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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
PARKS AND FAIRGROUNDS

NITY COMMISSIONER GROSS,
~ the head of the Department of
Parks and Public Property, is
being generally commended for his
activity in preparing for the active
outdoor work of the year. The pur-
view of this department covers the
activities of the open-air resorts OF
the city during the summer and Com
missioner Gross hopes to have every
thing in first-class shape for the open
ing of the season. There is much
planting TO be done, including trees
and shrubbery. and this is already
having the attention of Assistant Sup
erintendent Forrer, whose experience
under the old park commission ad-
mirably fits him for the important
duties devolving upon the department
at this time.
Owing TO the regarding Of large sec
tions of the river slope last year to
conform to the front steps and lower
walk, il will be necessary to do still
further planting this season. There is
abundant shrubbery in the City
Nursery and it is expected the slopes
will he covered with green before the
season shall have been far advanced.
Most of the trees which were plant
ed in the river parks last year are be-
lieved TO have escaped the rigorous
winter weather of the last few weeks
and those which have succumbed will
be replaced. Harrisburg is justly
proud OF the park system and public
sentiment heartily supports the de-
velopment of the open-air spaces.
1t is encouraging to note the inter
est and sympathy of the new head of
the Department OF Parks in the de-
velopment of the newer park areas
and within the next year or two there
ought to be a remarkable improve
ment in every direction.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
By BRIGGS

phllanthropic women, VINO made
themselves responsible for her. She
worked as kitchen maid for several
months and then married the man
VINO mad been working next TO her
nance at the time of the accident.
The governments work as a matri-
monial promoter in cases such as
this comes when the whereabouts of
the man are a mystery, Uncle Sam
prosecutes vigorous search for the
missing bridegroom. In the meantime
the girl is lodged at the expense of
the steamship company that brought
her over, always under the kindly
supervision of women agents who look
TO her moral and physical welfare
generally
German girl of this class recently
arrived in Boston utterly alone. Her
father and all her brothers had been
killed in the trenches. distant
cousin had sent her passage money,
and promised to marry her on her
arrival. Her vessel had been badly
delayed in crossing, and there was no
sign of the man. The immigration
authorities took charge of the girl.
finally locating her cousin in a Lowell
shoe factory. There was nothing
unwilling in his attitude, but the fact
that he could not leave his work kept
him away from the dock. while his
lack of English prevented him from
making any arrangements to inform
the girl of his whereabouts. The i'm
migration officers got interpreters
and German clergyman, and the
couple were quickly married.
1t has already become evident that
the war will eventually cause a boom
in immigrant marriages. The Eu-
ropean peasant woman takes a mat
ter-of-fact view of the question. She
regards marriage as her destiny, and
now that the men in her home land
are being killed off by hundreds OF
thousands and her charces corre-
spondingly decreased, q turns TO
America, where men are more plenti-
ful. Last summer a little company
of five German girls all from the
same village, arrived at Ellis Island.
Their homes had been destroyed. and
, the affianced husbands of three of
them had been killed. Each had
managed to accumulate enough money
to permit her to land here: and each
told the woman immigrant officer
| that she was going to work tempor-
arily until she found a husband.
One of the three went out TO a
Jersey farm, one found work in a
bakery, and the other three were
placed in domestic service. Once they
were settled the responsibility of the
immigration Bureau was over, but the
girls were full of gratitude for the
friendly way the authorities treated
them. Three have found husbands
already, and in every case the proud
damsel has brought her blushing
bridegroom around to exhibit him TO
the women agents of the bureau.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
READING CHANGES

NUMEROUS changes in the oper-
N ating department of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Railway
Company, following the election OF
General Superintendent Dice to the
presidency. ought to be encouraging
to every man of ambition in the en-
ploy of that corporation. without
any exception the men who have been
advanced have come up from the bot
/ tom of the ladder. Mr.. Dice himself
/ from the humble post of trainman.
In the promotion of superintendent
r. ]. Stackhouse. who becomes gem
eral superintendent of material ana
supplies under an order issued yester-
day. the Harrisburg division OF the
Reading loses a modest but very effl-
cient executive. When Mr. Stack
house came to Harrisburg there were
mo Yards at Rutherford. Under his
administration they have been devel-
oped until at present between three
and four thousand cars of freight are
being classified there every day. Be
fore his coming Harrisburg was
mere branch Office on the Reading
lines. To-day it is the headquarters
of an important and rapidly growing
division. Not only that, but by the
opening of a division freight office
here the operating and traffic depart
ments of the Reading at this point
have been co-ordinated in such man.
ner as TO offer Harrisburg better
freight facilities by far than the Read
ing was ever before able to give its
patrons The work of development
here has been very quietly but very
efficiently done until now Harrisburg
is one of the points TO be reckoned
with on the Philadelphia and Reading
system.
Such is the situation as r. Boone
Abbott. recently elevated from the su-
pervisorship of the Reading here TO
the superintendency of the Shamokin
division and now transferred to sue
ceed Mr.. StaCkhouse as superintendent
of the Harrisburg division, finds it.
Doubtless under his energetic manage
ment the Reading in Harrisburg will
continue to grow and prosper. He
knows the division thoroughly, is well
known and we'll liked here and will
not only find himself among friends,
but with a working force at his back
whose chief stock in trade has always
been cooperation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
In his annual report for the fiscal
wear 1916 Secretary McAdoo said:
Az ANIMAL EVENT

CALLED and his
San Carlo opera Company came to
Harrisburg during one of the most
persistent transforms the city has had
this Spring. but it is to be hoped that
they will not be so much discouraged
thereby as to cut out their contem-
plated visit next year. The San Carlo
company proved itself last night all
that was promised for it, and more.
II gave us n taste of the kind of
music the community needs. Consid-
ering the weather the attendance was
very good and it is TO be hoped that
the music-loving people of the city
have thereby proved their readiness to
patronize really good music when it
is offered. An annual grand opera
event for Harrisburg would be an
other step in the artistic growth OF
the municipality.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29

majority of the people of Philadelphia
who are not in active political life are
much concerned about these hostilities
or. in fact, understand much about
them. They may be dragged into
them later on in the primary election
campaign, but ii is not from among
them that the causes of this belliger-
ent factionalism have had their origin.
On the contrary, the causes are wholly
personal; they have originated in per-
sonal differences of several years
standing, and they represent jealous
les, resentments and rivalries, and not
issues of public principle or policy"
The Inquirer gives this version of
the NanNalkenburg visit: Edward
a. NanValkenburg. in charge of the
fight in Eastern Pennsylvania, against
Senator Penrose, was ushered TO Saga
more Hill this afternoon by George
w. Perkins, and he gave to MIR. Roose-
welt an hour OF the pleasanteSt kind
of political news. The fight in Penn
sylvania is not between the Progress
sive party and the Republican party,
Mr.. Manufacturing said later. 1t is
a fight between two factions of the
Republican party, one headed by Gov
ernor Brum baugh and the other by
Senator Penrose. And the interesting
feature of this fight is that the balance
of power is held by 250, 600 Progressive
who will vote this year unchallenged
at the Republican primaries Then
Mr.. NanNalkenburg smiled and add
ed "Of course. every one of those
ESQ, 600 Progressive votes is a Roose-
welt vote, and they will see that moth
ing but Roosevelt delegates are sent
TO the Republican convention.
-Ex-Congressmen Logue and
Donahoe, of Philadelphia, are candi-
dates for Democratic nomination
again.
L. P. Holcombe and eX-Judge b.
R. Jones are candidates for Repub-
lican national delegate in Luzerne,
but some of the Brumbaugh men do
not like them.
-Brumbaugh headquarters last
night gave out a number of endorse
ments of the Governor from Cambria
county people.
The Philadelphia Transit plans
have been revised and sent to Mayor
Smith. They are against a subway
under City Hall.
-Congressman Il. ID. Heaton, OF
Schuylkill county, filed papers to run
for Republican denomination.
e. p. Young, of Bradford county
who will run as a Brumbaugh dele
gate, was at the Capitol yesterday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
THE NEW FREIGHT STATION

I ETTING of contract for the
l. foundation work of the new
Pennsylvania railroad freight
station at this point yesterday to the
John L. L. Kuhn Company is the first
step toward the early completion of a
long contemplated and much-needed
Improvement. Harrisburg should
have had this freight station many
years ago, and that it is not enjoying
the use of it at this time is not due
to the railroad company, but rather
to the selfishness of private interests.
The new freight station means more
work for more people and better
transportation facilities for Harrisburg.
which is fast becoming the heart Of
distribution" not only for all Central
Pennsylvania, but for much wider
range of territory than most people
know
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29

where the New Haven railroad holds
sway is that the only way to make
reasonable time is to have livestock
sure of getting freight through in a
represented thereamong. So O. wise
old gentleman up at Farm School, Pa,
desiring to change his place of resi-
dence 10 a Connecticut city. made shift
to purchase an old nag who was on
its last legs and shipped the more
dead than alive animal with his fur
niture. Whereupon the railroad made
haste to get the poor old beast through
to its destination before it passed out
and thus did the professor outwit the
railroad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

George w. Kirchwey, the warden
of Sing Sing. has been delivering lee
lures at Pittsburgh.
d. e. Durbin, of Pittsburgh, has
been elected as president of the
Southwestern State Merchants Asso-
citation.
j. G. Trees, son of a prominent
Pittsburgher and an experienced fiier,
has volunteered for the United States
aviation work.
DIR. r. II. Harte, Philadelphia ply
sician, is chairman of the executive
committee of the Red Cross in east
ern counties
Joseph Moore, Jr., Philadelphia
manufacturer, has gone to Michigan
to look after some extension of plants.
E. NJ. c. Africa, one of the vice
presidents of the William Penn High
way is one of the prominent engin-
ers of the State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
ANOTHER REVERSAL

TIME Washington correspondent OF
the New York journal of Com
merce declares that there is some
doubt whether President Wilson
would welcome any further burden
imposed through an increase in the
income tax. and it is understood that
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
will support the President in this.
The writer believes that the reason is
that politically the rich are the men
who contribute so generously to the
Golfers of the political campaigns,
If his information is correct it indi-
Gates another change of mind on the
part of the President and Secretary
McAdoo. In his message to Congress
of December : last, President Wilson
said:
Rv somewhat loweriro the pres
ent limits ,bcG Oh GSemhP'i0m mp surtaX anu shall
begin TO he imposed. and by In
,reasing. step by step throughout
the present graduation, the surtaN
itself. the income taxes as at pres
ent apportioned would yield sums
sufficient to balance the BOOKS OF
the Treasury at the end OF the hscal
year 1917.
In his annual report for the fiscal
year 1916 Secretary McAdoo said:
1t is respectfully suggested that
considaration may we'll be Given 10
an increase in the rates of taxation
ON individual and Cor~~-Hte incomes
as a means of raising In whole or
i'm part the additional revenues re-
0uired TO meet the new eNpendi-
lures.
II the Journals correspondent is
giving us the right dope it must be
that the administration has seen the
pucker of its campaign purse strings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
DELEGATES TO CHICAGO

a CAREFUL survey of the national
n political situation will convince
almost any student of affairs
that there will be no road roller"
methods at the convention of the Re-
publican party in Chicago this year.
After the first few ballots, when a
number of States doubtless will pres
ent their "favorite sons" for endorse
ment, the convention will settle down
10 the business of nominating the
best man for the place.
Delegates are going to Chicago this
year to represent their constituents.
and not this or that leader or faction
or interest. The folks back home
demonstrated four years ago that a
convention might nominate. but il
required the endorsement of major
ity of the voters TO elect and there is
pretty definite feeling in the country
to-day that II the menace OF Wilson
ism is not to be continued for another
four years the delegates who go to
Chicago must hearkeu to popuIar
opinion and not be led away by the
siren voice of f1owery oratory or he
forced by circumstances into a posi-
tion that will not be popular with the
voters as a whole.
There can be no question about it;
o majority of the voters of the coun-
try are disguised with the present ad-
ministration at Washington and want
a change, but it will not do to divide
this majority and repeat the folly of
four years ago. The men who have
announced themselves for delegate
and those who are at the party helm
realize this as well as anybody, so
that whoever is named at Chicago to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
THE STYLES
BY Wing DInEer

The skirts this Spring, says Fashion.
Shall somewhat shorter be.
But how short. is the question
That's now a-puzzling me.
Each day some new creation
l see, that's cut away
4 wee bit more than that one
That 1 saw yesterday.
If folks get much more daring
Twill not be long ere we
See women wear a ruffie
Where once a skirt would be.
And prices will be lower
At polite burlesdue shows.
For there will be no patrons
For first and second rows.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
POINTS OUT AN ERRoR

10 the Editor of the Telegraph:
Thinking a winner may have The.
privilege of criticising the answers
given to the various interesting ques--
tions asked by your enterprising daih.
should like to call attention to an
error on your part to the answer to
question No. IA. Name three operas
that had their premier in New York
City. Your answer was
Konigskinder. Girl of the Golden
West and Natoma.
The first two are correct but the
last opera was sung first in Phila-
delphia February %, 1911 by the
Philadelphia-C Opera Company
-Campininni conducting and on the
2Sth of the same month had its first
performance in New York.
The correct answer should be:
Puccini's Girl of the Golden West
December 10, 1910.
Humperdink's Konigskinder = De-
eember %, 1910.
Giordano's Nine. Sans-Gene - Jan.
25, 1915.
J. WESLEY ANVIL. Jr.
March 2s. 1915.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
TELEORAPH'S PERlSCOPE

England is much interested about
what the United States will do in the
Sussex case. We don't know. but we've
an idea what our navy would do under
the same circumstances as now con-
front the British.
We wonder If 1t would be proper
now to call him William Penn Jen-
nings?
The Wilsonian motto is: BE sure
you're right. and then don't do any
thing"
Congress is going to investigate
the shortage in news print paper. High
time What would a presidential cam
paign be without newspapers?
May take months to capture
Villa" says a Washington dispatch,
a bit of news that most people had in
advance.
From being the Yankees of the
East" the japanese have come to be
known as the 'fPrussians of the East. -
oh, very well, IL the kaiser can stand
it, we can.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
\ oNE-MAN GOVERNMENT
ETTHEN he changed his mind on
Wv the subject of a tariff commits
sion, President Wilson said:

7 wish that it were not necessary
that il should fall to my lot to
choose the men who are TO compose
it.
Then. in a couple of weeks he
changed his mind again and let it be
known that he would not consent to
a tariff commission law that provided
for selection of the members by any
one except himself. The plan proposed
by those who desired a commission
as nearly fair as possible was that the
commission should consist of five
members, one selected by the Presi-
dent, one by the Democrats of the
Senate, one by the Democrats of the
House, one by the Republicans of the
Senate and one by the Republicans of
the House. That would give the
Democrats three OF the five members.
But the President won't permit any
one but himself a voice in selecting
the commission.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29

lead the Republican hosts next Fall.
unless some mlooked-for and un-
called-for condition arises between
now and June. will represent the best
thought and sentiment of the Repuo-
lican party in the nation at large.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29

Just because the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany can sell the Government armor
plate at lower prices than the Govern
ment can make 1T, seems no good argu-
meut to Democratic Congress. which
talks much of business, but can't think
business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
WEDNESDAY EVENING. MARCH 90

We are all imperfect, and the tico
things that make il possible for imper-
feet people to lire together in peace aud
joy are forgiuing and forgetting.
FRANK CRANE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

Marjorie Sterrett, who for her age
has probably had her name and pic
ture in the papers more often than any
other girl of the present time, is being
popularly received wherever she is
appearing. In Erie, her former
home, the contributions are not as
large as might be expected. and some
how the concerted action seems to be
lacking that will bring the dimes and
quarters rolling in. Human nature is
a funny thing person will be glad
to do something if only it Is made easy
for him or her, but there seems to be
a premium on voluntary action in an
altruistic cause.
The Chester police force Is rapidly
dwindling by reason of the fact that
higher pay and shorter hours are
available in the munition factories.
The request for more pay from Coun-
ellis met with no response, so the cops
have taken the bull by the horns, fig
uratively speaking. and quit work in
large numbers.
The Lehigh Valley Coal Company is
figuring on the running Of a $4,000
tunnel from the Uazleton basin
through the Butler mountain to the
Nescopeck creek. Action will not be
taken until an agreement is reached
between IDG anu OpGI
that is satisfactory.
Graduates and students of the
Reading High school for boys will
make a strenuous effort to raise $10.-
900 during this week to be used for
paying off the remaining debt on
George Field, which Is the athletic
field of that institution.
The current opinion in the region
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg tools have been
used on the Panama canal locks?

The first iron is believed to have
been made here about 1926.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
OH MY-YEs.

OH! MY-YES.
Mr.. Wratt: You
{ e m in d me OF
small change.
M r. B u g g:
How's that?
M r. W at {:
You're chicken
feed.'' Amt You2
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29

z. j. J.STACKPoLE. Prss't ond Ediioy-iH-Chief
F. r. OYSTER, Business MdHdgcr.
GUS If. SDEINMETZ. Managing Editor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building. Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29

The current opinion in the region
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29

Fl. f. Bodine, of Clearheld. form
erly connected with the Bureau OF
Industrial Statistics and who made
studies of Harrisburg and other Penn
sylvania cities. was here to-day. He is
connected with several progressive
commercial organizations up the
State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29

Ex-senator George NJ. Wertz, of
Cambria county, who was here yester-
day on business at the Capitol, served
as president pro tenn of the Senate in
1912 and was then county controller
of Cambria He is well known to
many residents of this city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29

Penn" in the Philadelphia Bulletin
discusses Mayor Smith and regarding
politics as related to him says: yet
it may be doubted whether the vast
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29

CAME NAT
URAL.

Am I the first
bug you ever
Kissed?
I should say
not. I'm a kiss
ing bug. I've
Kissed all my life.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-08
PAYS TRIBUTE TO
SECRETARY HOUSTON

Chicago, Dec. THE most press
ing problem before us today is that of
SO standardizing. warehousing and
marketing our crops as to serve the
legitimate interests of farmer and
consumer alike, said Carl s. Vrooman.
assistant secretary of agriculture. at
dinner of the National Conference
on Marketing and Farm Credits, hera
tonight. Mr.. Vrooman continues:
Among the FACTORS tina, stand out
prominently is the problem of rural
credits, satisfactory system of lard
tenure. the cooperative purchasing of
supplies and facilities for marketing
farm produce. These are subjects OF
which the Federal department must
do lot of constructive work before
the problems involved in them IRE
satisfactorily solved.
During the last four years the De-
partment of Agriculture has had for
the first time in its history an econo-
mist at its head and has looked on the
agricultural problem from the eco
nomic viewpoint. AT first the full sig
nificance OF this did not dawn upon
the general public But today. as We
look back over four years Of unparal-
leled achievement, It becomes appar-
ent that the one thing the Department
of Agriculture has long needed has
been the vision and the directing hand
of one of the worlds foremost econo-
mists. This has been found in Secre-
tary Houston"