Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-28
EVENING CHAT

veterans Of the Spanish War service
Of the Governors Troop and Com
pany of the Fourth Pennsylvania are
commencing to tell anecdotes of their
a.,orto Rican service, for this is the
tlIne OF the year when the anniver-
sarles or their landing at Ponce come
around. These two organizations par
tlclpated in General Miles remarka BILE
campaign for the subjugation of the
island and while they were not as for
tunte as the First City Troop and the
sixteenth Pennsylvania in getting into
she httle hghting that occurred they
pave a good bit to tell. The troop left
camp Hastings, where 1t entered the
service of Uncle Sam on July Z, 1898,
ana went to Camp Alger, going to
newport News on July "a and sailing
from the port on the Manitoba on Au-
gust o. The troop arrived at Ponce on
august 10, unloading the next day and
remaining on the island until Sep
tember 3. Colonel F NJ. OFT COM
manded 1t. The infantry company was
one of those recruited to make Colonel
cases Fourth Regiment a twelve COM
phy command. 1t was commanded
py colonel Howard L. Calder, with j.
L. Fisher, a superintendent of the
PENNSYLVANIA, and DR.. II. NJ. Stine as
Ileutenants. This company left Chica-
mauga on July %, went into camp at
Rossville, Ga, July 23, and then went
to Newport News, embarking on a
transport on July 81, just fourteen
years ago yesterday. On July 29 it
sailed for Porto Rico and landed at
PonceNon August 9. Next Sunday will.
therefore, be the anniversary of it's
landing. The company remained in
Porto Rico within one day of a month,
embarking for New York on Septem-
ber l. 1t got home on September
and had a great greeting. The Gov
ernors troop got home at midnight of
September 10. Half the town remained
up to see the troopers come in and it
was some night, too.
Judge C. L. Browns demand that
the act of 1913 prohibiting the sale of
clSaretS to minors be enforced does
not bother the average Harrisburg kid.
he started to get around the law when
1t was in the making on Capitol Hill
and he is still going around. Then he
sYt say what was coming and began to
cultivate taste for stogies. The
stogtes come three for a nickel and
While the quantity and quality are not
up to the cigarets they do very we'll.
"Chambersburg has an exhibit that
Is not down on the bills, but which is
worth noting" said. a man who at
tended. the Old Home Week. TT has
a doctor. an undertaken and a tomb.
stone maker living side by side. A
little beyond the doctors house is a
druggist. However, there is one street
IN Harrisburg that has within two
blocks saloon. a theater, a doctor,
an undertaken and flower store all in
a row."
The Pennsylvania Railroads giant
locomotives which used to startle the
city with their outlandish whistles a
lew years ago have nothing on the
western Maryland monsters that bring
coal trains from the southern border
ana maui them over the Reading lines
to Rutherford yards. The Westerns
engines come pretty close to being the
biggest in this part of the State. and
they have been appropriately equipped,
with whistles that are the worst noise
makers. They sound, in the language
OF lO-year-old boy, whose ear drums
were smarting, like a sick rooster
trying to crow" but to the more ini
tated, like a combination of I'VE.
wow-we-e-e-WO Some wears
ago we had the Chime" whistles on
the engines and they were not bad.
Then came the era of the Sirens and
then the "porkers,' as the whistles on
the big freight engines were termed.
The Western Maryland's disturbers are
in class by themselves.
Gypsies are giving the city a rather
wide berth this year, and, according
TO people living in the2 north end.
there have been very few caravans
seen. One band camped in Hoffman's
woods in the early summer, but a cir
Gus alighted the day after the nomads
established camp and the gypsies had
troubles keeping their own. They left
with the circus, in another direction.
1t used to be rather common to see
the gypsy wagons in the old woods.
but that place is too close to the built
up section for safety, and the wander
ers give the city a wide berth
Farmers in this section of the Sus
quehanna are going over their pear
and peach trees for the second time
to Gull out the fruit which hangs heavy
on the branches. Some time ago the
fruit tree owners went over the trees
and thinned out pretty extensively. but
the weather has been so favorable for
growing that it has been found neces-
sary to take off more fruit to prevent
damage to the trees. The outlook for
a peach crop in this section that will
surpass previous years is excellent
Pears and apples are also reported
abundant by the farmers, while the
commercial orchards are laden with
fruits. The problem confronting peo-
pie around here now is how to get
fruit to market without spelling owing
to the size of the crop.