Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-02

cen and twenty five years.
Moreover, they must have completed a
high school course and have experience In
farming, numbering, surveying or other forms
Of outdoor work.
Other bright young men are not barred,
but the above named requisites are de-
sirable.
Here's the schemei
MIR. z1EGLER is director Of the Penn
AVl sylvania State Forest Academy at Mont
Alto.
There are hundreds Of thousands Of people
In Pennsylvania who never heard OF the
place. Clifford Pinchot put the academy in
the list of educational institutions.
There are ten scholarships to be awarded
to ten young men.
West Point and Annapolis have nothing
on this proposition, as the scholarships are
free, and they provide tuition, board, room
and laundry.
At the completion of a course in forestry
degree will be awarded.
Next September Is the time set for the
lucky ten to begin their studies. They viii
be selected after competitive examination
on June 10 and II.
A test will be given each man for six
weeks to decide II he is fit for the work
andif he, in turn, likes It.
1t means that these young men will be
the special wards Of the State.
1t'n be a pick up for some bright boy.
TWO lines of an old old poem,
i death and change are busy, ever
Man decays and ages move
come to me every time 1 stroll along beside
the decaying walls and fences that inclose
the beautiful Clarke estate.
In its perfection 1t occupied the entire
square bounded by Forty second, Spruce,
Forty third and LOCUST streets.
1t was the beauty spot Of that part OF
West Philadelphia, and the fine old mansion
heightened the effect.
Today nothing remains but the crumblins
foundations OF the residence, while the once
beautiful park that surrounded it is
wilderness.
1t has gone the way of nearly all old city
estates.
WILLIAM UHLER HENsEL, former
w State Attorney General had, twenty
years ago, a beautiful country place just east
Of Lancaster, but It has passed into other
hands and only legends of its former owner
remain.
The beautiful demesne of Chauncey For
ward Black, also Lieutenant Governor,
near York, has been cut up into small farms.
The Governor Pennypacker estate at PEN
nypacker's Mills is for sale and will soon
become, with all its historic memories,
thing Of the past
Auditor General, out In Washington County,
passed into the hands of strangers years ago.
The Governor Daniel H. Hastings farms
have been subdividcd, and now. under.
stand. the beautiful estate at Huntingdon Of
President Judge George Il. Orlady, of the
Superior Court. is offered for sale.
One might carry on the list indefinitely.
TNHE Supreme Court Of the Commonwealth
l. of Pennsylvania Is court of last resort.
Once it has rendered a decision, there can
be no appeal from its finding.
81 Of khn tnlNt Af Id,
vidual have, in some way been infringed in
manner contrary to Federal law.
In such case there 10 recourse to the Su-
preme Court of the United States.
II Governor Sproul had signed a certain
bill that was passed by the last Legislature
the above would have been a msstatement.
There would have been one court from
whose decisions there would have been no
appeal even to the Supreme Court of the
United States.
II 81, ,OOO, 900 had been involved in n case
in which the Commonwealth was the de-
fendant, and the Attorney General knew that
the State had adequate grounds for appeal,
he would have had no recourse and could
have made no appeal.
The verdicts and decisions of this par
ticular court would have been as the DEGREES
of the Medes and the Persans.
TT WAS to be known as the Board of
l. Claims.
Its proper title would have been "A Court
Of Claims Without Appeal"
1t was to pass upon certain completed and
uncompleted contracts in which State con
tractors had lost money owing to the rise
in prices of labor and material.
They were called moral and equitable
claims" and $4,000 wns appropriated for
the salaries and expenses of this court, other
wise known as the Board
The duty of this court would have been to
pass upon claims which State contractors
had, rightly or wrongly, against the Com
monwealth
The bill was prepared, I am informed, by
an ex Attorney General of Pennsylvania.
Any contractor whose contract remained
uncompleted, or who claimed to have lost
money on any contract during 1910 or 1920,
could have presented his claim to this board
and had it decided.
No matter what the finding of the board
whether just or unjust adequate or in
adequate. for large amount or small, this
remarkable law provided:
The amount so fixed shall be final and
conclusive against the contractor and the
| Commonwealth without right Of appeal"
But II was vetoed.
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