Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-18
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The activity evinced in preparation
for the third annual Industrial We'll
fare and Efficiency Conference to be
held at the Capitol a month hence
recalls the immediate success of the
first conference held in the State
House two years ago. The conferences
was conceived by men prominent in
the Engineers Society of Pennsylvsr
fiia' which has become one of the most
influential organizations of the kind in
the country, and was a sort of out
growth of the annual conventions of
the society which were held half a
dozen,or so years ago. Governor John
*: Tener opened the first conference
with high compliment for what engi-'I
neers are doing and subsequently eX-
pressed to the late George S. Com
STOCK, who was president of the society
that year, that he was delighted with
the interest shown by the public, the
newspapers and the various organ
izations in the deliberations. The So
| ciety made Governor Tener its first
honorary member in recognition of
what he had done for engineering ad-
vancement. This year the society and
the departments of the State govern
ment have gotten into close col
|
slons. The Journal of the EngsNeers'
Society, the official publication which
has been calling attention to the COM
ing meetings, says of the conference
to be held shortly: THE success of
the first two conferences, 1913 and|
1sl4' was so great that this year theI
governor of Pennsylvania, Hon. Mar
TN q. Brumbaugh, has called upon all
OF the departments of the State gov-I
eminent having engineering diVisiGns|
OF dealing directly with engineers andI
industrial men of the State to partici-I
Pate in the 1915 conference. The pref
Vlous conferences were directly par-I
ucipated in only by the Department oil
Labor and Industry and the subjects
| uhder discussion were principally thoseI
| oeallng with factory operation TheI
thlrd conference will not only bringI
together the large number of engineersI
| and other attaches of the various STATED
| departments. but an invitation will be
issued by the Governor to the engi-I
| neers and manufacturers throughout
the entire state to attend the confer-I
ence and to discuss with State officials
engineering and industrial questions|
through which they are brought intoI
contact"
George Nj. Harry was talking about
the attendance at baseball games inI
the worlds series the other evening"
and remarked: "At one of the gamesI
in Boston l attended there were 4S,0O0I
you recall that the whole attendance
/ at the Island this year was $4,000"
Many of the automobiles which
came back to the city yesterday afterl
noon carried with them great bunchesI
OF leaves and some of the late flowers
| from the roadsides and mountains
near Harrisburg The leaves to beI
found within half an hours walk ofi
the city's gates or in the parkways on
In the parks for that matter are justI
commencing to turn and all the del
lghtful combinations from the palletteI
are being shown on the trees Wild j
wood Park is place of attraction noNI
ana fortunate will be those able It'd
visit it this week.
Capitol Park flower beds have beerI
made ready for winter. They have al I
oeen aug up and the plants which,
were bright with flowers a month agoI
nave been taken out except in fevI
instances where the late boomers ard
making their final display The plant
ing of bulbs will be the next order q I
business and April will see q great dis
play of tulips and hyacinths on thJ
"Eill." '1
In connection with the purchase O
the Pennsylvania Steel Company con
troll 1t is interesting to note the com
pany was among the very first to meet
English competition in steel rails. N
was the necessity for getting chesneI
rails at home that led Samuel Morse
FELTON,. the real organizer of the com
pany, to establish it. He lived until
1883 to see his company noted all over
the world and his right hand. Maio1
=. .. sent recognized as one of thd
Major Bent became president whaJ
Mr. FELTON, died and he was succeeded
III turn by his own right hand. Edga
{. FELTON,. son of the first president