Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-09
EVENING Chat

LvCINO O1Al
Although not many of the foreign
efS VINO are working in iron and steel
mlllS ana other enterprises about here
are making very much money to put
by against the day when they are GO
ing pack to the fatherland to take it
easy, the war has had noticeable
erect upon the money order business.
IN the nrst place, it has caused some
OF the foreigners to stop sending
money home because they are by no
means sure that the consignees will
ever get 1t, or maybe because they are
AFRAID that the persons to whom they
may be sending 1t are dead as a result
OF battle or that their homes have dis
appeared In the wake of an army.
Consequently some of them are put
ting their cash into postal savings
accounts, which are commencing to
grow again, or else buying money or
uers and putting them away against
the day when they can cash them and
start home again. This latter form of
saving is very common here and in
Steelton, the purchase of money or
ders to be cashed at a future date
belng big branch of the business in
the borough. The postal money sys-
tenn is one thing that the foreigners
speedily learn and they are regular
would not their own relatives.
In the last few years the develop
ment OF the raffia and sewing work on
the city's Fairgrounds has been little
less than remarkable and the eXhi-
bition OF the work of the small ladies
at the Romper Day exercises has
grown to be almost as interesting as
the games and the dances The sea-
son Just closed was no exception to
TINS rule and the evidences of small
girl handiwork and needlework at
tracted so much attention that the
youngsters didn't get a chance to take
thelr tn own work home. That's why the
plts of sewtng-the dolls caps and the
gowns and the lingerie. etc-and the
tiny straw hats and baskets had to be
carried INTO the park office for dis
tribuuon. The children can readily
claim their property now by applying
at the park offices.
Some time ago the telegram noted
the presence of about fourteen va
rietles OF weeds on the lawn of the
Federal building. which used to be
one or the best kept stretches of grass
In all Harrisburg until the contractors
began the construction of the addition
10 the Post Office. Since that time
some of the weeds have come into
flower and the question arises how i'm
the world did the weeds which belong
on outlots or river shore. like Unison
mullenstalk and the like. ever get
there. 1t is not hard to account for
dandellon or plaintain, but there are
weeds that YOU can't find within blocks
OF the Post Office fiourshing like green
nay trees on the Court street side of
Uncle Sans prize lawn.
The great Harrisburg kid is not
pothered very much by policemen and
he really does not care very much
anout rules and regulations when the
cops are not looking. OF all the
trees IN Harrisburg that are consid-
era IN the sacrosanCt class those in
Capltol Park are held to he the ones
most preserved from damage by man
or beast. Yet Yesterday afternoon four
or ilVe boys gathered about one Of
the horse chestnuts near Third and
walnut streets and as there was no
policeman in sight proceeded to CIuh
the branches to get down some of the
nuts. They went at it in earnest and
q city policeman chased them off after
theN had endangered a couple of auto-
mobiles that were passing and lust
missed a trolley car
someone must have authority over
the soldiers Monument which stands
and it would be a good thing to cele-
hrate the forty fifth anniversary of
the erection of the obelisk bv re-
lettering the inscription which faces
down town. The inscription is cut
INTO the stone and the letters used
10 be gilded. But the gliding has
gone and the letters are hard to read.
Ihe whole inscription is weather
stained and hardly in the condition
that visitors like to see IT.
II. F. Hope. the plant supervisor of
the Harrisburg exchange of the RelI
system, tells an interesting story in
Telephone News for the money. He
was writing about odd occurrences i'm
his line and says: Recently a call was
made to the wire chief of the Carlisle
Office from the owner of a beehive AT
Mount Holly, Pa. He stated that his
bees had left the hive and swarned in
one of our cable boxes. After con-
siderable difficulty the bees We're can
tured by the owner and returned 10
their hive without causing any damage
TO our cable box or loss Of bees to the
owner. 1t is not known lust why the
bees preferred a cable terminal TO
their standard home of a hive unless
one of the bees had heard someone
saying honey over the wire"