Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-05
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The attorney generals Office ap-
pears to get the funniest letters of
the odd varieties that reach Capitol
Hill. or course, the governor re-
ceives numerous communications ad-
vising him how TO run the State gov
ernment and giving him pointers on
many matters. but the attorney gen.
eral receives the real ones that meaR
work. Many folks write for elucida-
ton of legal matters, overlooking the
fact that he is not the free lawyer of
the State, but the counsellor of the
departments and officials of the State
government The other day man
wrote to him asking for the cor
poration laws of Pennsylvania. These
laws are scattered through a dozen
books and such a thing as a corpora
tion code has been attempted, but
none is in existence. The next letter
asked for a list of all lawyers in the
State and the writer was ''peeved"
when he was told the State did not
keep such things on hand.
The Harrisburg Railways Company
is making a good job of the broken
paving along its track in Second street
north and south of State street.
sides of the rail and the sheet asphalt
is placed against these blocks, making
n solid and smooth surface. Superin-
tendent of Public Works Lynch is one
of the most practical OF men and it is
his plan to put all of the streets in
the best possible condition before the
first snowfall.
Governor elect Samuel w. Mccall, of
Massachusetts, who is known to
number of residents of this city
| through his visits to the late Congress
man Olmsted is another of the Penn
| sylvanians by birth to rise to high
| place. He was born at East Provi-
dence, Hamilton township, Franklin
| county. He was taken to New Eng
| land when quite young and was edu-
| Gated at Dartmouth, which gave him
| the degree of doctor of laws and
offered him its presidency. Mr.. Mccall
| has a pronounced liking for Pennsyl-
vania history and biography and is the
author of the life of Thad. Stevens in
the American Statesman series.
Governor Brumbaugh has been pre-
sented with a block of wood from tho
| old Blaine homestead at Carlisle. This
| house. which was occupied by the
| family for years, was built by Ephraim
| Blaine, grandfather of the statesman,
and stood near the First Presbyterian
| Church.
|
John w. Vickerman, the Allegheny
county representative, who was here
| yesterday on business connected with
| the mothers pension system, was the
active marshal of the big Bible class
| parade in Pittsburgh just before the
| election. There were 1000 men and
100 autom obiles. Mr.. Vickerman had
charge of important work in connec-
| tion with the local option bill on the
floor of the House last Spring and will
likely be a member of the next House.
A southern lady. from Baltimore,
who has been spending several days in
| the city, told some very interesting
"reminiscences to friends relative to the
Civil War and the feeling, since eradi-
Gated, which then prevailed between
the North and the South. She also
mentioned the late Daniel Drawbaugh,
believed by some to have been the
| original inventor of the telephone, and
a man whom she knew very well. ms
name, she said. was not Draw baugh at
all. He came from a part of Germany
| where a little town by the name of
Traw was situated. His family was
named Trawbach, the latter half of
which word means stream or brook.
| The close alliance between the letters
| d and in the German tongue were
| evidently responsible for the trans
| formation to the name by which the
ola gentleman ana inventor was known
| in this section. At the time when
\ many northern soldiers were quar-
| tered in the present school building in
| Walnut street near Front, then used
as a temporary hospital, this young
! lady from the South was visiting in
town and paid a visit to the soldiers to
see if there were not something she
could provide. Most of the boys
wanted tobacco and pipes but the one
man who attracted her attention was
a soldier whom she discovered to be
from North Carolina and who insisted
on having some "goo-goo beans"
food about which little is known ex-
| cept in the South.
! Representative Mahlon Shaaber. of
Reading, who was here yesterday, paid
a visit to the hall of the House, where
he sat in the seat he occupied in the
last session and looked around a bit.