Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-11
EVENING CHAT

| EVENING CHAT
Steamship agents in this part of
the State say that although the num-
ber OF foreigners who have gone back
to the ''old country to await better
ment of business conditions is large.
there are many inquiries being made by
others. who say that if things do not
brace up their intentions are to go
home and remain until winter time.
Men who are in charge of construc-
ton gangs say that they are beset
every morning by men who want to
go TO work, many of whom appear
with buckets packed and ready to
take up pick or shovel on notice,
while contractors say that they could
get enough men to dig cellars for a
town without difficulty. And here is
one of the surest signs of the times
farmers say that they are having nu-
merous foreigners apply for work
every day. The average foreign Ia
borer does not go to the farm for
work until he has exhausted all of
the other lines. Most of them come
from the fields and they prefer the
work on construction gangs to the
long hours on the farm. The foreign
laborers out of work hereabouts should
| come in mighty handy wnen the har-
vest gets under way in the next fort
night, provided the farmers need
help.
The Hogestown Horse and Cattle
Show, which will be held in the Big
Head Woods next week. goes back to
1905. 1t was started by the Hogestown
Institute and the Mccormick Estate
Farms and the first show was all held
in one afternoon. There was not much
doing in the morning and the whole
program was crowded into the space
between noon and o'clock. Now a
show takes couple of days. In the
first years the prizes were ribbons and
they were as eagerly contested for as
the more expensive trophies offered
these days Some of the farmers who
exhibited their horses and cattle in the
first show will make exhibition next
week. In fact, in many families the
show is the big event of the summer
and the picnic time just before the
harvest work is started.
Men officially connected with the
arrangements for the transfer of the
battlefiags, which will take place next
Monday, say that the reason the line
of march was made so short was to
enable the veterans to participate in
the last trooping of the colorS. Many
of the veterans of the Civil War are
well along toward so and some are
beyond four score years, and if an
extended line was made in the hot sun
of mid-June day the results might
be disastrous. Every arrangement will
be made to take care of the veterans
and should any be taken ill State and
city police will be at hand to seeG that
they receive prompt attention. Even
with all of the plans made for eXpe-
ditious handling of the ceremony, the
veterans will be on duty for about
four hours.
When the returns of the primary
election are all in hand there are
going to be some funny things shown.
The voters displayed even more than
the usual regard for the party column
and there was scarcely a candidate for
a State office who did not get a vote
on every ticket. This meant that the
voter had to write in a name. To do
this he was either animated by a spirit
of mischief or resentment at nomi-
nation.
Motorboat owners are tuning up
their craft preparatory to enjoying a
summer on the river, and it is no.
ticed that almost every time a fellow
goes out for spin that he takes a
cruise down toward the site of the
river dam. The motorboat people be-
| lieve that some of the worst shoals and
rocks will be covered and better land
ing places afforded. People who like
to row are eagerly awaiting the build
ing of the dam, because it will give
new places to explore and cover up
the grass patches that are breeding
places for the striped-legged terrors
that give the mosquito tribe an evil
name.
A pair went by the row or movies
in Market street last night and the
| girl was busy telling the youth that
she never went to the shows Sudden
ly big lithograph loomed up and the
girl stopped and said that she thought
the hero was not as good-looking as
he was last week when he shot Mex.
licanS.
The Philadelphia high school cIas:
here yesterday to see the city anc
Capitol was the third within a shor
time and it is interesting, and graft
flying as well, to learn that this cit,
was picked over New York. West Poin
and Washington. The explanation O
the student visitors is that their pres
ence is more appreciated in a small
town than in a big one and they hav,
better time.