^^d* A^^ 'V- ^'^^-^ \*^!^\/ ^«*'^^-/ v'^^y "^ .^% « ^7^-/ %'^'* y %^^^'jp v'^^rfV %*^^%o*5 -^^ •^0^ ^°^ = «»«* ^^\/ %^^-/ V'^^V "v^^*/ x/W^^'j' ^ ^. '*' 1!^ "^ °'%. ^ iP'Jit ^ \W/ X'Wy vWy* \--W^o*^ \,W*, "^A^^ ^^v "j»<9' 5^ <» ♦'TV** -0^ >?, •?..* A <, ♦'TVi' . '^^'^^^'Z^SWHSfla^^^^^l ■^ ||' ^^g Ipgpv Ig; :.:r "y ^ y ■B^ ' • 'ml. B i"it''"^'^i^B" BBk. ^ J .— A,CL,. f i R^:ii" " ^^^^^^ \/" 1 ^^^^' ~ ' '^' BANKING DEPARTMENT. Grounds and Buildings to complete the pres- Marble wainscoting, mantels, ent Capitol building." bases, 278,10947 Under this authority, the Commissioners Constructions for flues, fireplaces, of Pubhc Grounds and Buildings proceeded ^t^., 21,237 59 to furnish the new capitol. As will be seen Raised ornamentation, gilding, dec- in the following chapter, they furnished it in "''ating and painting 779,472 96 keeping with the building and with the Mural art pa.ntmg, 14,660 50 wealth and greatness of the Commonwealth. Interlockmg hardwood parquetry rj^, ■ 4 • r 11 floonng 142,412 47 1 he expense mcurred IS as follows: hi- j i- . 1 -u ^ '^ Modelmg and sculpture with pat- Special designed fireproof cases for terns, 137,000 00 filing and preserving of records Vaults and safes, 66,000 00 and papers, $1,534,85620 Carpets, rugs, hangings and cur- Furniture, desks, chairs, tables, etc. 876,066 40 tains, 141044 42 (68) Designed clocks and clock fittings, Monumental art bronze standards, chandeliers, brackets in the three chief departments of the government ( Ex- ecutive, Legislative and Judicial), main en- trance, dome. House, Senate, ante-rooms, caucus rooms, Su- 32,079 20 Additions and alterations to elec- tric lighting throughout the building 71.833 00 Cement flooring throughout the building to receive the finished parquetry flooring, 25,117 77 Temporarj' alterations, fittings, carpets, electric lights, furniture, etc., for House and Senate com- mittee rooms and departments, . 45.351 16 Labor and material furnished by SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE — PRIVATE OFFICE. preme Court room George F. Payne & Co. in con- and Executive recep- structing the eighth floor for the tion room: use of new departments and Standards, $436,950 40 committee rooms, 303,693 14 Chandeliers and brack- t n- ■ i . i u , , , mstallmg wires tor two telephone ets, 630,606 95 , 1 . ^ and two telegraph systems 1,067,557 35 . , . ,. u ■\A- ' .^kf.h ^, c • 1 J • J u I » • throughout the building 17,000 73 bpecial designed bronze electric ^ ■= chandeliers and brackets in the Edwin A. Abbey, account of mural subordinate departments, 931,965 61 art painting contract, 15,00000 Installation of thermostats and Joseph M. Huston, account of valves throughout the building, architect commission, 235,000 00 special work in connection with heating and ventilating, also air compressors, 59,4o8 00 Total, $8,179,343 06 (69) Balance due J. H. Sanderson, decora- tions and paint- ing, $10,000 00 Balance due J. H. Sanderson, accord- ing to letter of May 2, 1906, not less than $50,000 and not more than, . . Parquetry flooring, . Balance due Edwin A. Abbey, contract mural painting, . . Balance due J. M. Huston, architect; commission, 4 per cent., 104,585 42 100,000 00 106 20 207,887 50 $422,579 12 Estimates for furnishings, etc., or- dered by direction of the Board of Grounds and Buildings, and not yet delivered, 2,500 00 Total for furnishings, .... $8,604,422 18 Amount expended or to be ex- pended by the Capitol Commis- sion, $4,000,000 00 Amount appropriated by Act of April 14, 1897, 550,000 00 Total for building and fur- nishing, $13,154,422 18 DAIRY AND FOOD COMMISSIONER S DEP.'\RTMENT. (70) A DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW CAPITOL THE total length of the building is 520 feet, the breadth through the center line 254 feet, and through each of its side wings 212 feet. The building covers about two acres of ground and a man, walk- for the purpose of such a building by the architects of the Renaissance. In the capi- tals of the columns and mouldings of the en- tablature, the simpler forms of the Greek Corinthian order have been followed. Yet COMMISSIONER OF FORESTRY LIBRARY. ing around the building would have to trav- erse half a mile. The area of the building is larger than that of St. Paul's in London; and its length is greater than that of West- minster Abbey. The height of the main horizontal line above the balustrade is 100 feet; from the ground to the top of the statue on the dome, 272 feet. The exterior is in classic style, as adapted (7 the influence of the Roman use of it is shown in many particulars. The arrangement and forms of the windows and their several em- bellishments are such as were employed by the builders of the Italian Renaissance, while the dome is modeled after that of St. Peter's. The general result of this combination is an effect that is very monumental, and not less so because it is distinguished by reserve. I) Standing on a slight eminence, known as Capitol Hill, in the wooded park of fifteen acres, the structure turns its principal facade towards the west. It rests on a basement of squared and smoothed stones. In general, the building is laid out in a main structure with central, north and south wings. Mas- sive Corinthian columns front each wing, monoliths of granite, weighing thirty-five tons each. ES!^^ other great events in Pennsylvania history. An allegorical group, representing "His- tory," in a circular medallion, is carved im- mediately below the "Declaration." "Edu- cation," in a similar medallion, flanks "His- tory." "Mining" and "Agriculture" fill in the bottom panels on either side of the door. The decorated posts are studded with heads of men — types intended to tell future genera- tions the characteristics of the men who were FACTORY INSPECTOR S PRIVATE OFFICE. The three bronze doors of the capitol on the west front are among the finest in the United States. The main door "The Peo- ple's Portal," is i6 feet 8 inches high and 12 feet 3 inches wide, the largest bronze door in the United States. It was cast in one piece, front and back, and weighs 12,600 pounds. The casting and finishing took 100 men four- teen months. The door is divided into pan- els portraying the "Landing of Penn," "The Signing of the Treaty with the Indians," the "Signing of the Declaration of Independ- ence," the "Signing of the Constitution," and immediately concerned in the building of the Capitol. The dome is surmounted by a gilt ball, sup- porting a bronze and gilded statue, known as "Miss Penn" and symbolic of the Common- wealth. It is poised facing the west, the right arm forward, and the left upholding a garlanded mace. The head of Miss Penn is 272 feet above the ground. The dome rests upon a bed of cement overlaid with 7,000,- 000 bricks, which foundation in turn is up- held by a bed of slate rock provided by na- ture. This massive structure stands inde- (72) pendently and would continue unimpaired if the rest of the building were removed or de- molished. The total weight of the materials constituting the dome is 52,000,000 pounds. It is said that a glass jar, sealed and contain- ing a Greek Testament, was buried in the cement at the foundation by three of the workmen. The material of which the exterior is built is a species of high-grade granite, known as "monumental," from quarries in Hardwick, Vermont, of which 40,000 separate pieces were used, weighing from one to thirty-five and tiers of windows show best their pattern of dark upon the lighter field of masonry. Then the projections of porticos and cornices reveal themselves in rich contrast to the plainer portions, the columns disengage them- selves in individual assertion, the intricacy of the capitol acquires additional luxuriance, the modeling of the various forms of ornamenta- tion is most delicately penciled, and the sur- face of the whole building is embroidered with surprises of shadowed color. Upon entering the Capitol by "The Peo- CHIEF OF DEPARTMENT OF MINES PRIVATE OFFICE. tons each. There are thirty-two magnifi- cent monoliths in the structure, weighing thirty-five tons each. A total of more than 400,000 cubic feet of granite were used on the exterior of the build- ing alone, or something over iioo car-loads. Its characteristics are a closely grained tex- ture, which is easily worked but subsequently hardens and, notwithstanding a speckle of bluish gray, is in it, it is of an unusual white- ness. In fact, from a little distance it has the appearance of marble, without, however, its glare of whiteness. In the early after- noon, when the sun is upon the front of the building and sufficiently high to cast the shad- ows of every form and moulding, the rows pie's Portal," your eyes will try the question whether to look up or down. You are in the rotunda. Above you there is an im- mensity of space and height — a ponderous mass of columns — broad and dividing stair- ways — proud pilasters — a crown of orna- ment — galleries for the tread of curious hu- manity — then a blue vault dotted with stars, to which your eyes soar like a bewildered bird. Every one of the rainbow's colors — from violet to red — is bidding for your ad- miration. Suddenly you see an inscription around the frieze of the upper and lower cor- nice. It Is a quotation from William Penn (see p. 5) : (73) There may be room there for such a holy experiment. for the nations want a prece- dent, and my god will make it the seed of a nation. that an example may be set up to the nations. that we may do the thing that is truly wise AND JUST. Tired of looking up so high, your eyes principal animals, birds, fishes, and insects na- tive in the State, as well as the leading indus- tries and occupations of the people. The whole is history written on the floor. Rising from the floor in the angles of the rotunda, are magnificent standards with mas- sive bases, tall shafts, and branching clusters of electric lights. They are entirely of gilt bronze, while those higher up on the balus- trade of the stair-case and balcony have shafts of marble. In the entrance corridor HKAI.TII COMMISSIONERS DEPARTMENT. drop. You see something strange beneath your feet. It is the tiled pavement. The tiles are a deep red, and are interspersed with medallions and tablets, on which may be read the history of Pennsylvania. The design is of ancient origin. It is found in St. Mark's, in Venice. After the Moravians had brought it to America, it became a lost art, and remained so until Henry C. Mercer, of Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, re- vived it. He it was that fashioned the floor of the rotunda and corridors. The four hundred medallions and tablets show the and everywhere throughout the building fresh examples of lanterns, standards and candelabra meet the eye with constant change of design and variety of richness. The corridors extending north and south from the rotunda communicate with the ex- treme wings. Their walls, wainscoted with marble, are divided into bays by a series of pilasters, the gilded capitals of which present an adaptation of the classic model. For the traditional rosettes are substituted portrait heads, typical of the various nationalities that have gone to the making of the Common- (74) wealth's composite citizenship; while the na- tional flower or foliage of each country repre- sented has been woven into the decorative de- signs. As one enters from the rotunda, the capi- tals, facing us, one on each side of the front of the arch, contain the head of Franklin, wreathed with oak. a portrait head of Heinrich Melchoir Muhl- enberg proclaim the German elements. The French influence is suggested in the next capitals by fleur-de-lis associated with a portrait of the physician and surgeon, Daniel Hayes Agnew. The Swedish element is next recorded by fir cones and foliage and the portrait of Gus- HEALTH COMMISSIONER S PRIVATE OFFICE. The next pair, at right angles to them, adorning the first capitals within the corridor, commemorate the Scottish element. The foliage is the thistle and the portrait that of George Keith. In the following pair of capitals, the sham- rock proclaims the Scotch-Irish influence, and the portrait is that of James Logan. The next capitals contain the English rose and the portrait of Daniel Boone. Cornflowers in the following capitals and tavus Hesselius, the earliest painter and or- gan-builder in America. In the pair following, the Welsh immigra- tion is recalled by the leek and a portrait of David Jones, a famous Baptist Clergyman of the early days of the Province. The Dutch in Pennsylvania are commemo- rated in the next pair of capitals by means of tulips and a portrait of the astronomer and statesman, David Rittenhouse. The Polish element in the composite set- (75) tlement of Pennsylvania is noted by the car- nation and by a portrait of tbe patriot, Pu- laski. The last pair of capitals as you leave the corridors, or as you enter from the courts in the extreme wings, are decorated with corn, and represent the aboriginal inhabitants of the State. Entering from the north court into the north corridor, we are confronted with the portrait of the Oneida Chief, Shilcellimy. to Senate and House lead through elaborate and beautiful doorways, surmounted with sculptured figures. These two chambers present the most elaborate and artistic decor- ation to be found in the building outside the interior of the great dome. In the Senate chamber the predominating color is a dark green, relieved by gold. The chamber is 96 by 80 feet. The floor is hard wood parquetry. From the walls at frequent intervals four Doric pilasters, fluted STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER S PRIVATE OFFICE. In the south court the Indian portrait is that of Teedyuscung, a Delaware Chief, known as "Honest John" and "War Trum- pet." In both the north and south corridors, the vaultings of the ceilings leave a series of seven lunette-shaped spaces at each side. These are filled with mural paintings. Lead- ing from the courts and corridors, heavy doors of costly wood open into various de- partment offices and into the Senate and House caucus rooms. From the great gallery running around the dome at the second floor, the main entrances in gold, rise on each side from an Irish green Connemara marble wainscoting to support the frieze. The ceiling is ribbed into curved recesses, elaborately gilded in quaint designs. Six immense gilded bronze chandeliers are suspended from the ceiling by massive chains of the same material, each chandelier sup- porting six great cut glass electric light globes. There are two large panels, out- lined in dull gold, on each side of the presid- ing officer's chair, while the entrances to the side rooms are through doorways of massive mahogany. In the House chamber the acme of decora- (76) tlve art seems to have been reached. It Is wainscoted In marble from the French Pyre- nees, a blend of cream and buff, clouded with blurs of faint rose and delicate gray. For a thousand years the quarry had not been worked and it took much persuasion to In- duce the aristocratic owners to allow the re- opening for Pennsylvania's House of Repre- sentatives. Eight great bronze chandeliers of special design are suspended from the ceil- ably. Above them In both chambers are cir- cular windows of stained glass. The sub- jects embodied In this decoration In glass are in the Senate, in order from the right of the President's chair: Weaving: holding a shuttle. Temperance: pouring water from a pitcher. Glass-blowing: characterized by the glass- blower's pipe. DEPARTiMENT OF PUBLIC GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS. ing, which has a background of solid blue, with arabesque wrought in heavy gold. From the walls project eighteen brackets, supporting candelabra. The elongated vault which overhangs the broad central arch bears a gilded tablet, facing the Speaker's chair, with the following text In blue letters : AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE The windows of both the Senate and House, facing as they do, the east and the west, admit the direct sunlight and show the brilliancy of the color scheme most admlr- Peace: bearing an olive branch. Railroads: a train passing in the background. Continuing on opposite side of the room: Militia : the bayonet symbolizing its military purpose; the keystone, that it is a civic organiza- tion. Legislature: with the Roman emblem of au- thority, the "fasces," a bundle of sticks bound to- gether around an axe, symbolizing the power to bind the social units into an organized whole, and to punish infringements of the system. History: holding a scroll. Foundries : including a landscape with foun- dries in the distance. (77) Architecture: with a representation of the dome of the Capitol of Pennsylvania. In the House in the same order: Steel and Iron : an old man with hydraulic hammer. Education: garbed in cap and gown, with a suggestion of a university building. Petroleum : showing the staging over an oil- well. Chemistry: symbolized by a retort. Electricity: grasping a thunderbolt. In the artistic beauty of walls and furnish- ment the suite of apartments assigned to the Governor of the Commonwealth are the finest in the Capitol. The private office of the Governor is a room 35 by 30 feet, wains- coted to a height of 1 1 feet in American quartered oak, carved in rich and costly de- DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING SUPERINTENDENT S OFFICE. Abundance: holding a cornucopia, or horn of plenty. Commerce: with the emblems, a globe and sail. Steam Engineering: showing an arrangement of steam pipes. Religion : with the Cross. Continuing on the opposite side of the room : Printing Press: a boy holding a proof-sheet just pulled from the press. Liberty: with the cap and flag of Liberty. Justice: with scales. Natural Gas: spouting from a pipe. Bridge-building: showing a bridge in the back- ground. sign. The mantel is of African marble, the shelf supported by fan carytides. The recep- tion room Is of English crotched oak, though not so elaborate In design. The woodwork of the suite, even to the rooms reserved for the executive clerks, is all of the same ma- terial and finish. In the passageway which affords a private entrance from the Gov- ernor's room Into the official reception room Is a book-elevator, communicating with the Library of Records In the office of the Secre- tary of the Commonwealth. In the center of the over-mantel In the reception room, com- memorating the origin of the State, appears the coat-of-arms of WlUIam Penn, — a lion (78) above a shield, on the bar of which are three balls, while from its extremities hangs a rib- bon with the motto: Diim clavum rectum teneam — "So long as I hold the right key." Around one side of the shield Is a laurel branch symbolic of distinguished merit, on the other an oak garland of civic virtue. To the right appears the shield of the United States, and to the left that of Pennsylvania, while below is the name of Penn, with the dates — 1644 and 17 18 — of his birth and death. The Supreme Court room is on the east wing, at the far end of the fourth floor cor- ridor, a location suggestive of the theory of checks and balances in our government in its distance from the hustle and bustle of the lawmakers and the business of the executive. The chamber is about eighty feet long, run- ning across the corridor and about forty feet wide. It is Greek in detail and finished in rich mahogany with a dais at the north end. The crowning feature is the dome, covered with ornate designs in green and light yel- DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE. The Lieutenant Governor's suite consists of three rooms — a private office, a reception room and the ladies' parlor. The conspicu- ous feature in the first two rooms are the mantels, the first of Numidian marble, the second of Irish green. The ceiling of the private office, divided into three oblong cof- fers, is treated in tones of reddish and gray- ish purple and gold. The ladies' parlor has a scheme of lighter elegance, the style of Louis Quinze. The ceiling contains a circu- lar painting of Venus and two Loves, by Donald MacGregor. low glass, affording a subdued effect. From floor to ceiling, on every side, rise massive columns of carved mahogany. For beauty this chamber is not surpassed in the new State House. So far as the designs of everything in the structure are concerned, they are of special creative workmanship. Every chair, clock, chandelier, divan and mantel are in harmo- nious design with the apartment as a whole. The clocks in every office are of mahogany, shaped like a keystone, or where other de- signs have been used the dial is wrought in (79) FISH COMMISSIONER S DEPARTMENT. bronze, to represent the coat of arms of the Commonwealth. The chairs and desks are carved from oak, mahogany or wahiut. They conform to the decorations of each depart- ment. It will be impossible in the future for anyone to remove a chair from, say, the Gov- ernor's offices to another part of the building without noting the lack of harmony with the furniture of the other chamber. The three requisites for architectural perfection — form, color and proportion — mark every feature of the vast edifice and give to it beauty and sym- metry. There are 475 rooms in the Capitol. Their arrangement, entering from the south wing is as follows : First Floor. South wing — Auditor General. South corridor — State Treasury and House Li- brary, caucus room and offices. East wing — State Police. North corridor — Department of Public Grounds and Buildings, Senate Library and offices and De- partment of Health. North wing — Department of Health, Depart- ment of Printing, Soldiers' Orphans School Com- mission. Entresol. South wing — Department of Public Instruction. North wing — Land Office and drafting room of the Department of Internal Affairs. Second Floor. South wing — Governor, Attorney General. Rotunda — Senate and House and Lieutenant Governor. North wing — Department of Internal Affairs. Third Floor. South wing — State Department. North wing — Department of Agriculture, Dairy and Food, Forestry, Zoology Divisions, Game and Fish Commission, Forestry Commission. Fourth Floor. I nsurance and South wing — Adjutant General, Banking Departments. North wing — Factory Inspection, Fisheries De- partment, Highway Department. East wing — Supreme and Superior Court ; court chamber and offices. (80) Fifth Floor. Drafting rooms of Highway Department, labor- atory and specimen rooms of Zoology Division, com- mittee rooms and storage. The building is equipped with a generating plant for electric lighting and power, two telephone and two telegraph exchanges, and sundry signaling systems. The generating plant consists of four 150 kilowatt direct con- nected units, operating at 230 volts. The white marble switch board is of unique de- sign. Instead of the usual complement of straight panels, the center one is made in the form of a keystone, to represent the State of Pennsylvania. On this are mounted the pres- sure gauges for both steam and electricity. The panel to the left marked "Street" con- tains switches so arranged that the light or the power load, or both, may be thrown either on the generating plant or on the street connection of the Harrisburg Central Station. As the switches are shown in the cut, both the light and power load are on the generators The next four panels marked "i," "2," "3" and "4" are for the four generators which are connected to them by means of lead cables of 1,200,000 circular mils capacity, carried in concrete ducts under the floor of the en- gine room. The generator panels are of the usual design. The two blank panels on the extreme left are intended for additional units to be installed at some future time. The first panel to the right of the Keystone contains switches for all of the power circuits and a watt-meter for measuring the power con- sumed on these circuits. The next panel con- tains the switches for the night circuits and a watt-meter for measuring the total current consumed in all the lighting circuits. The next four panels marked "Interior" contain the circuit switches for the various centers of distribution throughout the building. The blank panel on the extreme right is intended for the switches controlling the outside light- ing circuits. The distribution of current throughout the building is on the 220-volt, two wire system. There are sixty-one panel boards or centers of distribution in the build- ing, from which the branch circuits are car- ried to the lights. The doors are made of heavy plate glass. All of the wires are rub- ber insulated carried in iron conduits. The telephone service — a complete long distance connection for both the Bell Tele- phone service and that of the United Tele- phone & Telegraph Company — was installed in each important room in the building, there being 327 rooms which are equipped with "Agnew." CAPITAL IN CORRIDOR. (81) "Bird." TILE DESIGN. long distance connections for both telephone systems. The telegraph system consists of call boxes in 278 rooms for both the Western Union and the Postal Telegraph Company. The signal system comprises push buttons on each desk in both the Senate and the House, indi- cating on annunciators located in the ante- rooms, and in addition there are various sys- tems of call bells, so arranged that they may be operated to ring in the committee rooms by the clerks of the Senate and House when sessions are called to order. All of the wires throughout the building, not only for lighting and power, but for the telephone, telegraph and signal systems are carried in iron pipes so that they may be removed without disturb- ing the finish in the building. To construct and furnish the Capitol of Pennsylvania, which ranks with the greatest of monumental edifices in America, every con- tinent on the globe contributed in some way, in wood, metal, marble, glass or other material, to its beautiful perfection, while ar- tists and sculptors of world-wide repute have, with brush or chisel, helped to make the mas- sive pile what it is. The following extract from a letter, shows the kind of impression Pennsylvania's Capi- tol makes upon a European traveler in this country : The Capitol, which in its mass of granite reigns over the city, seems to throw a shadow of power and richness over everything. The outlines equal in beauty any of the beautiful monuments passing into posterity. The gardens which surround it look like an immense basket of foliage and flowers. As to the interior, at the entrance the eye is captivated by the luxuriant profusion of the material used in the construction. In the day time when the sun sends its rays through the windows, or in the even- ing, when the electric lights lighten it up, the place reminds one of the palace, described in the Arabian Nights, of 100 1 Nights. The gold running down the marble and Mosaique sparkle like precious stones, while the bronzes shine with a glimmer more sober and mj'stic. From the bottom to the top an apotheosis to the joys of light and color. The ground floor also, by an idea, happy as well as orig- inal, is paved in the antique style, here and there inlaid with mosaique, representing the animals of fable. The strong layers of the marble pillars in the Grecian style, give one the idea of an unchange- able strength. The ceilings (acaisons) (incased) in the Italian renaissance style with their colors, add to the graceful richness which is revealed in the higher parts of the monument. The central stair- (82) case in bluish marble is monumental. It will no doubt evoke others in similar style. But it seems so well in its place in the grandiose decorum, that one should wish to see royal trains with fanfare and trompettes pass along it. The annex where the phantasy has had free play, where precious materials are used at profusion, do not give way in richness to the decoration of the rotunda. I have much ad- mired the Hall of the Governor in carved wood, and the chimney pieces in the Middle Age style are grand, although a little heavy considering the height. The halls of the Representatives and the Senators are each in its way a chef d'oeuvre. The comfort seems assured in all their details. One could perhaps find a little fault in the exaggeration and overdoing in gilding and ornamentation. In my opinion, a little reticence in certain things would have shown up others to more advantage. The law of contrast is sometimes necessary. It is to be hoped that time will put its coating over the whole, which could then only be improved, when all that is new and loud will be softened down. But the Capitol as it is, will remain a jewel, of which a na- tion may be proud, particularly as it is the work of one of its citizens. The man who has achieved and executed this monument is a genius, and may rank among the first artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. I wish you could yourself see and admire this edifice when finished. It is a real artistic treat. The work of painter and sculptor in the beautiful building is so rich in effect — aes- thetically, historically, and ethically — that it deserves some space in this description. The sculpture of George Gray Barnard found in and about the Capitol follows the idea in the commission given him, to re- flect the spirit of Pennsylvania men and women in all the various phases of life. Mar- ble groups show types of the pioneers who settled the State. Two axterior groups of figures are placed at the right and left re- spectively of the main entrance of the Capi- tol. One group represents obedience to the law; the other disobedience; or "Life's Joys" and "Life's Woes." There are thirty-three figures in the two groups — some colossal in size, others life. Mr. Barnard made his models in Moret, near Paris, while the figures ENGINES AND GENERATORS. (83) ELECTRIC SWITCH BOARD. themselves were chiseled out of marble in the Foundation of the State of the Liberty Spirit- great quarries of Carrara, Italy. ual," used in the decoration of the Governor's The subject of the mural paintings of Ed- reception room. Sixteen panels of canvas win Austin Abbey in the Capitol is "The compose the frieze. The series begins with Romance of the Founding of the State," and the translation and printing of the Bible by it starts in the Reception Room of the Gov- Tyndale, the smuggling of it into England, ernor and runs through the corridor. House, the burning of it at Oxford, his martyrdom. Senate and Superior Court room to the dome. The subjects for these pictures begin with the early dreams of William Penn, show- ing him seated at Oxford, building those first castles in the air which resulted in the found- ing of Pennsylvania. The founder is shown on his way to America in the ship Welcome, Then follow panels illustrative of the spread of the Bible and of Puritanism and of the Civil War. Next come George Fox and William Penn. A number of panels deal with Penn — his conversion to the Quaker doc- trine while at Oxford, his expulsion from home, his preaching and arrest, his imprison- the landing scene, in making friends with ment at Newgate, his dream of an asylum ui the Indian, and in other episodes of his life. Other paintings show the early life of the pioneers, the development of the coal and iron mines, and the building of the great shops and forges. All of these scenes are in- terspersed with portraits of the men prom- inent in the development of the State — her great jurists and statesmen and warriors. In the Supreme Court chamber are placed scenes symbolical of "Traditional Law," "Written Law," "Roman Law," and "Jus- tice." The series of mural paintings which was across the sea, the signing of the charter of Pennsylvania by the King, and, finally, Penn's landing on the soil of his province. Miss Oakley's part is, as it were, the first chapter in Mr. Abbey's "Romance of the Founding of the State." The series of paintings to adorn the north corridor are the work of John W. Alexander. They show how the face of the State has changed since the days of its settlement — how it looked long ago and how it looks now. The paintings of William B. Van Ingen, in the south corridor, form a beautiful por- committed to Miss Violet Oakley is "The tion of the artistic adornment of the new State (84) house. They are Ilkistrative of the racial and religious elements of Pennsylvania. The titles of the pictures are: German emigrants from the Palatinate arriving on the Sara Alaria. The "pedalavium" or feet washing ceremony of the Mennonites. A Rosicrucian monk. A Moravian sister preaching to the Indians. A brother of the Ephrata community transcribing the Declaration of Independence for the Congress of the United States. The open air baptism of the Dunkers. Printing the Bible. Sisters of the Ephrata community spinning and carding. "Gloria Dei," the Old Swedes Church. The bonfires lighted by the early settlers on Christmas eve. The trombone choir of the "Unitas Fratrum." The Scotch-Irish teaching theology in "Log College." Pastorius and the first petition circulated in the colonies for the abolition of slavery. "Cobbler." TILE DESIGN. (85) CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT The following firms and individuals deserve credit for the part they have taken in the construction and equipment of the new State Capitol of Pennsylvania Architect, Joseph M. Huston, Philadelphia. Assistant to Mr. Huston, Stanford B. Lewis. General Contractors, Geo. F. Payne & Co., Philadelphia. Granite Work, Woodbury Granite Company, Hardwick, Vt. Granite Setting, C. F. Parsons, New York. Electrical Equipment, Keller-Pike Company, Philadelphia. Engines, Harrisburg Foundry & Machine Com- pany, Harrisburg, Pa. Interior Marble Work, The Robert C. Fisher Company, New York. Bronze Work, Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Metallic Furniture, Penn Construction Com- pany, Marietta, Pa. Elevators, Morse, Williams & Company, Phila- delphia. Cast Plaster Work and Modeling, Buehler & Lauter, New York. Glass, Painting and Interior Decorating, D. A. MacGregor & Bro., Philadelphia. Furniture, Electroliers, Carpets and Rugs, John H. Sanderson, Philadelphia. Interior Wood and Cabinet M-^ork, A. Wilt & Sons, Philadelphia; American Car and Foundry Company, Wilmington, Del., William Russel ; F. D. Kramer & Son, Philadelphia. Hardivare, C. J. Field's Sons, Philadelphia. Sculpture, George Gray Barnard. Mural Paintings and Decorations, Miss Violet Oakley ; Edwin A. Abbey ; John W. Alexander ; W. B. Van Ingen ; Donald MacGregor. Assistant and Supervisor to the Capitol Commis- sion, Bernard R. Green, Superintendent of the Congressional Library, Washington. Excavating, United Ice and Coal Company, Har- risburg. Concrete Foundation, Vulcanite Paving Com- pany, Philadelphia. Rough Masonry Walls and Brick fVork, Jo- seph Bechtel, Philadelphia. Structural Steel fFork, American Bridge Com- pany, Pencoyd, Pa. Fire Proofing and Terra Cotta, National Fire- proof Company, Philadelphia. Ornamental Iron Work, William F. Remppis, Philadelphia. Wire Furring, Merritt & Co., Philadelphia. Plastering, Plain and Ornamental, J. W. & C. H. Reeves, Philadelphia. Window Frames and Sash, Harrisburg Plan- ing Mill Company. Dynamos, C. & C. Company, New York. Boilers, E. Keeler & Co., Williamsport, Pa. Steam Fitting, Plumbing and Ventilating, Rob- ert Scott Engineering Company, Philadelphia Tile Work, Joseph S. Miller & Co., Philadel- phia. Tile Floor, Moravian, Henry C. Mercer, Doyles- town. Pa. Roofing and Skylights, Meade Roofing and Cor- nice Company, Philadelphia. Terra Cotta on Dome, Armstrong & Conkling, Philadelphia. Cement Floors and Pavements, Vulcanite Pav- ing Co. and Filbert Paving Co., Philadelphia. Steel Setting, The Etter Erecting Company, Philadelphia. Plumbing, Wm. Anderson, Philadelphia. IVood Floors, Jas. G. Wilson Manufacturing Company, Norfolk, Va. Temperature Regulator, Johnson Service Com- pany, Milwaukee, Wis. Ornamental Stained Glass, Alfred Godwin, Philadelphia. Designer of Ornamental Stained Glass Windo%vs in House and Senate, W. B. Van Ingen, New York. General Hardivare, Henry Gilbert & Son, Har- risburg. Brick, Bigler & Co., Harrisburg. Foundation Stone, Hummelstown Brownstone Company. Lime and Cement, B. G. Galbraith, Harrisburg. For more extended notices of individuals and firms who had most to do in the construction and equipment of the State Capitol, see pages following portraits of State officials. (86) THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW CAPITOL HARRISBURG has had many great strand" — have been in session in the Capital days in its history — occasions when City of Pennsylvania. But of all the gather- it had been on tip-toe of anticipa- ings — great and small — of people from the tion and expectancy for days, weeks and State and Nation, the one that came together ELECTRIC SWITCH BOARD PANEL. months before, but October fourth, in the year one thousand nine hundred and six, was the greatest of them all. It was the day of the dedication of the new Capitol. History has been written in Harrisburg — many chap- ters of it. Conventions of all kinds — from naming a President of the United States to sending a missionary "to India's coral to dedicate the magnificent structure on Capi- tol Hill, will remain the longest on the scroll of these events. For it was written in blaz- ing letters of glory. The sixty thousand peo- ple that came from the four corners of the State were not delegates. The dedication was an affair of pure democracy. Everybody that wanted to come, could do so and wear a (87) "Logan." CAPITAL IN CORRIDOR. badge — the badge of citizenship. And many Transfer of the Capitol to the more would have come had the heavens been Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by more propitious and not opened the flood- Building Commission. Address by gates of rain early in the morning and kept the President of the Building Com- them open all day long. Rain was the only ™'^f °"' ^ill'am A. Stone. , . . 1 J J- ^- Acceptance and address by the unwelcome visitor present at the deaication. ^ r . r-' t^u r _ , • , r 1 1 J 1 Crovernor of the Commonwealth ot On the evening before the sun had scarcely Pennsylvania, Samuel W. Penny- sunk behind the Cumberland hills, before the packer. Capitol and the Hill blazed out in electric Oration by the President of the glory. Bright lights glowed in the dome, United States, Theodore Roosevelt, glittered in the legislative halls, and dazzled Benediction by the Bishop of Har- in the rotunda and the corridors, and inspir- risburg, the Right Reverend James ing music contributed additional charm. Henry Darlington. Tiny lamps also shone from amidst flower- 12.30 P. M.— Military Parade, beds, shrubs and trees, and vari-colored Afternoon. globes hung on ropes stretched along the Inspection of the Capitol. walks and terraces. The park was a verita- ^^'^"^''^ ^y Walter Damrosch and the New York ble fairy-land. The city had likewise pre- Symphony Orchestra. J r r 1 J u \\r Part I— At 2 P. M. pared a feast for the eye and he ear. A Ve- ^^^ ^1^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^.^p.^^j^ netian canopy ,_ erected in Market Square, and j_ up;^ Meistersinger," Wagner festoons of lights around the Square and ^ Prelude. along Market street, together with a concert j, pj-j^e Song. by the Commonwealth Band, gave added c Dance of the Apprentices. pleasure to that which the State had pro- 2. Waltz, "Vienna Blood," Strauss vided. Nor was all this illumination and 3- Allegretto from the 8th Symphony, .Beethoven music for the people of Harrisburg alone. 4- Suite, 'Teer Gynt," No. i, Grieg Thousands of visitors from the State were ^ I" the Morning. already there to see and hear it. ^ Anita's Dance T^, 11-^ • vu r c In the Halls ot the Mountain King. I he dedicatory ceremonies, with a rew ex- ^^ o r-. -i- A j ■' . , ,. 1 5- Hymn to St. Cecilia, Lrounod ceptions, were carried out according to the . xt • -iir jj- u • n ■ Y, ■ 6. Norwegian Wedding Procession, Gneg following program : ^ M^^^h, "Aida," Verdi Morning. Part II— At 4 P. M. 11.30 A. M. — Reading from the Scriptures by John (On the Grand Stand.) H. Dillingham, of the Society of 8. Overture, "Tannhauser," PFagner Friends, after which silence for a 9. Allegro con gazia from Pathetique symphony, few moments is requested. Tshaikowsky (88) 10. a "Whisperings Among the Flowers, Von Blon b "Cavalry Ride," Rubenstein 1 1 . Largo, Handel 12. Ride of the Valkyries, Wagner 13. Dances from "Nell Gwynn," German 14. Suite from "Carmen," Bizet 15. Overture, "Mignon," Thomas Evening. 6.00-7.00 P. M. — Music by Kendle's First Regi- ment Band in the Grand Stand. 7.30-9.30 P. M. — Band Concerts in the Riverside Parks. Bands will be stationed at or near Walnut Street, the Executive Mansion, Liberty, Foster and Reily Streets. 8.00 P. M. — Fire Works on Hargest's Island, Susquehanna river, opposite the center of the city ; these can be seen from any point in the Riv- erside Parks from Walnut to Boas Streets. The first and most exciting event of the day was the arrival of the President of the United States. A great throng had congre- gated at the Union Station to get the first ghmpse. At 1 1 o'clock the train rolled In and a salute of twenty-one guns was fired. The President was received by Mayor Gross, Auditor General Snyder, State Treasurer Berry, State Senators Fox and Sproul, Speaker Walton and Secretaries Jones and Lynch, of the Capitol Commission. As the party walked out of the depot the chimes In the ZIon Lutheran Church rang out "The Star Spangled Banner." The Governor's Troop swung Into line back of the detail of the State constabulary, and with the carriages following, took up the march, out Market to Market Square, up Second to North, to VIEW IN SENATE LIBRARY. (89) 'Cricket.' TILE DESIGN. Fourth, around the Capitol to the main front entrance, where the President was met by Governor Pennypacker. As they ascended the steps, the President remarked: "By jove, Governor, these are fine bronze doors." Inside he again broke forth in ad- miration and said, "This is the handsomest State Capitol I ever saw." In the rotunda the President received a solid gold souvenir badge from the Governor on behalf of Pennsylvania, and one from Mayor Gross, on behalf of Harrisburg. The ceremony was short and simple. After in- specting a portion of the Capitol the presi- dential party proceeded to the grandstand at Third and State streets. The party consisted of the President, the Governor, John H. Dil- lingham, Bishop Darlington, Hon. W. A. Stone, Joseph M. Huston, United States Sen- ator Penrose, United States Senator Knox, Senator Sproul, Speaker Walton, Surgeon General Rixey, Mr. Latta, Assistant Secre- tary to President; Senator Fox, George F. Payne, State Treasurer Berry, Auditor Gen- eral Snyder, Hon. William H. Graham, Ed- ward Bailey, Chief Justice Mitchell, Justice Brown, Justice Mestrezat, Justice Potter, Justice Elkin, Justice Stewart, Lieutenant Governor .Brown, Dr. Schaeffer, Superinten- dent of Public Instruction ; Attorney General Carson, State Librarian Montgomery, Pro- vost Harrison, of the University of Pennsyl- vania ; Hon. George T. Oliver, Hon. J. Donald Cameron, Adjutant General Stewart, General Gregg, Congressman Olmsted, Cap- tain Groome, Hon. Charles Emory Smith, Hon. Vance C. McCormick, Mayor Gross, Mayor Weaver, of Philadelphia; Dr. Sam- uel G. Dixon, Charles H. Heustis, J. L. Mc- Grew, R. O. Bailey, R. H. Hazard, R. V. Ouluhan, Julian M. Cochrane, H. H. Stro- meyer, James H. Sloan, Jr., S. A. Connell, Bromley Wharton, Thomas J. Lynch, Thomas McD. Jones, Edgar C. Gerwig, Ber- nard R. Green, Hon. W. I. Wilcox and others. As the President stepped into view of the crowd, cheer after cheer rang out and men waved their hats and women their handker- "llouse fix." TILE DESIGN. (90) chiefs, the band meanwhile playing "Hail to the Chief." At the left of the President sat the Governor, and at the right Bishop Dar- lington. In the rear were United States Sen- ators Knox and Penrose, with other members of the presidential party, members of the Su- preme Court, the Capitol Commission, the committee representing the Legislature, and the Governor's staff in full uniform. The dedication exercises were begun in a driving rain. Governor Pennypacker acted as master of ceremonies and introduced the speakers. John H. Dillingham, of the So- ciety of Friends, in Philadelphia, opened the exercises with Scripture reading. He was se- lected at the request of the Governor, who deemed it fitting to have one of that denom- ination present. Mr. Dillingham said when he was presented: "I will read brief selec- tions from the Holy Scriptures, trusting that it is in the heart of not a few of us in coming here, to dedicate both in this temple of gov- ernment, and in our bodies as temples of the Holy Spirit, only whatsoever things are hon- orable, whatsoever things are just, whatso- ever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, and to think of these things." Then the speaker read from Lamentations iii, 40- 41; II Chronicles vi, 13, 14, 18, 29, 30 and 31 ; Psalms cvi, 4; Heb. xii, i and 2; Isaiah xli, I. The last was as follows: "Keep si- lence before me, O islands, and let the people renew their strength; let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near to- gether to judgment." Then he closed his book and stood with bowed head, everyone rising for silent prayer. Ex-Governor Stone then stepped forth, and as president of the Building Commission, transferred the Capitol to the Commonwealth in the following address : The Capitol building was constructed by au- thority of the Act of Assembly approved July 18, 1 90 1, which appropriated $4,000,000 for the re- moval of the old building and the construction of the new. This act vested the authority of construction in a commission of five persons who were to have the (9 building completed by the first day of January, igo6, William H. Graham, of Allegheny, Pa.; W. P. Snyder, of Chester county, Pa.; N. C. Schaeffer, of Lancaster, Pa. ; Edward Bailey, of Harrisburg, Pa., and myself, constituted this com- mission. Our first meeting was held on August 20, 1 90 1, at which time I became the president of the commission; Mr. Bailey, treasurer; E. C. Ger- wig, of Allegheny, Pa., secretary; Robert K. Young, of Wellsboro, Pa., solicitor, and T. Larry Eyre, of West Chester, Pa., superintendent. Advertisements were inserted in the leading news- papers of the State, asking architects to submit plans and specifications, the commission agreeing to give the architect whose plans and specifications should be adopted, 5 per cent, commission on the cost of the building, for the supervision of its construction ; and the architects submitting the five next best plans in the opinion of the commission were to receive $1,000 each. Prof. W. R. Ware, a professor of architecture in the Columbia University, and a man whose repu- tation as a judge of architecture is not excelled in this country, was employed to pass upon the plans and specifications submitted by the architects in re- sponse to our advertisements. All knowledge of the name of the architects presenting plans and specifica- tions was withheld from Professor Ware and the commission. These plans and specifications were known from the time they came into the possession of the commission by number. After thorough and complete examination of the ten sets of plans and specifications submitted. Pro- fessor Ware reported to the commission that they could safely select any one of four different plans. The commission then, without knowing whose plans they were, decided upon a certain set of plans which they adopted, and it was after this decision had been made that they became aware that the chosen plans had been submitted by Joseph M. Huston, of Philadelphia. We then employed Bernard R. Green, superin- tendent of the Congressional Library at Washing- ton, D. C, a man who had supervised the construc- tion of many buildings for the Government, as an assistant and adviser to the commission. Mr. Hus- ton, with Mr. Green's assistance, then worked out the specifications in detail and advertisements were inserted in the leading newspapers of the country calling for bids by contractors to furnish all the ma- terial and construct the building in accordance with the plans and specifications. Six bids were submit- ted. The lowest bidder was George F. Payne & Co., of Philadelphia, and they being otherwise sat- I) isfactory and furnishing the necessary bond re- quired by law, were awarded the contract. A little more than a year was consumed in the preparation of specifications, in making different ex- aminations and tests of granite and by the bidders in examination of plans and specifications, before the contract was executed. The history of the construction of this building is generally known to the people of the State, as the newspapers have made frequent reference to it in their columns. The commission met once a month, at which meetings the contractors, the architect and Mr. Green made reports as to the condition and progress of the work. We have had our allotted number of strikes, several accidents and a number of delays, caused by the weather, the failure of subcontractors to deliver material and from other causes. The building was substantially completed some weeks before the time specified in the law. The law under which the building was con- structed contemplated a completed building, ready for occupancy. We found that in addition to the money necessary for that purpose we could spare $igo,ooo for decorations. Contracts were there- fore made with Miss Violet Oakley, George Gray Barnard and Edward A. Abbey for mural paintings and sculpture. The amount paid and to be paid to the contrac- tors, George F. Payne & Co., is $3,522,638.12; the amount to Miss Violet Oakley is $20,000; the amount to George Gray Barnard, $100,000; the amount to Edwin A. Abbey is $70,000; the archi- tect's commission amounts to $185,631.90; the amount paid to competing architects is $5,000. The expenses of the commission, including salaries to employees, amount to $50,839.04, leaving in the hands of the commission $45,890.94. A further expenditure of money will be necessary in placing in the building the sculpture and paint- ings contracted for and not yet completed, and prob- ably other small items. What this amount will be cannot be determined at present, but there will be from $30,000 to $40,000 unexpended, which will be turned back to the State by the commission. Such, in brief, is the history of the construction of this building. The building speaks for itself, and it is very gratifying to the commission to find that it is generally accepted and approved by the people of the State. We claim no special credit for the work. We have simply done the best we could with the money appropriated, and the acceptance and approval of our work, by the people, is our suf- ficient reward. The commission has not stinted the work in time nor attention in any particular. The members have been prompt and regular in their attendance at all meetings. They have manifested great interest and zeal, and I do not believe they could have given any more attention to the building or taken any greater interest in it if it had been their own. The commission has been harmonious from its first meeting. There have never been any serious disputes or jealousy or bitterness or strife. Upon frequent occasions there have been differences of opinions as to action, but when those differences were voted upon the minority has readily acquiesced and accepted the situation and done just as much to carry out the wishes of the majority as if they had been their own. The selection of the architect and contractors was exceedingly fortunate. They have been im- bued with the same zeal and the same interest and have done their best. And the same may be said of the officers of the commission, and I doubt very much whether Mr. Green took any greater interest in the construction of the Congressional Library or any other Government building than he has in this. This occasion does not justify me in making any extended remarks. Having briefly made a report of our work, my mission is ended. And now, in be- half of the commission, I tender you, sir, as Gover- nor of the State, the building, and hope that it will not only meet with your approval, but the approval of all the people of our State. As soon as the applause which followed the conclusion of the address had ceased, Mr. Stone took the golden key from its bed of velvet in the keystone-shaped casket, and handed it to Governor Pennypacker. He held the key aloft that the vast throng could see it and cheer the act of delivery. Governor Pennypacker in accepting the Capitol, said: The Capitol is much more than the building in which the Legislature holds its sessions, the courts sit in judgment and the E.xecutive exercises his au- thority. It is a concrete manifestation of the im- portance and power of the State and an expression of its artistic development. Intelligent observers who look upon the structure and examine the pro- portions, the arrangements and the ornamentation are enabled to divine at what stage in the advance of civilization the people have arrived and to de- termine with sufficient accuracy what have been their achievements in the past and what are their aspirations for the future. (92) "Bat: TILE DESIGN. The commission charged with the duty of erect- ing this Capitol and those who have had responsi- bility in connection with it have felt that in archi- tecture and appointments the outcome ought to be worthy of the Commonwealth. They have not for- gotten the essential and unique relation which Penn- sylvania has borne in the development of our na- tional life; that in her first Capitol the Govern- ment of the United States had its birth ; that during ten years of the early and uncertain existence of that Government she gave it a home ; that since its origin what has ever been accepted as the "Pennsyl- vania idea" has been the dominant political principle of its administration and that its present unparal- leled material prosperity rests finally in large meas- ure upon the outcome of her furnaces and mines. Nor have they forgotten that the thought of Wil- liam Penn, enunciated over two centuries ago and rewritten around the dome of this Capitol, has be- come the fundamental principle of our national Constitution, acknowledged now by all men as ax- iomatic truth. There is a sermon which the many Americans who hie hither in the future years to study chaste art expressed in form, as to-day they go to the Par- thenon and St. Peter's, to the cathedrals of Antwerp and Cologne, will be enabled to read in these stones of polished marble and hewn granite. When Moses set out to build "an altar under the hill and twelve pillars," he beforehand "wrote all the words of the Lord." Let us take comfort in the belief that in like man- ner this massive and beautiful building, which we have in our later time erected, will be for an ex- ample and inspiration to all of the people, encour- aging them in pure thoughts and inciting them to worthy deeds. Let us bear in mind the injunction of the far-seeing founder of the province, which made it indeed, as he hoped, the seed of a nation — "that we may do the thing that is truly wise and just. On behalf of the Commonwealth, as its Chief Executive, I accept this Capitol and now, with pride, with faith and with hope, I dedicate it to the public use and to the purposes for which it was designed and constructed. After the applause had subsided, all eyes were turned to the chair on which sat the Chief Magistrate of the Nation. A deep silence of expectancy rested on the vast multi- tude when the Governor rose to introduce President Roosevelt, but no sooner had his name been spoken, when cheer after cheer rent the air in all directions — far up and down the wide streets packed with humanity. The Governor in introducing him said: "Of all the rulers of the earth, the greatest is the President of the United States. I am glad we have him with us to-day. I present him to you." The address which he made was as follows : In every crisis of our Government the attitude of Pennsylvania has been of crucial importance, as the affectionate name of "Keystone State" signifies. Pennsylvania has always looked before she leaped, and it was well that she should do so. But having finally made up her mind, in each great crisis of our national history, her weight has been cast unhesitat- (93) ingly upon the right side, and has been found irre- sistible. This was true alilce at the time of the Declaration of Independence, at the time of the adoption of the Constitution and during the terrible years when the issue was the preservation of the Union. Pennsylvania's soil is historic. It was within Pennsylvania's borders that the contest which was to decide whether the valiant soldiers of France would be able to bar this continent against the dom- ination of the people of the English-speaking colo- nies. It was on Pennsylvania's soil that the Decla- ration of Independence was signed and the consti- tutional convention held. It was in Pennsylvania that Washington wintered at Valley Forge, and by keeping his army together during that winter defi- nitely turned the scales in our favor in the contest for independence. It was again on Pennsylvania's soil, at Gettysburg, that the tide turned in the Civil War. In the composition of her people, moreover, Pennsylvania has epitomized the composition of our Union ; for here many old world races have mingled their blood to make that new type, the American. Finally, in all branches of the public service, in peace and in war, the native or adopted citizens of Pennsylvania have attained the highest eminence. I do not, however, come here to-day to speak only of the past, and still less to appeal merely to State pride. We can show that the past is with us a living force only by the way in which we handle ourselves in the present, and each of us can best show his devotion to his own State by making evi- dent his paramount devotion to that union which includes all the States. The study of the great deeds of the past is of chief avail in so far as it in- cites us to grapple resolutely and effectively with the problems of the present. We are not now menaced by foreign war. Our union is firmly established. But each generation has its special and serious diffi- culties; and we of this generation have to struggle with evils springing from the very material success of which we are so proud, from the very growth and prosperity of which, with justice, we boast. The extraordinary Industrial changes of the last half a century have produced a totally new set of conditions, under which new evils flourish ; and for these new evils new remedies must be devised. Some of these evils can be grappled with by pri- vate effort only; for we never can afford to forget that In the last analysis the chief factor in personal success, and indeed In national greatness, must be the sturdy, self-reliant character of the individual citizen. But many of these evils are of such a na- ture that no private effort can avail against them. These evils, therefore, must be grappled with by governmental action. In some cases this govern- mental action must be exercised by the several States individually. In yet others it has become increas- ingly evident that no efficient State action is possible, V and that we need through executive action, through legislation, and through judicial interpretation and construction of law, to increase the power of the Federal Government. If we fail thus to increase it, we show our impo- tence and leave ourselves at the mercy of those in- genious legal advisers of the holders of vast corpor- ate wealth, who, in the performance of what they regard as their duty, and to serve the ends of their clients, invoke the law at one time for the con- founding of their rivals, and at another time strive for the nullification of the law, in order that they themselves may be left free to work their unbridled will on these same rivals, or on those who labor for them, or on the general public. In the exercise of their profession and in the service of their clients these astute lawyers strive to pervert the passage of efficient laws and strive to secure judicial determina- tions or those that pass which shall emasculate them. They do not invoke the Constitution in order to compel the due observance of law alike by the rich and poor, by great and small ; on the contrary, they are ceaselessly on the watch to cry out that the Con- stitution Is violated whenever any effort is made to invoke the aid of the National Government, whether for the efficient regulation of railroads, for the ef- ficient supervision of great corporations, or for ef- ficiently securing obedience to such a law as the na- tional eight-hour law and similar so-called "labor statutes." The doctrine they preach would make the Con- stitution merely the shield of incompetence and the excuse for governmental paralysis ; they treat It as a justification for refusing to attempt the remedy of evil, Instead of as the source of vital power neces- sary for the existence of a mighty and ever-growing nation. Strong nationalist though I am, and firm though my belief is that there must be a wide extension of the power of the National Government to deal with questions of this kind, I freely admit that as regards many matters of first-rate Importance we must rely purely upon the States for the betterment of pres- ent conditions. The several States must do their duty or our citizenship can never be put on a proper plane. Therefore I most heartily congratulate the people of this State of Pennsylvania on what its Legislature, upon what its government, has accom- plished during this present 5'ear. It is a remarkable record of achievement. (94) Through your Legislature you have abolished passes; you have placed the offices of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Insurance Commis- sioner upon an honorable and honest basis of salary only by abolishing the fee system ; you have passed a law compelling the officers and employes of great cities to attend to the duties for which they are paid by all the taxpayers, and to refrain from using the power conferred by their offices to influence political campaigns; you have prohibited the solicitation or receiving of political assessments by city employees; you have by law protected the State treasury from depredation and conserved the public moneys for use only in the public interest ; j'ou have by a law for the protection of the elective franchise made tam- tory of the practical betterment of political condi- tions, not merely for your State, but for all our States. I do not recall any other State Legislature which, in a similar length of time, has to its credit such a body of admirable legislation. Let me, how- ever, most earnestly urge that your Legislature con- tinue this record of public service by enacting one or two additional laws. One subject which every good citizen should have at heart above almost all others is the matter of child labor. Everywhere the great growth of modern industrialism has been ac- companied by abuses in connection with the em- ployment of labor which have necessitated a com- plete change in the attitude of the State toward labor. STATE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. perlng with the ballot boxes and the casting of ille- gal votes so difficult as in all probability to be un- profitable; 5'ou have provided a primary election law which guarantees to the voters free expression in the selection of candidates for office ; you have by law regulated and Improved the civil service systems of your greatest cities; and, finally, you have passed a law containing a provision which I most earnestly hope will in substance be embodied likewise In a law by the Congress at the coming session — a pro- vision prohibiting the officers of any corporation from making a contribution of the money of that corporation to any candidate or any political com- mittee for the payment of any election expenses whatever. It is surely not too much to say that this body of substantive legislation marks an epoch in the his- This is above all true in connection with the employment of child labor. In Pennsylvania you have made a beginning, but only a beginning, in proper legislation and administration on this sub- ject; the law must If necessary be strengthened, and it must be rigorously enforced. The National Government can do but little in the matter of child labor, though I earnestly hope that that little will be permitted to be done by Congress. The great bulk of the work, however, must be left to the State Legislatures; and if our State Legislatures would act as drastically and yet as wisely on this subject of child labor as Pennsylvania has acted within the present year as regards the subjects I have enumer- ated above, the gain would be literally incalculable; and one of the most vital needs of modern American life would at last be adequately met. (95) So much for the State. Now for the nation; and here I cannot do better than base my theory of governmental action upon the words and deeds of one of Pennsylvania's greatest sons, Justice James Wilson. Wilson's career has been singularly over- looked for many years, but I believe that more and more it is now being adequately appreciated ; and I congratulate your State upon the fact that Wil- son's body is to be taken away from where it now rests and brought back to lie, as it should, in Penn- sylvania soil. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was one of the men who saw that the revolution, in which he had served as a sol- dier, would be utterly fruitless unless it was fol- lo^ved by a close and permanent union of the States ; and in the constitutional convention and in securing the adoption of the Constitution and expounding what it meant, he rendered services even greater than he rendered as a member of the Continental Congress, which declared our independence; for it was the success of the makers and preservers of the unon which justified our independence. He believed in the people with the faith of Abra- ham Lincoln; and coupled with his faith in the people, he had what most of the men who in his generation believed in the people did not have ; that is, the courage to recognize the fact that faith in the people amounted to nothing unless the repre- sentatives of the people assembled together in the National Government were given full and com- plete power to work on behalf of the people. He developed even before Marshall the doctrine (abso- lutely essential not merely to the efficiency but to the existence of this nation) that an inherent power rested in the nation, outside of the enumerated pow- ers conferred upon it by the Constitution, in all cases where the object involved was beyond the power of the several States and was a power ordi- narily exercised by sovereign nations. In a remarkable letter in which he advocated set- ting forth in early and clear fashion the powers of the national government, he laid down the propo- sition that it should be made clear that there were neither vacancies nor interferences between the limits of State and national jurisdiction and that both jurisdictions together composed only one uni- form and comprehensive system of government and laws; that is, whenever the States can not act, be- cause the need to be met is not one of merely a single locality, then the National Government rep- resenting all the people, should have complete power to act. It was in the spirit of Wilson that Washington and Washington's lieutenant, Hamil- ton, acted ; and it was in the same spirit that Mar- shall construed the law. It is only acting in this spirit that the national judges, legislators and executives can give a satisfac- tory solution of the great question of the present day — the question of providing on behalf of the sovereign people the means which will enable the people in eifective form to assert their sovereignty over the immense corporations of the day. Certain judicial decisions have done just what Wilson feared ; they have, as a matter of fact, left vacan- cies, left blanks between the limits of possible State jurisdiction and the limits of actual national juris- diction over the control of the great business cor- porations. It is the narrow construction of the powers of the National Government which in our democracy has proved the chief means of limiting the national power to cut out abuses, and which is now the chief bulwark of those great moneyed in- terests which oppose and dread any attempt to place them under efficient governmental control. Many legislative actions and many judicial de- cisions which I am confident time will show to have been erroneous and a damage to the country would have been avoided if our legislators and jurists had approached the matter of enacting and construing the law's of the land in the spirit of your great Penn- sylvanian. Justice Wilson — in the spirit of Marshall and of Washington. Such decisions put us at a great disadvantage in the battle for industrial order as against the present industrial chaos. If we inter- pret the Constitution in narrow instead of broad fashion, if we forsake the principles of Washington, Marshall, Wilson and Hamilton, we as a people will render ourselves impotent to deal with any abuses which may be committed by the men who have accumulated the enormous fortunes of to-day, and who use these fortunes in still vaster corporate form in business. The legislative or judicial actions and decisions of which I complain, be it remembered, do not really leave to the States power to deal with corporate wealth in business. Actual experience has shown that the States are wholly powerless to deal with this subject; and any action or decision that de- prives the nation of the power to deal with it, simply results in leaving the corporations absolutely free to work without any efltective supervision whatever, and such a course is fraught with untold danger to the future of our whole system of government, and, indeed, to our whole civilization. All honest men must abhor and reprobate any effort to excite hostility to men of wealth as such. We should do all we can to encourage thrift and (96) business energy, to put a premium upon the con- duct of the man who honestly earns his livelihood and more than his livelihood, and who honestly uses the money he has earned. But it is our clear duty to see, in the interest of the people, that there is adequate supervision and control over the business use of the swollen fortunes of to-day, and also wisely to determine the conditions upon which these fortunes are to be transmitted and the percentage wealth, and should realize that it would be better to have no legislation at all than legislation couched either in a vindictive spirit of hatred toward men of wealth or else drawn with the recklessness of im- practicable visionaries. But, on the other hand, it shall and must ultimately be understood that the United States Government, on behalf of the people of the United States, has and is to exercise the power of supervision and control over the business Owen Roberts Chas. G. Wetter Jos. M. Huston Geo. F. I'ayne Stanford B. Lewis BREAKING GROUND FOR THE NEW STATE CAPITOL. that they shall pay to the government v\'hose pro- tecting arm alone enables them to exist. Only the nation can do this work. To relegate it to the States is a farce, and is simply another way of say- ing that it shall not be done at all. Under a wise and far-seeing interpretation ot the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution, I maintain that the National Government should have complete power to deal with all of this wealth which in any way goes into the commerce between the States — and practically all of it that is employed in the great corporations does thus go in. The na- tional legislators should most scrupulously avoid any demagogic legislation about the business use of this use of this wealth — in the first place, over all the work of the common carriers of the nation, and in the next place over the work of all the great corpor- ations which directly or indirectly do any interstate business whatever — and this includes almost all of the great corporations. During the last few years the National Govern- ment has taken very long strides in the direction of exercising and securing this adequate control over the great corporations and it was under the leader- ship of one of the most honored public men in our country, one of Pennsylvania's most eminent sons — the present Senator, and then Attorney General, Knox — that the new departure was begun. Events (97) have moved fast during the last five years, and it is curious to look back at the extreme bitterness which not merely the spokesmen and representatives of or- ganized wealth, but many most excellent conserva- tive people then felt as to the action of Mr. Knox and of the Administration. Many of the great financiers of this country were certain that Mr. Knox's Northern Securities suit, if won, would plunge us into the worst panic we had ever seen. They denounced as incitement to an- archy, as an apology for socialism, the advocacy of policies that either have now become law or are in fair way of becoming law ; and yet these same poli- cies, so far from representing anarchy or socialism, were in reality the antidotes to anarchy, the anti- dotes to socialism. To exercise a constantly in- creasing and constantly more efficient supervision and control over the great common carriers of the country prevents all necessity for seriously consid- ering such a project as the government ownership of railroads — a policy which would be evil in its results from every standpoint. A similar extension of the national power to over- see and secure correct behavior in the management of all great corporations engaged in interstate busi- ness will in similar fashion render far more stable the present system by doing away with those grave abuses which are not only evil in themselves but are also evil because they furnish an excuse for agita- tors to inflame well-meaning people against all forms of property, and to commit the country to schemes of wild, would-be remedy which would work in- finitely more harm than the disease itself. The Government ought not to conduct the business of the country, but it ought to regulate it so that it shall be conducted in the interest of the public. Perhaps the best justification of the course which in the National Government we have been pursuing in the past few years, and which we intend steadily and progressively to pursue in the future, is that it is condemned with almost equal rancor alike by the reactionaries — the Bourbons — on one side, and by the wild apostles of unrest on the other. The reac- tionary is bitterly angry because we have deprived him of that portion of his power which he misuses to the public hurt; the agitator is angered for va- rious reasons, including among others the fact that by remedying the abuses we have deprived him of the fulcrum of real grievance, which alone renders the lever of irrational agitation formidable. We have actually accomplished much. But we have not accomplished all, not anything like all, that we feel must be accomplished. We shall not halt; we shall steadily follow the path we have marked out, executing the laws we have succeeded in putting upon the statute books with absolute impartiality as between man and man, and unresting in our en- deavor to strengthen and supplement these by further laws which shall enable us in more efficient and more summary fashion to achieve the ends we have in view. During the last few years Congress has had to deal with such vitally important questions as provid- ing for the building of the Panama Canal, inaugu- rating the vast system of national irrigation in the States of the great plains and the Rocky Mountains, providing for a Pacific cable, and so forth. Yet in addition to these tasks, some of which are of stu- pendous importance. Congress has taken giant strides along the path of government regulation and control of corporations; the interstate commerce law has been made effective in radical and far-reach- ing fashion, rebates have been stopped, a pure food law has been passed, proper supervision of the meat packing business provided, and the bureau of cor- porations established — a bureau which has already done great good, and which can and should be given a constantly increasing functional power. The work of legislation has been no more import- ant than the work done by the department of jus- tice in executing the laws, not only against corpora- tions and individuals who have broken the anti- trust or interstate commerce law, but against those who have been engaged in land trauds. Scores of suits, civil and criminal, have been successfully un- dertaken against offenders of all kinds — many of them against the most formidable and wealthy com- binations in the land ; in some the combinations have been dissolved, in some heavy fines have been imposed, in several cases the chief offenders have been imprisoned. It behooves us Americans to look ahead and plan out the right kind of a civilization, as that which we intend to develop from these wonderful new conditions of vast industrial growth. It must not be, it shall not be, the civilization of a mere plu- tocracy, a banking house, Wall-street-syndicate civ- ilization ; not yet can there be submission to class hatred, to rancor, brutality and mob violence, for that would mean the end of all civilization. In- creased powers are susceptible of abuse as well as use; never before have the opportunities for selfish- ness been so great, nor the results of selfishness so appalling; for in communities where everything is organized on a merely selfish commercial basis, such selfishness, if unchecked, may transform the great forces of the new epoch into powers of destruction hitherto unequaled. (98) LM^j^-^n/Ai(4;m - ^tetua/u/i?/,4^/ C/^/f/t.>t//iwn/.ay '7' tjrfa-ff^^.^ittfa' ,^Sk "7 FAC-SIMILE OF INVITATION TO DEDICATION CEREMONIES. We need to check the forces of greed, to insure just treatment alike of capital and of labor, and of the general public, to prevent any man, rich or poor, from doing or receiving wrong, whether this wrong be one of cunning or of violence. Much can be done by wise legislation and by resolute enforce- ment of the law. But still more must be done by steady training of the individual citizen, in con- science and character, until he grows to abhor cor- ruption and greed and tyranny and brutality and to prize justice and fair dealing. The men who are to do the work of the new epoch must be trained so as to have a sturdy self-respect, a power of sturdy insistence on their own rights, and with it a proud and generous recognition of their duties, a sense of honorable obligation to their fel- lows, which will bind them, as by bands of steel, to refrain in their daily work at home or in their busi- ness from doing aught to any man which cannot be blazoned under the noonday sun. No sooner had the last word fallen from the President's lips when a mighty cheer went up from thousands and thousands of Penn- sylvania's citizenship, and a salute from the arsenal guns put a heavy period to it all. Then followed the benediction by the Bishop of Harrisburg, the Right Reverend James (99 Henry Darlington, who brought the cere- monies to a solemn and impressive close : May Jehovah Jireh, the Heavenly Father, and Creator of all men, grant His blessing upon this structure now dedicated to the use of the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania. May all who enact or execute the law remember the words of Holy Scrip- ture, "The powers that be are ordained of God," and that the representatives of the people must be men of godly life and purpose. As the founders of this Colony called it, "A Holy Experiment," may it continue "Holy" forever. Bless our colleges, our public and private schools, our churches, societies and charities, bless soldier and citizen, black and white, stranger and native born. May the tolera- tion of varying beliefs, which was the first principle of our past, be also the motto of the future, and as this State was perhaps more favored than any other in furthering the Revolutionarj^ cause, so may she ever be ready in the years to come to offer herself and her sons a sacrifice for the good of the Nation, of which she is a part. God bless the workers in our mines, the lumbermen of our forests and moun- tain sides, the farmers of our broad valleys, the merchants, factory workers and laborers of our cities, and make all strong for public honesty and honor. Called rightly the "Kej'stone State," may she ever value that truth and uprightness which is the keystone of religion and all virtue. ) The Lord bless us and keep us. The Lord make his face to shine upon us and be gracious unto us. The Lord lift up his countenance upon us and give us peace both now and evermore. Amen. At 12.30 P. M. the military parade was formed. The hne of march extended from the city entrance, Front and Market streets, on Market to Fourth, to Wabiut, to Third, to North, to Sixth, to Reily, to Third, to Forster, to Second, to North to Front, to Market, where the parade was reviewed by grand marshal, major general and staffs, and dismissed. The formation of the procession was as follows : Detail of State Police. Commonwealth Band. Colors. (Mounted) Sergt. Fred. W. Huston, Sergt. H. H. Baker, Sergt. C. Y. Parthemore, Sergt. R. C. Crow, Sergt. J. K. Spangler, Sergt. Abram Musser. Chief Marshal, Marlin E. Olmsted. Chief of Staff, Col. W. F. Richardson. Orderlies, Francis H. Hoy, Jr., Dr. Henry M. Stine, Capt. L. V. Rausch. Aides: William H. Atkins, Oliver Attick, Lewis E. Beitler, Arthur D. Bacon, Harry H. Bowman, Charles S. Boll, Wilbur S. Barker, William A. Boll, Fred. M. Barton, John C. Behney, A. H. Bailey, J. Beattie Barbour, John A. Bollman, Dr. J. B. Biddle, Judge D. Brown, George W. Brady, Dr. John F. Culp, Owen M. Copelin, Robert Conk- lin, George W. Cook, Dr. H. Ross Coover. Daniel M. Dull, Clark E. Diehl, John A. Deitz- ler, Winfield S. Evans, U. G. Eppley, George A. Engle, Eugene M. Ensminger, E. F. Eisley, Major John T. Ensminger, W. R. Emerick, Dr. J. W. Ellenberger, A. J. Feight, N. Matt Freck, Charles G. Frantz, Richard V. Fox, John Fisher, Peter F. Fitzpatrick, Dr. D. F. Funk, John C. Groome, George C. Gochenaur, John W. German, Levi Gerhard, Christ C. Gingrich, Jacob T. Gibson. J. H. Kimmel, George C. Keim, L. R. Kelker, Samuel T. Kurtz, Henry L. Lark, Merkel Landis, John S. Low, Luther Ludvvig, Albert G. Light, Harry G. Loeser, Dr. J. J. Light, Martin Longe- necker, Arthur M. Lebo, William L Laubenstein, Major R. W. Montelius, Edward Manning, George W. Musser, John B. Musser, Major H. P. Mover, Charles F. Moyer, A. S. Miller. Dr. William Hughes, Harry L. Holmes, W. Spry Hurlock, Lawrence V. Harvey, Harry Hertz- ler, George C. Helfrich, E. O. Hassler, William Hunsicker, A. L Hartman, John A. Heagv, Francis H. Hoy, Francis H. Hoy, jr., Frank Hall, M. H. Hite, M. P. Johnson, Joseph Jordan, W, K. Jones, Clinton Jones, F. L. Jefferson, A. H. Kreidler, J. H. Kuntz, J. Herman Knisely. Walter Montgomery, F. T. McClintock, John Charles Mosser, Perry Murray, Walter Mahon, Dennis F. McCarthy, John A. Moyer. Francis Neeh', T. J. Newcomer, John L. Nissley, B. Frank Ober, J. S. Omwake, Major James Eve- lyn Pilcher, Captain J. M. Peters, Milton H. Plank, Riley Probst, Samuel F. Prowell, Dr. W. H. Painter, Captain L. V. Rausch, George H. Reifif, Isaiah Reese, A. S. Royer, John W. Reilly, J. Park Rutherford. John C. Reeser, Dr. Henry M. Stine, Lieut. Fred. Schofer, George F. Shope, Charles Sterline, H. J. Shenk, Levi H. Shenk, Major J. C. Smith, H. H. Shellenberger, William P. Sieg, Joseph L. Shearer, Jr., David H. Shope, Russell Thomas, Sr., R. H. Thomas, Jr., A. A. Thumma, Dr. H. M. Vastine, John C. Wensell, Dr. R. J. Wall. Major General J. P. S. Gobin. StafiF. Lt. Col. William J. Elliott, Assistant Adjutant General. Lt. Col. John P. Penny, Inspector. Lt. Col. Norman B. Farquhar, Judge Advocate. Lt. Col. William F. Richardson, Quartermaster. Lt. Col. Simon B. Cameron, Commissary. Lt. Col. Andrew S. Strayer, Surgeon-in-Chief. Lt. Col. Milton A. Gherst, Ordnance Officer. Lt. Col. Frank G. Darte, I. R. P. Major Fred. R. Drake, A. D. C. Major Frederic A. Snyder, A. D. C. Major William S. Millar, A. D. C. Brigadier General John A. Wiley. Staff. Col. Willis J. Hulings, Commanding Provisional Regiment, Second Brigade. Staff. (100) Fourteenth Regiment Band. Provisional Regiment, Second Brigade. Col. Wendell P. Bowman, Commanding Provisional Regiment, First Brigade. Staff. Third Regiment Band. Provisional Regiment, First Brigade. The President and the Governor reviewed the parade from the grandstand at Third and State streets, where the dedication ceremo- nies had taicen place. President Roosevelt was no doubt tired, but he took his place at the front of the stand again with his usual quick, brisk steps, and to the salute of Con- gressman Olmsted, who rode past as chief DEDICATION DAY, OCT. 4, I906 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ADDRESSING THE PEOPLE. Col. Charles M. Clement, Commanding Provisional Regiment, Third Brigade. Staff. Twelfth Regiment Band. Provisional Regiment, Third Brigade. Captain H. H. Hey, U. S. A., Commanding. State College Cadets. Col. W. C. Bambrick, Commanding. Scotland Orphan School Cadets. Indian Band. Carlisle Indian School. Captain John C. Groome, Commanding. State Police. ( marshal, he responded by lifting his silk hat with a graceful sweep. He taught the crowd a lesson in patriotism as the first of the colors approached. When the flag got within ten yards of the stand, he doffed his hat, keeping it off until the standard bearer had gone by. Every man in the multitude followed suit, and repeated the act of respect with each ap- proach of the colors. Every company line that went by in straight alignment received a smile of appro\'al from President Roose- velt. All the militiamen and cadets passed him with "eyes right" and stepped their best as they passed their commander-in-chief. The Carlisle Indian School boys received lOl) the greatest ovation from the people. They stepped out like regulars, with a long swing- ing stride and their guns at a "port arms" — the marching salute. They looked like a regiment of victorious Japs, with their dark skins and visored caps. By a humorous chance their band changed its music from "Garry Owen" to "The Gang's All Here" as it reached the stand. But it remained for the State Constab- ulary — two troops of the most brawny Penn- sylvanians within the borders of the State, mounted on choice horses and headed by Cap- tain John C. Groome — to make the biggest hit with the President. Clad in dark service uniforms and helmeted after the Irish fashion, their tread and bearing certainly showed them in fine fettle. The little boys from the Scotland Soldiers' Orphans' School were also heartily greeted. "What a wonderful State is Pennsylvania to care for the children of its old soldiers," re- marked the President as he watched the lit- tlest fellows toddling along carrying guns as big as themselves. After the last of the ragged urchins fol- lowing in the wake of the parade, had cleared the street in front of the stand, the Governor and his guests drove rapidly to the Executive Mansion. The luncheon tendered was one of the most notable functions given in the Mansion for years. The tables were ar- ranged in the form of a large horseshoe and decorated with roses and carnations and the State silver service. At the head of the table sat the Governor, with the President on his right and Senator Penrose on his left. There were no toasts for lack of time, and after a brief farewell to the President, he left for the station, whither he was escorted by the Dedi- cation Committee and the Governor's Troop, Captain Frederick Ott commanding, in time to take a train at three o'clock. Great festivities had been planned for the afternoon and evening, but owing to the heavy rain, all those arranged for out of doors had to be abandoned. The Capitol was accordingly filled with humanity eager to see its glories. The Damrosch orchestra dis- coursed a program of the finest music, in the rotunda during the afternoon, and in the evening Kendle's First Regiment Band made the dome reverberate with its sonorous strains. The Japanese day shells which were to be set off at Union Square in the afternoon, and the pyrotechnic display to be made on the "Island" In the evening, had to be post- poned to the following day. So ended the dedication of Pennsylvania's Capitol in 1906. No more notable event had occurred within the confines of the State for many a year. Those who did not enjoy the enviable opportunity of being present, will, when they come to see It In future years, un- der the spell of the magnificence of the struc- ture, conjure up in their imagination the thousands upon thousands gathered in the Capitol, the elaborate and Impressive cere- monies, and the patriotic influence which the dedication exerted upon those that were privi- leged to participate In it. It is to be hoped that as the years, yea, as the centuries roll by, generations unborn may live under good laws and good rulers because the Capitol was dedicated to work out "the holy experiment" of him that was the founder of our Common- wealth. Already, since the dedication, many thousands of people have availed them- selves of what are known as the Saturday "penny-a-mlle" railroad excursions from all parts of the State, to feast their eyes on the glories of the Capitol and to stimulate their patriotic pride In the greatness of the Key- stone State. (102) .^.u.i.MiljPfy^'^gg^a?;.-, 0<^- ^ '^ / 70 6 (103) SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER Governor of Pennsylvania. — Born in Phoe- nixville, Chester county, Pa., April g, 1843. His father having been appointed to a professorship in the Philadelphia Medical College, the family moved to that city and young Pennypacker was sent to the Northwest Grammar school, from which he was given a scholarship in Saunders Institute, West Philadelphia. On the death of his father, after sev- eral years' residence in Philadelphia, he moved back to Phoenixville, where he attended the Grovemont seminary. He prepared for Yale University, but through circumstances beyond his control he was prevented from attending that institute of learning. In 1862 he took an examination for teachers' certifi- cate in Montgomery county and that winter taught school in Mont Clare. In 1863 he enlisted and was sworn in as a United States Volunteer, joining Company F, of Pottstown, Twenty-sixth Pennsyl- vania Emergency Regiment, which was the first force to meet the rebels at Gettysburg. On his re- turn from military service, he began the study of law, entering the law department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania and at the same time regis- tering as a law student in the office of Hon. Peter McCall. In 1866 he was graduated with the de- gree of Bachelor of Laws and after the admission to the bar immediately began in the practice of the legal profession. In the same year he was elected president of the Bancroft Literary Union and in 1868 was chosen president of the Law Academy. In 1886 he was appointed a member of the Phila- delphia Board of Education. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1887 and in 1889 was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas No. 2 of Philadelphia by Governor Beaver. In the same year he was elected to the same position for a term of ten years and in 1899 was re-elected for a similar term, each time by both political parties. At the time of his nomi- nation by the Republican State Convention for Gov- ernor of the State he was President Judge of the Court of Common Plea; No. 2 of Philadelphia. He is president of the Historical Society of Phila- delphia and of the Philobiblon club ; vice-president of the Sons of the Revolution and of the Colonial Society ; Past Commander of Frederick Taylor post No. 19, Grand Army of the Republic; member of the Society of Colonial Wars ; of the Society of the War of 1812. He is also a trustee of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania and both Franklin and Mar- shall College and the University of Pennsylvania have given him the degree of Bachelor of Laws. For a number of years he was a member of the Val- ley Forge Commission. He is the author of "Penn- sylvania Colonial Cases," "Pennypacker's Supreme Court Reports," the "Settlement of Germantown," "A Digest of the Common Law Reports," "His- torical and Biographical Sketches," and over sixty books and papers. He was married October 20, 1870, to Virginia Earl, daughter of Nathan B. Broomal, of Chester county, and their family con- sists of three daughters and a son. (104) (■05) WILLIAM M. BROWN WILLIAM M. BROWN, Lieutenant Governor. — Born in Greenville, Pa., September 20, 1850, and is a resident of New Castle, Lawrence county. Received his early edu- cation in the public schools of Iowa. Subsequently he attended the Grammar School of Warren, Ohio, the Power Commercial School, of New Castle, Pa., and the One Study College of that city. Mr. Brown studied law in New Castle with Judge Mc- Michael, was admitted to the bar in 1876, and prac- ticed the profession eight years. He served as special agent of the Land Office Department of the United States from January, 1883, until the fol- lowing August, when he resigned and resumed the practice of law. Mr. Brown politically is a Repub- lican : he was a candidate for member of the House of Representatives from Lawrence county in 1876 and again in 1880, but was both times defeated by very small majorities. In November, 1896, he was elected a member of the Pennsylvania Senate from the Forty-seventh district, composed of Lawrence and Mercer counties, and at the sessions of the Leg- islature in 1897 he held a conspicuous position as a leader in that body, making a very creditable record as a debater and generally achieving an honorable distinction. He served as member of the select council of New Castle for six years. In 1890 business interests compelled him to un- (I dertake the building and operating of an electric street car line, and for the past fourteen years he has devoted his attention exclusively to this line of work. Until recently he was president of the Rapid Transit Railroad System of Syracuse, N. Y. In 1884 he was married to Miss Margaret Foltz. They have two children, a daughter and a son. He was nominated for Lieutenant Governor by the Republican State Convention of 1902, and elected in November of that year by a plurality of 181,254; inaugurated January 20, 1903. ROBERT McAFEE, Secretary of the Commonwealth. — Born Feb- ruary 28, 1849, in County Antrim, Ireland; was educated in Belfast; came to Allegheny in 1869, entering the employ of Oliver Bros. & Phillips, with which firm he remained twenty-four years. Was elected to select council in Allegheny in 1881, and served for ten years. In 1893 was elected Director of Public Works, which position he held for nine years. Has been a director of the Allegheny Na- tional Bank, Pittsburg, for ten years. Appointed Commissioner of Banking by Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, April 13, 1903, which position he resigned upon his appointment as Secretary of the Commonwealth on July 27, 1905. ROBERT M AFEE g6) WILLIAM PRESTON SNYDER WILLIAM PRESTON SNYDER, Auditor General. — Born October 7, 1851, in East Vincent township, Chester county, Pa. ; raised on a farm; educated in the public schools, Millers- ville Normal School and Ursinus College; taught school in his native township in the winter of 1868-69; graduated in the medical department of the University' of Pennsylvania in March, 1873; practiced medicine in Spring City (where he now resides) from 1873 to 1886; from February, 1886, to December 31, 1887, was medical examiner for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; postmaster in Spring City from 1883 to 1885; November, 1885, was elected prothonotary of Chester county, serving until January 4, 1891 ; in January, 1890, was elected chairman of the Republican County Committee ; resigned on the day he was nominated for Representative; was delegate to the State Con- vention which nominated Governor Hoyt, in 1878, and General Beaver in 1882; member of House of Representatives, session 1891 ; elected to the Senate 1892, 1896; again re-elected in I goo; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the ses- sions of 1899 and 1901 ; was nominated for Audi- tor General by the Republican State Convention in 1903 and elected in November of that year by a majority of 237,602. HAMPTON L. CARSON, Attorney General. — Born in Philadelphia, Feb- ruary 21, 1852. Was admitted to the bar of Phila- delphia in 1874, after having taken the degree of Bachelor of Arts at the University of Pennsylvania and a three years' course in the law school. He has argued cases in every branch of the United States courts and in the Supreme courts of Penn- sylvania, New York, New Jersey, and a number of other States. Was prominently connected with the trial of various bank cases in the Federal courts, one of which was the first of its kind to reach the Supreme Court of the United States and has be- come a leading case. Was the leading counsel in a case recently tried before the Supreme Court of the United States which involved the rights of Indian tribes in Oklahoma, known as the Lone Wolf case. Was the special representative of the American Bar Association at the gathering of the English and French bars at Montreal and was invited to speak before the Bench and Bar of England in London, at the banquet to Labori, who defended Dreyfus and Zola. Is the author of the "Law of Criminal Conspiracies," a work which is the accepted author- ity in almost every State in the Union. Has pub- lished "A History of the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Constitution of the United States," and is now engaged in writing the history of the Supreme Court HAMPTON L. CARSON (107) of Pennsylvania and a Life of Lord Mansfield. Has also delivered many historical and legal addresses before the State Bar Associations of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Maryland, Illinois, and Ore- gon. For many years he was professor in the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, teaching the laws of contracts and sales. Is a mem- ber of the Philadelphia Law Association, the Penn- sylvania State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the American Philosophical Society, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution. In 1889 Mr. Carson received from Lafayette Col- lege the degree of LL. D. In 1904 the degree of LL. D. from the Western University of Pennsylva- nia, and in 1906 the same degree from his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. He was appointed Attorney General by Governor Penny- packer, January 20, 1903. WILLIAM H. BERRY, State Treasurer. — Born in Edwardsville, Mad- ison county, Illinois, September 9, 1852. Is the son of Benjamin D. and Mary F. Berry; his father was one of the early pioneers of Illinois, and a skilled mechanic, having perfected several inven- tions; inheriting his father's mechanical tastes Mr. Berry served an apprenticeship in the machine shops NATHAN C. SCHAEFFER of Geo. W. Tift Sons of Buffalo, N. Y., and has been actively engaged in kindred pursuits ever since. Educated in the public schools of Illinois and se- cured a technical engineering education at the va- rious night schools, and at home. Has made several inventions of value, notably a high pressure, super- heating boiler which bears his name ; is the presi- dent of the Berry Engineering Co. which manufac- tures several of his inventions; has been a life-long student of economic questions, and has written and spoken frequently in several States upon these ques- tions; elected Mayor of Chester in February, 1905, and State Treasurer in November, 1905. WILLIAM H. BERRY NATHAN C. SCHAEFFER, Superintendent of Public Instruction. — Born February 23, 1849, in Maxatawney township, Berks county; educated in Maxatawny Seminary (now Keystone State Normal School), Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster ; Theological Seminary, Mercersburg, and in the Universities of Berlin, Tubingen and Leipsic; taught in Mercers- burg College and in Franklin and Marshall Col- lege ; was sixteen years principal of the Keystone State Normal School ; elected president of the Na- tional Educational Association of Asbury Park, N. J., in 1905; served as president of the Pennsyl- vania State Teacher's Association, secretary of the (108) National Council of Education, president of the De- partment of Superintendence of the National As- sociation, president of the Pennsylvania German Society, chancellor of the Pennsylvania Chautaqua at Mt. Gretna from 1901 to 1905; as a member of the Pennsylvania Commission on Industrial Edu- cation ; as editor of the Pennsylvania School Jour- nal since 1893, and is editor of a volume of Bible Readings for Schools; author of "Thinking and Learning to Think," and a History of Education in Pennsylvania, published by Mason Publishing Company; commissioned Superintendent of Public Instruction June i, 1903, and recommissioned in 1897, 1901 and 1905; served as a lecturer on Ped- agogy in the graduate department of the Univers- ity of Pennsylvania during the absence of Dr. Brumbaugh as Commissioner of Education in Porto Rico (1900-igoi). THOMAS J. STEWART, Adjutant General. — Born September 11, 1848, near Belfast, Ireland, and was brought by his pa- rents to Norristown, Montgomery county, in 1849; was educated in the public schools, and at the Quaker City Business College in Philadelphia; at sixteen years of age he enlisted as a private in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, Penn- sylvania Volunteers; engaged as manufacturer and dealer in window glass from 1870 to 1882; Assist- ant Adjutant General of Department of Pennsylva- nia, Grand Army of the Republic from 1882 to 1888; elected Department Commander in 1889; in 1883 "'as appointed Assistant Adjutant General of the Grand Army of the Republic in the United States; in September, 1897, appointed Adjutant General of the Grand Army of the Republic by Commander-in-Chief J. P. S. Gobin ; reappointed September, 1898, by Commander-in-Chief James A. Sexton; reappointed September, 1899, by Com- mander-in-Chief Albert D. Shaw ; elected Com- mander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Re- public October 8, 1 902; a member of the House of Representatives, session of 1885-1886; has been con- nected with the National Guard of Pennsylvania since 1868; appointed adjutant of the Sixth regi- ment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, in 1877; on September 20, 1889, was appointed assistant adjutant general. First Brigade, and reappointed in 1894; appointed on the part of the House of Repre- sentatives a member of the commission to locate and establish the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' THOMAS J. STEWART Home, and afterwards as a member of the board of trustees of the same institution on the part of the Grand Army of the Republic, and acted as secre- tary of both the commission and board of trustees ; has been secretary of the board of trustees continu- ously since 1886; in 1890 appointed a member of the commission in charge of the Soldiers' Orphan Schools; elected Secretary of Internal Affairs No- vember 4, 1886, and re-elected November 4, 1890; appointed Adjutant General by Governor D. H. Hastings, January 15, 1895; reappointed by Gov- ernor Wm. A. Stone, January 17, 1899; and re- appointed by Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, January 21, 1903. JAMES KNOX POLK HALL, State Senator. — Born at Milesburg, Pa., Sep- tember 30, 1844; educated at Pittsburg; admitted to the bar in November, 1866; elected district at- torney of Elk county in 1867; re-elected in 1870 and 1873; retired from practice in 1883, and has since devoted himself to his coal, lumber, railroad and banking interests ; was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress, and re-elected to the Fifty-seventh Con- gress; elected to the Senate in November, 1902; re-elected 1906. (109) National Convention in 1904 that nominated Theo- dore Roosevelt for President. On July i, 1905, was appointed Insurance Commissioner by Governor Pennypacker. DAVID MARTIN DAVID MARTIN, Insurance Commissioner. — Born August 20, 1845, in Philadelphia county, on what is known as the Ridgeway farm ; attended the public schools ; lived on the farm until he was twenty years of age, when he moved to Philadelphia; first elected a member of the Republican executive committee in June, 1866, before he was twenty-one years of age and served for thirty-seven years; appointed Ser- geant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, session 1873; elected county commis- sioner of Philadelphia in 1875, and re-elected 1878; has been a delegate to almost every Republican State Convention since 1872; appointed Sergeant-at- Arms of the National House of Representatives, session 1 881 and 1882; was a delegate to the Re- publican National Convention that nominated Har- rison in 1888; a delegate to the convention at Min- neapolis in 1892, and voted for Major McKinley against President Harrison; a delegate to the Na- tional Convention in 1896, St. Louis, and was one of the six Pennsylvania delegates who voted for Major McKinley; appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the First district of Pennsylvania by President Harrison in May, 1889, resigning after serving two years ; appointed Secretary' of the Com- monwealth September 11, 1897; elected State Sen- ator in November, 1898, and served the sessions of 1899 and 1 901; was a delegate to the Republican (I JAMES E. RODERICK, Chief of the Department of Mines. — Born in South Wales, January, 1 842, he attended the British Schools until he was thirteen years of age, when, owing to the death of his father, he was obliged to go to work in the mines. From the age of eighteen years he attended night school until he came to this country in the early sixties, locating at Pittston, Luzerne county, where he was employed as a miner's laborer. Afterward he worked as a miner doing all kind of work in the mines, at Pitts- ton and Wilkes-Barre, until January i, 1886, when he was appointed mine foreman of the Empire shaft, Wilkes-Barre, then one of the largest gaseous mines in the anthracite region. He resigned this position June i, 1870, to accept the position of gen- eral superintendent of the Warrior Run Coal Com- pany. After a successful competitive examination before a board of practical and theoretical men, he was commissioned State Mine Inspector, July 7, 1 88 1, by Governor Hoyt, with headquarters at Hazleton, and recommissioned by Governor Patti- son July 7, 1886. May 31, 1889, he resigned to accept the position of general superintendent for JAMES E. RODERICK 10) Linderman and Skeer's collieries at Stockton, a mine town near Hazleton. At the closing down of their collieries, he accepted the position of general super- intendent and manager of A. S. Van Wickle's ex- tensive coal interests. June I, 1899, he resigned to accept the office of Chief of the Bureau of Mines, under Governor Stone. He was reappointed as Chief of the Department of Mines by Governor Pennypacker, April 15, 1903. This office he still holds. Mr. Roderick has held the elective offices of school director in Warrior Run, and select councilman in Hazleton. He was chairman of the board of commissioners that built the Hazleton State Hospital and has been for years and is now presi- dent of the board of trustees of that institution. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and a director of the Hazleton National Bank. SAMUEL G. DIXON, M. D., CoMAiissioxER OF HEALTH. — Born in Philadel- phia, Pa., March 23, 1851. He received his pre- paratory school education at the Mantua Academy, Philadelphia; prepared for Harvard, but instead went abroad to study; returning to Philadelphia he was graduated from the Mercantile College, and then studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1877; studied medicine and was graduated from the medi- cal school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1886, having been honored by the trustees before graduation by an appointment to the position of Assistant Demonstrator of Physiology. He went abroad again to study and was graduated from the department of bacteriology of King's College, London ; took the course in the State College of Medicine, London, and afterwards worked in Pet- tenhoffer's Laboratorj' in Muench. While in Eu- rope he made an exhaustive study of the disposition of sewage and filtration of water for large cities. Upon his return in 1888, he was made professor of Hygiene in the medical school and Dean of the Auxiliary Department of Medicine of the Univers- ity of Pennsylvania. He left the university in 1890 to become Professor of Bacteriology and Microscop- ical Technology at the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia; was elected executive curator in 1892 and president in 1896, which last two posi- tions he still holds. He served for several years as a member of the Board of Education in Philadel- phia and as chairman of the Committee on Hygiene did much to improve the sanitary conditions of the schools of that city. Dr. Dixon is vice-president of the Ludwick In- stitute, vice-president of the Anti-Tuberculosis So- (11 S.'\MUEL G. DIXON, xM. D. ciety of Pennsylvania, vice-president of the Zoolog- ical Society of Philadelphia, a member of the board of managers of the Grandom Institute, a member of the Council of the American Philosophical Society and of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, a di- rector of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy of the University of Pennsylvania, a Fellow of the Col- lege of Physicians, member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, American Medical Asso- ciation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 1893 was made an honorarj' member of the Societe Nationale des Sciences Na- turelles et Mathematiques de Cherbourg. He was one of the founders of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. His publications cover a large field in hygiene and bacteriology but he is probably best known for his original and advanced work on the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis. In addi- tion to his official duties as Commissioner of Health, Dr. Dixon is a member of the State Water Supply Commission, State Quarantine Board, and Medical Council of Pennsylvania. On October 19, 1889, Dr. Dixon made known to the world through the Medical 'News, of Philadelphia, his discovery of the hitherto unrecognized forms of tubercle bacilli, through the employment of which he was able to secure partial immunity to tuberculosis in small ani- mals which were the subject of experiment, and which may eventually lead to the development of a cure for that disease. JOSEPH W. HUNTER JOSEPH W. HUNTER, State Highway Commissioner. — Born July 23, 1853, on the Pont Reading farm in Haverford township, Delaware county, Pa.; when twelve years of age his parents moved to Lower Merion township, Montgomery county. Pa., and two years later they moved to Radnor township, Delaware county. Pa. ; was educated in public and private schools and finally entered Mantau Academy, in West Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1870, second in his class. He immediately secured a position with Samuel L. Smedley, Engineer and Surveyor of the nth Survey District of Pennsyl- vania, under whom he studied and practiced his chosen profession, remaining with his successor, Geo. W. Hancock ; afterward employed by Samuel M. Smedley, Chief Engineer of the City of Phila- delphia, to make topographical surveys of that city; was also engaged on map surveying; in 1875 he removed to Jenkintown, Montgomery county, where he has since resided, and been in business for himself, making a specialty of topographical en- gineering and farm surveying; was elected justice of the peace in 1878 and re-elected in 1883; was elected county surveyor in 1882 and in 1887 was elected to the office of register of wills of Mont- gomery county; since 1890 he has been actively engaged in the practice of civil engineering and sur- veying, turning his attention more directly to the (I improvement of county roads and the building of stone roads ; is a member of the commission ap- pointed by the courts of Philadelphia and Delaware counties to locate and adjust the boundary lines be- tween said counties ; member of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, American Society of Testing Materials, and the American Road Makers' Asso- ciation; was appointed State Highway Commis- sioner by Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker June 23, 1903- JAMES MADISON SHUMAKER, Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings. — Born in Fairfield county, Ohio, July 8, 1 851; parents moved to Pennsylvania when he was a child and located in Lycoming county where he received a common school education; in 1874 he removed to Cambria county and engaged in mercan- tile business; has always been a staunch Republican and in 1874 '^'^s elected sheriff of Cambria county by six hundred majority, although the county was at that time about eight hundred Democratic ; in No- vember, 1900, he was elected to the House of Rep- resentatives and served during the session of 1 90 1. His home is in Johnstown and he is actively identi- fied with various enterprises there, being president and general manager of the Consumer's Ice Com- pany, a trustee of the Johnstown Savings Bank, and JAMES MADISON SHUMAKER 12) Binding by Governor Pennypacker March 24, 1903, and was reappointed, under the new printing law on February 8, 1905. ALBERT NEVIN POMEROY a director of the Johnstown Trust Company; is also a trustee of the Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital; he was appointed Superintendent of Pub- lic Grounds and Buildings by Governor Penny- packer on January 21, 1903. THOMAS LYNCH MONTGOMERY, State Librarian. — Born on March 4, 1862, at Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. Graduated from the Episcopal Academy in 1879 and the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Arts, in 1884. Has been identified with library interests for many years, having been trustee of the Apprentices' Library of Philadelphia, the Free Library of Philadelphia and is chairman of the Library Committee of the latter. He established the first branch library of the sys- tem at the Wagner Free Institute of Science in 1892; is a life member of the Library Association, the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Ameri- can Historical Association, and the Philobiblon Club. Honorary member of the Dauphin County Historical Society and the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. He organized the Pennsylva- nia Library Club in 1890 and was one of the founders of the Keystone Library Association. Held the position of actuary and librarian of the Wag- ner Institute of Science for seventeen years. Was appointed State Librarian by Governor Penny- packer, February 3, 1903. ALBERT NEVIN POMEROY, Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding. — Born in Philadelphia May 27, 1859; after residing there and at Pomeroy, Chester county, until 1874 moved to Chambersburg, where he pur- sued his studies at the Chambersburg Academy; in 1878 he entered the office of the Repository, his father, the late Hon. John M. Pomeroy, being edi- tor and proprietor; in 1885 Mr. Pomeroy and his brother became associated with their father in the publishing and printing business ; later the two brothers conducted the business alone, and in 1 891 Mr. Pomeroy became the sole owner of the business, and still conducts it; in 1887 was elected chairman of the Republican County Committee and re-elected in 1888 and 1889; served as clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth from 1887 to 1 891, when he resigned ; was elected to the House of Rep- resentatives in 1894, and again elected in 1900; was appointed Superintendent of Public Printing and (113) THOiMAS LYNCH MONTGOMERY JOHN C. GROOME JOHN C. GROOME, Superintendent of State Police. — Born in Philadelphia in 1862; educated in the Protestant- Episcopal Academy, from which institution he was graduated in 1878; in 1880 he became associated with his father in the iron business; in 1884 pur- chased a farm in Virginia, where he resided until 1889, when he returned to Philadelphia and en- gaged in business. In 1882 he enlisted as a private in the First City Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, and went through the various grades until he was elected captain in 1896, which office he now holds, served with his troop during the Spanish-American War, enlisting April 28, 1898, and was mustered out November 29, 1898, during which time he saw service at Mt. Gretna, Camp Alger, Newport News and Porto Rica. Was appointed Superintendent of State Police July i, 1905, by Governor Penny- packer. quently abandoned it for literary pursuits, and in 1887 was attached to the staff of the Public Ledger, and for thirteen years was one of its associate editors and leader writers. In 1892 he was chosen botanist of the Perry Relief expedition to North Greenland, and on his return wrote a book on Arctic Travels, also several scientific pamphlets published by the Academy of Natural Sciences, of which he is a member; is also a voluminous writer of descriptive matter and outdoor life for high class magazines. In 1887 Mr. Meehan met Henry C. Ford, then president of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, and being a devoted angler became intensely interested in fish cultural work; on Mr. Ford's death in 1895, the Board of Fish Commission appointed him assist- and secretary and statistician of the board; in 1902, upon the resignation of D. P. Corwin, of Pitts- burg, he was appointed to fill the vacancy, by Gov- ernor Stone, when he was elected corresponding secretary of the board ; was reappointed by Gover- nor Pennypacker in 1903, and when the Board of Fish Commission was abolished and the Department of Fisheries created, he was appointed Commissioner of Fisheries by Governor Pennypacker on June 2, 1903. He has compiled all the reports of the Fish Commission since 1895, and in addition compiled a pamphlet in 1892, entitled "Fish, Fishing and Fish- eries of Pennsylvania," for distribution at the Co- lumbia Exposition at Chicago. Under the admin- istration of Commissioner Meehan, the fishery work WILLIAM EDWARD MEEHAN, Commissioner of Fisheries. — Born in Holmes- burg, Philadelphia county. Pa., August 31, 1853, eldest son of Professor Thomas Meehan, State Botanist and eminent vegetable biologist; educated in the private schools in Philadelphia county ; learned the nursery and florist business but subse- (114) WILLIAM EUWARU MEEHAN FREDERIC W. FLEITZ of .Pennsylvania has taken first rank among the States, and in many particulars equals that of the United States Government. The annual output of fish in three years has increased from 70,000,000 to 400,000,000. FREDERIC W. FLEITZ, Deputy Attorney General. — Born in Wells- boro, Pa., March i, 1867. Was Transcribing Clerk House of Representatives 1 889-1 891, Jour- nal Clerk 1893, Reading Clerk 1897, secretary State League of Republican Clubs 1895 to 1897 — president of foregoing in 1890 and 1891 — chair- man Republican State Convention in 1903, and many times delegate to State Conventions. JOHN E. FOX, State Senator. — Born in Hummelstovvn, Pa., November 27, 1861 ; educated at Lafayette Col- lege, Easton, Pa., graduated with the class of 1885; two years later he received the degree of Master of Arts, and is now a trustee of that college ; spent two years in teaching ; read law two years with the firm of Weiss & Gilbert, of Harrisburg, Pa. ; ad- mitted to practice at the Dauphin county bar in 1888, and has since continued to practice his pro- fession ; a delegate to the Republican National Con- vention at Minneapolis in 1892, has always been a staunch Republican, but never before held any political office; was elected to the Senate in 1900 and re-elected November, 1904; was the author of the bill passed in 1901 appropriating $4,000,000 for the new Capitol building and a member of the Capitol Dedication Commission. J. HENRY COCHRAN, State Senator. — Born January 15, 1845; edu- cated in the common schools of Calais, Maine; re- moved to Pennsylvania in 1862, where he has since resided ; is a lumberman and banker ; served as member of the Senate sessions of 1895, 1897, 1899, 1 90 1, 1903 and 1905; re-elected if SAM MATT FRIDY, Deputy Auditor General. — Born March 11, 1837, in Mountville, Lancaster county. Pa. Has been a farmer, auctioneer, scrivener and convey- ancer and school teacher. Served as clerk in the War Department during the war ; was clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth for fifteen years ; prothono- tary of Lancaster county ; Collector of Internal Revenue, Ninth district of Pennsylvania, and Dep- uty Auditor General since 1895. (115) SAM matt FRIDY' BOIES PENROSE BOIES PENROSE, United States Senator. — Born in Philadelphia November i, i860; was prepared for college by private tutors and in the schools of Philadelphia; was graduated from Harvard College in 1881 ; read law with Wayne MacVeagh and George Tucker Bispham, and was admitted to the bar in 1883; practised his profession in Philadelphia for several years; was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the Eighth Philadelphia dis- trict in 1884; was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate from the Sixth Philadelphia district in 1886; re-elected in 1890, and again in 1894; was elected President pro tempore of the Senate in 1889, and re-elected in 1891 ; was a delegate to the Republi- can National Conventions of 1 900 and 1904; was chairman of the Republican State Committee in 1903-1905; was elected a member of the National Republican Committee from Pennsylvania in 1904; was elected to the United States Senate to succeed J. Donald Cameron, and took his seat March 4, 1897; was the unanimous choice of the Republican caucus of both houses and was re-elected by the full party vote in the Legislature of 1903. His term of service will expire March 3, 1909. MARLIN E. OLMSTED, Member of Congress. — ^Was born in Ulysses township. Potter county, Pa., and received his edu- cation in the common schools and in Coudersport Academy. He was appointed Assistant Corporation Clerk when scarcely of age by Auditor General Hartranft, afterwards Governor of Pennsylvania. One year later, although the youngest clerk in the ofTice, he was appointed Corporation Clerk. Mr. Olmsted was retained in that capacity by Auditor General Harrison Allen. Soon after the expiration of General Allen's term he retired from that ofKce. Mr. Olmsted read law with the late Judge John W. Simonton, subsequently President Judge of the Twelfth Judicial District, and was admitted to the bar of Dauphin County November 25, 1878; to the bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania May 16, 1 88 1, and to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States November 12, 1884. In the practice of the law he has been eminently suc- cessful. In 1 89 1 he was elected to represent Dau- phin county in the proposed constitutional conven- tion. Mr. Olmsted was first elected to Congress in 1896, by the great plurality of 23,066, largely due to a contest between two Democratic candidates, resulting in a judicial ruling, excluding them both from the Democratic ticket. In 1898 he was again elected by a plurality of 9,426, and in 1900 by 22,- 396, the Democrats having made no regular nomi- MARLIN E. OLMSTED (116) '^*^l^^^^l ■ ^^B '^^: ^^^^H '|jl!^^^^B H ■ ^J^ M^B r ^^^H .m,: ^^^^^^^^^H ^ J \ ^^H ^HHH ^^^1 ^^^B-' ^^mit^^ j^^^^^Bv ^^H ^^^^^^^^ ^1 H GEORGE F. HUFF nation against him. At these three elections he ran in the Fourteenth District. In igoi the district was changed to the Eighteenth District and Perry county was taken from it and Cumberland was substituted. In 1902 his plurality was 8,478 and in 1904 it reached the enormous figure of 15,333. Mr. Olmsted's skill and tact in the administration of parliamentary law have caused him to be called frequently to preside over the House during the passage of important measures. In the presidential campaign of 1904 his speeches in Congress, es- pecially in support of protective tariff, were more extensively quoted in Republican campaign text- books than those of any other Congressman. As chairman of the Election Committee of the House his course has elicited words of praise from even his political opponents. He stands near the head of the important Committee on Insular Affairs. Congressman Olmsted, reelected by a handsome majorit}' in igo6, was grand marshal of the dedi- cation parade. GEORGE F. HUFF, Commonwealth, especially, has felt his work as a developer of its chief resources, the great bitumi- nous coal fields. By reason of his energy it has be- come a vast bee-hive of industry that has added millions and millions of dollars to the wealth of the old Keystone State. Colonel Huff is a prominent figure in public life, as one of the leading Republicans of the State of Pennsylvania. On numerous occasions he has been signally honored by the people of his community. He served in the State Senate from Westmoreland county from 1884 to 1888, and was elected to the Fifty-second Congress from the old Westmoreland- Indiana-Jefferson and Armstrong district. He also represented the State as Congressman-at-Large in the Fifty-fourth Congress, and represented the new Westmoreland-Butler district in the Fifty- eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses and is again nominated this year to succeed himself in the Six- tieth Congress. WILLIAM HARRISON GRAHAM, Member of Congress. — Born in Allegheny, Penn- sylvania, August 3, 1844. He is president of the Mercantile Trust Company of Pittsburg; Mem- ber of House of Representatives for four years ; Recorder of Deeds, Allegheny county for nine years and a Member of Congress for six years. Mr. Gra- ham is also a member of the Capitol Commission. Member of Congress. — He is a resident of Greensburg, Westmoreland county, and is a citizen who is closely identified with the developments of the State of Pennsylvania. As a man of affairs he ranks with the leaders. The western part of the (117) WILLIAM H.'^RRISON GRAHAM H. KURD CASSEL H. BURD CASSEL, seventh Congress and was re-elected in 1902 to the Fiftj'-eighth Congress; and again in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress. He is chairman of the Com- mittee on Accounts, and a member of the Elections No. 3. He is proprietor of the firm of A. N. Cassel & Son, wholesale and retail lumber business. Mr. Cassel is a member of the Young Republican Club of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; the Boies Penrose and Union Republican Clubs, of Philadelphia, and of the Elks, of Lancaster. ELIAS DEEMER, Member of Congress. — Born in Marietta, Lan- caster county, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1855. His father, Abram Neff Cassel, who died a few years ago, at the age of eighty-five, was one of the most prominent citizens of Lancaster county and had a long and successful business career, in the line of lumber. After passing through the public schools of Ma- rietta, he finished his education at the Columbia Classical Institute. At an early age he became in- terested in his father's lumber business, being sole proprietor thereof on his father's death. Took an interest in politics at a very early age and has al- ways been a steadfast Republican. So ardent an enthusiastic follower of the dominant party of his State was he that he was a member of the Lancaster Republican County Committee when only twenty- one years of age, and subsequently held the po- sition of chairman of said committee. He took an active part in the National Republican Convention held in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1896, and 1898 he was nominated and elected to the lower house of the State Legislature, a place previously filled by his father. Mr. Cassel was first elected as a Representative to Congress in 1901, when chosen to fill the unex- pired term of the late Mariot Brosius, in the Fifty- (II Member of Congress. — Elias Deemer, son of John Deemer, acquired his early education in the public schools and under private instructors. In the spring of 1859 he became bookkeeper, collector and salesman for W. N. Treichler, of Kinterville, who was an extensive manufacturer and dealer in lum- ber, and in 1861, following the inauguration of the Civil War, joined the Union Army in the month of August as a member of Company E. One Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. George T. Harvey, and of Col. H. H. Davis, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. In 1868 he located in Williamsport, Lycoming county, Pa., where he has since made his home. Here he turned his at- tention to the lumber industry. He is now and has been since 1893 president of the Williamsport Na- ELIAS DEEMER EDWIN K. MCCONKEY tional Bank, and is a stockholder and director in the J. K. Richel Furniture Company and in the Ly- coming Calcining Company, and his business en- terprise and sound judgment have been important factors in the successful control of a number of im- portant and industrial business enterprises, which have contributed to the prosperity of the city of Williamsport, as well as to the success of the indi- vidual stockholders. He is also president of the Deemer Manufacturing Company, a corporation re- cently organized to conduct an extensive lumber operation in Mississippi. He is now and has been for a number of years a member of the Williamsport Board of Trade. He was elected to that city coun- cil in the spring of 1888, and in the organization of council was elected its president, and was re-elected in 1889. He was elected a member of the Fifty- seventh Congress in the fall of 1900; was again elected a member of the Fiftj'-eighth Congress in the fall of 1902; and was once more nominated for the third time — an unprecedented occurrence in the Congressional district which he represented — and was re-elected in the fall of 1904 a member of the Fifty-ninth Congress, receiving 18,807 votes to ii>959 votes for the Democratic opponent, thus se- curing the largest majority over a Democrat ever given in the district to a Republican. EDWIN K. McCONKEY, State Senator. — Born in Wrightsville, York county. Pa., December 11, 1864; educated in the public schools and the York Collegiate Institute; later he became associated with McConkey Broth- ers, at Wrightsville; in 1886 he entered the service of the Pullman Company, and by rapid promotion soon became assistant superintendent of the Phila- delphia district; in 1893 was elected assistant sec- retary of the Farmers' Fire Insurance Company, of York, and in 1900 promoted to the position of sec- retary and treasurer; is a director of the York Na- tional Bank, York Water Company, York Gas Company, and Guardian Trust Company; elected to the Senate in November, 1902, being the first Republican ever elected to the Senate from York county. JACOB BOLARD, State Senator. — Born June 5, 1837, and raised on a farm in Spring township, Crawford county. Pa.; in 1862 he enlisted in Company B, One Hun- dred and Thirty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and the following year was promoted to hospital steward; in 1865 was again promoted to captain of Company B, One Hundred and Ninety- seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, in which rank he served until the close of the war. In 1874 he J.-iCOB BOLARD (119) JACOB C. STINEMAN was commissined by Governor Hartranft, captain on the staff of the Fifteenth Regiment, National Guard, and was re-appointed in 1879 by Governor Hoyt; in 1890 he served on the Pennsylvania Road Commission being appointed by Governor Beaver; served as president of the Crawford County Agri- cultural Society for eight successive years; is now engaged in the manufacture of leather and raising of cattle and fine carriage horses; is president of the First National Bank, at Cambridge Springs, where he resides; served as member of the House of Representatives, session of 1895; was elected to the Senate in November, 1902. tee in 1891; is a director of the Citizens National Bank of Johnstown, Second National Bank of Al- toona, president South Fork First National Bank and President South Fork Water Company; for a number of years has been engaged in farming, and mining and shipping coal ; member of House of Representatives 1903 and 1905; elected to the Sen- ate November 1896, November 1900, over Fusion candidate by a majority of 6,257; re-elected to the Senate November 1904; delegate to the Republi- can State Convention 1902. STERLING R. CATLIN, State Senator. — Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in 1842; is a grandson of General William Ross; educated in the public and private schools, and sub- sequently completed course in Polytechnic College of Philadelphia; served an apprenticeship of four years at trade of machinist and followed the occu- pation for ttwelve years ; during the Civil War served in the Thirtieth Pennsylvania Regiment ; crossed the plain in 1864 and was one of the original settlers in Helena, Montana; later on went to Cali- fornia and for five years was Superintendent of Machinery at Mare Island Navy Yard, after which he returned to Pennsylvania and was a member of the Wilkes-Barre council for nine years; elected State Senator in November, 1904. 'W-. JACOB C. STINEMAN, State Senator. — Was born in Richland township, now Adams, April 9, 1842; was raised on a farm and educated in the common schools; in early life he engaged in teaching school and working his father's farm; enlisted in Company F, One Hun- dred and Ninety-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served to the close of the war, after which he engaged in farming and doing common labor at coal mines; was school director for eigh- teen years; elected sheriff 1888, and was in office at the time of the Johnstown flood ; was a delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1889 and 1897, chairman of the Republican County Commit- (120) STERLING R. CATLIN cate the New Capitol; author of the present law for the improvement of roads and the act providing for the dedication of the new Capitol. WILLIAM C. SPROUL WILLIAM C. SPROUL, State Senator. — Born in Colerain township, Lan- caster county, Pa., September 16, 1870; moved to Chester, Delaware county, in early boyhood, and has since resided in that city; attended the public schools, graduating from the Chester High School in 1887; entered Swarthmore College the same year and graduated with honors in 1891; entered business at once, purchased a half interest in the Chester Daily Times, with which he has been since associated as editor and proprietor. In 1898 he was elected president of the Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works (Roach's Shipyard) ; 1900 organized the Seaboard Steel Casting Com- pany of which he is president ; is also president of the Chester Shipping Company and the River Front Improvement Company; is president of the Coal River Railway, the Spruce River Coal Land Company, the Kanawha Valley Traction Com- pany, and the Camden Interstate Railway of West Virginia, and is interested in other enterprises; is a trustee of the Swarthmore College and a director of the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble Minded Children, at Elwyn ; is a member of the Union League, of Philadelphia; was elected to the Senate in 1896, re-elected in 1900 and again in 1904; elected President pro tempore of the Sen- ate at the close of the session in 1903 and re-elected in January, 1905; member of Commission to Dedi- (I SAMUEL P. WHITE, State Senator. — Born in New Brighton, Beaver county, Pa., September, 1847; educated in the common schools and is a graduate of the East- man's Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York; occupation, contractor and manufacturer; served in the three months' emergency State troops in 1863, when fifteen years of age; was a member of the Republican County Committee in 1884 and chair- man of same in 1885; member of the State Com- mittee in 1888; treasurer of County Committee in 1889; delegate to the State Convention in 1900; nominee of Beaver county for State Senator in 1886, 1890, 1894 and 1902, the county making no nomination in 1898, the nomination by agreement going to the other county in the district ; was elected to the Senate in 1894, serving for four years; re- elected in November, 1902. Senator White was chairman of Appropriations Committee and largely instrumental in having the Uniform Primary Law passed at the extra session of 1906. SAMUEL P. WHITE 21) HENRY HARRIS CUMMINGS HENRY HARRIS CUMMINGS, State Senator. — Born at Monmouth, 111., Decem- ber I, 1840; educated at Oberlin College, Ohio; graduated 1862; enlisted in the summer of 1862 in the One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer In- fantry; served in the Fourteenth Army Corps; participated in all its campaigns and most of its battles; discharged at the close of the war as a captain; settled soon after at Tidioute, Pa., where he has since resided ; was actively engaged in oil business, farming, lumbering, manufacturing and banking and has now retired ; he is and has been for twenty-six years president of the Tidioute school board ; was elected a delegate to the Republi- can National Convention in 1888; was commander Department of Pennsylvania, G. A. R., 1895-6; was elected to the Senate in 1898; re-elected in No- vember, 1902. HENRY F. WALTON, Speaker of House of Representatives. — Born in Stroudsburg, Monroe county. Pa., October 2, 1858, and represents the 23rd district of Phila- delphia. When but a year old his parents moved to that city, in the public schools of which and under private tutors he received his early education, fol- lowed by his entrance into the law office of Hon. Wayne MacVeagh and George Tucker Bispham, Esq. Shortly afterward he was appointed librarian of the law library of Mr. Bispham. In 1876 he was registered as a law student in the latter's office and in the meantime was a member and officer of the Law Academy. He was admitted to practice at the Bar of Philadelphia October 4, 1879, two days after he had attained his majority, and imme- diately entered the law office of Francis Rawle, Esq. Charles F. Warwick, city solicitor of Philadelphia, appointed Mr. Walton as one of his assistants in April, 1884, and retained his services until he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1890, in recognition of the work he did in the ranks of the Republican party, to which he has been always ardently attached. In 1892 his constituents in the Twenty-third district, which Mr. Walton had rep- resented, re-elected him and in 1894 again honored him with a re-election. The Pennsylvania delega- tion in 1893 presented him for the Speakership of the House, but on the day of the Republican caucus JAMES P. McNICHOL, State Senator. — Born July 3, 1864, in Philadel- phia; educated in the public schools and Pierce's Business College ; at an early age he engaged in the general contracting business with W. J. McNichol Brothers, and, upon the death of the head of the firm, became its title member ; served as a member of select council in 1898; elected to the Senate in November, 1904. (122) JAMES P. MCNICHOL HENRY F. WALTON he withdrew as a candidate for the office and in the caucus placed in nomination Mr. Caleb C. Thomp- son, of Warren, who was elected. In 1893 he was appointed chairman on the Committee on Judiciary General and served on other committees which had important work to perform. Mr. Walton was one of the prominent men of the House and in 1895 was elected Speaker of that body without Republi- can opposition. In 1898 he was appointed solicitor to the Sheriff of Philadelphia county, which posi- tion he resigned because of his election for the fourth time to the House of Representatives. The ability with %vhich he presided over the House in 1895 sug- gested him as a candidate for his old place in 1903, and when the Republican caucus met, all the candidates for the office had withdrawn, and Mr. Walton was a second time complimented with a unanimous nomination by his party. This honor was duplicated in 1905 for a third time when he was nominated without the semblance of opposition. He presided over the extra session of the Legisla- ture in 1906 which thus placed more sessions to his credit than any other Speaker. During the ses- sions of 1903, 1905 and 1906 he made a record for his physical endurance, the dispatch of business and the maintenance of order. He was punctual in his attendance and never left the chair when legisla- tion of importance was under consideration. It is no flattery to him to say that no presiding officer (I of the House ever displayed more signal ability in the responsible position. Mr. Walton is a member of the Union League of Philadelphia, and a member and ex-president of the Five O'clock Club; he is also a member of the Historical Society of Penn- sylvania, the Penn Club and a score of other prom- inent societies and organizations. As a campaigner, he has shown great effectiveness. He was married in 1882 to Miss Ella G. Norman and is the head of a family of four daughters and three sons. CHARLES L. BROWN, St.^te Senator. — Born in Philadelphia, July 6, 1864; educated in the public schools, leaving to enter commercial life ; while so engaged he pre- pared for and entered Lehigh LTniversity for a civil engineering course, but was forced to abandon this purpose through illness; later he entered the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania for a course in law and, graduating, was admitted to the bar of Philadel- phia, and has since been engaged in the active prac- tice; in 1891, 1893 and 1903, was elected to com- mon council, and in 1894 to select council; elected to the Senate in November, 1896, declining the nomination in I goo; again elected to the Senate in November, 1904. CHARLES L. BROWN 23) BRYAN HILL OSBORNE BRYAN HILL OSBORNE, Member of Legislature. — Born in Franklin, Venango county. Pa., August lo, 1858; educated in the public schools, and was graduated from the Cleveland High School in 1876; attended the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, class of 1880; read law with McCalmont and Osborn, and was admitted to the bar in 1 881, immediately becoming a partner of the firm ; upon dissolution of this partnership, he practiced his profession in his own name ; has always been an ardent Republican ; served two terms in the city council ; was dele- gate to the State Convention in 1904; Mayor of Franklin in 1896; elected to the House of Repre- sentatives 1902; re-elected in November, 1904; chairman of Judiciary General Committee, session 1905-6. MYRON MATSON, State Senator. — Born September 13, 1850, in Rushford, New York; was educated in the common schools and at Tenbrook Academy at Franklinville. In 1870 he left home and went to Tidioute, Warren county. Pa., where he engaged in the oil business, which occupation he has followed since, holding interests in various oil fields throughout Pennsylvania and West Virginia. He is president of the Victor Oil Company and the Matson Oil Company, and is interested in the Devonian Oil Company. Is also engaged in mining, being interested in the Inca Mining Company opera- ting in Peru, South America, and the Bradford Alaska Mining Company of Alaska. From his early manhood he has been an ardent Republican, and an active worker in that party ; has been elected several times as delegate to county and State con- ventions ; served as chairman of the County Com- mittee of McKean county in 1898 and again in 1902; elected to the Senate in 1900; re-elected in November, 1904. JOSIAH HOWARD, Member of Legislature. — Born in Williams- port, Lycoming county. Pa., January 3, 1861; educated in the public schools, graduated in 1880; removed to Emporium, Pa., in 1887, since which time he has been engaged in the lumber business as a member of the C. B. Howard Company, with saw mills at Emporium ; was elected burgess of Emporium borough in 1902; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1904; re-elected in 1906. JOSIAH HOWARD (124) JOHN H. FOW JOHN H. FOW, Member of Legislature. — Born in Philadel- phia June 23, 1851, and is a great grandson of Matthew Fow, who served in Captain Harmar's company, of Colonel De Haas' regiment, the first Pennsylvania Battalion raised by order of Congress in Philadelphia, October 22, 1775. Mr. Fow is a graduate from the law office of Hon. F. Carroll Brewster, and has been practicing at the Philadel- phia bar since May 4, 1878; was a member of the Democratic State Committee for the years 1882 and 1883; the first president and afterward vice-presi- dent of the Democratic State League for the years 1888, 1889 and 1890; elected twice in 1886 and 1887 as a member of councils of the city of Phila- delphia, and was appointed by Mayor King chair- man of the committee of the bi-centennial celebra- tion of the settlement of the State ; was also a mem- ber of the committee having in charge the Centen- nial celebration of the adoption of the Constitution in 1887, and was special correspondent for the Philadelphia Evening Star for a number of years; was a member of the House 1889, 189 1, 1893, 1895, 1899 and the extraordinary session of 1906. At the session of 1899 he was by the vote of the House made the chairman of the celebrated investi- gating committee of that session; in 1895 he was appointed by Governor Hastings a member of the Atlanta Cotton Exposition to represent Pennsylva- (I nia, and in 1906 a member of the State Capitol Ded- ication Committee by the Speaker of the House. Mr. Fow has a reputation as a lawyer in having more Acts of Assembly declared unconstitutional than any other member of the profession. CYRUS E. WOODS, State Senator. — Born in Clearfield, Pa., Sep- tember 3, 1861 ; was educated at Lafayette College, and has been actively engaged in the practice of law since his admission to the bar in 1890; elected to the Senate in 1900, and re-elected in November, 1904; elected President pro tempore of the Sen- ate at the close of the session of 1905. CHARLES A. SNYDER, Member of Legislature. — Born in Pillow, Dauphin county. Pa., April 16, 1867; educated in the public schools; was admitted to the Schuylkill County Bar 1889; has served as deputy district at- torney, city solicitor of Pottsville, county controller and county solicitor ; elected to House of Repre- sentatives in 1902, 1904, re-elected in November, 1906. CHARLES A. SNYDER 25) JOHN OSCAR SHEATZ, Member of Legislature. — Born in Lehigh county, Pa., February 27, 1855; educated in the public schools and spent one year in the prepara- tory department of Muhlenberg College, Allen- town ; was employed in the Baldwin Locomotive Works thirteen years, having had charge of differ- ent departments the last four years he was in their employ; left to engage in the coal business and is now in the real estate business ; is also treasurer of the Frank Queen Publishing Company of New York; was a member of the House of Representa- tives in 1902, 1904-1905; re-elected in November, 1906. ANDREW ANDERSON THOMPSON, Member of Legislature. — Born in Uniontown, Fayette county. Pa., October 25, 1880; attended Washington and Jefferson College and was gradu- ated from that institute in 1902, since which he has been employed in the First National Bank of Uniontown; elected to the House of Representa- tives in 1902 and re-elected in November 1904. He is now treasurer of the Thompson Connells- ville Coke Company, and is developing 1,600 acres of coal land in Fayette county. LAWRENCE B. COOK LAWRENCE B. COOK, Member of Legislature. — Born in Indiana county. Pa., September 27, 1870; when quite young he removed with his parents to Pittsburgh ; was educated in the public and private schools, and while acquiring an education taught in the public and private schools of Allegheny county; in 1890 he began the study of law, was admitted to the bar in December, 1892, since which time he has been engaged in the active practice of his profession; elected to the House of Representatives in 1902, 1904; re-elected in November, 1906. ANDREW ANDERSON THOMPSON THOMAS H. GARVIN, Chief Clerk, House of Representatives. — Born in Philadelphia, Pa., October 23, 1857, edu- cated at public and private schools, served several years in council and as burgess of the borough of Sharon Hill in 1891 and 1892. He is engaged in the real estate and insurance business and is general manager of the Sharon Hill Real Estate Company. Was a member of the House of Representatives in 1893, 1895 and 1897, and re-elected in November, 1898. He has been Chief Clerk of the House of Repre- sentatives since 1 901. (126) FRANK B. McCLAIN, Member of Legislature. — Born in the city of Lancaster, Pa., April 14, 1864, and has lived there ever since ; attended the public schools and gradu- ated from the Lancaster city high school, June, 1 881; engaged in the live stock business Febru- ary, 1884, ^nd has followed same to this time; was a member of the House of Representatives, sessions of 1895, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1903, 1904-1905, re- elected in November, 1906. ANDREW B. HITCHCOCK, Member of Legislature. — Born in Caton, N. Y., May 15, 1863; removed to Tioga county with his parents in 1864; attended the public schools of the county and worked on a farm until 1882; graduated from Mansfield State Normal School, class of 1884; taught in the public schools of the county until 1895; was principal of the schools of Knoxville for nine years; since 1895 has been engaged in the general insurance business; held the office of school director and was elected justice of the peace in 1897; a delegate to the Re- publican State Conventions in 1897 and 1899; elected to the House of Representatives in Novem- ber, 1900, 1902 and 1904; re-elected in November, 1906. SAMUEL RIPP SAMUEL RIPP, Member of Legislature. — Born December 16, 1862; at the age of fourteen entered upon a business career; at the present time is manager of a hotel; has always been a staunch Republican of the Elev- enth ward, and an active member of the executive committee of that ward ; served as a member of the Eleventh sectional school board for three years; elected to the House of Representatives in 1900, 1902, 1904; re-elected in November, 1906. THOMAS H. GARVIN WILLIAM TRENTON CREASY, Member of Legislature. — Born in Catawissa township, Columbia county. Pa., in 1856; was ed- ucated in the common schools, Catawissa Academy, and Bloomsburg State Normal School ; commenced teaching school at the age of sixteen ; is at pres- ent engaged in farming and fruit growing; was mercantile appraiser in 1893; has served as school director; was a member of the House of Represen- tatives, sessions of 1895, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1903, 1904, and re-elected in November, 1906. In 1899 he was the Democratic nominee for State Treasurer. In the session of 1899, he was the Democratic caucus nominee for Speaker of the House. Elected chairman of the Democratic State Committee in 1901 and 1902. Candidate for Auditor General in 1906. (127) JOHN P. ELKIN, HENRY BEATES, JR., M. D. HENRY BEATES, JR., M. D., President State Board Medical Examiners. — Born in Philadelphia December 20, 1857; a physician by profession; member and president of State Board of Medical Examiners of Pennsylvania and president National Conference of State Med- ical Examining and Licensing Boards. JOHN M. SCOTT, Former Attorney General. — Born in West Mahoning township, January 11, i860, received a common school education and graduated from the Indiana State Normal School. He afterward taught school for several years, graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1884, and was admitted to the bar of Indiana county. In 1884, when but twenty-four years old, he was elected to the House of Representatives and re- elected to that body in 1886. He was president of the Indiana school board for many years and has been a member of the board of trustees of the In- diana State Normal School. He was Deputy At- torney General under Attorney General McCor- mick and in January, 1899, was appointed Attorney General by Governor Stone. On November 8, 1904, he was elected Associate Justice of the Su- preme Court of Pennsylvania and was commissioned December 6, 1904. ROBERT PITCAIRN, Trustee Western Pennsylvania Hospital for Insane. — Born in Johnstone, Scotland, and en- gaged in the railroad business (Pennsylvania Rail- road) up to June 1st, igo6. State Senator. — Born September 19, 1858, in the city of Philadelphia; received a careful education; studied law and admitted to practice in Philadel- phia on November 12, 1881, since which time he has pursued his profession. Elected a member of the Eighth section school board, serving two con- secutive terms; member of the House of Repre- sentatives, sessions of 1887 and 1889; re-elected a member of the House of Representatives for the session of 1893 from the district he represented in the sessions of 1887 and 1889; again a member of the House of Representatives, sessions of 1895 and 1897; elected to the Senate in November, 1898, and re-elected in November, 1902; elected to Presi- dent pro tempore of the Senate at the close of the session of 1901 and re-elected in January, 1903 ; re-elected to the Senate 1906. (128) ROBERT PITCAIRN sentatives of the State, many officers of the depart- i\?ents and prominent citizens of different States, as well as other Pennsylvanians not in official life. WESLEY R. ANDREWS WESLEY R. ANDREWS, Chairman Republican State Committee. — Born at Sugar Grove, Warren county, Pa., De- cember 23, 1837. He served as an officer in a New York regiment in the war for the suppression of the rebellion, and afterwards engaged in the newspaper business. He was editor and proprietor of the Meadville Tribune-Republican for many years. Though a stalwart worker in the Republican ranks he was never a candidate for office. Many news- papers of the State have endorsed him as an avail- able candidate for Governor, and at two State Con- ventions of his party he was offered the support of several counties, but refused to have his name men- tioned. He was appointed secretary of the Repub- lican State Committee in 1895 and elected chair- man of the committee in 1905, and re-elected in 1906. Colonel Andrews knows personally about all the local party leaders in the State, and is well posted on the political condition of every section. His home is at Meadville, and no matter what the intervening distance may be, he is always there on election days. He is clerk of the United States Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and private secretary to Senator Penrose and is president of the Pennsylvania Club, one of the best located and finest furnished clubs in Washington, including in its members the Senators and Repre- W. W. GRIEST, Former Secretary of the Commonwealth. — Born September 22, 1859, in Christiana, Lancaster county. Graduated from the Millersville State Normal School in 1876, taught school for three years and for several years was one of the editors of the Lancaster Inquirer. He was five times elected Chief Clerk of the Lancaster County Com- missioners and was also a member of the Lancaster city school board. He was appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth by Governor Stone, Janu- ary 17, 1899. GEORGE A. VARE, State Senator. — Born in the district of South- wark, Philadelphia, February 7, 1859; educated in the public schools of that city; is a contractor on public and private work ; was a delegate to the State conventions of 1889, 1891, 1893, 1895, 1897, 1899, 1901 and 1903; member from the First legislative district in the House of Representatives 1891, 1893, and 1895; elected to the Senate in 1896 and 1900, and again elected in November, 1904. FREDERICK A. GODCHARLES, State Senator. — Born in Northumberland, Pa., June 3, 1872; in 1875 removed with his parents to Milton; educated in the public schools and La- fayette College, graduating from the former in 1888 and the latter in 1893; worked his way through the various departments of the Milton Nail Works until 1896, when he became the title member of the firm now known as F. A. Godcharles Company; enlisted as a volunteer in the Twelfth Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment in the Spanish-American War on May 12, 1898, and in October of the same year was mustered out with his company as a corporal ; appointed battalion sergeant major when the Twelfth Regiment of N. G. P. was reorganized, and later first lieutenant and inspector of rifle prac- tice on the staff of Col. J. B. Coryell, and retained by his successor. Col. C. M. Clement, which com- mission he novv' holds; was a member of the House of Representatives of 1901 ; candidate for Con- gress in the Sixteenth district in 1902; elected to the Senate in November, 1904. (129) JOHN W. WOODSIDE JOHN W. WOODSIDE, President of Valley Forge Commission. — Born in Penn township, Chester county, Pa., No- vember 21, 1838. He engaged in the mercantile business in Delaware county; member of Stewart Ralph and Company, snuff manufacturers, from 1865 to 1899; organized the Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada; treasurer of the West Ches- ter Street Railway Company; treasurer of Damas- cus Nickel Sheet Company ; treasurer of Ely Cen- tral Company of Nevada; director of American Snuff Company and director in other corporations; from 1869 secretary of the National Tobacco Com- pany of the United States; represented Pennsylva- nia in the Centennial Celebration of the Inaugura- tion of Washington as first president, in New York in 1889; also member of the Columbia Commission in 1890 to 1896; member of the Centennial Com- mission to Tennessee; and president of the Omaha Commission ; for the past eight years president of the Valley Forge Commission. drafted the State Constitution, operative until sup- planted by that of 1874. His father was Clement Biddle, Quartermaster General under George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Cad- walader Biddle's mother was Sarah Caldwell Kep- pele, daughter of Michael Keppele, once Mayor of Philadelphia. Mr. Biddle was educated in the school of Dr. J. W. Faires and at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1856, he then studied law at the university and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1859. The same year he was admitted to the bar. He was secretary and treasurer of the University of Pennsylvania from 1862 to 1882, and since 1884 he has uninter- ruptedly filled the office of General Agent and Sec- retary of the Board of Public Charities of the State. The bulk of the work imposed upon the board is done by Mr. Biddle. All institutions requiring state financial support are required to give notice to the General Agent on or before the first day of Novem- ber of each year of the amount of any application they may intend to make to the Legislature and of the purpose to which it is intended to be applied. There is prepared for the consideration of the Leg- islature ever}' two years by Mr. Biddle a report showing the amount recommended by the Board of Charities, to be appropriated to the various char- itable, reformatory and correctional institutions. [Mr. Biddle has died since the above sketch was written.] CADWALADER BIDDLE. General Agent and Secretary of the Board of Public Charities. — Born in Philadel- phia October 28, 1837. His father was James C. Biddle, a member of the convention in 1838, which (130) CADWALADER BIDDLE JAMES M. GUFFEY JAMES M. GUFFEY, Member of Committee, Western Pennsylva- nia Hospital for Insane. — The largest individ- ual oil and gas operator and owner of coal lands in the United States. Member Democratic National Committee and leader of Pennsylvania Democracy. ANDREW BAIRD DUNSMORE, Member of Legislature. — Born in Morris Run, January 4, 1866; shortly thereafter removed with his parents to Arnot, Pa. ; worked about the mines and later on his father's farm in Covington town- ship ; attended the public schools of Arnot and Blossburg; was graduated from the Mansfield State Normal School in 1884 and took a scientific course at same institution the following year ; was principal of Arnot schools for two terms ; read law with Mitchell & Cameron, of Wellsboro ; admit- ted to the bar in November, 1889, and has since practiced his profession ; was a delegate to the Re- publican State Convention in 1893 and chairman of the Republican County Committee in 1894; in 1895 was elected district attorney of Tioga county, and re-elected in 1898; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1904, re-elected 1906. LLOYD B. HUFF, Trustee State College. — Born at Greensburg, Pa., in December, 1871. He is engaged in the coal and coke business, banking, street railway, and sev- eral other very important enterprises. He is a Trustee of the State College and a mem- ber of the Republican State Central Committee and was Assistant Comrnissary General on Governor Hastings' staff. EDWARD A. IRVIN, State Senator. — Born at Curwensville, Pa., Janu- ary 13, 1838; educated in common schools and Mt. Holly Academy and Edge Hill School, Princeton, N. J.; in 1857 associated with his father in the lumber, merchandise and real estate business, be- coming sole head of that business three years later; in April, 1861, he temporarily left his business in his father's hands and recruited Company K of the original Bucktail Regiment, and was chosen captain ; he was in active service with his company on the Peninsula and was captured and imprisoned at Richmond ; subsequently he participated in engage- ments at South Mountain and Fredericksburg and sustained dangerous wounds on both occasions; after the war returned home with commission of Lieu- tenant Colonel ; elected to the Senate in November, 1904, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. A. E. Patton. (131) LLOYD B. HUFF J. NICHOLAS MITCHELL, M. D. J. NICHOLAS MITCHELL, M. D., Secretary of Committee on Lunacy. — Born in Philadelphia April lo, 1847. He studied at the Episcopal Academy and the University of Philadel- phia. After leaving the university he engaged in business for six years and then entered into the study of medicine at the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1873. In 1876 he was appointed demonstrator of obstetrics, at his alma mater, and gave one of the first courses given of that kind at any college in Philadelphia, founded on the methods pursued in Vienna. In 1887 he was elected professor of obstetrics, which position he held until 1895, when increasing private practice caused him to resign. Dr. Mitchell has always taken ac- tive interest in charitable work and church work, and In 1893 was appointed a member of the Board of Charities and the medical member of the Com- mittee on Lunacy. On the death of Dr. George I. McLeod, the secretary of the committee, in De- cember, 1905, he was asked by the chairman to act as temporary secretary and in January, 1906, was elected as secretary. Is a member of the Associa- tion of Superintendents and Physicians of the Hos- pital for the Insane, and a member of the Ancient Order of Masons. ROBERT H. FOERDERER, Former Member of Congress. — Born in 'Trank- enhausen, Germany, May 16, i860, while his pa- rents were sojourning in Europe." In 1900 he was elected to the Fifty-seventh United States Congress as Congressman-at-Large from the State of Pennsylvania, and served his full term; In 1902 he was re-elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress for the Fourth Congressional District of the City of Philadelphia but died July 26, 1903, before that Congress assembled. Robert H. Foerderer served as an apprentice in his father's leather business and mastered all its de- tail and early in life he entered upon the same busi- ness for himself. He revolutionized the manufac- ture of goat skins by perfecting the process known as "Chrome tannage" and adopted the word "VicI" as a trade name for the glazed kid manufactured by him and ''VIcI Kid" Is now known all over the world. He built and maintained the largest leather plant of Its kind in the world, using ten million skins annually and employing over three thousand people. At the time of his death he was president of the Keystone Telephone Company of Philadel- phia, and was largely interested In other corpora- tions. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, an active member of numerous clubs, fraternal orders, and other associations and patriotic societies. ROBERT H. foerderer (132) WILLIAM A. STONE WILLIAM A. STONE, Former Governor of Pennsylvania. — Born in Delmar township, Pa., April i8, 1846. Educated in the district schools and the State Normal School. In August, 1863, he ran away to Harrisburg and joined the volunteer army, but through the efforts of his father he was discharged. He enlisted again before he was eighteen years old, in Company A, One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, and took part in the engagement at Yel- low Mile Run, August 18, 1 864, and in the siege of Petersburg from August 19 to September 22. He was several times promoted and on March 10, 1865, was advanced to the grade of second lieuten- ant. On August 3, 1865, he was mustered out of service with his company. After the war Gov- ernor Hartranft appointed him Assistant Adju- tant General of the Thirteenth Division, National Guard, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1870, first practicing in Wellsboro and later in Pitts- burg. He was district attorney of Tioga county and United States District Attorney for the West- ern district of Pennsylvania and was a member of the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth and Fif- ty-fifth Congresses. In 1898 he was the Republi- can candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania and on the 8th of the same year was elected. He is President of the Commission for the completion of the new State Capitol building. (1 CHARLES WARREN STONE, Former Member of Congress. — He was born in 1852, and in his youth worked at the carpenter trade with his father. When the latter died the young man returned to the homestead of his grand- father and with the aid of his two 5'ounger brothers carried on the farm. He attended school in the winter and completed a course in Lawrence Acad- emy and entered Williams College, from which, earning his way by teaching and other work, he graduated with honor. He accepted a position of principal of the Union school at Warren, was elected County Superintendent in 1865 and, later in the same year, was chosen principal of the Academy at Erie. He took up the study of law and was ad- mitted to the practice in the courts of Warren county in 1866, and entered into partnership with Judge Rasselas Brown. He served three j^ears as a member of the borough council, nine years as a member of the school board ; and the last three years as its president. In 1869 he was elected to the Lower House of the State Legislature from the district composed of the counties of Warren and Venango, and was re-elected \vitho\it opposition. In 1870 he was sent to the State Senate, and served as chairman of the General Judiciary Committee. When the Republican State Convention of 1878 convened he was urged by the Republicans of the northwest for the office of Lieutenant Governor and received the nomination by a vote of 182 to 59. He CHARLES WARREN STONE 33) was elected by a majority of 23,250, which exceeded the majority received by the other candidates on the ticket. In the joint convention, over which he presided, resulting in the election of John I. Mitch- ell as United States Senator, Mr. Stone was himself urged to become a candidate and there was a strong undercurrent in his favor. He was one of the three commissioners in 1883 who located the United States Public Building at Erie, and later was a representative of Pennsylvania at Inter-State Extra- dition Conference called by the Governors of sev- eral States. Subsequently he was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Prison Congress, over which Ex-President Hayes presided. In 1887 he was ap- pointed by Governor Beaver to be Secretary of the Commonwealth, and served until his election to Congress from the Twenty-seventh District in 1890, as the successor of the late Hon. Lewis F. Watson. He served by successive elections in the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth and Fifty- fifth Congresses and during the last two was chair- man of the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures. As the ranking member of the Republi- can minority on that committee he led the opposi- tion to the several free silver measures of Mr. Bland while he was chairman of the committee. In the Republican State Convention of 1898 Mr. Stone had 165 votes for the nomination of Governor, 183 being required to nominate. LOUIS ARTHUR WATRES, Former Lieutenant Governor. — Born in the village of Mt. Vernon, now known as Winton, Lackawanna county, Pa., on the 21st day of April, 1 85 1. His father was Lewis S. Watres, a descen- dant of the Otis family of Massachusetts, and one of the early settlers in the Lackawanna Valley. His mother was a gifted poetess, who wrote many beautiful poems, under the nom-de-plume of "Stella of Lackawanna." Mount Vernon which owes its name more to patriotism than any distinctive quali- ties was a settlement of limited opportunities. He divided his time between the public school and work around the coal breakers. Later he moved with his parents to Scranton, where he attended the public schools for two years until he was sixteen. This ended his school days and he has been working ever since. He found employment in the Scranton post office where he became assistant postmaster. He was next employed as a bookkeeper in the Mer- chants' and Mechanics' Bank, of Scranton, and became teller of that institution ; was afterwards deputy marshal of the Mayor's court of Scranton ; (I LOUIS ARTHUR WATRES then city clerk and subsequently elected cashier of the Scranton Savings Bank and Trust Company, a position which he filled for five years. He is at present and has been for years president of this institution which is now called the County Savings Bank. Mr. Watres studied law with the late Judge Johri Handley and in 1879 was admitted to the bar of Lackawanna and Luzerne counties. He was county solicitor to the State Senate by a majority of 134 in the district which usually gave a Demo- cratic majority of about 2,000. He was re-elected in 1886 by an increased majority. In 1890 Mr. Watres was elected Lieutenant Governor by a ma- jority of 22,365 over his Democratic opponent, while the Republican candidate for Governor was defeated in the same year by Governor Pattison, the Demo- cratic nominee, who had a majority of 17,000. In 1 89 1, while president of the State Senate, Mr. Watres was elected chairman of the Republican State Committee, and he succeeded through a difficult campaign in harmonizing the conflicting elements and electing the Republican candidates, General D. M. Griggs as Auditor General and Captain John W. Morrison as State Treasurer. He was again offered the State chairmanship in ' 1892, but declined. For nine years, he was a mem- ber of the Executive Committee of the Republican State Committee. In 1887, he was chairman of the Committee of Lackawanna County, and he has 34) , always been actively identified with the local organi- zation, as a staunch, loyal and devoted Republican. He was a member of the Ballot Reform Committee which prepared the bills which provided for per- sonal registration and uniform primaries. At the present time, Mr. Watres is the president of the County Savings Bank, The Scranton Trust Company, and of the Title Guaranty & Surety Company, of Scranton ; and is also connected with several large and successful enterprises. For over twenty years, he was an active and prominent figure in the National Guard of Penn- sylvania, having been captain of Company A, Thir- teenth Regiment ; colonel of the Eleventh Provi- sional Regiment; judge advocate of the Division Staff; general inspector of rifle practice on the Staff of General Beaver, and for five years colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment Infantr\', N. G. P. He was president of the State National Guard Association for the first two years of its existence and is a mem- ber of the Armorj' Board of Pennsylvania. WILLIAM SHADRACH SHALLENBERGER, Second Assist.-^nt Postmaster General. — Born in Mt. Pleasant, Pa., November 24, 1839. He was first lieutenant and adjutant One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers; chair- man Beaver Republican County Committee; mem- JAMES k. BARNtTT ber Congress 24th district, Pennsylvania, Forty- fifth, Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congress; member Lake Erie and Ohio Ship Canal Commis- sion ; Second Assistant Postmaster General since April I, 1897. In church relations he is a Baptist WILLIAM SHADRACH SH.-\LLENBERGER JAMES E. BARNETT, Former State Treasurer. — Born in Elder's Ridge, Pa., August i, 1856; graduated from Wash- ington and Jefferson College in 1882, and is a law- yer by profession. Was appointed Deputy Secre- tary of the Commonwealth by General Fred Reeder, and served until October 19, 1897, when he re- signed. Enlisted in the National Guard of Penn- sylvania in 1884 and after passing through va- rious grades was elected lieutenant-colonel of the Tenth Regiment in 1897. He volunteered with his regiment for the Spanish-American War and served in the Philippines, taking part in all the engage- ments of his regiment during the Filipino insur- rection until the capture of Malolos. He was ap- pointed Commander of the District of Cavite, suc- ceeding Colonel Hawkins, and served from May 10, 1899, until the regiment embarked for the LTnited States. He is now colonel of the Tenth Regiment. Was nominated for State Treasurer by the Republi- cans in August, 1899, and was elected in Novem- ber, 1899. (135) ARTHUR G. DEWALT, State Senator. — Born October ii, 1854, at Bath, Pa. ; was graduated from the Keystone State Nor- mal School at Kutztown, Pa., in 1870; taught school for one term in Lehigh county; in 1871 entered Lafayette College, and was graduated with honor in 1874; was instructor of classics in Oley Academy one term ; served one year in the Penn- sylvania Railroad office. In 1876, began the study of law with Hon. John D. Stiles; admitted to the bar of Lehigh county in October, 1877, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession ; elected district attorney of Lehigh county in 1880; admitted to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1883, and to all the courts of Philadelphia in 1888; was Adjutant of the Fourth Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania for nine years ; delegate to a number of State Democratic conventions ; elected to the Senate in November, 1902, and 1906. T. STEWART PEARCE, Former Cashier State Treasury. — Born in Livermore, Westmoreland county, Pa., March 26, 1855. He removed to Saltsburg in 1870 where he has since lived. Was educated at Memorial Insti- tute, Saltsburg, and later entered mercantile busi- ness with his father. Was appointed United States THOMAS LAWRENCE EYRE Gauger for the Western district of Pennsylvania by President Harrison in 1889, in 1891 appointed chief deputy of the office, in 1893 was appointed clerk in the State Treasury, afterwards was ad- vanced to assistant cashier and in April, 1899, was appointed cashier of the Treasury, which position he held until May, 1906. He possessed the confi- dence of the men under whom he served and per- formed the various duties to which he was assigned with marked ability. T. STHW.ART PEARCE THOMAS LAWRENCE EYRE, Former Superintendent of Public Grounds AND Buildings. — Born in Birmingham township, Delaware county. May 24, 1862. He is president of the Eyre-Shoemaker, Inc., general contractors. Mr. Eyre has held the following offices : Secretary to Congressman Darlington, clerk to President pro tempore of Senate of Pennsylvania, Collector Statis- tics Department Internal Affairs, Deputy Secretary Internal Affairs, chairman Republican County Com- mittee, Sergeant-at-Arms Senate of Pennsylvania, Deputy Collector of Port at Philadelphia, Superin- tendent Public Grounds and Buildings, superintend- ent of building Buffalo Exposition, superintendent of building Charleston Exposition, superintendent of Public Building Commission New Capitol, pres- (136) ident of Conemaugh Coal Company, president Kish- kiminitas Coal Company, secretary and treasurer Pennsylvania and New River Coal Company, sec- retary and treasurer Colonial Coal Company, secre- tary and treasurer United States Mining Company, secretary and treasurer United States Land and Lumber Company, director Farmers' National Bank of West Chester, Pa., director White Rock Quarries Company, Bellefonte, Pa., owner "Village Record," weekly newspaper, West Chester, Pa., and trustee West Chester State Normal School. OSCAR E. THOMSON, State Senator. — Born in Phoenixville, Pa., No- vember 14, 1862; educated in the public schools; occupation, consulting and contracting engineer; is director of the Royersford Trust Company and in- terested in many building and manufacturing enter- prises; member of the Republican State Central Committee 1895 to 1897; delegate to the Republi- can State Conventions 1902, 1903 and 1904; elected recorder of deeds of Chester county in 1893; elected to the Senate November, 1904. WILLIAM L. MATHUES, ber of the Tenth ward executive committee ; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1898 and 1900; again elected in November, 1904, and in 1906. JOHN MERTON FLYNN, Member of Legislature. — Born at Ridgway, Pa., on February 14, 1873; educated in the public schools and was graduated from the Ridgway High School in 1889; learned the trade of ma- chinist, at which he was employed for several years ; organized the Ridgway Foundry Company and is now manager of same ; elected to the House of Representatives in 1902, 1904; re-elected in No- vember, 1906. EDWARD H. FAHEY, Member of Legislature. — Born at Kennett Square, Pa., February 28, 1865; educated in the public schools ; graduated from Philadelphia Col- lege of Pharmacy and engaged in the drug busi- ness, being at present the proprietor of two drug stores in the city of Philadelphia; has been a mem- ber of the Republican city committee and is a mem- (I WILLIAM L. MATHUES, Former State Treasurer. — Born in Middletown township, Delaware county. Pa., March 24, 1862, and was educated in the public schools of Media; at an early age he began the study of law in the office of the Hon. John Broomall, Nestor of the Del- aware county bar, and was admitted to practice in the several courts of the county in November, 1884; is now a member of the law firm of Mathues & Makiver, Media, Pa. ; served as deputy sheriff of Delaware county from January, 1885, to 1887, and as deputy prothonotary and clerk of courts from January, 1887, to 1892; was elected prothonotary and clerk of courts in November, 1891, and served for four terms until 1904, in that capacity; he was renominated to this office in March, 1903, without opposition for a fifth term, but declined June i, 1903, in order to accept the nomination for State Treasurer, to which office he had been nominated by the Republican State Convention May 27, 1903; was elected State Treasurer November, 1903, by 244,650 majority; is a member of a number of secret societies and political organizations. 37) STATE GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Governor — Samuel W. Pennypacker, Philadel- phia. Private Secretary to the Governor — Bromley Wharton, Bristol. Executive Clerk — Thomas J. Lynch, South Beth- lehem. Clerk — Miss Elizabeth C. Sheehan, Harrisburg. Conunission Clerk — Howard L. Berkley, Harris- burg. Stenographer — John H. Smith, Lancaster. Messenger — James M. Auter, Harrisburg. Watchriian — John Czerneski, Antrim. SECRETARY OF THE COMMON- WEALTH. Secretary of the Commoniuealth — Robert Mc- Afee, Allegheny. Deputy Secretary of the Commoniuealth — Lewis E. Beitler, Philadelphia. Chief Clerk — George D. Thorn, Gettysburg. Corporation Clerk — John F. Whitworth, Kittan- ning. Assistant Corporation Clerk — Clarence B. Miller, Nanticoke. Commission Clerk — Gilbert H. Hassler, Carlisle. Statute Clerk — Charles E. Fritcher, Williams- port. Stenographer — Charles H. HoUinger, Harrisburg. Clerks — ^William H. Reiff, Norristown ; James C. Deininger, Sonestown ; John B. Patrick, Clarion ; Edward H. Brady, Pittsburg; Charles R. Willits, Reading; W. L Fleming, Bellefonte; Harry F. Freeston, Philadelphia ; James K. DeLaney, Easton ; J. A. Weible, Warren ; J. A. Lininger, Sharon ; J. L. Kendlehart, Gettysburg; J. B. Shallenberger, California; Howard W. Fry, Lancaster; William H. Pennypacker, Phoenixville; John H. Slentz, Gettysburg; Wilmer Johnson, Centre Square. Messenger — Edward C. Baxter, Philadelphia. Watch7nan — Daniel Dehuff, York. ( ATTORNEY GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. Attorney General — Hampton L. Carson, Phila- delphia. Deputy Attorney General — Frederic W. Fleitz, Scranton. Chief Clerk — Guy H. Davies, Towanda. Law Clerk — Charles P. Addams, Carlisle. Private Secretary — H. M. Hoke, Chambersburg. Messenger — Walter S. Taylor, Harrisburg. AUDITOR GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. Auditor General — ^William P. Snyder, Spring City. Deputy Auditor General — Sam Matt. Fridy, Mountville. Corporation Deputy — J. N. Langham, Indiana. Chief Clerk — N. E. Hause, Hawley. Domestic Corporation Work — Harry D. Jones, Montrose ; Joseph P. Gates, Yellow Creek ; Robert M. Rorer, Newtown; George P. Blackburn, West Newton ; Richard V. Fox, Harrisburg ; Jacob A. Creps, Indiana. - Foreign Corporation Work — Horace W. Esh- bach, Pennsburg; Barton W. Weaver, Terre Hill; I. R. Haldeman, Harleysville; Harry T. Creamer, Chester. County Work — Christian W. Myers, Lincoln; Harry P. Shomo, Hamburg; A. J. Henr\', Allen- town ; George J. Faddis, Ercildoun. Appropriation Work — J. C. Jeffers, Philadelphia; Freeman C. Gerberich, Dauphin ; George O. Evans, Allegheny; W. E. Bennet, Honesdale. Additional Clerks — Gwin M. Harvey, Hunting- don county; J. W. Kilborn, Ralston; Samuel R. Ogden, Westtown ; Jefferson Burtner, Butler; David H. Matthews, New Castle; Eben Allison, Beaver; H. C. McCamant, Huntingdon county; H. T. Hallman, Spring City ; E. C. Dewey, Clear- field. Clerks Classifying Papers — Thomas W. Mont- gomery, Huntingdon county; John M. Windle, Embreeville. 138) (i39) Stenographers — Lloyd D. Lubold, Philadelphia; John M. Ward, Philadelphia. Messenger — Charles H. Hardenbergh, Avoca. Watchman — James M. Uhler, Harrisburg. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. State Treasurer — William H. Berry, Chester. Cashier — Benjamin F. Measey, Ridley Park; Assistant Cashier — Robert B. Fulton, Chester. Bond Clerk — Charles A. Greer, Altoona. Assistant Bond Clerk — E. A. Griffith, Mahanoy City. Expert Bookkeeper — A. M. Porter, Canonsburg. Corporation Clerk — George W. Haggerty, Le- moyne. Clerks — A. O. Stone, Volant ; George F. Young, Gettysburg ; James F. Desmond, Chester. Stenographers — Samuel Weil, AUentown ; Miss Elizabeth C. Brugger, Fleming. Messenger — Patrick McGrann, Chester. Night Watchman — Benjamin P. Thompson, Montgomery county. DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS. Secretary of Interttal Affairs — Isaac B. Brown, Corry. Deputy Secretary of Internal Affairs — Theodore B. Klein, Harrisburg. Chief Clerk — Thomas Perry, Wheatland. Stenographer — Miss Stella L. Foote, Wattsburg. Messenger — A. H. Mitchell, Indiana. Watchman — Isaiah D. Winters, Harrisburg. LAND OFFICE BUREAU. Chief Draftsman and Surveyor — J. Sutton Wall, Monongahela county. Draftsmen — John H. Campbell, Uniontown; William E. Lewis, Radnor; W. A. Moore, Cur- wensville ; George S. Canning, Waterford. Search Clerk — George F. Ross, Harrisburg. Assistant Search Clerk — George W. Muse, New Castle. Bookkeeper — Edward B. Diven, Landisburg. Compare Clerks — S. H. Lemon, Hollidaysburg ; Charles S. Derland, Boiling Springs. Drafting Clerks — John O. Jackson, Franklin ; John C. Gates, Ebensburg ; Jacob Lightner, Pitts- burg. BUREAU OF ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES. Clerks — James J. Farnan, Chester ; James C. Kirk, Washington. DRAFTING CLERKS AND EMPLOYEES UNDER GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT. John Paul Jones, Harrisburg ; Ralph C. Benedict, West Springfield ; C. T. Ritter, AUentown ; N. A. Walker, Ararat ; Theodore H. Meminger Pleasant View; J. W. Plannett, Linesville; Miss Katherine L. Cilley, Osceola; T. Glen Myer, Corry; Miss Rose C. De Wald, Hartley Hall; B. F. Africa, Huntingdon; Charles F. Chidsey, Jr., Easton; Dorothea Fahrney, Harrisburg; Harry Partington, Harrisburg ; Charles L. Yoder, Harrisburg. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. BUREAU OF INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS. Chief of Bureau — Robert C. Bair, York. Assistant Chief of Bureau — Charles B. Penman, Scranton. Collectors of Statistics — James Sweeney, Arnot ; C. D. Willis, Delaware county. Stenographer — Miss E. M. B. Eisenhart, York. BUREAU OF RAILWAYS. Superintendent of Bureau — Theodore B. Klein, Harrisburg. Assistant Superintendent — W. W. Morgaridge, Corry. Clerks — ^William A. Neale, Brookville ; Thomas Wilson, Philadelphia; Robert J. Henderson, Phoe- nixville. Stenographer — Miss Blanche E. Butler, Harris- burg. (I Superintendent — Nathan C. Schaeffer, Lancaster. Deputy Superintendents — Henry Houck, Leban- on ; Archibald D. Glenn, Armstrong county. Financial Clerk — R. M. McNeal, Harrisburg. Recording Clerk— M. F. Cass, Elkland. Statistical Clerk — H. H. Fleisher, Auburn. Stenographers — Miss Mary Y. McReynolds, Har- risburg; Miss Edith L. Breitinger, Harrisburg. Messenger — James O. Knauss, AUentown. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. Adjutant General — Thomas J. Stewart, Norris- town. Chief Clerk — Benjamin W. Demming, Harris- burg. Clerks — George C. Kelly, Lewisburg; A. S. Vadakin, Philadelphia; Jacob B. Stauffer, Mechan- icsburg. 40) '"^^;^^^^"^'- "''^&m-^i ' COMMISSIOV*'^^ OF itiOUS'S' (HI) Stenographer and Typewriter — David C. Got- wals, Yerkes. Messenger — Charles E. Ashenfelter, Mechanics- burg. Messenger at Flag Room — Enos M. Russell, New Cumberland. Keeper of State Arsenal — William F. Richard- son, Mahanoy City. Tent Makers — John Gill, Philadelphia ; William S. Parkin, Philadelphia. Employes at State Arsenal — William L. Hicks, Harrisburg; Daniel B. Foote, Erie; Richard W. Hayward, Sr., Philadelphia ; George G. Rote, Sal- ona; Harry Miller, Harrisburg; Leo. A. Lutt- ringer, Ebensburg; Henry S. Fulmer, Norristown; Theobald S. Patterson, Berlin. NATIONAL GUARD OF PENNSYLVANIA. Commander-in-Chief — Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, Harrisburg. Adjutant General — Brigadier General Thomas J. Stewart, Norristown. Assistant Adjutant General — Colonel Ezra H. Ripple, Scranton. Inspector General — Colonel Frank G. Sweeney, Chester. Judge Advocate General — Colonel Edward Mor- rell, Philadelphia. Quartermaster General — Colonel Samuel Moody, Pittsburg. Assistant Quartermaster General — Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Potter, Jr., Philadelphia. Commissary General of Subsistence — Colonel Albert J. Logan, Pittsburg. Assistant Commissary General of Subsistence — Lieutenant Colonel Horace L. Haldeman, Chickies. Surgeon General — Joseph K. Weaver, Norris- town. General Inspector of Rifle Practice — Colonel Frank K. Patterson, Pittsburg. Chief of Ordinance — Colonel Sheldon Potter, Philadelphia. AIDES-DE-CAMP. Lieutenant Colonels — Harry C. Trexler, Allen- town; James M. Reid, Connellsville; Ned Arden Flood, Meadville; Charles C. Pratt, New Milford ; Daniel B. Shepp, Philadelphia; Lewis T. Brown, Pittsburg; Paul S. Reeves, Phoenixville ; Walter T. Bradley, Philadelphia; George Brooke, Jr., Birdsboro; Edward R. Chambers, Bellefonte; Homer J. Lindsay, Pittsburg; James Archbald, Jr., Pottsville; Lewis E. Beitler, Philadelphia. (142) NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF. Sergeant Major — John C. Shumberger, Harris- burg. Quartermaster Sergeant — William L. Hicks, Harrisburg. Commissary Sergeant — T. Magill Patterson, Pittsburg. Ordnance Sergeant — Phillip P. German, Harris- burg. Chief Musician — Edgar M. Major, Harrisburg. Color Sergeant — Jacob Greene, Philadelphia. MAJOR GENERAL COMMANDING. J. P. S. Gobin, Lebanon. BRIGADIER GENERALS. First Brigade — John W. Schall, Philadelphia. Second Brigade — John A. Wiley, Franklin. Third Brigade — Charles Bowman Dougherty, Wilkes-Barre. COLONELS. First Regiment — Wendell P. Bowman, Philadel- phia. Second Regiment — Hamilton D. Turner, Phila- delphia. Third Regiment — William G. Price, Jr., Phila- delphia. Fourth Regiment — Christopher T. O'Neill, Al- lentown. Fifth Regiment — Rufus C. Elder, Lewistown. Sixth Regiment — James B. Coryell, Philadelphia. Eighth Regiment — Joseph B. Hutchison, Harris- burg. Ninth Regiment — Frank L. McKee, Plymouth. Tenth Regiment — James Elder Barnett, Wash- ington. Twelfth Regiment — Frederick W. Stillwell, Scranton. Fourteenth Regiment — William E. Thompson, McKeesport. Sixteenth Regiment — Willis J. Hulings, Oil City. Eighteenth Regiment — Frank L Rutledge, Pitts- burg. INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. Insurance Commissioner — David Martin, Holmesburg. Deputy Insurance Commissioner — Samuel W. McCulloch, Harrisburg. Chief Clerk— Wm. H. H. Baker, New Le.xing- ton. Vl^v wHh^;^- '■^f, y TO T«t '^S'ONER Of ® '^f'J Of THE ^^^ '""Easurv 0^ (143) Clerks — Louis J. McGregor, Hyndman ; W. H. Johnston, New Texas; E. O. Pardoe, Camp Hill; Alexander S. Cooper, Harrisburg. Stenographer — Miss May Jaclcson, Philadelphia. Messenger — Andrew J. Miley, Sr., Philadelphia. Actuary — R. E. Forster, Philadelphia. Chief Examiner — Oscar S. Warne, Norristovvn. Assistant Examiner — George N. Twiss, Philadel- phia. Actuary's Clerks — Henry E. Cornog, Philadel- phia; W. C. T. Banerlee, Philadelphia; W. O. Kernan, Philadelphia; L. F. Branigan, Philadel- phia. BANKING DEPARTMENT. Commissioner of Banking — John A. Berkey, Somerset. Deputy Commissioner — John W. Morrison, Pittsburg. Clerks — William Dawson, Scranton ; I. K. Reif- snyder, Philadelphia; John V. Miller, Lewisburg; John W. Crider, Conneautville. Stenographer — Miss C. Maude Jones, Philadel- phia. Messenger — Edward L. Jenkins, Lansford. Examiners — W. H. Smith, Philadelphia; James L. White, Wellsboro; Joseph R. Harrah, Beaver; Joseph S. Riley, Philadelphia; William B. Schaef- fer, Bethlehem; Albert L. Taber, Philadel- phia; Peter G. Cameron, Wellsboro; E. R. Pen- rose, Quakertown; Robert Ostermaier, Pittsburg; Albert Wagner, Elkhorn ; John C. McClain, Lan- caster; H. A. Groman, Bethlehem; Willits C. Binns, Donora. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Secretary of Agriculture — N. B. Critchfield, Stoystown. Deputy Secretary and Director of Farmer's Insti- tutes — A. L. Martin, Enon Valley. Chief Clerk— M. D. Lichliter, Allegheny. Stenographer — E. C. First, Harrisburg. Messenger — George F. Barnes, Rossville. Dairy and Food Commissioner — B. H. Warren, West Chester. Assistant Dairy and Food Commissioner — Oliver D. Schock, Hamburg. Clerk— Miss May V. Rhone, Centre Hall. Messenger — William R. Swartz, Duncannon. Economic Zoologist — H. A. Surface, State Col- lege. Assistant Economic Zoologist — Norman G. Mil- ler, Marion. Nursery Inspector — Enos B. Engle, Waynesboro. Clerk— AMrtd F. Satterthwait, Chadd's Ford. Stenographer — Miss Kathryn P. First, Harris- burg. Messenger — L. R. White, Jermyn. State Veterinarian — Leonard Pearson, Philadel- phia. DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY. Connnissioner of Forestry — Robert S. Conklin, Columbia. Deputy Commissioner of Forestry — Irvin C. Wil- liams, Royersford. Clerks — A. Elwyn Strode, West Chester ; George W. Howard, Chester. DEPARTMENT OF FACTORY INSPEC- TION. Factory Inspector — John C. Delaney, Harris- burg. Chief Clerk— C. V. Hartzell, Harrisburg. Statistician — John L. Butler, Harrisburg. Assistant Clerk — Miss Mary Wagner, Harris- burg. Messenger and Typewriter — J. Pursell Lilly, Marysville. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Commissioner of Health — Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., Ardmore. Assistant to Commissioner — Benjamin Lee, M. D., Harrisburg. Chief Medical Inspector — Fred. C. Johnson, M. D., Bradford. Secretary to Commissioner — ^Wilbur Morse, Har- risburg. Bookkeeper — E. I. Simpson, Philadelphia. Stenographers — Miss Ivy E. Huber, Harrisburg; Miss Fannie A. Houseknecht, Muncy; Miss Min- nie A. Light, Philadelphia. Messenger — Edward F. Eisely, Harrisburg. SANITARY ENGINEERING DIVISION. Chief Engineer — F. Herbert Snow, Harrisburg. Assistant Engineers — F. W. Witherell, Pitts- burg; C. Howe Cummings, Lower Gwynedd. Draftsman — J. L. Gibbs, Harrisburg. (144) (145) MINE INSPECTORS^ OCT. 4TH^ igo6. Top row from left to right: A. B. Lamb, J. A. O'Donnell, Henry Louttit, C. P. Mc- Ciregor, J. T. Evans, Hugh AIcDonald, Frank Hall, Alexander Montieth, D. T. Williams, JosL°ph'vVilliams, H. D. Johnson, J. J. Walsh, P. C. Fenton. Second row: Nicholas Evans, T. D. Wilhams, Roger Hampson, Joseph Knapper, Elias Phillips, J. I. Pratt, T. K. Adams, C. B. Rose, I. G. Roby, C. J. Price, Alexander McCanch, Jr., J. F. Bell, F. W. Cunningham, B. I. Evans. Lower row: David Young, D. J. Roderick, John Curran, P. J. Moore, P. M. Boyle, James E. Roderick, James Martin, M. J. Brennan, Martin McLaughlin, L. M. Evans, D. T. Davis. Stenographers — Miss M. Irene Cuenot, Harris- burg; Miss M. Lou Eckels, Carlisle; Miss Jane Gilbert, Harrisburg. ANTITOXIN DIVISION. Clerks — Henry W. Peirson, Philadelphia; Miss Mabel F. Potts, Harrisburg. Stenographer — Miss Agnes Bean, Delphi. MORBIDITY STATISTICS DIVISION. Clerks — Miss Mary Harriet Morley, Marysville ; Elmer W. Ehler, Harrisburg; Miss Katherine Irene McCalley, Harrisburg; Miss Martha E. Mc- Granagan, Harrisburg. BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS. State Registrar — Wilmer R. Batt, Harrisburg. Clerks — Herbert B. Nelson, Philadelphia; Miss Mary Lenore Embick, Boiling Springs. Stenographers — Miss Erma K. Longenecker, Middletovvn; Miss Lila H. Conolly, Carlisle; Miss Lillian H. Shaffer, Williamsport ; Miss Anna Magdaburg, Ashland. DEPARTMENT OF MINES. Chief of the Department of Mines — James E. Roderick, Hazleton. Deputy Chief of the Department of Mine^ — Frank Hall, Huntingdon county. Chief Clerk— Orson V. Smith, Mansfield. ( Clerks — Joseph J. Radziewicz, Shenandoah ; James E. Roderic, Jr., Hazleton ; J. H. Venn, Shamokin. Stenographer — Miss Minnie H. Irwin, Harris- burg. Messenger — Robert J. Nelson, Reading. STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT. State Higlnvay Commissioner — Joseph W. Hun- ter, Jenkintown. Assistant State Highway Commissioner — Roy D. Beman, Meadville. Chief Clerk — John S. Neal, Chester. Bookkeeper — Daniel M. Leedom, Ambler. Civil Engineers — G. W. Ensign, Meadville; Enos D. Garrett, Downingtown ; Charles F. Ham- ilton, Franklin ; Charles W. Bosler, HoUidays- burg; F. F. Hallam, McKeesport ; George H. Biles, Philadelphia. Draftsman — Edward S. Frey, York. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS. Superintendent — James M. Shumaker, Johns- town. Assistant Superintendent and Bookkeeper — ■ George C. Keim, Johnstown. Storekeeper — John Robinson, Rittenhouse. Stenographer — Edward E. Jauss, Harrisburg. 146) ~ Auditor ^^ ■ OEPARTWt>'^ O^.- "SANCE CO' .^'^'^ ""^iFT^r V-p. '^SIGNER Of ' (147) Watchmen — Samuel M. Simmers, Harrisburg; Daniel F. Graham, Pottstovvn. Sergeant of Police — Samuel A. Bookman, York. Policemen — Edwin M. Householder, Harris- burg; Ferdinand F. Rohm, Patterson; Jacob B. Dock, Wormleysburg; T. C. Reynolds, Reynolds- ville; John J. Casey, Philadelphia; John D. Cam- eron, Punxsutawney. Mechanic — S. Frank Westen, Harrisburg. Gardener — John Loban, Harrisburg. Assistant Gardener — Morris H. Garvin, Sharon Hill. Carpenter — Ephraim T. Oswald, Oxford. Elevatormen — Joseph F. Ripley, Lambs Creek; Job Hart, Wellsboro. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. Superintendent — A. Nevin Pomeroy, Chambers- burg. Chief Clerk — Thomas J. Bell, Harrisburg. Clerk — J. W. Harbaugh, Chambersburg. Messenger — Roscoe C. Astvvood, Scranton. STATE LIBRARY. Board of Trustees — Governor Samuel W. Pen- nypacker. Secretary of the Commonwealth Robert McAfee, Attorney General Hampton L. Carson. State Librarian — Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Philadelphia. First Assistant — Norman D. Gray, West Ches- ter. Second Assistant — A. Coleman Sheetz, Harris- burg. Cataloguer — J. Burns White, Fayetteville. Clerks — Mrs. R. C. Espy, Harrisburg; Charles H. Forrest, Harrisburg. Messenger — Joseph Revie, Blossburg. Stenographer — Miss Martha G. Sober, Harris- burg. Clerk and Watchman — Theodore Burchfield, Al- toona. DIVISION OF PUBLIC RECORDS. Advisory Commission — John W. Jordan, Phila- delphia; Julius F. Sachse, Philadelphia; Frank R. Diffenderfer, Lancaster; Ethan Allen Weaver, Philadelphia; Boyd Crumrine, Washington. Custodian of the Public Records — Luther R. Kelker, Harrisburg. DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE. Superintendent of State Police — J. C. Grooome, Philadelphia. Deputy Superintendent of State Police — J. Cheston Morris, Jr., Penlyn. Clerk and Bookkeeper — John H. Clark, Lang- borne. Stenographer — Allen C. Frazier, Philadelphia. DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES. FISHERIES COMMISSION. Commissioner of Fisheries — ^William E. Meehan, Philadelphia. Clerk — Barton D. Evans, West Chester. Stenographer — Miss M. H. Bothwell, Goldsboro. COMMISSION OF SOLDIERS' ORPHANS' SCHOOLS. Chief Clerk — William J. George, Harrisburg. Assistant Clerk — J. Henry Holcomb, Philadel- phia. Stenographer — Harold R. Jauss, Harrisburg. Male Inspector — S. G. Willauer, West Chester. Female Ins,pector — Laura P. Swentzel, Phila- delphia. WATER SUPPLY COMMISSION. Secretary — Thomas J. Lynch, South Bethlehem. Engineer — Farley Gannett, Harrisburg. Clerk and Stenographer — William T. Sheridan, Philadelphia. GAME COMMISSION. Secretary and Chief Game Protector — Joseph Kalbfus, Harrisburg. (148) HE ^^^ o^'/HEVe^v^-" "^ THE LEClSV-^^ °'' THE lE'^*^ _ i (149) EDWIN S. STUART Governor-Elect. — Born in Philadelphia on De- cember 28, 1853, of Scotch-Irish parentage. At- tended the Southwest grammar school until thir- teen years old and then went to work for W. A. Leary, proprietor of Leary's Old Book Store, and he has never worked anywhere else. He was afterward promoted to the position of salesman and then became buyer for the house — was general manager, and in 1876, when only twenty-two years of age and nine years after start- ing as errand boy, he bought out the business and became the proprietor. He conducted the business at the old stand, Fifth and Walnut, until 1877, when he moved to Ninth, between Market and Chestnut, his present stand. He first entered politics in the Garfield cam- paign in 1880; joined the Young Republicans of Philadelphia; was appointed quartermaster, his duties being those of treasurer; was elected presi- dent in 1882 and re-elected every 3'ear until 189 1. Mr. Stuart was elected the first president of the State League of Republican Clubs in 1884 and re- elected in 1885-1886. In 1886 he went to select council from the Twenty-sixth ward and three years later was sent back to councils by a unanimous vote. In 1 89 1 he was unanimously nominated by the Republicans for Mayor of Philadelphia, and was elected by the largest majority ever given to a Mayor up to that time. He retired from the Mayor's office in 1895 after four years' successful administration, and in i8g6 was appointed a member of the Board of City Trusts, afterward succeeding William L. Elkin as chairman of the finance committee. Twice Mr. Stuart was a member of the Electoral College, casting a vote for James G. Blaine and for William McKinley on his second term. He was president of the Electoral College that elected McKinley and Roosevelt. He is president of the Union League and a mem- ber of the Young Republicans of Philadelphia. (150) ROBERT S. MURPHY. June 6, 1906, the Republican Convention met in Harrisburg and Mr. Stuart received the unanimous nomination for Governor and on November 6, 1906, after a spirited campaign, he was elected Governor by a large majority, decisively defeating the Democratic-Lincolnite-Fusion candidate, Lewis Emery, Jr. publican Convention at Philadelphia, where he supported McKinley and Roosevelt. In 1902 he represented his county in the State Republican Convention, and placed in nomination for Governor the Hon. John P. Elkin, now a Jus- tice of the Supreme Court. At the Republican State Convention, in Harris- burg, June 6, 1906, Mr. Murphy was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor by acclamation, and he was elected November 6, 1906, by a large majority. ROBERT K. YOUNG, Auditor General-Elect. — Born June 14, 1861, at Wellsboro, Pa. ; educated in the public schools of Wellsboro and Concord, N. H. ; studied law with Major Geo. W. Merrick, of Wellsboro, and was admitted to the bar in August, 1885. He traveled in Europe in 1885- 1886 and formed a law partnership with Major Merrick in 1886, and has been in continuous practice at Wellsboro. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1889; was a delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1895 and was a member of the State Legislature in 1 897-1899 and delegate to the Republican Na- tional Convention which nominated Roosevelt in 1902. Mr. Young is president of the Wellsboro Electric Company ; director of the Tioga County Savings ROBERT S. MURPHY, Lieutenant-Governor-Elect. — Born in Louis- ville, N. Y., October 18, 1861, the son of Francis Murphy, the great temperance advocate ; attended school in Portland, Me., Potts Academy, Fryburg, Me., Freeport, Sterling and Abingdon, 111., and completed his education at Pennington College, Pennington, N. J. In 1880 located at Johnstown, Pa., and became a student-at-law in the office of Hon. W. Horace Rose ; admitted to practice in the courts of Cam- bria county in 1883 and afterward to the Supreme, Superior and Federal courts. He was elected district attorney of Cambria county in 1892 and re-elected in 1895. He was the first Republican to hold this oflfice, the county being Democratic by a pronounced majority. Mr. Murphy has frequently represented his party in State conventions and in 1 900 was a delegate from the Twentieth district to the National Re- (151) ROBERT K. YOUNG. HENRY HOUCK and Trust Company ; secretary of the Tioga County Bar Association ; librarian of the Tioga County Historical Society and was counsel for the New State Capitol Building Commission. He was nominated for Auditor General by the Republicans on June 6, 1906 and elected Novem- ber 6, 1906. HENRY HOUCK, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Elect. — Born in Palmyra, Lebanon Co., Penn., March 6, 1836, and educated in public and private schools. Studied Latin and Greek for two years. The honorary degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by Franklin and Marshall College. In 1859 he was appointed superintendent of Lebanon county, and was elected to the same office in i860, 1863, 1866. Later Dr. J. P. Wickersham tendered him an important position in the State School Depart- ment of Public Instruction, which position he has filled up to this time. Mr. Houck was twice chair- man of the executive committee of the State Teach- ers' Association and in 1872 presided at its annual meeting in Philadelphia, lectured in every town and city in Pennsylvania, and in addition to this has conducted institutes in many States. He is not only in demand for addresses on educational topics in Pennsylvania, but calls have come to him from dif- (I ferent States of the Union asking him to give the benefit of his extensive experience as a promoter of practical education. Two years ago he made a tour of Porto Rico for the purpose of inquiring into the educational features of the United States possession. This is the thirty-sixth year he has filled the posi- tion of Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion of Pennsylvania. As a testimonial of their ap- preciation of his substantial work in promoting the interests of education in Pennsylvania the school teachers of the State, in 1904, raised a fund to send Mr. Houck to the Holy Land, which he covered in a tour of several months. He was nominated by the Republicans for Secre- tary of Internal Affairs in June, 1906, and elected in November, 1906. THE HENRY-BONNARD COMPANY. BRONZE Bronze Work. — The Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, Art Founders, is the greatest bronze com- pany in the United States, and there are very few that can compare with it anywhere. It is owned by U. S. Senator W. A. Clark, of Montana, was estab- lished in 1 87 1, and has a magnificent new and com- plete plant at Washington and Hartford avenues, Mt. Vernon, New York, removing from New York city last May. This company has made some of the finest bronzes in the world, but its crowning feat was the fashioning and casting of the three bronze doors on the new Capitol, an achievement that is ranked amongst the great art castings of the world. It has made the splendidly beautiful bronze work for the mansion of Senator William A. Clark, in New York, and cast the Ward statue of Washing- ton in front of the sub-treasury. New York. The Astor Memorial bronze portals on Trinity church are the work of this firm, requiring over eight tons of solid bronze. In 1900 some of its work shown at the Paris exposition included a colossal figure of "Pan," by George Gray Barnard; the heroic equestrian figure of Washington, and the iife-size portrait statue of Maude Adams, cast from 812 pounds of pure gold, the value of which was $110,- 000. The bronze work executed by the firm for the new Capitol is the finest in the country, and was done under the direction of the best bronze ex- pert in the country, Mr. Eugene F. Aucaigne. They have cast all the railings, standards and chandeliers, and also all the bronze work for the post office and treasury department of the Capitol, also the statue of Miss Penn surmounting the dome. See Illustrations on pages 10, 12, 34, and 50. 52) inence by the adoption of his plans for the build- ing of the new State Capitol, at Harrisburg, after a spirited contest in which many of the most prom- inent architects in the State had taken part. JOSEPH M. HUSTON JOSEPH M. HUSTON, Architect of the New State Capitol. — • Born in the Eighteenth ward of Philadelphia, and attended school until he was thirteen; soon after he learned the trade of sign painting, and then as a natural selection he turned to the study of archi- tecture. Ten years followed in the offices of archi- tects, during which time he distinguished himself as a draughtsman. In 1888 he entered Princeton University, and the following year, during the sum- mer months, he went through Europe on a sketching tour. At Princeton he won three gold medals for oratory. In 1892 he graduated as a Bachelor, and three years later became a Master of Art. Then he became the architect again. He rendered valu- able assistance in the erection of Broad Street Sta- tion, and in the great Reading Terminal. He de- signed the Witherspoon building, one of the best appointed and most complete of its kind in the country, and the famous Court of Honor through which President McKinley passed at the time of his visit after the Spanish War, during the memorial Peace Jubilee. This feat alone revolutionized the architecture of pageantry, and gave birth to many other decorative sculptors elsewhere, of which the Dewey Arch in New York is an example. He de- signed the Philadelphia Building at the Charlestown Exposition. The greatest stepping stone in his life occurred when he was brought into further prom- (I WOODBURY GRANITE COMPANY. Granite Work. — The Woodbury Granite Com- pany, of Hardwick, Vt., which furnished the granite for the exterior of the new Capitol, the handsom- est granite in any public building in the United States, has the largest and most complete granite manufacturing plant in the country, and it is well known and admitted that its quarry at Woodbury is the largest and best of any. It owns and operates in connection with the granite plant an independent railroad with fifteen miles of tracks, which operates between the quarries at Woodbury, Vt., and the cut- ting plant at Hardwick, Vt. It has its own special mountain climbing engines, freight cars, etc., and the most up-to-date derrick machinery, including air for drill as well as for operating the large hoist- ing machines. The company also owns a plant and quarry at Bethel, Vt., where it quarries and manu- factures Hardwick white granite, admittedly the whitest granite known, and selected by the architects of the mammoth union station at Washington, D. C, as the best that could be procured anywhere. The contract for the entire granite work of the new Capitol was to be cut complete in twenty-four months, but as a matter of fact it was cut and de- livered in twenty-two months, the quickest time ever made on a contract of anything like this size in granite, a contract that is believed up to this time to be the largest ever given. There were many dif- ficult points to overcome besides that of quick de- livery, among these the cutting and quarrying of thirty-two monoliths twenty-nine feet two inches long, and three feet ten inches in diameter, but all were delivered within contract time, a most credit- able piece of work. These were quarried and cut complete in less than ten months, record time, and all with special machinery made for the purpose. The job required practically four hundred thou- sand feet of granite, and necessitated an output of a thousand feet a day. A commission that recently visited the Capitol with a view to letting a big con- tract reported that it was the most satisfactory piece of granite work they had inspected. During the time the company was working on the contract for the new Capitol it employed directly and indirectly on that one job at the various plants from 750 to 850 men, all skilled in their particular callings. See Illustrations on pages 2 and 10. 53) STANFORD B. LEWIS STANFORD B. LEWIS, Architect. — Born near Charlottesville, Va., in 1869. Was educated in private, public and tech- nical schools of that State. Went north in 1887 and secured a position with Furness, Evans and Company, the well-known firm of architects of Phil- adelphia, Pa. In 1895 he became associated with Joseph M. Huston in the practice of architecture, supervising the erection of many large buildings in Philadelphia and has devoted his entire time to the erection of the Capitol building during the past five years. KELLER-PIKE COMPANY. Power Plant and Electrical Equipment. — The building is equipped with a thoroughly up-to-date plant for electric lighting and power and all of the electrical devices such as telephones, messenger calls, signal systems, etc., which have become a necessity in a modern executive building of this kind. All of this work was installed by the Keller-Pike Company, of Philadelphia. The Generating Plant consists of four units of 150 kilowatts each. The engines in these units are of the high speed automatic cut off type, built by the Harrisburg Foundry and Machine Com- pany and are of the Fleming Side Crank type with cylinders 19 inches in diameter and 18 inch stroke. Each engine is directly connected to a multi-polar generator of the direct current type of a capacity of 150 kilowatts at 230 volts. These four generators, which were built by the C. & C. Electric Company, of Garwood, N. J., as well as the engines to which they are coupled are shown on page 83. These machines are of the newest type and have given ex- cellent service since they were put in operation a little over a year ago. During that time, owing to the building which was in progress, and the large amount of temporary wiring which was required, the conditions have often been most severe, but there has never been an interruption in the service since the plant was started. The white marble Switch Board, shown on page 84 is of unique design. Instead of the usual com- plement of straight panels, the center one is made in the form of a keystone to represent the State of Pennsylvania. On the Keystone panel are mounted the pressure gauges for both steam and electricity The next panel to the left marked "Street" contains a volt meter and switch and two double throw switches, through which the entire current passes, the upper one being for power and the lower for lighting. These switches are so constructed that the entire load or either the light or the power load may be thrown either on the generating plant or on the street connection to the Harrisburg Central Station. As the switches are shown in the picture both the light and power load are on the generators. The next four panels, marked "i," "2," "3," "4," are for the four generators, which are connected to them by means of lead encased cables of 1,200,000 circular mils diameter, carried in concrete ducts in the floor of the engine room. Each of these four panels contains an illuminated dial ammeter of the Weston type, three pole dynamo switch, field regu- lator and double pole circuit breaker of the I. T. E. type. The tv\'o blank panels on the extreme left are intended as generator panels for two additional units to be installed in connection with the exterior illumination at some future time. The first panel to the right of the keystone contains all of the switches for the power circuits, i. e., for the ventil- ating motors in the various parts of the building. It contains a wattmeter of the Thompson recording type for measuring the power consumed on these circuits. The next panel contains the switches for the night circuits and a recording wattmeter to measure the total current consumed on the lighting circuits. The four panels marked "Interior" con- tain the switches feeding the various centers of dis- tribution throughout the building. To the extreme (154) GEORGE F. PAYNE right one blank panel is left for the switches to con- trol the outside lighting circuits. The distribution of current throughout the build- ing is on the two wire system at 220 Volts. There are in all 61 centers or panel boards in the build- ing from which the branch circuits are carried to the lights. .On page 87 is shown one of these panel boards which are constructed of white marble in sheet iron boxes. The usual construction with marble linings forming a gutter covered by a hard wood trim is adhered to. The doors are made with heavy plate glass panels. All wires are rubber in- sulated and carried in loricated iron conduits. It was the original intention to install in the building three independent systems of telephones. As the needs of the various departments became bet- ter known, however, it was evident that these inde- pendent systems of telephones would not cover the service desired, and, after considering other methods of telephone communication, it was finally decided to omit all of these systems and to substitute therefor a long distance connection in every room which re- quired telephone service of any kind. The system was installed in iron conduit for a total of 327 rooms and later it was duplicated so that each room has not only the Bell telephone services but also that of the independent companies, known in that terri- tory as the United Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany. Each company will install a switch board of ample capacity, in a room which has been assigned (1 for that purpose, known as the Electrical Bureau, on the first floor of the building. Messenger calls for both the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Company have been installed in every important room in the building, there being 278 call boxes for each company throughout the building. The wiring for this is also carried in iron conduit. The signal system comprises push buttons on each desk in both the Senate and House indicating on annunciators located in the ante rooms. In addi- tion to this there is a system of call bells in all of the committee rooms so arranged that they may be operated simultaneously by the clerks of the Senate and House when sessions are called to order. GEORGE F. PAYNE, Builder of the State Capitol. — He is the senior member of the firm of George F. Payne and Company, of Philadelphia. Soon after he com- pleted his apprenticeship as a carpenter he entered business for himself. In 1 88 1 the present firm was formed, Chas. G. Wetter, also of Philadelphia, becoming associated with Mr. Payne. In his younger days Mr. Payne was an enthusiastic guardsman and went through the Pittsburgh riots of 1877, as a member of the famous Washington Grays, a well known Phila- delphia artillery corps. The following examples of the firm's work will give a comprehensive idea of the training and expe- rience which found its culmination in the great Capitol Building in this city. Bullitt building 133-37 South Fourth street, Philadelphia. Crozer building, 1420 Chestnut street, Philadel- phia. United Gas Improvement Company building. Broad and Arch streets, Philadelphia. Professional building, 1831-33 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Perry building. Sixteenth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. Loraine Hotel, Broad and Fairmont avenue, Philadelphia. Academy of Natural Sciences, Nineteenth and Race streets, Philadelphia. Widener Memorial Home, York Road above Lo- gan, Philadelphia. Wistar Institute, Thirty-sixth and Spruce streets, Philadelphia. St. Joseph's Academ}', Chestnut Hill, Philadel- phia. 55) Carnegie Library, State College, Pennsylvania. Auditorium building. State College, Pennsylva- nia. Dormitory building. State College, Pennsylvania. Agricultural building, State College, Pennsylva- nia. House of Refuge buildings, Glen Mills, Penn. P. A. B. Widener residence, Ashburne, Penn. Wm. L. Elkins residence, Ashbourne, Pennsyl- vania. John Gribbel residence, Wyncote, Pennsylvania. Wm. C. Bullitt residence, Devon, Pennsylvania. George A. Huhn residence. Sixteenth and Wal- nut streets, Philadelphia. E. J. Berwind residence, Newport, Rhode Island. W. Storrs Wells residence, Newport, Rhode Island. Edward C. Knight residence, Newport, Rhode Island. Martin Maloney residence, Spring Lake, New Jersey. Maloney Memorial Chapel, Spring Lake, New Jersey. HARRISBURG FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WORKS. Engines. — Among the most interesting and im- portant features of the Capitol building is the elec- tric light plant. This consists of four engines designed to drive electric generators, whose armatures are directly attached to the engine shafts. The engines are of the horizontal automatic, self-lubrication, piston valve type, operating at 225 revolutions per minute, and each rated at 225 nominal indicated horsepower. The engines were built by the Harrisburg Foundry and Machine Works, of Harrisburg, Pa. In the selection of engines it was necessary to consider carefully those qualities that would secure compactness, quiet operation, close regulation and efficient service. Reference to illustration of engine room on page 83 will make evident how success- fully one of these requirements has been fulfilled, notably, compactness, since approximately 1,000 horsepower of engines producing electric light and power have been installed within a space of less than forty feet square and, as shown, without crowding. The most discriminating observer would not withhold commendation of those responsible for the design and installation of this machinery, which certainly meets all the requirements of the exacting service of the combined power and lighting load. CHARLES G. WETTER, Member of Firm of Geo. F. Payne and Com- pany. — Was born in the Eighteenth ward of Phil- adelphia, March 15, 1853, and attended the public schools of that city. He is well and favorably known in the building trade and has been a partner of Mr. Payne for the past twenty-five years. The firm is known as George F. Payne and Company, carpenters and builders, with offices at No. 401-9 South Juniper street, Philadelphia. The more prominent buildings constructed by this firm — ■ notably the new State Capitol building at Harris- burg — are monuments of their skill and enterprise. PENN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY. Steel Fixtures and Furnishings. — The Penn Con- struction Company of Marietta, Pa., the selling agents for the Art Metal Construction Company, of Jamestown, N. Y., furnished and erected the me- tallic furniture in all of the offices of the new State Capitol. This is the largest factory in the world engaged exclusively in this business, and no other could pro- duce furniture of this character. They design and contract for the complete equip- ment of public buildings, banks, libraries, etc. See Illustrations on pages 35 and 89. (156) THE ROBERT C. FISHER COMPANY. Interior Marble Work. — The grand stairway, marble columns, and all the beautiful marble work in the House of Representatives and Senate and throughout the building was furnished by The Robert C. Fisher Company of New York city. They were established in 1830 and are incorporated with Edward B. Tompkins as president and Rob- ert C. Fisher as secretary and treasurer. They are importers and workers in foreign and domestic marbles, Venetian and Roman mosaics, and are lessees of the Royal Irish Green Marble Quarries, Connemara, Ireland, and are the sole American representatives of "Marmor, Limited," Marble Quarries of Penteli, Paros, Mani, Skyros, Argos, Tinos, Karystos, etc., in Greece. See Illustrations pages 17, 18, 19, and 21. D. A. MacGREGOR & BRO. Interior Decorating, Painting and Glass. — All the interior decorating, painting and glass was fur- nished by the old established firm of D. A. Mac- Gregor & Bro., of Philadelphia. CHAS. J. FIELD'S SONS. Hardiuare. — The hardware for the new State Capitol building was furnished by the firm of Chas. J. Field's Sons, Philadelphia, by contract with Geo. F. Payne & Co., the builders. The hardware was manufactured by Sargent & Co., of New Haven, Conn., one of the foremost manufacturers of archi- tectural hardware in the United States. This hard- ware was specially made for this building from special designs and drawings of the architect, Mr. Jos. M. Huston. The various schools of architec- ture, in the special portions of the building, were classically followed out in the many special designs of the architect. The firm of Chas. J. Field's Sons, successors to their father, Chas. J. Field, is one of the oldest concerns in the State, established in 1852. Their thorough knowledge and long experience in the hardware business was a great assistance to the architect in completing this very necessary part of the building. The Messrs. Field are not only masters of ar- chitectural hardware, but have a large trade in railroad, United States Government, municipal and contractors' supplies of all kinds. (I SAM L 1:1. B. RAMBO SAMUEL B. RAMBO, Superintendent of Construction for George F. Payne & Co. — Born in Elkton, Maryland. Oc- tober 21, 1863; served an apprenticeship at the carpenter trade at Wilmington, Delaware ; moved to Philadelphia and entered the employ of George F. Payne and Company, November, 1884. MORSE, WILLIAMS & COMPANY. Elevator Installation. — In the equipment of ele- vator service for the State Capitol, evidence of care- ful selection is manifest in the completeness of de- tail for each elevator, in the construction of the requisite machinery for their operation, and in which auxiliary appurtenances for safe and rapid trans- portation of passengers to and from the different floors have also been included. The most conspicu- ous feature in the installation is probably the hand- some design and artistic workmanship displayed in the elevator cars, and which is certainly in harmony with the quiet dignity characteristic of this build- ing. No effort seems to have been spared, either by the architects, engineers or manufacturers to pro- vide reliable elevator service, and an installation practically perfect in all of its parts. The elevators, of which there are eight, conven- iently distributed in the building, are operated under 57) the hydro-pneumatic system. The pumping plant comprises steam and air pumps, air receiving tanks, pressure and discharge tanks, pressure indicators, and automatic governors, together with the hy- draulic engines of the well known horizontal mul- tiple geared type, and connected together with suit- able piping and valves, are located in the basement of the building. Two compound steam pumps of standard pattern, economizing the steam consump- tion, provide water under pressure for the regular elevator service. An interesting feature of these pumps is their automatic action or control by which steam is admitted and shut off in accordance with the requirements of the service. The variation of the pressure in the tanks below normal, acting upon the governors performs this function, and these in conjunction with the safety valves placed upon the discharge of each pump, appear to act as the watch dogs' of the system to prevent dangerous accumula- tion of pressure above normal in the pressure tanks. A high pressure pumping engine is also included, by which in pumping direct into one of the hy- draulic engines, heavy loads such as safes can be raised to any floor of the building. Two air pumps are installed in series, so that should it at any time be found necessary, the air under pressure can be supplied direct to the pressure tanks. The hydraulic engines placed upon a foundation of masonry are provided with an approved type of operating and independent automatic terminal stop valve, which together with buffers and the general massive con- struction of the engines, are well calculated to give efficient and reliable service. The pressure tanks from which the hydraulic engines take their supply of water under pressure while lifting the elevator cars are made of steel of substantial and approved construction. All wire ropes in use are of Roebling standard make. Each elevator car is connected to one of the hydraulic engines, exclusive of ropes used for counterbalancing, by four lifting ropes having a combined ultimate tensile strength of from 50 to 72,000 pounds, from which it is apparent that dan- ger of accident from the parting of any rope is prac- tically eliminated, that the effect of destructive wear has been generously provided for and been reduced to a minimum. Each elevator car aside from the safety device upon the hydraulic engines already mentioned, is provided with two distinct types of safety devices to prevent accidents due to dangerous acceleration of car speed. A friction brake Is lo- cated under the platform, actuated by centrifugal governors located at the top of each hatchway, will stop the descending car without shock or jar, and without danger to any occupant In transit should the car from any cause have an accelerated and un- (I CHARLES F. PARSONS safe velocity. Another safety device performing the same function consists of two groups of parts. One group is attached to the under side of the platforms, and another group of parts Is suspended on each side of the car from the top to the bottom of the hatch- way. The parts attached to the platforms include a set of oscillating dogs actuated by a governor. These dogs are designed to engage with the retarding plates forming a part of the second group suspended at each side of the car. The retarding plates are dis- tributed at various elevations in the hatchway and in the normal running of the elevator cars are out of reach of the engaging dogs; should the cars how- ever from any cause whatever exceed a prede- termined speed, the dogs are automatically actuated by their respective speed governors to engage the retarding plates, and in conjunction with same will bring the cars to a gradual and easy stop. The method of control directly in the hands of the elevator conductor is of the well known wheel type. This device gives the conductor direct and perfect control of the cars at the different floors, stopping and starting the cars In motion without any discomfort to the passengers in transit, and ab- solute control while passengers are admitted and discharged to and from the elevator. All the ele- vators are also provided with a complete annuncia- tor system so that a passenger may call an elevator to any floor desired. The elevators and all their appurtenances have been furnished and installed by 58) Morse Williams & Company of Philadelphia, a firm well known throughout the country for the high character of their products. In fact it is be- lieved that a better equipment could not have been provided. The installation representing a product of manufacture with factories giving employment to approximately five hundred hands, and located within the State, it constitutes a permanent exhibit of enterprise upon which the State of Pennsylvania and the manufacturers alike are to be congratulated. See Illustration on page i6. CHARLES F. PARSONS. Charles F. Parsons, who erected the stone work of the new State Capitol at Harrisburg, Pa., was born in London, England, April 4, 1869. He is a contractor for construction in stone. See Illustrations on pages 2 and 10. BUEHLER & LAUTER. Exterior Architectural Carving and Modeling and Casting. — Buehler & Lauter, New York City, did the following work at the Pennsylvania State Capitol: The exterior architectural carving; mod- eling and casting for interior plaster decoration; modeling for wood work ; modeling for marble carv- ing, and modeling for bronze standards and chande- liers in House and Senate. See Illustrations on pages 44 and 45. JOHN H. SANDERSON. Furniture, Electroliers, Carpets and Rugs — The beautiful carpets and rugs, the magnificent elec- troliers and the handsome and substantial furniture throughout the building were furnished by John H. Sanderson, Philadelphia. See Illustrations on pages 30, 39, 48. A. WILT & SONS. Interior Wood Work and Cabinet Work. — A. Wilt & Sons, Philadelphia, manufacturers and general woodworkers. Interior cabinet work for all kinds of buildings a specialty. This is the old- est firm in this line in Philadelphia. Business was established in 1844 by Thomas G. Cogill. In 1855 Thomas G. Cogill and Alpheus Wilt formed the partnership of Cogill & Wilt. In 1864 the firm became A. Wilt and Son. In 1885 the firm became A. Wilt & Sons, and since the decease of Alpheus (I JOHN F. WILT Wilt in 1896 the old firm name of A. Wilt & Sons has been continued. The individual members of the firm are John F. Wilt, born in 1840, Philadelphia; Chas. H. Wilt, born in 1847, Philadelphia; Elmer D. Wilt, born in 1856, Philadelphia. Have fur- nished the work for many notable buildings and dwellings in Philadelphia and vicinity, some of which are : Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. ; dwell- ings for E. Burgess Warren, Twentieth and Wal- nut streets, Philadelphia; Presbyterian Board of Publication Building, Philadelphia; Roman Catho- lic church and college buildings. Villa Nova, Pa. ; Drexel Building, Philadelphia; Roman Catholic Church of the Gesu and college buildings, Philadel- phia; Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mercy, Philadelphia; Arcade Office building, Philadelphia; Roman Catholic Church of St. Thomas, Philadelphia; Trinity College, Washing- ton, D. C. ; Perry building, Philadelphia ; Ma- jestic Apartment Hotel, Philadelphia, and St. An- drew's Protestant Episcopal Church, Pittsburg, Pa. The more recent, the new State Capitol build- ing, Harrisburg, Pa., including the fitting up of the House and Senate Chambers, the Supreme and Su- perior Court Rooms, the House and Senate Caucus Rooms, the Treasury Department Rooms, and many of the rooms of the Heads of Departments all in mahogany, also the Grand Executive Reception Room in English oak. See Illustrations on pages 28, 30, 38, and 48. 59) CONTENTS Addams, C P. ney General's A. , Law Clerk, Attor- Department, i4S T., N. 141 68 135 149 149 141 145 Adjutant General's Department, 64 Adjutant General's Reception Room,.. 65 Andrews, W. R., Chairman ReputiHcan State Committee, 129 Attorney General's Private Office, 57 Auditor General's Department, 58 Auditor General's Private Office, 59 B. Bailey, Edward, Treasurer New State Capitol Commission, i43 Bair, R. C, Chief of Bureau of In- dustrial {Statistics, Banking Department, Barnett, J. E-, Former State Treasurer. Batt, W. R., State Registrar, Depart- ment of Health, Beates, Henry, Jr., M. D., President State Board Medical Examiners, . . Beidleman, E. E-. Member of Legisla- ture, Beitler, L- E-, Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth, Bell, T. J., Chief Clerk, Department Public Printing and Binding Eeman, R. D., Assistant State High- way Commissioner, 149 Berkey, J. A., Commissioner of Bank- ing, 139 Berry, W. H., State Treasurer, 108 Biddle, Cadwalader. General Agent and Secretary of the Board of Public Charities, 1 30 Bolard, Jacob, State Senator, 119 Breaking Ground for the New Capitol, 97 Bronze Doors, 12 Brown, C. L,., State Senator, 123 Brown, I. B., Secretary of Internal Af- fairs, 139 Brown, W. M., Lieutenant Governor,.. 106 Buehler & Lauter, Architectural Carving, Modeling, and Casting, . . 159 Building of the New Capitol, 53 Building of the Old Capitol 33 Burning of the Old Capitol, 50 C. Capitals in Corridor, 37, 51, 81, 88 Capitol Park, 8 Carson, H. L,., Attorney General 107 Cassel. H. B., Member of Congress, .. 118 Catlin, S. R., State Senator, 120 Ceiling of Dome, Rotunda, 20 Ceiling, House of Representatives, ..44,45 Chief of Department of Mines, Private Office, 73 Cochran, J. H., State Senator, 115 Creasy, W. Critch field, culture, Cummings, H. H. Member of Legislature, B., Secretary of Agri- Dairy and partment, Davies, G. General's Dedication Dedication State Senator, D. Food Commissioner's 139 122 De- 70 H., Chief Clerk, Attorney Department, I49 Day, October 4, 1906, .... loi Invitation, 99 Dedication of the New Capitol, 87 Deemer, EHas, Member of Congress, . 118 Delaney, J. C, Factory Inspector, .... 139 Department of Public Grounds and Buildings 77 Department of Public Printing and Binding, 7^ Department of State Police, 79 Deputy Secretary ot the Common- wealth, Private Office, 55 Description of the New Capitol, 71 Dewalt, A. G., State Senator, 136 Dewey, E- C, Former Assistant Cash- ier, Treasury Department, 145 Dixon, S. G., M. D., Commissioner of Health, 1 1 1 Dome, Supreme Court Chamber, 29 Dunsmore, A. B., Member of Legisla- ture, 131 E. Electric Switchboards, 84, 87 ^levator, 16 Elkin. J. P., Former Attorney General, 128 Engines and Generators, S3 Entrance to House of Representatives, Rotunda, ... 25 Entresol Door, Rotunda, 26 Eyre, T. L-, Former Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings, .... 136 Glenn, A. D., Deputy Superintendent Public Instruction, I45 Godcharles, F. A., State Senator, 129 Governor's Private Office, 47 Governor's Reception Room, 46 Grand Staircase, 17 Grand Staircase and Entresol, 18 Graham, W. H., Member of Congress, 117 Gray, N. D., First Assistant State Li- brarian, 147 Greer, C. A., Bond Clerk, Treasury Department 143 Griest, W. W-, Former Secretary of the Commonwealth, 129 Groome, J. C, Superintendent of State Police, Gufifey, J. Western Insane, M., Member of Committee, Pennsylvania Hospital for 114 131 Commissioner of Forestry, Library, . . Conklin, R. S., Commissioner of For- estry, Construction and Equipment, Cook, L- B., Member of Legislature,. 71 Factory Inspector's Private Office, .... 72 Fahey, E- rl., Member of Legislature, 137 Field's Sons, Chas. J., Hardware, .... 157 Fish Commissioner's Department, .... 80 Fisher Company, The Robert C-, In- terior Marble Work, 157 Fleitz, F. W., Deputy Attorney Gen- eral, 115 Flynn. J. M., Member of Legislature, 137 Foerderer, R. H., Former Member of Congress, 1 32 Fow, J. H., Member of Legislature, . . 125 Fox, J. E., State Senator, 115, 143 Fridy, S. M., Deputy Auditor General, 115 Fulton. R. B., Assistant Cashier, Treasury Department, 147 G. Garvin, T. H., Chief Clerk, House of Representatives, 126, 127 George, W. J., Chief Clerk, Commis- sion of Soldiers' Orphan Schools,.. 145 H. Hall, Frank, Deputy Chief, Depart- ment of Mines, 141 Hall, J. K. P., State benator, 109 liarrisburg Foundry and Machine Works, Engines, 156 liarrisburg Made the Permanent Capi- tal, iS Hartzell, C. V., Chief Clerk, Factory Inspector, 147 Ilause, N. E-, Chief Clerk, Auditor General's Department, 145 Health Commissioner's Department, . . 74 Health Commissioner's Private Office, 75 Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, The, Bronze Work, 152 Hitchcock, A. B., Member of Legisla- ture, 127 Houck, Henry, Secretary of Internal Affairs-Elect, 1 52 House of Representatives, 38, 39, 40 Howard, Josiah, Member of Legisla- ture, 124 Huff, G. F., Member of Congress, . . 117 Huff, L- B., Trustee State College. . . 131 Hunter, J. W., State Highway Com- missioner, 112 Huston, J. M., Architect of the State Capitol, 153 I. Insurance Commissioner's Private Of- fice 67 Insurance Department, 66 Introduction, 4 Irvin, E- A., State Senator, 131 J- Johnson, F. C, M. D., Chief Medical Inspector, Department of Health, . 147 Judd, F. A., Chief Clerk, Senate, .... 139 K. Keen, G. S. J., Member of Legislature, 149 Keim, G. C, Assistant Superintendent Public Grounds and Buildings, 145 Keller-Pike Company, Power Plant and Electrical Equipment, 154 Rlein, T. B., Deputy Secretary of In- ternal Affairs, 141 Langham, J. K., Corporation Deputy, Auditor General's Department 147 Lee, Benj., M. D., Assistant to Com- missioner of Health, 141 Lewis, S. B., Assistant Architect of the estate Capitol. 154 Lieutenant Governor's Private Office, . 53 Lieutenant Governor's Reception Room, 52 Lynch. T. J., Executive Clerk to the Governor, 143 M. MacGregor & Bro., D. A., Interior Dec- orating, Painting and Glass, 157 McAfee, Robert, Secretary of the Commonwealth, 106 McClain, F. B., Member of Legisla- ture, 127 McConkey, E. K., State Senator, ... 119 McCulloch, S. \\'., Deputy Insurance Commissioner, 147 McNrchol, J. P., State Senator, 122 Main Balcony of Rotunda, 19 Main Entrance and Dome, 10 Main Entrance, Rotunda, 21 Mantel in Governor's Reception Room, 48 Martin, A. L-, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, 141 Martin, David, Insurance Commis- sioner, no Mathues, W. L-, Former State Treas- urer. 137 Matson, Myron, State Senator 1:34 Meals, E- S., Member of Legislature, 149 Measey, B. F., Cashier Treasury De- partment, 141 Meehan, W. E., Commissioner of Fisheries, 114 Miller, H. P., Senate Librarian, 143 Mme Inspectors, October 4. 1906, .. 146 Mitchell. J. N., M. D., Secretary of Committee on Lunacy, 132 Montgomery, T. L-, State Librarian. .. 113 Morrison, J. VV., Deputy Commissioner of Banking, 143 ]\Iorse, Williams & Company, Elevators, 157 Murphy, R. ti., Lieutenant Governor- Elect, 15J N. Neal, J. S., Chief Clerk State High- way Department, 149 North Corridor, 21 Pearce, T. S., Former Cashier State Treasury, 136 Pearson, Leonard, B. S., V. M. D., State Veterinarian, 143 Penn Construction Company, Steel Fix- tures and Furnishings, 156 Pennsylvania's Early Capitol, 7 Pennsylvania's First Permanent Capi- tol, 10 Pennypacker, Samuel W., Governor of Pennsylvania, 104-105 Penrose, Boies, United States Senator, 116 Pitcairn, Robert, Member Western Pennsylvania Hospital for Insane,. . 128 Pomeroy, A. N., Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding, 113 Postoffice, House of Representatives, 41 Proem, 5 Public Reception Room, ij R. Rambo, S. B., Superintendent of Con- struction, 157 Removal of the Capital to Harrisburg, 31 Removal of Capital to Lancaster, .... 14 Richardson, W. F., Lieut. -Col., Keeper of State Arsenal, 143 Ripp, Samuel, Member of Legislature, 127 Roderick, J. E-. Chiei of the Depart- ment of Mines, no Roosevelt, Theodore, President of the United States, 103 O. Old State Capitol, 9 Olmsted, M. E.. Member of Congress, 116 Osborne, E. H., Member of Legisla- ture, 124 Parsons, C. F., Granite Setting, 158-159 Payne, G. F., Builder of the State Capitol, 155 S. Sanderson, John H., Furniture, Elec- troliers, Carpets and Rugs, 159 Schaeffer, N. C., Superintendent of Public Instruction, 108 Schock, O. D., Assistant Dairy and Food Commissioner, 145 Scott, J. M., State Senator, 128 Sculptured Groups, 14-15 Sculptured Ornaments over Entresol Door, Rotunda 27 Secretary of Agriculture, Private Of- fice 69 Secretary of the Commonwealth's De- partment 56 Secretary of the Commonwealth, Pri- vate Office, 54 Secretary of Internal Affairs, Pri- vate Office, 62 Senate Caucus Room, 36 Senate Chamber 30-31 Senate Library, 35-89 Shallenberger, W. S., Second Assistant Postmaster General, 135 Sheatz, J. O., Member of Legislature, 126 Shumaker, J. M., Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings, .... 112 Snow, F. H., Chief Engineer, Depart- ment of Health, 147 Snyder, C. A., Member of Legislature, 125 Snyder, W. P., Auditor General, 107 South Corridor, 22-24 Sproul, W. C, State Senator, 121 Standard in Governor's Reception Room, 50 Standard in Senate Chamber, 34 State Government, 1 38-1 40-142-144- 146-1 48 State Highway Commissioner's Private Office, 76 State Library and Museum, 95 State Treasurer's Private Office, 61 Stewart, T. J., Adjutant General, .... 109 Stineman, J. C, State Senator, 120 Stone. C. W.. Former Member of Con- gress, 133 Stone, W. A., Former Governor of Pennsylvania, , . 133 Stuart, Edwin S., Governor-Elect, .... 150 Superintendent of Public Instruction,.. 6$ Supreme Court Chamber, 28 Surface, H. A., State Zoologist, 141 T. Thompson, A. A., Member of Legisla- ture, 126 Thomson, O. E., State Senator, 137 Thorn, G. D., Chief Clerk, Secretary of the Commonwealth, 139 Tile Designs, 49-82-85-90-93 Title Page, 3 Treasury Department 60 V. Van Ingen Windows. House of Repre- sentatives, 42-43 Van Ingen Windows, Senate Cham- ber. 32-33 Vare, G. A., State Senator, 129 View Through the Trees, 11 W. Wall, J. S., Chief Draftsman and Sur- veyor, Land Office Bureau, 145 Walton. Henry F., Speaker of House of Representatives, 122-123 Warne, O. S-, Chief Examiner, Insur- ance Department, 149 Warren, B. H., M. D., Da>ry and Food Commissioner, 141 Watres, L- A., Former Lieutenant Governor, 1 34 Wetter. C. G., Builder of State Capitol 1 56 Wharton, Bromley, Private Secretary to the Governor, 143 White, S. P., State Senator, 121 Whitworth, J. F., Corporation Clerk, Secretary of the Commonwealth, ... 139 Wickersham, F. B., Member of Legis- lature, 149 Williams, I. C, Deputy Commissioner of Forestry, 147 Wilt, A., & Sons, Interior Wood Work and Cabinet Work, 159 Wilt, J. F., 159 Woodbury Granite Company, Granite Work, 153 Woods, C. E-, State Senator, 125-139 Woodside, J. W., President of Valley Forge Commission, 130 Worden, J. H., President Board Game Commissioners, 147 Y. Young, R. K., Auditor General Elect, 151 Half-tone Illustrations by Gatchel & Manning, Philadelphia. Half-tone Portraits by C. J. Peters & Son Co., Boston. Composition and Presswork by The Telegraph Printing Co., Harrisburg. Edited and Compiled by W. W. 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