Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-06
EVENING CHAT

Harrisburg people will be interested
to know that in the coming year one
naval officer whose home is in this city
and number of others we'll known
will retire. The Harrisburger is Pay
Director John N. Speel. a member of
an old family of this city and related
to number of residents of Dauphin
county. He will retire July 80 after a
long term of service. Reah Frazer,
also a Pennsylvania in the pay corps
of the navy, will retire i'm August
Rear Admiral George S. Willetts, now
at Philadelphia, is also due to retire
with Admirals f. Il. Beatty and AL
fred Reynolds. well known to many
Pennsylvanians. The only rear ad
miral from this section is now retired.
He is Edwin Longnecker who now
makes his home at Wernersville. He
/ comes from Cumberland county and
married daughter of the late Jacob
). Haldeman, who was for years a
member of the diplomatic corps.
Karl Steward, the well-known up
town resident. is being heartily con-
graduated these days, but he does not
like 1t. Mr.. Steward is being taken for
Congressman Aaron S. Kreider. The
resemblance between the two is
tice 1t two years ago when the congress-
man ran. AT that time he was stopped
In the street and talked to. This year
IL was worse, and now that Mr.. Kreider
has been reelected he is hearing from
the people who want to tell him how
happy they are at the result of the
election.
When the Supreme Court meets
next, which will be in Philadelphia,
there will be no chief justice. The
term of Chief Justice d. Newlin Fell,
of Philadelphia, will expire on the first
Monday of January, and whether it be
our own townsman. George Kunkel, as
everyone about here and in many other
counties hope. or Judge r. S. Frazer,
he viii go to the extreme left on the
bench and Justice j. Hay Brown, of
Lancaster. will become chief justice.
Both Justices Brown and Mestrezat
but the Lancaster jurist is senior in
commission.
Some odd bets are being heard of.
One was reported last night when q
man turned over / 900 bright new pen
nies to a friend who had bet him that
DR.. Brumbaugh would have over
100000 majority.
According to a story which is going
the rounds, the elevatorman who is
general manager of transportation be-
tween the floors of the Patriot building
in Market Square is going back to Vir-
ginia for visit.
The elevator magnate is a colored
man and the story goes that an en-
thusiastic Mccormick partisan offered
him a five-to-one bet the day before
election. Now neither the Mccor-
mick man or the elevator man were
aware, any more than most of the resi-
of us, that this county was going to
awful. So the conversation might be
put down this way:
III bet YOU five to one, hundreds,
that Mccormick wins"
GO way, man. Wheah'd 1 git a
hundred?"
Go, dip it up. The bet'n be wait
ing"
The man went, dug" and came
back with one hundred begged or
borrowed and put up the money.
Recent information is that he con-
templates going down to see his old
home. He never had so much money
in his life.
One Of the stories about the election
that is going aronud is a good one and
illustrates that people have gotten ac-
customed to exercising the referendum
in Pennsylvania, although some of the
radicals say that we have no such
liberties. This man went to the polls
early Tuesday and fused around, look
ing at things and acting as if he were
hunting something.
What are you looking for?" asked
a friend who had watched him.
why, the amendments we have to
vote for was the answer.
This man had become so accustomed
to voting for the numerous amend
ments that we have had lately that
he expected another.
The banks of the Susquehanna and
the small creeks in this county are
just now bright with the leaves of the
sumac and they are attracting much
attention from the lovers of leaves
when the color pot of Jack Frost has
been at work. Many of the small trees
lining the river are covered with leaves
with the most delicate of pinks, while
there are some which are brilliant red
in one place and almost orange in
others. In fact, the appearance of the
trees now is a delight to the eye in
every way.
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