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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1918
The only difference between a rut
and a rut is its depth; one who is
in a rut long enough win soon find
himself in a grave. — Rev. Dr. Nehe-
MIAU BOYVTO.V.
GOODNIGHT, SIR KNIGHT!
THE Louisville Courier-Journal
has changed hands, and Marse
Henry Watterson, perhaps the
most forceful, certainly the most
picturesque, editor of the times has
practically retired from active serv
ice in the Fourth Estate. Like a
brook the career of Watterson has
been in turn troubled, tortuous, cas
cading. swift, deepening into pools
of beautiful philosophy, sparkling in
rainbows of wit and humor, gurgling
with laughter, trickling with tears,
but it never babbled, nor sullied its
tjivirons with muck. And now, with
its journey nearing completion it
debouches silently into the cool,
pure, placid lake of profound con
templation, whence we may hope to
see emerging now and again some
pretty swirl of reminiscence, or a
bubble of the old Wattersonian mer
riment.
The period of Col. Henry Watter
son's activities in the field of jour
nalism covers a distinct era in the
history of the United States, and he
seeks retirement at a time when this
country is on the threshhold of a i
new epoch. Watterson was born in
1840. His first newspaper employ
ment was on the Washington States,
a Democratic paper, 1858-61. He
was a casual volunteer staff offlcer in
thp Confederate service, and in 1867
he purchased the Louisville Journal,
with which he merged the Louis
ville Courier. He was temporary
chairman of the Democratic national
convention of 1876, served in the
Forty-fourth CongTess and was a
delegate to various Democratic con
ventions. He was among the first to
acknowledge the error of Southern
secessionists and since the surren
der at Appomattox none has been a
more loyal American than he.
While Watterson has always been
an opponent of the protective prin
ciple, he has been a bitter assail
ant of the autocracy—temporary, at
least—lnto which this country has
been drifting since 1918.
Watterson is one of a very few
real Democrats remaining. The
principles upon •fc'hich that party
■was founded have every one been
demolished since 1913. The Demo
cratic party, as such, has ceased to
exist, and in its place -we have a
horde of men who apparently can
not think for themselves, whose in
dividuality is nil, and who have be
come fawning courtiers. The states
men of tho controlling majority
could be counted on the fingers -of
one hand; the sycophants are legion.'
May the Lord spare Watterson for
some years yet. He still has the
ability to do good work in the serv
ice of popular government.
Trot Trotzky, trot
TELEGRAM ZONE SYSTEM
THE zone system of parcel post
rates was a Republican meas
ure, devised after many months
of study of the subject by the Re
publican chairman of the Senate
committee on post offices and post
roads, and adopted by a Republican
Senate as a substitute for the in
complete and impracticable experi
mental parcel post scheme proposed
by the Democratic House.
"With the exception that the first
two zones have been consolidated,
the original system is still in use.
It has proved satisfactory. The sug
gestion is now made by Republicans
that the parcel post zone system be
adapted to the computation of
charges for the sending of telegrams.
Since there is a postofflce wherever
there is a telegraph office, the charts
and guide books now in use for the
postal service could be readily used
in computing telegraph charges.
Business houses making many
shipment* have accustomed them-'
WEDNESDAY EVENING
selves to the parcel post zone sys
tem. They could, therefore, readily
understand and use the same sys
tem for telegraph purposes. Econ
omy in government service and con
venience to the public would be pro
moted by the uniformity of plan in
computing charges tbr transporta
tion service by either mail or wire.
Austria is preparing for another
drive against Italy, evidently deter
mined to upset the old theory that a
"burned child dreads the fire."
"MISSING"
SECRETARY OF WAR BAKER
offers the belief that many Amer
ican soldiers reported as "miss
ing" may be alive. Doubtless this is
true. "Missing" in military par
lance means simply that tire enlisted
man has not reported with his com
pany at roll call and that no mem
ber of his company can explain his
absence.
When fighting is on such a vast
scale as in France at present, men
often become detached from their
organizations and sometimes do not
get back for weeks. Sometimes they
are captured or lie wounded in Brit
ish or French hospitals. Meantime
they are reported as "missing."
"Missing" may cover almost any
fate, but it holds the possibility of
ultimate restoration, and amid its
uncertainties there is always a hope
for the best. Many a soldier marked
up as "missing" during the Civil
War is alive and vigorous to-day.
What the Kaiser said at the Crown
Council this week is not given to
the public. Probably it wasn't fit
for print
REASON TO CELEBRATE
LABOR has very good reason to
celebrate this year, and the pa
rade proposed for Harrisburg
is in line with what is being planned
in many other cities.
Labor Day, 1918, should be a time
for renewal of patriotic pledges; 'for
a balancing of books and for scan
ning the future insofar as the possi
bilities of the coming twelve months
may be foreseen. Labor in Harris
burg has nothing to regret and much
of which it may be proud. It has
prospered mightily the past year,
but it has worked hard, too. Nearly
every mill and all the railroads have
broken production or traffic records
since last Labor Day. There have
been no strikes locally and little dis
turbance of any kind. Labor has
gone steadily about its business of
helping win the war, and if it de
sires a day on which to celebrate its
achievements and to generate enthu
siasm and "pep" for twelve months
more of the steady grind that has
made Harrisburg a bright spot on
the war supplies map, there will be
none to say it nay.
The country being ready to ac
cept the new draft age regulations,
why should Congress hesitate?
TRICKET HALL
THE dedication of Trickett Hall
at Dickinson College Friday
marks another step in the prog
ress of the law school of that instL
tution. Dean Trickett made Dick-1
inson Law School famous and it is
proper the new hall should be
named for him. Nor did it come be
fore It was needed. The result of
arduous and devoted effort on the
part of gratefiJl alumni of the
school, the hall was erected from
funds collected largely from those
who procured their legal training
under the noted master for whom
the building is named. It stands as
a monument to the success in life of
the school's graduates and a testi-
I monial of their faith in its future.
I Now if we could only cut a few
chunks of hot weather and store them
away far future use as we do Ice in
the winter, how we would laugh at
the coal administrator next winter.
RISE, YE LOYAL SONS
AND now it is to toe "sugarless
applebutter!"
Is it any wonder men ace
chucking their jobs and rushing off
j to France in the hope of getting a
potshot at that sourfaced old kill-Joy,
the Kaiser?
"Sugfirless applebutter!" After
while, we supose, it will be "apple
less" applebutter. Of course, they
say we are to be allowed corn syrup
as a substitute, but we never did
like our applebutter mixed with mo
lasses and we face the experiment
with fear and trembling.
To trifle with applebutter is to
violate the sacred and inalienable
rights of every American whose line
age goes back to the supper table in
a farmhouse kitchen. Dear reader,
are you one of these elect? If so you
will sympathize; if not, we sympa
thize with you.
Life on the farm is a desert waste
without applebutter. A crisp autumn
evening, newly-baked bread of the
home-made variety—big of loaf,
light of texture and crisp of crust;
fresh-churned butter and recently
boiled applebutter, and nobody
hanging around to yell "slacker" at
the third slice. Those were the happy
days. As round after round
stored away beneath an ever-tight
ening belt we blest all creation for
the mere joy of living and even for
got the smarting gusts of smoke 1
that drove our eyes to tears when
the delicacy was in the making, and
we manipulated the long-armed stir
handle while the neighbor's boys
were off gathering walnuts. How the
picture does come back, grandmoth
er, presiding mistress of the occa
sion—big fire, big kettle, big "stir
rer," great quantities of apple
"snits," sweet cider in proportion,
sugar—and spices, oh, yes, spices;
Just so many; not a teaspoonful more
or less or the thing would be ruined.
And then, boil, boll, boll, until the
applebutter was thick and our faces
were red. But the torture over, the
treasure was stowed away in big
crocks, ample reward for our brief
suffering.
And now. It is proposed that this
ancient and time-honored family rite
be cluttered up with a corn syrup
•barrel as an interloper at the cere
mony. Rise, ye sons of Pennsylvania,
and smite this Kaiser person cheek
and jowl. Chuck him into one of
your own applebutter kettles and boil
him in the molasses he would foist
upon us.
By the Ex-Committeeman
Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the
Democratic nominee for Governor,
who was here to-day to attend the
funeral of Hon. Benjamin F. Meyers,
the veteran Democratic leader, left
little doubt about his intention to run
his <twn campaign this fall. The
judge said that he had come here to
pay his tribute to the chairman of
the meeting held in his honor in
June when Mr. Meyers made his las',
public appearance and did not wish
to talk politics.
When asked if he expected to get
into touch with the leaders of the
Democratic State Committee faction
the judge said with emphasis tiiat
he did not and that he did not ex
pect to meet with thfe other canal
dates tc arrange any campaign coni
mitce. He declared the whole con
troversy a closed incident.
During the day Mr. Bonniwell met
a number of the Dauphin county
men who have been aligned with
him, including Howard O. Holstein.
who ran for Lieutenant Governor
with him. It is expected that the
old Meyers and Fritchey elements~bf
the Democracy will line up back of
Bonniwell with vigor. They are in
control of the county and city com
mittees which makes it easier.
Judge Bonniwell will go 0) Pitts
burgh to-night.
The Philadelphia Inquirer of t>
day says: "W. Harry Baker, secre
tary of the Republican State Com
mittee, came down from Harrisburg
jestcrday afternoon and had a con
ference with Senator Penrose rela
tive to the political situation in a
number of counties, preparatory to
the formal opening of the Repub
lican state campaign early in Sep
tember. Mr. Baker spent part of ihe
afternoon at the Republican State
Committee headquarters looking af
ter some detail work. Judge John W.
Kophart, of the Superior Court, who
just came from a visit to the bad
si ie of Senator William E. Crow, at
Uniontown, where he is sitting up in
a hospital recovering from a severe
attack of appendicitis, reported ia3t
night that the Republican State
Chairman is much improved and
that his physicians expect he will
be able to be out within tha next
tluee weeks."
—The list of names of men who
have been commissioned majors in
the judge advocate general's depart
ment of the Army is becoming Dem
ocratically impressive. Robert S.
Bright, recent Democratic candidate
for Congress-at-large. is the latest
eminent Democrat to be named to
this select corps which includes such
eminent Democrats as George R. Mc-
Lean. the Democratic state chair
man; Edgar Munson, a son of C. La-
Rue Munson. J. G. Roper and a
number of others whose names and
affiliations are very much "Pennsyl
vania Democracy." •
—Johnstown city fathers are in a
peck of trouble because the appro
priations have been figured out to
be about $58,000 greater than the
revenue in sight.
—Third class city experts all over
the state are watching with the
greatest interest the troubles in the
Chester city council. It is believed
that they will impress themselves
upon Senator Sproul and that the
third class city code will get a much
reeded overhauling when the legis
lators qome to Harrisburg again.
—The Democratic state windmill
whirled on to-day entirely oblivious
of the Mresence of Judge Euteno C.
Bonniwell, the party's candidate for
governor of Pennsylvania. The mill
ers were busy sacking some of the
early contributions which have come
from Federal officeholders for the
prosecution of the fall campaign.
The leaders of the windmill faction
will have a talk in Philadelphia in
a few days to confirm what was ar
ranged in Washington about the
state campaign. The state head
quarters people know that Judge
Bonniwell is going to run his own
campaign and hold the committee
responsible for what dire conse
quences may follow.
—Henry Budd, the eminent Phil
adelphia lawyer and the candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
United States senator against A.
Mitchell Palmer has consented to
be a candidate for the Supreme
Court. Mr. Budd is backed by the
Bonniwell Democrats to a man and
has many friends in other parties
and segments of parties.
—A new flareup is said to be
threatened in Schuylkill county poll
tics unless some arrangement is
made whereby- Paul W. Houck will
succeed to office when his term as
secretary of internal affairs expires
next May.
—Senator William C. Sproul is
planning to come to this city Thurs
day or Friday for a brief stay on
his way to Carlisle where he is to
spend a short time Friday night
and then go on to the Path Valley
picnic in Franklin county on Satur
day.
—The capital issues* committee
threatens to go into expenditures of
various departments of the Phila
delphia city government.
—The failure of newspapers over
the state to get excited over the
Fifth ward trial at West Chester is
one of the signs of the times.
Quality Seems High Also
A month ago a million American
soldiers had embarked: now General
Pershing has a million American
soldiers under his command. Even
in this war it is an array.—Spring
field Republican.
Weatherman the Guesser
Hot waves come and hot waves
go, but never lettin' the guesser
know.—From the Baltimore Sun.
Many in That Fix
System is a good thing in busi
ness, unless you've got more system
than business. From the Bing
hamton Press.
Higher Up
"Why are you leaving us, Bridget?
Something private?"
I "No, mum—sergeant."
—From the Lamb.
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HE SANK THE LUSITANIA
[From the York Tijnes.]
It is reported from London that
the German Admiralty has admitted
the death, in September, 1917, of
Lieutenant Commander Schweiger.
captain of the submarine that sank
the Lusitania. In command of the
U-boat SS, he is said to have run
into a British minefield in the Bight
of Helgoland, and his boat to have
been blown up.
There is a certain plausibility of
poetic justice in his end, but if he
had been human and not a German
machine, he should have lived until
he made away with himself; or, his
mind broken with intolerable re
membrances, he should have passed
long years in a madhouse. But ho
was only a German. He only obeyed
orders. To do the arch-deed of piti
less savagery was to win promotion.
With what a delirium of rejoicing,
shoehorn to what endless bumpers,
was that exploit celebrated by the
German tribes!
Schweiger being only a German,
we cannot hope that any doubt,
much less any remorse, ever inter
fered with his self-Complacency. We
cannot imagine that, in the swift
surge of memories in the brain or
drowning men, he saw his victims
struggling in the sea soon to be his
grave; that he heard the cries of
those babies, those# children, those
women; that, in the dark closing
around him, he feared the strangling
hands of those nigh eight hundred
ghosts. A fat score of murder his,
but what is it compared with the
millions that Germany has mur
dered?
Yet this humble agent of the Ger
man Death merits a place conspicu
ous among all her innumerable de
visers of destruction. The horror of
his act is unforgettable even in the
procession of genuine German' deeds.
It was the pioneer of German ruin.
It lay, breeding bitterness, in the
American consciousness. It was the
seed and prelude of American en
trance into the war. "There is a
torpedo coming, Sir," said the sec
ond officer to the captain that May
afternoon off the Old Head of Kin
sale. It did its work well. It did
an infinitely greater work. It was
the signal of German Downfall.
Schweiger should have lived to see
the sequel, to see the drawers of the
sword perish by the sword. He
should have lived to see those 12-4
American dead of the Lusitania
avenged.
Well, he went to his place last
fall. His old principal. Von Tirpitz,
knows, whatever pretenses hs keeps
up, that the submarine dwindling
and futile as it is, was the fatal
bringer of disaster to Germany. As
for Lieutenant Commander Schci
ger's Kaiser, he is a neurotic, with
an imagination. As defeat thickens,
as ultimate ruin gathers visibly
,around him, what ceaseless knawlng
regrets, what sleepless fears for his
precious House, must beset him. He
is no fool. He can suffer. What
does he think of the Lusitania, of
his whole submarine fee-faw-fum?
What does he think of St. Helena us
an imperial all-the-year villa? .Yes,
the Kaiser is neurotic. When doubts
of his divinity occur to the god, who
shall salve his vanity? When a
world-dominator finds the world
indomitable against him, how is he
to get out of the scrape? We may
assume that Schweiger was stolid
The Kaiser, not from remorse, Dut
from disappointment, pride abased,
swollen atnbitions pricked, some
thing like "Hell on earth." Which
is lucky for him. The Prince of
Darkness, as a gentleman, has to
draw the line somewhere. Presum
ably he has laid out a No Man's
Land for German shadows. After
all, one has a reputation and tries
to keep a respectable houtfe.
LABOR NOTES
Carpenters at Salt Lake City have
secured the 8-hour day.
On September 1 Cleveland slate and
tile roofers will get 60 cents an hour.
St. Louis (Mo.) hodcarriers and
building laborers' unions have 1300
members.
Milwaukee meat cutters have es
tablished an f-hour day with 10
hours' pay.
Ironworkers in Brooklyn shipyards
make from 380 to 1100 a week.
In 1913 Hamburg Germany, had
143,000 union workmen. It now has
47,000.
Over 60,000 coal miners have been
called to the United States colors.
There are now 550,000 men engagfd
in shipbuilding in this country.
Women in England have entered
almost every trade except carpentry.
Unseen Power Working to Poison the
Mind and Soul of Our People
-BY
RICHARD H. EDMONDS, EDITOR MANUFACTURERS RECORD
MENTAL suggestion, hypnotism
and psychology are all being
used by Germany with a per
sistence and power incomprehensi
ble to people who have not under
stood the campaign by which for
years Germany has been poisoning
the wells of thought all over the
world.
For some years Germany, in a
way that is nothing less than Satanic
in its wido sweep throughout the
world and its tremendous power for
evil, has been utilizing mental sug
gestion and hypnotism upon people
who do not themteelves realize that
they are becoming possessed of the
devil.
Many a man stands in the pulpit
and preaches peace without punish
ment, many an editor shapes an ed
itorial or a headline, many a man in
public and private life makes state
ments calculated to weaken the mo
rale of America and of our allies
without himself realizing that he is
under the domination of the work of
mental suggestion and the hypnotic
power which Germany is exerting.
Impressions come to many people
lessening their hostility to Germany,
or lessening their determination that
there shall be no peace with an un
beaten Germany, who have not the
slightest idea that these thoughts
have been put into their minds by
the devil-work of German mental
suggestions or hypnotic activities.
The tremendous power of this in
fluence is not grasped at all; men
scoff at the power of mental sugges
tion or hypnotism without realizing
that there ia a fearfully dangerous
power in the possession of some peo
ple to control the thoughts and acts
of others. Germany has developed
this power to the fullest extent. It
is a power from the devil himself.
For years Germany has been util
izing it in order to plant throughout
AN ECONOMIC PROTEST
(From the Whisky Trust.)
To laws that imperil our product
We promptly will rise to object;
The profit we've made from legiti
mate trade
Our countrymen ought to protect.
We want to continue in business.
In spite of the stress of the war.
And if you refuse to let us piake
BOOZE,
We cannot make DRUNKS any
more.
For years we have labored, unham
pered,
Investing inordinate sums.
And we spent every cent upon plants
that were meant
To fabricate souses and bums.
But if our young men are forbidden
To toy with the highball and
seidle,
If they cannot hoist in any brandy
or gin, „
Our plants will be useless and idle.
The Jails and the pens and asylums
Are filled with the work we've
turned out.
If you go on the rounds of the bury
ing grounds
You'll see it well scattered about.
And if any form of red liquor
They will not permit us to use.
We shall just have to 'bust and give
up in disgust.
For we simply CAN'T run without
booze.
And what will become the poor
house
And the various jag-cure resorts.
And the judges and clerks and the
army that works
In the thousands of criminal
courts?
We hope you won!t think we are
selfish,
But Industry should not be curbed,
And, whatever Is done that the war
may be won,
OUR business must not be dis
turbed.
—JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
His Possible Reference
[From the Phlia. North American]
"We are mastersi" exclaims Luden
dorff theatrically, referring perhaps
to the unarmed hospital-ship situa
tion.
You Bet It's Important
Are we to understand that paper
suspenders go with these peper
suits the Germans are now wearing?
It is an Important question.—From
the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
i the world its poisoned thoughts and
to control men and women who have
no conception of the fact that they
are under the domination of such
an evil influence, and. therefore.
yi#ld willing obedience to it.
We are facing a situation where
Germany is putting forth the most
tremendous effort in its history to
extend the influence of this mental
control, or hypnotic power, over
other people, in order to secure
peace without punishment.
Men who think that they are talk
ing peace from high and holy mo,
ttves are. in many cases, without re
alizing it themselves, being used by
this German hypnotic work, exerted
directly upon them through some
pro-German skilled in the use of
mental suggestion or hypnotism.
German psychologists, through
American universities, in which they
held positions of honor, for years
sought to bring American thought
under their control, just as other
Germans have been engaged in sim
ilar work all over the world.
If we accept the doctrine that the
devil sends out into every corner of
the earth his unseen workers of evil,
that he puts into every human heart
suggestions of sin, and dominates all
the earth where the power of God is
not superior, and where men do not
look wholly unto God for safety from
the wiles of the evil one, then we
have an exact illustration of the
work of the German propaganda of
hypnotism and mental suggestion or
control. The menace is a real one
of tremendous import. Watch care
fully every suggestion of peace
with an uncrushed, unrepentant
Germany, ,and know that it comes
from pro-German hypnotic power or
from German financial operations to
influence by money, where Germany
cannot control by "mental sugges
tion."
LIBERTY LOAN LESSONS
That the Liberty Loans have been
a success is due to the businessmen
of the country; to the banks: the
banking houses; and to the associa
tions of advertising meh throughout
the land.
There has been no government
money available to cover the expenses
of selling campaigns. It has been
thought in Washington that funds
foi this purpose were unnecessary.
Experienced businessmen and bank
ers, .however, knew from the start the
necessity of wide publicity and ad
vertising and the necessity of per
sonal and persistent solicitation.
The fact that there were no funds
available for the purpose has made
no difference. .The thing had to be
dohe, and was done and' the three
■ Liberty I.oans have been a success;
' made so by the enthusiastic, whole
hearted, unselfish patriotism of the
men who knew how to do it
It Is to these men that the credit
of successfully floating the Liberty
Loans belongs.
Within a short time we will be
asked to subscribe to a fourth war
loan bigger than any of the others.
It is just as necessary that this should
be a success as it was in the other
cases. But the bond will not sell
themselves. It Is going to require
the most strenuous, persistent co
operative work en the pjrt of the
same class of men who made the
former loans a success before these
new billions can be subscribed.
No estimate has ever been made of
the value of the work donated by
these agents in the pa.<t. It would be
impossible to make su>h en estimate.
Measured on the basis of compensa
tion fcr work of a sim"ar charactet,
the sum might easily reach into the
m'llions of dollars. Add to this the
loss cj other that might have
been hsndled profitably while so en
gaged. and the sum total would be
greatly Increased.
The government can afford to pay a
fair and equitable compensation to
the men who devote their trained en
ergies to the task of making its war
loans possible. Ability to do these
things is the capital, the stock in
trade of these men end these instt- j
tutlons. Have ws reached that des- '
per ate stage where it is necessary
that the government "commandeer"
the services of these trained experts?
This may be putting it strongely, but
the failure of the government to pro
vide compensation for such services
amounts to "commandeering" for they
are going to see it through anyway;
they are going to see that every war
loan Is a success, pay or no pay:
their patriotism will see to this.—
From American Industries.
AUGUST 14, T9m
Appeal.to Lady Patriot
( From the Grand Rapids Press)
We suppose the hole in our knife
pocket would have gone unrepaired
all summer had we not had the hap
py inspiration to tell the lady com
mander at the house that our salient
needed attention.
Doing Its Bit
[From Life]
"Look here, neighbor, I hate to
complain, but your baby keeps us
awake most of the night."
"Yes sir. and that pet pig of yours
gets us up early in the morning."
"But our pig is helping to win the
war."
Bulgaria's Portion
[From the Philadelphia Inquirer]
Bulgaria is paying the penalty of
an alliance with her two traditional
enemies. She gets cholera, starvation
and typhus.
A Strong Probability
[From the Cleveland Plain Dealer]
Before this drive is over, the Ger
mans will not only be accepting
American troop figures but will prob
ably be inclined to exaggerate them.
Estimate of Crown Prince
The Dodge City Globe says the
Crown Prince made little progress
until he shifted his gears into re
verse.—From the Kansgs City Star.
I OUR DAILY LAUGH
NO NEED TO WORRY.
"Papa, the boys laugh at, me be
cause I am so fat."
"Never mind son, at the present
prices of food, that will soon b
changed."
DIFFERENT ANSWER.
"Am I the first girl you ever
oved?"
"No, you are the sixteenth, and
my taste has bee* improving right
along."
IN BUGVILLB.
Spectator—Ha, ha, look at the
Bush League game.
4 LITERALLY.
Monk: Look at' old kangaroo,
We jt boygtog mt
iEuptttng QKjat
History of newspaper-making In
H&rrlsburg—and It extends from the
dayp of John W. Allen and John
Wyeth, who started the Oracle of
Dauphin a why back In 1792 —shows J
no figure that compares with Hon.
Benjamin F. Meyers, who was laid
at rest to-day. Reference has been
made In the H&rrisbufg Telegraph
from time to time of the part that
the brilliant journalist played In the
life of the state capital, but few peo
ple realize now the force that he ex
erted In this community and the
[ state by his writing. Mr. Meyers
came to Harrlsburg to live when lUs
term as Congressman ended at the
beginning of the seventies. For ten
years previously he had been a fre
quent visitor here as legislator and
delegate to Democratic conventions
and after he had acquired control of
the Harrtsburg Patriot In 1868.
When he bought the morning news
paper it was published In the Dock
building at Third and Strawberry
streets, where O. Barrett, another
temous knight of the press, had held
forth. This is the self-same build
ing, only changed by some compara
tively minor alterations, that stands
there to-day being occupied by
stores and offices and the laboratory
of Colonel Henry C. Demming. The
Patriot establishment, including Its
job department, occupied all of the
building except the top floor, whero
J. George Ripper printed that influ
ential German weekly, the Staats
Zeitung. This newspaper disap
peared years ago, although the only
thing Teutonic about it was the
language. Ripper, who was the
head of a notable family of printers,
was a very stanch American and tol
erated no nonsense. When, in 1874,
Mr. Meyers became state printer, he
acquired a part of the State 'Capitol
Hotel lot where the Federal building
now stands, and erected a five-story
printing office at Third and Locust
streets, the foundations of which
were uncovered last year in enlarg
ing the Post Office. The whole Pa
triot flitted overnight and Charles
P. Meek, who was then foreman of
the composing room, came out with
the next morning's issue right up to
the mark and the paper looking, if
anything, better. This building was
the home of the State Printery, and
the newspaper, and was one of the
biggest establishments of the kind in
Central Pennsylvania. It was there
that the Patriot expanded its fame
and became a Democratic oracle,
comparable to the Philadelphia Rec
ord and the Pittsburgh Post of our
day. In 1878, when the state print
ing contract expired, the Patriot
moved to 320 Market street, the cor
ner of Market and Dewberry, where
Mr. Meyers erected the .building
which was its home until 1900,
through two changes of ownership.
That lot was part of the McKee
estate holdings and at first only "naif
of the building was erected. In 1891
Mr. Meyers, sold the Patriot to the
Messrs. Orr, under wfiiose manage
ment it was equally well known from
from end to end of the land as a
militant Democratic daily. Air.
Meyers' connection with the Patriot
ending in that year, he merged his
evening newspaper, the Star, with
the Independent, moving from
Fourth street to the old State Print-P*
ery at Third and Blackberry, which
he had acquired from Lane S. Hart.
In those days the city had two
morning and three evening newspa
pers and a couple of Sunday sheets.
Burins' his active days in joural
ism Mr. Meyers had about him many
fine newspapermen. Among those
who have gone were Major John H.
Filler, an editorial writer as keen
as the owner of the newspaper, and
Theodore Wright, both of whom
went to the Philadelphia Record
later; William P. Coulter, William
Rodearmel, one of the greatest local
•reporters the city ever knew; and
George M. Wanbaugh. Among the
men living who are among the
"aces" of newspaper work in those
days were Alderman George D. Her
bert and Colonel Demming. In the
composing room there were some
remarkable printers, man of virility
and hard sense. There were Edgar
E. Ebbert, Garland E. Allen, a south
erner who was as good an editor as
printer; Oliver Whitman, who later
became his own editor up the state;
Alexander M. Sample, Calvin Mac-
Dowell, son of Thomas MacDowell,
one of the editors of the Patriot in
Civil War days; George W. Osier,
long a city sanitary officer; Marion
Verbeke, George S. Sharp, George
Chandler and "Sam" Murphy, to
gether with Mr. Meek and others
well recalled by many Harrisburg
people.
• * *
Mr. Meyers was one of the organ
izers of the Citizens Passenger Rail
way Company, and its president for
a time; the prime mover in tele
phone competition in Harrisburg,
and interested in electric and other
utilities. He laid the foundation of
the Valleys Railways Company and
gave the Wilkers-Barre railway sys
tem its start. He was interested in
many lines, but he liked best of all
to get beside a reading lamp with
one of the big classics and read In
the original what most of us have to
turn to translations to absorb. One
time in the heat of a strenuous po
litical campaign—and it would take
a page to tell the storiel of the bat
tles he waged—-a newspaperman was
sent to get some important informa
tion from him. After a search of
hotels, headquarters and various of
fices, Mr. Meyers was found at home.
The campaign had reached a tight
place and as he Telt that events had
to shape themselves, he stole to his
chair at home to read Horace.
• • •
One day some friends asked Mr.
Meyers what jvas the most exciting
incident in his varied life. •
"When the rebels chased me," re
plied the veteran journalist.
"Never knew you were in the
war," remarked one of the party.
"I came near being part of the
war," said he. "I was up in my
home country helping look after
some deserters. They had called
upon some of us to assist in the re
cruiting and I was detailed to look
up some men away down near the* 4
state line. It was about the time
Lee invaded Pennsylvania, and I
spied some men on horseback right
after I had rounded up a fellow.
They spied me about the same time
and it was a race. I had a good
horse and kpew the roads."
WELL KNOWN PEOPUE
—-John S. Gayley, Jenktntown
banker, who was seriously hurt by a
fall, is prominent in county club life
near Philadelphia.
—Dr. J. D. Helper, one of the
Cambria draft board members, has
gone into the army as a captain.
•DO YOU KNOW 1
—Thnt Harrisburg seems to
have more people on the streets
these evenings than ever before?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG *
—One hundred years ago a a high
as a dozen Conestoga wagons used to
be parked in Market Square at night.