Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-07
EVENING CHAT

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One of the notable things about the
manner In which Harrisburg is enter
tanning its thousands of visitors to the
State firemen's convention is the wide
spread interest being taken in It,
People nave as guests many friends
from all parts of the State and the
convention is being made a sort of
carnival week or celebration by the
State Capital, Steelton and the ring
OF boroughs roundabout. In fact.
there were as many people from the
nearby towns here to see the decora-
tions last night as there were visitors
from more distant places. All Harris
purs seemed to be downtown or in
town or uptown as the case might be
according to residence and the yis-
itors saw whole families of Harris
burgers some men and women having
three and four children out to see the
hshts and the flags and the crowds
and to hear the bands The whole
town seems to be entering into the
spirit of the occasion and to be well
coming the State firemen back to
Harrisburg after an absence of all
most quarter of century. There has
peen no occasion in recent years in
winch the general interest has been
SO marked. 1t augurs we'll for the
proposed carnival for next year. This
city has no fair and while it has ru-
merous conventions 1t does not have
anything that enables 1t to put on it's
best clothes and have fun.
Motordriven fire apparatus appears
TO have the call about the city and the
men in charge are besieged with re-
quests to be allowed to ride on the
trucks. Firemen gather around them
and many take rides to see how 1t
goes. Yesterday couple of firemen's
wives were bantered by their husbands
into taking rides. The driver whirled
tnem around the city, taking them by
snort cuts around corners and giving
bursts of speed. But the ladies were
game and they dismounted amid the
applause of a crowd in Market Square,
bit flushed with the excitement and
with hats somewhat to the side. but
thoroughly pleased with their spin in
and out of the crowds.
The fremen's convention has nut
war talk out of the running as a con-
Yersational topic and some of the
politics has a hard time to survive in
the general discussion of the big event
or the month or rather of the Fall in
other afternoon in Market street
Some one said something about the
chances of Mccormick carrying Har-
rlSDurg and the man addressed, re-
piled: oh, let it be. Did you see
that company from DuBois?" Soon
after some people passed up a bull
letin board where the latest news
passing the censor was shown, but they
never stopped. A student of the board
turned around and remarked: "Well,
they're following band. week ago
they would have been elbowing me-"
one thing that has attracted atten-
tion in Harrisburg just now is the very
general decorating of the city. There
are decorations all over Harrisburg.
Houses in outlying streets and in mar
row backways display flags and there
appears to be general effort to outdo
all former occasions. Streets in which
no fire company or band will pass
are all fixed up and there are por-
tlons OF Harrisburg which show where
the folks in one block are trying to
outdo those in the next. 1t has been
gala week for the decorators and
the city can be proud of their eff
| forts.
Just as an instance of the abundance
of apples reported from the counties
stated that at the markets on Saturday
men were taking orders for apples to
be deliN late this month or lateg
in the fall. Ordinarily it is more or
less difficult to get good brands of
apples by such means and a person
has to be pretty good customer of a
farmer to make sure of first-rate
apples being sold through the stall
of the city's markets. Incidentally,
the way in which orders are being
given for applebutter is worth while
noting.
The other afternoon a couple of men
were standing in front of the Court
house commenting upon the fact that
1t was getting its triennial coat of
paint to overcome the ravages of coal
dust. Those Corinthian columns al
ways attract my eye. 1 do not know of
handsomer portico on any public
building. 1t goes back to time of
which we have not many good ex-
amples left" said the Harrisburger.
Yes" fired back the man from
often-derided Philadelphia. From the
time when you said that the year had
arrived to put up your city hall"
People living in the outlying dis
trlcts of the city have a new grievance
against the motorcycle and they are
not bit backward about making it
known. In addition to kicking up
clouds of dust and endangering young.
sters 1t appears that some careless
motorcyclists have been speeding
around at night without lights They
probably go on the theory that a
motorcycle makes enough noise to
warn anyone of it's coming. On Sat
urday evening between Harrisburg
and Steelton four lightless cycles were
counted in a short time, and it was
three hours after nightfall It's rather
unfortunate that some people will
store up trouble for others who are
careful of the public and cause re-
strictive measures when there should
be no need for them.