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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22
SOUND OF BULLETS

lFrom the November Outing
Despite the fact that we have vowed
a vow to have no more discussion of
the sound of bullets at the present we
cannot forbear quoting from another
letter. This time our correspondent
speaks from actual experience He is
at present recovering from a wound in
an English hospital. He says: Il was
much Interested in article More sound
OF Bullets and would like to record
my CONVICTION that they certainly do
whine; hiss, howl. hum. whisper. I
| have been tlghting as private in
Flanders for five months and have had
heaps of experience in their various
sounds before finally stopping one
with my right arm. The German
sniper is most industrious and gave
me quite schooling i'm the bullets
| harmless buzz. OF course, il is quite
out of the question to notice the sounds
curing the heat of fierce engage
ment but its tone at say eighty yards
which distance is fairly common in
Flanders, the bullet now has a distinct
whine or high buzz. Sometimes
have heard the bullets from machine
gun go buzzing overhead very like some
angry bees; But sometimes one of the
bullets will strike the top of the trench
| and then the buzz vanishes and a
deep, angry hum is heard. Tis is the
.S03 Mauser bullets tune from eighty
the, sound or hiss of a moderately
| high-pitched buzz. This stage goes on
alters TO hum or swish and it is quite
| possible to hear the bullet coming
| This was approximately the range at
which l was hit. 1t was the same in
dustrious fellow potting away and I
distinctly heard the rifles solitary
| crack. heard the bullet swishing g
| through the air. and then felt the sting
| on my forearm. IT was a most power
| full sting though, very like a horse kick
! in fact. This swishing stage continues
up to about a thousand yards and then
! it alters to a gentle whiz or hum This
| continues up till the mile is reached
and then the whisper comes in. 1t is
really Just quiet whiz. but quite
| clear. This continues up till the mile
| and a half which is the longest | have
ever heard. In conclusion I might say
! the bullets sound is not at ali unlike
| the bees. Firstly after being fired we
| have the angry bee. Then we have the
bees peaceful buzz. Then in the last
stage we have the bee busily extract
! ing honey, quietly humminp"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22
THAT FIRE LOAN

de he ever so optimistic, be he
d ever so full of faith in the
prowess of the firemen, be he
ever so sleepy. that citizen is rare in
deed who does not thrill with momen-
tary apprehension when his slumbers
are rudely shattered in the still hours
of the night by the sinister clamor of
the fire alarm.
AT his desk, in the store, by the
lathe, on the street, the busiest busi-
ness man in town will pause for a mo-
ment to inquire as to the location of
the blaze. or TO count the strokes of the
courthouse bell as it pounds out the
number of the box.
But, unless his own house or place
of business or that of his friends, per-
haps, be in danger, the chances are
that the average citizen will dismiss
the matter from his mind with a more
or less casual, "Oh, well, the fire de-
partment will take care of it," Natur-
ally that feeling of confidence is meas
ufed by the citizens knowledge and
appreciation of the city's fire fighting
equipment.
For some years Mr.. Harrisburger
has been able to work and rest, serene
in the belief of the municipalities abil-
ity to meet any emergency. However
the growth of the city and the paving
of the streets has driven home with
more than ordinary force the import
ance of modern equipment for the fire
department. For more than a year
Harrisburg has been experimenting in
way with motordrawn apparatus;
the results have more than fulfilled eX-
pectations from the standpoint of both
efficiency and economy. And on No
vember the electors of Harrisburg
will have an opportunity at the polls
to express their opinion on the SUBJ
ject when the question of increasing
the citys bonded Indebtedness $500
for the purchase of more motor equip
ment is before the people.
It's for you to say, Messrs. Voter and
Taxpayer, whether you want to work
and sleep a little more comfortably
and securely when the alarm of fire
| is sounded.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

Not since Dickens time have we had
any American notes so important as
those which President Wilson recently
has been writing to the foreign nations
at war. For the sake of convenience
these notes have now been put into a
single volume under the title. THE Pro-
lished by Sturgis & Walton Company,
and edited by Professor William Rob-
ert Shepherd, of Columbia University.
replies to our communications. received
since the outbreak of the war, 1t forms
a complete inside history. of what the
Stese Department lately has been go
ing through.
While it does not ocupy much space
on the shelf. this volume of official cor
respondence nevertheless marks chap
ter added to international Law and the
book of Human Progress. 1t is a page
Of history Americans can be proud of.
How Julia Marlowe began the sue
cessful career which she has just
brought to close, is interestingly told
Modern Stage" to be published shortly
by Sturgis & Walton Company. The
actress first engagement seems to have
simply as Fanny Frost, a schoolgirl
still in short dresses
"One Gay, when Fanny was 13. she
much excited. She had. she said. ''i. a
some money Colonel Robert L. T.
eighties, was organizing one of the
numberless juvenile companies that
played Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Pinafore'
Fanny. said her mother. because 5 she
parts; Well. / did not think much Of
having Fanny undertake anything of Of
the kind but she persisted, and finally
so annoyed me that 1 partially gave
my consent That was the beginning
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22
THE PANAMA CANAL AT WORK
XI.-Cities of the Isthmus
By Frederic J. Haskin

only a matter of time until all of the
present town of tinder and squalor
viii be swept away and replaced with
neat, concrete structures.
AT the other end of the canal are
Balboa, Ancon and Panama City. An
con, the choicest residence village of
the Canal Zone. perches on a hill over
looking the bay. where the coolest
breezes blow. 1t has all been laid
out in one beautiful lawn without
FENCES or coping. Great mango trees
here spread their generous shade, and
stately royal palms wave over pretty
little buff cottages. set about with
hedges where the red hibiscus flares.
Roads as perfect as floors wind like
ribbons about Ancon Hill. and the neat
jitney bus with ~. S." painted on its
side saves the fortunate employe the
trouble of walking.
The new administration building at
Balboa splendidly typifes the perma-
nent regime upon the Canal Zone 1t
is perched on hill that commands a
magnificent view of Panama Bay, and
of the tropical mountains. From its
back door there is view still more en-
trancing to the old canal employe.
Standing there, he can see the tunnels
and stacks of the great steamers pass
ing through the canal.
~ The Administration Building is the
Il L
Is built of steel and hollow tile and
concrete, in the Italian Renaissance
style. It's walls are of a buff color that
glows pleasantly in the soft tropical
light. Its tiled roof is bright red and
it is surrounded by smooth, sloping
lawns. A combination of beauty, or
derliness and strength, it is a splendid
symbol of American triumph.
Panama City the Town
But to the visitor Panama City is the
most interesting of all. 1t is a town
of fifty thousand people crowded in
the space of an American village on a
knob of land that juts into Panama
Bay. The balconied houses of old
Spanish type are crowded close along
it's streets many of which are so mar
row that only one vehicle can pass.
There is not room for a tree or a shrub
along any street in Panama, but every
few blocks there is a public square.
where royal palms shade a bandstand,
[Contmued on Page Ill
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22
HUNTING
TFron, The OhIo Sta+e Iournal1

tFrom the Ohio State Journal
Pennsylvania is great State for the
hunters. According to the secretary
of the Game Commission, there are
over 100000 hunters licenses Issued
this year. The general hunting season
opened last Friday. The game ami
mails and birds are reported plenty.
Wild turkeys. which have been pro-
| tected for two years, are now subject
to slaughter Deer are killed from De-
cember l to 10, while elk are protected
till 1927. November is the open season
for rabbits, but this game is already
on the market in Ohio.
Last year, in Pennsylvania, hunters
killed 2,T36,556 pieces of legal game. In
weight this represented 5,259,3O1
pounds. or more than 2.629 tons. AT
eighteen cents per pound, the value
fixed by the secretary of the commits
sion, the value of the game killed is
put at s946. 6.674.1S. but we suppose the
fun the. hunters had may be put at
twice this. In fact, II might be re-
garded kind of sacrilege to estima te
bag of game in dollars and cents.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22
BANKRUPT RAILROADS

TINE latest entry into the list OF
bankrupt American railroads is
the Missouri. Kansas and Texas.
with 3,s65 miles of track; and among
the superlatives to the credit of a
Democratic Administration we may
now add the fact that the United
States to-day has more miles of rail-
road in the receivers hands than ever
before in the history of the country.
On the first day of October there
were eighty-two railways, operating
41,9SS miles OF line, under receiver
ship. These roads present a total
capitalization OF S2,264, 900, 900. These
figures represent more than one-siXth
of the railway mileage in the United
States and exceed the total railway
mileage of any other country in the
world, except European and Asiatic
Russia combined.
The outstanding securities of these
railroads represent substantially fifteen
per cent. of the total capitalization of
the railways of the United States,
whicn is a record of insolvency un-
parallel in fiscal history anywhere.
The nearest approach to it previous
ly recorded was in 1S94-another year
of Democratic Administration-wh
according to the Interstate Commerce
Commissions report, 1872 roads, oper-
ating 40,s1S miles of line and with a
capitalization of about s2,5O0,000, 900,
or about 25 per cent. of the total
capitalization at that time. were being
operated under the direction of the
courts. II will be noted that with a
greater mileage the capitalization of
the roads now in receiverships is less
than that of the roads bankrupt in
1894
1t is interesting to note that almost
one-half of the railroad mileage now
insolvent became so since January l.
1915, there being 2O,940 miles of road
to go into a receivers hands in that
period.
Railroads, as has been so often
pointed out, reflect the general busi-
ness conditions of the country. When
times are good the people travel; they
buy, sell and ship goods; and the rail-
road revenues are swelled accordingly.
When times are bad, people econom-
ize; they stay quietly at home; they
buy little and there is no large
quantity Of freight. For two years
the railroads of the country have
withstood the impairment of their
business which began when Wilson
entered the White House. When re-
sistance was no longer possible they
sought refuge-as in 1S94-in a re-
ceiver's hands. there to remain until
rescued, as the country will be also,
by a restoration of the Republican
party to power.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22
CAPITAL DRIVEN ABROAD

TIME Continental Products Com
pany, an American concern, has
completed a large meat plant at
Osasco, Brazil This company began
the erection of the plant in 1913, the
year the Underwood tariff law went
into effect. 1t is built on the unit
system, and can at any time be eN-
tended without interfering with oper-
ations. The products will he eX-
ported largely to the United States.
Several shipments of frozen meat have
already been made.
This is one more plant which finds
1t advantageous. under the Democratic
free trade provision on meat, to go
abroad to operate, pay foreign labor
low wages, and send their products to
this country to compete with the
domestic supply, and the Government
gets no revenue and the consumer no
reduction in price.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22
NEITHER BULLYING NOR BULLIED
IL-rc.,. .I... L.a,.sa. l.a... CO..

A United States made serenely amia-
Bile by consciousness of strength would
be the most powerful influence for
world peace that could be developed.
This nation has no ambition of con-
quest Its ideals are humanitarian. It's
genius. or spirit. is democratic and
antimilitarist
No other nation could endow itself
with power so safely to itself and to
other nations. No other nation could
more unsafely to itself and to its ideals
In other nations fail to endow itself
with power.
Power there will be in this world. II
is question only whether the pre-
ponderance of 1T shall be with those
most likely to use it well or those most
likely to use it i'll.
The character of the nation behind
the gun is everything. If the gun is in
bad hands ii is a murderous weapon II
the gun is in good hands ii is either a
saving shield or IT may be n weapon OF
righteousness.
1t is inconceivable that the United
States should ever be bullying nation.
1t should be made inconceiVable that IL
should ever be a bullied nation. II
either thing should be conceivable, and
should come to be, something more
than smile would go out of the world
Civilization would lose its hope in
democracy-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22

VXTITH reference to the school
wv directors to be elected in No
vember:
Harrisburg is face to face with 4
new high school. The Rotary club is
urging the passage OF loan for the
erection of the necessary building.
But there are many problems involved
aside from procuring the money. Much
depends upon the makeup of the
school board. 1t is, therefore, i'm
portant at this time to consider we'll
the candidates for directors.
In this connection the Republicans
submit as nominees A. Carson Stamnl,
Robert A. Enders and DR.. C. E. L.
Keene.
All three are unpledged and inde-
pendent.
Look upon them in the light of high
school builders.
Mr.. Stamm is lawyer of acknowl-
edged ability. wide experience and
possessed of a lifelong knowledge of
local conditions. Also, he is an au-
thority on bonds and has been long as
sociated with vast financial enter
prises in an advisory capacity.
Mr.. Enders is a banker, and also
! a student of local needs, having been
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22

Thanks, DR.. Surface, for the assur-
ance that there will be enough apples
TO go around this FAN. After reading
the dolorous predictions from the fruit
belt of Pennsylvania this autumn there
was beginning to spread an awful fear
that the apple crop had been n failure.
Pennsylvania is becoming the prize ap-
pie growing section of the United
States and il would be most unfortu-
nate should anything occur to inter-
fere with the happiness that has fol-
lowed the increased production of the
winesaps and the other fine varieties
that reach their best development in
Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22

service ought to be given to the poor
is the belief of a former Reading
minister who addressed the Asso-
ciated Charities there last evening.
"Dress-Up Week" is being celebrated
in Erie and the Dispatch tells the
story of the boss "a true story and
vouched for) who came into his office
one morning this week, but was met
by his stenographer with the stern
command to turn around. march out
and get dressed up, because you are
wearing an old, ragged tie, and this is
Dress-Up Week" and the boss went.
Brother and sister to we'd" a head
line in an exchange, gave us quite a
start to-day until we read further and
were relieved to find that endogamy
is not gaining hold in that city, but
that each was marrying another out
side the family.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22
PENNSYLVANIA ROADS

nov R NOR BRUMBAUGH'S
NJ Seeing Pennsylvania First" tour
did not come too soon to arouse
the necessary public interest in the
Importance of better highways for this
State. The New York Times of recent
date comments upon the road con-
ditions in the eastern part of Penn
sylvania in way that is characteristic
of the observations of most of the
tourists who come into Pennsylvania.
The tendepcy of all these motorists
from other States is to exaggerate the
conditions in Pennsylvania and we
are now reaping what we have sown
in the several political campaigns in
which road making methods and the
highways generally were the subjects
of political controversy.
1t was bad enough that we should
have so great an extent of unimproved
road mileage. but it is infinitely worse
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Hugh Jennings is making speeches
in the Scranton political campaign.
The new president of Lafayette.
DR.. J. II. MacCracken, is the son of
college president and a brother of
one.
DR.. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of
the State Game Commission, spoke at
the meeting of the State Federation of
Women at Wilkes Barre.
Controller E. S. Morrow, of Pitts
burgh. thinks council should provide
him with an automobile.
Congressman r. r Hopwood has
been elected president of the Union
town Hospital Association.
Arthur B. Graham, of Philadel-
phia, is spending some time in the
Berkshires.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22
~OLoN is grotesque in its ugliness.

NOLON is grotesque in its ugliness.
Ancon is tropical spotless
- town, pretty and fresh as a wa
ter color sketch. Panama is an an
cient Spanish city of soft colors and in
dolent ways, where the ships of the
world have set down samples of a
dozen races. All the cities of the 18TH
mus are eXotics, such as could not exist
anywhere else in the world.
Colon is at the Atlantic entrance to
the canal and is the principal port of
the Isthmus. Once it was fever-in-
tested swamp, where a few natives
led a pTecarious existence. The pres
ent city stands upon land made by the
canal builders. 1t has been made
healthful but not beauti-
full. The greater part of the
town is a tumble of two-story frame
houses, painted a dingy blue, where
live innumerable swarming families of
Panamanians, Jamaicans, Spaniards,
Italians and Cinnamon, whose progeny
wander naked about the narrow
streets and dispute with dogs and par
rots and monkeys for stray bits of
food.
Such is the native part of Colon.
At one end of it. across the zone line,
are the splendid government termin-
ais, reaching out like brown and braw-
ny arms to the ships in Limon Bay.
red offices, representing all the princi-
pal steamship companies that ply
regularly through the canal Here,
too are the screened-in houses of the
canal employees, perched upon posts in
financial isolation, each in the middle
of tiny lawn, with a couple of cocoa
nut palms nodding above.
Colon is undergoing a publication
by fire The last one occurred only a
few months ago. 1t swept away doz-
ems of blocks of the fiimsy frame struc-
lures, leaving hundreds of natives
homeless. American army tents have
been set up in long rows to accommo-
date them, and there the refugees live
in perfect contentment, occasionally
even experimenting with the shower
baths which Uncle Sam has thrown in
for good measure. -.
E'ireproof Houses
It is provided by law that no house
can be replaced except by fireproof
structure. There have been seven
great fires in Colon in five years. 1t is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22

at one time at the head of the West
End Improvement association. He
would bring to the board valuable
knowledge and experience in these
lines
DR.. Keene is a physician and the
services of a physician would be in
valuable in the erection of a new high
school building, for the science of
sanitation is now one of the most I'M
portant in school construction.
These are the men the Republicans
present as candidates. Need you look
further in making your selections2
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22

to have the Commonwealth misrepre-
sented by those from the outside.
For a whole week the Governors
party travelled in comparative COM
fort over a thousand miles of first
class highways, much of this distance
having been covered on the most
scientific roads now known to road
builders. 1t is, therefore. most un-
fortunate that such an impression as
must be conveyed by the article in
question is permitted to damage the
interests of the State and keep out
side our boundaries the thousands who
would otherwise be glad to enter this
imperial Commonwealth and enjoy its
unsurpassed scenery.
There ought to be found some way
by which tourists all over the coun-
try might be advised of the fine high
ways which have already been pro-
vided for PENNSYLVANIA and the plans
for a still more complete system of
roads traversing the State in every
direction.
Governor Brumbaugh and Highway
Commissioner Cunningham are very
wide awake TO the conditions and are
pledged to a vigorous policy of road
building. They must have the sup
port of the people and every motor
club and all commercial and other
organizations should cooperate with
them not only in furthering the propa-
ganda of better highways, but in
properly marking the routes so that
tourists may have no difficulty in find
miles of fine roads already con-
structed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22
LONG KNOWN

Father" said the minister's son,
my teacher says that collect and
'congregate' mean the same thing. Do
they?"
Perhaps they do, my son." said the
venerable clergyman; but you may
tell your teacher that there is a va st
difference between a congregation ami
a n."-Christian Register.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22
EDITORIAL COr1r1ENT

The La Toilette law ought to be en-
titled An act to deliver Pacific Ocean
commerce over to Japan.
phia Record.
The managers OF the womens cam
paign for votes in New jersey con-
fldently predicted victory, and now ac-
cuse their opponents of fraud. Plainly.
they have mastered the methods of
their brothers.-New York Sun.
To-day all North and South Amer
lea, except Mexico. recognizes Mr.. Car
rama as president of Mexico. But Mr.
CarranZa had better watch his step,
or tomorrow it may be difficult for
his friends to recognize him.-Kansas
City Star.
Pennsylvanid's registration of auto
mobiles increased one-third during the
past year and now includes 10000
ma achines. What a string that would
make in an end to-end parade.-Erie
Herald.
The Car is still monarch of all he
surveys-hut his survey doesn't extend
as far as it used to.-Wichita Beacon.
Bulgaria's envoy 10 London is Mr..
( MIschen. We have several ENJOYS of
that kind in Washing Columbia
State.
The Literary Digest assures us that
even the most ardent dipSUmaniac is
BILE to write a flowing hand
Washington Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22

Details of the State Constabulary
have been assigned to the Lower Sus-
quehanna Valley to smash the gangs
of fish pirates which have been operat-
ing in this section. These keen-eyed
horsemen will do more in few days
TO break up the illegal practices of the
poachers and violators of the game
laws than the ordinary guardians of
the law in years
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22
TennnIars fn NIeef Tn-morro
A Talk to Local
Merchants

Mr.. Retailer, you and this
newspaper have a common inter-
est in seeing each other grow.
We are dependent on each 9TH
er. We can help each other or
hold each other back. ~
When a manufacturer adver-
tises his product in this news
paper he is investing his money
in this city.
That benefits you.
But that advertisement is also
interesting people in goods you
carry on your shelf
You should work with the
newspaper by showing these
goods in your window at the time
they are being advertised.
1t would benefit you and widen
the influence of this newspaper.