6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR TUB MOMS Pounded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph UiilldlnK. Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American Bureau of Circu ||gi ® sylvania Associat t IMS ** lis HQ Flnley, Fifth nue Building, New £ 1 cago, Illf Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa,, as second ciass matter. by carriers, six cents a <ai®M9MEM> week; by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY EVENING, DEO. 9. Be strong and work, for I am with you, saith the Ijord of hosts. —IIAGOAI 2:4. CZ===^== == = ============: THE CHRISTMAS CANDLE HOW strongly the Christmas candle idea, first advocated for Harris burg by the Telegraph a year ago, has taken hold is illustrated in the announcement on another page to-day by the pastor of Messiah Luth eran Church of the extensive and charming use he means to make of candles in his service on Christmas eve. On the altar will burn two very largo candles and all through the church candles will be burned in stead of electric lights during the reading of the Christmas story* and singing of old-time Christmas hymns and carols. There Is no artificial light more beautiful than the soft, wavering glow of the candle. It lends itself most charmingly to the festivities of yule tide, whether in the home or in church, and it is pleasing to note how exten sively it is coming into Its own again in connection with Christmas cele brations, after having been lost so many years. "When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war;" likewise a street fight and a quarrel among the Allies. LLOYD GEORGE POLITICS, we are told, makes strange bedfellows, and the same may be said of war. Who, for example, five years ago could have imagined David Lloyd George kissing the King's hand as premier of Eng land, while a host of lords and lord lings stood about with smiles of self congratulation over his selection as head of the government. There is just one answer to this change of face, If not of heart, on the part of English aristocracy toward the former labor agitator anS trouble-maker chief. It is—efficiency. England has discovered that she cannot afford to "muddle along;" she must have action backed by brains and well directed energy. Drowning men grasp at buoys and care not who throws them. England Is in sore distress and Lloyd George is suspected of having a life preserver concealed about him. So dukes and earls, landed gentry and capitalists have swallowed the dose, if not grace fully at least and Lloyd George has acepted the trust—if in deed he was not the author of his own advancement. And it will go ill with the new premier if he does not Immediately make good in the con duct of the war. His enemies have not been converted. They are merely silenced and, like hungry wolves, are lurking just outside the radius of the limelight of popularity in the center of which Lloyd George at the moment finds himself. The day is fast passing when you can boast of having done your Christ mas shopping early. HOME RULE THE annual convention of city managers at Springfield, Mass., developed somo interesting in formation concerning the government of cities along small council manager ial lines. For example, it was pointed out that, restricted by a State law to a low rate of city taxation, Dayton, 0., under the manager plan. Is meeting all cur rent expenses from its current reve nue, while all the other large cities of the State have been forced to antici pate their revenues to get money to pay their bills. As compared with Dayton's record under the council-manager plan, it was shown, Cleveland has had to an ticipate Its revenues to the extent of $1,250,000; Cincinnati, $700,000, and Toledo, $500,000. Those figures represent the actual present Indebtedness which those cities have had to incur to meet regu lar operating expenses. The contrast with Dayton is heightened by the fact that undisputed figures show that the Sty manager gave Dayton citizens a total extra service of $140,000 the first year without recourse to bonds. Springfield, and Sandusy, the two next largest Ohio cities now tinder the commission-manager rule, both are operating within their In comes. Tho municipal officials and repre sentatives of civic organizations at the convention, discussed at length and In detail the actual results of the various methods of city government, with the virtually unanimous conclusion that the ninety-two cities in the United States now under the commission manager plan are administered more SATURDAY EVENING, economically and efficiently, and that they have been enabled to obtain Im provements without exceeding their revenues. These results could not have been obtained without mortgag ing their future under any other plan of city government. From the actual experience of thou sands of cities the officials gathered In Springfield derived the following fun damental requirements of a plan of city government which would be effi cient and economical: 1. .Simplicity. 2. Definite responsibility. 3. Administrative specialists cannot be successfully selected by popular vote. 4. The policy determining' body which represents the people must be elected by popular vote. It should be a relatively small body. It should have legislative power only. It should have the power to appoint one or more executive heads. It was the unanimous opinion alao of these men who are successfully ad ministering the affairs of American cities, that the policy-determining body elected by the people should be com posed of men able and willing to serve for littlo if any remuneration, and that it should have full power to em ploy an executive head or heads, who, in turn, should have full power to em ploy and dismiss his subordinates without interference. We, in Harrisburg. realize that the Clark act is a failure and that there is some virtue in the small council managerial plan, but we are not pre pared to Bwallow the new remedy for present ills as we wore compelled to gulp down the commission form of government. What the third-class cities of Pennsylvania should have Is home rule, so that they could operate under laws made to fit their own pe culiar requirements. And home rule is what will come eventually. The Democratic donkey, having gorged himself at the public trough, may founder if Bryan persists In giving him too much cold water. PUBLIC BATH HOUSES THE sum of $5,000 which Park Commissioner Gross proposes to ask Council to put Into the annual budget for the purpose of es- j tabllshing a city bathing beach and J bathhouses Is none too large for the purpose. Nor will It do for council to consider Mr. Gross' recommenda tions lightly. The people want a public bathing place. Left to a popular decision the appropriation of the amount named for the purpose would be approved by an overwhelming vote. The thousands who thronged the inade quately equipped beach at Independ ence Island last summer provide ample testimony as to the popularity of aquatic sports in Ilarrlsburg. All this recital of self-evident facts for the reason that certain councllmen shown little or no interest concerning the needs of the park department in general and those of the river resorts in partic ular. There can be no more back ing and filling. Either council is for river improvements or against them. Council must give the people the swimming facilities they desire or de liberately override their wishes. The Harrisburg navy Is prepared to make an issue of bath and boathouses In tho coming campaign and it will go hard with those such a general demand. DIG I T P, DEMOCRATS CHAIRMAN VANCE C. McCOR MICK'S little deficit of "around $300,000" In the Democratic campaign fund is to be raised by an assessment upon the various State committees, to whom is to be allotted whatever sum Mr. McCormick thinks their States should pay. Simple in the extreme. Hut why not pass it along direct to the holders of the thirty thousand new offices created by the Democrats? Their annual salaries mount up to something like $40,000,- 000: and a very small percentage of that would clean up the deficit in short order. . Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. Ah, ha! We just knew they'd pro voke him once too often. Tho President is writing another U-boat note. HISTORIC PARALLELS MR. ASQUITH, tho news dis patches relate, has declined an earldom at the hands of King George. This recalls Marcus Antonius, re minding the Roman populace that to Julius Caesar he "thrice presented a kingly crown, which he did thrice re fuse," and of the comment of Casca, a witness of the Incident, who ob served that Caesar, to his thinking, "was loath to lay his fingers off it." Berlin boasts that food prices are lower there than in the United States, but even at that we think little old Harrisburg has something on Berlin as a place of permanent residence. CARRIE NATION OF HIS PARTY EVEN Tom Taggart is said to be giving ear to the siren song of prohibition in Indiana. So much so, indeed, that tho brewers of the State have been , making regular pil grimages to French Lick. They are said to have learned that Taggert does not feel unkindly to tho dry plank idea for 1920. This Is the most surprising political development since election. William Jennings Bryan may yet go down in history as the Carrie Nation of his party. King George now has two meatless days a week, but at that he has nothing on moat of us common Americana. HARRISBURO TELEGRAPH KELLY—CHANGING THE SYSTEM : By BRIGGS CHOCK 3|ji L.I STEKJ CHUC I LIK6 - jjgy AIN'T A I M*v/{IX£ 4 B TJJO CHECK'S 6M &eTT£&- THC-fte'S \ SOUt. LooSGHG'O' : I T T' THRee 3eU ALWATS * Sv qamel ' H " r6W AN ° S Th ' ™ LLS / V 60- HOMf . 1 Bob auamo > fl "£d R we ' nF " waWts a, Same / To Cham.<ss ! Teew BM-l - it s / You'll 1 \ '//w/y/y//1 is2y / &u CAM Lose I THE in ' Djr the Ex-Committeeman Flgurea from the official count of the votes of Pennsylvania for presi dential electors, State officers and jus tice of the Supreme Court, which have been prepared for Governor Brum baugh, will probably be used as a basis for some commentary upon the working of the nonpartisan law by the Governor. Some timo ago the Governor inquired of judges and,' others familiar with election matters throughout the State what suggestions they had to make regarding much discussed changes in election laws and especially the nonpartisan judicial act. There were many and varied replies which the Governor has been study ing. The most notable thing about the nonpartisan act this year was the fact that 476,039 fewer people voted for justice than for electofs. Just what recommendations the Governor will make regarding the election laws is not known. He has expressed great Interest in simplifying them. • —Presence here within the last few days of ex-Lieutenant Governor John M. Reynolds, of Bedford; Congress man Daniel F. Lafean, of York, and ex-Mayor Ira W. Stratum, of Reading, has revived interest in tho appoint ment to he made to fill the vacancy on the Public Service Commission, caused by the death of Samuel W. Pennypack er. For a time it was considered that Mr. Lafean had tho insidg track, but the outbreak of war over the speaker ship caused the appointment to be deferred. It is understood that the pressure of work at the offices of the commission has been brought to the attention of the Governor and he may make an appointment before Christ mas. —Advent of Representative George W. Williams, of Tioga, into the con test for the speakership nomination in the Republican caucus has not been received with much excitement by the partisans of either Richard J. Bald win or Edwin R. Cox. In fac*. they have refused to comment and it is no ticed that newspapers which have been boosting Cox as the administra tion candidate have not even mention ed Williams; while the newspapers backing Baldwin have given very little more notice. The Williams appear ance in the arena appears to have been a surprise, painful to some. State administration loaders declined to comment upon it and denied that It was a scheme to "sew up" the local option votes in the House and "de liver" them to Cox when the time came for Williams to withdraw, etc., which has been rumored. The Bald win people declared they knew noth ing about the start of tho move. —Speaking at Philadelphia last night Senator Penrose said that Bald win would have more than a majority of the Republican votes of the House when he went Into the caucus. This statement followed a "nose counting" conference at the senator's offices. At Pittsburgh Congressman John It. K. Scott, who is piloting Mr. Cox around and exhibiting his own boom for Governor on the side, declared that the outlook for Cox was "fine." This laconic statement followed a war council In Pittsburgh. Cex men claim to have made some Inroads In the western end of the State and hint at appointments to be made soon. —The Cox leaders will meet in Philadelphia to-day to go over a re canvass of the Tho original re port of the "pickets" has been dis carded and a new one has been under way. The Cox people reiterate confi donce In victory. Signs of "lining up" of clerks at the Capitol to work on home members arc to be seen on the horizon. —Considerable Interest has been aroused by a speech made the other evening In Philadelphia by Commis sioner M. J. Ryan, who is being put more and more to the front as a spokesman for the State administra tion, probably because he is a Demo crat. Mr. Ryan declared that Gover nor Brumbaugh Is a much misunder stood and maligned man and pointed to tho late Samuel W. Pennypacker as a man much abused and yet honor ed by all beforo he died. Auditor Gen eral-elect Charles A. Snyder and Dairy and Food Commissioner James Foust, who spoke at the banquet, did not mention politics. —The city authorities of ReadinK have started something In the way of food Inspection which has attract ed much attention. It Is proposed to Inspect all foods at the source as well as In handlinK. -—Ex-Representative It. R. Deardon, of Germantown, Is out with some in teresting political talk. He says he ia the man who discovered Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, back in the eighties. The Mayor would just as soon not be discovered In the present situation over the speakership. -—Two hundred members of the Cen tral Democratic Club will go to Wash ington again. The members of tho club have been making big prepar ations and they have to a certain ex tent detracted from the three-cor nered fight over tho presidency of the club. —When tho Democratic expense ac counts are glanced over It must be painfully apparent to some federal officeholders and postmasters that holding office under Democrats Is not as easy as it was thought. In years gone by it was the favorite amusement of Democratic editors and speakers to yell about the way Republican officeholders were "assessed." What was done to the Democratic postmas ters and others in the federal service was worse, if what is on file at the Capitol is anything to go by. The im portance attached to the State con vention of postmasters last summer by tho Democratic State bosses is now plainly seen. Between the national and State committees it was a lucky postmaster who got away. —Judge Joseph Rogers and Assist ant District Attorney William Findlay Brown, of Philadelphia, have gone on their annual hunt to North Carolina. —E. J. Cattell, the Philadelphia city statistician, who celebrated his six tieth birthday a few days ago, has spoken at 5,000 banquets in twelve years. —President E. E. Sparks, of State College, speaker at thos Sons of Dela ware dinner, declared that the country needed to speed up Its Americanism and to educate the foreigner. —General W. G. Price, who may be the next commander of the Pennsyl vania Guardsmen, thinks that the reg ular army is having as much trouble as tho militia in getting men. Business Briefs The Textile World Journal, of New York, announces fresh advances in all manner of textiles. The Keystone I'last Company and the Keystone Flreproofing Company, of Chester, went into receiver's hands yesterday for lack of cash to meet ma turing obligations. The Ohio corn crop Is 34,000,000 bush els less than last year. The German steel output for the year has gained 3.000,000 tons. Beside offering a fuller range in col ors dyestuff makers are now able to quote lower prices. Bradstreet's for the week reports that holiday buying of all kinds is of maximum proportions. EDITORIAL COMMENT L,et us hope that in Congress the fe male of the species will be more effec tive than the male.—Atlanta Journal. It is believed that a good many Re publicans could be arrested for what they think about Ohio, Kansas and Cali fornia.—Kansas City Star. The Deutscliland may be able to run the British blockade with a $2,000,00(1 cargo, but think how 300 pounds of United States mall will stimulate the curiosity of the British patrols!—ln dianapolis News. I suggest that somebody send the story of "Evangeline" to those Britons who are protesting so Indignantly over the deportation of Belgians.—New York Morning Telegraph. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR MIL M'.FARLANI) QUOTES LAW To the Editor of the Telegraph: Your correspondent w-ho hides under the title of "One of the Laugh ers" is certainly supplying me with some amusement. It would not be out of point to ask him to re-read my quotation from the act of March 10, 1903, and a particularly note the words printed in capitals. I will quote tho whole of the section so that your humorous friend may have no room for falling to see the point of the act: Be it enacted, etc.. That no per son shall paste, paint, brand or stamp, or in any manner whatso ever place upon or attach to any building, fence, bridge, gate, out building, or other object, upon the grounds of any charitable, educa tional or penal institutions of the State of Pennsylvania, or upon any property belonging to the State of Pennsylvania, or TO ANY COUNTY, TOWNSHIP. BOROUGH OR CITY THEREIN, any written, printed, painted or other adver tisement, bill, notice, sign or pos ter. It is quite true that In the net there is no reference to overhanging: signs. It is Just as true, and distinctly more important, that the act does specific ally prohibit the placing of any sort of sign upon property belonging to the State, "or to any county, town ship, borough or city therein." The streets of Harrlsburg are the property of the city, though constructively for the benefit of IJie citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The highways of the State are not private OLD RED, ROARING DAYS IN ALASKA ARE GONE FOREVER L j (Continued From Yesterday) Alaska voted dry! Alaska, the place where, according to popular be lief, ably seconded by the "movies," all men had hair on their chest and gulped their "hootch" neat, paying for it with fistfuls, of gold dust; Alaska, where business consisted of finding new Klondikes and pleasure meant squandering their wealth in a night; of all places Alaska turned against the Demon Rum, sicking the male mutea onto John Barleycorn and chasing him off the lot! Shades of Soapy Smith and Swiftwater Bill! Why, don't you remember this? If vou don't, you have read something like it: "It was a quiet night at the Tivoli. At the bar, which ranged along one side of the large chinked log room, leaned half a dozen men, two of whom were discussing tho relative merits of spruce tea and lime juice, as remedies for scurvy. * "Come up, you all, and drink. Come up. you unburled dead, an' name your poison. Come up, everybody. This is my night and I'm going to Tldo It. Tomorrow I'm 30 and then I'll be an old man. * * * Surge along, you all, surge along and name it. This is my night, and It nin't a night that comes frequent. Surge up, you Si washes and salmon eateers. * * I'm the mangy old he-wolf. Listen to me howl." There Was Money in It. Fortunes have been made selling that line of talk to magazine editors. All of us who love action stories, and most all of 11s do, have believed for years that such as that was Alaska. And after we had all been carefully educated to believe in that, Alaska pins on a white ribbon, takes the pledge and restocks all the Tivolis and Nuggets and Klondike bars with grape juice and chocolate ice cream sodas! We know this will be a shock to many believers in the Wild West. It must have been a shock to them when the famous Barbary Coast' of San Francisco reformed and when Seattle converted the points on Wash ington and King streets, where Skoo kum Jim and Swiftwater and many i other new made millionaire gloried land drank deep, into pool, parlors and soft drink saloons. property. I am only anxious to pro tect against intrusion the property of all. If Mr. "Laugher" can find any way to put an overhanging street sign, such as have been criticised in Harrisburg recently, without interfer ing with property which falls within the prohibition of this act, then I will agree with him that "it is to laugh." There is u proviso in the act of March 10, 1903, which specifically removes any difficulty in respect to "the posting of any notice required by law or order of court to be post ed," and otherwise takes care of the legal directions for the benefit of all which of course it is proper to put upon the streets. Your laughing friend, however, is endeavoring to make the impression, for what pur pose I know not, that it is legal to use the streets for private benefit. Indeed, some of his friends, as X pre sume they must be, have intruded in the streets of Harrisburg with per manent structures or interferences, and it only requires a clear test, not only of the act of March 10, 1903, but of the common law with respect to the ownership of the street, to show that in this city, as elsewhere, no private citizen or corporation has any right whatever to use for private the street surface between one lot line and the other lot line, save only when such use is in the nature of a public service, and in that case under public supervision. There are literally thousands of illegal obstructions upon the public streets in Harrisburg to-day. Some time all of them will be removed be cause the people will need the streets. In Chicago, for instance, all the pro jecting overhead signs on State street have been back against the premises to which they appertaiil, to tho vast benefit of the street, and providing at the same time a fair and square chance to all of those con cerned. I am not in any doubt as to the intact of the act of March 10, 1903. The "man who wrote it and put It through the Legislature as a repre sentative from Philadelphia, has himself Informed "me repeatedly of what he had In mind. If your friend will come out from behind his alias, I shall be delighted to send him any number of citations or authorities to prove the accuracy of my position. Yours truly, J. HORACE M'FARLAND. December 8, 1916. DECEMBER 9, 1916 But some thoughtful observers who have paid a little attention to Alaska saw the change coming years ago. Even before they held a world's fair at Seattle, in 1909, to celebrate the discovery of gold on the Klondike ten years before, the frontier days of Alaska were coming to an end. Big Business had discovered Alaska. Rail roads were being built, and more have followed. Huge gold dredges began to work the Nome sands. Vast for tunes In copper were discovered, but copper is not mined with a sluice box that a man can knock together on the spot, and the development of these new riches brought armies of laboring men and costly machinery. Powerful companies took over the great fisher ies. Towns and cities grew up and or ganized chambers of commerce, and the Tanana Valley got into friendly rivalry with the southeastern section over the size of the rutabagas and cabbages ithat could be produced from the fields. Why, federal school teachers say, even out on the lonely Domedes and on the snowy deserts above the Arctic Circle the traveler will find the simple Eskimos and In dians cranking up their Victrolas on a winter's night. In Juneau. Skagway, Whitehorse, Fairbanks, Circle or Nome they are reading the same world news today that we read in Kansas City. Yep, some years ago Alaska shed his-mackinaw and mukluks for a bus iness sack coat and the latest model shoes. In place of the chamois poke out of which he used to shake gold dust, he bought a dime savings bank. He will no longer greet you in that ! quaint dialect beloved of the Rex Beach-Jack London school, but he's | very apt to bore you to death with ; statistics on temperatures and raln | fall and the possibilities of four crops j of alfalfa off Tananae Valley land. His pockets are filled with booster lltera i ture Instead of nuggets. But still we couldn't quite believe the old days—the real days, the roar ! lug days—were gone until we saw ; that white ribbon pinned to his lapel. And just a few years ago we be i Moved with the poet: | There's never a law of God or man Runs north of 53. I Funny, Isn't It? Peace Hymn of the Republic [From "The Grand CaViyon," by Henry van Dyke. Charles Scribrier's Sons.] O Lord, our God, thy mighty hand Hath made our Country free, In all her broad and happy land May worship rise to thee— Fulfill the promise of her youth, Her liberty defend. By law and order, love and truth America befriend. Oh, suffer not her feet to stray, But guide her untaught might. That she may walk in peaceful day Ad lead the world in light, firing down the proud, lift up the poor, Unequal ways amend. By justice, nation-wide and sure, America befriend. To all the waiting land proclaim Thy gospel of good-will. May friendliness and helpfulness In every bosom thrill. O'er hill and vale from sea to sea Thy holy reign extend. By faith and hope and charity America befriend. OUR DAILY LAUGH SO APPROPRI- Alice—Do yo® v Ij \ know I heard that " 3nP 'I Mamie Brown's ij9j£k en >?agement r ' n * Maud ~ How [/3 f nil Mm P erJectl y lovely I X l lrftHi and appropriate: M v! You kow her fiance is a paper • hana-af PROTECTED. Didn't tot* find It rather cold a a the fl'wW (jf Of thieves were W* jlt\ maktnc away WV with your 'Jb Oh, no. They WW ignk j! kept me well oil Bill covered with / their rwrolrerm. Itattiug Probably fifty applications have been made to the State Highway Department's automobile division fn the last three months for automo bile license tag No. 1917, the requests for that particular tag being more numerous than those made a year ago for 1916. The division adopted a policy come, first served, in the mat ter of requests except whore tags had been held a long time, but the appli cations for the number keep coining In. Any number of requests have been made for special numbers to correspond with numbers of resi dences, post office boxes, offices and lodges and there have been special re quests made for odd combinations, notably "straights" and similar num bers. There Is on file at the Capitol a letter which asks for the "hoodoo" and "skldoo" numbers as one man styled Nos. 13 and 23. Every combin ation of like numbers has been asked and Nos. 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000 have been In demand. This rush of requests for reservations of tags starts every year just before election time and keepß up until January 1. It is expected that more licenses will be Issued for next year before the end of this year than ever before. Thou sands of dollars a day are being sent to the State Treasury by automobile owners. Th% department of the secretary of the Commonwealth is being asked numerous times a day about official * votes. This rush started the day the computation of the official vote was begun and the requests came from friends of candidates and, it Is sus pected, from some holders of stakes who had to possess knowledge on the actual figures before making pay ments. There was the greatest inter-" est in the difference of votes between the first electors on each ticket. Arrangements have been made by Miss Alice It. Eaton, librarian of tho Harrisburg Public Library, to give a series of lectures to the city's teacher training class this winter on the way teachers can use libraries. The course will have special reference to the Public Library and its branches among the schools of the city. The teachers will be told how to use the libraries to supplement their Instruc tion work and to interest youngsters In outdoor life in summer by showing them what books to read in winter. Later on In the season Miss Fair, of the Library staff, will lecture to tho teachers on the work of the story tellers in the schools. Senator W. S. McKee, commanding the First artillery, who was here yes terday, looks better than he has for years. The Pittsburgh senator is rather stout, or rather, he was rather stout. When he was here in the sen ate" he was not exactly a sprinter in form and when he went to camp he was rotund. But the work on the border trained down the colonel and he is like he used to be years ago when he first began attending Nat ional Guard camps. A number of the out-of-town mem bers of the Engineers Society will be .here next Monday night to hear Gif ford Plnchot, president of tho Nat ional Conservation association, speak on the fight for conservation In tho present Congress. Mr. Plnchot will speak at the clubhouse and his lec ture will include a discussion of the disposal of public water power streams and naval oil reserves. The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times In an interesting review of the life of the late Edward Manning Blgelow, former State highway Commissioner, who was buried to-day, says: "When Gov ernor Tener conceived the Idea of highway improvements In Pennsylva nia and the department was to be re organized for the purpose of doing big things, he called on Mr. Bigelow to be come the commissioner of State high ways. Under his administration tho department was organized, and al though others have since taken over the work, but little chango has been made in the personnel of the chief men Mr. Bigelow gathered about him. Jn working out the highway problem, Mr. Bigelow traveled over 80,000 miles of Pennsylvania roads." "What Is the reason people will pass up a local car and take a throufUi car?" was asked of a Harrisburg Rail ways man. "Don't know and neither does any one else. Here's an illustration. Wo man standing at Sixteenth and Derry. Passes up a car running from Twenty third street In. and takes an already crowded Hummelstown car. Man lets Progress car go by and gets into crowded Linglestown car. Search me. Guess wo are coming to express cars to give the suburban shoppers a chance." was the answer. "Well, why not express cars not, making stops in the central part of the city or say until they come to Nineteenth street?" "Well, agai#, human nature,," said the man. "Ever see a big husky foreigner get mad because he was carried beyond where he wanted to get off?" There are problems in all business lines-—even running a trolley line. Something may come of the move ment approved by the Governor for some State recognition of the site of Camp Curtin and which will be sub mitted to the next Legislature. Until that project comes to fruition Camp Curtin Methodist Church will stand as Harrisburg's memorial of a place where many national hopes were cen tered and which many men upon whose heads the snow lias fallen re call as a landmark in their lives. State Plre Marshal G. Chal Port has a striking way of putting out his departmental bulletins. Ho is issuing a series on "How to make Pennsyl vania Plreproof," and he very appro priately puts them out in flaming red covers. Some of the news matter in the bulletins is almost as striking, too. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Ex-Governor John K. Tener has been spending a few days in western Pennsylvania. —Andrew Carnegie telegraphed from New York to Pittsburgh friends his regrets upon the death of E. M. Bigelow, who was one of his oldest friends. —Col. Thomas S. Crago, who se cured the highest vote for Congress at large, in Waynesburg and used to be in the Tenth regiment. —C. L. Steel, Jr., elected president of Union, is a student at Muhlenberg col lege and a Philadelphian. —Judge Moser, of Northumberland, has received a letter from General Clement thinking the people of Northumberland county for their gifts to the Guardsmen on the border. 1 DO YOU KNOW ' 1 That Steclton is making special stools for government work? • HISTORIC HARKISBURO It took fifteen years agitatton be fore a bridge company was formed herfe. People were accustomed to us* i Ins the ferry.
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