Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-09
EVENING Chat

| Harrisburg certainly does like to
! cut up and last night it joined it's
thousands of visitors in having a good
time regardless of police prohibitions
OF various actions which are COM
monty classed as annoyances but
which in carnival spirit are over
looked. The city had been having a
pretty good time in the evenings this
week because of the presence of the
nremen. but last evening 1t started out
to have fun and not since Old Home
week have the streets in the business
| section of the city been so thronged or
the fun so free. The fun began about
the time the weary marchers finished
| the parade and the youngsters had
bought up all of the nuisances offered
| by the fakirs. Then confetti began to
| De thrown and pounds of it were scat
tered over everyone. Young and old
| appeared to be having a good time
| and Harrisburg and Steelton folks and
people from nearby towns were hav-
ing just as much fun as the visitors
| IoWard the late hours men belonging
to bands began to give impromptu
concerts and some of them loaned
| their instruments to worse perform
ers and the latest popular airs were
| mangled in a laughable way. It all
| goes to show that Harrisburg likes to
F., cut loose and that the idea of having
! some event every year at which the
| spirits of the young and old can be
free and a good time had is rather
strong here. The firemen's convention
coming after a lapse of so many years
offered a good occasion.
No one in Harrisburg seems to be
able to find anything to compare with
the hremen's parade which was held
mere yesterday and the Old Home
week professions which were as much
record breakers in their way as the
nAFAnaS iaI In,
in their line have been surpassed The
length and variety of the parade and
above all the number of bands and
drum corps made people sit up and
take notice. In fact, ii rather aston
ished the men who had planned the
demonstration. No one here ever
heard of a parade line eight miles
long and 1t was called too extended.
hut when the last company had
reached Locust street on its march
down Second the head of the line was
at State and Second on its way to the
river and fremen were strung all the
way out on the Hill, back again and
up into Camp Curtin. So the critics
u the parade route were silenced. |
Next to the length of line the splendid
order maintained attracted the atten-
ton Of everyone and expressions of
admiration for the department of the |
firemen were general. The parade
simply broke records in every direc-
ton.
Another thing that won comment in |
the line was the fact that so many of
the smaller towns displayed motor fire
apparatus and when it comes down 20
dots Harrisburg did not compare so
favorably in that line. The city is
well provided with fire apparatus and
has spent lots of money in that direc-
ton. but we like to be up to date, and
ahnW o.. ~
and other towns show up with motor
apparatus as good as that we have
just bought and York shows three or
TOUR times as many pieces as we have
and Ardmore displays the same as we
have, 1t furnishes food for contem- |
platlon. Horse-drawn apparatus can
put out fires as well as motor, no |
doubt but the motor apparatus gets |
there quicker and we like to be a little |
ahead of our neighbors.
Some of the railroads entering Har- |
risburg might provide passenger cars |
for rush days that are more comfort |
able than those in which folks went
to the centennial in 1876. Yesterday |
the railroads entering the city were |
taxed to haul the eXcursionists and |
they probably did not realize what |
they were up against. If they did, |
some of the cars that brought poople |
There were some comments that could |
hardly be classed as gentle made about |
the cars used to bring people here.
Some of the letters being delivered
at the post offices of Harrisburg and !
Steelton indicate more plainly than
by stamps or post marks that they
come from abroad. They show evil |
dences of having been opened. The |
other day a man from somewhere be- !
yond Breslau received a letter at the |
Harrisburg office that was a sight. |
This man, like a good many other |
foreigners, had his own post office |
box. and when he got out the letter |
he wanted to fight. 1t had been |
opened and was written over and |
stamped over and then tied with a |
piece of thread. He showed It to a |
companion and they jawed over IT. |
Finally another foreigner who wore |
a velvet hat came along and the |
trouble was told to him. He looked |
at the letter fished one with similar /
injuries from his pocket and the three |
proceeded to consign censors to the |
first Tophet elevator, going down.
Apparently, the censors in some of
the countries fear that the United |
states may be a clearing house for
information and want to be sure that
none. leaks out in the form of mis-
slNeS to Jan or Ivan or some other
man asking when work will boom in
America and he can send some NOR.
money because the baby has begun TO
walk or his father is too old to work