Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
EVENING Chat

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chase themselves pretty closely on
birthdays this month. On July 20
Governor John K. Tener will be fifty
one, having been born in 1868. He
celebrated his fiftieth birthday last
summer without telling anyone about
1t. This year he says he is going to
play golf and beat Colonel Bogey In
honor of the day. On the day before
the Governors birthday Forestry Com
missioner Robert S. Conklin will be
ffty-five. Mr.. Conklin has been con-
nected with the Forestry Department
serves grow to a million acres and a
wonderful business enterprise. On July
20 Secretary of Agriculture n. B.
~Critchfield will be seventy-eight, but
he does not look 1t, and certainly does
not act 1t. He was born in 1898 and
Is about as spry an official as there is
on Capitol Hill. Only Secretary of
Internal Affairs Henry Houck is older
and he has the guide, teacher and
friend of the farmers beaten only
about two years in age. Secretary
~Critchfield has had a varied career.
lie was soldier, chool teacher with
Jesse e. b. Cunningham, Deputy At
torney General, as a pupil, public Off
cial and farmer. He has handled a
plough and picked cherries and can
do it to-day.
People who think that standard
classics are giving way to more recent
fiction are mistaken" commented a
young man who came out of the State
Library with a copy of the first vol
ume of the elder Dumas The Three
Musketeers" under his arm. Look
here" n he turned to the front OF
the volume wherein is pasted a slip
Of - -, wwvAt-L- - Il At
every time a volume is taken from the
library. Starting with October, 1912,
this particular volume had been issued
on October l and s and December 3
of 1912; January 6. June IL and 81,
July z, August Is, September 10 and
%, October "a, November "a and De-
cember %, of 1913, and January 20,
February II and May 2S of the cur
rent year. And this is only one of sew
eral copies of the same novel in the
library.
The proposed state fair for the
vicinity of Middletown is attracting
considerable attention among the
people visiting the city and about the
hotels there is nue. comment as to
the importance of such a project for
this community. One man from the
western end of the state said yester-
day in talking about it: DO you re-
member what the great objection was
to the scheme for a state fair when
the Legislature met last year? Well,
1t was that Harrisburg could not take
care of the people. as she did not have
hotel accommodations. That's it. Get
a good hotel now, because the fair will
bring many people here"
Speaking about hotels, 1t is interest
ing to note that Tuesday and last night
the hotels were all crowded, owing to
the numerous hearings on Capitol Hill,
the steno2raphers' meeting, the Demo-
cratic session and several other things.
Then, too, there were several auto
mobile parties and people who came
in on late trains Tuesday night had to
hustle around to find places to lay
their heads.
f. w. Fleitz, former Deputy Attor-
ney General and well-known attorney,
banker and business man, is able to
be about again after his recent severe
afilction to his eyes He vas COM
PEELED to undergo irksome treatment,
but appears to be hone the worse in
health n in that flow of good re-
partee which he always has had about
him.
Harry S. McDevitt, who was adj
mitted to the bar yesterday, is a for
HS"SPoPSi man VI fHliduelpnla.
He was connected with the Press for
quite a while and was political writer
during 1909 and 1910, accompanying
the Tene campaign party. Mr..
McDevitt served as assistant executive
controller and secretary to the Board
Of Public Grounds and Buildings.
Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer
yesterday informed some of the news
paper correspondents that he was a
scribe himself. He was joked about
being pretty good in giving interviews.
"Oh, 1 know the game. I've been in
1t and 1 belong in the newspaper
class" said he.
"How's that. Thought you were a
lawyer?"
I'm a newspaperman, too"
Where do you work 2"
UOn my own M mar I'M hanaam