Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-05
EVENING CHAT

Williamsport's move to obtain bat
terry of artillery instead of its three
companies of the National Guards
Twelfth Infantry has stirred up people
in this city who have been agitating
the location of a battery in the State
Capital for years. Ten years ago
move to organize a battery was
started. but the State officials were not
very enthusiastic about it and the
project died very early. Now that the
State is short on the artillery it should
have, the gunners are moving again.
1t ought to be easy to get the men
here and probably it would not be
hard to get the authority and the
equipment owing to the recent discus
sion of the guard and federal service.
| Harrisburg is centrally located and it
would be a good thing to have the
third arm OF the service. Within
| year or so ywo or three batteries will
! probably he formed and perhaps, ii
the people, here get busy, one may
come to Harrisburg. 1t is believed
| that one of the companies of the
Twelfth Infantry will be added to the
Eighth Infantry, mixing it full
twelve-company regiment 1t is now
one shy, but it ought to be easy to
form company.or If that would not
| be necessary one of the Twelfth could
| be put here. One thing is certain and
that is that more attention is to be
| given to National Guard matters than
ever and the next Legislature will be
asked to make appropriations that will
conform to the requirements of the
national government.
| The new apartment houses being
erected in the Tenth ward near the
! Camp Curtin fire house are a distinct
advance not only for that section of
| h11t
| They embody many of the latest ideas
and the ee-decker porches give
them an appearance that is attractive
and will probably lead to them being
| easily rented Perhaps If some of the
money going into blocks of houses
problems of housing would be solved
in a measure.
Last nights sudden shower caught a
good many people and when the down.
pour was at its heaviest it was anus
ing to watch people in trolley cars de-
eide to take additional rides. One man
on Second street car confessed to
riding to the Square and then going
clear back to Riverside and down
again to the Square. He did not have
an umbrella and he was not going to
run any risks. Another man went to
Steelton and another up the Fourth
street line. The conductors just
grinned.
| 1t seems odd to think of men
! ploughing by electric light and yet
| that is just what is being done in
some of the outlying parts of the city.
Truckers and men owning farms who
are late because of the unreasonable
weather have been compelled to work
as long as the light holds out and last
night men were actually in the fields
when the electric lights were turned
on. They did not stay very long be-
cause the rain put a stop to any work
of that sort. The season is very late
because of the weather and every hour
of daylight counts.
when will the locust blossoms
come out?' was the question fired at
a man who takes an interest in
weather conditions last night.
Watch the trees What are you
asking that for?" was the reply
i That's when 1 change. The weather
was pretty warm to-day" said the
man who asked the question. And
then he went to look in a window
where athletic underwear was dis
played
The testimonial to DR.. ]. T. Roth
rock brought together more people
| | lHleIeSleu III conservation yesterday
than have gathered here in many
months. Men and women who are
} busy in many lines made it a point tc
honor the doctor and the people who
gathered about the table in the Har.
risburg Club represented almost every
movement in conservation in the State
for quarter of a century
The Rev. J. Andrews Harris. who
has resigned from the rectorship o,
one of the Philadelphia Episcopa
churches after fifty years of service. i.
well known here because during tn,
days when attacks were being made
= upon Bishop Talbot as q result of thu
Irvine matter Mr.. Harris was one o.
the committee and spent some tim,
/ here.