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WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. 4
Our doubts are traitors and make us
loose the good we oft might win, by
tearing to attempt.—Shakespeare.
THE CITY Wl> THE STATE
WITH a view to getting into per
sonal touch with the State au
thorities in the matter of the
development of the Capitol Park ex
tension area, Edwin S. Herman, pres
ident of the City Planning Commis
sion, has had some correspondence
with Governor Brumbaugh.
As might have been expected of
one who is himself deeply interested
In working out this important problem,
the Governor promptly responded to
Mr. Herman's letter and has indicated
his purpose to immediately arrange
for a date on which the Planning
Commission and the Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings, consisting of
the Governor, the State Treasurer and
the Auditor General, might have a
further conference on the subject.
Governor Brumbaugh happily ex
presses the attitude of the State to
ward the city in this paragraph:
I am with you deeply interested
in the proper working out of this
entire project, with r view to
making Capitol Park and its ex
tension an Integral unit In the de
velopment of a beautiful Harris
burg. because a beautiful city will
mean a beautiful capital. There
ought to be no differences of opin
ion here which honest men cannot
work out and adjust, and we shall
be very happy, indeed, to co-oper
ate in any way we can with you.
Through the conferences of the
Btate and city authorities it should be
easily possible to develop a compre
hensive scheme of improvement which
will be at once dignified and In har
mony. with the thought of those who
have been working toward this end
for several years. Having once chosen
a landscape architect of the proper
caliber, the selection of the best form
of treatment of the old and new sec
tions of Capitol Park and the imping
ing territory of the city ought not to
be a difficult matter.
Governor Brumbaugh will doubtless
want to submit to the next Legisla
ture some definite plan with his rec
ommendations and the time Is grow
ing short in which a study of the
problem must be made by the land
scape architect who will be chosen to
do the work. Already the young en
gineers of State College have made a
survey of the property Involved and
upon this data the landscape designer
will be ablo to base his conclusions
■without loss of time.
Harrisburg has been doing Its part
admirably for several years and the
good faith of the city in its attitude
toward the Commonwealth has again
been shown in the determination of
our citizens to further demonstrate
the public spirit of this community in
the building of a splendid modern
hotel. Backed by an enlarged Cham
ber of Commerce and other civic or
ganizations there is no limit to the
proper development of the city and
those in authority on Capitol Hill real
ize now as never before what an active
and progressive community has grown
up around the noble structure in the
heart of the city.
In going about the city the other
day, several distinguished visitors re
marked upon the large paved area of
the city and the general cleanliness of
our streets. This is the sort of praise
which is praise, indeed, and all the citi
zens of Harrisburg should co-operate
with the Department of Highways in
keeping the streets and their own
premises as immaculate as is possible.
Before we enter the cold weather
period it might be well to have another
city-wide housecleaning.
Germany seems to have dispatched
three Bremena to America. Sort of
submarine squeeze play.
OUR INDUSTRIAL "INVASION"'
HOW, If It be necessary to protect
our working men, we can cap.
ture against these pauper-crlp
ple-orphan-made goods the markets of
the world where they may freely en
ter, eludes the understanding of every
Intellect save those who bUndly wor
ship the Baal of Protection."
Vice-President Marshall's acceptance
speech.
"Instead of surrendering our mar
kets to the foreigner we have invaded
and captured his." —Senator Simmons,
chairman of the Senate Finance Com
mittee.
"Considerable sales of American
railway materials have been made dur
ing the last year, chiefly owing to the
difficulty of obtaining shipments from
Europe. The Importation of steel and
■teel bars Into Shanghai and China in
creased in several Instances during
1915, owing, largely, to the shortage
of tonnage in bringing goods of this
kind to the Far East from England
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
and also because of the retirement of
Belgium from the supply market."—
Consul General Thomas Sammons,
Shanghai, China.
"Imports In many lines of goods
during the last half of 1915 had re
sumed their normal proportions, and
those from the United States had
greatly increased in comparison with
the last half of 1914, American goods
being substituted to a large extent for
those imported previous to the war
from the United Kingdom and Euro
pean countries. The Newfoundland
market is now favorable to American
goods of all kinds, in consequence of
the Inability of European houses to
supply the demand."—Consul Bene
dict, St. John's, Newfoundland.
"The work of the Victorian factories
is, to some extent, that of assembling
imported parts in a manner suitable
to the local market. Germany had a
considerable share in the supplying of
these trade essentials, and when rela
tions with that country were entirely
severed manufacturers were non
plussed and discouraged for a while
by the seeming helplessness of their
position. Latterly supplies of essen
tial parts have been obtained from
America with satisfactory results.
Australians find that the motorcycle
is the moßt serviceable and most ob
tainable vehicle for general use to
day. * * • In the war period more
motorcycles were imported than in
the previous period and with the Eng
lish supplies diminished, the American
goods enjoyed a boom." —Consul Ma
gelssen, Melbourne, Australia.
"Markets In Europe wgre practically
closed to buyers here In 1915, and the
result has been a greatly increased
percentage of orders sent to the United
States."—Consul Lupton, Guatemala.
"The foreign trade of the Republic
(Argentina) has been affected by the
war, as the Argentine cannot ob
tain goods from Europe. But the
United States is now covering the
whole field that the European coun
tries formerly covered. • • • The
greatest quantity of imports during
1914-15, as well as this year, has been
supplied by the United States."—Com
mander Jorge Yalour, Argentine Navy.
"But what good came of it at last?"
Quoth little Peterkln.
"Why, that I cannot tell," said he;
"But 'twas a famous victory."
It matter little who is responsible
for the failure to provide sufficient
funds for the proper maintenance of
the parks and playgrounds of Harris
burg. but it mutters a great deal that
the outdoor resorts of the people of
the city should be allowed to deterior
ate through incompetency or indiffer
ence anywhere. There must be an ac
counting of the stewardship of every
official, and if there be four-flushing in
any department the taxpayers and the
people will not be long in finding it
out.
HUGHES' LABOR RECORD
BY my past ye shall Judge me," Is
In substance, what Governor
Hughes has been telling labor
audiences during the past week.
Referring to the charges that he had
vetoed certain bills while Governor of
New York, he said. "I will admit it
cheerfully, and I may further state
that what I did as Governor involved
a principle which I would continue to
apply if I were elected President. That
Is, I examined the proposals that were
made as thoroughly as I knew how,
and what I thought was right I favored,
and when I believed the measure was
wrong I did not attempt to gain votes
by favoring it."
Mr. Hughes has pointed out how, as
Governor, he accomplished enactment
after enactment regulating and pro
hibiting child labor; compelling ventil
ation and sanitary arrangements in
factories; limiting the hours of labgr;
fixing an eight-hour day for railroad
telegraph and telephone operators en
gaged in dispatching rains; compell
ing cash payment of wages, making it
include additional concerns; how he
reorganized the Labor Department,
procured the creation of the Bureau
of Mercantile Inspection, and appoint
ed a labor man of proved ability and
worth as its head.
Mr. Hughes, it will be remembered,
was enthusastically endorsed at the
conclusion of his service as Governor,
as a friend of labor by the official or
gan of the Federation of Labor in New
York State.
It was a splendid tribute which Mr.
Schwab paid his chief lieutenant at
the big Steelton plant, but nobody
doubts that Quincy Bent will demon
strate his worth as the moving spirit
of the present and future Steelton. A
native of the borough, the son of the
beloved ironmaster whose name will
always be associated with Steelton, and
himself the admirably-equipped master
of an important industrial plant, Mr.
Bent already enjoys the good will of
this entire community.
When a prophet like Charles M.
Schwab does not hesitate to foretell the
future greatness of Central Pennsylva
nia and the Atlantic seaboard as the
very heart of the steel industry in the
United States, those of us who have
had faith in Harrisburg are encouraged
to keep right on doing the things
which have brought the city into the
limelight as an up-to-date municipality
(it to possess the seat of povernment
of an imperial Commonwealth.
There's no pleasing everybody. Four
years ago Democrats were condemning
Taft and Roosevelt for being at odds;
now they are criticising because they
are friends.
President Wilson says the Progres
sives are grand men; but the chief of
the Progressives he halls as a traitor
and a scoundrel, which is about as con
sistent as he usually is.
Every fat man will hope the boss
will see that Taft says golf cuts down
weight and makes the mind more ac
tive.
Just to snow that they don't care
how hot the allies make it for them,
the Germans have broken into the aro
tic. <•
What a relief It would be if som
German submarine got far enough
north to torpedo the North Pole.
Have you become identlfled with the
Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Harris
burger? If not, will you kindly ex
plain to a waiting public how you can
expect to see the city continue in its
splendid progress. Surely you do not
want your neighbor to' drag you along
in the triumphal procession. Get in
lino!
We're Just honin' for a chance to in
vite sobemody 'round to dinner at that
new hotel.
a ——
By the Ex-Committecman
Five sets of candidates for presiden
tial electors will appear on the Penn
sylvania ballot this Fall. The time for
filing nomination papers expired last
night and to-day it was announced
that tho presidential electoral tickets
would appear in this order: Demo
cratic, Republican, Socialist, Prohi
bition and Industrialist. The latter
was added by nomination jjapers this
week.
There will be six complete state
tickets and some scattering nomi
nations for state offices. The state
tickets are Democratic, Republican.
Socialist. Prohibition, Industrialist and
Single Taxi The latter two were added
by nomination papers Monday.
Numerous changes and additional
nominations have been made by pa
ters, the Local Option party filing pa
pers. The official lists will bo made
up within ten days.
The United party filed papers
for A. L. Mulhern, F. E. Seuliin and
C. B. Lynch. Jr., for the Legislature in
tho Seventeenth Philadelphia district.
J. C. Lawson. Washington candidate
for the Legislature, withdrew in the
First Schuylkill district.
. —The Democratic inside ring com
mittee has been called to meet in
Philadelphia on the morning of the
pilgrimage to see the shadows fall in
the Pennsylvania hopes. The execu
tive committee was thoughtfully given
tho power to fill all vacancies on all
legislative and congressional tickets
and it will perform this duty In the
morning and then go to Shadow Lawn
for the Pennsylvania stunt in the
afternoon.
—Many prominsnt lawyers all over
the State are getting together to boost
the candidacy of Justice K. A. Walling.
The formation of Walling: committees
is under way in a number of counties
of the Stale.
—Charles P. Donnelly is back In
the harness in Philadelphia and mak
ing speeches for Wilson. Donnelly was
one of the very first men in the State
to declare for Wilson for President
notwithstanding the prominence of
some men who caught the band wagon
after it had started.
—Philadelphia Jewish merchants
have formed a Hughes Alliance and
will extend it in that section of the
state. Some of the most prominent
men of the city have become members.
—The Democratic marplots are still
dizzy over the retirement of Ira J.
Mosey from the city legislative fight,
.his leaves the Washington party with
out its pilot in recent local affairs.
-—Local Option nominating papers
were tiled last night for James Bohn
and Esra R. Early, legislative candi
dates in Lebanon county, and William
Eppley. Second Vork.
—Representative James A. Dunn, of
the rural district of Philadelphia, has
resurrected the Franklin party for this
year's fight.
—National Committeeman Palmer
and State Chairman Guffey went to
N'orristown yesterday to talk over
some party ructions in Montgomery.
They had a nice time.
—Charles E. Hughes will be In this
section shortly. He is to be one of the
speakers at the Hagerstown Fair.
—Philadelphia Republicans are get
ting ready to give Hugrhes a notable
reception on Monday. Arrangements
are being made for special trains to
run from half a dozen cfties
—With but three days intervening
until the third and final Kail registra
tion day, when voters may qualify for
participation in the November elec
tion, the Hughes Alliance in the State
of Pennsylvania has undertaken a last
hour campaign to get electors legally
enrolled that they may be able to cast
their ballots for Governor Charles E.
Hughes. Instructions sent out to offi
cers of the branch alliance throughout
the State in which are looated cities of
the second class remind them that
Saturday. October 7, is the last regis
tration day and urge upon them the
need of drawing the attention of vot
ers to this fact. Attention has been
directed to the requirements that only
those voters whose names appear
upon the registration lists will be
qualified to secure a ballot on election
day.
—T. Stotesbury, over his signa
tur as chairman of the Hughes and
Fairbanks' National Campaign Com
mittee for Eastern Pennsylvania, has
sent out a letter soliciting contribu
tions to meet expenses of the Presi
dential campaign. The members of
the auxiliary committee, co-operat
ing with Mr. Stotesbury in this appeal
are Samuel Bell, Jr., B. Dawson Cole
man, Jay Cooke, 111, Jacob S. Disston,
William H. Donner, Colonei Samuel D
Lit, Jeremiah J. Sullivan and Samuel
M. Vauclain.
Trade Briefs
Panama is in the market for asphalt
shingles.
Dealers in the United States bouKht
most of the lobsters and fox skins
from Prince Edward Island. These are
the island's most important products.
During 1915 5,500,000 eggs were
used in Cuba, most of which came
from the United States. They retailed
at from 35 to 40 cents a dozen.
American sporting goods, including
tennis racquets and balls, are in de
mand in Spain.
There is a possible market in Brit
ish East Africa for nearly every line
of American merchandise.
Government estimates place the rice
crop from the Southern States at
800,000 bushels.
Portuguese merchants are interested
in machinery suitable for flour mills.
Jamaica's crops of bananas, cocoa
nuts. cocoa and sugar cane were ser
iously damaged by a hurricane recent
ly.
American fountain pejns are popular
in the Bergen district, Norway. Con
sul Charles Forinan states that to get
the best results an exclusive agency
should be granted to some Norweg
ian firm.
Scotch herring is selling in New
York at sl9 to S2O a barrel. A good
fall season is. predicted.
During 1915 twenty-one new Ameri
can "firms were established in China
and the American population increas
ed from 4,635 to 4,716.
Chinese consumption of flour is in
creasing, but American flour has been
almost wholly replaced by the domes
tic product.
Exports of machinery, nails, bar
iron and building materials from this
country to Canton, China, increased
during the last year.
Advertising An Economy
That "many worthy enterprises fail
from lack of advertising," and that
"every honest enterprise can be tre
mendously developed and economized
by advertising," were striking state
ments made by Eldridge Reeves John
son, president of the Victor Talking
Machine Company, In a discussion of
the proposed price maintenance legis
lation.
HARRtSBURG TELEGRAPH!
When a Feller Needs a Friend By BRIGGS
EDITORIAL COMMENT
German papers, are attacking our
Ambassador, Gerard. Was he indiscreet
enough to publish an advertisement
telling German citizens that they must
keep off the seas?— Philadelphia North
American.
There is also this consolation:
than half the candidates can be elected.
—Kansas City Star.
Quebec bridge at this rate will re
place London bridgre in tho nursery
rhyme.—Springfield Republican.
A bad elephant has finally been
hanged because she had killed eight
men. They don't put any such limit on
kings or statesmen.—New York Even
ing Sun.
Got the Next One?
The following suggestions for a
Woodrow Wilson twostep are popular
in some circles and in others are pro
nounced a failure:
One step forward.
One step backward.
Side step.
Retrograde glide.
Hesitate,
Slow advance.
Wobble.
Brisk retreat.
Repeat indefinitely.
Music: A combination of "Johnnie.
Get Your Gun" and "I Didn't Raise
My Boy to Be a Soldier."—Buffalo
News.
America Prize Waster
America imports $2,000,000 worth
of waste rags annually just to make
writing paper. About 1,400,000 tons
of flax straw are burned or allowed to
go to waste in the States every year,
but specialists in the Department of
Agriculture have shown that it can be
used for making paper and fiber board.
Already a demand for $1,600,000
worth of flax straw has sprung up.
Once it was clear waste. Time was
when yellow brass turnings were en
tirely unsalable. Now they average 12
cents a pound. Old tinfoil brings 38
cents and siphon tops are worth 25
cents a pound. Pones fetch $2 5 a ton
after everybody's picked 'em.
Arthur P. Little, of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, says:
"We waste 150,000,000 tons of wood
a year, 1,000.000.000 feet of natural
gas a day, 1,000,000 tons of flax straw
a year." We waste 13,000,000 feet of
lumber every year in old lead pencils
bv tbrowinsr awnv the stubs. Two
girls earn for the government 100
turns their salaries b> going through
the waste paper baskets in the Treas
ury Department at Washington. Their
prize find was a SIO,OOO United States
gold bond.
Real Preparedness
[Kansas City Star.]
The comprehensive preparedness
that Mr. Vanderlip urged in his ad
dress to the American Bankers' asso
ciation is coming more and more to
be recognizt d as a necessity if the Na
tion is to play its part in the world af
ter the war.
Under the discipline of the great
struggle the European nations have
been trained to efficiency as never be
fore. Consider England alone. When it
began to get its workers under arms in
the early months of the war the pro
duction of its factories was greatly
crippled and its surplus products
available for export were cut in two.
Cut such efficiency has developed that
in spite of the fact that Britain now is
supposed to have perhaps 3 million
men under arms and 3 million more
engaged in the manufacture of muni
tions, the export trade has reached
normal proportions.
It is competition with this sort of ef
ficiency that America must meet at
the war's end.
To meet it successfully the country
must develop all its resources. It must
look after the public health. It must
prove industrial insurance and work
men's compensation. It must meet the
problem of unemployment and seas
onal trades. As Theodore Roosevelt
says, it must make America worth liv
ing for to all its citizens if they are to
feel that it is worth dying for.
Preparedness in character and in ef
ficiency. as well as in battle ships, ar
tillery and military training, is the big
need of the United States to-day.
What's the Use
Somebody is always taking the joy
out of life. A certain bishop has
been saying that heaven is a place
of work.—Chicago News.
STORY OF ST E ELTON
TOLD BY OLD DOCUMENTS
i i
ONE of the most interesting inci
dents of the Schwab dinner Mon
day night was Toastmaster Spen
cer Gilbert's story of the beginnings of
the steel industry at what is now
Steelton. Away back in 1865, he said,
the railroads of America were buying
their rails from Sheffield, England, and
bringing them oyer the Atlantic at a
cost of about $125 a ton. It was
thought that the secret of Bessemer
steel might never be divulged, but
finally the process was brought to the
United States and Pennsylvania Rail
road men announced they would build
a rail mill —the first in America—at
some place along the main line of that
system.
Of course Harrlsburg was eager for
the industry and J. D. Cameron, later
United States senator; George Berg
ner, of the Telegraph; R. F. Kelker,
Henry Gilbert and others asked the
company to consider this city and to
name terms. Back, came the reply—a
site in fee simple Tor the mill and a
$50,000 subscription of stock in the
new company—even then known as
the Pennsylvania Steel Company.
"In tlint day," said Mr. Gilbert, smil
ing, "SI,OOO was a very, very large
sum, and $50,000 was what would be
called now predatory wealth." But
those back of the movement raised the
money and sent the following message
early on the morning of November 22,
1865:
'■\Ve raised sufficient money to pur
chase the Kelker property and have
$30,000 subscribed to the stock. Will
you let us know to-day if you accept?"
The telegram was signed by J. D. Cam
eron and Wtllium Calder.
"They waited all day," said Mr. Gil
bert, "and In the evening came this
reply: "You have done well; keep It
up."
Mr. Gilbert showed the diners the
original copy of the iessage, written
on old-fashioned Pennsylvania Rail
road stationery in the flourishing long
hand that was then fashionable among
business men. He also had In his
possession the original list of stock
subscribers, including the signatures
of all those who were instrumental in
bringing the Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany to Steelton, and so leading up to
Victims of Sex Stories
Prevalence of vice among the youth
points unfailingly to the victim of a
sex story. It would seem as though
the United States government might
with great advantage to the morals of
the youth establish a much more rigid
censorship through the postal require
ments to protect the youth from the
dissemination of the kind of literature
that is devoured by the young girls on
the street cars on their way to and
from work and at their dinner hours.
For it is to the young girl that these
morbid recitals of experience, bogus,
of course; confessions, bogus also;
stories professedly realistic, but actu
ally out of accord with real life and
wholly disgusting, find appeal. Morals
are vitiated at their source by this
class of literature, and it fairly
abounds. The newsstands reek with it.
The sex story victims are the most
distressing toll imaginable and yet so
ciety looks stolidly on while tho proc
ess of debauchment and debasement
goes on. The girls themselves often
do not know the pruriency of the lit
erature they buy until they get the
flavor of it. and then they keep on
with it.
Glossed over, gilded and subtle, this
hind of stuft is even more vicious than
the frank sex articles that at times run
in higher grades of periodicals. The
alarming growth in numbers of the
young girl sex victims is tho shame of
America.—Baltimore American.
Where Hughes Stands
"I stand for the maintenance of
American rights. I stand for the pro
tection of American industry. I stand
for the jusi interests of labor, for the
highest wages that Industry can offer,
for proper hours of work, for every
opportunity for unbuilding.
"I stand for efficiency tn public ad
ministration. I stand against extrava
gance and waste. I stand for a domi
nant sense of unity with loyalty to our
flag, that we may have America first
and America efficient."
OCTOBER 4, 1916.
the purchase of those plants by the
Schwab Interests. Of all of them only
ox-Senator Cameron is living. With
the courage of his convictions he put
up SIO,OOO. R. F. Kelker was the sec
ond to subscribe, putting in $2,000,
and later $2,000 more. The others
were William Calder. $5,000; J. C.
Kunkel, $2,000; Henry Gilbert, $1,000;
George Bergner, $1,000; A. King. $500;
George Trullinger & Co., $2,000; W. O.
Hiekok, $1,000; James Pugh, $1,000;
.John Hoffer, $1,000: Aaron Bombaugh,
SI,OOO, and Shoemaker & Reily, SI,OOO.
All of theso were men whose names
were then connected with the progress
of the city, who were proud of its past
and had faith in its future. They it was
who made Steelton. Harrlsburg money
brought the works to the plot alona
the railroad near what is now known
as the West Side and Steelton grew
up opposite the works and largely as a
result thereof.
Mr. Gilbert, In addition to this tele
pram and list, has, through the cour
tesy of Senator Cameron, a transcript
of the minutes of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company covering the whole
transaction, including the framing of
the proposition to bring the mill here,
its acceptance and the transfer of a
"deed of Henry A. Kelker and Ellen R.,
hts wifo, to the Pennsylvania Steel
Company for 4 3 acres, 2 rods and 3 4
perches, strict measure, consideration
$13,113.75," and the the same for
3 8 acres, 3 4 perches, consideration
$11,463.75. In addition the company
bought 15 acres additional of the Kel
ker property at about S3OO an acre.
On this ground the first rail mill in
the T T nited States was erected and sur
rounded by a high,board fence, so that
the secrets of the process would not
leak out.
So Steelton came into being, largely
by reason of Harrisburg capital, but
the ground was sold with the proviso
that If ever-tt was no longer used for
the manufacture of steel it Bhould re
vert to the original subscribers.
Mr. Gilbert reminded Mr. Schwab of
this, showing him the aged papers,
and Mr. Schwab replied:
"Well, If that ground ever becomes
unfit for profitable steel making, we'll
be glad to hand it back to you."
Our Daily Laugh
_ HIS CHOICE.
"Between th •
seaß hore and the
mounta!nß , have
Jrl fc you any choice?"
fatween the two, if
# / A the dlstance ls n't
\fi t to ° Kreat > m y flrst
I li I -*s*- I cholce ,s a tour
ing oar."
EXPERT. 1 ■
Bangs is a great Ifc*
authority on card
games, Isn't he? /I VBY /
He ought to be.
He's been com- y, . f JKj
muting for the L
last fifteen years. j' fj|
Pleasure Before Business
When a man marries a woman with
money, his business usually begins to
head for the rocks. In the October
Woman's Home Companion a writer
tells why. He says:
"And there is another danger that
reaches out for a man who marries
money, and clutches him unless he be
of superhuman strength. He is lifted
by his wife's money out of the atmos
phere of achievement. I have seen It
happen again and again.
" 'Oh. let's run down to Palm Beach
for a month,' she says.
" 'But I can't, my dear; It's the
busiest time of the year for us. I must
be at the office.'
" 'Oh, business, always business.
What's the use of driving yourself so
hard at business? We don't need the
old money anyway'."
lEbenttuj Glljat
It is ten years to-day since Penn
sylvania dedicated its new State Cap
itol and the man who would have pre
dicted on that very rainy afternoon a
decade ago that in 1916 the great
granite pile would bo overcrowded and
thirteen or fourteen branches of the
government bo scattered in
ornce buildings about the city would
have been laughed at except by those
who " a d been observing the growth
of the administrative end of the Com
monwealth. Likewise anyone who
would have predicted that the Capitol
would not have been given an ade
quate setting by this time would have
been the subject of comment. The
discovery of fraud in the furnishing
0 . ? P' ac e prevented the carrying
ol !j ot the plans to finish the building
' th _ cons 'derably more statuary than
the Barnard groups and tho laying out
of ornate gardens in the recesses as
well as the proper treatment, of the
Third street frontage, which is about
the same as it was twenty years ago
only worse. Undoubtedly, it was the
same circumstance which prevented
the enactment of the legislation to
give the Capitol a park suitable to its
magnificence, and Harrisburg owes
much to the courage of John IC. Tener
in approving the bill in 1911. The
ways are now being cleared for the
"Ration of a tine park in the old
Eighth ward section so that people
passing in trains can see their official
building and with Governor Martin Q.
Brumbaugh taking a personal interest
in making it a place beautiful the
completion of the dream of years ago
can be realircd.
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Incidentally, It may be remarked
that in ten years the opinion of many
people regarding the structure which
dominates the city and with a circum
ference greater than that cf St. Peter's
crown Capitol Hill has materially
changed. This day recalls the times in
1916 when nine out of every ten per
sons talked wildly and allowed people
with axes to grind to do their think
ing concerning the Capitol for them.
The wonderful pile designed by Joe
Huston and constructed, as far us tho
building end of it was concerned,
within the law and as tho law re
quired, was called a thing of putty
and sham and one wonders to-day
how some of the revllers of the struc
ture survived the failure of tho dome
to melt away in the Autumnal rains of
that politically strenuous year. But
the Capitol has stood the storms and
the heat and the snows of ten years
and while there are some cave dwellers
in Harrisburg and vicinity who have
never been in it, men and women
from Philadelphia and Punxsutawnev,
Scranton and Sewickley, Doylestown
and Donora who have been here along
with many thousands from other parts
of Pennsylvania, from all of the States
and Territories and from Australia,
China, Germany and Peru, it is a thing
of beauty, worthy of the Importance of
the second Commonwealth. I have
heard a good many comments from
sightseers in the rotunda, the legisla
tive halls and in the corridors In the
last ten years and hundreds have been
frank enough to say that they had en
tirely a wrong Idea of the building. It
is interesting to watch people drive
up in an automobile which may come
from Ohio or Oklahoma, their heads
filled with the stories of tho graft and
fraud and corruption which formed
the favorite reading of too many folk
for years, and note their surprise that
the walls are ashlar and not ginger
bread. This is no exaggeration be
cause to listen to some of the stulf
that I have heard in other States and
in some of our own counties one would
think that a baker and not an archi
tect designed the official home of the
Keystone State. But the most enjoy
able part of It is to soe the doubters
walk through the wonderful bronze
doorway Into the rotunda and look.
They just look. Tho late Samufel W.
Pennypacker, whose faith In the beau
ties of the Capitol led to the Inaugur
ation of the "penny a mile" tours and
the breaking down of the doubts in
the minds of the people about the
State House, once stood in the en
trance and watched some tourists walk
chattering about Pennsylvania and Its
Capitol scandal into the rotunda with
its decorations illumined by tho shafts
of morning sunlight coming from high
up in the dome. When their chat
tering ended in sudden surprise the
old Governor turned with a broad
smile and went up to the Public Ser
vice Commission olflccs chuckling half
the way.
•• • ,
Governors Edwin S. Stuart and John
K. Tener thought so much of some
features of the building that thev
would often leave their offices anil
take personal friends out to look it
over. The big man from Charlerol
used to like to take some sceptical
friend out and walk him around and
then read him a lecture on believing
everything he read and heard when
railroad trains still ran to Harrisburg.
One afternoon Governor Tener went
out to greet a squadron of high school
students from up the State and as he
walked behind the groups entering the
hall of the House of Representatives
from the rear he said ho was satisfied
that he had the right Idea because
the general exclamation among the
youngsters was "Gee, ain't It a peach."
* * •
To-day ten years ago was a very
notable day in Harrisburg for it not
only dedicated the Capitol, but it
heard Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
make a notable speech In which Penn
sylvania got tho credit for reform
laws. It had a great parade, a splen
did illumination and one of the great
est crowds in its history, so many peo
ple being here that the State police,
who were on their first visit to the
city, had to help handle the throngs.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Ex-Speaker George E. Alter, who
was here this week, says he is confin
ing himself to law and enjoying It.
—Col. Richard Coulter, commander
of the Tenth infantry, is a son of a
noted Civil war veteran.
—R. J. McKenty, warden of the
eastern penitentiary, says he has only
23 women In the Institution.
—Clem Marsh. Scranton's oldest
hunter, who is ninety-four, rode on a
float in the big parade.
—D. J. Deakyno, Chester tax col
lector, was shaving when some boys
shot at his house and a bullet knocked
the razor from his hand.
| DO YOU KNOW "I"
That Harrisburg steel is used to
make surgical instruments?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Dauphin county's first courthouse
was in Front street until the county
erected its official home on tho site of
the present building.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Qulz."l
What is the fiscnl year of the city of
Harrisburg? What is the fiscal year of
t..e School Board? What Is the fiscal
year of the County of Dauphin?
Fiscal year of Harrisburg, first
Monday of January. Fiscal year of
School Board, first Monday of July.
Fiscal year of- Dauphin county, first
Monday of January.