8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR TUB HONS Founded iSji Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telcgnph Building, Federal Square. B.J. STACKPOLE,/>r* &■ Editor-in-Chief B\ R. OTSTKR, Business Manager. BUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news credited to It or not other wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. j. Member American Bureau of Clrcu fSl jj jjgjjg ht Eastern office, liifi m Avenue Building, Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. tfliyyia . By carriers, ten cents a aßffiKsuEp3E week; by mail, J5.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28 j Lord, for to-morrow an it its needs 1 do not pray; Keep me from, stain of sin, just for j to-day; Let me no wrong or idle word un thinking say; Bet thou a seal upon my lips just for to-day. — CANON WII.BEBFOBCE. BOYS OX THE JOB NOTHING has been more im pressive regarding the possi bilities of boy labor in this country than official reports of the garden and fruit farms during the i last few days. Right here in Har- j risburg over seven thousand dollars worth of food has been raised on va- | cant lots through the activities of the Chamber of Commerce, exclusive of the thousands of bushels of po tatoes and other vegetables which have been produced by school chil dren and individuals throughout the city. So important is this development of labor among those who are not old enough to go to the defense of the country at the front that the na tional government, through properly organized agencies, is now mobiliz ing the boys between the ages of 18 and 21. Many younger boys are also aiding in this conservation move ment. Thousands of bushels of fruits would have been absolutely j lost th* year had it not been for the j boys organized in camps by those j competent to get the best results j from their labor. It is for this reason that the Y. i M. C. A. in Harrisburg is being ■ placed upon a good working basis to the end that the boys and young | men of this community may be given opportunity to make the bestj use of their energies in this time ( of national crisis. Without much flare of trumpets the directors of the big institution at Second and Lo cust streets are quietly going ahead with the working out of a budget that will insure increased equipment and facilities for the development of the boys of Harrisburg. If you are at all interested in this work, the Telegraph suggests that you get into touch with the secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and do your bit in this direction. Just when enlarged equipment and up-to-date facilities are most needed the railroads of the United States are crimped as a result of a prolonged policy of governmental regulation. But just the same, the Atterburys and the Lovetts and the other big railroad men are giving Uncle Sam the bene fit of their long experience in solving the tremendous transportation prob lems which now confront the nation. *'6ur railroads and their employes now have an opportunity to show what they can do for their country in a great emergency," is the way one of the railroad heads stated the case. OUR OWN CIVIC CENTER WHEN a civic center Is prac tically presented v to a city as Is now being done by the State in the case of Harrisburg It would seem that all in official po sition would gladly co-operate in working out the details of such a movement insofar as they relate to the city itself. Just naturally, the city Is going to erect upon the streets fronting Cap itol Park plaza the Important build ings which will from time to time be constructed for publlo purposes. Already we have the Technical High School, the Y. W. C. A., the Federal building and the cathedral of the Scottish Rite bodies on streets abut ting on the Capitol grounds. Should any argument be necessary to con vince the school directors who now have the question under considera tion as to the availability of the pro posed site on North stret for the new high school building? No more at tractive park can be imagined than the stretch which will be created east of the Capitol. It would con- TUESDAY EVENING. stitute of Itself a campus without I price for the students who attend the Technical High School and those who should he permitted to attend the High School on North street. To place the new educational In stitution at Front and Boas streets would be a lamentable mistake for more reasons than ono. Primarily, It Is on the edge of the city and Inconvenient for many who in the nature of the case would be required to attend the Girls' High School. The North street site would be easily ac cessible for the Allison Hill district as well as the other sections of the city through street railway connec tions. May we not hope that the gentle men of the School Board will give this matter most serious considera tion before reaching any conclusion? The first cost is not the most im portant item in this situation. Athletics in our schools and all educational Institutions will hereafter take the form in part, at least, of military training. Most of our boys would be the better for It. OUR VISITORS •y-_- ARRISBURG welcomes to-day IXX delegates to the annual con vention of the Third-Class City League. Harrisburg always wel comes representatives of good gov ernment, whoever they may be, but It feels that those who come to-day I are very near to It, Indeed. They j have for their purpose the better- I ment of conditions in all the third | class cities of the State, of which I this is one. The league has done much good work since its inception. Many laws of great benefit to the people have been written on the statute books of the Commonwealth as a result of its efforts. But there is much yet to do. Harrisburg has fared as fortunately, perhaps, as any city in Pennsylvania under the laws as they have been laid down. But the results aro not satisfactory. That being true, either the league must advocate a change of laws or it should show us how the laws as they exist may be ad ministered more to the advantage of the people. It is In the hope that something along this line may be accomplished at this meeting that the people of this city will w r atch the proceedings with interest. Harrisburg is keen to improve itself. It has always be lieved in expert advice. The league delegates are the experts in this case. We hope they will stay long and come again. The hospitality of the city is theirs. The word welcome is written large on the doormat and the city fathers have seen to it that the fatted calf has been ceremoniously j slaughtered and made ready for 'the j feast. DOWN WITH THE BEAST IF nothing else had been accom plished by the Pope's communi cation, it has at least centered the thought of all nations on the ] issues of the war, bringing out, as , some one has suggested, "in clearest ■ light the impossibility of any well being for the world, until a repe- j 1 tition of the attempt for autocratic 11 domination of all nationalities by : one central power has been made > impossible. And the conviction has become more certain than ever, that this can be accomplished only by completely crushing the power I which, in the era of the world's [ highest civilization, has marshaled a mighty military force for the ' waging of uncivilized and brutal war fare to bring the whole world under Its yoke." Whether the war ends to-morrow 1 or next year, one thing is certain— the world will never be the same un- | til Prussianism shall have perished forever. "RESTITUTION" DR. HENRY VANDYKE, former minister to the Netherlands, is one of those who believes we should dwell especially upon "resti- < tutlon" in all discussion of peace terms with German. He is entirely willing that "annexation" and "in demnities" should be dropped, but "restitution" strikes him as about the most appropriate word to cover the ground when we reach a settle ment. Another writer on the same subject says: That means, return of all that has been stolen and destroyed, and with a penalty for damages to put the condition back, as far as money and property can do it, where it was before the pillage and destruction began. Restitu tion: to restore —"the act of re storing anything to its rightful owner or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage or injury that offered In return for what has been lost. Injured or de strayed; indemnification, repara tion; amonds." Rostitutlon In Its broadest sense Is what Justice de mands of Germany, not In any .-spirit of hate or vindlctlvmess. which Is, however, well Justified but In calm, impartial Judgment of the right and the wrong of the matter. "Restitution" Is the proper word. II [1 Ck LKKQIfIcCIKUI By the Ex-Committeeman State Senator William Wallace Smith, from the Eighth district, com prising northeastern wards of Phila delphia, died late yesterday after noon at the Jefferson Hospital, fol lowing two operations for a chronic throat attection. He had been at the hospital nearly three weeks, during which time Mrs. Smith had remained at his bedside almost constantly. The Senator was the son of Wil liam B. Smith, a former Mayor of Philadelphia. He was born in Phila delphia, April 6, 1871, was educated in the public schools of the city and was graduated from Nazareth Hall Academy in 1887, when he entered the employ of J. B. Shannon & Sons, hardware merchants. From 18S9 to 1899 he was with the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company. He was a professional baseball umpire with the National League clubs in 1599 and 1900. It was In 190 X that he became as sociated with his father-in-law, Thomas Johnson, in the business of printing specialties for the textile trade, to the management of which he succeeded in 1905. He was president of the Lynwood Manufacturing Company and enlisted In Company A, First Regiment, N. Q. P., in June, 188S, and served as pri vate until October, 18S9, when he was elected second lieutenant of Company C, Third Regiment Infan try, and in February, 1890, was elect ed captain of Company G, Third Regiment Infantry, from which he rwdcntd in September, 1592. Ke was a member of all Masonic bodies and other patriotic, fraternal and trade organizations and political clubs to the number of forty-seven. He served one term on the Phila delphia School Board, Twenty-eighth district, and for twenty-one years as a member of the Twenty-eighth. Thirty-eighth and Forty-third ward Republican executive committees. He was elected to the State Senate in November, 1914. Ex-Judso John W. Blttenger, 82 years old, of York, died at liis home last evening, after a three weeks' sickness of chronic nephritis. He served on the York county bench twenty-one years, having first been appointed to the office in 1890 by Governor Beaver, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge John Gibson. Ho was elected twice to the office by the Democratic party. —Charles E. Pass, who will be nominated for prothonotary on the Republican ticket, without opposi tion, is nevertheless making a sys tematic canvass of the county. He was once elected poor director by the largest vote ever given a candidate for that office in Dauphin county. —Joseph H. Haines, who is a can didate for poor director on the Re publican ticket, is blind. —Reports from Lebanon country are that conditions there are bright for the success of the whole Repub lican ticket by large majorities the coming November. —Thomas Hughes and John Hays have retired from the race for may or of Scranton. —There will be two candidates for District Attorney on the Republican ticket in Venango county—Lee A. McCracken, of Oil City, the incum bent, and A. B. Jobson, of Franklin. The same men were candidates four years ago. —President Luther J. Schroeder, of the Columbia School Board has been named by the Republicans as their candidate for tax colfector and will have as his opponent Frank J. Haberstroh, a Democrat, and the present incumbent. Annual River Fete at Tokio Several of the Toklo journals crit cise the manner in which newly rich Japanese are spending their money. Especial mention is made of the annual celebration on the Kawabtrakl festival along the Su mida river, which separates the two parts of the capital. Jollity centers about the RyogoUu bridge over the Sumida, but both banks of the river are brightly illuminated and the stream is filled with boats, all deco rated with brnting and lights. The celebration this year, July 21, exceded in brilliancy previous occa. sions. All rooms In the restaurants for miles along the river were en gaged ten days ahead, which never has been the case before. The Japan Advertiser, describing the event, de nounces the extravagance indulged in by the "narikin" (get-rich-qulcks) at a time when the people of the country are complaining of the in creased cost of living. "It merely attests the prosperity of a certain class," says the editor, "and is not a wholesome exhibition to the masses of the people. As it were an auction sale, one man of the 'narikin' class secured a large number of rooms In several restaurants at a high price. Thereafter, another specimen of the newly-rich offered better terms and the restaurant keepers closed with him. This led to controversy that was not pleasant for other patrons. Some of these persons had as many as seven or eight boats on the river, made vary prominent by fireworks. Along the river banks, for miles on both sides of the historic bridge, an immense throng of n>cn, women and children assembled to see the fire works and the gaily lighted barges, many having music aboard. Most of the people thought they were en- Joying themselves; but when they got home, very late at night, and dreadfully tired, they wondered why they had gone to the Kawabiraki." Bathless Berlin Berlin, ruthless for threo years, gasless for some days, is now, it ap pears, to be bathless. The list of things verboten and curtailed Is al ready long. The prohibition of bath ing in the home, to save water and fuel, will not entail the Buffering a shortage In foodstuffs and various other commodities means. The Ger man who practices total immersion nowadays generally does so not In a bathtub, but In a boat. The German stlH has much to learn in this way of personal ablution from his cleanly ally the Turk, with whom cleanliness Is not merely next to godliness, but an Integral part of the religious ritual. The German vapor bath has proved, however, a uerul innovation, and It has been found possible to use the surplus product In State docu ments. Though It Is a crime to bathe within doors, Germany still has the River Rhine. But the derogatory verse is recalled. "The River Rhine, as Is well konwn, Doth wash the City of Cologne; Tell mo henceforth, ye nymphs di vine. What power shall wash the River Rhine?" Those who still persist in the use of the matutinal tub might go to Bulgaria, where the people get up at dawn to patronize the great mu nicipal bathhouse in feofia. There would be a further saving of soap and water if Berlin would forbear to wash dirty linen In public.—Phila delphia Public Ledger. HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT ... ... EDITORIAL COMMENT "Stockholm!" cry the Socialists. "Stick home," their governments all reply.—New York Sun. America only entered the war to deprive Germany of victory.—Frank furter Zeitung. It is a delight to quote from a German newspaper an exact statement of fact.—Syracuse Post-Standard. t The Louisville chap who, when drafted, threw out his chest and cried to the crowd: "God help the Germans: they have drawn me!" gave the best keynote to the country. —Memphis Commercial Appeal. SirKe at the very outset the Pre mier of France has shown Michaelis to be a liar and a Russian minister shows he is a falsifier, it becomes evident that Michaelis is the sort of chancellor the Kaiser and the Crown Prince have been looking for all these years.—Kansas City Star. Doubless he has heard that there is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip, but it seems difficult to con vince the Kaiser that his cup has al ready slipt.—Kansas City Star. Governor Ferguson, of Texas, who has been Indicted, and now faces im peachment, has just announced his candidacy for another term. It seems to be all over but the inauguration. —Boston Transcript. Loyal Navy Yard Men The disloyal attempt to delay war preparations through a shipbuilding strike has failed. The address of the men employed In the League Island Navy Yard to the Secretary of the Navy is a manifesto of true pa triotism:- "We desire by our example to stimulate all others to the fullest performance of their duty to the country at this time. We promise to stand by you shoulder to shoulder in carrying out measures for the de velopment of our navy. • • We promise to notify our superiors of any Indication of disloyalty on the part of any employe working for the government. * • * With the full est confidence that our country is in the right in this war. and relying cn the wisdom of President Wilson, we earnestly pray for a speedy suc cess for our cause and we pledge you by our work to do our full share to ward the victory which will ulti mately be ours." So every honest citizen feels. The men in the navy yards are doing work of as great value to our cause as the soldiers can do. So are the men in all the Shipyards. So is every mechanical worker whose services in his trade exempt him from the mili tary draft. —New York Times. Effect of War on Morals It is said that.so much war is making hard the hearts and con sciences of the people, and we are about ready to accept that statement as an absolute truth, in the light of our own experience. Wo notice of late that we can cat as well and sleep as soundly after feeding a pound or so of Paris green to the gentle potato bug 3 is we could if we had fed them on waffles and put them In the best bed in the house.— Liberty Press. Little Herbie Hoover Little Herbie Hoover's come to our house to stay, To make us scrape the dishes clean, an' keep the crumbs away. An' learn us to make war-bread, an' save up all the grease. For the less we eat of butter, the sooner we'll have reace. An' all us other chil'ren, when our scanty meals is done, We gather up around the Are an' has the mortest fun A-listenln' to the proteins that Her bie tell) about. An' the Calories that git you Ef you don't watch out! An' little Herbie Hoover says, when the fire burns low. An' the vitamines are croepin' from tho shadows, sof' an' slow. You better eat the things the Food ray they's plenty of An' cheat the garbage pall, an' gi\e all butcher's meat tho sho* e, An* gobble up the corn-po>>e an" vog'trtles an' fish. ->n' Ef.ve yr dripping's an' ycr t-wtets, an' lick clean e d'-h An' fltn'i pet fresh a-talkln' of what you nun't do without. Or tho Calories'll git you Ef you don't watch out! —Sophie Kerr <u Lil'o. ALLIES SPEND T MILLION DAILY IN AMERICA IN an article about Edward R. Stettinius, the biggest buyer in the world, the September Amer ican Magazine says: "An official statement made in the British House of Commons reveal ed that the allies' purchases in America reached ten million dollars daily. Think ot It! Of these pur chases, a figure without parallel in history, the banking firm of J. P. Morgan & Company had to handle a large share. In no. previous year had all the foreign countries of the world combined taken any such quantity of American products. And on one man, Edward R. Stettinius, a quiet, unobtrusive, untrumpeted American citizen, fell the burden of marshaling and managing the practical, nonflnanclal end of the task. " 'After careful study,' says Mr. Stettinius, 'we decided that in plac ing war contracts we would have to Universal Military Training The youth of the land to-day must come to the aid of their country. Just as they did fn the Civil War, in the opinion of Lieutenant General S. B. M. Young, U. S. A. (retired)), who is commander in chief of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Bluntly, he de clares that the United States must depend upon the young and unmar ried men to fight its war with Ger many. Simultaneously with the statement of General Young came an announce ment from the National Security League that it would immediately undertake an Intensive campaign for the adoption of the Chamberlain bill, which provides for universal military training. The draft law is totally inadequate to provide for the situation in which the United States finds itself, General Young thinks. "In the Civil War\" his statement says, "the greatest army that had ever been recruited in the history of the world up to that time was made up almost entirely of young men twenty-one years of age and jounger. The exact figures show that there were 2.159,798 men of twenty one and 1,161,488 men eighteen years of age and under in the army at that time. In addition there were 844,- 891 boys under seventeen serving their country. "Of men above the age of twenty one—the ago at which the govern ment is now trying to build up its new army—there wero only 618,511 who were twenty-two years or over, and above twenty-five the total army registration amounted to 4 6,626." Napoleon Imprisoned British at Verdun Verdun has always been looked upon with interest by the British race, for It was there that our civi lians were imprisoned at the time of the Napoleonic war. For a time they en.ioyed their Internment, and were allowed a good deal of liberty. Horse racing and kindred sports were per mitted on those very plains where th'e Germans have been attacking, but under Wlrlm's regime those conces sions were withdrawn, and the plight of the prisoners affords the most painful reading In all that melan choly period. They were taxed out of all comparison to their means, and those who were unable to pay were often cast into dungeons, where they linKered until death came aB a re lease. For no apparent reason num bers of these unfortunate beings were marched barefoot to the neigh boring fortresses only to be ordered to renew the journey back some months later. Verdun was the blackest stain on the Corslcan's character, and the horrors perpetrated there have only been excelled by the German treat ment of the civil population of Rel cium and Northern France. —Dundee Advertiser. Hearten Others The true patriot will not Rpread gloom now. The real hero will hold all sadness out of some war news gives you harrowing emotions, stop raadlng it. There is no limit to the influence of the individual who has splendid courage now This is the hour that calls for vol unteers In the army of greater achievement, recruits In the navy of common sense. It Is our human duty to hearten others now.—The Silent Partner. be guided less by the nature of any concern's product than by the char acter of the men at its head. We (igured that the layout of any plant, the design of the buildings or the kind of machinery in It was of minor importance to the degree of success that had been exhibited In running It. In other words, bricks and mor tar, machines and tools, were not what we went by, but the brains that administered these things. " 'Through the knowledge and ex perience and ramifications of those in the Morgan firm, we had a good idea of who was who and what was what throughout the manufacturing world. We knew the men who had demonstrated unusual ability in dif ferent lines, and wo got into touch with them, no matter what they were producing. Meanwhile, we were se lecting men to negotiate for the pur chase of the varied materials wa were required to purchase; and in three months had perfected an or ganization.' " Value of Discipline At this distance, the thing that most forcibly impresses the reader of the account of the mutiny of Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry at Houston, Tex., is that there was a glaring lack of discipline. The press reports say that the trouble began when a policeman arrested a Negro woman and refused to surrender her to one of the Negro soldiers. In the promiscuous shooting that followed, 17 persons were killed before the mutiny was quelled and order re stored. There is an intimation that the trouble was aggravated by racial bitterness, and the announcement was made in Washington yesterday that the regiment will be withdrawn from Texas immediately. In loss of life the incident is the most serious of its kind since the mobilization of troops began. From a military standpoint the breakdown of disci pline is still more serious, and Maj. K. S. Snow, in command of the regiment, will find it difficult to ex plain to his superiors how ho per mitted the situation to get out of hand. And by the way. the incident may well be pondered by some hundreds of newly-appointed young officers from training camps who may be entrusted with the enforcement of rules of discipline as applied to small units. To avoid being classed as martinets, or for some temperamen tal reason, they may be tempted to relax the requirements of the Man ual in individual Instances; but the ru.es and regulations provided are the result of the best thought in the making of a military machine de pendable under all conditions. A defective unit may throw the ma chine into confusion. There may be palliating circumstances of latitude and color, as in the Houston, case; but under perfect discipline of the individual unit, incipient troubles of that kind will never develop Into serious mutiny.—Pittsburgh Gazette- Times. Russia and Moscow If Russia should remove its scat of Government from Petrograd to Moscow, under the threat of a Ger man advance from the direction of Riga, there would be no cause for serious alarm. France abandoned Paris as itn capital In September, 1314, and the Government moved to Bordeaux, without any loss in effi ciency. During our own Revolution the British occupied Philadelphia, where the.Continental Congress held Its sessions, and in the war of 1812 they captured Washington, where they burned the capital, but the American Government survived these shocks. Russia's greatest troubles seem to be more from within than from outside. If Its Provisional Government could get away from Petrograd with Its Socialistic and anarchistic atmosphere, to the calmer air Of Moscow the change might bring about great permanent benefits.—Philadelphia Record. Boy, Page Dulcinea! The young lady across the way says she's afraid bustness must be feeling the pinch of war, as she overheard her father say that if these conditions kept up six months longer all his liabilities would be wiped out. —Cartoons Magazine. AUGUST 28,1917. Labor Notes United Mine Workers have a mem bership of almost 360,000 in 2,823 local unions. In 1897 the Brotherhood of Car penters had 2 8,2 00 members. They now have over 212,000. Coal heavers at Hammond, Ind., are now setting as high as $lO and sl2 a day. In Augsburg, Germany, 0,600 tex tile workers are receiving unem ployment relief. Owing to the shortage in male labor, Paterson (N. J.) munition fac tories employ women. Wages of almost 300,000 train service employes In this country average $1,331 a year. Peoria (111.) Typographical Union will receive nn increase in pay start ing January 1 next. Owners of foundries in Tennessee must provide shower baths for their employes. Fifty thousand union miners in Scotland have protested against the high price of food. International Hod Carriers and Common Laborers' Union, has voted to erect an office building. Over 2,000 organized barbers at Chicago, 111., have received an In crease of $3 a week. Guelph (Canada) firemen will get 20 cents a day increase until three months after the war. The number of women acting as substitutes for men in the field in France has passed the 1,000,000 mark. Frisco Barbers' Union is work ing for a law requiring all barbers to take a courso in ordinary sanitation. OUR DAILY LAUGH FARMER HAT SEED. J,. „ Although he's aVi< '7W \*"/ man of most gullible sort \ And only a \ simple Jay, V/-J L jl He can turn his XJL place into & y summer re- A And make th o1 d shanty ,< f pay. '• I SOLILOQUY. / Mrs. Simpson A—( lEk (as she noticed 'A w k several young ■ -—v >jy men with gray ■'"''u ' hair): I wonder r why so many A | I \ young men turn \ ) Kfay while wo V J women per il haps lt'sbecause IV.I I, / they wear It all mm— MAKING A ,_a BUSINESS OF IT. XsT -pj D a. Whillikens: I hear young ■ ""OT* (i Everbroke 1 g It J paying serious jJ I attention to the Ik' y) Multlrox girl. rvrTj//y\^ B. Gosh: Yes, \jv//i mUr and if he doesn't f ] land her he I I won't be able to [ HjyW pay anything J— IMPORTANT jtl POINT. W I/ / She: Wo u I'd )/ you marr y a / woman who had / J /VV ■ u another J \\ man for breach // \\ of promise T // U He: Hcrw much did the court a. war. 4 I ©mttng <Eifat\ I As showing the extent of travel I between this city and Camp Hill, a man stationed at Washington ave nue, Washington Heights, counted 113 automobiles passing that point on the pike in the forty-five minutes between 7 and 7.45 Sunday evening. Carriages, wrgons. trucks, street car a and a multitudo of motorcycles pass ing up and down the pike at the same time were not counted but must have run the total up close to the 200 mark. The Carlisle pike is now beinor re paired by the State, but the work has been greatly delayed by Inability of the highway department to keep laborers, who are leaving constantly to take Jobs they consider easier. The other day a dozen or more left in a bunch because the pay was not up to what they thought they ought to have and which they were able to get elsewhere. When this stretch of road is completed there will be no nner piece of highway In this vicin ity th &n the road to Carlisle. Indeed this good road extends all the way through to Pittsburgh without a break and is ns smooth as any to be round anywhere in this State or abroad. Traffic along the pike between the j a ,'? d Camp Hill has grown won <^ r i u y in tlle P ast few years, so that now at times the road is as dangerous for pedestrians as Market street at midday. This is easily un -o<l„^hen Is Pointed out that the Carlisle pike Is the only high tar between the two points named. ;.L, se,5 e ,? u ,y ct for the w hole Cum berland Valley on one side and for Harrisburg on the other. It is for the reason that this road soon wilt V£, a m 6 1° tr^ ke t are of tho stream of traffic flowing into it that well known West Shore people have be come Interested in opening the pro posed new road through the subway under the railroad at the upper end Z f / W°f mleysbur f?- This highwav would traverse the old lime quarry back of what is known as the Brin ton farm, skirt a pretty brook for a ?}!?, £" mlle and c °me out in Camp Hill. The plan has the approval of Warren H. Manning, the landscape architect, and no doubt will finally be adopted In order to give much needed relief to the overcrowded pike. • • ♦ Another much needed road, au thorized and now under way but held up Ly reason of inability to £®t labor, runs out from a point where the trolley line crosses the Pennsylvania railroad at Overview, just above Summerdalc, and along the line of the mountain. There are many farms and summer cottages back along this stretch of what is now littls better than a mountain trail, although the district will not come into its own until the road is made possible for automobiles which have difficulty now in negotiating its gullies and mires. The land back along the mountain is picturesque and wild and not a few Harrisburg people have erected thereon, not withstanding the difficulties of transportation, summer homes that would do credit to the city itself from an architectural standpoint. A tramp back along thi3 wretched piece of highway well repays the pedestrian for his labor, both as to the view spread out before him when he reaches a height half way up the mountainside and in the surprise that is in store for him in the way of unsuspected cottages of pretty de"- sign tucked away in many nooks and corners. • • • James Foust. Dairy and Food Commissioner, and Col. Thomas M. Jones, dean of the newspaper corre spondents of Harrisburg, were guests at the reunion of old canal boatmen at Sunbtiry on Saturday. Over 2,000 people, boatmen and their descend ants, attended the big outing and Commissioner Foust says more tales of the "raging "anal" were recounted than would fill a fair-sized book. Mr. Foust's father was one of the canal builders. He went Into canal work as a boy and died still in the serv ice. In his youth Mr. Foust him self was employed on a canal boat in the days when boats still travers ed the Pennsylvania canal from tidewater to Hollidaysburg, and up into the coal regions via Sunbury and the route north. Colonel Jones, among other youthful activities dur ing his boyhood in Hollidaysburg, made many friends anion; the boat men and got a glad hand at the re union on Saturday. His father wrote the "History of the Juniata Valley" and thus a lot of valuable historical data came Into the possession of the son who has added to it during a long period of newspaper work. He made an address Saturday on the history of the canal, relating many interesting anecdotes of those early days. • • • Speaking of the old canal—or canals, to bo correct, for there were many of them—it is a great pity that somebody with the knowledge and the ability has not set into print the story of these formerly great inland waterways of the State, now for the greater part filled In to make room for encroaching railroads, or "lying in ruins along hundreds of miles of flowing rivers that once fed them. The younger generation knows them merely as Interesting relics. A few years hence and they will be lost to sight almost as completely as though' they never had existed. In them lies buried a chapter of Pennsylvania history at once romantic and prac tical. The building of the system was a herculean task and accomplished only after tremendous difficulties. The canals form the link between the wagon and stage routes and the railroads. The highways for the most part have come back Into their own, but the canals apparently have gone forever. Who shall say, that, how. ever, when only a few years back it would have been the height of folly to predict that the time would come when people would prefer the turn pike to the railroad for a trip across the State? 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" —Lewis Buddy, the Boy Scout cam paigner, has returned to his home in New Jersey for a vacation follow ing a successful series of campaigns In the Weßt. —B. J. Bowers, superintendent of the Johnstown school gardens, says that interested directly In the work are 660 school children, together with 350 children from outside the schools and patrons. —Captain W. A. Simpson, of Lock Haven, formerly commander of Company H of the disbanded Twelfth Regiment, National Guard of Penn sylvania, has been training the am bulance unit organized at the Clinton county capital fbr the national am bulance corps. [ DO YOU KNOW That dtirinp the Civil War there was nn encampment of soldiers < guarding the Market street and Cumberland Valley bridges al most directly opposite from the encampment on the Muff below Lemoyne, placed there to guard these same structure*?
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