Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-20
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According to men who keep an eye
on foods something between 10000
and 100000 of eggs, stored last
Spring by Pennsylvania buyers, have
been taken out of the cold storage
warehouses in Pennsylvania this month
and agents of the pure food inspection
service of the State Department
of Agriculture are trying to find out
where they have gone. Under the op-
Grafton of the cold storage law the
time limit on a large quantity of eggs
expired this month and the eggs had
either to be put into trade or else be
classed as "outlawed" and made un-
salable. The belief is that the eggs
were put into trade to assist in pro-
Viding the supply of eggs always in
demand for Christmas baking and the
problem of the pure food men is to
see that they are being sold as cold
storage eggs and not as fresh. With
| eggs selling about so cents a dozen for
| first grade fresh country varieties 1t is
feared that there may be some per-
sons who may be tempted to slide in
some cold storage eggs or who would
not placard the stored eggs. However.
| the number of violations of the precau-
tionary portion of the cold storage act,
which forces display of card that pro-
ducts are cold storage, has been stead
lily decreasing. Between chasing the
Icold storage egg and the "fattened'
oyster and keeping tabs on Christmas
cakes and candies to see that they are
not colored with coal tar dyes and
sampling sausage to make sure that
! 1t is composed of meat and not flour,
the States food inspectors are busy
men.
A couple of fore-handed farmers
have asked the States employment
agency to see that they get hands for
Spring work on the farm. The bureau
is just now trying to find men for the
Jobs which the manufacturers are Of
fering on every hand and the wide
awake farmers asked to have their
names put down for some farm hands
when the SHOWS have cleared away.
Harrisburg people, especially those
connected with legislative matters, will
be interested in learning of the ap-
lpointment of James II. Lambert, Jr.,
lof Philadelphia, as secretary of Will
liam H. Wilson, the new director of
public safety in Philadelphia. Mr.
Lambert has been here several years
as legislative correspondent of the
philadelphia Evening Telegraph, with
(which paper he has been connected as
political editor. He is a son of Col.
James Fl. Lambert who will be re-
lmembered as State Insurance Commits
lsioner under the Hastings administra-
ton and as one of the most forceful
leditorial writers in Philadelphia. He
entered newspaper work on the Phila-
delphia Press and was then connected
with the Philadelphia Inquirer for sew
leral years. For the last fifteen years
he has been one of the most active
newspapermen in Philadelphia, spe-
cializing in legislative and political
work. He will bring to his office u
wide acquaintance and splendid fund
of information on governmental mat
ters Director Wilson was the floor
leader of the last House.
What are you doing here YOURSELF"
was the answer fired back at a ques-
tioner in one of the city's department
lstores to-day. I'm renewing my
youth" replied the first man and he
, proceeded to tell how. Every year"
said he, "I like to visit the stores and
to play with the mechanical toys. I
mean it literally. l go to the stores
and buy few for youngsters that [
; know and want to remember and then
make the clerks wind up or start all
the toys. l like to see the progress
in such things and just like you l liko
to see them go. And there's a whole
lot more men like me only they would
. not admit it,
Capitol Hill is getting ready for
!, Christmas and an effort is being made
to agree upon a uniform time of clos
ing for the week. In several offices
the Christmas vacation will begin on
! Thursday afternoon and run until
! Tuesday morning, which will permit
: attaches to go and come from their
: homes in distant parts of the State.
"The calendar fiend is about already
The fiend is the person who makes
collections of calendars that he does
, not need" said a businessman this
! morning. "I handle line of business
, that requires considerable advertising
and we make a specially of calendars
There are some people in this city who
= get our calendars every year and
, whom we are glad to give because they
, display our cards, and none other, in
their places. But there are lot OF
) people who gather up calendars and
: throw away about half they get. They
: constitute the fiend class"