Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-27
EVENING CHAT

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Work. in which he mentions the fact
that regiment of Austro-H Hungarian
infantry contained men who had
served In the National Guard of Penn
Vania. has attracted much attention
among people here and caused much
discussion yesterday and last night.
A national guardsman of long expert
ence in the State service and a keen
observer said in speaking about the
matter: The presence of former
guardsmen of Pennsylvania in the
army at home is easily explained.
recall when we served in the anthra-
cite coal strikes that some of the men
in the companies in the Eighth, Ninth
and Thirteenth Infantry were miners
and men of foreign birth. They were
of the best type of foreigners, not the
kind that made trouble in strikes and
threw rocks and stirred up trouble for
everyone, but men of brains and
thrifty. They worked in the mines
and took great interest in military
affairs with which they were con-
nected when home. l have known of
instances of these men working deep
down in mines to respond to call for
the Guard and to go on duty among
their fellows, aiding to guard mine
property and keeping order. The
quarrelsome element had a great re-
| spect for them. too. These men were
splendid citizens and it is regretta BILE
that they should go back to the home
country, because we need such men
here. Whatever fighting they may be
in you may depend upon it that they
will give good account of them
selves. l would like to know the regi-
ments in which some of these former
comrades of ours served, for their
course in this war would be of much
} interest"
The person who thinks that the
average person is not interested in the
work of constructing the wall along
the Susquehanna only has to take a
walk to learn the difference. Every
place where the building operations
are under way is the center of an in
3 terested group of spectators and the
progress of the operations attracts
much attention daily. Some of the
men who visit the work keep tabs on
every yard. The work attracts even
attention of automobilists, who stoI
their cars and go to the edge to see
now things are moving along. AS fol-
t the canoeists, they are hoping for the
! day when the work is finished.
Next week some of the men most
t prominent in the work of the United
States government will gather here
FOR the discussion of propositions tc
make uniform the system of reports
= for accidents in the industrial es.
{ adjustments of the country. Pennsyl-
vania, being the premier industrial
state, the national authorities have
= welcomed the suggestion of the Off
cials of the State Department of Labor
and Industry that the nation and
states have the same system so that
tabs can be easier kept on accident
, statistics and the burden for the manu-.
facturer lessened.
! 1t will take another week to OBJ.
a literate the evidences of the big storm
of last week from the parks and some
of the streets. There are trees which
I must be patched up and some which
D having been blown down, must be re.
moved. The storms this summer have
been very destructive for many of the
4 finest trees about the city, especially
D along the river front where they felt
the full force of the wind. Strange tc
say, trees In Capitol, wildwood and
reservoir Parks have not been dam.
aged to any extent.
A war argument on a street cal
was settled in an unexpected manner
Y the other evening and from an Ameri.
! can point of view. Two men on a
Steelton car got into a discussion OF
i the merits of the English and German
] sides and the German was getting
q away with 1t because he was ringing
In the danger of a Slav dominance In
Europe. He asserted that Germany
e had always been Americas friend
How about 1882" put in mar
on nearby seat.
Why? What's that got to do with
it?'' asked the pro-German.
We'll, / was in Manila Bay wher
a Dewey had to make threats of war tc
, keep the German admiral from mix.
ing into our affairs That's ALL" was
the retort.
The argument ended.
More moths have been caught II
Harrisburg the last few days than fo
years and all because of a little news
a paper story that was sent out from
: Washington last Friday. 1T appear
- that some of the government bug stu
= dents colored wings of moths of th
n army worm and turned them loos
from various points to test the dfstri
button of the worm. AS a consequence
number of amateur entomologist
s have been catching every bug tina
1 comes along and "saddlebacks,
@ moon" and 40" moths have beeI
captured, but very few of the arm,
y worm variety. Some looking yer,
= much like it were found in Capito
: Park, where, strange to say, the Sal
b. Jose scale roams about, but they wer
= not the dreaded pest.
: A truck driver for one of Harris
burg's mercantile concerns has beer
much annoyed by children climbin,
on the rear of his vehicle. He ha
), no objections to them enjoying a fre,
q ride himself but has orders to bar tn,
. practice on account of its danger. Fo
~ a long time the best the driver coult
: do was to flourish his whip and lool
fierce, but the bolder youngsters KEEP
right on "hangin' on behind" But nov
the driver has an automatic device
. that does the work. He carries a littl
n foX-terrier on the rear of the wagon
q and If any youngster ventures to la,
hands on the rear of the truck for th
y purpose of stealing a ride the dol
j springs at him like q jack-in-th the box
e Needless to say. the children are leav
ing the truck severely alone.