Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-22
EYENING Chat :

| | EVENING CHAT !
Fully forty members of the I.egis-
lature plan to spend all of their time
In Harrisburg during the session and
| probably more will stay here most of
the time and slip home for an occa-
sional week end. Last session more
| members remained here through the
long weeks OF the Legislature than
| ever known before and II few of them
! went home but two or three times dur
! Ing the six months the lawmakers
| spent at work. The .Htay-here men,
| bers have all gone to private houses or
| boarding houses and n few have taken
| light housekeeping apartments. One of
| the interesting things about tho men,
| bers here IL they expect to get away
before the end of April. Some are said
| to have taken their leases to April /
| with privilege OF remaining month
| or so more. Few OF the legislators
| anticipate a session beyond MAY G.
| The employees of the House and Senate
who are paid by the day are looking
back with feeling upon the last ses-
| sion, during which they were paid By
the day and the days were long drawn
out in number. It's a funny thing that
| speculation about the length of a ses-
sion Is the thing most heard Just after
1t gets under way. This year with the
|
of the Governor that work be done
| eNpeditiously the chances are that IL
will not be long.
The daily digest of news from the
various European fighting fronts is a
real man-sized job these DAYS and
| sometimes il is difficult in the extreme
| to come to any intelligent conclusion
even after the reader has waded
| through the various official communi-
| cauons the rumors and the things
! your correspondent hears" A reader
| or the Telegraph after an evening of
analyzing and guessing and estimating
submits, as an example of what the
London censors might substitute for
the lengthy dispatches with which they
clutter the cables. saying that in his
! estimation it is just as readable and
quite as informative as anything he
has read along the lines of the wars
progress for some weeks. the following
paragraph: The allies left is trying
TO move around the Germans right,
nut the Germans right is also moving
around the allies left. Now. if the
lelt OF the Germans right moves
around the right of the allies left,
then what is left of the Germans right
must be right where the allies left.
But II the German rights left is left
flSht where the allies lefts right was
right before the allies left, then the
riSht before the left's right left the !
rights left
Frank J. Byrne, who was the cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Even |
ing Times at the last legislative ses-
sion. has entered a new field of en-
deaNor. MI Byrne. who is an accom-
pl1shed linguist, has recently opened |
ofl1ces in the Bulletin building Phila- |
ueIphla, where he is devoting his at |
tention to the translation of advertis- |
ing and pamphlets eXtolling the vir- |
tues of American products, principally |
manufactured products. Up to the |
present Mr. Byrne has given the bulk !
OIL ms attention to South American
trade and has several large contracts |
Tor advertising in the South American !
newspapers Mr.. Byrne speaks Span |
ism nuently and is also student of |
Italian, possessing the ability to read. |
write, speak and translate both tongues |
without hesitation. Mr.. Byrne was |
one of the few correspondents to bring |
their families to Harrisburg for the |
session of 1913. He left the Evening |
manager for Clifford Pinchot, who had |
the washington party nomination for |
United states senator. After the cam
paign he took up the work of trans !
lation combined with advertising.
dean of the University OF Pennsylva- |
MIA law department, has been here for |
couple of days attending the hearing /
IN the Philadelphia Electric case at !
the Capitol. He is now practicing law
in Philadelphia and leaving politics |
alone although not out of it.
The village wit was in crowded car |
on a suburban line the other evening !
There We're 81 fares rung UP and |
everyone was jammed into the least |
available space. A big bunch of men
began to board the car at a corner and !
the conductor shouted: Move up |
front"
Yes" said the wag. Go on right |
out the door; YOU can't go through the |
roof"
The Rev DIR. NJ. ID. Lichleiter. who
mas Just been elected president of the |
State Federation of Historical socie- |
Ties, is an active member of the
western Historical Society. and is /
Well known to many Harrisburgers !
He is chief clerk of the Department of !
Agriculture and commander of Pill
grim commandery, Knights Templar.
DIR. Lichleiter has long been a close
student of Western PENNSYLVANIA his
tory and has also been connected with
the National Geographical Society at
Washington. He has in manuscript n J
volume relating to history of the west
ern section of the State entitled Foot
prints of Patriots and Landmarks of l
Western Pennsylvania DR.. Lich- \
letter has been one of the national Of n
hcers of the Junior Order United Il
American Mechanics, whose history II
he wrote. Another volume from bis
petf was the lives of en,inant W. |