Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-25
EVENING CHAT

Clark E. Diehl, superintendent or
the city's fire and police alarm system.
gives the comforting intelligence that
the thirteen poles that cucumber the
streets in the central part of the city
shall be taken away before many
weeks. He would like to get the thir-
teen away by April 1 as a play on
superstitions, but it looks more like
April %. However, the city, which
has required other corporations to take
their poles from the business portion,
will do likewise. The chief holdup
fire alarm box standards to arrive. 1t
! is the plan to have the boxes put on
| iron uprights, like targets or sign
| boards. They are to be made to har-
monize with the street. All over the
! city there are approximately sixty
poles owned by the city and II the
plans of some of the city fathers are
| carried out the city will set good eX-
ample and remove all of them within
q few months. The wires in the CEN
! trail part of the city are rapidly going
under ground and some of tbs good
folks who lived here twenty years ago
would hardly know the streets.
A man went up to the Capitol the
other day and asked where the official
in charge of the corn doctors had his
office. 1t appeared that he was one
himself and wanted to be facetiouS.
The State, it will be recalled, is requir-
ing all of the chiropodists to come
under State regulation by May l and
they must file applications and go
through certain forms and exami-
nations to be conducted by people of
their own line. This man found that
the corn doctor bureau was unknown
on the "Hill," but after some diligent
questioning he found what he wanted
in the office of the Bureau of Medical
LicenSure.
A man of the type that always likes
to get eight cents worth of car seat
for q nickel had it handed back to him
in style on West Shore car yesterday.
He was occupying more seat than the
law gives when another man got in
and sat beside him. The man made
him sit on the two cents worth of
seat for the whole trip. Suddenly Il
| large lady got in and the victim of the
restricted space got up and offered his
seat in Sir Walter Raleigh style. The
lady promptly sat down and crowded
the eight-cent space man worse than
The ice flood this year, if 1t can be
called SUCH did not do so much dam
age to the islands and grass patches
as usual. A few of the islands appear
to have been cut by the ice, but in the
main they are in good shape, and the
sand banks are reported to be in good
shape for the Spring work of the
rivermen. Preliminary inspections of
the coal beds have not been made yet,
but it will not be long before the
rivermen get a line on the amount Of
fuel to be salvaged.
Down at the Pennsylvania Steel
Works there is q system of guarding
the entrances to the plant and when u
man wants to get into the works he
has to give his name and tell whom
he wants to see. Word is then passed
along over the telephone and If it is all
right the man goes in. The other day
we'll dressed man from q western
town who had worked as a laborer at
the works years ago, back in the days
when the canal bridges were free from
guards, started to go in at Swatara
street; He was promptly tagged and
told to tell whom he wanted. He
promptly said "Mr. Felton, The
guard had only a vague idea of who
Mr.. FELTON, was and said that he was
not at the works. Then the man asked
for Mr.. Tenney." The guard did not
even know him. 1t is only a few years
that the men who are now president
and secretary of the great corporation
lived in Steelton. Now they live in
Philadelphia and the new generation
of guards knows them not.
William Perrine, writing under the
name of Penn in the Philadelphia
Bulletin, says anent the governorship:
I'm the half century or more of Re-
publican rule there have been two
Governors with Pennsylvania German
identity. One of them was General
Hartranft, whose forbears were among
the earliest of the Schwenkfelders in
and about Mongomery.coun In the
great campaign which preceded his
first election to the gubernatorial office
this fact was said to have been in
fluential In bringing to him votes
among the Pennsylvania-Ge who
might otherwise have gone over to the
Liberal party and the Greeley coalition
with the Democrats. The other and
latest Pennsylvania-G German Governor
was Pennypacker. At one time, when
he was on the bench in Philadelphia,
he had become noted all over the State
for his elucidation of events and char
acters in Penpsylvania-Germ his
tory; in several respects he was re-
garded as one of the most character
| istic products of the stock, and his
| own record in its literature. as we'll as
| of his family, went far to commend
him to the good will of Pennsylvania
| German voters. 1t is sometimes esti.
! mated that even to-day, with all the
modern diversification of the popu-
lation in this State. there are not fewer
than 30 per cent. who are either Ger
mans or descendants of the Pennsyl-
vania-Germans, and, of course, 1t is
well known how, in some of the coun-
ties, especially Lehigh, Berks, Lancas-
ter, Lebanon and Dauphin, they have
| not ceased to maintain among them
selves the old respect of their fathers