10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ■4 KBWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Ff untied IS3I ■ Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Bulldlua, Federal Square. E.J. Pres't 6r Edilor-in-C kief K. ©YBTER. 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 Dailies. East ern office. Avenue Building, Nw York City; Western of (ice. Story, Brooks & F:nley. People's Ch? Building, Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as s jcond class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week: by mail. 15.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY, Jn,Y 12, 1917 The saddest sight in all the world is not a grave of the dead, grievous as that might be, hut it is a grave of the liv'ng—humanity sepulchred while yet aIive. —FRANCES E. WIL- X.ARD, MAYOR MILLER SORROW for the death of Mayor Miller will not be confined to Harrisburg alone, for the late mayor was a State figure known throughout Pennsylvania as an ex pert in municipal law and generally loved for his kindly disposition and willingness to serve. After nearly a lifetime in public office Mayor Miller died without an enemy in the world, surrounds! byi a host of friends and honored by all who knew him. Active In politics for many years he nevertheless so con ducted himself that when it came to the choice of a mayor to succeed the late Dr. E. S. Meals, Republicans and Democrats alike, voted for him unanimously to fill the vacancy. Few outside of his immediate acquaint anceship knew that it was his ambi tion to round out his career as mayor of Harrisburg and that the honor re cently bestowed upon him brought llm great pleasure in his declining s *lays. Mayor Miller was not in office long enough to make many changes of administration or to outline any defi nite policy of action, but his career as city clerk was such that unques tionably he would have left his mark upon the city to the credit both of himself and the municipal ity had he lived. The city took a dis tinct step forward when Mr. Miller •was chosen as mayor. It cannot af ford to lower the standard thus set in choosing his successor. Nor is it out of place to speak of that neces sity at this time, for Mayor Miller himself would have so desired it- Kver Jealous of the good name of Harrisburg and keen to improve the municipal government. It would have been his desire to be succeeded as chief executive by a man of the highest type, both as to character and ability. The best tribute the city can pay to the memory of Ihe de parted official is to select one to sit in his chair who shall be worthy of the place. I. W. W. members are complaining because they are confined in a stock ad®, and the people at large because they think a stockade too good for them. 6HOFLD BE FORTHCOMING THE public will support the County Commissioners In any thing they may do toward put ting the Harrisburg Rifle Club on a permanent foundation. The club members have gone down deeply Into their own pockets for the estab lishment of a range and the pur chase of all the paraphernalia nec essary. A few hundred dollars are needed to place the club's grounds in condition to accommodate the large number of men who will be called upon to engage in rifle prac tice as a result of the war. A new law gives the Commissioners the right to expend money In this way. There never was a time in the his tory of the country when marksman ship meant so much. Many men will go away to the training camps en tirely ignorant of the first principles of shooting, and thousands have never been closer to a high power rifle than the curb when the Na tional Guard or the Hegulars march hy. If the men who will be called in the first draft or later can be given the advantage of home training on the ranges they will be Just that much more effective as soldiers when they reach France. Emma Goldman says she will obey the prison rules, and we think we |tnow why. AN VEXATION IT IS significant that on the day the Bethlehem# were voting al most unanimously to consolidate, tfea West sent a delega tion of representative citizens to take tip with City Council the consolida tion of the West Shore communities with H&rrlsburg. Annexation and consolidation ap pear to be in the air. Almost with out exception the Joining of adjacent communities under one government is beneficial to all concerned. Not Infrequently plane of the kind meet with violent opposition, usually re sulting from lack of understanding or conflict of selfish interests with the general welfare. Even Mr. THURSDAY EVENING, Schwab's plan for the union of the Rethlehems required ten year* to reach fruition, even though it was made plain that the Schwab inter ests would spend millions upon the community if the citiiens did their part. So West Shore people need not be discouraged if their annexation scheme does not meet with imme diate success. For one thing, it is likely that special legislation would be necessary to permit the city to annex territory In the adjoining county of Cumberland. Eventually, however, the plan will be worked out. Harrisburg, . Wormleysburg, Camp Hill, West Falrview, Lemoyne and perhaps New Cumberland and Enola, all will be parts of Greater Harrisburg. And by that time Steelton, Hlghspire, Paxtang. Rock ville, Penbrook and Progress all will be part and parcel of the city, which will rank then among the great in land municipalities of the country. Dreaming? Perhaps, but dreams are the stuff of which realities are made. Recalling the stature of Napoleon, the War Department's ruling admit ting short men to the army may be understood. SLACKERS HAVING accused Governor Brumbaugh of playing politics in naming exemption boards and hav ing been caught lying when the Gov ernor announced that they them selves had been made members of these boards, Mitchell Palmer and his pals have gone weeping like spanked children to the President, begging that they be excused from service. It is to be hoped that the President will have better judgment than to listen to their whimperings. Those who know Palmer and his pals are not surprised, Palmer and those who train with him never have been noted for their patriotism. Theirs has been the brand of politics known as "machine." They have grabbed at public office every time the chance offered, hut it was always an office that paid handsomely and to which there was attached lota of opportunity for political "pap." Never in their long history have they served the public usefully in any im portant capacity without being well paid in hard, cold cash. Now comes the Governor asking them to be members of the exemp tion boards and, of course, they don't want to serve. There Is honor aplenty, but not a cent of pay and no chance of favoring political henchmen. Hence they don't like the job. They know they will have to work long hours for nothing, with the chances of making enemies of those they do not exempt from military duty. They have been drafted for a pub lic service In connection with the war and they have tried to evade It. The President himself has said that those who won't serve under such circumstances are slackers. SUCCESS OF ROOT yLIHU ROOT, head of the Amer- H. ii *1 commission to Russia, has completed his work and he and his fellow commissioners are almost ready to return to the United States. Never did American diplomat go upon a more precarious mission, and never has any America r. statesman acquitted himself with more credit to both himself and to the nation at large. The selection of Root for the dif ficult task of bringing Russia again into the war with a firm fighting front is a commentary upon the piffle of party politics. Democrats used to say hard things of Root. No charge was too vile to be made against him. Yet when President Wilson looked about for a man to undertake at once the most delicate and the most desperate enterprise of the war, he chose Root. The con clusion is obvious. WOULD BE WORTH WHILE JOHN HODGE, member of the British parliament, writing In the New York Sun on the war situation in England, has this to say: I believe that in this country we are, in certain trades at least, on the brink of a splendid new har mony between capital and labor. May the same happy issue be reached in America, when em ployer and employed have been drawn close together through the fiery ordeal of war. If the war should produce such a result in this country, whatever suf fering and sacrifice it may entail would be well worth while. OFFICERS' TRArNTTNG GAMPS THE wonder Is that more men do not apply for commissions In the officers' training camps, especially men of military age. The places are going begging In this dis trict, although the pay Is SIOO a month, with a second lieutenancy at the end of the instruction period, which is certainly more desirable than being drafted into th|s ranks. Two more days are left in which to volunteer for this branch of the serv ice. Applications should be mado at one* fcK ""ptKKOnitfcuua By the Kx-Oo*nmlttem*n The fact that eleven of the forty five men named on the exemption boards by Governor Brumbaugh are Democrats and at least half a dozen of the others are more or less in dependent in politic* has caused con siderable sadness among Democrats who have been following the lead of A. Mitchell Palmer and his pals in the crusade agatnst everything Re publican. The announcement of the exemption lists appears to please the bulk of the people, but now Palmer is not sure whether, because he is in politics, he can answer the clar ion call to duty. ' Governor Brumbaugh has refus ed to comment upon the matter in any wpy and except to say that he all will accept has nothing to give out on the subject. His friends think that he has taught Mr. Pal mer a lesson. It is understood that Mayor Jo seph Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, has not been allowed to resign as a member of a conscription board. The Governor last night announced about thirty substitutions and it be came known that ten men had at tempted to quit, but that the Gov ernor would not accept their reasons as sufficient for relieving them from a duty which he considered that they owed their country. —Action of Democratic National I Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer in declaring that he did not think he or National Chairman Vance C. , McCormick should have been named on the exemption boards will prob ably be followed by the suggesting of some new candidates for governor next year. It is llkly that the names of Secretary of LAbor Wilson and District Attorney E. Lowry Humes will be put to the front more and more. The name of Col. Richard Coulter, Jr., of Greensburg, is also being heard again. —Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, plans to come here next week to urge action on the transit lease. The move of the Philadelphia authorl-1 ties In chasing "runners" for law yers out of City -Hall has been much commented upon. —H. H. Baish, superintendent of Altoona schools and well known here, resigned to take a course at the University of Pennsylvania. —Auditor General Charles A. Sny der was given a warm greeting by the state county commissioners' con vention at Pottsville yesterday. The Auditor General was formerly soli citor of Schuylkill county and had charge of many matters connected with county administration. He made an address to the convention. —Dr. G. A. Dilllnger, named yes terday as assistant division surgeon of the National Guard, has been ac tive in Pittsburgh politics for some time as a supporter of the Gover nor. He had a stormy career as a councilman. —Philadelphia Democrats are getting ready to make a fight for six magistracies to be filled in Philadel phia this fall. The Democrats will endorse Magistrates Borie and Eis enbrown and Republicans may ac cept them. —News that the New York Legis lature had been summoned in spe cial session to discuss food control attracted much attention at the State Capitol, but the suggestions that the Pennsylvania Legislature might be recalled was anything but popular around the Governor's office. —The idea of having county as sessors. which was discussed at the Pottsville convention yesterday, was much commented upon about the Capitol. There are many things be ing said in favor of the plan, just as there were in favor of the Dauphin- York tax receiver plan, which stir red up the Legislature. —Governor Brumbaugh is inclined to allow all appointments to vacan cies to go by the boards for the present. He is devoting himself to legislative matters. No Stalemates in the Sky In war in the air there is practi cally no defense except a superior offensive. Lloyd George, reporting to the House of Commons on the raid of last Saturday, announced that of the twenty-one German air planes which came to bomb Lon don only one was destroyed by the machines "actually protecting" the city. "Complete protection In the air," he added, "never could be se cured." French airmen, guided by the stars and the compass, have crossed the Rhine and dropped bombs among the flaming furnace chim neys of the Krupp works at Essen ■while the antiaircraft guns popped in vain. Only one foe is flt to meet an air plane; another and faster, more effi cient bird of war. The biggest fleet of the finest flying machines will dominate the air, and the loser, ousted from the sky, will be blind and helpless. "The first consideration before the government," says Lloyd George, "is to insure that the army in France is supplied sufficiently with air planes." He was talking to the House of Commons, but his words should be heeded by the government of the United States. The airplane is the quickest, cheapest weapon that the war has developed. It is the weapon of decision. There are no stalemates in the battles of the Bky. —New Tork Sun. EDITORIAL PAGE TODAY Lentz Heads Dauphin James E. Lent*, the recorder of deeds and clerk of the orphans' court of Dauphin county, came to this city with the county commis sioners and other representatives from the capital county to the com missioners' convention. They may feel assured that he will make them at home, for his many friends will be their friends during their stay here. He is as popular in this county as h Is in Dauphin, his home county, for he traveled Bchuylkill from length to length and as a com mercial traveler visited every section of the county before he became the recorder and clerk of the orphans' court of Dauphin county. One of the county commissioners is absent. He is Captain H. M. Stlne, of Co. C, Eighth Regiment, N. G. P. He is absent because of the fact that he is preparing to go with his regi ment to Europe. The delegation consists of Charles Cumbler, president of the board; his associate, Harry Wells; H. W. Qough, county controller; Philip Moyer, solicitor; E. H. Fisher, chief clerk to the commissioners, and James E. Lents, recorder of deeds and* clerk of the orphans' eourt.— Potfsville Journal.. Suggestion in "Schrecklichkeit" [From the Columbia State.] • So far the German universities hava had the fortitude to refrain from conferring the degree of D. D. ou commanders of U-boat*. HXKRIBBURG tfiSftt TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? By BRIGGS J AFTCT YOO have WORRIffD - AND VOOR GARAGE "BIU.S ( - AK\"D Vou <SET "CALLED" BV THROUGH SEVERAL Y6AR.& ' Fou GAS OIL AMD RE- "THE. COP ON JMFFEREMT WITH TV*£ UNDERWEAR C*R KNOCKS foo OOT ZSJSZ <£?Atf evew Month SWSSSK fc.cSJ"?~~ wheel Base: license - or a— /"xTt AvMO E\JER'TH/rs43 MR SINSABAOGH |MVJITE.? YOO * /"*D n TJ Akifi on a DAV AIN'T T A bR&KANU TO BUFFALO, "ROCHESTER AND GLQR - VjS VU '* llVll 0 * EDITORIAL COMMENT The hand that rocks the cradle way not figure much in the modern feminine movements, but it is the real power that holds the pantaloony element in line.—Houston Post. It would be a great help to the allies if we could train and ship over a few American cyclones for use against the Hindenburg line.—De troit Free Press. It is in part because we have to pay for it that we value the advice of a physician more than the advice of a friend.—Louisville Courier- Journal. If we catch the thought of the mayor of Newport "it appears that he ia sorry the sailors came De cause it disturbed the snugly pro- vice. From which we infer that Newport needs a new mayor.— Boston Advertiser. If it wouldn't be asking too great a sacrifice, President Wilson might call for volunteers to marrv the White House pickets.—Toledo Blade. We are beginning to regret that we have but one tomb of Washing-j ton to lend to our allies. —Grand Rapids Press. Booze Reform The senate proposal to prohibit, whisky and other distilled spirits Is a move in the right direction. We do not believe beer and light wines should be prohibited, at least for the 1 present. But we think It would be unfortunate to allow the manufac turers to raise the alcoholic content of these drinks by the addition of distilled spirits. The chief value of the proposed legislation is the opportunity to bring about booze re form, but the reform won't amount io much if wine containing 20, 30, or 40 per cent alcohol can be made and sold. The solution of the liquor problem may lie in prohibiting all ardent drinks and permitting only the sale of beverages of slight alcoholic con tent. The United States now has the chance to make the experiment. But in making the experiment con gress should take precautions not to leave any loopholes for Demon Kumi and his allVs to crawl through. The question of the disposition of distilled spirits already manufac tured is a difficult one to decide. The liquor traffic, of course, does not de serve any tender consideration, but as a matter of justice and expediency, it would probably be unwise to con fiscate the millions of gallons of liquor in storage without some com pensation. The claim is made that many banks have advanced loans on dis tilled spirits in bond. If no com pensation Is paid to enable the dis tillers to meet these loans. It is ob vious the country might suffer to some extent from the financial shock. Moreover, the United States has hith erto recognized the liquor traffic as a legal buslrfess, and we have col lected millions of dollars of taxes from it. The plea that It Is only fair to meet part of the cost en tailed by the destruction of the in dustry is logical. Our principal concern, however, is to get rid of booze and get rid of It for good.—ChicEigo Tribune. California Advice A subscriber writes to know what h can do to aid the country. He can do much. Quit cussing the gov ernment, stop knocking the army, preach patriotism and optimism and go to work and keep working.— From the San Diego Union. The Silent Fields And gladness is taken away, and Joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no sing ing, neither shall there be shouting; the treaders shall tread out no wine In their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.—lsaiah xvi: 10. Another Name An observer from an altitude can see far into the water below. The aeroplane will be known as the ftsh hawk of the war.—Washington Star. His Consolation A friend of ours went to church for the first time in two years and while he waa there a thief took his auto mobile from the church door. But everybody In town knows he went to church. From the Arkansas Gaaette. Reed and Hoover Senator Reed of Missouri, says the country never heard anything of Mr. Hoover until a few months ago. On the other hand, the country has been hearing too much of Senator Reed for a long time. —Minneapolis Trlb un GERMAN VIEWS OF OUR ARMY I THE lofty contempt for America shown by the German press will presumably change into a shout of hate, following the usual prece dent, now that our troops are in France and have the opportunity to prove to the gentle German that ours is no "contemptible little army." Writing before our army reached French soil. The Westminster Gazette attempted to explain why the Ger mans think that America doesn't count. It says: "The prospect of the appearance of America in force on the battle-fields of Europe becomes from henceforth one of the great factors of the war. When they entered upon their last campaign of frightfulness, with the certain knowledge that they would bring America in, the Germans gambled on the chance, which they believed to be a certainty, of com pelling the Allies to submit before the American effort could mature. That and nothing else, for they can never have supposed that America, roused and armed and able to send armies to Europe, would not be a most formidable addition to their enemies. Their argument was a per fectly simple one, and it was pre sented to the German people as a mathematical calculation without flaw or error. By the end of May, as the first version of it ran, Britain would be starved out and America so completely isolated from Europe that she would not even have to be con sidered, except as one more con quered enemy, in the terms of peace which would then be dictated. A for tiori, it was not necessary even to consider what steps she might take to raise an army which would J>e helplessly confined to the American continent." The submarine campaign did not j go quite as anticipated and so, The | Westminster Gazette continues: "At the end of May the mathe- J matical calculation was revised and the moment of submission and lsola j tion put forward to August or Sep ! tember. But it would be a mistake i to suppose that it has been aban doned. Having pledged their whole ! credit to it, and buoyed up their people to live through these months r in reliance on it. the German Govern -1 ment can not abandon it without the ' most disastrous loss of credit. . . . "We believe that the next import ant stage on the road to peace will be ■ reached when Germany realizes that Great Britain can not be starved into submission nor America prevented from sending a great army to | Europe. When that moment comes, we shall witness the great disillusion I of this year, and then it will be for Germany to decide whether she will i drag through another winter with the certainty of having to meet a I formidable new force with immense untouched reserves behind It, when the spring comes, or whether she will 1 And the means of bringing her rulers to reason without awaiting this de cisive test." As a sample of the sort of thing that German Journalists write about America we may cite the usually fairly sensible Kolnlsche Zeitung, which, after discussing with shouts of laughter the cabled reports of our military preparations here, remarks: "Even if the reports were con firmed, they would represent, as far as we are concerned, nothing but pure American bluff; only last sum mer the miserable course of the mo bilization against Mexico showed how little the American of to-day is in a position to produce troops fit for fighting in numbers worth mention ing. It is possible that the American Government will use the war-splrlt which it has artificially inflamed in order to make the Army bigger and CROP PEST LETTER By Prof. J. G. Sanders. State Economic Zoologist THE HORN FLY This imported pest is familiar to all stock raisers and cow own ers, but few realize the great losses in milk products resulting from the constant annoyance and nervousness of the tortured cows. The horn fly is smaller and darker In color than the biting stable fly, and It lies close among the hairs while feeding. Its habits of reproduction make It difficult to control Its multiplica tion, but absolute cleanliness about a stable both Inside and outside are helpful. Cattle should be sprayed every day lightly with some one of the fly chaser compounds on the market. Keep the barn well screened, and brush off as many files as possible, as cows are en tering the stable. These little at tentions will be repaid by in creased production of milk and fleah. more efficient, but it certainly is not thinking of its employment in the European theater of war." Maximilian Harden, however, in his Berlin Zukunst, tells his fellow journalists to stop writing this sort of nonsense. Many ooservers have wondered that Harden has not been put in jail by the Germans long ago for giving "aid and comfort to the enemy," but those who know Ger man officialdom believe that the authorities deliberately use him to say the things they dare not utter themselves. In this case he certainly says something: "The Congress of the United States, * country inhabited by 100,000,000 people, has resolved by a two-thirds' majority on universal military serv ice; by September half a million men can have been trained for the East ern or the Western front in Europe. Is it not to be taken seriously? It is only in life that everything repeats itself. 'The militia of the English Colonies with self-government do not come into account for a European theater of war. In Europe we have only to reckon with the regular army of 130,000 men which is stationed in England itself.' That is to be found, together with many other false prophecies, in the stil readable book, 'Germany and the Next War,' in which General von Bernhardi coined the ugly phrase 'holding out," put Into fresh currency the prettier but not more sensible phrase 'the free dom of the seas,' and-—this in the winter of 1911—spoke of the com plete paralysis of our overseas trade —that is to say, of 'starving out' —as the natural consequence of an Anglo- German war. As late as the autumn of 1914 the British Army WHS 'not to be taken seriously,' and now the American Army is 'not to be taken seriously.' We know the refrain, and we have no doubt that we shall hear it until we have another Arras." The editor of Zukunst pointedly asks whether it would not be wiser for the German people to recognize the gravity of a situation which faces them: 'But in addition to military service, another important plant was growing In Uncle Sam's garden. Do you think that old Herr Balfour, the most dis tinguished figure in British politics, that Herr Vlviani. that Marshal Joffre, and Deputy Tardieu, the For eign Minister of to-morrow, have risked the now difficult voyage across the Atlantic only In order to stroke President Wilson's cheeks, or to proclaim, with somewhat mcr<s weighty voice than Spring-Rice and Jusserand can do, the principles of future international Irtc and the trib unal of states? . . Is it not ultimately wiser not to repudiate with the contempt of superior arro gance everything which is new but still possible? Is it not wiser—and yet not more cowardly—seriously to consider every opportunity for the conclusion of a worthy peace?"—•' The Literary Digest for July 7. Show Devotion A number of Mobile girls have adopted the fad of branding upon their bare arms the initials of their sweethearts who are in military serv ice. The process Is said to be as painless as it is startling. It ia usu ally accomplished by the devoted one pasting courtplaster Initials of her fiance on the skin. A few trips to the Eastern Shore, where the skin is browned by the sun, completes the work and the letters of the loved one's name stand out In pure white after the plaster is removed. —Fror.i the Mobile Register. The Expiration (From the Boston Transcript) An official of the board of health In a town not far from Boston noti fied a citizen that his license to keep a cow on his premises had expired. In reply to this letter, the official received the following communica tion: "Monsieur Bord of Helt—l Jus get your notls that my licens to keep my cow has expire. I wish to inform you, M'sieur Bord of Helt, that my cow she beat you to it—she expire t'ree week ago. Much oblige. Yours with respeck. ' Pete " Turns Flanks and Epigrams (From Collier's Weekly) Galllenl, who, by loading the garrison of Paris into taxicabs and rushing them to the Marne, is said to have turned the flank of Von Kluck's army—Gen. Gallleni coined epigrams as well as he fought battles. "Don't criticise till you tan correct," was one of them. "Say what you want done, but don't say more than a man can remember," wax another. But we fancy this is what patriotic, commuters will like best: "If you've got brains, use them: if not, plant cabbages." And yet some pacifists make out that being a soldier ine vitably dull* the human mind. JULY 12, 1917. Labor Notes Attorney General Lewis ,of New York has ruled that war is not an extraordinary emergency within the meaning of the provision of the la bor law which forbids employes on state contracts to labor more than eight hours a day. The factory inspector for the Board of Public Welfare in Kansas City is making u survey of employes of stores, factories, restaurants, of fices and other places where girls and women are employed in order to get accurate lists of those who are getting a wage of $8 or less. Beginning with July 1, all govern ment employes throughout the coun try who are now getting less than $1,200 a year will receive a 10 per cent, increase in pay and all those who get more than this amount up to and including SI,BOO a year will receive 5 per cent, increase. The California State Commission on Housing and Immigration an nounces that its labor camp sanita tion department will confine its ac tivities during the summer almost exclusively to rendering assistance to farmers in erecting and maintaining sanitary and livable housing condi tions. Women and girls may he used for light farm work under the Depart ment of Agriculture's plan for en listing a volunteer work army for the harvest season. Women would be employed to feed and care for harvest hands of extra labor and to can and dry surplus perishable pro ducts. OUR DAILY LAUGH I VERT POP -1 What is youp (I favorite book? [ The material- I list: The bank \ book, of course. A NOMAD. De Roome How much does It ?ost you a week for your board and room? De Broke-—Well, some expressmen charge me $1 and oomo 75 cents. THE CIRCLE. Mr. Doughbag—When I was youi age I didn't have a dollar. Reggy Doughbag—Well, daG.when I am your age I probably won't hav a dollar. GRASPING THE IDEA. > Driving Instructor —Tou will find | that a horse will act much better If ! you keep a tight rein on him. Mrs. Hunt —Something similar to I a mi. I'take It Abetting C^ffat The two flro companies which will bo required to remove from their houses In Fourth street within the next, month because of tlio plans of the State authorities for immediate Improvement of the park extension district, have occupied their present quarters for about half a, century. In fact, there are many people living in Harrisburg who do not remember these companies In any other loca tions and the Citizen company's bell has sounded alarms for a couple of generations of people living in the central part of the city. The Citizen company, which was formed October 11, 1838, at a, meeting held in the Seven Stars hotel at Second and Chestnut streets, first had quarters in Court street near Strawberry. It is believed that this place was in the roar of the courthouse. Henry Baeder, prominent in town affairs, was its first president. It occupied that, place for years and then moved to a house located in Walnut street, between Third and Dewberry, mov ing to its present location in the middle fifties. The building: now oc cupied was erected in 1867, the first building having been a frame struc ture. The Mt. Vernon company was formed on April 5, 1858, its ffrst homo having been in Locust street near Court, about opposite the home of the HARRISBURG TELE GRAPH. It had as its first pres ident, W. C. A. I,awrence, well known for many years. It moved to its present location after the Civil War and has had a couple of very fine trucks. The predecessors of the present truck was an object of interest to firemen from many parts of the State. Perhaps the moving the companies may brine about the long discussed consolida tion of the fire department, but the company organized. like those in Philadelphia, will be maintained. Many Harrlsburgers active In the life of the city have been their members ever since organization. George D. Thorn, chief clerk of the Department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, who yesterday issued the schedule of political dates for the year, has been preparing that list for over a dozen years. Ho began it before the special session of 190S changed the political ma chinery of the State and each legis lature has forced a change. One of the odd things is that the registra tion days which used to come on the same day of the week are now all different and that Wednesday in stead of Tuesday is primary election day. • . When the Harrisbnrg Guardsmen pitch their tents on the city's island on Sunday It will he the first time since the days of Camp Curtin that the Guardsmen hero have gone into active service in camp at home. There have heen occasions such as last summer prior to the mobiliza tion at Mt. Gretna when the Guards men mobilized at their armories be fore being sent Into service. In IS9S they went from armories to Mt. Gret na. This year they will have some preliminary camp life and training before going into the cantonment point 'which the government has selected for the Keystone State men. In the Civil war Harrisburg com panies went directly to Camp Curtin. the 127 th regiment. Col. JenningrW regiment, being among those orsaji ized at that point. When the National Guard takes the field this summer to prepare for forelen service It will contain nearly 30,000 men. First and last, the division now contains between 22,000 and 23,000 and there are some ad ditional units being formed. The Guard will be the only tactical divi sion in the federal service. New York has more men but they are not In one division and Illinois does not have as many. The Pennsylvania division will' probably go into the service as a whole. The changes In the election sched ule are getting to h almost as bad as in the game and fish laws which are continually being moved around. The change of the primary one day to avoid a religious holiday has caused a rearrangement, of dates all along the line. The time for cir culating nominating petitions is con siderably less than in former years. The continual rains have caused the bass fishermen along the Sus quehanna to say things. The condi tions were just about right for fine fishing declare men who were pre paring for some good sport when the rainy period started In. There •were more fish seen hereabouts the early, part of this month than for a long time In July. After the weather man gets the kinks Ironed out there should be good llshlng, it Is declared. 1 • • • Harrisburg. always warm In its admiration for the French and the county seat of the only county in the country named for the son of the king of France, has been mak ing quite a display of the French flag in Bastile week. There will be mora flags flown today and tomorrow. ( WELL KNOWN PEOPLE " —D. J. Berry, Pittsburgh mem ber of the exemption board, la a prominent printer. —J. C. Gregg, Westmoreland county lawyer, 1B taking stepa to get road improvements made by so ing after county commissioners. —E. K. Morse, active In Pittsburgh affairs, says the business of that place is conducted in 217 acres. —Mayor Thomas B. Smith, of Phil adelphia, says that he is going to ac complish transit improvements be fore he leaves office. —Senator Penrose says he does not mind staying in Washington in hot weather. 1 DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrisburg machinists arc nt4-d for their good work anil are in demand m otner places? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first fire company was formed in Harrisburg after a big fire in 1796. Strained Relations A Milwaukee man is sutog for di vorce because his wife threw a coltee pot at him. Evidently their relations were strained. —From the Detroit Free Press. Echoes God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings - The outrage of the poor. —Emersom
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