Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-08
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manager OF the Steelton plant of the
Pennsylvania Steel Company, is not
only former resident OF Steelton,
but is well known to many residents
or this city. "Quin'' Bent as he was
known in boyhood days, is the young
est son of the late Major Bent and re-
sided for time in the residence at
Steelton now occupied by ]. V. wv
Reynders. He attended the Harris
burg Academy where he was the
pitcher on the baseball nine and sue
ceeded to the laurels of "Dick"
Haldeman as the school twirler. He
also played football in Front street
which was the Academy campus, and
his initiation consisted in being tossed
down the riverbank into a large and
ornate snow pile by several young
men who are well known in the affairs
OIL Harrisburg to-day. Mr.. Bent at
tended Williams college and was con-
nected with several iron and steel con-
Germs as his father, who was one of
the best industrial executives in the
State, wanted him to get an insight
into the way things were done. He
was also in the steel company service
at Steelton for a time and was made
assistant to the president of the Spar
rows Point plant of the Maryland
Steel company after serving in that
big works. The Maryland president
| is f. w. Wood, who was formerly in
charge of the steelton works. Mr..
Bent VIII be warmly welcomed back
TO this community and there are many
in the big works who will recall his
early days in the steel borough.
Refusal Monday by the Dauphin
county courts of the application filed
| ny Samuel Fishman for a license at
the Hotel Lennox, recalled to most
| members of the bar the precedent that
was set way back in the days when
Judge John II. Weiss sat on Dauphin's
| Bench and which has been consistent
| by the judges that followed. And
that precedent was to refuse all new
application; to add no more privileges
| to sell rum to the list that have al
ready been licensed.
The conference of women interested
| in suffrage being held here this week
recalls the fact that one of the first
gatherings for that cause was held
here more than thirty years ago. 1t
was attended by less than fifty women,
but they made considerable stir in the
world as it was the time when suff-
rage was commencing to attract at
tention. The methods they used were
largely to write letters to newspapers
and to make speeches when they had
a chance. They had none of the
splendid organization the suffragists
have to-day and it was breaking into
a store to get anything in newspaper
and required almost a fire alarm to
get men out to attend a meeting. Now
the suffragists' gatherings attract
State wide attention and are decided
Ily business like affairs.
Uncle Henry Houck continued to re-
ceive letters of conGratulation yester-
day on his eightieth birthday and some
flowers were also received from ad-
mirers who had been unable TO have
their remembrances get to his Office
before hand The veteran secretary
will be kept busy for days answering
letters telling him of good wishes.
The schedule for furnishing sup
plies for the State Government this
year will contain more standardized
articles and also provision for the
squirrels in the Capitol Park. The
State paper is now largely water
, marked, being furnished for the use
: of the government by makers and 1t
!. is the idea to get stationery into the
! same class. The State now has its
soaps and various other things ac-
cording to standards.
It does seem that in spite of the
: weather Harrisburg can show more
cripples and others engaged in mendi-
! cancy than are to be seen in most
: cities. Panhandling appears to be
more or less general and there are
some who can be spotted on sight as
/. plain cheats and frauds. However,
the fact remains that on Saturday aft
: ernoon eight seekers after charity
were to be seen within three and a
; half blocks in Market street, blind
deformed and lame. One terribly de-
formed man sat in the lee of a small
l doorway, scantily clad and so appar-
! emily distressed by the cold that most
people gave him money without buy
! ing lead pencils. The fact that the
man stood the winds and cold all
: afternoon long without being hauled
: away in an ambulance rather leads
one to believe that he was used to the
weather and perhaps not as worthy
: of aims as the three or four blind men
who are regulars at certain we'll de-
! ! fined places in the business section.
!. Col. Asher Minor, of Wilkes-Barre
, who was yesterday named to com
I mand the Ninth regiment of the Ma
g tional Guard, is we'll known to many
? Harrisburgers as he served in the
Legislature and comes of a family
e long identified with the advancement
of LuZerne county. He was formerly
I colonel of the Ninth and has had wide
: experience in the Guard.