14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A VBIVSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E.J. STACKPOLE./W* &■ Editorm-Chirf F. R. OTSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMj:TZ. Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republljation 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. Member American Newspaper Pub fUlllHi iijf g J Eastern office, |S S PS jflS Story, Brooks & JfiSuP ffit ft? Avenue F.ulldlng, _ Chfcagofll'l^Hf' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. giTTfa B >' carriers, ten cents a * week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1918 AGAIN ONCE more the patriotic people of Harrisburg have gone over the top in a drive for the sup port of the Red Cross. It has be come quite the ordinary thing for our people to meet every expectation of the Government in these matters. One of the pleasant incidents of the campaign was the generous re sponse of the soldiers and others under Major Gray at the big aviation plant near Middletown. Thousands of Democrats this year will cast their ballots for the Repub lican candidate for Governor, whose fitness is recognized by men 6f all parties. FOR ITALY WEAR a flower in your coat lapel for Italy. To-day three years ago that nation entered the war on the side of the allies and against Ger many. To-day, with thousands of her sons beneath the sod and mil lions more on the fighting front, Italy has become one of the great factors in the defeat of Germany and a champion of world-freedom and democracy, as her recently executed agreement with the Southern Slavs as to territorial rights plainly indi cates. "We in the United States began only to understand the heroic char acter and the fighting qualities of the Italian people following the dis aster on the Isonzo last year, when, between the cruel shears of traitors within and German armies without, the legions of Italy were cut to pieces, fell back to the Fiave and from the banks of that little river hurled to destruction attack afterat tack of the German hordes. There the Italians turned defeat into vic tory and stopped the shock troops of the Central Empires with their shattered and worn battalions, even as the French, the British and the Americans blocked the path of the onrushing Hun in Picardy after a terrible fortnight, as the result of which we can better understand the wonderful resistence of the Italians which enabled them to perform their herculean task almost unaided. The history of Italy is glorious in arms, but never more glorious than in the present hour of her greatest trial. It was her sacrifice that brought the allies finally to under stand the absolute necessity of unity of arms and of command. It was the defeat of the Isonzo as much as that of Picardy that brought about the appointment ofFoch and the brigad ing together of French, British and American regiments. Italians are in our own armies by the thousand. They are making good records for themselves. Italians in the United States are generous purchasers of Liberty Bonds and contributors to all manner of war funds. They have been identified with every war-work movement since the nation entered the conflict. There is never a ques tion as to the loyalty of a citizen of Italian birth. They are true as steel to the country of their adoption and their worth should be more gener ally recognized. Senator Beldleman has reason to be more than grateful over the fact that he carried every precinct in the city of Harrisburg and the county of Dau phin. which cannot always be said of a home candidate. AN AWFUL JOLT DEMOCRATS who had hoped the "reorganizers" might be able to reconstruct their party in Pennsylvania, are In the slough of despond since the primary election this week. They now fear that what they thought was a real political and party citadel, was nothing more than the camouflage of a former fighting force. Not one Democrat in fifty, would have wagered a peanut on the nomination of Mr. Bonnlwell. He \ was regarded somewhat as a mere \ Incident In the campaign. ' All explanations of the Democratic , bosses have fallen flat, in view of the awful walloping given them by the voters of their party. They are doing everything possible to make it appear that U waa aU a matter of FRIDAY EVENING, the booze interests uniting on Bonni well, but those Democrats who are abel to sift political conditions de clare that the real sceret of the big surprise was the repudiation of the present Democratic machine, whose arbitrary course was resented in many places throughout the State. With an army of officeholders and all the prestige of the Washing ton administration back of the group which took over the Demo cratic organization a little while back, it was confidently expected by all who wear the colors of -the Palmer- McCormick group that there could be nothing save victory for the slate of the bosses last Tuesday. It was an awful awakening and it is little wonder the trusting follow ers are despondent and hopeless. When the Penn-Harris shall have been completed, during the early au tumn, the big hotel will naturally be come headquarters for thousands of automobile tourists. It is understood that quarters will be provided In the hotel for a tourist manager, who will make a study of all the routes leading out of Harrisburg in every direction and provide literature for motorists. Harrisburg promises to become one of the great tourist centers of the coun try with the opening of the routes leading east and west and north and south from this city. MORE GARFIELDS? , D' OES the removal of Presidents Rea and Willard as the active operating heads of the Penn sylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads mean that we are to have more Garfields? Is the stupid blun der of appointing theorists to he re peated? Are we to have "railroad less" days next winter as we had "coalless" days last winter, because inexperienced men are to be placed at the heads of our great railroad systems as inexperienced men were put in charge of our coal distribu tion? God preserve us from any such disaster, a disaster that would approach catastrophe and be more of a blow to our war plans than a defeat of our armies in France. Secretary McAdoo, by all means, should tell the public in unmistak able terms Just why he has seen fit to side-track two of the admittedly great railroad executives of the country. Rea is one of the group of high-type men who made the Penn sylvania Railroad the standard of the world. Willard brought the Bal timore and Ohio from the brink of ruin to its present high state of ef ficiency and earning power, and was the President's choice as head of the railroad war board. Surely, it can not be charged that they are ineffi- More than all else we just now need public confidence; confidence in the operation of our great enter prises, confidence in the government: but we shall neither if. without ex planation, the government is to con tinue its course of replacing prac tical, experienced executives with textbook experts and school room theorists. If Rea and Willard have done anything that merits their dis missal, the public should know it. If it is m ;rely another case of par tisan politics or administration tom follery they should know that, too. Among other things, the triumph of Senator Sproul should be a lesson to those misguided leaders of the tem perance forces who have been in the habit of violating the ordinary rules of fair play. CAMPAIGN OVER SENATOR Sproul's nomination by such an overwhelming major ity as the Republican candidate for Governor, the certainty of prac tically the whole vote for Mr. O'Neil going to the successful candidate, and the utter demoralization of the Democratic party means that Sena tor Sproul will be elected by one of the largest pluralities in the history of the State. It also means that the campaign of this year practically ended with the primary balloting. Anybody who has the temerity to indulge in politi cal activity during the next three or four months will get mighty little comfort from the common people. SWAT 'EM IT HAS been decided that the housefly must go," says a bulle tin of the Anti-Fly Crusade As sociation. Yes, and it has been decided that the Kaiser must go. "Everybody must help get rid of the pests," says the bulletin. Ditto, the Kaiser. There's only one way to treat such nuisances: Everybody swat 'em. EASY AS NOT CHATRMAN KITCHIN is a rough and-ready financier-. Informed that the administration thinks that additional revenue must be pro vided for immediately to meet the costs of an enlarged war program, the eminent fiscal authority of Scot land Neck, North Carolina, says, "very well, let's just double up the taxes of the existing revenue law." How simple, and how would It work out—in the matter of excess profits, for instance? The maximum which the government now takes of profits earned in any year upon in vested capital is sixty per cent. Under Mr. Kitchin's revenue-while you-wait plan it would take 120 per cent. DOING THEIR BITE WAR workers of the feminine sex are said to be quitting Washington at the rate of seven hundred a week because they do not like the board and lodging which the capital affords. The boys in the trenches are not able to quit like this at will. T>cUt£cU. By the Ki-CtommineenMu^^J While the tone of the editorials printed in Pennsylvania newspapers on the election generally calls atten tion to the unfortunate position of the Brumbaugh-Vare alliance in the Republican party and the Palmer- McCormick machine in the Demo cracy, there are a couple of thoughts, coming from opposite ends of the state, which have caused much com ment. And as time goes on they will be more talked about. The Pittsbuigh Dispatch, which in clined toward O'Neil, declares edi torially that results in the state will not be obtained until people realize the importance of the primary. It comments upon the fact that the pri mary is more important in the long run than the general election and yet it is a struggle to get men to vote even in ordinary times, to say noth ing of war time. The Philadelphia Press laments the lack of attention paid to the non partisan ticket, especially in a year when there will be Supreme Court vacancies to-fill under unusual condi tions. It says: "Another featuie that deserves attention is the light vote cast for the nonpartisan judicial can didates. By being taken off the party tickets there is danger thai the judi cial candidates will be overlooked and forgotten. It has been proved that theie is danger of obscure and unfit candidates being placed on the Supreme bench oy sheer mistake and oversight of the voters and the re turns of yesterday show that a tnan who is not a candidate for judicial position and has tried to put his name off the ballot received never theless a considerable vote and mignt have received the nomination if Vigorous steps had not been taken to correct it." —The Philadelphia Public I,edger in editorially commenting on the election calls it "a deserved defeat for the Vare-Bi-umbaugh faction," artd that the nomination of Sproul is equivalent to his election. The Pittsburgh Post remarks that some of the men counted upon to sweep the state for O'Ncil must have been doing "war garden work" at the time for voting. The Philadelphia In quirer says editorially: "Some day the war will end, and probably with in (he four years of the Sproul ad ministration. Then will come upon us a rush of serious problems affect ing the welfare and the prosperity of the state and of its people. Com mon prudence, if nothing else, should determine us to put these problems into the hands of a thorough busi nessman of wide c-xperience. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, taking up the Sproul declaration for party harmony says: "The words give the measure of the man. They are a satisfying pledge of the quality of service he will give the Com monwealth in the next four years. They are irresistible. There can be no disgruntlement with the result of the polling on Tuesday. Citizens, of whatever party affiliation, must share in the pride of Republicans that Pennsylvania is to have for governor one so worthy rs Senator Sproul is known to be. The Very large ma jority given him, in an apparently light total vote, is an augury of party harmony in the flection campaign that may confidently be expected to have its reflection in the business like administration of Governor Sproul. untainted by the demoral izing factionalism that has been too much in evidence of late. Not only Republicans but alt citizens of Penn sylvania are to be congratulated on the nomination of Senator Sproul." —lt will be interesting when all counties are heard from and the conflicting figures are straightened out to see just how claims and re sults compared. It looks as though instead of O'Neil carrying fifty-two counties that he will have about fif teen and that John R. K. Scott will not get over lylf a dozen. —Notwithstanding denials at the office of Governor Brumbaugh yes terday that any judicial appoint ments had been made it was an nounced last night in Philadelphia that George Henderson, a personal friend of the Governor, had been appointed orphans court judge in that city to fill the vacancy caused by death of Judge Morris Dallett months ago. The Philadelphia Rec ord says: "The action of the Gover nor in appointing Mr. Henderson is believed to be the opening gun in the war of reprisals to be waged by the state administration against the Vares in this city. Highly incensed over the indifference of the Contrac tor bosses to the O'Neil candidacy, and angered because of the small vote received in this city by his pet candidate, the Governor is said to be determined to sever all connec tions with the former political allies. —A "bob-tail" ticket, headed by Eugene C. Bonniwoll for governor, Is to be launched by opponents of the ratification of the prohibition amend ment with the primary -purpose of electing members of the Pennsylva nia Legislature whoi 1 will vote against the proposed amendment, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. A "bob tail" ticket, in the language of the professional politician, is a ticket placed in the field by nomination pa pers after the primaries have been held with a view of making a fusion combination In a nonpartisan cam paign against regular party nomi nees. —The Republican nomination for Congress in the Schuylkill district, which has been claimed by G. F. Brumm, son of the late Judge Brumm v who was backed by Progres sive Republicans, and John Reber, who was backed by the Lelb-Snyder- Houck organization, was still in doubt to-day. County Chairman Lelb claims Reber's nomination by a small majority, but Brumm and his friends say they cannot see how this is possible on the face of the returns. Bruram's supporters declare some of the returns which figure in making up Reber's majority are clearly fraudulent, Brumm being given cred it for less votes than it was known were cast for him. —William H. Berry says that he will not ask for a new trial In the Eyre case and that if Eyre is satis fled with the one-cent verdict he is too. —H. J. Mahon, defeated candidate for Republican congressional honors in Luzerne, has turned in for E. N. Carpenter, the winner. —Newspapers are filled with com ment'on the plight of the Democratic state machine and there is much speculation as to what McCormick and Palmer will do. Colonel James M. Guffey, of Pitts burgh, former national committee man of the Democratic party from Pennsylvania, and uncle of Joseph F. GiifTey, the defeated candidate for the Democratic nomination for Gov ernor, yesterday telegraphed Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell, Democratic nominee for Governor, as follows: "I most heartily congratulate you on your nomination for Governor, and especially do J commend the cam paign you made, free from noise and bluster, which should appeal to every Democrat la the J HARRISBURO tfijjl&sl TELEGRAPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF L ' | Goots eoEKJUvSOi A J V I Teu You I FeEL ' MADAME Sv*jeiL'Mo I f AT A lot OF pweTTV Ff N e Act / HOUI M-ce OF / i M *e*.= STMG / BfHlrvlCj INOITfiD To VoO To UsW T C N" WzJ peoPLE - ' J MADAME SwJCLLtiRIKJO'S . _ -■ vuOOt>e U/HiV / — __ PIMN6R- 'OWLV fSQ <£*.AVJD] f HG \\ 9 H — \ f~~So~Glavajd VOO CAM(="T()we J -c m VA)eLL - l • I £(= MY male Guests va/<ss / BESIDES ! Sowe / .Suppose SHE ASKED / (JMABC.e To COiviCf AT THE I -BoDV Alvnays / Me OtJ ACCOOMT OP" I I_Au)ST MOMEfJT AMD I I TA.U-..)<£ JoV OUT OF 1 MV P'LL / I Ouer tta uv *"pe>v>uu Don't you like to read how popu lar America is abroad? A Pennsyl vania band master of one of our military bands tells of a grand con cert in Italy: "Musically we must have looked and sounded very much like a fly in a glass of milk in com parison with the French and British bands, as we had but thirty-four ■men, while the French had about eighty and the British about two hundred and fifty men. In addition the Grade Republicaine is one of (if not actually) the finest concert band in the world and the British Guard are without a doubt the finest marching hand in the world while we were just a common old army band and just out of the trenches to boot, but for all of that we were far and away the most popular. They think the world of an American in Italy and tried so hard to see us that they broke up every parade we started. In Rome it took us four hours to march about six blocks and in Milan the crowd just swept us out of the pa rade entirely." It has been learned that a great many Bach festival visitors are se curing accommodations in Easton, Allentown and Nazareth, not having been satisfied with the crowded con ditions last season. Over sixty per sons have applied for accommoda tions to the committee on places of entertainment, all women, with four or five exceptions. Tickets are selling splendidly. Seven members have engaged tick ets in the Roosevelt party, among them being Mrs. Theodore Roose velt and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. WORLDS DEBT TO ITALY (Written for Italy-America Day Celebration in New York— May 24, 1918) By James Henry Darlington Bishop of Harrisburg. Pa. | In the early days when Europe was a wilderness unknown, When the Goths and Huns dwelt Bkinclad in the huts they called their own; The light of Art in Sculpture and in Painting shone in Rome. Where all the learning of the world was centered as Its home. The flame which Greece had nur tured now blazed up to larger size, And a World of Beauty blossomed forth beneath Italian skies. Then when Angelo and Raphael had shown mankind great joy, Newborn study of harmonies gave a peace without alloy. Symphonic strains of instruments with the human voice as well; Sang in folk-songs of the Nations what the people could not tell. With endless changes for the ear a .World of Music grew. And all men worshiped, wept and , laughed as Italy bade them do. Next Columbus from Italia saw a new world in the west. And sailing from Genoa put his courage to the tesi. Who else 'ost faith, he still had hope and would not change his course. Till his sailors mutin'ed and swore to stop him een by force. Thus Italy gave Columbia to free dom and mankind: This made a Third New World which God gave her the grace to find. Another son of Italy s&lled south instead of north And Amerigo Vespucci gave his name to World the Fourth. I Though other nations sailed the seas, they feared to venture west: But North and South America show Italians stood the test Where-e'er there's hard work to be done from North to Southern Pole Her sons are there, to Freedom true, in body, mind and soul. In recent years Marconi has a Fifth World brought to view: And wireless words now pierce the air; most startling and most _ new. No more are ships' crews hopeless when their hulls are sinking fast. Earth's distant ends can speak at will: this best gift is the last. Hall Garibaldi! Count Cavour! Your noble king and queen! We pledge our love to Italy; no doubt shall come between. f i THE PEOPLE'S HINTS IX)H BAKERS 1o the Editor of the Telegraph: Bakers all over the country are using all their skill in turning out a good Wheatless 'oaf of bread and prizes are being offered to 'hose turning out the best wheatless sand wich loaf, etc. Why don't the bakers here show their skill, and at the same '.ime patriotism, by making some effort to turn out a good palatable, wheatless loaf at a reasonable price. Are they afraid we won't buy such a loaf? Foolishness! The majority of us through patriotic notions, if nothing else would buy such a bread and be satisfied and recommend it to others. Public eatinghouses and others are desirous of getting on the "Hoov er Roll" of the Food Administra tion but those who eat at home could also have this bread simply by in sisting upon having good wheatless bread. let's go over the top in the wheat conservation.and give our patronage to the bakers who are willing '.o co-operate with us in this campaign and patronize only such eating shops as have complied with this request to serve no wheat products until '.he next harvest is available. I We can do it easy enough and again show the spirit '.hat is doing so much to win this war for us. Eet us begin at once and to start the campaign. I am enclosing a few receipts 'hat have been tried and proved, and could be adopted by the bakers neve with good results. Here's hoping for good wheatless bread before the end of this week and I trust you will lend your usual influence in such matters to make it a success: Homemade Bread. Thirty pounds rye flour, ten pounds bran flour, ten pounds barley flour, one half milk, one-half water. Sandwich Brend. Forty pounds barley flour, twenty pounds rice flour, thirty pounds corn flour, ten pounds potato flour, one-half milk, one-half water. Pie Dough.— Fifteen pounds r.ye flour, fifteen pounds barley flour, ten pounds corn flour, ten pounds rice flour, thirty pounds lard, salt and sugar. Tea Biscuits. —One and one-half pounds cornstarch, one and one-half pounds rice flour, one-half lard, one half butter, three ounces baking powder, little salt and sugar, rub The German Revolution [New York Times] It Is reported that Chancellor von Hertling and Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann have protested against the new alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary and have "washed their hands of the entire matter, as they objected to the methods by which the military part of the convention was devised over their heads by the German higher command." General von Luden dorff is said to have insisted that their objections be disregarded and the alliance be "signed at once." The military sections of the alliance compel Austria "to place all her forces at the disposal of Germany." This is merely one more document in the piling accumulation of evi dence that the civil government of Germany is passing away: that tg it is succeeding an irresponsible military despotism. It is one of the reasons why Germany's word is worthless: for even if a German statesman honestly means to keep a pledge he signs, it can be nullified in a moment if some member of the military ring disapproves of it. Speaking of the military ring and the nominal government of Ger many, the civil government, Deputy Noske said a few days ago before the main committee of the Reichs tag: When an agreement on anything is reached between these two fac tors, it Is only achieved by the gov ernment giving way. And he added this immeasurably ominous sentence: There Is no getting away from the Impression that Germany Is again under absolute rijle. The short-lived constitutional rule of Germany is fading fast away; she Is reverting as fast as possible to the despotism of the Middle Ages, a des potism which, unlike the despotisms of other countries, was prolonged al most into our own day. Her period of constitutional rule, a thing of the nineteenth century, may come to be regarded In history as a brief Inter lude In centuries of despotism, be ginning in the Dark Ages, inter- above together with one quart milk Ginger Bread. Three-ciuarter pound sugar, one pound lard, nine eggs, three ounces salt, four ounces spices, three ounces baking soda, one pint molasses, three quarts water, two pounds corn flour, one pound barley flour, one pound rice flour, one pound rye flour. CONSERVATIONIST. SI'PFORT THE BOYS To the Editor of the Telegraph: While observing the parade of last Saturday, I thought of what a splen did showing and good work the Red Cross is doing for the boys across the water and for those in this country. During the same afternoon I met one of the boys from Camp Han cock. I mentioned the above fact to him and was surprised to hear his answer. It was to this effect, that the boys in that Camp are slow ly acquiring comfort. My letter is not meant as a knock but meant as a helpful hint during this present time when so many of our boys are rushed across to help stop and crush Militarism. Some we know must give the greatest thing they" have but it will be comforting to know that they crossed the Great Divide comforted perhaps by some thing prepared by their best friends. Thanking you,for your considera tion of this matter, I am. Sincerely Yours, ONE WHO IS VERY MUCH IN TERESTED. HOW TO SEMi W. S. S. To the Editor of the Telegraph: Reading the letter of how to ad vertise the sale of Thrift Stamps, I take the liberty of writing to you to tell vou of the way thty are sold where I worked before I came here. The manager of the shop is a Thrift Siamp salesman and he can vassed the shop to find how much each man would 'buy, then the amount of stamps were put in the pay envelope instead of money, when the book was full we turned it in the office and got W. S. S. This way we did no', have to hunt a place wnere they aie sold or make a trip to the post office. On receiving my pay here, I look ed twice for the stamps, being ac customed to getting them. Hoping this will be taken up by the industrial plants and factories Ihete. READER. rupted for a short time in the nine teenth century, and resumed in the twentieth in the midst of the great war. LABOR~NOTES Seattle (Wash.) Teamsters' Union has over 3,000 members. Plumbers at Chattanooga, Tenn., get $6 a day. Boston (Mass.) painters have se cured increased pay. Britain needs 172,000 more homes for its workers. Canadian letter carriers ask In creased wages. Increased pay has been granted San Antonio (Texas) street car men. Bookbinders at Baltimore have In creased wages $4 a week. WAR POEM Senator John Sharp Williams read to the Senate a few days ago the following poem, which he called a "Toast to the Kaiser," written by George Morrow Mayo, formerly a railway clerk, now a gunner's mate in the navy: Here's to the Blue of the wind-swept North, When we meet on the fields of France: May the spirit of Grant be with you all As the sons of the North advance. And here's to the Gray of the sun kissed South, When we meet on the fields of France: May the spirit of Dee be with you all As the sons of the South advance. I And here's to the Blue and Gray as one, When we meet on the fields of, France; May the spirit of God be with us all As, the sons of the Flag advance, MAY 24, 1918. EDITORIAL COMMENT The German report says the Brit ish attack on Zeebrugge was a fail ure, which is probably the reason Berlin is removing the admiral in command of the port.—Detroit Free Press. The secretary of the Imperial German Treasury has informed the Reichstag that he does not*yet know how much indemnity Germany will win in the war. That being the case, perhaps it would be a sound finan cial policy not to spend it. —Kansas City Star. The only yellow peril we know of is the fellow who won't fight for America. —San Antonio Light. It looks to the Columbia Missour ian as if the draft has developed into a regular gale.—Kansas City Times. Whether Germany gets sand from Holland depends upon just how rmich sand Holland has. —Philadel- phia Inquirer. Imaginary interview: "Papa's armies are adding daily to our glory, so why such a fuss over the casual ties"—The Kaiser's Six Sons.—Dal las News. OUR DAILY LAUGH SURELY. "He borrows from Peter to pay that's all right, if you hap xm jn <m> FoL** BLAME THE KAISER, "Pa, what 1s an Income tax?" "Anything we buy at tiie present prii A-., my son." A MYSTERY CLEARED. "Oh, there's nothing like the beachei On a sultry afternoon. Though I don't go in for swimming I like very much to spoon!." OUR HELP^ "Did you succeed in hiring a new cook 1" j "Not yet; sbe 1- looking up my references/ 4 lEbemttg (Eljal Just as the Civil War and its stim ulation of the iron industry created a new industrial district in South Harrisburg and brought about many changes it would seem that events are tending toward changes in the same direcion as a result of the con ditions this year. The big Cameron farm tract between Spring creek and the upper end of Steelton which used to be called "Mummatown" is now being filled in with cinder from Lochiel furnace and the great masses which used to be taken from Faxton furnaces to the lands alpng the creek are being pushed further down and sites made for future industries. A good part of the land about the mouth of Paxton creek is made of cinder, which has been piled in layers as a result of seventy or more years of iron making and at the present rate of production there i will be areas covered and ready for industry. Disappearance of the Lo chiel rolling mills and the Chesa peake nail works were hard blows to South Harrisburg industry, but the activity this year seems to indicate that extensions will come along be fore many years and the sites are being made ready. Lochiel furnace is one of the ac tive places in the city just now al though the furnace is over forty-five years old and is one of the land riiarks in that part of the city. Lo chiel mills, which used to waken half the city with their whistles in the morning, are gone, only 'the stone pillars of some of the machinery being in existence. It is interesting to note in this connection that an other landmark, the old stone bes semer steel mill at Steelton, is also disappearing. This was one of the original mills and recalls the time when the works were practically built of limestone. Very little of the par ent plant at the Pennsylvania steel works remains and old timers now point out where such and such-* de partments used to be located. The two original blast furnaces, which have been partially rebuilt a couple of times, remain in the same spots and are working as steadily as they did twenty-five years ago. No. 2 furnace, which was for years the largest in this section of the state, has been a landmark because of its size and is known to a couple of generations of ironmakers. The two later furnaces, Nos. 3 and 4 which were constructed under the super intendency of Frank Tenney, back in the eighties, are now in much faster companies. They are located in the midst of the group of five stacks south of Swatara street. Three new furnaces have been built in this lo cality, one being now under construc tion and the other two producing for some time back. The two older stacks have been fitted up with a lot of modern appliances and are still blowing and doing their share to ward winning the war. Speaking of blast furnaces there are now more in the county than there were in the heydey of its fame as an iron maker. There are seven at Steelton, counting one being built and three in South Harrisburg. Years and years ago Middletown had two furnaces, there was one at Dock low and Harrisburg had four and one at Union Deposit. Then Steel ton built four and the Middletown and Docklow furnaces like the Wister and Price furnaces along the canal in this city became memories. It is not generally known that there was once a furnace at the upper end of Dauphin and Victoria furnace, on the Bayard estate, in the Stony Creek Valley was long famous. Similarly there was years ago an active forge at Elizabethville. The call of Harrisburg to people entering its gates through Union Station is rather strikingly presented by a big sign on a building facing the station and Just across the way from old Zion Lutheran Church. It reads "Give 'em hell. Join the Army." The strength of its pa triotism far overcomes the vigor of the words and it is interesting to hear the comments of people when their eyes fall upon the letters. "Say, this town's all right" was the remark of a traveling man. "Oh, look at that," remarked a couple of girls, but a woman who was with them closed her lips with the declaration that it would, "serve them right." Very few people have been shock ed, it must be admitted. * • Just as an Illustration of what Harrisburg men are doing to help win the war it may be stated that on a recent voyage Commander "Ned" Kaibfus, son of Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game Commission, had his clothes off once in twenty-two days. Commander Kalbfus. who ranks while in com mand of vessels as a captain, has been seeing that American troops get to France and the spirit which he shows is that of the United States navy. Tt will be a fine chapter of what Harrisburg has done in the war to write when the struggle is over. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Clement B. Newbold, prominent Philadelphia financier, has been elected a Pennsylvania railroad di rector. —Dr. Wilmer Krusen, Philadel phia health director, is planning a vigorous city war on mosquitoes. —Dr. Hugh Thompson Kerr, of Pittsburgh, is home from a visit to France. —Horace W. Schantz, renominat ed for senator in Lehigh, is the county's first Republican senator. —Col. J. M. Schoonmaker. Pitts burgh railroad chief, is making a series of addresses to schools in that district. —George F. Brumm, who may he congressional nominee in Schuylkill, j is a lawyer and University of Penn sylvania graduate. —John S. Miller, Somerset maiv is nominee of all parties in his dis trict. jj' DO YOU KNOW f —That Harrisburg 's making spe cial appliances for the manufacture of munition* of various kinds? HISTORIC 'HARRISBURG Governor Curtln. who was Penn sylvania's war governor, used'' to meet every regiment passing through the city and present colors to those Ideparting.
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