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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.
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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.
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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.
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f d r u m to
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You're" out
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The Eskimo
I 11 dresses in
I ILv heavy
I fura
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does hi■ |
nose keep
warm ?
AN EXCEP
TION.
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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)
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about the e.
cesslve cost of "
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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.
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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.
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