Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-22

iSuPpo't ol all Soou tnlnklng people
in the movement he has undertaken.
Il EVENING CHKT !
The much regretted death of Har-
ola ; Lewars last week. will take
from Harrisburg not only that tall
ented young musician, but his gifted
wife, who is best known as Elsie Sing
master, the authoress. Mr. Lewars
| took up his residence at Seventeenth
and Boas streets soon after his mar
riage TO the daughter of the Rev. DR.
| j. \. Singmaster, the noted Gettys-
burg college theologian. He was
himself, the son OF a Lutheran minis
ter and after graduating from Gettys-
burS taught four years in Steelton
| high school where he was very popu
lar with the students. Ii was in nlu-
sic, however. that Mr.. Lewars had ex-
ceptlonal talent and he transposed
and arranged number of works.
among others hymns for Sunday
schools. He led several choruses.
| Including those in Middletown and
MarysNille and was rapidly becoming
noted for his work. Mr.. Lewars was
taken i'll when he went with his wife
to visit DR.. Singmaster at Gettvsburg
JNct bSAOAG tue nOlluaNS and
never returned TO this city where he
had many friends. Mrs. Lewars has
given up her home here and will re-
turn to the historic home of her girl
hood days.
George Gray Barnard, the sculptor
whose works adorn the front of the
state Capitol, has definitely made his
home in New York. forsaking Penn
sylvania. lie has built at his home in
the upper part of New York a chapel
in twelfth century style which he has
filled with works of art picked up in
his travels throughout Europe. II is
said to be one of the sights of the
metropolis in the art line.
Among the hundreds of letters that
pour in on Governor Brumbaugh
every day one has attracted some at
tention because it gave the viewpoint
of an Indian. Most of the letters are
OF the type that would draw notice at
any time because they either tender
whole hearted support or else contain
some criticism. The letter from the
Indian came from Red Fox James, a
student at Carlisle. He enclosed a re-
print of n cartoon from the Carlisle
Arrow, the school paper, showing how
the Indians in Oregon helped make
that great Pacific coast dry. His let
ter commends the Governors effort to
check "firewater" and adds to the
picture the hope that the white man
will replace the country where he
found IL in the matter of intoNicants.
One of the interesting matters refer
red to by this wideawake aborigine is
the proposition of some western sem
ators to have 4 national holiday ere
ated in honor of the Indians and to
have it known and kept as Indian
Day"
The banquet which the Engineers
Society plans for the twenty-seventh
will be something unique even for
Harrisburg. which is banqueting GEN.
ter of some Importance. 1t is the idea
of the committee to have the presi-
dents OF the big institutions of learn
ing which graduate men with tech
nical degrees as speakers. Practical
ly every one has accepted and this
would mean an assemblage far out of
the ordinary. Alumni dinners here are
generally attended by prominent men
of faculties, but this will be the first
gathering of college executives around
banquet board 1t will be a big
thing for the Engineers.
Among visitors TO the Capitol the
last week or so have been people form
Ecquador, Australia. ireland and
Cuba. Flagstaff was the farthest
point away in the United States for
a visitor.
That Harrisburg is town painted
red" not flsuratively. but actually, is
very apparent in a bird's-eye view of
the city and is one of the most strik-
ing features noticed by many visitors
when making their first panoramic
view from the roof of the Capitol. The
red view is especially noticeable in
looking over the section of the city
lying closest to the river. The reason,
of course, is red brick and red paint
on tin roofs. Harrisburg is almost
exclusively city of brick in the resi-
dence sections. and the prevailing style
of house has fiat or gently sloping
roof covered with tin.
One of the conductors on the Derry
street car line has a Few method of
getting folk to move forward in the
car. He sings out sarcastically every
now and then:
Move up. please. The mOtorman's
harmless, he won't bite YOU
People laugh and then nearly al
ways move.
There is no question about Spring
being here now" remarked one Of
the Capitol park policemen yester-
day. "Blackbirds are commencing to
roost in the park. l can always tell
when it is getting to the point when
people can shed overcoats. The black
birds point the way
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