12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH / NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded itjl Published evenings except Sunday by TBB TELEGRAPH PRINTINO CO., Tcltgnpk Building, Federal Square. TS. J. STACK POLE, Prts't ana Edilor-in-Clriif R. OYSTER, Business Manager, tIUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. . Member American ui-tnt Ushers' Assocla- S|| tion, The Audit ijgjaH Bureau of Circu it 5 SWtt lation and Penn jl' S sylvanla Assoriat gfij role nu * Bu " d ' n8 '' Is<,w - cago, 111? Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. _ By carriers, six cents a <3ZmffiR3MDDKt> week; by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. MONDAY EVENING, DEC. IS Trust men and they will 6c true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. — EMERSON. a THE BRIDGE WITHDRAWAL/ IX* -withdrawing the petition for ap proval of the Walnut street bridge, which was to have been heard be fore the Public Sen-ice Commission to day the City Council exhibited a prop er appreciation of the relation of the city and the State. Governor Brum baugh declared that under no circum stances will he do anything to further this proposition, but will exercise the full power of the Commonwealth to prevent the construction of a bridge at Walnut street. He and his asso ciates of the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings are strongly of opinion that the Walnut street project would seriously Interfere with thc develop ment of the Capitol Park extension program. It is practically agreed that an or namental viaduct at State street with an approach from Walnut street would be more satisfactory in every way than the original subway Idea or the proposed structure at Walnut street. While Arnold W. Brunner and Warren H. Manning, who are making a care ful study of the problem for the Com monwealth, have not reached a defi nite conclusion, it is understood that a viaduct at State street, with orna mental approaches from North and Walnut streets, appeals to them as the most practical solution. This arrange ment and proper restrictions as to the height of buildings in the Paxton Creek valley between Market and Hen streets would, it is believed, preserve the park idea from the Capitol to the bluff fringing the Allison Hill ap proaches to the viaduct and which would be so screened by shrubbery as to create the impression of a park the entire distance. But the details aside, the withdrawal of the city's petition at this time will j prevent an unfortunate clashing of j interests which are mutual aud should J be harmonious at every turn. Good ! sense is a prime quality In the devel- ; opment of individuals and communi- j ties. So thc Democrats In thc Legislature i are going to stand togethe. for their j own program. Wise Democrats. No j pulling of factional Republican chest nuts out of the fire for them. On the I contrary they will now seize the oppor- ! tunity tl plant sure political thistles \ between the lines of the common enemy j and thus make more difficult a Repub lican harvest in 1918. A fine outlook, i indeed! THE EIGHTH VINDICATED CAPTAIN SCHELL'S report of; Eighth regiment conditions at 1 the Border are precisely what those who are acquainted with the i make-up of the regiment expected. "Mutiny" is a harsh word and when applied to the escapade of a dozen or a score of soldiers, prompted by high spirits and the opportunities that idle hands find for mischief, it is not only out of place but is an Insult to the whole military history of the Guard. The Eighth regiment, which includes the two Harrisburg companies, con stitutes as fine a body of men as ever responded to a call to arms. There has never been a question as to their patriotism. One and all they might have shirked when the troops were at Mt. Gretna, had they so chosen. They went to the border voluntarily, expecting to be called upon to repel invasion, if not to join in the chase for Villa. That they have been held in Texas by the piffling policies of an administration that does not know its own mind naturally makes the men restive. Not one of them would "want to go home" if they saw a chance for active service, but nobody can blame them for desiring either to perform the duties of soldiers or to return to the activities of civilian life. Many of them have families at home and nearly all of them sacrificed sal ary and position to enter the service. True, one and all of them will be the better physically for their whole some life in the open and all will re turn home trained soldiers fit for any duty, but these benefits cannot en tirely make up for the material losses of the privates In the ranks who will be fortunate If they find their old Jobs awaiting them when they return. The longer the period of sen-ice the great er the difficulties in this direction, But Captain Schell ■ — supported by Colonel Finney and Lieutenant Col onel Kemper assart* that the men in the main are contented, their dis cipline excellent and their eondltlon good. It la shameful that the retl. msnt's good same evar akimu luv* MONDAY EVENING, been placed in doubt and it ia gratify ing in the extreme that the falsity of the reports have been so quickly and effectively demonstrated. Whatever the motive for changing the loction of the Donato statuary—the gift of Mr. Herehey to thc city—from the River Front to a Reservoir Park entrance, the main thing is to get the group into public view. Another Empty Stocking WEALTHY residents and generous ous corporations have given to Denver $2 75,000 in Christmas gifts and bequests, the money to be expended for the beautlfieatlon and betterment of the city. The interest ing story of Denver's good fortune is published elsewhere in this issue, but the dispatch gives only a hint as to how it all came about. Giving on such a Bcale is seldom entirely spontaneous. Somebody usually has to talk force fully and eloquently, not to say at length and repeatedly, to induce a wealthy man or a big corporation to put money where there can be no hope of cash dividends. In this instance the Impelling force emanated from the personality of Mayor Speer—would that he were mayor of Harrlsburg. Mayor Speer is a man of vision, but not merely a visionary. He has a genius for making his dreams come true. He sees a municipal need and docs not hesitate to point it out to others—at the same time gently inti mating that tax rates and bond issues are not the only means of paying for public improvements. He rejoices that the city has been presented with $275,- 000—and utilizes the occasion to point out many other places where private fortunes could be expended for public welfare. Mayor Speer tells Denver million aires that a marble monument in a churchyard is a poor memorial and that a big bank account alone is no mark of a successful life. He knows that it is still more blessed to give than to receive and that the real value of a big income can be estimated only by the number of people it serves. It is Mayor Speer's belief that too gener ous private bequests provide excellent material for heart-burnings and fam ily quarrels and that relatives often curse the makers of wills, but he knows, and teaches, that the city which receives a girt at the hands of one of its citizens rises up and calls the giver blessed and ever after his name in that community is associated with all that is good and worthy. Public be quests cover a multitude of private faults. Mayor Speer would find ample op portunity for exercise of his peculiar talents here in Harrisburg, where gifts and personal bequests to the city might be numbered on the fingers of one hand, with a digit or two to spare. Our needs are many and there are no ) Speers in our official life. Therfc is no body to tell those who have' made their fortunes in Harrrisburg, and from Harrisburg, that they owe the city which gave them their all some thing in return for the opportunity, for money-making which it afforded them. There is a lot of privately own ed money in Harrisburg that might be spent in a public way without anybody being injured thereby. Father llart-is is about to hang up his stocking, but like the poor little boy in the story, he's likely to wake up Christinas Day and find it empty. Santa Claus Speer doesn't operate out side the city of Denver, and he has no agents here. HUGO MUNSTERRERG GERMANY loses a highly respected and powerful advocate in America by the sudden death of Hugo Munsterberg. Nobody has done more in the United State* to urge the claims of the Central Powers for public sympathy since the out break of the great war than the emi nent Harvard psychologist. His vig orous defense of German policies brought down upon his head the only severe criticism directed at him since he left Germany to take up his per manent residence In this country. However, his loyalty to the land of his birth did not prevent him from desiring well for tho country of his adoption, since his most recent effort was toward a realignment of tho nations after the war, bringing into close alliance for lasting peace, the United States, England and Germany, He was probably as much misunder stood by his critics ns he misunder stood many of them, A wentern advertiser offers five quarts of whisky and a revolver for five dollars. Murder Is getting cheaper every day, Bay, fellows, isn't It hard luck that just about the time our Christmas stocking reaches the proper slse they ut ux u uf THE GOLF SEASON IS NEVER OVER By Briggs | rr " ~—i Say \ tisTeio- i 11. ■ - " MCMBER THATI Tei L YOU UJHAT I'Lt WELC' Thc Golf \ t& ST ' r ' l> ° w™ You- ret SEASON/ IS ou£R ( \ 1R i fv* P TOO I TaKE V<JU OtJ RlfiHT - I <ZUESS \JUSUU I TEH- ) * / NOUU FON EWSHTEEU HAV/e To <3O UP I / f- S . HOLES AMO BET Yoo To OACK DOYLF'S y < 1 A(OVTHIKI<S YOU SAY - • AMD TRY Tt-\ AT 7 < \CAN Tte I7W Yoo - / \ You RE _ _ ot '"PtMvcijto'Cuua By the Ex-Committeeman Rivalry for "control of the trend of legislation" in the next general as sembly, as Governor Brumbaugh has designated the contest for the speaker ship of the next House of Representa tives, has gotten to a stage unknown in Pennsylvania politics in twenty years and claims and counter claims have been filling the air with sugges tions of radical changes in legislative methods and threats ot official be headings and reprisals. Senatoi Penrose has answered the Governor's declaration that he would not wait for legislative action to probe wrongdoing in any department by saying that the Governor will probably be furnished with information and Auditor General-elect Snyder' has given forth some intimations that he is making some investigations on his own account. Richard J. Baldwin issued a claim Saturday in which he said that he had information "less than three days old" that he would have 110 votes. Senator Penrose said that Baldwin would win in a walk. Representative Cox said that his election was a cinch and Senator Vare declared the Bald win claims "absurd." Friends of George W. Williams say he is gather ing up votes and that the influential Altoona Tribune is for him. The Democrats are looking on and pre paring to flsh up what they can from troubled waters. And if the ruction goes on the fishing will be good. The Democrats are looking forward to 1918 just as are the State administra tion men who want to name Gover nor Brumbaugh's successor, a job which the Penrose people also fancy. —Senator Penrose drove a blow at the county caucus plan on Saturday when he "said apropos of the Phila delphia caucus that it would not bind anyone. Seventeen Philadelphians, he said, are signed up for Baldwin. The Governor says that Is not so. Senator Vare says it is "ridiculous." Senator Penrose persists. —Congressman John R. K. Scott says that Cox's election is a foregone conclusion and that he is now consid ering legislation. Scott is a candidate for Governor in 1918, if a certain Brumbaugh, official Is not, in which event he will run in 1922. Hence Scott's prominence. —Senator Penrose and his friends intimated on Saturday that thejy would "put a crimp In the veto power of the Governor," as the Philadelphia Record says, by passing the appropri ation bills in the middle of the session and having the House sit in review of tho vetoes Instead of dumping them all on the Governor and going home, with the whip in the hands of the Gov ernor. This suggestion has been heard biennially since 1874, but it drew blood from the administration side just the same because Scott came out with a clarion call to adopt a system of hospital appropriations to be worked out by a commission. —For yearß this systematizing of hospital appropriations has been urged, but Scott's sudden espousal of It seems something like a grasp for a life preserver when a submarine heaves In sight. Scott in a long state ment says: "It is manifestly Impossi ble for the appropriation committee, to which are referred thousands of bills calling for appropriations to char itable and semlpubltc institutions In the short space of time allotted to It to make a proper investigation as to the need's and requirements of each Institution. Usually the amount of the appropriation recommended Is totally dependent upon the political complex ion and Influence of the member rep resenting the district in which the In stitution is located. Each member feels that It is his bounden duty to ob tain as large appropriations as possi ble for the Institutions In his district, and many of them feel that their ser vice to their constituents Is measured by the amount nni) number of such appropriations. Log rolling Is tho In evitable result." —The Democratic legislative con ference adjourned lute on Saturday afternoon with the determination to stick together and not to vote for any Republican candidate for speaker no matter how great the temptation. Two Democratic members, Isherwood and Bell, were reported as Inclined to vote for Co*, but aeemed to have given up the Idea when they heard the atrong HARRISBURG ffijiftil TELEGRAPH sentiments expressed by the state leaders and by their colleagues. The Democrats provided for a steering committee of bosses and legislators to draft legislation and to make tip the party program, just as they did be fore. This year the steering commit tee will probably get more considera tion than before. —The Democratic program will in clude an assault on the assistance clause and demand for change in hos- I pital appropriations. Local option will I be let severely alone. -—The Philadelphia Inquirer gives I this version of the Penrose comment of Governor Brumbaugh's declaration I that he welcomed an investigation of the State government: " 'So the Governor welcomes .an in vestigation,' remarked Senator Pen rose, and then added slowly and with a smile almost sardonic, 'Well, 1 think, perhaps, we'll accommodate him!' "For some time there have been rumors of a quiet investigation insti tuted by Penrose adherents, of the ex penditures under the Brumbaugh ad ministration and the alleged political activities of State administration offi cials. "Auditor General-elect Charles A. Snyder, who spent, some time with Senator Penrose yesterday, has ex pressed himself freely as to what he intends to do in this respect when he takes office, and he is engaged in an investigation upon his own hook." —ln spite of assertions by admin (istration people that leaders of mine workers had converted some of the legislators claimed for Baldwin in the anthracite region it was reiterated to day that the men aligned with the Delaware countian in Lackawanna, Luzerne and Schuylkill counties were standing fast. Conrad G. Miller, of the Hazleton district, gave notice yes terday that he was for Baldwin. On the other hand C. E. Cook, of York,' claimed for Baldwin, said he was not | sure where he was going to go. He i was claimed for Cox. —Threats are being made in the western part of the State to make public the attitude of some men con nected with the State administration in the Allegheny county congressional contests. —Judge Denny, of the Susquehanna courts, has taken away the licenses of hotels which have been taverns since the Civil War. —Coatesville people are talking of petitioning council to name a mayor to act now that Mayor Jones has been recommended for ousting. —The Democratic national admin-1 istration plan to place presidential postmasters under civil service will af- | feet 546 postmasters in Pennsylvania. I It would be a fine thing to have it ! done and the Democrats placed in office for life terms with the chances that the next President will be a Re publican and not a Pcnnsylvanian. —The Philadelphia Ledger takes an editorial crack at Chairman Harry A. Mackey, of the State Compensation Board, who is quoted as saying bosses are in Pennsylvania. The Ledger a-sks Mr. Mackey if he had ever heard of half a dozen men whoso names figure considerably in the political news of the day. The Surgeon Because God made me wise in healing pain, And taught me how to straighten crooked limbs, I went to offer, free, my services Unto the poor and thus to honor Him. The place I chose from out the misery Of our great town was fall of little ones. Poor were "Purifiers of the World" To whom no childhood pleasure ever comes. They crept in dozens, scores, up to my knee, Their poor pinched faces old beyond their years, The little crippled bodies, helpless limbs. And hopeful faces filled my eyes with tears. I wondered how I ever dare to nay, That I a man of miracles could be! I felt so utterly Incapable Before those little tots who trusted me! And then the Voice came whispering in my ear, I knew I had a covenant to keep, The work was this, not mine, the mes sage said, "Take heart, my son, for thou shalt feed my sheep!" So clothed In strength I had not had before, 1 tried to save (hese little lives from pain. The Doctor from the Shores of Gali lee Stood by my side and worked his cures again, ANNA H. WOOD. Harrlsburg, Pa. UTOPIA OF SOUTH SEA TALES IS PLACE WITHOUT SIN L j IN the Pacific Ocean, midway be tween California and Australia, says the New York Telegram, there is a mountain of rocks two thousand feet high, with an area of about two miles square, known as Pltcairn Island, whose inhabitants, numbering exactly one hundred and sixty, including a clergy man and his wife, have sent an appeal through Captain Griffith Griffiths of the steamship Port Hardy to the people of the United States for clothing, paper and pencils, paraffin, oil, soap and nails. "That is all we need," said the clergy man and the chief magistrate or gov ernor of the island to Captain Griffiths June 2 when the Port Hardy, on its way to the United States, stopped after sighting two large whaleboats, each carrying thirty men, women and chil dren, two miles off Pltcairn. Captain Griffiths and the crew of sixty men gave the natives all the cloth ing they could spare. The women and young girls, all barefooted, were great ly disappointed when told there were no women's clothes. A sailing vessel from Tahiti, five hun drel miles to the northwest and the nearest island, had called at Pltcairn ten months before, which was the only word the natives had heard of the out side world in four years. Borrow an English Flag At that time they were told England was at war, and the island being an English possession the natives borrowed an English flag from the master ot the sailing vessel and climbed to the top of Pltcairn, where the flag was placed and was still flying when the Port Hardy came to a stop last June. The natives of Piteairn are the direct descendants of the crew of 11. M. S. Bounty, which, April 28, 1789, mutinied and seized the vessel after setting the commander, Lieutenant William Blight, and those of the crew who wished to go with him, adrift in open boats. The Bounty put in at Pltcairn, where It re mained for several months. Fletcher Christian, leader, and fourteen men then went to Tahiti, where twelve men and their wives were taken aboard and the return trip to Piteairn was made. The Bpunty was then set on flre and de stroyed. \ No one except the masters of sailing vessels and steamships set foot on the Island and no one ever stopped there more than a few days until twenty years ago, when a clergyman and his wife went from Melbourne on hearing that thc natives of Piteairn were very religious, but without a minister of tho gospel. They are Seventh Day Advent Thou Lovcth Me Dear Lord! my true and previous friend, I owe my all to Thee; For every blessing I depend On Thee—Thou loveth me. Tet I'm ungrateful, vain and rude. And weak when sin allures; I render evil for Thy good And yet Thy good endures. Our smiling land abundance yields; No blast of famine shocks; All verdant are our boundless fields And flourishing our flocks. The flowers bloom, birds sing their lays. In Thee rejoicing, while The hillp and vales give Thee their praise in nature's smile. Adorned. I, too, dear Lord! would praise give Thee, And for Thy praise would work; But while afloat on life's rough sea My task ot'ttlmes I shirk. Yet when sin tempts my soul tc stray Into the realms of night I Thou saveth me from evil's way And guideth me aright. Dear Lord! Thy hand's been at the helm Through all my weary years; When pangs of sorrow overwhelmed Thou hast been more than friend to me; Thou art my life complete. O, Love Divine! in thanks to Thee I stoop and kiss Thy feet. J. H. Harrisburg, Nov. 27, 1916. —Baltimore Evening Sun. Lights in Helmets [From the Scientific American.] Another novelty of darkened London Is a policeman's helmet provided with a emal! electric bulb on tlie very top. serving s a sort of a beacon to pedes trians and street traffle. The electric bulb Is connected to a battery fastened on the belt of the "boobte," by means of a flexible conductor. "——t- ' >' " 1 . --v - - , DECEMBER 18, 1916. ists. AH Can Read and Write The clergyman on his arrival found a small hut built around the trees of branches and straw, which was used as a school where the mothers of the chil dren gathered each day and gave in struction. He was so impressed with the piety of the natives that he has never left the island. The result is that all of the 160 persons know how to read and write. The soil of Pitcairn Is volcanic and fertile, the climate variable and rainy, with a temperature ranging from 70 to 100 degrees. The people live on fruit and fish and wild birds. They do not like beef or pork, and alcoholic bever ages and tobacco are unknown to them. According to the chief officer, Mr. Allen, the inhabitants, aside from being religious, are very intelligent and are excellent painters. The women do the finest of needlework, while the men make the finest of straw hats. Three days each week everyone who is able bodied works at building roads and Improving the island. The other three days are devoted to their own homes. Sunday, after attending church for three hours, they make calls or rest. There is little or no Illness among the inhabitants. Several hundred goats are the only animals on the island, and from these milk is obtained. The ambition of the inhabitants at present is to build a schooner large enough to trade their fruit for clothing with the inhabitants of other islands. They have no money, their motto being "All for one and one for all.' lllhlr la Their Guide When four ot the young girls were asked if they would not like to go to Australia and see other people, each shook her head and said she preferred Pitcairn to any other place in the world. Several years ago, however, one young woman. Kmlly McCoy, daughter of Matthew McCoy, sometimes called "King of Pitcairn" and a lineal descen dant of the famous old mutineer and pirate chief, "Matt" McCoy, did leave the Island, following the death of her mother, and came to the United States to study medicine. Miss McCoy went to Bridgeport, Conn., where last June she was graduated as a nurse and llvd at the Graduate Nurses' Club. "There Is no sin on the island of Pit cairn," Miss McCoy said at that time, "for the reason that the only book the inhabitants study is the Bible. No elopements are of record and no viola | tions of the marriage vow have been known in the history of the island." OUR DAILY LAUGH IN BUOLAND. S&4 Hobo Bugs: /X <y* Gee this open "J% Are place Is great thU cool f weather. V * 8 CAUGHT. Poor Jack When he pro posed to me h> acted like a Ssl out of water. Why shouldn* he? He kne* he waa caught. Jack Hufglns JTIIP said I reminded TflP Jl him of a dainty ' Itaning oU|at j "I do not know whether you are aware of It or not, but Harrisburg is organized in regard to about an many industries as any place I know ol in Pennsylvania," said a man whose business it is to keep track of labor conditions. "I doubt if many people know that the unions are as strong as they are in this city. If you will get a line on the halls about the city which are used for the meetings you will be surprised to see how much they are used on Sundays, which are the big days for meeting. If you will look in the city directory you will get some idea of the extent of the organizations. There are scores ol them. The railroad men's organiza tions here are known all over the State for their numbers and businesslike management of funds and benefits Then there are organizations in al the building trades while the barbers the stage hands and others in lines of activity of which you do not know much and whose numbers apparently may be few which are strongly or ganized. Some of these unions are old organizations and they have in vested funds of considerable size Their memberships comprise the older men of the trades as well as the younger and they do a vast amount of good among themselves of which the average man knows nothing. * • The Harrisburg Public Library whose tables containing books for sug gestions for Christmas buying have been surrounded by people in search of ideas the last ten days, has taken means to supply information on booki to get for boys. The Library made a special display at the time when the Boy Scout "good reading" week came around and has supjilied through the Boy Scouts Library commission list; of books which boys like. The resull has been a marked stimulation of pur chases of boys' books at a number ol stores. One merchant said that he thought people were buying more books than toys for boys this year. Governor Brumbaugh in congratu lating Thomas M. Jones upon the passage by congress of the bill recog nizing Mr. Jones' military service a? a drummer boy in the civil war, tolc of Mr. Jones' gifted father, the authoi of the history of the Juniata valley The elder Mr. Jones edited newspaper! In Blair and other counties and was one of the editors of note in his da> in Harrjsburg. He lived close to one of the places where troops were as sembled here during the civil war am Master Thomas got the military fevei from what he saw every day. The elder Jones was not very strong foi it, but the boy mobilized and was once retrieved from York and another time from Gettysburg. • • • There is a member of the nexl House of Representatives who is noi ashamed of a name and who proceed ed call down the compilers of the nexl legislative directory on that score. This man's first name begins with A and ii is not our own A. Ramsey Black 1101 A. B. Hess of Lancaster, nor yet A. t> Miller, of Susquehanna county. Wher the book was made up he was surpris ed tp see the A without the name. He wrote to the compilers to please make his name the way it was given to him For the information of the fresh com pilers he wrote it out this way: ANANIAS. ♦ ♦ * Something bright and glowing an<j shaped like the big stick of politica tradition appeared in the eastern skj on Saturday night. It was not a bah loon and it was too fixed for any re flection from furnaces or bessemei mills and there was not a cloud in the sky. It hung for half an hour and shed a faintly luminous glow about which was plainly visable for a &%! longer period. Most r>eople put ii down as one of the wandering comets Major John M.McCourt, who resign ed ft day or so ago from the quartet master s corps of the National Guard has served for years in that branch of the service. He was at Camr Brumbaugh when the Guard mobiliz ed to go to Texas and was constanth consulted by Col. Harry C. Trexlei who handled the supply end of th camp in such expeditious style. Fin ally, some one asked the Allentowr colonel why he went to talk to Mc- Court so much. "To keep out of Jail" was the la conic reply. , Major McCourt is assistant United States district attorney nnd not onl\ an authority on contract law, but oil military law as well. ♦ Two weeks from to-day the prelim inaries to the meeting of the legisla ture will be gone through and thf lawmakers will organize the following day. Since 18 75 the legislature has met only twice on January 1 and five times on New Year's day. f*~WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~] —Col. P. C. Boyle, of the Oil City Derrick, has advanced the price of his paper to the prices charged for most of the other dailies. It was one ol the first penny papers. —John Ihlder, the new secretary ol the Philadelphia Housing association is well known here. He has latel) been working in New York. —James Scarlet, who was the chiel Capitol prober, is the chief counsel lr the brewers suits in federal court at Pittsburgh and has submitted somt questions which have stopped ' tht trials temporarily. —Gus Luckenbill, the Schuylkill Haven weather prophet, who picked the present storm date, calls for an. other at Christmas. He does not use s. goosebone either. | DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrisburg steel is used In Chi cago buildings? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Some of the first color printing In the country, was done In this city, | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 1 COMPLAINS OF CAR SERVICE To the Editor of the Telegraph: Hill residents complain that the service on Reservoir Park lino it very, very poor. There are threo cari on that line ordinarily, and four or rush days. It frequently happens thai there is a procession of these cars with the result that 20 or mor< minutes will elapse before waiting passengers down town get a car. Per haps it would be possible for the traffic director to send Reservoir Park cars back, either at Eleventh or Thir teenth streets. In this manner sched ules could be maintained with bettei regularity and the complaints of the thousands of patrons of the Hill llnei silenced. Tuesday evening & Reservoli car carried 107 passengers. Just whal that means may be judged by the facl that a car Friday evening which car. ried 91 pasensgers was jammed t< suffocation. The Hill folks are de serving of consideration, and shoulc get it. HILiL MAN. Transmutation Oh, gold is something of a bluff That won't content the soul Till you get out and trade the stuff For pork and beam and coal.
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