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WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 2»
We ore all imperfect, and the tiro
things that make it possible for imper
fect people to lire tor/ether in peace and
joy are forgiving and forgetting.
—FRANK CRANE.
PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS
CITY COMMISSIONER GROSS,
the head of the Department of
Parks and Public Property, is
being generally commended for his
activity in preparing for the active
outdoor work of the year. The pur
view of this department covers the
activities of the open-air resorts of
the city during the summer and Com
missioner Gross hopes to have every
thing in first-class shape for the open
ing of the season. There is much
planting to be done, including trees
and shrubbery, and this is already
having the attention of Assistant Sup
erintendent Korrer. whose experience
under the old park commission ad
mirably fits him for the important
duties devolving upon the department
at this time.
Owing to the regrading of large sec
tions of the river slope last year to
conform to the front steps and lower
walk, it will be necessary to do still
further planting this season. There is
abundant shrubbery in the City
Nursery and it is expected the slopes
will be covered with green before the
season shall have been far advanced.
Most of the trees which were plant
ed in the river parks last year are be
lieved to have escaped the rigorous
winter weather of the last few weeks
and those which have succumbed will
be replaced. Harrisburg is justly
proud of the park system and public
sentiment heartily supports the de
velopment of the open-air spaces.
It is encouraging to note the inter
est and sympathy of the new head of
the Department of Parks in the de
velopment of the newer park areas
and within the next year or two there
ought to be a remarkable improve
ment in every direction.
THE NEW FREIGHT STATION
LETTING of contract for the
foundation work of the new
Pennsylvania railroad freight
station at this point yesterday to the
John L. L. Kuhn Company is the first
step toward the early completion of a
long contemplated and much-needed
improvement. Harrisburg should
have had this freight station many
years ago, and that it is not enjoying
the use of it at this time is not due
to the railroad company, but rather
to the selfishness of private interests.
The new freight station means more
work for more people ami better
transportation facilities for Harrisburg,
which is fast becoming the "heart of
distribution," not only for all Central
Pennsylvania, but for a much wider
range of territory than most people
know.
DELEGATES T<) CHICAGO
A CAREFUL, survey of the national
political situation will convince
almost any student of afTairs
that there will be no "road roller"
methods at the convention of the Re
publican party in Chicago this year.
After the first few ballots, when a
number of States doubtless will pres
ent their "favorite sons" for endorse
ment, the convention will settle down
to the business of nominating the
best man for the place.
Delegates are going to Chicago this
year to represent their constituents,
and not this or that leader or faction
or interest. The folks back home
demonstrated four years ago that a
convention might nominate, but it
required the endorsement of a major
ity of the voters to elect and there is
a pretty definite feeling in the country
to-day that if the menace of AVilson
ism is not to be continued for another
four years the delegates who go to-
Chicago must hearken to popular
opinion and not be led away by the
siren voice of flowery oratory or be
forced by circumstances into a posi
tion that will not be popular with the
voters as a whole.
There can be no question about it;
a majority of the voters of the coun
try are disgusted with the present ad
ministration at Washington and want
a change, but it will not do to divide
this majority and repeat the folly of
four years ago. The men who have
announced themselves for delegate
and those who are at the party helm
realize this as well as anybody, so
that whoever is named at Chicago to
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
lead the Republican hosts next Fall,
unless some unlooked-for and un
called-for condition arises between
now and June, will represent the best
thought and sentiment of the Repub
lican party In the nation at large.
READING CHANGES
NUMEROUS Chances in the oper
ating: department of the Phila
delphia and Reading Railway
Company, following the election of
General Superintendent Dice to the
presidency, ought to be encouraging
to every man of ambition in the em
ploy of that corporation. Without
any exception the men who have been
advanced have come up from the bot
tom of the ladder, Mr. Dice himself
from the humble post of trainman.
| In the promotion pf Superintendent
I R. J. Stackhousc, who becomes gen
eral superintendent of material and
supplies under an order issued yestei
tlay, the Harrisburg division of the
> Reading loses a modest but very effi
cient executive. When Mr. Stack
-1 house came to Harrisburg there were
no yards at Rutherford. Under his
administration they have been devel
oped until at present between three
and four thousand cars of freight are
being classified there every day. Be
fore his coming Harrisburg was a
mere branch office on the Reading
lines. To-day it is the headquarters
!of an important and rapidly growing
division. Not only that, but by the
opening of a division freight office
here the operating and traffic depart
ments of the Reading at this point
have been co-ordinated in such man
■ ner as to offer Harrisburg better
freight facilities by far than the Read
ing was ever before able to give its
patrons. The work of development
here has been very quietly but very
efficiently done until now Harrisburg
■is one of the points to be reckoned
with on the Philadelphia and Reading
system.
Such is the situation as R. Boone
Abbott, recently elevated from the su
pervisorship of the Reading here to
the superintendency of the Shamokln
division and now transferred to suc
ceed Mr. Stackhouse as superintendent
of the Harrisburg division, finds it.
Doubtless under his energetic manage
ment the Reading in Harrisburg will
continue to grow and prosper. He j
knows the division thoroughly, is well
known and well liked here and will
not only find himself among friends,
but with a working force at his back
whose chief stock in trade has always
been co-operation.
ANOTHER REVERSAL
THE Washington correspondent of
the New York Journal of Com
merce declares that there is some
doubt whether President Wilson
• would welcome any further burden
imposed through an increase in the
income tax. and it is understood that
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
will support the President in this."
The writer believes that the reason Is
that • politically the rich are the men
who contribute so generously to the
coffers ot the political campaigns."
If his information is correct it indi
cates another change of mind on the
part of the President and Secretary
McAdoo. In his message to Congress
of December 7 last, President Wilson
said:
By somewhat lowering the pres
ent ' limits of exemption and the
figures at which the surtax shall
begin to he imposed, and by In
creasing, step by step throughout
the present graduation, the surtax
itself, the income taxes as at pres
ent apportioned would yield sums
sufficient to balance the hooks of
the Treasury at the end of the fiscal
year 191".
In his annual report for the fiscal
year 1916 Secretary McAdoo said:
It is respectfully suggested that
consideration may well be "iven to
an increase In the rates of taxation
on individual and cor-- —te incomes
a nteans of raising in whole or
in part the additional revenues re
quired to meet the new expendi
tures.
If the Journal's correspondent is
giving us the right dope it must be
that the administration has seen the
pucker of its campaign purse strings.
AN AX M AI- EVENT
GALLEO and his
San Carlo Opera Company came to
Harrisburg during one of the most
persistent rainstorms the city has had
this Spring, but it is to be hoped that
they will not be so much discouraged
thereby as to cut out their contem
plated visit next year. The San Carlo
company proved itself last night all
that was promised for it, and more.
It gave us a taste of the kind of
music the community needs. Consid
ering the weather the attendance was
very good and it is to be hoped that
the music-loving people of the city
have thereby proved their readiness to
patronize really good music when it
is offered. An annual grand opera
event for Harrisburg would be an
other step in the artistic growth of
the municipality.
A ONE-MAN GOVERNMENT
WHEN he changed his mind on
the subject of a tariff commis
sion, President Wilson said:
T wish that it were not necessary
that it should fall to my lot to
< hoose the men who are to compose
it.
Then, in a couple of weeks he
changed his mind again and let it be
known that he wo\ild not consent to
a tariff commission law that provided
for selection of the members by any
one except himself. The plan proposed
by those who desired a commission
as nearly fair as possible was that the
commission should consist of live
members, one selected by the Presi
dent, one by the Democrats of the
Senate, one by the Democrats of the
House, one by the Republicans of the
Senate and one by the Republicans of
the House. That would give the
Democrats three of the five members.
But the President won't permit any
one but himself a voice in selecting
the commission.
Just because the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany can sell the Government armor
plate at lower prices than the Govern
ment can make It. seems no good argu
ment to a Democratic Congress, which
talks much of business, but can't think
business.
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By the Ex-Committecman
Reports of a definite refusal by Col.
Theodore Roosevelt to permit the use
of his name as a presidential candi
date by Republicans of either the
Penrose or State administration per
suasion make the colonel the most im
portant factor in the Keystone State
situation to-day. For weeks there
have been rumors that Senator Pen
rose planned to beat the State admin
istration by use of the colonel's name
and then there were reports that Gov
ernor Brumbaugh's friends were
ready to withdraw him in favor of
the colonel.
The Philadelphia Public I.edger to
day prints a dispatch from its Wash
ington correspondent to the effect
that the colonel said that he would
remain a Progressive. The Philadel
phia Inquirer prints a dispatch that
E. A. VanValkenburg visited the col
onel and told him the Pennsvlvania
Progressives were with him. Mr.
\ an\ alkenburg is said to have prom
ised the colonel a quarter million
votes, but as it was early in the week
these figures may be subject to revi
sion. The North American does not
print much about the above matters
to-day. The Philadelphia Press does
not talk harmony, but says that the
Brumbaugh campaign is to be pushed
vigorously. The Philadelphia Record
expresses the opinion that there will
be a real fight and that Penrose will
go after the administration forces vig
orously.
—ln its article the I-edger savs that
Its informant said that the "colonel
sought unity in the Republican party.
Summed up the colonel's position, and
viewed in the light of the resolutions
of the recent State conference of
(he Progressives here it becomes in
teresting, is as follows:
"To remain in the Progressive par
ty and become its nominee at Chicago.
To be in a position to become the
compromise candidate of the Republi
can party if there is a deadlock in the
convention after he has been nomin
ated by the Progressives. Efforts will
be made by progressive Republicans
to force the nomination of Roosevelt
by the Republican convention, and
failing in that, the plan is to combine
to nominate a candidate acceptable to
ihe radical wing of the party. Roose
velt will accept the Republican can
didate if he represents progressive
tendencies. Ex-Senator Knox. ex-
Governor Hadley and Justice Hughes
would be acceptable. If any of these
three is named the colonel will with
draw from the Progressive party and
unite with the Republicans.
In its comments the ledger says:
"Colonel Roosevelt's standing is look
ed on as having a decisive bearing
upon the Republican troubles in
Pennsylvania. The information here
is that Colonel Roosevelt's visitor
sought to have him run in Pennsylva
nia in the Republican primaries at the
suggestion of the Vare-Brunibaugh-
Smith faction. It is reported that
Governor Brumbaugh is willing to re
tire in favor of Colonel Roosevelt. The
refusal of Roosevelt to be considered
in this connection further complicates
the Pennsylvania situation, and may
mean that the light for supremacy be
tween Penrose and the Vare faction
will be continued in all its bitterness,
with Brumbaugh as the presidential
aspirant supported by the Vare lead
ers. Gloom has descended upon the
Vare faction as the result of the news
from Oyster Bay. Just what the next
move will be is uncertain. Friends of
Penrose here are waiting for his re
turn before deciding., A conference is
scheduled here for to-morrow which
may lead to open warfare on the Vare
faction."
"A plan of campaign under which
national and State questions will lie
made separate and distinct issues in
the contests at the May primaries has
been decided upon by Governor Brum
baugh in his program for Republican
and Progressive unity in Pennsylva
nia," says the Philadelphia North
American to-day. "It was announced
yesterday that the local option issue
Which will be pressed by the Gover
nor's friends will not be confused with
the light for Republican delegates to
the party national convention at Chi
cago. The Governor regards local op
tion as a purely State as well as non
partisan issue, it was said."
"Penn." in the Philadelphia Bulletin
discusses Mayor Smith and regarding
politics as related to him says: "Vet
,it may be doubted whether the vast
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
majority of the people of Philadelphia
who are not in active political life are
much concerned about these hostilities
or, in fact, understand much about
them. They may be dragged into
them later on in the primary election
campaign, but it is not from among
them that the causes of this belliger
ent factionalism have had their origin.
On the contrary, the causes are wholly
personal: they have originated in per
sonal differences of several years'
standing, and they represent Jealous
ies. resentments and rivalries, and not
issues of public principle or policy."
The Inquirer gives this version ot
the VanValkenburg visit: "Edward
A. VanValkenburg, in charge of the
light in Eastern Pennsylvania, against
Senator Penrose, was ushered to Saga
more Hill this afternoon by George
AV. Perkins, and he gave to Mr. Roose
velt an hour of the pleasantest kind
of political news. "The tight in Penn
sylvania is not between the Progres
sive party and the Republican party,"
Mr. VanValkenburg said later. 'lt is
a fight between two factions of the
Republican party, one headed by Gov
ernor Brumbaugh and the other by
Senator Penrose. And the interesting
feature of this fight is that the balance
of power is held by 200,000 Progressives
who will vote this year unchallenged
at the Republican primaries.' Then
Mr. VanValkenburg smiled and add
ed: "Of course, every one of those
250.000 Progressive votes is a Roose
velt vote, and they will see that noth
ing but Roosevelt delegates are sent
to the Republican convention.' "
—Ex-Congressmen Logue and
Donahoe, of Philadelphia, are candi
dates for Democratic nomination
again.
—L. P. Holcombe and ex-Judge B.
R. Jones are candidates for Repub
lican national delegate in
but some of the Brumbaugh men do
not like them.
Brumbaugh headquarters last
night gave out a number of endorse
ments of the Governor from Cambria
county people.
—The Philadelphia Transit plans
have been revised and sent to Mayor
Smith. They are against a subway
under City Hall.
—Congressman R. D. Heaton, of
Schuylkill county, tiled papers to run
for Republican renominntion.
—E. P. Young, of Bradford county,
who will run as a Brumbaugh dele
gate, was at the Capitot yesterday.
TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE"
—England Is much interested about
what the United States will do in the
Sussex case. We don't know, but we've
an idea what our navy would do under
the same circumstances as now con
front the British.
—We wonder if it would be proper
now to call him William Penn Jen
nings?
—The Wilsonian motto is: "Be sure
you're right, and then don't do any
thing."
—Congress is going to investigate
the shortage in newsprint paper. High
time! What would a presidential cam
paign be without newspapers?
—"May take months to capture
Villa," says a Washington dispatch,
a bit of news that most people had in
advance.
—From being the "Yankees of the
East," the Japanese have como to be
known as the "Prussians of the. East."
Oh, very well, if the kaiser can stand
it, we can.
THE STYI.ES
By Wl»it Dinger
The skirts this Spring, says Fashion,
Shall somewhat shorter be.
But how short, is the question
That's now a-puzzllng me.
| Each day some new creation
I see, that's cut away
A wee bit more than that one
That I law yesterday.
If folks get much more daring
'Twill not be long ere we
See women wear a ruffle
Where onre a skirt would be.
i And prices will be lower
At polite burlesque shows,
; For there will be no patrons
[ For first and second rows.
FEDERAL AID FOR ROMANCE
By Frederic J. Haskin
CUPID puts on many guises, but
few people know that he gets
in some of his most effective
work when he wears a government,
uniform. There are hundreds of
happy families in the United States
for whose bliss Uncle Sam, through
his Immigration Bureau, is directly
responsible.
Kapid-lire affairs of the heart run
ning over with sentiment, humor and
pathos are commonplaces to the im
migration agents. The other day a
shy Italian girl landed at Ellis Island.
Three years before, the man she was
engaged to had left sunny Italy to
seek his fortune in America. Now a
part of that fortune was made, and
Oulwppi had sent for his tiancee. The
three years' engagement was to be
happily capped by an American mar
riage. Guiseppi was waiting at the
dock, with a license ana Ills brother
tor a witness. The course of true
love seemed for once to be running
smooth—but tragedy impended.
Guiseppi had lived in the land of
the too long, lie had taken too
many walks up Broadway, looked too
often on dazzling visions of American
femininity. He surveyed his bride
to-be and calmly announced that she
did not come up to his new standard
of good looks. He opined that she
had deteriorated in the Three years
since they parted. At any rate, he
refused to marry her. The authorities
argued in vain. The girl had no
other friends, and deportation stared
her in the face after three years of
waiting and the long steerage voyage.
But here the brother took a hand
—he who had come along to act as
witness. His chivalrous blood boiled
at such conduct toward a lady. In
good, round Italian he told Guiseppi
what he thought of him. To em
phasize his point of view, he hauled
off and knocked the bridegroom down.
Then he proposed to the girl himself.
She accepted. So the marriage was
solemnized after all, groom and wit
ness exchanging places, and the im
migration authorities, with one more
knotty problem off their hands, de
voutly hope they will live happily ever
after.
Hundreds of immigrant girls have
to return to Europe every year be
cause the men who were to marry
them fail to appear, and they have
not enough money to permit them to
enter the United States. A pathetic
case was that of a certain Hungarian
girl. The same day she landed, the
man who planned to meet and marry
her was being taken from the
emergency hospital to the burial
ground in potter's field. He had been
fatally injured on the construction
work of the famous Hell Gate bridge.
This particular girl was not sent
back to Hungary. The case was
brought to the attention of some
THE STATE FROM DAi TO DAY
Marjoric Sierrett, who for her age
has probably had her name and pic
ture in the papers more often than any
other girl of the present time, is being
popularly received wherever she is
appearing. In Erie, her former
home, the contributions are not as
large as might be expected, and some
how Oic concerted action seems to be
lacking ihr.t will bring the dimes and
quarters roiling in. Human nature is
a funny thing; a person will be glad
to do something if only it Is made easy
for him or her, but there seems to be
a premium on voluntary action In an
altruistic cause.
The Chester police force is rapidly
dwindling by reason of the fact that
higher pay and shorter hours are
available in the munition factories.
The request for more pay from Coun
cil* met with no response, so the cops
have taken the hull by the horns, fig
uratively speaking, and quit work In
large numbers.
The Lehigh Valley Coal Company is
figuring on the running of a SIOO,OOO
tunnel from the Hazleton basin
through the Butler mountain to the
Nescopeck creek. Aption will not be
taken until an agreement is reached
between the miners and operators
that is satisfactory.
Graduates and students of the
Reading High school for boys will
make a strenuous effort to raise $lO,-
000 during this week to be used for
paying off the remaining debt on
George Field, which is the athletic
field of that institution.
The current opinion in the region
MARCH 20, 1915.
philanthropic women, WHO made
themselves responsible for her. .She
worked as a kitchen maid for several
months and then married the man
who had been working next to her
flnnce at the time of the accident.
The government's work as a matri
monial promoter in cases such as
this comes when the whereabouts of
the man are a mystery, Uncle Sam
prosecutes a vigorous search for the
missing bridegroom. In the meantime
the girl is lodged at the expense of
the steamship company that brought
her over, always under the kindly
supervision of women agenrs who look
to her moral and physical welfare
generally.
A German girl of this class recently
arrived in Boston utterly alone. Iter
father and all her brothers had been
killed in the trenches. A distant
cousin had sent her passage money,
and promised to marry her on her
arrival. Her vessel had been badly
delayed in crossing, and there was no
sign of the man. The immigration
authorities took charge of the girl,
finally locating her cousin in a Lowell
shoe factory. There was nothing
unwilling in his attitude, but the fact
that he could not leave his work kept
him away from the dock, while his
lack of English prevented him from
making any arrangements to inform
the girl of his whereabouts. The im
migration officers got interpreters
and a German clergyman, and the
couple were quickly married.
It has already become evident that
the war will eventually cause a boom
in immigrant marriages. The Eu
ropean peasant woman takes a mat
ter-of-fact view of the question. She
regards marriage as her destiny, and
now that the men in her home land
are being killed oIT by hundreds of
thousands and her charges corre
spondingly decreased, s e turns to
America, where men are more plenti
ful. summer a little company
of five German girls all from the
, same village, arrived at Ellis Island.
Their homes had been destroyed, and
the affianced husbands of three of
them had been killed. Each had
managed to accumulate enough money
to permit her to land here: and each
told the woman immigrant officer
that she was going to work tempor
arily until she found a husband.
One of the three went out to a
Jersey farm, one found work in a
bakery, and the other three were
placed in domestic service. Once they
were settled the responsibility of the
Immigration Bureau was over, but the
| girls were full of gratitude for the
: friendly way the authorities treated
; them. Three have found husbands
already, and in every case the proud
damsel has brought her blushing
bridegroom around to exhibit him to
i the women agents of the bureau.
where the New Haven railroad holds
sway is that the only way to make
reasonable time Is to have livestock
sure of getting freight through in a
represented thereamong. So a. wise
old gentleman up at Farm School, Pa.,
desiring to change his place of resi
dence to a Connecticut city, made shift
to purchase an old nag who was on
its last legs and shipped the more
dead than alive animal with his fur
niture. Whereupon the railroad made
haste to get the poor old beast through
to its destination before It passed out,
and thus did the professor outwit the
railroad.
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' Mr. Wr a 11:
I You're "chicken
feed," ain't youl
Announcement of the discovery of
manganese Iron ore Along the Blue
Kidge mountains In Cumberland
county and that some traces have
been found In Franklin, Pulton and
Adams counties has attracted nome
attention here because of the possi
bilities of revival of iron making '*>
the Cumberland Valley. Kor manjv
years the ore beds ,of Cumberland
county were operated, but It has been
a quarter of a century since the fires
were put out in the furnaces nbout
Boiling Springs, which were the last
survivors of some notable stacks. The
i presence of manganese ore has been
known in Cumberland county for a
century or more, it is known as
"Wad" and some fine specimens have
been analysed. Its manufacture into
iron, however, was too expensive for
this country in competition with Eu
rope and the beds were not highly de
veloped. Now, however, when there
is a great demand in this country
some of the manganese beds may be
worked and this city may become a
center of iron making again. This
manganese is generally found in the
bottom of the beds of a henvltito ore
which gave the Cumberland Valley
land Dauphin county, too, a reputa
tion for fine iron ore of that type,
lit is sometimes found with kaolin.
| Outcroppings of manganese have been
: been found in some places In Pauph-
I in. Perry nnd I„ebnnon counties,
i while the hemitlte beds on the east
side of the Susquehanna are well
I known. If the Cunmberland mangan
| ese ores can be worked at a profit now
jit will mean much for the valley and
|an almost forgotten industry may be
revived.
• • •
An attorney who was defending a
client in an assault and battery case
objected to the admission of the tes
timony of woman witness in March
quarter sessions the other day be
cause she wouldn't tell her reasons
for advancing Tier theory as stated on
tho witness stand. The girl declared
she had seen the act as she was pass
ing an open door and happened to
"look in."
"Why did she look in?" demanded
the attorney half peevishly. "What
was her reason ?" "Why, In order
to test her credibility. Can't she ex
plain why she looked in?"
"Oh, I suppose it's the woman's
reason." suggested President Judge
Kunkel."
"What does your Honor mean?"
"Curiosity."
* • •
Some folks have good memories.
They remember both names and faces.
Others recall faces and know where
they have met before but forget
»ntimes. Among the delegates to the
I William Penn Highway Conference
I was a representative from Newport
He gets into Harrisburg quite often,
and there are acquaintances he meets
every time he comes to the city. While
I standing in a hotel corridor the oth-
J er day this gentleman was introduced
|to a wel-known Harrisburger. "I
\ have not seen you for thirty years,"
i said the stranger, but I know your
name." He repeated the name and said
"1 remember yon because you bought
j one dollar's worth of cigars three
I times each week at a certain store in
this city. I do not recal what busi
i ncss you were in. nor do T know your
i occupation now. but I will never for-
I get your visits to that store, and tb
' one brand of cigars you asked for."
: The Harrisburger recalled his pur
chases and explained that while Tie
was not a smoker, he bought cigars
for a friend who has been dead these
twenty years.
* • *
H. E. Bodine, of Clearfield, form
erly connected with the Bureau ot
Industrial Statistics and who made
I studies of Harrisburg and other Penn
sylvania cities, was here to-day. He is
| connected with several progressive
| commercial organizations up the
State.
Whether it is because so many cat
tleliave been bought up by dealers ow
inK to the heavy demand for beef not
only in this country but from abroad
there is a noticeable lack of cows in
the vicinity of llarrisburg. For years
this section, notably the Cumberland-
Lebanon valleys, raised a,fair number
of steers for market, but there are
not nearly as many as in years gone
by. And this, too, in the face of the
high prices of beef. Country butchers
say that they have their own troubles
setting cattle and some say that cat
tle are actually bought up months be
fore they mature.
• • •
Kx-Senator George M. Wertz, of
Cambria county, who was here yester
day on business at the Capitol, served
as president pro tem of the Senate in
1912 and was then county controller
of Cambria. He is well known to
many residents of this city.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ]
—George W. Kirchwey, the warden
of Sing Sing, has been delivering lec
tures at Pittsburgh.
—D. R. Durbin, of Pittsburgh, has
been elected as president of the
Southwestern State Merchants Asso
j elation.
—J. G. Trees, son of a prominent
1 Pittaburgher and an experienced flier,
has volunteered for the United States
•aviation work.
! —Dr. 11. 11. Harte, Philadelphia phy
jsician. is chairman of the executive
committee of the lied Cross in east
ern counties.
—Joseph Moore. Jr., Philadelphia
manufacturer, has gone to Michigan
to look after some extension of plants.
-—E. M. C. Africa, one of the vice
presidents of the William Penn High
way is one of the prominent engin
ers of the State.
| DO YOU KNOW
Tliat HarrJsburg tools liavc been
used oil the Panama canal locks?
HISTORIC HAURISIU HG
The (irst iron is believed to have
been made here about 1826.
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR'
POINTS OUT AN ERROR
•To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Thinking a winner may have thu
privilege of criticising the answers
given to the various interesting quee
tions asked by your enterprising
I should like to call attention to an
error on your part to the answer to
question No. 14. Name three operas
that had their premier In New York
City. Your answer was:
Konigskinder. Girl of the Golden
West and Natorna.
The first two are correct but the
last opera was sung first in Phila
delphia February 25, 1911 , by the
Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Company
—Campininni conducting and on the
28th of the same month had ita first
performance in New York.
The correct answer should be:
Puccini's Girl of the Golden West-
December 10, 1910.
Humperdink's Konigskinder De
cember 28, 1910.
Giordano's Mme. Sans-Gene Jan.
25, 1915.
J. WESLEY AWL, Jr.
[ March 28, 1916.