NEWS ITEM. ,
CHASLSS L. WING, Editor.
Published Every Thursday Afternoon
By The Sullivan Publishing Co.
At the County Boat of Sullivan County. <
LAPORTB. PA.
W (:. MASON, Presided.
Tilos. ,l. INi.tIAM, seu'y A Treas. j
Enteral at (.be Post Office at Laporte, as !
second-class mail matter.
MEAT PUBLIC
IMPROVEMENT
Extension of Capitol Grounds at
Harrisburg a Prime Necessity.
lIUST BE NOW OR NEVER
Opportunity to Secure Proper Setting
For Splendid State House Will
Never Come Again.
Harrisburg, Jan. 15. During the j
present week a bill will be introduced i
in tiio upper bouse of the state legis- j
1 iti-ie bv Senator John 10. Fox to pro- '
vide for the enlargement of the i
grounds surrounding the new state !
capitol by clearing off all the buildings j
in the section lying between the pres- j
<r t capitol grounds and the Pennsyl- j
viiria railroad and extending from
street on the south to North
street on the north.
Tuis tract which contains about 14
u< res of land, exclusive of the streets
which intersect it, will moire than
double the size of the park. I
New State Capitol. Seen From the West.
More than CO,OOO persons, since the
capitol was dedicated in the presence
of the president of the United States
on October 4 last, have come to Har
risburg to see it.
It 1 safe to say that not one of these
Go.OoO men anil women from all parts
of t'.ie commonwealth failed no note
that the grounds surrounding it are
inadequate for the magnificent capitol
which has cost the people of Pennsyl
vania about $13,000,000.
Whether the capitol has cost too ]
r'iiieh and whether the money has been !
honestly and providently expended are j
questions that will be determined offi
cially during Governor Stuart's admin- ;
i strut ion. But whatever way those |
questions are answered, the fact re-!
. lins that Pennsylvania has the most 1
li nutifui. the most dignified, the most |
magnificent state capitol, externally j
anil internally, of any state in the 1
Union.
The people who are acquainted j
with the conditions in Harrisburg, un
derstand thai if the new capitol Is
ever to have a proper setting in
grounds commensurate with and
wortli.v of the building and of the great
commonwealth containing 7,000,000
pecpl? to wiie:>i this building belongs,
now is the time to secure it.
The territory which it is prosposed
to take is covered, generally speaking,
with poor, small, cheap buil linga. Ii :
in estimate;! to acquire the whole sec
tton. clear it of bull 'inv.s, will cost not I
more than sl.c »:,o00; but these condi- j
lions will not continue.
The land lies adjacent to the m:ii
tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad
and if the state does not take tiu
property it is inevitable that in a very
short time it will be built up with
great warehouses and extensive maim
factories.
Then the opportunity to secure it will
be gone forever and Pennsylvania's
splendid capitol will be absolutely shut |
off from view from the east as Phila- j
delpl.ia's $25,000,000 city hall is now j
hemmed in, shut off and dwarfed by
great buildings.
Millions of passengers pass through
Harrisburg every year on the Pennsyl
•..ini': railroad without leaving the cars
to walk about the city. If the pro- i
ji.)sed extension of capitol park is made
tliey can all get a splendid view of
me magnificent capitol as they
through on the train.
You readers, practically all of whom
will pass through the capital city some
day. do you want to get a fair, com- 1
prehenslve view of the state house
that has cost the people $13,000,000 a
vou pass, or do you want to catch a
giin-.pse of it through some narrow,
| Turner's Alley; Characteristic View of
| the Section It it Proposed to Take
For the Enlargement of Capitol Park
squalid alley, such as is shown in the
accompanying picture, which is fairly
characteristic of the whole section
j which it is proposed to clear off and
! make into an extension of the park?
| Forty years ago Philadelphia could
■ have secured a setting for its city hall
from 16th street on the west to 13th
street on the east, and from Arch
street on the north to Chestnut street
an the south, for a comparatively small
sum of money. Probably $50,000,000
could not buy it now.
Seventy-five years ago the whole sec
tion lying between the present capitol
park in Harrisburg and the Susque
hanna river—which, if cleared of all
buildings, and it contained the finest
residences and most magnificent
churches in the capitol, could not now
be bought for less than $4,000,000 or
$5,000,000 —was offered to the state au
thorities for $35,000.
Our forefathers, in their blindness,
thought the price was more than th«
state could afford to pay!
I If we neglect the great opportunity
j now offered to secure the land on tho
other side of the capitol, when it can
be bought for a very moderate mm,
we shall commit as great a blunder as
j Ihe state authorities did 75 years ago.
A bill similar to that which will be
| introduced by Senator Fox this week
was introduced In the legislature of
1905, and passed the senate unani
mously. The lieutenant governor of
the state, the president pro tem. of
the senate, the speaker of the house,
'■ and many of the leading members of
| both houses, at a public meeting, de-
I ' Will IMC Tf C9la
tlared themselves at that time enthu
siastically in favor of the measure.
It would undoubtedly have passed
the house without a dissenting voice
as it. passed the senate, had the word
not gone out just before it was ex
pected the bill would come up in the
house that the auditor general doubt
ed whether the funds in the treasury
: would be'sufficient to meet the require
i ments of the schools and all the char
! itable and penal institutions, asylums,
! hospitals and colleges, and
J regular expenses of government, and
j leave enough to provide for the en
largement of the capitol park.
! The event proved that the auditor
general was mistaken; a magnificent
surplus was left in the treasury, and
It. has been gradually growing ever
since. The revenues of the state were
never so great as now. There are and
will be ample funds to meet this ex
penditure and all other legitimate ex
penses of every kind.
Moreover, the money will not all
have to be expended In one year, but
will run over a period of three or four
years, as it will take at least that
length of time to acquire the grounds,
clear them off, change the lines of the
streets and transform this now rather
unsightly section into a magnificent
extension ol' capitol park.
All ehould remember that this im
provement will be made ty a commis
sion to be appointed by Edwin S. Stu
art, whom the people last fall, having
confidence In his patriotism and high
purpose, elected to the great office of
governor.
This commission will not be made
up of citizens of Harrisburg, but will
be selected by the governor from the
sections of the state where he can find
men best suited for the duties. None
of the money will be required this
year, as the commission cannot, under
the most, favorable circumstances,
more thau fairly start the work. All
that i-an be done during the next 12
months will be for the legislature to
pa?s the bill, the governor to select
the members of the commission and
for the commission to gel the matter
fairly under way.
The money required for this pur
pose will notiivn v any way encroach
upon the appropriation for schools or
good roads, the maintenance of all
state and semi-state charitable and
correctionary institutions, the proper
conduct of the state government or any
other proper enterprise that the legis
lature In its wisdom shall determine
upon.
This Is an improvement which every
citizen of the state should work for.
and it may be confidently asserted that
every citizen who is acquainted with
tl.e situation will earnestly advocate
It
ONE MONTH'S RECORD.
Shon-H That Our Financial Position
Wn« Never Before So 9tronar.
In February we increased our output
of manufactured goods the most of any
month In our history; this, be It recall
ed, under the Dingley tariflf. We also
aold an uuusuaily large amount of ag
ricultural exports, although our sales
of manufactures exceeded those of our
farm products. In February we sold
over SI<X).OOO,O<K( worth of goods to for
eign customers, un Increase of $14,000-
000 over February of a year ago.
! Cultivate the Habit of buying reputable
goods from a reputabe conce
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_ to 5.00 p;>
Wood School Shoes
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No. 19.
People generally read advertisements more than they did a few years ago.
The reason is to be found in the advertisements themselves.
Advertisers are more careful than they used to be. They make the advertise
ments more readable. Some of them even become, in a
way, a department of the paper, and people look for them
every day with as much zest aud pleasure as they turu to
any other feature.
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ciates the value of such interest. fi | /
He breaks away from the old set style. lie tells / ?
something interesting in his space every
There are lots of interesting things in 0/ O j
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