6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Id NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELBQIUPH piuirniro co, Telegraph Building, Federal Square Eh J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-inrCMxf F, ft. OYBTER, Business Manager GXIB M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. ft. MICHEN'ER, Circulation Manager Elenitive lloanl J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F, It. OYSTER, GUS. M. BTEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Prtss—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, • /A Member American Newspaper Pub tion, ' the* * Audit Bureau of Clrcu- HfancC-Etjaa lation and Penn -3a sylvanta Assocl 'm ra fl* B ated Dailies. Sflfe B tifii H! Eastern office, IS B Ess SI Story, Brooks A BfiSSfKBFtl Finley, Fifth w Avenue Building. New York City; *-i. M . JaF Western office, iff Story, <fe £ "lEßgefHiy Chicago, In!' ' nK ' Entered at tho Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents n <week; by mall. J5.00 a year in advance. SATURADY. AUGUST SI, 181S What does it wean that a hird has Mings hut that there is air in which ! to tiy, or that men are moved to pray in an orderly universe, hut that there is a God to answer themt — JOHN WATSOX. JAMES DONALD CAMERON AS a great Republican leader for many years and a forceful rail road executive, James Donald Cameron will be long remembered, but in Harrisburg his devotion to the best interests of this community and his conspicuous efforts to pro mote the prosperity and welfare of our people will be tho outstanding features in popular discussion of hist notable career. It is a difficult role which any man must play who succeeds to the mantle of a distinguished and influ ential father. General Simon Cam eron was so long the undisputed head of the Republican parti' in Pennsyl vania and a potential factor in the counsels of the party in the nation that his retirement imposed upon his son a tremendous responsibility in party leadership, but the guidon was immediately and courageously taken up by the younger man, who soon established in his own right a leadership which was for many years unquestioned. Even when he differed with his party associates on the important issue of free silver the Cameron influence persisted in the direction of party affairs. And to this day there are scores and hun dreds of Republicans who are proud of the fact that they were followers of the Cameron —father and son. Senator Cameron was direct, forceful and wifhout fear. His in fluence in shaping national policies was widespread and his patriotism was constant and of the stalwart type. Any reading of his speeches while a member of the United States Senate will show his earnest sup port of tho doctrine of protection and his long experience as a busi ness man gave him unusual power in the forming of important legis lation at Washington. , Perhaps no single thing In his whole political career has been more generally discussed than his un swerving advocac? of a third term for Presidsnt Grant. His strong fight on that issue was characteristic of the man. He was always firm in Ifis friendships and true to his con victions without regard to personal consequences. His loyalty to his home town, abiding interest in everything which concerned the welfare of the city, and his constant desire to aid in its upbuilding will nob be forgotten. While most of his colleagues have passed on and for many years he suggested the giant oak which has weathered many storms, there was in his life nothing of bitterness and much of inspiration for those of an other generation whose knowledge of the dead statesman and leader is largely a matter of historic interest. When the Democratic State Com mittee meets here next week to thfiow the hooks into Judge Bonniwell, the party's wet candidate for Governor, it will be interesting to observe whether Bonniwell is out of joint with the President. WERE PIKERS IF you would "find the origin of the tank now in use in Europe, go back to the Greeks and the siege of Troy," writes a correspond ent, referring to the wooden horse of legendary history. "There is noth ing really new under the sun," he adds. Maybe not, but it's a far cry from the wooden horse to the military tank of to-day. They had to wait for action until the Trojans had made a breach in the walls of their city and had hauled the horse with in, but when the Allies'find a wall in their path they merely send a tank to the fore and it does the smashing SATURDAY EVENING, for Itself and goes through of its own accord. The Greeks were pikers in the arts of war, What Will happen when the Ger man people begin to see through the Kaiser's camouflage? EMBARGO ON LIQUOR NOW that the people of the United States have forced their will Upon Congrees and the President In the matter of prohibi tion of the liquor traffic for the per- Iqd of the war, It Is reasonable to expect that the President will exer cise his power under the law to place an embargo upon the liquor business wherever It may be neces sary to safeguard the interests vital to the proseoutlon of the war. The country Is in no mood for camouflaging this issue at Washing ton or elsewhere. President Wilson has been the steady obstructionist in tho way of prohibition and with one reason or another has managed to stavo off the passing of the saloon. Ho is directly responsible for pro longing the period in which the busi ness may be carried on from Janu ary 1. 181#, to June 30, 1818. Under tho circumstances, it is not likely that he will interfere with tho busi ness heforo the time limit fixed by tho act passed by Congress yoster | day. A well-known reader of the Tele graph writes to say that Harrisburg is likely to suffer a coal shortage next winter "not because there is not coal to be had, but because it can not be mined and transported," He [ adds; "Within Dauphin county there is an abundance of tho best anthra cite in America —in the Lykens Val ley. There still continues, despite Federal control of both coal and transportation, a differential which not only makes this nearby coal cost more In Harrisburg, but which sends It past our coal yards to be hauled hundreds of miles farther while we must depend on coal brought In sev eral round-about ways utterly with out relation to conservation of trans portation or effort." "But there is a larger aspect of the chilly coal prospect. On July 12 last the National Coal Association ad dressed the Fuel Administrator that in the opinion of the representative committee of operators the country cannot have both booze and sufficient coal this winter. The liquor traffic is curtailing coal production and the time has come to eliminate it." Our indignant correspondent says he has seen no rejoinder to this defi nite statement, but that he had been informed that President Wilson himself, as has been stated on the floor of Congress, is responsible for postponing the dropping of the pro hibition gate until July 1, 1919. Our correspondent also states that on the authority of the New York Independent (page 240, August 24, 1918), he learned that last year it re quired 167,916 cars to haul boozs in the United States and that the liquor traffic burned 60,000,000 tons of coal while it was decreasing the produc tion of that necessity. As between coal and booze there can be no doubt whatever upon which side the people are aligned. If it is a good thing to suspend the liquor traffic next July, it is a good thing now. Upon President Wilson must rest the entire responsibility for the postponement of a vital war meas ure. Senator Sheppard, of Texas, author of the prohibition amendment to the Constitution, informed the Senate that the President had asked for a postponement of prohibition until January 1, 1920, in order to obtain the revenues that would come from releasing the stores of distilled spirits now in bond. But the Senate would not stand for further delay and fixed July 1, of next year. It has been stated over and over again that while the people were freezing and industries were closed for want of fuel last year, the brew eries were not hindered in their oper ation for lack of coal. Nor was there any saving of the congested railroad facilities through an embargo upon the shipment of booze. Senator Kirby, of Arkansas, minces no words in a statement that the Federal Government has been favoring the liquor interests ever since the war began: that when in dustrial plants were closed last win ter east of the Mississippi river not a brewery in the United States was shut down and when a limitation was placed upon the use of flour in bread one could buy all the beer he wanted. Representative Kahn, Republican, promptly took up the fight for the administration, military bill when Dent. Democrat, failed to stand by the President. Yet we do not hear the President asking for Dent's defeat. A DECISIVE VICTORY GENERAL PERSHING says "it fills mo with pride to forward in general orders a tribute to the service achievements of the First and Third Corps," which includes the Twenty-eighth or Pennsylvania Divi sion. He says these troops came to the battlefield at a crucial hour for the allied causd and "gained a bril liant victory that marks the turning point of the war." General Pershing also observes that the Pennsylvanians and others whom he so highly com mends "proved that our altruism, our pacific spirit and our sense of Justice have not blunted our virility or our courage." In this order to his troops General Pershing has emphasized the pur pose of the American people in his statement that American and energy are as fit for the tasks of war as for the pursuits of peace. From every quarter of the country now comes the demand of the peo ple that every atom of force be used in crushing the Hun menace and that no peace fee declared until those responsible for the world tragedy shall be personally punished. Amer lea will stand -for no fals* peace. It Insists with growing emphasis upon a decisive victory. And now. all you Sunday motorists, what shall be done with the Kilitrl T tnH4ijto<uua, By tho Ex-Committeeman Men connected with the movement for a third party In behalf of Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell's candidacy for Governor expect the Fair Play name pre-empted yesterday after noon to be placed upon tho Congres sional, Senatorial and Legislative bal lots In two-thirds of the state at the least and possibly In three-fourths. The fact that Congress has virtually agreed upon prohibition for the na tion does not appear to disturb the men behind the Judge a particle. They are talking as though there would be a rush to adopt their new part name. People here are watching with n great deal of interest tho manner In which tho candidates take to the now party. There are now men on avow edly "wot" platforms, who have been shy of committing themselves to the new venture for fear of consequences and many of them stood on the other side of tho road yesterday when the men met hero to sign pre-emptions. These men have been mailed blanks for pre-emptions and nominating petitions and given to understand that It Is up to them. Certain ones are understood to have made Inqui ries as to what signing up entails. It is expected that in the next few days there will be quite a few pre-emptions filed by men who did not deem It expedient to send men here to join In the procession or who did not care to spend the money for their traveling expenses. The time for filing the petitions expires on Friday. One of the things which is attract ing attention here is the coyness of candidates for the Supreme Court. There have been papers taken out for seven or eight candidates, but noth ing in the way of any aggressive ac tion has been taken for any of them. There are about four weeks left In which to file such nomination papers. The Philadelphia Inquirer, which reviews the latest Bonniwell enter prise at length, has this to say about the plans of the new third party men: "The defeat of Bonniwell and his entire state ticket is, of course, foreshadowed by the sentiment in form of Gubernatorial Candidate William C. Sproul and his colleagues on the Republican state ticket, but the importance of the Bonniwell move to-day upon congressional, senatorial and .state representative districts is not underestimated by practical politicians. The aim of Bonniwell is to line up for his ticket all who are opposed to the ratifica tion of the prqposed prohibition amendment, and votes which will be thus attracted to the Fair Play Party may defeat candidates for Congress' and Legislature whose names will not be on this new ticket. The ticket< will be a rallying point for liquor men throughout the state in district contests. Without regard to party affiliations, the Bonniwell men put pose to nominate "wet" candidates in all of the districts for which they have pre-empted their party title." —Judge Bonniwell, who come in during the day from Pittsburgh, said last evening that he was entirely satisfied with what had been done. He complained of the manner in which J. J. Breen had handled things and predicted that there would be extensive filing of preemptions from the western and central counties. It is an interesting thing to note that every Democratic district has been well, covered —lt required eighteen Bibles yes terday to get the affidavits taken for the new Fair Play party. The men were sworn in blocks. —While the Philadelphia Record hails the new party as something needed to purge Pennsylvania Demo cracy, the other Philadelphia papers treat it as a passing fancy. —To-day , Senator Sproul and his colleagues will speak at Uniofftown 1 where the Fayette county Republi can comrryttee has its annual meet ing. Senator Penrose is expected. —Disappearance of the Roosevelt Progressive party from the list of state-wide" nominations because of withdrawals of men who had been made candidates under that name by scattering votes, leaves only the Washington party name as a remind er of the great campaign of six years ago. And this name will likely fade front the ballot in November. It it were not for the Washington name and the new Bonniwell party the list of parties in the field would be back where it was ten years ago. The Roosevelt Progressive party was one of the four which got on the ballot as a result of the Roosevelt campaign and which persisted be cause of the scattering vote. The Progressive party name was the first to go and the Bull Moose followed it a few years later. To stay on the ballot and both it and the Washing ton name survived the campaign of 1916. The regular Republicans got all of the Washington nominations and almost all of the Roosevelt Pro gressive attentions. It is probable that before long there will be legis lation to put such party ghosts out of the way at earlier days. The his tory of the last twenty years shows that every time there has been an independent movement the name sticks around with a legal right to space on the ballot long after the is sues, ideas or isms which brought it forth have been forgotten by the voters. It means use of white paper and ink an annoyance in casting up columns. Mailing Packages to Soldiers Here is the straight dope on pack ages from the folks at home to the boys here. Get your C. O. to make a written statement that you need the articles and then have the folks paste the statement on the package when they send il to you. You'll get it then. —(From the Fly Paper, France.) Maybe William Talks in Sleep The German empress is seriously ill. Perhaps she is one German wom an who is permitted to hear the truth about the war.—Kansas City Star. . " Private Control Essential Street car companies would never let McAdoo run their lines, if they could help it. The man believes in seats for all passengers.—From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Logical Reason The belief in a hell will persist as long as everybody knows some one who he thinks ought to go there. — Albany JOurnoL • • fiARRISBURO l®Bk TELEGRAPH THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS ARE THE HARDEST By BRICGS ( Go~ "To' SCHOOL. That's \ f CLICe D IT Off ) Ana eoiisUi To Caody FOR mb.'! \ / cooo- <srovo UP awd bb a fimb J ) about ia> HERE / YOU COOK LiKB A MlfiHtr FIIMB ] j MAM- B8 A SooD BOV AMD Mice j , BOY- What'S I I HATS I SAtL - AMD A STROKE \ YoOR EYe- OfD THE ©ALL" • \ V.JIAM SH YOU OW TO MS J ! ] I Too- WHer6'o Vbo mark) Cant AFFORD TO BE I — — Alt Y•OO t / BonniwelVs Mule Ticket (From the Philadelphia Press.) All Democratic candidates for Congress and the Legislature are in vited by letter Just sent out to take a place on this independent ticket, the name of which the public will be allowed to know when the title is pre-empted, as the law requires, a day or two hence. Washington Logue, the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor, is excluded from the superior privileges the new ticket is expected to afford, because he does not agree with Judge Bon niwell's free booze platform. To fill the gap it is extravagantly intimated that the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor and for Secre tary of Internal Affairs may be taken up. That cannot but be regafded as an impossible proposition. It cannot be contemplated for a moment that either of these Republican candi dates would permit his name to re main on a ticket headed by Judge Bonniwell, and whose only purpose would be to divert Republican votes from the Republican candidate for Governor. That ticket will be no place for a Republican, and no reg ularly nominated Republican can didate for any office in the state could affod to have anything to do with it. It is designed to get wet votes no matter from what party, and the single aim is to advantage the Democratic candidate for Gov ernor without reference to what may happen to the rest of the party. Neither party is all wet nor all dry. Judge Bonniwell will, very like ly get votes from other than his own party because he is wet, and that's what his proposed independent ticket is for. On the other hand, there are dry members of his own party who will not vote for him. All the votes cast for Governor at the Republican primary were for dry candidates, with the. exception of 9,110, and the total was 523,677. The wet vote at the Democratic primary was 78,208, and the dry vote was 65,876. How does Judge Bonniwell expect to get enough voters into his spider web to make his case hopeful? "Pay-as-You-Enter-Inn" There are many quaint bits of fact and fancy in Walter Pritchard Eaton's musings on the inspiration of locality in American letters, en titled "The Literature of Place," which appears in the September Bookman. Here is an amusing in stance of the way the enterprising businessman makes capital out of literary landmarks: "Perhaps there is a certain conventional pose in the assumption that we, in America, are poor in the overtones of literary as sociation. After all, there is much in American letters already work ing to endear and enrich certain lo calities, even when it is not, strictly speaking, literature of place. I was reminded of this fact afresh the other day when my motor suddenly rounded a bend on the Boston and Worcester post road and beside me, behind its huge, patriarchial oaks, rose the beautiful old walls and shouldering roof of the Wayside Inn. I must admit that Longfellow lay about me in my infancy so übiquit ously and was, by pedagogical com pulsion, copied so often into my "memory gem book," that I now de test him above all other poets. Aet I saw the Wayside Inn rising be hind its great oaks, flanked by the lovely, rolling fields of Middlesex, with a thrill that even its antiquity and architectural charm could not account for. Why. you have to pay even to enter it now! You pay for the privilege of paying for a jneal there. Literature did that. Let the landlord take charge of the next inn up the road, let him serve meals ten times as good, yet what would be come of his admission fee? No, the Authors' League should certainly take the matter up, and compel him to disgorge royalties, on his present profits, to Longfellow's family. LABOR NOTES Michigan's women factory workers more than doubled during the last year. Dresden's (Germany) trade union membership of 96,000 in 1913 has been cut In half. More than 1,000,000 English wo men are employed in making muni tions. There are 17,000 women employed in the Paris office of the French War Department. The average rate of pay paid wo men time workers in England is $6.08 per week. Spain has 992 plants for public electric light and 978 for private use.. Comfort For Mothers From The Literary Digest ONE word in the Kaiser's letter to Frau Meter after she had lost nine sons in the war strikes the majority of non-Germans with amazement. It has been often assert ed by our enemies that the world outside their borders does not think as do the Germans, and the rebuke is accepted as praise, but when the Kaiser writes the bereaved mother that he is "gratified" by the extent of her sacrifices there is seen to be a depth yet unplumbed in the Em peror's psychology. Americans in stinctively place alongside this strange message of sympathy the letter that Lincoln wrote ttf Mrs. Bixby, and the two mefi seem to stand out in a clearer light: The Kuiser's Letter "His Majesty the Kaiser hears that you have sacrificed nine sons in de fense of the Fatherland in the pres ent war. His Majesty is immensely gratified at the fact, and in recogni tion is pleased to send you his pho tograph, with frame and autograph signature." Lincoln's Letter "Dear Madam—l have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should at tempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished mem ory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." . It will be recalled that tlfe Kaiser in one of his recent speeches of the war as a struggle between two world ideas, and his letter, to gether with the act that it signal izes, must be taken as tribute to the ideal that possesses the soul of Wil iliam. As editorial writers East and West view the contrasting letters, "the spirit of autocracy and the .spirit of democracy are here con trasted beyond the power of any commentary to do it." The Kansas City Star observes: "Only a humane man, a man of the loftiest as well as the tenderest feelings, could have written the let ter to Mrs. Bixby. Only a supreme egotist could have written the letter jto Frau Meter. Yet it would be a mistake to assume that Lincoln, be cause he felt his heart melt at the grief of an American mother had not the sternness of purpose to per severe in his task to saving democ racy on this continent. The other word for German efficiency is cruelty. To be thorough, in the Ger man theory, is to be unfeeling. The Kaiser, therefore, was 'gratified' that nine sons of a German mother had On Some Recent Victories Be humble, O my country! In this hour, Remember there are fiery paths to cross, Undreamed of anguish and un reckoned loss To face with courage, ere the per fect flower Of Peace shall blossom after hell's red shower. Be confident; be brave; yet also be Like the great Christ in His humility; Be mindful of the purpose of your power. It is not gain you seek. It is not praise. Therefore let pride be buried in the dust Fight-on, forgetful of this flapiing dower Of sudden victory. There shall be days Of darkness when your bright steel seems like rust. • • Be humble, O my country, in this hour. CHARLES HANSON TOWNE. Dumpling Must Like It If an apple dumpling doesn't want to be eaten, why does it smear itself all over with that delicious sauce and sit there smilln' up at you with a look of Paradise upon its cherubic face? —Baltimore Sun. died to preserve his autocracy. To him it was merely evidence that his system was still working, and he congratulated himself. That is the meaning of his letter. It could not convey any other and be German. "Lincoln could lay the balm of a noble sympathy on a mother's ach ing heart, but he would not have restored her sons to her even if he could have done so at the sacri fice of the cause in which they died. He was a man of the gentlest na ture, but he was not a sentimental ist. He knew the war must go on and that mothers' sons must die be fore it could end in the establish ment of the right. He did not as sume that he could square the ac count with them by sending them his picture autographed or by ex pressing gratification. Mrs. Bixby's consolation must be in 'the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.' "There was a purpose here as firm as the Kaiser's is cruel. He was gentle, but not weak. It was the purpose of the Gettysburg address again expressed that these dead shall not have died in vain. There could be no going back from the righteous goal because men had perished. Rather there must be renewed de termination to press on. These are things to be remembered when the letter to Mrs. Bixby is brought up to illustrate Lincoln's gentleness and sympathy. He had these attributes, but they did not constitute weakness in the structure of his devotion to a human cause." One other commentary is supplied by the New York Times in warn ing us that though the report has it that "Frau Meter has now joined the street-beggars in Delmenhorst- Oldenburg to get a living," before viewing the Kaiser's letter "with laughter and scorn, it is well to re member that the recipient may have viewed it exactly as did the giver." For— "If she believed, as she presuma bly doea, in the divine right of kings, it may be that she' was ap preciably comforted in her bereave ment, and, at any rate, it can safely be assumed that the Kaiser hon estly thought she would be. "Lincoln, naturally, did not send his photograph to the mother who had lost five sons, and he admit ted that no words of his could miti gate her sorrow. All he felt that he could do was to thank her in behalf of the Republic her sons had died to save, and to remind her of the pride she had a right to feel who had 'laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.' "So speaks the representative of autocracy, and so the exponent of democracy! Each of the letters is a characteristic product of the coun try in which it originated, as of the man who wrote it. To-day the two exemplify the causes for which so many men are dying on both sides of the line between the Central Powers and their confederated op ponents." ' Persia's King Seeks a Queen After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king; and let the maiden which pleaseth the king bo queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king, and he did so.—Esther ii, 1 to 4. When Germany Can Hope At Lunenberg stood* until recently a huge bronze statue of the Kaiser. At last the thing has been put to some use —has been sent to a foundry to be converted into ordnance. The statue is gone. When the Kaiser is likewise gone—he and the whole tribe of Hohenzollern —then will there be some hope for Ger many. And not until then. —Philadel- phia Inquirer. Company on Long, Long Trail "Austro-Hungarian reinforcements have arrived' on the western front"— Just in time to help Fritz take the back trail. —From the New York World. It's Ending in kun The great German offensive began in March and ended In Halt. —From I the Brooklyn Eagle. AUGUST 31, 1918. THE CRANE MAN I'm the "man way up" at the very top Where a wise guy ought to be. I'm the boy that's over the bloom in' shop An' you gotta look up to m'e: For I rides in my carriage to an' fro I.ike a millionaire's private train. An' we sure looks down on the gang below, —Me an' my trav'lin' crane! < There ain't no burdens too large for us, Me an' this crane of mine. We lifts the biggest without no fuss For that is the way we shine: We takes 'em any old shape or size An' juggles 'em through the air. An' lowers 'em careful, easywise —When it comes to the job— we're there! Old Hercules is an also ran, An' Samson's a piker, too. They was pretty good on a small size plan. But to-day they'd never do; We've got 'em faded, we've got 'em " stung, They never could stand the strain Of the stunts we do an' the loads we've swung— —Me an' my trav'lin' crane! —American Machinist, Forgiveness The grave only knows how to for give—it is. the mfist refined and gen erous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. —Sterne. . . OUR DAILY LAUGH Why are you I putting that muzzle on your —SPW little brother? send him to the store to buy me f&x a char lotte SEVENTH AOB old man. Isn't uPt' Well, he 18 ,n the second M* tUMP* dancehood. What Is an ef fectlve bltck- v* 11 happens When you don't tip the waiter, fNOT AN ECON OMIST. Are you prac ticing food econ omy? I tried it out, work. My hus band simply re fused to eat the cold boiled egg that was left over from the day before. PROGRESS. Willie, how are you getting along In school? lick three kids fLv Jvjtk who grades higher up than me. |j |j fainting (Eljat James Donald Cameron, who for years dominated the Republican party In this section of the state and who wielded a wonderful Influence in Dauphin county, and Benjamin Franklin Meyers, for years a prom inent figure in the affairs of the Democratic party in this and adjoin ing counties, were born within two months of each other in 1833 and i w 'thin a month of each other ) in 1918. Both were men highly hon ored by their respective parties and although opponents In politics were warm friends. Years ago when both were active in politics their meet ings were real occasions. They were men of wonderfully alert minds and their interchange of remarks was filled with edged pleasantries. Mi-. Cameron, whose activities in behalf of Harrisburg, encouragement of building, housing, traction and other lines have been referred to in the Harrisburg Telegraph, said that be cause of its situation Harrisburg was bound to become a great transporta tion center and that it would over flow, as he once put it, to the hills on both sides of the Susquehanna. For this reason, he also said it *fbuld some day be a notable banking com munity, the hub of financial insti tutions. He was one of the organ izers of the Commonwealth Trust Company, the pioneer company of the kind here, and kept a watchful eye upon local securities. Old railroad men recall with great interest the days when Mr. Cam eron was president of the Northern Central. He was one of the right bowers of Mr. Scott, (it is not neces sary to write anything more about that railroad genius) and the North ern Central was one of the great ar teries of the Union cause. Mr. Cam eron had offices in the old Eby build ing at Fifth and Market streets and kept eye and hand right on the rail road. He- was vigorous when occa sion required, but the Northern Cen tral met the demands. Senator Cameron's interest in Harrisburg is on record in the pro ceedings of City Council on a num ber of occasions when he addressed the local legislative bodies on topics of local importance during the years of his activity in public affairs. One of these letters had to do with the renaming of Cameron street, then Eleventh street. That was many years ago when the thoroughfare in question was given over mainly to little houses, hovels, stables, public dumps, stagnant water and mos quitoes. But the far-sighted Sena tor saw in it the importance it has begun to assume and was anxious that his name be associated with it, resting quite content to chango its name to Cameron street, confi dent that the developments of the years would justify his vision. -How wisely he divined the growth of the city is already well demonstrated, as Cameron street is becoming the center for numerous big industries and bids fair to become the homo of many others and in due time to be the most important industrial thoroughfare in the city. • * • On another occasion he wrote a personal letter to the late Mayor Charles A. Miller, then city clerk, urging the erection of a wall along the River Front. He accompanied the letter with a little pen-sketch of the proposed improvement, and' which showed a stone wall from low watermark to three feet above street level, with a granite coping. It was the Senator's idea that each property owner should bear the expense of the wall in front of his property and dedicate the land for park purposes from western curbline to the bottom of the wall, the city to pay for the All. That was many years ago and Senator Cameron was some twenty five or thirty years ahead of public thought, which later crystallizing round the project he had urged re sulted in the erection of the walk and steps which now adorn the River Front for so many squares. ♦ Some interesting stories of game law violations are commencing to be reported at the offices of tho State Game Commission and the Greene county case wherein men were fined for shooting martens is attracting attention at the Capitol. In this county the blackbirds have been troublesome and farmers went out and shot them without obtain ing permits from the state authori ties. It happens that in so doing they killed some robins, too, and fines were paid. The plea was made that the robins were killed by mis take in firing at trees, but how the martens got in the line of fire is not explained. Game wardens have been running down violations, es pecially in the deer line, but thus far the small game Was not been much attacked. The most trouble has been given by aliens who per sist in keeping dogs and who disre gard all precautions which persons authorized to keep hunting dogs are compelled to observe. Dozens of in stances where dogs have been dis covered about homes of aliens are reported almost every week. • • "There seems to be two things that all the federal thunders seem unahle to diminish. Ome is travel on the railroads and the other is soda fountain drinks," remarked a man who gets about. "There are just as many people traveling as before, probably more, in spite of increased rates and there are just as mans fountain drinks sold. In these days when every effort is being made in Harrisburg to put hard liquor out of business. It seems odd to call fot less drinking of soft drinks." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE • —J. A. Harris, Jr., Philadelphia banker, who has been ill. has re turned to duty. —W. S. Gould, the State Elk sec retary, will go to France in 'Y. M. C. A. work. —Thomas G. Vincent, the reap pointed postmaster of Danville, used to be prothonotary of Montour county. —John A. Thornton, postmaster of Philadelphia, who was also reap pointed, used to be a magistrate and is noted for Independent proclivi ties. —B. C. Atlee, the active head of the Lancaster Automobile Club, has Issued a call for all members of his club to abide by the call not to run cars on Sunday. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg was among tho first state capitals to go over the top on the last Liberty Loan? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Almost every family in Harris Ferry owned continental currency when * the Revolution ended and many of fhem held on to it and made mopey.
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