Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
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Wnlle the effects of the attempt OF
the Austrian government to induce
men still owning allegiance to Francis
Joseph to leave work in plants en-.
gagged In manufacturing munitions OF
war may not be as great in this COM
munfty as reported, there have never
theless been a number of instances re-
ported which show that the officials
across the sea have grip upon NH
working in Dauphin county It Is
Well known that men have left work
IN iron and steel plants in Pittsburgh,
Johnstown, Bethlehem and other
places because the orders being filled
happen to be for the Allies in
stead of for their own government.
put it is not generally known that at
least two score have left one plant
IN this city and that smaller numbers
have left other works. These men
gave up their jobs under circumstan-
ces which are little short of distress
Ing. number of cases are known
where the men had been employed
long enough to earn regulations for
steadfness and even to some degree of
skill. At the bequest of people far
across the ocean they have to give up
tnese places with nothing in sight.
AT first glance this seems a good IL
lustration of patriotism, but the an
swer is that the unfortunate men hap
pened to have close relatives, in some
cases parents, in Austria, while others
had money or properties which were
Jeopardized. Just what arguments
were used or to what extent threats
were employed can only be conjec-
tured, but the fact that several men
whose families and savings are in this
country have remained at work. al
though not naturalized and subjects
or the Austrian kaiser is rather sig
nlncant. 1t seems long cry to the
scene of war on the eastern front but
we are making iron and steel and
shells and other things for war and
men who have held good jobs and who
have been raising families in our midst
have had to leave their work because
of the fact.
On this same line it might be stated
that not long ago a man who had
delved deep into Pennsylvania history
related some instances which had
come under his notice and which IL
lustrated the way things were in our
commonwealth some 13S years ago.
This man had found a number of let
ters and papers written or printed in
Philadelphia about the time of the
British invasion and 1t seemed that
good many residents of that city
and vicinity who had been Tory in
their sympathy had investments up the
State. Probably some of them owned
farms or land in this or adjoining
counties. Certainly some of them had
money out at interest. The tone of
the letters indicates that persons who
had investments and whose hearts
were not with the colonies had hard
time collecting, while it was we'll
known that furnaces in this section
which had been established by English
capital were used to turn out cannon
balls for Washington's army. Some
of the letters written by the investors
fn irf
mant, showed disturbed state of
mind. They ordered foremen to quit
and tenants to Vacate, which instruc-
| tions were disregarded. Few sections
| of Pennsylvania were more staunch
| for independence than the Susque-
hanna valley.
Incidentally, it might be added that
the two men most responsible for HaK-
risburg, after the settler, John HaS.
ris, were John Harris, Jr., and his son
| in law, William Maclay. Both the
Younger Harris and Maclay were Of
f1cially connected with the provincial
government. John Harris, the
founder of the city, was the man to
whom the authorities at Philadelphia
looked to keep things moving right,
While Maclay represented the Penns
and was an officer under the govern
ment. When the war for indepen-
uGuc6 DGsdh f1dITIS nSlp6u q
company and was a captain of infan-
try, while Maclay not only took a
prominent part in organizing and
equipping troops but saw service un-
der Washington at Trenton and
Princeton. Certain folks who were
active at Philadelphia during the in
vasion by Howe were extremely an
xious to get hold of both these prom
inent upstate gentlemen whom they
contended by their example had made
many steadfast for the revolutionary
army even in it's darkest hours. Both
men severed all English connections
when the war began and gave liber-
ally of their own wealth to equip
Pennsylvania regiments.
This is going to be a good year for
/ rabbits if the number of "cottontails'
! to be seen in the vicinity of the city
| is anything to go by. The rabbits can
be seen frolicking in fields not far
| from Reservoir and Paxtang Parks,
where they are as bold as though such
| a thing as a dog did not exist. Up in
Wildwood Park the Dummies seem
to know that they are safe because
they run over the roads and the paths
and do not seem to care whether there
| is such date as November 1 on the
| calendar.
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