Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-01
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Grand Army veterans of this city ~
voiclng their regret at the death or
william ]. Wells, past department
commander of the Grand Army in
Pennsylvania, mentioned the fact that
comparatively few of the men who
held that honor are still here. Mr..
wells was we'll known to many in this
section because as inspector of the
Grand Army in the State he frequently
VISITED Harrisburg. He was also we'll
known in educational circles OF the
Iorty-seven men who have been hon
ored by election to the chief place in
the state G. A. r.. only fourteen are
living. Col. o. C. Bosbyshell, one of
the earliest commanders, General
James w. Latta, former secretary of
internal affairs, and Adjutant General
Thomas ]. Stewart, who was national
commander, by the way, are the only
three of the men who served prior to
1890 as commanders who are living.
The eleven who served after 1890 in
olude several well-known veterans,
The State encampment of the vet
Grams is of much interest to Harris
burgers because the fiftieth anniver-
sary of the Pennsylvania department
will be celebrated when the State en-
campment is held in Harrisburg in
June.
February was we'll passed out last
night by number of youngsters who
took advantage of the warm weather
to do some roller skating. There
were scores of boys and girls out en-
1oyinS the skating and they did not
seem to care for automobiles, either.
The weather was also productive of
more or less joyriding.
ITS remarkable how many people
there are from the city who tramp
over the country roads in winter" de-
clared farmer who lives about mile
out beyond Bellevue the other day
at market. EVERY day, rain or shine,
roads frozen or heavy with mud there
are scores of men, women and chill
dren who go swinging by our place
with that air of enjoyment which
distinguishes the hiker from the ordi-
nary soul who plods along because he
must instead of because he wants to-
Announcement by President f. G..
Grace of the Bethlehem Steel Cor
poration that four new blast furnaces
will be built at Steelton just as
promptly as the layout can be COM
pleted, has drawn attention of steel
men to the rapidly approaching
famine in pig iron. According to
figures compiled by the Iron Age there
are at the present time seventy-three
new open hearth furnaces under con-
struction for Independent steel COM
panies and eighteen more for the big
steel corporation. The combined
yearly capacity of these ninety-one
furnaces will be 4,265,000 tons of
steel. To supply this additional capa-
city there are only ten new blast
| furnaces under construction in the
country, the combined capacity of
which will be 1,750,000 tons annually,
Since open hearths may be built in q
few months time while the construc-
ton of new blast furnace takes n
year, steel men figure that if present
business keeps up long there is bound
to be a shortage somewhere before
long in pig iron. 1t is to get the cream
of this business, when other pro-
ducers must come into the open mar
ket to buy their pig iron, that the
steel wizard, Charles NJ. Schwab, is
planning the speedy erection of new
blast furnaces. s
Weather is not keeping people from
going to look at the work of removing
| the old steel structure of the Cumber-
land Valley Railroad bridge. The steel
was evidently put up for all time, he
cause the men who are cutting the
rivetS say that 1t is some job, especially
with the wind swinging down the val
ley of the Susquehanna about thirty
miles an hour. The steel work is taken
as though 1t was being erected. The
work will be pushed so that by the
| time danger of freezing is over the
concrete workers can resume op-
erations on the upper half of the
| structure.
Some of the people of Harrisburg
and Steelton are inclined to be
skeptical about coal strikes and other
things in connection with the anthra-
cite region judging from the size of
the coal piles which they arc ac-
cumulating. One dealer said yester-
day afternoon that IL a certain GUS
toner, who runs an industrial plant
kept on buying he would have to rent
lots for the storage of coal. Up at
the Capitol Superintendent Rambo
has a lot of river coal stored in the
caverns under the State House and
some odd tons piled on lots in Capital
Park Extension zone, ready for an
emergency.
Col Fred Taylor Pusey, who is be-
ing considerably talked about in Ma
tional Guard circles in Philadelphia,
is a former legislator. He has been
on Governors staffs and is now on the
Guard staff. He may go into the
line.