8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE H/OME ( Founded jStl Published evenings except Sunday by i THK TEI.BGRAPH PRI\TIXO CO., Tclfgraph Ilulldlng, Federal Square. E. J. STACKJPOL.E, Pw'f and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GVS M. STCUNMETZ, Managing Editor. /Member American Newspaper Pub- ' § Ushers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu- i sylvanla As*oclat- EB3tern office. Has- j brook. Story & I nue Building. New — Gcs°Bu lid I ng° Chi - cago. 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week: by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. Sn-nrn dull? r.vernire circulation for lb> three montus cmling April 30, IDlti, 22,341 * These flanre* nre net. All relnrne*. unsold and damaged copies deducted. SATURDAY EVENING, MAY <1 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the commu nion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.— ll. COR. 13:14. • i POLITICS AM) HIGHWAYS POLITICAL rumors to the effect that Ihc policy of the late High- j way Commissioner Cunningham with respect to keeping his great de partment out of the swirl of political would be overturned in the interest of Governor Brumbaugh's campaign for the Presidency were given their quietus by the Governor himself, when he declared that under no circum stances would this department or any other department of the State Government be permitted to become involved in political activities. This statement by the Governor will go far toward correcting a rather disturbing thought in the minds ol the public, only a few days before his death Mr. Cunningham declared that he would not stultify his own position or the position of the ad ministration by allowing the depart jnejit forces to be drawn into a heated political controversy. He had made Ills position clear throughout the State in many public addresses, with the knowledge and approval of Gov ernor Brumbaugh, and was deter mined, he observed the week he was fatally stricken, to maintain an abso lutely consistent attitude in this mat ter and to give his whole time and thought to the improvement of the road system of the Commonwealth. Governor Brumbaugh was in close and Intimate terms with Mr. Cun ningham and it is known that he en tertained for the dead Commissioner a high regard. It was therefore quite natural that the Governor himself should stamp out in the most emphatic way the rumors which were floating hither and thither regarding the im pending activities of the Department of Highways in the unfortunate fac tional warfare of the Republican party in Pennsylvania. Mayor Meals believes that there should solution of the traffic diffi culties without delay. Perhaps a dis interested and competent commission of engineers would be useful at this time. Manifestly, the Mayor is in sym pathy with the public view that another grade crossing on Front street with a track through a delightful section of the river park is impossible. On the other hand, he is in accord with the public sentiment that some reasonable provision should be made for the hand ling of the cross-river cars. PRODUCED REVENUE IN addressing the Senate on the re peal of the free sugar clause, Senator Underwood, author of the present tariff law, said: Where your (the Republican) tariff wall was built so high that you prohibited Importations by it, there was no revenue; and when we said we proposed to have a competi tive tariff, we declared in favor of lowering that wail to a point where reasonable Importations could come over ami the Government of the I nited States could have an oppor tunity to collect its revenue at the custom house * * • a < ompeti tlve tariff means a tariff that will collect revenue. There was never any fault to find under the Dingley and Payne tariff laws respecting lack of revenues. Duties were laid not on a prohibitory basis, but on a protective basis, and they were so adjusted that while they protected American industries and American labor, they likewise pro vided ample revenues. There was never any necessity, except during the Spanish War, to fall back on stamp taxation. Our revenues were collected at the ports of the country and paid by the foreigners. Underwood's "competitive tariff" brought some revenue, but it fell short of doing its share toward the upkeep of the Government, even if economy had been practiced. With a Demo cratic Administration engaged in the wildest sort of extravagances the law was wholly incapable of maintaining a balance. Hence, the report of the first gun in the European struggle was the signal to enact a "war tax" at home to piece out the falling revenues with internal taxation com ing directly from the pockets of the pjeople. Proprietors of theaters who pay a tax on seating capacity, circuses, public exhibitions, commission mer chants, are all helping out the Demo cratic tariff law. Every time you place an adhesive stamp on a bond or (nnUmity note, or pay a cent for SATURDAY EVENING, : a telephone or telegraph message, you arc subscribing to Mr. Underwood's | fund to get the Government out of j | the hole. You, with millions of i others, have been made underwriters to the failure of the t'nderwood tariff ] law as a revenue producer. You were not asked to do that i when a Republican tariff law was on ! ; the statute books. You didn't feel the | tax which »was collected at the ports, of the country. That it was taken I out of the pockets of the consumer 1 by the advance in the cost of living; is now proved to be an utter fallacy, j ! That argument has not even Demo-, cratic backing to-day. The old idea j that the tariff was added to the price of goods Is exploded. The cost of living was higher just prior to the j war, under Democratic near-free-: ■ trade, than it was the year before ! under the Republican law. The for-, ! etener or importer pocketed the dif ference in rates. The consumer got ( no benelit in the shape of reiluced j prices. Now, then, the Democratic low-duty j tariff having been passed in order to reduce the cost of living, which it did t not do, and to increase the revenues,; which decreased under its operation; 1 and the Republican law having sup plied ample revenues, turning over to 1 the Democrats a legacy of between forty and fifty millions of dollars, and protected American industries and labor, what man Is foolish enough to j hesitate for a moment in choosing for i the administration of this Govern- ! ment the party which champions the protective policy and "America i ; First ?" THE liAST NOTE GERMANY'S diplomacy always in- , volves the art of concealing the 1 real thought of Berlin in a clever jumble of language. Just what is meant in the reply from Potsdam re garding the future submarine policy I of the Kaiser is now a matter of speculation at Washington, but the! j apparent disposition of the State T)e- 1 partment is to accept at their face ; value the promises and assurances ; contained in this last note. As usual, Berlin endeavors to en-1 force a demand upon England with i relation to the British food embargo through the United Stales, but mani festly this country cannot give any; heed to a suggestion from one belli- j gerent which may effect another of the warring nations. It is true thai ; : we have been mighty patient and have ! done many things we should not have i j done, but it is inconceivable that the j United States would give any consid- j oration to a demand of this character. Our dealings with England must be , with England alone and not as a re- j .itinnsg to German suggestion. In the light of what has transpired during the last year we should not be too confident of the pacific intentions of Germany. Promises have been made time after time only to be broken and it remains to be seen whether this latest note will bring about any improvement in the condi tions which have threatened a break in the friendly relations of the two nations. If the note on submarine warfare means anything, it probably means that there is to be a change along the lines of the American de mand, but in the last analysis it may only mean a gain in time for the Kaiser. If you can plant a tree or a shrub, ) and you need employment, there is a ' job waiting you in the Department of Parks. It is hardly to be. expected that Louis I). Brandels will take his place on the i Supreme bench even should he be con firmed. He has already intimated that i-onflrniation would bo accepted as a vote of confidence, but that a place in the highest court had ceased to have any attraction for him. 1 THE FOREIGN SPY BUGABOO THE Japan Society, the busin.ess of which is to encourage trade relations and maintain good will and friendship between the I'nited States and Japan, publishes this paragraph under the caption, "Spies." in the current issue of its monthly bulletin: We see in various newspapers from time to time that the Japa nese government is sending army and navy officers to this country to collect data and make sketches of important places. These spies then work up » more or less accurate topographic map when they return to Japan. Moreover, they are tak ing soundings in our rivers and harbors: they have been seen doing this. This is greatly to be de plored. There is no excuse for per mitting it. Why? Because in sev ; eral stores in as many cities accur ate maps made from data obtained by our own Coast and Geodetic 1 Survey staff may be purchased. These maps are very detailed; they I plot the bottom Ol our rivers and harbors; they give elevations and depressions and full details of the land where Japan's huge army leach soldier with a gun in one hand, a sword in the other, and a dagger between his teeth) will land after the voyage In the big tieet of transports which the gov ernment is keeping concealed. Thanks. Mr. Japanese Editor, for this bit of wholesome sarcasm. The "foreign spy" story has been worked ,to a frazzle. Every time an inland ' correspondent runs shy of news ho conjures up a "spy" with which to ! fatten his account in the auditor's of j lice of the "city newspaper" he rep ! resents. And the editor, with noth ing more important than the battle lat Verdun, the sinking of a liner. I the capture of a Turkish stronghold |by the Russians, an air raid on Lon jdon, the surrender of an English army ! to the Turks, war threatening at home J with Germany and Mexico and the | Guard called to quell strike riots, to | use up his white paper space, gives a half column and a "scare head" to 'the concoction. I No wonder the Japanese Society is disgusted. What silly souls the Japs must think us. With a continuance of the delightful May weather which has sent hundreds into the open during the present week the River Front will be crowded with i people to-morrow. Gradually City Commissioner Gross and his force are j getting the walks in something like | walkable condition, but there is still | much to be done, especially in making the surface of the broken stone prom jenade more comfortable for pedestrians. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE | i j —Many a man courts a girl to win her and then goes to court to get rid of her. ! —A woman may not be able to hit a nail with a hammer, but she knows how to use it on her friends. —Striped suits are popular at the fashion centers, but Reno still spe jcializes in divorce suits. —That prospective Crown Colony, Brazil, Is behaving: just as though the Kaiser never had any designs on her. —Why do not some of the Oerman societies that have been petitioning Washington not to break with Berlin, ! cable Berlin not to break with Wash ington? EDITORIALCOMMENT The way of the transgressor Is hard on the neutrals.—Columbia State. As a sample. Uncle Sam's army Is all that could be desired.—Chicago Daily News. liy not make those documents pub lic and clear the Embassy's reputation? —Wall Street Journal. At the present rate, there isn't go ing to be much left of the earth for the ineek to inherit.—Columbia State. England has perfected an instru ment for the prevention of naval bat tles—her navy. Pittsburgh Gazette- I Times. t\ hat is needed is a tariff commis sion that will take the tariff out of politics and stay out of politics itself. —Chicago Herald. ! "Trail Hitter Listens to Voice of Conscience." This time it is a Darby man. Personally, we know about twen !ty persons with borrowed books who i should hit the trail—or something.— Chester Times, It is humiliating that the Legislature • "Kieat State should have suffered itself to be deterred from authorizing a ! more adequate constabulary by the manifestly unfounded and irrational de nunciations of that lorce by the agita tors and demagogues, who called the constables Cossacks and who vainly I tried to represent them as the hire lings of capital and the oppressors of law abiding labor.—Lancaster Intelli ' gencer. Verdun and Gettysburg [From Evening ledger. Philadelphia.] News from Verdun in the last three days has been only a little more dis couraging than the complete lack of news in the weeks before. The French advance Is simply a more dramatic way, a costly but necessary way, of driving home the truth that Germany has failed. Of all her gains in a battle which has lasted seventy-five days only Fort Dowaumont. taken in the first on slaught, remains unchallenged in her hands. The facts about T,e Mort Homme (Dead Man's Hill) were never clearly given in the official reports, probably because the German gains were great but indecisive. Even now there is some dispute, but it seems clear that the French are attacking on the north side of the hill, which lies north and west of Verdun. It. is, therefore, unlikely that, the hill was ever actually in German hands, and it was certainly never out of French fire. There and elsewhere the French are pushing a slow but uniformly success ful offensive, and German resistance is unavailing. It is reported from Am sterdam that 700.000 Germans are in the Meuse Valley, but it is also re ported that civilians are deserting Mela, which is covered by the French guns. It is beginning- to look as if Ver dun is. as General Delacroix maintains. Germany's Gettysburg—not the end of the war, but the beginning of the end. If We Knew Tf T knew you as you know me— If both of us could clearly see. And with an Inner sight divine Tlie meaning of your heart and mine, I'm sure that we would differ less And clasp our hands in friendliness: Our thoughts would pleasantly agree If I knew you and you knew nie. If I knew you and you knew me, A3 each one knows his own self, we Could look each other in the face And see therein a truer grace. Life has so many hidden woes. So many thorns for every rose: The "Why" of Ihings our hearts would see. If I knew you and you knew me. Go the Whole Way! [Kansas City Star.] The determination to keep the army in Mexico until its object is accom plished is a right determination. Going part way and coming back won't get Villa. Going to Vera Cruz and coming back didn't get a salute to the flag. Holding Germany to strict accountabil ity and then not holding her didn't save American lives. Appealing to the coun try to bring pressure on Congress to pass preparedness legislation and then delegating leadership to Mr. Hay didn't produce a real army bill. Anything worth starting is worth going the whole way for. Paradox of the Dollar A dollar doesn't come so fast To soothe our hardup woes. But if you want to see some speed Just watch it when It goes! —Houston Post. Will Be Watched With Interest [Wilkes-Barre News.] The First Regiment of the National Guard is now In command of Captain c. C. Allen. U. S. A. The Federal War Department approved the move. The experiment of naming a regular armv officer as head of a militia regiment. In order to raise the efficiency of the citi zen-soldiery will be watched with in terest in all sections if the country as well as in this State. Spiritually Discerned But the natural man recelveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. —I Corinthians, il. 14. A German Viewpoint The provisioning of Germany is safe nnd secure. Our enemies do not be lieve it. but It Is a fact that the Ger man talent for organization has sur mounted this difficulty, too. • • « We produce so much food in our own country that we need experience no anxiety. A new census is about to be taken of our available stocks of corn, flour and oats, and it will probably allow an increased ration per head. The breeding of cattle is progressing, in spite of the lack of foreign fodder, because we have harvested so much potatoes that a large quantity of it can be used for animal food. A further import of fodder is to be expected shortly from the Balkans by the Dan ube: route. —Muenchner Neuste Xach richten. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrlsburg Kotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] What Is the assessed valuation of the City <<f Harrlsburg? $51,500,000.00. i HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Totittc* in, "^tKKOi^tcahXa By the Rx-Committeeman Between the speeches of Senator Penrose at one end of the State and Governor Brumbaugh at the other; the declaration of J. Benjamin Dim miek. former mayor of Scranton, for Penrose and uninstructed delegates: the gyrations of Mayor Smith, District Attorney Rotan, the reformers and the Vare and McNichol men in Philadel phia, the Democratic factional row and the throwing of hard names by A. Mitchell Palmer and Michael Liebel, Jr., the campaign is under full headway, with promise of interesting exchanges between now and the pri mary day, May 16. In fact; it has been four yea its since there was as much interest in a primary as now, and folks have to go back years to tind a preliminary campaign as exciting. The Penrose speech last night was the worst arraignment that has been made against the Governor Rnd his friends and it is understood that the Governor will promptly lire back at the Senator. Any hopes of harmony were consumed last night in the Pen rose broadside and it will he a light to the finish with the Senator in the best strategic position he has occupied in years and the administration well en trenched. —The Dimmiek declaration last night was unquestionably a blow to the Brumbaugh forces, as only a few days ago the Brumbaugh headquarters ga\e out a long statement to the effect that the Dlmmick forces of the sena torial primary of 1914 were aligned with the Governor and going to work for him. Last night Mr. Dimmiek de clared outright for Penrose and against the Governor. The Brumbaugh people say that there is something more to say on this subject and meanwhile are preparing yards and yards of pub licity matter to be turned loose on the State next week. —Governor Brumbaugh will make another speech in Pittsburgh to-night and will appear in some churches in Allegheny county to-morrow. It was said here that reports from Pittsburgh indicated the Governor was well re ceived and that he had made no mis take in going to that city, but on the contrary had won support because of his statement of his attitude. —Notwithstanding the silence which prevails on Capitol Hill about the in terview between the Governor and John C. Cronin. the Philadelphia labor leader, who has been a member of the State Industrial Board for almost three years, it became known yesterday that Cronin had been practically dismissed. Cronin himself gave out the letter of the Governor asking for his resig nation, of which everyone on Capitol Hill had professed ignorance as late as noon yesterday, and it is intimated in Philadelphia that the cause of his dis missal was that he had refused to "take orders" anil turn in for the ad ministration. On the other hand, it is understood here that there has been dissatisfaction with the way Cronin has been handling work entrusted to him and that objections to Ihe size of his expenses had been heard. Cronin's friends say that these catises of dis satisfaction were not much heard of until after he had refused to "line up." —Friends of J. Linn Harris, who was not reappointed a forestry com missioner, say that had Harris agreed to fight for the administration against Penrose he would have been re appointed. No explanation of the rea son for not reappointing Harris has been given at the Capitol. —E. l.owry Humes, United States district attorney, who is undertaking a ptobe of the Pennsylvania Protective Union expenses in the- campaign ot" 1914. says there is no politics in that probe. —Lackawanna county friends of the Governor say that. Penrose will lose Uckawannn and also lose in the Sus quehanna-Bradford - Wyoming-Wayne congressional district. Claims are also being made that the Governor will win in the York-Adams district. —Monday the Governor will be in Crawford and Erie counties and then come back to this city for a day. Then he will leave for a tour of eastern counties to take the rest of the week. —The Philadelphia newspapers to day generally interpret the Penrose speech as forecasting a ripper bill for Philadelphia In the next Legislature and the enactment of a commission form of government bill. The Demo cratic Record says that it means a bit ter fight and the Inquirer says that *he Senator lias forces with him who were against him a few years ago. The North American handles the matter very mildly and does not abuse the Senator. The Philadelphia newspapers give much space to the Cronin episode and quote Cronin as saying that the Governor dismissed him at the behest of Senator A'are. The Senator denies this. Speaker Ambler will speak nt Pitts burgh to-morrow. Congressman John 15. K. Scott will also be there. Mayor Smith now says it is up to the district attorney to keep Phila delphia police out of politics. "The sentiment among many of the county leaders." Congressman Focht said in Philadelphia last night, con cerning the situation in his district, "is that Attorney General Brown should be removed from office. The Gov ernor, as we know him, does not ap pear to desire to stir up factional strife, but he seems to have been dragged into it bv Brown. There is little or no sentiment in our section Tor Governor Brumbaugh's candidacy lor the presidency. The feeling among the people is that an uninstructed delegation should be sent to the Chi cago convention, and that it should throw its strength toward nominating a man who can win." Feet and Fashion f From the Ohio State Journal.] From a college in the West comes the report that the feet of twenty three co-eds were examined and only three were pronounced fair, and not one perfect. The physical director of the college attributes this defect to wearing high-heeled, pointed-toed shoes. She says this fashion is the cause of all the disorders of the feet. But the damsels don't seem to care a snap for the physical deformities, so they are in the fashion. But. one is apt to conclude, when he sees those pretty feet tripping along the sidewalk, that there is a crushed, mangled and deformed foot. From the pictures in the news papers, where we get all our infor mation, one would judge that the female foot was becoming almost idealized to a beautiful fancy and that art and physical deformity were in Joyous alliance. But It will not always be so. In the good lime coming there will be a respect for God's law suf ficient to repudiate the decrees of Paris. Russia and the Turks Russia has earned Trebizond. Her capture of it has an important bearing or. the future as well as on the present, meaning the repression of the Turk nt one of the most important of his trade centers. Turkey will not get back Trebizond any more than It. will gel back Erzerum, and the rest of the world will have few regrets over that. —New Haven Register. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY IRELAND'S NEW PATRON SAINT —From the Philadelphia Public l.e<lK<*r. EUROPE'S FUTURE POPULATION By Frederic J. Haskin THE countries of Europe now at war may in future years lie populated by a veritable race ot dwarfs, if the war continues much longer, according to the speculations of some scientists. Interest is now turning largely away from the war Itself and toward Its ultimate effects, social and Industrial. One of the most interesting questions presented is what changes the war will cause in the races of Europe, and this is of immediate importance to the Ameri can people, for by immigration we will share whatever heritage the war leaves to the European nations. Speculation as to the future siie of Europeans is based largely upon the well-known fact that the Napoleonic wars reduced the average size of the French people. This is an opinion commonly held in France itself, and is adequately established by the rec ords of the army. Napoleon had re peatedly to lower the standard of height which he had set for his sol diers. Furthermore the measure ments of the young men who an nually offered themselves for com pulsory service shows that during the twenty-year period of the war the number of those rejected for insuffi cient size greatly increased. A loss of size in itself is not im portant, but it pretty certainly im plies a loss of other valuable physical qualities. Thus during the period of the great French wars, the number of conscripts who had to be rejected because of infirmities Increased one third. Now the scientists who argue that the present war is to result in a phys ically degenerate European race point out that the present war is much worse than any preceding one. / t \ Yesterday Was Birthday Anniversary of— wgggg^—g——gggg—g=gS3m HKflßra&i |||g||- ' > iBP Ho' '<m ™ Bfc"* ABH gi mm. ' J&Mgl JOHN A. ROSS He Is one of Ifarrlsburg's leading confectioners and for a long time lias been located at Second and Walnut streets. For many years Rose's candy store lias been known far aud wide. Mr. Rose is so well known that every body calls his "John." He lias always been known as an enterprising mer chant and good citizen. OUR DAILY LAUGH CONSOLA TION. Now, here's a -—v. a c on un- f d r u m to fV%| when °' You're" out * M / ' n a win " J 1 ter storm: I The Eskimo I 11 dresses in I ILv heavy I fura '—"mjSfK But how does hi■ | nose keep warm ? AN EXCEP TION. Sire: You ahould pra c- iff "J t ice self -de nijl. When- U Hafr. ever anything W '•% T flu costs me more — : than it should /MR I do without (JjUHn i) Son: Ho ■ |A. about the e. cesslve cost of " Uvin*? MAY 6. 1016. 1 | It is destroying men in unprecedented I numbers. The total losses of Europe in killed, wounded and missing: have been estimated as high as ten million men. Furthermore, the number of men who have been taken from the battlefields as nervous wrecks or in \ wane is tremendous. The maddening monotony of trench warfare, the ter rific shock of heavy artillery, the use of poison Rases, all combine to render the war more destructive to human tissue than any that was ever waged before. This side of the picture has of course been greatly emphasized in ! this country, while the other has been | almost overlooked. There iire a num ber of scientists who contend that war is beneficial, and necessary. One ' of the most convincing of these is Dr. otto Amnion of Jpna, who points out , that the conflict between nations is ! the most majestic form of the strug gle for existence, and is really a work ing out of the laws fo natural selec | tion. j The pacificists deny this categoric ally, asserting that the process of nat ural selection is reversed. Thus in the battles of wild animals in a wil derness, the weakest are always killed, the strong survive, and the i breed is improved, in war, however, ; the strongest and fittest are forced to KO to the front and be killed or maimed, while the unfit are care fully protected at home. The recruit ing office says to the weakling citl- I zen, "You are not good enough to be a soldier; go home and be a father." I So those who assert that war in jures the race seem to have the best ! of it if the question is viewed from a J (Continued on Page 5.) ! | THE STATE, FROM W TO DM Alfred Noyes, ' famous poet and idol of many literary fans, visited Warren recently and was much enter tained. He spoke on "Shakespeare and the Sea," and read selections from his own poems. The Huntingdon Semi-Weekly News reports in its social column's that Robert Hart, colored, who has been bellboy at the I-eister Ho/ise, is leaving on Saturday, meaning to-day to take the position of bellboy at tlie Columbus Hotel in Harrisburg. The Sharon Country Club bursts into the public eye through a story printed in one of that town's dailies which exploits one of the town's best story tellers. It seems he is intimate ly acquainted with the Philippines, ithe Titanic disaster and other world famous incidents, but his friends deny i that he was ever out of Mercer county. I A man with imagination is the salt I of the earth. j David Goldstein, noted lecturer of j Boston, Mass., is doing considerable I lecturing in the northern end of the | State. His subject is "Peace and ! War." Truly this debater, author and orator has chosen a subject with con j siderable length and breadth of possi | bilities. Punxsutawney Country Club en thusiasts are raising funds for a gaso line lawn-mower and roller. A SSOO contribution heads the list. Golf Is a uisease. We always knew it. We ! are a bug ourselves. , ' The editor of the Windber "Era," j who recently returned from Florida in a Ford car, tells of an experience in Jacksonville. Florida, where he | was captured by a number of town cops who thought him the thief they ! were looking for. Florida seems to have the happy knack of mistaking identities. There is a similar case of which we note, with Tampa the scene. A certain Harrisburger was mistaken for another of the same name and called up repeatedlv on the telephone by ladies and friends, offering greetings upon his return. In desperation the poor man denied that he was the same man and finallv in self-defense had to shake from his feet the dust of the town. He also was an editor. The Rev. Horace Lincoln Jacobs, superintendent of the Williamsport district of the Central Pennsylvania Methodist Conference and former pastor of Ridge Avenue Methodist Church, of Ilarrisburg, is taking a prominent part In the general con ference of the Methodist Church at Saratoga Springs. N. T. He is secre tary of an important committee. I.ongevity has no terrors for this game old flsherlady. Mi's. Anna E. Shearer. Williamsport, who ranks high among the trout fishermen of tiie State and country. She celebrated her 90th birthday anniversary a short time ago. and is now spending a few days with her" son Ashing along Gray's Run. She "cotehed" her first trout In Lycoming creek some time before 1846. Abetting (Ebat "Imagine a valley shut in by high hills, tlie valley not a thousand feet wide with a creek and a railroad main line and a State highway running through it with big mills and fac tories and buildings and houses and churches and all that goes up to make a string of boroughs and you have the place where the National Guards men are serving in Allegheny county." said a man familiar with the Turtle <'reeh Valley to-day. "The valley starts in near Pttcairn and runs down toward Pittsburgh, where it branches is Braddock and then it spreads oui and takes in North Braddock, Brad dock, Rankin and Swissvale on one side with Munhall and Homestead on the lower side where it widens out. Round the corner from Turtle creek, so to apeak, is Duquesne. This sec tion Is one of the busiest valleys on earth, one of the most congested in dustrial communities and one having a polyglot population that would defy a man to classify under a day and a half. 1 have been "all through it and know every foot of the way. It speaks we 11 for the levelheadedness of the soldiers and the workingmen that trouble has not started because if it did and the belligerents took to the bills there would be a rather exciting time. Many of the foreigners served in armies abroad and it speaks well for their leaders that they have held them in hand so well." The City Passenger Railway Com pany, which held its annual meeting a few days ago is probably one of the oldest existing street railroad cor porations in this part of the State. The company has had an unbroken existence for forty-two years, which is a long period in these days of re organizations and other changes. The City company succeeded a company known as the llarrisburg City Pass enger Railway Company, which was chartered by the Legislature in 186 J. with a number of well-known men as incorporators, it built its first line in lSfiii, but was not a success and in 187.1 it was reorganized and re chartered. George W. Reily, jr., who was elected president of the com pany this week, is a son of one of the incorporators of the first company and one of the officers and directors of the present, company from its for mation. Henry A. Kelker, Jr.. who | was elected secretary, is a son of the [ late Henry A. Kelker who was presi ! dent of the company from 1873 until his death last Fall. Others elected to I t-lie board and to official positions are men who have been long connected j with the company or whose families have been interested in it for two score years or more. They include 11. B. Mitchell, the vice-president: and W. L. OorgU. the treasurer and Ed ward Bailey. George A. Gorgas, Major John T. Ensminger, Harris Cohen, Lesley McCreath, Abner C. McKee. David Fleming, whose father was in the original company, and Frank B. Mussel', president of the Harrishurs Railways Company. • • • in connection with the street rail way meeting it is interesting to nolo that the newspapers of the Spring of 181» 5, complained of street railway material blocking the streets while rails were being laid. On July 18, 18H5, the road got Into operation ap parently because it was announced that: "Cars on the City Passenger Railway will run to-morrow morning during market hours to accommodate the uptown market goers. Person> going to market will take the rars at Ridgeroad and Broad street." The original line ran by horse power and the first tracks were laid in Market from the Pennsylvania station or rather from i the front of the Steam boat hotel up Market, to the Squaro j and up Second to Walnut and then ' up Third and in Third 'o what is now Verbeke, then Broad, and then up and down Sixth street, then called Ridge- I road. • * » Should you suggest to ex-Sheriff ! Harry C. Wells, county commissioner, that he is a wee bit absent-minded at. times he'll vigorously deny it in spite of the little incident in which he figured the other _ day. The sheriff headed for a train* hurried out Mar ket, through Union station, and on down the steps to the train shed the other day while the weather man was handing out some of the April-like type of weather. The ex-sheriff un willing to take a chance with the oc casional sprinklings of rain, carried his umbrella. As he passed through the station he was entirely un conscious of the grins and snickers that followed him. Finally just as he was about, to descend to the train shed. Special Officer "Gus" Haines hailed him: "Hev. Sheriff." lie called, "don't you know the sun's out now?" And Countv Commissioner Wells grinned, albeit a bit sheepishly, and —lowered his spreading umbrella. * * * William H. Schwartz, the veteran editor of Altoona, who is celebrating his fiftieth wedding anniversary to day, is one of the well-known news papermen of Central Pennsylvania. He is seventy, but he is as keen as ever and as unswerving In the cause of local option as the day he penned his first editorial on that subject. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE** ■ A. Merritt Taylor, the Philadel phia transit authority, has devoted I years to studying conditions in that I r John A. Freeman, one of the lawyers in the State escheat act test, was a law partner of the late D. T. I Watson and one of the prominent at- I torneys of Pittsburgh. j. W. McLaughlin, of the Phila delphia city electrical bureau, says the statue of William Penn should be either covered with aluminum or ! bronze. Alexander Brown, of Rosemont, lone of the well known polo players, i will give up the game and sell his ponies. DO YOU KNOW ! __ That Harrislnirg lias been a "baseball bug" town over sir,c" the s|M>rt was started? It lias liail tennis for ulniost fifty years. HISTORIC HARRISBI'RG —Paxton creek was used for wata* power for mills 130 years ago. Putting the "Win" in Window A show window in itself is one arm of business getting. Newsaper advertising is the strong, powerful body. When the two are linked to gether they make a business team with a punch. Merchants frequently effect this combination by linking their windows with the manufacturer's newspaper advertising. They put. the goods in the win dow at the time the manufactur er's newspaper advertising is running and thus bring business to their stores. This is llt-ri'.lly putting the "win" In winnow. ■ —i
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