Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-21
Ehrntng Chat

Many interesting and historic places
Will be touched by the proposed Will
liam Penn Highway in its course from
philadelphia to Pittsburgh. At COL
legeville is Ursinus College; at Potts
town the Hill School; at Reading the
route will cover Penn street; at Wom-
elsdorf Is the burial place of Conrad
,Weiser, the Indian diplomat; ut Myers
town the Albright College; at Annville
the Lebanon Valley College; Hershey,
the famous chocolate town.; thence to
Harrisburg through a region rich in
historic lore; to the Lewistown Mar
rows and Jacks Narrows in the Juni-
alta Valley. every foot of which will
suggest exciting Indian "reminiscences.
Huntingdon. the home of Governor
Brumbaugh and the Juniata College:
Hollidaysburg. the end of the Penn
sylvania canal and the beginning OF
the incline railway over the Allegheny
mountains; Altoona, the seat of the
convention of war governors and the
great Pennsylvania Railroad shops;
Ebensburg, the highest elevation of
the Allegheny mountains; Johnstown.
the flood city and great industrial COM
munity; Indiana. State normal school
seat. and SO on all the way to Pitts
burgh.
News of the death of Major General
w. M. Graham, United States Army,
retired which occurred at Annapolis
a few days ago. will be received
with regret by many here. General
Graham was commander of the Sec
ond Army Corps when 1t came to
camp Meade and was q frequent Wis
ltor to this city. He was organizer of
that corps and commanded it until the
end OF the war; He was 81 years of
age and four times breveted for gal
lantry, serving with conspicuous brav-
cry cry at gettysburg The late Captain
w. w. Galbreath was one of General
Grahams aids at Camp Meade.
Railroad men who have been keep
ing tabs on the amount of coal rushed
through this city on the Pennsylvania
and the Reading railways say that
nothing like it has ever been known
and that the tonnage handled, if it
could be worked out here would
amaze people. Almost every day more
coal goes through Harrisburg than the
average man realizes and the destina-
tions are as interesting as the size of
the shipments Many of the cars go
through here direct to the wharves in
New York, where the mineral is rushed
on waiting ships. Other cars are sent
to blast furnaces, to mills and factories
and coal yards. Some cars go to Balti-
more and some to Boston.
One of the jitney drivers about the
city makes everything serve him. He
appeared the other day with a sign
| distinctly homemade ornamenting the
front of his car. On the rear he had
hung an ordinary stable lantern. Boys
had stolen the sign and lamp that
originally decorated the car, he said.
Vitality of the chickweed that is
seen about the city is rather strongly
shown by the quantity of the plant to
| be seen on roads about the city. The
tiny weed, which in some cases is not
much larger than a pillbox, is to be
| found in the most unexpected places
and some bits have been found shoot
ing up between stones and right where
winters winds would sweep it. The
chickweed is the hardest of the hardy
and it tries to maintain the green of
| summer when everything else sue
cumbs to frost.
The spirit that caused Atze Zdveloff,
Steelton Bulgarian, to plunge into
the ice-choked river the other day to
rescue a sacred symbol during a re-
! ligious celebration evidently became
infectious in the little Bulgarian
colony. Some hours after Atze had
taken his icy bath a little group of
shouting, jostling foreigners emerged
from one of the West Side coffee
houses" and made their way to the
river. After some argument the crowd
turned upon one of their number and
showed him over the edge of the ice
into the river. Asked what the idea of
the Joke" was, one of the foreigners
replied:' ooh, just for fun"
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David 1Goldberg, interpreter for the
| Pennsylvania railroad is the owner
of a, solid. silver coffee urn, 113 years
old. It was made in, Moscow, Russia,
in 1903 and was handed down from
the ancestors of Mr.. :Goldberg's first
wife. Four daughters want this valu-
able relic. He cannot give it to all of
them, and will sell it. The money will
] be divided between the daughters.
/ Milton J. Brecht,, the Public Service
Commissioner, who has been ill with
grip, has been able to resume his
duties. He took cold while making an
| inspection trip.