Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-03
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Fifteen different varieties of musical
eiIort, TO say nothing of the sounds of
automobile horns and trolley car
oells, were heard in Market street
on saturday night within five blocks,
an increase of possibly four over the
entertainment provided in the early
days of last Spring. In the midst of
II the raucous notes of some automo-
piIe horns seemed like fog warnings
along a coast. There were several
persons endeavoring to attract atten-
tlon and aims by means of mouth or
gans One gentleman paraded up and
down blowing a cornet when the
crowd permitted and one was forced
to wonder what it would have been
like had he come out with a from
bone, for be it remembered there
We're more people in the streets Sat
urday night than for long time, the
combination of mild weather and
Spring styles being responsible. Then
there was woman who sat and
ground out hymn tunes from q small
organ and who reaped a fair harvest.
One man chanted a request for people
TO buy chewing gum In a not unmusf-
cal voice, but which persistently re-
peated caused speculation whether he
Kept his throat moist with his own
wares. A guitar player was also
abroad in the streets and there was
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tunes, but who was prevented from
proper enunciation by loss of teeth
although that fault was not much not
ed by the jostling throngs. And lastly
there was street organ. All these
were going with an occasional blast
from the electrically driven, fncom-
parable pipe organs which entertain
the visitors to the moving picture
shows. These came when the doors
| would open. At one place you could
catch some splendid bars from grand
opera swelling out over the crowd,
while few blocks further on the
tuneful chorus from Tipperary would
be sounding out, making your blood
go bit faster and your mind to won
der whether the audiences, which in
this community must contain some pro-
| Teutons, regarded the air as part of
the program or a breach of neutrality.
And then there were the earnest folks
who preach from the Courthouse steps
to constantly changing audience ar
whose songs can be heard above the
din for block Verify, Market street
on Saturday night does produce a va
riety of sound.
People who were out along the
river road Saturday and yesterday had
a good bit of fun watching automo-
biles plough through sections of the
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ter. Up near Fort Hunter there was
two feet of water and as motorcyclists
gave up attempting to go through they
stood about watching the others.
Every now and then a car would
stick, when there was a chorus Of
advice to get rope or to hitch up
the oxen. But when the car moved
off the "kidders" would cheer for the
plucky motorist.
The Country Club of Harrisburg will
have an unusually interesting annual
meeting tomorrow evening at the
Board of Trade because the members
will vote on the proposed change of
the site to the property near Fort
Hunter, where handsome clubhouse
is planned. The club will have another
meeting on May 20 to vote on the
proposed bond issue for the purchase
of the new property the construction
of the new house and the laying out
of the grounds. This summer the
Lucknow site will be used, the bowl
ing alley building having been chang
; ed to afford lockers and Il gathering
place. This was the only part saved
from the fire. The golf links will be
formally opened late this month and
numerous golf and tennis events are
planned for the old grounds.
Inc cOmDlnatlon or nlRh water and
a mild Sunday yesterday caused many
, of those who went to the riverside tc
, watch the Susquehanna to recall the
: first Sunday of June in 1889, when
the river reached the highest point
) known since Harrisburg developed
and gave ideas of the terrific force of
the water. Harrisburg went to bed
| the night before with the river about
26 feet and it raised foot or more
in the night attaining its maximum
on Sunday, the surface of the water
) covered with trees, parts of wrecked
) buildings, whole sections of lumber
yards and booffilogs. That Sunday
: will never be forgotten by those who
lived here and the cannonading of the
? logs against the Cumberland Valley
: bridge and the crash of debris against
the bridge piers have never had any
, thing about here to equal them.
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Ex-Governor Pennypacker' who
z went from the seashore to his home
on Saturday, is anxious to get back
to work He will be unable to leave
his country home for Soma fip1a