6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KBWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRIXTIXO CO.. Telegraph Building. Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, PrtSt and Editorin-Chi F. R- OYSTER, Businju Manager. GUS M. S'PEINMETZ, Managing Editor. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocla - tion. The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania AssoclfrV Eastern office, Has brook. Story & Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building, New York City; West ern office, Hab- Brooks, People'* Gas Building, Cbl» Entered at the Post Office in Harris® burg. Pa, as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall, $3.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 27 I Icish you not few cares, but ca pacity for many; not easy tasks, but strength to master all of them; not freedom, from temptations, but grace sufficient to wrestle with them; not absence of sorrow, but faith wherewith to~ see beyond it; not exemption from perplexities, but confidence in Ood to work them out. —Axon. THE TURN OF THE TIDE A POLL of all the counties of Pennsylvania shows that the number of retail liquor licenses has been reduced this year from 10,892 in 1915 to 10,61!). and wholesale liquor licenses have fallen from 1,604 in 1915 to 1,514 in the present year. This is one of the marks of the turn ing of the tide. Heretofore unusual prosperity has been accompanied by increased drinking. Now the opposite is true. On every hand is to be found evidence that old King Alcohol Is In as sad plight as are some of the Euro pean monarchs who have played fast and loose with their subjects. Liquor dealers and the makers of liquor who see the handwriting on the wall are not all, however, doing as many in Pennsylvania did last year, go out of business entirely. They are preparing for the time when the bait shall be placed on the sale of alcoholic beverages by going into other lines of trade. For instance, one of the great est brewing houses in the world has just begun an extensive advertising campaign for the sale of a temperance drink to take the place of beer. It Is not to be known as a "near-beer" or a "beer substitute." It is something en tirely new, perfected after numerous experiments and said to be both whole some and palaiable. That the new drink will find a national market is indicated by the announcement of the firm that it must curtail its advertising for the present due to the fact that it cannot immediately fill all orders that have been placed. Another new industry of the same kind has been developed by far west ern brewers and distillers who have found their trade dwindling. This is the juice of the Logan berry that promises to find as great a sale as grapejuice does at present. The liquor dealer or maker may as well leave off fighting the inevitable and spend his time and energy setting up some new line of trade. The end of the liquor business In America is in sight. The "Greater Harrisburg Navy" has j launched with eclat Its movement for the big September carnival and the im- : provement of the Susquehanna Basin. > It's a good thing when the young folks combine their efforts for any Improve ment. This organization will embrace within its membership hundreds of young men who will have associated with them as an auxiliary body the bright girls and energetic women of the city. The movement starts well and the success of the Labor Day car nival will indicate the hustling abili ties of the Navy. NO MORE SKY SCRAPERS THAT citizen of Hungary who de clared to a friend from Amarica that he desired to see two things In the United States the Niagara Falls and the sky scrapers of New York City will be worried when he hears that there will be no more sky j scrapers in New York. No more i Woolworth, Singer or Metropolitan towers. No more Equitable buildings or anything approaching that struc ture in height or area of lot covered. Under an edict sent out by the Board of Estimate, which adopted unanimously the plan of the Commis sion on Building District and Restric tion, moderately low buildings will be the rule hereafter, so constructed that one owner cannot rob his neighbor of light or air. No more garages will Invade splendid home locations and no more factories will be permitted to in trude in the city's finest shopping zones. Nor will the monstrous apart ments overshadow and destroy the at tractiveness of purely residential dis tricts. This oadicaJ departure from the New York building regulations has for Its object the prevention of indiscriminate building of structures without relation to neighborhood, rights of property owners or existing values. No struc ture can be erected hereafter above a certain comparatively low height unless above the legal height it covers a comparatively small portion of the site. This official action has started an avalanche of applications for building permits under the old regulations. ' Fearing the effect of the new order. THURSDAY EVENING, owners of property in the central sec ! tions which are available for im provement with sky scrapers have overwhelmed the Bureau of Buildings with plans for monumental structures, some of them comparable to the great est piles of stone, steel and masonry in the city. During the last two or three days plans have been filed calling for an expenditure of approximately $35,000,- 000 for thirty-eight buildings (|om 12 to 39 stories high. These permits em brace about everything in office, apart ment, loft and hotel construction. It Is believed, however, that the Bureau of Buildings will find sufficient objec tion to most of these eleventh-hour plans to have them withdrawn. It is the opinion of the real estate men that this action will preserve property values throughout Greater New York and make for the conserva tion of real estate. It marks an epoch In the history of New York City. Long ago the European cities began the restriction of buildings so as to conserve light and air and prevent the destruction of values of surrounding property. The sky scrapers of New York City have been the wonders of the world and foreigners upon their arrival In the harbor of the metropolis have always been amazed with the un usual sky line of that city. But New York Is not the only of fender in this direction. Other cities have projected great buildings into the atmosphere at the expense of the contiguous property values. Here in Harrisburg the City Planning Com mission is doing what it can to bring about a better attitude of the public mind toward neighborhood values. Light and air is to be secured through detached buildings, especially in the residential section, and the erection of factories and industrial plants in the midst of residences will be prevented hereafter. New York has set in motion a movement which will likely extend throughout the country and this change of front has not come a day too soon. Property values will un doubtedly increase wherever reason able restrictions of the sort Indicated are adopted by the municipality. Real estate values will rapidly improve wherever sane conditions are estab lished. The time has passed in the matter of building and planning when the rights of the neighbor or the neighborhood could be disregarded with Impunity. We are living in a dif ferent day and the owner of property here and elsewhere must be made to understand that he cannot do anything which will adversely affect his neigh bor. Those unlucky speculators who hesi tated to purchase the common stock of the United States Steel Corporation, a few years ago, at the low price of ten dollars, will probably have an uncom fortable period of self-communion when they read that the company has just declared an extra dividend of 1 per cent on the common stock beside the regular 1H per cent, quarterly distribu tion. Certainly steel is either prince or 1 pauper. UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING THAT the business men of the United States, as represented by j the commercial organizations of I the country, are almost unanimously in favor of universal training is shown by the referendum vote taken by the National Chamber of Commerce in every Btate of the Union and recently announced. This indicate? not only a remarkable reversal of public sentiment as it ex isted previous to the war in Europe, but shows very plainly that public opinion, at least so far as It is repre sented by the business men of the nation. Is in advance of Congress, since our lawmakers have not as yet given much consideration to the Idea of uni versal service. The ballot shows 889 votes of or ganizations In favor and only 56 against a system of universal training which shall be enforced by law to fur nish men for defense in war as well as in peace. Forty-three States were rep resented. A responsible and intelli gent element of the citizens in twenty four of these States voted unanimously. In eighteen others the vote ranged from more than 100 to 1 to 2to 1. In only one State, Alabama, was the vote opposed. The Nation's Business, which gives considerable space to this remarkable vote, expresses the belief- that the change of sentiment is not wholly the result of a desire to protect the coun try against attack, but that it is in part due as well to the belief of busi ness men, as a result of observation since the war began, that universal service will develop a better-balanced and more self-desclpllned youth from which to build succeeding generations of American citizens. They have regis tered their opinion that it will not only i prepare citizens for wars which all | hope to avoid, but will fit them better j for virile, substantial peace which all hope to enjoy. "They do not fear the obligation of military training any more than that of taxes or of edu cation," according to the same au thority, which sums up the sentiment expressed in these words: "Few be lieve that If the collection of taxes were left to the compulsion of the spirit of America, very much revenue would accrue. There is no less reason to believe In obligatory taxes than In obligatory defense. Long enough the patriotic and self-sacrificing volunteer has shouldered the rifle, and with it the duty of his neighbor. Long enough has he been the victim of the loosely knit and slow-moving military machine which. In our own history, invariably results from such a system. The beginning of compulsory edu cation was regarded by a famous English philosopher, Herbert Spencer, as the doom of progress; it has proved to be one of its mainstays. The ac ceplance by the American people of an equal obligation for military duty on the part of alll citizens should, it is believed, prove of equal value. It is now urged emphatically by a Respon sible and conservative element of the public and In this movement the Cham ber of Commerce of the United States will, therefore, be led, necessarily, to XPlay a large part." politico. tn. "PtKivoifCcanZa the Kx-Oommineemwi The case of Dr. H. A. Surface, the State zoologist, who has refused to resign at the request of the State Com mission of Agriculture and who ap pealed his case to Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh, who is in Maine on his vacation, will be brought to a conclu sion here next Monday night when a meeting of the commission will be held. A formal call for the commis sion was issued to-day and as that day is the last of the month it is believed that the commission will direct that the zoologist be ousted if he does not resign. The zoologist was asked to resign to take effect on August 1, but demanding reasons for his retirement and not getting them, took his case to friends who interested themselves in his behalf writing to the Governor. Secretary of Agriculture Patton and others. Dr. Surface also saw mem bers of the commission and this, it is believed, brought about the call for the meeting. The surtace case bids fair to be a political issue as there are claims made by friends of the zoologist that he is being dismissed because he is associated in orchard enterprises with men who were not with the Governor in the late unpleasantness. This, how ever, is denied at the Capitol. No reasons for the dismissal have been given, but it is intimated that there will be some forthcoming if needed. Dr. Surface has challeneged their pro duction. Prof. J. G. Saunders, of Wisconsirv, who was here yesterday afternoon, is generally looked upon as the man who will succeed Dr. Surface. —Prof. Saunders is one of the na tional authorities on San Jose scale and diseases of trees and the pests which beset them. He is connected with the Wisconsin department of ag riculture and has written a number of books. When he was in college he played football. It seems to be pretty generally understood that the man to be appointed will come from another State and up-to-date It looks like the Wisconsin man. —District Attorney Rotan, who has taken charge of the Philadelphia vice probe, and Mayor Smith had another conference yesterday. The probe is being pushed and Gibboney is saying things about the police. —Pittsburgh is enjoying a period of calm in politics for a change, the only thing disturbing people out there being the postmastership. The new post ■ master, Alexander Guffey, has declared that relations between him and Dr. McNeil, who was dismissed, are very pleasant. • —Prof. J. Louis Sowers, who will walk the plank in the Compensation Board, will accept his dismissal, it was said to-day. He is now on vacation but It is intimated that before he left he was told he would not be needed after July 31. Reasons why he was dropped differ. Some think that it Is the result of his objecting to circulat ing a nomination petition for a Brum baugh delegate, others that he was in competent-for the work assigned and i others that there is no fund left to ! pay him. Nowadays on Capitol Hill | you can take your choice. —Signs of the "big drive" on the men who were "not friendly with i Brumbaugh" in the late unpleasant ! ness are appearing at the Capitol. J Private Secretary William H. Ball is I gathering data about the men who j hold office and has each county listed j with the number of appointments arid the amount of salaries paid. This is | one of the fortunes of war for those |on the Hill. There will be a tremen | dous outcry when the changes start i around August 1, but such things have happened before and the people in au thority generally like to look after their own. —lt Is understood that more post master appointments are to be con firmed this month and that by August 1 things will be in pretty fair shape as far as the federal patronage goes. There will then be nothing left to do except iron out the 2,000 fights over post offices. The Democratic State ma chine is holding up recommendations for about 50 post offices so as to use them this Fall. —The borough of Greenville is to be given a $60,000 post office. The Flor ida congressman, who is chairman of the congressional post office commit tee, Is the only one to stand up for it. —lt is expected that the withdrawal of J. V. Clark as candidate for State treasurer on the Washington party ticket will be followed by others with in a week. Repudiating Americans [From the Philadelphia Ledger.] Of course, the administration is shouting as loudly as anyone else, through Messrs. McAdoo and Hurley, about the pots of gold that lie at the foot of the South and Central Ameri can trade rainbow: but what is to pre vent it when trouble arises and dis putes occur between the honest Ameri can business men who may be engaged in trade in Central and South America and the several governments of Latin America from repudiating them all, and, as has been done In Mexico, putting the stigma of moral turpitude on all who had the efficiency, the fore sight, the engineering experience and the hardihood and enterprise to go Into Latin America and help to develop its resources? Hughes and the People [From the New York Herald.] That Mr. Hughes showed a pretty fine knowledge of "the political game" when governor of this state persons who opposed htm learned to their sor row. He had the faculty of reaching the people—wherein lies political suc cess. And unless the six years' experi ence in the nonuolitical atmosphere of the Supreme Court of the United States has dulled that faculty it may be safely predicted that Mr. Hughes will before long take ths voters of the United States into his confidence with respect to his Cabinet intentions. Indicating that if elected he will draw around him men of the caliber of Mr. Root, Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Choate. Papers Raise Their Rates The Atlanta Journal and the At lanta Georgian have raised their prices from 2 to 3 cents a copy; the Reading (Pa.) News-Times and the Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call from 1 to 2 cents. It is reported that the Reading Herald will increase its delivery rate from 6 to 8 cents. TOO BLAMED HOT By Wins Dinger It's too ltot to do much stirring, 1 It's so hot, one can't keep still. It's too hot to go a flehln' In the dam beside the mill. It's too hot to go to woodlands ■ And 'neath shade trees there to roam, . Yet one really must do something— It's too hot to stay at home. i It's too hot to go a-golflng, And when It's too hot. by jing, To v X Fishims vwoew \ X / wbu X>i6 nve J X > f jlljif' il" |[ j Jill|r | : ii • m _> - TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE 1 • —"We Just dare any German sub marine to try to do anything to that Greater Harrisburg Navy. —Harrisburg guardsmen at the Bor der are not among those who complain of not hearing often from home—they get the Telegraph. —"Cyclone" Davis apparently did not get into the cellar in time. —The Kaiser snd the British agree on at least one point—both would like j to see the Kaiser get into the trenches. —When a man talks of the "good old days," nine "times out of ten he means his good young days. —That President Wilson is ready to pay $25,000,000 for islands that Roose velt could have purchased but for Congress for $5,000,000 is only another evidence of the remarkable business administration that is the boast of Democratic edilors. EDITORIAL COMMENT] Thomas Mott Osborne gets a second term at Sing Sing, but he will not take an appeal.—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. As we understand it, "pork" is the money expended on public improve ments in some other town.—Nashville Southern Lumberman. If our peevish militiamen have to come back without their war we ad vise Mr. Wilson to postpone the recall until after the November elections.— Boston Transcript. The extent of the Colonel's opposi tion to Mr. Wilson was not realized until it developed that it was on that account that he declined to run again. —Nashville Southern Lumberman. Steel (New York Sun.) The statement by the United States Steel Corporation exceeds by many mil lions the high expectations previously entertained concerning this quarter's earnings. It strengthens a general market Just now subject to many ad verse influences. It registers in as tounding figures a new maximum mark In the prosperity of the basic industry of this country. An extra dividend of one per cent, goes now to the multitu dinous holders of the common stock. The record Is unexampled, but Its significance will be wrongly estimated unless It is duly regarded as an Inci dent of the great war. As the activi ty of steel is the index of the activ ities of countless other American in terests, so the relation of steel to tem porary conditions In the world outside denotes the dependence of the present prosperity of those other Interests up on conditions beyond our domestic power to mar or make. The steel showing, therefore, is a warning to shortsighted or sluggish legislators at the American Capitol, Instead of an assurance of the suc cess of their experimenting, and wise citizens will so consider it; for our prosperity must be made permanent jand not ephemeral. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] What amount of bond is required of persons having contracts with city? Twenty-five per cent, of the con tract pric*. Surety bonds. _ OUR HIGHEST PEAK By Frederic J. Haskin \ . A MEASURE creating in Alaska the Mt. McKinley National Park has been favorably reported by the Senate Committee on territories. It was introduced in the House by delegate Wickersham of Alaska. As the bill calls for no large appropria tions and is favored by the Alaskan representative, if will probably be come a law. This means that the great Alaskan peak and the region surrounding it will be placed under government control, the game protect ed, roads and trails and hotels built, and everything else done to make the place accessible and preserve its prim itive character. Mt. McKinley rises to the height of 20,300 feet above sea-level, is the high est peak in North America, and is accounted by experienced travelers the most striking bit of natural scen ery on the continent. Although there are mountains in the world the crests of which are higher above sea-level, there is none that lifts so high above the surrounding terrain. For Mt. Mc- Kinley is a huge dome of granite and ice presenting on the southern side 16,000 feet of sheer rise above the gradual slope at its foot. It is flank ed on either side by peaks of the Alaskan range rising fifteen to sixteen thousand feet above sea-level, and it dwarfs them into significance. Swep£ by the humid Pacific winds, the southern side of Mt. McKinley is one of the most terrible and inaccess ible wildernesses in the world. Snow sometimes falls to a depth of sixty feet on the level, and the whole moun tain side is sheathed in ice and snow all the year round. A number of great glaciers creep down its flanks, and in the summer there are numerous flashing mountain torrents. From this side the mountain is al together inaccessible, but its northern slope is protected from the Pacific wind and moisture by the Alaskan range. Although its upper sixteen thousand feet are here, too, covered with snow and ice, the mountain may be ascended. Its lower slopes range into a beautiful arctic tundra, which is in summer a great lawn starred with wild flowers in remarkable abun dance and variety, while the swift streams are lined with forests of spruce and willow. Upon these plains great herds of caribou wheel about the pack train of the prospector in guileless curiosity, suggesting in their primitive abundance the bison herds of the early west. Bears of several kinds are also numerous, while sable and fox make the region a rich one for the trapper. On the upper slopes the big-horn or mountain sheep exists in great numbers, one observer hav ing counted five hundred of them in a day. | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR" INFANTILE PARALYSIS To the Editor of the Telegraph: In reading the article in the Tele graph of July 25, in regard to "how mothers could help prevent the spread of Infantile Paralysis," or words to that effect. I would like to suggest that if the city would watch and keep clean the districts that the poorer classes in habit, there probably would not be an epidemic, because it seems that is lust what New York City neglected to do, and in those districts the disease is at its worst. Of course that alone would not pre vent it. but if every person would keep their homes and yards scrupulously clean, being most careful not toleave garbage or any like lying around or uncovered, and not bo afraid, I am sure we would be flee of it. Quoting from a morning paper this sentence is most practical and sensible. "A study of the different epidemics of the disease does not justify this public panic." Trusting you may And room In your valuable paper for this communication, and thanking you for your attention to same, I am, Yours very truly. > IAC.II. JULY 27, 1916. Although this tundra country on the north si'de of the mountain is a veri table garden in the summer it is so near the arctic circle that at midnight one can read a newspaper without the aid of artificial light. The setting aside of this wonderful region as a protected park was urged upon Congress by representatives of the Boone and Crockett Club and the Camp Fire Club of America —two na tional organizations of big game hunt ers. These lovers of the wilderness were motivated primarily by the de sire to save a bit of the Alaskan wild from the desecration that civilization is sure to bring. They were also able to cite some very practical reasons for the creation of the park, however. The most important of these was that the- new government railroad which is now being built from Seward to the interior of Alaska will pass within twenty miles of the boundary of the proposed reservation. This will bring Mt. McKinley within three weeks of New York by the comfortable means of modern travel. Any tourist will be able to hire a pony and a guide at Broad Pass and ride to the foot of this mountain of granite and ice through the flowering tundra country. This would not only add a splendid trip to the itinerary of the American traveler, but it would give the government rail road an assured tourist business from the start. It has been estimated that an automobile road could be built across the tundra to the foot of the mountain at an expense of about »2,000 a mile. Belmore Brown of the Camp Fire Club of America also pointed out to the Senate Committee that the park would be a sort of game reservoir from which the surrounding country would be restocked; and he asserted that the wild game had been an in dispensable factor in the opening up of the Alaskan interior. In that coun try there is no agriculture, and trans portation presents tremendous diffi culties. But almost everywhere splen did game animals abound. These have been alrpost the sole support of the hardy prospectors who opened the resources of Alaska to industry. A provision is to be included in the bill making it possible to issue permits to prospectors to kill what game they need for food. The prospector knows the value of the game, and does not waste it; but the coming of the railroad is sure to bring a class of men who Vill kill for the pleasure of killing. This has been the history of every railroad in a new country. The railroad was the doom of bison and elk In the West. • It is be lieved that by the creation of this park Alaskan game, which is one of the country's most valuable assets, may be saved for many generations. I OUR DAILY LAUGH 1 THE GOOD OLD I^so5 SUMMER TIME. , ■ J spin nor toll. Doctor, do you Lm yLU believe in people /fi taking- vacations? iLyk > Considering the T k I practice It brings 1 r / me, I should b? SH| V"] nLi\ an ingrate to de- J.tJ ny the custom. J ] Ibptttng (Eljal A good many jokes have been writ ten about the high cost of living but as a matter of fact It has passed the joke stage and the humble bean, which is so much used by the humorist, the cartoonist and the dietlst is now an object of Intense interest to the econo mist. The bean generally can be as sumed to maintain a level place as far as prices for food go, being fairly rea sonable In price when potatoes, beef and other substantials of life are do ing the lofty wire acts. But the situ ation is changing even in regard to the bean and in the generally disturbed condition of prices the vegetable that contains so much of the stuff that gives us the punch is af fected, too. Grocers and com mission men say that the tendency of the priies for beans to rise is due to the belligerency of the nations. Beans began to become expensive when the European war got into its second year and now when it is hovering on the edge of the third the prices of some beans have doubled. Our own military demands have contributed to a certain extent to the gyrations in prices of beans as well because the United States government promptly proceeded to buy up the staple in immense quan tities and even the great baked bean erles, which have their own fields and warehouses, declined to take orders for anything except small shipments. Frankly speaking, the last article on the list which we would expect to be affected by the advance in prices is showing such a tendency to ascend that we are commencing to look with suspicion upon the "staff of life" and the accompanying hunk of cheese and the pickle. When they go up all hope will be lost. • • « For the first time in many weeks Mayor Ezra S. Meals yesterday visited city offices in the courthouse and de partment chiefs and attaches extend ed him a mightily welcome hand. Thinner by somj twenty-five pounds and considerably weaker because of his long siege of illness, the chief ex ecutive is still the quietly humorous official as of yore. Incidentally he de clines to believe that he was nearly the sick man. the physicians would have had him, he sayS. "Understand, Mayor," ventured a friend to-day, "that you were pretty close to the edge of things!" "That's what they tried to make me believe, but," replied His Honor, with twinkling eyes, 'I got no whiff of brim stone nor did I hear any music of harps'." • • • Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, the pub lisher of the Altoona Tribune and au thor of books which have done more to place before the people of Pennsyl vania the beauties and the legends of the mountains and valleys of their State than any one in a generation, has published a pamphlet which is a valuable addition to the history of the Commonwealth. It is written about the last of the "War Governors." those sturdy executives of loyal States who met at Altoona in the darkest days of the Civil war and pledged support to Lincoln. The last of this famous group of men was Col. William Sprague, Governor of Rhode Island and distinguished official, soldier and senator, a noted member of a noted family. Col. Shoemaker writes enter tainingly about his stirring life and has tolc the story of the conference and analyzed its results, grouping some stories of the gathering which had such a momentous effect upon the for . tunes of the North. The story of the conference as published by the Trl , bune in war days is given and the t work is embellished by pictures taken } from photographs of the participants in the meeting. This conference is i given entirely too scant mention in I the histories of the State and Col. ( Shoemaker has given to the State ~ some information which will be of vast ' interest in the days to come. Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game Commission, has a pretty effective way of dealing with critics. It's part of his daily business anyway. It happens that not long ago there was published a digest or code or compil ation of the laws and decisions in re gard to the killing of unlicensed dogs and the protection of sheep. The Game and Agricultural Department authorities are taking steps to bring about enforcement and the book at tracted some attention and some abuse. One man wrote raising all sorts of Cain about the book and let the doctor have a copy of the letter. The game official stated what the book was supposed to be and got an answer indicating that he ought to be sure of his law and that he ought to consult an attorney. Dr. Kalbfus re plied that the man should read the book as it was compiled by the At torney General's department and a statement made to that effect. « • • Chairman Harry A. Mackey, of the State Compensation Board, had a hard time getting to Harrisburg for the meeting scheduled yesterday. He had been in Scranton on Board business and was hemmed in behind a wash out on a railroad leading to Sunbury, where he had to change cars. He got through and then found he had missed a train. Ha- arrived here late in the afternoon. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —George Wharton Pepper, the Phil adelphia lawyer, is in Maine. —General A. J. Logan, of Pitts burgh, who was taken ill in Texas, is Improving. —Director George S. Webster, of the Philadelphia department of docks and ferries, spent yesterday inspecting canals leading to Philadelphia. —lsador Sobel, of Erie, has been elected president of the B'Nai Brith State organization. —R. R. Harrison, of Pittsburgh, has been elected president of the associa tion of descendants of Benjamin Har rison, one of the signers of the Dec laration of Independence. —Col. T. J. Keenan, prominent Pittsburgh man. is one of the men who headed a movement to acquire the Danish Indies long ago. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg Is shipping materials for buildings to France? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first road into Harrisburg was laid out about 1736. Women Where Needed [From the New York World.] Commissioner of Health Emerson confers higher honors upon woman hood than are contemplated by any suffrageamendment. Hereafter,women nurses are to take the places of police men on all health department ambu lances. Recent unhappy experiences should not have been necessary to sug gest the change here ordered. On gen eral principles a nurse is naturally associated with an. ambulance, and, except in cases of riot, a police officer is not. More important than this, how evetr is recognition of the fact that on errands of mercy a good woman is often of more service than m&iut [men.