10 IIARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 P üblished evenings except Sunday by I THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square l E. J. STACK POLE t President and Editor-in-Chief \ F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board 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. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa- Bur'eau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Eastern office. Story. Brooks & Flnlcy, Fifth Avenue Building. Western office' Story, Brooks & Chicago, B 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. THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1919 Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.—lt. L. Stevenson. GOOD FOR MT. UNION MT. UNION is planning a big welcome home for the town's Eoldiers, sailors and marines on the Fourth of July. Mt. Union is entitled to celebrate. Not only did it send an exceptionally large number of men into the service, but those who remained at home were en gaged for the most part in turning out war supplies. The town met its quota, and more, in every war serv ice and Liberty Loan drive, and otherwise conducted itself like the patriotic American community it is. There is something more than usually attractive in the kind of demonstration the town proposes. It is to be a real old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration—the kind that breeds patriots, the kind that used to make for the lads of the smaller towns of the country the "Glorious Fourth," tfre best holiday of the whole year. You perhaps recall the way they used to observe the day "back, home" —the village cannon saluting the deep resplendent red of the rising sun, the fleecy white clouds and the azure blue of the sky at daybreak; the hurried breakfast, the paper torpedoes and the fire crackers,the flags flying everywhere, the military company, the band, the firemen, the veterans, and the school children in parade, and fiery old one armed Major So-and-So repeating in language that searched the diction ary for superlatives the sentiment of the day that—"America, the great est nation under the sun, with one hand tied behind her back and blind folded, could lick all creation." Then back for the big Fourth of July dinner, with three ot four helpings of home-made ice cream, out again for field sports in the afternoon and then more banging of "squibs" until it was time for the fireworks. "Glorious Fourth?" You've said it, friend. Well, something like that's the idea the Mt. Union committee has in mind. Sometimes we wish we lived in a town that hadn't forgotten the homely,* wholesome customs that marked American life less than a ' generation ago. There was no need for classes in Americanism in those times. Speaking of the Penn-Harris Hotel, was ever a great community effort so promptly crowned with success? Not only the people of Harrisburg, but thousands of visitors are singing the praises of the hotel far and wide. TIME TO PROTEST ISN'T it about time our President, so prone to shed tears over the iniquities of Central Europe, turns his attention to Japan and Korea? Do we, who sent our armies overseas to throw the Hun out of Belgium and France, want to be tied hard fast to a nation that is doing in Korea what Japan at this time is reported as doing? A thousand times no, and the sooner the Japs learn how we feel about it, the better. An American missionary has been sentenced to six months in prison because he did what any American of courage would have done under the circumstances —sheltered fleeing Koreans from the wrath of armed Japanese. American travelers write home that Korean men, women and children have been put to death and thousands of others grossly mis treated by the iron-handed Japs who rule the country. Japan is doing to Korea precisely what Germany tried to do to Belgium, and just about.as ruthlessly. She wants Korea's wealth. All her fine claims of giving Korea good government are disproved by the facts. The Japs are fast display ing traits that may soon change their nickname from "the Yankees of the East" to "the Germans of the East." Yet our members of the peace commission blandly announce that Japan is to be made a party to the iLeague of Nations. That being so Lend Korea rising in revolt, are we THURSDAY EVENING, in the United States expected to send troops to help the Japanese keep these liberty-loving people under their thumb? No draft law that Congress could devise would be strong enough to create an army In the United States to send on such an errand. Our sympathies lie all In the other direction. We are too near our own War of the Revolution and the love of liberty is too strong in our hearts for it to be otherwise. On the other hand, it is difficult to see how we can long avoid protesting to Japan against her course in Korea. League or no league, Americans cannot stand by and see an inoffensive na tion badly used without putting in a word for the under dog. And they do not much like the idea of being bound by any agreement to a country that acts toward another as Japan is conducting itself toward Korea. Mayor Keister is taking the proper course in the matter of a noisy Fourth of July. There is no occasion to re sume the pre-war racket and beside the intolerable noise of explosives, there is the added menace of fire and in.iury to countless children. The Mayor will have the approval of all good citizens in his decision. BEER SUBSTITUTE ACCORDING to the Literary Di gest, the whole country is all "het up" as to what we shall substitute for strong drink in case Congress thoughtlessly ignores Presi dent Wilson's eloquent plea in be half of the beneficent saloon. Sug gestions that range all the way from Spanish mate—a South American tea with a "kick"—to ginger pop, have been offered and every day brings forth a new "soft drink." But we have our own Meas on the subject. You recall sundry and de lightful early experiences with home-made lemon or winter-green beer? Well, that's it. A decade or two ago the mother of a family of thirsty boys realized that some how, somewhere those thirsts were bound to be quenched, and she had no notion of surrendering her pets to the tender mercies of a tavern keeper who dealt in stock ale, lager beer and dark brown tastes. No indeed, she just turned her attention to lemon beer, and let the whole family in on the brewing of it. You remember how you ran away to the old woman around the cor ner who "kept yeast" and bought a penny's worth? A penny made a bet ter showing those duys than a nickel does now. And with what enthus iasm you scrubbed a wash-tub in which to mix the beer, how ener getically you scalded bottles and l how jealously you guarded the con- I coction as it fermented in the sun. And by and by there came a day when it was ready and bottle after bottle lay cooling in a damp cor ner of the cellar. Witlj what anti cipation you jiggled a bottle to gen erate a "bead," how you swigged the delectable, foaming contents, or drank deeply a glass with a big slab of ginger bread on the side. Substitute for strong drink? Why give us lemon beer, the homemade variety, the kind mother used to make, and plenty of ginger cake of the same vintage and origin to keep it company. American labor has been dignified in the attitude of the Federation of Labor toward the Russian Soviets. No greater reflection upon the intelligent workingmen of the United States could be invited than formal recogni tion of the so-called Red government of Russia. SUMMER VACATION AGAIN, with the coming of the vacation period, we hear a great deal of yawping on the part of obsessed pedagogues on the folly of closing schools during the summer, the old argument being put forth that "the child loses val uable time," "that the period of school discipline is interrupted" and one writer points out that these "two months of idleness annually are responsible for an additional year in school. It never appears to enter the minds of these enthusiasts that there is anything in child life beyond the public school system. They have reached a pass where to them the school room is the center of the universe and the only factor in childhood worth considering. But wiser, if not so highly educated per sons, know that there is much more than knowledge of textbooks in the rearing of a boy or girl, and there are even some brash enough to suggest that there can be too much haste in rushing the little lad from short frocks to long trousers For ourselves, we are inclined to sympathize with the fond parent who wrote the following: Don't be in a hurry with little Jim. God knew 'twould take years for a man to grow, He knew the job would be very slow, So don't you be In a hurry with Jim. Perhaps Jim is wasteful, per haps he is slow. Perhaps doesn't think that his elders know, Well, that's the way God grows a man. If it could be done better (you know God can). He would have tried some other plan. Yes. but He didn't; so don't you fret, Jim stumbles to-day, but he'll come right yet. God knew 'twould take years to glow a man, He knew the Job would be slow and long, To grow a man with a will that is strong, A will'that- will break every stone in his way, A will that will climb to God's mountain height. A will that will bend every force to the right, A will-that will bring a new, glor ious day; If God can wait for little Jim, Then don't you be in a hurry with him. We violate no confidence (n ex pressing the opinion that "yoh can not put old heads on young should ers," twelve months of BChool or ten to the year, || "PtKHAlfttKUua By the Kx-Committeeman It is becoming very apparent that some of the occurrences of this Leg islature are going to be used to the limit as campaign thunder not only in county and city elections this fall, but next year as well. In fact the campaign of 1920 may have been said to have started this month. United States Senator Boies Pen rose has been here from week to week displaying the greatest inter est in the reform legislation while his opponents have been losing no opportunity to say things about him. It is more than suspected that the oratorical fireworks in the House yesterday was preliminary to the Philadelphia mayoralty fight and the second and third class city legisla tion has been used hard to get things in shape for this fall. One of the interesting sights of the recent days has been the foregath ering of the old progressive element with the Vare people and the comb ining of the Granger group with the labor forces. It all indicates inter esting political times to come." And as though to keep the Demo cratic party on the map, although it does not have thirty members in the whole Legislature, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, as Dem ocratic national committeeman from Pennsylvania, sends words to the Democrats to vote for woman suf frage and not let the Republicans get all the credit. —The Philadelphia Inquirer in the course of some discussion of Larry Eyre's ill-fated bill to restore the old state conventions says the Ches ter county Senator: "Admiringly displayed the result of his handiwork to his colleagues, but he did not get very far for the chloroform treat ment of the big leaders soon gave it its quietus. Penrose could not see any popular demand for it. Sproul did very well in running for Gov ernor under the uniform primary and no one closely affiliated with his administration gave the Eyre propo sition any encouragement. Penrose is now running for re-election to the United States Senate. To be sure, he has not announced his candidacy, but the mileage record of his automobile tires speaks louder than words to the voters who see his big red tour in car moving from county to county day. after day. The United States Senatorial election takes place next year, Presidential year, and, up to date, Penrose is the only one in the running. The perennial Pin chot, if not otherwise engaged, may confer another favor upon the 'Big Grizzley,' as Penrose is styled, by running as his competitor for the Republican nomination." —The Sproul veto of the second class city police magistrate bill is being generally commended editor ially. The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times and Dispatch both praise the Gov ernor and the Scranton Republican, representing the other second class city, comes in with an editorial of like tenor, which says: "Governor Sproul has acted wisely in vetoing the bill applying to cities of the sec ond class, which would have meant five police magistrates for Scranton at a considerable increase in the ex penses of the city, more than it can afford to assume at a time when expenditures are high and money is so badly needed for necessary im provements. There is a law on the statute books which empowers 'Rrranton to appoint more police magistrates should they be needed. The city is doing very well with a single magistrate. Mayor Connell registered a strong protest against the bill in the interests of the people of this city." —Some of the Central Pennsyl vania Democrats are going to Scranton next week to attend the Palmer dinner, but there is a dis position on the part of Philadelphia I and Pittsburgh Democrats to hold back and see who is going and what turns up. —Lackawanna county Prohibi tionists, who always start some thing, are going to have an open air rally on Saturday. It would be a fitting preparation for the Palmer dinner. —John C. Winston, chairman of the Philadelphia charter committee, says that it is now up to the people of Philadelphia to work out their destiny under the new charter. —Gilbert F. Myer, the Democratic end of the Allegheny County Com missioners, is out as a candidate for renomination and gets considerable space in Republican newspapers about it. —The city of Wilkes-Barre has terminated its contract with a New York civil engineer employed to de sign a disposal contract on the ground that it has not enough money to do all the things required. —Schuylkill county people are of the opinion that County Commis sioner William S. Lcib, acquitted on the forgery charge in his county, will be a candidate for election as a vindication. —Without debate or a record vote, the Senate yesterday passed on second reading the Phipps resolu tion to ratify the suffrage amend ment to the Federal Constitution. It is understood that enough Senators friendly to suffrage will remain here to-morrow to pass the resolution so it can go over to the House and pos sibly be read a first time in that body. If the Senate does not dispose of the question to-morrow, rapid work will be necessary in the House next week, LABOR NOTES Clerks, stenographers, bookkeepers and other office workers have formed a union organization in Philadelphia and have affiliated with the Ameri can Federation of Labor. The projected electrification of all the railways in Switzerland will give work to thousands of munition-work ers who have been thrown out of work since the signing of the armis tice. .Organized painters in Davenport, lowa, have won their fight against wage reductions and the contractors have now signed an agreement meet ing their demands. Hamilton (Ont.) bricklayers, who have been receiving 70 cents an hour, now demand $1 for all work done during the coming season. Sheet iron is rolled so thin at the Pittsburgh iron mills that 15,000 sheets are required to make a single Inch in thickness. Packing-house workers in Toronto, Canada, have organized a union with the idea of securing advanced wages. Owing to the absence of overseas markets, several Australian mines have been compelled to shut down, throwing gevcral thousand workmen out of employment. SDfcHHISBXJRG TEEEGKXPHI MOVIE OF A BOMB THROWER ByBRIGGS To TA^esiA-fiooDTwi^ £OVS- OF FRdNI UNt> e nt. TAKC.^A j JBT?aceu l PROMIWEN® >OAT CITIISM >°*—J The Industrial Titan of America A Great Story of Pennsylvania's Wonderful Resources, by John Oliver La Gorce ltrprinted From National Geographic Magazine With Special I"rrmlion (Continued.)' Cities Which Boast Superlative Industries Each of the State's lesser centers of population possesses some indus try in which its citizens experience justifiable pride. tlarrisburg, in ad dition to enjoying the distinction of being the Commonwealth capital, is one of the principal railroad centers of the East, while one of its sub urbs indicates its name, Steclton, the nature of its industrial interests. Johnstown, likewise, is an iron and steel center. If quantity and quality of the manufactured product signify, Al lentown is the world's cement capi tal, for two-fifths of America's out put is produced within a radius of twenty miles of this beautiful city of homes, which is also noted for its silks. Walk from one end of its main street to the other in the summer time, and every lamp-post you see supports a basket of flowers. Think of a bouquet-studded street several miles long. In the winter ever greens take the place of the blos soms in the baskets. The effect is charming. But it is characteristic of Allentown and the spirit of Penn sylvania. The importance of Altoona's rail toad shops is indicated in the fact that nearly half as many people found employment in them before the war as were required to man the Federal Government machine in Washington. Lancaster's claim to fame is ex pressed in three superlatives: the largest linoleum factory, the largest umbrella factory, and the largest silk mill in the world. In addition, its output of books and magazines devoted to science is extraordinary, and its stockyards are the most ex tensive east of Chicago. One of the finest watch factories in the world is located here, and, although its industries give employment to 23,- 000 operatives, the city has never had a strike. York prides itself on the diversity of its industries rather than upon the magnitude of any one, and in this particular it takes rank after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Mc- Keesport's pride is the largest tin plate plant in the world is justified, while Newcastle produces more tin in sheets and blocks than any other city; Chester is a veritable Vulcan shop, with ships sliding* from the ways, locomotives rumbling from its shops, and shells coming by the carload, in war time, from its mu nitions plants. And so the story goes, from Penn sylvania city to Pennsylvania city. YVhere the ambition of one turns in I the direction of silk, or tin, or heavy forgings, another is the center of a rich agricultural district, or finds gratification in the fact that it is distinguished for safeguarding and GENERAL WOOD SPEAKS [From the New York Times] "Think nationally," said President Roosevelt. It was perhaps the greatest thing ho ever said, address ed as it was to a nation which still sang "America" and described St as a land of "rock-bound hills"— a good enough description of Massa chusetts, but not of South Dakota, as Dr. Crothers, a Yankee himself, has pointed out. General Wood has the same idea. We must, says he, "build 1 up a spirit of national solidarity." It is not so pungently put as Roosevelt put it, but allowing for the temperamental differences between the two men the idea is the same. It is time to for get the rocks and rills and remember the red mud of the Red River of the North, the snow-capped peak of Mount Hood, the sycamores of the Wabash, and the moss-hung trunks of those strange gray willows in New Orleans. In this great land of all Ameri cans, th% prairie men of Kansas and the hard and silent mountaineers of the Nevada. General Wood can find no place for the red flag. "It stands for nothing which our Government stands for." A moderate statement, but enough of itself to condemn the red flag forevermore. It is not pos sible to "think nationally," either while men are trying to teach us to think in terms of New England, the South, or the West, or while they are trying to teach us to think in terms of classes that override na tional boundaries. It is time to think in the United States. Let us I pay some attention to our country at last, to the whole of It. inproving its people's health. Take a map of the State, and every dot representing a commuity of 10,000 or more inhabitants wouid furnish a text for an article on civic progress or industrial enterprise. Ouhside of Philadelphia, Penn sylvania is much more populous than is New York outside of New Y'ork City. Indeed, Pennsylvania goes down to Philadelphia with 6,325,000 population, while New York goes down to the Bronx with 4,723,000. It is the large number of cities of less than thirty thousand popula tion that makes Pennsylvania, out side of its chief city, such a popu lous State. A Monument to Religious Freedom No bit of literature compiled re garding Pennsylvania could fairly represent the State without at least a passing reference to the religious sects which were transplanted there in colonial times and which flourish to this day in nearly their primitive simplicity. When William Penn founded his colony, the central purpose of his life was to establish an asylum where the persecuted of all lands could come and worship God ac cording to their own consciences and live according to their own religious convictions. The Quakers came by the thou sands. Their meetinghouses sprang up everywhere. Not content to ex press their religion in their walk and conduct they gave it expression in their dress and in their very words. The broad-brimmed hat am the Quaker bonnet were seen and the "thee" and "thou" were heard everywhere. The lives the Quakers lived won the admiration of all who came into contact with them, and much of the solid development of the State is due to the high standard of integrity and fairness established and maintained by these people of Quaker faith. Mennonites from Holland and Switzerland and the Rhine country, persecuted by nearly all creeds alike, came in large numbers and developed into the successful agri culturists of the three original counties. The Dunkers of Switzer land came as a body, root and branch. The Schwenkfelders of Si lesia, distressed by persecutions that were without pity, braved the per ils of the raging* seas and untamed forests in order to And a haven where they could live in their faith. The Moravians followed later, to share with the other sects the bless ings of tolerance in the land of Penn. Humhle, unsung, content to play their quiet roles without the ap plause of men, like the bee that renders an unconscious service to the flower, these sects have wrought richly in the making of the nation. It seems like going back into an earlier century to visit the cloisters Germans Have Not Changed ' [Louis Graves in Atlantic Monthly] A question that a good many of us are asking is: How many Ger mans are there who did not really think their country was right in the war, who did not sympathize with its purposes, but whose voice was neces sarily stilled while the fight was on? if the number of these is as large as some profess to believe, then there may indeed soon be a liberal Germany. We read of the National Assembly at Weimar, and of the great voting strength of so-called liberals and radicals and republicans. But mean while, from Berlin and other places in the Fatherland —even from that same National Assembly at Weimar —we hear rumblings that sound very like echoes of the old German spirit. And here, in the American zone, we find Von Ludendorff unpopular only because he failed, the kaiser pitied as a martyr, and Von Hinden burg a popular idol, and are left with the feeling that all these parties, the Centrum, the People's Democratic, the Majority Socialists, and the rest, are shadowy things, made up of Just —Germans. By compulsion they may be kept from continuing exactly the same sort of Germans we have known in the past; they may be patched up and made over; but we here aie not expecting to see any genuinely changed Germans until, possibly, the children who are now the playfellow? of our American soldiers have bo , come men and women. Ephrata and Nazareth; it appears passing strange to see the Amish Mennonite, with his tailless coat and broad-brimmed hat, on the streets of progressive Lancaster; it sur prises the visitor to Allentown to hear well-dressed, up-to-date peo ple, from court officer to manufac turer, talking Pennsylvania Dutch! Y'et millions of America's best farmers inherited their command of the soil from such ancestry; from such simple folk have sprung scores of governors of States, many jur ists, a galaxy of educators, etc. The Pennsylvania pietist, in his ascetic way, has done his bit in making his State what it is—and his part in shaping the bone and sinew of the nation. Tlte State's Share in Making and Preserving the Union As for its history, whether in the remoter period of colonial times or in the. just-passing era of America's activities in the world war; whether in the battle for the establishment of the Union or the struggle for its maintenance, the Keystone State has always played a role second to no other Commonwealth. It was on Pennsylvania soil that the Declara tion of Independence was written; that the disheartened colonists were reorganized for victory at Valley Forge, and upon which the Consti tution of the United States was pro claimed. It was from Pennsylvania that the men came who shed the first blood in the Civil War, and at Get tysburg the tide against disunion was turned, under the leadership of a Pennsylvania soldier. When America threw the weight of its power into the balance in the Armageddon of liberty in Europe, Pennsylvania was in the van of those ready for action. No other division in France, out side of the Regular Army forces, was earlier in the fray than the Twenty-Eighth, made up largely of Kevßtone troops. With casualties of 14,417 in the 177 days between arrival at A. E. F. headquarters and the armistice, the division made a record not surpassed in the war. For 49 days it was in the very thick of the hardest fighting of the conflict. The State gave 298,000 men for the Army. 29.000 for the Navy, and 3,000 for the Marine Corps—a grand total of 3 30,000 men. to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of workers in shipyards, munition plants, etc., who answered their country's call. Of course. Pennsylvanians are proud of their State's role in the nation's activities. And the coming of peace will find them at the fore front of those who shall provide the world with-the munitions of peace— engines and cars, coal and steel, a thousand commodities, in the mak ing of which Pennsylvania serves doubly—herself and the whole world. THE END THE HUN STILL AT IT [The Bache Review] That German propaganda is be ing used in every direction to force concessions in the Peace Treaty is shown in one instance in the fact that Washington is said to be receiv ing confidential official cables that the war is not yet over and that a "secret war" is being supervised by Berlin, with the object of disinte grating industry in all the victorious and neutral countries. This, of course, is being done with the idea of getting popular and official senti ment in line to become restive and anxious, and to use its influence to hasten the signing by advocating the making of concessions to the Ger mans in order to induce them to sign. No Occasion For Haste [From the Kansas City Star] Article X of the league covenant puts this country under a moral ob ligation to defend every boundary established in Europe and Asia. This is a tremendous responsibility. The Senate is perfectly right in in stating that the country shall not be rushed off its feet to assume such an obligation. The proposal ought to be separated from the peace treaty and receive the fullest possible consideration. Many a presidential campaign has been conducted on a far less momentous Issue. JUNE 19, 1919.' No Wonder Germany Quit NUMBER NINE EOPLE have often expressed r" / their wonder at our success in getting ships to France without being torpedoed," said Major Frank C. Mahin, of the Army Recruiting Office, 325 Market street, Harrisburg, "and as an explanation I always tell my own experience. We went over on the Leviathan in April, 1918, just at the time the submarine campaign was at its height. There were about thirteen thousand people on board, crew and passengers, so the Boche would have made some haul if they had torpedoed us. What a difference of that great liner from peace times; instead of being all lighted up inside and out, the ship was absolute darkness outside; and inside were a very, very few lights painted blue so that they only made a dull glow. At sunset everyone was chased inside and sol. dier sentries were posted on all doors to prevent anyone going out. No one was allowed to have either matches or flashlights in their pos session, so if you wanted to smoke you had to hunt around in the dark to find an electric lighter on the wall. There were guards everywhere, sol dier guards inside, and sailor guards outside. After 10 o'clock no one except members of the guard were allowed to move around; no one cared to for that matter, be cause every guard had a loaded .45 automatic and their nerves were decidedly high strung, further, we were extremely suspicious that we had spies on board, so if you did try to 'mosey' around you stood an ex cellent chance of getting shot. At sunset every water-tight door was closed and remained closed until 7 o'clock in the morning. The soldier guards were picked men and were permanently on duty and maybe you think they didn't develop cat's 1 eyes in the dark. Every time a ; member of the guard felt a little draft of fresh air three or four men would instantly start out to trace that draft to its origin. The rea son was that we feared a spy might open a porthole and signal a sub marine, so we were taking absolute ly no chances. The last night, run ning into Brest. I was commanding the guard and it surely was a nerve racking night. We had a general on board, commanding the troops, and about 9 o'clock he decided to make an inspection of the guard. He left his stateroom and started up the stairs. As he reached the top an arm slipped around his neck, got a strangle hold, he felt the muzzle of a pistol against his ribs, and a low voice growled in his ear 'Who are you?' He hastily explained, hands felt all over him and he was allowed to proceed. He stepped up to a door leading out on deck and the same thing happened again. He I then and there decided to find me [ and get me to pilot him back to his j stateroom before he got shot, so he. | started to go down stairs to the : guard room, when for a third time ] he was nearly strangled. Finally he ! found me and with tearful accents | implored me to guide and guard him I back to his room, as he had seen more than enough of the efficiency of the guard." In Wet Days, Before the Dry [From the Courier-Journal] The St. Louis Post-Dispatch tells of a carpet merchant who bought a drug store and used the sign by making it "Rug Store." Recalls the purchase of a trunk factory by a saloon man who insisted that the sign went with the purchase and made it, by a stroke of the brush, "Drunk Factory." | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE~I —Mayor Babcock hag been called to New York State by the death of his father. —T. W. Cunningham, leader in the Philadelphia charter matter, has been clerk of the courts for years. —Senator P. C. Kncx has been incited to go to Scranton to spealfc on the League of Nations. —Mayor Kennedy, of Carbondale, rays he is personally going (o deco rate each soldier as he comes home. —James E. Doyle. Syracuse news paperman; well known here, has been named deputy commissioner of public works for New York State. DO YOU KNOW .—Tliat Harrlsburg manufac tures coal and ice wo&ons; pretzels and bookbinders? . HISTORIC HARRISBUCRG —The last time the ferry here was operated was in 1820. < I Ifogttmg Otyai ! The Middle Division Veteran*" As— soclation, which meets in twenty third annual reunion here to-day,t was organized in Harrisburg June 2Zu 1897, and during all the twentjr-twol years since that time has not missed i a 12-month period without together to renew old friendships end i to retell the thrilling stories of the I epic days when the Pennsy was iizt its infancy and railroading was ini the making. Many of the men who< were present at the or:flanization i meeting have long since passed tot their eternal reward and lots of young fellows then just coming the heydey of their railroad careerst are now grayhaired veterans, Bom of whom have gotten so far as places of honor on the retired list of meiu who have been pensioned by the* company for their good work. • * * William B. McCaleb, then super-J intendent of the Middle Division* when the headquarters of that divi— sion of the Pennsylvania railroadj were in Harrisburg, sent out thai call for the meeting and presided over the opening sessions. The vet erans got together in the rooms oC the Pennsylvania Railroad T. M.< C. A., which had been organized! only a short time before and were, at the time located on the secondl floor of a building at the southwest! Corner of Cumberland and Sixths street, over a green goods store. ( Among those present were Frank H* Gregory, the general secretary; Wel lington G. Jones, who has since beers made the only honorary member ofl the association: Brooke Moore, theru one of the most prominent men onj the main line between and Philadelphia; Clader Clemson., road foreman, who held the fate oC the Middle division motive power inj the hollow of his hand and was a. power in Tenth ward politics and city council; James Cullen, of Sprue® Creek, the oldest man then in the ac tive service of the road and a gen eral favorite; George P. Chandler, who became treasurer of the asso ciation and acted as such for many* years; the late W. B. Steinmetz, them an engineer, afterward assistant road foreman of engines;; the late David T. Cramer, of Mifflin, head of the coal wharves and water station at that place, and member of the fa mous Cramer family of seven broth ers, all holding official positions with the Pennsylvania railroad from its very foundation; the late James Wells, then master mechanic, pop ularly known as "Jim" Wells, and a host of others equally well known in their day. It was a gathering of the Pennsy clans if there ever was one and in that circle were men who had been in the service of the road since its first track was laid, and some of them had hecn drivers oai the old canal even before that time. Some good stories were told on that occasion. "I remember," raid David T. Cramer, "when the first engine arrived in Altoona. It looked -more to me like a pile of fence rails on wheels with a smokestack up in the front, than it did a mod ern locomotive. But it could whistle. My how it could whistle! The na tives of the town—not a city then, the place being in its infancy and! only a sprawling village—discovered! the noise-making abilities of this, newly arrived wonder. It held them fascinated. The engineer, proud as. a peacock to have so much power at his command and the center of an admiring throng, tooted his whistle until the wheezy old locomotive had hardly enough steam left to move her. The excitement ran high and spread. Next day people came from miles around to hear the engine whistle." • • This same Cramer had six brothers in the service of the road, James, who held what amounted almost to a superintendency in Altoona; William, who had an important official posi tion at the same place; Wilson, who was train dispatcher at Mifflin; Dafl iel, who was stationmaster at the same place, and George, who was at one time superintendent of'ti> old Philadelphia terminal division, and in his declining years was li brarian at Broad Street Station. All of them were well known in the service and S. Blair Cramer, a son of Wilson, succeeded his father at Mifflin. James McCrea Cramer, vet eran of the Tenth Regiment in the Philippines, former treasurer of Westmoreland county, and recently candidate for State Treasurer on the Democratic ticket, who is an en gineer on the Pennsy,- and William Cramer, in charge of car movement on the Middle Division, with head quarters at Dunholm, near Mifflin, are sons of David Cramer, who in his time was not only a railroad man of prominence, but wrote many rail road stories and anecdotes for mag azines and was for years a con tributor to the railroad column of the Pittsburgh Post. • • • Mr. Clemson and Brooke Moore are living retired. Mr. Moore dividing hls time largely between his Cumber land coMnty home and his summer place at Juniata Bridge. They are of the old school of railroad men who remember the times when loco motives burned wood and when every engineer bad to be a mechanic as well as familiar with the driving machinery of his engine. They tell some rare old tales of early days on the Middle Division. Another well known member of the organiza tion is Martin G. Stoner, former* Select /Councilman under the old system and for years chairman of the city's sanitary committee, then in charge of the health bureau of Har risburg. He is a prominent brother hood man and in addition to being a veteran of the rail is also a veteran, of the Civil War. being one of the men who stood guard over Jefferson Davis after the one-time president of the Confederacy had been cap tured and locked un in one of the casement cells of Fortress Monroe at Old Point Comfort. • • • Railroading has changed In the. twenty years of the Middle Division Veterans' Association and many of the Old faces are gone. But the or ganization carries along the trad !tions of the road and its motto al wayp has been "Keep the Pa. the -tnndard road of America and the best railroad svstem in the world." • * • "There are more bass spawning this summer than we have known for a lone, long time and unless T miss mv guess we are going to have a fine bass season this year." said commissioner of Fisheries Nathan R. Buller. • • • Tt's odd how names cling. The other day some one remarked tipon the fact that a man of a certain -erne was engaged in work at a cer tain p'ace ten years ago. It hap onned that some one remarked that Tncoh Smith was connected with the. Bolton barbershop flftv years ago. end that there is another Jacoh( Smith working there now. . >
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