Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-12
EVENING Chat


men may sit without coats and 1t is
the rule in many business establish
ments for men to go coatless, while
many stores encourage the wearing of
shirts that replace the coat to a GER
tain extent, but there is one place
where man must wear a coat. 1t is
not in the State Capitol or in hotels
or nails, but 1t is in dining cars. Up
on the Hill heads of departments
psahce ABOUT In their shirt sleeves or
without coats and any evening men
can be seen enjoying life in hotel cor
rIoors without coats. They even go
INTO dining rooms that way, but not
INTO dlnlng cars No matter how a
man may sit around in Pullman or
a smoker, no matter whether he doffs
ms coiiar In the car. he must have his
cohar ana tie in place and his coat
where the tailor intended it to be
When ne enters the dining car. Last
year couple of members of the Legis-
lature during critical legislative
peIioa undertook to ignore this rule,
out they were called" and took re-
Vense when another kind of call oc-
CURED on Capitol Hill. 1t caused some
commotion, but the coat rule on the
olnlng car stood. Several times lately
people have steamed into Union Sta
tlon lsteam is used advisedly) filed
WIN Indignation against the coat rule
ror the dining cars. Men of influence
ana af1uence have stormed against it,
pet tne laws OF the Medes are as board
Oh health regulations in an industrial
borough with a large foreign popu-
iation compared to the coat rule in
the dining car.
one OF the men most prominent in
the development of storage batteries
mas been secured by the Engineers
society for the monthly lecture to-
night. He is J. III. Tracy, assistant chief
engineer of the Philadelphia Electric
storage Battery Company, and well
known to many Harrisburgers. Mr..
tracy has made a study of the subject
Tor years and will give illustrations by
means of lantern slides. These lee
lures have been great feature of the
activities of the society and have
brought many men from the industrial
establishments and big engineering un-
dertakings in this section of the State
TO Harrisburg for professional discus
sions and entertainment. In fact. the
society is filling a very large part in
the life of men engaged in engineer
ing by its meetings, discussions, lee
lures and publications.
County Detective James T. Walters
has been awarded the prize for an un-
usual accident. He has a summer cot
tage near 1nglenook and while repair
ing a screen door found that he had to
pry off some of the screen. He used
q screwdriver as a lever and the net
ting flew off. the keen edge striking
him at the edge of his nostrils. It
made painful cut and a lot of annoy
ance. The detective has drawn five
diagrams showing how the accident
occurred.
James Sweeney. the State chief of
standards. who is the boss of the
weights and measures. has had some
funny experiences with people who
fail to understand that the States
standards are not for the verification
OF the weights of private persons, but
Tor counties and municipalities The
other day man dumped whole set
OF weights at the Office and asked for
prompt verifications. He was not
afraid of the weights, but he just
thought he would use Father Penn's
equipment. He was hard to convince.
On another occasion a milkman
brought in some measures and said
that he wanted to be sure they were
right so that Commissioner Foust's
sleuths would not nab him.
w. "A. MeSauCney, OF 164U Fulton
street, is the possessor of copy of
the Ulster County Gazette, published
by Samuel Freer & Son at Kingston
during the close of the preceding and
the beginning of the last century. 1t
is we'll preserved and contains much of
interest, especially a poem on the
death of Washington and proceedings
of Congress. One interesting adver-
tisement is by John Schoonmaker, who
offers for sale sawmill in the town of
Rochester and also "a stout, healthy,
active negro wench." He suggested
in this advertisement that any person
inclined to purchase might learn the
particulars by applying to him. Tt is
an interesting old paper and the editor
makes the announcement that the
London papers had arrived by a late
steamer and from these papers of Oc-
tober 20 copious extracts are made in
the issue of the Gazette of Saturday.
January 4. A little matter of ten
weeks late for the news didn't seem to
cut much figure in the early days
The Rev. DR.. M. ID. Lichleiter chief
clerk of the Department of Agricul-
ture, has been appointed as repre-
sentative of the national council of the
Junior order United American Me-
chanics at the centenary of the "Star-
Spangled Banner" in Baltimore, The
doctor is a former State councillor of
the order and national council chan
lain.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE