Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-04
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ber and formulated plans for the
weeks festivities.
Citizens of Italian birth. Croatians.
Serbians and men who claim Germany
as their Fatherland, forgetting the
quarrels of their native lands in the
present European melee, met with
prominent businessmen and civic
leaders in the council chamber to plan
the big affair. Every nationality in
the borough was Representatives has
been asked to send representatives at
the next meeting.
T'hirty-hve-Foot Tree
This cosmopolitan committee de-
cided to have a towering, 35-foot
Christmas tree erected either on the
Locust street steps or on the High
school campus. This will be the Com
munity Tree and will be the hub
around which the entire weeks
festivities will revolve.
on the night before Christmas. the
committee decided. the celebration
will open with singing by big chorus
including all the singers in the
borough. This choir will alternate
with chorus of school children under
the direction of Professor William NJ.
Harclerode. supervisor of music in
the borough schools. The Steelton
band will also likely give concert
short speech 10y some prominent cii
zen. The speech won't be long be-
cause the committee merely wants the
speaker to present the tree to the
borough in behalf of the Civic Club
and TO have it accepted in a few words
by some representative citizen.
The second, third, fourth and prob
ably fifth evenings of the celebration
will be given over to the foreign-bor
citizens and those who have not yet
become citizens. on one evening the
German people will have complete
charge of the program: on another
the Croatians, or Italians or SerbianS
each to have n full evening.
1t is the plan TO have each national
ity celebrate their evening just as
Christmas is observed in their old
homes across the sea. Ii they want
to parade, why, alright; if they want
to sing. fine, and If they desire to have
some dancing, well and good. And
an effort will be made by the commit
tee to have all the beautiful folk
dances of Europe included in the af-
fair. 1t will likely he one of the
features of the festivities to see two
long, SinuouS lines of foreign-b
Americans, with hands linked, sway
ing back and forth from one side of
the street to the other in the serpent
like folk dances that feature the
representatives of the various ma
tionalities promised to urge as many
of their people to celebrate as possible
and additional committees will be ap-
pointed as soon as possible to COM
plete the arrangements.
To Organize Big Chorus
All singers in the borough have
been requested to meet in the High
school auditorium Tuesday evening at
7:30 o'clock when the first plans for
the big chorus will be made.
Those present at last evenings meet
ing We're! +. c. Henderson, chairman;
Frank Marsico, II. Russell Rupp, Law
renee ]. Rudman, Edward Zune, Will
liam NJ. Harclerode, Frank Armstrong,
c. f. Howard. Dennis Hollern, NJ. ].
Kane and c. p. Feidt. c. H. Beidle
sent a letter regretting his inability
to be present and assuring the COM
mittee of full cooperation and a
number of other men sent word that
they would be at the next meeting