Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-16
EVENING CHAT

The Harrisburg Republican Club,
which wilI celebrate a dozen years
since its incorporation with a family
dinner on Monday night, is the old
est permanent political club in the
! States Capital. There are political
clubs which are probably older as far
as history goes. but the Harrisburg
club was the first to secure permanent
quarters and to keep up its activities
outside of campaigns. The city now
has several permanent political clubs,
but they are junior to the Harrisburg
Republican. The club as a matter Of
fact is older than its incorporation, as
Tor couple OF years before 1t applied
for a charter it was factor in the
political life of the city and had rooms
which Were a party rallying point.
; The clubs first rooms were in the
building, No. 8, on the east side OF
Market Square. Then it secured the
third floor Of the property at the
southwest corner of Market street and
the Square, which Is the floor imme-
| diately above the present quarters of
the Central Democratic Club This
place was occupied until the club Sc
! cured its present building in Second
street and remodeled it, which was
in 1907. Its total investment is nearly
$4,000. Since its removal its build
Ing has been the scene of some notable
gatherings. Monday nights event will
be attended by Senator Boies Pen
rose, Congressman Kreider and many
prominent Republicans of this section
of the State.
Dauphin county's law library, while
mot very well known outside of the
city and, indeed. not as well as it
should be within, contains some of the
rarest law books to be found in many
miles. Its collection of reports is said
by lawyers who follow up such things
closely, to be unusually complete and
the series of State laws is almost in
valuable. The library Is in receipt of
a number of donations from time to
time and the collection is growing to
be of great importance.
People in the lower end of Second
street are watching with great inter-
est the preparations to begin work on
| the construction of the subways and
additional tracks in that portion of the
city and there is considerable specula-
ton as to what that end of the city
will look like. 1t is expected that the
construction of the subways will cause
a boom in that section for warehous-
ing and light manufacturing and that
a considerable relief from the conges-
ton of trolley traffic now on Market
street will ultimately come from it.
| Harrisburg people will be much in
terested to note that a former resi-
dent of this city, William Mccormick,
was honored by presentation by the
Boys Brigade Of Allentown, The pre-
sentation took place at Allentown on
Thursday evening, the speech being
made by Claude T. Reno, former mem
| hnr M hn nd I'm !,
Mr.. Mccormick organized the brigade
at Allentown twenty years ago. He
was at that time publishing the Allen
town Leader, now owned by the Roth
Estate, and took a great interest in
boys organizations, which he has con-
tinued in Reading.
| Ex-Attorney General Todd in the
course of an argument made in the
automobile license case yesterday,
made q statement which, in the minds
of his hearers, went back to the Capt.
tol cases which were tried during the
Stuart administration. The then at
torney general was noted for his
strong opinion about the rule of law,
which, by the way, Governor Stuart
used to frequently talk about. Mr..
Todd's remarks are interesting in view
| of conditions. 81 am for the rule of
law, the rule OF law and 0rder, SAID
he. 1T may be the fashion nowadays
when anyone is inconvenienced to
kick it aside, but if that persists it
means moral shipwreck and national
| ruin"
Practically every book in the Har-
risburg Public Library on Mexico has
been handled half a dozen times in
the last two weeks, especially by stu
dents and pupils from the schools, who
are working up essays on the republic.
The number of persons asking for
such books has increased as the news
| from the country becomes more i'm
portant and there is no surer way to
gauge interest than by the demand for
! books.
| Among visitors to the city yesterday
were j. T. Sembower, of Uniontown,
and Grant Weidman, of Lebanon.
In spite of the fact that the city had
a trial of the nonpartisan ballot last
fall there are still many who do not
understand it and they are busy ask
ing committeeman of political parties
for information. Strange as it may
seem, when a man wants to vote the
nonpartisan ballot the first person he
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