Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-13
EVENING Chat

How battleships are made. and how
the navies of the world turned to
steam and armor plate from sails and
the stout oaken walls will be brought
nome to Harrisburg people this week
when the winter series of talks will be
inaugurated by the Engineers Society
OF Pennsylvania, which has planned
addresses designed to convey a popular
idea of what engineering science is
doing for the people at large. The
talk to be given will be on Thursday
and will be delivered by w. A. Dobson.
the naval architect of the big Cramp
shipyards at Philadelphia, who has
had much to do with the construction
OF Uncle Sans war vessels from the
days when the first steel cruiser was
laid down ON the ways at Kensington.
Mr.. Dobson will trace the history of
the navy from the frigates of the Con-
stellation and Constitution and Con-
gress TO the superdreadnoughts. The
lecture will have much of interest to
Harrisburgers because many of the
vessels were built in Pennsylvania and
because trees from the hillsides of the
Susquehanna valley figured in the con-
struct1on of the early wooden walled
battleshfps, as did Harrisburg-made
iron in those of the Civil War. and
Harrisburg and Steelton steel in the
hulls of some of the modern sea fight
= lie leCluTe series VIII continue
Tor some time and will be a stimulus
to popular education in naval affairs,
winch are now very much to the front.
People who were here last week to
attend the State firemens convention
are not only praising the splendid
preparations made for the convention
ana the parade and the classy manner
in which Harrisburg discharged its
duties as host, but they are mention
ing the manner i'm which the firemen
acquitted themselves There have
Deen some times in years gone by, to
be frank, when the firemen's parades
were occasions for more or less
h1larfty, but the order maintained in
the great parade of Thursday was all
that could be asked and in most in
stances was on the military order. In
tact, the order of the marchers was
as notable as the size of the parade.
Harrisburg cavalrymen will be in
ilerested to learn that Lieutenant W.
H.. Bell, who has been the Inspector
instructor of the cavalry of the Ma
uonal Guard for several years has
again been assigned to that work. He
has been ordered to visit the yarious
troops in this State and New Jersey
once a month during the winter He
Is personally known to a number of
State Librarian Thomas Lynch Mont
gomery. Robert p. Bliss, of the Free
Libraries, and Miss Alice r. Eaton. of
the Harrisburg Public Library, will
attend the meeting of the keystone
state Library Association at Werners-
VILE this week. A number of promi-
nent librarians will attend and the
work of the new library here will be
reported on by Miss Eaton.
FARMERS in some Of the fruit-raising
districts of York county say that there
Is chance for second crop of some
KINDS OF fruit if Jack Frost does not
come around too soon. In some dis
orlc's the apricot and early apple trees
are bearing blossoms again and a few
instances have been found where
strawberry plants bloomed and fruit
formed. This is attributed to the warm
weather that has prevailed since the
early part of September and to the
fact that the ground was full of water
-thanks to the earlier rains. Some
farmers think that with cultivation
they might have been able to raise
good second crops of Strawberries.
The anniversary of the birthday of
Father Theobald Mathew, the great
irish temperance advocate, will be
opoeINeu III the schools of this CITY
and Steelton tomorrow There are a
teW living in this part of the State who
recall having seen the famous priest
when he visited Philadelphia before
the Civil War.
Miss Violet Oakley, the artist, who
! IS engaged upon the mural decorations
TO be placed in the Senate chamber
TINS ran, has bought a new property
from the Houston estate in suburban
Philadelphia. When Miss Oakley un.
dertook her commission she had tc
build an addition to her studio to take
| care of the great paintings she planned
| for the State. but even the annex ba,
proved too small. and she will move
into new home which contains ,
huge studio and facilities for her tc
complete her work
The present low water stage of th,
| Susquehanna shows that although tho
! V-shaped fish dams that we supposed
| the recent legislative act put out o.
business are still in existence and that
! there are a good many of them within
! sight of the Daphin county courthouse
| The Jurisdiction of Dauphin county, b,
| 1t remarked, extends to low water
mark on the Cumberland shore. Som,
| or these dams were built years ago
but the comparatively good state il
| whlch they are revealed by the fallint
OF the volume of water starts the sus
plcfon that they were mighty we'll con
structed or else have been repaired
The dams, as they now lie, offer som,
mighty tempting opportunities TO
| illegal fishing.