Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-14
EVENING CHAT

Aobdply one OF the oldest sights
seen in many a day was presented at
the scene of the big fire in the Magyar
section of Steelton yesterday afternoon
and If the numerous people roofing
about in the ruins of the four houses
ald not have divining rods it was be-
cause no one had suggested them.
Ihey appeared to be using everything
else. The houses were occupied nv
foreigners and some of them had ac-
cuiilulatlons of months in the way of
cash. They had saved and scrimped
10 get money and some of them were
waiting for the war to end to get home
aSalh, one man lost $500 in gold and
othets lost smaller sums, but in almost
every case the boards reported lost
We're IN metal. Paper money is all
l4Sht Tor the foreigner to carry around
or TO take to the post office to deposit
with Uncle Sam, but when it comes
TO putting back the stack in the trunk
or the box it's the gold and silver that
goes in. The fire spread so rapidly
that some of these men We're unabl
TO do more than save themselves and
tney had to allow their money to go
Win win thelr clothing. The ruins were
pdFeiy cool yesterday morning before
there were bands of men. women and
cnlluren walking over the cinders and
ShdIred wood and turning over things
hunting the money. The men who lost
the money were on the job before the
embers had cooled and they were
keeping sharp eyes on the other people.
Inc estimate was that about every
lllnS IN the way of building material
that was left and all of the debris
mad been turned over six times.
The removal of the decorations usad
on the streets for the State firemen
was watched with interest yesterday
by numbers of people and the scien-
tlhc manner in which the Columns"
disappeared and were folded up and
carted off impressed everyone. The
uniformity of the street decorations
ana the general attractiveness of the
scheme were much commended, but
the speed with which things dis
appeared was an eye opener. Market
| street was cleared in less time than
the average man thought a block could
be taken care of.
A West Shore man is wondering
what on earth possessed a thief to
take a basket of grapes, six bananas
aho an orange and leave everything
else. The thief got into the house bV
an ingenious method and did not leave
any marks. He turned everything
| over but he passed up a roasted
chicken, some roasted potatoes. two
pies a couple of slices of fine cheese
tnfee bottles of beer and some ham.
ne look the grapes, the bananas and
the orange and he sat on the swing
on the front porch and ate them.
some Iunny scenes were witnessed
| after the close of the final game of
ihe worlds series yesterday. one man
| Led another into a cigar store and
received box of fine cigars, while
the loser gravely handed to a com
panlon a fiVe-dollar gold piece which
ne had lost when he bet that he would
WIN MS bet. Another man lost a mile
SdSS pook winch he had bought just
before the advance in rates went into
erect. tailor got an order for a sniff
from another man who also bemoaned
me iact that he had to buy theatar
uckets: Two well-known business men
walked into store and one bought
the other lo-cent soda fountain con-
coction.
congressman Aaron S. Kreider has
q large family and as he does not get
nome very much because of the long
long session of Congress there is a de-
illaho M I Tor ms company by them when
| ne uoeS come home. For some time
ne has been promising to take a sat
urday afternoon off and to take a ride
| with Ice cream trimmings Saturday
was the day fixed, but it happened
| that the CONGRESSMAN was drafted to
! maze a speech at the Pembroke meet
| ing. 1t looked as though the vounr
/ kreiders were going to lose, but finaiiV
| the congressman bundled some of the
| family into an automobile and took
| them to PenbTook. sending them to y
| place for ice cream while he made his
! speech. Everyone was satisfied.
John T. Zellers lost his clothes ves-
! terday afternoon. Mr.. Zellers works
| at Enola and bet Joseph n. DiabIar
| the clothes he was wearing that the
Athletics would win. They didn't
Ihey settled the bet yesterday after
noon at the shops.