Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
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ANY person whose business does not
require him to roam amid freight cars
is taking chances not wholly con-
hned to being run down these days.
Inc way the railroads are guarding
their rolling stock and yards and sid
ihgs hefeabout now is an illustration
OF what is going on all over the At
iantlc seaboard. The PENNSYLVANIA
railroad has some of the largest yards /.
III this section of the State and the
tracks are filled with cars being sorted
out for the seaports or awaiting a
chance to be shot through to Phila-
uelphia, Baltimore, New York or even
up to Boston. And they are being
Watched as carefully as though they
were loaded with gold coin or silk
from the Orient, either of which is
enough to put d railroad on edge. The
Pennsylvania railroad has twenty
men in its yards here alone to say
hothlnS or the men in Enola and out
on the lines with headquarters here.
fhey are in charge of Captain Paul
l.. Barclay' who is doing his sleep
lnS between times just now. In normal
times the force hailing from Harris
| burg consists of thirty live men; three
lleutenants and one captain, but
! there are probably more on duty now
adays. The Reading has also a big
lorce OF policemen engaged on its
watch work in the Rutherford yards
and on the lines converging here.
| while the Cumberland Valley and
Northern Central have their men
exercising unwonted vigilance now
| that shipments of strategic value are
passing through the city every day.
| The railroads are watching cars as
though everyone contained munitions
and arrest is about the swiftest thing
that anyone can get nowadays. And
as for getting into any of the iron
and steel works it takes a pull and
a pass and then you have to run tho
gauntlet.
Charles p. Sweeney, who formerly
| lived here and was engaged in work
on several Harrisburg newspapers has
resigned from the staff of the Phil
adelphia Public Ledger and gone to
| the country. Mr.. Sweeney has given
up the big city game and taken
! charge of the Evening Dispatch at
Cohoes. n. Y. He is president of tho
publishing company and will emu
| late Hi Andrews, who is stirring up
I Johnstown.
One of the prize stories from tho
new State Employment bureau con-
| Germs a citizen of an interior county
| who could only see after dark. This
man wrote that he wanted a job.
Then he added that he could only see
fairly well between sunset and sun
| rise and figured out that he could
get in eight hours work in that time.
His price, he added, would be $4.
DIR. Il. S. Martin. who was here yes
terday to visit Governor Brumbaugh,
| used to be director of public health
in Philadelphia and took prominent
part in medical affairs for years. lie
was one of the speakers at meet
ing of the Dauphin county alumni of
| the University of Pennsylvania q few
| years ago.
Speaking about the way some people
| will try to eVade a. law requiring public
notice a man was telling the other
evening about a few cold storage signs.
| This man had large experience, but
| the oldest he found was when a card
announcing cold storage food was dis
covered tackled on ceiling. Another
| man put his oleo license on his back
door. "The man who sold cold storage
could have printed it on his paper
bags and the oleo man could have put
it in plain view," said he. II don't
think a dozen people would have no
! ticed, and the way things are bought
1t would not have mattered II they
had"
The approach of the winter season
does not seem to be disturbing the
average Harrisburg builder a bit and
there are piles of raw material, bricks,
lumber and cement to be seen on va
cant plots in a good many parts of the
city. Apparently the builders are
reckoning that VIC will not have an
/ other early winter such as we had
last year and that they can get under
roof by the time the snow commences
to fly.
Late sunsets have been worth while
| observing. There have not been the
great big flaring sunsets that some
| times mark summer evenings, but
beautiful nevertheless. For instance.
there was a bit of sunset on Sunday
that lasted but fifteen minutes and
was really only a small rent in the
cloud mass. but il was riot of color.
| Similar ordinations have been OBJ
served which make the sunset OBJ
| servation worth while.