Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-17
EVENING Chat

Among the Harrisburgers who re-
call scenes during the War of the Re-
| bellion, just about fifty years ago, re-
ferred to daily in the Harrisburg Tele-
graph, is Alex. w. Bergstresser, 436
Market street Mr. Bergstresser read
in Mondays Telegraph of Sherman
being near the city of Savannah. Mr..
Bergstresser consulted his diary and
found the statement correct He said:
Il remember December IA. The day
was fine. Our camp was located in
lovely wood of tall pines and great
oaks. 1t was on level ground. carpeted
by soft pine needles There was no
underbrush and we were comfortably
| fixed. We learned later that the rebel
| army was rather close to us. Around
the city of Savannah We're many can
non, in charge of the enemy. They
objected to our presence. We did not
know how near our wall tents were
until a shot struck tree near the car
penter's headquarters. The carpenter,
/ Henry DoStman, was sitting astride his
tool chest. The cannon ball hit tree
nearby, glanced off, and struck the
tool chest. Four of us were sitting
| around and Dostman was sitting on
the chest. None of us were harmed.
We lost little time in moving the head
quarters of the Third Brigade, First
Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, to q
place of safety"
Local newspapermen, as we'll as
older residents of Harrisburg, will re-
member eX-Representative John f..
Barrett, of Scranton, now postmaster
OF that city, who was member of the
House in the eighties, and rep
resented the Scranton Republican
and Philadelphia Press during
lis generally recognized and his
poems possess much merit; one of his
best, "Lifes Journey written espec-
tally for the Elks' memorial service.
was recited by Fred c. Hand, past dis
trict deputy, at the memorial services
OF Harrisburg Lodge recently. This
poem, which is in great demand
Iamong Harrisburg Elks. received much
favorable comment. The last verse OF
"Life's Journey" follows:
THE absent friends we mourn, and
vainly look through our tears
Are bound to us by sacred ties
through all the passing years;
We may not see their faces, but their
mem'ry cannot fade
Till life and love and friendship in
q common grave are laid,
And the pulsings and the strivings OF
mankind are at an end,
i And the present with the future in
one symphony shall blend,
And the choirs of heaven proclaim, in
anthems most sublime,
Eternity's good-morning and. the
last goodnight of time!"
Governor-elect Martin G. Brum-
baugh will be the eighth State eXecu-
Tive under which two of the oldest
men in service on Capitol Hill have
served. They are +. +. Rohm, sergeant
of the Capitol police, and E. NJ. House
holder, who is officer No. /. They
have been on the police force almost
all of the time they have been on the
Hill, MIR. Rohm having been trans
ferred from the State Arsenal and Mr.
Householder from the elevators years
and years ago. They have seen admin
istrations come and go and have an
extended acquaintance with men in
public life in Pennsylvania. Mr. Rohn
has an interesting history as q veteran
as he was In the Juniata cavalry and
saved the life of General Beaver. Mr.
Householder was appointed to his
place on the Hill" in the days when
Senator Quay was State official
Friends of John S. Carroll, county
. school superintendent of FayettC
county, will be Interested to know thai
he has been reelected president oi
the Fayette Teachers Association. Mr.
Carroll was a member of the Legisia.
ture and had charge of the schoo
code In the House.
A good many people throughout the
| State have an idea that Harrisburg is
spelled with a final h Just because
Pittsburgh is spelled that way. ManS
: letters reaching the Capitol are Sc
lspelled and ii is astonishing how many
, letters addressed to municipal depart
ments are spelled in that fashion.
John NJ. Phillips, the Pittsburgh
, man appointed game commissioner
again yesterday, lis one OF tho mos
ardent sportsmen of the State and
lover of game of all kinds. Mr.. Phil
, lips spends much of his time on af
, fairs of the commission, travelling al
over the State and knowing more
about the work of the commission a
first hand than possibly any one else
, on the board. He is big game
hunter and collaborated with w. III
Hornaday, head of the famous New
York Zoo, in book on hunting in the
J Rockies.