Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-16
Eurntrg Chat


tatus bids fair to put the old
fashioned flremans lantern out of
business. This has been recognized
couple of times lately, but the manner
in which the searchlights of some of
the trucks were utilized at the fire a,
the Boil factory in Howard street late
Tuesday night demonstrated what the
new style of apparatus means in other
ways than mobility. The Boil factory
is at a corner where electric illumi-
nation is not as good as some other
corners. In fact. it has no arc light
and as the fire was under long slate
roof II meant that men had to work
on a sloptng surface which soon be-.
came slippery and offered many
chances for getting hurt. The lanterns
carried by the mon bobbcd around and
afforded very little light Then the
motor apparatus came into play and a
couple of trucks were run up in a
husinesslike way and turned their
searchlights on the roof. The firemen
had no further trouble and folks a
couple OF blocks away could see the
men at work fighting the fire.
Speaking about fires and automo-
biles, 1t is astonishing the manner in
which people owning automobiles turn
out at fire. Cars show up at a scene
OF a blaze from far ends of the city
and even from Steelton. Given a hot
night. such as Tuesday. and there is
nothing more exciting than a run to a
fire on warm night. However, some
of the operators of cars are taking
chances when they try to race with
motor apparatus and some men who
tried stunts on the Mulberry street
bridge were told by firemen to get
away. The wisest plan is to get to tho
curb and stay there until the fire
apparatus passes.
An idea of the automobiles going
to fires can be had from a statement
by a prominent resident to-day. He
made canvass of the district in which
the Boil Brothers mattress factory fire
occurred Tuesday night. Here is what
he found: Lined up in Fourteenth
street between Derry and Vernon
streets were "a dutomobil and mo-
torcycles; between Market and Ver-
non, 20; Thompson street between
Thirteenth and Fifteen, IS; Vernon
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth,
II; between Fourteenth and Fifteenth,
16. and in Derry street between Four
teenth and Fifteenth, Z. Total. 10. Four
of the automobiles were auto trucks
used by local business houses. Just
| where this practice is going to end is
question worrying Fire Chief John
c. Kinder.
Fred c. Huston. one of the best
known soldiers in the National Guard,
is very proudly wearing the silver
medal given to him by Father Penn
for twenty years continuous service as
a marksman. There are very few of
them in the Guard. Mr.. Huston is
commissary sergeant of the Eighth In
fantry and one of the old-timers.
More fans which were bought as
advertisements and laid aside when
| the August cold spell came along have
| heen trotted out and made to do duty
this week. In one store a lot of fans
which had been consigned to the
depths of the storeroom made their
eagerly snapped up as in July.
| The Rev. M. D. Lichliter president
of the Federation of Historical So
| eieties, has been invited to deliver an
| address at the three hundredth ami
Nersary of the arrival of the first white
man in Pennsylvania, to be held on
Spanish Hill, near Athens, Bradford
county, October 10, 1915. This man
was Stephen Brule, a Frenchman '. and
MS mission to what is now Pennsyl-
vanta was one Of war Mr. Iichliter
has received several invitations to at
tend functions of a historic character
| and is invited to take part in the
| ceremonies of the marking of Harris
Ferry during the festivities of this
month.
Among Harrisburg visitors yester-
Gay was Samuel 1. Spyker, the Repub-
lcan county chairman of Huntingdon.
who is prominently mentioned for IN
important place in the workmen's
| compensation system. Mr. Spy5er has
| many friends here and he will make
quite an addition to Harrisburg.