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52 $1.00 a Quart w. "The Quality Store GOOD FURS No doubt every store in the City claims superiority for their Furs all we ask is comparison take them to your homes, and if you are not a judge ask the advice of one that is to substantiate our claim of showing you prime whole skins made up by practical Furriers in the very latest styles, at a great saving to you in price. And re Fur Scarfs 48 Inches long Isabella and Sable Fox, finished with two large brushes at each end. The prices $5.00, $7.00.. $10.00 up to $25.00.

Cravat Style In Japanese Mink, 36 inches long, $7.50. Then there's a 42 inch Cravat style with fancy shaped ends lined with heavy satin for $15.00 worth fully a third more. Fur Neck Pieces Imitation of Ermine takes an expert to tell them from the genuine and the prices; they tell their own story $3.98, $5.00, $7.50 and $10.00. I MUFFS Many of them and Just as cute as they can be. We have them for the little tots at $1.25, $1.50, $2.19 up to $4.25 and for the Young Ladies $5.00 up to $6.50.

MUFFS Many of them at prices that will surely prove winners. Sable and Isabella Fox, $7.50, $12.50, $15.00 and $20.00. Squirrel, $9.00 and $10.00. Japanese Mink, $17.50 and $21.00. Ermine and Chinchilla, $5.00 and $6.50.

All the new and pillow shapes in Brook Mink, Opposum, Xearseal and Black Coney, $2.50, $4.00 and $5.00. Do your Christmas Gift buying at Cook's, where you'll find the assortments of practical gift things at money saving prices. Store Open Evenings. ST. FRANCIS' COMPLETED JAN.

15 The work on St. Francis' Catholic Church, which was expected to be finished for the Christmas services, will not' be completed until January 15. Music Boxes, 5(Vc to $300. 223 Market street. LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION' Letters of administration have been granted to Rachel A.

Stoner, widow of Jacob A. Stoner, of Hum Victor Records, 35c, 60c, $1.00. Yohn January list is here. Yohn 223 Market street. HEADQUARTERS Co Carts ssssrw Stoves jj Wagons Magic Lanterns 3r nouses Tr fjr Kitchens Crocus Club Whiskey An Excellent Remedy for that cold.

So good they try to imitate It H. SCHUTZENBACfl Broad Fulton Streets A Complete Line of Wines and Liquors Both 'Phones. Dishes Tool Chests Milk Wagons Drums Skooting Galleries Meat Wagons Iron Toys Mechanical Toys and an endless Variety of other Toys. CLECKNER BURKE, 1226 North Third Street 5 Years Old 3 Years Old 75c a Quart THE HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, '19U5. a MS UUUK; walks Around riamsburg member we guarantee every article sold to! be strictly as represented.

No matter what price you wish to pay you'll find it here. Fur Neck Pieces The new Shawl Collar effects in Isabella and Sable Fox, Raccoon and Martin $10.00, $15.00, $17.50, $25.00, $32.50 and $40.00. Fur Scarfs Every wanted shape and skin in a range of prices to fit every purse the prices run something like this: 75c, $1.69, $2.50, then up to $10.00. Children's Fur Sets mov No. IX.

I The New Hotel Lynch. A Glance at the Business of Third Street from Ver beke to Cumberland; New Buildings of Busy Broad Street and its Vicinity; Varied Lines of Activity; Some Business Pioneers of the Past By J. Howard Wert. In the days when Capitol street was Elder street and Elder street was six inches of mud or six inches of dust, according as solar heat or precipitation were ascendant; in the days when Verbeke street was mud or dust alternately and garbage from the markets all the time there stood a little shop or cabin at the corner of Elder and Verbeke. What it was originally erected for I know not.

Neither has the name of the architect been preserved. In the latter days of its existence it was used as a candy shop, a toy shop, a cigar shack, a watch repairing ranch, a place where dilapidated shoes were cobbled into respectability and what not. There at one time Alderman Zaehariah Snoddy dispensed law for the Fifth ward. I never heard of any man making a fortune there. I think most tenants departed with scant memories of respect for the old chebang.

In the rear, Elder street way toward Hay avenue, were a series of sheds that once, in the misty past, may have been handsome. Here a second hand furniture man displayed his wares. All taken in all, it was about as unsightly a corner as one might find in a half day's stroll over Harrisburg, and back in the seventies of the last century that was saying a good deal. By day the furniture man extolled his goods and sold them, if he could; and by night that end of Elder street was a trysting place for lovers who, from motives of policy, did not meet their inamoratas at their own homes. One night a fire swept along and the shacks were not.

James Lynch, known to Harrisburg for a generation as a hustling bricklayer, had heard of the scarcity of hotel accommodation and concluded to put the matter to the test. He met with many discouragements and many delays. But, at length, the Hotel Lynch stood on the corner, of erst so unsightly, in all its fair proportions a four story brick with a wide frontage on Verbeke street and running back along Capitol street to Hay avenue. The largest hotel of Harrisburg, apart from those in the Market street center of the city, it is an ornament to Broad street, whilst its internal arrangement is as satisfactory as is its external appearance. Thira Street from Verbeke to Cumberland.

In the first article devoted to busy Broad street, a glance was taken at this thoroughfare river way, and also at the first square of Third street northward. Take we now our old stand at the Merchants' Bank corner and look for a moment at the business places and the changes of the first square of Third street to the south. Solidly built up, there have still been improvements here during the past year that have added materially to its appearance. The Ryder hardware store, Cleck ner Burke's stove and house furnishing establishment, Sharon Stevens' coal office, Charles Boak's cigar store and Strayer's hardware establishment follow in succession. The first mentioned of these has been so refitted with paint and in other ways as to its front as to present quite an attractive appearance.

Xext to Strayer is the large building devoted to A. B. Tack's extensive wall paper business. Al. has been in the wall paper line for more than a generation and in politics almost since there was any politics in Harrisburg, and has been successful in both.

On one of the upper floors is a hall used by some religious organizations for their services. In fact, halls for fraternal orders and religious societies are very abundant in this section. At the end of this square there are three Sible's, Ensminger's and Sible Clark's at three of the corners formed by the intersection of Third street with Cumberland. Kinnard's Hall, on Broad street, near Third has long been known as the home of Post 116, of the G. A.

and just beyond it is the new White's hall, already mentioned. The hall above the market house has long been used by the Salvation Army. Then again, there are two on Verbeke street not far from Sixth one above the Schutzenbach liquor store, and one recently fitted up in a very complete manner on the opposite side of Broad street and still nearer to Sixth. Truth to tell halls are thick through here as blackberries in July. Such is the plethora that I much doubt if some of them are specially rushed with tenantry.

Xext to Tack is one of the new structures of the year, the Handler building, an ornate and tasty edifice which much enhanced the appearance of this "square. Then come in succession the business places of Caton dealers in footwear; W. A. Fraim, who handles gas fixtures; and the unpretentious store of Miss Opperman. So long has this lady been in business and so great a reputation has she built up of handling the most reliable crocheting and kindred lines that she has a constant stream of mail orders from various points within a radius of fifty miles.

Her customers have learned that Miss Opperman's taste and judgment in all fancy goods is almost infallible. Very similar is the reputation as to every line of dry goods which A. J. Senseman, proprietor of the next business place, has built up during a career of many years. Alonzo G.

Lehman conducts the stationery and periodical store formerly owned by Harry J. Kurzenknabe. The next place is the barber shop of the genial Philip W. Smith, who is probably the oldest man of his profession in the city. A hale, hearty old gentleman he is, too, full of vivacity and, although he now spends comparatively little time in the shop, I am told he can still hold a razor with the best of them.

The massive Sible Clark building ends the line. On the opposite side the Ensminger building is occupied by the extensive business of the Imperial Novelty Company, an enterprise inaugurated during recent years, whilst, on the Cumberland street front, are the offices of Funeral Director James D. Hawkins. The following in succession, returning toward Verbeke street, the Chamberlain cigar store; the Eagle Supply Company; the well known Charles C. Schriver, photographer and dealer in frames; the up to date jewelry store of Edward L.

Rinken bach, and the Commercial Bank, the most recent financial institution de veloped in this thriving business center. This bank is located in the building in which was the Mehring merchant tailoring room of former years. The next building is a new one but recently completed, and a beauty it is. It adds grace and completeness to what was already a handsome square. It is occupied by a portion of the Three and Nine Cent store.

Hanson, the florist, and Spahr, the stationer, bring us to the corner pharmacy of Charles F. Kramer, where is also located a sub station of the Harrisburg post office, which is a great convenience to this section. The medical and dental profession are also represented on the' route just traversed. "Truly, a busy part of the city," say you. Why, bless you! I have not yet touched on Bread street.

You have only been introduced to a couple of the outlying squares. To give a specialization of all business features of Verbeke street, between Third and Sixth, would demand much amplification of the limits of this article. There be butcher's and barber shops, restaurants and junk yards, groceries and pool rooms, hat stores and shoe stores, and dealers in all manners of men's furnishing goods, saloons and bakeries, tea stores and tailors, dry goods men and real estate men, dealers in flour, feed, hay and straw and dealers in saddlery and leather, new furniture stores and second hand furniture stores and both combined, and those who handle drugs, patent medicines, fancy goods and many other things. One can find a macKsmitn to snoe nis norse and a veterinarian to doctor him; a livery from which to hire a rig, or a shop to repair your team. There are clothiers, and he who deals in wholesale liquors; a plumber, a tinner, a to baccomst, an apron manufacturer.

Do you want elaborate mantels or fancy tiling? iou can get them here. There are a few new buildings. The Hotel Lynch and the White building have already been mentioned. In addition, there is the very complete Sankey which building also rose from the ashes of the fire that cleared the ground for the Hotel Lynch. There are some of the older buildings that are very creditable and some that are11 entirely discreditable relics of a former age and altogether out of touch with the city's widest street now that the broad, smooth paving, kept scrupulously clean, has made it a thoroughfare of beauty.

This section of Verbeke street has not responded as promptly to the touch of the magic wand waved by the New Harrisburg as did the down, town center of Market street and its square. Broad street from Sixth to Seventh is again largely a residential section dotted with some business places, largely of a local character. This portion of the street has many comfortable residences and a few nondescript buildings that doubtless will soon disappear. The very shabbiest were cleared out within the year, when a row of very attractive three story brick residences was erected covering space from Apple avenue to Cowden street. Some Business Men of the Past.

A moment's retrospective glance at some business pioneers of this section! In IS 02, Leonard H. Kinnard started in the hat business down town. In 1875 he opened a branch on Verbeke street, near Third, which soon developed to such an extent as to become his headquarters. His business relations, his connection with the Verbeke Market, his church affiliations, his unsought candidacy for prominent offices, all conspired to make Mr. Kinnard one of the best known men of the city's earlier years, and he was as universally respected and loved as he was known.

Mr. Kin nard, courteous, upright, clear ed, noble hearted is gone, but the business he founded still exists in the Kinnard name. Adjoining him another of nature's noblemen who had faith in the future of Verbeke street, Albert Hummel, opened a shoe store. He, too, was a man of rare good judgment and business tact combined with a probity a rectitude that no venomed tongue of slander ever dared to assail. He too, passed away in 'the ripeness of the years, and the business he founded has passed through several changes of proprietorship.

Another pioneer in the footwear line on this street was Matthew Steck ley, a devout Christian, a friend to the needy and the unfortunate, who, wnust diligent in business, was ever ready to do his full duty toward the public weal as was evinced by his in telligent and effective services in the city's Board of School Control. From humble beginnings, by industry and integrity, he established a business of considerable proportions which is still conducted by his posterity. And yet another, in the same line of business that I recall with pro foundest respect. If ever "the hoary head is a crown of glory," it most emphatically was so in the case of Hugo Schutzenbachf a perfect type of all that was noblest and loveliest in the German of the olden time. Coincident with the opening of the stone market house and the termination of the Civil War, a building boom began along Broad street and the adjacent section.

There was not much jeering now about "Verbeke's marshes." People were rapidly gaining faith that if his scheme was madness "yet was there method in it," and that the "swamps" had a future. It was in 18G7 that Matthew Steck ley became a shoe dealer in the building in which he had previously been a shoemaker the frame that stood where he afterwards erected a brick building. In 1869, Adam Reel founded what is now the Knox Meckley grocery, having built on the two lots immediately west of the Robinson corner the previous year. In the same year Dr. George established his pharmacv, the building having been erected in 1867.

In 1870, W. 0. Bishop began business on Broad street in one of the row. of frame houses, contiguous to the Orsinger hotel, which had been moved by Wil liam K. Verbeke from the site of the Market street railroad depots.

His rapidly expanding trade wa3 soon ed into more commodious quar ters. Here is a partial list of the business men of this section cotemporary with Steckley, Reel, Dr. George and Bishop, some of whom had already been established for some years: Israel Ream, who sold dry goods next to Reel on the south; George W. Fessler, in the dry goods business on the Robinson corner. He afterwards formed a partnership with Frank J.

Hess and subsequently sold out his i own interest to O. P. Grove. Michael Forney, who conducted a shoe business on the present bank corner; Jacob Reel, who founded the Ryder hardware store and who was followed in business by William Mc Gonigal; Dr. J.

W. Schlosser, who started the drug business in a small building on the west side of Third street, and subsequently built on the present Kramer corner and transferred his pharmacy there; Smith Son, who conducted a grocery where Good's establishment, was located in more recent years; Mr. Keim, a grocer at Broad and Susquehanna streets; Mr. Christ, a grocer at Broad and Green streets, in the same building occupied by Israel Trostle some years later; Frederick Smith, who conducted an oyster and fish business i on Third street not far from Orsing er's corner; Adam Peters, who had a dry goods and notion store on Third street just north of Sayford avenue; John Wilt, a Broad street baker adjoining the Orsinger hotel; Simon Rapp, a clothier in the building now occupied by C. Raymond Duey; Mr.

Morley, who conducted a grocerv in the building where Dr. J. Nelson Clark now is, and who was succeeded in the business by his son, Hiram Morley; Hugo Schutzenbach, the earliest Broad street shoe dealer; the Krauter Sisters, who conducted a millinery establishment on the corner occupied in recent years by the Tripner grocery; Thomas White, who was in the grocery business at the Morley stand before it passed Into the latter's hands; Jesse Wingert, who opened a carpet and furniture store early in the seventies, and Mr. Lyttle, a wholesale liquor dealer at the northwest corner of Verbeke and William streets. Alderman George B.

Cole, afterwards Mayor of the city to fill an unexpired term, had his office on Verbeke street. The Future. i What of the future? The future of busy Brad street is bright with promise. As a center of business ao 1 tivities its career has but commenced. I I was about leaving the bank cor ner when a man with martial air i came briskly along.

His square blue cap was pecked upward defiantly and i the curved handle of his heavy cane i as it swung on his arm spoke belliger ency. His firm set jaw and snappy eyes betokened one of those who like i the god Thor go around with a ham mer smashing things. i He gave one glance at the market houses. "Humph!" said he. "Squatty! Spoil the view across! when they begin building skyscrapers.

opou me view up and down. Spoil Iti every way. That's the nlace for foun tains and beds of flowers." i "What would you do with the markets?" I ventured to ouerv. Humph!" replied he of the neak ed back blue cap pettishly. Markets! are a Nizni Novgorod relic of bar 1 barism.

This town is conservative Maybe as the centuries roll along its citizens will get tired of paying twenty five per cent, more for their feed than marketless towns. ThPn things will happen. The nineteenth century iconoclasts demolished some idols. The twentieth century ones will better some more." 'And you," I ventured," are one of the iconoclasts?" "Humph!" contemptuously, was the snorted answer. But," interposed a meek visaeed.

middle aged man with a sandy goetee who had been listening, "My great greddeddy went to market every Wednesday and Saturday and why should not There was a triumnh ant twang in the voice of him with the sandy goatee. "Humph!" snarled the one of the blue, peaked back cap, the while his eyes fairly glowered on the questioner, "that settles it. Your argument is unanswerable and I have nothing more to say. Always do as your forebears have done, young man, and you'll be as happy as a bumble bee in a clover patch." Wheeling around, the man who looked as if he carried Thor's hammer, walked rapidly away without telling me whether he spoke in dead earnest or was only talking sarcasm. Mayhap, he was a prophet.

Who knows? BACK TO FORT SCHUYLER R. Samuel Dean and Edward H. Samson, of the Eighteenth Coast Artillery, Fort Schuyler, N. have returned to that station after spending a week with Mr. Samson's parents in Steelton.

K. Co. 28 to 30 N. 3d St. Fur Neck Piec or a Mu Will not be amiss for Christmas See our line of dependable furs.r latest styles, in Minks, Foxes, Opossums, shaped in ties, scarfs, pelerines, shawls, with muffs to match.

A special dark brown opossum, throw 7 QO tie or scarf, value $7.98, for Muffs $4.50 to $25.00 Neck Pieces $3.98 to $50.00 CREi '4 For your gift goods. We invite everyone to our store to inspect the greatest line of Holiday Novelties shown in any one store in the city and all at little cost. An article and a price to suit all. Toys, Books, Games, Dolls, Sleds, Imported China, Y. M.

C. A. STAR COURSE. The second attraction in the Y. M.

C. A. Star Course will be the Southern Jubilee Singers, a company of colored vocalists from the Sunny All Our Charming Millinery Specially Reduced From now on you can get a beautiful hat at about ONE HALF PRICE as our custom is to "not carry over." 99c for hats valued at $2.98 $1.98 for hats valued at $3.98 $3.50 for hats valued at $6.50 28 N. THIRD STREET 30 KLEIN and 30 19 K. Co.

a mm Mil i II la Ei Try Our Plan "It's a Convenience Tell Your Neighbor' A Sale of all Our Waists Till Christmas All our lace baby Irish waists A grand lingerie waist $3.25 Flannel waists $1.25 Albatross waists $1.98 Heavy linen waists, embroidered $2.50 Sateen waists qqc South, said to be one of the best of the kind. They come to Fahnestock nan lor tne nrst time next i nursaay evening, December 21. Doors will open at 7.30. Concert will begin at S.15. i New Method of Treating Chronic Nervous and Special Diseases Dr.

Smith's wonderful success in curing Nervous, Chronic and Special diseases with his new method, is acknowledged by all. He is strictly up to date, and is permanently located in Harrisburg. His offices are the most thoroughly equipped for special work of any physician's offices in the State, being furnished with the latest up to date electrical appliances and modern Ray outfit for the scientific treatment and cure of Chronic and Long Standing Diseases. The Ray light is the greatest invention and aid given to the medical world during the past century. By means of it a positive diagnosis can be made, while before its discovery diagnosis of disease was very often merely guess work and the treatment experimental.

By the aid of the Ray Dr. Smith is absolutely certain of his diagnosis and he cures diseases that cannot be cured by any other means, hence, there Is no possibility of being treated for the wrong complaint. By his mild, original and Improved Electrical and Vibratory treatment he cures diseases that have been pronounced incurable by the old methods. Improvement begins with the first treatment. It has been believed beyond dispute that electricity, when intelligently applied supplies nerve force and vitality to a debilitated system, and that the Health and Strength gained is of permanent duration.

Some ot the old remedies were good In their day but they have outlived their usefulness. We live in an advanced and progressive age and have something nore to offer the afflicted. No experimental treatment. If you are suffering from a disease that other physicians or specialists have failed to cure, call on Dr. Smith and be convinced of the efficacy of his r.ow methods.

bill f'fi. I a ft vrr making an A Kay txatnination Dr. Smith treats specially Nervous Kidney, Bladder, Urinary, Blood and Skin Diseases. Specific Blood Poison Cured to Stay Cured. No Poisonous Drugs.

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