Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
HARRISBURG WAS
MUCH IN EVIDENCE
Prominent Residents of the City
Among Those at the Pennsyl-
vania Society Dinner
GOVERNOR-ELECT SPOKE
DR.. Brumbaugh Discussed the Glory
of Having Been Born a Penn
sylvania Citizen

very iHuCh 10 lne lore at the annual
dinner of the Pennsylvania Society in
New York on Saturday night and the
flag of Harrisburg was the first of the
city flags to be borne behind the seven
historic flags which always lead the
dinner procession of~the society.
Governor-elect Martin G. Brum-
baugh was one of the speakers and
Edwin S. Stuart, former Governor and
president of the society, was in the
chair. DR.. r. S, Naon. the Argentine
lambassa dor, was the speaker of the
evening. Bishop Darlington, the chap
lain of the society, offered prayer.
Among the guests of honor and their
escorts We're: Dr. Brumbaugh, Frank
b. McClain, Judge r. III. Koch. Potts
Vile; eX-Attorney General G. w.
Wickersham, w. B. McCaleb, d. c.
Herr, Senator Boies Penrose, Senator
| George T. Oliver, Judge n. NJ. Wan
ner York; Justices ID. Newlin Fell
and S. Leslie MetreZat. of the Supreme
Court; John ~ Nauman, Lancaster;
General c. b. Dougherty, Ex-Governor
Pennypacker, President III. S. Drinker
of Lehigh, and Mayor Blankenburg.
| Among those present were Charles
II. Bergner. State Librarian Thomas
! Il. Montgomery, James Nj. Lamberton,
Col. S. ID. Foster, j. Heron Crosman,
] Jr., Thomas Earle, w. Harry Baker,
Henry A. Kelker Jr., John II. Brady,
DIR. John j. Moffitt. Senator Beidle-
man. James Brady. George w. Creigh-
ton, ]. T.. b. Cunningham, Carl b. Ely,
| f. w. Fleitz. w l.. Gorgas. Henry
| Ilouck. Lieutenant Governor Reynolds,
| w. $. Leib, Harry $. McDevitt, James
". Murray. +. b. Musser. Frank A.
Smith. Ex-Governor Stone. District At
torney. Stroup, Thomas Il. Wierman,
Victor W. Wierman, Judge G.. b. Wit
mer. of the United States Court.
Among the former Harrisburgers pres
ent was DR.. b. Wallace Hamilton,->of
New York.
DR. Brumbaugh in his address on
Pennsylvania said:
I'VE gather i'm this metropolitan
center to think of Pennsylvania-our
home State. Here you have builded
her an altar. Here you have lighted
the fire, and here we shall all gather
warmth and welcome and a quickened
gratitude that Divine Wisdom so plan
ned that our eyes should first see
mothers eyes in the clear, even light
of a Pennsylvania home.
I'VE did not then know we do not
| yet fully know. what a blessing was
ours to be born Pennsylvania. Had
| it been my lot to be born in the State
of my own choice, and with the knowl-
edge | now possess of my country. I
should gladly and unhesitatingly have
| chosen Pennsylvania.
"She is rich in history, unrivaled in
| industry. splendid in philanthropy,
glorious in patriotism. unsurpassed in
intellectual leadership and rich in
moral and religious character. These
are the inheritance of her sons. To
know Pennsylvania is to love her, and
| to live upon her bounty ignorant of
her record is to live unworthily.
THE one commanding leader to
cross the Atlantic in Colonial days
was William Penn. He saw as no
other leader saw the need of a new
and a great experiment in govern
ment, and seeing. he successfully ac-
Icomplished on the banks of the Della
ware the most significant advance in
government that any man has ever
given to the world. Under his broad
federation all peoples found home and
haven in the land we love.
"The English and Welsh Quakers
filled the capital on the Delaware and
the region round about These gave
themselves to the DEVELOPMENT of the
civic and industrial life of the colony,
erected their churches, founded their
schools and held close and even af-
fectionate relations with the mother
| country.
Beyond these. in a zone so miles in
width, settled the sturdy. substantial
iGermans, They could smell limestone
| land 20 miles in the wilderness. To
them we are indebted for our agri-
cultural development. for our great
textile industries and for substantial
service in the founding of great pro-
lfessional schools. notably in medicine.
To these great gifts they added that
of peacefully and honestly devoting
| themselves to the development of 4
sweet and pure home life and spirit
| of devout worship.
Beyond these. into the great noun
tain valleys, swept the earnest, ag-
gressive Scotch-Irish. They pushed
1.-The frontier to the Ohio Valley, sub
dued the Indians and erected churches
land schools as the foundation of their
J citizenship. These pioneers on the
frontier deserve undying fame for
their lofty patriotism and heroic strug
; giles to carve culture and character
| from the wilderness.
"To be a loyal Pennsylvanian is to
! be a true knight of service in behalf
of this great people, who i'll mill and
mine. forge and factory, forest and
farm, are giving themselves to the en-
Irichment of the Commonwealth.
IAround them in their toll stand school
and home and church, the great safety
institutions of a people. So long as
these are respected. loved. honored by
Iuse the future of the State is assured.
! For we do not in Pennsylvania count
tour wealth in dollars. but in conduct.
! Not in stocks and bank accounts. but
lin loyalty to each other and to the
nation of which we are significant
and worthy part.
I'VE have done much to safeguard
our people when at work. We have
never serious y attacked the problem
iof organiZin,. wise provisions for the
leisure of our people. A people whose
leisure is unstudied have not yet risen
/ TO the dignity and worth of true Penn
! sylvanans.
| above all other issues-this is
idominant the fostering of wise spirit
of loyalty to the great Commonwealth.
III should he our honorable boast that
we are citizens of no mean State: that
lin all the counts that make a people
worthy and worthful one may, with
assurance, point confidently to the
| dear old Keystone and say reverently,
gladly. honestly, Hail. Pennsylvania"
! While the men We're dining and be-
fore the speechmalIing started the So
ciety of Pennsylvania Women in New
York was making merry in another
lpart of the Waldorf. More than 100
of it's members were in attendance to
WELCOME Philadelphia's Mayoress, Mrs
Rudolph Blankenburg, who was the
guest of honor. Mrs. Alexander f.
Patton, of Curwensville, Pa, president
pof the society, presided.
The chief feature of the womens
dinner-besides gowns and eating, of