Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-27
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comment by Girard in the PhiIadel-
phia Public Ledger about the appro-
prlateness of the names chosen by
Pittsourgh people for some of their
great hotels, notably the William Penn
and Fort Pitt, calls to mind the fact
mat Harrisburg's hotels bear more
real names than is the rule in a city of
the size of Pennsylvania capital. AS
Glrard says, Americans are prone to go
10 Europe for the names of their
hotels, passing by the rich store of
local significance, historic import or
individuality, If you choose to term
II such. In the early days Harrisburg
lndulged In Black Horse, White Hall.
Swan, Seven Stars and other fancy
names for it's taverns and like every
other place in the United States had
washington house, a name still borne
by one of its smaller inns. However,
l. early had State Capitol Hotel and
one OF the most pretentious hostelries
IN this place of taverns,' as a noted
French traveller of 1898 called ii, bore
that title. 1t stood where the federal
building is located and its name has
passed on to newer hotel not far
away. The Senate and the Common
wealth are appropriate for hotels in a
CITY or the governmental Importance
or Harrisburg and Bolton would mean
as much to the politicians, travelling
men and citizens of sixty years ago as
does the name Russ to folks of to-day.
Inc Lochiel is remembered by the
elder men of politics all over Penn
SylNanla and 1t has local connection
! because 1t was bestowed in honor of
the home of the clan which gave Penn
sylVania one of her famous men
| cameron. Dauphin and Harris are
easily recognized as distinctive just as
the names Paxton and Mount Pleasant
are significant of part of Harrisburg.
IT is not hard to understand the use of
the name of family noted in hotel
keeping. but II does take some stretch
OF Imagination to hitch Columbus,
Plaza. National and the like to Har-
risburg. The two Subway hotels can
be located without trouble and their
nomenclature understood. but when it
comes down to Metropolitan and its
llk II looks as though names were be-
ing borrowed.
Attaches of the telegraph Offices in
| the, city are commencing to experience
the effect OF war scare in Eastern
Europe and to have the same troubles
with names that they suffered in the
Balkan wars. On Saturday several
men, apparently Servians, sent tele-
grams and they kept the clerks busy
trying to figure out the names of the
ccnsignees and the locations. The men
could not write legible English and
latable. I'VE take the sound. that's
the best we can do said one clerk
who had been struggling to get down
on paper the gutteral sounds OF a pair
OF Slavs. Some of the MESA ges sent
yesterday were by Austrians who ap-
peared to be very desirous of news
about conditions in their home lands.
They did not want to go back for war
service. either.
A lot of thrifty people have been
benefited by the storm of Saturday,
illustrating again that it is an Ill wind
that does not do someone good. 1t
happens that the high winds. the pelt-
ing rain and the hail brought down
many apples, pears and other fruits
which are not exactly ripe but which
picking over will show have some
taste. Owners of fruit trees have been
raking up these windfalls but in a
number of instances people have
asked to be allowed to gather them
One man living in Cumberland county
says that several bushels of apples and
pears were taken from his property by
people who wanted to preserve them.
He was glad to get rid of the fruit and
they were happy to get it.
Members of the Country Club of
Harrisburg were given a shock on Sat
an apple tree almost in the midst of
a group of golfers. The crash of thun-
der following was terrific and bits of
bark and apples from the trees were
scattered far and wide. Several we'll
known men were within a short dis
tance of the tree that was struck.
rife is some shooting and the average
man is content to shoot ducks with
fcwling pieces and other birds with
shotguns, but 1t is mighty seldom that
anyone has ever heard of a bird being
hit by golf ball while the bird was
in full flight. This happened at the
Lucknow links of the Country Club of
Harrisburg on Saturday during a four
ball match being played right after
the storm. At the time a number of
swallows were flying low and darting
about twenty feet from the ground.
one of the golfers happened to drive
a hard line ball and as the ball was
about $50 feet on its way it struck a
swallow fair, breaking its neck and
wing. The bird dropped as does a
duck when shot.
Here is the story of a loon. The
loon lived in the neighborhood of an
Island in a stream not far from
Du Bois Two boys saw him in the
SllteiIl anu were lolu not TO ShOOt at
him. They shot. They did not have
licenses to hunt and they got arrested
| for that and for shooting a bird pro-
| tected by law. Meanwhile the bird
was sent to taXidermist to be
mounted Then 1t turned out that the
taXidermist was not licensed and he
got arrested. Now the bird is in the
office of the State Game Commission.
where 1t will trouble no one except the
owls and herons and other stuffed
| birds which stare from the shelves and
| form mute evidences of peoples
| arrests.
| Monday mornings, as O rule, are a
good bit like Friday afternoons in
summer time. Business slackens up on
Fridays and on Monday there is al
ways dull time. To-day the city was
more than ordinarily quiet and 1t was
ascribed by most people to the fact
that the heat was great, that many
were out of town and that those who
were in town were not bothering very
much about anything. In some streets
which are generally marked by mum
bers of people less than half the usual
number were observed. Things were
slow up to noon.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
| Harry r, Grim who Is Democratic