16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' NEWSPAPER FOR TUB HOME Founded itsl Published evenings except Sunday by I THIS TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., , Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Prrs't ana Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. 3US M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. . Member American A ng llshers' Assocla- I tion. The Audit Bureau of Circu jßjESßljk lation -M'.i Penn- S sylvanla Associat e's H fi£2l 31 Eastern office, Kl IP* 151 ytory, Brooks & K8 S S2S Kl Flnley, Fifth Ave ® Sf nue Building, New Jglfl ijSjj fm York City; West -nf prn ofn ce. Story, le> ii j'j' < ' op ' e ' 8 Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. .vUggTfr-v By carriers, six cents a <ESls<|>;iMi> week; by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY EVENING, JAN. 12 We prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by our reiterated choice of good or evil.—George Eliot. THE ALLIES' REPLY LONG and bitter warfare is in dicated by the reply of the Allies to President Wilson's peace note. The terms they lay down are those of a conqueror and it is not to be be lieved that Germany will accept them except by compulsion. Two points not mentioned in the "terms" force themselves upon the mind of the thoughtful reader. In the first place the Allies appear to be entirely confident of eventual victory and united in their determination to carry the war to a successful con clusion at any cost. The other point Is that the diplomacy of the Allies which dictated the note made public last night is the kind that wins con fidence in America. It is the "shirt sleeve" variety, with the cards on the table and no joker in the deck. Theirs is the first clear statement of the pur poses of the war and the ends in view. Either Germany must now cease its dark-room methods and come out In the open with an equally frank state ment or be convicted of all the things charged against her government by her enemies. The terms of the Allies as briefly set forth are as follows: The restoration of Belgium, of Serbia and of Montenegro and the Indemnities which are due them. The evacuation of the invaded territories of France, of Russia and of Rumania, with Just reparation. The reorganization of Europe guaranteed by a stable regime and rounded as much upon respect of nationalities, and full security and liberty of economic development, which all nations, great or small, possess, as upon territorial con ventions and international agree ments suitable to guarantee terri torial and maritime frontiers against unjustified attacks. The restitution of provinces or territories wrested In th* past from the Allies by force or against the ■will of their populations. The liberation of Italians, of Slavs, of Rumanians and of Tcheco Slovaks from foreign domination. The enfranchisement of popula tions subject to the bloody tyranny of the Turks. The expulsion from Europe of the Ottoman Empire, which lias proved itself so radically alien to western civilization. Only on one point are the Allies not clear—and that is as to the fate of the captured German colonies, a point i that may be settled at any time by, the asking of a single question. Un- , less the American viewpoint has been! misread there will be a great popular j sentiment here for the return of these colonies to Germany and the payment; in cash of any indemnity that may be required following an Allied vie- j tory. The one disquieting note in the) whole program is the apparent agree- j ment to deal unfairly with Austria j and some of the Balkan states in favor i of Italy and Rumania, in the allot-! ment to them of territory in the form | of "loot," to which it is doubtful if they are justly entitled, and which, if i the program is carried out, might j easily become such a festering sore as Alsace and Loraine proved for Ger- j many and just as incentive to strife and bloodshed. Generally speaking, however, Am ericans will receive the Allied reply as a fair statement of what they are striving for and what they expect to achieve and even the friends of Ger many in the United States will he grieved, although they may not ad mit it, if Germany does not respond as fully and as clearly setting forth the Germanic point of view regarding the terms of peace. "Prussianizing the schools" is the term the New York World uses for military training of pupils. Better that than to have the whole country truly "Prussianized" some day. CONCERNING FOREIGN TRADE SPEAKING of our foreign trade during the second period of the war. Dr. E. E. Pratt, of the De partment of Commerce, says: Most important of all, perhaps, is the great increase In our exporta tions of manufactured goods and the decrease in our imports of such goods. Everybody knows the reason for our increase In exportation of manu factured goods. Huge consignments of explosives, machine tools, copper, •ugar, steel products of all kinds, au tomobiles, etc., leave this country each day for belligerent Europe. Nobody expects that traffic to bo permanent. But, contrary to Dr. Pratt's state ment, our Importations of manufac tured goods are on the Increase. Dur ing the nine months ended September, 1916, our importations of manufac tures for further use in manufactur ing and manufactures ready for con sumption totaled $570,000,000, com pared with $404,000,000 for the flrst FRIDAY EVENING, MOVIE OF A MAN WHOSE WIFE HAS GIVEN HIM A BOX OF CIGARS ! : I I By BRIGGS ) ' _____—— J "fioSH * HOW I "HGRC SUE "AH -H- Suieu." u 9JI 1"7 / -Q-. fV .. DREAD IT'" CORSES - KGRA I *—*:. C f )p N-NM- M * ( „ \ '* TYK TYA • V we*) I • . smc) *'T c^ S NOTM,wG - 'SHE ,S -inj The "OLD PIPE " \ JUVR A co-i>" LEAVING" CUSPIDOR." i nine months of 1915 anil $532,000,000' for the first nine month of 1914, seven of which were under the unrestricted operation of the Wilson-Underwood tariff-for-less-than-revenue law. Near ly $60,000,000 worth came in during the month of September alone, and as these importations show an increase from month to month there is every reason to believe that the record for the calendar year will eclipse anything in our history. We don't notice it so much now be cause sales abroad arc huge and profits are inordinate, but when the time comes that all Europe is at the forge J and the loom this country is going to J have it ground into the very liber of its being that the protective policy is a pretty good piece of common sense. Ambassador Gerard appears to have i been too peaceful, even to suit the peace-loving Mr. Wilson. PUBLIC HALLS AND SAFETY IF there is anything lacking in the lire precautions at the Chestnut Street Auditorium or any other large or small hall in Harrisburg it ought not to be necessary for the Department of Labor and Industry, through its inspection division, to en force compliance with the acts of as sembly regulating such places. Har risburg is greatly in need of a large exhibition hall and it has been the hope of our people for some years that some enterprising- company or group of individuals would provide a great building for public purposes. As a convention city Harrisburg is especially in need of some such build ing. Several times it has been sug gsted that a great structure could be erected on Hargest Island, but it has always been opposed on the theory that the location would involve bridge tolls and difficulty of access. How ever, it ought not to be difficult to find a suitable location for a well appointed building where such large gatherings as conventions, fruit and automobile shows, athletic enter tainments and other similar events could be held with ample exits and complete precautions against tire or panic of any sort. Inasmuch as the Chestnut Street Auditorium is now the largest avail able of the larger halls of the city, the complaint which has been made by Chief Inspector Palmer upon the grounds of barred doors and in adequate exits should not compel legal proceedings to enforce better conditions. We do not think it will be necessary to invoke the law in bringing about an entirely satisfac tory condition at the auditorium. Where there is danger to human life no argument ought to be required to remedy those conditions to which attention has already been drawn in official reports to the Department of Labor and Industry. Under the act of May 3, 1909, those charged with responsibility of managing large halls are liable "for damages in case of death or personal Injury the result of fire or panic, and such actions for dam ages may be maintained by any per son now authorized by law to sue as in other cases of loss by death or in juries." About this time of year the ice man and the coal man agree upon what is a proper temperature. HOME RULE ONE of the most Interesting para graphs of Governor Brum baugh's message to the Legis lature Is that having to do with the extension of home rule to the muni cipalities of Pennsylvania. Just so long as the Legislature continues to prescribe forms of gov ernment for the cities of the Com monwealth, just so long will there be biennial squabbles over such laws and the numerous amendments there to. No government that is not home made will ever fully meet the de mands of the American people. The point is easily Illustrated. Pennsylvanlans would not for a mo ment accept a State government made for them by the gentlemen constitut ing the national government at Wash ington, and l't is no more reasonable to presume that the citizens of the sev eral cities of the Commonwealth will I be content with a uniform municipal government cut by the legislators on Capitol Hill over a pattern designed to fit all of them of a given "class" and which really fits none of them. Erie, for instance, is a maratime city, while Harrisburg is an interior manufacturing, wholesale shipping and railroad town. Yet the two, whose needs are vastly different, must willy nilly be guided by precisely the same baslo municipal government law. The Legislature could confer a great boon upon the cities and rid itself of a vast amount of needless bickering and costly legislation if it gave the voters an opportunity to change the constitution of the State so as to permit cities to frame their own charters and outline their own forms of government, always, of course, within the constitutional pro visions of the Commonwealth itself. Tom I>awson is a peculiar person; first he admits he profited by the "leak" and then he complains because there was a "leak." Germany calls them food dictators; in this country -we do not definitely de fine them in polite society. j EDITORIAL COMMENT"} Colonel Roosevelt is planning a trip to the FIJI Islands to visit the extinct volcanoes. Rirds of u feather will flock together.—Nashville Southern Lumber man. Denmark voted overwhelmingly to accept ->5,000,000 for her West Indies, not letting the fact that they aren't worth it interfere with her altruistic desire to aid the United States.—Phila delphia North American. As we started at Vera Cruz for 8 salute for the flag, and did not get it, so we went into Mexico for a bandit, and did not get him; and if Mr. Wilson can tell the country what he gained in either case beyond suspicion, ill will and contempt he would confer a great favor by so doing.—New York Sun. Ready For Emergencies [Buffalo News.] Fearless, independent, free—little Switzerland, ringed around with bel ligerents is ready for emergencies. Recognizing that the contestants in the European struggle yearn to dash across her territory to take advantage of each other, the Swiss says "Hands off!" She has served notice to all whom it may concern that she will not per mit her soli to be trampled on by the invader nor have it reddened with the blood of entente or central allies in combat. The fate of Belgium and Greece is not to be Switzerland's experience if that country can help it. And she declares she is ready to pre vent such happening and will meet any attempt of the crazy war groups to bring that about. Nor is this an idle boast of the Swiss. Switzerland has a fighting force, a real military strength, greater- than that of this country. She can raise a hundred thousand men over night. She has done so more than once. Every male from 18 years up to the limit of endurance is a soldier to be called upon in time of need. The Muddle in Chicago [Kansas City Times.] Chicago has been having trouble with its city government. The city went "broke" for the last month in the year and one of the newspapers remarked that "the city council threw the blame on the department heads, while the departments hurled the blame back upon the aldermen." On this situation it is worth while recall ing the comment of the Saturday , Evening Post which was reprinted in the Star Saturday: "Admittedly nobody in particular is responsible for government in Chi cago; nobody in particular conducts it; tho thing Just runs itself in an im pressionistic and opportunistic man ner. If the city's money has been squandered there is a mayor, a set of department heads, a comptroller and seventy or eighty aldermen—all dis claiming any responsibility on their own parts and nimbly hurling the blame elsewhere. The Mayor prom ised to close the saloons on Sunday; but when it comes to keeping them closed he points to the State's attor ney, while tho State's, attorney points to htm. Murders are disagreeably common, for which the. police blame tho courts, while tho courts blame the police. No matter what happenß, no body Is responsible; everybody can very plausibly blame somebody else," Sounds familiar, doesn't It? Pretty much every American city has had that experience, But suppose Chicago were managed by a small board of di rectors elected by the people, and sup pose the board hired the beat man they could get to run the city, Then if things wont wrong the peo ple would know whom to blame. HARRISBURG tfjfcfc TELEGRAPH IK By the Ex-Oommltteemaa A moderate course in dealing with the State administration will prob ably be adopted at the concluding ses sion of the Penrose council of war at the seashore to-day, but at the same time plans will be laid to deal in strenuous fashion with Governor Brumbaugh and his political advisers if they try to start anything during the session. The Penrose people will be prepared for warlike or diplomatic moves by the Governor and his friends and it is not going too far to say that while Penrose men will be given the preference in legislative places that the victorious faction will be ready to agree on a general legislative plan for the good of the Republican party as soon as the administration forces wish to Join. The Penrose people propose to do some Republican housecleaning of their own. Heretofore the slogan of the Governor and his political ad visers had been the reorganization of the Republican party by removing the Penroso people from control. The Penrose people, after calling public attention to what they consider sins of the Brumbaugh administration, will now launch a campaign to rejuvenate the Republican party by sending the Governor, the Vares and others to back seats. —That Senator Penrose is looking far ahead is shown by the statement made in the Philadelphia Inquirer to day to the effect that he has done more than hold a council of war at Atlantic City. The Inquirer says that the real significance of the meeting is that mv Senator launched the cam paign for Governor next year. Says tl.e Inquirer: "The Senator has taken the victory which he and his friends won in the organization of the Penn sylvania Legislature as indicating a call from the Republicans of the State for a more positive aggressive leader ship. He has called his supporters from every section of the State in council with a view to mapping out a program which shall be followed out by his friends in the Legislature and by Charles A. Snyder and Harmon M. Kephart, who were nominated and elected by his supporters as Auditor General and State Treasurer, respect ively, and who will take office next May. The presence at the conference of State Senator William C. Sproul, of Delaware county, who has been prominently mentioned for the nomi nation for the Governorship is re garded as significant." —The Philadelphia Record says that there will be a decision to-day on the attitude to take toward the State administration, one party of the Penrose men being eager for extreme measures, even to impeachment, while another favors some inquiries, allow ing the Democrats to make the noise and do the work. It is believed that a moderate course will be adopted with ins'estigations into some depart ments, such as Public Service, At torney General's, insurance and Labor and Industry. The Philadelphia Bulletin says that the first clash will come when the deficiency bills go in, while the Public Ledger says that the conservatives have the uppy hand and while favoring some discipline for the Governor do not want to en danger the next gubernatorial elec tion. The Philadelphia North Am erican, which is backing the Governor, says that Penrose will let investiga tions go just far enough to save his face and that there will be no im peachment. —Senator McNichol declared in a speech at Philadelphia that after thirty years of fighting Senator Pen rose was the leader of Pennsylvania Republicans and that he would con tinue to be. -—The Penrose people have decided to have James F. Woodward, Alle gheny; S. A. Whitaker, Chester, and Frederick Beyer, Philadelphia, look after their interests on the floor of the House. T. F. McNichol and Edwin R. Cox will look after the State ad ministration with valuable help from "Joe" Phillips, of Clearfield. George W. Williams will not get much con sideration in appointments. —Governor Brumbaugh will have appointment of the successor to Judge C. N. Brumm. —Some people who read A. Nevln Detrlch's declination of the Governor's tender of the appointment of the superlntendency of public grounds and buildings were unkind enough to-day to say that Mr. Detrlch probably sensed a hostile Senate when confirm ing time came around. < —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times in a dispatch by Walter J, Christy from Atlantic City says "The attitude Rpeaker Baldwin will show toward the Brumbaugh-Vare members of the House In the appointment of commit tees is evidenced by this remark by him to-night; "Mr, Baldwin claims to me magnanimous always, but never at the expense of his friends." This can be interpreted to mean that In thai TAFT'S WARNING TO AMERICA \ EX-PRESIDENT TAFT has broken his post-election silence to sound a word of warning to America. He emphasizes, in one of his charac teristic trade board speeches, that whatever goes up must come down. It's the bump at the end that concerns Mr. Taft and with which he is now trying to concern Americans, lie sees a scale of living set by unusually pros perous conditions, which scale, when once fixed as a family habit, is most difficult to revise downward. To the distinguished speaker's no tion there are many heartaches, much industrial confusion, some bitterness and a lot of dissatisfaction ahead in the readjustment of this country to normal world conditions after a gen eral declaration of peace. Here is the farmer, for instance, who has been averaging $1.50 per bushel for wheat during war times as against about 80 to 90 cents on an average in normal times. His cost of harvesting is practically the same. But when his undue and unsound profits per bushel again give place to those yielded in meeting the grain of other nations now at war he will feel the shock. Then the case of the American manufacturer. He has come upon years of plenty following lean years. And he, too, has run amuck. Con ditions over which he had no control have turned his head. Instead of good old-fashioned business football he has quickly learned the squeeze play and Is using his knee on his fallen oppo nent when the umpire isn't looking. In point is the example of paper manufacturers. A taste of the peak of prosperity has sent them yelping wildly and showing a suspicious foam at the mouth among their customers. Reason is thrown to the winds. Gouge, grasp, grind, garrote and grapple is selection of House chairmanships the speaker will first take care of the members who voted for him in the Republican caucus and if there are any leavings they will go to those who opposed him. As he received 95 votes and there are but 41 chairmanships, the leavings are not likely to be plenti ful. Twenty-one members who had chairmanships last session are mem bers of this Legislature. Thirteen of them voted against Mr. Baldwin, so it Is quite reasonable to predict that few, If any will have chairmanships this session. —This is the latest declaration from Speaker Baldwin: "I never favored factionalism on the floor of the House, as it interferes with wise and cool headed consideration of State affairs. I even opposed partisan controversies. The best thought of both factions and both parties should be written into the statutes and with a display of faction alism and partisanship these results are impossible. If Intense factional quarrels or partisan feeling be caused In this session it will be because of no act of mine. "It is my wish that the different de partments of the State government in form the Legislature fully as to the needs of revenue to conduct their ac tivities. The department also must satisfy the House that these branches of government are wisely and econom ically managed before the amounts re quested are agreed upon by the legis lature. In my opinion the best way to satisfy the members will be to give them complete statements of all ex penditures and results obtained in the last two years. We should also know the sources to which the revenues of the State went." —Speaker Baldwin has issued a writ for a special election in the third Schuylkill district to fill the va cancy caused by the death of B. J. Yost, who died Just before the session began. —lt is said that Senator E. H. Vare will be given his old place as chair man of the Senate municipal affairs committee. —Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, will go South for a time until the storms blow over. The Mayor Is said to be determined to stay out of any legislative rows. —legislators are taking a big inter est In the movement to get $3,600,000 for State College expansion. Tho col lege will have bills for some big ap propriations to aid its extension work. —Auditor General Powell has a boom for Judge lr. Allegheny county under way and will start his campaign after ho leaves office In May. Senator Charleß H. Kline Is also one of the possible candidates. Picketing the White House [New York Sun.] It la hard to believe that any con siderable number of the women who want the ballot will approve of the action of certain suffragists In picket ing the White House. To propose and carry out such a scheme im plies mental attributes not favorable to a proper exercise of the right to vote, Do the real suffrage leaders sanc tion this Billy and ineffective perform ance? 1 11 •JANUARY 12, 1917. their motto. Mr.' Taft may not have had them in mind in speaking of bumps, but these erstwhile sensible citizens are overripe for an appalling spill We hear a lot of hot air at election about the "protection" needed by American manufacturers. God save the mark! What they* need is protec tion against their own dam foolishness Paper-soled shoes shipped for export at three prices, shoddy instead of wool where they thought they could get away with it, newsprint paper wound on a corrugating machine so as to in duce all the wastage possible, are in dictments against money-mad captains of industry which will need explana tion in the more sober moments of normal business. In direct contrast to American meth ods is tho action of Canadian manu facturers. Confronted by labor short ages due to enlistments, targets for "® av y taxes an<l the restraining hand of militaristic control, they have re mained on their feet through it all. One of the largest chain storo retail ers of shoes in this country recently said to this column that owing to the superior quality of Canadian-made shoes at fair prices which he had learned to use during this carnival of price insanity in the United States, he would never again buy an American made shoe. Many publishers can lend the same sort of testimony as to paper supply. Canadians have had infinitely more reason to have run amuck than those on this side of the border They seem to be playing the game fairlv. And later on when some lines of in dustry in the United States are un winding the dampened handkerchief from their overindulged brows and are looking for business on its own bottom many of these things are going to be remembered.—Ernest G. Smith in Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader. OUR DAILY LAUGH I OF COURSE NOT ' Mjjk/ A^y\ How would you treat a stupid man who MJt Sb/§ Ez *W admired you? f\ I never con- Wjl \ wider a man \ stupid who ad- lg|jip|iw 111 mires me. TT V CDEFINED. / (A Bess Win V\ is a hunch? /vTW* Tom —A huncl uiK ,s t * ie • ia9CUlln < PjH equivalent o! 111 1 mr 11 ' ernlnlnC lntu * line there's a Ino wstorm I lave a good ex- suse for staying m V /jTT home from the oßyf> jif toes worth their V IDEA of coln P ar " VflH ' £Mj ing anything aa Jr 7 potato to mere | J inwelrv. cn--TO - o ATTC . Mrs. New wed —I told the new Arr eook she'd have [ to pay for all I the dishes that Z^a\ •he broke. • j Mr. Newwed .l*sW~^Tk —What did she \ / Mrs. Newwed' M —Said she'd W uJ agree to that if £ |l we'd agree to M JJ use tin plataa. iEbmttg (ttlja! The death of Col. WUliam F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," was received with re- Bret in Harrisburg, where there re side a number of men who were in timately acquainted with the famous old scout and who were proud to claim him among their friends. Among these is John S. Musser, head of the Dauphin Klectrical Supplies Company, and former president of the Rotary club. Mr. Musser was in his youth a practicing member of the bar In Nek braska and was appointed lieutenant- i colonel on the staff of tne governor of that State when Col. Cody was chief of the staff with the brevet title of gen eral. As such Mr. Musser rode with "Buffalo Bill" on Cody's last ride at the head of troops into a hostile In dian country. Directly after the battle of Wounded Knee, just over the border in South Dakota, the governor of Ne braska sent men of the National Guard headed by Cody and his staff, into the region of the uprising to reassure the settlers and let them know that the trouble was about over and the In dians dispersed. Mr. Musser vividly describes the Wounded Knee battle ground, at which Col. Cody and the staff members arrived after a hard, long ride on horseback, a few days af ter the lighting was over and just after a_ snowstorm had swept the region. Everything was desolation and death. The corpses of unburied Indians and of wrecked tepees, the bodies of dead ponies and the wreck and ruin of war were everywhere. This was the bust distinctly military duty performed by "Buffalo Bill," although he was In tho employ of the government several times thereafter in dealings with dis satislied Indians. * * * Another man who had an interesting experience with Col Cody, or rather, with the show that he headed for many years, is Charles H. Mauk, the undertaker, whose place of business at the time was at Sixth and Boyd streets. The Wild West show came here for a Sunday rest and a Monday exhibit many years ago and in tho early hours of the Sabbath a little In dian boy died in the tepee of his pa rents. Immediate burial was decided upon and "Buffalo Bill" through the undertaker generously subscribed for ground sufficient for a grave in one of the local cemeteries. Tho father and mother were permitted to select the trimmings for the casket and after they had looked with displeasure up on all the subdued colorings the under taker had to offer the mother sudden ly pulled at the sleeve of her chief and pointed brightly toward a pair of gaudy, red and yellow curtains, ami nothing would do but thev must bo used to cover tho little cofTin in which the papoose was to be laid. Fish, game and certain other articles wero to bo buried with the little one, and the parents could furnish all but tho fish. It was Sunday, the stores wero closed and the undertaker was in a quandary. Finally he was compelled to sacrifice a bowl of his own goldfish and these, embalmed, were put into the grave with the baby. The funer al was the most picturesque ever hold in Harrisburg, headed by a cowboy band, a delegation of Indians on horseback, numerous stage coaches and everybody in the show who want ed to take part. For several days af ter the show departed the parents re mained in their tepee, in sorrow, and every time the show has come back this way they have visited the little grave in the cemetery and decorated it with flowers. * * * Many old Harrisburgers who attend- * ed the first performance given by th Buffalo Bill" show in Harrisburg re call with a thrill how Col. Codv and a half dozen of his cowbovs saved the lives of a group of children threatened by a wild bull. The exhibit was given in Second street, near Hamilton, then an open field, and while the people were crowding into the entrance a bull escaped and charged the assemblage made up largely of women and chil dren. Instantly "Buffalo Bill" wheel ed his horse, dashed between tho ani mal and the people and assisted bv cowboys roped and threw the beast when it was headed directly into a group that had been cut off from safe ty. * * * Edwin W. Weber, musician, 116 South Second street, can furnish anv body interested with nianv interest ing incidents concerning the life of ••Buffalo Bill." He joined the l°£ Wild West aggregation at tho World's Fair opening at Chicago. For 21 years following the Harrisburg cor netlst was prominently identified with the Cody enterprise. His ability as a musician and attention to duty won him great favor with "Buffalo Bill " for ten years he was private messen ger for Colonel Cody and superintend ent of mail for the company. He was one of the best fellows on earth wholesouled, charitable and one of the ablest showmen that everv lived '* said Mr. Weber to-day. * * * An intimate friend of Colonel Wil liam F. Cody was Major John W. Kirk, of New Cumberland, the veteran Indian scout and Civil war veteran, now sergeant at the Soldiers' Home at Washington, D. C. When these two old soldiers met many interesting in cidents were recalled. Major Kirk very much resembled Buffalo Bill in appearance and frequently rode with Colonel Cody on parade. During Col onel Cody's army career Major Kirk had occasion to meet him frequently. * * * During the first season of the "Buf falo Bill" show abroad. Colonel Wil liam F. Cody met Marie Decca, the famous singer and former Harrisbur ger. Madame Decca was then start- Ingf her career and was appearing at concerts before the nobility in Eng land and in various parts of France. Later, when Madame Decca returned to this country and made her resi dence in Harrisburg the famous diva and her friends were guests of Col onel Cody at his big show and he in turn was entertained at dinner by her. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —A. Nevin Detrich, who was of fered the superintendency of printing, used to be editor of the Grange News, the organ of the State Grangers. —Col. H. C. Trexler, the Ailentown lumber and cement magnate, was here yesterday on his way to Chicago and declared that he was up to his eyes In business but still able to look after * National Guard matters. . —Congressman A. G. Dewalt has been elected vice-president of the Le high Bar association. . C. Fry, Rochester glass manu facturer, will head the Western Penn sylvania town's experiment In having a municipal club. ■ Archibald Johnston, who will be chairman of the Bethlehem Bridge committee, Is vice-president of the Bethlehem Steel corporation. | DO YOU KNOW "] That Dauphin county ntcl In used to erect buildings In Detroit? HISTORIC lIAKIUKIIt'KG In old days the Legislature used o meet as early as 9 o'clock In the morn ing and sit on Saturdays.
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