Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-06
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The best test of the success of any
thing is always to be found in the ex-
pressions of opinion of people the day
after and very frequently you can get
a line on" the way an affair turns out
from the remarks made by folks from
other places or by neighbors. Almost
everything heard yesterday was high
ly complimentary of the Kipona. Trav-
cling men who happened to be in
Harrisburg on Monday and who saw
the afternoon program or witnessed
the night display on the broad Sus-
quehanna praised the success and
some made very favorable comparison
with similar events of greater age in
other places. 1t was all very fine to
hear what the visitors had to say, es-
peclally when Northumberland coun-
| " man wanted to know why the folks
up about Sunbury did not have some
thing like it on the fine stretch of water
that fronts the county seat, o place.
where, by the way, there used to be
great boat racing years ago. The com
mittee in charge must have felt it's
ears burn many times yesterday, but
| probably the best compliment of all
was from the mouth of a babe which
piped up to ask it's mother Wont
they have any more like that until
next year?"
South Harrisburg doesn't lack for
enthusiastic river sportsmen and rare
| indeed is the celebration that has to do
with the Susquehanna which doesn't
boast of q big representation of First
warders. And the first Kipona was no
exception. At a previous water car
nival the South Harrisburg Amuse-
ment Association numbering several
score of First ward folks, sailed up
the river in a great float THAT repre-
sented to the last detail a three-mast-
| cd ,.srr
ing the same association had a similar
turn out. Two long flats, used on the
| construction of the dam, carried the
association members. The equipment
was donated by City Commissioner w.
H. Lynch. Mounted in the forward
end of the craft was the big spider
like derrick which had been used to
lift the last slabs of concrete into
place: Tackled high up on the mast
was the First wards notice to grim
| ming observers what it does about the
things it starts. The notice read:
DAM FINISHERS!"
One of the many interesting and
unique sights that entertained La
| Dor Day vacationists who promenaded
| the river bank on the morning of the
Ktpona was water bicycle, rugged up
with homely skill, but just as effective
as motorboat, with proportionate
|
had taken the frame of a bicycle and
attached it to sort of miniature fiat,
with water paddles in the rear On
| either side of him little chairs were
| built and the owners two small chill
! dren comfortably sat while Daddy did
the work: The ingenious device must
nave made about four or five miles an
hour and attracted considerable atten-
ton as 1T moved slowly up and down
the river.
"One of the things which amused
me very much during Mondays cele-
bration was the fact that the girl who
did the stunts in the water wore what
looked like onepiece bathing suit"
SAID an uptown man. "I remarked that
such garb was rather against the reg
ulations of the city fathers, but per-
haps the rules were set aside for tho
time being. While l was commenting
upon the fact that the girl in the un-
usual garb was allowed 1 noticed. the
name on her canoe. 1t was why"
Girard, writing in the PHILADELPHIA,
Public Ledger, contributes the follow
ing to the interesting material writ
ten about the late Samuel w. Penny
packer
Everybody around town yesterday
was telling stories about Samuel w.
Pennypacker or listening to them.
Ex-Governor Stuart told me how he
had first met the other ex-governor.
When the former was lad of twelve
some one inquired in the bookstore
where he could find a notary public.
I told him." said Ex-Governor
Stuart, that around the corner was q
young lawyer named Pennypacker,
and took him there"
few years ago the Judge recalled
the incident at q public dinner where
the two met and he said he would take
that occasion to thank publicly his
successor at Harrisburg for bringing
him fee.
John Gribbel, president of the Union
League, told me one day that when the
Pennypacker library was sold 1t was
found that one volume was a copy of
the Constitution of the United States
which had belonged to Jefferson Davis.
On the fly leaf the Governor had writ
ten: Much good it did him"
1t is seldom that the funeral of a
public official brings out so many ex-
pressions as were heard yesterday up
on the late Samuel w. Pennypacker.
Too often men in public life pass away
without much more than perfunctory
notice and little of the comment in
private conversation which shows how
a man is held. Yet on Capitol Hill
yesterday there were many things said
about the former governor and in this
city appreciation was voiced by many
Harrisburgers.
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