Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-18

Kelley and other enthusiasts who were
wrangling over a warm little game OF
haussenpeffer. The Herndon Board OF
Trade was represented at the STATION
by G. a. Riland, secretary, ana j. H.
Brewer, president. The speaker OF
the occasion, the Rev. Charles A. Ar
ner, of the United Evangelical Church,
was introduced by L. ]. Tressler Mr.
Arner called the attention of his audi
ence to the numerous industries of
Herndon, its transportation facilitles
and it's central location and begged his
hearers to do all in their power to
procure for them a bridge across the
Susquehanna at that point, bill Tor
the erection of which is now in the
Legislature. At the request of Presi-
dent Gilbert, Gus NJ. Steinmetz, of the
Harrisburg Telegraph. responded and
the party left for Sunbury with three
cheers for Herndon.
At Sunbury
1t isn't nice to come away from
home and throw brickbats at the town
that produces your bread and butter,
but is a safe bet that If Harrisburg
had suddenly acquired anything in the
hotel line to compare with the New
City Hotel of Sunbury, half our people
would spend their spare evenings down
town looking at it, 1t rose on the site
of a hotel that was nothing much to
boast about and is tribute to the
occasional blessings that fires bring
with them-the sort of blessing that
did NOT follow our own Grand Opera
House fire.
The party was met at the Sunbury
station by as live bunch of business
men as they had met on the trip. In
the reception committee were w. w.
Fisher. president of the local trades
body: Vice-President A. w. Leib, Teas
urer J. G. Yarnall. Secretary Amos
Bloom. John Kerthan. Samuel Best,
NJ. Miller, Ellie Blow, II. E. Clemmer
and other well-known Sunburyites.
1t was in the beautiful colonial din
| ing room of the New City Hotel that
| the eXcursionists partook of luncheon
and where they discovered that they
had unsupported in their midst an ora
tor from the native heath of the erst-
while Boy Orator of the Platte; none
other, indeed than the aforementioned
but now very much of Harrisburg.
My! The way that lad from the West
can juggle the English language.
But he had close rival in Profess
sor |. G. NJ. Ellcnberger, who, 1t is 20
be suspected, would have been law
yer or a congressman if he had not
preferred the job of bossing Sunbury
schools. If he can teach as we'll as he
can talk the state Board of Education
ought to have an observing committee
in his classroom all the time. When
he got through everybody in the party
wondered why they lived in Harris
burg when there was such q place
as Sunbury on the map. But after
Mr.. Wright had waited the magic spell
of his oratory over them the wander
ers all returned to earth and conclud-
ed that, after all, everything consider
ed, they might just as well so on liv-
ing in little old Harrisburg.
Sunbury never had a financial panic
and very few hard times, Professor
Ellenberger told his audience, and the
smoking of chimneys of the industries
of the town proved his assertion DUR
ing the present depression, at all
events. That is true, too, of almost
every prace visited by the Harrisburg
ers yesterday. Until they got to Ber-
wick, where the car works are tempo
rarily shut down, they heard business
man after businessman boast that his
trade has been good, is good and that
prospects is bright.
At Danville, for instance, the train
was boarded by George B. Keefer, for
merly connected with the Dives,
Pomeroy and Stewart store in Har-
risburg, now proprietor of one of the
largest of Danville's stores, told his
old friends that he is enjoying excep-
tionally good times and that last year
saw an increase in his trade over the
year previous. All of which sounded
good to the prosperity hunters in the
party.
Northumberland Some Town
Right outside of Sunbury. Northum-
berland used to lie. Now they lie side
by side, for il would be shame to
put Northumberland into a minor
place even for the sake of boosting
such an admirable city as Sunbury
Northumberland knows how to dc
things. When the party reached there
about three -fourths of the towns most
prominent people were out in theil
best bib and tucker and the North
cumberland band was hitting up Tippe-
rary at a lively rate on the station
platform. The local correspondent was
right on the job at this point and
! shooed the Telegraph man into the
| background. He said it was his owr
| little job and he didn't intend to lei
any "city fellow get away with II
So he went to 1t and promised to see
that the town got justice. 1t is to be
| hoped he piled it on thick. Nothing
that could be said of the Northumber-
land reception is too good.
The excursionists had such a good
time at Northumberland that the train
| left late and had only brief halt In
| Danville. Perhaps 1t was just as well
They told US that there is a large in
sane asylum there. However. the con.
ductor knew his business and manag.
led to get all of the Harrisburg party