Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-03
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The celebration of the thirty-fourth
anniversary of the pastorate of the
kev. Z. E. Haupt at Grace Lutheran
Churoh In Lancaster furnishes an in
teresting link with the past. This
well-known clergyman is a native of
Harrisourg and spent his early years
In this city, although he was edu-
Gated at Philadelphia, taking his de-
gree In the University of Pennsylva-
MA Mr.. Haupt has spent his years in
this part of Pennsylvania and has been
a frequent visitor to the city of his
birth. His father will be recalled bv
the older Harrisburgers as one of the
great engineers of the country, the
man who built the first Rockville
prldge, then one of the engineering
wonders, and who carried through the
Hoosac tunnel and the wonderful en-
glneering works on the Northern Pa
enc. He was the General Herman
Haupt who occupied so large a place
IN the technical works of the time.
The brother of the Lancaster minister
is Professor Lewis Haupt, a member
OF the frst Panama Canal Commits
sion, and who was reared here and
never lost his interest in this city In
deed, 1t was the suggestion of Pro-
fessor Haupt that led to the first pro
position for Improvement of the River
= INV ehS PupiCdtion OF WnlCn In the
Telegraph started the public improve
ments which have made Harrisburg
famous throughout the land.
In reply to the Guard captain who
on Saturday in this column asked the
question, When did the United States
ever go to war except in April ?" his
attention is called by a veteran to the
Iact that the War of 1912 with Great
Brltah commenced June Is of that
year War with France began July 9,
1873; war with Tripoli, June 10. 1901,
and the Florida Indian War Decem-
Der 23, 1895. The War of the Revolu-
ton, the Mexican War, the Civil War
and the Spanish War commenced in
April.
This is week OF anniversaries for
Harrisburg, the first and foremost be-
ing the seventeenth of the burning of
the State Capitol. That was one day
when the grounding did not see his
shadow, for there was about six inches
of slush. The other anniversary is the
seventh since the destruction of the
Grand Opera House, whose site is still
occupied by large and elegant hole.
That fire occurred on the night of
February l, 1907, and it was also
marked by heavy storm of snow and
sleet, a very fortunate thing for Har-
risburg, especially because the cinders
were found for blocks about the scene
of the fire.
A. Fl. Woodward, counsel of the
Dairy and Food Division, who figured
In the test cases of the cold storage
act a few days ago, has been selected
by the judge of the Clearfield County
Courts az member of the committee
on rules of the bar of that county.
but three living eX-Governors of
Pennsylvania. They are William A.
Stone, who served from 1899 to 1903,
Samuel w. Pennypacker, from 1903
to 1907, and Edwin 8. Stuart, from
1907 to 1911. General Beaver was
the third Governor from Centre
county.
1t is not often that corporations
seeking charters from the State send
to the Capitol parchments already en-
crossed and all ready for the sigma
lures of the executive officers Cen
orally they take the charters prepared
by the departmental clerks and head
ed by the State arms and the an
nouncement that the action is in the
name and by the authority of the
Commonwealth. 1t happens that the
other day the Liberty Cooperative
Association, of Philadelphia, applied
to the State for a charter and sent
with its application a huge sheet of
paper, fully yard long and almost a
yard wide, with the name, objects and
everything else all set forth on it. 1t
was ornate in the extreme, having
gold eagles and fancy flourishes and
everything else that goes to make a
charter a joy forever.