Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-21
EVENING Chat

apout the poSSlDlllty or coincldence
In the summoning of the Pennsylvania
organized militia to war service with
the time when the Harrisburg soldiers
lett the city to enter the Federal ser
vice for service in the Spanish War.
III a call comes for PENNSYLVANIA
Guardsmen to enter the United States
service the men could be ready in the
short period that has characterized
them when summoned for duty in
strikes or for war service. In
fact, some of them have al
ready gotten ready to answer
La call and a few have begun
TO study Spanish words because the
taking of the militia into the Federal
service with authority to send over
the border is regarded as certain.
Back in 1898 the Governors Troop
and Company ID of the Eighth In
fantry LETT the city on April 2S. 1t
was morning marked by one of those
wet, clinging SHOWS of late Spring, but
the people of the city more than made
up Tor the weather by turning out by
thousands and by ringing of bells and
blowings of whistles. The Governors
Troop left about I.20 o'clock in the
morning. entraining before daylight.
and Company d was escorted to the
station by Governor Hastings and
many prominent men about s o'clock.
Both organizations went to Mt Gret-
ma, which will probably be the mobili-
zatlon point again, as it has been Of
nclally designated as such. However,
AdJutant General Stewart says that
all depends upon what the government
orders. The infantrymen were mus
tr,t~
at Mt Gretna on May IL. after being
put through examination and training
at Camp Hastings, and the troop was
mustered in a day later. The two
organizations went to Camp Alger, the
troop later going to Newport News
and thence to Porto Rico with Miles,
while the Eighth came back into
Pennsylvania with the Second Army
Corps and encamped at Camp Meade
until 1t went South in the Fall. Com
pany |, of the Fourth, went into the
Federal service in June, when four
companies We're added to Colonel
Cases command. 1t got to Porto Rico
Cases command. 1t got to Porto Rico.
It is interesting to note that the
plans made call for the taking in of
the Pennsylvania regiments, as was
done in the Spanish War. keeping the
though, of course, the mastering is apt
to drop out a number of men. If the
Eighth Infantry and Second Squadron
OF Cavalry are summoned for duty
both will be recruited to war strength,
which will mean that they will have
quite few places to fill and young
men anxious for laurels will be able
to crafty them. Should there be Il
call for State troops not only will Har-
hnr hut
be numerous men on Capitol Hill who
are connected with the organizations
OF the Guard, among them Auditor
General A. W. Powell and Major e.
NJ. Vale, of the State Public Service
Commission.
One of the oldest of the petitions
filed at the Capitol for public office
appeared yesterday when a man from
the coal regions filed paper with the
word white" written after his name.
His name was a foreign one, redolent
of Poland, and just why he placed the
color after 1t no one could say. 1t was
the frs thine anything of the kind had
been done.
Lots Of war talk was heard about
the city yesterday and to-day, and the
youngsters appeared to catch the fever
half dozen kids were marching
around in the rain with broomsticks
and going through evolutions. When
asked w hat was doing they said that
they We're drilling to fight Greasers."
Patriotism starts at an early age and
on slight provocation in Harrisburg
1t would be interesting to hear from
survivors of the Mexican War, if there
xrin in To r;CI,
cinity, just now. These veterans are
few and far between, the deaths of a
number having been chronicled lately.
The Americans, it will be remembered,
took Vera Cruz
Usually the reading of the minutes
of previous meeting is the driest
part of any program. Not so, how.
ever. in the case of the Harrisburg
Rotary Club, Howard c. Fry, the
well-known coalman, is secretary of
that organization and his minutes are
so far out of the ordinary that the
members look forward to them with
keen interest. Mr.. Fry has developed
literary style that is the JOY of the
members. His friends are urging him
TO write series of short personal es-
says for publication in the Tacho-
graph, the original club publication.
Irwin and Sam Blythe will have to
look to their laurels, for Fry can take
as many liberties and get away with
the same as any one of those singers
of picturesque English.
Misfortune has set hard on men
well known ir the United Evangelical
Church within the past year. The Ill
ness of Bishop Swengle, in Dallas,
Oregon, recalls the fact that his own
home in Harrisburg is under quaran-
tine and one of the members of his
family is very i'll with German
measles. Bishop Swengle's cancella-
ton of his Pacific coast dates falls
Just year after a similar action on
the part of Bishop w. II. Fouke, for
merly of Harrisburg, following the
death of his wife and daughter within
the space of very few months. DR..
G. Newton Dubs, also at one time a
resident of this city. and now head of
the United Evangelical mission work
in China, is at present on his way from
Shanghai to the mission headquarters
at Changsha with the body of his wife,
who died in hospital at the former
city some weeks ago Bishop Dubs, his
father, is just recovering from a very
protracted illness.