Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-29
EhRntng Chat

James C. Deininger. executive clerk
In the office of the Governor, is Won
dering how far he can travel on a
railroad ticket dated 1859. The
ticket calls for a ride from Hope
WELL Huntingdon county, to Balti-
more, by way of Harrisburg and was
issued in July, 1859. The ticket is Il
three part affair, printed on plain
Whlte paper in quite an ordinary way.
~ resembles, more or less, q strip of
tickets from a movie The ticket
is signed by ]. j. Way. who was the
lcket agent at Hopewell, and he
numbered 1t 16. Just what the six
teen stands for is not known except
that 1t was the number of the ticket
Tor checking. Apparently daters were
not known then and the agents hand
writing answered for the Numbering.
The first ticket was issued on account
or the Huntington and Broad Top
Railroad and was good to Hunting
oon. Then the Pennsylvania came in
Tor strip of ticket from Huntingdon
10 Harrisburg and the Northern Cen
tral took the passenger from the State
Capital to the Monumental City. 1t
must have been a pretty long trip in
the days of 1859 when they were
burning wood in many engines and
cars. Mr.. Deininger got the ticket
from John A. Slentz, of Gettysburg,
who found it among his fathers
papers. In the papers were a card
of admission to the United States
Senate for the impeachment of An
drew Johnson and "shinplaster" on
a Lancaster bank. This money was
in excellent state of preservation, but
the bank people were rather leary
about advancing money on 1t one day
when Mr.. Slentz took 1t in to show the
cashier.
In letter to-day to Robert w.
| Hoy, commercial manager of the Har-
risburg Light and Power Company,
who leaves early next week to assume
his new position as manager of the
| Elmira Water Light and Power
| Company, the Chamber of Commerce
| expresses its sincere thanks for his
efforts in boosting Harrisburg gen.
orally and the Chamber of Commerce
particularly. Mr.. Hoy figured largely
| in the organization and development
of the Chamber and his work as q
businessmen of Harrisburg was such
that the businessmen's body, in writing
it's appreciation, extends it's regret at
his departure.
The opening night of the Robertson
|
Auditorium presented a group of still
and moving pictures that opened the
! eyes of many and moved large audi
| ence to frequent outbursts of applause.
| The lecture. which is just what Mr..
Robertson does not want his series of
remarks to be called, was filed with
| touches of humor that frightened up
an evening of instruction that could
not be gained by the reading of any
| number of books. At the beginning of
the war, said Mr.. Robertson, Germany
| had five million men trained. She lost
one million in battle and now has six
million. In the same way, England
at the start of the war had about
200,0 900 men and lost one million; now
| she has three million. Mr. Robertson
| also made the statement that, in his
estimation, the average big American
newspaper in the average big Ameri-
can city had not treated the Germans
fairly in this war. An interesting fact
was stated during the travelogue that
showed the enormous expense in
CURED by the huge 42-centimeter gun,
the largest type in the world, which
was the kind that dismantled the
Belgian forts and forced Warsaw to
something like $495, 900 and each time
the gun is fired the amount of money
spent is equal to that which would put
a boy through college for six years at
$1,000 year.
Lee Solomon, the Philadelphia
newspaperman selected to be secre-
tary of the new Workmen's Compen-
sation Board, used to work on the
Philadelphia Inquirer before he be-
came the political sharp of the Rec
ord. He was raised in Philadelphia
and is one of the few men in the
whole city who can name the streets
bounding each ward