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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME
Pounded it,it
Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Tekpaph Building, Federal Square.
E. J. STACKPOLE. Pres't and Editor-in-Chief
R- OYSTER, Bujtntsj Manager.
■ OVS M. 6TEINMETZ. Manning Editor.
t Member American
latlon and Penn
sylvania Assoeiat-
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nue Building. New
cago, Illf'
Entered at the Post Offlce In Harris
burg. Pa., as second class matter.
By carriers, six cents a
week; by mall. $3.00
a year In advance.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 6.
Impatient people water their miseries
and hoe up their comforts. —Spurgeon.
HOW GOD WRITES HIS CHECKS
STEWART C. MacFARLANE, of
Pittsburgh, speaking before the
Harrisburg Rotary Club yesterday
on "The Higher Side of Rotary," made
a point of this thought:
Strive to be rich, not only in the
mind and the spirit, but in the ma
terial things of the world, for you
must remember that God can write
His checks only through you and
me.
"God can write his checks only
through you and me." Here Is a truth
worth remembering. God has no
bank account save that of the individ
ual man or woman. The possessor of
wealth ts not Its owner, but Its stew
ard. Mc. McFarlane brings the par
able of the talents down to date. The
man who has wealth and does not use
It for the benefit of his fellows may
be leading an exemplary life other
wise, but he is not letting God write
his checks through him and mighty
little can be accomplished these days
•without the assistance, in some meas
ure, of cheeks.
FOLLOWING Ol'U EXAMPLE
HARRISBURG has set a good ex-1
ample for other cities in Penn-j
svlvania in the beautification of
Its river front. Several towns have
given attention to the matter recent
ly and to-dav it is announced that S.
S. Woods, one of the progressive and
enterprising citizens of Lewistown,
has purchased all of the land adjoin
ing the river in ttiat borough and
will give It absolutely to the com
munity providing town council will
agree to beautify it and preserve It
for the use of all the people.
Lewistown should not hesitate for a
moment to accept the gift. Harris
burg regards its River Front as a pos
session beyond price. It is the city s
most valuable asset. Mr. Woods is a
far-seeing man, as well as generous.
He could perform no greater service
to Lewistown than to preserve for all
time the beauty and utility of its river
frontage as a public recreation place.
WETZEL'S OPPORTUNITY
J EDWARD WETZEL, if he Is
given the full and unquestioned
authority over the police force to
which, as chief of the department,
he is entitled, will have a rare oppor
tunity for service in Harrisburg.
With no desire to reflect on anybody
and appreciating the difficulty of
properly patroling the district with
a force far too small for the purpose,
it must be said that the city Is suffer
ing seriously from defects In the po
lice system. Firebugs have operated
with impunity and robberies have
been of almost nightly occurrence
since early spring.
Chief Wetzel will have public sup
port and co-operation in the correc
tion of these conditions if he sets
about that task promptly and ef
ficiently. The new police head has an
excellent chance to make a name for
himself and those with the good repu
tati >n and the safety of the city at
heart will hope that he will take full
advantage of the opportunity at hand.
STATISTICS EXPLAINED
COKE is the "vittels" of the steel
mills. If the steel mills are
making good time they con
sume lota of coke and that means em
ployment for thousands of soft coal
miners and coke oven operatives in the
vicinity of the Pittsburgh coal seam,
which stretches for miles through
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and
Ohio.
The steel mills of this country dur
ing 1915 were glutted with orders from
Europe for war material. So It is not
surprising that the United States Geo
logical survey finds that the amount
of coke produced In this country dur
ing 1916 was 7,023,2315 tons more than
the 1914 record, or an increase of 20
per cent. The report statfs that this
was within 6,000,000 tons of tho re
cord output of 1913, and that was the
last year of a Republican protective
tariff law.
Everyone in Pennsylvania will re
call the slump In steel production In
1914, before the war broke out, and
that reacted on the coke Industry.
Aocording to the Geological Survey
figures, therefore, the production of
eoke In 1813 was about -47,000,000
tons;'ln 1914, with a Democratic tariff
law paralyzing industry, it fell to about
35,000,000 tons; and in 1916 a war or
der prosperity put it up to 41,000,000
tons.
Couple this with the recent report of
the Geological Survey which stated
that the iron ore mined In the Unit
ed States in 1916 "reached the great
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
total of 65.638,490 gross tons, the
greatest output made in any year ex
cept 1910 and 1913" and an Increase
of 14,000,000 tons-over the output of
1914, and It will serve as a classic ex
ample of the effect of European war
orders on our prosperity.
But where do the Democrats come In
for the credit of this prosperity?
Democratic stump orators will be
around presently shouting "prosper
ity!" and "he kept us out of war!"
We have had two shindigs with Mex
ico, and the European war kept us
out of the ooorhouse.
CITY COUNCIL RESPONSIBLE
FOR some reason not easily under
stood, the Ave officials now con
stituting the government of
Harrisburg have placed themselves In
antagonism -to the City Planning
Commission. One of them, In the dis
cussion of the overhead bridge on
Seventh street yesterday at the session
of City Council, was more concerned
about declaring his right to his own
opinion than about the serious phases
of the matters Involved in the erection
of such a structure over a public high
way in the city. So far as this news
paper has knowledge of the contro
versy, no person has questioned the
right of Commissioner Gross or any
other commissioner to his own opin
ion. This, however, is not so much a
matter of hastily formed Individual
judgment as It Is the formulation of a
fixed policy by the city for the protec
tion of its highways and the rights of
property owners therein. Commis
sioner Gross belittles the whole im
portant Issue by a puerile defense of
himself and his colleagues against
public disapproval of what is believed
to be an illegal act. Mock heroics on
the floor of Council will not serve to
conceal the utter disregard by the
City Commissioners of the people in
this matter.
Perhaps the most lamentable show
ing of Council in the premises is the
effort to throw dust In the eyes of the
people by declaring that the time
within which the ordinance granting
the right to erect this bridge could be
reconsidered had elapsed; that, there
fore, Council could do nothing further
in the matter and it was for the courts
to determine the issue. Thus the bur
den of safeguarding the Interests of
the city is weakly shifted to the
Chamber of Commerce by the regu
larly elected and authorized represen
tatives of the municipality who are the
paid servants of the people. This
community is rapidly getting awake
to the reactionary attitude of
City Council. Harrisburg for many
years has maintained a proud place
among the municipalities of the coun
try. Only this week it gave expression
to its public spirit in a splendid water
carnival, which has attracted wide
spread and favorable comment It has
been a leader in many unique public
improvement projects. In fact, this
city has blazed the way for a large
number of communities elsewhere.
Under these circumstances the gentle
men composing the preseht Council
cannot hope to escape censure. They
have called down this criticism upon
themselves by an indifference to pub
lic sentiment which can be ascribed
only to a failure on their part to real
ize their duty to the city and its peo
ple. They are not acting for them
selves, nor will the people long endure
the pettiness which has too often
characterized their official attitude.
The Planning Commission makes no
claim to superior Intelligence, nor has
it at any time manifested any domi
neering or arbitrary disposition to
override the Council or any other
body. Without cost to the taxpayers
and confining themselves strictly to
the provisions of the law under which
the body was created, and In pur
suance of the high public duty of
planning for a still better city, these
men, after full consideration of all the
facts, have done no more than submit
for the gutdance of Council conclu
sions in harmony with expert legal
opinion. Had they done less they
would have been false to the people,
whom they serve without reward save
that which follows service well ren
dered.
The Planning Commission acted
promptly and Council, on the same
day that the negative recommendation
was received, passed the objectionable
ordinance with little or no consider
ation of the points raised. If the
measure is beyond the point where it
can be reconsidered Council and Coun
cil alone Is responsible.
NEW DIVORCE I/AWS
MUCH Interest attends the an
nouncement from Philadelphia
that several bills changing and
modifying the divorce laws of Penn
sylvania will be submitted to Governor
Brumbaugh for his approval previous
to their Introduction during the next
session of the Legislature. The whole
subject of divorce In tho United States
is so confused and the laws governing
legal separation and dissolution of the
marriage relations differ so widely
in tho individual States that the adop
tion of a uniform, standard statute by
all States would appear to be the~one
accomplishment toward which those
at work upon the problem should bend
their efforts.
liodern practice and opinion are to
be traced mainly to the old Roman
law, which recognized marriage mere
iy as a civil union to be terminated at
any time by consent of the parties
without legal process, and to the
Christian religion which reinvested
marriage with the religious character
from which In the law of Rome It had
completely escaped. The fluctuating
views of modern society and the vag
aries of lawmakers have been respon
sible for the widely divergent statutes
which prevail In the United States.
The result has been to makb divorce
easy to procure in many courts and
the easier it has become to break the
marital tie the greater has become the
legal practco attached to such pro
ceedings, until the connection of many
lawyers wtih the divorce court* are
little less than scandalous. If the pro
posed laws do away with some of the
present red tape and make divorce
more difficult to obtain by all means
they should be adopted.
'fotitLc* Ik
By the Ei- Committeeman
Pennsylvania's Republican cam
paign will be mapped out in detail
next week in Philadelphia. W. Harry
Baker, secretary of the Republican
State committee, who returned to-day
from Philadelphia where he had been
arranging for the opening of the State
headquarters for the campaign, sard
that the details would be taken up
Immediately.
According to Philadelphia news
papers State Chairman William E.
Crow is expected in that city early
next week and will meet leaders of
various counties and determine upon
a date for the meeting of the Republi
can State committee. The State
chairman has been vfsiting various
counties in the western end of the
State and getting the campaign de
tails started in that section.
The preliminary reports received at
State headquarters are all of a very
favorable nature and the candidates on
the State ticket who have been getting
about quietly have found general sup
port for the whole ticket and con
siderable resentment against the na
tional administration. .
Philadelphia Inquirer of to
day says; "Thomas H. Garvin, of Dela
ware county, chief clerk of the House
of Representatives, has been suggested
for the chairmanship of the speakers'
bureau of the Republican State Com
mittee. It is planned to arrange a
regular itinerary for Candidates Knox,
Snyder and Kephart, and to have
meetings held under the auspices of
the State Committee in every section
of the State."
—Mercer county which four years
ago gave Roosevelt a vote greater than
the vote for either Taft or Wilson,
yesterday organized solidly for Gov
ernor Hughes with the Progressive
element which in 1912 dominated the
situation virtually in control of the
Hughes Independent movement. At
® meeting held yesterday afternoon at
Sharon, the Mercer county branch of
the Hughes Alliance in the State of
Pennsylvania was officially organized
and an active campaign in behalf of
the national Republican ticket pro
mulgated. The leading spirits in the
Mercer organization were men form
erly active in the affairs of the Wash
ington Party in Pennsylvania. Benja
min J. Jarrett, of Farrell, a former
Stat© Senator, was elected chairman.
J. J. Pierce, Jr., of Sharpsville, for
mer Washington Party county chair
man was elected vice-chairman. Harry
B. McDowell of Sharon, former Re
publican county chairman, was elected
treasurer.
—New organizers have been added
to the staff of the Hughes Alliance in
the State of Pennsylvania and the
work of organizing county units
throughout the State will continue.
National headquarters of the Hughes
Alliance in New York have approved
the constitution and bylaws of the
Pennsylvania Alliance and approved
the election of Powell Evans as Penn
sylvania's representative on the Na
tional Committee of the National
Hughes Alliance.
—Much speculation Is being In
dulged in regarding the successor of
Samuel W. Pennypacker on the public
service commission and there are
rumors that the Governor may decide
to name some one from outside of
Philadelphia. While Mr. Pennypacker
officially lived in Montgomery county
he was always considered as one of
the Philadelphia commissioners. There
are now two commissioners from
Philadelphia, Messrs. Ryan and Al
corn. The general belief is that the
return of the Governor the latter part
of the week will be followed by the
first of the appointments. The public
service commisslonershlp will come
along after older vacancies are filled.
—Notice was filed at the State De
partment to-day of the withdrawal of
Arthur L. Bates, Meadville, and Frank
H. Buhl, Sharon, as Republican presi
dential electoral candidates. In their
places were named Walter I. Bates,
Meadville, and Bryan H. Osborn, of
Franklin. The selections were made
by Candidate Hughes.
—Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, is
arranging to inaugurate an elaborate
system of playground supervision next
year. He will accept the chairman
ship of a committee to have, charge
of such matters.
—Henry O. Wasson, of Pittsburgh,
former Republican State chairman,
who was here to-day on business at
the State Capitol said that while he
was out of politics nowadays he was
doing his part for Hughes.
—Democratic State Chairman
Joseph F. Guffey is expected to pay a
short visit to the Windmill in Market
Square the latter part of the week. Mr.
Guffey has been busy in the western
end of the State and will have con
ferences here with more of the leaders
of the hopeless contests.
—Plans are being made by Demo
rrats up in the anthracite region to
hold a series of meetings to be ad
dressed by men prominent in national
and State Democratic affairs.
Must Be For Hughes
[From the Kansas City Times.J
President Wilson now gets up at 5
o'clock in the morning. Secretary Tu
multy says it's for work, but thu
Wichita Beacon believes it's to get the
paper and see what Mr. Hughes has
said about him.
All a Political "Frameup"?
[From the Railway Age Gazette.]
The President has acted throughout
like a man who had entered into a pre
vious understanding that he would do
certain things and who was anxious to
deliver the goods as promptly and in
as good condition as possible. Tf he
was playing politics, recent develop
ments have been showing that he has
been playing very poor politics. He
has done nothing in his administration
that has worked him as much harm ai>
the policy .he has adopted in dealing
with the railway strike crisis.
True
[Topeka (Kan.) Capital.]
The impressive merely is the un
familiar. The man who la compelled
to get up at 4 o'clock In the morning
the year around never gets much store
by a sunrise. i
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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—The war has done one good thing j
anyway—lt has taken the red out of
red flannels.
—There appear to be landslides In
Panama politics as well as in the canal
zone.
—Mr. Hughes answered that ques
tion "what would you have done about
the eight-hour day?" before it was
asked.
—ln condemning the protective
tariff principle while passing laws in
accord with It the Democrats continue
to be consistently Inconsistent.
—You know, If you register on the
first day there will be no chance that
you will not find opportunity to do so
on the second or third.
EDITORIAL COMMENT"!
An exchange asks, "How many
baths should a man take In a week?"
If there is only one bathroom In the
house and the family is the average
size, he probably won't have a chance
to take more than one.—Trenton Ga
zette.
A Long Course
[From Philadelphia North American.]
Useless • statistics —it has been esti
mated that the President's course in
Mexico, if extended in a straight line,
WQuld encircle the earth three times.
\ Trouble Ahead
[From the Wheeling Intelligencer.]
With the South in the saddle the
Democratic donkey is due for many
balks before Congress adjourns.
Method in Discoveries
[From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.]
The Louisiana farmer who professes
to have plowed up a box containing
SI,OOO may be an advocate of deep plow
ing in disguise.
How Good Roads Help
When the Lincoln Highway was
talked about several years ago local
folks had an idea that It would help
Chambersburg somewhat, but nobody
hereabouts dreamed that in a few
short years this main transcontinental
highway would mean that from the
ordinary sources of travel, for two
successive nights, every available
sleeping room in Chambersburg
would be occupied, while scores of
tourists would be compelled to go to
other towns to seek sleeping accom
modations. But this very thing hap
pened Saturday and last night.
Chambersburg Public Opinion.
Prices Go Up
The Des Moines (la.) Capital has
increased its selling price from one to
two cents.
The Superior (Wis.) Telegram has
gone up from 35 to 40 cents per
month.
The Scranton (Pa.) Republican now
sells for two cents instead of one.
All Cleveland daily newspapers will
sell at two cents outside of the city
limits after October X. The Plain
Dealer effected the change fully on
September 1.
Increases In wholesale subscription
rate are under consideration In Minne
apolis. and the Tribune has increased
Its advertising rate.
The Philadelphia North American
withdrew all exchange courtesies on
September 1 and will furnish copies
only at regular rates, less publishers'
discount of 20 per cent.
WHAT THE~KOTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Quia."]
How many school buildings In the
city? How many teachers? How many
pupils?
Thirty school buildings; 30$ teach
ers; 11,121 pupils. ,
SAVING, LIKE CHARITY, BEGINS
AT HOME, INVESTIGATOR FINDS
THE New York Evening World has
been offering a sertes of cash
prizes for the most sensible plan
of saving as applied to the manage
ment of a household, where the in
come does not exceed $l5O a month.
A large number of plans were sub
mitted by persons in all walks of life,
a reading of which leads to the con
clusion that there are a lot of level
headed people getting somewhere by
good management and definite plans
of living. A perusal of these answers
would seem to Justify the following
conclusions:
First, that the only method of sav
ing that proves practical and perma
nent is the adoption of a well-defined
plan. This means a scheme of living
that provides for the various expenses
Incidental to rearing a family, such
as rent, food, fuel and light, clothing,
recreation, education, etc. No one
gets anywhere in particular by a "hit
and miss" method of life. This is the
reason so many people are living next
door to poverty all the time. Any
plan of life to be successful must in
clude the determination to save, and
If possible a definite amount as a mini
mum. The determination without a
plan accomplishes but little.
Second, that the wife is the saving
element In the household. As a rule
the man earns the money and the wife
spends it. To her is entrusted the
buying of the supplies, the care of the
children, their clothes and spending
money. Even though the husband pays
the bills, his wife contracts them. She
has time to shop and he has not.
Third, that the most workable plan
is as follows: Apportion the income.
There are certain fixed charges In
every home, such as rent, clothing and
food. It Is well settled that the rent
snould not exceed one-quarter of the
income—"a week s wage for a month's
rent." If it Is larger, it Is out of pro
portion and extravagant. You cannot
live in Fifth Avenue with a Third
Avenue income. The greatest extrava
gances are possible in the line of food
and here the wife can do her best
work. The cost of clothing can be
fairly well estimated from experience.
Educational expenses can be figured
with safety, and recreation can be
(THE STATE FROM DAY TO DW'
Temptation in the form of the good
old apple was the downfall of Francis
Gilda, a Philadelphia youth who fain
woud have "dumb" a tall tree and
plucked the juicy fruit therefrom. A
limb broke, however, and he fell, in a
somewhat different way than had his
ancestor Adam before him, and both
arms were broken above the wrists.
A rush for the Bonanza in oil, wild
rumors of the discovery of which set
prospective persons in Sharon all agog
on Labor Day, resulted In the dis
covery that kerosene had been poured
down a well and leases disposed of at
tremendous figures. The hoax involved
many men who saw fortunes in their
minds' eye.
A pretty Coaldalo girl recently con
fessed that she had two husband*,
living within one block of each other.
Any woman who can keep two hus
bands thus Ignorant of the existence
of the other must stay awake nights
thinking how to continue the decep
tion.
"I nearly died laughing" la a com
mon expression among girls, but one
seldom finds a case where the threat
Is actually carried out. Little 16-year
old Mary Bofane, of East Mt. Carbon,
however, was suddenly stricken while
laughing heartily the other day and
died on the way to the hospital.
David Ruth, one of the prise win
ners at the Farmers' Picnic and Ex
hibition at LuLu park, Quakertown,
recently, won as a priae first choice on
one half doaen plums and aome nur
•ery stock. Winner of second prist In
SEPTEMBER 6, 1916.
kept within bounds. The doctor and
dentist may be uncertain quantities at
times yet these need not be excessive
burdens as a general rule. An appor
tionment should be made for life in
surance and the savings bank, no mat
ter how small the latter may be. A
great many people set aside a definite
amount for each class of expenditures
and try at least to keep within the
appropriation.
Practically every competitor In the
contest confessed that they started
their financial success with a savings
bank account. It was small in many
cases, but grew steadily. The man
who starts out to save will astonish
even himself with results he never an
ticipated. It is the small steady sav
ings that count.
Some people divide the weekly wage
into parts, setting aside enough for
each class of expenditure, while others
make the apportionment and keep an
expense account as a guide to deter
mine how they keep within or exceed
their allotment.
To pay each bill out of Its particular
compartment in the family cash box
is sometimes impossible, and the sim
ple and effective way is to merely keep
an expense record, and if the expendi
tures exceed tl e expectation, curtail
ment or readjustment is in order.
Lastly, many who have acquired
property have done so through the
medium of a debt incurred —helpful
debt, such as a mortgage, building and
loan shares, instalment home buying,
etc. But look out in incurring such
obligations that they be within your
powers to fulfill, and the values con
servative. Pon t hitch up to more
than you can pull.
The marvel in such experiences is
not that these people saved a consid
erable sum, but that they saved at all.
It was all the result of planning, will
ing, sacrificing the little things to have
the greater ones, elimination of waste,
foresight, good judgment, setting a
course and steering by it, making reso
lutions to keep and not to break, and
being firm with one's self, but not
parsimonious. Thrift Is jetting a habit
and keeping it until it gets you. These
people got the habit of getting ahead
and the result is they got ahead.
I It always works that way.
his event had second choice on the
plums and some wagon grease.
"Hello, girlie! come here!" was the
lure that has been sounding from the
doors of Camden's fire headquarters
of late. Complaints on the part of
outraged girls led to the investigation
and discovery of a big green parrot
that was causing all the rumpus.
| Our Daily Laugh
WHAT SPOILED \
Newcomer (at » c
rest) —Is this jfxSclr
rsstful place. olrK
Native —Weli,
It used ter b« un- JM V
til folks btg&n r~
oomln' hsr* far
NOTHING
SERIOUS.
What's tho mat-
JyVijll My business has
IBEF? (RI WW Bah! Ton look
St 7 thought it might
have been tho
borne team.
Ebetttng (Elfat
The best test of the success of any
thing- is always to he found In the ex
pressions of opinion of people the day
after and very frequently you can get
"a line on" the way an affair turns out
from the remarks mado by folks from
other places or by neighbors. Almost
everything heard yesterday was high
ly complimentary of the Kipona. Trav
eling men who happened to bo in
Harrlsburg on Monday and who saw
the afternoon program or witnessed
the night display on the broad Sus
quehanna praised tho success and
some made very favorable comparison
with similar events of greater age In
other places. It was all very fine to
hear what the visitors had to sav, es
pecially when a Northumberland coun
ty man wanted to know why the folks
up about Hunbury did not have some
thing like it on the fine stretch of water
that fronts the county seat, a place,
where, by the way, there used to bo
great boat racing years ago. The com
mittee in charge must have felt its
eurs burn many times yesterday, but
probably the best compliment of all
was from the mouth of a babe which
piped up to ask it* mother "Won't
they have any more like that until
next year?" \
• » •
South Harrlsburg doesn't lack for
enthusiastic river sportsmen and rare
indeed Is the celebration that has to do
with the Susquehanna which doesn't
boast of a big representation of First
warders. And the first Kipona was no
exception. At a previous water car
nival the South Harrisburg Amuse
ment Association numbering several
score of First ward folks, sailed up
t:ie river in a great float (that repre
sented to the last detail a three-mast
ed, square-rigged brig. Monday even
ing the same association had a similar
turn out. Two long flats, used on the
construction of the dam, carried the
association members. The equipment
was donated by City Commissioner W.
H. Lynch. Mounted In the forward
end of the craft was the big spider
like derrick which had been used to
lift the last slabs of concrete into
place. Tacked high up on tho mast
was the First ward's notice to grin
ning observers what It does about tho
things it starts. The notice read:
"DAM FINISHERS!"
One of the many interesting and
unique sights that entertained La
bor Day vacationists who promenaded
the river bank on the morning of the
Kipona was a water bicycle, rigged up
with homely skill, but just as effective
as a motorboat, with proportionate
speed. The owner and manufacturer
had taken the frame of a bicycle and
attached it to a sort of miniature flat,
with water paddles in the rear. On
either side of him little chairs were
built and the owner's two small chil
dren comfortably sat while Daddy did
the work. The ingenious device must
have made about four or five miles an
hour and attracted considerable atten
tion as it moved slowly up and down
the river.
• • •
"One of the things which amused
me very much during Monday's cele
bration was the fact that the girl who
did the stunts in the water wore what
looked like a onepiece bathing suit,"
said an uptown man. "I remarked that
such garb was rather against the reg
ulations of the city fathers, but per
haps the rules were set aside for tho
time being. While I was commenting
upon the fact that the girl in the un
usual garb was allowed I noticed, tho
name on her canoe. It was 'why.' "
* * *
Girard, writing in the Philadelphia
Public Ledger, contributes the follow
ing to the interesting material writ
ten about the late Samuel W. Penny
packer '
"Everybody around town yesterday
was telling stories about Samuel W.
Pennypacker or listening to them.
Ex-Governor Stuart told me how he
had first met the other ex-governor.
When the former was a lad of twelve
some one inquired in the bookstore
where he could find a notary public.
"I told him," said ex-Governor
Stuart, "that around the corner was a
young lawyer named Pennypacker,
and I took him there."
A few years ago the Judge recalled
the incident at a public dinner where
the two met and he said ho would take
that occasion to thank publicly his
successor at Harrisburg for bringing
him a fee.
John Gribbel, president of the Union
League, told mo one day that when the
Pennypacker library was sold it was
found that one volume was a copy of
the Constitution of the United States
which had belonged to Jefferson Davis.
On the fly leaf the Governor had writ
ten: "Much good it did him!"
» • «
It Is seldom that the funeral of a
public official brings out so many ex
pressions as were heard yesterday up
on the late Samuel W. Pennypacker.
Too often men In public life pass away
without much more than perfunctory
notice and little of the comment in
private conversation which shows how
a man is held. Yet on Capitol Hill
yesterday there were many things said
about the former governor and In this
city appreciation was voiced by many
Harrisburgers.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Archbishop Kennedy, who has
been seriously ill at home, is a native
of Conshohocken.
—William J. Brennen, the Pitts
burgh lawyer, is home from a trip to
the seaside cities. He does not often
take a vacation.
■—Levi L. Rue, the Philadelphia
banker, is home from a western trip.
—J. Loyd Coatee, Philadelphia busi
ness man, has gone to Nova Scotia for
Fall hunting and fishing.
—Col. H. W. Shoemaker, the Al
toona publisher, is collecting material
for a new work on legends of the In
dians of Central Pennsylvania.
DO YOU KNOW 1
That many thousands of dol
lars' worth of agricultural Imple
ment wove sold through houses
in this city this summer?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Harrlsburg's first railroad bridge
was built by the Cumberland Valley
and was one of the most traveled rail
road bridges in this section for many
years. )
Wickersham On 8-Hour Law
Commenting on the enactment by
Congress of the eight-hour law George
W. Wickersham says: "I believe all
lovers of free government must have
followed with mingled feelings of
scorn and humiliation the panic strick
en action of Congress in passing the
eight-hour law in response to the inso
lent threats of the organisation lead
ers and the urgency of their President.
"No American Congress ever reach
ed such depths since that which en
acted an embargo on American com
merce at.the Instance of the first
Democratic President, Thomas Jeffer
son, in order to keep us out of war
with England. And as war Inevitably
followed that act of cowardico and
folly, so assuredly a new chapter of
industrial warfare lias been opened by
President Wllßon and Ills Congress.
"The constitutionality of the laglHla
tion will depend upon whether or not
In any case the new statutory wage
would reduce the company's profit be
low a reasonable return upon the In
vestment In Its enterprise."