Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-27
EVENING CHAT

| [ EVENING Chat
I've been getting around different
States a good bit lately and tell you
} that this is a great State and that 1t
conducts its affairs in a businesslike
way. too." said A. e. Sisson, former
senator and former Auditor General,
yesterday afternoon in the course of a
visit to the Capitol. The general"
as he Is affectionately called by people
on the "Hill." said that folks had been
putting him into politics so much that
, he, did not know for what he was sup
posed to be a candidate, but that at
present he is devoting more attention
to picking up his law business than
anything else. However, 1t would not
! be like the sage of Erie If he did not
. have his weather eye on the political
barometer. II have found that this
State has a good business system"
said he. "Of course. In these days of
business efficiency fault would prob
ably be found with some portions of ii
and it may be fashionable to say that
! 1t is not good, but compared to the
|, systems of business at some of the
seats CT State governments 1 want to
say that Pennsylvania stands away
up. This is a great State and it could
|, not handle the matters that 1t does
and get the results which all admit
that it does without some good sys-
tenn. i am proud of Pennsylvania and
l feel more proud of 1t every time
take 81 trip to some other State" The
general is giving a little time just
now to Spring plough ing because be-
meath that legal exterior he is q
farmer. He likes the soil and he has
couple of good farms, from which
tnA ,nll H. l.
of the best stunts he does is to drive
bargain for his potatoes. He gets
out early and keeps tabs on the crops
and at the end of the year he has had
the fun of being a boss farmer on
farms that pay.
Prominent engineers from all over
Central Pennsylvania and some from
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh will at
tend the tenth anniversary of the En-
gineers' Society of PENNSYLVANIA at it's
clubhouse at Front and Chestnut
streets next Tuesday night. The So
ciety is the largest of it's kind outside
of the larger cities and next week the
men active in its inception will tell
about the early days when the club
was domiciled at Second and Walnut
streets and how it grew to its present
large membership and prosperity.
ing held at the Courthouse to-day is
the first of the kind to be held in the
county and it is expected that it will
do much toward bringing the men in
charge of the roads In the county into
closer relationship. This county has
several main highways in the State
system, notably those along the Sus-
, quehanna and leading to Reading and
Jonestown. There is also a route
from Millersburg out the Lykens VAL
ley. All told, however, the county has
9S7 miles of roads, of which but q
lsmall portion are in the hands of the
State.
Banking Commissioner William II.
Smith, whose report on the situation
: In PENNSYLVANIA contains some inter-
estlng matters regarding the history
of banking in the State, has been a
student OF financial affairs from the
days when he was a. newspaper re.
porter in Philadelphia. Mr.. Smith was
one of the best known newspapermen
in the period just after the Civil War
when the Philadelphia newspapermen
were known from one end of the land
to the other, serving on the old North
American, Star. Times. Inquirer and
Public Ledger. He then became con.
nected with the city treasury and in
1895 was appointed q bank examiner,
a position in which he showed such
talent that Governor Stuart, who had
known him for many years, picked
him for the post of Commissioner of
Banking. one of the most responsible
in the State. He is known all over
Pennsylvania for his information on
financial matters and his addresses
have attracted much attention.
Some of the granite blocks being
taken from the Federal building are
In. ls,l. oh,
! the black paint marks placed on them
by the shippers back in the early
eighties are still legible. Several large
: blocks, were taken out yesterday that
| looked as though they had just been
quarried. In fact, everything about
the, building has stood the test of
| years in a, splendid manner. ~
"Thats the toughest luck I've heard
Of for long time" said the genial
foreman yesterday afternoon. Here's
, one of the boys that locked his bike
r and put the key in a pocket that had
a hole in it. And he lives up above
: Broad street. too. And he's not sure
that he's got another key up there
Some of the robins that inhabited
the riverside parks last year are back
, again and there is tremendous chat
tering about the big trees every morn
| lHS OOHle Oh Ine D1rQS nave naQ
battles with the sparrows, but the
sparrows appear to have been losers.
The robins are busy in the Capitol
Park and the squirrels do not appear
to be as jealous Of them as they were
last year. when they chased robins on
S sight.
Friends of ]. l.. Shearer are greet
, ing him on his return from seven
weeks in the tropics. Mr.. Shearer
f went to the isthmus TO see his son,
Samuel Shearer, who is in the gov
ernment service, and spent some time
r along the canal. He also went UP to
: Costa Rica and visited various islands
in the Caribbean. This is Mr.. Shear
er's second trip to the canal and he
tells many interesting things about
!, the great work undertaken by Uncle
G Sam.
+ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
State Commissioner of Health
s Dixon is n lawyer and a member of
, the bar of Philadelphia