Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-17
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vania, which is cooperating with the
State Department of Labor and Indus.
/ try in the Industrial Welfare and Eff
cheney Conference at the Capitol and
which organized the safety exhibition,
possesses record for doing things
that is gratifying to its members and
to the city as well. The society was
| organized less than ten years ago and
mad its first home in the Kreidler
building at Second and Walnut streets,
the first thing in which it's members
had a part being encouragement of
| municipal improvement campaigns.
Then 1t moved to the Gilbert building,
IN Market street, and became so large
and influential that it was able through
the stimulus given by several notable
engineers living here to get the Bailey
mansion as its clubhouse. The society
was instrumental in having the first
exhibition of safety and other devices
ever held here. the car barns of the
traction company, then just completed,
being the site. 1t aided in bringing
TWO conventions of engineers of the
state TO this city and was behind a
general meeting of technical men here
q rev years ago which attracted ma
tlonal attention. Last year IL united
10 bring about the first welfare and
efnclency conference and this year by
happy coincidence its president is
also the Commissioner of Labor and
Industry DR.. John Price Jackson.
DR.. Jackson, by the way, is the son
o. OF man who was connected with the
pennsylvania Steel Company. He was
JOSIAH jackson, noted educator and
mathematician. DIR. Jackson went to
school at Kennett Square and grad
uated twenty-five years ago from State
College, where he played football and
also made record as q student. He
mas numerous degrees and is a men,
Der OF more learned societies than he
can remember. has written books. or
ganlzed the famous department of
electrical engineering at State College.
turned out some cracker jack students
and did lot of other things in addi-
tlon to creating the Department of
LABOR and Industry. The Governor let
pest and they say that politics does not
go there.
One of the Capitol Park SQUIRRELS
mas inquired out visiting place that is
good for a series of meals during the
day. This squirrel wanders far from
the park and has taken to perchine on
top of one of the peanut stands in the
central part of the city. He hops up
ana sits appealingly and it is mighty
seldom that he does not draw custom
Ior the peanut man and something to
MUNICH for himself.
The passing of the Lochiel rolling
mill and the prospective sale of its site
ana the famous or notorious Lochiel
row, as you may choose to designate
IL according to remembrance. calls to
mind that the Lochiel furnace is the
only one of the old-time industries left
III lhat region. To the south the great
plant or the Elliott-Fisher company
ana the electric companys station
nave taken the places of the old mills
as industries, but there are q good
many who recall the days when
Lochiel was bustlingl part of the city
ana IT'S fires illumined the skies for
miles around. The rolling mill was
torn away a few years ago, following
the removal of the old store, the
familiar mill Office and the old Hob
NalT and other boarding houses which
were homes of puddlers and IRON
workers who were noted through the
state for their skill. Lochiel furnace
dates from 1872 and was operated by
the Lochiel Furnace Company. off and
on, until the nineties. when it was sold
TO the pennsylvania Steel COMPANY.
under whose ownership it has known
three periods of activity. Whether it
Will ever run again is a question.
The Lochiel rolling mills have n his
tory that is of great interest to the stu
dent OF the iron trade. The mills were
pullt originally to roll rails and were
among the first in the country to make
them Tor the general trade. The Dull
Iamlly was prominently identified with
the management for a time. In the
nlnetles the control passed to the late.
X: Z. Neal. a member of a family
widely known in the iron business and
continued under his ownership until
the fires were drawn for the last time
Lochiel mills had a large trade and
sold bars for time to British plants.
Whatever might be said about the
turbulent character of some of the
people who may have lived in Lochiel
row at one time or another, the man
ner In which they aided the victims of
the terrible wreck in May, 1905. liter
| ally giving the clothes off their backs
and the blankets from their beds. won
the commentator of the whole citv
and more than one person accustomed
TO refnements had occasion to remem-
Der the assistance given in those
humble homes and the succor which
was extended was in many instances
never requitted.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE