HARRISBOKG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded its' Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Square. "E. J. STACKPOLE.Pr/j-'J Sr Bditer-in-Chirf F. R. OYSTER, Businesj Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Mana/inc Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. • All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocl- Eastern office. Story. Avenue Building, New York City; Western GnJ ll>Jr ' BuUdPlng, Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. flTiygT, By carriers, ten cents * week; by mall. $5.00 a year in advance, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1918 'Twos a thief said the last kind word to Christ; Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft. — BROWNING. NEW YORK STATE VOTE WHILE a referendum vote on prohibition may be all right for New York state, there is no call for such a proposal in Penn sylvania. The conditions in the two states differ widely. The New York State Legislature was not elect on a "wet" or "dry" Issue. The legis lators were elected before the na tional prohibition resolution was passed by Congress. The members were therefore entirely correct in holding that they were unacquainted with the sentiments of their constit uents cn the subject and could not pass intelligently upon the question from that standpoint. They unwit tingly or intentionally have played into the hands of the liquor interests in taking such a course, for delay is the only chance the "wets" now have, but they have "passed the buck" directly to the people, agree ing to abide by the decision of the public in considering the amendment when it comes before them follow ing the referenJum. But no such condition exists in !f Pnnylvania and none can exist. The prohibition question is going to enter into the election of legislators In every district of the state next l'all and in their nomination at the primaries in May. The election re sults will register the will of the people on this question. To attempt. * referendum on the question itself would be but to delay the final ac counting the Legislature must make and would not be in accord with constitutional provision. The Federal Constitution presumes that the public shall be fully in formed on any amendment that may be proposed and will elect Repre sentatives and Senators In accord with the popular opinion thereon. It distinctly provides that all such amendments shall be approved or disapproved by the Legislature and any effort to defeat that intent in' Pennsylvania this year would be mere subterfuge that would not fool anybody but would arose intense public indignation. It Is not likely that any serious effort will be made to duplicate New York's action in this state. New York having postponed action on the prohibition amendment, it is all the more Important that Pennsyl vania "beat the Empire State to it." COMMISSION-MANAGERS RICHARD S. CHILDS, chairman of the National Municipal League's committee on the commission form of government, has just completed an extensive study of the commission-manager plan So far as It has been tried out In Amer ican er nicely, thank you," says Mr. Chllds, at the same time observing, "Of course, It is a very young thfng, dating only from January, 19X3, when Sumter, S. C„ first put it into effect." Mr. Childs' findings are of Interest In Harrlsburg in view of the atten tion the commission-manager plan has had recently at the hands of Harrlsburg people bent upon find ing something with which to bolster up the poor old Clark act. With the success of the idea at Dayton everybody i familiar. In Springfield the operating expenses were cut $50,000 and a floating debt of SIOO,OOO wiped out the first year. In La Grande, the city manager found the city bankrupt, its war rants so greatly depreciated in value that the banks were refusing to take them at any price. Outstanding warrants had reached SIIO,OOO, slightly more than a whole year's budget. In the first year, $35,000 was cleared off and another $35,000 disappeared during the first four months of 1915. In Manistee, the first budget was $104,000. The new regime laved )20,000 of this and at the same time ereatly increased the city's service, THURSDAY EVENING. Including the restoration of ten miles of pdved street, which were In deplorable condition, as well as mak ing unnecessary the 180,000 bond issue previously mentioned for the new sewer. Apparently, therefore, the now government In Manistee Is twenty per cent, better. In Taylor, Tex., the annual In come was $40,000 and In the first year under the new plan, with the aid of less than $2,000 new tax rev enue, the city manager wiped out a floating debt of $9,800, a fifteen per cent, better showing. Cadillac cut $6,000 —thirteen per cent.—out of the $47,000 of annual running expenses while improving the municipal service. Little Hickory, N. C., with running expenses of $32,000, cut out $4,400 —fourteen per cent. —In the first year of the new plan, squeezed in several thousand dollars worth of extra service and kept up the pace In the second year. Another little one, Morris, Minn., spent $28,800 in the first year of the new plan, which was $3,800 more than the year before, but the man ager shows an Increase of $6,000 In permanent Improvements and $2,500 more ycash on hand —a fifteen per cent, advance. Montrose, Col., reports that the old accounts were so meaningless as to make comparison Impossible, but the manager, starting with smaller appropriations, saved in the first year enough to reduce the tax levy eighteen per cent. In Montrose the appropriation for 1913 was $43,810 and for 1914 $40,- 130. But the city did considerably more work with the latter sum and had $13,p00 more cash on hand at the end of the year than at the be ! ginning. All the cities seem to have such stories to tell of increasing service without correspondingly Increased expense, of floating debts being wiped out, of disbursements kept within appropriations, of municipal accounts that tell the true story, of thrift in little matters. All the man agers seem to be keen to produce an nual reports that will be creditable to the new way of doing things, Mr. Childs finds. There is much in these figures for thoughtful, conservative, business like minds in Harrisburg to think about. The next councilmantc cam paign Is little more than a year in the future. The Minnesota Socialist, under trial for pro-Germanism, who blew his head off with a stick of dynamite, displayed unusually good judgment. "OLD CLOTHES WEEK" THE American Red Cross has set aside the week of March 18 to 25 as "Old Clothes Week." Throughout the United States dls. carded clothing will be collected for shipment to Belgium. It hopes to take in at least 5,000 tons of used garments to garb scantily clothed Belgians. Twelve thousand five hundred tons will be accepted. The move was made on urgent appeal of the Belgian Relief Commission through Herbert Hoov er, its chairman. The commission's organization in this country having been abolished, the Red Cross, with its elaborate collection organization, was appealed to. In a letter to the Red Cross, Mr. Hoover said: The practical entire exhaustion of clothes, clothing, shoes and leather in occupied Belgium and Northern Fiance, and the short age of these necessities In the world's markets, are making it increasingly difficult for the Commission for Relief in Bel gium to keep clothed and shod the unfortunate people of these occupied territories. In addition to new material we need gifts of used and surplus clothing and shoes, flannel cloth, -etc., in large quantities from the people of the United States. All this sounds like a very proper measure, worthy of popular support, and we hope It brings results. But it has its failings. We know of one household, at least, where the Spring discard of old clothing bids fair to be like the core of the small boy's apple—"there ain't goln' to be none." "Patch beside patch Is neighborly, but patch upon patch Is beggarly" some wag has written, and we have personal and intimate knowledge— first hand testimony, as It were— concerning trousers that could quail, fy under both definitions. We speak with authority and rep resenting a vast number of deeply interested clients, when we arise to ino.ulre of thejearned court of pub lic opinion, what a man shall do who is patriotically desirous of giving his old clothes to the Red Cross, but who if he does, must remain ir\ bed until some charitably Inclined per son comes along with the price of a new suit. We violate no confidence in saying that the number of last year's trousers iti active operation, so to speak. Is almost equal at this time, to the total number sold dur ing the period named. Many of our most highly bred clothes-hounds now have no more than two pairs of trousers each. Many an erstwhile "swell dresser" now creases 'em In front and pulls his coat far down in the back to hide the worn spot or the patch. Thus it Is we save to buy our Liberty Bonds. The government advises "wear out your old clothes," the Red Cross urges send them to the Belgians, and friend wife says "well, for good ness sake, you're not going to wear that outfit another seasoft, ate you?" which Is equivalent to hinting that no matter what your intentions may be, she does not mean to be cheated out of her own new Easter costume. Feminine finery aplenty, may find its way to Belgians, Aut our care fully considered advice to male Bel gians Is that they brush and press last winter's pants, turn up the worn ends of the coat-sleeves and call the result a new Spring suit. That's what a lot of war sufferers on this side the water are doing. Seriously, however, there doubtless are hundreds upon hundreds of gar ments stowed away In garrets, chests and closets that ought to be put to use. Look your supply over and give all you can to the Red Cross to keep our suffering brothers and sisters, big and little, clothed and warm. at ""PtKKC if Cranio, By the Ex-Commltteeman Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh faee.ms to hav-i noc only done the ex pected in aligning the forces of his administration behind the can didacy of Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil for the Republican nomication for Governor by his as sault upon Senator William C. Sprout's declaration in favo: of the prohibition amendment, but he has brought on what is termed along the western front "a period of intense artillery lire. And in the midst of the clash of assertions, contradic tions and denunciations there seems to be some disturbance over the pos sible attitude of William A. Magee, former mayor of Pittsburgh and late public service commissioner under Governor Brumbaugh. The Pitts burgh Gazette-Times says that there are reports in Pittsburgh that Magee is thinking of running for governor himself. Similar rumors, oddly enough, have been heard in Phila delphia and Scrartton. According to the newspapers the Brumbaugh statement of yesterday seems to have started the campaign going at a pace which is ordinarily not attained until Just before the primary. The Public Ledger says that the Governor and the Delaware Senator formed Ananias clubs very promptly. The Inquirer says Sen ; ator Sproul "gives the lie" to the Governor, while the Philadelphia Press in an editorial headed "Advice to Brumbaugh" deprecates the en trance of the Governor into the cam paign and suggests that he "had bet ter keep calm and obscure for the rest of his term." The Press edi torial is a radical departure from the policy of that newspaper and severely criticises the Governor. The North American plays up the Sproul denial. The Democratic Philadelphia Record takes keen delight in the interchange of compliments between the Governor and the Senator. In the midst of it all Commissioner O'Neil, the focal point of the dis turbance is at the Capitol to-day busy going over bids for highway contracts, but rather inclined to hop into the argument with a state ment or two of his own. —The Magee story has been going about the state rapidly the last twenty-four hours and the general belief is that if he enters the race he will declare "wet." was in Philadelphia over the week-end and there were reports that he was bejng groomed as a candidate for lieutenant-governor as a com promise. The former mayor of Pittsburgh is inclined to silence and he seems to have been able to keep it. However, some of his friends have been talking. The Gazette- Times says of the report: "Rumors were thick yesterday that William A. Magee is giving serious considera tion to the proposition of announcing himself as a candidate for the Re publican nomination for governor of Pennsylvania. The demand for his candidacy is said to come from li quor interests and to be occasioned by the strong prohibition declaration of Senator William C. Sproul. One story in circulation yesterday was that Mr. Magee was to come into the field and J. Denny O'Neil would retire. The tale does not sound rea sonable, as It would put the high way commissioner in the position of surrendering to the liquor interests, a thing which is not probable. An other end of the story is that John R. K. Scott, of Philadelphia, would be the running mate of Mr. Magee as a candidate for the nomination for lieutenant-governor." —The O'Neil people hooted at the Magee story to-day, but at the same time admitted that they had heard it. —Mr. O'Neil will visit the anthra cite region again the end of this week. He will likely go into Lu zerne county and on Sunday will speak at a series of church meetings in Williamsport. —Ex-H lghway Commissioner Frank B. Black, who was here to day visiting some friends, remarked when asked about reports that he might take a dip into the campaign, "They say it is going to be a real campaign this year." There have been reports that Black would like to make some speeches. —Thomas L. Hicks, the former Progressive, is out with a hot state ment in which he charges that some of the men around O'Neil are engW neerlng a movement for a third tic ket, which evoked some vigorous de nunciation around the O'Neil head quarters. The part which aroused tbe ire of the O'Neil men was this statement by Hicks, printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer: "I am firmly convinced and believe that Mr. O'Neil, the candidate represented by Mr. Detrich and his associates, for whom they are endeavoring to hold the Progressive vote, is not endea voring solely to secure the Repub lican nomination for governor. This he hopes to accomplish, but in the event of his failure to do so I am convinced that it is his intention, with the consent of Mr. Detrich, Mr. Pinchot and others, to be a candi date on a third party ticket, which may result in the defeat of the Re publican Governor and Congressmen In this state." —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, the leading "dry" newspaper of Western Pennsylvania, is out with an editorial attack upon Congressman M. Clyde Kelly, of the MeKeesport- Braddock district, that scorches. Kelly was defeated for Republican nomination two years ago, and ran on another ticket, being taken up by Democrats. The Gazette-Times says: "The German Kaiser excusoa his immorality on the ground that he sought to promote the welfare of his country. It is in fact the same plea which Is now being put forth by M. Clyde Kelly. Congressman, for support in his candidacy for re-elec tion by the voters of the Thirtieth District, which has been announced. Kelly is a notorious breaker of promises, .but he argues, In effect that political crookedness is a merit if the one who practices it can satis fy his own conscience that his even tual iim wns good." —G. C. Wagenseller, of Selins grove. who lias filed a petition to be a candidate for the House In Union county, Is a druggist George W. Wagenseller, the editor, is also talk ed of for legislative honors. George W. used to be a heap big Bull 1 Mooser. RXKRISBURG TELEGRAPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE BY BRIGGS f~ —7N/< " N FWEI.L- EOOIE IVE /DOM'.TT , / Y O(J HEAR FRO/*I > THOUGHT HE H*D HIS A •BTG LOAO <J , G OV/E R|VLMENT IN PROPER -• BUT , VY" MINO ~ • 'OO GOOFI MINJTIL ' IKA AFRAIN \ HF'5 .SERVIMO TITVTE MADE MY ABOUT N ' 3J "-J ) \ NOW "FOR MW.NC , C "TAX, RS-L.L UNTIL- IJW *WF>E { >" OR / A UTTLE MISTAKE """ . y_/' ' " 1 t \ .... , X lK A \ IOUIHME TO PUT FOP COURSE I'M \ F,„„„ NV \ •SOWN EVERY CEMT ,YO'O TWS OCM EBOOY \ OR THE V JOG VOU-> 'FOR "YOUR, OV/JM I <J J^T L UT |& ALLUAYS \ THEY, IAJIU- S .SLAP ( A I GOOL>'- )\ IDOMVT i** TAKING THE BL<S'""F:IN£F ONTVOO OR VJOAMT TVo SEE 'YOU •. \ JT O Y 'OUT YOU TORQALL? OR £>oldUr MARCH! MARCH! March, . march, march, march, March, comrades, march a-long, March, march, march, march, March, a hundred million strong. On—through dark and battle's roar, On—-where none has dared be fore, On—to pay the a-ges' score; March, march, march! For-ward, comrades, march, march for ev-er, Up with the break of day, Out on the trackless way, Ours the will—that must and can, Ours to crown creation's plan, Ours to win the world for man: March, comrades, march. EDITORIAL COMMENT Make a garden! pleads the Gov ernment, and straightway starts a campaign urging people to keep chickens. —Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. Austria may spjit with the Ger mans, but it is certain that Germany will not split fifty-fifty with the Aus trlans when it comes to the spoils of war.—Louisville Post. Alaska is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its annexation to the United States; also it should be cele brating that it doesn't belong to Rus sia.—St. Eouis Globe-Democrat. LABOR NOTES Forty-one states have public em ployment officers. Chicago businessmen urge in creased pay for municipal employes receiving small wages. An average of 1,000 new mem bers a month joined the Order of Railway Telegraphers last year. % Oakland (Cal.) municipal firemen have formed a union and affiliated with the A. F. of L. A regiment of stevedores is being recruited in this country to help re lieve congestion at Atlantic ports. London (Ontario) Ministerial As sociation deplores the low wages paid to girls In factories there. Massachusetts State Board of La bor and Industries has ruled that girls cannot deliver telegrams. Laundry girls of Kansas City, Mo., have won a shorter workday. The next fight will bG for a living wage. Two million women are working on farms in the United States, of whom 750,000 are finder the age of Casualty figures for switchmen showtlie percentage Is greater than for the armies In Europe. New Westminster (Can.) School Board this year increased teachers' salaries to the amount of $205,000 over last year. Over 100,000 laborers are to be imported Into the United States from Porto Rico and the Virgin Isles. Alien laborers will be charged a fee of $lO per year for working in London, Can., In addition to the poll tax. President Gompers Is seeking; an eight-hour day and fixed wage scale for ship-builders In Government plants. Why Josh Got "Mad" Though mostly I'm a man of peace, I had a little fight to-day. Nor did I call for the police To aid me any in the fray. I met a man who called me chump. But most forgivingly I smiled, He called me mongrel, called me gump, Yet I though not of getting wild. He called me villain, coward, crook, And other things I cannot write And all his insults vile I took Without the least desire to fight. But then he flung at mo a taunt I could not stand, but blazed away— He said: "You're mean enough to want. Our teachers not to get more pay!" THE PEOPLE'S FORUM 'Hnrrisburg Housing To the Editor of the Telegraph: The Telegraph's admirable edi torial, in the issue of March 8, en titled "Our Next Big Problem," pre sented a great truth tersely stated. One paragraph especially attract ed my attention—"We rejoiced when the old Capitol Park extension sec tion of the Eighth ward was wiped out, but the slum has not been elim inated. The location has been changed; that is all." % True, most true, in every word. Annually, for almost twenty years, the writer canvassed this distict of the old Eighth ward for the City Directory. The work was one of his own selection, because he wanted to study the housing and living condi tions of this section. Yearly he visit ed every house; and in many of the rooming houses, was obliged to pass from room to room. He thus be came as familiar with the housing conditions of the past in the Capi tol Park Extension zone as any citi zen of Harris"burg could be. From time to time in "Walks Around Harrlsburg" and other ser ials written for the Telegraph he told some pregnant truths about conditions in this section. But not one tithe was told of what might have been said; and these were liv ing and social conditions found there that could'not be depicted adequate ly in words. For very few of our citizenship has any adequate or even approximate conception of what a festering sore was located in the heart of our city. Now very duplicates of the old Eighth ward are springing up—have already sprung up, in other parts of Harrisburg. It is a question whether there is not already one section in which housing conditions and modes of living are more disgusting than they ever were in the zone now | razed of its buildings. What Harrisburg is going to do about it is a burning, an imperative question. No city can wear the crown of civic excellence, in which are found housing and living condi tions such as now exist in portions of the capital of the grand old Key stone State. J. HOWARD WERT, 912 N. 3d St. Sprout For Ratification Exceedingly gratifying to Penn sylvania Republicans Is Senator Wil liam C. Sproul's declaration In fav or of ratification of the prohibition amendment. In his address to the Chester County Republican Commit tee he took substantially the posi tion that has been recommended by The Gazette Times, and which has been widely indorsed In this state. With Senator Sproul unequivocally for ratification, prohibition is defi nitely eliminated as an Issue in the governorship contest, since J. Denny O'Nell, also a candidate for the Re* publican nomination, has taken a like .stand. The Governor, It is to be re membered, will have no official duty in connection with ratification, that being exclusively a legislative func tion, but the executive may exercise no little Influence over members of the General Assembly -when this sub ject is up for action. The signifi cance of the similar attitude of both Republican candidates is therefore apparent. It is a happy augury of ratification -by Pennsylvania next winter, provided the people of this great commonwealth are wise in their choice of senatorial and repre sentative candidates in the primary election. Hence, The Gazette Tlnxes repeats, make sure of ratification hy nominating Republicans pledged to support the Federal prohibition amendment. The contest must be waged and won in the primary cam paign not after it. —From the Pitts burgh Gazette Times. THE INCOME TAX THAT BANK STOCK OF YOURS I own stock in a bank which, a state law, is required to pay the taxes assessed against such stock. How is this matter to be handled for income-tax purposes? Tho proportionate part of the entire amount of taxes so paid by the bank, which it 1h proper to charge against the number oI shares held by you, should bo reported, for additional tax purposes, in your personal return, as a dividend, and then claimed as a deduction under the heading of "Taxes." A TRIBUTE To the Editor of the Telegraph: Perry County is jubilant over the removal of legalized liquor selling. We thank God for the two dry Judg es, the Honorable Judges Jeremiah Keller and George E. Boyer. But there is a desire that Judge William A. Meiser be joined with them in the tribute. In one respect, at least, Judge Meiser is even deserving of a higher tribute than the other two. His task was a harder one, to come to sQch an agreement to exclude the liquor from the county. The friends of temperance will not be lacking in this tribute of respect and apprecia tion for the so-called wet judge. Since the writer has been more frequently than any other before the court with large remonstrances, and since he publicly - condemned the course of Judge Meiser, two years ago, for not giving a fair deal to a remonstrance from Newport which held about twenty times as many names as the application, and was voted down, l\e feels it incumbent upon him just as publicly to express his appreciation for Judge Meiser, when he does give such a very fair deal as he gave at the present ses sion of the license court. It affords me great pleasure therefore, to urge our remonstrating friends to no longer class Judge Meiser as a "wet" judge, nor even as "dry" judge, but as that which is far better than either, a just judge, at least in this business which we have taken be fore him. Whether it was so intended or not, we would also add our commen dation of his conduct as most pat riotic. What qould be more unfair, unjust, unpatriotic to our country, our commonwealth, our country or ouc cause, than to permit barrels of booze to be shipped in, while barrels of flour are being shipped out, to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs? To the request, therefore, that Judge Meiser's con duct be approved. I give most cor dial assent. R. M. RAMSAY, For the Remonstrants. Practically a Referendum In New York, where the Legisla ture Is in session, efforts are being made to submit the question of na tional prohibition to a vote of the people. It is argued that since the members of the Legislature were elected before the question of sub mitting the prohibition amendment to the States arose, no opportunity has been furnished the voters to in dicate how they feel on the subject. In Pennsylvania the situation is different. Everyone has fair notice that the next Legislature will be met with the necessity of passing upon the prohibition amendment, and the people are reasonably sure to indi cate by their votes how they expect tne members of the House and Sen ate to act. They can do this in the selection of the members of the Leg-' islature, who, in view of the prom inence of the issue, will no doubt be compelled to say whether they are for or against prohibition before they are elected. / Ordinarily only half of the mem bers of our State Senate are elected every two years, the term being for four years. But because of death a majority of the members of the State Senate as well as all of the members of the House are to be elected this year, so that there Is no question but that the people of the State will have a free and fair opportunity to express their views on the prohibition amendment at the ballo-box.—From the Philadelphia Record. MARCH 14, 1918. t otfer tfwe > Ten hens which William Becker, .■* Pottstown barber, keeps in two old piano boxes at the rear of his home, laid 54 eggs last week, and three times during the past 14 years laid 10 eggs a day. Al. Johnson says he is knitting a sweater for the Kaiser—out of barb ed wire. A Washington society girl, in or der to do her bit, has gone into the pig-raising business. "You may laugh," she says, "but I think pigs are the cleanest of farm animals; they're just dear. The fact that they roll in the mud shows their desire to cleanse themselves. If you give them clean pens, with fresh water to drink and wash in they keep themselves just as sweet as can be." They are telling a good story on a recruit at one of the southern camps who got all mixed up on the salutes for different officers. One day a general came along and Sam did not know what to do for him. "And what might you be?" he asked bluntly, unable to recognize the badge of the officer's rank. "I'm the general," replied the officer, af fably. "Sure now, and are ye?" exclaimed the recruit in consterna tion. "Then ye'll want something big. How'd it do if I gave ye a bayonet exercise?" OUR DAILY LAUGH FOR DURA TION. Ton say you Ijjojfr'fr deal, and yet j LUCK. "Say Hubby I had great luck to day. Found a place where I could buy two pounds of sugar all at - ONE OOOD POINT. "I am a pharmacist on a cruiser." "How do you like it? Isn't th ocean rough." "Sometimes. But nobody wakes roe up to buy a two-cent stamp." COULD FILL ' Ii THE BILL. If/ Fly: Hey Wll- \ /' lie Firefly, they / want a bright W. 'boy down where 1 live. Why' =•" Mm don't ' you go £- after the Job. 0^" Batting GHjat Decision of the State Board of ' Public Grounds and Buildings to re move the conservatories from Capi tol park on June 1, will not be re ceived -with regret by many Harris burgers. For a long time It has been felt that the "hothouses,"* as they were originally called, have outlived their usefulness, as they long ago lost their beauty. Soft coal has made the buildings difficult to keep clean, and for years only main tenance appropriations were made and the structures have been sort ef lingering on, everyone realizing that it was only a question of time until they disappeared in the adorment of the Capitol. The conservatories date from the Beaver term, although they were really started shortly be fore that time in a small way. John Loban, the florist, who has had charge of them for many years, fays that Ivord & Burnham, of New Uochelle, New York, built them. They were finished in 1890. Hand some tropical plants were brought by the State and placed in the con servatory and used for decorative purposes on formal occasions at the State Capitol, and at the Executive Mansion. • The late Mrs. Jacob Hal detnan, sent several very fine plants to the conservatories and as they have never been taken out, some of them have grown almost to the roof of the upper house, which is the largest of the group. Mr. Loban has given years to developing plants for the Mansion, and the bouquets on tho desks of the Governor and other state officials have come from the "greenhouses." The buildings are along tho Fourth street and have been visited by many thou sands of people, while a good many statesmen, politicans and men just interested in politics in Pennsylva nia have gone through them. Every now and then a movement for the re moval of the conservatories entirely or to near the arsenal or to some other place has sprung up, but it has not gotten very far, although one year after the boiler blew up it looked as though they would be tak en away. The idea is to abolish the conservatories and to buy flowers and plants when needed and to have shrubbery replace the flower beds, thus effecting a considerable saving of money every year. In connection with the Capitol Park, it is interesting to note that the flower beds are now being clear ed off and the bulb plants are show ing above the ruck which has cov ered them under the great snows of the winter. There will be quite a display in the final year of the flower beds, as hundred of hyacinths and thousands of tulips have been set out. A gTeat line of tulips will bloom in front of the State Capitol, and there will be large and small , beds, square and round, in other ' parts of the park. When they are I over, there will be planting with shrubbery. The Spanish War cannon which was placed in front of the State Li brary building on February 22, 1900, is in an invalid state. It looks as though it was on crutches. For some time, the gun carriage has been in a state of decline, while the wheels have some wasting disease. A short time ago, it was found that the cannon would be found on the pavement one of these days, so pend ing some repairs, Superintendent had a couple of nice, strong steel blue painted trestles built to hold up the gun. During the winter the cannon bravely defended State Librarian Montgomery's corner of the Museum building. It showed its nose just above a parapet of snow and some of the shovelers made it appear as though it was the arma ment of a bastion protecting Capitol Hill. • • • According to reports to-day, there has been an improvement in the condition of Archy D. Glenn, deputv Superintendent of Public Instruc tion and one of the best liked men on Capitol Hill. Mr. Glenn has been connected with the educational de partment for more than a quarter of a century, and for years was "facts and figures." He has a wide ac quaintance in the State, and knows the school system from A to Z. • * ' One of the city's well-known busi nessmen, we wish we could give the name, got his automobile back from the shop the other day. He is saving money to buy Liberty Bonds so that he did not buy a new car this year. He had the old one painted and ehined up. A few days ago he got the car out of his garage and it looked so nice and the day was so fine that he thought he would take a run to his farm. He did. When he got there he found every thing fine. When he started off he heard a funny sound, at least he says it sounded fupny then. He stopped the car and there on the running board was a big turkey gob bler striking with beak and claws at his reflection in the nicely polish ed car. By that tinie the door looked like a futurist painting nnd the enraged bird had scratched the running board and fender in his ef forts to put his own likeness out of business. The business magnate chased the bird over a fence and is not through calling him names yet. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —E. T. Stotesbury, the banker, gave a substantial check for the building of an auditorium for the camp of the naval reserves in Flori da. —Mayor Babcock, of Pittsburgh, Is taking an active part In the Thrift campaign In Pittsburgh. —Judge W. H. Staake, of the Phil adelphia bench, will be given a din ner and reception at Philadelphia, to-night, in honor of fifty years as a lawyer. —Joseph E. Fabian, who may run for congress in Philadelphia, comes of an old Democratic family and was one of the original Wilson delegates at Baltimore. —George S. Webster, Philadel phia's director of docks, is making a series of speeches for more piers for the Delaware. —Charles L. Huston, Coatesvllle Iron manufacturer, contributed handsomely for a new church at Reading. —B. F. Davis, the revenue collec tor. was here yesterday for the Su perior Court. | DO YOU KNOW —That nnrrlsbursj mechanloi patch up many a disabled loco motive every day? 'HISTORIC HARRISBIJRG During the twenties as hlrh aa 1,500 rafts a year passed down the Susquehanna.
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