Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-21
EVENING CHAT

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| 1t is very evident that Harrisburg
| is going to attract almost as much
attention in a legislative way this win
I ter as 1t did in the early part of 1918
and that good many men and or
| carnations who are concerned about
laws will practically make headquar-
| ters here for couple of months. One
| of the city hotels has had inquiries for
! quarters for some attorneys and 9TH
! ers who plan to spend two or three
1 days week during the whole legisla-
| tive session and another has been ask
/ ed to reserve rooms for men who want
/ to be on the ground to observe the
course of law making. All this is in
/ addition to the members and officers
of the Legislature who have COM
menced to look up places to stay. 1t Is
| rather significant that number of the
members plan to stay at hotels, which
is taken by some to mean that they do
not anticipate a session reaching much
beyond April l. Officers are being Sc
cured by number of committees in
terested in legislation and there will
| be active headquarters maintained
here by the Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton, the State Federation of Labor
and other organizations, while the
men in charge of the programs of the
Democratic and Washington parties
will hold forth at hotels.
The juvenile borough of Paxtang is
/ just now having quite a time with it.
self over the question of lighting. Bur-
CESS Smallwood. with an eye to the fu-
! ture believes that steps should be
taken to prepare for the day when
wires will be underground and favors
the erection of ornamental iron poles
on which to display the lights. This
view is not shared by others. The
installation of the lights is to take
place about the first cf the year and
Will be big boon to the people of the
growing suburb, as well as the numer-
Gus Harrisburg folks who go out
there to visit.
Lee McClung. the former treasurer
/ of the United States who died in Lon
don, was well known to many Harris
! burgers as he was q member of the
famous Yale eleven on which Vance
| Z. Mccormick and w. Orville Hickok
played in the nineties. He frequently
visited here and played baseball and
tennis at the Country Club of Harris
ourg as well as attending dances here.
Progress of the work on the South
Second street subway was being cas-
ually discussed by Frank b. Musser,
president of the Harrisburg Railways
Company and w. F. Martin, the sub
way contractor, the other day when an
interested spectator stepped up to
them.
Just noticed some of the methods
you folks use to get the dirt out. and
how you change the foundations of the
houses and so on. said he, my OH
my, how the contracting business has
developed. Why you've got a scheme
now for lifting mans house."
Yes" answered President Musser,
q a W. 10 m Il Nl1s,
nowadays. You can even lift the
mortgage"
Truly" interposed Mr.. Martin,
SraVely, but that methods been in
use Tor some time-ever since Uncle
sam started to coin money!"
Dauphin county lawyers are still
smiling at the method Attorney George
K. Barnett employed recently to in
form Assemblyman-elect John c.
Nissley, fellow attorney, that he had
borrowed a law book without Mr.
Nissley's knowledge. Mr.. Barnett
needed q certain book for reference
to get into the court library; he call
ed at Mr. Nissley's office and discover
ed that the latter had gone home. So
Mr. Barnett simply selected the book,
found a blank form for a criminal
indictm ment-and then proceeded to fill
out the form with the information to
the effect that he was charged with
having taken the book. And on the
back he endorsed plea, guilty. before
bill found"
THE government ban on the song, |
It's Long Way to Tipperary,' has
only served to increase it's popular |
lty said a downtown music dealer
yesterday. Ever since Secretary Dan
iels stopped the men of the navy from
singing it and the military bands were
forbidden to play 1t our sales have
been steadily on the increase. Indeed
we have a hard time keeping the song
in stock AS fast as we buy one sup
ply it is sold and the publishers have
not been able to keep up with orders"
'The big apple crop in the East this
year and the war in Europe have put
serious crimp in the western apple
business this year." said Clyde p. Gra-
ham, of Seattle, who was in Harris
burg yesterday on his annual trip
through the fruit growing sections of
the East. Formerly we were able
to comand first class prices for first
class fruit, but now out our way the
apple growers find their fine crops of
splendid fruit unsold on their hands
Many of them have stored their crops
hoping for a turn of the market, but
as IL looks now prices VIII be Tar be-
low what we ought to have to realize
a profit and many of our people will
suffer severely in a financial way un-
less we can find market. Experts to
Europe that formerly consumed hun
dreds of thousands of boxes have been
discontinued almost entirely"
Just thirty more persons are mem
bers of the Telegraph Employees As
sociation for 1915 than during 1914.
The total number is 1913 persons and
they have 922 shares. This is the
largest number ever taken and Illus
trates the prosperity of the organiza-
ton.
well KNOWN PEOPLE
Alfred NJ. Collins. of Philadelphia,
will go to South America on an ex-
ploring trip.
Wilkes-Barre. has received a special
report that his city is not in the cyclone
belt.