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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.
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