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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02

ry a basket. These big markets are
really kind of fruit and vegetable
department store, and the department
store of course is firmly established as
a perfectly correct hunting ground for
all ranks of feminity. Baltimore wo-
men make appointments to meet at a
certain stall at a certain hour and go
to lunch together. 1t is not a matter
of record, but it seems probable that
they occasionally stop to buy dozen
eggs on the way to the opera.
The question OF public markets is
coming in for great deal of serious
attention all over the country to-day,
as possible means of solving certain
phases of the distribution problem.
Busy markets have been established
in score of cities, but Baltimore is
by way of being a pioneer in the field
and her experience should be valuable.
In the hundred and fifty years that
markets have been a feature of the
landscape, the city has encountered
most of the problems that can arise
in connection with markets. Back in
the year 1851, when there were only
two dozen houses in the town, the citi-
zens decided to start a market. and
conducted a lottery as a means of
raising the necessary cash. Lotteries
were highly respectable institution
in those days. The private ledger of
charges the price of a few lottery
tickets to profit and loss.
The age of the system in Baltimore
has had the effect of obviating GER
tain objections that arise in cities
where it is introduced later in NUM-
cipal progress. For instance, it is
something of a problem to reconcile
the rights of the retail grocer with the
, activities of the stall keeper. The
grocer is a taxpayer a rent payer,
and an employer of labor, while the
market stall pays no taxes, very lit
tie rent, and is usually operated by
the proprietor, who thus becomes
something of favored competitor. In
Baltimore, however, the markets came
| before the grocery stores, and the
grocers had the competition to reckon
on when they entered the business. In
actual practice, the neighborhood of
the markets has proved a favorable
location for ordinary retail shops of
all sorts on account of the crowds
drawn. Some of the local grocers go
farther, and rent and operate stalls on
market days
Baltimore markets-there are elev-
en- of them-are municipal institu-
tions. They can easily be operated at
a profit, not only by the rental of
stalls, but by renting the big halls
that some of the buildings contain.
| Over Centre Market for instance, a
half million dollar structure, there
are two halls used for night classes
which seat 1900 pupils, and a third
hall with capacity of $500. The
profits from this part of the markets
used to be much larger than they are
to-day, in the times before regular
theater buildings became so numer-
Gus, but they still have great possi-
bilities. Moved by this consideration.
a private company recently offered to
take over one of the markets, pay a
DIG rental Tor the slte' put up half
million dollar structure as well as a
huge department store. The peonle
of Baltimore however, rose up in de-
Tense of their ancestral institutions
with such storm of protest that the
! offer was refused.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
Dawn
Editor and Publisher1

lEdltor and Publisherl
The Bethlehem Steel Company. in
its campaign of opposition to the ap-
preparation carried by the Naval APP
preparations bill for a government
armor plant, has lost-and won!
The company has lost the immedi-
ate point at issue, for the appropria-
ton has passed. But the company
has won a larger measure of public
understanding and approval than it
has ever had beforehand this will
future plans and activities of this
great corporation.
The Bethlehem Steel Company has
dispensed with lobby at Washington.
1t has adopted the policy of frankness
with the people. In this recent fight
1t has presented it's case clearly and
convincingly, through the use of paid
advertising space in the newspapers,
TO the whole public. Instead of using
the money of its stockholders for the
corruption of legislators, it has used
some of 1t for the education of public
opinion and sentiment.
The course of this great corporation
in this matter is a blow to the sys-
tenn of invisible government" It is
presage of the dawn. 1t forecasts
the beginning of the end for the vel
low dog as factor in corporation
management.
Pioneering requires courage. It Of
ten means temporary defeat. Peary
did not reach the top of the world on
his first effort. The Bethlehem Com
pany has not won the decision in its
first effort to try a case before a jury
of public opinion. But it has shown
the way to other corporations, and
they must. follow. Hereafter they
must fight in the open if they hope to
win
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
Pennsylvania a Good Roads State
(Phila. Public Iedger)

Pennsylvania is rapidly becoming
a good roads State. Time was, and
not so very long ago, when our high
ways were totally eclipsed by the ex-
cellent ones of our neighbors. That
is no longer true. Pennsylvania is
building good roads faster than almost
any other State in the Union, and the
quality of road is of a high order.
There are now hundreds of miles of
very nearly perfect State built roads
which have replaced what were but
little better than trails. Every section
of this richest Commonwealth has now
a visible example of what a highway
ought to be, and since example is the
best teacher these good roads are the
best possible campaigners for a uni
Versal system of perfect highways.
Pennsylvania ought to take warn
ing from conditions IN New Jersey.
That State once led in the matter of
improved roads, but neglect to keep
them in repair has put her far from
first at the present time. Road re-
pair is quite as vital as road construc-
tion. Railroads understand that and
so keep gangs of men constantly at
work on the tracks in order to main
tain them at standard. Rural high
ways should be cared for in like fash
ion, and the State would find it the
truest economy in the long run.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
He Selected Their Mother

DR.. n. c. Schaeffer, State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, has
heard great number of after-dinner
speeches, of which he has himself
made many.
THE best after dinner speech I ever
did hear" he told me the other dav"
was delivered by a man on his very
first attempt. He was the father Of
Doctor Omwake, president of Ursinus
College, and the occasion was a din
ner given to the president and his
brothers, all of whom had made
good"
The POSTMASTER had Landed the
Omwake brothers to the clouds and
then heaped many Iaurels upon the
brow of their mother, who had
brought into the world such fine
lot of boys.
And now" he concluded, "I wish
TO introduce to you their father"
So Peter Omwake arose. 1T am
willing" said he, ITO concede to NV
sons all the praise it is possible to he,
stow. l am also happy to award to
their mother every credit for their
happy and fortunate bringing up. But
mother" 'ie
That was his speech" said super-
lntendent Schaeffer, land don't Won
think 1T is classic ?"-Sirard in
Phila. Ledger. 80
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
4 CITY AT MARKET
By Frederic ]. Haskin

BALTIMORE has the marketing
n habit. There is no city in Am
- erica that puts big basket on
its arm more regularly or more en-
Enthusiastically, to so forth and pur-
chase its food in the public square.
Few cities, if any, on the other hand,
have such markets to visit. Balti-
more's markets are an institution
an institution picturesque and vener-
able and of a size and solidity that
commands respectful attention. Lex
ington Market for instance, is three
squares long, with twelve hundred
stalls, and fifty thousand people visit
it on many Saturdays.
The markets are one of the sights
of the town, like st. Peters in Rome
or the White House in Washington.
The visitor is taken forth to see them
as he is taken to Sc the Falls at Mag
ara. The streets for blocks around
take on a market-day atmosphere.
Temporary stalls are set up on either
side, until there is only narrow lane
left in the middle of the highway
foot at a time. Countrymen and far
mers draw up their wagon loads of
produce along the curb and wait
philosophically for purchasers, scorn-
ing the practice of the recent immi-
grant who is wont to cry his wares.
Candy-stands and flower-stands and
peanut-stands appeal to the esthetic
and the Sastronomic functions of the
olfactory nerve. The street faker is
in his glory. Perched on a coffee
box he eXtols the merits of "a mir
aculous invention, ladies and gentle
men-a combination of the South
American sapopa tree, the East In
dian senega root and the Mexican
ammonia plant-a combination shaw
ing-soap, shoe polish and complexion
beautitier."
The market itself is housed under a
long high roof, like the roof of rail-
road terminal. subdivided into hun
dreds of little stalls. Everythins
which the human race is in the habit
of chewing and swallowing finds its
place somewhere. Beef and mutton
pork and veal and sau; age and bacon,
a string of fruits that would read like
the invoice of a South American
freighter, all the vegetables you have
ever seen and a few new ones, fish,
nuts, bread and pastry, live poultry
candy-consult the supply lists OF
Herr Tortolowitz Won Batocki, the new
German food dictator, for partial list
of what you can Duy.
All this space under the roof be-
tween the stalls is jammed with hu-
manity. chiefly feminine. 1t takes an
hour or so to push through the three
blocks of Lexington Market. The
makeup of the crowd is surprisingly
heterogeneous. 1t may be a mistake
but the visitor gets the impression
that milady of Baltimore dons her sill
yer fox set, steps into the limousine,
shifts the orchids in the holder, says
"The market, James," and sallies
forth to buy a quarters worth OF
weinerwurst. At least, you see plenty
of big cars discharging their inmates
at the curb, and have your toes step
ped on by ladies who resemble the
illustrations in an r. w. Chambers
novel.
AS one Baltimore official puts it,
"vrbe market problem is one of edu-
eating the municipality consciousness
up to the marketing conception" or in
other words of teaching society to car
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Senator Penrose has written So the
Young Mems Business club of Pitts
burgh accepting membership and COM
mending the purpose.
Judge ]. c. Haymaker, of Alle-
gheny. has gone on his annual fishing
trip to Canada.
Frank B. Black, the State highway
commissioner, prides himself on his
farms and coal mines.
w. d. Grimes, Pittsburgh mem
Der of the Prison Labor Law Commits
sion, has closed books and gone to On
tario to catch fish.
David B. Simpson, Philadelphia
newspaperman and now with the Sec
ond Pennsylvania, has been put at the
head of a machine gun company. He
is we'll known to many here.
Major e. B. Cassatt has reopened
his cottage at Saratoga.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
ALL GONE
BY Wing Dinger

As vacation time draws near
Wife and I looked Ger
Advertising of resorts
Passed up the seashore;
Likewise mountains were tabooed;
Then we chanced to note
One ad bout a dandy trip
on q great big boat.
Twas an inexpensive trip
CCourse that added weight.
We discussed 1t, and both thought
That it would be great.
Wrote for reservations, and
Mentioned this and that
Which we wanted, back there came
Word hot off the bat.
Found this costs little more
That is extra. too,
staterooms on the deck we chose
Cost more. so when through
We learned that we'd have to dig
Deeper in our pile,
Which we both decided would
Surely be worth while.
Since accommodations we
Have reserved. I find
That the fare to sailing point
Entered not my mind.
But we've got to see it through
OF that goodly sum
Laid aside. there won't be left
One wee little crumb.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
KNEW HE WAS AT FAULT

NEWS dispatches from Washing
~ ton say that the Hughes speech
followed lines anticipated by
the President and his advisers, and so
certain were administration leaders
that Hughes would say what he did
that the President has been preparing
his own speech of acceptance for sew
eral weeks, and it is now virtually
completed"
Matters at Washington go from bad
to worse. The President was so GER
tain" that he was to be taken to task
for his Inetticiency that he prepared his
defense even before he was attacked.
The defensive campaign is a losing
campaign. Mr.. Hughes is the aggres-
sor and he will remain so until the
enemy is compelled to evacuate Wash
ington.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
PAPERS Increase Prices

The st. Louis Glove Democrat will
increase it's price from one to two
cents starting August /. The high
cost of print paper is given as the
cause of the advance.
Following the announcement by the
Globe Democrat, the St. Louis Repub-
tic and the Milwaukee Free Press al
so stated that their prices would ad-
vance to two cents on street sales, be-
ginning August l. The high cost of
print paper is blamed in both in
stances.
The Nashville Tennesseean and Am
erican has raised its subscription rate
where delivered by carrier in Nashville
and surrounding towns from ten to fif-
teen cents a week or from forty-five to
siXty-five cents per month and $50 to
$3.50 a year. Increased cost of print
paper and other necessities is assign
ed as the reason for the advance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
BASEBALL PATRONAGE

hARRIsBURG'S baseball parade
i ! last evening should be the signal
for more generous patronage al
Island Park. The New York State
League team here is playing better
baseball than the Internationals did
last year. 1t has developed from a
pronounced tail-ender to be one OF
the fastest teams in the league. More
than that, it is paying it's own way
and getting into shape for next year
If the fans" want good baseball an.
other season in Harrisburg now is the
time to demonstrate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
Austria's Plight
[From the Philadeiphia Press. ]

[From the Philadelphia Press.]
Several of tho Carpathian passes are
already in possession of the Cars
troops. Austria's position is desperate
indeed. The morale of her armies is
severely shaken. The swift pursuit of
the enemy has given them no respite.
The Galician ca pital. Lemberg, is again
threatened. Raids into the grain fields
of Hungary are imminent. The only
thing that can apparently save the
Austrians from q general retreat with
enormous losses of guns and men is
failure of the Russian ammunition
supply. According to Petrograd, this
is not likely to occur.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
DESHoNG ON THE LoR

NToRE power to Alderman De-
1Vl shong. Reference was made in
these columns the other day to
his ability as committing magistrate
at police headquarters and since that
time he has been further impressing
the community with his vigorous en-
forcements Of the traffic ordinances.
1t was high time that the speed
maniacs, the cut-out fiends and the
general offenders against all traffic
rules were brought to book. Alderman
Deshong has proven a holy terror for
all such offenders. He has imposed
fines of five to forty dollars upon these
violators of the law and in this admir-
able work he will have the sympathy
and approval not only of pedestrians,
but of all who drive motor vehicles.
SO long as these speed manlacs
were permitted to drive UP and down
the streets of the city like mad with
out let or hindrance the lives of thou
sands of people were ENDANGERED. but
the long arm of the Twelfth ward
magistrate has reached out into every
part of the city and the excheouer of
the municipality is being filed through
hnes collected from the traffic VIOLA
tors
Alderman Deshons has the right
idea. Harrisburg has suffered long
enough from men who have driven
automobiles and motorcycles through
the streets of the city without regard
for life or limb and with utter indif-
ference to the regulations. 1t has Of
ten, been a matter of wonder that
motorcycle officers have permitted
the cut-out nuisances to exist when a
few arrests would have stopped the
whole business.
So we say more power to Alderman
Deshong. Fill the Golfers while the fll-
ing is easy and let these gents" who
imagine an automobile is a flying ma
chine and a motorcycle a boiler fac
tory learn their mistake before we
have tragedy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
LETS INVITE THE TOURISTS

VERMONT has pointed the way
v for Pennsylvania. Many citizens
of this State have received for
NAL invitation on an engraved card to
visit the Green Mountain State. Here
it is:
The State of Vermont extends to
you cordial invitation to spend
your vacation among its Green
Mountains, or on the shores of it's
beautiful lakes and streams. The
acceptance of this invitation will
insure you hearty welcome and
hospitable entertainment; and it is
the hope of this Commonwealth
ant that with the approach of each
successive vacation period you will
anticipate with eagerness an outing
in the Green Mountain State.
There you have one of the secrets of
the enormous tourist travel in the New
England territory. Little old Vermont
understands what thousands of tour
lists meandering through the hills and
valleys of any commonwealth means
for the prosperity of that particular
section.
Pennsylvania stands second to no
other State in the grandeur of its
scenery, the variety of it's landscape,
its rivers and its streams, it's impress
sive mountains and hills, and it is high
time we benefited from the activities
Of the thrifty Vermonters and those
Of the entire New England section.
Our Vermont friends do not stop
with the mere invitation. They ask all
inquirers to address the Secretary of
State, who will supply a touring map
of Vermont, where to stop when in the
mountains, Vermont farms, Vermont
tours and industrial Vermont. These
publications have all been compiled at
the expense of the State and right here
it might be we'll to suggest that instead
of many of the bulletins which are
now being sent out at the cost of the
people of Pennsylvania the money
might be better expended in telling the
world, through a proper publicity de-
partment, what this State has to show
the tourist
When Governor Brumbaugh gets back
from Maine, refreshed and invigorated,
he will have first-hand information of
how they do it in Yankeeland, and
his interest in Pennsylvania will be
further enlarged and his vision broad
ened to the end that this grand old
Commonwealth may be properly
brought to the attention of the rest of
the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02

What would have become of the State
government without this unexpected
increase of revenue? or course, the
Commonwealth is practically out of
debt. but unless business principles
prevail hereafter we shall be in the
plight of the average Democratic ad-
ministration at Washington, which usu-
allv Issues bonds to cover current ex-
penses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
Colonel Harvey's Sorrow

1--WE favor a single Presidential term.
and to that end urge the adoption of an
amendment to the Constitution max
ing the President of the United States
Ineligible for reelection and we pledge
the candidate of this convention to
this principle. e."--Democratic Platform
Pledge.
Here we draw veil.-North Ameri-
LnAn RAvtAw.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Marse Henry wants to take the nor
thern part of Mexico, Just as though
we wouldn't still have a BORDER
Washington Post.
British diplomacy successful in
greece, says headline. Not to men,
ton the British navy-Nashville
Southern Lumberman
Colonel Roosevelt wants to organ
ize a regiment to fight the Mexicans,
but why the regiment ?-Portland,
Me-, Sunday Telegram.
A Bryan may conceive the idea of
raising an army of Americans over
night, but it will take a Roosevelt to
carry 1t out.-Boston Transcript.
If granted the privilege of shooting
Americans soldiers, the Carranzistas
are perfectly willing, one infers, to re-
turn all the soldier-targets they hap
pen to capture intact.-New Orleans
Times -Picayune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
OUR DAILY LAUGH
SOMETHING AC-
COMPLISHED.

Do you think it
does any good to
express your feel
ings on the tele-
phone?
Well, it may
help to cheer the
operator by CIV
ing her a few
laughs If she hap
pens to overhear
you.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
For Paid Political Ads

Former Governor Franklin MUIR
ply, who is now a candidate for ITnit
ed States senator from New Jersey is
strong believer in paid advertisine
as the proper means for placing his
case before the public. Several news
papers in his state are carrying large
space advertisements presenting reas-
ons for voting for Mr.. Murphy at the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza-
tion's annual Municipal Quiz."1
Who is the superintendent of Parks
and Public Property? His term? His
salary? What departments are under
his direct supervision?
Edward H. Gross. His term, two
years. His salary, $2.500.00. De-
partments over which he has di-
rect supervision: Parks, City Plan
ming, Fire Department, City Fores-
tAa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
King Peter Recuperatine
IN. Y. SUM-

King. Peter of Serbia is living al
most alone on the island of Euboea.
He is y, but rises at every morn
ing and rides forty miles on a motor
cycle. Euboea is rocky spot, and If
King Peter does hot sustain too seri-
GUS bruises from his tumbles he NAV
yet become a dispatch bearer at the
battle front.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
POPULARITY OF PARKS

COMMISSIONER GROSS is finding
" the demand for benches so in
sistent from the increasing num-
ber of those who enjoy the River
Front that he will be compelled to
increase the seating capacity of the
river parks. One view like that of
Sunday night when the rose-tinted
Susquehanna suggested such a paint
ing as no artist has ever been able to
produce is enough to kill for all time
the suggestion that too much attention
can be given to the improvement of
the Susquehanna basin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02

The other day reference was made by
the Telegraph to a review of political
conditions in the Northwest by ex-
Senator John H. lands, of Lancaster.
This review indicated strong senti-
ment for Mr.. Hughes for the Presi-
dency, and the conclusions of the ex-
Senator were so reasonable and con-
vincing that all who have read his
comment have been impressed with the
intelligent and analytical study of the
situation. From California eastward
the Progressive party has been coming
into line with their Republican breth-
rem for Hughes. and it is believed
most of the usually doubtful States to-
day are practically safe for the Repub-
lican candidate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
Crab Tactics in the War
TFroro the Kansas Citv Tin,as I

Careful readers of yesterdays news
will not fail to note that the Turks
were in full retreat by way of Petro-
grad, while the Russians were falling
back in confusion through Constanti-
nople.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02

The statement is made by the Audi
tor Generals Department that the
revenues for the last year have been
heavier by s2.500.oO0 than was ex-
pected, due to the increased amount of
business by nearly all corporations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-02
THEIR DEFENDING

tFrom the Brooklyn Eagle.1
"Guardsmen Need LuXuries' is a
headline over a Red Cross appeal. They
do, they do. they do. That Is the very
head and front OF their offending.