Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-29
EVENING CHAT

EvENINO N1AI
Lew R. Palmer. who is bossing the
state Department of Labor and Indus
try. is one of the leaders in the safety
nrst movement and has been making
a unique collection appropriate to his
lie work. Palmer used to play one of
n ends on Princeton elevens years
& and was for years the safety eX-
pert of the great tones & 'Laughlin
steel works. He does not believe In
dreaming about safety, but he will go
around the end as we'll as buck the
center to get results. He talks safety
arrangements and writes letters about
them. One day he was impressed by
some pictures calling attention to the
necessity of providing for safety Then
ne saw a cartoon in a newspaper on
the subject. That set him thinking
n he began a safety propaganda
through pictures. Some of those he
inspired and some inspired him. He
has gathered some of the best cartoons
on the subject from newspapers. They
are originals and some are by noted
newspaper artists. The collection will
be framed and placed in the citadel of
Safety First"-the Department of
Labor and Industry.
Speaking of safety recalls the Incl
dent in the life of a Cumberland
county nan last fall. This man went
hunting and chased a rabbit into a
drain, which was composed of sewer
pipe and slanted up under a lawn. The
rabbit was a big, fat bunny and
looked tempting. The gunner was
much disappointed when the game
went up the drain and STOPPING down
poked around the pipe with his gun.
Ihen he pushed the barrel inside and
was planning to fire when the owner
of the land came along.
Hey, what you going to do, blow
me up?" he shouted.
No" said Nimrod. There's a rab-
bit up tina drain and I'm going to get
him."
How'll YOU get him when you shoot
him? Anyway, you'll likely blow a
hole in my sewer and you may blow
yourself up at this end. Cut it out"
The gunner remarked, Il never
thought of that n quit.
Dr.. William C. Miller, former state
senator from Bedford county, believes
in practicing what he breaches. DIR.
Miller. who for several years has been
the travelling tuberculosis lecturer of
he State Department of Health, has
his Harrisburg residence at 1859 Mar
NON OClf ct lht ttIIltI VI INIIttltclllli
street. Directly opposite his home a
pronounced depression is in Nineteenth
street, along the property of st. An
drew's Protestant Episcopal Church.
After every rain it is a puddle for days
and has worried the city Highway De-
partment as much as 1t has the city
Board of Health. In order to keep
down the available supply of mos
quitoes. however, DR.. Miller gets busy
with a couple of quarts of kerosene
after every shower and commits mos
q~uitocide by the wholesale.
The war scare in Europe has had a
curious reflex in Harrisburg news
paper offices the last few days. Ever
since the breech between Austria and
Servia became acute the telephone bells
have been ringing for attention on the
part of men who wanted the very
latest news. They would be satisfied
with nothing but the very latest and
some men were so eager for infor-
nation that they visited the offices and
hung about the desks of the tele-
graphic editors.
One man was so busy yesterday
hunting the latest information hat he
did not leave an hour go by without
an inquiry.
Say, what are you interested in this
for?' was asked of him.
The man smiled slowly and replied:
I'm selling short"
The stock market players were not
the only ones who kept close tabs on
the war situation. There were a num-
Der of other men who were holding
their hands right on the wires, so to
speak, and they were as keen about
the very latest news as the others.
They were men who play" the grain
markets. The spectacular rise of wheat
NaGfnF6aV wv q, r1a1 hu N Good Yaa,N1r
smiles of satisfaction around here,
farmers who had wheat to sell as we'll
as the ticker farmers who till the grain
markets being much interested.
James A. Stees, chief clerk of the
Department of Labor and Industry
will leave on Friday for Winnipeg to
attend the meeting of the Grand Lodge
of Knights of Pythias. He will repre-
the State grand lodge in which
he has held high office. The meeting
will be one of the largest ever held.
Mr.. Stees will spend some time IN
Canadian province.
Judge w. N. Seibert, of the Perry
Juniata district, who has been hold
ing court here this week, is sitting for
the first time and has already made
many friends among the attorneys.
The judge quickly mastered the pro-
of the Dauphin county court,
which is n Of the most formal in the
State in some respects and his rulings
been prompt and concisely ex-
pressed.
The custom of wearing clusters"
as some people still call the light COL
automobile garments, gives a
spectral effect to a car filled with peo-
pie SO attired in the evenings. Just
watch it on some street where there
is not a glare of electric light. Along
comes a car with its headlights flaring
and then a glimmer of polished brass
work followed by three, four or five
white clad shapes looking for all the
world like a car filed with ghosts.
we'll KNOWN PEOPLE
Mayor George S. Lysle, OF McKees-
port. rode on. a locomotive to see how
slow certain Speed rates are. He would
not believe 1t and railroad officials