Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-12
RIVER EXCURSIONS
Why Not Have the City Operate
one2 - Delay at the state
Printery-odd Facts About
the Food Department
BY GEORGE NOx MCCAIN


JAMES l.. PENNYPACKER, of the
- Christopher Sower Co.. has, in con :
nection with our wonderful panoramic
exhibit of industry along the Delaware,
an idea which links in with the new
idea of advertising Philadelphia.
The Mayor and Director Sproulc, OF
the Department of Wharycs. Docks md
Ferries, have had the matter before
them.
My thought is,' said Mr.. Penny
packer, that it would pay the city,
purely as an advertisement, to place
upon the Delaware comfortable
steamer which should make two trips
every day through the open season,
morning and afternoon, at stated hours,
along the river.
ut could start, say, from Arch street,
running up beyond Richmond, there
turning and running down perhaps to
Chester, aud thence back to the start
1.-THE start and finish should be at
stated hours, SO that visitors to the city
could plan to make the trip knowing
they could catch certain trains to At
lantic City, New York or elsewhere. An
excursion ticket might be sold at fifty
cents or 81.
" Accompanying each trip an inteIli
gent guide with megaphone should
direct attention to every point of in :
terest along the route.
Attention to this attraction should
be invited by suitable advertising al
the hotels, railway stations, public
places and in the daily newspapers.
II never visit New Orleans" said
Mr.. Pennypacker, without taking
what is known there as the river trip
There are two daily along the twenty
miles of riverfront. Philadelphia, with
all its historical associations and points
of interest and wonderful industrial
developments along the Delaware, pre-
scnts to my mind rare opportunity for
such an enterprise"
Mr.. Pennypscker is right. Why not
see Philadelphia by water?
u B. NELSON, of the Merchants
l. . Shipbuilding Corporation, at Har-
riman, tells me that the private orders
on their books for the construction oi
ships will carry them for two years tt
come.
The ships turned out Mt Hartman
alone. something like forty, I believe
are carrying the Stars and Stripes or
The concern keeps record of the
performance and whereabouts of every
vessel launched from its ways.
They are in the Malacca straits and
the Java sea. the Black sea, the Indian
ocean, the Mediterranean and Carib
bean seas and ON the east coast OF
Africa.
Philadelphia-andH Hartman is Phila
delphia-is advertising the United
States of America today as no other
city has ever done. She is making the
world acquainted with the colors in oul
flag:
The pre-war saying that the Amer
lean tourist can find the flag Of ever,
nation except that of the United States
in foreign and out of -the-way ports
that he visits is antiquated now. Ii
fact, it's dead" one.
Our flag is on every sea.
SMULL'S Legislative Hand Book 70,
~ 1919 is just coming from the stat,
printery. 1t should have been ou
months ago.
Herman P. Miller, Senate librarian
compiler of this most admirable histori
cal, biographical and statistical work
is not, it should be understood, respon
sible for this delay.
In spite of the greatness of this task
which requires the most painstaking ac
curacy, the manuscript goes out from
Mr.. Miller's Office invariably on time.
While in the past there have been re
current and well-founded complaint
about the procrastination of the stat,
printer, in the present instance ther,
is very good reason, state officials in
form me, for the delay that has marked
the appearance of nearly every depart
mental document for the last year.
The present contract for the state
printing was made at time when th
work could be done for much less thar
at present.
Then there is the scarcity of labor
the difficulty of the paper situation an,
nil the multitudinous drawbacks com
mon to publishers everywhere, whicl
have combined to embarrass the situa
ton.
These conditions did not prevail il
past years.
Then delays were due largely to tn
desire of the contractor to make tn
most out of his contract with the lcas
help and greatest amount of fiat com
position"
COME Of the departments at Harris
~ burg, under stress of these condi
, tions, have introduced the very excel
lent idea of issuing summaries in pam
phlet form Of the reports for 1910 tha
are awaiting publication.
DIR. Fred Rasmussen, in preface t.
one of these diminutive publications
J the report of Director of Foods Faust
says:
lowing to the fact that the report o
the Department of Agriculture for tn
year 1919, containing the reports of tn
several bureaus of the department, vii
) not be ready for distribution for som
! time, the director of the bureau ha
wisely concluded to furnish the head q
the department with the following pre-
o liminary report, and in order that tn
information it contains may have a
+, speedy and wide circulation as possible
its publication as n bulletin of the de
partment is authorized"