Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-19
EVENING CHAT

Members of the Governors Troop
are getting ready to occupy the Bethel
Church in State street as soon as the
necessary arrangements can be made
and possession be taken of the prop
erty. Curiously enough this is the fourth
or fifth organization of the National
Guard to be quartered in a church. the
State Armory Board having within
the last few years remodeled former
religious edifices for the use of or
ganizations of the militia. The
churches make excellent places for
are generally large and well lighted
and the floors strong enough to bear
the weight In the case of the Har-
risburg cavalry the men will have the
use of the church for couple of years
at least. or until the building is torn
down to make room for the extension
of the Capitol Park. The quartermas-
ter's stores and equipments will be
placed on the first floor and the audi
torium used for drills.
Edgar c. FELTON,, president of the
Pennsylvania Steel Company, and for
years prominent in affairs at Steel
ton, has been elected one of the vice.
presidents of the University Club of
Philadelphia, of which he has long
been a member.
Albert Gehley Schwartz has sent to
his friends in this city q holiday post
card with the compliments of Puck"
the famous humorous magazine. Geh-
ley has been for the past six months or
more Puck's circulation man. He is
probably the youngest circulation man
aged of q nationally known publica-
ton in the country, but Puck thinks so
well of him that it prints his picture
on its Christmas card. Gehley only
three years ago was editor and pub
Usher of a little monthly magazine
gotten out by the students of the Will
lard public school building of this city,
of which he was then a pupil in short
trousers. At the time it was predicted
by businessmen who met him that he
would one day be a shining light in
the publishers world. From editor of
a grammar school paper to circulation
manager of Q publication like Puck is
a long step, but Gehley-as he likes
best to be called-took 1t in a jump or
two. skipping lightly over the rough
| spots and touching briefly on Capitol
! Hill as legislative page as he went.
| He is not yet twenty-one years of
age.
MANY of our Christmas trees come
said a farmer sitting on load of trees
in Market Square yesterday. There
! is no truth in the report that this city
has to go all the way to Canada for
its supply. OF course we have no bal
sam pines. but we have plenty of
symmetrical trees that look just as good
and there is no end to the number that
could be brought in If the demand for
foreign trees were not so great" Deal
ers say that buyers prefer the Maine
or Canadian trees because they are
prettier to look at and besides have
delicious perfume all their own.
Deputy Sheriff william Hoffman is
wondering why some one sent him
some Biblical quotations. Yesterday
morning the letter slot in the door of
the sheriff's office let in two sheets of
paper, written in pencil and contain
ing figures, quotations and some re-
marks that were hard to understand.
The note was dated Carlisle, 11.30,
1862, and was signed William Henry
Hoffman, Carlisle Indian school.
What does it all mean?" was asked
of the sheriff.
Search me. The Indians are on
my trail, l guess" answered Hoffman.
Congressman Edgar r. Kiess, of
Williamsport, was in the city between
Trains Il udy OF SO ago ana taking q
big interest in the legislative session.
Mr.. Kiess remarked that the prospects
were for a short session and it was
recalled that he had been the author
of the resolution for the shortest ses-
sion in years, that of 1907, which ad-
journed on April Is.
In spite of the intense cold there are
spots in the Susquehanna river which
are not frozen over and some of them
are large spaces which can scarcely be
called air holes. Some of them ap-
pear as though the water was too
active to freeze and others indicate
because of the thin ice around them
that they are caused by springs. The
open spaces are expected to stay open
now that the mercury touched zero
without ice being formed on them.
The Harrisburg Public Library is
becoming popular for people of vari-
Gus nationalities and some of the peo-
pie who go to the building to read
English are asking for books in their
native tongues. The Library already
has a good collection of French and
German books and recently some books
in Hungarian were added through the
kindness of a friend. Now it is plan
ned to place q number of Roumanian
books, for which the money was do
mated. on the shelves.