Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-18
Ehrntng Chat

An average of 1000 stamps are be-
ing taken daily from envelopes re-
ceived at the State Capitol and 1t is
estimated that approximately 10000
pieces OF mail are received at the
oi1ices OF the State government every
month. Under the economy system
at the Capitol waste paper from all
departments is sent to the basement
of the Capitol and there put into bales
ana sold the Commonwealth realizingA
quite tidy penny from that source
every year. About six months ago
several men connected with the Can't
tol became interested in one of the
various plans for. getting a million
stamps for war prisoners or for the
numerous purposes for which people
want cancelled stamps and got permis
sion to take off the stamps after hours
| They get denominations of every kind
issued by the United States and MANY
from foreign countries. although the
supply of the latter from across the
Atlantic has diminished considerably
of late.
Cold weather does not seem to in
terfere great deal with the visitors
to the State Capitol these days and the
list has been showing almost as many
as in the Spring and summer months.
| In the last few days people from
twenty-five different States have regis
tered at the office of the guides and
there have also been visitors from
| England, Australia, Canada and Mex
leo. with one u few days ago from
China. Occasionally someone regis
ters from Germany, but Russians are
more numerous than Germans now.
People who want to take exani-
nations for State licenses to practice
various branches of science outside of
| medicine and surgery are required to
! be able to read and write English, ac-
cordlng to some rulings made at the
! Capitol. 1t turned out the other day
mat some men from another country
wanted to secure State licenses. They
! could talk and write-in their own
language-but We're shy on English.
1t was held that the State could not
take examinations from them in their
own tongue and that English was
needed anyway if they were to make
out Ineligible State reports.
A. NJ. Christley, of Butler, who was
mere yesterday on business at the Capt.
tol, is editor of the Butler Citizen and
is taxing quite part in the politics of
that always lively county. He is a rela-
tive of l.. e, Cristley, one of the COM
pensation referees for Western Penn
sylvania.
Here is the way an enterprising up
town businessman announced that he
had gone to the place where all STYLES
are made:
Louis left for New York to attend the
tsyl exhibit
Will. be. back. Feb. 81
Owing to the fact that Washington's
| Birthday comes on n Tuesday, it is
likely that Monday will be observed in
some of the departmental offices on
Capitol Hill as the second February
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many people go away for the week.
end and they have arranged to stay
until Monday night instead of coming
here Sunday night, working Monday
and then having holiday on Tues
day.
Members of the Engineers Society
who have been enjoying an unusual
list OF lectures this winter, will have
a notable one tonight when Howard
Rhode, of the Lehigh Portland Ce-
ment Company, will tell of the manu-
facture of cement This lecture will
be of unusual interest because of the
advance in the business.
Among visitors to the city to-day
was William c. Fownes, of Pittsburgh,
long identified with the iron and steel
industry of that city and one of the
widely-known golfers of the State.
Mr.. Fownes, who is visiting Walter II.
Gather, is member of the Country
Club of Harrisburg and much inter-
ested in the project for the new club.
Senator ]. Frank Graft, of Kittan-
ming, who was here yesterday is a,
prominent manufacturer, who likes to
do some farming on the side. He owns
several fine farms in his part of the
State.