Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-15
EVENING CHAT

nifty ABOUT the invitations issued by the
Legislative Inaugural committee to the
ceremonies attending the induction of
DR.. Martin G. Brumbaugh into the
gubernatorial Office and it Is in keep
ing with the wishes of the plain Penn
sylvanian who will take up the reins
OF government on Tuesday. Instead
of the rather gorgeous invitations that
were the rule few years back the
committee has selected a plain white
sheet, somewhat larger than an ordi-
nary sheet of note paper and in in
dented space has placed the coat of
arms in gilt and then the invitation.
This year instead of a legislative COM
mittee or the Legislature or the gov
ernment extending the invitation the
| Commonwealth of Pennsylvania asks
the presence at the ceremonies. The
choice of words Is no less striking.
1.-The invitation reads ''Thc Common
wealth of Pennsylvania requests the
honor of your presence at the inaug-
uration ceremonies of Hon. Martin G..
lBrumbaugh as governor OF Pennsyl-
vania in Harrisburg at noon on Tues
day. January nineteenth, nineteen
hundred and fifteen" In some years
gone by the invitations were heavy
| Win SOtu anu III OtueIS llSS were
bright with color, while the wording
was in text considered in keeping
with the magnificence of the occasion.
The invitations TO the Tener inaugur-
alton Were simpler than they had been
for some time, but the Brumbaugh in
augural committee has proceeded
along new lines.
| The plans of Governor Tener to
leave the city after DR.. Brumbaugh
has delivered his address as governor
will take him away about the usual
time the retiring governors have left
1t has long been customary for the
governors retiring to leave the city
as soon as possible so that their sue
cessors may have their day. Cover
nors Stone, Pennypacker and Stuart
left almost within an hour and half
of the inauguration of their success
sors, being escorted to the station by
personal friends.
The statement by the minister of
King Peter in London that the real
name of his country was Serbia is in
line with what the people from that
land gaid when the Balkan war broke
out. At that time we were all call
ling the people Servians and speak
ing of their land as Servia, a resi-
dent of Steelton who came from Bel
grade sent a letter to the newspapers
calling attention to the common er-
lror and to the national dislike of the
word Servia with its similarity
serve. Somehow or other it was 2
made much OF, but the Steelton man
Twas a couple of years ahead of his
ihome government
The National Council of Industrial
Safety, which has a council here, has
added another to the slogans which IL
has been sending along and which
Harrisburg people have received from
time to time. A year ago windows in
this city and Steelton bore the posters
with the words Better Safe than
Sorry" Now the council has sent this
Iplacard for Harrisburg:
Better Careful Than Crippled.
| People who will be at Enola to-day
Twill recall what the place was like a
lGoZen years ago, when the first steam
IEhovels had commenced to dig into
1.-THE fields and the picnic place above
West Fairview was disturbed from its
lslumbers and folks from Harrisburg
lhad to go farther afield for their wild
roses. Work began on apparently a
small scale where the great yards now
lstand and it was not until fall that the
real organization was effected. As the
winter was open work went ahead and
this city on Saturdays and Sundays. II
happened that one sightseeing day
Isome officials came up from Philadel-
lphia to observe the work. They came
back to this city for rest and refresh
lment and when one man, now dead
was asked what he thought about the
iplace he said: IT'S the site OF the
lmuddiest mud I ever saw and unless
lit dries out they viii have to put down
1.-THE tracks with safety pins"
| DR.. 7. L. Munce, deputy State vet
lerinarian and well-known TO many
residents of this city. because of his
iactive work for the State in the pres
ent outbreak, has been elected a direc-
tor of the Real Estate Trust company
of Washington, Pa, his home town.
Some of the materials taken from
the Federal building in the rehabili-
tation afford interesting ideas of at
tempted freproofing used in the
eighties when the Post Office was con-
| structed. In those days a slow burn
ing building, one with thick walls and
with cement and ashes between floors,
was the chief form of safe" construc-
ton. When the Post Office was built
they used hollow columns set in plas-
ter and some Of the beams and joists
taken out were armored with some of
a cross between sheet iron and ex-
panded metal.