10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XBWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Faundti ilji PubllehO evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRJXTIrtO CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLJS, Prgj't and Editor-in-C hitf F. R. OYSTER. Managtr, BUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. - Member American M Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Assocla tion. The Audit Bureau of Clrcu w PiS-" ~" -M latlon and Penn d 686 9 aylvanla Associat ed Dailies. §55 d Ifiji H Flnley,' Fifth Av£ j = , « J.ZL2 JK nue Building. New York City; West ern office, Story, CTBaPa Brooks & Fin- Building, Chi — cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week: by mail, $3.00 a year In advance. FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. 8. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost,—all is lost.'— Ayos. GOOD WORK, CHIEF CHIEF OF POLICE WETZEL, will have the support of all good people in his expressed inten tion to break up the operations of pet ty thieves and professional gamblers who have been annoying Harrisburg for many months. The new chief starts out well. It takes courage and ability to conduct his office along the lines he has laid down for himself. But in the end that is the only way in which a police chief can succeed. Any other road leads to oblivion. It is to the good people of the city to whom the chief must in the end look for approval. Influence, pow erful and determined, will be brought to bear on Wetzel to make him show the white feather. The only way he can combat the efforts that will be made to nullify his clean-up cam paign will be to ignore them entirely. Harrisburg is prepared to stand by a police officer who performs his duty In full to the people, who makes the city safe from the depredations of thieves, such as have looted houses at will during recent months, and who puts a halt to professional gambling. The people w-ill not stand for any Interference with a police chief de voted wholly to the duty of protect ing them and keeping the cuy clean. LESSONS OF THE MOBILIZATION THERE was flashed over the tele graph wires yesterday a brief bulletin stating that the Na tional Guard on the Mexican border had been recalled and would be im mediately mustered out. Joy reigned in many a household to which the premature news found its way, but gloom soon followed when a correc tion came along stating that only 15,- 000 of the army of volunteers were to be sent home. The thought that this great army of volunteers is being kept on the bor der for some purpose other than the defense of the country will not down. So many things have happened re cently at Washington to destroy con fidence in the good faith of the ad ministration that many people are be ginning to believe that the personal ambitions of Woodrow Wilson are re ceiving more consideration than the welfare of the volunteers or anybody else. Several weeks ago the Xew York Merchants' association, by unanimous vote, petitioned the government to re call immediately the National Guard troops from the border, to repeal the law recently enacted which attempted federalization of the state militia, and adopt universal military training of young men in order that a reserve of from 500,000 to 1,000,000 may be cre ated. The Merchants' association bases this action on the conviction that the outstanding lessons of the recent mobilization of the National Guard are too plain to justify further dependence on the present volunteer system. Facts set forth in the petition are deserving ot the thoughtful consideration of the American people. "War department records,", declares the association, "show that on July 17, or more than four weeks since June 19, the date of the order to mobilize the entire Xational Guard, which was supposed to consist of some 13*1,000 men, only 54,000 guardsmen had act ually reached the border. "War department records show that in many cases 30 per cent, and in some cases more than SO per cent, of the Xational Guard of the country called Into the federal service has been found to be physically unfit, while ap. proximately one-third of the Xational Guard now at the border, or ordered to the border, are raw recruits, with out any military training whatever; al so a large proportion are Inside men, from offices and inside occupations, and, therefore, until properly trained and hardened, are physically unfit for continuous service on the border in a most trying climate." In a recent letter from one of the well-posted Harrisburg guardsmen on the Mexican front he says: "I will not be telling any miltiary secret when I say wo are totally un prepared even ,to cope with poor old Mexico. Why, when we came here we would have been a Joke to start across the border; in fact, would be yet. There was perhaps one-third to one half of the men who had never held an army rifle in their hands, who knew FRIDAY EVENING, nothing about conserving their en ergy so at to sustain themselves for a hard day's march and who did not know what discipline wu. Even now I don't think fifty per cent/ could stand a week's hard work over the rugged mountains and dusty prairies. In the matter of equipment we bad nothing that we needed for fleld work except uniforms and guns. We had no ammunition, horses, mules, wagons, motor trucks, machine guns or hos pital supplies. Now we are being rap idly equipped and can take our place with any of them. I can readily under, stand why we had to ask, "why don't the English do something'' at the out break of the European war. While I know nothing, I venture to say that before the United States speaks its final word to Mexico we shall be thor oughly equipped and seasoned. For these army officers are not blind, no matter how politicians view things." Of course, it must constantly be kept in mind that the recruiting of the National Guard companies to full war strength during the mobilization was largely responsible for the apparent lack of system and involving in the criticism the seasoned Guardsmen. In asking the recall of the patriotic and self-sacrificing volunteers under present conditions the New York as sociation emphasizes the defects of the present system and urges an increase of the regular army to a force suffi cient to meet the present emergency and then to provide for universal mili tary training for the entire male popu lation physically able to bear arms, such training to be during the non productive period of their lives and be fore they have taken up their profes sion, business or vocation. Such In tensive training to be for a period suf ficient to produce efficiency. Whatever the final action of the gov ernment at Washington with respect to the volunteer army now in the field, the mobilization of the troops has demonstrated the need of more general military training and even now the importance of some initial military instructions among the school boys of the land should be self evi dent. Some time ago the Telegraph sug gested the organization of a battalion of cadets to consist of one company each from the two high schools of the city, the Harrisburg Academy and the parochial schools. Data was plac ed In the hands of Superintendent Downes by this newspaper which might still be utilized in the organi zation of such a battalion. We believe the boys of Harrisburg themselves re alize the necessity of reasonable mili tary training and the old fear of mili tarism should have no place In the thought of the school authorities. Aside from the physical benefit of such training the discipline Is worth much and this fact should appeal to those who are familiar with present conditions In this country. Alio, such training would break down class distinctions, instil patriot ism and democracy, educate the rising generation to a higher sense of duty and obligation, build up the nation's manhood physically, and fuse into a patriotic whole the many divergent foreign strains now claiming citizen ship and protection under our flag and its institutions. All that Independent of the prime purpose of peace through prepared ness. REPRISALS XOT POPULAR THE Manchester Guardian, a lead ing newspaper of England, is both right and wrong in its comment upon the reprisals proposed by President Wilson as part of the general revenue bill, most of which were eliminated by Congress. The Guardian hits the nail on the head when it says that they constitute a "flourish having special virtue on the eve of an election," but it speaks with out knowledge when it says that the reprisals "are popular ia America." Reprisals are never popular in America. Two wrongs never made a right Any such principle is abhor rent to the American idea of fair play. Unable to cope with the diplomats of the allies in statecraft, the President foolishly turned his efforts into a di rection that would accomplish no good, would result in absolutely no protection to American interests, but would actually aggravate the very evils which he would correct. In ad dition, application of the reprisal prin ciple would play directly into the hands of the Central Powers, who have slapped the President in the face repeatedly and have shown absolute disregard for American lives and prop erty. If American rights have been in vaded we shall be no nearer a settle ment if we invade the rights of some body else. If .an American has been hit with a brick by the British gov ernment, the injustice cannot be re dressed or the evil cured by throwing bricks at innocent persons simply be cause they owe allegiance to the Brit ish crown. The American public wants a square deal, but it is opposed to retaliation. It looks to its President to gain hfe ends through his much-vaunted diplomacy. He has boasted that it prevailed against the wiles and trickery of Ger many, why not then against England? OVERHEAD WIRES PUBLIC utilities in Harrisburg which are co-operating with the city in the removal of overhead wires and poles are not only doing a public-spirited thing, but are working along a line that in the long run will be economical to them. If they are laid right and properly maintained, the period of usefulness of underground lines is practically with out end. They lie far below the sur face. undisturbed by the wearing ac tion of the elements and free from peril or wind and falling objects. There is no renewal of poles and little or no wear of wire. The in%estment is permanent, with small depreciation. To be jure, the installation charges are heavy, but in the end they will come to bo preferred by all manner of electric companies, and uninterrupted public service, competition and in creasing business, with ite resuming larger expenditures for Improvements. will one day result In the abolition of all the trunk lines of poles In the country. The conduit is expensive, but it is the logical development of the great electrical systems now be ing built up and it is bound to come. pgggg=n ii i ■ ■ =OBe=s==» QV By the Ex-Committeeman Acting State Chairman Joseph H. , Guffey, of Pittsburgh, is determined 1 to have a big crowd at the Democratic , notification meeting to be held In this city next Thursday, even If he has to dragoon prominent Democrats Into coming. Chairman Guffey landed In town last evening and found conditions ; at headquarters decidedly up in the' air. The Wilson administration had promised to send Senator OUie James j and several other big Democratic guns , to cheer the waning courage of Penn sylvania Democrats on the occasion pf the notification. function and Guffey found that as usual Washington had fallen down on Its job and the best It h?.d to offer was Secretary of Labor "Billy" Wilson, who as a political orator is no great drawing card in his own home State. This left Guffey without much choice and he yanked Roland S. Morris, late State chairman, into service and drafted him to deliver the notification address. In addition he hopes to have present National 1 Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer and perhaps Vance C. McCormick. national chi'irman, although that is by no means certain. Then, to make sure of some sort of a crowd, he sent out a call for a con ference of all the county chairmen of the State, to be held on the morning of the notification meeting. This is the first time within memory that a State chairman has called his county chairmen to headquarters at one time, most chairmen preferring to meet them separately in order to give each more time for a full report on district conditions. But Guffey wants to kill two birds with one stone, so the meet ing is to be held in the Board of Trade hall on the morning of the day the notification meeting is scheduled for the seme auditorium. —State Senator Augustus F.Daix. Jr.. has prepared an antl drug bill designed to cover all the defects of the Har rison Federal act, which he will Intro duce in the Senate at the next session if he is re-elected. The bill is in tended to crush out the illegal use and distribution of drugs in this State and is sweeping in its provisions. A POLITICAL "FRAME-UP"? [From the Railway Age Gazette.] "On August 7 a man in Washington who is usually well Informed regard ing what is going on behind the scenes in that city wrote a remarkable letter to a prominent business man in New York—remarkable because of the accuracy with which it forecast sub sequent developments. A copy of this letter was handed to us on August 8, and we kept it to see how good a prophet the writer of it 'was. We quote from this letter as follows: " 'I believe there is an understand ing between Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, and the Administration, that this strike which is threatened, will not hurt the Administration. I am further given to understand that Gompers has as sured the President that an opportun ity will be given him to make capital out of the difficulty. This is to be done in this way: The men are to re ject all compromise offers by the rail roads: they are to look askance on the mediation offered by the Board of Mediation and Control (conciliation) thus giving the President a chance to intervene personally and bring both sides to the White House. The propo sition which he w-ill submit will in all probability be accepted by the (labor) leaders, thus putting the onus of rejec tion of his services on the railroad men (officers). If a commission is appointed under these circumstances it is easy to see how It will not be en tirely friendly to the railroads.' "Now, then, was the man who wrote that letter a prophet? He certainly was! (1) Gompers is supporting Wil son for re-election, and has been In close touch with both the W r hite House and the labor brotherhoods. (2) The men did reject all offers made by the railways. (3) They did "look askance" at mediation and refused to join with the railways in asking for It. 4) They did give the President a chance to intervene personally and bring both sides to the White House. (5) The President did make a propo sition which the labor leaders imme diately accepted, thus putting the onus of rejection of his servicees entirely on the railroads. "But we are getting a little ahead of our story. The Chamoer of Com merce of the United States had asked for an investigation by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The railways asked for this before the strike vote, and again during the mediation. Pres ident Wilson invited both sides to come to the White House, but on Au gust 11, before doing this, he wrote a letter to the President of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, which was im mediately published, opposing the submission of the matter to the com mission. In other words, he publicly rejected the railways' proposition be fore they had an opportunity to pre sent it to him. Furthermore, he made a proposition indorsing the brotherhoods' demaads for a "basic eight-hour day" in the very first stages of the conferences at the White House and admitted he had decided to do so before the railway officers called on him. And on April 9 Messrs. Stone and Lee were saying in speeches in St. Louis that "they were absolutely confident of winning out, but that they were going to do a certain thing which only the presidents of the four organizations knew about, and that they did not propose to tell anyone what this was, but that it would be the deciding factor 1n winning out in this fight!" The last piece of evidence needed to establish the case was af forded by Chairman Adamson of the House Committee on Interstate Com merce after negotiations between President Wilson and the railway ex ecutives and managers had begun In August 24 the Atlanta Constitution said regarding a conversation between its Washington correspondent and Mr. Adamson which occurred on August 23: "Mr. Adamson said he had a con. ference four months ago with the President, and a conclusion was reach ed as to his course at tliat time." His Regimen [From the Detroit Free Press.J "Regimens! Regimens!" said Profes- K'rd bef ° re the Har " "There are too many nonsenical rejri mens, young gentlemen. I prefer the regimeh of Mark Twain to all such rub- Dish. "Mark had a very strict regimen, vou know. He never smoked but one cigar at a time and never smoked while sleeping. "He never ate meat except with his meals, and he never drank except at meals and between meals. . , H jf,{ a , the '; took a drug store for a bad debt in Mark s boyhood, and among the stores were nine barrels of cod liver oil. These lasted Mark seven years. The rest of the family had to get along with the ipecac ana nux vomica. Mark being the pet. He was, hWact, the first oil trust. He got it HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH < THE CARTOON OF THE DAY SO ISE, I MO, STATESMAN ' (/ CONGRESS f | fin TELEdRAPH PERISCOPE ) —The Athletics now have some ap preciation of how the Phillies used to feel about this time of year. —Billy Sunday has come out in fa vor of the Allies and if. as England declares, the devil is on the side of Germany, they might send over for Billy to lead an army corps. —"The flower of the German army" having been wiped out again, according to French reports, leads to the conclusion that the German army must be a hardy blooming perennial of prolific habits. —A literary exchange advertises a book on "Briefs for Debates," which is what debates seldom are—brief. —Those postal clerks whose work ing hours have been lengthened and whose homes are threatened will nat urally want to form marching clubs for the Wilson campaign—perhaps; and then again, perhaps not. | EDITORIAL COMMENT"! Rv mania's entrance into the war ought to bring good luck to somebody, for, being the fourteenth nation to gee In, she lifts the hoodoo of the unlucky thirteen. —Hartford Courant. Duluth reports rye selling at $1.20 a bushel, the highest price ever record ed. The farmers of the Xorth ought lo be grateful to the Democratic party for what It has done for them. —Hous- ton Post. Of all public men this may be said: Not one of them who has borne the heaviest responsibilities in government escapes the buffeting of bitter enmities. —Springfield Republican. —lt should be distinctly understood that the double signing of the eight hour bill In no way Indicates double dealing in connection with that meas ure.—N. Y. Sun. The Lover's Bequest It was to be his last call. They stood on the porph In the moonlight. "You are determined?" he said, finally. "Yes, George, I think it is for the best that we do not see each other again." "Do you love another?" "I do, George, I have promised my heart to Harold Updyke." There was a moment's silence. George stepped back and drew from his pocket a revolver, which glistened in the pale light. "George, George," shrieked the girl. "What do you intend to do?" She took hold of his hand. "Not a great deal," replied George, calmly. "I have been calling on you for the last six months, Evelyn, and I have exterminated about half the dogs in this neighborhood. I want you to take this gun and give it to Updyke. He may want to finish the rest of them."—Puck. Nothing to Go With Them ' [New York Morning Telegraph] The time-paying system of selling automobiles is more or less a failure because nobody can afford to sell gaso line on the installment plan. WHAT THE ROTARY 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 Quiz."] . What provision ts made for training teachers? A two years' training at cost of district. Full time of one teacher and part time of four more. IT'S ALL IN THE POINT OF VIEW HULA HULA TO BE SOCIETY DANCE FOR COMING SEASON HAWAII'S famous hula hula Is go ing to be danced by Americans this winter. For so it was de creed by the American Society of Pro fessors of Dancing. Of course it is not to be the real barefoot article with a grass mat and a garland of flowers for a costume, but a sort of sublimated Hawaiian dance adapted by certain radical and necessary changes for the ballroom. The Immense popularity of Hawaiian music is responsible for the evolution of an Hawaiian dance for ballroom purposes and a great vogue is predicted for it by Its sponsors. Next to the Hawaiian the military influence will be strongest felt in the modern dances for the coming season, the dancing masters declare. Every thing that is not Hawaiian will be military. The military stride will be interpolated in the fox trot and even the stately waltz will be danced with a military bearing. The influence of feminism Is prob ably the cause of the decree of the dancing masters that in the modern dances the man shall go backward. The debutante of last season, who claimed she had walked twenty miles backward on the dancing floors, will heave a sigh of relief that she can now go forward again with propriety, nay, even eclat. The fox trot will prevail, it is as serted, and the waltz will not be sup planted. The vogue of dancing is not on the decline, the dancing masters all insist, and if anything, with more pecple who know how to dance, it will be a more popular form of diversion this season than ever before. Vernon Castle was the most talked of person fit the convention. The rumci that he was killed when flying over the German lines on the western front was not taken seriously by any of his former associates and was not confirmed by his secretary, Talmage Thompson. "London taps" Is the name of the most popular dance in England now, (THE STATE FROM DAfTODW The recovery by a St. Louis woman of her alleged $50,000 belt, which she inadvertently left in a Pittsburgh ho tel, together with some cash and ad ditional Jewels, permits us to breathe freely again. The mattress that con cealed the sparkling walst-enclrcler must have ached to tell its secret. "Military dances and the zoo nom enclature have the floor, but the goosestep is still In disfavor," says the Public Ledger But what If Ger many should win the war? The politician who intimated In no uncertain tones that his opponent had sweetbreads for brains closed all doors to the possibility of his pro claiming the Impliedly soft-headed individual a bone-head. The Norristown magistrate who fined two baseball pitchers $4 each for playing ball on Sunday delivered himself of the weighty opinion that it is as much a violation of the "blue laws" of 1794 to play golf as to play baseball on the Sabbath. Against which, no doubt, the average t. b. m. would vociferously register a howling protest. The Watrous band boasts of eight attractive women members. Whether they play the picklo or the piccolo makes little difference; they are the center of interest, the cynosure of all eyes, to exaggerate a little, wherever they go. Aitoona's chief burgess is trying to cure an intemperate by prayer. We would suggest a. little co-operation on the part of t{ie intemperate as the SEPTEMBER 8, 191(5. according to Mrs. Evelyn Hubbell, of New York. It. was taken originally from "The Broken Doll" chorus in the now musical comedy "Samples," but Its London vogue was due, she said, to Verr.on Castle, who took it up, and now it is danced from tea to taps at nighi. It is a military dance and the officers' spurs make a merry littlo jinglo. It is described as a pause in th<» midst of a fox trot. The musicians all stop while the dancers keep the tempo by tapping with their feet. "Vernon," Mrs. Hubbell says, "is danc ing it for the men in the trenches to tho accompaniment of a homemade jewsharp." "Walking the dog," the new dance which has only been seen in vaude ville, was the bone of contention in a hot debate yesterday. Some of the dancing masters favor it and others are strongly opposed. Louis H. Chalif, formerly of the Kuf-sian imperial ballet, belongs to tho progressive party of dancing masters and would purge the dance of all sug gest iveness. Yesterday his subject was "A Heart to Heart Talk Against Heart to Heart Dancing." He also demon strated his newest dances, including Greek interpretative and esthetic danc ing. Adolph Xewberger, for thirty-five years a dancing master in New York and director of the dances in "Hip Hip Hooray" at the Hippodrome last year, is the leading advocate of the Hawaiian dances, which, he says, will be ar ranged for the ballroom. Some of the other new dances are "Cornell Fads," "Jitney Special," An gel's Reverie" and "Corkscrew Glisse," all danced by the same teacher: "Ma jor Butts' Manual of Arms," for the benefit of -the Plattsburg rookies, it is presumed, and the 'Terre Haute Fox." There were about seventy dancing masters attending the convention and they come all the way from the snow capped mountains of Montana to the cranberry bogs of Massachusetts. most likely cure." "God helps those who help themselves" may not agree with all doctrines, but there is con siderable truth in the proper interpre tation of the phrase. A Sunday school class held Its an nual picnic at "Shady Lawn," near Hanover. Wonder if the owner of the bungalow is a Democrat! Frank M. Buhl, of Sharon, has with drawn his name as a Republican presidential electoral candidate. Mr. Buhl is one of Sharon's most promi nent men and a philanthropist of some note. Our Daily Laugh = 1 1 " " APPEARANCE. She looked lan guld, oh, so languid. She felt very languid too; 1 She looked lan tS* i guid, oh so | languid As the languid yy - ( always do. A GOOD SUG- GESTION. It I knew| fjffij-- O'Brien's address write to for a Why yon write to him and fl ret hU address? I lEbentng Qlljal This Is the birthday of "Uncle Ben" Springier, of the Fire Marshal's de partment. "Uncle Bon," sometimes known as "Star Spangled" Spangler, due to fondness for bringing the American flag prominently intp every speech he makes—speechmakingjjar tlci'larly of the political variety, hav ing been for very many years one of the chief diversions of the eloquent "Undo Ben." Well, as we started out to say. this Is "Uncle Ben's" birthday, and guess how young he Is! Eighty four, yes, sir, and still as lively as a cricket; not an October cricket dodg ing painfully from leaf to leaf afifr the first October frost, but a brnfc young cricket rejoicing in the warmth and Joy of a July sun. That's "Undo Ben." He's the oldest man—in years —in the State service, and some time ago when everybody from the Gov ernor down was piling flowers on "Uncle Henry" Houck's desk and tell ing him how young he looked at 82 "Uncle Ben" Spangler went around to tell Houck his place and to assure him that he regarded 82 as a mere baga telle, and that after Houck got up to a real age why doubtless he'd have some reason to be congratulated, but —well, until he reached the dignity of a genuine old age he'd better stop his bluffing, or words to that general effect. Then, Just to show that he had the goods, "Uncle Ben" challenged "Undo Henry" to a high-kicking match, with a dinner as the stakes, the winner to be the one who could knock with his toe the hat off the other fellow's head. But "Undo Henry" said that as Spangler was about six feet tall and he was any thing but that, the match wouldn't be fair, so it was called off. "Uncle Ben" went away complaining that it wasn't fair and that "Uncle Henry" was afraid. "Uncle Ben" got his nickname of "Star Spangled" in the Legislature one time years ago when he was represent ing Cumberland county in the House. He closed the session with a speech that has gone clattering and banging down the halls of legislative history as an unmatched piece of patriotic ora tory. After that "Uncle Ben," to live up to his reputation, always has car ried around in his pocket a little silk American flag so as to be ready In case of speechmaking emergencies. Only one time it failed him, and that was all an awful mistake. "Uncle Ben" says he still blushes when he thinks of it. He was making an address in behalf of the re-election of the late Congressman Marlln E. Olmsted at a New Cumberland rally one night and had waved his little flag at the proper moment, to the great delight of the audience and his own self-satisfaction. Carelessly he rolled it up and held it in one hand while he continued his speech. He had a cold that night and had been using his handkerchief freely. Suddenly he felt fresh need of it and with his mind on his speech he brought what he thought was his handkerchief again into action, and— horror of horrors —blew his nose into the American flag. "Uncle Ben" is one of the most pop ular men on the "Hill." Despite hin age he Is always one of the first on the job in the morning and one of the last to leave. He is a painstaking and enthusiastic worker and is generally retarded as a permanent fixture at the Capitol. The result of the State's "planting" of quail and other game birds is com mencing to show in the vicinity of the city. On an automobile trip a few days ago one party saw two coveys of quail in thl i county and a couple of pheasants on a road in Cumberland county not far from Oyster's Point. As for rabbits thev have a habit now of advertising their number by running I about on'the highways. • • • I It is probable that before long some ' steps will be taken for an inquiry into \ the locust rust which is again preva i lent on trees in this and adjoining I counties. Half a dozen years ago the I rust or blight was common along the I roads in Dauphin county, locust being ithe favorite tree for planting beside the highways. Now the rust is ap pearing again in the upper end of the county. This disease, which is not as destructive as the pine blister rust is nevertheless one whiQh bears watch ing and which if unchecked may cause much loss in years to come as it vitiates the tree. Ten to Twelve Cents Trenton State Gazette has increased Its price from ten to twelve cents a week owing to the heavy increased cost of newspaper making. 1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR] THE MUNICIPAL BOAT HOUSE To the Editor of the Telegraph: Where shall the municipal bath and boat house be built? is the question being asked by swimmers, canoeists and boatmen throughout the city. There seems to be little doubt in the minds of the thousands who are mak ing use of the river basin that Council shortly will provide the means for such a building, and naturally the question of location is already being discussed. In the opinion of scores of river lovers, there is only one logical place for the city boat and bath house and that is between the Market and Wal nut street bridges. Canoeists and swimmers have real reasons for their demand that the building be placed at this point and here are a few of them: I—Peoplel—People who must ride the street cars to reach the river can get to the boat house -without the necessity of changing cars, and procuring trans fers. It is unfair to ask the man or woman living at Twenty-third street to change cars and ride to Hardscrab ble, another point which has been sug gested for the building. 2—The water is swift and turbulent opposite the Hardscrabble district, whereas it is quiet and a better depth between the bridges and much better adopted for all forms of water sports. At present this stretch of water is but little used because most of the boats are liveried at Hardscrabble and most boat owners object to the long pull up and down the river to reach the dammed water below South street. 3 —The stretch of water between the bridges is the course of the Klpona events and a boat house at the point suggested is the most convenient place along the river. There has been some talk of placing the city boat house on Island park, but practically every person who owns a boat is strongly opposed to this lo cation because of Its inconvenience. It would mean an extra car fare or a# long drill across the river bridges every time a canoeist desired to tako out his boat, whereas with the build ing between Market and Walnut streets on the River Front, it can be reached from any part of the city in fifteen minutes by street car. Many of the young men and women who use the river every afternoon work in of fices, shops, and stores and they can just about net in a swim between closing hours and supper time and minutes count. It is the pleasure that can be obtained from even a half hour in or on the water that makes the river so popular and of such value to the classes, and every trfeans should be taken to place the municipal bath house within the quickest possible reach of all. «IVER LO'' ER.
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