Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-18
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Plain labor is $s per day now"
saio one of the citys best known
businessmen, man who has to deal
with large enterprises and who has to
know the prices and the laws of sup
ply and demand. "It Is the highest
naNe ever known and q man Is getting
20 Ior pushing wheelbarrow. / do
not know how long 1t will last and q
tot L know are not worth 1t. / think
.haI when 1t gets out that SO has been
pala mere there will be n rush of labor
ana we viii be able to get what we
want for So or $3.50. 1 have known
the TIME when l could get men fors
dollar and | know when puddleN
were paid only little less than what
| unskilled labor is asking now. 1t is
one of the results of the war and
nke all other high prices, is going to
.ake an awful slump before long.
nave Deen In touch with labor condi-
uons long time and If materials keep
bm,iS,g bm gong up l think that good many
building propositions and other i'm
provements will be deferred until
times are not so good. It's rather an
Qua way TO put 1t, but it is the truth"
Charles Lobdell. member of the
tederal Farm Loan Board, who was
mere yesterday, and Horace A. Keefer,
OF Linglestown, had a meeting yester-
DAY Tor the first time in years. They
SAT close together when they were
members of the Kansas Legislature
and oddly enough, farm loans was one
OF the subjects they debated in the
Topeka capitol In those days.
Touring through Pennsylvania re-
Veals many pleasantly agreeable things
about our State that can be appre-
clated only by an extended automobile
trip among the more attractive sec
tions of beautiful scenery. The roads
Tor the most part are excellent, al
though the toll charges in some locali-
ties are blot upon the 'scutcheon of
tnose communities and neighborhoods;
the stretch of State highway between
Lewistown and Miffiin, in particular,
is startlingly good, almost like glass,
| and credit to the State. 1t is said
that this road Is so smooth and easy
OF travel that skating parties
frequently make the trip from one
town to the other, a distance of 20
miles, and cover the distance In a
comparatively short time.
The tall form of Victor Piolett.
| former legislator from Bradford and
c"e OF the most influential farmers of
the State, was seen at the Farm Board
| hearing yesterday. He was an inter-
ested listener, but declined to make a
speech although there have been oc-
could and did make them.
Secretary to the Governor Ball "put
1t over" on Pittsburgh man the other
day. The Governor went to Pitts
| burgh to make a speech and there was
that man came around and getting
Mr.. Ball some yards away from every
person. whispered:
Has the Governor an advance
copy of his speech?"
Mr.. Ball looked at the man who
was trying to hand one' to some col
leagues and responded with the ut
most gravity and the same whispered
tone:
"sh-h-h, the Governor does not
know he is to make a speech"
More college presidents have been
here The last few days than for long
time. The other afternoon President
Hibben of Princeton and half a dozen
other figures in the educational world
\ were at the station for time. Some
were on their way to the Warfield in
stallation at Wilson.
|
Harrisburg got in bad officially the
other afternoon. A day or so ago refI
| erence was made in this column to
the tags calling attention to the fact
that q car is on the wrong side of the
street or placed in violation of the
traffic regulations which are being
placed about town when occasion re-
quires. The automobile of the bureau
of highways was one of the first to
be tagged 1t was on the wrong
side.
good story is being told about
the tom cat living in the eastern part
OF the city which got some of the
food and stimulant prepared for o
typhoid patient. The cat does not
know yet what hit it, but it knows
that it had a corking time with Moth
ing to worry about. Whether it had
a headache or not deponents do not
state. In any event the cat was ac-
cidently given milk punch prepared
for typhoid patient. After look
of delighted surprise this staid old
cat began chasing its tail and in the
errations banged up against chair and
table legs and turning two or three
somersaults in kittenish fashion.
Finally it started to climb up a.
trellis figure on the wall paper and
was ANONYMOUSLY thrown into the
backyard where II was found sleeninp-