Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-05
EVENING CHAT

! dent around here" said DIR. Martin G..
Brumbaugh, .he Republican candidate
for Governor, when he met Governor
John X. Tener at the Executive Man
sion the other evening" "I've not only
been the president of a baseball
league, but l organized one all my
sell. continued the doctor before the
Dig Governor could ask any questions.
II happens that one of the things that
DR.. Brumbaugh did when he went to
Porto Rico to give the people of the
island the greatest of American insti-
| tutions-the schoolhouse-was to help
along the cause of clean sport among
the boys. The doctor was picked out
to organize the school system in Porto
Rico by President Mckinley, who knew
and valued him, and the Philadel-
phlan was confronted with the same
thing that the Americans found in the
Philippines, Cuba and Panama in the
way of popular sports. Cock fighting
was the real thing and baseball was
the only amusement that appeared to
have enough excitement and thrills to
1T to interest the folks. DR.. Brum-
baugh said that he formed a club at
San Juan and that they got onto its
curves i'm mighty short time and
soon there were clubs formed in the
vicinity. Then Ponce and other towns
got the fever and the educator had to
stop in his work to organize the league.
OF course they elected him president,
and they say that he used to go out
and bat flies every now and then to
show that he kept his hand in. When
the Governor and his successor got
together at the brownstone mansion
the other evening they started talking
baseball, but the doctor got the floor
and kept 1t by adding Porto Rico. "I'll
stay up until | in the morning to talk
Porto Rico. Next to Pennsylvania it's
the great place for me-" said he.
The New Shimmell school building
out on the Hill has been growing up
around the doorway. 1t has been at
tracing much attention from the peo-
pie passing Seventeenth street on the
trolley cars and they have been Won
dering what the archway rearing itself
really was. The contractor happened
to get the brownstone for the doorway
early and proceeded to put it up. For
while the building looked like an
enclosed park or grass plot with an
ornamental gateway.
THE GrangerS lacked something this
week. remarked Cumberland coun-
tian as he saw the final crowds coming
into the station last night.
1T did not lack the crowd or the
attractions. What did it lack?" asked
THE flood" replied the first speaker.
II have never known a real swift. old
fashioned freshet to fail, until this
year. We had the storms all right,
but they were not hefty enough to
cause flood,
Harrisburg has gotten used to hand
organs being toted around in carts
with weary, sorry deaf horses, and to
perambulating peanut wagons but
now there is a horse scissor grinding
wagon going about the city. The horse
likes the job because he goes to sleep
when the boss gets an order.
Following closely on the heels of
the corps of tampers and others who
laid the rolls of sod on the slopes of
the Front street subway yesterday was
a man with a broad headed mallet and
a bundle of little pine pegs. His prob
able job excited a lot of curiosity
among spectators until he got busy:
then he sprawled on the newly sodded
slopes and pounded the little wooden
pines into the sod at intervals of eight
or ten inches. why do ] do this"
he repeated in answer to a question.
To hold the sod on the slopes and
prevent its being washed away until
il takes root. The pegs are left in the
grass"
Nathan w Stroup, the 18-year-old
son of District Attorney Michael e.
Stroup, will return in a day or two
from two months vacation trip to
Canada. He is a member of the
Weewaydin Bows Camp in Temagam.
Canada, and has been fishing and
tramping, swimming and canoeing
among the lakes. He holds the rec
ord as the fisherman of the camp:
incidentally he writes interesting let
ters of his experiences. The district
attorney proudly read his sons latest
letter the other day. That boy is
surely poet" quoth the county prose-
cutor; get this:
Dad, I've seen some wonderful
northern lights and please send me
about five dollars
Romper Day invitations were more
than ordinarily attractive this year as
planned by ]. r. Hoffert. the assistant
park superintendent. These were on
picture post cards and on the reverse
side were tiny views of interesting
scenes on the city Fairgrounds, work
that had been done last year. These
views included badge contest pictures
track meet, swimming pool, the
MoCormiCk's Island Camp. bits of
hasketry work and a view of the
lunch table at Romper Day.
There is a kid who makes some
money by hauling baskets at the
Chestnut street market who deserves
to make more. He has an express
wagon and he attends to business. He
'barks" for hauling Jobs and he has
a sion that helps lot these days. The
sign reads:
BASKETS HAULED AND NOT
BUMPED
Schuyler Ridgeway. of Hazleton.