Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-02
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Recent discussion of the probable
future of the old Dauphin county jury
wheel ELECTED several odd stories about
the half-century-old receptacle for the
names of Dauphin's thousands of
veniremen. Chief among these. how
ever. is a little tale hat is related by
Charles A. Miller, city clerk.
I'm the wartime days." said City
Clerk Miller, the jury wheel was used
by the United States recruiting officers
for drafting purposes-the names be-
ing selected ron the wheel much like
jurors are now pulled. One time a
draft was being made up and there
was quite a crowd about the front of
the Courthouse. where the drawing
took place. l distinctly remember that
one day one old fellow. Sam King, I
think his name was, stood in the
bunch and complained about the way
the drawings were made. King had
served quite a time in the navy and
army-in fact, he had just been re-
Gently furloughed. The recruiting off,
Ger, King said, wasn't whirling the
wheel enough to get a good repre-
sentative crowd of men. Finally he
raised his voice:
"''Spin 'er, spin 'er. spin err a little!'
he finally shouted.
And then the officer gave 1t a twirl,
pulled out a name and smiled as he
shouted:
Samuel King!'"
OF all the departments on Capitol
Hill that have to deal with queer and
~outlandish names the Office of the
Bureau of Medical Education and
Licensure has the worst task. 1t
handles all of the applications for state
licenses to practice medicine, surgery,
drugless therapy, midwifery, c~hiropody
and other lines. 1t is a matter of gen.
eral knowledge that the sons of for
eigners, especially from the countries
where the Slavs predominant, make an
effort to get into the professions and
every list contains names which
abound in c~onsonants and distress.
The other day ten out of twenty names
were those of men hailing from the
Danube On another occasion there
We're names ranging from plain, simple
OFF to a name of fourteen letters with
two Vowels.
Some of the macadam put down in
Derry street was put there to stay and
1t takes six horses to get it up now
adays. The street east of Nineteenth
is now being torn up for paving and
the contractor started off with two
horses. They barely moved the sur
face u to Twentieth. Then two
more were added and the job of getting
up the roadway to Twenty-first was
going some. But from Twenty-frst to
Twenty-third, where the traction COM
pany put down macadam on top of the
old turnpike, it has taken six horses,
and they are looking longingly al the
steam roller and traction engines.
The most remarkable thing about
the meeting of the voters of the new
borough of PaXtang the other evening
| was the manner in which n~onpartisan
| spirit ruled. Only once during the
two-hour session were the party names
mentioned and that was when ma
Jority and minority inspectorships
We're brought up and someone wanted
to know why they had to go accord.
ing to party lines. The nonpartisan-
ship shown at the meeting would be
an eye-opener even to an advocate of
advanced legislation.
The Engineers Society of Pennsyl-
vania, which comprises many engi-
neers from Central PENNSYLVANIA. has
prepared an unusually interesting
schedule of lectures for the fall, the.
lectures to be given as part of a series
to extend into 1915. On September II
Ralph n. Wheeler will speak on the
Catskill aqueduct across the Hudson;
October Is w. A. Dobson, naval archf-
tect of the Cramp firm. will discuss
the evolution of the modern battle
ship; November IS George A. Har-
wood, chief engineer of the New York
Central and Huson River Railroad, will
discuss the Grand Central terminal
and the improvements, and December
II recent improvements in locomo-
tives will be the theme of George r.
Henderson, consulting engineer of the
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadel-
phia.
Miners all over PENNSYLVANIA are
taking notice of the mandamus pro-
ceeding to be tried in the Dauphin
County Court this summer in which
the United Mine Workers seek to re-
strain the chief of mines from issuing
certificates as mine foremen or assist
ant mine foremen to miners who have
passed examinations in anthracite
mining because they have not had five
years experience in Cutting coal"
The chief of mines holds that five
years experience in mining does not
necessarily mean five years actual
work with a mining drill or a pick.
The miners attorneys contend that
miners must work five years at the
face of the rock. The decision will
affect hundreds of miners and NAV
have an important bearing on the btu