Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-14
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The late George ,. ComSJocK was
one of the active spirits in organizing
the industrial welfare and efficiency
conferences which nave been such fea-
lures of the autumn in this city the
last few years. Mr.. Comstock was
president of the Engineers Society Of
Pennsylvania when Commissioner John =.
Price Jackson took up the proposition
of holding a series of meetings at
the best that had been devised
the health, welfare and prosperity
of workers could be explained. Mr.. =
Immediately lent his aid andH
interested some of the men prominent
in Pennsylvania affairs. The result
attracted national attention.
Fishermen throughout the State are
commencing to write letters and ask
about the changes the last Legislature
made in the fish laws. One of the
bills relative to the seasons
is pending and If 1t is approved there
will doubtless be an effort made by
to discourage n further
changes in the fish laws. AS one man
put it, "a person has to take a lawyer
or a leather-bound volume of laws
with him when he goes fishing now
adays. It's getting as bad as hunting.
They change the laws so often that the
men in charge of the games and fish
departments no sooner get their forces
working right before another change
is made" What the fisherman said is
true and it is regrettable that it is
necessary to amend the school code.
This monumental piece of legislation
has been changed eight times this
year as the result of bills signed.
Some of the lovers of fishing in this
rifW think tina fharn n1pht m he pnn6
places for trout fishing along the Swa-
tara. or the Beaver or some of the
other streams within easy reach Of the
States capital and will make exami-
nations this "a with a view of maxi
ing applications for the young fish.
Years gone by some of the creeks
which are now being mentioned were
known as good trout stream and If
they had not been ruined by over
fishing or by pollution would probably
have been good to-day.
A mar who gets around a good bit
among the foreign element in this city
and Steelton says that when the State
starts to enforce the new law pro-
hibiting unnaturalized foreign-born
aliens from keeping dogs it will result
in the b%anishing of hundreds of ami
mails and for himself he says he cannot
see where they are going to go. II the
enforcement of the law starts without
the foreigners having availed them
selves of the State officials announced
notice to prepare 1t will mean that
there will be some scene compared to
which the excitement of a dog catch
er's career will be nothing. In some
communities a dog ranks very high
and attempts to kill would probably
cause some heart burnings. Then, II
the foreigners themselves start to get
rid of the dogs, there will also be more
or less annoyance.
That this is the close of the college
season is very apparent from the peo-
pie seen at the stations. Boys and
girls, youths and maidens are passing
through Harrisburg every day in num-
bers, the suit cases and ennis cases
gaily marked and college colors dis
played in more than one way. The
farewells at the gates when young
people a different trains are as sin
cere and as prolonged as at the side
of an ocean liner.
Speaking of ocean liners, It Is inter-
esting when in New York to watch the
steamships that engage in transatlantic
business. They bear signs or thee
sides with letters as large as those OF
the electric sign on top of the Harris.
burg telegraph building. The Ameri.
can liners have signs larger than the
side of a freight "a while the Dutch
and Scandinavian ships have great,
big letters which can be made out
miles away.
Among the visitors to Harrisburg on
Saturday was Charles S. Hamlin, one
of the big officials of the governments
reserve bank system. He was here on
an automobile trip and paid a visit to
the Capitol.
A "newsie" who had an u~ndeniably
foreign cast of c-ountenance and q
thatch of black hair furnished a good,
swift answer to a man who sought to
stir up some local warfare yesterday.
This man noticed a y%oungster who
looked like a German and bought a
paper from him. Then he noticed an
other. and buying a paper from him
asked: Say, Dago-American, when
are you going to lick Dutchy over
there?"
The boy came back on the instant
with: "Doan o Gala me Dago. I
born in Secon' street. Me an Dutchy
buddies."
Even the juveniles are carrying out
the presidential admonitions about
neutrality and dwelling in amity.
Another story along the same line
Is being told about a farmer from
uOWH bllSd DeSSIOWn way. lnlS ma
Is a shrewd, ell-educated and we'll
Informed man and comes to Harris
burg every now and then on business.
He ran across a couple of men in a
store the other day and one who knew
him began to kid" him about the
German chances in the war. The
farmer protested that he was not much
interested, although he spoke with a
marked German accent. Then the two
of them got at him and he said that
he was more American than either of
them. He would not bet, but he
offered to make a show down. One of
the men who spoke to him said that
his father had been born in England,
but that he was a Pennsylvania by
birth. The other man "fessed up"
that he was pretty young when he
came to this country. "Oh, VEIL" said
the farmer. Mine people come over
in 1884"