Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-02
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express wagon load of potatoes spill
ed by boy at the intersection of
cameron and Market streets yester-
uay half dozen street railway men
praVed a calling down" and joined
with the traffic policeman in helping
the youngster out. The boy had been
sent to get some potatoes and his ex-
press wagon was loaded to the brim.
IN crossing the numerous rails at that
ousy crossing the wheels caught in
groove and the potatoes were scat
tered. A big suburban car came
along and was stopped. The car be-
hlnd stopped. Then some cars in
Market street stopped and before
one could realize it half a dozen cars
| were standing still and people were
sticking their heads out of the win
COWS TO see what was the matter.
me trolleymen turned i'm and had
the boys wagon reloaded and push
ed to safety on the pavement in
quick time. And not a passenger
kicked and If the cars were late no
one cared at the railway office.
1t seems to be the rule, rather than
the exception, that the Auditor Gen
erals elected under the present con-
stitution should be taken from the
Legislature. Just call the roll of
those who have served since 1874:
Harrison Allen, Republican, former
Senator from Warren county; Jus
tus f. Temple, Democrat. Senator
from Greene; William p. Schell,
Democrat, former Senator from Bed
ford; John A. Lemon, Republican.
Senator from Blair, who served his
term as Auditor General and was
again elected Senator, dying in Of
flee; Jerome i. Niles, Republican,
| member of the House from Tioga; A.
Wilson Norris, Republican, Senator
from Philadelphia, who died in Of
flee and was succeeded by appoint
ment by Thomas McCamant Re-
| publican, of Blair, who did not serve
in the Legislature; David Nj. Gregg,
Republican, of Berks, who was never
a legislator; Amos II. Mylin, Re
publican, Senator from Lancaster
county, farming now in the Red
Rose district; Levi b. McCauley, Re
publican, Chester, not a legislator;
Edmund M. Hardenbergh, Republic
an, Senator from Wayne, now con-
tidential agent for the New York
Central Railway Company; William
p. Snyder, Republican Senator from
Chester, living retired Robert X
Young, Republican, member of the
House from Tioga, now State Treas
urer; A. f. Sisson, Republican,
Senator from Erie, now engaged in
law practice at his home, and Arch
w. Powell, Republican and Wash
ington, Senator from Allegheny, re-
tired this week. And now comes
| Charles A. Snyder, Republican, Sen
ator from Schuylkill. Thus out of
sixteen Auditor Generals in the
State in the past forty-three years
thirteen were either eX-legislators or
in the Legislature at the time of
their election.
Representative Glen Chestnut, of
Fulton county, comes from the rural
part of Pennsylvania, where they
have no railroads or electric lines,
but whether they observe and study
as their grandfathers did before
them. Mr.. Chestnut was discussing
political affairs with Walter Darling
ton, of the Philadelphia North
American yesterday morning and
informed him that the House was
made up of Republicans, like Mr..
Wallace of Lawrence; Penrose Re-
publicans, Socialists, who are very
harm monious, and some Democrats"
Representative Joshua W. Swartz,
of this city. who is in charge of the
bills to codify the laws of the State
relative to decedents estates, was on
the firing line yesterday in the House
and winged Representative John
Reynolds, of Philadelphia. Mr.. Rey-
nolds, who is one of the most digni-
field and careful of the lawyer mem
bers of the House, rose wher the
decedents bills were being considered
on third reading and suggested that
he would like to interrogate the spon-
. sor for the bills.
Certainly" said Mr.. Swartz.
Would it not be well to see
whether these bills conflict with
those of the State Commission to
Codify the Laws Relative to Dece-
dents Estates?" asked Mr.. Rey-
nolds.
These bills are the bills of the
Decedents' Commission" replied the
Harrisburg man.
John II. Fertig, who will become
Deputy Auditor General shortly, is
one of the best-posted men on the
laws of the State at the Capitol. lie
is a member of the Schuylkill county
BAR and has done the bulk of the
work on the last half dozen codes
which have been before the Legis-
lature. He worked out the tremen-
dous amount of data required for the
repealers now in the Senate and
helped prepare, the township law
code. He is equally well posted on
corporation and taxation laws
Among visitors to the Capitol yes
terday was Robert p. Hapgood,
former member from Mexican and
prominent in the associations of
Pennsylvania publishers. He stopped
off to see the legislators at work.
EX-Mayor Alexander II. Connell,
of Scranton, was here yesterday. He
is a former member of the House
and looked in on old scenes. He is
one of the Scranton registration COM
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