Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-11
EVENING CHAT

Flshefmen of years of experience
say that there is some excellent fish
ing right alongside the city these days
ana that If folks are careful they can
pull In some good bass where only the
German carp used to roam a few years
ago: one of the reasons is that the
taking of the sewage out of the river
has caused the carp to go to other
points where they can feed without
! trouble and that the game fish have
naturally come back. Several fine
rock fish have been taken and it is
said that there is an abundance of
| bass. In the last few years both
federal and State fish authorities have
been doing considerable planting in
this vicinity and there has been the
usual natural propagation. The vari-
Gus operations along the river front
do not appear to have annoyed the
| fish a bit.
Speaking of fishing brings to mind
the tact that William A Stone was the
last Governor who was devoted to
angling. He would go over at the
| mouth of the Conodoguinet and sit for
hours waiting for a bite. And he used
to get big fellows, too Once he landed
a whopping fish and got on a car to
, come home. Purity nice one," re-
marked a rural cut-up on the plat
| form. Where'd you buy it?"
The big Governor looked at the fell
low minute and replied over in
/ the hay belt"
Everyone laughed and by the time
the conductor had tipped him off as to
the identity of the fisherman.
Frederic w. Fleitz, former Deputy
Attorney General and Water Supply
Commissioner, and DR.. t. C. Detwiler,
of Lancaster, both are heavy dressers,
| particularly in the line of hats. They
hadn't seen each other for years until
they ran into each other in Auditor
General Powells office the other day
when DIR. Detwiler was here on busi-
ness connected with the Spring City
Hospital, of which he is trustee.
m always glad to see DR.. Det-
Wiler, Mr.. Fleitz gravely informed the
J group present as he shook hands
heartily with the physician. Hes one
| of the few men in this state beside
myself who wears decent hats"
Everyone smiled for the headgear
present bore out the lawyers COM
ment. but someone shot in:
How about Homer Shoemaker,
Fleitz 2"
Shoemaker is a renegade" retorted
Mr.. Fleitz with emphasis. He quit
wearin' EN- long ago"
Hot weather is no respecter of per-
sons It's true, and many a perspiring
attorney or court attache or spectator
has frequently wondered just how
either President Judge Kunkel or Ad-
| ditional Law Judge McCarrell could
SIT through particularly wearisome
session of court on a particularly op-
pressive day-with collar unwilted and
grave Judicial unperspiring mien. In
chambers, however, 1t is different, as
most any caller on a hot day can
| testify. Whether in their own rooms
or working together in either, Dau-
phin county's two judges peel their
coats, open their vests, lay out an ex-
ira handkerchief for mopping pur-
poses-and go to it like any hard
working, busy business man.
A good many pathetic scenes are to
be witnessed in front of the cases
containing the battlef1ags in the Capt.
tol rotunda. The other day as Super
intendent Rambo was passing through
| a woman asked him where she could
see the flag of the First Defenders.
| When it was shown to her she broke
down and sobbed. 1t turned out that
she was the widow of a man who
marched away with the. Reading
company and that she was married in
Baltimore a short time before real
I HOSthilieS btBdn' f1eT husband was
killed soon after.
| The movement to close up the bar
ber shops in the city recalls a similar
| campaign about a dozen years ago.
/ On that occasion the journeymen bar
| bers and some of the people interested
in Sabbath observance Joined forces
and after a few arrests closed up
every shop on Sunday. Inside of a
few weeks so many people were be-
ing shaved at home that interest lag
ged, people who wanted to be shaved
on the Sabbath being willing to pay
high prices.
| A funny story is being told about
the Wormleysburg Board of Health
and the borough Council. The board
did not get busy as promptly as some
of the cross-river officials thought 1t
should and it took considerable ding
donging to get organization effected
But when the board did organize the
| first thing it's members did was to
notify the borough council to put the
river front into sanitary condition.