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THURSDAY EVENING, NOV. 9.
Man will 6c a soul a long time after
he has ceased to have a body; and it
"takes a soul to lift a body." — JAMES
I. VANCE.
SIR. MANNING'S TASK
IN the further important work which
is ahead of it the City Planning
Commisison will more than ever re
quire the services of Warren H. Man
ning,. the distinguished Boston land
scape designer who has already served
Harrisburg so admirably in its various
Important projects. It is a good thing
that Mr. Manning has collaborated
with Arnold W. Brunner, the famous
national planner, who will represent
the interests of the State in the Capitol
Park development, in other large
projects.
It has been said by one who is
familiar with the planning of cities
"that the enthusiasm and acts of self
pacrifice of a community must be stim
ulated If those who are concerned are
to leave the monument of an orderly
city plan established. Too many citi
zens have an idea that a plan can be
made and that that is the end of it.
They have not yet come to realize that
the only way to establish a plan is to
hold persistently to the one general
plan which best takes advantage of
the natural conditions and best pro
motes industrial conditions, and then
retain the man who Is responsible for
that plan, whoever he may be, for
enough years to permit it to be accom
plished. They do not yet realize that
the jnan who Is responsible for the
plan should have the ability and be
put in a position to induce owners to
recognize the desirability of giving the
portion of their land that is called for
by the plan, first because it is in the
interest of their own city and next be
cause it is in their own interest. Much
lias been accomplished in this direc
tion in Harrisburg.
Mr. Manning has been so closely
Identified with the fine work of this
city that the importance of his co
operation with Mr. Brunner In work
ing out a plan that would be mutually
satisfactory to the Commonwealth and
the city is obvious.
City Commissioner Gross has a tower
of strength in the support of the for
mer Park Commission, which consti
tutes an advisory body ready and will
ing to give the head of the Park De
partment all the assistance possible.
"While some mistakes have been made
it Is not too late to correct these errors
and bring about a better attitude of
the public toward the department. Pro
crastination is perhaps one of the worst
features of the present administration.
PHILANDER C. KNOX
FEW men have gone to the United
States Senate so eminently ntted
to represent a great State as
Philander C. Knox, who was elected
by the Republicans of Pennsylvania
on Tuesday.
Senator Knox is a Pennsylvanian,
born and bred. From the moment he
was admitted to the practice of law in
Pittsburgh his training has been to
ward equipment for public service.
In 1876 he was made assistant United
States district attorney for Western
Pennsylvania, and in 1897 was elected
president of the Pennsylvania Bar As
sociation. In the meantime he had
made a great reputation for himself
as an attorney and was known from
one end of the country to the other.
President McKinley chose him to suc
ceed John Williams Griggs, of New
Jersey, as attorney general of the
United States, which cabinet place also
was tendered him by President Roose
velt, who was looking fpr a skilled and
vigorous prosecutor at the head of the
department of justice.
Mr. Knox resigned from the cabinet
to accept appointment as United States
senator upon the death of Senator
Quay, afterward being elected by the
legislature for the unexpired term
and again for the full term of six
years, serving until 1911. His whole
record In public life has been one of
staunch Americanism and he went out
of office respected wherever his name
•was known.
Since his retirement from public
life Mr. Knox has lived quietly, play
ing golf and devoting much attention
to the study of State, national and in
ternational problems. Ho is a states
man of the first rank and will do
honor to the State which has elected
him by such a splendid majority to
represent it In the greatest deliberative
body in the world.
Nothing could be more favorable for
the proper treatment of the Capitol
*"ark *one than the harmonious co-
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operation of the State and the city.
It ought to be possible within the next
month or six weeks to definitely de
cide upon what shall be done with re
spect to the permanent scheme of treat
ment.
THE SUPREME COURT RACE
DESPITE the fact that both Re
publican and JJemocratic or
ganizations favored the election
of Judge Walling to the State Supreme
Court, it is a very significant commen
tary on the ineffectiveness of the
Nonpartisan Judiciary law under
which the election was held that
Charles Palmer, his obscure opponent,
polled some hundreds of thousands of
votes, according to the early returns.
Mr. Palmer Is an unknown country
lawyer, who has made little or no ef
fort to practice before the bar of his
home county, confining his work al
most exclusively to that of a notary.
He is unquestionably an honest man
of unshakable convictions, but even
his friends have admitted that he lacks
both tho experience and the ability to
grace a place upon the bench of the
most exalted tribunal in the State. His
comparatively largo vote is explained
by the fact that his name appeared
first on tho ticket. To that, also, he
owed his nomination. It is a poor law,
Indeed, that permits an eminently
qualified candidate to be endangered
by the mere fact that his name begins
with W while that of his opponent
starts with a P.
Even the state of mind seemed to be
in doubt to-day.
TIME TO CALL HAITI"
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has placed an embargo on
carload lots of freight for Phila
delphia, alleging that food speculators
are responsible for a congestion of
freight handling facilities in that dis
trict. If this Is true. It is about time
that the government stepped in and
slopped this juggling of provision
prices at the expense of the consumer.
The country is more prosperous to
day than at any time in its history.
The war has taken thousands of work
men out of the country and the mu
nition factories have given employ
ment at high wages to many. This has
created such a demand for labor that
other trades: have been getting higher
pay than at any time in recent years.
The result is that while the people
i have more dollars to spend than ever
before, they are not living as well 1 as
they did a few years back on lower
wages.
The big munition maker Is the only
winner. Stores are busier than ever and
profits are smaller. Newspapers have
more advertising than ever and many
of I hem have had to go out of business
because of the high cost of paper. The
man who could afford two pair of
shoes a season can now buy but one.
Flour that used to cost $4.50 a barrel
now costs $10.50. Canned goods are
50 to 65 per cent, higher than normal.
Potatoes bring $2 a bushel. Coal has
touched a new height and may go
higher. Prosperity is anything but
prosperity for most of us. For every
dollar increase in our pay envelopes
we are paying out $1.50.
To some degree this advance in the
cost of living is due to the European
war, but in large part we are paying
tribute to those who are speculating in
the necessifies of life and taxing us
every penny that the tariff will bear.
Meanwhile the government sits su
pinely by and watches these highway
men of the trade world drain our
purses of money that we will sorely
need during the readjustment period
that is bound to come with the close
of the war.
if the election is nothing else, it
is in the best sense the demonstra
tion of newspaper efficiency. Even
the fact that newspapers like the
New York Times and The World
had explanatory editorials, when
they supposed the election of Mr.
Hughes was assured, cannot blind
thinking people to the fact. Know
ing they might face disaster, these
papers did so intelligently; and
there is no room for question that
a public not reached by the largest
torchlight procession understood
and understands their sincerity and
desire for public service.—Wall
Street Journal.
Some sarcasm!
MORE WORDS
JUST about the time the paper
makers tell us that the shortage
will be worse n'ext year than this,
along pomes a scientist with the state
ment that he has discovered 60,000
more words to put into the dictionary.
At the same time we hear from the
border that our boys down there are
likely to bring back from Mexico al
most as many additions to the popular
vocabulary as the Tenth regiment im
ported with their luggage when they
came home from the Phlllipines.
England is also finding something new
in the way of pronunciation, at least,
as a result of the service of her army
in France, where it is said Tommy's
attempts to "parler" the Francaise
are a constant source of amusement
to the natives, although Monsieur At
kins is now showing great Improve
ment, and before he returns to his
tight little isle he is likely to be an
accomplished French conversationist
—a regular parleur, in fact.
Tommy has now learned that
Somme Is pronounced "sum" al
though even that is not so easy as it
seems for this French U sound has no
English equivalent. The French U
sound Is pronounced by pursing the
lips as If to say O but to say E In
stead, the combination producing the
French version of aU. Atsne Is pro
nounced "ayne," Loire is "100-ar,"
Meaux Is "moo," Meuse is "merze,"
but the "r" is silent; Oise is "was,"
Seine Is "sen," and Ourctj is "ourk."
Peronne Is "pearron," Valenciennes Is
"val-on-see-en," Thiacourt Is "toe-o
koor," Chantilly Is "shan-tee-yee,"
Mauberge is "mo-burzh," with "the
"r" silent; Mezleres is "may-ze-alr;"
Mons Is "mawngs," with a nasal
sound; Toul Is tool; Solsson Is "swas
sohn;" Rhelms Is "ranee," and Nan
teull Is "nawng tehyee." Argonnes is
"ar-gon," Compeigne Is "compe-eyne,"
and so on.
Doubtless, Pershing's column Is do
ing about as well with Spanish as the
Mexicans speak it and our bluejackets
In Haiti and Nicaragua are beyond
question enriching: the vocabularies.
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OLD TIN* CAWS 5 ARe GOOD E- g|§g§l NOTHIM' !? GRovtß gJEss Mr
FUTURE
POLITICIANS
Doubtless, however, it will be a long
time before these find their way into
the exclusive circles of the dictionary
words.
Some developments of the campaign
indicate pretty conclusively that in
dividuals cannot hope to succeed simply
because they march under the banner
of a particular party.
A few more days of this sort of thing
and the nerve specialists will have to
hire assistants.
The trouble about these election con
tests is that we have no pinch hitters
to put in when the bases are full.
We bet the suffragists among the
telephone exchange girls aren't in favor
of electing a President every four years.
T>ceaxc* u
SBy the Ex-Conunltteeman II
Pennsylvania's very thorough Re
publican victory of Tuesday assures
not only a big representation In Con
gress, but control of the State Legis
lature by majorities as big as in 1915.
Complete returns will show that the
State Senate will be about as Repub
lican as it has been in ten years and
lhat the House will have a great Re
publican vote.
It is expected that Congressman E.
R. Kiess and Congressman John R. K.
Scott will get into the gubernatorial
race now that they have been re
elected by substantial majorities. The
gubernatorial situation will be very
interesting, as there is much objection
among central leaders to having the
candidate come from Philadelphia or
Allegheny county. Ex-Governor John
K. Tener has been put forward in a
number of counties and Lieutenant-
Governor Frank B. McClaln has been
pushed by friends since the election.
Best returns available are that
Pruce Sterling, the Democratic leader,
has been elected over Congressman R.
F. Hopwood in the Fayette district.
Sterling Is regarded as one of the
ablest of the Democratic bosses and
may bob up as a candidate for Gov
ernor. This district went Democratic
four years ago.
—Ramsey Black, the Democratic
member of the House from this city,
is a grandson of A. K Black, who was
a member from Harrisburg almost
half a century ago. The last Democrat
elected to the Legislature from this
county was in 1876, when Anton
Englebert won and stayed one term.
—The election of Senator Henry A.
Clark as the congressman from Erie
seems certain. He succeeds Michael
Liebel. Jr. ,a Democrat. C. N. Crosby,
one of , the reorganization Democrats,
was his rival.
—Ex-Mayor Blankenburg voted on
Tuesday for his old friend Senator
McNlchol for re-election. It was the
Prst time, however. It Is said.
—Mahlon H. Shaaber, the tallest
man in the last Legislature, was among
1 hose who got lost on Tuesday. For
the first time In years Republicans will
have no member from the Reading
citv district.
—Charles Palmer seems to have
been pretty badly thumped in his
home county of Delaware.
—Representative S. A. Whitaker. of
Chester county, was elected, although
he is at the border with his battery.
—Perhaps Columbia will now get
some changes in its rural free delivery
routes.
—Philadelphia and Allegheny coun
ties appear to have sent solid Repub
lican delegations to the legislature
again. The Vares claim control of the
Philadelphia delegation.
—Richard J. Baldwin's boom for
Speaker of the next House is about
due to appear. Baldwin has "sowed
up" men In a number of counties and
his friends claim that ho has the plaoe
within sight. It Is possible that the
State administration will back Repre
sentative George W. Williams, of
Tioga.
—Many people are wiring congratu
lations to Congressman B. K. Focht
for his victory In the face of big odds.
The congressman's friends say he did
not get some help where he should.
The election of Congressman C. H.
Rowland, of Clearfield, is also said to
be asrured after a hard fight.
—lt is said that some friends of
Congressman-elect T. W. Templeton.
of Luzerne, are inclined to be a bit
indignant over the way he was com
pelled to make his fight. Templeton
comes from W likes- Barre, which is
also the home of Senator Sterling R.
Catlin. The Republican State com
mittee backed Templeton in the face
of heavy odds at the start and kept
right behind him all the time.
—According to to-day's returns, it
is nip and tuck for Congressmen Cole
man and Barchfeld in Allegheny and
Warren Worth Bailey has gone down
to a pacific defeat In the Johnstown-
Altoona district. John M. Rose,
ex-mayor of Johnstown, who defeated
him, is said to have gubernatorial
aspirations.
—Carbon county went Republican
in a national fight for the first time
in years.
—Berks went for Wilson almost as
heavily as it did for Cleveland and the
total plurality will be over 7,100.
—James Donnelly is the only Demo
crat elected to the House in Schuylkill
after all Guffey's scheming and work
ing.
—Lycoming's legislative vote is so
close that it may take the soldier vote
to stem the tide.
—Frank Herman, Wyoming's Demo
cratic member, went down by 19 votes.
—Representative S. J. Barnett, of
Delta, seems to have fallen off the
platform In spite of claims made here.
—Among late results learned on
loans were South Bethlehem, $175,000
for highway improvements, passed;
Topton, $23,000 for electric plant, de
feated.
—D. H. Helt, elected to the House
in Northumberland, is a local op
tionist.
- Bedford, which has a long list of
Democratic Federal jobholders, went
for Hughes by 700.
—ln Carbon and Lehigh election
boards refused to serve because of the
pay and the work.
"Publicity"
Through the efforts of the Sun,
World, and Tribune a man named
Rains, alleged to have represented
himself as collector for a society of
newspaper reporters In New York, has
been placed under arrest and held for
trial in special sessions.
It is charged that Rains has secured
contributions from kindly disposed
people under tho pretext that such
contributions would not only be worth
ily bestowed upon this fictitious society
of reporters, but that through them
the contributors would be able to se
cure "publicity" presumably on call,
and for any sort of purpose or enter
prise. It is claimed that he has' se
cured contributions amounting to
more than a hundred dollars In single
instances, and that he has carried on
the work for some time. The charge
upon which the arrest was made in
volved a matter of but five dollars se
cured from a Dr. Payne as a contribu
tion to a benefit fund for "the boys."
What makes such enterprises pos
sible is the vague notion, still preva
lent, that "publicity" may be secured
by devious routes—by paths leading
to the editorial rooms, but avoiding
the business offices of newspapers.
And this notion is fostered by tho
i fact that "press agents" are still em
-1 ployed, and presumably earn their
salaries obtaining for' amusement
;and other enterprises newspaper space
|whtch should be a source of advertis
jing revenue to the papers.
If a man should propose to a manu
-1 facturer that, for a fee, or for a salary,
! he could secure for him valuable coni-
I modifies, such as raw materials, free
of charge, that manufacturer would
hardly waste his time discussing the
matter. He would know that com
modities have to be paid for, at pre
vailing prices, and that if secured in
any other way some sort of lacenous
method would have to be utilized. Yet
businessmen, not fully convinced that
! advertising space is a commodity, of
definite value, often consider proffered
[plans for securing it, under the guise
of "publlcits - ." for nothing.
I The "press agents" of tho depart
[ment stores are their advertising man
lagers, who pay for the "publicity" ac
corded to their stores, and call It by
its right name—advertising. Should
not the newspapers insist that all
"press agent" matter be deprived of
its mask, and published, if at all, as
advertising?— Editor and Publisher.
The Farmer's Happy Life.
[Jackson Standard-Journal.]
Farmers have more grievances than
any one else, because Nature is not yet
understood, and so many things may
happenr. For instance a Jackson man
fed buttermilk to his calf the other
day. and the calf died. When the calf
is not dying, the steed Is choking on
an apple, the horse has botts, the
sheep breaks Its neck jumping over
the fence, the chicks have the pip, the
turkeys get their feet wet In the dew.
the oats are too thick to stand up, wa
ter drowns the hay, wind breaks down
the corn, the cow eats wild onions and
—but what Is the use!
Pathetic
Another pathetic little feature of
everyday life Is the way a narrow
minded little runt will settle back in
his chair in a self-natisfled way and
open his remarks with "Broadly speak
ing."—Ohio State Journal.
>
S. S. ELLIS FATHER OF YELLOW
BACK DIME NOVEL IS DEAD
THE father of the dime novel died
the other -day at the age of
seventy-six.
Many of us are old enough to re
member those Beadle & Adams Dime
Novels with the salmon-colored paper
covers, not too large to slip inside a
pocket and hide there until a favor
able chance came to devour Its pages,
for our elders had a strong prejudice
against the "yellow backs" and be
lieved that a boy who read them was
hiking straight down tho center of the
road to perdition.
Edward S. Ellis, the man who died
recently, wrote the first of the dime
novels that made a hit, and he wrote
hundreds of them afterward, and
many other books besides. He was
19 years old when he wrote "Seth
Jones," in 1859, and sent It to Beadle
& Adams, New York, who had just be
gun to publish their dime novels, but
had not made a success with them.
They saw a winner In "Seth Jones.'
Before they sent it out they plas
tered the country with posters, dodg
ers, painted inscriptions with the ques
tion "Who is Seth Jones?" And when
the people had guessed and wonder
ed for weeks the whole country broke
out in another rush of posters bearing
the picture of a frontiersman In coon
skin cap, with the inscription: 'I am
Seth Jones." The book made the fame
of Ellis and the dime novel, and the
fortune of Beadle & Adams. It was
translated into eleven languages and
Trade Briefs
Exports of onions from Valencia,
Spain, have been largo to date. Ship
ments to the United States are now
made direct instead of through other
countries, as was formerly done.
There is a market in Spain for
lubricants and greases.
Ameitfcan freight cars are being
used extensively op Russian railways.
In a recent test American locomotives
proved their superiority over those of
domestic construction.
Work has been completed on the
largest dam In Europe, which Is
situated on the Noguera Pallaresa
river near Talarn, Spain. The dam
has two purposes: the production of
electric power and for use In irriga
tion. It was built, by Amex-lcan en
gineers. >
The Colombian Government will
erect two wireless plants In the near
future, one at Arauca on the Arauca
river and the other at Orocue on the
Meta river.
Thero is a market for enameled
ware in British East Africa.
Norwegian merchants have made
inquiries'about boots and shoes manu
factured in this country.
At the recent sale of furs In St.
Louis the Government sold 1,900 seal
skins for $74,530. Four hundred and
twenty blue fox skins and twenty white
fox skins brought $20,527.
It is planned to irrigate the Adana
Plain In Turkey. The project will re
claiVn 494,200 acres and will cost $17,-
600,000.
Leather belting is needed in Spain.
An English company has experi
mented during the past year with cot
ton seed shipped from the United
States and planted In Greece. It is
asserted that the American seed can
better stand the frost tcn the Grecian
cotton.
Our Scenic Splendor
If that tine thoroughfare projected
across Pennsylvania from Easton to
Pittsburgh, a part of which was
dedicated on Thursday, had no other
merit. Its name alone should Insure its
swift completion.
The William Penn Highway! Not,
you will please note, the Western
boulevard or Eastern avenue, hut
highway, end named for tho builder
of the Commonwealth.
Pennsylvania nearly always forgets
that the two greatest Individuals who
personally planted American colonies
were Hoerer Williams and William
Penn. They were much the biggest
characters, and they were big enough
to shine In any ago and In any sphere.
But. bless your soul, we see hotels
named for Swiss caterers and English
royal palaces and French personages,
but William Penn was shunned as if
he had brought the plague to America
Instead of an empire. I beg Pitts
burgh's pardon, because that town has
had the fine sense of fitness of things
to call a hotel after the founder.
Governor Brumbaugh, who knows
Pennsylvania as he does a schoolbook,
says this new highway will open up
"many matchless miles of scenic
spltndor."
Yes, more miles of scenic splendor,
coupled with the thriving works of
man, than can be measured off In any
equal space on the globe. For beside
being a great man. William Penn was
the best real estate buyer the world
has ever known.—"Glrard." In Phila
delphia Ledger. m
1,000,000 Copies were sold.
A queer thing about it, says the
Kansas City Star, was that Ellis was
brought up to be a preacher, and that
he was teacher of a Sunday school
class when he wrote the first dime
novel. He used to clothe Bible stories
in imagery of his own. vivid and excit
ing, and always closed the lesson with
the tale unfinished and the remark,
"Boys, we will continue the story next
Sunday." All the boys in the village
were in his Sunday school class.
He wrote so many stories for boys
and girls that he lost count of them.
He was the author of the "Roy Pio
neer," "Log Cabin," "Dcerfoot," "Wyo
ming" and "Forest and Prairie" series,
and ho wrote many serious-minded
books, such as a history of this country
in eight volumes, of which 100,000
sets were sola.
It is said of him that he was a
good man, of kindly nature; that chil
dren loved him, and that, in spite of
the preaching that had been done
against cheap novels, there was not an
immoral situation nor anything that
would tend to influence for wrong in
the hundreds of novels he wrote. His
heroes were manly and clean-minded,
his morals good and he exalted the
nobler qualities of honor, loyalty and
courage. He said just before he died
that he did not regret anything he had
written, and he felt he had contri
buted to the joy of living for millions
of boys and girls.
The Penn Highway
Last week the first stretch of the
Penn Highway from Easton to Beth
lehem was opened with appropriate
ceremonies. It is not much of the
distance to the> western border of the
State, but it is a good beginning. The
highway is built of approved materials
and according to the best engineering
practice. While the figures are not
given, It is believed that the work can
be carried on for about $15,000 a mile.
The Penn Highway will go through
Allentown, Reading, Harrisburg, Hunt
ingdon and Pittsburgh and will be a
long link in the Pike's Peak Ocean-to-
Ocean Highway.
This highway is to run through the
center of the country. It is to cross
Southern Indiana, Illinois, Central Mis
souri. Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and
thence to the Pacific coast. It is ex
pected that the southern route from
Charleston to New Orleans and thence
along the Mexican border will come
next. The Lincoln Highway to the
North Is already in operation. It is
bv no means completed in the sense
that it is all properly surfaced, but a
careful count taken at Downlngtown
shows an average of 1,000 automobiles
using that portion of the route every
day and a large percentage of those
are "foreign cars," showing that the
interocean travelers are already nu
merous.
The Penn Highway is laid out, but
construction must go slowly until more
money is secured. This State is in n
position to complete it rapidly, but a
portion of the Federal funds will prob
ably be used for the purpose. As we
have before remarked, it is a pity that
the $80,000,000 given by the govern
ment was not appropriated solely for
trunk lines instead of being frittered
awav among tho Counties.
But there is much encouragement
in looking back over the history of the
iast ten years. If as much relative
progress is made in the next decade,
the greater problems of our highways
will be well along toward solution.—
Philadelphia Inquirer.
I TOLD YOU SOI
I know that he was sure to win,
I knew it weeks, aye, months ago.
And now I have a right to grin—■
I told you so!
I knew just how each state would
vote,
Just where the loser had no show;
Small wonder that today I gloat—
I told you so!
I knew the winner could not lose,
Each week I saw his converts
grow;
Last night's returns brought me no
news—
I told you so!
The women's choice to me was clear.
The attitude of high and low;
I knew he had no causo for fear—
I told you so!
This proof I give that I was right.
This proof that what 'l say I know:
These lines were •written Monday
night—
I told you so! i
—C. E. ELLIS in New York Sun.j
I
Broting (Effat
Some very funny Incidents were told
about town last night and today about
conditions arising from the uncer
tainty of the Presidential election. It
seems that many Ilarrisburgers went
to bed yesterday morning tirm in the
belief that the will of the people had
been expressed. They nad told their
families about It and were prepared
to go along. Other men It likewise
seems jubilated or took steps to over
come sorrow under equally lirm im
pressions that it was all over. Conse
quently when they got downtown
yesterday morning and found a state
of uncertainty existing they were
cidedly uncertain themselves. One
man who had paid over some money
for which ho was a stakeholder during
early morning hours yesterday went
around hunting the men to whom he
had paid with an ardent desire to re
cover the coin, while the Jubllators or
sorrowful ones wondered If they
would have to do It all over again or
reverse the process. Some of the
funniest incidents were at the stations
when men who had gotten into berths
in other cities believing that' the re
sult was known got into excited argu
ments on arrival here in the midst of
many rumors and reports. One of
the best stories is told of an uptown
man who had given an order ft>r a
supper based on the election before
he went to bed and who had to recall
invitations because he was not quite
sure whether he would have occasion
to have It. The sudden turn of the
election recalled the days of the 1884
campaign when the final result was
obtained after half a dozen turns of
fortune's wheel and the long delays
which occurred in 1888 and 1892. But
it Is doubtful If Harrisburg will get
over its surprise of yesterday morn
ing in a long time.
Members of the Dauphin County
Historical Society will commemorate
a centenary of more than ordinary in
terest to-night at their November
meeting as addresses v will be made
upon the centennial of the Harrisburg
bridge. This bridge, which was
lirought into being by an act of 1809,
which was followed by another act,
which carried a provision for State
cash for bridges nt Northumberland,
Columbia and McCall's Ferry. The
Harrisburg prolect took form pretty
promptly as the act to construct the
bridge was passed in July ISI2. and
the cornerstone was laid in December.
According to records compiled by tho
late William A. Kelker, the first toll
was collected October -16, 1816, al
though the tollhouse was nc?t com
pleted until the next year. People
wore anxious to use the bridge and the
thrifty Harrisburg folks collected toll
regardless of the lack of a tollhouse.
The bridge has had a good many
lively episodes in its hundred years.
Part of it' was swept away by a flood
in 184fi and a rope ferry had to bo
used. In 18fi6 part of it was burned
and in 1902 the ice flood put some of
it out of commission. The present
handsome bridge Hates from 1903, be
ing opened for business on November
10, 1903.
The Scranton Republican makes this
reference to an address made by the
bishop of that city on the subject of
public libraries: "Rishop Hoban spoke
a very kind word for the Albright
Public Ltbrary at the meeting of tho
Catholic Club this week. He urged the
people of the city to take more interest
in the institution and to avail them
selves more generally of its advan
tages. It would be well if other men
of prominence in this community were
to lay the advantages of the public
library before the people in a helpful
way. The library, as it is, is doing a
fine work as an adjunct to education.
It. can be made of greater usefulness"
if it is provided with sufficient funds
to buy certaii} new publications
promptly. It is stating a well rec
ognized truth to say that books of all
kinds are needed at the library."
• • ♦
Harvey E. Knupp. the attorney, is
proudly "displaying a big "she, coon"
which he and several other coon hunt
ters got last Saturday night just before
midnight with the aid of three dogs.
Harvey refuses to tell where he got
the rascal as ho says there are more
where he got this one and he expects
to for another some night this week.
So sure is Mr. Knupp that Ills dogs
will get a coon that he has already
hired a cook to prepare a big coon
feed next Monday evening at his cot
tage on the Heights at Dauphin.
• • •
"Jim" Cramer, the Democratic can
didate for State Treasurer, turned up
a winner in the official figures in
the Juniata county contest on Tues
day, although almost everyone else
who ran ahead in that district was a
Republican. Mr. Cramer comes from
that county and has a large "freund
schaft" which remembered him.
\ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—William Dick, veteran secretary
of the Philadelphia • School Hoard,
will be re-elected next week.
—David Martin, elected State Sen
ator was once a Senator, then Secre
tary of the Commonwealth and then
Insurance Commissioner. He likes
farming best of all.
j. H. Weeks, prominent Dela
ware County motorist, has been urg
ing jitnevmen to obey the law upon
the theorv that they need instruction.
—Louis Burk, who displayed or
chids at the Philadelphia flower show,
has been collecting the flowers for
Walling used to be district
attorney of Erie county.
r ■ DO YOU KNOW 1
Thnt llarrislmrg's vote on tlio
loan was watclcd all over tho
State?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
This city started a water system
back in the thirties. It was carried
around in wagons.
pOur Daily Laugh
a AN EXPERT.
Is that new
chauffeur o t
yours a skilled
mechanic?
Tou bet he Is.
He can find
more things the
matter with that
car than I ever <
dreamed ot
SHARING THE
BURDEN.
The Judge JTSSJk. —\!!>c '
Tou two men ▼-*"V
have been tried "fj >1
and found guilty 1
of burglary. Th I | I I
sentence will b ®
two years im- > —' ' —
prisonment In th ■ i jw
penitentiary. Iflßl
The. Yegga
That makes one ' I | \
year apiece. No'
■o bad.