Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-15
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The new Pennsylvania Society,
which is about to be formed by mefs
connected with the State government,
Will be great thing for Pennsylva-
MA because its dinners will attract
national attention, but it is question
able whether this city will get the
biggest event Of all that it is planned
to bring about. This event will be
its annual dinner every fall. The
speakers at the first of these dinnersI
VIII probably be the President of tl6
united States and some men of nd
tlonal note, as well as eminent Penn
sylvanians, but in conversation with
man who has taken quite an in-I
terest in the formation of the new
society some doubt was expressed
whether Harrisburg had the facili-I
teS Tor q banquet such as the officials
nave in mind. In other words, Har-I
risburg has not a big, modern hotel
such as has Reading, or Erie orI
, scranton or some of the other cities
and which would naturally be theI
place where such an elaborate func-
uon would be staged. Harrisburg has
had some notable dinners in years
gone by and last winter during the
legislative session there were enter
tainments of a high order, but they
had to be held in clubs or halls where
the facilities are more or less limited
1t would be rather irritating to Har-
risburg's pride to have the monthly
! luncheons of the State society, but to
have it go to Philadelphia or Pitts
burgh for the big dinner, the event
| of its year.
Speaking of hotels, the men be-
/ hind the desks say that the dull
period is approaching and that from
! now until the new year is on there will
] be slim registers. The travelling men
are commencing to head toward home
for the holidays and the number of
| sample trunks unloaded for Harris
| burg is growing smaller every day.
Along about Christmas and holiday
! week the hotels are not we'll filed and
some of them sort of mark time
awaiting the coming of the CONNER
cial who start out in midwinter to
| get orders for summer goods and
straw hats.
| Speaking of condolences as Irwin
| Cobb would say, although nobody had
mentioned condolences and it was
simply ruse to get started on the sub
ject speaking of condolences a
mighty interesting event took place
| some weeks ago on the good ship
| Mongolia" bound for a Chinese port,
and containing several 1915 graduates
OF Yale University who were travelling
to the recently transformed monarchy.
The boys were on their way to take
up work with the "Yali school," an
educational institution originated and
supported for Chinese boys by Yale
men of all ages and classes.
A friend in this city a few days ago
received a letter from one of the
boys written on October 81, which
described the meeting in midocean
iof classmate, who happened to be
the son of President Truesdale, of the
d. l.. and w. railroad. But to the
paragraph of the letter describing the
meeting:
AT about vi o'clock on Friday
night we passed the steamship 'Si-
beria' in midocean. / wish you could
have seen the tiny light grow larger
and larger until she swung around
and showed her whole broadside of
lights. Then a tiny light put out
from her side and we heard that
stowaways were to be taken aboard.
Suddenly the little boat was bouncing
and sliding about on the swells right
beside our boat. One by one the
groveling stowaways, three Chinesa
and two Japs, were hauled bumps
ing up our ships side by ropes, and
we then went slowly forward towing
the small boat and passed not over a
ship's-length from the great Siberia
1t was a wonderful sight there in the
middle of the Pacific ocean. l knew
that Bud Truesdale and some other
1915 men were travelling in the Orient
and So just for fun, I took a chance
and yelled with all my might, la
campus, 'Ohl Bud Tr-u-es-dale!" sew
eral times. I was sure 1 heard an
answer, but thought someone was
kidding me. That night sent wire
less and the next morning to my de-
light received the following reply
"Boys send their best. Great trip.
Heard shout-Bud.'
All of which goes to show that,
tritely speaking, the world isn't such a
large place after all.