Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-07
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By the Ex-Cummifseeman

cure money to pay their share OF
the cost of constructing modern
highways. The Commonwealth OF
Pennsylvania is paying all of the
cost of constructing the primary road
system as planned by Governor
Sproul and State Highway Commits
sioner Lewis S. ,Sadler. Numerous
counties. during the last six months,
| have issued bonds for the construc-
ton of secondary highways which
VIII tie in" with the States .pri-
mary system.
Bond issues approved by voters in
| the election Tuesday are as follows:
Bradford county. $1.00O,000; Indiana
county, $1,000,000; Venango county,
$1,000, 900; Lawrence county. ST.
| 0O0.O .OO0; Lycoming county, $500, 900.
Many townships in these five coun-
ties had bond issue propositions be-
fore the voters on Tuesday. So far
as the State Highway Department
has been able to learn none of these
townships voted against the bond
! issue.
State Highway Commissioner Lewis
,. Sadler was greatly pleased with
the progressive spirit displayed in
Bradford, Indiana, Nenango, Law
renee and Lycoming counties.
1T is evidence" he said, that the
| several counties of Pennsylvania are
determined to join with the State
Highway Department in giving the
Keystone State the best highway
system in America"
Voters of Huntingdon county de-
feated by a small majority a propo-
sition to bond that county for $780,
600 for road purposes.
Congressman J. Hampton
Moore is going into the Office of
mayor of Philadelphia not only with
the largest majority ever given to
mayor, but with the cordial sup
port of all of the newspapers. In
this respect the conditions are much
like those attending the commence
ment of the Sproul administration.
Penn, of the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin, in writing of him, says the
mayor-elect is one of the best quail
fed that we have had, in the course
of a long time, for a sensible and
masterful performance of its duties.
Among his predecessors | do not re-
call more than three who could be
either fairly or tolerably compared
to him in that respect. His expert
ence since early manhood has
brought him often and intimately
into contact with affairs at the City
Hall; he has long been shrewdly fa-
miliar with city politics at close
range, and his knowledge of Phila-
delphia is varied, extensive and ac-
curate: Usually even the best may
ors that we have had since the time
of Stokely have had to learn n good
deal in going into Office, have had to
feel their way and have had to
accept not a little of elementary
guidance until they got their bear
ings. But it may be expected of
Moore that he will enter it as one
whose training will enable him to
take hold of 1t with something of
the ease of a veteran in such en-
ployment. No one will think of him
as a novice or green horn. In that
respect he will be not unlike what
Sproul was when Sproul became
Governor. In his fifty-sixth year,
Moore has the appearance of a man
very much younger. In fact, he
does not look much different from
what he did when, a generation ago,
he would pad the streets as news
paper reporter"
The Philadelphia Public Ledger,
in first page review of the results
of the election, says it ends Ware
power, conclusion not yet reached
by some other papers. The Ledger
says: Tuesdays municipal election,
which gave j. Hampton Moore,
mayor-elect, the largest plurality of
any executive in the history of the
city, placed the government in the
hands of the friends of the new
charter and completed the work of
destruction of the Ware machine
which was started in the primary
campaign. With Mr.. Moore was
elected a majority of the new coun-
Gil of twenty-one members, all of
whom are pledged to support the
Moore administration and to admin
lister the charter law according to
the purposes and intentions of the
act. The Wares failed in every eff
fort they made to retrieve some
measure of their political power"
Allegheny county did pretty we'll
in the matter of loan elections, ac-
cording to the Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph. Avalon approved a bond
issue of s1S0,000 for the purpose of
site for and the erection and
equipment of n new high school.
Ben Avon by a vote of 1875 to 1OS
approved a s35,0 bond item for a
municipal building. Carnegie ap-
proved two bond items, one of $780,
600 for school improvements and
one of S150,000 for buying n recrea-
llol eIouHuS ana efectlnS thereon
municipal building. The vote on the
former proposition was 592 for and
247 against. On the second item
the vote was 407 for and 3S1I
against. Sewickley approved an is
sue OF s250,000 for a new high
school, the vote being 366 for and
244 against. Swissvale authorized
an issue of 100000 bond for erect
ing and equipping a new high school
by vote of two to one. Tarentum
approved an expenditure of $4,000
for a park along the Allegheny river
the vote being close, 311 for to sol
against. West View approved a
bond issue of $42.5O3 for street i'm
provements by a vote approximately
of 400 to so.
The complete unofficial returns
of Tuesdays election show the cleo
ton of Mayor Charles r. Rhodes
and Councilmen Charles H. Cassidy.
John P. Lafferty, n. A. Stevens and
William G. Westfall, says the AL
toona Tribune. "The race for the
mayoralty was so close, with a bare
81 plurality, that the voters have a
desire to see the official count. The
friends of Mayor Rhodes feel certain
that he is reelected and that the
plurality will eveh be bigger. ON
the other hand Brumbaugh's friends
believe that the official count NAV
bring sufficient changes in the totals
as to bring about his election"