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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
THE NATIONS CASH ROOM
By Frederic ]. Haskir

TN these days when the talk of the
world is national aud International
- finance, it may be, interesting to
make a pilgrimage to the holy of
financial holies, the marble cash room
in the national treasury. Here is the
very heart of the actual Bank of the
United States, where all the currency
of the Federal Government is issued,
and new bills given out for old ones
that have been sent in for destruc-
ton. Here is the headquarters for
the payment of vouchers issued by all
of the disbursing officers of Uncle
Sam.
The Treasury Department is a COM
plicated organization, having to do
with the administration of many gov
ernment bureaus, with mints and sub
treasures throughout the country,
with the collection of taxes, the direc-
tion of policies. But this cash room
Is the source of its very life-blood. 1t
is the Treasury in its simplest form,
for here is the source of the payment
of all government obligations. This
one room bears the label, Treasury
of the United States"
The bank is the richest in the
world, for back of it is the robust ma
ton of the West, to which the whole
world looks in a crisis such as the
present.
One enters this financial valhalla by
a commonplace side door leading
from a gloomy corridor. There are
clerks in black alpaca coats working
at ancient desks. You approach a
high, iron gate. which unlatches from
the inside. If you have right to
admittance the door swings slowly on
its massive hinges.
The cash room itself has a more
ambitious appearance. This part of
the Treasury building was put up in
the five years that followed the close
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
BY BRIGGS

of the Civil War. The cash room was
erected for the purpose it serves. 1t
is the most ambitious room in all the
great building - high-vaulted, lined
with the finest of marbles, rich in IN
terror decoration, and fringed with
bronze gallery from which visitors
may look down upon its operations.
1t is a two-story room. some
seventy feet long and thirty wide, not
over-ambitious in size, yet President
Grant came here for one of his in
augural balls.
Thirty Clerks Handle Money
Inside are plain iron gratings, a bit
rusty looking, separating the tellers
and clerks, some desks and high stools.
There is not a piece of mahogany, nor
a cushioned chair in the Bank of the
United States. Thirty clerks handle
the flow of the nations money and
direct the channels into which it shall
pass.
Then there is Major Alfred R.
Quaiffe, the vault clerk, who occupies
the high desk at the end of the room,
but spends much of his time in the
cash vaults just beyond. AS a matter
of fact, there is a network of vaults
surrounding this simple cash room.
There are the great reserve vaults, for
instance, into which the new money
is put when it is first printed, and
allowed to stand while the ink on it
dries and hardens. Into this vault has
gone every piece of United States
paper currency that the people of this
generation have stuffed into their
pockets. There Is the cash vault,
where the current funds for the daily
business of the government are kept
and the $420, 0,000,0 900 held in reserve.
Then there are the underground stor-
age vaults where lies s157,OOO,0O0 in
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
JAMES wHITCOMB RILEY

Indiana friends will tender a ban
quet to James Whitcomb Riley on Oc-
tober I. The committee has invited the
most distinguished persons in litera-
ture and public life from all parts of
the country. 1t will probably surpass
any banquet of its kind ever held
Similar ones were rendered Mark
Twain and William Dean Howells.
Riley retired from the lyceum plat
form in 1908, and no monetary induce
ment would bring him out of his Sc
clusion in his home in Lockerbine
street, in indianapolis.
Riley's appearance in Harris burg
with Bill Nye some years ago has not
been forgotten. About that time the
photograph was being introduced and
both humorists made a record for the
talking machine at the Executive De-
partment. Neither had ever before
talked into the new-fangled toy, as 1t
was then regarded.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
VALUE OF A STATE FAIR

T<ROM every quarter this Fall
comes inspiration and encour-
agement for the proposed State
Fair and Exposition on the spacious
grounds between this city and Mid
dletown. While this enterprise is be-
Ing promoted by private capital 1t
nevertheless covers a need which is
apparent in this part of Pennsylvania.
Tor several years the question of a
State Fair to be located in this city
has been discussed at succeeding ses-
sions Of the Legislature and the in
terest which Governor Brumbaugh is
showing in the advancement of agri-
cultural and kindred subjects has
given increased impetus to the whole
movement.
Dispatches from Trenton state that
there is a record attendance
at the Interstate Fair which was open
ed Monday at the New Jersey capital.
Monday was children's day at the New
Jersey Exposition and thousands of
in that city. 1t is stated that over
$4,000 people were present on the
opening day. showing the widespread
interest in these expositions.
More than $4,000 persons attended
the big Lancaster Fair on the opening
day this week and there also the chill
dren gathered on the grounds in large
numbers, the schools all over the conn
ty having been closed to allow the pu-
pills to attend as the guests of the fair
association. One of the interesting
phases of this fair is the boys corn
contest.
At Milton another big fair got un-
der way this week and crowds are
present every day. So the story goes
from every corner of this imperial
Commonwealth.
Referring to the large fair in Wash
ington county the Washington
Observer says that the associa-
ton is "a help in the development OF
the agricultural interests of the county
and in the encouragement of pure
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Frederick Palmer. through the rare
courtesy of the British Admiralty, is
able to report that England has some
war ships in harbor.-Chicago Post.
The Prince of Wales has sworn
never to take a German bride. But
even this terrible blow may fail to
crush the German war spirit.-Kansas
City Journal.
We have a suspicion that the Car
has about as much chance of losing a
battle in the newspapers as a society
heiress has of being homely.-Boston
Transcript.
That fighting down on the Texas
border shows that Mexicans can't fight
as well on the road as they do on the
home grounds.-Nashville Southern
Lumberman.
Short weight.-The pound sterling
New York American.
The football rules are being revised.
We hope the committee goes on record
against poison gases.-New York Even
ing Sun,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
MIR. MANN IN A FAMILIAR VEIN
New York SUM-


It is one of the Hon. James r.
Mann's notable handicaps in public
life. that he Will talk sense. He not
infrequently ignores the appetite for
balderdash and addresses his audi
tors as if they were intelligent. Thus,
he told the Missouri Republicans at
ST. Louis this week:
'It is not our duty to civilize or
govern Europe.
1T is our duty to act for the lasting
best interests of our own country.
while we are adopting means and
methods for our trade and industrial
development let us also, in view of the,
conditions in foreign lands, put our
house in order to defend and protect
itself against any foreign nation or
nations" ~
These are strange words from the
lips of a politician. Not our duty to
civilize and govern Europe? Our duty
to mind our own business? We should
look out for the United States? Here
are singularly anti -Chautauquan opin-
ions, extensively rational and sound.
Does Mr. Mann mean that he has
given up hope of the nomination for
President In 1915?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
CAMP HILLS ENTERPRISE

NAMP HILLS borough council has
~ displayed admirable foresight
and enterprise in availing itself
of the expert service of the Harrisburg
City Planning Commission for the de-
velopment of the territory lying be-
tween the west bank of the river and
the western boundary line of Camp
Hill. Under the law the commission
has authority to act within three miles
of the city limits in any direction and
this brings the Camp Hill project we'll
within the prescribed area.
Eventually Harrisburg, like Pitts
burgh and New York city, will leap
across the intervening stream and en-
brace within it's governmental scope
all the West Shore. at least from the
lower end OF Lemoyne to Enola and
back as far as the western line of
Camp Hill. It is important, therefore,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

w. H. Truesdale, president of the
Lackawanna, said in Scranton that he
expected things to boom all over the
country.
-Ignace Paderewski, speaking at
Wilkes Barre, said that Poland was a
model in unpreparedness.
The Rev. Mgr. T. e. Coffey, of
Carbondale, was given a public recep-
tion on completion of his fortieth an
niversary as a priest.
Charles e. Ingersoll OF Philadel-
phia, has succeeded Rudolph Ellis as
a director of the General Asphalt
Company.
II. f. Weidersheim, Philadelphia
banker. is home from the Pacific coast.
John Thompson Spencer, of Phila-
port.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01

that the territory to the west be laid
out Systematically and in harmony
with the city beautiful idea which
the commission has always in mind.
At all events a majority of Camp Hill
people work or have their business
places in Harrisburg and they are en-
titled to all the help the city can give
them in carrying out the municipal
development ideas that are doing so
much to make Harrisburg one of the
most desirable residing places in the
country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
THE JUDGES INSIDE DOPE
IPhila dalnhia Record l

Judge Gary. chairman of the United
States Steel Corporation, gives no rea-
sons for his feeling that the war
will not be the long drawn n-out affair
that some commentators would have
us believer" nor does he say why he
thinks" that "the war will end quickly
and unex oectedly." But the COR
poration over which Judge Gary pre-
sides and many of its affiliates are up
to the elbows IN the production of
munitions of war; and it is part of the
equipment of a good business man to
be able to sense the future require
ments of his market.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
CLOSING THE OPEN DOOR

The open door in. China will be closed
and barred to American trade in the
near future unless the United States
Patrick Gallagher. editor for the Far
Eastern Bureau, told the Traffic Club
at the Waldorf in New York this week
country to abide by the Hay doctrine
in China as to defend the Monroe Doc
trine In the Western Hemisphere.
Tn 1919" said Mr.. Gallagher, I'VE
sold China only s37. 7.000,0 900 of the
$3s5,000,000 of foreign merchandise she
bought. 1t is impossible to exaggerate
in the Orient. Japan has made scraps
of paper of her open door declarations.
disregarding her promises to America.
She has re established her sphere of in
fuence in China, having in view the
ultimate partition or absorption Of that
country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
HARD ON THE FIREMEN
tFrom the Philadelphia Record.

IFrom the PhlIadeIphia Record.1
Ten members of the fire department
of Hartsdale, n. Y, are in jail under
charge of too great energy in the per-
formance of their duties. They not only
put out all the fires there were, but
they are charged with setting fires in
order to have more to extinguish and
greater opportunities for proving their
OF Hartsdalc are unappreciative In
stead of bestowing hero medals upon
these mon. together with a policeman
who were Unsuitable in their determina-
ton to put out fires. they have had
them locked up and are going to prose-
cute them for arson
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
TELEORAPH'S PERIScOPE

When this vireless telephony
gets to working 1t it's not going to
be such long way to Tipperary.
A Chicago man by the name of
Welsher has just paid over $4,000 to
make good note given by his brother.
What's in name?
DO you remember when about
this season of the year your Saturday
lunch often consisted of a raw turnip
and a pocketful of green chestnuts?
With Camp Hill on one side and
Steelton on the other, Harrisburg must
keep busy if she is to continue to lead
in civic and commercial development.
After building the subway New
York city would find trench fighting
mild amusement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
HAD SOME YESTERDAY
By Wing Dinger

I'm always sorry when time comes
For summer to go out,
But listen, bo. when I recall
That Fall brings sauerkraut
And pork and sausage. scrapple. too.
1t puts my gloom to rout,
And l don't know but what I'm glad
To see summer go out ~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
VOCAL IN SPOTS

CAM ROGERS, Director of the
y Census. bobs up with a handful
of figures to prove that under
Inc Democratic administration there
are fewer deaf and dumb persons than
existed in Republican times.
Sam says the Republican census of
1910 reported a total number of 4,70S
deaf and dumb. He blames this on
improper returns. Evidently he be-
lieves the Republicans exaggerated the
facts In order to retain themselves in
power.
According to Mr.. Rogers system of
addition there are but 19,154 deaf and
dumb persons in the United States.
However the reason for this difference
of 1854 is easily accounted for: They
are former mutes who have been
shocked into profane lingual activity
by the devilish antics of the Demo-
cratic party, and who are aurally alert
TO the prospect of a Republican ad-
nlinistration in 1917.
The President once said that the
country was vocal in spots" Sam
has put his finger on one of the spots.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01

AS a result of the recent municipal
celebration there is a lively interest in
the general improvement of houses and
business places which have not already
been transformed by the wave of i'm
provement which has been sweeping
over the city for several years. 1t is
believed next season that porch boxes
and window boxes will transform
much of the city into a great floral
bower
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01

bred stock raising" This same news
paper refers to the fact that one of the
county officials recently emphasized
the Importance of fairs in helping the
development of agriculture, especially
among the girls and boys who are to
be the future farmers of the State. On
the question of better stock as a re-
suit of these expositions the Observer
says:
The difference between the stock
in Washington county and that OF
was most strikingly shown in the
Fayette fair having no stock ex-
The very fact that sixty boys and
girls took part in the stock judg-
ing contest at the local fair and
that thirtyfour prizes were award
cd indicates to some extent at least
the interest which has been awak-
ened through this feature alone.
Commenting upon the great benefit
of the Washington County Fair, a
prominent leader of the agriculturists
made the assertion that the fair had
proved to be an important factor in his
work and should be encouraged by all
who believe in the Importance of more
scientific farming and stock raising.
With a real fair and automobile
speedway on the ideal site selected by
the company which is promoting the
big exposition between this city and
Middletown, all of Central Pennsylva-
MIA will be attracted and the results
should be beneficial to this section. 1t
is said that considerable headway is
now being made by those back of the
proposed exposition and while the
State has not provided for the main
tenance of such fair it is believed to
be interested in a development of
plans which would give Harrisburg
the same sort of an exposition as at
tracts attention in New York, Ohio,
New Jersey and other States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
The State From Day to Day

Frank H. Bull, the Sharon iron
raster, is recovering from dangerous
hurts resulting from an automobile
accident.
Shippensburg Motor Club is CO.
operating with the Motor Club of Har-
risburg in marking the Lincoln High
Chambersburg. Railroad danger
signs have also been ordered.
Paxtang is not the only community
stirred over the weed nuisance. Will
Transports council Is all worked up
over the rank growth on vacant lots
in that city. And the weeds must go.
AS a preliminary to purchasing
site for a recreation park at a cost of
5000 the Civic Club of Williamsport
is about to be Incorporated.
The Pottsville Republican is urging
the people Of the anthracite region to
clean up their back alleys in the
theory that Fall cleaning is quite as
beneficial as one in the Spring.
Trolley line is now in course of con-
struction between Johnstown and
Somerset. 1t is expected the line will
be operating before Spring.
This week farm in Clay township.
Lancaster county. which has been in
the Lober family since Richard and
Robert Penn granted the tract to Mar
tin Lober was sold as the property of
Sarah Lober 70 Charles ]. Lebzelter
for $22,748.04. 1t contains 24S acres
and mansion house.
All Lancaster is full of enthusiasm
over the great fair now under way.
Meanwhile Harrisburg is looking for
ward to the day when the big show of
all the shows will be staged on the
Young estate near HighsDire.
These are the new officers of the
Southern District Association of the
G.. A. r.. which embraces the Cumber-
land Valley and adjacent territory:
District commander John Shugars.
Shippensburg; vice-commander, j. D.
Hemminger, Carlisle; Junior vice-com-
mander, b. w. Day, Chambersburg;
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
WONDERS.

WONDERS.
Phwat do yez
t'ink av the way
they have now av
sindin' messages
widout wires or
poles?
Sure, IT. a
great invintion!
I expect wan av
these days they'll
foind a way. t.
travel widout Law
In home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01

Now that the Kaiser has agreed to
the American point of view, the
hyphenated societies will have to re-
move his picture from their walls
Philadelphia North American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01

WILDWOOD PARK as it stands
w today is monument to civic
pride and municipal progress,
boys knew and availed themselves of
its advantages long before the awaken
ing of Harrisburg in 1901. Many a
man of sedate middle life remembers
when to him wetzel's Swamp, under
which misnomer the park went pre-
vious to its acquisition by the city,
constituted his conception of the for
est primeval and held for him all of
the joys and thrills of pioneering and
discovery that the hardy frontiersmen
must have experienced. Many a lad
learned in Wildwood park the forest
lore that made him a lover of nature
in after years and stored UP energy
that stood him in good stead when he
needed it most.
Wildwood was thing of beauty and
a joy forever to the boys of the gener-
alton now ripening into middle life.
In winter they skated and trapped
muskrats there; in the Spring they
picked violets. arbutus and the count
less other forms of towering life that
make the park area one of the most
attractive In Central Pennsylvania to
the botanist and plant-lover. In sum-
mer he hunted frogs, fished and pick
ed berries and grapes there, but il
in the Fall that he found his great
est delight in its woods and along it's
slopes. Nuts were ripe then and he
knew where to find them. There We're
chestnuts in the lowlands and along
the slopes. Walnuts and butternuts
were to be had in abundance, while
everything in the hickorynut line was
to be had for the "skutching," from
the humble "hoggie" to the aristocratic
shellbark.
Few pleasures there were in those
days to compare with Saturday spent
in "Wetzel's," armed with bag and
club. In what triumph the lad bore
his bag full of nuts home in the even
ing. What mattered stained hands
and bruised knees. The young forester
was well repaid when he saw his store
spread out to dry on the kitchen roof,
for it held visions of winter evenings
spent over the dish of cracked nuts
that made all the dreary months to
come seem rosy as summer.
To be sure, Wildwood is a great
place, all it is painted. indeed, but the
men who knew it as boys will tell you
that it holds no more joys to-day than
it did before it acquired the dignity
of municipal ownership.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01

It is not only in the stock market
that the steel interests of the country
are cutting a figure. Everywhere the
plants are getting busy and orders
seem to be increasing hourly. Idle cars
are now in use and thousands of tons
of steel are being ordered for new
equipment. Building plans which were
suspended are now being resumed and
Harrisburg looks for. home construc-
ton boom next year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
WHERE MIR. POPE GUESSED WRONG

[From the Kansas City Times.l
Several years ago a gentleman named
Pope wrote two lines that have been
giving aid and comfort ever since to
men who were opposing betterments
in government.
For forms of government let fools con-
test:
Whate'er is best administered is best.
According to this sentiment 1t was
all foolishness to displace q monarchy
with a republic. BY the same phil
ing a lawn whether you have a lown
mower or a pair of scissors.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
FRIDAY EVENING, OCT. 1.

The great man is he toho does nor
lose his chiId's hedrt.-Confucius.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01

Sheridan and Eva Oldham are the
Johnstown parents of a baby weighing
one pound, one foot long and per-
fectly developed. Doctor says the boy
will live and flourish.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
MY LEADER

When earthly joys have all passed by,
And clouds are lowering in the sky.
Thought oft by human hopes deceived,
/ know in whom / have believed,
And although gloomy seems the day,
When travelling on life's weary way,
l know that he has said to me,
That "as the day thy strength shall
be-"
And so, while trusting in his word,
] lean upon my gracious Lord,
And feel whate'er my lot may be.
Still by his hand he 1eadeth me-"
1t may be that the path is rough
Still, If he leads, it is enough,
For on his word I will depend:
"Lo, I am with you till the end"
Mary NJ. M. Mcfarland in The
Christian Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
DO YOU KNOW
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

That Harrisburg has built a
number of engines for Mexico?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01

The Miltonian. one of Northumber-
land county's brightest newspapers,
has just entered upon its one hundreth
volume. 1t was founded by Henry
Frick. and among its editors have been
Robert NJ. Frick. from 1S43 to 1852;
Franklin Bound. from 1857 to 1859. and
now ex-senator Fred. A. Godcharles,
its proprietor. One of the interesting
features is reproduction in the an
niversary number OF the first page of
the initial issue of the Miltonian on
Saturday. September 81, 1915.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01

The first courthouse was built
about 1900 and the Legislature
used 1t for several years from
1914 on.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-01
There has been Widespread endor

There has been widespread endorse
ment of the suggestion of the
Telegraph that Labor Day next year
be set apart for fine river carnival,
including regatta apdaequatlc sports
of all kind 1t is ups3 the men and
women of the city to organize an as
sociation which will have charge OF
these annual affairs, the Chamber of
Commerce having done we'll in starting
the ball rolling.