Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-18
"BIG DOINCS" EACH
SECOND OF TRADE TRIP
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agent for the pennsylvania Railroad,
ana a. lG. buchanan, division passen-
ger agent of the same system. IL was
aIl due TO the presence OF photogra-
pher who blocked a freight track 60
ing out of Union Station, when
aroused the ire of the pugnacious
freight agent. Hot words followed ana
Mr.. Bucnanan insinuated that there
weren't more than two freight trains
cn the entire line at all events ana
MIR. Nixon retaliated by calling him Il
panic bowling kepubncan, or words
10 that effect, and bloodshed mignt
have followed only the photographer
asked everybody to stand stllI just
then and Nixon and buchanan were
afraid to move for fear of being left
out of the picture.
1t was just like that the whole day
through. something doing every min
ute. Long before the train had
reached MI1lersburg, the first stop,
Stabtey Jean had sold out his entire
stock of cigars tor the benefit of starv-
ing Belgians and Arthur ID. Bacon had
sprung moist surprise by presenting
| bottles of Hires root beer to eacn
guest, the contents of which trickled
out of a hole in the bottom as soon
as the cork was removed. This nat
uratiy increased the popularity of the
ex-prcsidcnt of Select Council and
| many remarks were addressed to him
| IN the course of the day.
Milicrsburg a Live Town
| MillerSburg is Il live town. The eX-
| cursionlsts discovered that before the
train had come to a standstll. Every
businessman in town was on the plat
| form and the town nag was flying full
mast at the top of the municipal flag
pole. Right UP front were Harry NJ.
Fairchilds, former burgess. and a
prominent Republican OF that bor-
| w Igrtt1 1aal nd III
man. well-known businessmen and
solid citizens, who extended the glad
hand of fellowship to the strangers in
! their midst. 1t was some "modst," too.
| The party marched to the public
| square, where the visitors were well
coined by 5. S. Bowman. At the re-
quest of President Henderson, who
lodged his responsibilities as official
| speechmaker in a manner that was
| perfectly reprehensible, John S. Mus
ser, president of the Dauphin Elec-
trical Supplies Company, mounted the
| rostrum to reply John had on a fine
| new green velour hat of Austrian make
and before he began his speech re-
moved his head covering in order to
! assure his audience that he was per-
| fectly neutral. 'fhe big Johnston
| Bailey shoe factory was the next OBJ
| lject of interest and there the manage
| ment turned In fire drill signal for
| TIE DeIeIlI OF the tldFTlSDurB party
| and in less time than it takes to tell
it the street was filed to overfiowing
with nearly six hundred employees
| Many of them were pretty girls, which
caused Messrs. Gilbert, McColgin and
Bowman to hastily call the roll, mar
! shall their charges into line and get
them going, Jim Mccullough and one
or two other giddy youths insisted on
remaining until the very last and were
caught in the very act of sneakinG
arond the back way bent on breaking
| into the factory. However, the little
army got away finally without the loss
of a man, due largely to the efforts oi
! the very numerous rear guard.
The Harrisburgers got an idea ot
the kind of stuff Millersburg people
are made of when they began to sym
pathize with their hosts on the loss OF
Il big business block by fire near the
station Don't pity us" said J. w
Bruebaker, of ]. w. Bruebaker & Bros.
| that fire means n fine new building
all brick. and as good as anything you
have in your city. We have already
engaged Howard Holwig to put it up.
Among those who met the Harris
burgers at Millersburg were Il. f
! Bradenbaugh, S. S. Bowman, Howard
Holwig. o. FL. Watts. William Dowden
a; Dowden'r Ned Thornton, II. F
Sheatz, a. j. Polk, l.. i. Bowman
Frank Paine, Frank Campbell How
ard Holwig and II. G. Frederick.
Reception at Herndon
AS the train pulled out of AIillers-
burg President Gilbert appointed s. s
Eberts and Richard NJ. II. Wharton
! official inspectors and they were re-
| quired to open all satchels i'm search
! of bottled stuffs. They did their best
but the probe" was unsuccessful. al.
| though Mr.. Wharton has had consd-
cradle experience in this respect, off
and on, for the past few years. Tho
best they could produce in their official
report was record of a bottle of shoe
polish in the grip of Frank G.. Consil-
man. of Dives, PomeroY & Stewart
and n large flask of hair restorer in
the suitcase of George Eldridge. the
gas man, which made Bob" Hoy OF
| the electric light company, furiously
| jealous when he heard of the mean
/ way in which the gas company had
taken to get o little publicity that he
might have just as we'll had he taken
the train at Harrisburg instead OF
skipping the first part of the excur
sion and meeting the special al
! Wilkes Barre.
The train arrived all too soon at
| Herndon for Harry L. Lowengard
Edgar Marks, Howard c. Fry, Jack
|