10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISSI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGItAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph lluilding, federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Hoard I. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—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 pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American Pi! Newspaper Pub § Associa- Bur'eau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building, Western office. " Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a "* week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. MONDAY APRIL 21, 1919 To have no reason for a thing is one j good reason why the thing should not \ be done. THE SALARY BOARD BILL TTTIIILE the bill to create the yy State Salary Board, with power to adjust pay and duties of people connected with the' State government, will not bring about an j ideal condition cn Capitol Hill, it | M ill go. a long ways toward correct- j ing some abuses, rectifying inade-j quacios in pay and uprooting certain | traditions. The aim of this measure is to put some of the methods proved good in American business into the mlices of a corporation which handles over $40,000,000 a year and is re sponsible for well being and safety j tf some 9,000,000 people. The bill failed because of some petty ideas last session, but is cn a fair way to be approved this year. The trouble about Capitol Hill lias been that places well provided for| at one time declined in importance, and consequently in demands for activity, but that pay remained sta tionery and even at times developed tendencies to ascend, while jobs which were considered of little ac count in other times were developed by personality, changing conditions or shifting of responsibility into ill paid positions. The State Salary Board M r ould have authority to ad just pay. Where men in State ser vice are getting less than the pre vailing rate, the Beard may make the salary lit the work, instead of having men leave service of the Commonwealth for industrial places or remain and growl. Similarly, ehairwarmet's may have to undergo adjustments and not roost in the ! hade of an act of the seventies or eighties. Things will never be joyous ill public service, hut the Salary Board bill would go a long M'ays toM'ard ironing out some difliculties. Already the Keystone Division is on its way home, and we must be pre pared foi a rousing welcome to the men who have won Imperishable glory on the fields of France. They l ave demonstrated the superior light ing qualities of tlie Pennsylvania sol dier and will come back to the home folks with a record for gallant ser vice not surpassed by any military or ganization in the history of the world. AS TO 1920 ALREADY the Republican mal contents here and there throughout the country are preparing for factional activities next year. Not satisfied with criti cising the party leaders, they are proclaiming their intention to oppose this or that candidate who doesn't happen to suit their peculiar views of governmental policy and action. We shall hear much, of course, of special privilege and reactionaries and the like, but the body of the Republican voters are not going to be deceived again by these dis turbers of party harmony. Next year's campaign is to be a leal fight for a return to sanity in government and the little men who are bobbing up here and there are likely to be suppressed by Republi can sentiment vigorously expressed. Colonel Roosevelt had entire con fidence in National Chairman Hays and was working with him up until almost the last hour of his life with a view to restoring party harmony and constructive policies. It is not likely that the malcontents will be able to use the name of Roosevelt to camouflage their 'factional activities. It is a reassuring symptom of sane party management that no slate has been prepared for 1920. Repub licans are going to consider all the questions Involved in the readjust ment of war problems and they can afford to -wait for the development of the candidate who will be the next occupant of the White House. Vpeaking of the Republican voters, Giftord Pinchot, in a public statement '"-day favoring a Roosevelt Repub- MONDAY EVENING, i lican In 1920, pays "they are entitled | to and will demand a candidate and i a platform they can support without reservation or regret." Of course, they will. That is precisely the atti tude of National Chairman Hays and the strong party leaders. There is no disposition anywhere to force a candidate upon the party wljo does not represent the best Republican traditions and the principles upon j which the country has been develop ed and grown great. National Chairman Hays is a mem | ber of the Roosevelt Permanent I Memorial Committee, which recently i decided to establish and endow a permanent organization with the j purpose "to promote the develop i ment and application of the policies jof Theodore Roosevelt for the bene ; lit of the American people." This | would seem to indicate clearly that ; the head of the Republican National i Committee is avoiding all factional- I ism in an earnest effort to liarmon • ize party differences with a view to | presenting a formidable and con j structive front next year. ! Bully for the Boy Scouts! They j realize the importance of tree plant | ing for the future, and under proper guidance the S.couts will achieve | much for the future of the city. They | have already proven their worth in ; more ways than one. SHOULD SIT HERE GOVERNOR SPROUL and other important State officials and j leaders of the Senate and ] House are emphatically of the opin- J ion that in the concentration of the functions of government at liarris burg special attention should be given to the Supreme Court. Under the present arrangement, this court of last resort in Pennsylvania is a peripatetic body in that it has sit tings at Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, most of the sessions being held in Philadelphia. So long as there were inadequate provisions for the court here, there [was no argument against the present j , arrangement, but now that the State has furnished ample quarters' for the higher tribunal in the Capitol and the city has overcome the lack of proper hotel accommodations, it would seem that the time has arrived for permanent sittings of the higher court here at the seat of Government. The dignity of the Supreme Court and its accessibility to all having business with it are factors to be considered in the consideration of a permanent location in Harrisburg. It is known that many distinguished laywers favor this arrangement and there is no doubt that a number of the justices also believe the time has come for the change that has been so long discussed. BRIGHTER SKIES GRADUALLY it is dawning upon the average business man that the pre-war conditions are not likely to be restored so far as prices of commodities are concerned and once this is thoroughly understood it is more than probable that much of the uncertainty which now exists will disappear. The United Stales is certain to re store the confidence that was some what shattered by a misconception of the conditions and the new levels of cost; from every quarter comes optimistic statements of the change of view and the readiness of men of vision to go ahead under full power. Employers and employes are learn ing everywhere that there must be j co-operation and not antagonism; that the only way the interests of both can bo conserved is through a reasonable understanding of the mutuality of interest. One of the most careful observers of industrial conditions says "labor's attitude, as expressed in interviews with some leaders, is for a more intimate discussion between em ployers and employes as to condi tions and arrangements, believing that in this way friction may be avoided." It is certain that labor in this country is distinctly opposed to Bolshevism. Hoarded money is seeking day light and with the circulation of these idle funds ' there will come more activity in business and indus trial circles and an improvement in the matter of employment. With the actual signing of the peace treaty and the restoration of normal activities, it is reasonable to expect a more contented attitude on the part of the public and less of pessi mism, as a result of war fears and the difficult war problems. UNIFORMITY IN SHOOTING AS THE present Legislature does not show much disposition to make changes in the dog license code of 1917 that would work interference with its efficiency, would it not be well for the various county authorities to get together in regard to its enforcement? The secretary of Agriculture is charged with this duty, but, beyond exhortation, his means are comparable to the author ity he holds over the growing of moss on Greenland's icy mountains. And the State Game Commission, while urging the importance of the act and alert to note the way county authorities deal with its require ments, is without power to correct conditlons even when bordering on the farcical. Like a good many other widely heralded and lengthy acts of recent years, this code has fine points and weak spots. There does not seem to be any way to make the county authorities establish uniformity in enforcement. Even where State policemen have arrested constables for not killing unlicensed dogs ac tion has languished. ' The enforce ment seems to be more or less tem peramental. Perhaps the commissioners of the various counties may get together on some uniform method of shooting the dogs that slaughter sheep, which are once more among Pennsylvania's assets. In some counties constables shoot the unlicensed dogs and in others they merely shoot at them. Perhaps the Boy Scouts of Harrisburg can help in the salvation of the shade trees of the city. They have done so ! many good things and as the coming j men of Harrisburg, it might be well to enlist their efforts in a matter so im lortant as the preservation of the trees now so sadly neglected. "~po£tttcs. Ik By the Ex-Commit too in :ui The coming of United States Sen ator Boies Penrose to Harrisburg makes this week one of the most tilled witli interest of any in the whole of the session of 1919. It has not been an exciting session and the appearance of the Senator with the frankly announced intention of putting through reform bills for Philadelphia, has created a situation Mhich is bound to stir up politics in every section of the State. Some regard it as plain notice that the Senator does not mean to be bother ed with any contenders when it comes time to nominate and elect a Senator next year and that those Mho do not align themselves with him, can look for the treatment they would certainly accord the Senator themselves. No one looks for the activities of the Senator in behalf of I the Philadelphia legislation to em- I broil him with Governor Sproul, al i though much may he said and writ- I ten along that line in the near future. This is going to he the Senator's week in Harrisburg. —ln regard to the legislation which the Senator will urge, the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, one of the most conservative newspapers in the State, says: The week prob ably he a markedly Important one nr the Capitol in its development on Philadelphia affairs, and the per sonal advent of Senator Penrose, the "charter revisionists," and the lead ers of the ToM'n Meeting or inde pendent forces in this city, M-i'l he almost certain to result in a definite drawing of the lines between the advocates and the opponents of the bills which have been framed hy the independents and the anti-Vare men. Meanwhile the assurance cannot be t.oo strongly conveyed to the country members that every step which may be taken in the direction of at least the three policies or purposes, which M-e have named—Councils, elections and the police—M'ill ho viewed with satisfaction and approval by the major portion of this community. —The Philadelphia Public Ledger says Governor Sproul Mill probably not be here for a week or so, but belief that he is coming soon is held by other neM'spapers in the Eastern part of the State. Tn discussing the relation of the Gov ernor to the legislative situation, the Philadelphia Press looks for some vigorous fighting. In its review the Fays: "The Governor is the kev to the M-hole situation. On his shoulders the burden of the present factional struggle Mill fall. Tie M'ill he called upon to disappoint either the Pen rose or the Ynre faction, should the efforts of the Penrose faction to pass Ibe rinper hi'ls continue. Not being a Philadelphia!!, nor responsible for inside political perditions in Phila delphia. his natural inclination is to take the same attitude the other State leaders take, namely, that of discouragement of further factional battling in Philadelphia, an attitude which M-orks out to favor the Vares in the present state of affairs and one M'hioh would be unanimous M'orc there not a certain number of State leaders still smarting under the treatment they received from Gover nor Brumbaugh, M'hen the Veres dictated his political actions. This attitude of neutrality, as far as it exists, is the product of a desire on the part of the leaders to have the party efficiency unimpaired for flic coming Presidential struggle of 1920. They are impatient at even the de gree of dis-union that now exists, let alone what would follow the in troduction of ripper legislation." —Charles R. Michael, writing from Washington to the Philadel phia Press, says Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, is regarded as a candidate for President and it is expected he will start off with Pennsylvania's delegation. Just ex actly what the Bonniwell people will do in event of Palmer trying to "sew up" the Keystone delegation, would be worth watching and their success in supplying Palmer's State last year makes the Washington view rather dangerous to bank on. —The provisions of the sedition bill now before the State Legislature were roundly criticized by Major E Lowry Humes, former United States attorney, who will likely succeed himself in that position, at Pitts burgh Friday. The Pittsburgh Ga zette-Times says: "Mr. Humes de clared that there wasn't a single provision of the bill that would not require judicial interpretation. He did not declare against the enact ment of a sedition bill, declaring that one was very necessary in the State of Pennsylvania, inasmuch as there isn't any at all on the statute books at the present time, and he urged that the present measure be ing considered, be amended so that its provisions would bo more clear add specific. He approved the pur pose of the bill, but objected stren uously to its form." —The woman's suffrage resolu tion will be made a special order for consideration in the House this week. Tt was favorably reported some time ago. —Tt. J. Wheeler, of Allentown, who lias been working up the oppo sition to the Eyre public utility ap peal bill, is to make a series of ad dresses on the subject in eastern counties. He will appear hero to. morrow at the hearing on the bill. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ________________________________________________________ 1 WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND TO FINISH THE JOB By B>ig?s Farewell to Local Boards [This bit of verse was written by a i young woman attache of the State j Draft Headquarters]. And now the time has come to say . farewell To faithful friends comprising j Docal Boards, We know full well how zealously you strove To help push back onrushing Ger- 1 man hordes. You started with heroic zeal To raise an army strong and vast, j That Liberty might bless the world , And live for aye—the die was cast, j You gazed afar on Flanders' fields, | Saw Picardy's stricken plain, America then staked her all That Peace might live again. i Across the seas you rushed our sol- j diers bravo That they might win a Freedom | just and true, And thus the nations and the world might save Encircled round our flag of red 1 and white and blue. And Local Boards, 'tis Peace has j closed your doors For you no selfish motive had in j view; To bring the boon of Liberty to j other shores Was the only aim for you to dare I and do. And now that your work is ended ! And we reflect on your many j trials, And think of the long and weary [ wait That you had for those steel flies, j And of the time when the rush was [ i%gent And you were asked to "carry on" And felt every minute was pressing For the great work to be done. We are glad that you never faltered For your work brought joy and cheer; You crushed the yoke of slavery And you dried the orphan's tear. And now that the war is over And our work with the Boards is done, We can joyfully turn to other tasks For we know we defeated the Hun. So fare thee well, oh Local Boards, We trust all war shall cease As silently we close our desks With a prayer for a League of Peace. —A. E. F. LABORFOTES In an effort to stabilize the indus try the United Mine Workers of America are advocating a six-hour day and a live-day week. Switzerland has nearly 300,000 fac tory workers. Australia's Trades and Labor Coun cil lias rejected the One Big Union Scheme. . A shorter workday for gas work-* ers is under discussion by the British ministry of labor. Male workers to the number of 1,- r.16,000 were replaced by women in England during the war. Being granted their demand for a 48-hour week and weekly bonuses, 2,600 worsted yarn operatives in Woonsocket, R. 1., have gone back to work satisfied. The working force of the Emer gency Fleet Corporation is rapidly being reduced to a peace basis. An investigation by the New York State Industrial Commission discloses the fact that 53 per cent of the wo men factory workers in that state receive less than $23 per week. Brooklyn barbers are protesting against low wuge rates, and are ask ing for an $lB weekly minimum and 40 per cent, of receipts' over S2B. ( INDIA IS ASKING FOR THE EDUCATION OF ITS WOMEN As a Return for Its Loyalty in the War. Britain's Eastern Empire Ex pects Democratic Reforms, Including a Degree of Self Determination That Eventually Will head to Autonomy. [From the World Outlook.] MARMALADE, jam, butter, oat meal, tinned beef, mutton, bis cuits, boots, khakic drilled ford, helmets, jerseys, puttees, socks, coats, shirts, cigarettes, tobacco, gal vanized iron tubs and buckets, lan terns, lamps, brushes! No, we are not reading from the catalog of a t'hicago mail order house, but a list of the new industries of India. The armies of the Allies in India, Meso potamia, Egypt and Palestine were well supplied with all these articles and got them every one from India. Men of India labored that the sol diers in Palestine might have butter on their bread, and marmalade on their butter, unless they preferred jam. Munition factories sprang up out of railway and other workshops. By the end of 1916, the output of shell's in India had increased 1,200 per cent. Fifteen hundred miles of rail way track made in India were laid down somewhere in the desert for the winning of the war, and 250 Indian engines pulled 4,500 Indian railway cars over these tracks. From the workshops of India came the river craft for the Tigris and Euphrates, the machinery that went into the river craft and the trained men that went aboard them. Native Industry Developed During the last official year, the cloth woven from India's home grown cotton and homespun yarn could have belted the world forty times around. Yet this amazing amount gave only a scant five yards a person, and this in a country where the climate makes cotton cloth the one usable material for most of the people. India already has 1 14,000 looms, more than half of which are in the Bombay Presidency alone.-Hundreds of thousands of hand looms of home workers are as yet uncounted. The cotton mills employ nearly three hundred thousand, and the cotton ginning, cleaning and pressing mills more than a third as many addi tional workers. The present stress is pushing na tive industry into a new develop ment. In India democracy seems truly on the march: not only democ racy for the outcast, but democracy for all castes and classes is on the way and its advance agents are seen in India. Hindus and Mahometans have joined hands for the achieve ment of autonomy for Tndia as allies in the great tasks of the new Indian nationalism. India's sons have been passing through the University of Democracy where the campus was the shell torn area, the trench the hall and the dugout the class room, and as Bachelors of Democracy are returning to village and town and city. Want Education for Women Barring the war, the talked of subjects of India have been nation alism and the education of women. In one year (1916) three significant conferences met in India: a large meeting of Indian women represent ing all branches of Hinduism, ortho dox and reformed, in Lahore and demanded increased educational fa cilities for Indian women and girls: a conference of women's societies met in Bombay with similar results, and in Hyderabad, the great Mahom etan native state in the south of India, an educational conference re ported that Hindus and Mahometans there were awakening to the need of education for women. A new .Christian university for women and a new women's medical college, both in the Madras presidency, are signs of the new trend of events. In the education of men and boys the sub jects of greatest interest have been those of increased primary educa tion, a great Mahometan university, a great Hindu university, and the new government residential univer sities planned for Dacca .and Nagpur. "India for the Indians," means the demobilization of British rule in India, not suddenly, but gradually, as India is prepared to take control of her own affairs. It is an enormous t,ask, this training of one-liftli the world's inhabitants, whose whole re ligious and social fabric is utterly unsuited to democracy, but England is pledged to the accomplishment of it. It does not mean the indepen dence of India—for no Indian of any, influence to-day desires inde pendence— but the autonomy of In dia as an effective unit in the British Empire. India is to be full sister of Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. India, the hand maid of Croat Britain, is to be adoptejl into the family. India at the Peace Conference As a pledge of Great Britain's solemn promise, two sons of India sit at the Peace Conference. One son of India —Lord Sinha, the first In lian to become a British peer (a miracle of miracles itself)—sits in the House of Lords and in the Brit ish cabinet. So great is England's gratitude for Indian loyalty and sac rifice in the dark days of the great war. The war has hastened all the pro cesses of transition and transforma tion, of development and reform, that were already at work in India. In the words of Lord Morley, "wo are watching to-day a great and stupendous process, the reconstruc tion of a decomposed society, paral lel to the movement in Europe in the Fifth Century." Eighty-Fi,rst Division J National Ar- Carolina, 1 f France August p * 16, 1918. Activ ities: East of T, STL ANJ Raon 1 Etape sector, Vosges, Septem ber 18 to October 19 (brigaded with 20th French Division): Sommedieut sector, between Haudiemen works and Benzee-en-Woevre, November 7 to 17. Total advance on front lino: 5% kilometers. Insignia: Wild cat of varying cot or. Selected in the belief that the division could "emulate it in Its light ing qualities." Death (From "The Promise of Air," by Al gernon Blackwood. E. P. Dutton.) "Death is nothing more or less than slipping back into your own subconsciousness, and so becoming greater and finer and more active— mote useful, too, and with grander powers—than we ever had in our limited imperfect bodies. Life is nothing but an episode in our uni versal life, * • Death is just a change of direction then, really; that's all," 'APRIL 21, IM Mr. Roosevelt and Nature [From Christian Science Monitor.] Among the many monuments that have been proposed, and among the many that will bo proposed as me morials to Theodore Roosevelt, none, perhaps, could seem more natural, more fitting, more after the heart of the nature-lover in him, than the Roosevelt Memorial Fountain pro posed by the National Association of Audubon Societies. For with all that Mr. Roosevelt was, he was first and always a lover of the out of doors, | and with all that he did in the, crowded years of his public career, he did nothing more instinctively, | more persistently, more zealously] than his work for the conservation ] of so-culled wild life. Being a Pres-; ident of the United States and a first | citizen or the world, instead of les- i sening his love of wild things and 1 hindering his study, gave him a lar- J ger opportunity to learn and love, and while President, he established the idea pf Government bird reser vations, and created thirty-eight na tional sanctuaries. He had been in at the Winning of | the West; he had watched tlie swift closing in of ranch, farm and camp; I the steady ripping of the plow through the prairie sod; the rapid : running of the coiled barbed-wire; had seen the dust in the wake of j herder's flocks: had heard the cease- j less hum of the lumberman's saw; | and he knew that the spell of the j wild places was forever broken, and that the extinction of all the larger | forms of bird and beast was at band j unless something was dpne and done quickly. He did something, some-1 thing quick and 'arge for wild things, j when, seizing his pen, he made Three-Arcli Rocks, in the Pacific, a! Federal bird reservation, and Klamath Lake, and the vast tule marshes of the Malheur, in Oregon. These and others, he literally took as a lover of nature and carried them as a President to Congress for. Congress to take from the pot-hunter and the plumer, and give back to the whole people, a gift that for wi'd beauty, for human decency, for fair play, and for economic value the Nation does not yet appreciate. For no one can fully picture one hundred and forty-six square miles thick with winging, screaming birds, the actual acreage of the terns, ibises, gulls, grebes, ducks, geese, avocets. cormorants, and great white pelicans that fill the air and cover the shal low waters of the Malheur. This is only one of vast rookeries that Mr. Roosevelt snatched from the plumer and saved for the whole people. And only those, who know how swift was the fatal work of the plumer and pot-hunter in those unguarded nest ing placesk know by how narrow a chance they were saved. A thorough and life-long student of ornithology, and a lover of the birds about him, he was a quiet and happy watcher of his bird neighbors. Perhaps no man in Washington knew more of the wild birds of the capital, not even John Burroughs, than did President Roosevelt, and this was the more astonishing when one thinks of the men in Washing ton whom we knew. Nothing in Mr. Roosevelt's nature was more appealing, more spontan eous, and natural, than his love of nature: and no American ever preached and practiced the gospel of nature more consistently, more eloquently, than he. Any monument to him that fails to recognize this elemental quality of his nature will fail as a memorial; and the National Association of Audubon Societies "and affiliated organizations of vari ous kinds throughout the United States" do well to ask that a foun tain be built for him, a fountain that the birds and beasts cannot build for him. but which they would perhaps delight to build, did they only know the love that went out to them, and the help that went out to them ftom the heart and the hand of Theodore Roosevelt. THE IAMEUGUT OF WAR The war has shown us the com plete moral rottenness of two great European empires. It has shown us men of culture, statesmen, diplomats, lying and plotting murder. It has shown us ambassadors, apparently polished gentlemen, turned out by the best tailors, advising their gov ernments to sink the ships of the friendly countries to which they were accredited, without leaving traces of the human beings aboard those ships. There is not a crime which devils might be supposed to whisper hoarsely to one another in the darkest regions of Hell that these representatives of civilization have not embraced as a virtue. Wo have become so familiar with it that we have ceased to realize its utter hor ror. The Peace Conference is be coming more and more political in its nature, more artd more concerned with technical details. Something more than this is absolutely neces sary if we arc to make the world safe not only for democracy, but for the human soul.—Alfred Noyes in The Saturday Evening Post. Song of a Toy Windmill The wind blows wild," the wind blows free. But what is the whirl o' the wind to me? I move to the breath of butterflies, To the glint of a song in children's eyes, To the gleam of red in sunset skies— To the kiss of fate, Early and late— To the sigh of the fool, and the laugh of the wise! For he who made me and shaped my wings, And painted my windows grtsen and white. Had heard the song that a- swift shell sings, In the bleak, black night. \ He had lost an eye and a leg; but he knew t The secrets trusted to very few; And soft in the dusk, as he fash ioned me, He sang this song, exultantly: "Let the hurricane pass you by, \ The whirlwind's scream and torna do's cry: Move to the touch of the truer things— The gentle plaiht that the ring-dove sings iTo the sun-bright edge of an alr p'ane's wings. For it. matters not though the whole world die. If a rainbow span the storm-swept sky!" So —what is the whirl of the wind to me? I move to the dream of Eternity! —Tbeda Kenyon in the New York Times. Love For Children As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.—Song of Solomon 11/ 2 and 3. iEbening (Elfal It was just one hundred years ago, almost to the day, that the State j authorities lot the contract for the j construction of the first Capitol of Pennsylvania, in Harrisburg. This city was made the Capital by act J of the Legislature of 1810, which provided for the removal of the crnment from Lancaster in 1812, although it was 1813 before every thing was settled here. The Legislature occupied the Courthouse, ) the big court room being the hall of the House and the up stairs court room the Senate. This Courthouse I was torn down in the sixties. It took the Legislature some years after the Capital was fixed here to get down to the business of erecting a [Capitol. John Harris gave four [acres and William Maclay ten to ward the Capitol park, which cen tered about the knoll where the Capitol now stands. It was neces sary to buy up some lots. The first appropriation was $50,000, made in [lßl6, previous appropriations hav l ing been made to improve the Court - I house and to get the Capitol Hill in to shape for building. In 1819 $70,- j 000 more wus appropriated. This was the final appropriation to start, [things, although $15,000 more was l voted In 1820 for the rotunda with J j the big sandstone columns and to complete the dome, whose appear ance the older liarrisburgers remem- I her so well. The actual steps for I building were taken early in 1819. [when the commissioners, William Findlay, afterwards Governor; Rich- J Sard M. Crain, George Bryan, John B. Gibson, just becoming famous, and William Graydon, the latter a pro minent Harrisburgcr, asked for plans and bids. n • • • This is the way the result of this i competition for building the Capitol, J an event of so much importance to Harrisburg, was unnounced by the leading newspaper of the then young State Capital, just one century ago. It is taken from the Oracle of Dau phin under the date of April 24, 1819 and reads: STATE CAPITOL The commissioners authorized by the late act of Assembly to receive plans for the State Cap itol have approved of the one offered by Mr. Stephen Hill, ar chitect. of this borough, who has given security for building the Capitol. Mr. Mills, of Balti more, received the second pre mium lsr the next approved plan. This action of the commissioners carried with it a premium of S4OO for Hill and the building made his reputation. That he was some hustler is evidenced by the fact that the corner stone of the Capitol was laid with a great deal of ccrraony on May 31, 1819, and in December of 182 i, the Legislature occupied it. Mr. Hill, who did much to improve the architecture of Harrisburg, had lan interesting career. He had Mary land connections and after residing in several Pennsylvania towns, took up his home here. In addition to building the Capitol, he construc ted several buildings in this vicinity and erected as his home the present residence of the Pennsylvania Bail road superintendents, adjoining the Harrisburg Public Library, on Front street, at Walnut, and which was * long the residence of Mrs. Sarah Haldcman-Haly, benefactress of the Library. His son built the Shakes peare House, which occupied the site of the present Harrisburg Tele graph building and was noted as tavern, public hall, school, play house, barracks and theater. * * Dr. Russel B. Armor, son of the late W. C. Armor, of this city, and a major in the Medical Corps of the Seventy-Seventh Division, in France, has returned to his home in Pitts burgh. Major Armor served throughout the whole war and went overseas with the Metropolitan I Division. • • • Little Frankie Musscr, son of John ; s. Musser, of Washington Heights, came into possession of a beautiful white rabbit last Friday, as an Easter girt from his fond father. He toted it all around the neighbor hood showing it to friends. I Saturday morning one of them | met Frankie and inquired: "Well, Frankie, how's the rabbit?" I "Fine," said Frankie, "he's start ed to work." "How's that?" asked his surprised friend. "Why," replied Frankie earnestly, "He laid an egg last night." * * If ever you are fortunate enough to receive an invitation to cat plank ed shad at the home of Ira E. Ulsh. member of the Legislature, from the Upper End, don't waste a minute in accepting. Aside from the fact that Mrs. Ulsh ranks among the best cooks in the Upper End, which is saying a lot, for Millersburg is a town of good cooks as any one who knows will tell you, but Representa tive Ulsh makes the planks whereon the fish arc cooked. When he is not driving his big Nash car, or nursing one of the babies, or selling jreal estate, or dealing in grain, or serving on a committee, or attend ing a session of the Legislature, Mr. Ulsh occupies his leisure in a work shop he has rigged tip for himself along the mill race near his hand some home in the lower end of Mil lersburg. Last week he tested his skill on the making a big plank for the proper preparation of shad, and ho turned out a beauty, with basting bowl hollowed in the center, handles on the sides and everything that goes to make the luxurious "planks" you see in up-to-date jewelry and house furnishing stores. Friday night Mrs. Ulsh, ably abetted by Mrs. Harry M. Fairchild, gave the plank an initia tion, and all those who were present hope Ira will make another plank sgon, providing it shall be tested out as the first was. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —County Commissioner D. F. Ma gee, of Lancaster, is planting mem orial trees along roads near his city. —W. L. Rasmussen, of Pittsburgh, r active in safety work, has been made field secretary of the National Safety Councial, at Chicago. —H. C. Fownes, of Pittsburgh, well known here, won the Pinehurst golf championship. —John T. Windrim, the architect, is chairman of the committee in charge of decorations for the Phila delphia home coming. | DO YOU KNOW —That Pennsylvania's capital is one of the big points of tlic , State for distribution of coal trains? HISTORIC lIAKRIsnURG —This city was smitten by the oil fever some forty years ugo and wells sunk near Lucknow,
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