10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A SEWS PAPER FOR THE HOJ/S • Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRI\TI\G CO., Tclesraph Building, Federal Square. K. J. STACKPOLE. Prei't and Edilerim-CU& F. R. OYSTER, Bn-rsV/i-J S!aK3£tr. GUS M. SHEINMETZ, HiEditor. A Member American Newspaper Pub t Ushers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ&V ed Dailies. E«3tem «fflce, Has brook. Story & Brooks. Fifth Ave nue Building. New York City; West ern office. Matt brook Story A Brooks. People's Gcs Building, Chi« Entered at the Post Office in Harrie* burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <o£BVsTweek; by mail, 13.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10 Love hath its recompense in love; Faith, its reicard in faith! 0 bind our hearts in heaven above. And loose our souls in death. —ALLEN EASTMAN CBOSS. AVERTING RAILROAD STRIKE BOTH the railroads and the broth therhoods are to be commended for their agreement to submit their differences to mediation instead of plunging the country into the most extensive and disastrous strike in its history. The first step toward a peaceful adjustment of the difficulties existing has been taken and if both the companies and the unions will be as reasonable in approaching a com promise now as they have been under almost similar circumstances in other years there will no question as to the success of the negotiations under way. A weighty responsibility rests upen all concerned and the public •would have very little sympathy for ary interest that would arbitrarily in upon such impossible terms as wculd bring on a walk-out that would paralyse tne business cf the whole ccuniry for an indefinite -eriod. IT: the midst of strikes and rumors 01 c!rik?s. it becomes siore and more , criient that. notwithstanding the ab ronr.ally high prices pre-ailmg in xccst liaes cI trade for raw and 3n- Itited the most important S&ctor In present day industrial life ia the high cost of man-power. The cost of manufacture, by the use of raachinery, has been going down steadily in most lines while the cost cf man-power has been advancing. The bigger the volume of trade and the larger the profits, naturally the higher the wage paid. Business in America has been able to meet the almost constantly advancing scale be cause it could pay the price. How long it can continue to meet the demands for more pay and what will happen in the readjustment period after the European war are thoughts that ought to be in the mind of every employer and every labor leader. When the bottom falls out of the munlt.on mar ket and the prices of iron and other commodities begin to sink back tow ard normal, wnat then? Living is high and may go higher before the tide turns. A dollar buys less now than at any time since the Civil "War. but profits, except in a few favored lines, have not kept pace with advancing costs. Every man is justi fied in selling his labor at the high est market price, but it is the wise labor organization that looks to the future. There is no good in killing the goose that lays the golden egg and while seeing to it that men are paid as much as the business in which they are employed can safely pay, all of us ought to realize that we are approaching a most critical period when the combination of American brains and American brawn and American millions will have to stand or fall together. Already Germany. France and England are organizing to wrest our world markets from us and even to invade our own country, unless we pass laws to prevent. Un less our mills are to close and our railroads stagnate when all Europe starts its great industrial drive against us. we must stand united and ready for the onslaught. Capital and labor are going to be in the trenches side by side, and it would be disastrous in deed if the crisis found them at odds with each other. If we are to come through victorious, with our position es an industrial world-power assured and our prosperity guaranteed, capi tal must be just and labor reasonable. It will go hard with all of us if the present war-like attitude of one tow ard the other is maintained. The price of man-power is their chief bone of contention. They must get together on that, and there is much to be said on both sides Dr. Samuel G. Dixon has won the admiration of all who believe in effec tive measures to prevent the spread ot disease through his energetic fight against infantile paralysis. It is not the first time that Dr. Dixon has shown his quality. No more able, disinterested and unselfish official has ever served the State. He combines scientific knowledge with great good sense in the administration of the big health de partment. CITY MCST OWN ISLANDS OWNERSHIP of islands In the Sus quehanna basin within the lim its of Harrisburg should be vested in the city and not in Individ uals. Governor Brumbaugh made clear the attitude of the Commonwealth with respect to certain uncharted is t lands a few months ago when he de- THURSDAY EVENING, I clared that all these islands should be I held by the State tor the benefit and j use of its citizens. No one will ques | tion the correctness of this attitude ' and while title has been given to per , sons here and there to these Islands which should be the property of the municipality or the Commonwealth it ! ought to be an easy matter to take over all such islands and hold them for all the people. Especially ought it to be the policy of the Department of Parks in this city to gain immediate possession of the islands which are included within the basin between the Rockville Gap , and the southern limits of the city. With the increasing use of the river as a place of recreation, the necessity for control and supervision of these island retreats is apparent. . At the present time, with the excep tion of the large island upon which are located the public playgrounds and the city's filter plant, not to men i tion the baseball field and city nurs ery. the other islands are covered with undergrowth and no effort has been made to put them in condition for , public use. Now would seem to be the opportune time for considering the taking over of all these islands. ' Of course, under the powers of the Department of Parks, any island may be condemned and taken for city uses so that private ownership cannot be made a speculative proposition in any case. But it would be well for City Commissioner Gross to take this mat ter into consideration 'now so that measures may be devised for trans ferring the rights of all the islands to the city and the people of Harris burg forever. Tourists who have recently come to Harrisburg through the Lebanon Valley route have been greatly impressed with the fine improvements which have been made at Robesonia and by other towns along the way. Granolithic sidewalks and curbing, with macadamized streets and the planting of many trees, have i given to these towns the clean and well-kept appearance of the New Ens land villages. All this goes to prove that the leaven of community effort is spreading throughout the Common wealth. JAMES RUSS THE death of James Russ removes from Harrisburg one of its best ] known and most picturesque j figures. From an obscure boyhood he arose in early manhood to the repu tation of being one of the best hotel men in the whole country and he num- i bered as his friends men prominent in the political life of the State and nation. His kitchen was noted for its cookery and his dining room for its ' dinner parties, where far more im portant matters than the excellent food he served were discussed. He was of the old school of hotel pro prietors whose personality did much for the success of the places they managed. He was of the period when hotel management was a matter of personal skill and taste and he won his fame before the impersonal hotel corporation. j»'ith its collective effici ency. replaced the individuality that used to be held responsible for the suc cess or failure of a hostelry to please j its patrons. The class to which James Russ in his prime belonged is rapidly passing, and it is a matter of regret that it is so. Perhaps the most striking incident of a preparedness parade of 5.000 peo pie at Sunbury was the presence in line of a German singing society, all the members of which were German-born citizens and ail of whom carried Amer ican flags. As between the hyphenate who never becomes thoroughly Ameri canized and the foreign-born citizen who is true-blue American, there is no comparison whatever. Care should be taken in the wholesale criticism of the hyphenates that injustice is not done those who constitute a large element of our most progressive and responsible and respected citizenry. FALSE. AS USUAL THE Cabinet of the United States yesterday took Charles E. Hughes to task for having said that E. Dana Durand. director of the cen sus. had been forced out of office to make place for a " worthy Democrat." j The Cabinet insisted that Mr. Durand had "voluntarily resigned." To-day comes a letter to Mr. Hughes from Mr. Durand as follows, setting forth the facts surrounding this "voluntary resignation": Inasmuch as the truth of your statement with regard to the change In the directorship of the census has been challenged. I think it is only fair to you that I should make this statement. My resigna tion as director was distinctlv a forced resignation. At the first conversation I had with Secretary Redfield I told him that I would re sign. but that I hoped I would be ' permitted to remain. He at once told me that the Administration had decided that it wanted to make a change. I believe "to create a vacancy" were his words. The next that I heard of it was an announce ment in the press that my succes sor had been named, and I at once wrote out my resignation. This despicable effort to place Mr. Hughes in a false light before the people has turned out to be a boom erang. as those who were so stupidly responsible for it should have known ' that it would. If the Wilson Cabinet gave a little more attention to the mat ters of vital import to the people now crowding upon it from every side and less to issuing false political state ments. the Democratic prospects of > success in November would not be fading so rapidly. Colonel Roosevelt declares emphati cally that the time is ripe for a con stitutional change providing for wo man suffrage. Manifestly the time has come to accept as inevitable equal suf frage and, as some one has indicated, the contest may as well be determined as speedily as possible so that the un rest in politics and political controver sy shall be deprived of its most active element. FAIR PLAY FOR GROCERS THE decision of the Inter-State Commerce Commission to give an early hearing on the re cently advanced rates for shipments of California fruits to the east Is not only eminently fair, but it should never have been necessary. The Commission ordered an advance of rates on all forms of cured fruits from 90 cents to 1.10 and set the date upon which the raise becomes effective as September 1. The dealers of the east do not object to the increase, but they very properly object to the date fixed for making the new sched ule operative. The California pro ducts, for delivery in September. Octo ber and November, are sold by the growers to the wholesalers before they are oft the trees, and the wholesalers in turn sell their future orders to the retail trade before they are shipped from the coast, basing their prices on the price paid the grower plus the freight rate. Thus, practically all of the September. October and November deliveries have been sold on the basis of the freight rate in force previous to the recent order of the Inter-State Commerce Commission, so that the whole eastern market has been upset by the proposed advance. This works an unnecessary hard ship on the wholesaler and the re tailer and it is only proper that they should ask that the date for putting the new freight rates in force be rea sonably postponed. fdLUc* Lk Sy the Ex-Committeeman Refusal of the State county commis sioners' convention to go on record as opposing the present system of pri mary election laws, the personal regis tration in third .class cities and other features of the election statutes of Pennsylvania -at yesterday's meeting of the Meadville convention was the talk of Capitol Hill to-day. The dis satisfaction with the operation of the primary, registration and other laws has been so general that the attitude of the county commissioners is not understood. One reason advanced for the oppo sition manifested to the effort of Messrs. Ritter, of Lycoming, and Chidsey, of Northampton, to have the convention adopt a resolution con demning the system was that the com missioners had suffered so much with the present system that they felt they could endure it a while longer and dreaded a change which might bj worse. The State administration is giving careful consideration to the whole election law system. Attorney Gen eral Brown is having the laws ap plicable to the voting of troops in Federal servics looked up and is digesting some suggestions for changes in laws which may be submitted to the Legislature. Governor Brumbaugh has noted several times difficulties under the present system and the long delays which ensued in finding out results of the May primaries are fresh in the minds of many people. —Owing to the numerous sugges tions for planks in the Republican State platform for this Fall's cam paign. it is likely that the document will be short and sweet. Suggestions for planks dealing with State matters are numerous :\nd varied and some can te classed as weird. The chances are that the platform, which will be draft ed by a committee to be named by the State chairman soon, will be much to the point. The time and place for the meeting of the State committee will be fixed before lone. —The State administration leaders are feeling out how the members of the State committee feel in regard to the Governor in order to determine whether to submit a resolution endors ing his course 01 whether to get tacit approval by a resolution on a legis lative program. The Governor has a legislative program in mind, but the question is whether it will be expedient to submit it. It is possible that the Governor's scouts may find that the sentiment of the State committee will be for discussion of national issues rather than State and will leave the treatment of the Governor to the com mittee without suggestion. The course of the administration has not been such as to arouse much enthusiasm among Penrose and Oliver men who control the committee. —Congressman John R. K. Scott, of Philadelphia, who is a candidate for re-election and the only on>> of the administration candidates for Congress at large to get nominated, is out with an appeal for forgetting of factional differences. Mr. Scott is generally be lieved to have a boom for Governor lurking about him. He is close to the State administration and his appeal modestly says that he will "take an active part in directing" the Hughes campaign in thi; State. Mr. Scott's interview comes out under the heading of "Pennsylvania Hughes Campaign. No. 1" and says in closing: "It is high time we were getting our coats off and casting all factional dissensions aside to start the ball of enthusiasm rolling." Mr. Scott s appeal is regarded by some as a slam at the State committee, in which his friends will be in the mi nority. and by others as a bid for rec cnition as the clcse friend of Hughes. The belief Is that some of the men who are now In power in the State organization will make a tremendous noise this year to show that they are close to the candidate. State commit tee plans are to start the campaign at the usual time ar.d in the usual way. —The old bail bond scandal is be ing brought out again in the probe of Philadelphia's vice by the grand jury and some familiar statements about police connivance are being made. The investigation appears to be turn ing up about what has been found before. —Senator Penrose In a statement! regarding his vcte on the Federal child , labor bill took the position that it is a matter for the States to regulate. He says that, properly considered, the 1 legislation does not belong to what Congress should enact. The Senator said: "I am one of those who believe ; that something ought to be left to the ' sovereign States and that not every detail of law making should be consid ered by Congress. The country is too large, and is confctantly growing, to be successfully governed by the central power in Washington. President Wil- 1 son in one of his books declared ae-ainst desirability of congressional legislation on this subject. It is not to be supposed that I am opposed to the regulation of child labor or legislation to better the conditions and the hours of labor. I was opposed to this legis lation because it was not in harmony with child labor legislation recently enacted in Pennsylvania. Under this law. because of the introduction of an eight-hour day in the anthracite coal region, boys of 14 years of age may be employed about the coal mines. Under the Federal bill as it passed the Senate no boy can work about the collieries if he is under 1C years of age. This bill, therefore, is more restrictive than the Pennsylvania law. This conflict of policies and provisions is sufficient ar gument to me that It Is not desirable for Congress to be Interfering ■with all these matters of State concern regard , less of whether technically the constt j tutional right to do so exists or does i not exist." Senator Oliver, in explanation of his vote on the bill, said: "I voted apralnst the bill because of the consti tutional question purely. It clearly is unconstitutional. I am satisfied that many of the Senators who voted for it are convinced It is unconstitutional." —William P. Slegert, a real estate expert, well known here, has been ap- HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH When a Feller N By BRIGGS P i wishT" ;///> HAD A nice //''Mii I \ 1 I 1 1 pointed as deputy recorder in Phila delphia. —The picnic season is on in the in terior counties and candidates are get tins: very busy. In some of the cen tral countiesthi* attendances are record breaking and *ho candidates' activities in accord. —Through Congressman Daniel F. Lafean and McClean Stock, Repub lican county chairman, an invitation was sent yesterday to Fred W. Willard, president of the State League of Re publican Clubs, to hold its next con vention in York. It is believed the in vitation will be accepted and that more than 1,000 active Republicans will at tend. Candidate.® Hughes and Fair banks and ex-President Roosevelt will be among others invited. Chairman J. H. Findley, of the subcommittee of the county organization, has called a meeting of the committee for Septem ber 1 in York to plan for entertaining the delegates. TELECRAPH PERISCOPE "1 —Where is the scoundrel who pre dicted that this was to be a cool, wet summer? —Baltimore has come across with the annual story of a man overcome by heat in an icehouse, but we have heard nothing of what happened to the ice. —Clean milk and clean homes are the greatest enemies the paralysis germ has. —We are now in position to say au thoritatively that going bass fishing and catching bass are two separate and distinct forms of sport. —tor residents of a prohibition State those Maine lighthouse keepers are certainly seeing a lot of things that nobody else has sighted. EDITORIAL COMMENT 1 If Congress discontinues the practice of printing in the Congressional Record what isn't said on the floor it will ac complish a reform second only to that which would be accomplished if it ceased to print what is said.—Kansas City Times. It is explained that the Administra tion has done nothing about the Lusi tanta case because it "preferred to await developments." One develop ment may be expected on the seventh of November.—Philadelphia Ledger. Fata! mistake not to have crushed that army when it was contcmijtiblf* and little.—Wall Street Journal Ought not the Treasury Department ■ V* ef » u 'P collector# of the ports with diving-suits?— New York Sun "Britain will win the war in a few months. ' savs Lloyd George. This will be news to Russia and France.—Boston Transcript. Ford has climbed down to a nomina fi° n i f K^h overnor ' H< " would make an ideal highways commissioner. Wall Street Journal. *»»» i , ,T5 e . Deut *chland will carry at least '. tons . °J. n ' c kel and rubber for tno starving babies of Germany Pitta burgh Chronicle Telegraph ACHIEVEMENT HT Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright, 1316, star Companv Trust in thine own untried capacitv As thou wouldst trust in God Himself. Thy sou 1 Is but an emanation from the Whole Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the mighty Thy silent mind o'er diamond caves may roll. Go seek them, and let Pilot Will control Those passions which thy favoring winds may be. No man can place a limit on thy strength. ' Such triumphs as no mortal ever gained May yetbe thine, if thou wilt but be- In thy Creator and thyself. At length Some feet must tread all heights now unattained. Why not^ thine own? Press on, achieve, r~ v, SUMMER IN THE CITY By Frederic J. Haskin I_ : . NOW that summer is here, much advice is forthcoming on how to spend a vacation. Rail road pamphlets containing glowing accounts of excursions clutter up the morning mail; every street car car ries the picturesque advertisements of ocean summer resorts; our friends try ta persuade us to visit a certain unequaled lake of their acquaintance, and still others urge us to camp in the mountains. Everybody is excited and concerned over the fortunate in dividual who is going away, but no one seems to care what happens to the man who spends his entire sum mer in the city. There are, of course, a few interested exceptions, such as the proprietors of roof gardens, soda fountains and outdoor motion picture theaters, but for the most part stay ing in the city is an unostentatious sport unattended by press notices and the mania for sending picture post cards. Time was not so very many years ago when it was considered a dis grace to spend the summer in town, and many and weird are the stories of families who, supposed to be in Naragansett or Saratoga, actually liv ed quietly in the backs of their hous es. stealing out only under cover of darkness. City streets in those days presented rows upon rows of silent closed houses as bleak and lifeless as catacombs. Now city life in the sum mer is not such a daring breach of custom and is far from intolerable. As the summer vacationists flock out, a new contingent of sightseers comes to take their places, and although sightseeing under the best of circum stances is a fatiguing experience the people do not seem to feel the addi tional burden of the heat. The sum mer school, also, has served to bring about a change in the popular attitude toward a summer spent in the city. It is a well-known scientific fact that of the two extremes in tempera ture, excessive cold is harder on the constitution, yet school children work ceaselessly through the coldest month of January when it is considered crim inal to keep them in school in July. School authorities have at last come to the conclusion that children are quite capable of assimilating a good deal of knowledge in the summer, and in most cities schools are now provid ed to teach children many subjects, such as basketry and art work, not included in the winter curriculum. So fast has the summer education idea spread that the large colleges of the country now have almost as large a supimer matriculation as in the win ter. When the colleges happen to be in large cities, such as New York and Chicago, to the students the city fac tor esems to be rather an advantage than a disadvantage. The home in the city nowadays gen erally possesses at least two small electric fans, and an automobile or a motor boat, and these features go far toward making summer tolerable. Everybody knows that it Is the hu midity in the air that has the debili tating effect, and the only way to com bat humidity is to keep the air in cir culation and thereby constantly evap orating. Not only does the air hu -1 mldity affect us, but the humidity glv -1 en off by the body on a hot still day forms a sort of blanket over us and makes It dlrflcult even to pretend to be energetic. Thus it has been noted by many people that on a particularly J sultry day it is Just as hot, if not hot- Uer. sitting still than it is moving j about. This is because the air pres sure in moving about disturbs the blanket of humidity surrounding the body. So with fans constantly dis turbing the atmosphere, a room may be kept at as comfortable a tempera j ture in New York as in Newport. This humidity theory was tried out some years ago on monkeys In the 1 tropics to determine the exact cause of sunstroke. In the first experiment a monkey was completely exposed tc jtho sun and died In half an hour Next, the body of a monkey was ex posed to the sun, but his head wai well covered, and the monkey agalr di*d In half an hour. Then the mon key's body was put In a. long box ii AUGUST 10,19T6. | which fans kept a current of cool dry | < i j air in circulation, but his head was '■ '• exposed to the direct rays of the sun. j, > Lnder these circumstances the mon- j , ! key lived for an indefinite period, j j The conclusion obtained from these j. experiments was that in the first and ' second instances the humidity of the j 1 monkey's body, and not the sun, had , ■ stifled him. For this reason it is de- • | cided that violent exercise on a hot 1 summer day is weakening because it ■ increases the humidity of the body, j ' but on the other hand, a slow moder- ; ' ate walk should prove very benefi ■: cial. The problem of keeping cool in >; summer, whether in a metropolis or 1 forest, is a serious one and should re ; ceive a lot more attention than it does. ' It has just been within the past few | years that cooling apparatus has been installed in hospitals and factories and j ■ the suggestion of a cooling system as! well as a heating system in the aver-1 • age house is still rejected as absurd. ■ \et if people can afford to pay for j • coal and gasoline, they can certainly ' buy ammonia, and especially where 1 there are young children and babies it should be made a criminal offense not ; ; to install cooling apparatus of some j ; kind, if only a small fan, just the same • • as if in winter people would be cen -1 sured if they attempted to brinj up a i 5 j family in a house that contained no! ; ■ heating provisions. • | In the matter of food the city is es • | pecially weel supplied in the summer, i •'The farmers ship their best products ! ! jto the large cities where there is a i 1 i constant and certain market for them, i " and a municipal health department j ! sees to it that the city's milk is clean ' j and fresh. \ So, after all, a great deal may be j i • said in favor of the city in summer, j I ? for the poor who are compelled to : ( ; stay whether they want to or not, j'■ there are the muncipal bathing pools! and quite recently in some cities the! ! hospital launch which takes the ailing, • children of poor parents for trips on 1 the rivers and coasts. There are the j amusement parks to offer diversion, i ; the roof gardens for dancing and the j ■ soda fountain for refreshment. Occa- j i sionaily there are some very good i park concerts, as, for instance, the 1 famous concerts of Willow Grove ' heard by residents of Philadelphia. ; While the city cannot compare with : j the freedom of camp life or the seen- 1 'Jery of our coasts, nor with the cool ' 1 ! fragrant stretches of the farm and ! ' open country, it has its compensations. ! ' Credit I [Kansas City Star.] The cnited States government is go- i . in ; into the banking business. It is ' going to lend money. Business of all . kinds is largely conducted upon bor- , I rowed capital, and the fact that new L sources of credit are thus to be opened - up ought to encourage young men to . go into business for themselves. But here is a fact to be noted. The . government is going to lend money only . upon land. Not upon motor cars, dress . : suits, golf sticks or silk socks. Toung - j men who have money invested in this . j kind of property, or in accomplishments -1 like dancing, playing the banjo or i knocking pool balls about with facility II will not be able to do business with the e i new banks. y | If even the United States government, y • which has sometimes been thought to j -; be rather loose in throwing money ? ! around, will look at nothing but the - land—the solid old earth that grows e ! corn and wheat and does not melt away e overnight—then, perhaps, young men - | would do well to look into the matter y | of acquiring some of that kind of col ,- | lateral. Take an Inventory of your posses it sions. Find out the real value of what e ever It is you have been accumulating e all these years. It is isn't anything the t. new banks will lend you money on—if o you can't get a loan on lt-anywhere ex r. cept at a pawnship—perhaps it will open your eyes as t,o what constitutes is value. Anyway, you now know what n the government thinks of the various i- kinds of collateral. It looked them all n over and picked the land—farm land. lEbettmg (Eljal Announcement by the adjutant general's office that the rifle prac tice matches will not be held at Mt. uretna this year because of the or ganizations of the National Guard °. n actlv ® service under the Unit a government will Interest a good many people because the match es are a subject of considerable atten tion. \ arious organizations of the or ganized militia have been winners of cups and trophies and the victories of the teams and the individual work are tfi Qulte a number of com munities. The abandonment of the matches, however, will not do away with the required work of the Guards men in the matter of rifle practice. If the men stay on active service all winter or go into Mexico they will doubtless be given some credit. Oth erwise they will be held to the require ments at the ranges, either indoor or on the fields. If the Guardsmen come back in the Fail it is possible that the time for outdoor practice may be ex tended until real winter sets in. If the men do not return until winter they could do some work at the indoor ranges and keep up records. • • * This is the time of the year for the mallows to be in full bloom and the big field in Wildwood park and some or the patches in the lowlands about the city are well worth visiting. There arc some tracts which have been vis ited annually by lovers of wild flow ers and well do they repay the atten tion given to them. A large field of mallows is something worth traveling to see. • • * Ed. Braceland who sees that the legislative halls of the State Capitol are not carried away, has been drafted in to the service as a volunteer guide the last few days. Jlr. Braceland has telling people the fine points of the House of Representatives and the way he does it would make the other guides want to take a course In the night school. Mr. Braceland has dis covered Santa Claus, polar bears, au tomobiles, chicken hawks and various other configurations in the markings of the marble wainscoting of the Hall of the House. As to the Abbey paint ings he has them down pat. • • » The manner in which the properties on the Hickok tract in Capitol Park extension are coming down bids fair to make the new State House visible to people passing on the trains for the first time from that end. Only the old Bay shoe factory building, now used as a cigar factory is in the way and it will soon disappear, the tobacco company's new plant having been about completed. The removal of oth er buildings is progressing and it is probable that bids for more will be asked in a short time. The old Pax ton warehouse, however, will remain for some time because it is In use by the State itself. The late General D. McM. Gregg, who died a few days ago at Reading, was for manv years a trustee of the Harrisburg Stafe Hospital and took a big interest in the plans for improve ment of the institution. He was ap pointed to the place in 1895 and held office until two years ago, when he resigned. General Gregg seldom miss ed a meeting and kept in close touch with affairs of the hospital. The wading pool at the Twelfth street playgrounds may be drained, filled In, and planted with grass seed before another summer season rolls 'round, unless a better method of fill ing the little pond can be worked out. The method by which the pool is fed now causes frequent overflows In the playgrounds thereby, not causing a loss of much water, but damaging to some extent the surrounding sodding. If there was sufficient money available the park department would have long since cleaned the little "swimmin' hole," lined the bottom and sides of the basin with concrete and so estab lished a permanent pool. In the ab sence of funds this could not be done and unless sufficient provision for the purpose can be made next year, the pool will be abandoned. .. Governor Brumbaugh is spending his vacation playing golf and tramping in the woods, enjoying himself in study of trees and flowers. He is an authority on botany in Pennsylvania and his friends say he will soon know Maine as well. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —James V. Nies, a retired clergy man of Philadelphia, has bought for a winter home the famous pirates' cas tle in the Danish West Indies. —Col. Asher Miner, commander of the Second artillery regiment, used to be a member of the legislature from Wllkes-Barre. —Dr. J. N. Jacobs, former controll er of Montgomery county, has prom ised to pay personally the expenses of a sanitary inspection of Lansdale. —Charles M. Schwab has been so busy that he has been unable to visit his new country home at Loretto. —Captain James Archbald, in com mand of the Pottsville engineers, is en gineer of the Girard estate and for years was a member of the Governor's staff. DO YOU"KNOW [' That Harrisburg has more mo tor boats than any city of its size in the State? HISTORIC HARRISBURG William Maclay planned the State Capitol park years before the legisla ture decided to move here. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members oi the Harrisburg Rotary Club and theil answers as presented at the organiza tion' 3 annual "Municipal Quiz."] What practice is in force for th« registration of plumbers? All master and journeymen plumbers must be examined by th® Board of Plumbing Examiners, and If tests are satisfactorily passed they are licensed and registered. OUR DAILY LAUGH I k*Mr Harol£ Mamma, to pa wBPVR. pa goln' to dU an' go to heaven 1 darlla*, iffT |J what put auclj II Be an absurd Idea ' 1 Jr (u 9 lato your
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