Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-16
EVENING Chat

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DIR. w. J. Holland, os Pittsburgh
who yesterday suggested that the
superdreadnaugh Pennsylvania should
be christened with water from the
Ohio, the Susquehanna and the Della
ware, is curator of the museum of the
Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh and
| one Of the best known scientific men
in America. Indeed, his fame is inter-
national. DR.. Holland was formerly q
minister in Pittsburgh, hut science at
tracted him and he studied abroad and
is a member of various learned So
cieties and of the French Legion OF
Honor. He is of part French descent
| being scion of one of the early
Huguenot families of Philadelphia II
was DR.. Holland who conducted the
searches for prehistoric animals and
ne mounted the monsters which are
! SUCH feature of the museum at Pitts
! burgh. He also made the casts of the
| diplodocus sent to Europe. DR.. Hol-
land said in regard to his suggestion,
which the State had no authority to
accept. that Pennsylvania water would
be better than French wine. I'VE
baptize with water and toasts are
drunk in water now. Why should we
not use the water from the great rivers
of our great state?"
Among visitors to the city yesterday
was Robert E. MacAlarney, city editor
of the New York Tribune and con-
nected with the faculty of Columbia
uniVersity's school of journalism. Mr.
MacAlarney is a Harrisburger, for
mer student at the Harrisburg Acad-
envy, where he played center rush on
the football team. and began his news
paper work on the Harrisburg Tele-
graph. of which his uncle, the late
NJ. W. MacAlarney. was then the
owner. Mr.. MacAlarney has also at
tanned fame as an author. While here
he met a number of old friends.
This part of Pennsylvania is the
subject OF special study on the part
of the bureau of soils of the national
Department of Agriculture just issued
from Washington. 1t was made by
Charles +. Shaw of the United States
government, and j. NJ. Mckee and w.
@. Ross, of State College. The report
goes into great detail regarding the
soils, giving each variety in a county,
and shows how eastern Pennsylvania
can be made one of the garden spots
of the world. Much attention is given
to Lancaster county and to the Leb-
anon and Cumberland valleys, which
are apparently considered as having
great possibilities.
Dean Lewis +. Reber, elected head
of the national extension committee,
one of the biggest educational bodies
number of Harrisburgers. He was
formerly at State College and then
went to the University of Wisconsin,
DR.. Reber visited here last summer,
being the guest of DIR. John Price
Jackson.
The Pennsylvania station is an in
teresting place these days. 1t is all
ways interesting, but just now when
people are coming through from north
ern or southern states they can be
spotted. The people who are Fastening
home from Florida or some other point
down South appear in furs and heavy
oVercoats, the shiVering being in odd
contrast to the tan on their faces.
The people from Northern New York
or New England can be spotted be-
cause they mostly carry their over
coats on their arms.
William S. Essick, running through
some old papers the other day. found
an invitation issued to his father by
Governor Bigler to attend his inaugu-
ration on January "a, 1853. The invi-
tatlon is written in pen and ink on
what would now be regarded as a
rather cheap form of embossed white
| paper. and enclosed in an envelope OF
the SAME type. 1t differs much from
the elaborately engraved and hand
somely inscribed inaugural invitations
of the present day, most of which
never come beneath the notice of the
Executive who is to be the chief figure
at the ceremonies to which they are
bid. Mr. Essick's father was John
Essick. of Chester county. a sergeant
alarms on the "Hill" under Governor
Bigler, and the invitation reads as
follows:
MIR. and Mrs William Bigler pre-.
sent their compliments to Mr.. Essick
and request the pleasure of his com
pany on Thursday evening next al
seven and a half o'clock, Harrisburg
Pa, Jan. "a. 1858.
One of Professor Surfaces bulletins
on bees has been made q textbook i'm
the Wisconsin State University. which
is now giving much attention to the
important and growing industry of
money production. A few days ago
Professor Surface received from the
president of the Wisconsin institution
request for permission to use his Bee
Keeping pamphlet, which has had n
VIDE circulation as a Department OF
Agriculture bulletin in this State. and
ne kindly forwarded sufficient comics
Tor use of the students enrolled with
the hope that the book will be found
benehcial. Most of the data and in
formation contained therein was
cleaned by Professor Surface from his
own experiments and observations
with large apiary maintained by him
for number of years during his resi-
dence at Camp HILL