Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-28
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There is big demand for the buI
letin just issued by the Department oT
the State Fire Marshal, advocating
SAFE and Sane celebration of tins
Fourth of July and particularly calling
attention to the fact that it is not gen.
orally realized that the great loss of
life and property is caused by fire.
works; that few years ago two-thirds
of the city of Portland, Maine, was
burned, caused by the careless hand
ling of firecrackers. From the same
cause Pittsburgh lost $50, 900 worth of
property in one day, and in eight years
the fire loss in the United States, as a
result of the careless handling of FIRE
works amounted to over S2,500,000.
Ihe bulletin also calls attention to
the fact that the Fourth of July is and
should be a day of patriotism and re-
Jolcing instead of a day of apprehen-
sion and terror. People should be
awakened to the significance of the
day in its highest and best sense.
F1recrackers when used in modera-
tlon and with great care are the least
dangerous, but when used extensively
and recklessly, as of late years, it
makes our Fourth of July a national
stead OF day of gladness and rejoic-
ing.
In connection with this warning the
hre marshal calls attention to an act
approved May 6, 1915, relating to bal
looms with which many are probably
not not familiar, and the same is quoted
Tor the information of the public:
Be 1t enacted, That on or after the
hrst day of January, 1916, it shall be
unlawful to sell or expose for sale, or
puy or exchange, or give away, or have
IN possession, any balloon, made or in
tended to contain fire, for the pur-
| pose of ascension, or send up or cause
to ascend, any balloon containing in
or about it any fire. This section does
not apply to a balloon in which a hu-
man being ascends.
Any person who violates any of
the provisions of this act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-
Vlction thereof shall be sentenced to
pay fine not exceeding two hundred
dollars, or to undergo an imprison-
ment not exceeding sixty days, or
BOTH in the discretion of the court"
Captain James B. Kemper, who has
been offered the office of lieutenant
colonel OF the Eighth regiment, has
had a wide experience in the Regular
army. He was sent as a second lieu
tenant to the Philippines during the
Spanish American war and served
with distinction in the strenuous cam
paigning on the islands. Returning
home he was in time to be sent to
Cuba t. help restore order on that is
lands and after service there was on
recruiting duty in Chicago for a time
aid served also on the Pacific coast
and Wyoming. He was ordered to
Texas City when the Mexican situation
first began to warm up some years ago
aN nd af 49,. IaA z..Iz
burg as regular army instructor for the
infantry branch of the National Guard.
When the order came to go to Mt
Gretna the war office made him chief
mastering officer. He is an efficient
officer, and popular with the officers
of the Guard and great admrer of
Adjutant General Thomas j. Stewart
who he regards as one of the most
efficient officers in the country. KEN
per comes from the Kemper family of
Virginia. The late Governor Kemper,
of Virginia, was an uncle. AS a gen.
eral in the Confederate army he made
history at Gettysburg and on other
fields. At present Captain Kemper re-
sides in Market street near 18th.
Know anything about ball? Who?
Me? Why I don't know much more'n
a few letters of the alphabet!
That, as rule was the modest waE,
Ill Whlcn Jonn, or more Familiarity
known as Jack" McKallip, a former
Harrisburg newspaperman, usually
deprecated his knowledge and ability
as a pitcher. McKallip's death oc-
CURED few days ago in Pittsburgh
and hosts of friends in this city who
read of his passing recalled his almost
amusing efforts to hide as it were, his
curves and inshoots and so on under Il
buskel. And they always will remem-
ber his alpha betical answer.
For Jack" WAS some baseball
pitcher in his school days although
he still retained a good deal of arm
vigor while playing with amateur
teams in this city. Only during his
school and college days, his alma
matters proved their appreciation in
the usual way McKallip had two
Bucknell varsity BIS" a Chambers
burg academy &C." a MercersburS
academy m" and a Kiskiminetas
preparatory school *" from Pitts
burgh. Hence the alphabetical point
tc Jacks" explanation of his baseball
knowledge.
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