COAST-TO-COAST LINE IS BROUGHT AGAIN TO FRONT Big Project Broached as Re .. suit of Revival of South Penn Scheme Exploitation of the potentialities of the long-dormant South Penn Railroad project and the likelihood of its revivification by the Pennsyl vania Railroad which acquired all rights and titles appertaining to it more than a generation ago. has led to the disclosure of ,a ygt more am bitious and comprehensive one, of which, however, the South Penn line Wilt form an integral part, should it eventuate. Moreover, fpur lines dij tinctlvely local to Pittsburgh—the Union Railroad, a subsidiary of the Carnegie Company; the Mon tour owned by the Pitts burgh Coal Company; the Pittsburgh and. West Virginia Railroad and its subsidiary, the West Side Belt Rail road—all figure prominently in the scheme. Outlined briefly, the greater por ject contemplates the constitution of a coast-to-coast military all-rail route to be permanently under gov ernment control, whatever disposi tion shall be made of the roads now so controlled and operated. This, ac cording to the tentative plans al ready made and which, it is under stood, have been submitted to and approved by the Washington author ities, -is to be effected by the inclusion of a number of roads already in operation in the system and the con struction of requisite connecting links to form a continuous line. As projected, tpe Eastern terminus of the line will be Port Newark, N. J., whence a road would be built straight across the State of New Jer sey to Portland, a station of the Le high and New England Railroad In the eastern part of Pennsylvania. The rails of this line are to be utilized from Portland to Slatington on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad whose Schuylkill and branch it will use to Virglnsville. Thence to Hamburg an abandoned line of the Reading will be rehabilitated and utilized and from this last-mention ed point it is proposed to follow an old survey of the South Mountain Railroad to Harrisburg where the Susquehanna River will he crossed and the South Penn survey be picked up and followed to a junction with the Union Railroad at Bessemer. Old Wubasli Route All Of this section of the route willl involve new construction, including completion of a tunnel through Tus ckrora mountain, started years ago, the line through Fulton county to a point near Bedford, thence to Mann's Choice on the Juniata division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and in its course to Donegal and Scottdale, skirting Mount Pleasant and through Jacobs' Creek Valley to the Yough iogheny river, where it will come upon an old survey which it will fol low to Bessemer. From Bessemer it is proposed to utjlize the rails of the Union Railroad to Mifflin Junc a junction with the existing Western Pacific, which It will follow to Pacific tidewater at Oakland, Cal. Despite the apparent deviousness of the route as planned, reference to the map will disclose a consistency of direction that is quite remarkable. From the Atlantic seaboard terminus to St. I-ouls its course is just a Utile sputh of west and thence to the Pa cific seaboard almost due west as the crow flies. Nor is it in the least chim erical, according to its projectors, who have produced figures to prove that it may be created at a minimum of time, effort and cost, while the advantage it would be to the gov ernment is obvious. In any event the project appears to possess merit suf ficient to have secured for it serious consideration by the authorities at Washington, 79th's Infantry Brigade Headquarters Assigned For Early Convoy Home Washington. Feb. 4. The 79th Division's Infantry brigade head quarters has been assigned to early convoy. The 70th Division is composed of selective service men from Eastern Pennsylvania ahd Marvland. The division trained at Camp Meade. Power of Investigating Committee Is Extended Washington, Feb. —After ex tended and vigorous criticism by several senators of alleged lawless propaganda, the Senate to-day adopted a resolution extending the powers of the Senate committee In vestigating German propaganda to inquire into other activities which it was charged sought the over thiow of the governipeut. Courthouse Notes Continue Divorce Court—Because no court stenographers could be secured it was necessary to postpone hearing any of the divorce actions to-day until Friday* , Judge Henry Hears Argument— Judge C. V. Henry,.specially presid- heard argument to-day in the jcqpity suit, of the Jun[atq. public .Service Company, Millersburg vs. Daniel "W. TTombergfer, Harry Swab ttnd Frederick A. Zeigier. The ac -1 ion was brought in - an an effort to prevent the men from dredging the Wiconisco creek for river coal, the company alleging it held title to that part of the creek bed. r Change Organization Name—The court to-d,ay approved changing the .name of the "ChYlst Home" chart ered in this county, to the "Metho dist Home For. Children." Members of city council and other city officials left. thtß aftprnoon ifi automobllea foriAileqtowti,. where hit 'will inspect the electric signs along the main streetsof that city. Allentown officials through the co operation of businessmen have had little trouble in Rating the signs f hanged so as net,to endanger pedes trians passing under them on the sidewalks, and : .the .IJtarrJsburg offi cials are planning similar action In this city, it is understood. j , M Aftftl Ani? "1 ; XeUr. X Kendle, tllgij. Field, !>., end Myrtle E. Toms, 1-anXz. ,Md-!,Dote Deaden and Bstella, Rearl, Steeltonj ■Webster C. Bpaydsr, Hummelstown, end Ella M. Wheeler, Steel ton: Melch fel Fed lie end L.en*..rfar t , Herrishurg, r n- a. .. L_zz_^v:.....;; TUESDAY EVENING. METHODISTS ATTEND BIG ANNUAL BANQUET More Than 550 Dine at Second Big Event; Wonderful Strides of Church Told by Speakers At the second annual banquet off Methodists of Harrisburg and vicin ity held at the Masonic Temple last night, plans were outlined which showed the extent to which the peo i pie of this denomination have de termined to carry their work in this city. Just as the state is proposing to make the State Capital a center from which may radiate, through the state, ideas and plans for civic and material improvements, just so are the Methodists of Harrisburg planning that their work may, be an inspiration and encouragement to the religious and spiritual development throughout the- entire Common wealth. It was shownMhat wonderful strides had been made by the Metho- : dist churches of this district during\ the past year and that the plans fori the near future embrace the most: important operations that any de nomination has ever attempted Jn this city. More than 530 were gathered at the banquet and for the second time it was found that the spacious ban-, quet hall at the Masonic Temple was 1 entirely inadequate to accommodate the splendid turnout of enthusiastic church workers. The addresses or the evening were very eloquent and forceful, the principal speaker being Bishop William F. McDowell. of Washington; Dr. W. Doughty, of New York; the Rev. Morris E. Swartz, H. L. Price and H. S. Du laney, of Baltimore, and District Superintendent Edgar R. Heckman, of this tlty, also had prominent parts in the program.'* The centenary missionary move- ELECTION BILLS TURN UP IN HOUSE One Would Provide For Com pulsory Personal Regis tration and Voting A bill providing for compulsory | personal registration and voting and i three other bills affecting elections were presented to the House to-day by Mr. Walker. Philadelphia. One bill requires formation of parties be fore preemption of name are filed, another makes qualifications for es l eistaivce at primaries the same as at a general election, and the fourth es tablishing qualifications for signers of nomination papers. | Methods for relocation, alteration and vacation of public roads and highways leading into or contiguous to parks and playgrounds other than those within boroughs and municipal ities was presented by Mr Sowers, Philadelphia. It would affect all atate-owned lands or properties in cluding state institutions, Capitol park and forests. Mr. Franklin, Philadelphia, intro duced five bills regulating >*ecording of deeds and mortgages and making numerous changes. A bill establishing a state agri cultural school in Philadelphia and carrying 1300.000 for purchase of a site and erection of buildings was in troduced to-day at the opening of the House session by Mr. Dunn, Philadel phia. The Governor is to name a commission of five to carry out the project. An appropriation of $323,000 in cluding SIIO,OOO for maintenance for the State Village for Feeble Minded " omen was introduced bv Mr. Sho walter. Union. Other bills presented were Mr. Robertson. Northumberland, requir ing assessors to keep records of c'avs actually employed. , The Cox bill granting to orphans of veterans of the war wjtli Germany the privileges of state soldiers' or phans schools was passed finally. The bill repealing the non-pa tisan t® the judiciary general committee judicial election act was recommitted for amendment on motion of its sponser, Mr. Walker. WALTER SHAFFER IS TO TELL OF THE WAR [Continued from First Page.] ocean. He has a wonderful story to tell about his battles a mile or more abo've the clouds. His story of the early days of the war when lives were doubly risked by fighting in airplanes unsafe for travel under the best of conditions, of the later days when the machines were perfected and in them they ventured far over the German lines, of the cruelties he witnessed on .his scouting tours, of his almost hope less days in a dingy Hun prison,— these and many other points blend to make a story replete with thrills. Probably no other American fight ing in France under ours or any other colors became so well known : and so much talked about in this locality as Walter Shaffer. His let ters that were published in the Ilar risburg Telegraph gripped the inter est of thousands of readers. His narrative of exciting adventure in the struggle against the Hun read like the linking episodes of a mov ing picture serial, and the public followed them with even greater zest because they were founded on fact Readers got 'to the point where they were Impatient in their Wait for the next chapter In Shaf fer's wonderful story, and now that he is back home again there are thousands who have never laid eyes on him who consider themselves his friends. This Is typified by the huge stack of mail received by the young aviator at his home in Dauphin every day, letters from folks he never heard of before urging him to come to this place or that place to deliver his story from theater stage or church platform, and fol lowing his first public appearance at the Orpheum next Monday even ing a route will be laid out for Shaf fer so that he can-comply with these requests and carry his thrilling page of history personally into the towns that have come to know him through the pages of the press. Shaffer presents a picture that makes one glad to gaze upon in his striking French blue uniform dotted many times by medals won for bra very while flying "over the heads of the Huns." He is .tail, erect and manly, and he will tell his thrilling tale of adventure wlUi an emphasis that will leave no doubt about the gratitude of France over the enlist ment In her forces of such American bpys as he. . It is the hope of his friends that this night at the Orpheum next Mon day may develop Into a stirring tes timonial on the part of his neigh bors, and that none may be pre vented from hearing his story; the prices have ben held to a popular scale. Reserved seats will be placed on sale at the Orpheum box office on Wednesday. 1 • ' HHWBg "Pk ißfi P m sir•*■llll - jr . BISHOP MCDOWELL' ment which is Just being begun by the Methodists of the world, was eloquently dwelt upon by several of the speakers. Professors Phillips and Stonesifer, of Grace church, directed the music. W. S. Snyder was the toastmaster of the evening. The event was held under the auspices of the Methodist Union of Harrisburg and vicinity. ROME MOTHER OF MEMORIALS Arch of Titus, Still One of the Eternal City's Marvels, Was Erected in First Century Tlie Romans developed a form of war memorial which was peculiarly their own and which all their chil dren among the nations have follow ed and imitated. That form is the decorative triumphal arch, which grew up out of the fact that a special gate necessarily temporary was contrived by the city for the return of conquerors from campaigns abrond. Of course there was no time to con struct gates or archways of stone for the home-coming heroes to pass through, and perishable construc tions, probably of wood, were there fore built, underneath which the triumph passed. But as a permanent memorial of the victory or achievement was de sired, it by and by occurred to tlje friends and successors of the success ful generals to rebuild these arches in enduring marble. No longer did they serve as mere gates or entrance ways; they were generally placed in an isolated and a commanding posi tion, where, in solitary grandeur, _they testified through the centuries to the glory of the commander and incidentally commemorated the feats of his soldiers. These triumphal arches were purely an invention or development of Rome. The Arch of Titos v One of the oldest of these memorial arches now standing in Rome is that of Titus, and it is distinctly a war memorial. It was built in the First Century of our era to commemorate the victory of the Emperor TitUß over the Jews in the year 70 A. D. It still bears on its side the sculptured representation of the 7-branched sacred candlestick of the Temple of Jerusalem, which Roman soldiers are pictured as carrying away. This arch stood on ehevated ground cn the Via Sacra, and was built of marble. In the Middle Ages the .popes, less interested In the glory flf the deeds of the empire than in their own defense against the barbarian, built this arch into a fort, with bat tlments, and when it was, in our time, finally dug out of this mediaeval rubbish, it was found necessary to reconstruct the arch. But it was well restored, .and in the purity and simplicity of its lines, the perfect grace of its form a"nd of Its decorative Corinthian columns, it is still, probably, the most beautiful arch in existence, and one whose suggestion, if Boston's own memorial Army and Navy Monument for the present war takes 'the form of an arch, will have to be considered by our architects and artists. The Arch ef Coaataetlne Some of the arches built by Rome were in her provinces. Some of these were mere personal memorials, and not in any true sense soldiers' monu ments. But probably the most dis tinguished arch in existence, in Rome or elsewhere—the Arch of Constan tine—was always a war memorial, for it commemorated the victory of C'onstantlne, who had then espoused Christianity (according to the legend as the result of the vision of the Flaming Cross) over Maxentius, his pagan rival for the imperial throne. It was erected in the Fourth Cen tury of our era, and is generally ad- Judged Inferior in design to the many arches that preceded it. It Is still, however, a delight to the eyes of the world, arising in its ornate majesty near the ancient Forum. It is rather strange that, although com memorating the initial triumph of Christianity, it Is essentially a pagan memorial, and It invited the con robbed tjte column of Trajan of tempt of history because Its builders sculptures recording the deeds of Romans in their battles with the Daqians more than two centuries be fore. which were transferred to this arch to describe- —of course quite falsely—the achievements of the first Christian emperor In overthrowing the champion of an effete paganism. But artistic and traditional pagan ism were still too powerful, v at the time when the arch of Constantine was built, to leave room for any Christian symbolism on the memorial —and this In spite of the fact that Constantine had already adopted the labarum, or sacred monogram of Christ, as his emblem. Rome's Forty Arches It is an almost staggering thought that In the city of Rome at the height of the Augustan age no fewer than forty triumphal arches were standing at one time. Rome was not so large territorially as Boston, and w can, perhaps, form aome Idea of the effect of auch a condition by Im agining forty auch arches, all about as high as our tallest buildings, scattered throughout a modern BuauamnMlMilTECSQian BUT ONE JUROR IN BOX FOR TRIAL OF BUSHMANSLAYER Defense May Endeavor to Show Collins, Not Rein ccker Planned Murder Gettysburg, Pa., Feb. 4. —With the entire panel of Jurora already ex hausted and with two additional men in the courtroom examined for duty, but a single man had been selected this morning to serve on the Jury that is to try Charles Reinecker, charged with being an accomplice of Clarence Collins in the murder of George Bushman. Collins was found guilty of murder in the first degree last week. Forty additional jurors have been summoned by Sheriff Hartman for examination for duty. Their exami nation will be startd without de ifiy. It is believed that the same line of defense will be followed in this trial as was followed in that of Col lins last week. It will be argued that the case is being tried unconstitu tionally and that it should be heard in Cumberland county, where the deed is alleged to have been com mitted. It is possible that the defense will endeavor to-prove that Rein ecker did not plan the murder and that the act was not premeditated as it was shown to have been In the case of Collins. The defense hopes to prove that Reinecker was persuad ed to participate in the affair by Collins and to impress on the Jury men that even though Reinecker be shown to have been the gunman, a verdict of first degree murder should not be rendered. CANALIZATION OF RIVER BOOSTED [Continued from First Page.] Susquehanna river from mouth to source and for the preparation of plans for the Improvement. This bill, introduced by Congressman Greist, of Lancaster county, already has been passed by the House. W. H. Lucas, president of the associa tion, thence those of th Montour Railroad to Southview, formerly known as George, where the rails of the Pittsburgh and West Virginia will be reached and used to Plttjß burgh Junction. Thence the route will be by the Wheeling and Lake Erie to Toledo and a Junction with the Wabash Railway, by its rail to St. Louis, thence to Denver via the Missouri Pacific's rails, to Salt lake via the Denver and Rio Grande, or else by way of the moribund Colorado Mid land, now partially dismantled, to be rehabilitated and extended from Grand Junction to Ogden, Utah, and tion, presided, and by J. H. Oster tag, a deeper river enthusiast, intro duce