8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A S'BH'SPAPER FOR THB HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Ttltgraph IlulldlnK, Federal Square. K J. STACK POLK, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STOINMETZ, Managing Editor. a Member American Newspaper Pub- SijjS St fill 51 Eastern «ffioe. H«s- Gas Building, Chi — cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris, burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <ti!SMSrJuisik> week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. Sworn dally sverase circulation for the three months ending February 30. 1918, FT 22,785 IT The** figure K are net. All returned, tin no Id anu damaged copies deducted. MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 27. There i'« a home for weary souls By sin and sorrow driven; When tossed on life's tempestuous shoals, Where storms arise and ocean rolls. 1 And all is drear lut heaven. —WILLIAM B. TAPPAN. PARTY PEACE THE avidity with which the Re- t publican voters of the State have seized upon the report that party peace is to be re-estab lished is a clear indication of the keen [ desire of the rank and file of the party 1 for harmony. Indeed, the individual 1 voter has never seen any necessity for i a division of the Republican forces at this time. Nor is this to be re- j garded as any reflection upon the can- j didaey of Governor Brumbaugh for the Presidential nomination. There are thousands of voters who look more than favorably upon the Gov ernor's ambition to go to Chicago as the Keystone State's favorite son. Beyond question the Governor should 1 have had his way in this without a j fight, since Pennsylvania has no other i avowed candidate for the honor. It is j the futility of a contest that might easily have been avoided—and which It is earnestly hoped yet may be! avoided—that is troubling the great j arnty of Republicans who desire noth- 1 lng so much in the present national j crisis as to see the party present a j closely united front to the common enemy. Democracy, which would j be the only gainer from a split in the! Republican ranks at this time. Close friends of Governor Brum baugh, men who believe he has made 1 an ideal executive, who admire liisj linn stand for local option and take! pride in the many constructive laws j he and a Republican Legislature, act ing together, have written on the stat ute books of the State, fear that the! Governor has been placed in a false j position. These friends are of the i opinion (hat an effort is being made' to have Governor Brumbaugh pull the | political chestnuts out of the fire for j certain factionalists who would make j of the Governor's very proper ambi-! tions in the matter of the Presidency . a campaign by which they may be placed in control of the reins of the party organization in Pennsylvania. Free from this influence it is generally believed the Governor's desire to be the Pennsylvania candidate at Chicago would meet with little or no opposi-1 tion, and it is for these reasons that I Republicans of all shades of opinion i are hoping that peace may be restored on a basis of party unity, with all i concerned standing shoulder to ! shoulder for a great national victory j in November. WINDOW-GARDENS LORD BACON, in one of those won derful essays that are as ap plicable to life to-day as when they were written, says: God Almighty first planted a gar den. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures: it is the great- ! est refreshment to the spirits of man: without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks; nnd a man shall ever see that, when ages grow to civility and elegancv, men come to build stately, sooner that to garden finely; as if garden ing were the greater perfection. And in truth it is! What is a beautiful house set down in a barren field, or a mansion surrounded by ashpiles? Picture to yourself the finest house you remember seeing built. Remember how poorly it look ed in its setting of mortarboxes and sandpiles, and how beautiful it is to day, -with its lawns and its shrub bery and its trees! How every charm of architecture is accentuated or mel lowed by the planting that surrounds it with greenery in summer and lends it distinction even when boughs are bare and black in winter! What a waste it would be without its plants and its flowers!, How barren and parched it would look under a hot July sun! Anybody can see that. Well, that's the kind of thing that's wrong with your street. It needs growing things, but the trouble is, FEW people can see THAT|. And thereby lies the difference between 'the city man and the country man or the suburbanite. The city man has tried to make a house without the companionship of plants, and it has not been wholly successful. It has not. been complete. It has lacked that essential of charm and beauty which MONDAY EVENTNQ, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 27, 1916. only "growing things" can give. The country man and the suburbanite know better than that. But uo city dweller need be with out this requisite to real home life, a garden. A windowbox is always pos sible. It takes up scarcely any room and it pays for itself over and over again in many ways. Suppose every j window In Harrisburg had its box of I flowers and vines. What a trans -1 formation would result. What delight ful premenades our streets would be come in summer and how the monotony of sunbaked walls would be relieved by the graceful greenery as it is swayed and swung in the breeze. The thing is not impossible. Other j cities have their miles on miles of iwindow boxes. Why not Harrisburg? The Telegraph to-day offers a cheap and practical way in which the beautificatlon of the city can be ac | complished, but the co-operation of I every loyal Harrisburger will be i necessary to make it a success. The Telegraph has taken a large dose of its own medicine, and is de | lighted with the results. So much so j that it is going down into its pocket j to some depth in the hope that it may i help others who may take advantage 'of the unusual offer it presents. Get ; in line. Help make Harrisburg beautl- I ful. WM. PENN HIGHWAY THE gathering of public-spirited men in Harrisburg to-day—at the call of Governor Brumbaugh —to formulate plans for the establish ment of a great roadway across Penn sylvania from Pliiladelphila to Pitts burgh by way of Reading, Harrisburg and the Juniata Valley, to be known as the William Penn Highway, is an j evidence of the strong and growing i interest in good roads throughout I Pennsylvania. The movement which | culminated in the conference here is j the direct outgrowth of Governbr Brumbaugh's "See Pennsylvania First" automobile tour of the State last Oc- I tober, which in turn was made pos sible by the remarkable improvement ! of the highways of the State during • the first summer of State Highway | Commissioner Cunningham's adminis-1 tration. So that the William Penn j Highway plan may be said to have been fathered' by the businesslike and efficient methods of the State Highway Department itself. There is a bit of unwritten history concerning that tour of last October j which it is not necessary to relate j here, but which resulted in the birth of the William Penn route idea in the minds of some of those who spent that delightful week in the open amid the wonderful scenery of Pennsylva nia's lillls and vallevg. There is nothing arbitrary, however, ! in the selection of the route. Nature did that, as Allen D. Albert said re- j gat-ding the location of Harrisburg at j the intersection of stream and valleys that has made it the center of trans portation from remotest days. The Indians first knew the beauties and the easy grades of the Juniata Valley, and used them. Then came the settler who followed in the red man's foot steps. Next the early road builder took up his crude work, and after the Conestoga wagon and the stage coach came the canal—all of them following the rippling waters and the easy ele vations of the Juniata. Finally, the ' railroad paralleled the canal, and now 1 we are about to step back and com- j plete in a modern, comprehensive way ! the task the pioneer road builder of necessity left incomplete. The! route proposed Is scientifically correct, ■ historically interesting and beautiful beyond power to describe. It is des | lined to deeome the great highway be tween the East and the West, but much remains to be done to make It so. To-day's conference marks only the beginning of a work that will re quire some years, at least, to com plete. STAND nV TO ASSIST HARRISBURG'S hundreds of lov ers of water sports will await with no little eagerness the ap pointment of (he committee which is (to suggest regulations for boating and j recommendations for the ultimate treatment of the Susquehanna river t "basin." : The naming of such a body is the initial step toward placing this splen did feature of the city's out o' door , program on a permanent basis. That nearly a score of river enthusiasts, representing every branch of aquatic activity should take this initiative by • choosing George W. Reily, member j of the City Planning Commission, as | chairman to select the committee, is j more than ordinarily significant. | The wisdom of the whole move, made at the suggestion of Park Ex pert Warren H. Manning, is obvious. Certainly permanent good should re sult. The problems which were threshed out with Mr. Manning dealt with practically every phase of the "basin's" development from boat houses and bathing beaches to policing and channel blasting. Soon the municipality must plan to improve the natural advantages just beyond 'its "front steps;" soon it must regulate THE PIKES PEAK AND WILLIAM PENN OCEAN-TO-OCEAN HIGHWAY I Highway Association has completed an independent organization from the Atlantic Seaboard to Salt Lake City, Utah. The route west of Rifle is subjecl to findings and report of the committee on Western Extensions. Across Pennsylvania the road will be known as the William Penn Highway. A conference is being held here to-day to discuss ways and means of bringing this about. m the increased activities which such development will provide. Who, then, slvould be better able to help work out the solutions than the enthusiastic and experienced canoeist and motor boatman? Then, too, there are the fete day possibilities. Who are better qualified to aid in the preparation of programs. I special rules and so on to govern the regattas and carnivals than the hust ! ling representatives of the ever-grow ing army—or navy, if you will—of water sportsmen? The committee will have a big work to do. and, if it hopes to obtain real results, it has its job cut out for it. Naturally the whole city is interested. And it is safe to say that all Harris burg, in the language of the sailor, is ready and willing 'to stand by and render assistance!" THE COLONEL'S NEW BIRD COLONEL ROOSEVELT returns from Trinidad with a story even more remarkable than that of! the "River of Doubt." If it were not for the rather recent verdict of a western Jury against an editor who hinted rather broadly that the Colonel took a "wee drop" on occasion, we might suspect the ex-President —no, we didn't say next—had been doing something more than exploring asphalt lakes while on the island. It; is not every man to whom it is given, j without a single drink, of seeing aj bird that looks like a cross between Ham Lewis and a bad dream, has the habits of an owl, the voice of a dog and wears whiskers. Stories like that are not designed to boost the ex cursionist business to Trinidad, but the Colonel thoughtfully adds that the bearded bird is not carniverous. In fact that it eats nothing but nuts, so , that most of us—note we said most of us—may still, with perfect safety, spend our winters on the island. But what a fortunate thing that the Ford j Peace Party didn't touch at a Trinidad 1 port! FRANCE AND MEXICO An editorial in the April Woman's Home Companion reminds us of the real reason why France got out ofi Mexico after the Civil War—a reason that has considerable significance to day: "When the Civil War was over we found France in possession of Mexico," we read. "Our government intimated to the French government that its presence there was undesirable, and the French withdrew. Why? Be cause the righteousness of our protest made Napoleon ashamed of himself? Not at all. It was because at that mo- 1 ment we had a million trained men ■ j under arms. And having the million I men ready to fight, we did not have to fight. That victory was won without the firing of a single gun or the loss of a single drop of blood —because wo were prepared for victory." TO BE UNPLEASANT We have an unpleasant surprise in store for you, young man—you, who are in love with Her, and have made up your mind to propose to her to night. You have been deluding your self with the idea that she will ac- I cept you—to your amazement you will , find that she never had the slight est thought of doing such a thing. Oh, Igo on just the same. Face the worst! j The last train home; the weary, 1 snorting, puffing, slow, rocking, stuffy, halting, hesitating, never endir.g last i train home, concluded by a deadly ! dull walk from the station. 'Yes, I commuters, you who are now on your ! way to the theater, let your minds dwell on that! By the way, have you made a care ful examination of the outside of your house? To your amazement, if you will but do so, you will find that the paint is already chipping off and that it cannot possibly go another season , without — Are you a golfer this beautiful (?) early Spring weather? Club dues com ing soon!— From Life. ADDISON ON FRIENDSHIP But, before I invite you into my so- I ciety and friendship, I will be open and sincere with you, and must lay this down as an established truth, j That there is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price I upon every real and noble pleasure. 'lf you would gain the favor of the Deity, you must be at the pains of worshipping him; if the friendship of good men, you must study to oblige them; if you would be honored by your country, you must take care to , serve it. In short, if you would lie [ eminent in war or peace, you must be '■ come master of all the qualifications ; that can make you so.—Addison. AGRIMOTORS IN ITALY For some years the Italian govern ment has been forced to consider some means of utilizing many deserted farms —a condition which was forni j erly due chiefly to the immigration of ; farm population. The entrance of the country into the war still further les- I sens the number of men to do farm : work, so the government, has had to ! come to the assistance of the women. ! They are supplying communal agri | motors or power farm machinery to do the heavier work of cultivation, so that the food supply of the country may not be diminished. Most of the agrimotors or farm tractors are im ported from America. They are hand led under the direction of the Italian Department of Agriculture which di rects their use, either upon small In dividual farms for the owners, or (upon larger tracts controlled by the I government. Grocer—The honeymoon is over In the house on the hill. Assistant—How do you know? Grocer—The bride has just phoned In an order for onions.—Birmingham I Age Herald. CK 'PE.KKCUTAUTTA By the Committeeman I ■ ■ Whether there will be a compro- Imise in the differences over leadership | of the Republican party in Pennsyl vania or whether there will be a fight |to the finish will he decided in Phila delphia within the next forty-eight 'hours. The Democrats of the State, who have troubles of their own, are I showing signs of getting together and talk of a harmony deal on Democra tic delegates and alternates at large and even on National Committeeman Palmer Is in the air. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh news papers again intimate that mutual friends are trying to prevent an out and out fight between the State ad ministration forces and the adherents of Senator Boies Penrose. While negotiations on both sides are 1 busy setting up candidates for State committeemen it is said that at the proper time complete lists of cantJi-! dates for delegate will be brought out. j The Governor spent yesterday at I the seashore and refused to add to his statement of Saturday that he stood ! on the letter to National Committee- \ man Wasson, while Senator Penrose! remained silent. Samuel I. Spyker, of j Huntingdon, associate counsel of the State Compensation Board, savagely; denounced talk of the Governor be ing party to a deal. —The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day! sums up the situation this way: "A | tension that is keeping the rank and! tile of both factions In the Republican I party in Pennsylvania in a State of! anxiety and uncertainty continued to i be manifested yesterday both in this» city and throughout the Common-1 wealth. Reports from interior coun-; ties indicated that both the support ers of Senator Penrose and those who are disposed to back up Governor Brumbaugh and his allies in a con-, test for control of the party organiza- j tion and the delegation to the Repub-i llcan National Convention are eagerly' waiting developments and all are at i sea as to the probable outcome of the | situation. Senator Penrose, who re- i mained in town yesterday, met a num ber of friends from up the State, an swered a big batch of correspondence i and indicated his intention to remain ! here at least another day before re-' turning to Washington. There is still; much speculation as to the probable ! attitude of State Insurance Commis ioner Charles Johnson, of Montgomery county in the event of a fight between the Penrose cohorts and the Brum baugh-Vare adherents. ____ —The ledger takes this view which attracted much attention to-day: "An; impression prevails in many sections i of the State that Senator Penrose; would be willing to help the Cover- i nor to win at least a complimentary j vote in the national convention in ex-, change for an abandonment of the Ambler candidacy and of a fight for instructed Brumbaugh delegates. The difficulty about that, from the Pen rose point of view, is that County Chairman Spyker, of Huntingdon, on behalf of the Governor, announced that there would be no such thing as a "deal." —Jonathan R. Davis, former sheriff of Luzerne county and later county I chairman, may be the Republican nominee for Congress in that district. A dispatch from Wilkes-Barre says: "The chances are that Congressman John J. Casey will be unopposed for the Democratic nomination. There has been considerable effort on the |part of the anti-Garmanites to bring out a candidate against Casey, but after scouring the whole field no one has been found who is willing to go in and give Casey a fight. James Judge, of Plains, a Palmer Democrat, has been flirting with the Palmer forces and for a time it was believed that he ! would enter into the scrap. In recent weeks, however, he has displayed no desire to go out and give Casey a \ battle." —A review of Blair county poli tics widely published yesterday says: ■ "The political atmosphere is becoming i clarified in this Congressional district by Republicans appearing a unit in I favor of harmony at this time within the party and declaring that such a 'condition can best be had in sending j uninstructed delegates to the national I convention. In the country section of the county comes the report that ! farmers there want to join with other voters in protesting against a factional i fight. At this city it is also under stood that the members of the present Republican administration are strong in their views in being with rank and tile to send delegates from this dis trict to the national convention who will not be hampered with the indorse -1 ment of any particular Presidential candidate. Prominently mentioned as candidates for national delegates are Charles M. Kelley and Arthur B. Cole, both of this city; John B. Anderson, of Tyrone, and District Attorney Marion Patterson, of Hollldaysburg. While any of these aspirants will be accept able to Republicans, it Is known that each of Ihem shows a willingness to retire from the race and support any one agreed upon by the leaders in the interest of party success. In Cambria, it is probable, that James C. Ogden will be the delegate from that part of the district, and accorded unanimous support here." —Things continue to get lively in Philadelphia. West Philadelphia is objecting to the arrangement of the big loan and threatening a revolt, while the Independent League is whacking the Mayor. Then Mayor Smith is out in opposition to some transit extensions to Byberry and the housing commission Is assailing coun cils. Meanwhile Pittsburgh continues quiet. —The Rev. T. J. Ferguson, former member of the House, is about to an nounce his candidacy from Cumber land county for renomination. —Senator W. C. Sproul is in the midst of a campaign for renomination with no one opposed to him. And It does not matter if there was any one against him, either. ANTIQUES TO ORDER By Frederic J. Haskin A SHORT time ago a professor in , New York imported an ancient shrine, which he had purchased from some Italian dealers in antiques for $200,000. The "antiquity" which was supposed to have given the bit of marble its great value, did not sur vive the customs house inspection. Its stains of age were proved to have been produced with the aid of coffee, j and it went through simply as a "manufacture of marble." This and several other recent in stances show thiit the great business of supplying the connoisseur—and especially the American connoisseur with objects of ancient art. Is still ac tive, although the war has certainly blighted it. There are not enough Americans In Europe now, and it is the American's ignorance of such matters, and his desire to conceal it, that make fat living for the art forger. So the trade in Egyptian statuettes and scarabs is somewhat demoralized, and the antique factories in Bohemia and Austria, which formerly turned out their products by the thousand, I are experiencing serious difficulties. The antique industry, however, is only lying dormant. The art forger is simply waiting, knowing full well that the end of the war will bring an even greater demand for curios. There will be a tremendous call for Vic toria crosses, medals of honor and ancient relics supposed to be hurried out of Beligum upon the invasion of the Germans. The garrets and cel lars of Europe will continue to supply innumerable articles wearing the look of crumbling age fascinating to the art collector, who Is Ignorant of the results which may be accomplished by a few acids and licorice Juice. It is a simple matter for the expert art forger to add a few thousand years to the age of an article. The wooden statue which you buy in the firm belief that it adorned the palace of Rameses 11, was probablv made a couple of months ago in the house hold of a modern Egyptian and sent to a dealer in Paris. Here it was painted and placed in the ground for a short interval; then the paint was removed by the use of caustic potash, leaving just a few traces of color in the veins of the wood. With a few dashes of gold in the hollow places, the effect is such that you are con vinced it is centuries old. Sometimes a piece of wooden fur niture, just turned out bv a nearby factory, is beaten with a thong and then buried in the ground over which acid is poured daily. When dug up it is indeed a sorry looking object, which the dealer gives a clumsv "coat of repairs. The art collector on per ceiving it, immediately thinks, "My what a splendid piece of antique fur niture ruined by modern repairs." Ten to one, he buys it from the dealer to , carefl 'lly points out the ad visability of leaving the next relic In the condition in which it is found. Many other artifices are used to give the suggestion of age. Brass is TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —Senator Stone talks of "under ground influences" in Mexico. May he lie thinks Villa is going to escape by means of a subway. —The trouble with the modern "flowers that bloom in the Spring tra-la" is that they are too blooming high. | —Thanks, Mr. Demain, play an I encore next Sunday. | —One thing we like about that lost aviator in Mexico—when he found he | couldn't fly he refused to run. | —"The War Department is un easy" about the troops in Mexico, i says a dispatch. We prefer to wait until Pershing and Funston show signs of uneasiness. —After studying carefully a photo -1 graph of Colonel House, the thought , arises that perhaps he doesn't say any i thing because ho doesn't have any thing of importance to say. 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH REQUEST. 11 sfijw fly: Glv# u# »• ißy ofp light, will yer?. 3*3- ALWATB 1M- rV~ ,-jj PRESSIVE. . He ia some 1 pompous, eh? Yes; he roes m • MUL j through life like ' I mro a parade of one. Tlii> teacher of the juvenile class had ! told her pupils that the poet Milton was blind. Tho next day she asked if any of them could recall Milton's affliction. "Yes. nin'ain. 1 can." replied a small boy. "He was a poet." "Why, Johnny." said a mother to her four-year-old son, "aren't you aahamed to go about with such a dirty face?" "t)on't you worry about it, mamma." he replied. "As aoon as I get a little hlgg»r I'll raiae whisker*, then you won't notice the dirt," I oxidlxed by washing it in salt and am monia and also by hydrochloric and ! sulphuric acids. With a little appli- ! cation of lampblack or turpentine it | looks aged enough to please the most exacting collector. In the case of! j metal objects the forger applies a coat I ■ of black varnish and then polishes , | vigorously until the black part is vis- 1 ; lble only In the hollows. Gold and ; i silver assume an ancient appearance i by the use of bisulphide of carbon, and garlic will Impart Just the right . amount of patina to tin. The credulity of the art collector Is inexhaustible. Aware that there are only a few Rembrandts, held as priceless by the owners, he will allow | the art dealer to persuade him that j one has been permitted to escape and !is now hidden in an old house in | Paris, which he can secure for the small sum of forty thousand. So easy lias this particular game become that the art forger has even presumed to I trade upon the names of living art -1 ists. One writer states that Corot, j Henner. Inness, Wyant and Homer I Martin were all successfully imitated and forged in their lifetime, and that T. Sidney Cooper found two hundred and fifty-five spurious copies out of two hundred and eighty-six works supposed to be his. The art forger, of necessity, must be well educated in many lines. He | , must understand chemistry, he must 1 be well versed in history and he must ;be an astute businessman. The studv of human nature, of acids with which jto treat different articles, the kind of a hat Mark Antony wore and the col ors used in various periods must all be within his ken. Some art forgeries have been so remarkable as to de ! ceive even the best experts of Europe. For examnle, acting 011 the advice of a committee of infallible art con noisseurs, the Louvre purchased for forty thousand dollars what was al aleged to be the crown of the Scvthian king Saitapharnes, presented to him by the Greeks of Olbia in 200 B. C. Of exquisite workmanship and intri cate design, the Louvre was just con gratulating itself upon its good for tune in obtaining this treasure when a French jeweler came forward with I the startling revelation that he had seen the crown made by a Russian named Rouchomowski. After much heated discussion among the art au i thorities. a French editor went after Rouchomowski and brought him to I Paris. There he was locked up and told to duplicate the crown, which | he did with such apparent ease that there was no longer any room for doubt. Giovanni Bastianini, a sculptor of the nineteenth century, turned out cunning forgeries that deceived the leading art institutions of Europe. His j bust of Savonarola created such a I stir that a Russian princess was onlv | prevented from building a temple for It by the timely appearance of an | Tta!,ian who proved it to he a fake. Tt is now 011 exhibition as a forgerv in < the British museum. 11 THE STATE FROM DA/ TO dW | Evangelist Beiderwolf, during his | five weeks' stay in Norristown, has j been the cause of 1,100 persons, in- J eluding 100 children under 12 years of j age, hitting: the trail," and now tlio I demand that he stay another week is I so great that Mr. Beiderwolf will make it a six weeks' campaign. * • » A large wireless apparatus will be installed to-day at the Pennsylvania | Military College as a part of the I course. The station will have an j aerial 170 feet long, containing 1,024 | feet of continuous copper bronze wire, j This is the first college in the United States to incorporate the study of , wireless in its curriculum. 1 Weston had better look to his laurels it he would c ontinue to hold the record j for long distance walking, for tliera corncs into the limelight a 72-year-old i man from Wilkes-Harre who in the ; thirty-three years that he has been in | the mail service of Uncle Sam has i walked a distance of 108,900 miles. Al i though injured in the hip at the Battle | of Bull Run, it doesn't seeni to have | seriously handicapped his walking apparatus. • • * ; Two tons of beautiful white flour j descended upon ex-Councilman Kirsch ner. of Uazleton. at his feed mill on j Saturday, but nothing was disturbed ! excepting his equilibrium, and he was unearthed with but slight injuries by i his faithful employes. |« . » John B. Beible. postmaster of sub station No. 10, Wilkes-Barre. belted i his name Saturday by confessing that i be had cracked open his safe and : stolen SBOO of government bonds early i in the week. • • * The disappearance of Dr. E. ,T. Beers, of South Bethlehem, from his home after an altercation with alleged i B«sailants. during which he received a I deep gash in his neck, has caused ! much apprehension among his friends and relatives. He went to the doctor j to have the wound dressed and has not ( been seen since. THE SEARCHLIGHT - NEW STONES FOR MT. VERNON ' After several years' effort upon the part of the regents in charge of Wash i ington's home at Mt. Vernon, it is be } lieved that stones to replace the | much-worn flooring of the portico will be secured. At least they are now at a wharf in Yorkshire, England, awaiting shipment to this country. The stones have been taken from the old Bees' Head quarry, of rum ; berland, England, where George Washington procured the first stone* nearly 200 years ago. They are be lieved to be exact duplicates of the j originals. The quarry is nearly 300 years old. It Is located near White Haven, where Washington's grand smother is burled. jJEimttng (Eijat The meeting here to-day of the peo ple of a score or more of counties who are interested in the formation of an aaeoclation which will formally put the William Penn highway on the majy and encourage the State in its maM tenance is an event of prime ance in the history of Pennsylvania and will arouse support here and elsewhere general project of betterment of the highways of the Commonwealth. This city, as a matter of fact, was brought into being because it is a natural road center. Most of the roads which ra diate from Harrisburg are merely adaptation of Tndian trails to the ne cessities of modern traffic. The rout« by which the William Penn highway cumes into the State's capital is one of the oldest Indian trails in this part of Pennsylvania. • * * Harrisburg is the outgrowth of trails meeting at a ford of the Susquehanna. Long before John Harris, or the French traders who preceded him. came to the ford it was In use by In idians and the white men utilized the Indian trails because they were the best means of travel. The develop ment from trails to thoroughfares of traffic was speedy once it began. One trail led down the Lebanon valley to ward East on, part of which is tra versed by the William Penn highway. Another went over the ford to Car lisle and the West and the South and ! caused John Harris to establish the i ferry. The other trails followed the river and mot here, bringing the Iro- I Quois into touch with the Shawanese. (The first, road officially laid out to en- I ter Harrisburg was that from Harris | ourg to Baltimore, as it was ambl | tlously styled. It. really was an exten sion of the trail from Lancaster and Philadelphia, which was then being used by wagons and was ordered by the court at Lancaster November 4, 1735. The road is generally supposed to have touched Mlddletown. The trail to Reading was developed into a road about the same time. A sec ond road to Mlddletown.called the"up- was ordered by the court In 1785, the year of founding of Harris i burg and erection of Dauphin county, and the existence of the highway to Reading is indicated by an order In the same year for a road leading from the Wenrich farm to "the great road" between Harrlsburg and Hummels town. Two years later the road to | Jonestown, known as the Jonestown ; road, and which survives in this city, I was officially confirmed. • » • !It might also be stated that the best proof of the attention given to roads by the early residents of this part of the State is furnished by the Incorpor r ation of turnpike companies. Within 't thirty years from the organization of the county there were six turnpike | companies operating road with Har i risburg as objective point. They ln- I eluded the Downlnglown. Ephrata and j Harrisburg, Lancaster, Elizabetlitown 'and Middletown. Mlddletown atvl j Harrisburg, Harrisburg, Carlisle and Chambersburg. Harris burg and Millerstown anil the j Berks and Dauphin. The William i Penn Highway route will traverse some of them and the toll gates still I stand on one route. . . • I The fine weather of yesterday ata tracted a good many people into the country and those walked within sight of the railroads must have been im j pressed with the, extent of the freight traffic being handled at this time. The • Pennsylvania yards on both sides of the river were in a state of rush and long trains were being handled, whllo the Reading's traffic was tremendous, the Rutherford yards being a regular i hive and the trains sent out both ways at frequent. Intervals. ♦ . • Wlldwood park attracted quite a few people to the city's great play ground of the future yesterday and while the ground was pretty soft off jthe paths it was delightful to roam j amid thu trees and to note the ac ' tivlty of bugs and flies over spots |\\liere two weeks ago there was noth ing but snow. The park is coming out : of winter pretty rapidly and it will not ■ be long before Spring flowers will bo seen. A few more days like yesterday and the bull frog chorus will be j heard. « » • S. L. Tone, former Public Service j commissioner, is taking an active part iin discussion of public utility ques tions in Pittsburgh and vicinity. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE* j —John McGinley, Jr., the new post master of Bristol, is a noted poultry raiser. —The Rev. T. D. Edgar, Wllklns burg pastor, yesterday presided at the dedication of a $90,000 church built under his pastorate. —Edward O'DonneU, legislative candidate in Carbon, is a prominent I labor leader. I —William Frew I,ong, who spoke to the association of Pennsylvania [Trade Secretaries at New York Sat urday, is head oC the State Laundry l men's association. —William Zell, "cashier of the new Agricultural Trust company in Lan | caster, was cashier of a Maytown I bank. ! —John Wanamaker will be the speaker at the annual meeting of the ! Hazleton Chamber of Commerce in I May. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg lias been a center of the vehicle trade for tills part of tlie State for more I than a century? MISTOHIC HARRISBURG Tlie first railroad train crossed ; Susquehanna at this point on the CV.-W berland Valley bridge in 1839. SERVE YE THE LORD Now therefore fear the Lord serve him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of tne tlood, and in Egypt: and serve ye the j Lord.—Joshua xxlv, 14. The Friendless Alarm Clock We respect an alarm (lock but it lias very few real friends. It Is a shining example of the tvpe of remainder that compels rather than persuades. People don't like to be in fluenced by alarm clock meth ods. They prefer the advice of friends. I It is the element of personal friendliness that distinguishes j the newspaper from other pub lications. It Is a welcome, sought after visitor In the home. Its adver tising is presenter! aa a friend I Introduces a stranger. And it gets that consider ation that makes it valuable.
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