Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-14
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Cyrus E. Woods, who is a personal
friend of Charles e. Hughes, the Re-
publican nominee for the Presi-
dency, probably met the former JUS
tco under circumstances which fall to
the lot of about one person in a mil
hon. He met the justice some six
or seven thousand feet in the air. 1t
happened that some years ago Mr..
and Mrs. Woods, who were very fond
OF mountain climbing and who visited
the Alps frequently undertook to
scale the famous Monte Rosa, which
py the way, is some task because of
the altitude, cold and natural Difficult
ties One day when they had gone up
a considerable distance a severe
storm broke and they were forced to
seek shelter in one of the huts which
are erected at various points on the
mountains for mountain climbers. In
a snort time there came out of the
storm tall American who was de-
cidedly cold and anxious to get
warmed up. The party remained in
the hut for almost a day because of
the storm and when over descended the
mountain together. When they ar
rived at their hotel they found Mr..
hughes also stopping at the same
place and the following day he was
one of a coaching party which Mr..
woods gave through some of the
famous valleys of Switzerland. The
friendship formed then has continued
and Mr.. Woods has renewed it upon
several occasions in this country and
In Europe where he lived several
years as minister to Portugal.
II is an interesting fact that the s2,-
OOO,OOO which the State has received
from licenses for automobiles this
year can not be touched by the
State Highway Department until the
legislature gives permission. The same
nf 10 Ill
which was taken in last year after
the Legislature had adjourned. The
money goes into the State Treasury
ard If not otherwise appropriated will
be devoted to maintenance of high
ways by the next Legislature but the
fact remains that the general assembly
must pass a bill specifically ap-
prcpriating the money or the High
way Department can not get the use
OF a single red penny. 1t is one of the
singular situations which arise every
now and then and make people won
der why laws are enacted the way
they are sometimes put through.
AS an echo of the Chicago conven-
tion 1t may be stated that there were
seven In the Colorado delegation who
came from Pennsylvania. One of
them was Spencer Penrose, brother of
the senior Senator and one of the big
men of Colorado Springs. Two of the
others came from Indiana county and
third was reared in that county. An
other was native of Washington
county and graduate of Washington
and Jefferson College.
Another interesting thing about the
delegates was that Albert Baldridge,
the Nebraskan who named Ex-Sena-
tor Jesse Burkett for vice-presidential
honors, is a. brother of Judge Thomas
Pol I6V-td loo nf oil
fcrceful talker and although he had
the wrong end of it as far as results
in the convention went, he made many
delegates sit up. and think.
1t might also be said in this con-
nection that Charles w. Fairbanks,
Nice-Presidential nominee and former
Vice-President won his spurs as a
lnewspaperman in Pennsylvania. He
broke into the newspaper game when
pretty young and developed such a
keen sense of news that the Associated
Press annexed him and after some
stations in Ohio and Indiana he was
located at Pittsburgh where news
paper work is strenuous as business
life. He was in charge of the AS
sociated Press work In Pittsburgh for
time and was then transferred to
Indianapolis. This is one of the rea-
sons why Mr.. Fairbanks is always
careful and considerate in his treat
ment of cub reporters when they are
sent to ask him questions which only
editors can understand or evolve. An
other newspaper figure in the Chicago
convention was the chairman, Senator
Warren G.. Harding. He still edits his
paper at Marion, Ohio, and says he
can write as good story on a flood
or cover a fire as we'll as any one on
his staff The Senator is one of the
most genial and affable of men in pub
lie life at Washington and a favorite
with the correspondents. His career
will be worth watching in the next ten
years.
Incorporation of a railroad for Full
ton county yesterday at the Capitol
will soon end the reputation of that
county for having no rails of any
lIino, steam or electric. For years
lively politics, has been noted in this
ing the same means of transportation
as were enjoyed by our forefathers
1 so years ago in this part of the State.
But the new railroad is soon to be
built and will go through a country
which was famous in colonial times,
but which never attracted the locomo-
tive or the electric car, although much
visited by automobiles.
Among visitors to the city yester-
day was George Franklin Brumm, of
Pottsville, a prominent young Schuyl-
kill attorney. Mr.. Brumm is son
of Judge Charles n. Brumm.