14 WAR GARDENS MADE READY Ground Turned For City Man Who Wants to Help in War Plowing for the war gardens to be developed in Harrisburg this sum mer began to-day. Following the plowing other preliminary work will l>e done, x and the plots will be assign ed to the gardeners. These final ar rangements were completed at a joint meeting of the agricultural committee of the Chamber of Com merce and the war garden commit tee of the Committee of Public Safe- j ty yesterday. Shirley Watts will be in charge of the work this year. The school board has appropriated J 1,000 to the work ind will encourage the campaign. The Chamber of Commerce will be asked to appropriate money for the •war gardens. The price to the gard ener will be S 1.50, Uie same as last year. The City Highway Department will be requested to furnish trucks to haul fertiliser from the cars in which it is shipped here to the var ious garden plots. As was the case last year, most of the gardens will be located in Belle \uc Park. Gardens will be located on other sites aU'o. and people pos sessing vacant lots that can be utilized for the purpose arc asked to notify the Chamber of Commerce of ficials. Safe Investment Our sls, s2o and $25 Spring Suits Custom Tailored Suits $18.50 u p Neckwear, Shirts. Underwear, Hosiery. Custom Shirts to Order. HOLMANf. AESELERVO. 228 Market Street Xtf HOTEL MARTINIQUE BROADWAY, S2D STREET, NEW YORK One Block From I'enn avltnnla Station. Equally Convenient for , ff. V; Amusements. Shop ping or Business. (( 2 11 157 Pleasant Rooms, llui H with Private Bath, fs 1 52.50 PER DAY iiihißtiS 257 Elcc,,cnt Rooms, r fl ,vitli rriTatc ,iatll facing street, south jflr crn exposure, Attractive Rooma from HJJO. 400 Baths Restaurant Prices Are Most Moderate | 600 Rooms I' , I " Quality will always be patronized while cheap goods are dear at any price KING OSCAR CIGARS have for years enjoyed the reputation of being a quality proposition. In re turn for this confidence, the public ex pects and receives the same regularity year in and year out. The result is that all concerned are satisfied. John C. Herman & Co. MAKERS i ~~~~ "" —" Flower Boxes T UMBER for flower boxes should be ■ sound, free from warp and not too "pitchy." We have lots of odd pieces around our lumber yard which will do nicely for making substantial boxes—not high in price, either. United Ice & Coal Co. Lumber Department Forster A Coivden St*. TUESDAY EVENING, 1 L4l Red Cross +1 How many people In Harrisburg realize what is being done by the Red Cross Canteen Service Committee to make the city and the local Red Cross Chapter warmly remembered by hundreds of soldiers who pass through the city en route to camp or to France? A telegram comes at noon to the chairman of the committee, Mrs. Francis J. Hall. It reads: "One hundred and ninety-five, men arrive from St. Louis at 3. Remain I half-hour. Lignt refreshments." Then the members of the committee ; on duty for the day aro notified, j They are waiting when the train I ccmcs in—with pretzels, sweet choco- I late, magazines and stamped post cards of Harrisburg. and a cheering word and good wishes that mean per haps more to "the boys" than the small gifts. If the train has been delayed j hours past mealtime, more substan- ! tial refreshments are provided, such as coffee, sandwiches and pie—and anyone who has traveled this win- j ter will appreciate what this service means to a crowd of hungry and 1 homesick men. Work Well Done In February alone the local com- \ mittee met C.lStf men —from Califor- ' nia. Michigan. North Carolina. Ken-! tucky and Oklahoma. The Chapter receives letters and post cards after every train. "We| sure do thank you for your kind treatment when we passed through your city." "The coffee was certain ly good—the best we had on our trip." "Thanks for your kind treat ment —the chocolate was fine, the cof fe* just right. The first and only thing donated by anyone since we left 'Frisco." One grateful relative from Massa chusetts wrote: "To the Red Cross Workers in Harrisburg. Pa. Dear Friends: List wee,k. Wednesday, my nephew. David Huntingdon, was transferred from Ct.mp Pix to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He wrote the next day—'Red Cross nurses at Harrisburg gave to us magazines, smokes, candies and post cards, all stamped, and I gave one of them the post card I wrote, to mail.' A letter received frohi him from Missouri reads: 'Some of the fellows are playing penny ante: most are reading the magazines the Red Cross gave us at Harrisburg. Pa., the only ones we have seen.' May I ex press to you our heartfelt apprecia tion of what you did for 'our boy and of what you are doing for many others? Gratefully yours. Alice H. Sherwood." A Red Cross House will soon be constructed in each of the Army and Navy training camps. It is intended primarily to be a lounge and rest haven for convalescent soldiers. It will also be an administrative center for the field director of the Red Cross, and emergency lodging for summoned relatives of those rookies dangerously ill. and for Red Cross nurses and staff. One of the first of these will be at Camp Meade. For convalescents, many new com forts will be provided by the Red Cross house. These will include a solarium, or "sun parlor," and a stage, upon which many kinds of en- • tertainments can be given. A bil- i liard room, kitchen, Veading, reeep-1 tion and committee rooms, in addi tion to the large assembly room, will be on the first floor. ~ The second! floor will be given over entirely to I bedrooms. Each building will be • 100 by 100 feet. Cablegram received from American Red Cross commissioner to Europe: "Every American soldier now en tering the trenches carries an Amer ican Red Cross comfort kit, contain ing towel, shirt, writing paper, pen cil. soap, handkerchief, socks, mirror end tobacco. The number of kits I cannot be stated, but the fact that : every soldier has one means that the work done by American* women is a ( big comfort to the soldiers now on i the firing line." High School Boys All Over Nation Enrolling For War Work During Vacation Principals of all high schools in ! the state have been directly request- j ed to aid in recruiting boys for farm j service by Secretary William B. Wil- , sen. of the T'nited States Department J of Labor. In a letter to the princi pals, Secretary Wilson rtiakes this | appeal: "The X'nited States Government, through the Department of Labor, is endeavoring to mobilise the strong and adaptable young men of the country for work upon the farms , during tlie coming summer. If an | adequate food supply, so vital to the winning of the war. is_ to be assured, it. is of the utmost importance that a reserve of young men, 16 years of age and over' and under -I years of i age. shall be organized. I "The week beginning Monday, March IS, has been designated as Na tional Enrollment Week for the lia- I tion-wide enrolling of boys into the ! Reserve. Is it not possible for you ! to secure the names of all your pu- I pils who are willing to enroll into j the Reserve, and to obtain from the i federal state director of your state j enrollment cards, certificates and j buttons so that they may be admit ' ted formally into the Reserve? j "The United States Boys' Working | Reserve is the one national organi | zation which undertakes to mobilize | the youth for farm service." j Enrollment offices have been j opened everywhere in co-operation j with the Pennsylvania Committee of I Public Safety. Pope Decrees Martyr Archbishop a Saint Koine, Sunday. March 17.—St. Pat rick's day was celebrated at the Vati can by the reading by Pope Benedict of a decree for the beau till cat ion of Oliver Plunket. Monsignor O'Rior dan. rector of the Irish College, de livered an address, in which he said Ireland was to-day paying to Plun ket a debt owed to him for more than two centuries. "The Irish in the end obtained religious liberty for their brethren in Britain as well as for themselves," he said, "although the strurgle lasted until a time within the memory of some who are still living. It involved many sacrifices and the loss of life, while for Ireland itself it meant mar trydom of the nation." Oliver Plunket, appointed by Pope Clement IX to the archbishopric of Armagh and primacy of Ireland in 1669, was accused of complicity in the Irish branch ( of the "popish plot." He was taken to London, and iii 16S1 tried on the charge of hav ing conspired to bring a French army to Ireland. Accounts of the trial by Rnglish historians say that the evi dence against him was flimsy, but he was convicted and was hanged, drawn and quartered. Russian Prince Turns Bandit to Make Living Amsterdam. March 19.—The fol-; lowing story is told by the Cologne; Gazette's special commissioner in Petrograd. He. says: "A*i automo-i bile taking a rich Finnish family] home was stopped in a Petersburg street by another auto whose armed occupant stripped the clothes from the travelers and stole half a mil lion rubles' worth of property. A private detective ran the robber band to earth and found it consisted of a Russian prince and his body serv ants. "The prince cheerfully admitted that he had been living on the pro ceeds of highway robbery for a month. This he asserted was his only means of existence because he had been completely despoiled and ruined by the Bolsheviki." Symptoms Eye Strain J&k There are many such, but chief among them are: DIZZINESS MIHVOVSXESS HKAI) ACHES If any of these symptoms are yours, we can furnish the glasses that will prove helpful. Wc Arc Competent Optometrists Eyesight Specialist :• SOHTH THIHD STREET SchleUacr Building I DR. JOHN F. CULP Has again resumed the Practice of Medicine r OFFICE 410 X. THIRD ST. EDUCATIONAL • "> School of Commerce AND Harrisburg Business College Troup Building, 15 S, Market Sa. Bell ha*a 41*51 Dial 43U3 Bookkeeping. Shorthand, Steno type. Typewriting. Civil Service. If you want *to secure a good position and Hold It, get Thor ough Training in a Standard school Of Eatabllahed Reputation. Day and Night School. Knter any Mon day. ; Fully accredited by the National Association. MJLRRISBURG TELEGRAPH NEW DIVISION BUILDING PLAN GREAT PROJECT New Division Will Handle More Than One Bil lion Dollars Wii.-liiiisiou, March 19.—With the' creation of a construction division in the War Department to-day to | handle the largest single building program in history—aggregating j $1,084,000,000 —a board of eminent experts appointed by acting Secre- 1 tary Crowcll reported that the pres- | cnt form of construction contract is ; "profiteer proof." | The new construction division will , replace the cantonment division, j which did the preliminary work of! building National Army camps, and i will carry on an immense building | program involving hundreds of , thousands of workmen ami extensive I structures for the army throughout the country. It will be under the im mediate direction of the Chief of Staff. Headed by Professor A. X. Talbot, of the University of Illinois, presi dent of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the board includes John 1-awrenee Mauran, of St. Eouis, pre sident of the American Institute of Architects: Charles T. Mann, of Bos- I ton, president of the American So ciety of Mechanical Engineers; John 1 R. Alpine, representing the Ameri- I can Federation of Labor; R. Goodwin | lthett, of Charleston, S. C., president I of the Chamber of Commerce of the I United States; E. W. Rice, of Schnec -1 tadv, N. Y., president of the Ameri can Institute of Electrical Engineers; I Frederick L. Cranford, of Brooklyn, ! N. Y„ president of the General Con tractors' Association of New 'Vork, and Oscar A. Rheum, of Chicago, j representing the Building Construc ; tion Employers' Association. Start Work Early Because of the hundreds of mll ; lions of dollars involved, the board was asked to examine the present j form of contract and if necessary j propose a new one. The board re- I ported; • "The form of contract permit s ' starting actual work, weeks and even j months before flie details arc com pletely worked out and delineated, and permits the government to push ! the job at any speed it may select, changing at will its scope and plan, ! but paying only what the work ac j tually costs, plus a fee which is so. i reasonable as to be above the reach I of fair-minded criticism." j This form of contract, so thor- I oughly approved, is known as the "cost plus sliding scale of fixed fee." lin which fixed fees to contractors ; range from 7 per cent, on contracts ! of SIOO.OOO or less down to as low j as 1 'i per cent, and per cent, on 1 the very largest sum. The fee. according to this form. ; is fixed when the contract is let, and I if the cost exceeds the estimate be | cause of higher labor and material ! prices, the contractor receives no ad -1 ditlonal compensation whatever. La bor and material prices always will be subject to approval by the gov ernment. Under other forms of the "cost plus" contract, so widely attacked in | Congress, it was possible for a con | tractor h>' running up labor charges ' and paying extravagant prices for ; material, to increase his fee accord ingly. No Day Labor The board rejected the suggestion that the government embark on the day labor plan, because it was con vinced it would entail inefficiency and delay and because the board be lieves- the existing forces and orga nizations of contractors should be maintained as a public policy. Furthermore it was thought that a central organization was undesirable because the work to be done was so I widely scattered over the country. A survey of the work to be done I by the new construction division in- I dicates the magnitude of the govern ■ ment's preparations to push the | war to a successful conclusion. There I are already under way in the United i States eighty-two big jobs aggregat | ing sioa,ooo.ooo. There are in pros pect now 120 more, representing j $278,000,000. In addition, there are forty jobs for housing troops, rep- I resentinj $390,000,000, while hos .pital construction alone represents $10,000,000. i The work in prospect includes stor age terminals at Philadelphia, Bos j ton, Charleston, S. C., and twenty eight other points; Signal Corps can | tonments and aviation fields at forty | different points; powder loading plants and ordnance depots on the Atlantic seaboard; housing facilities for shipworkers at sixteen different points; tuberculosis hospitals at Denver, Col., and Azalea, N. C.; a re mount station at Charleston, S. C.; mechanical repair shops in Texas; three great office buildings in Wash ington, in addition to those under way; a hospital at Fort Riley, Kan sas; an insolation hospital at Tenafly, N. J.; extensions of the Springfield, Mass., arsenal; gas-making plants and gas shell filling plants at many points. Contracts have not been let for the majority of the great projects and the definite locations of all of them have not been s6 fully determined as to warrant announcements at this time. Dollar Excursions to Shore Restored j Washington. March 19.—Senator j Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, of New Jer-i sey, has prevailed upon Director Gen-| eral McAdoo to restore the Atlantic: City excursion schedules on the \ Pennsylvania and Reading railroad, lines. After leaving Mr. McAdoo's office Senator Frelinghuysen said he was authorized to say that the officials of both the Pennsylvania and Reading would be notified to resume the old excursion schedules. No announce ment was made by the director gen eral, although it is expected that notices of resumption of excursion service before Easter will be made by the railroads to-morrow or the day following. Atlantic City businessmen feared' that the elimination of the excursion I service would work a serious injury to the city. To-day's decision by Director Gen-j eral McAdoo will serve both to en liven the Atlantic City businessmen and cheer up thousands of persons in Philadelphia and other eastern cities who have made Atlantic City their Easter day goal. WRECK VICTIMS IMPROVE Only two of the twenty-four in jured persons taken to the hospital following the railroad accident at F.lizabethtown last week, remain at the hospital, and their condition is sufficiently Improved to assure their recovery. The two men at the hos pital are T. J. Shane, of New York City, and Ellsworth Edwards, 1624 Derry street, the conductor of the train. Y " Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart Beautiful j v Easter I I $5.00, $6.00, $6.50 and $7.50 | Styles that absolutely achieve the latest ; effects in fashionable millinery at these popular §3 prices. More than a score of New York's fore most designers are represented in this wonder ful display of hundreds of dress, tailored and sport hats. fIU Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Second Floor. 1 Look at the Calendar and J Spring Ginghams in the Note the Advent of Spring Basement Wash Goods The "first robin" lias already made his debut, and the C!n/'l"iAv% calendar confirms it, which leads us to muse that housewives ( ioGCXIOII will soon be busy about the house, hanging curtains and j putting things in shipshape for the new season. Hundreds of pretty patterns in the best grades of Fine voile curtains in ivory and Beige, some have dainty edgings ffillffhams and motifs, others show heavy embroidery with lace edge. Pair, 5 s • $3.00 and $6.75 Dress ginghams in neat checks and stripes, fancy plaid and solid Fine white marquisette curtains, linen, motifs and edgings. shades. Yard 22c, 23c, 28c and 35c PUi White Scotch' madras curtains, patterns and'ace brimmed *' ancy P °"f e f' whltt > grounds with fancy stripes. Yard .... 35c edge. Pair $3.00 Madras shirtings, colored stripes for men's shirts. Yard ... 28c Tir-or*ri#c Percale, 36 inches wide, fancy stripe sand figures on white and puew colored grounds. Yard 29c New square mesh net. dainty figures through center, plain and Poplin, in solid shades, mercerized finish. Yard 25c lace trimmed edge, white and ecru. Yard .J9c to otc Fancy net in all-over patterns, some striped patterns with small Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart —Basement designs; 42 inches wide, white and ecru. Yard SI.OO and $1.25 Plain and fancy scrim and marquisette, white or ecru, hem stitched or plain edge. Yard 25c and 50c Plain scrim with hemstitched hem and open worked border, wlute Jl OX* JoT)01?L; W QH,!* , . unners „ Khaki Kool, a fashionable rough sport silk with a weierht A beautiful assortment of table runners In tapestry; 13 to 24 . ' K ' 1 inches wide. 54 inches long. Each $2.00 to $6.50 that can be tailored; 36 inches wide, solid colors. Yd., $4.00 Pillow Tops and Pillows '* 26 ill. wide, printed designs. Yd., $4.50 Tapestry pillow tops, 24 inches square $2.00 Ruff-a-Nuff, a plain pongee that is just rough enough to Fine tapestry pillows, silk floss filled, 26 inches square. Each, . .. . , . .. ir, , ■ $,oo be stylish and heavy enough for tailoring. Khaki, tan, navy, Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart Third Floor black and white. 36 inches wide. Yd $4.00 New Kayse'r Jersey silks, for sport wear, 36 inches wide, TTSlYvrn-h-l wi TiYIV T 117irCT all the newest Spring shades. Yd $2.50 J? Hi 111 1/U.x C JL vJX bllv JUi V lllg Extra heavy Jersey for street and sport wear, 36 inches -pv TT 1 O *4- wide- Yd $2.50 Koom--rLanUSOHI6 OIIITGS Tussah pongee in oyster white and natural. Yd., $4.00 „ , , , - . • * . - . , A " Plain shantung pongee in natural shade; 33 inches wide. tial?um.Tur a e furn " ure - ood - lookmg frnuture-.ub.Un- yd *1.75, $2.(10. S.SS, $2,150 and $3.00 High back golden oak rockers $5.50 XAIbtHP Three-piece mahogany livinefoom suite, tapestry spring seat, Wll LLC- O LLtio Threes?lece 'fumed' oak 'livingroo'm' suite," genuine 'leather fpring Plain white Shanghai. 36 inches wide Yard $1.75 to $2.00 seat, 54-inch settee $49.75. Imperial white Shanghai. 36 inches. Yard $2.50 Fumed oak llvlngroom suite, imitation brown Spanish leather Oyster white pongee (not washable), 33 inches wide. Yard.'. $2.00 upholstery, chair, rocker, and bed davenport, including White Ea Jerz, 33 inches wide. Yard . $2.25 Fumed oak bed davenports, imitation brown Spanish leather*! Solld "P° rt shades of all sillr P ongcc - 33 and 36 incheß wlde - >d mattress included $15.00 $1.65 and $2.00 Mahogany bed davenport, Colonial design, upholstered in mole Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart —Street Floor skin, mattress Included '. $59.00 Queen chairs and rockers In tapestry, with loose cushion spring seat $35.00 TTT 9 TT * 1 1 Golden oak bed davenport, ImitaUon brown Spanish leather, 74 \\ fvw> AW CI U T/i I _ I ATTAfI inches inside, with good felt mattrees $49.00 W Vlllvll O X\.lvX VJlv/VCO Nine-piece Jacobean diningioom suite. Queen Anne period, 48- inch extension table .s. $175.04) • i . > Three-piece walnut bedroom suite, bed, bureau and chiffonier; H /"VY* M O fITAW William and Mary period $75.00 X l/X Udo Uv^X Three-piece cane davenport suite, tapestry spring cushion seat, mahogany frame. Queen Anne period, two extra pillows Kid gloyeS) twQ pear , clasps> real kid> b j^ ck Three-piece llvlngroom suite, recepUon chair, fireside chair and white $3,135 dffvenport; cane back and ends, tapestry upholstery $112.00 T .. , , , . ... Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart—Fourth Floor Kid gloves, two clasps, white, black cmbrdid / * • ery $1.75 to $3.00 Kid gloves, two clasps, black with white $'4.50 March of Hardwater Soap Washable kid gloves, one-clasp, tan, ivory and pearl, Regular 10c cak>es of hard water soap featured in this an- Washable chamoisette gloves, two clasps, in white, SI.OO nual sale at or, dozen for Silk gi ove s, two clasps, double finger ends, black, white Most people buy a year s supply in March. and colors 750 to $3.00 Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Street Floor. Front. D)ves Pomeroy & Stewart _s tr <* t Floor MARCH 19, 1918.
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