Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17


in the Park Hotel with the Williams
port Board of Trade, the party boards
the train for home and will arrive in
Harrisburg fifteen minutes past mid
night.
The Harrisburg party was met at
Huntingdon upon the arrival of the
train by {. II. Miller. of the Chamber
of Commerce; George w. Fisher, the
burgess; +. NJ. c. Africa and a number
of others. Headed by the band, they
marched to the Chamber of Commerce
headquarters in the Community build
ing, where the speaking took place in
the open air. Mr.. Miller presided and
the principal address was made by w.
y. Lewis. of Huntingdon, who told the
visitors of the efforts being made TO
have the proposed highway pass
through that town, and his announce
ment of the endorsement of Indiana
motorists was the occasion of an out
burst of cheering. h. j. Stackpole, Jr.,
was called upon TO respond for Har-
risburg and did so by expressing the
thanks of the local chamber for the
big boost given the William Penn
Highway in Huntingdon. lie eN-
pressed the belief that the new road
will draw all of the communities more
closely together and that it will
traverse the historic route of travel
through the Juniata Valley that has
tween the east and the west ever since
the days of the stage coaches and
Conestoga wagons. AT the conclusion
Of the speaking the eNcursionists made
an inspection of the immense plant of
the J. G. Blair Company. largest manu-
faCturers of blankbools in the world.
Trip Great Success
To say that the trip up to this time
has been q great success would be 10
NJ mi
the party left Harrisburg until it re-
tired 10 its several Couches late to-
night there has been something hap
pening with extreme regularity.
Andy Buchanan, one of the big
mon of the Pennsy in Harrisburg, is
responsible for the railroad arrange
ments, and the train was in charge OF
W. Brooke Moore, who looked after
his charges like q youn" mother at
tending to the wants of her frSt-horn.
Then, too, there was Cal Clemson,
who boarded the train at Huntingdon
and was huSged and petted all the way
back to Altoona. Not so long ago
Clemson was boss of Select Council in
Harrisburg, and he was some boss"
The racket started when members
began TO pass out badges and souve-
Mrs. Pete" Diener distributed gold
American flags and the Bell Telephone
representatives present, Messrs. Rein
gold penknives. Honest real gold, and
$50 of EN-. Richard Wharton. Of The
Patriot. passed out badges, and the
one he reserved for himself was a
large white Republican elephant. He
went through the train boasting that
henceforth he intended voting the
whole Republican ticket, and wouldn't
stop Until Hum Breckenridge threat
ened to telephone back to Vance. That
fetched i'm, all right but he still
wears the badge minus the boast.
That Band
But say, the trip would have been 4
teetotal. utter failure if il hadn't been
for that band. and if this party doesn't
pass a large, manrSized vote of thanks
TO Frank Bosch and his partner in
crime. Colonel Covert. OF the Central
Construction and Supply Company.
who went deep, deep down in their
socks and paid all the expenses Incl
dent TO taking twenty-four members
of the Commonwealth band on the eX-
Cursion. then IL won't be living up 10
its fine reputation for doing the square
thing. Take it from one who made il
his business to observe. the Colonel
IS some band leader, and Frank Smith
and "Merkey' Tate and Bob" Hoy
and certain others of that delightful
little party of friends whose favorite
habitat in leisure hours is the Ross
club in North Third street are able
bodied assistants. If in the new pre-
paredness scheme somebody is needed
to lead the cheering or march at the
head Of 4 forlorn hope, looking happy
all the while and just as though he
liked it. pick one of the Covert bunch
and YOU won't so wrong. With the
Covert party as special guests were
friends of Frank Smith-A. @. Pat
terson. of the Corn Products Company;
Mr. Buckhannon of the Franklin
Sugar Refining Company, and w. II.
Rohr. of the Frank A. Smith company,
all three of Philadelphia.
That. one might Judge. will hold the
Covert crowd for moment or two,
but honest the half has not been told,
and maybe il is better so. Who
knows?
just Few Incidents
Much might be written of the meet
ings of the day, but that is ancient his
tory. at least to the point where the
party reached Lewistown. a few Incl
dents must suffice. At Duncannon a
serious disturbance was caused by the
failure of Peter G.. Diener and William
Jennings 10 turn up when the train
was ready to leave. Later they were
found talking to delegations of ladies
on the public square. Mr.. Jennings is
a summer resident there, so that was
all right; but nobody knows yet how
Diener happened to butt in. John
Musser tried to snitch one of the sleds
that Duncannon had in its trades dis
play on the square and Arthur Hol-
man almost got "A shirt. # was eX-
planned that Arthur doesn't sell shirts
any more. confninE himself to cloth
ing. so he was excused. EX-President
Henderson Gilbert fell into the hands
of Duncannons viEilart chief of police
when he drove off in sleigh belong
ing TO farmer who had stopped to
see the fun. But that never phased
Hen" No, indeed. He just yanked
out $50 gold piece-maybe a quar-
ter, or somethins-and gave it to the
officer. Yes. sir: Gave him the