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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
THE ISLAND COAL WHARF

"HE passage by city council yes
terday afternoon of the ordi-
4 nance providing for the estab-
lishment on the island near the
filter plant of a coal wharf for the
Harrisburg Light and Power Company
can be regarded in no other way than
as a step for the ultimate abolition
of the coal wharf along Front street
between Walnut and Market streets.
Aside from the item of rental that
will accrue to the city as a result of
tage from a municipal standpoint to
result from the removal of the light
companys wharf to the new location is
that it will free a section OF the city's
most used park system from the litter,
noise and confusion of a constant
and growing coal traffic. II the pres
ent wharves are allowed to remain foT
the use of eXcavators other than the
light company the nuisance at that
point will have been only in part
abated. Therefore, it becomes the
duty of couhc;T TO take up Immediately
the matter of concentrating all of the
remaining traffic at Paxton street, and
this promises not to be very difficult,
for the reason that the light company
is the largest river coal operator using
the Market street landing place,
Warren II. Manning, the city park
architect, has promised that the pro-
posed wharf on the island shall be con-
structed in such a manner as not to
mar the beauty of the river view from
the Front street shore. Mr.. Manning
appreciates as much as anybody and
more than most of us the value of our
beautiful river scenery and he may be
relied upon to work out an effect on
the island that will be in perfect har-
mony with the landscape at that point
and which will be an ornament rather
than an evesore.
Doubtless when the whole improve
ment is completed and the nuisance at
Walnut street has been abated even
those who have conscientiously OPP
posed the island wharf will see the er-
ror of their position.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
NEW SCHOOL NEEDED

"HE Harrisburg school district
has been extremely unfortunate
/ in recent years with some of its
new building contracts. In its
very laudible effort to save money for
the tax payers it has on several occa-
Eions let contracts to men financially
unable to complete the work.
This has occurred at the new Shin
mel building on Allison Hill, where the
builder has turned over his business
to a bondsman who will be required to
complete the work. This school house
Is badly needed and it is to be regret
ted that there will be delay in finishing
1t. The board will, therefore, be fully
justified in taking whatever steps
necessary to hasten the work
If possible, it ought to be opened
and ready for use so that when the
time comes for the annual transfer OF
pupils it can be put into service with
out the delay and subsequent confusion
of retransfers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
HAVE YOU HAD the GRIP +?

The debility and depression follow
ing an attack of the grip Is not a fan
cied disorder. Post -grippal neuras-
thenia" is the medical name for this
condition and its seriousness is recog-
nized by all medical writer's.
One authority says: Broadly
speaking, every victim of the grip will
suffer from post-grippal neurasthenia
also. Lowering of nervous tone, with
increased irritability is the most
striking effect of the disease, with lam
guor of mind, and body, disturbed
sleep and vague pains in the head and
elsewhere"
Every sufferer will recognize the
SYMPTOMS. What is the remedy?
After the fever has passed and the
influenza has subsided the diet should
he more liberal but be limited to ar
ticles easily digested; rest and suffi-
cient sleep are essential and DIR. Will
liams' Pink Pills are the only medicine
required in most cases. This treat
ment should be continued until The
patient is completely restored to nor
NAL health and spirits. IL is Il spe-
cific treatment and rarely if ever fails
Send to-day for the booklet Build
ing Up the Blood" 1t is free if you
mention this paper. Address the DIR
williams Medicine Co, Schenectady
N Y. Your own druggist sells DIR
Williams Pink Pllls-Advertiseme
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
We'll KNOWN PEOPLE

A. ]. DreXel, the former Philadel-
phta banker, says that the Germans
will be unable to make their blockade
of the British Isles effective.
C. S. Knapp, burgess of Warren,
well-known here, has started a crusade
against punch boards
Joseph S. Myers. former managing
editor of the Pittsburgh Post. is now
connected with the school of journal
ism of Ohio State University.
Major C.. ]. S. Miller of Frank
lin, serving with the allies, is a son of
the former commander of the National
Guard.
Thomas D. Shea, Wilkes-Barre
lawyer, and S. d. Warriner, the coal
magnate, have been named as arbitra-
tors for the Wilkes-Barre trolley dis
pute.
DR.. w. NJ. Davidson, superinten-
dent of Pittsburgh schools, makes II
his business to visit all sites for new
schools and to study neighborhoods.
w. t. Ramsey, Chester legislator.
who is fighting the coal tax, is in the
coal business and knows how his peo-
pie feel.
DR.. II. S. Drinker, president of
Lehigh, will speak at the big gather
Ing of educators at Pittsburgh Fri
day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
4 TRADE OPPORTUNITY

L. PRATT, chief of the Bureau
- of Foreign and Domestic Com
LIE merce. in a report just SUBJ
mitted by Commission Agent
]. A. Schriver on the canned goods
trade of the Far East, expresses the
belief that one of the principle indus
tries of the United States in the future
will be the sale of canned food pro-
ducts to China. Japan. Korea and other
eastern countries.
His conclusions are doubtless found
ed on facts but before our Gamers
reach too far into the foreign field II
might be well for them to give some
further consideration to that at home
Canning has been reduced to an exact
science. We no longer have a haunt
ing fear of potmaine when we cal
canned goods. In many cases the pro-
ducts so preserved are actually super
ior to those which we buy fresh on the
market, for the reason that they are
prepared in factories adjacent to the
very fields where they are grown, arc
harvested in their prime and are often
of better quality than those offered
for sale by local growers.
There is a great and uncultivated
field in the United States for the-use
of canned products of all kinds
Many of our fruit and vegetable
growing districts are located 50
disadvantageously from transpor-
tation standpoint that It is impossible
to get their products promptly to the
cities where they are needed. Thou.
sands of bushels of apples and great
quantities of other fruits and vege.
tables go to waste annually in the
fields because there is no demand fol
them at home and no opportunity tc
sell them abroad.
Here is where the Gamer steps in
He takes the product when 1t may be
had in great quantities and preserves
it for sale during winter months wher
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24

there are any pieces left of you, they
put YOU on Il little cot with clean whlte
sheets, and the dockterS gathers round
with knives and forks and squirt guns,
and yards and yards of rags TO tie you
up with. They also whistles as they
pinch you to see how you are and asks
you how you feel, so you begin to
emprove from that hour, If you don't
beside to die, which is your own fault.
The Harrisburg horspistol is an in
stitushun where dozens, and honderds
and thousands of people about to sail
across the big sea has been persuaded
not to. They go there with their Wills
made and prayers said, but somehow
change their minds and stay a while
longer to weep and wall and nash
their teeth at home.
In the horspistol you are surrounded
with lots of cheerful sites and lots OF
nice smells of doctors dope, and plenty
of company of people in the same fix
as you, so you never get lonesome;
and every once in a while you can
watch EN- take someone out that didn't
get better.
Horspistal dockters usually knows
their bisness. and if there's any chance
you together again. They can cure all
kinds of fevers, grow new skins, plant
new bones, straighten bow-legs, nut
silver windpipes in you, or put a dogs
insides in place of yourn when some
thin busts. The only thing they cant
cure is grouchinesS and old age, which
they don't pretend to, but leaves to the
nurses.
Horspistol nurses is a class of ladies
all by themselves and cant be COM
pared with no other style. They are
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24

fruit and vegetables are scarce and
high in price.
1t is all a matter of education. Let
the people once understand that they
are helping to keep down the high cost
of living by using freely of canned
products and let the Gamer impress
sufficiently upon the public mind that
his wares are entirely above suspi-
cion, and the canned goods trade at
home will go forward by such leaps
and bounds that we shall not be conf
PEELED to think seriously about the dis
position of our surplus products
abroad
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24

A long as Pennsylvania clings
IN to its present system of collect
I n ing its millions and millions of
State taxes it ought at least to
facilitate the procedure for the $4,000
corporations which furnish it the bulk
of its revenue. Some one has said
that the Auditor Generals Depart
ment was like a certain famous char
acter in a noted novel, it jes grew. 1t
has been going along administering
law, deciding law and occasionally ini-
tiating law. Once in a while the courts
have to be invoked to stop it or to find
out how far it can go. 1t is branch
of the government that audits all ac-
counts and pays all bills and collects
tremendous amounts of money with
no one to review its own transactions
except upon appeal to the courts, which
Is expensive and involved.
For some years gone by there have
been efforts toward making the Audi
tor General a purely disbursinS officer
and to place his tax collecting duties
in the hands of a State tax board.
while the corporations have been filing
their millions under a system of re-
porting that belongs to the middle
ages. Corporations now have to file
reports for taxation on the value of
their capital stock for a year ending
the first Monday of November. Prac-
tcally all corporations run business on
the calendar year basis and bill is in
the House to make the capital stock
tax report year the same as the ordi-
nary year. 1t would do away with ne
cessity for a special report for period
that moves around according to the
first Monday of the eleventh month.
And why the bill should not pass no
one can say.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
PENNSYLVANIA FRUIT

FVEN those conversant with the
- growth of the fruit growing in
- dustry of the Adams county
belt must have been amazed by
the report of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad company freight
department, made public yesterday,
showing that a total of more than
26, 100000 pounds of apples, pears,
peaches and preserved products were
shipped from that territory or in
storage there during the year 1914.
The best part of this report is that
officials who have been over the dis
trict express the belief that the fruit
growing industry is only in it's in
fancy, Notwithstanding that in the
past ten years it has increased more
than f1vefold.
There has been some talk recently
among people who should know bet
ter of an overproduction of apples in
the Pennsylvania district. 1t is true
that more apples are being grown
now than ever before, but for all that
prices are higher now per barrel than
they were ten years ago and the popu-
larity of the apple as an article of
winter diet is unquestionably growing.
Just why anybody should fear a glut
of the Pennsylvania apple market
when Adams county growers have
been able to invade such noted apple
States as New York and Ohio with
carload shipments and have been able
to sell successfully even as far west
as California, is difficult to understand.
The field for the sale of Pennsylva-
as wide as the world itself, fruit from
Adams county having been sold in
box lots in England, Scotland, Argen-
tine Republic, France, Germany, Den
mark and Russia. Another big oppor-
tunity that the Adams county growers
have been not slow to grasp is the
demand for dried. evaporated and can
ner apples. A vast quantity of fruit
that could not be sold otherwise is
thus turned into valuable food prod
ucts for use during the season when
fresh apples cannot be had. Apples
so prepared are both nutritious and
delicious and are sold with almost as
much profit to the producer as are the
fresh apples themselves. With these
prospects in view the Adams county
growers are no doubt wise in their
decision to go on developing orchards
like those that already have made
large fortunes for their owners.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
Corns Go !! You Bet I!
Calloused Foot Lumps To

Blistering sore feet from corn
pinched toes. tired, aching, lumpy fee
are things of the past. A true. sue
cessful, painless and dependable rem
edy can now be had for the mode;
price of a quarter.
Who would suffer minute aftt
hearing that Putnam's Corn EXtractC
does the trick so neatly, so quickly?
Out comes the corn, nc scar left, 7
pain to bear-it's Il magical, wonde
full remedy, and is as represented. Sol
everywhere in 25c bottles. Get it tC
day-to-morrow you're well. At
M. Forney Advertisement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24

what gives the atmospere to the plao
(whatever that is) and they are at tn
back of most of the cures, althoug
the dockters takes the glory, and al
very strong on payday.
The nurses in the little pink an
white caps and the aprens are the fir:
things a fello sees when he wakes u
after hearin his bones crack in
accident, and they look like the angel
he used to hear about in the Sunda
School lesson but never expected I
see.
When the times comes to take tn
big ll-round-the-year excursion, tn
horspistol is a nice place to start from
with everything business-li like, and tn
sheets tucked in at the side of the be-
and plenty of winders to let the ligt
in. and the nurses goin around quit
and easy, and nobody maxim muc
fuss.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
Public Menaced by Coughing

People with coughs and colds spread
the disease to others by blowing and
sneezing germs in their faces. There's
no excuse for 1t when COTS Cough
Syrup will make an obstinate cough OF
cold vanish in a short time. 1t quickly
loosens a tight cough; soothes and heals
the soreness in a painful cough; raises
the phlegm and ends a constant hack
ing or loose cough. Goff's is guaranteed
to give you the relief you want or
money back. Get IT at your Grocer's or
Druggists. 25 and SO cents. No opiates
in Goff's.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
News s THf TRHI2fRsaTTSHESAR ESAR

[F'rom the Telegraph. Feb. "a, 1865. ]
Wilmington Taken
Washington, Feb. "a. - Rear Ad-
miral Porter reports the capture of
Wilmington on the morning of Wash
ingtons Birthday.
Salute Fired
Washington, Feb. 24.-Grant's army
fired a salute all along the front in
honor of the capture of Charleston.
Mobile May Be Seized
New Orleans, Feb. 23.-The CAPTURE
of Mobile is expected at any hour
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
Cumberland Valley Railroad
TIME TABLE
in Enact Nfay "a. 1914

IN Effect May 24, 1914
TRAINS leave harrisburg
For Winchester and MartinsburR at
6:O3, $3.50 a. m, s3:40 p. m
For Hagerstown. Chambersburg, Car
Isle, Mechanicsburg and intermediate
stations :s:tC sss Ct .4:aS sGs :li?:SSS ?S D. ;'s IL
Additional trains for Carlisle ana
Mechanicsburg at S:4S a. NJ. AIS, s:27.
For Diiisburg at sos, S7:5o ana
'11:5s a. m. 2;ls. s3:40. 5:32 and S:3e
p. m.
SDaily. All other trains daily sxcspt
Sunday. II. A. RIDDLE,
J. II. TONGE q. =. A
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
HIGHWAY DEPARTNIENT NEWS

%HE third issue of the Pennsyl-
vania Highway News, the official
= bulletin of the State Highway
Department, indicates more than
ever the wisdom of such publication.
Many of the criticisms that have been
directed at the Highway Department
have been due to an ignorance on the
part of the public as to conditions and
the difficulties the department has en-
countered in the tremendous task set
for it by Legislators who understood
better what they wanted to do than
how it should be done.
The Highway News sets forth in an
attractive manner the activities, the
plans and the problems of the High
way Department. 1t brings the pub
lie into intimate relation with this i'm
portant part of the State government
and will give the general reader a bet
ter understanding of what has been
done, is being done and is in prospect.
One of its most valuable features is
that it is rapidly welding the vast but
widely separated forces of the depart
ment into a harmonious whole. An
instance of this is the rapidity with
which the supervisors of the State are
being organized into a highly efficient
force supplementary to the department
proper. Instead of being fifth wheel
to the highway wagon the supervisors
are fast becoming one of the most
important branches Of the road service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
Sail With the Wind,
MIR. Retailer

1t Is easy to sail a straight,
safe course when the wind is
fair.
When the manufacturer of a
standard article advertises in
the newspapers he is starting a
trade wind for local merchants.
He is making a dennite de-
mand for his goods which will
center at the stores which sell
them.
Wise retailers take advantage
of the opportunity to sail to the
Port of Profit
They proceed to get the bene-
fit of the manufacturers news
paper advertising by letting the
public know where to get the
goods.
They put them i'm their win
dows and on their counters and
they add their push" to the
pull of the manufacturers ad-
vertising.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
I'LL GET HIM YET
by Wing Dinger

There is a mouse up at my home,
He's been there quite a while.
I've set a lot of traps for him
OF every different style;
I've baited them with meat and cheese
And other tidbits. too.
I've even spread some poison round
The hole that he comes through.
But don't you know that pesky thing
Just ducks them all; why say,
He seems to relish wood the most,
You ought to see the way
He eats holes in the doors-aha.
y light shines through the fog,
I'm going to buy another trap
And bait it with a log.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
!N HARRI sBURc FIFN
YEARS AGO TO-DAY

GFrom the Telegraph, Feb. "a, 1865. ]
High Price for Horses
Four draught horses brought $1,140
yesterday at a public sale.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
Pastor to Spea'

Pastor to Speak
The Rev. John Walker Jackson will
speak on Andrew Jackson" at Mid
dletown tonight
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24

Indians Going to Washington
Fifteen Indian chiefs passed through
here yesterday en- route to Washing
ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
STORY RITEN'
By the Messenger Roy

The horspistol'is where you 60 after
your automobile goes in the ditch. If
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
OUR DAILY LAUGH
NO DANGER.

Kid: Yessir, I
'spects to be
much easier in
my mind in 1915
than in 1916.
Old Gent: Why
how's that?
Kid: It amt
no leap year!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24

-EX-Judge Horace Heydt, of Car
bon county, is being doomed for sue
cessor to Judge Rice, of Wilkes Barre,
Superior Court judge. who has an
nounced his retirement with the COM
pletion of his present term. Mr.. Heydt
served twelve years on the Carbon
bench ana met with few reVerses from
the higher courts.
The Philadelphia Record says:
I'm local Democratic circles the re-
port has been revived that National
Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer
may open law offices in this city upon
his retirement from Congress next
week. Mr.. Palmer is stated by re-
organization leaders to be considering
this move. but to have reached no con-
clusion as yet. 1t is understood that,
in any event, he will continue also
his present offices and voting residence
in Stroudsburg'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24

Declaring that he had committed
himself to campaign of reformation,
District Attorney David r. Huss, of
Greene county, filed with the county
auditors a petition for an investi-
cation of alleged extravaganza and mis-
use of funds by the county commits
sioners and their employees. In his
petition he makes astonishing and SEN
sational charges of grating" or a
course of procedure that at least
shows gross negligence and misman-
agement He specifically states that
two county employees who resigned
their offices in 1913 drew salaries all
last year. that eXorbitant and excess
sive salaries are paid incompetent
clerks and other employees, and that
in spite of protests by grand jury
which charged irregularity certain
contracts were let without proper legal
procedure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24

Upon learning that it has been
the practice in Luzerne county for the
last twenty years to convert barrooms
into polling places on election days,
President Judge II. A. Fuller directed
that the practice must stop and de-
clares that it was not only violation
OF the law but against common de-
cency.
Judge Fullers attention was called
to the practice during a session OF
liquor license court and the other
members of the bench expressed sur
prise when he announced that he knew
nothing of the practice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24

Governor Brumbaugh. 1t was re-
ported yesterday in Philadelphia, has
decided that all of his appointments
to carry out the provisions of the pro-
posed new workmen's compensation
act will be made upon a strictly non
political basis. The Governor will
name men on the basis of ability and
cut out political considerations en-
tirely. AS at present planned by the
Governor, there will be three commits
sioners to administer the act, the
chairman of the board to receive
$500 and the other two members
$1,000 each. There are also to be ten
adjusters at $2,500 each, while there
will likewise be an office staff of clerks
and stenographers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-24
BEN DAVIS WILL De
V|NTH'S COLLECTOR
Lancaster County ReOrganizer Will
Be Selected as a Compromise
Candidate

According to word received here
to-day from Washington, Ben Davis,
of Lancaster, is slated to become the
collector of internal revenue, with
headquarters at Lancaster. Davis is a
noisy Democratic leader who has been
lined up with the reorganization fac
ton ever since it started to reach for
control of the machine. He was one
of the guillotine committee and also
chairman of his county committee.
The belief was general that the
collectorship would go to Warren Van
Dyke, secretary OF the machine State
committee, or to George Harris. the
Fulton banker. but the efforts of L. X.
VanDyke, of this city, and other
prominent Democrats to get the plum
caused snarl which the leaders have
tried to settled by picking Davis, who
has been very willing. The district
will be as it was five years ago Fred
c. Kirkendall. the former collector,
is now boss of the old Twelfth district
with headquarters at Scranton.
John b. Evans. of Pottstown, is
said to be sure of the place of sub
treasurer at Philadelphia This is the
place which Congressman Robert Il.
Lee had picked out and which anti
Palmer men wanted him to get.
These selections will only serve to
intensity the dissatisfaction of the
Democrats with the Palmer-McCor-
mick control of the party.