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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10

in July 1907. 1t was due to his un-
firing efforts and dynamic energy that
this Elks convention was the most
magnificent and most successful ever
held by that order.
Mr.. Walter served the grand lodge
as district deputy grand exalted ruler
for Pennsylvania South East, establish
ing new records for efficiency in that
office. Last year he was a member
of the grand lodge committee on the
big brotherhood movement and his
work in connection with this philan-
thropic undertaking proved so valu-
able that lodges the country over
adopted his methods and applied them
hood work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10

,. With the exception of Greensburg
all nigh schools which the local
athletes have been competing with
are in this class. Harrisburg Academy
is in Glass for Preparatory school,
The classifcations follow:
Preparat ry School
Championship class - st. Adams
Mercersburg, Hill, Lawrenceville, and
Exeter.
Philadelphia Interacademic \. \.
championship - William Penn Char
ter, Episcopal, Germantown, Friends
Central.
Glass E championship Peddie,
Haverford. George Bethlehem, Tome,
William Penn Charter, Episcopal,
Huntington, Brooklyn Polytechnic.
Glass 1-St. Lukes, Germantown,
Brooklyn, st. Johns, Brooklyn; st.
Adams, Episcopal High School.
Glass 2-Blair. Conway Hall, Will
hanson, Shady Side, Wyoming, Pen
nington.
Glass 9 - Swarthmore, We. all
Military, Brown, Girard College, Tenn
pie, Roman Catholic, High School,
Villanovo, st. Benedicts, Friends
Central.
Glass - Newark, Wilmington
Friends, Franklin and Marshall. AL
! lentown. Westtown, Perkiomen Semi
nary, Horace Mann.
Glass .. - Pennsylvania Institute
for Deaf. Winchester. York Collegiate,
Harrisburg, Wilmington Conference,
st. Francis Assist High School
High School Classification
Championship class Birmingham
/ Central Boston English. Newark
Central, Washington Central, East
f, Orange.
Glass Morris Dewitt Clinton
West Philadelphia, Philadelphia
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10
Women's Spring Golves
From France in Grades
That Show Rich Quality


S2s5
with pearl
X S2so
p X and
$500
$500
black white and
contrasting soc TO Sf1o
white with clasps pair 79c
and white;
Pomeroy Floor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10

Henry ]. Walter, past exalted ruler
of Philadelphia Lodge No. 2, b. p. O..
Elks. and one of the most prominent
members of the order in the United
States, is a candidate for President of
the State Association. The annual
meeting will be held in Reading in
August. Mr.. Walter is now vice-pres-
ident.
He is a life member of Philadel-
phia lodge, and served that lodge as it's
exalted ruler during the now famous
grand lodge convention and reunion
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10
Spring Dress Cottons Show
Many Beautiful Novelties

The vogue Of stripes is evident in this bright colcc-
ton Spring dress There wide stripes
stripes and cluster stripes different fabrics and in great
variety of popular shades
colored stripes green
SOC
Stripe Iartne white SO
inches; yard oo'
wide
inches;
hello,
solid shades light blue cadet
Silk white with colored stripes
in
Pomeroy Stewar--Street Floor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10
NEW CLASS FOR
LOCAL ATHLETES
Race Early in University of
Pennsylvania Relays; Acad-
cmy Meets Rivals

Another switch has been made in
classification of relay teams for the
University Of Pennsylvania Carnival,
April 2S and 90. The local high
schools have been placed in Glass No.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10
Fine Quality Poplin Suits For Large Women

Another very attractive gar
ment is finished with silk arrows
and buttons; collar of self mate
rial is given greater attractiveness
by a large Faille silk collar; the
skirt is in style that every woman
will appreciate.
At $3.50 to $500 are shown
semi-belted and several tailored
styles with little touches of pearl
buckles and beautifully stitched
silk collars.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10

Satin stripe marquisettes. in
two-tone effects; 40 inches wide;
yard ............... SIPS
Ribbon stripe silk voiles, for
waists and sleeves: a. inches wide !;
in street shades; yard .... S2.25
Will o. the Wisp marquisettes in
glace effects, for waists and dresses.
40 inches wide: yard ... $500
Grey satin check silk voiles; 40
inches wide; yard ........ $500
Navy blue and green stripe taf-
feta with little jacquard design
one of the newest patterns; SO
inches wide; yard ......... $500
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10
Men'sUnderWear&1Hosiery

Spring weight ribbed union suits; long short
Spring weight Isle ribbed suits long short sleeves
St.JO
Boys Egyptian ribbed union suits; short sleeves
Boys white union suits short sleeves and
black seamless socks double
IN
Dives, Pomeroy & stewar-Street Floor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10

Women of large figure may en-
Joy this season as comprehensive
stvle showing as is usually to be
found in garments for average
figures.
Fine quality poplin suits in staple
shades of navy, Copenhagen and
black are shown at ....... $3.50
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10
With Spring Flowers on the
Way Silk Dress Weaves
Are Going Fast

The showing is OF the notable have ever had
in any Spring season.
Tafeas all the best the
inches wide; yard $3.50 and S175
every description; yard
and
Crepe dc Chine excellent qualities; 40
md
black self 40 inches wide;
Louine wearing resembling
weave; yd
drop
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10

One style that is notably good in
sizes up to A. is made with trim
ming of buttons and braid on either
side of the hips; the sides and back
of the coat end in an inverted pleat
trimmed with buttons, while the
collar is of Faille silk; the lining
of the coat is an excellent quality
of Peau de Cygne.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10
New Coats For Girls and Children

Girls coats in shepherd checks with fancy
collar OF black velvet finished with green
broadcloth; sizes to II years ....... S4.95
Girls poplin coats with fared skirts, in
navy, green and Copenhagen; sizes to II
' N'''' 'pts GO
Dives Pomeroy Stewart Second Floor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10

Fancy printed pussy willow in
street colors, with the new large
space design; exclusive dress pat
terms; yard $3.50
Black Windham taffeta; So in.
VIDE; yard ............... S1.50
French taffeta; Sc and 40 in.
"lue' NdTu S2.OO
Crepe de Chine; 40 inches wide:
yard ........... S1,5O and 50 90
Pebbled back crepe meteor: 40
inches wide yard .......... $500
Black messaline; sc inches wide:
yard .............. S1.00
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart-St. FL.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10

A iaunty style for misses and women is a Norfolk
suit of mems wear serge, gathered front and back
are effectively trimmed with double rows of small
buttons which lattced with silk; the buttons
themselves are sewn with a coored silk to
match the lattced rope the collar and cuffs are
trimmed with white Faille silk, the collar carrying
three rows of stitching and the cuffs two rows
$1,000
In Belgian blue, navy and black is style
flared coat, trimmed in front and back with self
covered buttons. The skirt is belted style with
novel treatment over the hips ............. S220O
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10

Children's coats of shepherd checks in box
plated styles with belt and white collar; sizes
? to 6 years NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $3.50
Serge coats in double breasted styles with
white collars and cuffs; in navy, Copenhagen
and tam sizes to 6 years ........... SS4.9J
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10
Easter Apparel For Women, Misses
Children in Styles Featuring Exclusive ID

At $500, $3.50, $4,000 and $4,000 are shown up
wards of a dozen styles that irresistible in their
attractiveness The materials include gabardine,
popin, black and white checks and velour checks
and the Innings of the finest quality Peau de
Cygne and fancy silks this group are to be found
Belgian blue, navy, tan, green, white and black,
brown and white checks and rookie Some of the
styles trimmed with bands of taffeta and others
severely plain, depending style alone to bring
about a charming effect
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-04
The Public Will Pay
New York Sun. !

OF one thing the public may be cer-
tain; the higher pay won by the miners
of anthracite coal from their employers
will be paid by it. The sum of s12,-
100000. which 1t is estimated will be
added to the income of 17S,000 workers
annually through the new wage sched-
ules, will not come from the owners OF
the mines.
Therefore coal will go up in price al
though it is now almost ruinously eX-
pensive. In this lies a serious danger
to the industry. 1t is not beyond pos
sibility that hard coal will become too
costly to burn. Great progress has al
ready been made in smoke consuming
devices, which make soft coal prac-
ticable in communities having ordin-
ances prohibiting the discharge OF
smoke from chimneys; scientific stok-
ing is a fact; gas is used in ever in
creasing quantities for cooking and
heating; electric stoves of improved de-
sign are coming into use. The market
for high priced anthracite may be con-
siderably narrowed.
Meanwhile, by the installation of proper
CRATES the smaller sizes of coal may
be economically burned i'm kitchen
ranges and in heating furnaces. The
well plucked householder may turn
from the familiar sizes to pea \coal, and
warm his family without mortgaging
his house.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-04
INDIAN LIFE AND HISTORY

INDIAN life and history are to be
themes for the children's hour at
the Harrisburg Public Library
Saturday morning. Special stress
will be laid on local legends and his
torical happenings and relics OF the
Red Men found hereabouts will be
shown.
Here is a work we'll worth while.
Local history is always a difficult sub
Ject. Text books prepared by noted
authorities deal with national and
world events. The school boy and
girl who can tell all about the inhabi-
tants of South America at the time of
the Spanish conquest know little or
nothing of the settlement of Harris
burg and the surrounding country, or
of the people whom the aggressive
civilization of the white man elbowed
out of the woods and meadows that
had been their homes. The story of
those early days is full of the charm
of romance and the thrill of adven-
ture. The Public Library manage
ment is meeting the difficulty in a
way that promises not only to pre-
sent useful information in an inter-
esting manner, but at the same time
will stimulate boys and girls to read
ing and investigation on their own
account.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-04
SOME PROFITABLE HOBBIES
Raising Canaries
By Frederic J. Haskin

OWING to the congestion in ship
ping. no more canaries are COM
~ ing from Europe. Space aboard
ship is extremely scarce, and neces-
stiles are receiving the first consid-
Grafton, which at present leaves no
surplus room for songbirds. The
shipments of Harz Mountain canaries
ceased abruptly in December, just as
the so-called 1880 period" was ush-
cred into fashion with its old-fash-
ioned parasols, hoop skirts and song
birds. Now there is a great demand
for canaries on the part of the women
of the nation, which makes the breed
ing of the little yellow songbird a
profitable occupation.
For the woman on the farm, and
for bird lovers in general, this is an
attractive sideline. While a few in
dividuals in all parts of the country
are engaged in raising canaries, the
supply thus produced is so much
smaller than the demand that hun
dreds of thousands of birds have been
imported annually, so that there is no
doubt as to the existence of a large
permanent market for them. They
are more robust than turkeys, which
after weeks of careful attention, may
become infected and the whole brood
die at once; and the expense of their
upkeep is not so great. A pair of
birds, a breeding cage and a small
outlay for food under ordinary con-
ditions, will yield at least a dozen
selling birds in a single year.
The greatest factor in favor of bird
raising, however, is the little time re-
quired for the actual work connected
with it, which makes it a practicable
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-04

sideline. In Germany many of the
peasants have canary rooms, and
shoemakers, tailors and other trades
men often double their incomes by
breeding the birds. Few, If any, of
the imported birds are raised by per-
sons who give their entire time to it.
The bird-breeder usually begins
upon a small scale confining his birds
in cages and gradually increasing his
equipment in proportion to his sue
cess. One pair of birds averages from
three to five broods n year, but this
number is greatly increased by fol-
lowing the German method of mating
three females with every male. In its
wild state, the canary pairs the same
as other birds, often breaking the
muscles of its small throat in attract
ing the attention of some coquettish
female, but under domestication II
has become q polygamous fowl, the
male accepting the harem bestowed
upon him by the breeder, although
displaying distinct preference for
the female with which he is first
mated.
The canary room, found i'm so many
pleasant homes in Germany, is the
ideal breeding equipment. 1t may be
an unfinished room in the attic, or an
unused pantry of some sort, but II
must have plenty of light and fresh
air, not too cold in winter and not
too hot in summer. One woman, who
clears several hundred dollars a year
on her canaries, breeds them in a
space about six by eight feet at the
end of her hall, enclosed by wire
[Continued on Page 12l
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-04
Planting Trees

This is the time for planting, and
the following suggestions on how to
plant are of value:
/. Plant when frost is out of the
ground.
2. Keep the roots we'll protected
from the minute the tree leaves the
wagon or trench to rne minute it is
planted Do not take more plants
from the wagon than is absolutely
necessary.
3. Cut all broken roots and cover
wounds with coal tar.
4. Cut back the branches, but do
not remove them entirely unless they
interfere or are too thick. With some
trees like the sycamore, oak or pop
lar. you can cut back more than with
he others. Do not cut the leader,
and do not cut evergreens.
5. Let only good soil come in close
contact with the roots, and have the
good soil well packed around the
roots; work it in with the fingers and
stamp on it, Place the poor soil only
on top.
G. See that the tree is planted up
right and firm.
Z. Plant the tree no deeper than
it stood in the nursery.
s. Water the tree only after good
soil has been put around its roots and
the hole filed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-04
Passing of Harper's

Harper's Weekly, through which
Curtis and Mast and Colonel Har-
vey were wont in the years gone
to fire their political broadsides. is
dead, with Norman Hapgood play
ing the role of sexton and a few
fashioned readers who stuck to it
through thick and thin as the chief
mourners. When Colonel Harvey
turned Harper's Weekly over to its
new management he freely admitted
he did so because it was losing
money. Hapgood and his associates
did not buy a pig in a poke. They
knew and took the risk, stalking their
chances of success on plenty of
punch" in its editorial policy and
freakish makeup.
The reasons for their failure are
doubtless many and varied, but it is
likely that they lay without the con-
troll of the owners quite as much as
within. Our newspapers have pro-
gressed so rapidly in recent years that
they now carry from day to day news
and pictures that formerly could be
published only by weekly journals
Harper's was left without any real
mission--so 1t simply dropped out and
was absorbed by the independent a
publication so distinctive that 1t has
nothing to fear from daily competi-
ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-04
COMMUNITY CENTERS

IN a recent leaflet the American
Civic Association presents a pa
per read by Miss Margaret Wood
row Wilson at the last convention of
the association in Washington on the
subject of The Community Center. "
Miss Wilson, the daughter of the
President, is greatly interested in this
matter and has given it much study
After discussing the benefits of the
more general use of school houses as
community centers, she said:
Let us make our public school
buildings vital centers of our COM
munities. On all sides now we see
sabotage of description. The pur-
pose of community centers shall
be creation instead of destruction.
Instead of death we shall have life,
and life in more abundance.
In her discussion of this subject
Miss Wilson did not in any way de-
precate the recreation movement, but
developed the thought of a wider use
of school buildings. She pointed out
how beneficial to any community
would be the assembling of the peo-
pie in a given district from time to
time in the school house of that par
ticular district. Through these meet
ings she declared, would be promoted
in more direct ways the life and hap
piness of the neighborhood and of
the city or town. 1t is her judg-
ment that school buildings ought to
be centers of social enterprise and
co-operation places where everything
shall be considered from the point
of view OF its real value-its real
value to the community and to the
world.
AS has been indicated in the col
umns of this newspaper time after
time the enormous expenditure OF
public funds in school buildings
should bring more general results in
the welfare of the whole community.
Miss Wilson does not believe that
the school houses should become the
meeting places of all sorts of parti-
san and faddist movements, but ought
to be the places of assembly of the
people for mutual help and the de-
Velopment of the community at large.
The Telegraph has urged the larger
use of the school buildings of Har-
risburg for years and the time now
seems to be ripe for the development
of the community idea. This city has
been greatly aided in its progress by
community cooperation and as a fea-
ture of our municipal life it should be
further encouraged through a wider
use of the property of the people as
represented in many fine school
houses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-04
NORS AND ARMIES

THERE is a thought for America
in the quickly quelled Irish re-
volt. William Jennings Bryan
has told us that for the defense OF
the United States a million men could
be recruited in a day. That Is prob
ably true. But a million men are not
a million soldiers. The Irish rebels
were we'll armed and they were
brave. They fought hard and shot
straight. But when they faced the
we'll organized and carefully trained
British troopers they melted like chaff
in an autumn breeze. They were
mob against an army, and the mob
never was that could successfully
combat an army. Just so the million
men of whom Bryan prates would
be helpless before horde of Eu-
ropean veterans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-04
Colonel Harvey's Version

Here only last March we were specu-
lating calmly and quietly upon the pro-
spective marriage of a party having
principles but no leader to a party
having leader but no principles. Our
Colonel, of course was the suitor, not
humble perhaps but most considerate,
most tender, most ingratiating and
wholly unselfish-in truth. to all SEEM
ing. a veritable John Alden, speaking
not for himself at all but for anybody
here named Kelly or Miles (not the
GeneraD or Standish or whatnot. And
then like a bolt from the blue came
from Trinidad the flashing intimation
that Our Hero might be induced to
speak for himself if only Priscilla, too,
would be heroic.-North American Re-
view
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-04
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 4
Go put your creed into your deed,
Nor speak With double tongue.
EMERSON.
OPENING THE NARROWs

TIME announcement of the State
Highway Department that the
road between Speeceville and
Clark's Ferry is to be widened and a
very dangerous grade crossing elimi-
mated is good news. If the late Com
missioner Robert j. Cunningham had
done no more in the way of improv-
ing highways in this vicinity than
this he would have left worthy mon
ument to his memory. 1t was due
to his thoroughness that the discov-
cry was made whereby the railroad
was placed in a position where ii
felt impelled to give the people the
relief for which they prayed
Eventually, it is to be hoped, Har-
risburg and Millersburg will be con-
nected by a boulevard traversing, for
a large part of the distance. the old
canal bed, but the removal of the
menace of the Narrows is a long step
in the right direction and will dc
much to stimulate automobile travel
between this city and the thriving
communities of the upper end.
No better testimonial to the ef-
ficient and energetic manner in which
the officials of the Highway Depart
ment are carrying out the program
formulated by Mr.. Cunningham coult
be noted than the promptness will
which they took up the details of the
plan for the upper end highway i'm
provements as outlined by him and
closed up the negotiations for the
changes contemplated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-04
EDITORIAL COMMENT

BY an overwhelming vote the House
of Commons rejected a proposal to dis
pense with their salaries as a wartime
economy measure. NJ p. and M. c. are
brothers under their skins.-Wall Street
journal.
Now that the Apache scouts recruited
to aid General PershinR in Mexico have
been supplied with wrist-watches, may
be plain citizen will be permitted to
wear one without exciting invidious
comment-Chicago Herald
The present scarcity of paper makes
even international treaties of some
value.-New York Sun.
So often courts have stuck to prece-
dent at the cost of perpetuating injus-
tice that 1t is most encouraging for
one in New York to admit it was mis-
taken, and to take fresh start.-kan-
SaS C'itV Star
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-04
Williams Alibi
From Answers, London.

With a "ki-yi" and an aggravating
rattle, the scared dog shot around the
corner, tin can hanging from the
end of It's tail.
The small boy who had fixed the tin
can in its place stopped laughing
when. a stern voice came to his ears.
"William" 1t was his father who
spoke. Did you tie that tin can to
the poor dogs tail?"
Willie did some rapid thinking.
Then he replied innocently:
Eyes, father, I did. I'm trying to
do one kind act every day, and that
dog is always chasing cats, so / tied
the tin can to it's tail so that 1t would
make a noise and warn the poor lit
tie cats"