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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1917,
The things that belong to men
must he understood in order to be
loved; the things that belong to God
Viust be loved in order to be under
stood. — PASCAL.
WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME
WHEN the "boys" come home
from the war they are go
ing to have a mighty lot to
say about the manner in which af
fairs in this country are conducted.
Make no mistake about that. They
will be the lads who risked their
lives to bring the Nation safely
through its bloody crisis and they
will do a tremendous lot of think
ing While they are in the camps and
, trenches. An army built along the
American plan is a great force for
democracy. Not only will these
young men "make the world safe for
democracy," but they will come
home prepared to make "democracy
safe for the world," and for America
especially.
Already there are signs that the
miserable off-shoot of anarchy which
traveled under the guise of Socialism
just previous to the war in this coun
try has received its death blow. Its
erstwhile disciples have foresaken it
by the thousand and those 'who re
main are looked upon by all right
thinking people as enemies of the
Nation. True 'democracy will come
into Its own in America with the re
turn of our armies, and it behooves
politicians, .public officials and
others bidding for public favor to so
conduct themselves in the interval
as to be acceptable to the new order
of things that will be Instituted when
the "boys" come home.
TWO SPOONSFUL A DAY
IT IS common enough to have a
business concern use newspaper
advertising space to sell its wares,
but now comes the Franklin Sugar
Refining Company to ask readers of
the Telegraph to conserve the sugar
supply. In other words, not to use so
much; advertising to keep down the
consumption of the very product it
manufacturers. This the company is
doing for the purpose of aiding the
United States government in its ef
fort to make the limited quantity of
sugar go around until the new crops
are available.
"Two spoonsful a day saved by
each American will keep France in
sugar," says the Franklin company's
advertisement.
Surely, for the sake of suffering,
hungry France, we can afford to
make this trifling sacrifice.
ONE DAY CELEBRATION
CHIEF OF POLICE WETZEL
should have the hearty support
of tho public in his effort to con
fine the Hallowe'en celebration to
one night this year. Nobody objects
to an annual jollification of the kind,
but when it extends over a period of
three nights, as during the past few
years, the privilege of the use of
pufeUc highways for carnival pur
poses is abused.
The public has been duly warned.
Maskers must remain off the streets
except on Hallowe'en. Police officers
will be justified In taking radical
measures to enforce the orders of
their chief.
GREAT FUND EOR GREAT NEED
AFTER the war in Europe had
progressed to a point where the
prison camps of all countries
engaged in the conflict were filled
to overflowing, John R. Mott, execu
tive head of the Young Men's Chris
tian Association, visited a camp
which contained thousands of Rus
sian prisoners. Conditions in the
camp were appalling.
"What the men need, more than
anything else, is music," said an in
terpreter. "They can endure starva
tion, filth and disease, but they hun
ger for music."
Dr. Mott remonstrated. In a place
where there were so many needs, it
seemed inconceivable that the lack
of something that appealed to the
senses alone could be the greatest
need of all. Wonderful plans, that
have since been put Into operation
and have born fruit in a manner that
has amazed the world, were passing
through the great executive's mind.
"Why not give them an opportu
nity to learn a useful trade—tome-
SATURDAY EVENING,
thing that will occupy their bodies
as well as thetr minds?" queried Dr.
Mott. "Wouldn't that strike you as a
good suggestion?"
"Undoubtedly," replied the man.
"Come with me," he said suddenly,
"I want to show you something!"
Dr. Mott followed. Along the way
the Interpreter beckoned to an un
kempt soldier; another was summon
ed from another quarter. Soon there
was quite a procession. Each man
carried in his hands a strange-look
ing instrument.
With Infinite patience, the gaunt,
ill-clad prisoners had fashioned,
from cigar boxes, bones and the tops
of discarded shoes, instruments cap
able of producing. In a manner at
least, their desire for the music that
surged, even under such unpromising
conditions, through their souls.
No further argument was needed.
Dr. Mott readily agreed that the
prisoners should realize the desire of
their hearts.
Now, included in the activities of
the prisoners of war work is the plan
ttf give financial assistance to every
prison camp desiring orchestral
music. The sum required for instru
ments varies from S2OO to SSOO.
Never before in the history of the
world has the opportunity been given
a Christian organization to do the
work that is being carried on by the
War Work Council in the warring
countries to-day. Little wonder that
the amount of $35,000,000, asked by
the National War Work Council, to
conduct the activities of the organi
zation until July 1 of next year, does
not seem an unreasonable sum.
Businessmen everywhere are keenly
alive to the fact that this sum of
money, which in itself seems large,
could not be invested to better ad
vantage.
REPUBLICAN VICTORY SURE
EVERY indication points to a
sweeping Republican victory in
Dauphin county this Fall. The
county is overwhelmingly Republican
In normal years and the voters have
no reason to be displeased and every
reason to be content with the ad
ministration of county affairs un
der Republican administration. The
courthouse is in honest, economical
and efficient hands. There is no de
sire for a change.
This has been the quietest cam
paign in years. The Republicans,
confident of heavy majorities, have j
not been exerting themselves. The
only noise that has been made has
been that of the Democratic candi
dates raging over the shameful man
ner in which they have been neglect
ed by the Democratic bosses who have
no particular use for Democratic
nominees except when their personal
interests are at stake. Next year will
be quite a different matter. And by
the same token, this year also has a
bearing on next in Republican ranks
as well. A big Republican victory this
Fall will do much to pave the way
for a Republican landslide of the
"old-fashioned" kind in November,
1918. So It behooves Republicans not
to neglect their candidates this year
because of the lack of opposition.
"Preparedness" in politics Is quite as
important as in military affairs, and a
big vote now will do much to dis
courage Democratic campaigners
when it comes to the election of a
Governor.
TIME TO TELL THE TRVTII
THE Telegraph is in receipt of
two letters—one complaining of
the publication of certain parts
of Newell Dwight Hillis' speech at
Chestnut street hall, which the writer
pronounces "unprintable," and the
other commending this newspaper
for its courage ip "publishing the
vital truths which Mr. Hillis so vivid
ly described."
Both these correspondents are
sincere, but tho former has not a
clear view. Dr. Hillis was speaking to
an audience, many of tho men of
which will be called to the colors in
a few weeks. The Telegraph reaches
every evening a much larger audience,
and among Its readers are hundreds
of men of draft age. Also, it goes into
many of the training camps where
young men are be'ing'taught how to
care for themselves in France. Dr.
Hillis comes fresh from the front and
he said many things that, if heeded,
will be of vast benefit to the Ameri
can soldier. Consequently, it was
highly Important that his remarks
be given the widest publicity pos
sible.
Dr. Hillis did touch upon some
matters generally regarded as "deli
cate subjects," but he did so in an
entirely unoffensive manner. These
are days for plain truths forcefully
stated. Nothing is "unprintable" that
will help our boys in France escape
the perils that have dragged so many
sturdy young soldiers to ruin. We
must not send our men away ignor
ant of things essential to their wel
fare. They will come back to us when
the war is over, and we want them
to come back clean and pure, to be
the worthy fathers of the next gen
eration of Americans.
NOT A COLLECTION AGENCV
THE decision of the Public Serv
ice Commission that a Lan
caster county printing estab
lishment should apply to the courts
and not to the State Commission for
damages declared to have been done
to its business by the failure of an
electri.v lompany to furnish
to operate machinery should settle
the question of whether the Com
mission is to be a place for ad
judicating eery sort of claim aris
ing out of public utilities. The Com
mission has been successful In se
curing reparation where there have
been gross overcharges and where
unreasonable and unjust rates have
talceii money out of the cash draw
ers of corporations and out of the
pockets of Individuals, but to have
entertained a claim such as that
r<ade from Lancaster county would
have flooded the Capitol with all
sorts of accounts.
In the Scranton railways hearing
some time ago the Commission let
It be known that It could not go into
contracts between a city and a
utility, unless it could be set forth
that ono party was attempting to
act in an unjust manner, and in the
Scran.ton Stove Works case the
Commission holds that it Is not con
cerned with a contract for a Biding
except to see that the switch track is
kept fit an.d safe in tho Interest of
the public. There are other decisions
which fix precedents In considering
contracts and conditions arising un
der them. Where the public Is.helng
unfairly dealt with the authority of
the Commonwealth may be used to
inquire and to remedy. But us for
turning the office of the Commission
into a means of collecting SBB which
a printing house or a bologna fac
tory claims is due It because an elec
tric company could not furnish
power for a couple of hours in an.
afternoon, that is a form of activity
which the Legislature never Intended
the Commission to be bothered about.
I>cH.Koi|CaanXa1 > cH.Koi|CaanXa
By the Ex-Committeeman
All of the men named to take the
votes of Pennsylvania soldiers con
nected with former National Guard
units, drafted men's organizations
and student camps whether afield or
afloat have received their official
appointments and with exception of
those who cannot be here will as
semble at the Capitol Tuesday after
noon for instruction. The men will
be addressed by the Governor and
Secretary of the Commonwealth and
Attorney General Brown will be
present to answer any questions re
garding the law.
The supplies will be taken charge
of on that day and sent to the camps
as directed by the Commissioners
who will be responsible for them
from the time they are received. The
Commissioners will travel in parties
where they are assigned to the same
camp. T\yenty-six will go to Camp
Hancock.
The Commissioners will be al
lowed ten cents a mile traveled, but
nothing else.
—lt is estimated that over 13,000
more drafted men from Pennsyl
vania will be in the three mobiliza
tion camps to which this state is
tributary by election day. Commenc
ing to-day over 4,000 colored men
will begin to move. To-day 230 arc
expected to go to Camp Meade, 129
to Camp Sherman and 790 to Camp
Lee; to-morrow 981 will go to Camp
Meade and Monday 1,288 will go to
Camp Meade and 39 to Camp Sher
man, while on Tuesday 544 will go to
Camp Lee. Commencing November
2 and extending over four or live
days 9,000 men will be moved to
Camp Meade. When this movement
is finished only about ten per cent of
the men called for the three camps
will be at home. Some districts will
have less than five per cent at home.
—Since the filing of the cards
asked by Auditor General Sny
der for the card index of the Capitol,
attaches of the fiscal departments
have been studying the manner in
which some people are paid. The
card Index cards asked that It be
set forth out of what furuls or ap
propriations attaches are paid and
how much. Some people are paid
out of several funds and afford proof
of the contention made when the
First Economy and Efficiency Com
mission was named that all places
and Salaries should be set out.
—Auditor General Snyder says
that developments in the Northamp
ton register of wills' office will
rather substantiate what he has been
saying about the importance of state
clerks or examiners being named In
various counties to act in the inter
ests of the Commonwealth in Inheri
tance tax settlements and collec
tions. It is likely that he will sug
gest a change in the system of hav
ing court appointees audit accounts
of registers and that because sufch
officers report largely to the state
that a state official be named.
—Frederick J. Shoyer, Republican
candidate for city treasurer of Phil
adelphia, seems to have run afoul of
the newspapers of that city. He dis-,
cussed the unanimity with which the
Philadelphia papers are supporting
the Town Meeting movement and
intimated that department stores and
transit were behind it. Tho Philadel
phia Evening Bulletin comes back
with the inquiry whether Mr. Shoyer
would take fees or stick to a salary.
—ln a letter to a Philadelphia
newspaper .Frederick Beyer, one of
the candidates for judge, discussing
the judicial election in that city and
the "sole nominee" decision says:
"The decision of Judge Kunkcl re
fusing to give such judges a special
privilege was perfectly proper, and
the judges now in office knew the law
to be just what he said it was. The
act of 1913 was clear enough. It
established the nonpartisan law and
provided the method of nomination,
by distinctly recognizing as nominees
those who received in relative order
the highest votes cast for the office.
If one was to be elected at the gen
eral election, then two were to be
nominated—lf two were to be elect
ed then four were to be nominated—
but If any 'one' of these candidates
at the primary received more than
half of the entire vote for the office
for which he was running, then, of
course, he had run his race and
thereby gained a pre-emption and be
comes the 'sole nominee' at the gen
eral election." 1
—Mayor Thomas 13. Smith, of
Philadelphia, was given another
warning last night, similar to that
Served upon him prior to'the pri
mary and was told that unless he im
mediately directed that the one thou
sand policemen, which, it is alleged,
are being used to promote the inter
ests of the Vares and the so-called
"Fifty-fifty" ticket, shall he halted
in a campaign of intimidation of the
citizenship of Philadelphia, crime as
grave as that resulting from his of
ficial delinquency in the Fifth ward
may be repeated. Mayor Smith was
given this notice from the chairman
of the Town Meeting party general
committee, Max Herzberg, a leading
member of the Philadelphia bar and
president of the United Hebrew
Charities organization of Pennsylva
nia. '
—The Pittsburgh mayoralty cam
paign has gotten to the stage of hav
ing meetings morning, noon and
night.
—The American party, formed by
Republicans and Democrats at Head
ing to fight the Socialists, is making
appeals to the people to stand against
the Socialistic movement.
—Judge Davis sat until nearly
midnight last night in an endeavor
to conclude the hearing of testimony
in the attack on the legality of the
Philadelphia Town Meeting party
nomination papers. There were num
erous clashes between counsel during
the day session and evidence was
submitted to the court showing the
methods employed by the police to
Intimidate signers. Severar legal tilts
as to the scope of the hearing were
generally decided In favor of those
attacking the papers, and the court
HXRRISBURG TESJBGRXPHI
AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN't .. '
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SATURDAY
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In/ YEARS - TEILIW6 SToRIES -BORROWED A- YEAR ago AIN'T it A
AKJD 'EuEfi'TH-KIG WH.CH "* p - * oP6^T^^
opened wide the doors to Attorney
Connor to submit testimony attack
ing not only the legality of the sig
natures to the affidavits, but also sig
natures in the body of the papers.
—The Northampton Democratic
county committee, In special session
yesterdiiy, nominated Herbert D.
Snyder, of Martin's Creek, as its can
didate for Register of Wills, to fill
the vacancy on the ticket caused by
the suicide of Asher V. Stauffer. Sny
der ran second to Stauffer at the
primary election. Intimations that
the political effect was considered,
when the auditors were sent from
Harrisburg, at this time, to examine
StaufCer's books, were made by sev
eral speakers at the meeting, it is
said in dispatches.
—The Republican Alliance of Phil
adelphia, organized to supplant the
Republican city committee as the
central Republican body, formally
launched its drive to corral Repub
lican votes for the Town Meeting
party at a meeting yesterday In its
new headquarters in Philadelphia.
No chairman has been selected as yet
for the alliance, but It was announced
that Selectman Harry J. Trainer,
leader of the Third ward, would lead
the fight in South Philadelphia
against the Vares. Plans were map
ped out for organizing the Repub
lican vote in every ward in the city.
NOT IN THAT FORM
Germany is in great need of steel,
we are Informed. But not in the
form in which the Allies are sup
plying it.—Milwaukee Journal.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
WHY NOT THE MAYORS ?
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
The very successful anfi impressive
observance of Arbor Day in Harris
burg yesterday furnishes concrete
evidence of the progressive spirit of
the Harrisburg Telegraph and it is
my wish that in the future like cele
brations and observances may be in
augurated in the interest of a more
beautiful Harrisburg.
The Telegraph's idea of "Gover
nor's Row" was carried out admir
ably to-day and the nucleus of seven
trees planted will go a big way to
ward making "Governor's Row" a
row of nature's beauty as well as of
historic interest. The Telegraph's
idea was splendid. Let more of them
follow that the plan of beautifying
Harrisburg may go on undiminished.
Why not a row of trees in Reservoir
Park or along the Rivfer Front in
honor of former mayors or men
who have helped make Harrisburg?
READER.
THE COMRADE IN WHITE
At Nancy, at Soissons, in the
Argonne, and at Ypres, men
talk with hushed voices of Le
Comarade Blanc. After many a,
hot engagement, a man in white
has been seen bending over
those who lie on the field. Shells
fall all around him; nothing has
power to touch him. Many of
the men from the Eighty-sev
enth and One Hundred and
Twenty-sixth Infantry have seen
him. On several occasions he
hasi been chiefly observed after
severe fighting, bending over
the dying and helping them to
pass away in peace.—The Liter
ary Digest.
From the battle fields of Europe,
Where in tragic conflict meet
Death led hosts, young, iron-hearted,
Comes a story strange and sweet.
Telling how a gracious figure.
Dressed in robes of lustrous white.
Walks among the stricken soldiers
On the wasted fields at night,—
Bending low above the dying,
Soothing pain and ending fear,
Bringing peace and consolation
When no human help is near;
And, so runs this lovely legend
From the wildly warring lands,
They have known him by the bleed
ing
Of the nail prints in his hands.
There, amid the dreadful carnage.
They have seen him—One whose
birth
Was proclaimed by bands of angels
With "Good will and peace on
earth"—
Lifting hands in benediction,
Though his wounds gape wide
again—■
Crimson symbol of his passion
In that age-old spring of pain.
Does it matter if this comrade.
Gentle where Death's thunders
roll,
Be the Prince of Peace in presence.
Or a vision of the soul?
They who hear the call to Heaven
See beyond the pall of night;
Peace is theirs, and faith unfailing.
As war-racked souls take
flight.
m *-L. W. B.
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The Story of a Father
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A MAN in this city thought the
war had taken more than it
ought to from him when his
two sons. Just come of age, enlisted
in the artillery service. When he saw
them march through a chilling rain
storm from the old Battery B head
quarters to the Union Station and en
train for Camp Doniphan he went
home sorrowing and grumbling.
When he heard they must sleep in
tents all winter he grumbled some
more.
Yesterday morning a letter from
the older boy, not yet 22 years old,
had this paragraph telling of the vis
it to the camp of a friend from Kan
sas City:
"He asked me how you felt about
our being in the Army, and both go
ing over to France so soon to fight.
I told him that under the circum
stances In the Army was where you
wanted both of us to be. He asked
me what I thought of certain hard
ships we must endure here. I told
him we didn't expect an easy time in
the Army, we expected to make sac
rifices, that is what we are here for.
Not only does the man who grumbles
incur the displeasure of his officers,
but he soons finds that he has con
verted himself into a chronic kicker,
not satisfied with anything that goes
on. It makes Army life seem far
harder than it is. I haven't heard
LEGEND OF FREE RUSSIA
(Paul Claudel In Mercure de France)
Not long ago a peasant woman of
the village of Budnia in the vicinity
of Wydranka, gave birth to a sn.
All went well. The father of the lit
tle one was gone—gone where all
our men are gone—but the neighbors
gave advice and aid. The godfather
and godmother were called and, as
the parish was some miles from the
village, they took the newborn child
and carried it to the priest for bap
tism.
When the party arrived at the
priest's house the godmother be
gan to unwrap the babe, but what
was her horror to see that it had
been transformed into a butcher's
cleaver! She shrieked and the priest
gave it to the godfather and thrust
them outside his door.
Confounded and chagrined, they
took the homeward road to tell the
child's mother, but as they entered
hr house the cleaver again took the
form of a baby. The mother re
fused to believe the story they told
and insisted upon the child being
carried again to baptism. So they
undertook the journey again, and
this time the child was changed into
a bundle of cords such as the peas
ants use for tying the loads on their
carts. This time the priest was less
rude but nevertheless he sent the
good yoople away. On their return
the child regained his natural form,
and the patient godmother said; "We
must try a third time, for so the
Trinity ordains."
The third time the child became a
beautiful plant with purple flowers.
The priest then said: "Since this is
a thins; living and blossoming, bap
tism must be tried as the only safety
against the wiles of the devil." No
sooner said than done, and when the
sacrament completed the flower
became a human being. Then the
infant spoke and said:
"Good father, thou hast done well
to baptize me in spite of all, for this
is the truth of it: If I had remained
an ax, Holy Russia would have seen
bloody days, although It would have
gained freedom. If thou hadst bap
tized the bundle of cords the Ger
mans would have enslaved It. But
thou hast baptized a living flower —
and that means that liberty shall
flourish!"
"OIL" OUT OF "GOIL"
"Foist." "thoid," "woild" and
many other words that are strictly
New Yorkese are to be wiped out of
the language of this little town, ac
cording to a campaign that has just
been pfarted by businessmen. Thev
are planning to make the English
language safe for the growing gen
eration. Patient schoolma'ams have
been battling for years to eradicate
the New York way of pronouncing
words, but with little success. So
now the shopkeepers are going to
take a hand In It. A number of em
ployers are getting ready to start
English classes in their shops and in
time they believe that all of New
York will know how to roll their
"r's."—From Pittsburgh Dispatch.
OCTOBER 27, 1917.
Frank (his brother) do any grumb
ling either. The Army is no place
for the pessimist. As for myself, I
frankly tell you that I like it. I like
to know that I am able to go through
any hardship that the Army offers.
There is a feeling of pleasure comes
over me, and I'laugh to myself, when
we are galloping across the field or
doing some kind of work that is
really hard. Then I know that I am
tackling a man-sized job, and it
pleases me to know that I can do it."
With that letter in his breast
pocket the father walked downtown
to his office, and on the way he pass
ed a young man standing on the
corner. The young man had baen
drafted, but he and his father had
gone the limit to have him exempted
fi;om service. And here the young
man stood, waiting for the car, his
back to the raw north wind, humped
over, hollow chested; shivering, a
cigarette dangling from his under
lip, the picture of anaemic young
manhood, of morbid deficiency.
And as the father passed on to the
round of the day's work lie rfecalled
the letter in his pocket, braced his
shoulders back' proudly, thought ot
that passage in the Good Book which
says something about a man losing
his life in the process of trying to
save it, and, seeing things clearly at
last, exclaimed:
"Thank God, my boys went!" —
Kansas City Star.
PREHISTORIC WEAPONS
While the wastage of the York
shire cliffs is to be deplored, the re
sult is sometimes of advantage to the
geologist and antiquary. Recently, in
the vicinity of Scarborough, a fall of
the cliff has revealed a hoard of
bronze weapons, which consisted of
battle axes, spears, chisels, gouges,
portions of a sword, etc. Twelve of
the axes, of the socketed type, are
perfect. One shows the unusual
feature of a rivet hole in place of a
loop for secure hafting; another con
tained a portion of the original wood
shaft. Some of the axes are in the
rough state, as if just turned out of
the mold; others have obviously
been in use. The collection evi
dently formed the stock in trade of a
metal worker of the Bronze Age, at
least one thousand years before the
Christian era.—From Nature.
GERMAN PROMISES
Germany has promised Sweden
food, according to a cable. Swedes
will perhaps remember that Ger
many also promised Mexico, Texas,
New Mexico and Arizona. —Chicufco
Herald.
THE QUARTERMASTER
My place is here, far down this little
street,
And here I labor at my desk till
dark;
I do not hear the tramp of marching
feet,
I do not hear the rifles' angry
bark!
My work is business! All each long
day through
I deal in quantities and talk by
weight,
I struggle to secare the shipments
due,
And fight like mad to get them
when they're late.
My job is just to see that Wrights
town camp
Shall not go hungry when it wants
its bread,
And note that Yaphank, when it
goes on tramp.
Will need some shoes to fit its
martial tread.
I often sit irt some brief second's
lull
And wonder if a God-sent chance
will come
To call me from this task—not that
it's dull.
But, oh, I long again to hear the
drum!
I know that some may fight while
others find
The things an army needs to eat
and wear,
And still it breaks my heart to stay
behind
And know that coriirades of old
times are there.
Yet why repine? Why envy those
who go
To fill our legions for the great
advance?
I, too, am fighting hard against the
. foe •
That battles may be won In far
off France!
—O. C. A. Child.
LABOR NOTES
Actual earnings of women workers
in. Great Britain are considerably
above the $4.87 weekly minimum.
British Railway Clerks Association,
whose headquarters are in London,
will open offices in Dublin at an
early date.
Britain's Co-operative Wholesal*
Society has given an additional war
bonus of 10 per cent, to all its mem
bers.
Washerwomen in Chicago have or
ganized a union with a scale of $2.60
a day for doing the usual Monday
wash.
Including nurses, 20.000 teachers
are with the British forces and 208
have been honored for gallant serv
ices.
Arizona is the first objective of the
special commission appointed to in
vestigate labor unrest in the states.
Farmers' societies have been formed
at Ballycullane, Adamstown and
Rathmore, in the county of Wexford,
Ireland.
So successful have women been In
the Canadian Pacific car shops in
Montreal that no less than 200 are
now being employed.
Two hundred and sixty-five em
ployes of the Edinburgh (Scotland)
Tramway Company have been grant
ed exemption until December 1.
[OUR DAILY LAUGH"!
HONEST
| "1 know he's honest."
J "What makes you think so?"
i "He's always willing to give hi
I note for any money that he borrows."
SPECULATES ON IT.
"Are you a food speculator?"
''Whenever a plate of hash ia
placed before me."
A MARRIED COUPLE.
"Wo can't all bo rich in thU.
world."
"No. Rut isn't it fine that we can
all know someone who hasn't quit*
FROM FLORIDA.
Suit Case—Ever travel in th I
touth?
Alligator Bag—Sure thine, that
ras my old home, you know.
Etmrtnq
Few of the people who attended
the planting of the first trees In the
"Row of the Governors" on the Wal
nut street side .of Capitol Parle,
Btarting In front of the new Penn-
Harrls Hotel yesterday, realized that
they saw the commencement of one
of the most elaborate park schemes
laid out in the state. Not only have
Arnold W. Brunner and Warren H.
Manning planned where every tree
and every shrub and walk and flow
er bed shall be in the Capitol Park,
but they have outlined where th®
buildings shall be constructed twenty
years from now within the extension
and will look to the city of Harrls
burg to restrict the character of
structures to be erected in streets
surrounding the park. Arid then
it is planned to make the Capitol
Park the center of Harrisburg''
streets which will in their turn open
I into the parks and parkways of a
metropolitan system that will stretch
from the Susquehanna Water Cap
in a wide circle taking in the upper
valley of Paxton creek and thence
around to the Swatara, up along the
Susquehanna from historic Middle
town ferry on into York and Cum
berland counties linking up the
beauty spots of the Yellow Breeches
and Conodoguinet with the drive
ways of the West Shore. It is a
most entrancing idea that is being
thought out, but it is insignificant
when one considers that the refe
plan is to make the Capitol by meajT
of some changes of roads and th
construction of a couple of bridges,
the widening of some city streets
and the creation of a municipal plaza
the center of the highway system.
oJ Pennsylvania. This the State
House is to-day, but it is more op
less by means of elbows and curves
In roads and twists and turns in
streets. By laying out highways so
that they shall radiate from the
Capitol, crossing rivers and streams
and bringing them into Harrisburg
on long perspectives this dream can
be realized.
• • *
To return to the trees. In addi
tion to planning out the "Row of the
Governors" Mr. Manning has
working on a plan for a quadruple
line of trees on the proposed mall
where trees can be planted for the
cities and the counties ,of the Key
stone State, each to be in a desig
nated place and the tree to be suit
ably marked after being formally
planted. Then, it Is the idea to
locate all of the trees for the park
extension and to work out a scheme
for changes of those now In the
older park and to dedicate some and
name others which have to be plant
ed. One of the Ideas is to honor the
men who had a part In the making
of Pennsylvania in provincial and
colonial days, selecting those who (lid
not occupy governmental positions.
Then there can be trees named for
the long line of distinguished mili
tary men, Wayne, Knox, St. Clair,
Harmar, Brown and the others; the
financiers of the Nation In crises,
Morris, Hillegas, Girard, Clarke,
Cooke and so on; the Inventors; tho
transportation chiefs and captains of
industry. There will be several hun
dred tree?, all selected. In the park]
and It can be made a place to stimu
late not only interest in the history
of the Keystone Commonwealth, but
to perpetuate In the official seat of
government the memory of Penn
sylvanians who played their parts
in strenuous times.
* •
A friend who has been observing
the strides made in that section of
Harrisburg beyond what we popu
larly know as Allison Hill, as distin
guished from Capitol Hill and Reser
*volr Hill, has written some exceed
ingly Interesting sketches of the de
velopment of the Thirteenth ward.
One of these appeared yesterday in
some memories of the old Rudy ice
dam or Eastmere as the pond in 1 lie
dip just about Twentieth street used
to be known. To-night there arc
presented some additional notations
on this thriving section.
• *
With the paving of Derry street
to the city limits at the Poor House
lane, now Twenty-eighth street, the
Harrisburg Railways company also
began improvements. Not more
than a dozen years ago there was
only a single track to Paxtang Park
from about Twenty-fifth street, with
a turnout west of Paxtang avenue.
The rapid growth of the city meant
increased traffic not only to the
summer amusement park, but also
to accommodate persons moving to
that district. Only a few years ago
the Twenty-third and Deny street
trolley division was started, replac
ing the Tvyenty-first street trip,
which had replaced Nineteenth street
runs. Now the railways company
has a double track to Paxtang to
handle the many hundreds of pas
sengers using that line each day.
Fine building opportunities were
opened to contractors and realty
men who at once saw the future de
velopment which was sure to come.
Since the big boom started in the
east end scores of homes have been
built at a cost of thousands of dol
lars, and at the present time a con
tractor Is building twenty-six more,
increasing population in a com
munity means increasing business.
To meet this need a number ol
small businesses not in existence five
years ngo, have been started. Smal
grocery stores, a small dry goods
and notion store, ice cream parlor;*
and even pool rooms have been
opened during the last few years.
Two large grocery firms, seeing tht
trade possibilities in the community
have opened stores there to compete
with the oldej- ones.
War gardens in the Thirteenth
ward were much in evidence Ihii
year. Large stretches of vacan
ground, most of it south of Derry
street, and uncultivated for manj
years, furnished space for any on<
who was interested enough to plan
vegetables. The value of the cropi
has never been estimated but rest
dents have placed an approximati
value well up in hundreds of dollars
Large lots which had never before
been anything but a nuisance be
cause of the high weeds were turnc<
into corn, potato, tomato, turnip
cabbage and other vegetable patches
Next year the people are planning ti
plant again. #
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"!
—John Wanamaker is suffering
from a broken arm received in a fall
at his home.
—General W. J. Hulings, who waf
here this week, has a son in th;
aviation corps.
—General John Biddle. mentioned
to be the next chief of staff, is f
Philadelphian.
—J. Leonard Replogle made his
subscription for bonds in
where he made his fame.
—Col. E. L. Kearns. of the Elgh
teen.th Pennsylvania, has the hono
of commanding the regiment takini
most bonds at Camp Hancock.
DO YOU KNOW
—Tliat Tlnrrlshursr Is a point for
shinning Inriro s'nrcs of food
stuffs to the South?
HISTORIC HARRISRimO
Experiments In steel making wern
made in South Harrlsburg before the
Civil War.