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WEDNESDAY" EVENING, ACG. 23
"Give. give be always giring.
Who gives not is not living;
The more you give the more you live."
RESTORING SHAD IXDVSTRY
FISH COMMISSIONER BULLER
will have the hearty support of
the public ill his effort to restore
the shad fishing industry to the Sus
quehanna river. In particular is the
public interested in the extension of
the fishway at the McCall's Ferry dam.
It is proper to plant the 3.000,000
young shad that Mr. Buller proposes
to place in the stream, but the upper
reaches of the Susquehanna river will
benefit very little unless this fishway is
Improved. Shad in particular dislike
artificial channels, and the proof that
they do not, or cannot, use the present
fishway to ar.y great extent lies in the
fact that there are few, if any, shad
in the Susquehanna river at Harris
burs now. whereas before the McCall's
Ferry dam was built there were hun
dreds of the fish in local waters.
Too little attention has been paid to
fishing in the upper waters of the
State, although conditions have im
proved In recent years. For instance,
in Tioga county, Pine creek is free
from impurities and there good bass
fishing abounds. But along the Cowen
esque river the great tanneries have
rendered the waters foul smelling and
impure. Fish are killed by the thou
sands every year. Conditions there
are so bad that cows drinking from
the stream die and the odors along
some sections are abominable. Xot
until such evils as those at McCall's
Ferry and along the Cowenesque are
remedied will fishing In Pennsylvania
come into its own and full confidence
be restored in the Department of Fish
eries.
THROWING SAXD
.TAPA>>"ESE statesmen are so per
sistent and vehement in their
declarations of friendship for
the United States that thoughtful
purposes may be forgiven for sus
pecting that perhaps they are engaged
in the old practice of throwing sand
in order to blind the vision of Ameri
cans to the true intentions of the Jap
anese government. Just now we are
hearing from many sources that the
Russo-Japanese alliance will be real
ly beneficial to American business
and is by no means designed to drive
Yankee trade out of the Orient. Let
us not be too sure.
Reports and rumors have been rife
for months, and are steadily gaining in
persistence and coherence, to the ef
fect that the belligerent alliances of
Europe will be succeeded by commer
cial alliances which will wage a bit
ter though bloodless war for the dom
inance of the world's trade—an object
that really underlies the war itself.
In this connection we hear of prefer
ential trade treaties, of reciprocal tar
iff agreements to be consummated, of
elaborate plans for girdling the globe
with trenches of commerce, in which
the place of the United States is no:
very clear. The Allies are said to in
tend the elimination of the central
powers from the supply-and-demand
equation, while Germany and Austria
naturally enough have their own in
tentions in the matter of post-bellum
business.
Meanwhile the United States, with
no organized national policy for for
eign trade domination, or even exten
sion and consolidation, by grace of
circumstances continues \o enjoy
more profitable foreign busiress than
ever before in her history.
The vital question, of course, is
how long this state of affairs, or one
at all like it, will last after the peace
treaties are signed and Europe turns
from the rifle to the ledger. True
enough, it seems doubtful that any ar
bltrary combination of powers, mar
kets and resources can long stand out
against the force of natural trade cur
rents. which are guided by laws eco
nomical rather than political or sen
timental. None the less, there is lit
tle doubt that strenuous and far
reaching effort to direct artificially
the flow of world-business will be
made by the warring powers after the
war.
Arbitrary and artificial arrange-1
meats for the direction of industry
and commerce have been more suc
cessfully applied in China and the un
settled markets of the Far East gen
erally than in any other place. Given
a sufficiently strong native central
government and a moderate national
autonomy, the business of a buyer na
tion will go to the sources where the
goods best fited to its needs are for
sale at lowest prices. In the case of a
country like China, where the compli
cations of the local situation make it
necessary for the foreign merchant to
be backed by the force of his home
government before his investment is
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WEDNESDAY EVENING,
secure, and where conflicting spheres
of influence with their accompanying
preferential trade rights have from
time to time existed, commerce be
comes a matter for national diplom
acy as much as for individual enter
prise.
It is for this reason that new trea
ties relating to the status of strong
Powers in the weak countries in the
Orient have a direct bearing on the
interests of Americans. Tor nowa
days it is a well-recognized fact that
the prosperity of a business man who
lives a thousand miles inland from the
national boundaries, and who never
does business outside his own county,
is nevertheless dependent on the
prosperity of the nation as a whole,
and that prosperity is in turn depend
ent on the state of foreign trade.
The diplomacy which looks after
business interests has come to be call
ed in the last few vears "dollar di
plomacy"—a catch-word that has
about it a hint of opprobrium. None
the less, dollar diplomacy seems In a
fair way to be universally recognised
as the leading form of modern di
plomacy. Religious wars, wars of con
quest, wars growing out of personal
ambition or over boundary disputes
have disappeared among flrst-class
powers; even wars over national hon
or do not seem to be much in evi
dence, for here arbitration has Its per
fect opportunity. Modern wars are
trade wars in the last analysis, which
means they are the bitterest kind of
wars tattles for existence. They
are dollar wars, and for the same rea
son we have dollar diplomacy.
It was the scorn for dollar diplom
acy that led to the withdrawal of
American capital from participation
In a recent large foreign loan to
China. While no official statement to
this effect has yet been made, the re
port is current and accepted that the
L'nited States will favor American
oans to China, so long as these do not
mply any preferential concessions to
:he lenders. This is a basically sound
policy for the nation to adopt. Indi
vidually, we are all dollar diplomats
n the game of life by force of neces
sity, and the same force operates on
lations.
Certain parties in China profess to
•egard the new American attitude as
:oming too late in some respects, since
Russia has recently loaned $18,000,000
>n account of northern Chinese rail
vays, and her concessions cover some
vhat the same ground whose opening
vas contemplated in the American
?hinchow-Aigun railway scheme,
vhich fell through on account of for
ilgn opposition and a lack of enthu
iasm in domestic support. But there
ire plenty of opportunities for Invest
nent left in China.
It is in this latter connection that
he possible effects of the Russia-
Tapan agreement are giving rise to
■nilless speculation. What will be the
iffect on American chances? Will
hese two Powers divide the Far East
)etween them, as Senator Lewis put
t; do they contemplate the division
>f the world into three parts, a Eu
■ope controlled by France and Eng
and, an Asia controlled by Russia
md Japan, and an America controlled
>y the United States for business pur
>oses, if we can control It?
CARDINAL GIBBONS' SPEECH
Cardinal gibbons delivered
. an address before a mass meet
ing at Madison Square Garden
•unday night, as one of the features
>f the Catholic Week program of the
Unerican Federation of Catholic So
letles. In which he said:
You live in a republic where
there is liberty without license, and
authority without despotism; and
where the civil rulers hold over
you the aegis of its protection
without interfering with the God
given rights of conscience.
In view of the signal blessings
you enjoy, it is your duty to take
an active, personal, vital interest
in the welfare of your country.
You should glory in her prosperity,
and be concerned at every adver
sity that may befall her.
This is Americanism of the first
jrder. It sums up ail the volumes
hat have been recently printed on pa
riotic devotion. Cardinal Gibbons was
.peaking to many of foreign birth.
■ie exalted for them the American
nstitutions and bade them forget for
ill time the hyphen of a divided
litnzenship.
"Liberty without license"; we need
o learn that lesson. Liberty without
icense means due regard for the
•ights of others—it is in the final
malysis the application of the Golden
£ule to everyday life—do as you
vould be done by.
The citizen who has due regard
[or the rights and property of others
s a good citizen. All others are, in
.-arying degrees, &ad citizens, no mat
:er what their station in life.
THE NEW CITY PLAN
THE National Municipal League
has outlined a new model for city
government. The league believes
the commission-manager form best
meets the needs.
Put the government up to a small
sommlssion, let the commission dele
gate its powers to 'a manager ani
efficiency will be promoted and graft
eliminated.
Peihaps! It depends much on both
the commissioners and the manager
they hire. But the*e are those whq
see danger in this concentration of
municipal responsibility. There are
others who believe that this central
ization of power robs the private citi
zen of initiative and saps individual
interest in public affairs. Many citie«?
will want to know something more of
the new plan betore rushing tc
Adopt it.
CITY PARKING SPACE
SOME larger cities, and others not
so Urge, are providing parking
spaces for automobiles. In time
all towns of any size will have to dc
this. It Is time for Harrisburg to take
the matter under consideration. Out
automobile problem Is becoming more
difficult every day. If parking were
entirely done away with on centra!
business streets and ft central parking
plot provided, with a watchman in
charge, the city streets would be
cleared, the traffic puzzle solved an';
automobile thefts made next to im
possible.
r= =a *
"PouvOiftucuua
By the Ex-Committeeman j
Attorney General Francis Shur.k j
Brown's refusal to grant the use of
the name of the State in the petition
of William Leslie to oust Mayor John
V. Kosek, of 'Wilkes-Barre. on the
ground that the mayor could not suc
ceed himself as executive of a third
class city and that he did not have
fifty-one per cent, of the vote at the
primary, whiah was announced last
night, contains an intimation that the
petitioner should have taken appeals
to higher courts from the decisions in
Luzerne county, where he had raised
the same Questions as he submitted to
the State's chief law orflcer.
The case was watched with the
greatest interest in all of the third
class cities as counsel for Kosek con
i tended that the Clark act made a
whole new code for municipalities of
; that class and that the mayor could
succeed himself because there was no
j prohibition.
In his opinion Mr. Brown s&ys:
"To allow the use of the name of
the Commonwealth in quo warranto
proceedings now would simply be giv
ing an opportunity to permit the court
to pass upon these questions but the
j court has already passed upon both
of them and in neither instance was
an appeal taken. If the use of the
name of the Commonwealth were al
lowed the natural inclination of the
Attorney General would be to direct
• the proceeding in the county in which
; the city of Wilkes-Barre Is situate.
, That would be a superfluous proceed
ings insasmuch as that court has al
j ready determined the question and.
' nobody having had sufficient interest
to take an appeal at the proper time,
i it appears to be a hardship to re
quire Mayor Kosek to travel to sm
other county to sustain his right to
office, which has already been ques
; tion, and which could have been fln
i ally and promptly determined by an
appeal from the action of the Luzerne
! county court.
"There seems to have been no* pub
lic interest awakened in Wilkes-Barre
for the purpose of having this ques
tion finally determined when the ques
tion was directly before the people,
and the application now made is by
one person.
"For these reasons, without at
tempting to decide the questions which
have already been passed upon by the
Luzerne county court, I am constrain
ed to refuse the use of the name of
the Commonwealth in quo warranto
proceedings to test the right of John
V. Kosek to hold the office of mayor
of the city of Wilkes-Barre."
—People connected with the office
of Governor Brumbaugh to-day de
clared that they did not have anything
at all upon which to base any state
ment that the Governor was ill at his
summer home in Maine. Reports
were in circulation here to-day that
the Governor had a new attack of gall
stones but there is no information here
that he is ill. Telegrams and letters
came from him on business matters to
day. The late summer housecleaning
has been started at the Executive Man
sion and it is expected that the Gov
ernor will be back in Harrisburg about
September 10. He is scheduled for a
number of important meetings on
State finances and other subjects at
that time.
—Attorney General Brown and his
staff have made the most exlmustive
srudy of the problems attending vot
ing of soldiers and a good many inter
esting things have been turned up.
among them the fact that in both the
Civil and Spanish wars a compara
tively small number of men voted.
It also appeared that the bill provid
ing for the Civil War soldiers to vote
was offered in the Senate by Henry
Johnson, afterward president of that
body. He was the father-in-law of
Deputy Attorney General Collins. It
also appeared that in the Spanish
War men voted in half a dozen States
and in Luzon.
—The outcome of the initiative and
referendum in the jitney case in Har
risburg is being awaited with much
interest all over the State, as it wili
be the lirst application of the prin
ciple in a big matter under the Clark
act regulating third class cities. This
city has always been closely watched
for the operation of any third class
city law because it was one of the few
munieipalities successful under the old
act.
—Another interesting move has
just been made in Philadelphia where
Frank J. Commiskey, formerly con
nected with \he State Insurance De
partment, has been reinstated as chief
of the Bureau of City Property. Com
miskey is a McXichol man and was
named to succeed William H. Ball,
now secretary to the Governor. His
ward did not go for the Brumbaugh
delegates and he was •'disciplined'" by
being taken out of the place. He has
been put back. The politicians are
guessing.
—Senator Franklin Martin is start
ing his campaign for re-election to
the Senate from the Cumberland.
Perry. Mifflin, Juniata districts, and
his friends note with pleasure the
strong hold he has upon the people
of the four counties. The Senator has
been getting about and everywhere
finds much support. His opponent is
an unknown quantity in the minds of
many people.
—George Wagner of Philadelphia
has been appointed to a place in the
State Banking Department at $lO per
day. He is a Vare man.
—District Attorney Slattery of Lu
zerne county has started a clean-up
of some sections of his county. He is
going after some places near Wllkes-
Barre and several arrests have been
made. The Delaware and Bucks au
thorities are taking similar steps.
—Senator Penrose appears to be
worrying about the Democratic lead
ers at Washington a lot. He made
another speech yesterday in which he
assailed the extravagances of the
party in power and the high-handed
use of caucus methods, which used
to be considered by Democrats as a
terrible thing. The Democratic lead
ers retorted that the Senator was
coming around to make trouble now,
but had been absent many times. The
Senator replied that he was more
needed now when big things were
going on.
—The Philadelphia courts have
been asked to raise the police quar
-1 antine against a couple of clubs which
[ the police department decided should
; not be used. This Is the first time
j such action was ever taken.
—John Wanamaker has been
| named as the Pennsylvania, member
of the Republican National Advisory
Committee. Mr. Wanamaker was one
of the most prominent figures at Chi
cago and named the vlee-presldentlal
candidate.
Not Losing Any Sleep
As nearly as can be figured out the
j solid South is looking the John M.
' Parker menace bravely in the face.—
J Washington Post.
The Only Alternative
Either the Bull Moose party had to
end or George Perkins's pocketbook
4 had to collapse.—St Louis Globe,
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
E VANS. In the, Baltimore A mericatt
TELEQRAPH PERISCOPE
—After the past two days our faith :
In Harrisburg; as a summer resort is
somewhat wilted.
—There are signs of more Demo- '
cratic interest in machine politics at i
the border than in machine guns.
—The railroid presidents are wear-1
ing white—which is far better \han
seeing red.
—Some husbands can't be blamed
for favoring peace at any price, since '
their wives usually get all they earn
anyway.
—Have you ever noticed how the
average father frowns upon his son
doing the very things he lingers over
most as among the bright, particular
1 incidents of his own vouth ?
iTHE SWE FROM D/y TO W
j The report that Atlantic City's
! beach director is going to put the ban
(on the bare-legged feminine bather
next season need not strike terror into
the hearts of the fair swimmers of the
Harrisburg Navy. Harrisburg fortun
ately hasn't gotten to that stage yet.
Robbing pastors seems to be the
favorite summer pastime of young
1 Walter Hoffman, of Butler, who is ac
cused of having taken two cameras,
a bicycle, some valuable old coins, a
revolver, a child's savings bank and a
church missionary iiox from two min
isters. The boy's defense will doubt
less be that the minister had no right
to keep a revolver.
Mrs. Angeline Apostolico. of Scran
-1 ton, is suffering from a broken arm
{ where a cupboard fell on her. It
doesn't say whether she was going to
, get her poor dog a bone, but her re
! ception was just as insulting as old
Mother Hubbard received.
LOI'DEST OF EH ALL
Br Wing Dinger
Talk about loud noises
That disturb one's peace.
From the squeaking cart wheel
> That's in need of grease.
To the most terrific
Blast of dynamite
There is one much louder
That X hear each night.
Pistol shots may startle—
Bursting tires, too
open auto cut-outs-
All well known to you.
But the noise that beats 'em
To a frazzle, quite, /
Is a skeeter buzzing
'Round my head at night.
POME BY A LOVESICK 8008
Can't read nuthin'.
Can't write nuthin'.
Can't sing nuthin'.
That's true:
Can't hear nuthin'.
Can't see nuthin'.
But you!
Don't drink nuthin'.
Don't e&t nuthin'.
Don't find nuthin'.
To do:
Don't know nuthin'
Don't dream nuthin,
Don't love nuthin'.
But you:
Friends ain't nuthin".
Cash ain't nuthin',
Life ain't nuthin',
That's true!
Time ain't nuthin'.
World ain't nuthin,
There ain't nuthin'.
But you:
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions, submitted to members of
the Harilsburg Kotary Club and their
answers as presented ut the organisa
tion s annual "Municipal Quia."]
Who are the members of the Board
of Health and officers?
Board of Health: Dr. O. H. Wid
der, Dr. J. B. McAllster, J. M. Lehr,
E k. Schell and Oliver P. Keller.
Officers: President. Dr. O. H. Wld
der; secretary, health officer and dl
jrectoj, Dr. J. M. J. Raunlck. Jr..
EDUCATING UNCLE SAM
JAPAN* has never lacked for de
fenders In the United States,
Her Asiatic policy has been up
held even when its methods were ir
regular, on the ground that her friend
ship for America and China as well as
her high political ideals would make
the end justify the means. Now Japan
has shown her hand. If any American
does not see what Japan's course in
China means to the United States, it
is probably because he never deemed
the question worth investigating.
| Japan made twenty-one demands on
China. Some of these demands were
the most sweeping and audacious ever
made by one modern power on anoth
er. Japan modestly requested that
China should employ Japanese politi
cal. financial and military advisers,
that the police departments of im
portant places in China should be put
under the Joint administration of Chi
nese and Japanese, that China should
purchase from Japan a fixed amount
of munitions of war (one-half, or
more, of all that China needed, sug
gested Japan) or else establish a
I jointly worked arsenal under the di
rection of Japanese technical experts
and using Japanese material.
Besides these demands, which ob
viously trampled roughshod over all
China's sovereign rights as a nation,
and over the interests of all the other
, powers including the United States.
Japan advanced many more. She de
manded that the great Chinese iron
mining company, the Hanyehplng
should be made a joint Chino-Japa
! nese concern and stuck in a clause to
the effect that no mines in the neigh
borhood of those belonging to the
company should be worked by any
body else, thereby .guarding
: against the superior efficiency of Am
ierican and English mining companies.
I She ordered China to extend her
lease on Port Arthur and Dalny for 9 9
years, and her lease on Manchurian
railways for the same period. Thereby
China was deprived of any chance of
getting back -That belongs to her for
; another century, and the principle of
: equal opportunity for foreigners in
, the rich Manchurian territory—where
1 American trade formerly predomln-
! I
I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
I A RAILROADER'S WIFE'S STORY
To the Editor 'of the Telegraph:
! This evening, as I was Bitting on my i
! front porch (all by myself, because my |
| husband is a railroader), my neighbors]
i across the street were arguing about j
the eight-hour-day. As I am only a ,
! woman, I could not go over and argue
with them, but then I thought X would
write these few lines to publish in your
paper, as I know they both get your 1
paper. If X could only tell them my
self I would feel happy, but this way i
more will know about It. One said the
railroaders want too much money; they I
are getting more money than any other
! ordinary working man. Yes. they are ]
getting more money because they work :
more hours than any other man. not
because they are getting more money
per hour, according to their work ana
I then they did not speak of the incon
venience they are put to. They did not
speak of the railroader or his wife who
must get up any hour of the night, say
1 or 2 a. m. (Oh: my, when you are in
your best sleep) and make a hot lunch
or breakfast, or whatever you might
call it, and pack a large dinner bucket,
costing from seventy-flva cents to $1.50,
knowing that your husband must eat
out of this bucket from thirty to forty
ftve hour*. Doesn't that sound good?
And oh: that good odor that almost
knocks one down when he brings that
bucket back home again to be repacked
in about ten to fifteen hours.
And they did not speak of the extra
money it takes for a railroader's fam
' ily; they do not know It costs almost
twice as much as other families. Well.
' it does, because it takes lots of extras
f that do not spoil (like canned beans.
■ spaghetti, olives, ham for the bucket)
that we could do without if we all
1 could have our meals at home: and then
It takes more gas to cook extra meals
when the poor railroader gets home,
say about two hours after the regulai
meal time.
These neighbors of mine did speak or
the pleasure the Tallroadera are de
prived of_.but. fib. they, do nyj,
HOW ABOUT JAPAN?
The Mailed Fist
By Frederic J. Haskin
ated—goes glimmering for the same j 1
Japan also asked for j
the privilege of building railways in '
fchantung. told China that she must
get Japan's consent before borrowing
money or granting railway conces
sions in Manchuria and eastern lion- 1
golia (Mongolia is over a third the
size of the United States) and pledged
china not to sell or lease any of her
coast line to any third power. There
were several other demands, but
these were the principal ones, and
show with some clearness how Japan
went about securing what she refer
red to in her preamble, as "the general
peace of Eastern Asia and a further
strengthening of the friendly relations
and good neighborhood existing be
tween the two nations."
Having made the demands. Japan
strictly forbade China to ualk about
them. They were to be kept absolute
ly secret, or Japan would be serious
ly annoyed and take steps accordingly.
At the same time Japan assured the
rest of wo»ld that the demands did not
infringe on anybody's rights, and gave
t out a highly modified statement of
them herself. So well did she do her
publicity work that when an English
correspondent in Peking got hold of
| the real demands and cabled them to
| his paper, that journal expended con
siderable money on a cable telling him
to cease his false and misleading re- |
ports and get down to facts.
However, in subtle diplomacy. China j
was finally the equal of Japan,"and be
fore many weeks she saw to it that the!
demands became generally known. In
< the face of questioning from the chan
cellories of Europe, in the face of a
note from the United States flatly re
fusing to recognize the result of the
negotiations, Japan blithely stuck to
her course. She would have preferred
j to put it through without unnecessarv [
j trouble, but if trouble came, she was I
; ready for it. The conferences between
, the Japanese minister and the Peking
government continued. Japan con
sented to codifications,in a few of her
[demands, postponed a few others for
! future reference, graciously consented
jthat China, instead of signing her
I [Continued on .Page S]
all: the railroader cannot sit on the
front porch or go to the park like
neighbors on a hot summer evening,
because when he ~ete home, first hi.
■ must take some rest and he is anxious
'for a good, cooked meal; by the time
| he has slept about four or five hours he
j is second or third to be called on duty
again and cannot leave the house for
| fear of missing a call, as that would
mean from ten to fifteen days' suspen
sion. These neighbors of mine can go
| out with their wives, or sit out on the
j porch with them every night in the
week, but they did not speak of the
wife across the street, who must sit
; out all by herself six nights out of the
week and sometimes seven,
j There are oceans more I could write
! of a wife's experience, but I cannot tell
! much of the railroader's experience
! while out on the road.
Now, dear friends end neighbors, the
I last I will write to-night is: We are not
crazv for more money: it is shorter
hours, so husband and wife can be to
! gether more at home
"A RAILROADER'S WIFE."
And Then Some
However, a ticket with only a vice
president slated will be quite suffi
, cient for the needs of the Bull Moose
party this year.—Philadelphia In
; ■ quirer.
Like Editor's Bank Account
In the year before the plunge into
; war. Germany's foreign trade was
; $4,945,000,000. About all that Is left
1 are the 000,000. —Providence Jour
', nal.
; !• And Remain There
Dr. Cook is planning to make an
! other Arctic trip. All right. Doctor,
• | here is hoping next time you will
i discover the Pole* —Memphis Com-
J merciai Appeal* ~
AUGUST 23, 1916. n
Itanittg (Etjat
Five soda fountains with ice cream
attachments within a block or so ot
each other in the central part of the
city take a ton of chopped lco every
day to keep things cool. When you
consider that a hundred pound lump
lasts the average household a while,
some idea of the amount of Ice that
is required for a soda and Ice cream
place Is had. Hotels, of course, tako
much more, but they use It for pur
poses of maintenance while the
that is used in the soda and ice cream
places Is all chopped up, necessitating
an extra handling and it is turned
over a few times before it disappears.
One establishment alone takes 430
pounds of ice that has to be chopped
up every twenty-four hours. Anoth
er takes 300 pounds. Now when you
consider that about all that the Ice
is used for Is to pack the freezers,
keep some of the bottles cool and
other drinks iced and to be measured
to the extent of a couple of table
spoonfuls into a glass that Is a big
amount of ice to be used. Further
more. the chopping process is a pretty
' laborious one and each bucket or
I freezer that is carried In tilled with
i ice cut up into bits, spreading a delic
iously cooling air about represents
some sweating. In fact, the whole
business of serving ice cream, mixing
drinks and selling the concoctions
that come under the head of sodas
and which are knocking out the bev
erage of Gambrinus, Kex, for summen.
use and driving the high ball and the
rlckey and the fiz into the discard in
heated terms, is growing more and
more important. You and I can re-
I member when they used to take a
bucket of ice into a drugstore for Its
soda fountain in the morning and that
thirty or forty pounds lasted all day.
Xow from live to ten times that much
is required. And the tonnage figures
given above are for less than half a
dozen places in the Third and Market
section only. Think of how much
ice must he used in the numerous
fountains and ice cream places scat
tered over the rest of Harrisburg. Be
fore you know it you have a couple of
ice wagons running on soda and ico
cream supplies alone. Of course, we
make a lot of ice In Harrisburg, but
every day you can see cars brought in
to the city on every railroad from tho
big icehouses in Lebanon, Cumberland.
York and other counties. And a lot
of it goes to the soda fountains.
Postmaster Frank C. Sites was talk
ing about rural free delivery yesterday
afternoon. "We've got five routes out
of Harrisburg. all serving people on
routes out of here and It's speedy ser
vice, too." said the boss of the stamp
counter. 'These men all have motors
and the other day the man who
serves the route from Maelay street
station out around Llnglestown road
to Llnglestown was back in town and
at my office before 11:30. He had
cleared up that big route in one morn
ing. We serve people up the river, out
from the eastern end of the city and
down around Oberlin. The routes are
| all growing in number of people along
them, too."
• * •
The stir caused by the movement
; to get signers for the jitney amend
ment under the- clause of the Clark
act, which the legislators used to call
the "I and R" for short, has resulted
in a good manv people more than or
dinary being about the courthouse. In
fact, it looks like quarter sessions
week. The courthouse is getting to
be quite a point of interest again be-™
tween the injunction cases and the
referendum operation. Traffic on the
elevators, we are informed by the men
at the cables, is getting close to the
point where some regulations will be
required. It's all right to have a limit
on numbers, but the operatives com
plain that those who ride do not ex
ercise good judgment in what they
smoke.
• • •
Where do the butterflies come from
that hover about the offices in the
business section in the mornings?
One man remarked that he had found
two great big handsome butterflies in
his office one day and the statement
called forth similar statements from
others. Another man said that he had
seen a big yellow one in the post
office. The answer appears to be that <r
the insects are carried in by the wind
when young or in the egg stage and
are hatched out. Possibly they come
I from the Capitol or Riverside parks.
The manner in which passengers on
express trains jump from the cars
here and hustle up the steps at Union
station to head for the soda foun
tains is worth watching. They go in
by shoals and take everything from
ice cream to buttermilk and orange
phosphate, only so it is cool.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "
—Judge John M. Garman, who is
taking a hand in settling the Wllkes-
Barre strike. Used to live here.
—Judge C. B. McMichael, who Is
presiding in the August court at Phil
adelphia. used to spend the month in
New England.
—The Rev. George Herron, promi
nent Pittsburgh clergyman, has been
elected one of the chaplains of the
new organization of Orangemen.
—E. T. Stotesbury, the banker, is
back in Philadelphia after his vaca
tion in spite of the hot weather.
—Congressman W. W. Griest is
spending a week at Atlantic City.
—Howard A. Loeb, Philadelphia
banker, is on a fishing trip to Ca
nadian waters.
DO YOU KNOW \
That Harrisburg silk is used
in many of the dresses you buy in
Xcw York?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Stage coaches began to run to Hax
ris Ferry about 1750.
Our Daily Laugh
LARGER BILLS.
Is Dr. Goofer
jj?.« - your family phy-
Not any more.
Wasn't he sat
isfactory?
Yes, but he
bought an auto-
mobile.
THE WRONG /""D
ADJECTIVE.
Was she hap
pily married? 'I
Happily hardly Ar' \
describes it I
should say sho -.Vv M
was haply mar- J\\