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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 14.
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Only Christ can influence the world;
\tnit all that the world sees of Christ is
\vihat it tees of Him in the life of His
—HENBT DRU&IMOND.
AN dNFALMBIiE SIGN
fTTTITH the ice man slapping the
'iVV coal nlan gleefully on the back
and both in high good humor,
with the wintry winds howling about
the chimney, with perspiring house
keepers melting out frozen plumbing
and the thermometer flirting with
«ero, we take our trusty typewriter in
Jiand to compose an editorial on
Spring. Do we hear you laugh
sardonically? We do. Very well
then, laugh, but we know whereof
we speak. We place no faith in the j
Groundhog. We hold no brief for the
Ooosebone Prophet, and the Weather
man declines to prognosticate. Never
theless, we know that under the snow
the tulips and the iris are sprouting,
that the blossoms of the pussywillows
and the goldenbell are nearing the
bursting point, that the sap is stirring
In the grapevines and that Spring is
just around the corner. There is no j
doubt of this, despite the fact tliatj
Dr. Fager has not yet found the first!
heptica in Wildwood Park or that j
Prof. J. Howard Wert lias not yet dis- j
covered an onion of edible size in his !
famous kitchen garden. There is, I
nevertheless, in the air an infallible j
sign of approaching warm weather,
even though the bluebirds and the
rpbins may not yet have gotten the
news. It is this —next week the base
ball teams are going South for Spring
training.
OUR SMOKE NUISANCE
TIME was when the great transpor
tation systems and the public
utilities generally didn't care a
rap what the public thought about
this, that or the other thing affecting
their business. Now things are dif
ferent. These important instrumen
talities find it necessary to take the
people into their confidence and mani
fest a little more bf the human ele
ment in the transaction of their af
fairs.
And this changed attitude is having
e good effect upon the public, which is
now showing a disposition to sympa
thize to some extent with the prob
lems and difficulties of the railroads
and other public utilities.
For instance, the publicity depart
ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad
system has just issued an interesting
pamphlet on the smoke nuisance and
the alleged responsibility of the rail
roads therefor. This pamphlet is is
sued in the interest of the truth about
the smoke nuisance, it starts out 1
with the statement that the strongest j
argument advanced in favor of the
electrification of all railway terminals!
in Chicago was that it would do much j
to abolish the smoke difficulty, a
Commission of experts, composed'
largely of representatives of the city j
of Chicago, has made a four-year study 1
of the whole subject of electrification
and its report has just been made
public.
Commenting upon this report aj
scientific magazine declares that two
things are distinctly proven. First, j
that the locomotives entering the city j
©f Chicago, remaining there and re-!
turning from thence on their destined i
journeys have little to do with the
problem; that if these were en
tirely eliminated the air would be no
clearer, or, at least, the difference
■would not be visible to the naked eye.
3n the second place, it is pointed out!
that the idea of electrifying the rail-!
way terminals in Chicago is little short
of an absurdity, on the score of cost,
which is declared to be prohibitive.
Jt is held that the elimination of the
locomotives and the smoke from them
will result in a scarcely perceptible
diminution of the evil, while the bur
den of debt would be insupportable.
Resting upon these conclusions the
point is emphasized that If the people
of Chicago are determined to abolish
smoke they must look elsewhere for
the remedy. Then follows an assem
bling of the real culprits—high-pres
sure steam and slationary plants
whence comes almost 48 per cent, of
(lie smoke; low-pressure steam and
other heating plants, with nearly 20
Per cent, of the trouble; furnaces for
metallurgical manufacturing and
other processes with nearly 18 per
rent, of the smoke. This leaves about
13 cent, el all the trouble to
MONDAY EVENING,
I be dlv.-id between the steam locomo
'tives and the steam vessels.
I With these facts before us it will
naturally be concluded that the rail
roads ajid their locomotives in Harris-
I burg may not be our real trouble here.
For years it has been held th»t the
railway locomotives were responsible
| for much of our annoyance In this re
jspect, but the Chicago investigation
may suggest that other sources are
more responsible for.the difficulty than
the railroad systems.
Inasmuch as William M. F. Gloss,
dean of the College of Engineering In
the University of Illinois, was chief en
gineer of the expert staff which con
ducted the investigation, It must be as
sumed that the exhaustive report is
the result of a thorough probing of
the whole matter, all of which makes
us wonder whether the abolition of
the smoke nuisance in Harrisburg is
las near at hand as we once hoped
I through the electrification of the rail-
I road lines.
WILSON'S VIEW OF WEBSTER
WRITING recently of the political
decline of Daniel Webster,
President Wilson said:
Sir. Webster had lost his hold
upon his own people. They had
deemed his advocacy of the com
promise a base and cowardly re
treat from the high place of doc
trine and of statesmanship he had
held so gallantly, etc.
Doesn't it occur to Mr. Wilson that
there are some millions of American
citizens who in 1912 were "his own
people" but upon whom he has now
lost his hold because of retreat from
the high place of doctrine and states
manship enunciated in the Baltimore
platform? Has he no recollection of
his pledge to preserve the merit sys
tem in the civil service, his promise of
security to American citizens wherever
they have a right to be, his pledge of
economy, his free canal pledge, his
presidential primary pledge, and,
above all, his single-term pledge?
How can he draw the picture of a dis
appointed Webster without reading
between the lines the story of his own
downfall.
MAKING LAW PIyAIN
MORE power to the State's Legis
lative Reference Bureau hi its
•work of codifying the statutes
of Pennsylvania so that an ordinary
man can understand where he may go
and what, he may expect others to do.
It is good news that the Bureau is
about completing its codification of
the laws relative to the powers and
duties of township officers and that it
is progressing in its study of the acts
relative to juvenile courts, public
charges and other subjects which are
much before the people.
The Legislature made a good start
in the Tener administration by enact
ing the monumental school code and
by codifying the laws relative to
bituminous mining and the control of
public service companies, while the
adoption of the borough code in the
first, year of the Brumbaugh adminis
tration was an Immense service to
hundreds of thousands of people who
dwell in the smaller municipalities.
Now let other codes come along and
tlie law be simplified, made plain so j
that all may understand it and it will i
not be necessary to hire a lawyer)
when one wants to build a house or
go fishing.
For years and years the general as
sembly of Pennsylvania has been pil
ing statutes on statutes until the sys
tem of laws in this Commonwealth
has become a wonderful thing. Similar
and even contradictory laws have been
enacted, while others nullified by new
acts or the courts remain, on the
books to confuse.
The codification of laws is good
business. The plain people of Penn
sylvania, and there are many of them. |
want the conflicting and dead statutes
wiped off the books and plainly word
ed laws, conceived in equity, to be i
their guide.
GIVE US A DEFINITE PLAN
IN the last decade the National
Guard of Pennsylvania, admittedly
in the very front rank of American i
militia, has undergone two "reorgan- \
izations" to make it conform to the
decrees of the War Department. Its
officers and men have worked hard
to fit themselves for the service and
have received the untiring attention
of regular army officers detailed to
inspect and instruct; the national
treasury lias furnished many thou- j
sands of dollars for equipment and!
the Legislature of the Keystone State
has voted millions for maintenance of
the Guard and the construction of
armories. The people of the Com
monwealth have given substantial en
couragement to the Guardsmen and
local pride in organizations runs high
in every community in which there
is a company, a troop or a battery.
When the Spanish War ended and
the Pennsylvania soldiers came home,
many of them went into the militia
again and the Guard stood forth sea
soned by service and splendidly
equipped. Then the War Depart
ment promulgated a new decree and
changes were made in organizations
to make the Guard conform. These
were no sooner completed than an
other scheme was evolved and it is
now in progress of being worked out.
Two old infantry regiments, with fine
! records and a devoted personnel, have
been torn to shreds and there may
|be more. There is a demand for ma
'chine gun companies, for auxiliary
troops, for more artillery* but the
equipment is not even in sight.
It is to be hoped that when the
congressional doctors and the War De
partment experts, with the assistance
of a certain eminent college professor
in his odd moments, get a plan worked
out this year that it will be con
structed to endure so that the Na
tional Guard of Pennsylvania may be
expanded and encouraged, its men
trained to uphold the traditions of
i their organization and made to feel
I that t hey are as permanent a part
of Ihe national defense as the regular
army or navy and not the practice
material of highly placed men who
| are not happy unless they are turn-
J ing something upside down,
i Give .us a definite plan for the
' militiamen. They have the people
I beliind them.
The Days of Real Sport By BRIGGS
VALENTINE ' ' /$L
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By tht Ex-Committeeman
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Reports of strife among the Demo
crats of Pennsylvania and ill feeling
against the men who are now bossing
the party machine, which have ap
peared in this column from time to
time, are amply borne out bv a poll
made of the State by the Philadelphia
Public Ledger. The Ledger devotes
two columns this morning to a review
of conditions among the Democrats
of the State, showing that while they
are all for Wilson, they are fighting
among themselves.
This is the way the Philadelphia i
newspaper summarizes it: "The pub
lic Ledger's poll of eastern Pennsylva
nia shows that the Democrats \ikr.
have old-time contests in nearly all
the. Congress districts for delegates to
the National Convention. Of course.
th» delegation will be solidly for the
renomination of Woodrow Wilson for
President. There is some Bryan sen
timent, which would cut much more
of a figure were not the President a
candidate. In the Schuylkill district,
where Robert E. Lee was defeated for
Congress, his friends attributing his
loss to the inaction of the President,
the sentiment is for Chainp Clark lor
President. The candidacy of A. Mit
chell Palmer for National Committee
mart is disputed in many counties, and
his leadership will be put to a test in
his home district, Carbon, Monroe and
Northampton counties. The contest
at the primaries will be for the con
trol of the party machinery."
—Chances of avoiding a State-wide
tight for the Republican nomination
for auditor general at the May pri
mary are growing slim according to
the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Phila
delphia Record and North American
take the same view. In Philadelphia
yesterday it was stated that a declar
ation of war by Senator Penrose
against the Ambler candidacy was ex
pected any time and the Senator will
follow it up by touring the State. In
Pittsburgh newspapers declare that
the fight has been going 011 secretly
against Penrose for a long time and
that unless he wakes up he will have
a still harder battle.
—While Senator Snyder has been
touring the State Speaker Ambler has
been sending oyt letters in support of
his candidacy. The Schuylkill sena
tor was in Philadelphia on Saturday,
and it is said urged Senator Penrose
to declare for him as did many of the
Penrose men in their interviews with
the senator. It is expected that Gov
ernor Brumbaugh will declare for
Ambler.
—Senator Snyder 011 Saturday took
this shot at Attorney General Brown,
who has been one of the original Am
bler men: "I have no intention of
stepping to one side for Mr. Ambler
or any other candidate. If the roads
of Pennsylvania are to be blocked
against my candidacy, why I will have
to take a Zeppelin into the various
counties. Mr. Brown may have for
his inspection information as to poli
tical conditions not visible to the
naked eye, but 1 have visited many
counties of the State in person and
have received reports from many
county leaders and stalwart Republi
can leaders from 'all sections of the
State. I can assure the attorney gen
eral that I am fully satisfied with the
outlook as regards my prospects for
winning the nomination for auditor
general. My chief and only concern
is as to the decisiveness of the vote
by which I will win at the May pri
maries, assuming, of course, that
something of a sensational and un
foreseeable political character does
not occur between now and May."
—A dispatch from Reading says
that the brawl among the Democrats
over the senatorial nomination has en
couraged the Republicans and they
will make an effort to get a strong
candidate so that they can enter the
campaign in the Gibraltar of Democ.
racy in earnest.
—Governor Brumbaugh and Sena
tor Horace W. Schantz were the
speakers at the Lincoln Day banquet
at Bethlehem on Saturday night. The
Governor paid a great tribute to Lin
coln for his humanity. He was given
a reception by the people of Bethle->
hem and vicinity.
—Senator Penrose and Speaker Am
bler will be the orators to-night at the
meeting of Montgomery county fire
men at Norristown,
—Frank X. Moore, former legisla
tor from Bradford, is a candidate for
nomination for Iho House this year
on the Republican ticket.
Dr. J. P. Kerr, member of Pitts
burgh city council. Is being boomed
for Mayor of Pittsburgh. The nomin
ation will be made in 1917.
—Lebanon Democrats are not quite
#ure whom to nominate for the House.
/ HAHRISBURG TELEGRAPH
They are so badly divided that it
does not matter who is named.
—Ex-Representatives Earner and
Burnett, of Cumberland are said to
have their eyes on renomlnation if
they can get the Democrats to stop
lighting: among themselves long
enough to agree upon any candidates!
for anything.
| TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE 1
—"Toledo limits skirts to three
inches above the ankle." Atlantic
City papers please copy.
—Are you married? Then don't
forget that your wife still looks upon ■
herself as your sweetheart, and this i
is Valentine Day.
"So long as it is feminine gen- ;
der who niinds hugging' a delusion?"
asks Dan Carr in the Macon Times-
Democrat.
—The Paris theaters are sending
their actors to the trenches, perhaps;
on the assumption that they are more
expert than others in dodging things.
—What does the Colonel mean, go
ing away at a critical time like this?
—"Measles close Lykens Schools,"
is the sad news from the upper end
that any pupil will tell you has its
bright side.
EDITORIAL COMMENT I
Was ever a Quaker without good
lighting blood in him? There's young
| Tom Butler, beginning his twentieth
i year as representative from Pennsyl
i vania, battling as if he were a vet
eran on the floor for a navy big
enough to lick all creation. He's a
Quaker; orthodox, too. So is his son,
affectionately known in the Marine
Corps as Battling Butler.—New York
Sun.
Mr, shout*' Kind lompl».Ter
IFrom the Pittsburgh Dispatch.]
Another idea of a pretty decent thing
is to have a job like Theodore P.
Shonts, president of the Interborougli
Rapid Transit Company, of New York,
and draw SIOO,OOO a year salary, with
bonuses of $150,000 and "Christmas
presents" of $300,000.
Knough Trouble
TFrom the Grand Rapids Press.]
As to freeing the Philippines we al
ways feel like lessening the white
man's burden in the winter when there
Is so much to do in the way of cleaning
the walk and shaking the furnace.
O Yc*. We're Still Here
[From the Chicago I-lerald.]
Every now and then, as in the case
of Great Britain's action on the latest
blockade proposal, there comes a be
lated recognition of the fact that the
neutral nations are still on the map.
HOW TO LIVE LONGER
Alß—Rule B —Breathe deeply, slowly,
regularly, through the nose. Do not
breathe through the mouth. If we do
not occasionally breathe deeply, part of
our lungs may become useless.
About one-fifth of the air is "oxygen."
This is needed by the blood to keep us
healthy. When you breathe deeply, you
take in more air each time, and, there
fore, more "oxygen."
Do not force yourself to breathe rap-
Idly. This is harmful. Breathe slowly.
CROWNING INSULT
"What on earth are you bellowing
so hard for, Freddie?"
"Daddy whipped me."
"Well, what If he did? You've been
whipped before, and the occasion
doesn't call for such heartrending
grief."-
"But he w-w-w-whipped me with
I a s-s-switch cut from the Christmas
I t-t-tree." —Tid Bits.
I OUR DAILY LAUGH 1
j TUFF LUCK.
fe sfc you found all
your friends well.
iraT He: Yes —even
jrajjjuiuj. k my rich relations.
DIFFERENT. ________
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tongue bela-\ v
But she will gos- ImL J
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MANAGING THE CITY
The Home of the New Idea
By Frederic J. Haskin
DAYTON, Ohio, might be called
the most original city in Amer
ica without starting an argu
ment. Bright ideas in city adminis
tration seem to sprout and grow in
Dayton like crocuses in April. It was
Dayton, for example, that originated
the using of vacant lots for vegetable
gardens; organized the housekeepers
of the city into an inspection force to
see that the city is kept clean; estab
lished a free legal advice bureau, free
medical service for babies, and a mu
nicipal employment bureau to take
care of vagrants.
These are only a few of the inno
vations that are making Dayton fa
mous. The force back of its original
and vigorous policy is a city-manager
plan of government. The commission
holds occasional meetings to decide
upon the general policies of the city
administration, and the manager car
ries them out. The commissioners get
only $1,200 a year, and the mayor
$2,000, but the city manager, Henry
N. Waite, gets $12,500. He was a
railroad builder before he became a
city manager, and he conducts the
business of Dayton with the same dis
patch and efficiency that made him
successful in his former profession.
Though Dayton is always ready to
spend money upon municipal improve
ments, there is probably not a city in
the United States where funds are
used with more care. Expenditures
for each year are outlined in accord
ance with estimated revenues, and
the town pays cash as it goes, so
that it cannot run into debt. Pay
rolls are not honored unless accom
panied by a certificate showing the
number of hours that each employe
worked.
Each department and the newspa
pers are given a monthly statement
showing expenditures and balance for
each appropriation in the budget. All
of this has more than doubled the
work of the accounting department;
yet it has three fewer employes than
formerly. They are not overworked
either. Office hours have been re
duced from ten to eight without any
reduction in pay. This careful and
systematic handling of funds is the
principal reason why the taxpayer of
Dayton gets so much service for his
In Dayton, free legal advice is given
to any person who cannot afford to
hire a lawyer. This bureau has han
dled hundreds of cases, most of which
were claims for wages against un
scrupulous employers and difficulties
resulting from "loan shark" extor
tion It also settled cases that mignt
otherwise wind up in the police court
—mostly fights about the payment of
rent, and family quarrels. The total
expense of this bureau to the city is
Oll There is no joy-riding after work
hours in automobiles owned by the
THE STATE FROM DAT TODW |
\fter Harry Lauder had entertain
ed' a delightful Harrisburg audience
one day last week, lie journeyed in
his private car to AUentown. He is
an enthusiastic member of the Inter
national Rotary Club, as has been fre
quently said. But It was the "Rosary
Club, according to a newspaper yes
terday, that entertained at luncheon
for the merry Scotchman. Wonder if
they had a string of pearls for a cen
terpiece?
The Berks Historical Society held
a Lincoln anniversary banquet on
Saturday afternoon in recognition of
the fact that the famous emancipa
tor's ancestors lived in Berks. John
Lincoln, his direct ancestor, is said
to have left that district over 159
years ago for Virginia and from there
to Kentucky, where the President
was born.
State police are hunting for four
unidentified men who passed through
Kulpmont Saturday night in an auto
mobile and ran over. George Elgavis,
a Mt. Carmel miner, who will probably
die. Discussion is rife as to whether
the four men might be the same who
escaped from the Lancaster county
prison the same morning by cutting
their way through the roof and drop
ping 25 feet to the ground.
Llewellyn Jones, a milkman, or
Ardmore, received a shock yesterday
when his wagon was overturned and
his nrm sprained in the melee. To
axld to the excitement, a young woman
driving a racing car, smashed into the
back of his wreck and then pro
ceeded to "cuss" him in a manner that
i left no room for doubt as to the ex
cellence of her repertoire. The milk
iaian tried to come back with some-
FEBRUARY 14, 1916.
city of Dayton. Under the commis
sion manager a municipal garage has
been established. All cars are num
bered and labeled and kept in the
garage. When an employe needs an
automobile he signs a statement,
showing how long he had it and what
he used it for. All repairs and ad
justments of the city's motor vehicles
are made at the garage, at a saving of
several thousand dollars a year.
Perhaps the crowning success of
Dayton's new government is the great
ly reduced death rate among its
babies. This is attributed to the fact
that now the city has,, for the first
time, a health otficer who gives all
of his time to the service. He has
repeatedly discovered threatened epi
demics and stopped them. Under the
supervision of the health department
three baby clinics and four certified
milk stations have been established.
Mothers have made good use of these.
Free clinics for the treatment of dis
orders of eye, ear, throat and nose,
and a free tuberculosis clinic have
also been established.
Observing that a large number of
people in Dayton could not afford to
buy fresh vegetables and that much
vacant property in the city was not
working, the government undertook
to establish community truck gardens.
In co-operation with the Dayton Play
ground and Gardens Associations, six
community gardens were created, on
which seventy-five families are now
raising vegetables. It also plowed and
prepared twenty-two gardens for the
cultivation of vegetables by hundreds
of children, under the direction of an
expert, gardener, and turned 339 more
vacant lots into gardens from which
as many families are now providing
themselves with vegetables.
The division of parks, which has
charge of this garden work, also
cleaned up, graded and prepared for
the use of children a dozen additional
playgrounds, so that Dayton, a town
of J 50,000 people, now has twenty
eight playgrounds, whereas the city
of Washington, with a population of
350,000, has only thirteen.
When Dayton children start out for
a frolic on Sunday afternoon, the
chances are that they will go to
Island Park, in the Miami river, which
flows through the town. For years
and years the principal item of news
In the Monday newspapers 'was a
chronicle of the drownings at Island
Park. The division of recreation of
the new city government has made
Island Parle as safe as a river front
can be. A life-saving station has been
established, with a fast gasoline
launch, thoroughly equipped for sav
ing life, and manned by a trained life
saver. Live-saving stations and life
saving equipment have also been pro
vided along the river bank, and a life
saving <srew has been organized in the
fire department.
thing appropriate, but surprise held
him speechless.
PENNSYLVANIA COAL
[From the New York Journal <fr Com
merce.]
The annual production of coal in
Pennsylvania increased from 175,000,-
000 net tons in 1903 to 260,000,000 in
l!tl3, of which latter total 90,000,000
tons were anthracite and 170,000,000
bituminous. The value of that tonnage
was about 1350,000,000 at the mines
and about J700.000.000 at points of dis
tribution, a sum greater than the value
of all the copper, gold and silver pro
duced annually in the United States.
The number of mines in operation was
2.200, with an army of employes of fully
400,000, directly supporting a million
and a half of the population of the
State. The total production in 1914 de
creased by 26,000,000 tons, almost
wholly in bituminous, and the figures
are not yet available for 1915.
A Talk to Retailers
Manufacturers from time to
time advertise their brands and
their products in this newspa
per.
Each advertisement means
more business for the stores
that carry these goods.
It means new customers, and
I enlarged sales.
That business will go to the re
tailors who cO-operate with the
newspaper advertising by show
ing the goods.
The customers interested by
the newspaper advertising will
see the goods in the windows and
will accept them as the mer
chant's Invitation come In.
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jl Stoning (Efrat
Numerous transfers of real estate,
especially in the business section of
Harrlsburg, have caused many an in
teresting story of days gone by and of
business reminiscences to be told
about the city. The retirement of
Harris Cohen, the removal of the
Goldsmith store, the sale of the Cook
property and the transfer of Col
lege Block have all brought in their
train much of Interest. Mr. Cohen
was known as the authority on hoop
skirts years and years ago and made
thousands by that line of feminine ap
parel. Weaver & Ilubley for a ttme
had the monopoly of fire crackers
while Joe Goldsmith furnished raanv
a Harrisburg home.
• • • ■
Talking about the sale of Ooltcg#
Block to William B. Schleisner the
other day who of the old-timers does
not remember Angelo Posseponti, bet
ter known as "The Peanut King." who
figured In the Fourth of July exploits
and in many of the checker games,
and who is now spending his declining
years In Italy. Who can forget the
beautiful streams that used to flow
down Third street In front of tlio
cigar factory of Ex-Mayor John C.
Herman, who was the first occupant
of the corner storeroom now occupied
by the United Cigar Company? it
used to be a mighty place lor the
youngsters to sail boats on. That cor
ner store was the meeting place for
many of the leading business and
political leaders of the community,
I including the late Senator Quay, Cap
tain William B. Hart, Major Lane S.
Hart, Col. W. AV. Jennings and others
prominent in State activities who
made this their rendezvous. It. later
became the center of the activities of
the younger generation, when Edwin
S. Herman, present head of the Arm,
succeeded his father. In this store
room many .important local move
ments were started, and it was like
wise the natural magnet for many of
the practical jokers of the com
munity.
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The "Sugar Bowl" was another
famous old landmark that will long
:be remembered. It was-the predeces
| sor of the well-known Weaver and
| Hubley store and was conducted at
the time by Samuel M. Saytord, who
subsequently became a famous col
lege evangelist. Ed. S. Weaver, the
new owner of the business is a rela
tive of the late John S. Weaver.
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In JBS9 Post 58, of the Grand Army
|of the Republic, whose present ad
jutant is Noah AValmer, took over the
, third floor of the original building and
[ established their headquarters there.
, Housed in this ancient structure there
are still a. great many interesting
relics of battlegrounds and war days,
one of the most important of which
is the old Camp Curtin pump, which
in the olden days stood at the entrance
to the camp, which was situated near
Sixth and Maclay streets, on the pres
ent site of the Post Office substation.
The rooms are no*' used not only for
the regular meetings of the post, but
are also a general headquarters for
all the war veterans located in this
section of Pennsylvania, and many
| are the thrilling tales retold and many
| the battles fought all over again—
| within these walls. Among the most
j treasured relics that are pointed to
! with pride are the bits of timber
I containing bullets and bits of shells
that have been imbedded therein for
1 half a century and more, and which
i were picked up from various battle
i fields.
And then there was the old Board
of Trade building in Strawberry street,
included in the Schleisner purchase.
It was for a number of years what
might have been termed the "Forum"
of Harrlsburg. It was the place for
! meetings which were hardly of the
( kind to warrant use of the main
| courtroom or the Grand opera house
jor one of the halls. Various ambi
tious projects were launched at the
Board of Trade and occasionally po
litical crusades or indignation meet
ings would hold forth, but the great
events of the old building's history
were the monthly meetings of the
board. Occasionally there were spir
ited discussions and at times oratory.
The late Henry J. Beatty and Major
| J. C. Smith used to delight in speeches
j and verbal tilts were not unknown.
| The Board building was also known
for a while is the Stock Exchange
jof the city. It had a big blackboard
whereon the names of local securities
I were lettered with the par, but efforts
| to keep track of sales were not very
successful. Members would report a
sale weeks after it had occurred and
often times attempts to get tigures
| were met with the request that the
[ transactions should not be reported.
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But the richest of all the memories
of the old Board building were those
|of political meetings. And chief of
all were the tumultous sessions of the
Democratic county committee. There,
are half a dozen newspapermen of
this city who distinctly recall be
ing bodily thrown out of these
meetings and one in which the Meyers
and Frltchey factions fought for the
mastery lasted two noisy hours and
resulted in breaking of chairs and
glass. The Democratic State commit
tee also held a couple of sessions In
the Board building when it. could not
get any other place at the time and
it was the scene of numerous cau
cuses, including a couple in which the
late Senator Quay figureJ. It was the
favorite meetingplaoe of adherents ol
factions which wanted to count noses
before going to the old Grand opera
house for conventions and more than
once men were kept in the big room
to prevent some other faction from
"assimilating" them.
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Grand Army hall on the top floor
of the College block and the Board of
Trade building could furnish many
mighty interesting stories of events in
this part of Pennsylvania.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Judge Thomas J. Baldridge, of
Blair, is keenly Interested in the Boy
Scout movement.
—Congressman Julius Kahn, of San
i Francisco, is to deliver several lectures
In this State.
| —Alba B. Johnson, Philadelphia ,
! manufacturer, will address the Engi
neers' Society nt Pittsburgh to-night,
i —The Rev. Dr. Charles E. Shelton,
prominent Scranton clergyman, has
accepted a call to Pittsburgh.
—Harry Kislnger, Fayette's first
county controller, has been able to re
port that the county is free of debt.
—IT. E. Mitchell, Johnstown sealer
of weights and measures, made 6,47 7
inspections In a year.
1 DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg's plan of financ
ing of municipal improvements
has been adopted in twenty or
more States?
HISTORIC HAIhtISBLRG
The first church services held in
Harrisburg are said to have been held
under trees near Third and Chestnut
street*