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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26
President and Sufragists
Philadelphia LEDGER

Philadelphia LEDGER
When the delegates to the suffrage
convention at Atlantic City find
themselves no longer under the spell of
the spoken word, the charm of Presi-
dent Wilson's presence, we wonder
what they will make of his message.
how much encouragement they will
draw from his kind assurance that
they are bound to win sometime,
his adjuration to them to be patient
little longer. The President went to
Atlantic City to speak to a repre-
sentative body of women desperately
in earnest in their demand for social
and political justice. They treated him
with the courtesy that was due his
high office. They overlooked for the
moment the circumstances that he
was q candidate for reelection and
ignored the possibility that his mission
may have been dictated more by hope
of political advantage than by any real
interest in the cause for which they
are fighting. And what did the Presi-
dent offer them in return for the hon.
or they accorded him? Ten or fifteen
minutes of platitude, a condescending
assurance that they had made great
progress toward ultimate victory, but
no word of advice or encouragement
as to the means by which their goal
was to be attained, no word of prom
Use of the assistance which he and his
party could give were they inclined
to take the suffrage issue out of the
controversial stage and make it a fact
accomplished!
If the women of America are salts
fed with that they are easily pleased.
The one thing the convention was
eager to learn from the President he
studiously refrained from saying.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26
Why Gotch Doesn't Drink

Frank Gotch. the great wrestler, in
q letter this week to the Des Moines
Register, says: II have always been
for prohibition, and attribute my sue
cess as an athlete to my abstinence
from alcoholic stimulants of every ma
ture.'
Drinking is going out, because II
means inefficiency. The crack athlete
can't drink; neither can the man who
expects to make the highest success
in any line of endeavor.-Kansas City
Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26
COAL AND "GAS- PRICES

EEW of us feel any keen sympathy
~ for the coal trust in its present
troubles with the federal author
tiles. Some of us may be unfeeling
enough to cry out to the Government:
"Hooray! Soak 'em again; soaking
having been for these many years one
of the diversions of the coal combine.
But II soaking" the trust, is going
to have any such tragic effects on the
price of anthracite as the dissolu-
ton of Standard Oil had on the cost
of gasoline perhaps 1t would be just
as well to sing low.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26
Pittsburgh, Pa. Sept. 26.
rica's most famous beauty


GO Americas most famous beauty
will indicate her residence next
w. month. For Mrs. Alex. P. Moore
rent married name-is soon to make
A dignified old mansion is being pre-
pared for her arrival and soon after
October l she will settle down there
to the more or less ordinary life of a
Pittsburgh matron.
I'm going to have q real home
with real husband for the first time
in my life," she said enthusiastically,
as we sat talking on the porch of her
summer home.
Proof of Her Love
Miss Russell's summer residence is
at Ventnor, few miles below Attain
tic City. 1 say Miss Russelrs resi-
dence advisedly. Mr.. Moore's busi-
ness keeps him in Pittsburgh most of
the time, and, to quote her own words
he is more like a weekend guest
than husband"
80 we've decided to give up mar
riage la carte and go in for old
fashioned table d'hote matrimony,'
she laughed. My husband can no
longer doubt that I love him, can he,
now that I've really promised 1 will
live in Pittsburgh"
The Lillian Russell who sat in her
rocking chair on the veranda of her
attractive home is not the AIRY fairy
Lillian" of the late sos. But time
has been kinder to her than to any
other woman l know. She is-well
she was so about five years ago. But
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26
They Call Him Charlie"

Charles NJ. Schwab, the Bethlehem
steel king, is probably the most be-
loved boss" in America. His men say
were like him. The October American
Magazine prints an article about him
in which this occurs:
They call him Charlie at Home
stead; he is Charlie when he goes
back there now to visit the bows.
Those who were there in the old days
he still knows by name and just how
long they have been on the job. When
he went down to Homestead to say
good-by, after resignins as president
of the Carnegie Steel Company, five
thousand men turned out in a body to
wish him good luck.
God bless you, Charlie.' Here's
good luck to you, Charlie!' they
shouted.
Do / know him well?' said one
grizzled employe at Homestead. is
it Charlie Schwab you mean? Shure,
don't / mind the first day he came
here? An didn't l work wild him for
years? Wild him, mind you. Not for
him. Shure, / helped cut the first
piece of steel that ever went out ot
this mill. There isn't a man here that
don't give his good will to Charlie
Schwab. There'd be no strikes in
Ameriky If ivry boss was like him
The first day he come I says to him
says ], Have you a match" IT hav,
four" says he, "an' you're welcome t.
whats your name?" TITS Schwab,
says he. Charlie Schwab!" An
faith, he'd give me a match to-day Al
quick as he was after givin' 1t to M
thin"
Perhaps there has never been al
American industrial leader so popula
with rich and poor alike. The reason
Is interviewer in the story of Mr.
Schwab's spectacular rise from th
ranks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26
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
What is done fo- the enforcement of
the compulsory education law?
Attendance officer, with one as
sistant for outside work. Parents
notified by mail of each three days
absence of pupils. Parents prose-
cuted under the law.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26
A Cleanup Worth $4,000

Kansas City. Sept. 26.-Several
hundred businessmen in the Armour
dale section of the Kansas side gath
cred to-day with rakes, shovels
and brooms and cleaned five miles of
streets and parking. ]. L. Beggs, COM
missioner of streets. said their work
saved the city more than $4,000 Sew
eral big industries lent motor trucks
to haul away the rubbish and the $50
employees of the street department
helped. The movement was led by
the Armourdale Improvement Asso-
citation
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26
EDITORIAL COMMENT

The President used four pens to sign
the eight-hour law and gave one tU
each Brotherhood chief as a souvenir
The rest of us will remember the event
without artificial aid.-New York Even
ing Sun.
Can't German scientists invent a sub
stitute for Enthusiastically Eagle
King Ferdinand surpasses CZar Fer
dinand as an auctioneer.-Philadelp
Public Ledger.
Roumania's entry may shorten tn.
war, but beyond question it broadens
it.-Brooklyn Times
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26

the road one of the show features of
thescountry. In the East all that has
heen done is to make the roadway
itself more durable and more comfort
able for travel. In this you have been
successful, but the idea of making this
beautiful parkway instead of simply
commercial road has evidently not
impressed itself upon the people east
of the Mississippi. or, in fact, for some
distance west of that river
THE California tourists retired soon
after completing their unusual trip
over the battlefield and left at 6 o'clock
in the morning to continue their
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26

they come and happiest who makes
the most of them. looking back in
memory to the bright spots of other
days and forward with keen delight
toward the time of year he loves
best.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Major John C. Groome has been
spending q few days in Virginia.
Joseph p. Connolly, of Phila-
delphia. will be the orator at the
Pittsburgh Rights of Columbus meet
ings.
The Rev. w. Fl. Main, Philadel-
phia clergyman, has accepted a call
to Chicago.
Prof. Walter d. Scott will be
head of the new school of business
psychology, to be opened in one of the
Pittsburgh colleges.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26
Our Daily Laugh
gssACED TO TIE


GCONCD.
sac Jokes;nitis.
You say that's
an old jok g I
What paper has
ever published itf
Tho Editor
Can't say about
the papers and I
forget whether 1t
first appeared a on
an Assyrian brick
or an Egyptian
obelisk.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26
A PRACTICAL
MAN.

Mr.. Goodsole-
My young friend.
can you read your
title clear to man.
sions in t h Q
skies :?
Mr.. Phippe-1f
] could I'd mort
gage 'em and buy
. new car.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26
Over-Industrv

1t is my opinion that a mans soul
can be buried and perish - in
a furrow of the field, just as well as
n@A~- . niI0 af Ennoau--IauthornA
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg tubes are used
to drain western mines?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

officers of the British regiments
stationed along the border made this
place their headquarters during part
of the French and Indian war
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26
TELEGRAPH PERlSCOPF

Even with perfectly delicious ice
cream selling at thirty-fve cents a
brick many people prefer to put their
money into goldbricks.
-"Homeward the ploughman plods
his weary way"-on a gasoline trac-
tor.
Mr.. Mack now has some concep-
ton as to how the management of the
Phillies felt some years back-only
more so.
Perhaps when the Germans pro-
tested against the use of the English
tanks" as inhuman they hoped the
allied soldiers would all laugh them
selves to death.
Now we understand why Presi-
dent Wilson calls 1t porch cam
paign"-full of splinters.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26

f. j. STACKPOLE.P Pres't and Editor. in. Chief
+. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS Nd. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26

Invitations to attend the Penn
sylvania Day ceremony at Shadow
Lawn, President Wilson's summer
home, are being sent from the Demo-
cratic State headquarters An effort
is being made to have all of the Penn
sylvania national delegates to the
Baltimore convention of 1912, and the
Pennsylvania delegation to the st.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-26

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph building, Federal Square.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-17
PASSENGER RATE CASE
More Testimony Heard by Utilities
Commission Today.

With an open date on the calendar
and no campaign speeches to make.
the public utilities commission today
heard some more testimony in the
passenger rate case. The case has
been pending before Joseph L. Bris-
tow and the commission nearly two
year Frequent demands for a deci-
sion, however, have failed to bear
fruit and the commission has not in
dfcated that it intends to decide the
case before the next session of the
Legislature
Testimony before the commission
today concerns operating expenses and
revenues on various lines, in the las
eighteen months or two years. At in
terVals the commission has dragged
the case on tie docket by asking for
new testimony or information. A num-
peI o! railway attorneys, as we'll as
statisticians and officials were called
before the commission today for the
latest revival of the case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-17
KING HAS NEW SCARE
Note Extremely Crave to Greek Gov
ernment-Allies Garrison Athens.

London, Oct. 17.-Vice Admiral
Fournet, commander of the Anglo
French fleet in the Mediterranean, has
handed the Greek government a new
note of an extremely grave character,
says a dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph company from Athens dated
yesterday. Following the presentation
of the note King Constantine, it is
added, came to the capital in haste
from the royal residence at Tatoi.
The railway stations at Athens and
Piraeus, the city hall at the capital
and the Castalla barracks have been
occupied by French and italian SOL
diers to the number of 1000. while
$50 blue jackets with two machine
guns have been stationed in the mu-
niciral theater. according to a Reuter-
dispatch from Athens today. The city
is quiet.
An urgent cabinet council has been
summoned.
1t is officially explained, adds the
dispatch, that the detachments landed
will assist in stopping demonstrations
which threaten trouble.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-17
RI0TINC REVIVED
Two Clashes With Police Last
Night at Bayonne.
Attempt to Fire Oil Plant;
Peace Conference Today.

Bayonne, N. J., Oct 1.-Two
clashes between striking oil workers
and policemen ir which many shots
were fired and an alleged attempt to
set fire TO the Tidewater plant, mark
ed the resumption of hostilities in the
serious strike situation here today
Settlement of the strike had been ex-
pected today.
More than 100 strikers. some of
them armed, engaged in a skirnnish
with six special policemen who at
tempted to drive Them away from
the Jersey Central viaduct just before
dawn. A bullet went thru one police
mans hat but no one was hurt. Three
arrests were made.
Two special policemen exchanged
shots with several strikers, near the
same spot, a few minutes later and
two men were arrested.
The alleged attempt to fire the
Tidewater plant was reported by Po-
lice Inspector Cady. Fire broke out
in the dry grass surrounding the
buildings and Cady said he was sure
strikers started the blaze. Ten rep
rescntatives of the strikers were to
meet George B. Hennessy, general
manager of the Standard Oil plant to-
day, in an effort to reach a settle
ment. The Rockefeller interests are
said to be willing to make some con-
cessions In increased wages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-17
Prominent Dentist Probably
Will Recover Wounds.
SHOT HERSELF ACCIDENTALLY
Revolver. Went OFF as She Fled
From Scene.
Wounded Man and Wife ES-
tranged for Years.

Chicago, Oct. 17.-Miss Fern Rob-
erts. Is, who shot her father, Dr.
Grant ]. Roberts, a dentist, three
times last night, was arrested here
early to lay He will recover. Miss
Roberts confessed the shooting today,
and said she had resolved to kill her
father unless he consented to return
to her mother from whom he is es-
tranged.
DR.. Roberts formerly was in the
United States medical corps in the
canal zone ard is we'll known here
He was taken to the Norwegian hos
pital after the shooting where an
operation was performed.
Out Walking With Her Father.
To the police, Miss Roberts said
she was taking one of her customary
evening walks with her father. She
lives with her aunt and met DR.. Rob-
erts near her home After he refused
to yield to her pleas to return to her
mother, who is believed to be in New
Orleans, Miss Roberts drew a re-
volver, she says, and shot him three
times and then fled down an alley.
She was arrested at her aunt's home.
Her mental condition will be ex-
amined today.
Miss Roberts was suffering from a
bullet wound in her right knee which
she said was accidental. The revolver
exploded in some way as she was run
ming she told the police. Her condi-
ton was not dangerous, it was said
at the Bridewell hospital today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-17
GUARDS HAVE SHIvERS
From Border Climate to Fort Riley
Kind, Demands Winter Toys.

Fort Riley, Kan, Oct. 17.-Guards-
men of the First Kansas infantry en-
camped on the military reservation
here after having returned Sunday
from Texas, shivered thru last night
when the temperature, unlike that of
the Mexican border and San Antonio,
dropped to 40 degrees.
AS result summer uniforms of
khaki were being changed by the
guardsmen here today Cor heavier
winter clothing. Despite the cold,
however, the men are cheerful, going
about their duties and preparing to be
mustered out of the federal service.
This will require some time, it was
pointed out today, as there is mass
OF detail to be gone thru
Second to Leave Tuesday.
San Antonio, Tex, Oct. 17.-Depart-
ure of the Second Kansas infantry has
been delayed. 1t will not leave for
home today, as was announced last
Saturday. The exact time of the
starting cannot be fixed, it was ex-
planned, until more deffnite advice has
been received regarding the date on
which the First Mississippi infantry
will reach Camp Wilson, as that regi-
ment has been designated to relieve
the Kansas organization.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-17
Charges Alienation of the Al
fectiOnS of Mrs. Harris.
LEFT HIS WIFE YEARS AGO
Says Conduct of the Couple Be-
came ScandalOus.
Alleges the Woman Has Dis
graced the Family.

Charging that Frank Hardesty
ruined his happiness destroyed his
family Iife'' "dissipated his property
and made his life miserable by
alternating his wife's affections, Charles
F. Harris today brought suit, in the
Shawnee county district court, for
$3.50 damages. The suit was filed
by Edwin D. McKeever, attorney.
Harris now lives at Sheridan, Wyo-
ming. Several years ago he and his
wife operated the Kiehl laundry be-
tween Ninth street and Tenth avenue.
Harris disappeared in 1910 or 1911
and has been here only at short in
tervals since. His petition discloses
that he has been living in Wyoming.
Harris states in his petition that in
1910 Hardesty became friendly with
him thru mutual interest in a certain
lodge and began rooming at the Har-
ris home. He states that Hardesty
made great pretence of friendship
but that Notwithstanding the friend
ship he began to grow intimate with
Mrs. Harris and that in February,
1911, he, Harris, could stand it no
longer and left Topeka.
'It is my understanding" Harris
says in his petition, that after 1 left
Hardesty's conduct with my wife be-
came scandalous.''
Then he states that his wife became
penitent and followed him to Wyo-
ming, where she begged his forgive
ness. telling him that everything was
off between her and Hardesty. They
are the parents of a little boy and Har-
ris states that he and his wife agreed
in Wyoming to forget the past and
take their boy to California, where
they could live without constant re-
minders of their trouble in Topeka.
A part of the agreement he says
was that Mrs. Harris should return to
Topeka and make a sale of all the
property they owned here, then re-
turn to Wyoming and meet him.
Broke Faith With Him.
But, says Harris, as soon as his
wife returno to Topeka Hardesty met
her and 'used every art within his
power to induce her to break her en-
gagement' with her husband. And,
he adds, she did break ton October
20, 1914. He states that following
that date the conduct of his wife and
Hardesty became scandaIous; that
she lived with the man thereby dis
gracing her husband and child. Harris
charges that all this was due to ex-
! travagant promises made by Hardesty
Because of the alleged ruination of
| ms happiness, the destruction of his
| family life, the dissipation of his
property and bringing on life of
| misery Harris asks for $4,000. Be
/ cause of alleged criminal conversa-
ton between Hardesty and his wife
| in Kansas and Missouri, Harris asks
for $4,000 more. And for the de
/ gradation of the name of Harris" he
; asks for $15 1000. making a total of
! $4,000 damages sought
1t was stated in connection with
the filing of the petition today that
property upon his fathers death not
long ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-17
LOCATE PANCHO
Only $50 Miles From Pershing
With 1,S0O Men.
Entire Towns Being Wiped Out
by Starvation.

Fl Paso. Tex. Oct. 17.-For the
first time since beginning their cam
paign against Pancho Villa. Mexican
de facto government officials admitted
the location and importance of the
size of the bandit chiefs forces when
il was announced today that Villa with
his main body of 500 well armed men
and more than a thousand recruits.
partly armed. are near Temosachic,
a bout ! so miles southwest of Ell Vale,
the southernmost outpost of General
PershinE's American expedition.
\ detachment of Villistas is being
sent into the foothills of the Sierras by
villa. according to a message from
General TreVino. Carranza commander
at chihuahua City. to General Con-
zales at Juarez, to recover machine
guns ammunition and military sup
plies hidden by the bandit leader
months ago.
Extinction of the population in the
towns of the state of Zacatecas by
starvation is threatened unless aid is
given at once, according to a circular
from an aid society sent to Juarez
The circular stated that 1000 persons
have died in the capital of Zacatecas
i'm the past four months and that
typhus and yellow fever epidemics
are raging row.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-17
Oil Companies Slice State In
spectiOn Profits.
VIII Give Department Barely
Enough for Expenses.
ONLY ONE CENT A BARREL NOW
Formerly Paid Five Cents To-
ward State Operation.
"Gentlemen's Agreement" Will
Have To Be Overlooked.

Kansas seems due to suffer another
shock in the handling of its oil in
spection department. That gentle
mems agreement fee which followed
the upsetting of the inspection fee law,
is soon to be revised. Under an agree
ment of the oil companies they will
pay the state a sum barely equal to the
actual operating expenses of the de-
partment. The fee, under the agree
ment plan, is soon to be reduced from
5 cents to l cent a barrel for state in
spection.
Under the old law the state received
10 cents a barrel for inspection of oil
and gasoline. Revenues from the de-
partment amounted to more than
s12o,G0o a year Then the oil com
panies baked. They paid their fees
under protest and brought suit to test
the law. The supreme court held the
law was a revenue producing measure
rather than an inspection act. The
entire fee was then set aside, since the
court could not establish an arbitrary
fee.
Rather than lose the department,
the oil companies agree to pay cents
barrel for inspection of kerosene,
but no fees for gasoline inspection,
altho both oil and gasoline were to be
inspected by the state. That agree
ment has been in existence for several
months. But seemingly the Standard
and a few other companies have been
the only ones to observe it. Several
companies have failed to pay their in
spection fees. Now there is to be a
new deal.
Representatives of the Standard Oil
company discussed the inspection
question with Frank Cumiskey, state
oil inspector. The matter was then
checked up to Governor Capper and
the attorney generals office. AS a re-
suit of the dispute, * is probable the
state will collect but 1 cent barrel
inspection fees. pending a new act of
the state legislature. The fees will
barely pay the operating expen- of
the office