat the above
phrase. ,
©mttttg (Eljat
Men connected with the transport
tation interests of the city and active
in its highway affairs suy that thev
fear February weather more than that
of any other month in the year. Tho
weather of the second month, they say,
1b apt to be more variable than in any
other month, even more so than in
March, which is the month against
which medical men warn patients sub
ject to depression when the weather
turns bad. One who has been
connected with transportation affairs
all his life said to-day after having
read the accounts or variation in tem
perature recorded bv a resident of
Mount Joy in 18«0 that he knew of
some almost similar antics of the mer
cury in the last twenty years and re
marked that most of the big snow
storms hod come along in February,
making all kinds of trouble and caus
ing companies to spend money and
their passengers to be inconvenienced
The same view was taken by a city
official, who stated that in all his
service the most trouble experienced
was in the second month, when one
could have work all planned out and
have to postpone it within twenty-four
hours because half a foot of snow had
fallen without warning. One builder
said recently when asked when he was
going to start construction work on
some houses that he intended to wait
for March. "I started to dig cellars in
February several times and had to quit
work and lose money because of snows
and freak weather. I watt for the
windy month now."
William Connor, who was hurt, in the
Pennsylvania Railroad wreck near
Johnstown, is a former legislator and
is now resistor of wills of Allegheny
county, lie was on his way to Harris
burg to consult with State oliicials
when lie was hurt.
The Harrisburg Public Library's new
school libraries, which were placed in
live of the buildings of the city, have
proved so successful that there is con
siderable need for additional books.
The library has sent all it can spare
from ils own shelves to the school
branches and the demand is growing
faster than the resources of the library.
The school libraries were out of the
experimental stage a day after they
were established in this city and the
books have been taken out as soon as
returned.
There are a number of railroad vet
erans in Harrisburg who can tell many
interesting facts about the early his
tory of the Pennsylvania Railroad, but.
if you want correct dates and further
information, consult with William
Bender Wilson, a former Harrisburger,
now a resident of Philadelphia, and
on the honor roll of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. Colonel Wilson is the his
torian of the Pennsylvania system be
tween Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
He not only has facts and figures In
his possession, but a collection of rare
and valuable photographs taken years
ago. He can give you the names of
every official in the employ of the
Pennsylvania Railroad from its incep
tion. This historian has compiled a
history that is of much interest to
Harrishurgcrs, especially those who
worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad
in its early days. Evory month there
is a meeting of retired veterans at.
Philadelphia. Colonel Wilson is on
hand and gives interesting talks. Last
Friday he presented to a Harrisburg
veteran two pictures, showing the first;
and second station buildings in Har
risburg. These pictures were made
from prints that appeared many years
ago.
* * *
Members of the State Board of
Public Grounds and Buildings will de
termine next week where to place the
paintings brought to the Capitol from
the State building at the Panama-
Pacific Exposition at San Francisco.
These paintings, which were by a
noted Pittsburgh artist, were removed
from the walls of the building on the
shores of the Golden Gate in excellent
condition and are now stored at the
Capitol. Superintendent of the Capitol
s. B. Rambo will make an inspection
of the canvases and determine their
location. They will be placed this sum
mer when some of the Oakley paint
ings may also be here.
* • *
Copies of Colorado newspapers
which have been received here lately
give some amusing incidents connected
with the going dry of the mountain
commonwealth. It would seem that
some of the liquor dealers got ready
for the change and are now selling
"soft" drinks of all kinds, making
specialties of mineral water and grape
juice. One man advertises in two
column form "Temperance Bar Room."
while another says that he sells "Fizz
ing. sizzing, LIKABLE drinks." An
other announces that "Everything is
dry. including the climate." but that
i lie has some tine thirst quenchers.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"
—Dr. Charles Roland, the new
health officer of Reading, Is well
known here. He is a University of
Pennsylvania graduate.
—Dr. William Frear, chemist of
State College, says that this State's
soils do not need so much potash
after all.
—C. Elmer Bown. the expert en
gaged by Pittsburgh council in the trol
ley investigation, is a frequent visitor
to this city. He is an attorney and a
specialist on municipal laws.
—George W. Creigliton has been re
elected a trustee of the Altoona Hos
pital Corporation.
—Mayor Armstrong, of Pittsburg!',
was given a clock by city attaches on'
his birthday.
| DO YOU KNOW ~~
That TTarrisburg shoes are sold in
New Fnglaiul, the center of shoe
manufacturing?
HISTORIC HABRISBUKG
Harrishurg's first public library was
formed soon after the town was laid
out.
" V
What Is Economy?
Secretary of Commerce Red
fleld asks the above question and
then answers it thus:
"ECONOMY is spending
money wisely. It means spend
ing much when much Is needed,
spending little when little is
needed, none when none is need
ed.
"ECONOMY and frugality are
not the same things. Frugality
at time* is really waste."
And the essence of tru« econ
omy Is knowledge.
The information as given from
day to day In the advertising in
j a live newspaper like the Tele
graph is a guide to true economy.