Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-28
EVENING CHAT

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People who have been observing the
freight traffic through this city on the
Pennsylvania and Reading lines have
been struck by the enormous amounts
or soft coal which arc being rushed
to seaboard. Rushed is the proper
word because immense trains of steel
cars are being hurried through the
classification yards hourly, some of
the trains being made up solidly for
New York or Philadelphia or Boston.
These trains come from central coun-
ties and whole train loads are con-
signed to some firms, there being a
strong suspicion that they are going
abroad. Not long ago there was a
story current in the city that the
Italian government had been a large
buyer of coal and that the orders given
would keep a couple of mines busy for
weeks to come. Some of the trains
brought through the city come by way
of the Connellsville cutoff being de-
ltvered to the Rutherford yards by
Western Maryland crews. These are
largely solid trains of steel cars of the
largest size and are probably loaded
into ships a few days after they are
dumped from the coal tipples. The
war in Europe has had the effect of
stirring up the soft coal industry and
the orders given lately and in pros
pect should keep many of the mines
in the Allegheny mountain district and
In western counties running for some
time to come.
| Postmaster Frank C. Sites, of this
city, treasurer of the National Asso-
citation of Postmasters, has been com
missioned with the pleasant duty of
presenting a gavel to Isador Sobel,
former postmaster of Erie, and for two
years president of the national asso-
citation. The gavel was made by order
or the recent convention at ST Paul
and the handle contains metals of
Mr.. Sobefs native State.
Much of the success Of the 1914
summer camp for boys and girls con-
Quoted on McCormicks Island under
the direction of the Park Department,
was undoubtedly due to the staff OF
instructors that Supervisor J. K.
Staples had selected for the purpose
and among those who helped ma
terially to maintain the standard dur
ing the latter part of the season was
D. Jay Hoffert, a brother of Assistant
Park superintendent ]. r. Hoffert
1.-THE junior Mr.. Hoffert is a Cornell
man and put in much of his summer
vacation with the boys at the island
camp.
Speaking about the presence of for
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Vania in regiments of Francis Joseph's
empire and the fact that some of the
best soldiers in the coal regions were
men of foreign birth, a National
IGuardsman tells this interesting anec-
dote of one of the anthracite coal
strikes: In one instance, near Tama-
qua, it was reported to the command
ing officer that a trumpeter had been
blowing signals to the strikers when
ever the soldiers were seen coming
into the vicinity. The matter was
Immediately investigated and it was
| found that the man was a. crippled
miner, who was then working at shoe
making at his home in the Panther
Creek Valley. He was a Spaniard by
birth and had served as q musician in
the Fifth United States Cavalry at the
same time that a sergeant in the Gov
lernors Troop had been in that regi-
ment. Both soldiers were in quarters
at Fort Leavenworth at the same time.
although then unacquainted, and they
had many a chat together afterward.
The man was an excellent citizen and
was only keeping up his trumpet prac-
tice.
DR.. H. A. Surface, the State Zoolo-
gist, says that half the people do not
know how to eat a peach This is a
great peach year and some splendid
specimens are being shown in the CITY.
The trouble with most people when
they come to eat this most delicious
or our fruits, says the zoologist, is that
most of them pare the peach. The
finest flavor is Immediately beneath
the skin and this is the part that is
cut off. What should be done, he CON
tends is to slip off the skin of the
peach. This retains the flavor and
some of the most delicate flesh.
A considerable agitation is goine
on among people in the city for some
solution of the high school problem
1t is recognized that conditions are be-
coming through the increase of popu.
lation and extension of courses thai
something must be done soon and the
eXpedients adopted to care for the
pupils are being much discussed. The
approach of school days will cause
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time to get the matter settled is durina
the winter.
The arrangement of the battlefass
in the State Capitol has been warmly
commended by many of the Sixteeners
who were here for the reunion ant
mos of yesterday and part of to-day
the cases were surrounded by people
who were picking out the flags under
which their fathers had marched. The
plan of removing the flags from the
cramped quarters in the State Museum
to the great rotunda has been praised
by those who can appreciate next IL
the veterans themselves the historic
emblems of Pennsylvania warfare
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
DR. Charles H. Schlesman, of AL.
lentown, who was caught in Germany
with his son by the war, has returned
home after some exciting adventures