Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-07-21

The Old Bird Book Gang at Work
AEain-rhey Proposed TO Have the
People Pay For Adverti-inga Brown
stone Quarrv-One Of the Most Cold
blooded schemes Yet Hatched-Bus
IL Was Halted by the Governor ana
the Peoples Money saved.
(Fr0m Our own CorrespondsntD
Harrisburg July ls.-RevelatIons OF
crookedress among followers OF the
Quay machine come 10 light with start
ling rep!dity. The latest came 20 the
surface last week in the exposure Of =
jJb to rob the taxpayers through a
alscrcdiild Bird Book scheme.
1t viii be remembered that one OF the
principal scandals Of the present year
at Harrisburg was the exposure Of an
attempt TO secure about $53, ,0o0 OF the
peoples money by the republication OF
another costly edition OF the now Eo-
toriOus Bird Book" The bin as 1t
originally passed the legislature was
harmless enough in itself. II provided
for the publication by the state printer
Of sort Of pamphlet on the subject
OF poultry and the enemies OF poultry.
when the work was about ready for
publication It was discovered TO be n
gorgeous volume. Teulete with many
coIored engravlngs. and which. when
finished, would cost the state not less
than the enormous sum above stated.
II was only the action OF the gov
! srnor. prompt and decisive that halted
/ the Job Now a companion piece of
/ knaveiy pops out. II was evolved by
/ one who wanted 10 work up the plates
! ot the discreGitea Bird Book job.
( The State college at Bellefonte is u
4 most worthy ana excellent institution.
/ 1t has a large and well paid corps OF
/ instructors. DR.. George w. htherton
+. is the president OF the college DR..
I Atherton IS gentleman of learning
and executive ability. 1t is TO be re-
GREETED that the college has been made
Z the victim Of the schemers' plots. But
II has, and TIE result viii be that the
, friends of the college must be prepared
to hear II denounced even though It Is
! Innocent
II IS the custom Of the institution &c
Issue a catalogue every year. The
catalogue is unusually a nicely bound
pamphlet. which discusses the progress
of the experiment station and other
branches of its special work. Taking
advantage Of these well known facts
the schemers In Harrisburg decided 4
work into the State college catalogue
a lot OF stuff about poultry. birds and
| mammals, and brOWustone. The lat
ter is the most interesting part Of IN,
| exposure
Just what DroNvnstone has to do witt
the State college OF Pennsylvania is no
made clear. even in the catalogue
There is not c vast amount of brown
stone In this state, and the people whC
I started to advertise IL in the State col
| leee catalogue took good care to SCI
| that the name Of the firm owning th'
quarries in question was conspicuouslI
placed IN the catalogue, so that any
, | person desiring to purchase this par
ticular style of building stone would
not he at any loss TO know where &
write for information. Thus th
schemers, part OF the same old gani
| on the hill at Harrisburg, tried to turI
the catalogue of this state institution
| into a cold blooded advertising scheme
For this it was proposed to make tn,
people pay something like $4,000.
There are guilty parties in this trans
action. There was oollusion on tn
| part of some one. and that guilty on
viii yet be brought to account. II WI
have to be explained how the perscI
engaged by the college to prepare tn
annual catalogue Of that institution
| managed to let the old Bird Book
gang get the costly cuts and highly col
| ored plates into the catalogue. How
the catalogue was deliberately turnet
into an advertising scheme for a firm
of brownstone dealers. To the lastin,
credit OF the president, Dr, George "
Athcrton, he promptly and emphatical
| ly denied any knowledge Of the affail
Nobody acquainted with DR.. Ather
ton would. for an instant. believe hin
| TO have Knowledge of any such affai
without exposing It. But the fact re
mains that soma one had guilty knowl
| edge Of the transaction.
rrf4it md, fffstr IN
taken the gang" is always on tn
lookout to fleece the people. AS fas
as one exposure is made another fol
lows. There Is but one way to end thi
systematic robbery OF the people. an
| that IL 10 turn the Tascals out. Th
whole brood must GO. The treasur
| lupters and salary Srabbers along wit
| the schemers who Try to work in thei
| discredlted Jobs costing thousands o
dollars where no one suspects It.
And the time is coming when the ras
| calls win be turned out.