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SATURDAY EVENING, SEPT. 2
Be perfected; be comforted; be of
,thc same mind; live in peace and the
God of love and peace shall be with
you.— ll COB. 13:11.
THE COLONEL'S ANALYSIS
WITH characteristic force and
brevity Colonel Roosevelt sum
med up dn a single paragraph
of his opening speech In Maine Thurs
day night the one great, vital issue is
the Presidential campaign, when he
said:
The next four years may well be
years of tremendous national strain.
\\ hich of the two men do you, the
American people, wish at the helm
during these four years, the man
who has been actually tried ana
found wanting or the man whose
whole career in public office is a
guarantee of his power and good
faith? But one answer is possible,
and it may be given by the Ameri
can people through the election of
Charles Evans Hughes as Presi
dent of the United States.
The Colonel in language that lacked
nothing of his old vigor dwelt mainly
upon the failures of the Wilson ad
ministration with respect to its Eu
ropean apd Mexican policies—if the
wavering course of the President and
his fellow Democrats and their
kaleidoscopic changes may be termed
policies—but in the end he came back
to the choice of a man. The Demo
cratic platform follows closely the
lines of the Republican document,
though not so definite nor so strongly
put. Were the candidates equal and
•with the tariff out of the way there
would be small choice. The vital dif
ference lies In the candidates and their
records.
Hughes ha* "made good" when put
to the trial. Wilson has failed in
Mexico and in Europe. He has failed
In his pledge to relieve business of
burdens and to reduce the cost of gov
ernment. He has failed to economize
and to reduce the high cost of living.
He has failed In almost every one of
his many undertakings as President.
Hughes the success is matched against
Wilson the failure. As Colonel Roose
velt says, Hughes' "whole career Is a
guarantee of his power and his good
Xalth."
The Colonel Is showing true to form
In analysis and eloquence, and prom
ises to be one of the liveliest and
most influential figures on the stump
this Fall.
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THE CITY FIRST
PLACING the interests of the city
as a whole above those of private
enterprise, the Harrisburg Cham
ber of Commerce, through its author
ized committee, has asked City Council
to rescind action whereby it granted
permission to an industrial concern to
erect a bridge over North Seventh
street. This remotes the only possible
excuse Council had in authorizing the
structure. The logical thing for the
Commissioners to do is to recall as
promptly as possible their approval of
the project, which was evidently given
without due-consideration of the im
portance of the precedent thereby
established. Otherwise the Chamber
of Commerce will be forced to the un
pleasant necessity of taking an appeal
to court, in which case it is the con
viction of lawyers well versed in mu
nicipal law that permission for the
bridge would be withheld.
It is scarcely to be believed "that
Council will permit the matter to go to
such length. The members voted
unanimously In favor of the bridge,
against the protest of the City Plan
ning Commission, on the ground that
by so doing they were promoting the
business interests of the city, which,
they explained, must be fostered if the
city is to continue to grow. Encour
agement of business interests is beyond
doubt one of the prime duties of
Council, but not to the extent of plac
ing the interests of business before
those of the city at large. Further
more, in this instance Council is in
error. The Harrisburg Chamber of
Commerce, as its very name signifies.
Is organized for the express purpose of
promoting the welfare of the com
mercial and industrial enterprises of
the community. It is scarcely likely,
therefore, that the Chamber would go
on record as unalterably opposed to
any measure so vitally important to
successful business as Council would
ha\e us believe this principle of pri
vate right over public thoroughfare
to be.
Councilinen have been quoted as
saying that they are not without
precedent in their action; that there
exists by permission of Council a
similar bridge over a street of the
city. This Is true, but the structure
crosses a thoroughfare that is little
more than an alley, and it was erected
at a time when the municipality was
not thinking of its future as It Is to-
SATURDAY' J£V JiJNIJNG,
day. That one mistake was made is
no excuse for making others. It is
said that Councilmen are prepared to
show that other cities permit the
bridging of streets, but that is no more
a reason for bridges in Harrisburg
than would be an argument by Coun
cil that because other cities permit
their streets to be dirty Harrisburg
should abolish its sweeping corps.
In a district officially set aside for
industrial and commercial purposes it
is easily conceivable that street bridges
might be permitted without possibility
of damage to owners of adjoining
property or injury tp the city from an
esthetic standpoint. But Seventh street
at the point named is not such a
thoroughfare, and it abuts on the
Capitol Ps.rk extension, upon which
ths State has spent almost two mil-
I lions of dollars and will spend at least
that much more in beautlficatlon. If
such a district is to be established, let
Council take that action and regulate
conditions accordingly, but there must
be no such precedent as that proposed.
The city cannot make fish of one and
fowl of another: neither can it afford
to have its main highways bridged
wherever and whenever a private in
terest decides that such structures are
desirable. Council has erred, but not
irrevocably. The proper and graceful
thing for it to do is to promptly
rescind its action.
The* Chamber of Commerce has in
creased its prestige and influence for
good in the community enormously by
its courageous stand in support of the
City Planning Commission. It has dis
played marked good sense and patri
otic devotion to public welfare and
civic development along proper lines.
It has placed the ideal above the dol
lar and it will have the public behind
it In whatever steps may be necessary
to procure the revocation of the per
mission of Council to erect the pro
posed bridge.
THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW
RAILROAD men should not be too
sanguine of the beneficial results
of the eight-hour legislation
which President Wilson is forcing
through Congress. Conservative rail
roaders who have made a study of the
proposed law are themselves doubtful
of its constitutionality. They believe
that it is in the nature of a makeshift t
ancl the comment is widespread that
tho President's activity in securing this
legislation has not been so much
prompted by devotion to the eight
hour principle as by an overweening
dosire to further his own political am
bitions.
It is intimated that the law is likely
to fail in a constitutional test before
the Supreme Court, in which event the
great railroad brotherhoods will be
compelled to make their fight all over
again under aggravated conditions.
President Wilson cannot escape the
suspicion that politics has had more to
do with events of the past week at
Washington than real interest for the
welfare of the railroad trainmen. He
has been openly accused of insincerity,
and the fact that the proposed meas
ure applies to only a limited number
of the millions of employes of inter
state public utilities has weakened the
confidence of the people in the honesty
of his attitude toward the great indus
trial principle involved.
Naturally, there will be discontent
among the army of railway employes
who are not benefited by the law.
These will not be able to discern spe
cial merit in legislation which pro
vides a day of eight hours for one
class of railroad men while failing to
recognize the justice of extending the
same benefits to themselves. This Is
the most unfortunate defect of the
law, from the standpoint of the rail
roader who is outside the pale of the
proposed eight-hour regulation. Thou
sands of railroad men will rejoice, per
haps, in the recognition of the eight
hour principle, but they will regret
that its application is so limited in its
scope, especially in view of the fact
that President Wilson just as easily
could have Induced Congress to adopt
a general eight-hour measure and thus
avoid a probable controversy in the
courts, with the possibility that the
whole law will break down on consti
tutional grounds.
It will be contended by those who
are urging the re-election of Presi
dent Wilson that he has achieved im
portant results for the railroad men
in the present crisis, but the fact that
not be overlooked among unbiased
and thoughtful men that all signs have
pointed to partisan political activity
throughout the discussions at Wash
ington rather than an earnest effort
to establish upon firm foundations an
enduring principle that would stand
the test of time. It is believed tl\at
the legislation now being forced
through Congress is a postponement
rather than a final adjustment of the
controversy between the railroad com
panies and the four big brotherhoods.
One cannot escape the conviction that
the whole purpose and motive of the
President's program in this matter
have been actuated by a desire to de
fer the conflict until after election day.
Of course, his supporters will insist
that no such thought was in his mind,
but the attending circumstances of the
spectacular conferences at the White
House lead to the Inevitable conclusion
that the interests of the railroad men
were not so much under consideration
as were the political interests of Pres
ident Wilson and the Democratic
party.
Of course, it will be the sincere hope
of the public at large that the legisla
tion proposed will be the forerunner of
lasting industrial peace, but the man
ner of its enactment and the large
doubt as to its constitutionality make
that prospect tar from bright.
DANIELS AT IT AGAIN*
EVERY time Secretary Daniels
talks he gets himself into trouble.
His most recent break was in
relation to the Vera Cruz incident. "A
typical Daniels denial" is the term
which ex-Representative Cole applies
to Secretary Daniels' indignant but
ineffective denial of Mr, Cole's asser
tion that American troops were sent
into Vera Cruz with orders not to fire
unless they were fired on and that,
therefore, there was needless loss of
American lives, as the fleet should
" —_— i
The Days of Real Spor By BRIGGS I
■ YARD
have been permitted to shell the city
until it surrendered before a landing
was attempted.
Secretary Daniels replies with a
quotation from Admiral Badger's re
port which would seem to indicate
thta no such order was issued.
But Mr. Cole points out that, while
Admiral Badger was in command of
the fleet, it was Admiral Fletcher who
was in command at Vera Cruz, and he
quotes from Admiral Fletcher's report
the sentence, "Our men are only firing
when fired at." Mr. Cole also quotes
Consul General Canada, whose report
read: "Our men simply defending
themselves." Mr. Coles also quotes
the New York Sun's correspondent,
who cabled: "Admiral Fletcher's or
ders were that the landing party should
occupy these positions (custom house,
etc.) and make no attack on Mexican
troops unless they were attacked."
The statement, made in a reputable
paper at the time, was n%ver denied
by the administration.
Ln
By the Ex-CommiUeeman
Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh's
return to the State Capitol, which is
expected within a week, is being eag
erly awaited on Capitol Hill because
of reports that he will take up the
questions surrounding appointments
of a manager of the State Insurance
Fund and a member of the State In
dustrial Board before leaving on Sep
tember 12 on the first of the three
tours of the farming regions of the
State. The Governor will likely motor
home from Maine. He plans to close
his summer home, in a few days and
will make an easy trip to Harrisburg.
He has kept in touch with the Capitol
by mail, making one visit here since
July 2 and late August matters have
been allowed to av\»ait his return. One
of the matters to occupy his attention
will be a meeting of the Board of
Public Grounds and Buildings.
Governor Brumbaugh will also
make a number of appointments of
trustees and justices of the peace on
which letters and other data have
been accumulating pending his re
turn. He will also have a talk with
members of the State Commission of
Agriculture and meet heads of de
partments before going out on his
farm tour. Vacancies will be dis
cussed.
In all probability the Governor will
make most of the speeches for which
he is scheduled during October He
will spent parts of three weeks on
farm tours this month.
Pennsylvania soldiers now in the
federal service will be supplied with
pamphlets giving them full instruc
tions how their votes may be record
ed, plans having been completed for
the printing of the opinion on the
right of soldiers to vote, the manner
in which the voting is to be done
and what the State must do which
Attorney General Brown will give to
Governor Brumbaugh next week. The
pamphlet will also contain the opinion
of the Attorney General that the reg
istration and enrollment laws shall not
interfere with the right of soldiers
to vote when they are on federal dutv
in another part of the country. It
is expected that the Governor will take
steps immediately upon his return
next week to provide for the votinc
Commissioners will be named to go to
the camps to take the votes in No
vember.
There have been few withdrawals
from the legislative and other tickets
this year and the State department Is
now preparing to make up fho lists of
candidates. The time for filing nom
ination papers by independent bod
ies will expire on October 3.
—The executive and legislative com
mittees of the State Grange talked
until a late hour last night on a legis
lative program which will be prepared
for the next General Assembly and
decided to assail the proposition to
ispue bonds for road construction and
to insist on the old Grange nlan of a
special one-mill tax on personal and
corporate property for roads; for more
money for schools; the budget system
for charitable institutions, and against
the practice of making counties pay
for primaries. There will he the usual
protest against the increasing cost of
government.
—The workers of the State Anti-
Snloon League at their meeting here
yesterday outlined a plan for tours of
the State by speakers of national repu
tation and went over the situation in
congressional and legislative districts.
Dr. C. F. Swift, the new State superln-
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
tendent, named Dr. B. L. Scott super
intendent at Erie to succeed him in
charge of the work at Pittsburgh. Dr.
Swift will work out the speaking tour
plans. The speakers will include
ex-Governor Patterson, of Tennessee;
G. W. Morrow. Detroit; W. B. Wheeler
and George Patterson, Washington,
and Dr. Louis A. Banks, Delaware,
Ohio.
—The State Grange committees sent
a midnight telegram to the President
last night expressing their viewW on
the strike legislation. They attacked
the railroads, especially the express
companies and subsidiaries, and did
not appear to be Very well pleased
over the plan adopted.
—Democratic State Chairman Joe
Ouffey and Secretary Van Dyke left
late yesterday afternoon to attend the
notification ceremonies at Shadow
Lawn after having been ia conference
with some of the Dauphin, Cumber
land and Juniata Valley Democrats.
The situation in this section was gone
over and it is intimated that the chair
man expressed some desire that the
West Shore Democrats should cease
lighting each other and fight the Re
publicans. Guffey will come back to
this city next week to arrange for the
surprise party on September 14 when
the State candidates will be notified.
—Local Democrats who went to
Shadow Lawn to attend the notifica
tion included Samuel Kunkel, elec
toral candidate: H. E. Hershey, Post
master F. C. Sites, Casper Dull, Milton
H. Plank and the old reliable T. K
Van Dyke.
—Things are getting busy. The West
End Republican club will have a crab
supper to-night and the Central Demo
cratic Club will parade on Septem
ber 14.
—Prominent Pittsburgh Republicans
are forming a committee to roll up a
big majority for Hughes in that
county.
—ln a statement issued last night
Mrs. George B. Orlady, president of
the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage As
sociation, stated that she did not in
tend to resign as reported and that the
reason Mrs. Frank M. Roessing and
Miss Hannah J. Patterson were retir
ing as officers of the national associa
tion was that they stated when elected
that they would serve but one year.
—Steps to declare the Franklin party
"legally dead" were taken in Philadef
phia courts yesterday and there was
the usual objection raised.
—Collector Lederer, of the Philadel
phia revenue office, who has been in
Maine, says that it is going to be
Democratic. However, he is not sure
about Pennsylvania.
—The Philadelphia Record quotes
Chairman Guffey as expressing the
hope that Pennsylvania might be found
in the Democratic column this year.
Guffey and his crowd got Wilson four
years ago, but they did not give Penn
sylvania as promised. The warm
weather is still with us.
Democracy
To the- door of every generation
there comes a knocking and unless
the household, like the Thane of
Cawdor and his wife, have been "doing
some deed without a name, they need
not shudder. It turns out at worst
to be a poor relation who wishes to
come in out of the cold. The porter
always grumbles and is slow to open.
"Who's there, In the name of Beelze
bub?" he mutters. Not a change for
the better In our human housekeeping
has ever taken place that wise and
good men have not opposed it —have
not prophesied with the alderman that
the world would wake up and find its
throat cut in consequence of it. The
world, on the contrary, wakes up, rubs
its eyes, yawns, stretches itself, and
goes about its business as if nothing
had happened.—James Russell Low
ell.
Not Improbable
A gentleman of a very excitable and
emotional nature had the misfortune
to lose his third wife. He took the af
fliction very much to heart and at the
grave was so overcome that he faint
ed. His friends gathered around htm
and were fearful for his life. Among
them was a German who spoke Eng
lish brokenly. He stooped down and
felt the gentleman's pulse, .and looking
up said, "He's all right; he'll re-wlve."
—The Christian Herald.
Remarkable Reptiles
During tho time of deposition of the
clays constituting the Morrison shale
in Southern Colorado, there existed a
great variety of remarkable reptiles of
huge size. Their bones, which are in
places abundant, arc tho remains of
animals that were mired In the soft
clay of which the Morrison formation
largely consists. Some of these creat
ures, such as the Brontosaurus, were
60 feet long. Many of them had re
markably small heads, notably the
Stegosaurus, which had so diminu
tive a brain that it must have been
vary stupid. This animal was un
doubtedly very clumsy also, but Its
huge size and protective armor aided
in its preservation.—United States
Geological Survey.
IDAHO IS PLEASED OVER
RESULTS O
According to correspondence from
Boise Ida., the seven months of the
state-wide prohibition in Idaho have
been eminently satisfactory and popu
lar if the allegiance of the political
parties to the standard of prohibition
may be considered a criterion. The
Republicans have gone the farther by
endorsing national prohibition, and
making the state plank as dry as a
plank could be.
The way that the Republican plank
came into being shows the attitude of
that party's leaders stiU further. One
of the members who haa been conspic
uously in favor of prohibition draft
ed a national prohibition plank to be
submitted to the committee. This
draft was shown to a Republican lead
er, named for office and previously
known as one of the "wets," who de
clared that it was not strong enough
and added the clause stating that the
pledge of the Republican party in
1914 would not be fulfilled until the
amendnjent was passed in November.
The amended plank was again passed
on to a third member, also an office
seeker and previously known against
prohibition, and was further added to
with the phrase, "In any event we
favor the continuance of state-wide
prohibition in Idaho," meaning that
prohibition was to be continued even
though the amendment should fail
of passage. The amendment as passed
is:
"We heartily favor the enactment
of an amendment to the constitution
of the United States providing for
national prohibition of both the man
ufacture and sale of intoxicating li
quors, and urge upon the coming ses
sion of the Idaho Legislature the pas
sage of a memorial to that effect. We
also urge our members of Congress to
do whatever lies in their power to
bring about the submission to the
states, of such an amendment.
"In our platform of 1914 we said:
'We hereby declare in favor of state
wide prohibition within the state of
Idaho, and ,to that end favor the sub
mission to the voters of this state by
the next legislative assembly of a con
stitutional amendment embodying
that provision.' That pledge will not
have been fully redeemed until the
adoption of the constitutional amend
ment. In any event we favor the
continuance of state-wide prohibition
in Idaho."
In connection with the state en
dorsement by the Republicans for na
tional prohibition it may be noted that
the four Idaho representatives in Con
gress (Republican) are all in favor.of
national prohibition.
The Democrats declare in their
state platform "A Democratic gover
nor recommended the prohibition of
the liquor traffic within the state,
signed a state-wide prohibition bill
and insisted upon a fearless' enforce
ment of the law. We approve pro
hibition by statutory amendment and
by constitutional amendment pledge
the Democratic officials to a rigid en
forcement of all prohibition laws."
In the enforcement of the law Gov-
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE ""j
—"The Kaiser has dismissed thirty
German general 3," says a news item.
But why doesn't somebody dismiss the
Kaiser?
—Dig down in your jeans and help
put the first annual Kipona, on the
map.
—Rumania has gone on the "water
wagon"—and Just when the Austrian
breweries hove Jn sight.
—Congress is violating the eight
hour day It is advocating.
—The Danish East Indies residents
ask Denmark to sell to the United
States as quickly as possible. There's
patriotism for you.
—Daniels says his dreams are com'-
ing true, and he might have added,
some of his nightmares.
Study in Finance
Mr. Hughes enjoyed going down into
a copper mine, the other day. It must
be interesting to see the little divi
dends broken off from the solid ledge.
—Lowell Courier. j
SEPTEMBER 2, 1916.
ernor Alexander (Democrat) has urg
ed the officials to diligence, and in
a recent incident offered a reward of
SIOO for the arrest of parties bringing
liquor into the state.
There is still an undercurrent work
ing to reinstate the liquor traffic, and
it is said that their star of hope is
that the constitutional amendment
will go by default; that the interest in
the presidential candidates may so
overshadow the amendment that it
will remain unmarked. The brewer
ies have been slow in transforming
their properties for other purposes.
The Coeur d'Alene brewery, however,
has organized a new company for can
ning fruits and vegetables. The Nam
pa brewery is manufacturing soft
drinks and the Boise brewery in addi
tion to making soft drinks and vine
gar is running its cold storage plant
for storage purposes. None of these
breweries is using its entire equip
ment of machinery.
It is too soon to note the economic
effect. Nothing has taken the place of
the saloon as an institution. In a few
towns reading rooms were
Boise threw open a room in the city
hall which has been unremittingly
patronized in the past seven months,
and especially on Sunday nights is
filled with men until a late hour.
The quickest change has been in the
moral aspect. Crimes were immed
iately lessened when the liquor was
withdrawn. The mining town of Wal
lace with a population of 3,500 stands
ahead in its record in not having a
single arrest in the first three months
of the year. At one time this spring
the Ada county jail, which included
Boise city in its territory, stood empty,
and at present there are but three
prisoners, two of whom are federal
and are awaiting the session of the
federal court. The police force in
Boise has been decreased by four.
The State penitentiary shows as many
as from 20 to 30 less in its numbers
than the corresponding months of the
past year. One of the justices of the
peace states that all the criminal cases
appearing in his court are but the af
termath of the saloon regime.
There were some adjustments in tt
business way which the closing of the
liquor traffic necessitated and which
make the industrial effects slower in
being computed. In Boise many men
were thrown out of employment and
a noticeable number of their families
moved away. Others who did not
wish to remain in a prohibition state
sought business affiliations elsewhere.
Luther Wells, secretary of the Anti-
Saloon League, who has recently com
pleted a tour of the state announces
that business conditions have im
proved all over the state since Janu
ary 1.
The testimony of the State Chil
dren's Home Finding and Aid So
ciety shows that poverty is decreas
ing, and that there has been a de
, cidedly fewer number of children
committed to its care than previous
ly, with an accompanying decrease in
the cost of maintaining the children's
home.
Our Daily Laugh
PUTTING HER
RIGHT.
i nr Mrs - Bob
/\l a Goodsole. Bob
Lj\ 1)6 bo dlsap
'' pointed In not
»( "Wf seeln£r yo *- But
.1 jl £$ i\ he's out tonight.
Voice from tho
flMll J. "" Next Room—Yoir
iliilll Z ot mo wrong,
jfc old glri. I'm not
out any. The
last pot made mo
better than even.
CAN'T BE DONE
Lawyer Sa I U~—-J l-i.
your wife cut you I ' P Jfc
off In her will. /\\ f|
Well, there must
be a way to break
Henry Peck—,-Sgs
Break the late
Mrs. Peck's will!
I've tried It and » J
found it lmpossl- % V •
hlo.
A Changed Bear
Who remembers the cartoons of the
Russian bear, running to beat the
bund, with his tall toward te enemy?
Ho was funny In those days.—Toledo
Blade.
Bmratg GUfat
Business and professional men, and
citizens in general, know little about
the closing of mails at the Harrisburg
post office. They make numerous in
quiries daily as to how late a letter
may be posted to reach a certain des
tination. Post office attaches are at-
Wi *ys ready to give any information
asked for. The only way to get It li to
ask. There is no printed schedule for
distribution. The postal department
at Washington, D. C., makes no ap
propriation for printing this informa
tion. A printed schedule giving the
arrival and departure of mails at the
Harrisburg post office has not been
published for several years. . •
Inquiries to-day brought the inter-,
esting information that most trains
carry mail. All pouches are closed be
tween 40 and 50 minutes befor.e train
time. If you have a letter that must
Ret away with a rush the safest plan
Is to get it in the post office one hour
before train time. A schedule of time
mail leaves local office for import
ant cities follow:
Baltimore, and Washington. D. C.—
4:00, 6:20, 7:20 and 9:00 a. m.; 12:30,
2:50, 3:30, 6:30 and 11:00 p. m.
Philadelphia—l2:3o, 1:00, 3 40,
4:30, 6:20, 9:00, 7:20 and 9:30 a. m.;
12:20, 2:50, 5:40, 8:45 and 10:45 p.
m.
New York—1:00, 4:00, 7:20. 9:00
and 9:30 a. m.: 12:20, 5:40, 10:40 and
p. m.
Pittsburgh—l2:4o, 2:00, 6:20 and
11:40 a. m.; 2:50, 6:15. 6:30, 0:30
and 10:45 J), m.
Williamsport and the North—4:oo,
7:10, 11:00 a. m.; 3:50, 10:00 and
10:45 p. m.
Buffalo, N. Y.—4:00, 7:10, 11:00 a.
m.; 2:50, 10:00 - and 11:45 p. m..
Scranton and Wilkes-Barre—4:oo,
7:10, 9:00, 11:00 a. m.; 2:50, 5:40,
8:45 p. m.
Chambersburg—4:3o, 7:00, 11:00 a.
m.; 2:30, 10:15 p. m. Carlisle same as
above except the last mail leaves at
9:00 m.
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Harrisburg has always been an im
portant mail distributing center. Away
back in the days of John Harris there
was a post service ,whlch reached
Harrisburp; and it is toellev#d that
some of the early carriers of postal
matter that reached the Scotch Irish
settlements of the Cumberland Val
ley went by way of the ferry. Men
tion is made in early letters written
by people in this section, which was
then Lancaster county, of the receipt
of official papers by post from Phila
: delphia and the stage coaches which
came into general use just before the
{ Revolution all carried mail. There
arc many tales of these old mall
coaches and when Harrisburg was
| put on the map it became the place
I for changing horses. As towns came
j into being .up the Susquehanna, Jun-
I iata and other valleys mail brought
here in stages from Philadelphia and
Lancaster was sorted for carrying up
to Sunbury, to Alexandria, to Carlisle,
to Lebanon and other places and Har
risburg before the nineteenth cen
tury began was an important mall
distributing point.
The coming of the first railroad,
train in 1836 was the cause of still
greater expansion of the business of
Harrisburg as a mail center and there
followed a big increase in the amount
of mail matter which went in and out
of this town. It became the most im
portant mail town between Philadel
phia and the rapidly developing iron
and steel metropolis of Western Penn
sylvania. Cars were brought here fill
ed with mail bags and sorted out for
the places on ths railroads and high
ways radiating from Harrisburg. Then
came the mail car, but still Harris
burg maintained its important place
as a distributing point and tt is now
the central office for a large terri
tory.
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Tt might bo added that this city's
importance as a center of distribution
was recognized by the United States
Railway Mail service forty years ago.
Soon after the Civil war the mail
service began developing by leaps ahd
bounds and this city which had be
come a prominent concentration point
for troops and supplies during the
war was looked over. In the seventies
Harrisburg was made the headquar
ters of a division and W. Jones Hugh
es was the first chief clerk. He had a
big territory and men under him
traveled on long runs. He was suc
ceeded by the late Senator John T.
Fisher, who died a year or so ago a|
Sunbury. Then came Fred. C. Gore,
who held the place for many years
and was succeeded by J. C. Burkhol
der, the present chief clerk. There
have been thousands of men in the
railway mail service running out of
Harrisburg under these men, some of
whom are now in other occupations
and whose recollections of the ser
vice are most interesting.
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The Harrisburg division is the Sec
ond and comprises the central and
northern parts of the State, as far west
as Erie. Indiana and Somerset; parts
of Western New York, the Northern
Central system clear down to Wash
ington and the Cumberland and other
valleys. There are 220 men in the
division service, all running out of
Harrisburg. The Main Line division
on the Pennsylvania is known as di
vision No. 15. It is a separate organi
zation.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—James F. Woodward, the McKees
port legislator, who was here yester
day, will be a candidate for re-election
and also for the chairmanship if ha
does not run for speaker. Mr. Wood
ward is one of the oldest legislators
in point of service.
—Senator W. C. Sproul, who
entertained the astronomy congress at
his home near Philadelphia, took priz
es in that branch when at college.
—Senator Boise Penrose says ho
does not see much chance to get a
vacation this year.
—Judge Charles Y. AudenreM, of
Philadelphia, has finished a long mo
tor trip through the Adirondack's and
New England. It is the longest trip
he has taken yet.
—Col. Asher Miner, commander of
the Third Pennsylvania artillery, used
to be a legislator and is one of tho
oldest Guardsmen in service In Lu
zerne courrty.
—Oliver K. Cowell, the new presi
dent of the State Elks, has been a
member of the order for over a dozen
years and an officer for quite a time.
—C. L. Gramley, who withdrew as
a candidate for the legislature in Cen
ter, served a few years ago.
DO YOU KNOW "J 1
That Harrisbiira: makes varie
ties of steel used for tools?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Troops camped in Riverside parks
on their way to suppress the whisky
Insurrection.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harriuburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the onranlza
lion's annual "Municipal Quit."]
What percentage was appropriated
for teachers' salaries?
66.4 per cent.