Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-25
EVENING Chat

pSioHS the IraQltlOnal SlNIleIn udy
prior to the November election. Gen
orally the campaign gets started about
| Labor Day or some times a few days
| before, but generally somewhere about
sixty days before the election. No
Vember B is election day, but on Sep
tember the standard bearers of the
three big parties in the State will have
been out on the firing line some time
and the nominees of the less aggress-
i've parties will probably be busy, too.
Governor Tener started his campaign
about September 2 and his rivals,
William II. Berry and Webster Grim,
got under way about the same time.
Labor Day was the starting time for
the Stuart and Emery campaigns in
1906 and Pattison got out on the
stump about September l in 1902,
Judge Pennypacker, as he was then,
Joining his campaign party little
| later. This year Dean Lewis and Pin
chot have been campaigning ever
since the primaries, or rather have
| been continuing their primary cam
paign. Mccormick has been fitting
about Tor over month, having spent
limelight. He went to Virginia to
take rest, but came back when the
weather was hottest. Congressman
Palmer has been less strenuous and
has made a speech every now and
then, just as has Penrose. Palmer has
httSu III SOME SOll ana 1enTOSe SOllS
yachting. DR.. Brumbaugh went to
Maine Immediately after the burial of
his devoted wife and his appearance
at Pittsburgh tomorrow is his first
The doctor will open his campaign
with an address before the Republi-
can State committee and keep going,
one of his engagements being in his
old home county of Huntingdon Fri
day, the day Mccormick will be in
Cambria and Lewis in Washington
It's going to be a great old campaign
and it is going to start early and be
marked by lighting along a front al
most as long as that of the European
war incidentally, it is going to be a
decisive affair.
You don't believe in spooks? All,
but that doesn't prove anything. For
there is a spook, a really, honest-to-
! goodness graveyard spook out in the
| Harrisburg Cemetery! At least that
is what dozen or more small girls
of Allison Hill will tell you.
| The dozen lassies in question, 1T
seems, are in the primary grade of the
Lincoln school building and during
the summer they have paid many
visits to their teacher, who lives in
North Cameron street. The shortest
road home is through the Harrisburg
! Cemetery, and despite frequent warn
ings on the part of both teacher and
parents, the girlies have insisted on
going home through the graveyard
instead of around it.
"Spooks!" scorned one of the
largest yesterday evening about dusk
after a visit to the teachers home,
when she was urged to go around the
cemetery. who believes in ghosts :?
don't" And so off they scampered.
But 1t was an entirely different
minded crowd of girls that ran up to
n
street side of the cemetery with Save
us Save us! There's a ghost after
us"
"Where?" soothed the motherly
lady, gathering the white-faced
| youngsters about her.
"Over there!" they sobbed, pointing
toward the edge of the cemetery. And,
sure enough, over there" was a
white formed figure, slowly, almost
menacingly waving its arms toward
the frightened little group. Just then
a big husky man came along and he
started to investigate. A minute later
| he, too, came running pell-mell out of
the graveyard, crying 1T Is a ghost!
It is a ghost! Don't go in there or
| he'll get you sure!"
He later explained to the woman
after the youngsters had all scam
pered for their homes, that he had
| a conversation somewhat like this
|
the cemetery.
'Whata yuh mean scarin' those
kids?' I asked.
"'Sh!' said the ghost. I've been
employed by the parents Of several of
the girls to scare them when they
came through the cemetery It's lone
ly and rather dangerous place for
them to be and so they got me to
frighten them so they will go around
thereafter.
And half believe they will?
grinned the deaths head"
Zone of the folks with whom l wish
particularly to talk when ! get to
Meadvile is Altoona's commissioner
who has charge of the water depart
ment," declared City Commissioner
Harry f. Bowman, Superintendent OF
Public Safety, yesterday prior to his
departure for the Crawford county
of the Pennsylvania Third Class City
League.
That's the fellow that I'd like to
hunt up and talk shop to-" smilingly
went on Commissioner Bowman. Fur
lthermore, ] want him to let me have
one of the water department reports
and to explain some of the workings
of the system-and why 1t costs SC
much. For instance, Altoona, as
understand, Is supplied with water
from mountain springs and reservoirs
by a gravity system which is entirely
satisfac ctory. And it doesn't operate a
Ipump or burn a pound of coal to han.
die the water or filter a bit of 1t
But" and Mr. Bowman's smile eX-
panded to a large, broad grin, al
toona charges S13 for its water, and
Harrisburg, if you'll remember, has tc
pump and filter every drop of its
water and charges only IS. Further
more, we can save money at it, too,
finished Commissioner Bowman.
These are real vacation days or
Capitol Hill and very few of the heads
of departments are here, all taking
advantage of the close of August tC
get in rest days. Governor Tener Is
in Massachusetts and Attorney Gen.
eral Bell is in Europe. Health Com
missioner Dixon, Banking Commits
sioner Smith, Highway Commissioner
Bigelow, Adjutant General Stewart
who never goes away, Superintendent
Rambo and a few others are here, but
1t is vacation time for most of them.