Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-20
! EVENING CHAT

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It's getting to be more difficult to
tell where Steelton leaves off and
Highspire begins than it is to figure
| out the dividing line between Harris
purg and its daughter of Steelton. In
deed, there is an almost continuous
me OF buildings of one sort or another
stretching from what we used to know
as Lochiel to the lower end of High
splre, the settlement along the trolley
line being thicker by far than on the
| west Shore or Rockville lines. Even
the rapidly building up section be-
tween the citys eastern gate and
Progress has nothing on the settle
| ment between Harrisburg and the
! place where sixteen years ago all was
| orderly hustle under the name of
camp Meade. The extension of the
pennsylvania steel works southwark
from the two rolling mills which for
years constituted the lower end of the
! plant has caused rapid building up of
available properties along the old
turnpike and on the bluffs. At night
IL seems as though it was all one
street from the lower end OF Highspire
TO Gibson street. in the northern end
OF Steelton, and that is within the
! rays OF the arc lights of Harrisburg.
Where there are not houses there are
the great buildings of the steel works
or else yards lining the space between
the highway and the Susquehanna and
nanked on the east by homes. This
expansion has all taken place in a
decade and ii will be interesting to
note the way in which further extern
sions affect the settlement of the coun-
try Immediately to the south of us 1t
VIII not be long until what may be
termed Steelton will embrace, because
OF the close building, what are now
HiShspire, Enhaut, Bressler, Oberlin
i'm
This war is going to have the effect
of bringing the United States some
very desirable immigrants. l do not
mean lahorers, but people of substance
who will be valuable additions to the
communities in this State. The stream
OF unskilled labor may be Interrupted
Tor time, but You will find that be-
lore long some splendid people will
come over, said a man connected with
one OF the States educational insti-
tutions while in the city yesterday.
The war is going to be long and it
VIII not be lost upon the people who
are not mad over it that the United
states is good haven. The outburst
OF patriotism which has brought into
the struggle many of the good, solid
people of Germany, France, Austria
the low countries and some others
Will soon wane .and as business men
little security there will be a repetition
OF former immigrations. If you want
confirmation of my grounds for this
statement, think how many of the
people of Harrisburg, Reading or other
cities date their entry or that of their
forebears into the United states from
Years OF war in Europe. | think you
would get some surprises in Harris
burg if you would look up the dates
when some of your families came here.
There appear to be two things that
the foreigners in the Sibletown region
appear to cling to in spite of their
length of residence in this country.
one is the long-stemmed pipe and
the other the beelless slipner. You
can see men smoking the curiouslv
long-stemmed pipes that come from
Eastern Europe on the street corners
and doorSteps any late afternoon.
winch pipes, by the way, have sue
ceeded the old long-stemmed pipe
with its china bowl which our Ger
man neighbors used to love so much.
And the foreigners come over State
street bridge and through Capitcr Park
with their slippers slap-slapping in
spite Of rain. Men appear to hang to
such footwear when they are not
working Notwithstanding the greater
protection offered by a good Harris
burg made shoe.
Observers of the heavens these even
tngs, provided there are no rain clouds,
are apt TO see some very pretty me-
teors. They have been seen over the
river valley almost every clear evening
for two weeks and people living on
Allison Hill have noted the fiery paths
of as high as dozen in an evening.
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It's funny what some people do.
Y n nf Co..
to the city and tied his horse, rather
spirited animal, to the rope holding
an arc light to q pole. Half a block
away q donkey engine was in opera-
ton and the horse started to dance.
The lamp danced, too and for a time
there was a plenty of excitement for
man and beast.
The Brumbaugh citizens commit
tee, which is operating so effectively
from Philadelphia, has adopted a
unique way Of attracting attention to
the candidate. 1t has adopted a stamp
similar in size and color to the
"Onicially Sealed" stamp that Uncle
Sam puts on your letters when they
goes through them looking for con-
cealed facts about your Income, if
they do such things. This stamp bears
fine portrait of DR.. Brumbaugh and
his signature, with this statement:
81 stand for a clean, capable, ag-
gressive administration"
The Democratic State Headquarters
has adopted a sort of blue and white
bullseye sticker which it's men are
putting everywhere. Most of them
bear the names Palmer and McCor-
mick but there is also set which in
cludes Greasy and McNair, with some
words about them. one of the stick
ers declares them clean and conktruc-
tive, and another rather reflects on
William Penn.
People in this city who served in