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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20
PROVERBS OF BROADWAY


A Rolling Stone gathers no Montgom-
cry.
Where ignorance is bliss, the Follies
are wise.
Make (for the) hay when the sun
shines.
If at first you don't succeed, rye, rye
There's no fuel like an old fool.
Say what you will against civiliza-
ton, it has at least got rid of whiskers
the vermiform appendix and the heart
1t takes a man his whole life lone
to find out that he has been a fool his
his whole life long.
A romance begins with man trying
to capture a woman. 1t ends with a
woman trying to recapture a man.
Women have very simple tastes
They can get pleasure out of the con-
versation of children in arms and
men in love.
In the year 1880 the average Amer
How times changes all things!
Brevity: the quality that makes ci-
garets, sermons and ocean voyages
bearable.
If all public questions were settled
by shooting dice, fifty per cent. of them
would be settled correctly. This would
be five times as good a score as we
make now.
December Smart Set.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20

the President recognizes the efforts of
the banks and the railroads to meet
the situation and suggests that the
railroad problem will have to be dealt
with at an early day in spirit of
"candor." The Presidents utterance
on this point is looked upon in Wash
ington as profoundly significant and a
suggestion that railroads must not
longer be forced to carry on their
business at loss.
1t has been hinted for some time
that the President was not entirely
satisfied with the evident reluctance of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
to recognize the plain needs of the
commerce carriers of the country.
As a matter OF fact the attitude of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
has been so arbitrary and so mani
testify one of indifference toward the
business interests OF the nation that
there has been general amazement
everywhere over its peculiar course.
The President recognizes the essential
factor of prosperity as represented by
the railroads and the Interstate Com
merce Commission must soon have
driven into it's inner consciousness the
fact that the people are not satisfied
with its way of handling the impor-
tant matters which have been sub
mitted to 1t from time to time during
the last two years.
"A new day has dawned for the
beloved country whose lasting pros
perity and happiness we so earnestly
DESIRE" is the felicitous and optimistic
way in which the President concludes
his prosperity letter"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20
SILK NETS IN DARK CoLoRs

The Dry Goods Economist says that
light silk nets, on the Brussels order.
are the foremost sellers in the lace
market at present. They are parti-
cularly strong in black. but some cali
is experienced for very dark shades,
such as tete de negre, plum ana Rus
sian green. This demand is the
natural result Of the very strong fash
ion position which is now occupied
by goods of this character. X.
Black laces continue in fair de-
mand. Black Chanitilly nouncings in
Island 27-inch widths are the best
sellers in this type of merchandise.
The current lace demand centers
largely in narrow net-tops with very
fine Venise and Margot designs. The
narrow or 4-inch widths are parti-
cularly strong for use in the manu-
facture of women's neckwear.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20
CONFIDENCE AND BUSINESS

HERE IS a very general revival
oil confidence throughout the
= country, and while the Demo-
cratic newspapers and party
spokesmen decline to attach any i'm
portance to the recent elections. the
financial writers and industrial experts
agree that the immediate effect of the
Republican victories has been an al
most instant optimism concerning the
future.
President Wilson himself has
sounded an optimistic note of the
business situation in letter addressed
: to the Secretary of the Treasury on
the occasion of the opening of the
reserve banking system. incidentally
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20

IL she will but use her good offices 20
induce the Weightman Estate. which
she represents largely. and which is
owner of the old Opera House corner,
to give us hotel, all Harrisburg will
decorate her with flowers and the good
will of the people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20
DONATION DAY
BY Wing DinEer

II you really want to do something
To make you feel better here's how:
Take part in the donation movement
For the hospital. and I'll allow
That not only you will feel better
For having done good. but you'll make
Lots of poor souls confined there with
illness
A new lease on life promptly take.
Just think If in pain. or through illness,
You had to spend Thanksgiving Day
Somewhere in a great big hospital,
From family and friends far away,
heap of the weight would be lifted
If strangers sent something to you
AS Donation day. they've named Tues
day, ~i
Get busy, do what you can do.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20

Every bit of outdoor work on the sew
eral improvement undertakings that
can be done before King Winter inter-
feres should be done. There ought to
be at least six weeks yet for pushing
the rough grading of the river slope.
the depressed walk. the filing of wash
outs. and the planting of trees. the
completion of the Paxton creek Job and
the work along Cameron Park Exten-
sion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20

AS China exterminated the poppy
plant and the. opium habit in a single
night, so Russia has wiped out all
strong drink throughout the Empire by
an Imperial decree. And it is the sort
of prohibition that prohibits.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20
.SPEAKERSH|P IS
NARROWING DOWN
Most of Men Suggested Are Not
Following Up Mention of Their
Names For the Honor
BALDWIN IS MAKING HAY
Buckman May Be Chairman of the
Senate Appropriations Com
mittee; Political Talk

With the withdrawal of James +.
Woodward, of McKeesport, from the
race for the speakership of the next
House it looks as though the contest
had really narrowed down to Robert
P. Habgood. representing the north
west; r. j. Baldwin. the eastern sec
ton outside OF Philadelphia, and W.
II. Wilson and T. +. McNichoI, Phila-
delphia. George w. Williams, Tioga;
F. {. Ehrhardt, Lackawanna. or II. l.
Wilson, Jefferson, have not followed
up the mention of their names.
Baldwin has been making hay lately
and has been building up an organi-
zation among the central members by
swinging around the circle. Charles
j. Roney, of Philadelphia, who was
spoken OF for speaker, is more likely
to he floor leader again.
woodward wants to be chairman of
the appropriations committee again
ana so do Charles A. Amber Mont
gomery, and Ehrhardt.
The name of James W. Collins is
being mentioned as a possible Judge
in Allegheny county. The Montgomery
and Northampton judgeships are to
take their own time.
Friends of ]. Lee Plummer, for
building fences for him for State
| Treasurer in 1916. 1t is intimated that
| II things do not look bright for the
lsenatorship, Auditor General Powell
might run for State Treasurer.
According to some of the gossip
which is going the rounds City Com
missioner w. l.. Gorgas is being urged
TO become candidate for mayor at
the election next year.
Senator c. J. Buckman, of Bris-
tel, is being doomed for the chairman
snip OF the Senate committee on ap-
preparations upon which he has served
couple of sessions. Senator Charles
III. Kline, the chairman of the COM
mittee, VIII be reelected president pro
TEN.
Senator Henry A. Clark of Erie.
is paying close attention to the pro-
posed changes in the third class city
law. He thinks that the commission
government should be we'll tried out
before any changes are made.
Although the Washington party
element will he aided by the machine
Democrats in making "A big fuss for a
constitutional convention to turn the
present organic law inside out il is
not thought that it will get very far
in the coming session. Sentiment in
idNoi ol snort session without buSl-
ness being upset by presentation of a
lot of panaceas for all ills is growing
rapidly all oyer. the State and indica-
tions are that there will be session
of about 100 days and that the legis-
lative program pledged during the
campaign will be carried out without
much fuss.
Friends of local option are COM
mencing to feel dubious about the bill
getting out oil the House. the action
of the Anti-Saloon League in dabblinR
in partisan politics in the last cam
paign having injured prospects. Hopes
of exceeding the vote for the bill last
session are not very high just now,
but this is not the time to look sad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20

Long after the few knockers shall
have been forgotten the municipal Of
and present--who have
done and are doing big. constructive
and enduring things, will be remem-
bered with gratitude by the people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20

State Health Commissioner Dixon
is remarkably felicitous in expression.
and his epigrammatic and forceful pre-
sentation of hygienic truths makes a
deep impression upon his hearers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20

Whatever else may come of the suits
for damages growing out of the River
Front improvement in South Harris
burg, a fine opportunity was presented
in court yesterday for an exhibit of the
comprehensive plans for the perma-
nent changes that will mean so much
to the people in that section of the city.
Even Judge Johnson, who was specially
presiding. could not resist an admiring
comment or two regarding the .attrac-
tive Front Steps of Harrisburg"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20

Mrs. Frederick c. Penfeld. wife of
the American Ambassador at Vienna.
has received the Grand Cross of the
Order of Elizabeth. in recognition of
her efforts for the welfare of Austrian
soldiers. Good for Mrs. Penheld Now.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20
Sherman Causes Alarm

(From the Richmond Dispatch)
People here are alarmed about Sher-
man movements and the destruction
of two more railroads by his men.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20
War Maps and
Peace Maps

Far more interesting than the
war maps that mark the de-
vastation of armies. are the peace
maps that picture the great con-
structive work on this continent.
North America is finding itself.
1t is developing its own re-
sources; developing its strength
The advertising columns in
this and other leading newspa-
pers are the American peace
maps.
They tell of the march of in
dustry. the great work of con-
struction and upbuilding.
No man can be a daily reader
of advertising without being a
better patriot.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20

~ ONERNOR TENER has gra-
ciously consented to take part in
~ the conference on foreign trade
which is to be held in this city
next Tuesday under the auspices of
the Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce. Some distinguished CONNER
cial representatives will be here to
take part in the discussions of the
day and 1t promises to be most in
teresting occasion.
With the outbreak of the war in
Europe the business interests of the
country Immediately became active
thrown out toward the markets of the
world. This nation is taking its proper
place in the commercial development
of the world and the conditions Great
ed by the European conflict have in
large measure resulted in direct bene-
fit to the industrial and commercial
interests of this country
While the people of the United
States have manifested large charity
in their efforts to succor those who
have suffered through the war, they
have also properly looked after the
enormous demands upon our COM
mercial and industrial institutions
Uncle Sam is extending help where
ever possible with a generous hand
that is characteristic of our people.
He is also looking into the future and
providing for that growth of trade
which is inevitable as a result of the
clash of arms throughout Europe.
For this reason the conference to
be held here next week has a peculiar
interest, and the Chamber of Com
merce is showing a proper apprecia-
ton of its relation to the business
community in bringing together our
business people for consideration of
the questions that are necessarily in
volved in the expansion of our trade
relations through war with which
We have had nothing whatever to do
Once more Secretary Bryan's great
and good friend, Villa. is marching on
the City of Mexico and gathering under
his wing enroute the soldiers of that
famous Constitutienalist-Ca No
moving picture machine has anything
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20
MW6S{ s RAIFSSFES.R
RebeIs DisheartenefI

Washington, Nov. 19.-Rebels along
the lines at st. Petersburg are dis
heartened.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20
IN HARRI SBURC FIFN
YEARS AGO TODAY

[From the Telegraph. Nov. 20, 1851
Odd Fellows Meet
A convention of the odd Fellows of
the city will be held tonight at the
hall in Walnut street.
Three Hurt
Three Harrisburgers were seriously
wounded in railroad accident near
Reading. s
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20

Once more Secretary Bryan's great
and good friend. Villa, is marching on
the City of Mexico and gathering under
his wing enroute the soldiers of that
famous Constitutionalist-Ca No
moving picture machine has anything
on Villa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20

Popular interest has been strain
ed by a political agitation which
has lasted too long and has made a
too continuous demand upon it's
attention. 1t is tired of Congresses
which do not adjourn, of questions
which are always being discussed
and never being settled, of supposed
settlements which fail to produce
the promised results. and of a fer
ment which yields such a small net
return of good white bread.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20
ELECTION AFTERMATH

TUDENTS of political conditions
are still analyzing the results of
~ the November election. Most of
these agree that the revulsion of
popular opinion against all manner of
alleged reform legislation and fads in
administration is complete. One of
the expert observers saws:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20
A TRADE CONFERENCE

~ OVERNOR TENER has gra-
ciously consented to take part in
~ the conference on foreign trade
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20

IJ Is unuenlaDIy true the great body
of the voters of the country have gone
back to the two great parties-Repub-
lican and Democratic. They have had
enough for the present of mere fuss
ing and political clap-trap. Business
men and working men want a rest and
above all else they want business and
industrial conditions to settle into
something like the normal state.
Mighty little attention is going to be
given those who feed upon fads and
fancies which catch the public atten-
ton for little while, but which are
mighty Improbable in the end.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-20
AN ovERwoRKEp COMMISSION

A FTER an experience of year or
N more with the Public Utilities
( = measure it is manifest that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-19
DENY POOR CONSTRUCTION
Steel Work on Municipal
Building Up to Mark.

A denial Of the charge that faulty
steel work caused the new Si2,000,000
Municipal Building 10 get out Of plumb
wag made yesterday i'm the Federal
District Court b. the Thompson-S Star
rett Company, general contractors for
the structure, in It's answer to n
S26s,07O breach Of contract suit brought
BY the Mount Waldo Granite Works
Company, Of Frankfort, Me, last June
The Mount Waldo Company had the
contract 70 furnish and lay all the
outside stonework. At III, seventeenth
story, they said, careless steel con.
struction by the defendants compelled
them 20 recut stone at great expense
10 them.
The ThompsonStsrrett Company IN
its answer admits that considerable
quantity Of the stone Was recUt on the
premises. but II denies that the york
was neeessitated By negligent. careless
or unskillcd work on the steel struc-
ture. The company says that the speci-
iicationg for the exterior we're modified
from time 20 time by an agreement
with the Mount Waldo Company.
A. regards the sle9,552, which the
plaintiff say Is due them, the Thomp-
gon-Stsrrett Company says the money
has not been paid because 1t was not
due before the suit was brought
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-19
$500 AND NEW JOB
Farmer Has Woman Held Oh
Grand Larceny Charge.

Mrs. Is <el Morton, Of 1S9 Claremont
av., who is said to own three motion
picture theatres--one in The Bronx, an
other in Astoria and third III New
Rochelle-was charged with grand lar
ceny in the Harlem court yesterday
and held in $500 bail until Wedncs-
day.
George j. Raesner. a farmer. of
Luzon, n. Y, said that after he had
answered an advertisement in one of
last Sundays papers offering S25 a
week for a young and ambitious man
as manager and treasurer of theatre
Mrs. Morton required a cash bond Of
$500. He collected his share OF the
family funds and handed over the $500,
he says.
Mrs Morton then sent him to the
Ideal Theatre. Astoria. where he found
two other men disputing as to which
was the new manager, and he didn't
have a look in." Nor did he when he
asked for his money back.
Assistant District Attorney Spies
said that three days ago Gabriel &.
Betemps. of SIT West 124th ST., charged
Mrs. Morton with obtaining $3.50 from
him Tor theatre which he never got.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-19

ers under the, statute and the idivld-
ual commissioners had not been Will
ing TO devote the vast amount OF time
and effort required to determine values
and negotiate for the lands by direct
purchase at equitable prices, ;hey
would not have cared to expend their
energies in the development OF the
project at all"
The report continues by stating tne
methods used in acquiring the lands
which we're, in brief, as follows: En-
perts were engaged to appraise the
value of land in various districts and
TO fix a fair and uniform rate Tor all
owners of land within the territory
thus appraised. This uniform vslua-
tior by districts was quite generally
recognized as fair by the property
owners. with the result that 400 par
cells have been bought outright within
the past thirteen months for S2,525,Voo.
The remaining land has all been ap-
praised and negotiations have been
begun with all but per cent OF the
property owners. :,
Undoubtedly the land prices hXed
have been slightly in favor OF the prop
erty owners" explained Jay Downer, en-
glneel ana SeCitlaig " 'HS NN',
sion. Yesterday. "but the cost to the
taxpayers have been much smaller thah
if expensive condemnation proceedings
had been instituted. The prices hXed
have not been as high as would have
been awarded BY condemnation COM
missions in all probability, had such
bodies been appointed-but the prop
erty owners have the use of the pur-
chase money without having to wait
several wears to get their awards, and
this arrangement has been pleasing
TO them. There is no doubt that we
shall have to acquire some of the re-
naming lands through condemnation
proceedings, where the property owners
refuse to meet our terms, but we do
not expect many such cases to arise
Incidentally, Mr.. Downer declared
that most of the criticism which had
been directed against the commission
had been inspired by the methods
adopted in acquiring the needed lands
for the Parkway. The commission
was appointed by Governor Hughes
and the members are Republicans.
Therefore, the Republican machines in
New York, Bronx and Westchester
counties naturally expected to secure
some fat patronage in the shape Of
condemnation commissionership fees.
In this expectation they have been
disappointed In recent years. under
Democratic state administration, the
Democratic machines in the three coun-
ties have been equally FESTIVE, not
only because of the policy of the COM
mission in refusing patronage, but be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-19
Bronx Commission Avoids
Condemnation Suits in
Acquiring Land.
FAT FEES LOST BY
WAITING HENCHMEN
Property Amounting to $685.
600 Already Bought, Says Re.
port To Be Filed Tomorrow.

The report of the Bronx Parkway
Commission, which will be filed to-
morrow with the Governor and Legis-
lature OF the State of New York, the
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
of New York City, and the Board of
Supervisors OF the County Of Westches-
ter, marks a radical departure from the
traditional methods of acquiring land
for public purposes.
Abiding 10 the methods employed in
the acquisition of the necessary lands,
the report says:
From the beginning it was realiz d
that the most important single branch
of the work before the commission was
the acquisition of lands. To have fol-
lowed the ordinary procedure adopted
By public boards and officers OF apply
ing for the appointment of condem-
nation commissioners to determine the
value Of the twelve hundred parcels %
be acquired, thus relieving the commits
sion OF the responsibility for the prices
paid, would have tremendously sim
plified the problem.
In view, however. OF the great waste
of time and money incident to all con-
demnation proceedings. as well as the
injustice to property owners, who, while
deprived OF the use of their property,
are often required to wait many years
before receiving awards for the same,
the commission had, from the incep-
tion Of the project. believed that II
would not be justified in asking the
city to approve the acquisition of lands
by condemnation procedure. and, if the
commission had not had adequate pow
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-19
CAUCUS ABANDONED
TO CONFIRM JONES
Senators Rebel, and 1t Is Left to
President to Whip Them
Into Line.
From The Tribune Bureau

Washington, July 18.-The Presi-
dents plan of forcing the nomination
of Thomas u. Jones for member OF the
Federal Reserve Board through the
Senate by a party caucus was practl-
cally abandoned by the Democratic
leaders to-day. Several members OF
the majority who are opposed TO the
nomination showed defiance when the
suggestion of holding caucus was
made TO them. They said that they
would not enter a conference held for
that purpose.
The majority leaders are depending
upon the resourcefulness OF the admin
istration to bring Senator'S into line.
II was limited at the Capitol to-day that
the patronage club was being welded.
II is certain that no legitimate oppor-
tunity is being overlooked by the 8d-
ministration, which is bringing all its
influence to bear upon recalcitrant
Senators. Although two or three Sen
ators are said to have fallen in line
again, there is still doubt that ma
iority can be mustered for the Jones
nomination.
If the President adheres to his pur-
pose to put through both the Jones and
the Warburg nominations enactment Of
the three antitrust bills will be de-
layed. 1t is expected that there will
be several days Of debate on the Jones
nomination. The Democrats may try
to force the issue by holding night ses-
sions.
Announcement to-day by Secretary
McAdoo that the three Reserve Board
members already confirmed would not
be sworn in on Monday, as first planned,
was taken to indicate that the admin
istrstion hoped for the confirmation Of
Jones and Warburg in time TO organize
the board at one time.