Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-08
Ehfntng Chat


Just as an idea of what Harrisburg
may get in the way of automobile
visitors after the feeder" to the Lin
coin Highway is arranged and the de-
tour officially announced from Lam
caster to Gettysburg by way of Har-
risburg and it's great State House nd
the picturesque, historic Cumberland
Valley, is given by statement made
to me by resident of the battlefield
town yesterday. This man said: DO
you know we have between 1000 and
1,200 automobile parties in our town on
Sunday? Why, there were so many OF
them there that the hotels and restau-
rants could not feed them and lots were
given meals in private homes. The
people came from all around and tho
roads gwere filled with the cars all day
long" The remarks of this Adams
countian only serve to buttress. II 1t
needed it, the movement to have Har-
risburg put on the Lincoln Highway.
Besides. Harrisburg was associated
with Lincoln. The martyr President was
here when he was a congressman ana
he had one of the most thrilling times
of his life in Harrisburg, not Ian
caster or York. when he was on his
augurated. His safety was assured by
the conference held in the old Jones
House by Harrisburg people CO.
operating with the government ana
railroad officials and it was in this
city that his body rested on its last
journey. But, aside from these asso-
Citations with Lincoln, Harrisburg is
the State capital, and the number or
people coming here from other States
is increasing constantly 1t was shown
in this column on Saturday how people
from over two dozen States visited the
Capitol last week alone. and there
ere thousands and thousands more
who will come here when the Lincoln
Highway "detour" is arranged.
The Valley Railways Company
makes a business of carrying freight
in order to oblige the people of West
Shore towns who desire quick ship
ments from Harrisburg. But it has
heretofore drawn the line at livestock.
II required = Cumberland county
pany the other evening. On signal the
o'clock car, bearing a load of people
from Camp Hill to the theaters, was
halted just east of that town by two
men, who proceeded to load a big
crate on the front end. Several grunts
ductor to ask: Say. what's in there?"
Two live pigs was the reply.
Say. do you think this is a stock
train ?" asked the conductor.
We'll" said the farmer apollo
getically, "them's thoroughbred hogs,
them is. and there's none finer in the
valley. Why. the mother of them
hogs
"All right, pay up and we'll let
them ride" returned the conductor,
pocketing the nickels and making his
escape before the lecturer got into full
swing.
So it was that two hogs rode in
front to Harrisburg while the theater
party brought up the rear.
The day of the old tin cup beside
the spring or the half-cocoanut beside
pipe has passed at the picnic
grounds in this part of the State, ac-
cording to peope who have visited
some of the old-t:me stamping grounds
of the basket picnickers. 1t Seems
that the movement for individual
drinking cups. which has started from
this city through the work of Com
missioner of Health Dixon, has spread
far and wide and crops out in the
most unexpected places The cups
that used to decorate every drinking
place have gone and at some of the
more pretentious picnic resorts dub
blers" have taken their place. At one
picnic resort there are signs: Bring
your own cups"
The war arguments have been
banned even in the ice cream parlors.
There are said to be some groggeries
in this city where there are signs
prohibiting war as a topic of CONVEX
sation and 1t is enforced to the letter,
especially after II p. M, but thus far
the soda fountain and ice cream places
have been free The other night a
party was enjoying ice cream and the
war at the same time and a couple of
the disputants forgot their frozen deli
cacies. Up stepped the waitress and
in mild voice admonished: please
don't have arguing ON the war;
Harry A. Mackey, of the State
Workmen's Compensation Bureau, who
was here yesterday. is one of the
States well-known college athletes.
He played football at the University
of Pennsylvania and at Lafayette.