The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-17
BIC temple IS Going
UP IN ONE day

this time scores of other workmen be
gan arriving and the Numbers of gangs
were increased. Each section of frame
work soon had a gang of men mailing
and boIting vigorously. The second
center section presented a problem. A
telegraph pole full of wires is just out
side the line ana the section had TO
be raised in parts and nailed together
while it was standing insecurely.
This made It necessary for some one
to crawl TO the height of % feet to do
the work that was accomplished on the
ground in the eases of the other see
tionS. John T. Guyer, clerk to the
Board of Poor Directors, undertook the
dangerous task He tad finished that
job at noon. In the meantime the con
stantly increasing crowd of worhmen
had made the other sections ready for
raising
A foreman would veil Ready, -
and in minute a hundred hatchet
wielders would drop the tools and help
raise a section. After the first few
were up it seemed that every thirty
minutes another would be ready to be
raised and the men would 90 to that
one and in a short time it would be
in place.
Worked in Stiff Collars
When the central sections were so
far toward completion that the carpen-
ters got in each other S way, the fore
men turned their attention to triangu-
lar central roof sections, which fit on
the top OF the two highest uprights in
Al, . 1. a.
o'clock the first upright was in place on
the North street side and in thirty
minutes more the second roof section
was IN place.
In the meantime the smaller upri ght
sections were going up and the work
men were running from the raising of
one upright section to the rope on the
windlass which was pulling the center
sections into place. Fifty men would
get hold of the rope on the windlass.
BY noon there were but four upr ght
sections remaining to be set in place
and imme diately after luncheon the
men started work on the roof timbers.
There were as many spectators this
morning as men engaged on the work
and the convenient piles of lum Der
made excellent grandstands for the
idle ones. Hundreds stayed through
out the morning, while Others stopped
for a passing glance. Some who went
to see remained to work and before
the morning was half gone, spectators
were treated to some unusual sights.
The members of crew with fifteen
pound slelge hammers driving stakes
for braces were wearing white shirts,
stiff white collars and bow ties. That
had nothing to do with their ability to
drive stakes, however, as they seemed
to be old hands at it, making short
work of the task.
Clergymen in Overalls
There we've many white shirts.
Some of the hardest workers were wear
ing clerical garb. One clergyman with
a nail pouch was wearing a coat atop of
that. Some clergymen were garbed in
overalls from head to foot, but few of
them had regulation carpenters hats on.
Somehow a black derby hat does not
fit into the picture of carpenter, but
the wearers worked just as effectively.
A score or more of old hands at the
barn-raising business were wearing
their regular working outfits, dirty and
begrimed from much use. In strange
contrast to these men were bright, new.
shiny nail pouches distributed to the
green hands by an enterprising mer-
chant. 1t seemed that there were not
quite enough of these to go around and
one clergyman, wearing a silk shirt.
khaki trousers and leggings, had his
wife handbag around his waist, filled
with 20penny nails.
The Rev. John Henry Daugherty.
pastor of the Ridge Avenue Methodist
church, was in charge of the commits
sary department for the workers and
he saw to it that the men were mar
shaled to his church at Sixth and Herr
streets for the monday meal There
was sight to behold. There were
seats for 25O men in the social hall
of the church. Ladies from all of the
cooperating churches were on hand to
serve the hungry men.
And what a menul Roast beef, sal
ad, potatoes boiled in salt water-the
ladies insisted that the salt water be
mentioned-stewed corn and hot cof-
fee. There were not enough water
glasses on hand, so the men had to
drink coffee, and, what's more. but two
pies were sent in. Nobody would say
who got the pies, There were six
cakes, far too few for that crowd of
men, if all were to share in the deli
cacies.
Cheer Message From Dr. Slough
At noon it was reported to the la
dies that 400 men would be on hand
to be fed. Everything was in readiness