Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
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Father Penn is putting his fans in
the cellar at the State Capitol. There
are 400 fans. more than ever known
before, at the Capitol, and all are run
by electricity AMI worked overtime T.:
the summer. The storage of electric
fans is the first sign that winter is
coming at the State House. This year,
owing to the opening of the new de-
partments and division of some de-
partments into bureaus, more fans
were bought than in any summer since
the Capitol was opened. and the round
Up the latter part of the week dis
closed that there were 400 electric
fans. The Capitol Park force has
commenced to get the winter quarters
of the squirrels the States official
charges, into shape and an ample
supply of nuts. which are bought from
T. supply schedule the same as paper,
pens and inks, will be stored so that
when real winter comes there Will be
something for the squirrels to eat.
The benches will shortly be removed
and the plants are being taken from
the flower beds. The State is officially
getting ready for winter and when
Governor Brumbaugh returns from his
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day he will find the Executive Man
sion renovation completed. This work
has been under way for several months
and it is now finished.
Can you guess who is the best sales
man in Harrisburg" asked man on
Capitol Hill the other afternoon.
No, / guess | can't There are
some slick politicians and some very
able men on the Hill but can't spot
the best salesman. Who is he? What's
lie sell?" replied the newspaperman
who was addressed.
Tom Stewart. He sells speeches.
And he's got Bryan and Peary and all
the rest of the big paid lecturers
beaten mile was the answer.
"How's that"
The beauty of it is that the gen.
eral does not take cent for his
speeches. The people get the benefit.
The other day he was at Allentown. In
q ten-minute talk on what he had to
give he got Colonel Harry c. TreXler,
the cement magnate, to donate the
cost of the tablet to the Allen Light
Infantry one of the "lTirst Defend
ers." on condition that he would make
the address at the unveiling. 1t was
a great stunt. 1t probably means that
the Allentown colonel will pay I
couple of thousands of dollars and
Stewart will make one of the best
speeches of his career, which will he
going some. I tell you, Stewart would
be corker If he was out on the road.
He has shown what he can do in sell
ing that speech to TreXler."
The Telephone News, the monthly
issued by the Bell people, is getting
into the newspaper class. 1t appears
for October with photograph of the
very wireless towers which were used
for the wireless telephone talk to Ha
waii. The picture is very interesting
ana the description doubly so. An
other interesting feature is a discus
sion of a toll ticket, told in a way
that someone outside of an exchange
can understand it. The centerpiece
| il q bunch of roses-the chief operators
of the Harrisburg division.
Organization of the Central Penn
sylvania Debating League yesterday at
the Capitol calls to mind the fact that
years ago the art of debating. was YER,
popular among pupils in this city and
interschool debates were held each
winter which attracted much atten-
| ton. Some of the schools banded
words with the debaters of Steelton,
Mechanicsburg, Middletown and Hum
melstown and some even had tho
temerity to tackle the debaters Of that
ancient seat of learning, Carlisle.
Forensix exercises have always been
popular here, whether because of the
| location of the Capitol in our midst or
not, is not clear. Harrisburg debaters
have always given a good account of
themselves and the plan for the de-
batting league bids fair to be popular
| in this district.
! The final decision of the county
commissioners as to the arrangements
of the eight candidates for City Coun-
| IL on the nonpartisan ballot aroused
more discussion in legal and municipal
circles yesterday. Colonel f. NJ. OFT
the county solicitor, advised the COM
| missionerS that the names of Commits
| sioners w. L. Gorgas and Harry r.
Bowman should lead the ticket in that
order because OF the fact that they
polled more than so per cent of the
ballots cast at the primaries. Colonel
OFT suggested three methods: follow
ing the order of the drawings for
places on the primary ticket, alpha,
betically. or in the order of the num-
| bers of votes received. The arrange
ment alphabetically, according to
Colonel OFT. would have carried out
the spirit of the general election laws
and upon his recommendation the
commissioners adopted this method.
Professor IT. II. Baish, the superin-
tendent of the schools of Altoona, who
was here yesterday, is president of the
State Educational Association and one
| of the most progressive educators of
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