8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded igji Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO„ Telegraph Building, Federal Square. ;E. J. STACK POLE, Pres't & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Flnley, Fifth Avenue Building, Western office! Flnley, - s Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as s scond class matter. By carriers, ten cents a ■ week; by mail, $5.00 a year In advance. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUUE 1* I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility. — Ruskin. WEST SHORE ANNEXATION THE leaders of the West Shore Firemen's Union are men of vision. That has been demon strated almost from the day the union was organized. It is illustrated anew by the movement to bring Wormleysburg, Camp Hill and Le moyne into Harrlsburg. Some years ago there was talk of thls and a bill was presented in the Legislature giv ing permission for cities to annex territory in adjoining counties, but It failed of passage. The L T nion now comes forward to press for this merging of the suburbs with the city proper. The leaders who urge this under stand that Harrisburg should em brace all territory immediately ad jacent. Pittsburgh and Allegheny are points for comparison. The Bethlehems are about to Join forces under a recent act of Assembly. The logical thing for adjoining: communities to do is to come under] one municipal government. Concen tration of authority makes for effic iency and economy. Big cities are served better and more cheaply than small towns. The larger the city the more it is able to do for its people In the way of parks, fire protection, po lice, lights, schools and all those other things that the modern munici pality is called upon to provide in some measure for its residents. Some day Harrlsburg will extend t south as far at least as the lower end of Highspire, taking in Steelton; east to Rutherford, and annexing as well Penbrook and Progress, and north as far as the mountains. Its growth west should not be bounded by the river. Hundreds of men and women who work in Harrisburg re side along the West Shore in one or another of the thriving suburbs that have grown up there. These places should be a part of the city, and eventually will be. No harm and much good can come from such movements as that start ed by the West Shore Firemen's Union. LEGISLATORS AND LEGISLATION FINAL adjournment of the Legis lature June 28 seems assured. Any one familiar with the usual course of the sessions of the General Assembly understands that the bulk of the work Is done during the last two or three weeks and the calendars of the Senate and House are now In such shape as make easily possible finishing the real work of the session within the present month. From the Republican standpoint it is hardly necessary to suggest that the piffle of political dissension which has engaged the attention of so many of the members of both branches during the last few months should no longer be premitted to in terfere with the orderly procedure of the two bodies and the conclusion of the serious business for which tho Legislature was convened. Governor Brumbaugh has vetoed a considerable number of measures and many others have fallen by the wayside in their passage through the legislative mill. These are not re grettable incidents inasmuch as the average Legislature is too prone to increase the number of laws and to disturb all classes of people with en actments that are unnecessary and burdensome in their operation. As the present Governor and Lieu tenant Governor have said on more than one occasion, the best thing that could happen the Common wealth would be a general repeal of hundreds of statutes which cumber the records and embarrass a patient people. Too many lawyers have run riot in the Senate and House for years with all sorts of panaceas and worse. Their minds are obsessed with a desire to increase statutory regulations for one purpose or an other. A body of legislators compris ing experienced businessmen and others who have given particular at tention to the practical things of life might be a good thing for the State. Too long the hamstringing of busi ness has engaged the attention of the legislative body and the turn of the tide is about at hand. In these war times we have learn ed that the constant baiting of cor porations and manufacturer* and business generally has resulted in a serious condition which is a real menace to the public welfare. In stead of the railroads, for Instance, being prepared for the enormous traffic resulting from war prepara WEDNESDAY EVENING, tlons they are hampered In every di rection through insufficient rolling stock and other necessary equipment. The same thing applies to other ac tivities %nd the men who make our laws ought to understand that there Is a limit to all this regulation busi ness, much of It Impractical and most of It unnecessary. Under all the circumstances an early adjournment of the Legislature will be generally approved by the people. Let the necessary things be done and done quickly. FLAG DAY —O-MORROW will be Flag Day. I In a sense every day Is flag day, but to-morrow has set aside especially as an occasion upon J which to do honor to Old Glory. Har rlsburg's celebration will be simple, dlgnlflcd and altogether in keeping with the spirit of the times. Led by Harrlsburg Lodge of Elks the vari ous organizations of the city will march to Reservoir Park, where ex ercises will be held. It is worthy of note that the program has been ar ranged for the evening, so that the men who participate may not be taken from their work and the out put of office, factory and mill de creased to that extent. Never within the history of the anniversary has Flag Day meant so much. More than ever the Stars and Stripes stand for the hope of man kind and the liberty of the world. Old Glory is the flag of freedom and the emblem of democracy. It is more than a national banner: it is the standard of freedom the world around and the rallying center for millions dedicated to the perpetua tion of liberty and the overthrow of autocracy. Show your colors. Let everybody know where you stand. Put out a flag to-morrow, if it is no larger than your hand. MEN WORTH WHILE THE first commencement of the Harrisburg branch of the Whar ton School of the University of Pennsylvania was held last night. Fifty-three young men were awarded diplomas. The graduates are men worth while. For three years they have at tended school four evenings a week, studied nightly and worked during the day, most of them winning pro motions in the interval. It requires stamina of the kind that wins big things in the world to make such sacrifices. Nobody but those who have tried will understand the gruel ling labor to which these students submitted themselves. Their reward is as certain as though they had already laid hands on it. Advance ment simply cannot be denied men of their caliber. And that they are as patriotic as they are industrious and enterprising is shown by the fact that eleven members of the graduat ing class, four members of the Ju niors, and one first-year man have volunteered for various branches of the military service for the period of the war. WHALE STEAKS IF the storied visitor from the Wild and Woolly West who used to de mand "rattlesnake on toast" of the startled waiter in a New York restaurant were alive to-day the waiter might come back with the polite reply. "None to-day, sir, but we can give you a nice piece of broiler! whale steak." Wha'e steaks, we are informed, are to become a part of our war diet. We are assured that the Japanese have been living on whale meat re cently to the exclusion of beef, but then It must be remembered also that the Japs prefer rice to pota toes, and if whale Is to beef as rice Is to potatoes, then we humbly beg that we be permitted to take flank roast and brisket and let the tender, succulent whale steak go to others whose teeth are not so strong. Not that we would discourage the use of rice and whale. Far from it. But most of us are "set In our ways" and prefer broiled sirloin and potatoes even to turkey and cranberries. However, that Is no reason why whale steak should not become pop ular. There was a time when even potatoes were looked upon with sus picion and when tomatoes were gar den ornaments, masquerading under the high-sounding name of Jerusa lem apples and regarded as rank poison. So, also, there was a period when people thought they had to "learn" to like bananas and when grapefruit was regarded as utterly impossible. Indeed, reflecting further upon the dietary peculiarities of the people of the United States, one cannot doubt for a moment that In a land where sauerkraut, snlts and knep, dried apple pie, pigs' feet souse, liver sau sage and Llmburger cheese are re garded as rare tidbits of epicurean delight, whale steaks and pot roasts eventually will find their place, es pecially if the introductory price of 10 cent* a pound is maintained. ""pc&tCca UV | By the Ex-Oommlttceman Action of senatorial leaders in se lecting June 28 as the date for final adjournment and the prompt and en thusiastic manner in which the House of Representatives accepted the day is generally taken on Capitol Hill to mean differences between Governor Brumbaugh and the Pen rose people In regard to appoint ments and legislation are at least on •a way to be Ironed out. As yet no protocol has been signed, but the fact that there has been an agree ment to close up and evident- inten tion not to hamper the Governor with a mass of bills to be disposed of while the Legislature Is In session is very significant. It has been well known on Capitol Hill for some 'time that efforts were being made to secure a truce so that the Governor's appointees would be confirmed, the Penrose people be given some consideration and legis lation and appropriations arranged. The sudden change from plans to put all of the appropriation bills before the- Governor ten days before the Legislature quits and then to recess indicates that something has been oone to soothe injured feelings or else that it is not considered that the game is worth the candle. " was the intention to crowd the appropriation bills on the Gov er,n°r so that he would have to act while the legislature was in session, they would have been started out on Monday, and this fact, together with , e . Allure to make war on vetoes which have been reposing on the • able shows that some men have been coming to their senses. --There were some prophets to day who said that the Governor would not send In any appointments until the very last day of the session in spite of all expectations to the contrary. The Governor insists on 0.l of his appointments being con firmed. The Penrose people would like to have the Public Service Com missioner and Secretary of Internal Affairs. —When the resolution to adjourn on June 28 reached the House it was acted upon amid singing. The song was "Ho7ic, Sweet Home." ' The Smith resolution proposing the prohibition amendment to the state Constitution, which was re- ' ported out of committee last night, will be the biggest thing in the re mainder of the session. When the Legislature met it was said that a prohibition amendment resolution . would be passed, the idea being to have the people vote on it in 1919, but the plans were changed. Now, since local option is out of the way and "dry" sentiment is mounting, the amendment is assuming such propor tions that it is understood some of the liquor people are in favor of sending the question to the voters, fearing drastic popular movements ■ if they oppose such a proposition. —Colleagues of Senator C. W. Sones, of Willlamsport. were boost ing him to-day as a possible candi date for Governor at the Democratic primary. The senator smiled and did not say very much. Over on the House side the Central Pennsylvania Democrats were sitting up and tak ing notice of the Lycoming man as a possibility. —Philadelphia's transit hills, which have several times threatened to be come a state issue, advanced yester day following a hearing at which Mayor Smith and other men ap peared. The judiciary general com mittee of the Senate reported out the bills to the Senate and the mayor was much pleased. Senator McNlchol says he will support the bills, but does not think they will solve the problem. —Representative John M. Flynn, ranking Democratic member of the House, presided yesterday afternoon ir the Houso and received quite a hand from the members. —The Democratic "trust buster," which bears the name of Representa tive Wilson G. Sarig. the Demo cratic floorwalker in the House, is still not regarded seriously by the members, many of whom sav that they think the Fowler bill Is prefer able. However, the Democrats will roar and bo troubled over the Sarig bill and blame all the future ills of Pennsylvania on the failure to treat the handiwork of E. Lowry Humes under the name of Mr. Sarig with any degree of seriousness. —Attorney A. J. Mehring, of this city, has succeeded Edward G. Moore, of' Fayette county, as the Legislative Reference Bureau clerk in the House. Mr. Moore, who has been connected with the bureau for several years, will enter the blast furnace depart ment of the Central Iron and Steel Company of this city. He has been one of the most accommodating of officials on Capitol Hill and his many friends will wish him success. —Ex-Representative A. B. Duns more, of Tioga county, was at the Capitol yesterday to see the lesis. lators at work. Mr. Dunsmore was the sponsor fot- the State Railroad Commission bill in 1907. —One of the most significant things about the sessions of the House yesterday was the manner in which Speaker Baldwin had to call the members to attention. Once the Speaker said that he did not wish to be a pedagogue, but that owing to inattention bills were being lost and then t'me taken up In reconsidering them. The Speaker declared that listlessness was out of place when men were insisting that they wanted to finish up and go home. —The Philadelphia Ledger is of the opinion that the small council bill for Philadelphia will have a hard time as a result of the Heffernan bill's defeat yesterday. The Phila delphia Inquirer says that "no seri ous attempt" was made to get a clear line-up on the bill to take Philadel phia police and firemen out of poli tics. The Ship of State Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years. Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel. What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel. Who made each mast, and sail, and rope. What anvils rang, what hammers beat. In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tls of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Pail on. nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee; Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears. Our faith triumphant o'er our fears. Are all with three —are all with thee! —Longfellow, In "The Building of the Ship." , HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH [" r n The Days of Real Spor By BRIGGS I "all ~ Any rtP tfT~~w^RK ■ —' SUCH REMARKS" L -^f S———— -—*.—. PA S"r SQUg/M-Y ~" .. , . AMO 6TRWSHT |M r , JsS&\ Auj. w . Tmiase \ You't-u GIT , rH,a Mouie - Vou jSlfe/ X>Awe© OLD V TH A£YTH.,?Gickcr^ [ EDITORIAL COMMENT ] ! i Spain appears to be about fed upj on innocent bystandjng.—Macon Tel- j | egraph. Germany, according to reports, at- j taches no importance to our entry! into the war; many of our Congress-1 men seem to feel the same way about it.—Philadelphia Press. Lloyd George advises all the Irish factions to get together behind closed doors and decide Home Rule. Tho man who comes out will write tho constitution and be king.—Chicago Tribune. The New Russia From my window above the har bor of Vladivostock I can see, as I write, a half-billion dollars' worth of materials lying on the ground. Scores of huge godowns were filled j many months ago, end the torrent of | supplies pouring Into Vladivostok had to be emptied out along the harbor streets, in waste places, and over all the surrounding hills. The vastness of the congestion is, I sup pose, unique in the history of com merce, for from my window only a small part of the stores lying here is visible. Only eleven days have passed since the Tsar abdicated more than six thousand miles away in distance and ten days by fastest express in point of time. Perhaps a dozen Chinese watchmen are sitting sleep ily about within sight. A block away, at the corner of Vladivostok's prin cipal street, stands a slender Rus sian youth of about nineteen. I know by his uniform he is a student. He is unarmed, but about his left arm is a broad white linen band with three crimson Cyrillic characters upon It, showing him to be a mem ber of the citizens' committee. He is all that is left of Russia's notorious gendarmes find secret service sys tem. Less than a fortnight ago this student and his colleagues, evolving secretly political ideas they dared not openly express, lived in daily ap prehension of those spies and gen darmes. At any hour, without any real trial, he was in danger of being exiled for life to a place a thousand miles from a railway in the depths of the forest primeval, where the average winter temperature is the lowest in the world, not excepting the poles. To-day he is conqueror. Thefe Is a grim humor in it. He is the only officer there. —Fortier Jones in the Ju'y Metropolitan. Heinz on Food Supply The necess'.ty of personal and im mediate attention of each individual being given to the promotion of food conservation was emphasized in a warning Issued by Director He'.nz of the rood Supply Department of the Committee of Public Safety. Chair men of the local committees were urged 'o make pla'n the Individual resoonsibl'.ity wh'ch the food situa tion has o-eated. Mr. Heinz in his warning said: "Wise food ecenomy does not mean parr'mony. It dees not mean, the cutting off of food luxuries by those ' who csn afford them. On the con trary. the liberal consumption of ; food luxuries by those who can pay their price and the corresponding saving of plainer food staples, for the use of the less affluent at home and for our allies abroad, is a most intelligent kind of economy. For it is the great staple foods like wheat, for example, for which the world 1 is starving to-day. Thus, 1 "We should each personally re duce our consumption of those food commodities that are vital to the sit uation—wheat, potatoes, beef, but ter. sugar, meat. "We should moderate the use of or abstain entirely from Immature meat foods —veal. suckling pigs, squab chickens, youn lamb. etc. • "We should substitute for a part of our cereal diet in place of wheat bread; corn bread, rye bread, oat meal and rice. "We may be rationally free in the use of sea foods of all kinds, j "We should make the most lib eral use possible of the perishable [ foods—summer vegetables, fruits, etc. , "We must learn to avoid the waste that to-day makes the American garbage can a reproach to the Amer . lean family." i fce Careful Not to Hate Hate not the sinner, but the sin, The<crtmes by which he seeks to win, The Belgian slavery and rape, France, torn by beasts in human shape, , The Serb destroyed with fell Intent, The drowning of the innocent, The slaughtered sick, tho murdered nurse. The handless babes, aye even worse. Then taking from the German soul The sum of this appalling whole, It should not prove a heavy strain ' To love whatever may remain, i M. LANDBURGH WILSON. FALSE ECONOMY WILL BREED DEPRESSION AND DISASTER - By SENATOR PAUL. O. HURTING, of Wisconsin WE are at war with a powerful enemy. The President has advised economy and the elimination of waste. We are notor iously a wasteful people and we are charged with being an extravagant people. The President and the heads | of departments have recommended | the elimination of waste and the | practice of economy. This recom mendation was made to initiate a concerted nation-wide effort for the husbanding of our country's re sources for the purposes of the war. (These I will term necessaries for the purpose of this letter.) It is obvious that in order to win this war we must conserve the neces saries for the use of our armed forces and those of our allies and for our home consumption. Of course, no one will have the temerity to advise extravagance and waste at any time and particularly at a time like this. The poor we have always with us and waste is a sin against humanity because it deprives human kind of tho usp of that which is wasted or destroyed. Extravagance, however, is a rela tive term. What would be extrava gance in the case of a man with very limited means might not be extravagance at all on the part of one having unlimited means. So that when the people of the country are asked to economise, it, of course, must be interpreted as meaning to economize according to their means and, in this war, with particular re spect to necessaries. Primarily, then, the object of eco nomy in this war is to have our peo ple generally conserve as far as pos sible the necessaries which our peo ple, our armed forces and those of our allies imperatively require and without which we can neither be | successful in the war abroad or maintain contentment and tranquil lity at home. On the other hand, the people of the country cannot concertedly and completely change their habits of living without bringing disaster upon tfto Business and Industries of the country and upon the business world generally and the consequent disaster to our peoole which would follow in its train. Consequently, the enonomy we should practice should be a wise, intelligent and discriminating econo my. It is this sort of economy which I feel quite sure the President and others are advocating. Mistaken Economy Now, it has come to my atten tion that all over the United States zealous and patriotic men and wo men, in the belief that they are pro moting the best interests of the country and in a praise-worthy at tempt to join in the nation-wide movement for economy as recom mended. are cutting out the use of everything but necessaries and are new eating, and wearing and using the bare necessaries of life In the patriotic belief that they are pro moting the best interests of the coun try and are thereby doing their'"bit" byway of sacrifice to prove their devot'on to their country. But the net result of this move ment, however praiseworthy In pur pose, instead of alleviating the con ditions, can, of course, only aggra vate them. To illustrate: The supply of neces saries is limited and, moreover, lfj short of the amount required. There is not enough, or barely enough now. to supply our people, our army and navy and our allies with the things that they must have. Now, of course, if all of our people abandon the use of everything except neces saries, the drain and drive upon the supply of necessaries will bo greatly Increased. For Instance, If sudden ly all of the people of the United States should resolve to live on nothing but the plainest of foods such as meat and potatoes and bread and butter, there would not be enough to go around and the keen est distress and suffering would fol low. Again, If suddenly all of our women and men should decide to wear only the plainest fabrics, there would not be enough calicos and de nims and khakis to go around and our people of modest means and the government would be unable to pur chase the necessaries Imperatively needed. While this, of course, might result In reducing the high coat of living to individuals of ample means, it Is quite clear that it would at the same time Intolerably raise the cost ; of living to the people and tho gov i ernment; and the worst and most fatal of all. it would deprive them fit the means of living and fighting. Draw Mildly on Supply This leads me to observe that true economy under war exigencies would bo best subserved by those who can afford it to draw mildly upon this supply and to try to satisfy their needs as much as possible from sup plies not. coming within the category of necessities. The greater the diversity in the use of foodstuffs, wearing apparel and, in short, of everything not within the term ne cessities, the more obviously will the demand and the drive upon the nec essaries be relieved; and the more plentiful, the cheaper and the more easily available will be the supply of necessaries for the wage-earners and the government, and the more plentiful and the more easily avail able, and, therefore, the cheaper will be the supply of necessaries required by the government for the exigen cies of the war. Collateral Benefit Then there is another collateral beneficent result which follows from such a nonuse of necessaries and that is the necessary resulting pur chase and consumption of articles not embraced within the term nec essaries. That is to say, not only does the use of a diversity of food stuffs and wearing apparel relieve the fierce demand on neceraarles, but It keeps all business engaged in other lines going, and business keeps the factories, fields and mines go ing. These, In turn, keep men going, and this brings wages and the ability to purchase the necessaries required by them. It increases the available supply of necessaries and reduces the high cost of living. In other words, such economy means little, if any, dislocation or interruption of the industrial or business machinery of the country or Impairment of our domestic prosperity. The sinews of war must come in large part from the tax on business profits and the incomes which flow therefrom to in dividuals. It would be a short sighted economy which would de stroy or seriously impair business or industrial prosperity and thus dry up the spring from which the reve nues flow. As I see it then, a wise, intelligent I and discriminating economy at this I time consists, first, in the elimination of all waste, especially in the use of necessaries; second, in the very spar ing and economic, use of necessaries: third, in the practice on the part of those possessed of ample means to try to satisfy their needs and wants os much as possible from things other than necessaries, using neces saries only when a fair substitute is wanting. Thus, by a practice of wise, in telligent and discriminating economy there will be necessaries • enough to go around; our government will have sufficient of everything needed to supply our armed forces and those of our allies; will enjoy contentment and tranquillity at home; and last and most important of all. our gov ernment, backed by a united people, may concentrate its thought and its energies on tho common purpose and against the common enemy. From a Prison Cell The boys' choir of St. John's Or phan Asylum, Philadelphia, sang for the prisoners at the Eastern Peni tentiary a couple of Sundays ago, and inspired B 8266 to send to the Cath olic Standard &nd Times a poem of appreciation, of which these are the closing lines: O glad note! and gay note! There's a smile behind the tears, There's the boy's heart still In the most of us Persisting through the years. The dreams of our youth are with us still, The shining goal is just over the hill, Some day we'll reach it, if God so will, And we be true to the best in us. O golden lads! and happy lads, Whate'er the swift years bring, God grant you never know such shame. As ours to whom you sing: May you ne'er falter In the fight, I : May you ne'er choose aught but the right. Keep your faces to the light, And—sing for us again. The SIOO Bond It has been carefully estimated that the proceeds of one SIOO Liberty Loan Bond will fully clothe, arm, and equip one American soldier. Each purchaser of a Liberty Loan Bond for SIOO may feel that his or her money is doing its Individual part In tho arming and equipping of one of our country's soldiers. To some who wish that they could actively serve their country in tho field but who have been denied this privilege this gives a specific, tangible nature to an Investment in a Liberty Loan Bon<L , JUNE 13, 1917. Labor Notes [ Connecticut State Senate hns re jected a proposal to limit the hours of worklngwomen and minors to eight hours a day. Texas Is trying to sell its State Iron ore beds, which cost $1,000,000, and have for twenty years been op erated at a loss by convict labor. Detroit Bakers' Union has added four shops to the union roll, raised wages $4 a week and increased over time rates from 46 to 75 cents an hour. Coal miners in the coal fields of Al berta and British Columbia demand a 30 per cent, wage increase and a general eight-hour day. British munition workers are en rolled as munition volunteers and are assigned by the Government to vari ous parts of England. The highest wages of the district they left or in which they are now employed are paid. Dock workers are enrolled in the army as civilians, and wear the Brit ish uniform. These workers must he long to the union, and are mobilized for the purpose of unloading cargoes in any section the Government elects. 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH OUT or STYLE. -■ ? V Wife What Wi)" jlQg&t) has become of the old fash loned kids who J® \|l /TT'ill are taught that $2 : , Sli children should flj be ieen and not Q3L ■ 5S Husband: ifiC They are all in the deaf and dumb asylums, " tNOVELTT ENDED. She —I wish ; the war waa we've only been •weeks or so. She —I know. But I'm tired of ' Seems to me Hi ii TT 1 It would be a XI 11 I big saving If iii>- > I doctors would I? 4/ ; ■ prescribe Jurt /fjj J r about half the Ug-ASM'xl j juantlty they e HOW SHE i Didn't Jack ' What! Did °W' I y° u hear me BC,eam ' 1 No " 1 heard I* i \I y ° U Utt6r * Cry P~y ! sCW *1 , /i is money. '/jSaPMj Gentleman of :^ f Leisure—l shall /. f| be happy to 4m3B* take It in that ifIBSL form, air. ] £b?ntitg Gttptllj „„ Pen l sy,vanla railroad baseball :?™ s ,? av ® taken to the east side of crnimi °? o,' or their diamonds. The nMr Slx . th and Division streets, tho on . an ' B Woods, which were have hofw v Son 2° very hot contests, JinrffJ , abandoned to the coming road m n i lO arena and the ral1 " mondniotH ha y e taken to two dla- Thesn °V l neftr W.lldwood Park, games K a n nrc weU adapted for being near thl* the advantage of and thiw.Jf..' company property dkmnrfd h SP k rk system. Another Cumber nnd ," een lald ° u near creek in c .?® 1 and the Paxton creeK. in South Harrlsburcr thr are not as many baseball grounds as lnz thT£J\ hC - ,he 'arge![ now b" tng the old Susquehanna field The used'to "h A i aßcha " Itamonds which used to bo so nunieroun alonir ("am saw amf' '! av<! KOne tt.e waTof the saw Mill diamond of thirty vears hn ™ Harris Park diamond i! i § 0 jnto local history. Front and Second street lots which used to be In the old Sixth and in the Tenth and the'® £57 Co Y ered with houses lwrvwn f alonK Reglna and Berryhlll streets are now plain city. The cow fields, as the Forster es tate meadows on the east side of Cameron street, between State and Herr streets used to be called, are occupied by the Harrisburg Railway Company and other corpo ration buildings, and as for the old Sixth street ball park it Is as much a memory as the fair" grounds that used to be out Third street, which also had a baseball grounds years and years ago. Union Square still has a famous baseball field and there was another in Thirteenth 'I" 11 ran through to Crescent while there was until a year or so ago a diamond at Nineteenth and Greenwood. Far back, when baseball was just blooming, there used to be diamonds In sections of Harrls imrg which are now decidedly well built up. • • Pennsylvania's action on the bill to suspend the full crew act during the war is being watched with con siderable Interest all over the coun try. This is a typical industrial State and the legislators have been much addressed on the subject. In some instances men have been waited upon by committees at home. How ever, there has been nothing this year to compare with the strenuous times of two years ago when the legislators got mail by the bale and some were so loaded down with ap peals to vote one way or the other on the measure that they could not read it all. • * Roses and peonies are both fate this year, but they seem to be mak ing up for lost time in the beauty and number of the blooms. Roses are numerous in Harrisburg and it would seem as though the bushes were trying to make up for their tardiness by unusually large and fragrant blossoms. And as for the peonies they were never more beau tiful than now. They are cheap, ton, and are being sold all over the city In large quantities. * o "Mel" James, of the William Penn Highway, and the youngster he calls "the heir," were out beyond Rellevue Park Sunday and encountered a hill side covered with wild strawberries. When the secretary had his hat filled, a little old man came along and eyed him with a. CUHOUR eye. "You've got your nerve," said the little old man. "Do you own'this lot?" asked the strawberry picker pugnaciously. "Nope," said the old man. "But you've been messing around in poison ivy for the last half hour." There may be another instalment of this story. Ivy poisoning doesn't develop as it is capable of develop ing for 48 or 72 hours. • • The bass season opens Friday and large numbers of Harrisburg fisher men will be on the river and along the streams despite the fact that the recent rains have made the water high and caused the river and creeks to be muddy. Word comes from the Juniata that while the water is fall ing steadily, some of the valleys from which flow the creeks that feed the little river have had hard showers the past few nights and are still in anything but good fishing condition. The Susquehanna is in about the same condition and will, not be ill shape for bass or salmon fishing for some time. However, some cheer ing news comes down from the head waters of Sherman's creek, Tusca rora creek and other streams of that size to the effect that in the upper reaches of those waters the mud is passing out rapidly and if no more rain falls Friday may find them in better condition than on opening day for some years. Fishermen are hop ing that the bass, seeking clear water, will keep on moving' up stream. • • • The bait question is also one for serious consideration. It is not be lieved that the local dealers will have enough to go around, so many men want to go out. and although a large number of "stone-rollers" will be brought in, early orders with the bait dealers show no sign of a letup. Many Harrisburg fishermen no longer use live bait. Flies are the favorites of some, but the artificial minnow, the silver shiner and the painted "plug" of a dozen different designs all have their admirers. Some of the biggest bass brought to Harrisburg last summer were taken from the smaller creeks near by by anglers who waded in hip boots and used "plugs" to lure the "whales" from their hiding places. * * * James S. Reacom, Greensburg law yer. who was here yesterday, used to be State Treasurer and a member of the legislature. He says he likes to come here to see the legislators work. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —Gorge Wharton Pepper, chair man of the Public Safety Commit tee. is prominent In tho baseball liti gation in the Philadelphia courts. —James F. Woodward, chairman of the House appropriations commit tee, is serving his third term in that office. —Judge John W. Kephart, of the Superior Court, who was here yester day, is the youngest man to hold a place on that court. —Director W. P. Wilson, of th® Philadelphia museums, says that be cause of the war some American merchants may lose their export trade by not pushing it. —J. Dawson Callery, the Pitts burgh traction expert, has been re elected head of the Pittsburgh Rail ways Company. —Professor D. W. Amram, of the University of Pennsylvania, has been elected one of the delegates to the American Jewish Congress at Wash ington. —General Frank Mclntyre, United States Army, has been made a dxw tor of laws by Villanova College. He is the military news censor. | do yoTT"cnow That Harrlsburg's bond cam paign has waked up the state? HISTORIC HARRISBURG People at this place built raft* to handle provisions for the armv in the Revolution.
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