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THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21
The Lord looks doicn contentedly
upon a, willing mind. —T. Tatlob.
THE SIXTEEXERS
rTVHE Slxteeners, so called because
I JL at the age of sixteen they wero
graduated fiom soldiers' orphan
schools throughout the State, are gath
ered in Harrisburg to-day for their
annual reunion.
The organization is worthy of pass
ing note. It is made up of men and
•women who in their youth were handi
capped by tho death of father or
mother or both. The fathers of many
of them went away to the Civil War :
and lost their lives on hard-fought j
fields or in the prison pens of the
South. For them the soldiers' orphan
school was a boon above price. Not j
always was it conducted as well as it
could be, but in the main it made for
discipline, education and training
along various lines.
Hundreds of the graduates of these
schools have made their way to high
places in the affairs of their com
munities and others are substantial
citizens doing their part for the up
building of their own towns and de
voted to the country for which their
fathers laid down their lives.
For example of the prominence
many of the Sixteeners have attained
one need go no farther than C. Day
Rudy, the famous art glass manufac
turer of Harrisburg. There are scores
and hundreds of others like him, and
lt«is altogether to their credit that
they annually pause a day in their
busy lives to honor the Institutions
•which laid the foundation for their
success.
A MCXICIPAL BEACH
HARRISBURG needs a municipal
beach. That scarcely need be
repeated. Like an island spring
ing into being from the ocean over
night, the fondness for swimming in
the Susquehanna has swept the city
until it is rapidly becoming the chief
topic of conversation.
When 7,000 people of an afternoon
crowd the shores and waters of the
river, It Is a sign that ought to be
heeded, and heeded promptly. The
citizens of Harrisburg are interested in
promoting the welfare and comfort of
the citizens of Harrisburg, naturally.
They want a bathing beach, and want
It badly. There is not the least doubt
of the practical benefits. The people
are entitled to the consideration which
would promote such a proposition and
the problem is or.e to which their duly
elected representatives in the govern
ment of the city ought to give careful
deliberation.
An efficient organization, when con
ditions arise that need attention, meets
those conditions. Either the demand
for proper and adequate bathing facili
ties for the people of Harrisburg must
be met or elso Harrisburg will have
to admit that she is not efficiently
organized.
The establishment of the city's
"front steps" was the initial move in
making attractive and useful the
beautiful river basin before our doors.
The dam at Dock street, while inade
quate, is yet of decided advantage to
river craft and was the second step.
The next move is obvious. The river
la being used by swimmers and canoe
ists this year more than ever before.
More canoes are owned and more are
rented. The Greater Harrisburg Navy
is an organization pledged to promote
stronger interest in aquatic sport on
the Susquehanna and we are at last
beginning to have brought home to us
tho value of the river basin as a civic
asset in a way that it has never before
been presented.
BAOOX ANOTHER KXOX
ROBERT BACON, who has an
nounced himself as a candidate
for the Senate in New York
State, subject to the Republican pri
maries on September 19, is another
Philander C. Knox in caliber. He Is
not a lawyer, but he is a trained
financier of excellent reputation and
a man of vast experience and ability
In affairs of the nation and interna
tional diplomacy.
It is good to see men like Knox
and Bacon again aspiring to public
life. We have been so much the vic
tims of bunglers and experimentalists
in Governmental matters during the
past four years that the return of
the Knoxes and the Bacons and the
Hughes Is being hailed with Joy the
country over.
Mr. Bacon has had vast experience
In big financial problems, and heaven
knows the Democrats are leaving the
National Government in a condition
that will require the be6t efforts of
jmany able financiers. Further than
jthat, he served with distinction In
Jptho Stats Department and tor, a time
THURSDAY EVENING,
was Acting Secretary of State, during
his incumbency deciding satisfactorily
j a number of difficult Questions aris
ing between the United States and
European nations. He knows Europe,
too, having been Ambassador to Paris
for more than three years, during
which he became popular throughout
the capitals of the Continent and
rendered many helpful services.
He is the kind of man who ought
to be In the Senate and New Tork
should do for him as Pennsylvania
will do for Philander C. Knox—give
him practically a unanimous vote.
A LESSON" FOR OUR POLICE
NEWS filters in from Canada that
mounted Canadian police have
arrested and are bringing back
to civilization the three murderers who
three years ago murdered two mis
sionaries away up beyond the line of
the Arctic Circle. Three policemen
were assigned to the task of appre
hending the Eskimos at the time of
tho murder and they have been con
tinually on the trail ever since.
Through melting snowdrifts and
over frozen streams, amid the blizzards
of winter and the torturing heat of
the brief Arctic summer, these three
hardy policemen trailed their men.
Now the track grow hot and they
were almost at their goal. Again all
trace of the fleeing natives was lost
and the officers almost gave up their
chase. But always in the end they
persisted and to-day they are on their
way back to civilization with their
prisoners.
I What an example for our own po
j licemen, to whom three days' vain
| search, instead of three years, is often
j sufficient excuse for deciding that de-
I tection and arrest are impossible.
Would that we had a few officers like
the Canadian mounted police in Har
risburg.
HARRIS BURG IN MOVIES
HARRISBURG in the near future
will- be given opportunity of
reveling in the realization of the
poetic wish of Robert Burns "to see
ourselves as others see us.'' The city
in its working clothes, the city at play,
the city at devotional exercises, all
will be noted down and faithfully re
corded by the accurate eye of the
moving picture camera. And the re
sults -will be attached to the visualized
activities of eleven other cities of
Pennsylvania and scattered broadcast
throughout the country.
"Seeing Pennsylvania" will be the
privilege of many a city and town on
the circuit of the proposed Pennsyl
vania film now in process of construc
tion. It will be a splendid advertise
ment for the city and will show other
States that Pennsylvania is bowling
merrily along the road marked "Prog
ress" and that there aren't many rough
spots along the way.
Those men who witnessed the show
ing of the Williamsport film the other
morning are loud in their praise of
the possibilities in the program out
lined, and the historical and scerfic
advantages of the Capital City furnish
a fitting background for weaving on
the screen the story of Harrisburg as
it stands to-day, a hustling, thriving
community that well merits the desig
nation "the heart of distribution."
THE RECRCTrEVG PROBLEM
THE Omaha Bee takes the men of
the nation to task for not recruit
ing for duty along the border.
It asserts that the volunteer system
is on trial and is failing, and it accuses
the men of the nation with being
averse to military duty.
The Bee is mistaken. The wonder
is not that so few are recruited, but
that any volunteer under the circum
stances. If men knew why they are
being asked to go into the military
service in Texas the results would be
different. If they knew they were to
be held there until November for
training purposes and would be sent
home then, or at the end of any other
stated period of reasonable length,
doubtless hundreds of young men
would hasten to enlist. The success
of the Plattsburg camp this summer
is proof enough that American boys
and men are as keen for military train
ing as ever and many who could not
afford the fee and transportation ex
penses required of those who went to
Plattsburg would be on'.y too happy to
avail themselves of the privilege of a
three to six months' service under
canvas if they knew at the end of that
time they would be returned home.
Or, if there was a real crisis or any
apparent reason for the holding of
thousands of soldiers in idleness along
the Rio Grande—if, in short, there
was a real duty to perform with a
chance of active service—the recruit
ing stations would not hold all who
would want to Join the army.
But men hesitate to plunge into a
military service that may last six days
or six years. They want to know why
they are being asked to enlist. If the
President can give any good reason
beyond doubt, Americans will respond
now to the call as they have in the
past. It is not the volunteer system
that is a failure, but the administration
at Washington.
THOSE AUTOMOBILE LIGHTS
BRILLIANT automobile lights
caused a man's death a few days
ago near Canonsburg, Pa. Ho be
came bewildered and blinded and
drove his own machine oft the road.
"What occurred in Canonsburg may
happen any day in Harrisburg. Motor
ists who care nothing for the safety
of others should be required to equip
their cars with lenses that light the
road, but do not blind the pedestrian,
the horse or the automobile driver In
front. Tho time to do this is now
not after some such tragedy as that
reported from the western part of the
State.
City Forester Gipple will earn the
lasting gratitude of many a pedestrian
if he evolves a plan for the removal of
projecting and low-hanging branches
and foliage from trees along the side
walks. There is real danger to the eyes
where the branches stick out at heights
from five to six feet, and they are very
hard to see in the shadows. Co-opera
tion on the part of property owners
ought, with a little time and labor, to
remove this unpleasant conditio?
■ ~ . :
"fdZtic* CK
By the lis - ttecman
Inauguration of the campaign by
the Lehigh county field meetings has
started men Interested In politics to
talking about the big gubernatorial
campaign for which, after all, the
present contest within Pennsylvania
this year wll be only a preparation.
The election of the Republican State
ticket is assured. The Identity of that
for 1918 is now being discussed. The
Republicans have plenty of available
men. The Democrats will not know
whether they lia\e any men fit to run
until after November. Continuation of
the Wilson administration would mean
dictating tho nominee for governor,
as was done when the president pick
ed C. McCormick in 1914.
The Stale administration forces will
naturally seel to nominate the Re
publican candidate for governor, so
as to continue pesitions. influence or
glory as the cat-e may be. The op
position will *eek to name one of its
friends. This Fall's election and next
winter's legislative session will shape
the contest.
The general be'lef is that the next
Republican nominee will come from
outside of the two big counties. Con
gressman John R. K. Scott, of Phila
delphia. is said to be very willing to
run. Allegheny has E. V. Babcock,
William A. Mayee. George E. Alter
and Congressman S. G. Porter on its
list of avaJlables. Congressman E. R.
Kless, of the WilHamsport district,
starts oft' with a strong boost from
the Lycoming county Republican
committee. State Treasurer Robert K.
Young is preferred by many progres
sives. Commissioner W. D. B. Alney,
of Susquehanna, Is also a candidate, it
is believed. L. A. Watres, the Scran
ton banker, will be boomed by an in
fluential number of men. Lieutenant
Governor Frank B. McClain and Sec
retary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E.
Woods are both possibilities. Senator
William C; Sproul is preferred by
many. Ex-Auditor General A. E. Sis
son, of Erie, and General Charles Mil
ler, of Franklin, are talked of in the
northwest, while ex-Governor John K.
Tener Is mentioned by friends every
where. One of the men much talked of
is Col. H. C. Trexler, the Allentown
guardsman and business genius.
James Scarlet Is also talked of by
Danville and Philadelphia people,
while General C. M./ Clement, now
commanding the State troops, at the
border, has his friends. Secretary of
Agriculture Patton is given mention
by loving friends in the central sec
tion, while John M. Rose, of Johns
town. may loom up if he wins for
Congress. Congressman D. F. Lafean,
of York, had a boom, but whether he
will inflate it again is not known.
Jesse L. Hartman, of Blair county, has
also been mentioned as available,
while Frank B. Black suffering from
the usual fate of men elevated to his
office is being talked of for higher
honors. Out In the Western section
they are boosting John S. Fisher,
while State Chairman William E.
Crow, of Fayette, is being given bou
quets by admirers.
—Governor Brumbaugh has been
much in demand as a speaker in the
Maine campaign for the governorship,
is the report brought by Dr. y. George
Becht, secretary of the State Board
of Education, who spent a week-end
with the Governor at his summer home
at Wayne, Me. Last Saturday the cam
paign opened ati Island Park with the
Republican candidate, Carl E. Milli
ken, Governor Brumbaugh and Ralph
I. Cole, chairman of the National Speak
ers Bureau, as spellbinders. Governor
Brumbaugh, except for an occasional
trace of his illness of the Spring. Is in
good health and hopes to be in perfect
condition by the time he returns to
take up the direct activities of the
executive office. When not engaged in
speaking or attending to State matters
dally forwarded to him. the Gover
nor enloys demonstrating his skill as
a fisherman. His successes have been
so marked In this direction that he is
accounted one of the best anglers in
the State of Maine.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
FEARS PAKALYSIS OUTBREAK
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 23, 1916.
Yesterday's Philadelphia papers
stated that every section of Philadel
phia had infantile paralysis and the
disease was well distributed.
May X call your attention to the fact
that Harrisburg Is located directly in
the current of travel west bound from
New York and Philadelphia and that
this city is Ihe first breaking or ex
changing point west of Philadelphia
and therefore this disease is more of
a menace to Harrisburg than the aver
age city. Aside from this there is a
very great amount of business inter
course between Philadelphia and New
York and this city as well as travel.
Harrisburg is a large railroad center
and a great many persons working
for the railroads are furnished with
free transportation visit these cities
frequently and Increase the risk above
the average town, or contributes to a
closer relation with the large cities
where the disease prevails.
We have had the disease in our city
and the opening of the schools may
start a spread of the disease. No one
knows if there are lncipljent cases. It
Is too late after the schools start to
close them If the dread disease ap
pears. The seeds have been sown and
may lie dormant for another year. As
It is a hot weather disease will you not
be good enough to urge delay in open
ing schools two weeks or more or un
til frost comes which is usually about
October 1. It should be remembered
that September last year was our hot
test month. There is not a mother of
young children in the city who does
not have fear In her heart.
ANXIOUS.
Haskin and Japan
(St. Paul Pioneer-Press)
Is confirmation of Frederic J. Has
kln's article on "How About Japan?"
that Nippon's ambitious rulers Intend
to exercise a virtual suzerainty over
China for trade exploitation, current
dispatches state Chinese troops in
Eastern Mongolia attacked a Japanese
garrison, that Tokio views the inci
dent as a possible forerunner of diffi
culties between the two powers. That
Japan would welcome an excuse for
such a break is highly probable; and
that China goaded from its pacifica
tion by a long series of studied af
fronts, may no longer submit to dicta
tion and decide to resist to the limit
of Its power is barely possible. Ori
entalist* long have predicted the rul
ers of the Island Kingdom eventually
would endeavor to extend their em
pire to the bordering mainland. They
asserted Japan's assumption of the
right to lay down a "Monroe doctrine
for the Orient" was not for the altru
istic purpose of guaranteeing China's
sovereignty, but to cloak Japan's sel
fish policy of fostering trade and ex
cluding business rivals by fair means
or foul.
No
[From the "Washington Star.]
Do you believe in the saying thai
language Is used for the concealment,
of thoughts?"
"No," Miss Cayenne; "In much of the
language you hear you haven't ev«n
the comforting suspicion that there
<nay be a thought In hiding."
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
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$ J'/ A\ £
"1 can't stand that gas? 1 *
TELEORAPH PERISCOPE "]
—The rainstorm which brought
early darkness also brought coolness,
so who cares for a little extra money
spent for electric light?
—The Deutschland has again landed
safely at a German port. This is the
third time the Deutschland has com
pleted the Atlantic voyage since leav
ing Baltimore. <
—Hint to Congress—English Par
liament adjourns.
—Judging from the menu an
nounced, that Chamber of Commerc-3
outing is going to continue for about
a week.
—German naval "victories" always
sound best before the government be
gins to admit the number of ships
damaged.
ITHE SWE FROM DAT TO DPtf
Our definition of filial devotion is
scarcely that of the Allentown boy
who got into a dispute with his
mother and hurled a dish of sauer
kraut at the dear old lady. Person
ally we should prefer to take it
internally.
Edward Johnson, a Mansfield man,
106t his life by going over the bank
at "dead man's curve" on the bound
ary line between Pennsylvania and
New York. The coroner thinks it un
necessary to hold an inquest because
the victim was driving his own car,
which is not the most flattering way
of looking at It.
Here's an excellent fish story, dug
out of Ridgway. Patrick Deering
and friends were swimming in the
mill pond. Pat was diving and a large
trout measuring 24 inches was lazily
swimming about below. Pat and the
fish collided violently and were boih
taken home in the ambulance. Tut'
tut!
The residents of Sunnyside and tho
patrons of the Rocky Springs amuse
ment park near Lancaster do not
agree with Ellis Parker Butler that
"pigs is pigs." They claim that "pigs
is awful," for they are fighting hard
for the removal of a pigsty along
the traction company's tracks that un
pleasantly assails the nostrils of
passersby.
The Lebanon merchants are planning
a "Prosperity Day," when they will
offer special bargains to buyers from
other parts of Lebanon county and
outside territory. Nor is Lebanon the
town to apply to its merchandising
the well-known Biblical "he
was a stranger and they took him In."
Two lonesome sailor boys on the
steamship Memphis at San Domingo
have written to the Lancaster post
office pleading for some of the local
maidens to write to them. Letters
have been dispatched.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."]
Who are the Food Inspectors?
Dr. \V illiam V. Hughes and J. H
Park.
War and Humanity
(The Christian Science Monitor)
To say that the war is revealing to
many people unsuspected capacities
for helping their neighbors is, of
course, to utter a platitude. The re
cently formed Ilford Home Fires
League Is the latest notable instance.
The object of the league is to give
practical rather than financial aid to
the families of British soldiers at the
front. Business and professional men
of all descriptions have joined the
league, and are ready with advice am}
help on all matters that a father
would naturally look to. It is, of
course, another effort, like that inau
gurated some time ago for looking
after a soldier's allotment garden, to
keep the soldier's "home" intact, and
as such is cerUiny deserving of all
SUfifOltr ««
HOW ABOUT JAPAN?
The Swallowing of Korea
By Frederic J. Haskin
Swallowing of Korea—Sun., July 2 ..
THE fate of Korea has a double in
terest for America. In the first
place, the tragic irony of the
whole Korean incident gives a hint of
what may be expected from Japan in
other quarters. In the second place,
Korea was the scene of America's
greatest Asiatic achievement, both in
commercial development and in the
work of missionaries.
In all the Orient, Korea was the
one field where American trade ex
ceeded that of any other nation. Amer
icans were opening the mines, hand
ling municipal improvement propects
—such as electric lighting, waterwarks
and street railways—getting the lion's
share of trade. They did these things
in open competition with anybody
who cared to compete, winning their
advantage solely by superior enter
prise and management. Jlany of their
projects were undertaken with the
outcome seriously in doubt; they put
their money and their energy into a
new and untried field. They built, for
instance, the first railroad in Korea.
They were the pioneers of industry in
the Hermit Kingdom. They took long
chances, and they were beginning to
reap the reward when a shift in the
far eastern balance of power threw
Korea into the hands of Japan.
No less conspicuous than the suc
cess of American industry in Korea
was the success of American mission
ary work. The Christian religion took
& firmer hold in the kingdom than in
any country where it has been spread
among people of a different creed In
recent times. Almost half a million
Koreans were converted. Close to two
thousand schools and churches were
established. The whole nation seem-
Magazine Disease
(Spokane Spokesman-Review) •
Well-nigh universal deterioration
of the standards of American period
icals has become a matter of wide
spread observation and frequent com
ment. An editor and a librarian have
recently diagnosed the magazine's
disease. As lately as a quarter of a
century ago, according to Librarian
F. W. Faxon of Boston, virtually every
popular periodical obtained record in
"Poole's Index," the entry showing
that the magazine published material
of permanent value. Within the last
five years, however, has appeared a
constantly growing number of period
icals which, to say nothing of their
moral viciousness, are such intellect
ual and literary rubbish, that they
deserve only to be sold to the paper
mills. Even the superior magazines
begin to yield to the tide of sludge
and sewage. These story periodicals
comprise two classes. One vends col
orless and 111-written tales, the other
stories of "high" life or "breezy" In
character. All of this stuff is flimsy,
shoddy, and most of it is sexual sala-,
ciousness. Not a few of these peri
odicals ought to be suppressed.
Floating Gardens of Mexico
(Popular Science Monthly)
The Lake of Xochimilro, near the
City of Mexico, is nearly covered with
floating gardens called chlnampas, on
which are cultivated vegetables and |
flowers for the city markets. They j
arc formed of floating masses of water
plants covered with soil and secured
iby poplar stakes. The latter take
root and surround tho Islands with
living hedges, which are useful as
well as ornamental.
The Cause
[From the Detroit Free Press.]
"Going away on your vacation?"
"No."
"Then why expression?"
"Just learned that the wife's rela
tives aren't coming here for theirs."
Getting Familiar \
[From the Musical America.]
Prof. Fuge What do you mean,
Mr. Jones, by speaking of Dick Wagner,
Ludie Beethoven. Charlie Gounod and
Fred Handel?
Jones—You told me to get familiar
i with. th»Kreat composers.
'AUGUST 24, 1916.
Ed in a fair way to be Christianized.
While there are missionaries of all na
tions in Korea, the bulk of the work
was done by Americans.
After solemnly guaranteeing the in
dependence and autonomy of Korea
In the preambles to several different
international agreements, Japan pres
ently established a protectorate. It
was obvious from the first that annex
ation would follow sooner or later, but
American interests were not particu
larly disturbed by the prospect. It
was expected that Japan would elim
inate any foreign enterprise in Korea
which had been founded with political
intention—founded, that is by the na
tionals of some European power with
the idea of giving that power a foot
hold on the coast of Asia. As Ameri
can interests had nothing whatever of
the political about them, as the Unit
ed States obviously never dreamed of
establishing herself in Korea as a na
tion, it was taken for granted that
Americans would be unmolested. Their
work, while undertaken in a purely
business attitude, with no philan
thropic motives, was none the less of
immense value to the development and
enrichment of the kingdom.
However, it soon became apparent
that there was a fallacy in this reas
oning somewhere. Japan set systemat
ically to work to drive foreigners
from Korean commerce and industry.
She wished, apparently, to secure Jap
anese dominance in the field, and here
as elsewhere she had to deal with the
sad fact that Japanese could not dom
inate while western enterprise had an
equal chance. It was necessary to
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In Lancaster, Too
In Monday's issue of this paper no
less than eight robberies or attempted
robberies were reported. In most
cases the offense amounted only to
petty theft, although several of the
robberies were not trifling and all of
them indicated that thieves were oper
ating with little fear of the local po
lice.
And yet Lancaster has a very con
siderable police force for a city of its
size including bicycle policemen and
other traffic officers. It is supplied
also, both with a police telephone sys
tem and a "red light" signal or trouble
alarm system, besides the patrol out
fit. In fact no expense has been
spared to provide an entirely adequate
police force.
In fairness it must be said that this
force is conspicuously in evidence in
its. traffic regulating- activities, al
though these are often absurdly dis
proportionate to the volume of traf
fic; but it's a long, long time between
the recording of other notable services
rendered by our half hundred or so of
policemen. The record of robberies
seems to show that the thieves and
other evil-doers operate without the
slightest consideration for our police
men—Lancaster Dally Intelligencer.
So It Always Is
[From the Boston Transcript.]
It takes some gray-whiskered old
country editor with one foot in the
grave to remark optimistically that de
spite his billions John 0. Rockefeller
can t buy youth.
Not Expensive
[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
"My wife and I are thinking of char
tering a yacht for the summer."
"won't that be pretty expensive?"
"Not as long as we conflne ourselves
to thinking about it."
EGGS ARE UP AGAIN
The dodo remains extinct, but the
eggs of the great auk now and then
comes to light. The one they found
recently in San Francisco Is valued at
$43,000 a dozen.—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Trouble Coming
[From the Boston Transcript]
When Secretary Daniels hears about
that naval dance at Newport he'll be
ordering the sale at auction a£ ♦very
yhoaograpih AMU,
lEbenmg (Eljat
As f*r as the naked eye can observe
there Is anything but a car surplus to
be noted along the lour railroads en
tering Harrisburg at this time. The
long strings of cars which used to be
observed run on sidings along the
Pennsylvania and Northern Central
railroads and which were stored on
tracks running into auarries or even
into fields along the Reading a couple
of years ago have disappeared or
rather have reappeared in the long
trains which are rolling in and out of
the city without let-up every hour of%
the twenty-four. Some idea of the
stupendous amount of freight being
handled can be gained by going out
on any of the roads for a dozen or so
miles. One freight after another
whizzed by; hundreds and hundreds
of cars are in motion in vards and
shifters are drilling in with drafts of
cars collected about the city. There is
an immense movement by day, but at
night it seems that still more are
moved and the movement is constant
and continuous. If one could get on
First Mountain with a good strong
glass he would see literally thousands
of cars on the tracks about Harris
burg. From that point the big Enola
yards and the elongated Harrisburg
yards can be plainly seen while off
beyond the ridge which culminates in
Reservoir Dark the miles of steel that
constitute Rutherford yards on the
Reading are to be made out. The
yards on the Cumberland Valley and
about Steelton can be traced, too, and
taken all together the scene is one
which will demonstrate that Harris
burg is one of the great railroad cen
ters of the country.
• » •
"I do not know of any reason why
earlier predictions that there will be
plenty of gamo for Pennsylvania
sportsmen should be changed." said
Dr. Joseph Kalbfus. secretary of the
State Game Commission to-day. "X
have .lust returned from a trip of sev
eral hundred miles through counties
where game is abundant and X have
seen many quail and pheasant and
have heard reports about such birds
being very plentiful. There are also
very many deer. I accompanied Dr.
Charles B. Penrose, chairman of the
commission, on the tour and we visit
ed Carbon, Sullivan, Lycoming, Tioga,
Potter and Clearfield counties, going
to the game preserves in those coun
ties, which include some of the new
preserves and found everything doing
very well. lam satisfied that this will
be a big year for game."
• • •
Over 5,000 circulars of information
regarding ways for National Guards
men now at the border to pay their
taxes have been sent out by the adju
tant general's department in the last
two days. In addition to sending them
to regimental commanders the chief
of staff is sending them to various offi
cers with requests that they make it
their business to see that the soldiers
are apprised of the matter. Septem
ber 6 is the last day on which assess
ment for taxes can be made and the
adjutant general suggests that each
man get friends to attend to this mat
ter. It is likely that men active in
politics in each county will also take
steps to help the soldiers. The opin
ion of the Attorney General to the
Governor on the method to be follow
ed in having soldiers vote is expected
to be made public before the end of
the week. ,
• • •
The problem of keeping cool in the
scorching weather that Harrisburg has
been enduring for davs has been sat
isfactorily solved so far as one young
man in Harrisburg is concerned. Be
ing a college undergraduate and not
having as yet attained to the dignity
of an office, his time is temporarily
his own. and so he wards off heat
prostration by selecting the latest
magazine and filling the bathtub with
deliciously cool water, in which he
places himself, a la cold storage, for
several hours each afternoon.
A big bat flying about In the corri
dors of the Capitol attracted much at
tention yesterday about noon. No one
appeared to know where the bat came
from and it flitted about causing
much excitement among the numerous
women visitors to the building by its
antics. Finally it was chased out into
the rotunda and swept up high above
the Abbey paintings. The next Job,
said a Capitol attache, will be to get
it out. It was not to be seen the rest
of the day.
* • •
State Commissioner of Health Dixon
was talking about Infantile paralvsts
yesterday afternoon and remarked
that there was not a case to be found
in the State's sanitoria and as far as he
knew in any of the institutions which
had established quarantines when the
danger became apparent. The same
condition he said had been reported
from New York where the State au
thorities discovered that there was not
a case among 20.000 youngsters in
institutions which had taken precau
tions. It's rather a good argument for
the quarantine.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Richard Y. Cook, Philadelphia
banker, is home from an automobile
tour of the northwest.
—W. G. Hohman. well known here,
will marshal the big parade in Pitts
burgh on September 2.
—William A. Dunlap, of Philadel
phia, the grand master of the Orange
men, in an address at Pittsburgh
praised their loyalty to America at all
times.
—Captain B. Cassatt is spending
part of the month at Saratoga where
he has entered his horses.
—Senator Charles A. Snyder is
home from a visit to, Atlantic City.
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg makes wo
men's clothing that is sold all over
the country?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Some of the archives of the pro
vince were sent here when the Brit
ish chased the State officials from
Philadelphia.
Our Daily Laugh
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