Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
Ehrnt1a Gllat

James Milhouse is q member of the
law firm of Olmsted and Stamm but
that doesn't cover his activities by any
manner of means. Until recently his
chief diversions were being burgess
of Camp Hill and playing golf at Res
ervoir Park. Recently in what he
confidentially informed a friend was
a moment of madness he bought an
automobile. Anybody who knows the
burgess will realize that most of his
leisure since has been occupied by TAX
ing his friends out for rides. The bur-
CESS is not one of those who
imagines a car is overloaded if there,
are more than two aboard. The other1
evening he drove out into the Sub
urbs" of Camp Hill and picked up a
friends and his wife. After putting
the new car through it's PAGES and
coming as near to breaking the speed
limits as official dignity would permit,
the party headed for home. Sudden
ly the little bus, which up to that time
had been behaving like a small boy
who has been promised a piece of
cake for being good, began to bump a
called Jim's attention to the trife
Let 'er bump" said Jim, and bump
she did until the party reached friends
house. There it was discovered that
tire was fiat. Easy" said the bur-
CESS, Just slip one off and put an
other on; zip, just like that, and the
things done. The dealer showed me
how" That was at 10 o'clock. At
1.10 a. m. the Burgess was still Zip
ping" and the new tire wasn't in
place. Then he wakened the party
that had gone to sleep on the porch,
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gave the punctured tire his blessing
and started to walk a mile and a half
home.
At the annual picnic of the Derry
Street United Brethren Sunday school
the other day an event was arranged
which drew even better than the an
nual interclass baseball game It
was a claybird shoot, and, of course,
some of the ladies wanted to try
their hand at pulling one of the flyers
out of the air. One fellow who had
been shooting fairly well and felt pref
ty chesty about it, finally consented to
let his wife shoot a round. She neatly
broke five out of five and after that
her sharpshooting spouse took a back
seat and the "Missus' did the shoot
ing.
Sunday school picnics at Hershey
Park are beginning to be daily events
and many of them come from Harris
burg. Steelton, Middletown and others
of the adjacent towns. The park
seems to have a wide appeal, because
| there are so many varied forms of rec
reation possible for young and old
swimming for the boys and girls, high
diving for the experts, shooting-the-
chutes for the women folk who ''just
couldn't be persuaded to come down
until they've tried it and then can't be
persuaded to do anything else, boat
| ing, baseball the zoo, and trips
through the place where the famous
Hershey chocolates are made. Many
to Hershey an annual event instead of
going to different parks each year.
Harrisburg's fire loss in 1915 for the
first six months is probably the lowest
in recent years according to figures
which Fire Chief John c. Kinder is
compiling. Compared with 1915, the
city has sustained little property loss
this year, and SO far no big fires have
resulted similar to the ones in the
first few months of last year. For
the first six months of 1915 the loss,
according to approximate estimates
was close to 100000, while this year
so far it has not been one quarter of
that amount.
The Susquehanna has very gracious
ly decided to fall to a safe level again
and swimming in the river is superb
since the sun consented to shine sever
al days ago. Hundreds of boys and
girls can be found at Independence Is
land most every afternoon. If you are
keen-eyed, nearly any hour of the day
you will catch the CLINT of bare arms
and backs on the northern end of City
Island where there's a good diving
hole off a rock. And If every now
and then you see canoe apparently
floating down the channel without an
occupant just squint a little harder
and perhaps you will see head float
ing in the sun few feet ahead of the
boat. It's favorite pastime of ca
noeists to tie rope to their boat,
shoulder the rope and float from
Hardscrabble down to the Market
street bridge.
When Harry Lauder. the noted
Scotch comedian, was in Harrisburg
last winter he was the guest of the
Harrisburg Rotary Club. A repre-
sentative of the Telegraph called upon
him for an interview and Lauder was
so we'll pleased with his reception that
he sat down and wrote a song which
he called I'm the ROTARY" He
gave the song to the reporter and it
was published that evening in the Tele-
graph. Lauder IN the interval COM
posed tune to his song and sang it
for the first time at the Rotary Club
meeting in the Senate Hotel, promis-
ing to send back the music as soon as
he had put it on paper. This he did,
and the club has been singing it at it's
luncheons ever since. The verses were
copied from the Telegraph by The Ro-
tartan magazine, with credit, and at
tracted attention all over the country.
Now comes the announcement that
talking machine company has taken
up the song and listed it among It's
selections for July.
Another bit of Telegraph verse is
also going the rounds. 1t is the poem
written for this newspaper by Mrs.
Anna H. Wood last Saturday on the
occasion of the going away OF Com
panies D and I of the Eighth Regi-
ment and the Governors Troop. It
was not only clever, but it touched
the popular chord and recorded the
sentiment of the hour to such degree
that 1t has been pasted in hundreds of
scrapbooks and some of the soldiers at
Mount Gretna have it in their pocket
books. President Howard C. Fry, of
the Rotary Club, thought so well of 1t
that he read 1t to the Rotary Club at
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