Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-10
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Il lEvENlNG CHAl
This is the season of the year when
the gladiolus is in its glory in Harris
purs and vicinity and there are some
! people who make speciality of the
gorgeous African flower that has
| reached its state of rarest beauty by
american methods Some very fine
| specimens of the flower were to be
J seen in the markets yesterday, single
| nowers almost as large as a rose and,
indeed, approaching the size of lily
! being on sale. About the city parks
there are some pretty blooms shown
out the best are naturally in private
gardens and the attention given
J throughout the summer is well re-
Warded by the blooming of long stalks
| OF the flower. The gladiolus has been
! much cultivated in this country and
there are gardens in Harrisburg where
1t has been an annual ornament for
probably a dozen years Twenty
years ago red and white gladioli were
almost the only ones to be seen here
| abouts, but now they come in pink
and yellow and purple and all shades,
the hybred tiger stripe and red and
white stripe being among the choic-
est of the late summer visitors.
Insofar as pre-emption of party
names goes this years campaign has
been strikingly different from that of
1912. Not more than the usual crop
of names has been pre-empted and
most of those have evidently been by
people who wanted to clinch right to
appellation to prevent someone else
from using it or to have "A name at
hand ready for use rather than to
employ themselves. The last state
campaign was notable for the tremen-
1rNNN
on and the amount of fees turned into
the prothonotary's Office as a result.
This year pre-empting has been a
slow item of business
Following out the same ideas that
have made Harrisburg's playground
and Romper Day programs so sue
cessful heretofore, Allentown last week
concluded its summer city recreation
season with Romper Day celebration
in which some 1000 youngsters par
tiCipated.
And the man who promulgated the
Romper Day plan and all the details
OF the all-day program which made
the day memorablg in the history of
the children of the Lehigh county town
was former Harrisburg playground
tnstructor-E. l.. Manning. He's now
Allentown's supervisor of Fairgrounds.
Newspaper clippings and a splendid
the features of the big day were sent
here to V. Grant Forrer, park super
intendent throughout the development
of this city's playground system. Mr..
Manning was under the supervision of
Mr.. Forrer and was in charge of the
Island Fairgrounds up until he was
urged to go to Allentown to complete
the organization and development of
that city's recreation work. Here is
typical reference to the big day in
Allentown contained in one of the
citys leading newspapers:
Before crowd of 5000 fathers,
mothers and friends nearly 1000
children from the public play
grounds yesterday celebrated their
first Romper Day, an idea brought
to the city by Supervisor E. l..
Manning.
Distribution of political literature
has already commenced in the State
and the poStmen say that if it is go
ing to keep " the way it has started
there will be plethoric conditions
about the post offices. The other day
the floor of the post office was lit
tered with printed matter bearing on
various phases of the Republican,
Washington, Democratic and Prohibi-
ton campaigns, some local option lit
erature and some woman suffrage. So
much for one day.
people are hard to suit" said A
motorman yesterday afternoon. This
morning | went out in a closed car
and the people who were kicking
about my open car yesterday were
growing at the closeness of the closed
cars. To-day at noon they were Won
dering why the company took off the
open car"
Francis J. Torrance. president of
the State Board of Public Charities
dresses like a Beau Brummel and has
the manners of a Chesterfield. The
Pittsburgher was here yesterday clad
in the very top notch of sartorial ele-
gance and greeting everyone as of
yore. Mr.. Torrance has been coming
to Harrisburg on official business for
many years and has watched the prog
ress of Harrisburg with much interest
He is especially complimentary of the
improvements along the River Front,
which he thinks Harrisburg has used
to great advantage.
Although there is not much of a
chance to shoot the wild duck now
adays and reedbirds are unknown
hereabouts. there are a number of
hunters who are out with dogs and
guns. They say that they are train
MS IllSli dhlhldiS lOI NllG hunting sea-
son and that perhaps they may get
chance to kill some weasels or other
pests. No one appears to understand
why the duck season is advanced by
national order, but II the ducks come
around the hunters will he glad.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
The Rev. G. Morgan Davis, of
Ellwood CITY, has been elected to the