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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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THURSDAY EVENING. 113. 1
Dare to tie true; nothing can need
a lie, a fault tchich needs it most,
grows two thereby.—Herbert.
SAVING THE COUNTY SB,OOO
SENATOR BEIDLEMAN takes a
correct view of the situation
caused by the death of City
Councilman Harry F. Bowman. Un
der the terms of the Clark act as it
stands the people of Dauphin county,
composed largely of those who own
no property in Harrisburg, who have
no interests in the city other than an
occasional trip here and who contri
bute generously to the revenues of the
county at large, would have to bear
the $6,000 exepense of electing a coun
cilman to serve nine months in Har
risburg. "How would the people of
Harrisburg like to pay $6,000 for the
election of a township supervisor to
serve only in the country districts?"
asks Senator Beidleman, putting the
shoe on the other foot, and we re
spectfully reply for everybody in Har
risburg when we say that to a man
we in the city would oppose any
such fool proposition. Now then, can
we in the city justify the expenditure
of $6,000 of the county's money for
our own purposes?
The Clark act errs in this respect as
it does in many others. It Is full of
weaknesses and this is one of them.
There is no local politics in the bill
framed by the law committee of the
Third Class City League intended to
remedy this defect and save this large
sum to the people of the county, but
if there were it would be good politics.
As Senator Beidleman says, he repre
sents the county districts as well as
those of the city and he would be
derelict to his duty did he stand idly
by and see such a vast sum of public
funds frittered away because some
body made a mistake when he framed
the law under which our city govern
ment is conducted. It would be utter
waste to throw $6,000 into the holding
of a special election. The people's
money would be spent and the expense
of re-election would- have to be re
peated next November before the new
commissioner had become accustomed
to his office.
The people of the county should
make, themselves heard on this sub
ject.
"The first of February fair and clear,
thj half of the winter will come that
year." Hurrah!
ARTHUR KING
THE death of Arthur King, founder
of the Middletown Cur Works,
removes another of the great
industrial pioneers of Pennsylvania.
Mr. King arose from the humble
position of machinist to the ownership
of a factory that sent its cars all over
the world. The rolling stock manu
factured at Middletown is carrying i
freight in Canada and South America,
in Europe and in China.
What Mr. King lacked In early
technical education he made up in
breadth of vision and practical under
standing of the numerous problems
that ever-changing conditions have
placed before the builder of railroad
equipment in the last half century.
He was a big man in every way and
the town that he placed on the in
dustrial map of the world may well
mourn his death. .
That hotel porter who.left an estate
of SIOO,OOO, must have been a most
obliging and insistent pursuer of the
agile dime.
EMUAKIIASS! N<, OF COURSE
THAT was an eminently correct
point made in the "leak" de
bate in the House, when a
member suggested that the rules com
mittee might find some embarrass
ment In going on with the Investiga
tion, since the veracity of its own
chairman had been called in question.
Such fine distinctions, however, do not
worry Democrats. Mr. Henry, of
Texas, has heretofore shown no special
delicacy of behavior, either on the
floor or in committee. A little more
than two years ago he held up Con
gress for days with his insistence that
there should be an appropriation of
government money to buy and hold
- Texas cotton; and It Is most unlikely
that his skin is any thinner now than
it was then.
State-wide prohibition Is the direct
child of opposition to local option.
AT IT AGAIN
THE literary reputation assassins
are at it again. For the mo
ment they have ceased to prove
that Bacon wrote the pluys and poems
ascribed to Shakespeare to turn their
attention to Milton, Some hitherto
unknown professor lias discovered —
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THURSDAY EVENING,
at least he thinks he has—that Mil
ton plagiarized "Paradise 1..05t" from
the writings of Joost Van Del Yondel,
a Dutch author and poet,
llow It happens that such a great
work as "Paradise Lost" should have
remained unknown or obscure in
Dutch literature until the present is
not explained. At all events, we pre
fer to stick to tradition. Milton it was
and Milton it is for us, if for no
other reason than that Milton is far
easier to remember than Joost Van
Den Vondel. His name's agiiinst him.
Have you noticed that the Demo
cratic newspapers have quit calling
Lawson hard names?
FACING WAR
THE United States is facing war
with Germany. The possibility
has become the probability.
President Wilson is on record in this
language:
t'nless the Imperial Government
should now Immediately declare
and effect an abandonment of its
F resent methods of submarine war
are asrainst passenger and freight
carrying vessels, the Government
of the Tnited States can have no
choice but to sever diplomatic re
lations with the German Empire al
together.
Now comes Germany with a declar
ation of ruthless and unrestricted sub
marine warfare. America is denied
'he freedom of the seas. Germany
presumes to tell us where our boats
may go and where they may not.
"Come across this line and we will
sink your ships and kill your citizens
without warning, whether or not they
may be on peaceful errands," in effect
is what the latest German note iays.
This puts the severance of diplomatic
relations with Germany squarely up to
the President of the United States. It
is difficult to see any other outcome
of the situation, unless the President
chooses to back down from his former
stand and shuts his eyes to the rights
of the nation and the American people
as individuals. And severance of re
lations means almost certainly partici
pation in the war at no distant date.
These are the facts and it is in this
situation and the probabilities that
confront us that the citizens of this
country are most interested. But the
causes leading up to conditions now
confronting us and the position of
Germany with respect to the United
States are worthy of note. In the
first place the announcement of the
Imperial Government that it proposes
a ruthless warfare on the seas un
questionably brands Germany as an
outlaw among the nations. It is the
last desperate enterprise of a despair
ing power. That it has the sanction
of the people of the empire shows only
how effectively the allies' blockade has
become and how keenly the German
people feel the pinch of hunger and
privation the cutting off of imports
has brought about. The broad vls
ioned German statesmen who have
been playing for peace and opposing
the ruthless use of the submarine
know how hopeless the cause of Ger
many is and that the waging of a
murderous campaign upon the seas
will do no more than stave oft the
evil day, while unquestionably It will
kill the last spark of friendship for
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Germany among the neutral nations of
the world.
The British blockade has cut off
Germany's outside food supply.
Therefore Germany, loudly proclaim
ing the inhumanity of "starving wo
men and children," proposes to do
likewise for Great Britain, but not
having the power to accomplish that
end within the accepted terms of in
ternational law, the Imperial Govern
ment plans to do it unlawfully. All
| neutrals must suffer to make Eng
land suffer. The scope of interna
tional maritime travel and trade is to
be prescribed by Germany. It is here
that the interests of the United States
and those of Germany clash so ser
iously that unless the President, by
some unforeseen and unimagined
stroke of diplomacy is able to set the
nation right before the world without
the severance of friendly relations,
must send the German ambassador
home and enter upoh a policy that
almost inevitably will bring us into
armed conflict with Germans on the
After glancing down the opening New
York quotations to-day, we are glad
that we do not own a lot of stocks.
Constantinople to-day suggests the
Kaiser for the Nobel peace prize. But
why didn't they select a more auspici
ous morning?
T>ET£TW* IK
U 'PcicKOijlcfuua
By the Ex-Commit tecmaa II
Senator Boies Penrose is quoted in
the Philadelphia Inquirer to-day as
calling the Brumbaugh administration
"a wreck" and predicting that the
probe resolution will be passed by the
Legislature and be thorough in its op
eration. From the Executive Mansion
last night came the statement that no
one had had the "temerity" to suggest
that the Governor remove Attorney
General Brown in order to avoid
the lightning. Western Pennsylvania
Democrats began to boom Colonel
Klchard Coulter, of Greengburg, as a
candidate for Governor.
The general impression is that the
Sproul resolution will be much dis
cussed in formal and Informal confer
ences the next few days In Philadel
phia, but that the efforts of some men
who have been endeavoring to get the
warring factions to agree on a pro
tocol will be unavailing. Penrose men
this morning claimed that there would
be over thirty votes for the resolution
in the Senate on Monday night, which
was disputed by administration men,
who were talking of how they had
blocked the plan and would force their
own scheme with the assistance of the
Democrats.
Some of the newspapers appear to
be just waking up to the plan to have
the Legislature take recesses to allow
the Governor to act on appropriation
bills and to permit the Investigation to
be reported upon from time to time.
—The Penrose statement to the In
quirer is one of the most terrific slams
he has given the administration and it
is interesting to no.e in connection
with it that he says he does not think
the Governor was approached to sac
rifice the Attorney General in order to
halt the investigation. The Philadel
phia North American prints a very
circumstantial story of how the Gov
ernor was approached, but it does not
square with the denial from the Man
sion.
Senator Penrose said:
"The probe will go on. There will
be no halting or compromise. If I
thought there was any doubt about
the passage of the resolution calling
for an investigation 1 would go/ to
Harrisburg and ask the privilege of
addressing the Senate and the House
in joint session. When 1 would get
through with my statements of fact I
do not believe there would be a single
member of the entire Legislature who
would have the temerity to vote
against the resolution calling for a
probe of the Brumbaugh adminis
tration.
"Of course everybody recognizes that
the Brumbaugh administration is a
wreck, anil that a logical thing would
be to get rid of Brown as salvage. You
will recall that Jonah was tossed to
the whale. The Attorney General's
department is the rottenest in the
whole administration, and should
Brown go, that would, as a matter of
course, have its effect upon the in
vestigation to some extent. Brown's
relations with the Governor have been
such that possibly the Governor may
take some time to think over a propo
sition to remove him.
"I have been informed thut the tele
phone bills and mileage used by State
employes in the several political con
tests in which the Brumbaugh admin
istration has been engaged have cost
the State not less than $50,000, and
probably this may reach SIOO,OOO for
these items alone. When the investi
gating committee shall be organized it
will be possible to get the bills for long
distance telephone calls and the names
of the parties that were called up in
the various congressional districts and
legislative districts, not only when
Brumbaugh was making a campaign
for delegates to the national conven
tion as a presidential candidate, but
in the recent effort of the adminis
tration to get control of the organ
ization of the Legislature. Factory in
spectors and other employes of various
departments of the State were sent up
and down the commonwealth osten
sibly upon public business, but actually
working on campaign schemes of the
Brumbaugh political combination."
—l,ittle concern was expressed by
Mayor Smith yesterday over the pos
sibilities that the legislature probe of
the Brumbaugh administration might
be extended to cover his own and
other municipal offices, more particu
larly his connection with the Thomas
B. Smith Company, which has exe
cuted much bonding business for the
city of Philadelphia.
"I'm not talking about anything like
that yet," said the mayor. "If I have
any statement to make, it will have to
come later," said he.
—Congressman Rowland declares in
answer to the Tobias suit to contest
the election in his district that there
was nothing to the Democratic howl
about corruption.
—Ex-Mayor Jones, of Coatesville,
having been acquitted, will now run
again. The ousting of Jones and his
trial have cost thousands of dollars.
—Third class city members are get
ting ready to secure quick action on
the city solicitors' bill to fill vacancies
in council. There is a general de
mand for it.
—Democratic members of the Leg
islature were guests of the Central
Democratic club at the annual pig
roast and there was considerable gos
sip about the attitude of the minority
in the legislature. From all that can
be learned the Democrats are going to
be strong for the probe and will vote
for it after some backing and filling
in order to get their desires on record.
In the Senate the Democratic Senators
are expected to line up for the probe
with the possible exception of one. and
in the House after an attempt to
amend the resolution so as to embody
some ideas of the ringmasters, the
Democrats will vote for the probe
rather than see it fall.
-Senator-elect William Beales, of
the Adams district, seems to be at
tracting much attention as some men
have just found out that he is still a
congressman and that he will serve
out the term for which he was elected
and then become a senator.
—The proposition of Henry A.
Bomberger to have a State conference
of "Progressives" does not seem to
be as popular with the Democratic
newspapers as the old Progressive-
Washington party used to be. The
Bomberger call for a conference with
out fixing any date says that the men
he represents will not have anything
to do with the "Old Guard" of either
party, and it Is said that they are
against the organizations In both
parties.
—Thus far nothing has been heard
from William I-'linn and the other late
proprietors of the Washington party
about the Bomberger proposition, and
it will be interesting to hear what A.
Kevin Detrlch has to say.
—From all accounts the Philadel
phia branch capitol proposition is go
ing to be a glorious memory very
soon.
IJOVE-SONGS
By Theodosia Garrison
As many songs of love there are
As graen leaves In a summer wood
While yet the autumn Is afar
And the swift rains are good.
And some leaves fall in any storm.
And some dance lightly east and
west.
But some—Ah, some cling soft and
warm
About a nest.
f—Everybody'* Magazine.
KARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
When a Feller Needs a Friend . By BRIGGS
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
OBJECTS TO LECIIUEK
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
"Avast! Cowards All!" (Falstaff)
—Shakespeare.
Last night a man came here who
lectured to the Harrisburg Natural
History Society named Frederick
Monsen, residence unknown, who, in
the course of his remarks, went out
of his way to insult his audience in a
political harangue in which he said
that the people of the United States
were "cowards." Is he one? To have
been traveling in Mexico and lectur
ing in the United States so far away
from Germany: x, as one of his hear
ers was tempied to express my dis
approbation but such an action would
not be properly appreciated by one
using his place for incivility.
He is a traveler and tells the "Tales
of a Traveler." He said that he was
a Norwegian but he promulgated pro-
German doctrines bordering upon an
archy, what in Germany they . call
Democracy, as the remedies for the
troubles in Mexico.
This country is full of German
spies'. Is he one? He is an acute
observer, exceedingly well educated,
but hates the United States with a
deadly animosity. His criticism of
President Wilson was, to my simple
mind, disloyal considering that he
was a citizen of the United States. All
said in this connection could have
been omitted as it had nothing to do
with "Mexico."
His photographic views were
exquisite and aside from his own pre
judices, his lecture was excellent; but
that defection to reflect upon his
adopted country, outrageously left a
disagreeable effect.
A HEARER.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
READY FOR
TROUBLE.
Mr. Fly: Well, ' ' ''ft
there's one con- / A/.r
lolation; I had iff J %k pti
(hat leg Insured njsl ———r
for 6,000 pump- sunjrV A
kin seeds. J Mr
*Pk 1 1 PERHAPS.
1 Justice is blind.
' A That's the rea-
I V Bon 80 many
JHy rg • \ crooks think they
} can get awy with
I.EFT WHAT?
Mrs. Smith has ft*lC~ff
a million in her
ways carries hers
tT HI S MAN
HIRES A OAR
DEN.
Have you any
perennials in your
garden ?
I don't think
, so. Are the seeds
very expensive t
GOLDEN GIRLS ARE MANY
Income Tax Is Paid by 22,000 Unmarried American
Women; Government Keeps Secret Roll of Amazons
There are twenty-two thousand un
married women in the United States
who are able to maintain homes with
out the slightest aid from mankind.
Any one of these women can choose
her husband without stopping to ask
if he can support her in the style to
which she has been accustomed.
New York city alone contains a
number of these financially independ
ent women, enough, in fact, to make a
great convention. The whole list Is
kept among the confidential records
of the collector of internal revenue of
the United States government.
He got the names as the result of
the income tax law and is forbidden to
make public any information concern
ing the Amazons of great wealth who
pay tribute for the possession of
money. If the record could be made
public, fortune hunters would find In
the schedule more valuable leads than
any other source of information
affords.
But the government carefully guards
the women from the prying eyes of
the money seeker and the roll is a
sacred secret.
In spite of the veil that is drawn
between the golden girls of the nation
and the public, the names of many of
them are known.
Miss Harriman a Hunter
There is Miss Carol A. Harriman,
daughter of the late E. H. Harriman.
She Is possibly one of the most widely
known of the millionaire bachelor
girls. She Is prominent in outdoor
sports and particularly hunting In this
country. So enthusiastic is she about
this sport that when there is no one
else to go hunting with she and her
brother, William, go out alone.
If It were necessary for Miss Harri
man to earn her own living she could
do so without much difficulty on the
concert stage, having been trained
under one of the best masters in Paris.
She is one of the heirs to the millions
left by her father.
One of the most attractive spots on
the vast Harriman estate Is the hand
some bathhouse and studio Miss Har
riman had erected for her own use.
This is her den during the summer
months.
Regardless of her wealth, beauty
and position, "Girlie" Brown, chris
tened Angelica Schuyler Brown, still
remains a bachelor girl.
She is considered one of the most
beautiful and attractive girls in so
ciety. Practically every masculine
member of the set the charming An-
The Peace League
[Kansas City Star.]
In the plan for a League to Enforce
Peace President Wilson undoubtedly has
presented to the country a lofty ideal
and one that must arouse the sym
pathetic attention of the world.
While there can be no disposition to
take snap judgment on such a momen
tous question, the Star cannot refrain
from pointing out now, as It repeatedly
has pointed out in the past, that the
practical obstacles In the way of such
a league are so great as to seem Insur
mountable.
Is the United States ready to Join in
a world organization that includes na
tions with conflicting colonial, com
mercial and racial ambitions? would it
send troops to Europe to enforce a de
cision of a world court in a matter in
which it had no concern?
Is there any reason to suppose the
European nations will rigidly llmtt
their armaments and depend for their
protection on an International force?
Will England, for instance, abandon a
good share of her navy and look to
some treaty to assure her against
starvation In the event of war?
Has the experience of the last ten
years been such as to gtve assurance
that nations will abide by treaties to
their own hurt?
Is there any reason to suppose that
FEBRUARY 1, 1917.
gelica graces has at one time or an
other laid siege to her heart, but with
out success.
Son-in-law Must Work
Miss Brown's fattier, James Brown,
has decided ideas about the right kind
of a husband for his daughter. Sev
eral of the young aspirants when in
terviewed by Papa Brown realized that
one of the essential qualifications to
become his son-in-law was an ability
and a willingness to work, if they
hoped to win "Girlie."
Miss Marion Kennedy, a daughter of
Mrs. H. Van Rensselaer Kennedy, of
Hempstead, L.ong Island, is another
golden gil. She made her debut in
1910 at one of the most beautiful
affairs of that winter.
She is one of the most widely known
exhibitors of Pomeranians at bench
shows in this country and maintains a
kennel at Hempstead which is known
throughout dogdom.
Her father was a member of the
Metropolitan Club, Coney Island
Jockey Club and the New York Yacht
Club. He left several million dollars
to Mrs. Kennedy, Miss Marion and
her sister, Miss Maud Kennedy.
Graceful Keonia Burrell is another
young woman on the income tax lists.
She is most active in outdoor life and
is identified with many of the affairs
given by society for charity. She has
been a noted exhibitor at the national
horse shows and is considered one of
the most expert equestriennes in New
York society .
And There is Miss Sears
The most widely known of all the
bachelor girls possibly is Eleanor
Sears. She has been reported engaged
time and again, but no man has been
able to win her from her bachelor
ways.
Miss Sears is an ardent poloist, ten
nis player and golfer and her fame has
traveled from her home town in Bos
ton to every quarter of the globe.
She cares little for conventions and
has frequently shocked the staid folks
of Boston's exclusive Back Bay sec
tion. She is give to wearing mannish
cut coats, split collars or stocks and,
on occasions, breeches.
In 1912 her friends announced a
"trial engagement" to Harold Vander
bilt, but up t© the present time she is
still a bachclcA- girl.
Miss Sears's latest departure from
conventionality is the building of the
biggest private garage in Boston, to
house her half-dozen motor cars. She
is known as "Bobby" to her friends.
on matters that a nation considers
really vital it will submit to arbitra
tion?
Has the history of arbitrations been
such as to create confidence In the de
cisions of International courts 011 vital
matters —recalling the fact, for in
stance, that In the matter of the dis
puted presidency the members of the
Supreme Court on the electoral com
mission lined up as partisans?
It Is an ungracious duty to point out
flaws In a proposal intended to bring in
the thousand years of peace. But such
considerations as those briefly outlined
must be taken into the account.
By no means should the United States
be committed to a policy, no matter
how idealistic, which would break down
under the actual test of experience.
Such a course would bring only hu
miliation. It would involve the fur
ther danger of causing the country to
rely for Its defense on some outside
organization Instead of on Its own re
sources.
A course Involving such momentous
consequences to the national life calls
for the fullest possible thought and dis
cussion.
Hardly Know Difference
The unionized apartment janitors
in Chicago may call a general strike.
We will watch the outcome with in
terest, being curious to know how
differently a janitor acts when on strike
from when he is ol duty.—Kansas
City Star.
Abetting Qlljat
The extent that men of foreign
birth or percentage are entering Into
the business affairs of the State is well
illustrated iu the documents that
come to the State Capitol these days.
For years the appearance of street
signs apd delivery wagons bearing
names that aro unusual in a commun
ity largely made up of descendants
of people from the British Isles and
tho Germanic nations has been noted
with interest by observers of such
things and now the names are turn
ing up in all sorts of business enter
prises. For a long time the old stock
was represented in charters and such
papers and then the Italian element
began to appear In Increasing numbers
and lately the Slavish names, the
Poles, the Greeks and the Syrians as
well as people from Scandinavia have
been found. When clerks at the
State Capitol or the courthouse strike
the names they usually ask the persons
who file the papers to presenf. type
written names so that the record can
be read by people in years to come.
When names signed in Jewish char
acters are discovered there is some
thing doing and often times the pa
pers have to be returned for typewrit
ing so that they can be entered on the
big books. The other day a list of
names was attached to a document
filed at the Capitol and every name
had to be deciphered because they
were written in one of the Balkan
languages and no one about the Hill
knew what the letters meant or how
to make English out of them. And
shortly after a charter came along
with every name signed in Greek.
Greek typewriters are not known at
the Capitol.
"I think of all the mean mornings
that 1 ever knew this morning ten
years ago was the limit. It was the
morning the Grand Opera House
burned," said a fireman to-day. "I
had not gotten lo bed when I was
called out and I got to bed the night
after. We did not think we had a big
Ore on our hands until it got started
in the old theater and it was one of
the hottest I ever knew. I don't know
what would have happened to Harris
burg if there had not been a lot of
snow on the roofs. That was a god
send."
Ex-Auditor General A. E. Sisson,
who came down from Erie yesterday
to attend to some State tax matters,
was mightily interested in legislative
gossip. Mr. Sisson was one of the
mo3t careful men about State finances
known here and his estimates and
statements were accepted as gospel.
When he went out of office everyone
threw bouquets at him. He also
served as one of the Capitol probers.
"It's about time for half a dozen
railroad men to talk about ground
hogs running around the yards," said
a weather prophet this morning. "The
railroad yard groundhog is a lirst
cousin to the Wildwood Park deer and
the Dauphin bear. It is seldom seen,
but always noted by some man of un
impeachable veracity. Jonas Gish
used to foretell the weather by the
sausage skins, but the railroad yard
groundhog who plays tag between the
puffing yard engines and hops miles
of tracks has taken Jonas' place as a
prognosticator. And I'd as soon be
lieve one as the other."
•
"Not many people are buying tur
key sandwiches now," said a restaurant
man. "I have to get turkeys ready
and believe me, they cost money, and
have them on hand for a day or so. I
have eaten more turkey to save myself
loss lately than for a long time. Tur
key sandwiches are rated at 30 to 35 $
cents and people get mad at the price.
But we can't help it."
* •
Several residents of this city will
go to Williamsporf on Friday to at
tend the meeting of the Susquehanna
Trail Association which was formed
recently to boom the improvement of
the State highways between this city .
and Elmira byway of the Susque
hanna river and the old Indian trail
north from the Lumber City. The as
sociation has been given strong sup
port in every county through which
the road would pass and State officials
favor it.
•
Opponents of universal military
training are advised to take a good
look at the Governor's Troop, indi
vidually and collectively, and if they
aren't convinced that health is oozing
from every pore, and that their stay
on the border has done them worlds
of good from a physical standpoint,
then convincing has become a dead
art.
Many and interesting are the stor
ies they tell of their experiences, but
it seems to be a source of general re
gret that they were not permitted to
see active service. Some of them, the
privates at least, who are not restrict
ed by govermental regulation from ex
pressing their own opinion on official
matters, are flrmly of the opinion that
they will be returned to Mexico within
the next six months. The withdrawal
of Pershing's forces, now daily expect
ed, will mean, in the estimation of cer
tain of the troopers, that Villa will
get control of other portions of the
country, just as he now controls the
northern territory, and the same old
mobilization of our troops will take
place again.
Eddie Roth, one of the most popu
lar members of the Troop, will leave
in a few days for Cornwall-on-the-
Itudson, w'here he has planned to take
up special study preparatory to tak- .
ing his examination for entrance to
West Point. When Eddie passes his
exams, which al.l who know him are
certain he will do, he will be a full
fledged "plebe," and will enter the
United States Military Academy on
June 16.
♦ • •
Of all the tributes paid to Samuel
Kunkel. one of Harrlsburg's best
loved men, ,who died yesterday morn
ing, perhaps the greatest came from
two boys. Mr. Kunkel's Interest in
youngsters, his many unknown bene
factions and his annual party for the
children at Reservoir park had made
him one whom the boys and girls al
ways liked to greet. Yesterday when
the news of his death became known
one lad met another near Third and
Walnut streets, and said:
"Kunkel's dead."
"The man who gave us the party?"
asked the other.
"Yep."
"Gee, better tell the fellers."
"""well known people
—Bishop Blount-Cheshire, of North j
Caroline, who is visiting In this State, T
Is an authority on Southern history.
—John M. Egan, former Pittsburgh
newspaperman and now parole officer
for the Western penitentiary, was here
yesterday on Capitol business.
-~8. J. Doyle, prominent Philadel
phian, Is working to get the World's
Salesmanship Congress for his city.
—John C. Winston, who is active in
the Philadelphia charter revision
work, is a noted publisher.
) DO YOU KNOW ]
That Harrlsburg is the center
of a dozen State highways?
HISTORIC HARRISBIRG
The flist brick buildings in Harris
burg were used for mercantile pur
pose* and the owners slept upstairs.