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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
HARRISBURG SPENT $4,000, 900

beaver Falls Evening Tribune
Harrisburg has been celebrating for
three days. Back in 1901 Harrisburg
discovered that as a city it hadn't
mI:ch to brag of except being the State
capital and that it scarcely deserved
that honor Only mile or two of
paved streets; no parks worthy of the
name; no Fairgrounds; drinking water
heavy with coal dust and disease germs
everything, in fact, just about what
it ought not to be.
So Harrisburg borrowed $1,090,000
and proceeded to dress up. Later it
made other loans until the aggregate
was 50, 2,431. .000 while that much more
was spent by individual property own
ers paying for improvements in front
of their real estate.
The city has more than seventy
miles of paved streets, mostly sheet
asphalt; far more than 1000 acres of
public parks. most of which 1t owns
outright; plant which filters all water
used in the city; summer Fairgrounds
and swimming pools for children;
summer camp for children; tennis
courts and golf links for the adolescent
and adults, and river front and river
basin which has been improved in a
manner unique in the entire world.
Other plans have been made for the
future and probably will be executed,
for a remarkable thing about the ex-
penditure of the millions of dollars
has been that no one ever has yelled
graft"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
LET US HAVE ENGLISH

lf rom lle new lOTh SUlII
This is the season for the opening of
son a humble plea for the English
language may not be out, of place.
We make it shrinkingly and with def
teachings of Professor Brander Mat
thews, who proclaims tha grand prin-
fiPe tn that this a1tSopfy
language is made of the people, by
the people and for the people, and
hence what the people say is good and
demic society.
At this time the people call man
a. guy woman n3hor skirt. gKiTrt "a Snd tha
speech of the people are not essential.
The truth is that few can say any
thing in the old fashioned direct way.
All have, become SO accustomed to the
use OF slang that the common speech
is no longer common: 1t is become a
curiosity. relegated to the obscure
ed with scorn by the workers of the
world. While -this undoubtedly gives
much joy to Professor Brander Mat
who mourn the departure of earlier
and more elegant ways of speaking,
as they mourn the decadence of earlier
were unrelated, but they were at least
companions.
Is it probable that If the young
ceased to call their heir eiedrs ns,a old guys
mothers as skirts" or rags" and gem
orally began to lift their Technology
toward levels of decorum less fgur-
ative, if more prqsaic. they might also
| improve their manners? At any rate
is there any overwhe Ginning reason why
| the youth of this time should be al
most wholly unacquainted with the
plain English tongue and unable to
| say the simplest thing except in slang
| 1t is a matter. worthy of the consider
alton of those teachers and professors
who may perhaps not agree with the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
EVENING. SEPT. 20.
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad
supper.--Frdncts Bacon.
THEIR ERROR

CINCE the great municipal cele-
bration of last week those unin-
formed citizens who were dis
posed to criticise without knowledge
the constructive efforts of the city de-
partments which have accomplished
so much. during the last year or two
are acknowledging their mistake and
now is heard praise where before was
censure. For this most part the people
are disposed to be fair and any criti-
cism Of the work of City Commission
ers Bowman, Taylor and Lynch, who
have had the burden of all the con-
structive work of the last two years.
ought to be based upon actual knowl-
edge rather than upon political preJu-
dice. Our people will have to be shown
that those who seek to displace these
heads of departments, with their ex-
perience and energy, are better quail
fed to do the important work that still
remains to be done.
1t is an easy matter to talk in gen.
era1 terms of what the community ex-
meets and the kind of men who should
he elected, but consideration for the
welfare of all the people demands that
those who have been doing so we'll be
given an opportunity to continue the
program of betterment which has been
followed consistently for the last two
years.
-Four councilmen are to be elected
and these four should not be chosen
because this political boss or that po-
litical boss favors or opposes any one
of them. These must be selected be-
cause of their fitness and the people
are awakening to the fact, since they
have had an opportunity to see what
has been accomplished, that the three
Republican members of the present
Council have done admirably under
extremely difficult circumstances.
We believe that with the progress of
the campaign the piffiing efforts to dis
parage the work of the three depart
ments over which Commissioners
Lynch, Bowman and Taylor are the
heads will be understood by the great
majority of people and that the pro-
posed turning out of experienced
officials for others who want their
places will not be in the interest of
economy or efficient administration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
Practical Post Office Methods
By Frederic ]. Haskir

truck for almost all the tasks of the
post office. The same vehicle would
gather mails at certain hours, distri-
butte them at other hours, and haul
them to the trains at other times. Each
OF these services might have been per-
formed by different contractors under
the old system. Soon 1t was found TO
be possible for a truck to be working
65 per cent of it's time and idle but
35 per cent. This was a great i'm
provement. 1t meant that the opera
ton of a truck cost the post Office but
nine cents a mile Rwhere it cost the
commercial user fourteen cents a
mile
Cuts Down Cost
This method reduced the annual cost
of performing this service for the city
of Washington from $4,000, under
the old contract system, to $4,000
under the new arrangement. There
fore the new order has been issued IN
Chicago and st. Louis, with a pro-
liability of it's extension to many other
cities
This is but one of the many reforms
that have been worked out in Wash
ington under its newspaperman post
master-reforms that have meant q
saving of S127,000 a year to that city.
Washington, for instance, had de-
veloped q system of independent sub
stations where mails were made up
and distributed. This system is also
in operation in some other cities. 1t
was found that by a concentration of
the distribution system a saving in
clerk hire alone of $4,000 could be
Continued on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
The State From Day to Day

In York county the damage this
year to the wheat crop, as the result
of the Angoumois moth, is reported by
farmers to be even greater than last
year and efforts are being made to get
rid of the pest.
Mrs. Anna Cately, Williamsport's
Oldest resident, was admitted to men,
bership in the Grace Methodist Episco-
pal church Sunday by the Rev. John
H. Mortimer. She celebrated her Tooth
birthday anniversary on Saturday.
The State College this term has an
enrolment of $500 in all courses, $50
over last year. The Freshmen class
has been limited to 500, owing to the
lack of buildings. more than 200 ap-
plicants having been rejected. Fifty
six new teachers have been added TO
the faculty.
Chester Times has made a great
discovery. 1t says: Now we know
why so many people get colds in their
heads. A patent medicine advertise
ment says Colds always attack the
weakest spots"
Opposition to the present open pri-
mary law is becoming epidemic. The
Erie Dispatch declares that from all
points come complaints from the
voters and complaints from the cam
didates and yet we must go through
it all again next year. 1t is expensive,
ridiculous. absurd, farcical, unfair 10
all concerned"
Addresses by John Wanamaker,
ex-Secretary Of State Knox and H.. j.
Heinz all in one week means an un-
usual treat for Erie, says the Dis
patch.
Because no premium had been paid
on two insurance policies, the widow
of John ]. Rinehart. who was killed
in the automobile accident near Gale
donia Wednesday night, is out just
$4,000. She has seven children.
Reading is to add another large
cigar factory to its already long list of
industries of this character, which,
when in full operation, will employ
between 200 and 800 people.
The report of the Reading Clearing
House Association for the week shows
clearings of $1,595, ,990.43. For the
same week a year ago they were
$1,721. $3.50.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
T<HE Post Office Department at
WASHINGTON has lust issued an

w mas JuSI lSSutu eth
order which will abrogate all the
contracts for hauling mail in the cities
of Chicago and st. Louis, and replace
such service with government-owned
equipment, mostly automobile trucks.
This reform is expected to save $170,-
900 year in Chicago and $4,000 a
year in st. Louis.
This change in method of shutting
mail about a big city comes as re-
suit of the experiments of Otto
Praeger, a newspaperman who be-
came postmaster of the city of Wash
ington, and who has been demonstrat-
ing the economical possibilities of
comm onsense and organization when
applied to the infinitely detailed task
of handling the mails.
Mr.. Praeger found that in Wash
ington there were contracts for col
lecting mail, for distribution, and for
hauling to trains, which amounted to
$52 900 a year. He thought this serv-
ice could be performed much more
cheaply by government owned equip
ment, and it's correct handling would
accomplish a great saving. He was
allowed to buy the necessary trucks
and inaugurate his system.
The problem seemed to be to keep
the trucks working as much of the
time as possible. The merchants de-
livery truck works but 40 per cent of
the time, on the average, and is stand
ing idle waiting for a load 60 per cent
of the time. The task was to arrange
the work so that the trucks would be
running steadily.
1t was found possible to use a single
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
sIMMoNs AND KITCHIN

TT is refreshing to note the belliger-
ent attitude few of the Demo-
Gratis in the House and Senate have
assumed now that premonitory quak-
ings warn them they are about to be
pitched into oblivion by nationwide
revulsion one year hence
Senator Furnifold Simmons, of
North Carolina, chairman of the Sem
ate Committee on Finance, now
swash- buckles aroundiin a suit of bor-
rowed arr1or four sizes too large and
declares himself for huge bond is
sue to provide for an adequate navy.
Heretofore, Mr.. simmons espousal of
the cause of national preparedness
has been about as ardent as that of
a Kentucky colonel for the Hobson
anti-redeye amendment.
But while Furnifold has glimpsed
enough Of the light to encourage him
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
HE GOT AWAY
BY Wing Dinger

When, for two weeks chap has been
A flshin' down the bay,
It's hard to come back and at work
To plug and plug away.
I've tried to concentrate my thoughts
On Agures, costs. ct Get,
But can't keep from dreamin' of
That fish I didn't get.
He was a beauty, 1 should say
At least four feet in length
I gave him lots of play and tried
To use up all his strength.
And when I thought the time was ripe
I tried to land him-gee.
He leaped from water. jumped the hook
And got away from me.
The guide. diplomatic cuss.
To me did then remark:
Don't mind 1t, cause you missed him,
For 1t was just shark"
But shark or not. when DER my work
I'm struggling every day,
Just can't help a-dreamin' of,
The fab that got away. -.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
MORE FoR OUR MONEY

from the New York independently
We agree with President Butler when
he recently said:
Quoted inquiry into the military and
naval expenditures made by the gov
ernment of the United States in recent
years, because I believe that the first
result of such inquiry would be to show
that under better administrative con-
ditions and under more businesslike
management we should have gotten
much more for the money spent-or to
put 1t in another way. we should have
gotten what we need for less money"
right. There is Something wrong with
the way our military appropriations
are expended. It has cost us more In
the last tbnsna deca9e 70 keep our army Of
maintain her citizen army of 100000.
Our army of 1894 cost. $173. 1000. 900,
which was about what Germany ex-
period
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29

to take his place in the sun, his fell
low statesman and coadjutor, Repre-
sentative Claude Kitchin. still snuggles
the Bryan dove to his palpitating
bosom and strives with soft accents
to smooth the wrinkled front of grim
visaged war. Kitchin is the next
chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee of the House.
Thus we are to have the pleasing
spectacle of two tar-heeled incense
swingers. each chairman of the most
powerful committee of his respective
branch of Congress. differing in dag
nosis of national symptoms. When
such Democratic leaders disagree, what
is to be expected at the hands of the
next Congress in the way of prepared
ness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
ADtFRTIsING sTEEINON

TIME Board of Trade of Steelton
has decided to do something in
the way Of town advertising, evil
Gently being awake to the fact that
Tho who bloweth not his own horn,
the same shall not be blown" And
steelton has reason to do a little 'toot-
Ing" The town has grown and pro-
Gressed wonderfully In the past few
years. Time was when nobody who
knew anything about the situation
held very high opinion of Steelton.
II was as dirty. as unpaved and gen.
orally as sleepy as was Harrisburg
before the era of public improve
ment enterprises. But Steelton took
q leaf out Of the Harrisburg notebook.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

". J. Patterson. of Pittsburgh, is
one of the Eve leading candidates for
commander-in-c chief of the G. A. r.
Colonel l.. A. Watres, of Scranton,
reappointed a member of the State
Armory Board, was one of the original
members of that body.
Isaac Baum, prominent Washing
ton county attorney, has gone to New
foundland.
James S. Fleck, of Altoona, has
gone on a trip to the Pacic Coast.
John A. Bigelow. the retiring dis
trict attorney of Luzerne started in
life as a telegraph operator.
H. K. Porter, the Pittsburgh
manufacturer, has been spending some
time in Lenox.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
DON'T BE A JAY DRIVER

An unusual number of motor car
accidents have been reported in the
last few days. There have been sew
eral collisions. In at least one in
stance a car skidded on sharp curve
and turned over.
AS cars multiply in numbers it is
evident that increasingly careful driv-
ing is called for. The driver who hits
her up" endangers not only his own
safety, but the safety of other motor
lists There are drivers who fail to
slacken speed when they come to cross
streets There are drivers who dash
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
CABARET a RUM PARASITE

T o, and behold our old friend Neil
l. Bonner in the suise of a re-
former and lecturer. Out in
Springfield. ILL.,, yesterday Neil took a
fling at the cabaret. The cabaret, he
says, is a parasite on the liquor busi-
ness, is dragging it into disrepute and
reputable saloonkeepers to financial
ruin. Mr.. Bonner puts himself on
record as strongly opposed to "arti-
fetal stimulation" in the conduct of
the liquor traffic. Artificial stimu-
lation" is bad for business and even
tually will wreck the trade, he decides.
What a pity he does not follow his
theory to it's logical conclusion. If
artificial stimulation" will wreck a
business, what may we not expect it to
do to the complexities of the human
body?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
PROPER TARIFF POLICY

T<HOSE who have been accustomed
to regard Congressman James
r. Mann as an example par
excellence of the old-fashioned stand
patter" will have to revise their opin-
ions after reading his speech before
a Republican gathering in st. Louis
last evening. Mr.. Mann's address will
sound the keynote of the Republican
policy for the 1916 campaign, unless
we misunderstood the temper of the
rank and file of the party. His tariff
views are in strict accord with the
protective policies of the party, in
which the great mass of the people
nquestionably believe, but they are
progressive enough to meet the views
of even the most radical.
Every Republican should read what
Mr. Mann has to say in this respect.
The convictions of millions of Ameri-
cans are summed up in his st. Louis
speech. He concludes in this Ian
guage:
The first duty of the Republican
party when 1t comes into power
again will be to write protective
tariff law and provide for a tariff
commission of disinterested eX-
perts.
The business, labor and indus
tries of the country cannot well
wait for tariff revision until after
the tariff commission has reported.
We want to start up every old in
dustry and many new ones at the
earliest possible moment
The tariff commission will inves-
tigate and ascertain the facts more
completely than has been done
heretofore and tariff schedules of
the future will be based upon full
information obtained by scientific
methods to secure fairly the Ameri-
can market to American producers,
but not so high as to permit eX
orbitant charges for the things
produced. In other words, the rates
should be reasonable.
The recent experiences OF other
countries bring to mind vividly the
need OF our country to foster and
protect industries at home in order
that we may have their benefit II
we should be engaged In war.
1t is doubtful If Mr.. Mann will be
selected to bear the Republican presi-
Dental standard next year, as some of
his friends hope, but he at least has
written far in advance the text of the
Republican platform on the tariff.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
The Buster the
Better

The buster a store is-if 1t be
efficicntly managed. the better 1t
can serve you.
The more manufacturer
makes the lower his prices.
Volume of business lessons
cost of handling and for that rea-
son means economies
The stores and the manufac-
turers WHO use newspaper ad-
vertising are busy.
cause the increased business
gives better opportunities for
service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
EDITORIAL COfN1ENT
MUCH BETTER INDIAN
[St. Louis Post-Dlspatch.

One of the principals in a recent
ceremony on the Crow Indian reserva-
ton in Montana was Shows-the-Fi
a prominent man of the tribe. We
like that. 1t beats Tells-About-the-
Fish, whom we all know better and
respect less.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29

An employment bureau is to be es-
tablished by the State in few days.
and II we may judge from the anxious
Inquiries of local contractors there is
work waiting for idle men right here
in Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29

Perhaps no more promising incident
with relation to the attitude of the
alien population of the United States
toward Uncle Sam has come to the sur
face than the severe criticism by Slo-
vaks against DR.. Dumba at South Beth
.lehem. Resolutions were adopted by
many former subjects of Austria
Hungary expressing loyalty to the
United States and refusing to take any
part in the movement to create social
disturbances in this country. DR..
Dumba is denounced for his intrigues
against friendly nation. This coun-
try has little to fear from its new
citizens and when the war is over we
may expect an enormous influx OF
thousands of hardy peasants and in
dustriaI workers from the belligerent
countries on the other side of the
ocean.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29

around corners or across a boulevard
at high speed.
1t cannot be too strongly empha-
sized that the really competent driver
always has his car under control; that
he always drives on the theory that
every other driver may be careless or
may lose his head.
Caution marks the competent
driver. Recklessness belongs only to
the jay.-Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29

Merchants of Harrisburg are showing
their usual enterprise in presenting to
the autumn buying public an unusual
assortment of the best things that the
market has to offer. Long ago the ex-
cuse for going to New York and other
metropolitan centers ceased to have
any basis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
HARDLY ANY HOPE OF 1T
TGrand Ranids Press

III dHU INdPIUS I It5S'I
1t is expected that by this time Doc
Cook has reached the top of Mount
Everett, the highest mountain in the
world. The hardest job though, of
course, will be to keep him up there.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
GREAT CHANCE TO SAVE

IBaItlmore Amer1can.J
With the cost of war s3,000,000 an
hour the belligerents might lessen the
demands upon charitable America by
stopping a few hours and giving saw
ings to their own poor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
HOW MANY IN THE DISTRICT?
Philadelphia Evening Ledger

Joe Cannon favors a reserve army
of 100000 men, each paid $3.50 year.
How many of the reserves would ne
like to appoint from his district2
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
QUITE IMPROBABLE, AT LEAST
columbia State

callers at the New York Sun editorial
offices yesterday was Mr.. w. ]. Bryan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29

The one place in Luzerne county
where there is not one Democrat is the
Upper Lehigh district of Butler town
ship. OF the sixty votes cast there at
the recent primaries the Republicans
got them all. This appeared susp-
cious to the counting board when the
official returns were opened, but no
fraud was discovered. The poll has
for years been Republican strong
hold, but once in while from one to
three Democrats come to the surface.
Republican leaders never make any
special efforts at Upper Lehigh because
they know in advance that their inter-
ests there are perfectly safe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
Murderer in This City?

A murderer from Middletown, N. Y,
is supposed to be hiding somewhere in
this city or vicinity His name is John
Henderson, alias John Hardy He is
wanted for the murder of farmer in
the New York town.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
Soldiers Rally i'm Harrisburg

At a meeting of discharged officers
of the War in Pittsburgh yesterday it
was decided to hold a rally of Penn
sylvania regiments in this city October
4. It is probable that permanent
organization will be completed then.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29

. War may be expensive, but then
there is also the matter OF running a
furnace during the winter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY
[F'rom The Telegraph. Sept, 20, 1861
Chestnuts i'm Market

markets of the city. The prices
ranged from 25 to As cents quart.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29
Our Daily Laugh
ONLY THINK
ING.

Wayne-Where
are you thinking
of going this sum-
mer2
Payne - I'm
thinking of the
Panar"a Pacific
Exposition. b u t
I'll probably go
to Punk Beach.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29

Charles Eckenlaub, who received
the highest vote for city controller on
the nonpartisan ticket in Altoona,
withdrew from the fight in favor of
his rival nominee, Calvin Myers, who
lost both legs, an arm and part of his
remaining hand in a railroad accident.
The job pays $50 o month.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-29

George Barnard Shaw says he will
write no more plays. Ha, at last, going
into vaudeville. we suppose.