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allowed to name the conferees from thl county. P. J. Horner, a former associate judge of Somerset county and one of General Koontz'n supporters, and Representative John A. Endsley expect to have no opposition for the Republican assembly nomination In Somerset.

John G. Ogle, the general's la partner, expects to be the next Republican nominee for congress In' the Somerset l'ayette Greone district, to succeed Congressman Allen F. Cooper, of t'niontown. ho is serving his second term. WATRES ML WAIT The Colonel Delay Announcement of His Gubernatorial Candidacy for the Present Former Lieutenant Governor Louis A.

Wat res. of Scranton. has concluded to wait awhile longer before actively taking the field for the Re publican gubernatorial nomination In lHi'1. Colonel Watres reached this decision after a conference with close political friends wi'h whom he consulted during his visit to Harrisburg this week to see Governor Fenny packer on another matter. He was told by his friends that he could gain nothing at this time by announcing his candidacy and that he would have a far better chance to' be nominated if lie waited until it was known definitely what would be the outcome of the political upheaval in Philadelphia.

He is anxious to get into the field and told his advisers that later it was his purpose to push his candidacy to the limit and that he will go into every county in the State in search of delegates. REAP OUT OF PARTY. Leader of Heaver County Pusionists Expelled by Republicans. Arthur C. Townsend.

chairman of the Beaver County Citizen's party committee, has been expelled from the Republican County Committee for party disloyalty. Townsend had been a member of the committee for several years, but after the last primaries, when J. Rankin Martin defeated R. S. Holt for Judge, he became the advocate and then county chairman of the Citizens' movement to nominate Holt on a fusion ticket with the Democrats.

PERRY PEMOCRATS SHY. Few Candidates for the Offices to Be Pilled Xext November. New Bloomfield, July 29. Perry county Democrats will hold their primaries this evening and their countv convention on Monday for the nom? nation of a county ticket. The only office for hich there is a contest is County Commissioner, for which there are five aspirants.

Walter W. Rice, of Bloomfield, will be nominated for District Attorney. Nominations will also be made for Prothonotary, County Treasurer, Poor Director and Auditor. BOTH BID FOR CUNNINGHAM; Beaver, July 29. Beaver county's fusionlsjs have not yet persuaded James B.

Cunningham, the old time anti Quay leader of this county, to turn in for ticket and. unless they can get him into line, it is not thought they will stand much chance to defeat the regular Republican ticket. Cunningham is conceded to be one of the shrewdest and most resourceful politicians in this locality and at present both sides are bidding for his support ith the chances that he will eventually line up with the regulars. CANDIDATES CAN'T AGREE Pottsville, July 29. After a heated discussion for three hours, in which they charged each other with infidelity to the ticket at recent elections, the registered candidates of the Democratic party of Schuylkill county, at a meeting yesterday, failed to agree on a slate to be presented at the county convention on August S.

WARP LEARERS RISMISSEP. Philadelphia, July 29. John K. Myers, Elias Abrams. Charles T.

Preston and George Sterr, district assistants in the Bureau of Highways, have been dismissed from office by Mayor Weaver. All are ward leaders and have been in sympathy with the regular Republican organization. FREE BRIPGES FOR A WEEK, Councils Pon't Want Any Tolls Paid Puring Old Home Week Celebration. City Councils last night passed a resolution asking the two Susquehanna bridge companies to make their bridges free during Old Home Week. Select Councilmen Sheesley and Common Councilmen Pass, Leonard and Schell were named a committee to meet the bridge companies' officials and two more Selectmen will be appointed to accompany them.

7,500 TO PAY Mayor Gross Signs the Sanitary Deficiency Ordinance Mayor Gross last evening signed the ordinance appropriating $7,500 to pay the expenses incurred during the smallpox epidemic. This amount will not nearly meet the deficiency. The bills now in the hands of the Sanatary department amount to more than the appropriation allowed. AY. B.

WITHOUER DIES SUDDENLY Special to tie Tetepcph. Middletown, July 29. William B. Withouer. a well known desident of this place, who was formerly in the hotel business, died suddenly while sitting in a chair at the Kline House Thursday evening.

nCHLOYITZ MAKES DENIAL The Jewish Daily News of July 24, published nn New York, says that Simon Michlovitz. of this city, is vice president to Rabbi Heller, of the "Mulzekar Adaj." Mr. Micrlovitz says this is an error. DM Commission Has Purchased Nearly All Land for Wildwood Lake HAS 100 ACRES BESIDE More Than Year Before Resort Can Pe Formally Opened WILL STAND KOR NO HOLD UPS Xo Effort Will Be Made to Secure Some Property if Excessive I'rlees Are Asked The Park Commissiouers met last night and took up business that has been hanging for some time. Some of the members have been taking a vacation, and Mr.

J. Horace Mcrarland only returned home yesterday. The Commission has been very wide awake concerning the matter of accumulating that part of the county of Dauphin on which it proposes to locate Wildwood Park, erstwhile Wetzel's Swamp Independent of the lake there will be about 500 acres of land in Uie park, and lake and park combined will cover on area of about 006 acres, of which about one third has been acquired. It cannot yet be ascertained how much out side of the lake has been secured but it is between 76 and 100 acres. All of the lake land has not yet been bought, there being a strip of the Flickinger estate for which negotiations are now pending.

However, most of the lake and a good slice of the property below It are in hand, and what the Commission is anxious to get is all of the lake part and enough below it to make an opening. It was said that the park would be opened within a year, but that is out of the question. The mere purchase of all the land intended will take at least that time, so that the park opening cannot be fixed for any stated time. Once a sufficient part of the lower end is secured to warrant the commission in making an opening it will go ahead and determine how the approaches to the park shall be made and where located, but not before. No Extravagance "The Park Commission is not yielding to any suggestions of extravagance," said Mr.

McFarland, "and will not pay excessive prices for land. We cannot pay more than $100 an acre, because we do not have the money." been a disposition to lift the price of swamp and other useless land to what may be called a lofty altitude, but the commission will not stand for it. The same is also true of land which some people have an idea is necessary for the approaches. Fancy prices will not be paid for land, and people who think they have property which is indispensable in making approaches, and insist in putting prohibitory prices on it. will find that the commission will get the approaches, and the high priced property will form a beautiful "water scape," practically useless except for frog raising.

All Wires Underground At the meeting of the Park Commission last evening arrangements were made to place underground all of the wires about the entrance to the Harrisburg bridge. The Commission will place a duct to begin at a point a hundred feet east of the house line of Front street, to run under the sidewalk on Market street and then under Front street to the bridge, where the wires will be received on cable brackets. Efforts will be made to induce the Harrisburg Light, Heat and Power Company to share the expense of this work. Golf at Reservoir The Commission has arranged for a nine hole golf course at Reservoir Park, and will begin at once. A most gratifying piec eof news made public at.

the meeting was that the transfer of the property of Mrs. Nettie McKee Graham, of Pittsburg, at the lower end of the Wildwook Park district, has been made. TRUST KUfiARTERED George K. Payne Co. Will Erect Eight Story Building As Its Home.

The Union Trust Company of Pennsylvania, of Harrisburg. with a capital of $250,000, was incorporated at the Stae Department this week, with E. R. Pierce, of this city, as treasurer. The capital is divided into 2,500 shares of $100 and the following are the incorporators: John P.

Mellick, Charles F. Boll, J. W. Swartz, Thomas H. Heist, E.

Z. Gross. E. R. Pierce, W.

C. McCaleb, Harrisburg; G. W. Creighton, Al toona; J. Howard N'eeley, Mifflin town; Joseph Savidge, Philadelphia; W.

J. Trembath, Wilkes Barre; H. J. Culbertson, Lewistown; H. G.

Toma son, Scranton: Brua C. Keefer, Wil liamsport, and D. J. Driscoll, St. Marys.

The new company will erect an eight story building on the site of the old Methodist Book Room at Second and Strawberry avenue. It will be of stone, brick and steel, and the lower floor will be occupied by the trust company and the upper floors used as offices en suite. The plans for the building have not yet been completed. The contract for the i erection of the building has been given to George F. Payne of Philadelphia, who are now building the new Capitol, and work will begin in September, the present tenants of the building having agreed to vacate.

William H. Cookman, of Pail adelpbia, is the architect. MAR BURG 1 TELEGRAPH LAST EDITION. HARRISBURG. SATURDAY KVKNIXG.

JULY 2' TWELVE PAGES RIS mmm 1 Secretary of Internal Affairs Criticises Party Management FAVORS A SHAKE UP Think? Republican? of State Would Welcome Xcw Leadership WRITES OK HIS CANPIPACY Poes Not Intend to Ak the Present Organization for Renoin ination Secretary of Internal Affairs Isar.r B. Brown has written to the Telegraph a letter which explains it self, as follows: July To the Editor of the Harrisburg Telegraph, Harrisburg. Pa. My Pear Sir: A few days ago your paper, wi'h complimentary notice, announced my candidacy for re nomination as a Republican candidate for Secretary of Internal Affairs, for which I bee to thank you sincerely. It is proper for nic to say through the columns of your paper that, owing to impaired health and the opposition of certain leading members of the Republican organization.

I had not contemplated being a candidate for renoniinanon. although all my predecessors have been accorded the honor of a renomination. When I assumed the duties of my office, it appears that I offended some of the organization leaders by refusing to make an appointment for Pepu'y Secretary which, if made, would have been in direct violation of the Constitution. Other appointments were suggested which I refused because I believed the applicants were incompetent. 1 do not question the right of these people to be displeased jth me.

but the lamentable condition which has overtaken the Republican party under their management gives me a right also to be displeased with them. Men are Republicans or Democrats because they believe that the party with hich they affiliate affords the. best means for the accomplishment of desirable results for State and nation. The great body of Republicans of Pennsylvania are in favor of honest State and municipal government, and they believe in party organization, as I do, but the time has arrived when the organisation now in control of the affairs of the Republican party In Pennsylvania is so discredited that i's possibilities for the accomplishment of good are most seriously impaired. If compare the legislation of to day with that which was effected under the administration of Governor Beaver, we will gain some idea of the extravagances which characterize affairs under the direction of the present organization managers.

Conditions exist which I believe warrant every sincere Republican of Pennsylvania in demanding a new deal, and. in the language of Presi dent Roosevelt, "a square deal." Certainly if Roosevelt were in command of affairs in Pennsylvania, there would be a new deal. My candidacy is a secondary mat ter. If there is to be a reorganiza tion of the Republican party on lines which will give assurance of integ rity in party affairs in general, I should like to be a candidate for re nomination: if there is not to be such a reorganization, then my name will not go before the next Republican invention. If it shall appear that my candidacy for renomination in slightest way will impair the ef forts which may be made for reor ionization on the lines indicated, then I will gladly retire in favor of ome other candidate who can add sreater strength to the efforts which; I trust will "be put forth for reor conization.

Isaac B. Brown. HALL HAS Hi WAY Xo Opposition to the Chairman's Slate in Elk County. Ridgway. July 29.

There will be 10 organized opposition in next Tues iay's Elk county Democratic convention to the slate for county offices arranged by State Chairman Hall before he started west on his vacation weeks ago. More than enough district delegates were elected at to lay's primaries throughout the primaries by Hall's followers to give absolute control cf the conven Uon and carry out his orders. Captain Harry R. Hyde, of Ridg way, a nephew of Hall, and one of lis chief lieutenants, has been slated Associate Judge. Alonzo M.

Ent, 3f Ridgway, will be nominated for sixth consecutive term for Pro Register, Recorder and Tlerk of the Courts. B.irke T. Darr, 3f St. Mary's, will be the nominee lor County Treasurer. Andrew Hau, of Kersey, who is lervjng his third term, and Joseph Kreig, of St.

Mary's, will again be lominated for the County Commis ionerships. Hall has left to his lieu enants the selection of candidates 1 'or poor director and auditor. He is rill in the west with his family and Senator P. Grey Meek, of Belle 'onte, and his family, and will not re to Ridgwav before nest Satur lay. I KOONTZ FOR SENATOR Somerset County Leader May Return to the Legislature Somerset, July 29.

General Wil lam H. Koontz, of Somerset, the un 4 mceessful fusion candidate for speak ir of the State House of Representa lves In the session of 1901. may be ome a candidate for the Republican enatorial nomination in the twenty i isth district, composed of Somerset, iedford and Fulton counties. If he is HGUCK HADNO CASE Saltation Army Captain Only Defended Women From Prunkeu Hoodlum W. P.

Houck, of Lancaster county, at whose instance Captain A. F. Han dicott. of the Salvation Army, was arrested and held under ball for hearing in Lancaster, has withdrawn suit. Captain Handieott says that the troubles originated in the refusal of i Houck to pay for hitching his team I at the army's camping grounds, and that he was acting in defence of the I women of the camp and only resisted the other's attack.

The camp was not broken, but will end to morrow. The farmers did not object to the camp and the only trouble they had was with a crowd of drunken hoodlums from another township. CM III S25JI Old Home Week Finance Committee Enthusiastic ally Begins Work PLANS WELL IN HAND Everybody Connected With Celebration Predicts Its Success This has been a pretty busy week for the various Old Home Week Committees. Probably the most important work was that cut out by the Finance Committee the raising of funds, and the intention to raise $25. "00 instead of $15,000, as originally agreed upon.

That Harrisburg can get this sum together is certain. A feature of the work is the formation of ward committees called divisions, with regular organization, and a plan and scope of action. These committees will send out circular letters, and follow up the circulars. The Religious Observance committee has determined to ask to come back in the Old Home Week all the former pastors of Harrisburg churches, and it is contemplated holding a reunion on one day of the week, possibly Sunday, when the old pastors will be heard in the morning and a denominational meeting In the evening, when all of one denomination can gather together and have a service. Educational Exhibition The Educational Committee is doing things up nicely.

It proposes to have in line a float from each school building in the city, all corated in the highest style, and there will be hay wagons and other big vehicles to carry the little tots. A display of the work of the schools will be made in the Board of Trade building, when people can see what our schools sent to the Chicago and St. Louis expositions as well as what has been done later. The schools will probably be closed. The Decoration Committee has been looking over Verno Churchill's plans for a big double arch in Market Square.

It will cover the entire square and be over a hundred feet high with electric lights all over it. A court of honor will extend into Second and Market streets, and hundreds of electric lights will be used In the decorative scheme. It will be a feature of the week. Every house in the city will be decorated, and even now merchants are preparing plans for decorating their business houses. Secret Societies Active The Fraternal Committee has been working hard, and say their part of the week will be one worth seeing.

Every secret society and order in the city has notified the managers that it intends to take part, and it will have music. The Fire Committee will have every company in the city on parade and some of them have outside companies, so that this feature will be very' brilliant. The former members of the City Grays are making active preparations for a big time, and all of the veterans will turn out in the ancient military uniforms. The Red Men are telling of what a big turn out they are going to have, and all new uniforms. One tribe with a thousand members says that they will all be in line.

To Invite President The Ceremonies Committee will have a sub committee wait on President Roosevelt, General Horace Porter and Harris G. Fahnestoek, former Harrisburgers, to invite them to oe present during the week. A chorus of 250 voices is being organized to furnish the vocal music. The Amusement Committee will sent six of its members to New York to secure clean and attractive features for the carnival on Isiand Park and promises that it will be a first class entertainment. The Boys Brigade Committeee, led by F.

J. W'allis, will have all of the commands in the city in line, and will invite brigades from Philadelphia, Baltimore, Altoona, Lancaster and Shamokin ti join them in parade. A Boys Brigade banr from Pittsburg will also be here to furnish music. Already the hotel accommodations are being sought for by people who are going to come back during the week, and the city will be filled with people who once resided in the fairest town on the banks of the Susquehanna. FOLK WTNS FIGHT St.

Louis, July 29. Governor Folk's crusade against race track betting, backed by action of the Missouri Court, resulted in closing the Delmar race track. JAPS LIKE TAFT Tokio, July 29. Great enthusiasm was displayed at a luncheon given to Secretary Taft and his party by the JaDanese Minister of War. in a 'im jous garden in Tokio.

Oldest P. R. R. Engineer Pulls Throttle Last Time at Seventy EMPLOYED SINCE 1854 Comes Down From the Days of the Old Wood Burners IS STILL IX RUST OK HEALTH Worked Under Kvery Division Superintendent Kver Stationed In Harrisburg On August 1, Milton J. Dewees, the oldest yard engineer in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad, and the oldest man In charge of the throttle at this time, will be placed on the pension roll.

He is another of the faithful ones who helped make the Pennsylvania railroad and well deserves the rest accorded him. He has served the company for over forty years and worked on his seventieth birthday, July 11. He has served four days longer than is usually allowed by the pension plan and would still be at work if the company would allow. His health is good and he is as active as many young men. He has a cozy home at 21 Yerbcke street and enjoys spending his time at home.

Engineer Dewees is a native of Mifflin, Juniata county. He has resided in Harrisburg for over twenty four years. In 1S54 he began his career with the Pennsylvania railroad as a brakeman and run sometimes between Mifflin and Altoona, Altoona to Columbia and sometimes to Hollidayshurg. Those were the times when wood was burned in the engines and it took several days to make a trip. Lived With His Train Subsequently he was placed in charge of sixteen gondolas for the Connellsville railroad, a braneh of the Pennsylvania, and looked after assignments of ore.

One of these cars had a small cabin on the end in which he cooked his meals and rested. His duties were to see the ore loaded and delivered to its destination, to look after the cars and to see that they were returned promptly to the mines. Some of these trips required a month away from home. Later he resumed the position of brakeman about Mifflin station and frequently ran the engines. In 1861 he was made a private detective but held this position only a short time when he returned to breaking, running from Mifflin to Altoona and to Columbia.

He left the employ of the company for a short time and on his return was made a traveling detective and looked after the road from this city to Altoona. He held this position for about four years when he returned to the road and was given the position of fireman. FTom Shovel to Throttle He was given his first position In the local yards in 1S82 and worked there until July 15 when the hot weather necessitated his taking a rest and he decided to quit his active duties as a railroader. In the 24 years he has been in the yards he has a fireman but a short time. For eighteen years he has been a successful engineer and during that time has never been the cause of a serious injury to any one.

Once a brakeman lost the tip of one of his fingers and this was the only accident that has happened to a crew with whom Engineer Dewees has worked. Engineer Dewees is prominent in Red Men circles, is a member of the Tuscarora Tribe and Pochohontas degree and tells interesting fncidents regarding the earlier members of this famous order. He is also a member of the Messiah Lutheran church. Mr. and Mrs.

Dewees and daughter, Miss Algle Dewees, make up the family at 218 Verbeke street. Miss Dewees is a well known vocalist and a stenographer for the Minter Publishing Company, 1 North Market Square. Engineer Dewees has the distinction of being among a very few men who worked under every superintendent the Pennsylvania Railroad Com i pany has had in this city, beginning with General Rounfort. OLD HOIJMTIONS Contract for Elaborate Display Will be Let Next Week. I At the meeting of the Decoration Committee of Old Home Week last night new.plans were submitted for a decorative scheme in the way of elec trie trimmings for the grand arch, I the columns and the court of honor, the contractor to furnish everything but the power.

The matter was held over until the proposition is made in a more definite form at the meeting of the committee to be held on Mon day evening next. The Red Men's Division of the fra ternal societies met and decided not i to have a ball in September to raise funds, but will raise the money i through subscriptions from the mem bers of the different tribes. The Fifth ward division of the Fi nance Committee decided to divide the ward into preeinits and make a systematic canvass for funds. The I members of the Second ward division of the same committee agreed that each member will raise not than I $10, and as much more as possible. i REV.

S. L. WTEST AT Y. M. C.

A. 1 To morrow afternoon at 3:30 o' clock, under the auspices of the local Young Men's Christian Association, Second and Locust streets. Rev. S. L.

Wiest, manager of the Evangelical Publishing Company, will speak on 1 "A Personal Question." PROVIDES HEALTH BOARD Bacon's Ordinance Out of Committer After H.i(ng Ihvn Amended The Finance Committee last eren Ing presented and favorably rooom niended to Common Council a new ordinance for the creation of Hoard of Health for the city. The old ordinance was objected to on the ground that it was not drawn according to law. The new ordinance was presented by Mr. lhu'on, who said that it covered all necessary points. Mr.

Hernhelsel, after cnlllng attention to the fact that the Sanitary Committee met only onco last year. Inserted a provision that the Board m't nnd report monthly. Mr. Cal doi then offered an amendment that the Hoard consist of five one homeopathic and two allopathic doctors, a master plumber of five years' experience, and business man. Restrictions Do More Harm Than Yellow Fever, Says New Orleans Mayor MOSQUITO IS TARGET All the Big Sanitary Guns Arc Being Trained on Miserable Insect fly Auociatti Prets.

New Orleans, July 29. Mayor Behrman to day gave out the following signed statement to the newspapers: "New Orleans is suffering more from the rigid quarantine than from yellow fever, of which the citizens here have the fullest control. The mosquito theory is accepted by our physicians and laymen alike, and there is nothing remaining to be done but to fight the mosquitoes, which is being done by oiling the gutters and I screening and oiling the cisterns. Less Cases Than Yesterday, "The number of new cases were i less yesterday by five than on the I preceding day. We have the situa I tion so thoroughly in hand that we believe we will shortly convince the liqt hv working on t''e mos qulto theory yellow fever will be en d.ku oi us penis, ana mat shotgun quarantines are senseless as a method to fight yellow fever, as such a method cannot prevent the spread of the mosquitoes.

"This Is a fight wholly against the stegomyia fasciatia mosquito. "Martin Behrman, "Mayor." All Bars Are Up. The most disquieting news in the yellow fever situation to day is the evidence that panic is increasing in the smaller towns of Louisiana and Mississippi, and that a disposition is growing to revive the disastrous commercial quarantines of 1897, when some of the country towns even refused to receive ice or hardware from New Orleans. Columbia bars all kinds of merchandise except hardware. Utica, will not receive freight of any kind.

Osyka, will take no fruit or vegetables. Jackson, wants no household atricles from New Orleans. Several towns in Tennessee and others along the Mississippi Valley Road in Mississipi refuse to allow express matter of any kind to be put off; Port Gibson will not take bread or anything wrapped in burlap that may be shipped from this citv. Want Mails Fumigated. Some Texas towns are asking that mails be fumigated.

If the movement to quarantine freight spreads New Orleans will suffer much more seriously than from the fever itself. Up to the present there has been no local apprehension of a dangerous epidemic, and it was believed that if the boards of health in other States lived up rigidly, to their agreement not to place any restrictions upon the transportation' of freight there would be only a slight reduction of business, and the chief inconvenience would be the inability of the country people to come here and of New Orleans to go into the southern towns and cities. JEROME ROASTS M'CLELLAN New York, July 29. In a characteristic talk District Attorney Jerome, of New York, accused Mayor McClellan of submitting to dictation from Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany Hau bossi in the matter of recent judicial appointments.

WIRELESS CARRIES 1,000 MILES Washington, July 29. Lieutenant Kaiser, in charge of the wireless on the brooklyn during th trip to France, reports that the longest distance at which wireless messages were read during the daytime was 540, and at night 1,100 sea miles. PENNSYLVANIA POSTMASTERS. By Associated Press. Washington, July 29.

The following Pennsylvania postmasters of the fourth class were appointed to day: Hammill, J. Ira Dunmire; Rural Valley, John S. McFarland. ROOSEVELT AT HOSPITAL New York, July 29. President and Mrs.

Roosevelt yesterday visited the Sea Breeze Open Air Hospital at Coney Island. The President was popuiar with the children, in whom he displayed a great deal of interest. MITCHELL DENIES STORY Scranton, July 29. John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Work ers. denies, in a statement issued here, that the miners are raising a defense fund to prepare for a strike next Spring.

QII1KWKT 1 i IS Olean Man Recommended by Committee and Endorsed by Board SHIMMELL AT OLD JOB Prof. (. W. Hamilton Xcw Mechanical Teacher in Technical School BOARD TIED OX PK.SK CONTRACT Ainericu Company's Higli Itid Turned Down nnd Whole Mutter Is Laid Over The School Roard in special session last evening elected Professor W. S.

Steele, of Olean, N. principal of the High School, at a salary of $2,000 per year; re elcrted Dr. L. S. Shiminell to his old position on the High School faculty at a salary of $110 per month; elected Professor George W.

Hamilton, of Upland, mechanical instructor in the Technical High School at a salary of $1,000 per year, and adopted the report, of the Building Committee on repairs, papering and painting, and turned down the section of the same report relative to the purchase ot 235 desks. All the members were present with the exception of Mr. Hamer. The report of the Teachers' Committee, which met earlier in the evening, was adopted as a whole, the only objections to the election of Professor Steele being from Messrs. Cope, Cox, G.

C. Fager. C. M. Fagor and Kennedy, who voted in the negative.

It Is understood that they were pledged to another candidate. Professor Steele is in Porto Rico. Mr. Dlehl Objects. When the Building Committee's report had been read by Secretary Hammelbaugh, Mr.

Diehl arose and (Continued on Eighth Tage.) U. S. ORDERS ENGINES F. AND M. WORKS LAM) BIG GOVERNMENT JOB Central Ships to West and Boll Brothers to Boston; All Mills Busy Harrisburg still continues a buy hive of industry with all of Its industrial establishments running, and plenty of orders.

There has been a steady demand for workmen this week, despite the fact that it is midsummer, and the men have been so pushed with work this summer that they are pretty well worn out. At the Harrisburg Foundry and Machine Wrorks business is keeping up in the same fashion as for several weeks, and a number of new orderi have been received. An order was received from the United States Government for two compound engines of 250 horse power for the naval station at Newport, R. which show that the government appreciates the fine work turned out at this establishment. There is a briskness In the material market and raw material is on the rise, which is always an indication that business is good.

Central is Busy At the Central Iron and Steel Works every department is running on full time with a full force. Just now the works is filling an order for plate for pipes for a big water company near San Francisco, the second in the history of the company. Work is progressing on the government orders for the North Carolina and Montana boats. On August the works will shut down, by request of the men, to give them an opportunity to attend the Willow Grove excursion, gotten up by the men of the Harrisburg Foundry and Machine Works. At the plant of Boll Brothers there has been exceedingly heavy work done this week.

There was a heavy shipment to Boston this week of brass beds for the Henry Siegel Company, a new department store which will soon open, said to be the largest in Boston, which speaks well for the fine work of this factory. Three car loads in all were sent and more will he on the way shortly. Shipments have also been made to Portland, Oregon, and' other distant points. The factory is running on full time with a full force and lots of orders. Others Share Prosperity At the Elliott Fisher Typewriter Works there is continued activity, and all of the departments are working full force and on full time.

At the Pennsylvania Steel Works the strike of the structural iron workers has not affected the mills at all, and all are working on orders that will take them some time to complete. The steel works expects to get some of the big orders for rails that will shortly be placed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. After a suspension since July 1 the entire plant of the Chesapeake Nail Works will resume work on Monday. Over 400 men will be employed. WEATHER FORECAST.

By Associated Press. Washington, July 29. Forecasv for Eastern Pennsylvania: Occasional rain to night and Sunday; warmer in southwest Krtiun; light to frvsli eat to southeast wind..