Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-23
EVENING Chat

| Inc candidacy oil Roy ID. Beman, of
this city, for the high seats in the
State Odd Fellows recalls the fact that
several men identified with Harrisburg
i'ie nave filled the chief offices in the
| lnnuential order in years gone by. In
1857 Robert a. Lamberton, afterward
president of Lehigh University and one
OF the notable Masons of the State
was elected to the headship of the
odd Fellows. He was noted far and
wide for his interest in the organ
1zauon and a lodge was named for
ftm. Some years ago Christian w.
myers, of Lancaster, but affiliated with
one OF the Harrisburg lodges because
or his residence here as chief of the
county bureau of the Auditor Cen
e[al department, was elected to the
once and soon after the Rev. b. H.
Hart, of Fifth Street Methodist Church.
was elected, Mr.. Hart, however. came
as a member of the Huntingdon lodge.
with which he had been affiliated. Mr..
Beman has been head of Fountain
I-oage and has been one of the most
active members of the organization in
the State, filing many places involv-
ing considerable hard work.
one OF the causes for good-natured
complaint on the part of street car
conductors, especially on the uptown
lines, is the enormous number Of non
| y.
wednesdays and Saturdays, when wo-
men members of the basket brigade"
are returning from marketing in Ver-
beke street markethouse On these
mornings the women form the ma
lority of street car riders, and they
nave habit of unloading their pen
mes on the long-suffering conductors.
They are usually we'll supplied with
the coppers, on account OF the many
odd prices at which so many forms
OF farmers produce are sold. AS a
consequence, the conductors pockets
Dulge with pennies, and some of them
nave turned in at the office at the end
OF their run as many as 400. One
amusing feature of the penny habit
is the alleged reluctance of the women
to receive pennies in change from the
conductor, who sometimes desires to
rid himself of the burden. One con-
ductor said he almost got into a lis.
night the other day in a near-argu-
ment with a woman who objected to
taking five pennies in change for a
dime she handed him.
There is a pile of snow in State
street near Fourth that defies the sun
shine. This snow remains over from
the fall of ten days ago and ii so hap
pens that it is located so that the sun
llght does not reach it with much
force. A number of people have re-
marked 1t and have noted the peculiar
angle of the building that protects it.
There are also piles of snow to be seen
on mountains and in fields near the
city which through some freak of the
sunlight are almost as they were a
week ago.
Il see.' remarked a man who notes
things, that it is n high crime and
mlsdemeanor for some State officials
who go about the state lecturing to
accept an honorarium. | have read
with interest what has been said on
the subject and also that while no OBJ
lection was made some years ago here
IL is questioned now. I also note that
IN most counties ii is generally done
without comment What strikes me is
that it is now a source of criticism
when William Jennings Bryan, who
gets twice $4,000. frankly goes about
the country for what he can get out
OF the gate receipts"
My. what a racket that drummer
is making and similar remarks are
heard quite frequently in the Harris
burg theaters. Yet the person who
makes the remark, We're he to hear
the same composition played without
drum, would instantly say that il
was poor sample of music. A march
played by an orchestra without the
accompaniment OF drum would be
almost as big farce as an army with
out ammunition. When PLAYED alone.
or with piano accompaniment, a
drum produces nothing that could be
called music. but to q band or an or
chestra 1t is as indispensable as any
OF the parts. according to musical au-
thorities.
Harrisburg's weather prophets ara
not unanimity as to future condi-
tions. When one of the old-timers
referred TO yesterdays snow as the
onion snow" he was scoffed at by a
veteran weather observer. You'll not
get the onion snow for sometime" :"
was the statement
Then We'll never get it," spoke up
another veteran citizen. IF there is
no onion snow before March 2S, there
will be no onions" was the eXplana-
ton. A fourth prophet broke into the
game. You are all wrong" he said
We will get the onion snow after Eas-
ter, and I'll bet a hat" The argu-
ment continued for a long time and
finally the prophets agreed to con-
suit their favorite almanacs "Drat
your almanacs." said the Oldest in the
group, Il have watched the weather
for seventy years and know what I'm
talking about. This is the equinoXial
we are getting, and the onion snow
will come later"