Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
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Public Service Commissioner w. d.
| b. Ainey, who was formerly congress-
man from the Susquehanna district.
! told me day or so ago how the lato
| Congressman Marlin E. Olmsted had
given him a suggestion as to a COM
mittee assignment which he always re-
| membered with gratitude to the dis
| tinguished Harrisburger. Mr.. Ainey
said that, being lawyer. he had anD
| idea of becoming a member of q
| judiciary committee. although he had
| taste for foreign affairs, in which he
| Became interested early and which led
| him to go around the world. The COM
| missioner related that shortly before
| the assignments were made up he was
| discussing the matter with Mr.. Olm-
| sted who was one of the big men in
| the House, and Mr.. Olmsted advised
| him that he take q place as a member
of the foreign affairs committee. He
| said that he thought he would find II
| far more congenial than serving on
the judiciary committee. 'T followed
his advice and I never regretted II
said Mr.. Ainey. I'm fact, 1t got me
| into touch with work in which I had
| long taken an interest and enabled me
to pursue studies and to make ac-
| quaintance of diplomats of the world
| that have given me delight. It was
the result of that suggestion that I
went three times to Europe and around
the world, spending much time in
Japan"
A fine example of the way in which
some of the foreigners invest their
savings and the manner in which your
| Uncle. Samuel is assisting them to
| have their money always within reach
was furnished at the post Office on Sat-
III day afternoon. A foreigner appar-
| emily an Austrian, and his frau went to
the money order window and the man
bought an order for six or seven dol
lsrs. When he got the blue slip he
| handed 1t to the woman. who read it
| over with him. Then, bending down.
the woman went into what has been
apty termed "the first national bank"
| and took out a roll of similar blue
slips 1t was not quite as big as your
| hst, but it must have represented
couple of hundred dollars. maybe
more. After placing the latest saw
ing with the rest and swapping a rub
Der band about the bale she put the
roll back into her stocking and the
pair headed for a Steelton car.
The stringed orchestra composed of
men of undoubted Teutonic strain
which is doing duty for a German
band about the city just now gave an
illustration not only of Wilsonian neu-
trality the other evening but of down.
right humor. AS a rule curbstone
music making is more or less of a SOL
emn business and not always re-
imperative. On this evening this par
tlcular orchestra lined up in front of
one OF the beer dispensaries in the
Third ward and began to play. IT
played some high-brow melody and
swung into Down on the Farm" or
some other air that suggested loneli-
ness or thirst. About the time it was
getting to the real plaintive part there
appeared to be a discord a livelier,
: rather belligerent air being superim-
! posed as 1t were, on the milder sounds
OF the orchestra. The man with the
] big viol caught it and "zubzubbed"
t harder and the flute man blew false
note. The people in the street noticed
: 1t. too, and began to laugh, for it was
: "Tipperary" and "Tipperary" being
played by an Italian ally on a hurdy-
gurdy with strong and vigorous turn
, ing of the crank. The orchestra let
! the battling air have the call Tbev
} stood silent while the man at the orgaN q
ground out about the sweetest girl and
) you could almost imagine soldiers
swinging along. And then the Ger
man leader took revenge. He gave the
time ana the orchestra played "Tippe-
. rary" too. And it played it in a way
that made the sound from the organ,
, whose grinder had stopped to let the
: rival concern do its stunt, sound like
, a l a. m. chorus from the "Old Oaken
Bucket: The Germans played "Tippe-
!, I We'll
that they got round of applause and
/ a handful of nickels.
This damp weather is causing ma
: the loss of lot of envelopes and
annoyance with stamps" said one of
the city's businessmen in a bank this
morning. Il have found envelope after
envelope fastened because of the mois-
, ture in the air and I have my clerks
use the greatest care in handling
/ stamps. The weather is getting into
2 things, especially affecting everything
: that has mucilage.'
Colonel F. NJ. OFT, former COM
! mander of the Governors Troop and
: one of the veteran retired officers of
? the National Guard. maintains his in
5 terest in militia affairs, especially in
5 the work of the men on the rifle
= ranges. He has been keeping In close
touch with what the men have been
= doing on the Lucknow range.
Among the visitors to the CITY the
other day was Judge John B. Steel of
; Westmoreland county. He came here
with his family on an automobile trip,
stopping over night at the Senate.