Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-14
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Lew r. Palmer, the States chief
factory inspector, who has attained
fame as football player in college
days at Princeton, as a student of So
cial problems and as an advocate OF
safety first, last and all the time, has
added to his laurels. This time Mr..
Palmer has gone some as mountain
climber. He has just returned from
mingled business and pleasure trip to
the Pacific coast and between stopping
at State capitals and large cities to see
how child labor and inspection laws
were administered and to talk high
brow stuff to the leading lights, he
found time to go up Mt. Tacoma. The
mountain is between $4,000 and 49,
900 feet high and is the second high
est in the United States. Mr.. Palmer
viewed 1t from Tacoma and deter
mined to go up. There are some peo-
pie out that way who like the busi-
ness of going up and he united with
them. Mr.. Palmer remarked that
breaking up interference" was
liShtsome task compared to certain
phases of the climb up the mountain,
but he said that the experience and
view well repaid him for his exertions
and his hanging on by the toes and
then by the nails in his ascent of the
famous peak.
During the present year the develop
ment of the city's mercantile interests
has been demonstrated in a number
of interesting anniversaries. Harris
! burg has been fortunate in the char
acter and energy and public spirit of
| It's mercantile community. Year after
year the various firms and companies
have pressed forward, keeping step
constantly with the progress and de-
velopment of the city. Harrisburg
need not he ashamed of its stores.
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of the Governors Troop, is on trip
to the Pacific coast in which he is also
making some observations of the or
ganized militia and the military posts.
Captain Jack has been given leave OF
absence until the middle of December
so that he can take his time. The cap
tain was detailed to the Mexican bor-
der few years ago and also took
courses at Fort Riley.
The men in charge of the Capitol
and the Riverside parks are commence
ing to have their own troubles. These
are the days when the leaves begin to
fall and they clog the drains and
gather in the paths and spread over
the grass. The old way of disposing
of leaves by burning them cannot be
followed out in the parks where turf
the accepted method is to gather them
UP and have them carted away.
Among the foreign residents of
ISteelton there is a pronounced dis
position to keep out of the European
muss. A few years ago when the Bal
kan League started in to thrash the
Turks the Servians, Greeks and Bull
gars were much stirred up and eager
to do what they could. Now the Ital-
ians are desirous of helping their ma
ton, but the other people are very
much in favor of maintaining an in
terested, but distant neutrality. y
Charles E. Patton, the new Secre-
tary of Agriculture, is a brother of
| Senator Alexander e. Patton, who
served in the Senate several years ago
and was one of the strong men of that
body. Senator Patton was a great ad-
mirer of Harrisburg and had many
friends here. The Patton family has
for several generations been among
the leading ones in the Clearield
region.
Robert Kennedy, prominent Union
town lawyer, was here few days this.
week attending to matters at the STATE
Capitol.