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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

The Williamsport Sun facetiously re-
marks that "it will soon be time for
Jonas again to go on the sick list The
nearing at Harrisburg is scheduled for
september IL" "Mayoring" in Will
Transport evidently has it's dark side.
It's old-fashioned, perhaps, to try 20
convince the younger generations that
the old folks know a few things after
ALL one bit of advice that every good
mother gives her children is to stay
away from the water Immediately
after a meal. A young Philadelphia
man Just two days ago illustrated the
danger by diving into the Delaware
river after meal and disappearing.
His body was recovered later.
A bequest of $4,000 to the Chill
dren's Home of York is contained in
the will of Mrs. S. L. Bailey, a former
resident of Dillsburg.
]. Russell Yates, of Scranton, has
passed the State board law exami-
nations. Mr.. Yates is a graduate of
Dickinson law, Carlisle. and holds the
quartermile record at that institution.
If the young mans legal equals his
athletic ability, he has a promising
future.
The Mayor of HazIeton, so long as
he is chief executive. will not be a
party to the separation of any man
and wife, he emphatically declares
The Mayor wouldn't be much of a sue
cess out in Utah.
An inquisitive grasshopper caused
Miss Bertha Goss, of White Hall, to
sprain her ankle when she tried to
kick it off.
The blackbirds are becoming annoy
ing in Shippensburg and special per-
n1its for shooting them have been is
sued. A solution of the problem might
be to bake few -four and twenty OF
them in a pie, as per nursery rhyme.
Wilkes-Barre councils refusal to pay
city employees who enlist in the Fed
eral Guard and are called into service
can scarcely be condemned from a
business standpoint. At that it might
be good way to recruit, however.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
HIGH SCHOOL FACILITIES

IWITH the approach of the season
wv of public school activities more
attention is being given
throughout the city to the proposed
increase of high school facilities.
There appears to be no objection what
ever to the program that has been ten
tatively adopted by the school authori-
ties. This provides in brief for new
high school for girls in the central dis
trict, an enlargement of the Technical
school budding on Walnut street to
provide for all the boys. and three
junior high schools which will be pro-
Vided for in an enlargement of the
Camp Curtin building, the remodeling
of the present high school building on
Forster street and the erection of a
new high school building on ground
owned by the city in the rear of the
Forney building on Eighteenth street.
This program is comprehensive and
intelligent and will properly receive
the general support of the people. 1t
is probable that the enlargement of
the Technical building will not be un-
dertaken until the new building for
girls shall have been completed, but
the situation demands prompt action
and the school authorities will move
as rapidly as possible in formulating
their plans.
President stamm and his associates
are pursuing a wise course in keeping
the public fully informed of all that is
going on and the cooperation of a
committee of prominent citizens ap-
pointed by the Chamber of Commerce
is proving of great help to the direct
ors. This disinterested consultation
with representative men already has
created a large measure of public con-
f1derce in the whole improvement pro-
gram.
Inasmuch as under the school code
the directors have the power of emf
nent domain, there can be no specu-
lation whatever in the purchase of
property, and this fact has prevented
any adverse discussion.
So great is the interest in providing
proper school facilities so long neg
lected that many voters who are not
always interested in political matters
are qualifying by personal registration
for the November election that they
may cast their vote in favor of the
proposed loan for the purposes indi-
Gated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

City Controller E. S. Morrow, OF
Pittsburgh, in a report just filed tells
of estimated collections of $4,000, ,00d
for the city and says conditions are
most encouraging"
IT. v. Powderly. famous as head OF
the knights of Labor, was speaker al
Western Pennsylvania Labor Day
demonstrations. 1t was his first APP
pearance in this state in quite a while
DIR. John P. CARRIER, the head OF
Philadelphia schools, has called teach
ers together to talk about plans fol-
opening of the Fall term.
w. A. Pike, of Philadelphia
president of the Order of Americans
in this State. has been presented with
the smallest steel rail ever rolled in
Pittsburgh.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
A Christians Thoughts
at Life's EUentide

I feel that God is calling
With his wondrous drawing love,
'Tis easing all my suffering
AS It flows from Heaven above.
And I know my Saviour's waiting
In a robe of spotless white,
To greet a wandering pilgrim
To a place eternally light.
Where there shall be no darkness,
For the light is from the Son,
Reflected from the Fathers glory
Around the great white throne.
There shall be singing and rejoicing
Fer the Fathers Wondrous love,
How He sent His Son to save us
From world of sin and woe.
Twill be a sweet and blessed privilege
AS we kneel around the throne,
When the glory of Heaven fills us
And we know as we are known.
Loved ones there will greet us
with happy gladstone smile,
And then a great reunion
Which will last for all the while.
There we'll praise our blessed Master
In a bright and endless day,
And anchored in His fulfilled promise
We will never drift away.
EDGAR c. HASTINGS.
Highsnire. September z.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
Eagles Forecast Peace

In an old abandoned peach packing
house in the vicinity of Keedysville a
pair of bald eagles are rearing two
young ones. The claims of naturalists
are fatty refuted and the superstitious
are sure that the peace of America is
assured, since this great bird has taken
its habitation in domestic surround
ings. Authorities on the bald eagle
say that the bird lives chiefly on fish,
and that it invariably builds it's nest
and rears its young on rocky promon-
tory near the sea, river, or a lake.
While the eagles are often seen inland,
this is the first instance known to
people of the valley where bald eagle
has nested thereabouts. Eagles nests
have been known to exist in the nearby
mountains, but they have been of the
family which lives on grains and small
animals. The bald eagle is supposed
to form it's diet and feed it's young
from the scaly denizens of the deep
Gettysburg Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07

the stream flow is obstructed the only
alternative for food water is to rise
out of the channel and pass through
the town carrying devastation with 1t,
as did Mill creek, at Erie, Pa, on Au-
gust 3, 1915.
Harrisburg and Eric
Two striking examples of stream
treatment and lack of treatment by
Pennsylvania cities may be cited. One,
where nothing was done and the loss
of thirty-four lives and $2,000,00O OF
property resulted. The other, where a
few hundred thousand dollars has not
only prevented such an occurrence
but has converted the waterways
which pass by and through the city
into valuable assets. The one is Erie
the other Harrisburg.
"On the night of August 3, last, Mil
creek, which passes for nearly three
miles through the heart of Erie, rose
In food and tearing out over a score
of bridges, 200 houses and other
buildings, laid waste an area of tive
and a half miles long and from one tc
three blocks wide. Corrective measure:
are now being planned and will prob.
ably be adopted, for twice before ha:
similar, although not so extensive
damage been wrought by this stream
GfeVOuS 10 lSUS, 6aTflSDurg, Int
capital city of a great State, beautiful!
situated on the Susquehanna river, hac
apparently failed to appreciate some
of its greatest advantages or to foreset
the potential dangers in its streams.
lies on the east bank of the river
twenty-five to thirty feet above Low
water. Paxton creek comes westerly
from the hills, turns south at the up
per limit of the city and for some dis
tance runs parallel to the river, which
it joins at the lower end of town. Fol
years these streams remained. from
almost every point of view, a menace
to the city.
THE water supply, which wal
pumped direct from the river, wa!
black with coal dirt and laden will
disease. Frequent floods inundated Ger
tain sections of the city, and by erod
ing the banks, endangered the stree
along the river front. The curren
was too swift for pleasurable BOATING
CONTINUED on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
SATURDAY AS A HOLIDAY

| n MONTCLA1t DdnheTt dAnoySo NY
~ the constant intervention of
holidays in the early and mid
die part of the week. and threshing
about for a remedy, has hit upon the
thought that all holidays except
Christmas and New Years be shifted
to the Saturday that comes nearest the
date upon which the particular holi-
day happens to fall This banker has
done more than simply conceive the
idea. He is so evidently in earnest
that he has put his energy into the
proposition and will open head9uar-
ters in Newark.
There is some reason to his conten-
tions for making Saturday the univer-
sal holiday. The fact that Harrisburg's
merchants got together earlier in the
summer and decided to move the eve
ming shopping day back from Satur-
day to Friday and close their stores
at one o'clock on Saturday during the
hottest weather has the same argu-
ments to recommend it as does the
unique proposal of the Montclair
banker. The let-up which inevitably
follows day off is to be expected and
both the employer and employe suf-
fer to a certain extent. The Sunday
that follows Saturday outing justi-
fies its claim to the appellation of day
of rest and it is possible business and
business conditions would be improv-
ed by the adoption of the Saturday
holiday idea.
The objection that might be raised
to this change is the inconsistency of
celebrating Washington's birthday or
the Fourth of July three days early
or four days late, for example. But af-
ter all, isn't it the spirit of the occa-
sion, rather than the set limit of time
by hours in which we celebrate the
anniversary of the birth of one of our
national heroes or the occasion of the
freeing of this country from foreign
shackles. And would there be any less
reverence shown to the Giver of All
if we should all agree to express our
thanks by national observance a few
hours sooner or later.
The promoter of the idea points out
that an average of four and a half
days would be added to the school
term by having Saturday holidays, and
if the children object to this, the time
might very profitably be chopped off
at the end of the school year. The
Saturday closing movement is rapid
ly growing in popular favor, both
from a recreational and an economic
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
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OUR MERCHANT MARINE

TINE Department of Commerce
boasts of the increase in the
number of american ships en-
gagged in overseas trade and that the
American Flag is seen more often in
foreign ports. A great many mer-
chant ships are flying the American
Flag for the same reason that great
many Americans residing in Mexico
are wearing British or German flags.
1t is a matter of protection. In all
probability if Mexico had a respectable
navy ship flying the American flag
would Immediately double its marine
insurance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
To Get Rid of Disease
[ Wal1sau Record-HeraId1 /

WauSau Record-Herald.
The gospel of disease prevention
might we'll be advanced. therefore, by
a society having for it's tenets such
commandments as these:
Thou shalt throw nothing on the
streets.
Thou shalt not permit the cutters to
become filthy.
Thou shalt have no open-air dump
for dirt and garbage, neither in the
back yard, nor in the alley, nor on n
vacant lot.
Remember that sunshine is the
cheapest germicide on earth, and let 1t
have full play about your home. that
your days may be long in the land.
One could easily compile sanitary
decalogue on these lines, the observ-
ance of which would stamp out nine
tenths of the disease to which human
flesh is heir.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

touestions submitted to members OF
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza-
tions annual Municipal Quiz."l
Briehy-What does the Technical
High School accomplish?
Gives pupils a fair knowledge of
cabinetmaking, Woodturning, ma
chine work. electrical work, ne
chanical drawing, etc. Gives the
pupil a fair chance to find out
what trade he would like to follow.
Prepares pupil for work in advanc-
ed Technical Schools. Certificate
admits to all colleges accepting
certificates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
The Answer Is Easv

Kansas CITY Journal.
Ono of the railway presidents is
quoted as saying, I'VE are going to
find out who is operating the roads,
anyhow" AS that veteran railroader
experienced in so many departments
of the service. Woodrow Wilson, has
assumed to take charge, why have
any nisgivings as to the outcome?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07

standpoint, and there is much in the
proposed campaign of publicity which
the promoter will wage in support of
his idea to commend it to the public
mind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
THERE AMT NONE
by Wing Dinger

Woodrow's done lot of thinking
over matters of the State.
Mexico. torpedoed steamships,
And the threatened strike of late
But the hardest thinking he's done
Ill bet, was performed when he
Tried to find some reason (good) why
He should reelected be.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07

Senator Stone described Senator
Penrose as the boss supreme" and we
would like to caution him to be mighty
careful how he infringes on the priv
ate preserves of President Wilson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07

The Ohio State Journal editor be-
lieves spiritual exercise to be more
important than physical and we guess
he is right, but did the Journal man
ever know rundown, nerve wrack-
ed' peevish little dyspeptic who had
very much of the grace of high Heav-
en- in his soul?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07

In the light of the awful things
they are doing up there in the name
of politics would it be proper to call a
resident of Maine a Maniac?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
TELEGRAPH PERIScOPF

The satisfaction that one gets
from a visit to the dentist may be de-
scribed as deferred happiness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
Our Daily Laugh
ON THE
BORDER

( General--What
are those fellows
doing over there.
Orderly-Plac-
ing barbwire en-
tanglements. sir.
General Tell
'en to quit It 7
tore my best
pants on one of
those things yes
terday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
DO YOU.KNOW
That Dauphin county is famous
for its old fashioned corn meal?
HJSTORTC HARRJSBuRG

Harrisburg's first iron works was d
nail factory which is supposed to have
been where the Pennsylvania freighs
station stands.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07

He drank daily and lived long"
is a heading in the bulletin of the
Pennsylvania State Brewers associa-
tion; but why call attention to the
exception?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
EDITORIAL COMMENT

We consider it a disgrace and shame
that rats destroy per cent. of the
Jamaica crop of sugar cane every year.
but what amazes us is that no cam
palgner mas yet denounced it from the
stump as an injustice that must even
tually be paid out of the pockets of
the consumer.-Milwauk Journal.
1t is a fattering tribute the Danish
islands pay the colonial administration
when they urge the mother country to
sell them as soon as possible.-Public
Ledger.
whether Ohio is in earnest or not
we don't know, but the subject of
licensing editors is being discussed out
thcre. We hope such a move will die
a-borning. Ohio editors have entirely
TOO much license as it is.-Philadel-
phja Inquirer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
WHAT THE TELEGRAPH SAID
WYE quote from the bulletin of the
wv the Pennsylvania State Brew-
ers' Association:
ers' Association:


The Harrisburg Telegraph is
quoted saving that the Bulletin OF
the Pennsylvania State Brewers
Association IS opposed to Prohibi-
tion because Prohibition always IN
creases the consumption of alco-
holic liquors. The Bulletin never
made any such claim. What TINS
prohibitory laws If the Harrisburg
there has been a constant increase
of LIQUOR consumption despite all
prohibitory laws. If the Harrisburg
Telegraph desires to preserve chaf-
acter and the respect OF educateo
men for it's opinions, 1t VIII nave 10
cease indulging in misrepresenIa-
tion-even against the liquor inter-
ests which are constant ta9get lot
false shafts from posing Prohlol-
tion moralists.
The Telegraph said nothing OF the
sort. What the Telegraph did was te
comment facetiously upon the incon'
gruity of the Brewers Association
which exists for the sole purpose OF
encouraging the sale of beer, fghtins
prohibition while at the same time
contending that the only effect of pro
hibition has been to increase the con-
sumption of drink. And at the rist
of losing "the respect of educated mer
for it's opinions" it smilingly reiter'
htes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07

E. ]. STACKPoLE. Pres't and Editor.in-C Chief
F. r. OYSTER, Business MGHdger.
GUS M STEINMETZ, MdnogiHg Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07
THE LIMIT.

THE LIMIT.
What a pessi-
mist he is?
7 Q S, indeed.
Even m | S 0 ry
Rhuns his COM
pany.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-07

An inquisitive grasshopper caused
Miss Bertha Goss, of White Hall, to
sprain her ankle when she tried to
kick it off,
Evening star., 1916-09-17
GEORGE MATT1NGLY,s OLD HOME

AZ and 9Th streets southwest, $4,000.
In the early seventies Mr.. Mattingly
was doing business as a member Of the
firm of Mattingly & Wheeler, auction
eers and brokers. 500 9Th street, next to
the corner of e. The Rambler has
found that advertisement in 1872, and
others prominent In the same business
at that time were Latimer & Cleary, at
the southwest corner of Pennsylvania
avenue and 11th street: B. H. Warner,
729 7th street, between G and H: Green
& Williams, at the northwest corner of
10th and d streets; Duncanson Bros.
and William L. Wall & Co, in the new
Marble building.
Mr.. Mattingly was throughout his life
identified with the Catholic Church. Be
fore the organization of st. Dominics
Church the Dominican priests celebrat-
ed mass in the big parlor Of the house
on F street and crowds Of worshipers
knelt on the sidewalk in front Of the
house. There is hint of this in the
following news notice. which the Ram
bier found in The Star of July /, 1884:
The funeral Of George MattingIy took place
this morning from his lnte residence. No. AT r
street southwest. The pallbearers were George
Plant, DR.. ]. Webb Rogers. Fenwick Young
John r. Riley, George E. Kirk and Job Barnard.
The cortege proceeded to st. Dominic's Church
where solemn high mass was said, Rev. Father
Logan being the celebrant, Rev. Father Roch-
ford deacon, and Rev. Father Hogan SUBJ
deacon.
address in which he spoke of the many good
works Of the deceased. He said that when the
Dominican fathers first came to this city Mr.
Mattnglys house was the first place they found
Evening star., 1916-09-17

eighteenth and the early part Of
the nineteenth centuries. One of the
first of the Mattingly to leave Mary
land. Of whom the Rambler has record.
was Baptist Mattingly. He was a
brother of William Mattingly, who was
the father Of Edward Mattingly, who
was born in 1778. and took up his resi-
dence in Washington in 1904. and died
in April. 1857. Baptist removed from
Maryland and settled in Bardstown, KY,
where he married and had a family Of
nine sons.
In searching for the story of George
Mattingly. one Of the old residents of
South Washington. the Rambler has
come in possession Of this note. written
by one of his grandchildren named
Clara: Grandpa Mattingly was born
in st. Marys county on the gath day of
December, in the year 1901. He had
seven brothers and one sister, all Of
whom went west, while he came this
way when mere boy, and he knew
nothing moro of them. Cousin Joe
Mattingly was one OF his brothers
sons Aunt Della says that is all she
knows. Aunt Thelia ought to know
more"
About. the early activities Of George
Matting1y In Washington the Rambler
thus far has gathered but few facts
He once owned the whole square of
land bounded by e and F, AZ and 9Th
streets southwest. on the south side of
which the old brick house stands.
That square is numbered 4s5. The Dis
Evening star., 1916-09-17

trict Of Columbia assessment book CIV
ing the assessments for the year 1902
shows that square as owned by Fran
els Pratt and others, not named. The
notation Is made in the old book that
the lots in the square are not calcu-
lated, hut that "the whole square con-
tains 154,564 feet"
N 1917 the square was owned by
James Greenleaf. It had been divided
into lots, but none had been built on.
In 1884 this square, still unimproved
in any way. is marked Government"
evidently having passed during tho
years intervening between 1918 and
1894 out OF the possession Of James
Greenleaf and into that of the govern
ment. In 1914 the whole square was
under the ownership of George Mat
tingly. In what year between 1894 and
1914 he acquired 1t the Rambler did not
take the time to determine. In 1880
the assessment book shows the name
George Mattingly" written in the
square in ink, while opposite that name.
in faint pencil. is the name John g.
Gallaher." In 1854 the name Of John
s. Gallaher Is written across the square
In ink. while opposite it. written in
pencil. is George Mattingly."
In 1889 George Mattingly again ap-
pears as the sole owner of the square.
Between that year and 1854 he seems
to have sold two lots Of the square, one
to Michael Cullinane and one to George
F. Walker. Up to 1869 Mr.. Mattingly
still owned the whole square. excepting
Evening star., 1916-09-17

lot SO, which belonged to Michael CulM-
name. and lot 81 and half Of ss. which
belonged to George F. Walker. It was
about 1840 or 1916 that Mr.. Mattingly
built the big brick house on the F
street side Of the square. and the
grounds around IT were among the fine
gardens of the capital.
In connection with this square the
Rambler has come upon the following
advertisement published In The Star
of July, 1874:
By B. II. Warner. Real Estate Broker and
Auct1oneer: Assignee's Sale Of valuable i'm
proved and untmproved real estate in Square 495
fronting Four-and-a-HaH street between e
and southwest, on F street between Four-and-
a-Half and Sixth streets. on Sixth street between
Sixth.
Tho assignees named were John Hitx.
B. H. Warner and Joseph 8. Edwards.
The salesman named was ]. T. Cold
well. Mr.. Mattingly at about this time
was one of the large real estate owners
Of the District Among the scores Of
entries the Rambler has found these
transactions on the same day, August
7, 1873: Boughton & Moore to George
Mattfngly, an undivided third in square
100, between U and v, 18th and 18th
streets northwest, 100000; Webb & Full
lerton. assignees, to George Mattingly.
eight lots, square 504, between o and p,