Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-22
| EVENING CHAT

Tener planned to spend the last
Christmas and New Years day of the
governors term at the Executive
Mansion and for the first time in years
a number of the state officials wilt
pass part of the holidays at least in the
State Capital. The governor has spent
the holidays here ever since he took
office and the New Years day recep-
tions inaugurated at the mansion by
Mrs. Tener have been the big social
events of the first day of the year.
The State capitol is already taking on
a holiday air and tomorrow most of
the officials and attaches living in
other places will be on their way to
their homes. a few of the fortunate
ones get away today. Lieutenant
Governor. John n. Reynolds, who
came here to attend the meeting of
the State Board of Pardons, from
which he retires as president next
month. will come here shortly before
the legislature couvenes to prepare for
opening the Senate. Adjutant General
Thomas ]. Stewart. Commissioner
John Price Jackson, State Librarian
superintendent S. b. Rambo. will
spend the holidays at their homes i'll
this city, but all of the other chiefs
Will go home to eat turkey and play
Santa Claus. Some of the offices at
the Capitol will be decorated with
Christmas greens. The Executive
mansion will be decorated as usual
candy to children will take place in
the morning, this being a custom long
ago established The Governor pro-
~ides the candy and there is always a
mob on hand to get it.
Members of the next House of Re-
presentatiVes appear to he exercising q
nTH1t n in of fif,rn in, a,.1
to the seats they will occupy Judging
from the manner in which they are
writing requests for seats. Some of
them appear to think that there are
2O7 aisle seats. while the number of
applicants for the second row is far In
excess of the number asking for the
first.
In some parts of the terraces, Capt.
tol Park gives Il pretty good imitation
of woOdlet. The wood from the
trees removed this fail has been cut
into lengths and has been piled in
neat piles. just like would be done
about a camp The gardening force
had planned to remove the wood, but
the snow came along and stopped
things.
I'VE are having considerable trouble
to get people to save money for them
selves said one of the tax collectors
yesterday. The time for making
payments without penalty is almost
expiring and the manner i'm which
notices are being ignored makes one
suggest that some cash is being used
for Christmas shopping that could
be applied in taxes and save penalties
after January /.
The icy condition of things last eve
N la Il
Stcelton. The reflection of the glare
from furnaces and mills was reflected
from the ice covered buildings and
thrown against the sky until at times
II looked s though a conflagration
was raging in the steel borough,
South Harrisburg, however, was
pretty cold place by contrast the
three furnaces and most of the mills
being idle at present:
The action of the flag transfer COM
mission in turning back balance of
over $4,000 out of a $4,000 appropria-
ton and furnishing one of the most
interesting and enjoyable spectacles
ever known at the Capitol, establishes
record on Capitol Hill. There have
been other commissions which have
turned back large balances, the Can't
tol Education Commission which did
not use $1,000 for instance, but none
has turned back as much in proportion
as the Flag Transfer body. The prac-
tice of eating up all the funds is not
as general as some folks would have
us imagine.
George w. McIlhenny is the pos
SCISSOR of an old-style silver watch bv
which he sets great store. Likewise he
follows the old-fashioned practice of
carrying it without chain in the fob
nnnlEaf n
have a steady income from the new
crystals he buys. for the watch tum-
bles out of his pocket every few days.
Not long ago he went to the cellar of
his nome to prepare the furnace fire
for the night. After he had shoveled
into the fireboX two scoops of coal
and was returning upstairs he discov-
cred that his watch was missing. He
looked in the coal bin. Nothing there!
Then he thought of the furnace,
rushed over and threw open the door.
There, in the very middle OF the fire.
with the flames playing up all around
it. was the watch, still ticking away.
Mr.. McIlhenny rescued it with a
shovel and thoughtfully picked up the
timepiece to ascertain the damage. OF
course it was hot and he dropped 1t.
Result-two blisters and one crystal
smashed. But the watch never
stopped going.
The cold weather and snow of the
week Just closed caused many a barn
yard in the vicinity of the city, and
indeed. some backyards in the out.
lying parts of Harrisburg to be visited
| by fiocks of crows. The crows appar-
emily had a hard time to find food and
as is usual when the weather is severe
came close to civilization. A couple OF
big flocks appeared on the grounds OF
the State Insane Hospital and made
| themselves at home while people living
in the Reservoir and PaXtang districts
have grown accustomed to seeing the
big black-coated birds stalking around
looking for food and taking a tremen.
dous interest in the outgoings of peo.
pie from Kitchen doors.
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