Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-28
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tne ousquendnna ana ltS tributaries
will behave themselves the next
month or so there will be an unusual
number of persons going to the islands
and the meadows along the wide
branching river and those of the
Juniata, Sw tara, Mahantongo,
Conodoguinet and other streams
which go to make up the river. In
years gone by camping was the great
outdoor diversion and a good many
who now swear by the seashore used
to be taken by their parents when
young to favorite camping spots
within twenty miles of Harrisburg and
had the time of their lives, fun, which
II they would admit it, they have
never duplicated. August is the favor
ite time for camping in this part of
the country and many or the men
who are employed on the railroads
and in the mills and factories are try
ing to work out plans whereby they
may take a week or so for camp life
and endeavor to thin out the fish. The
cool nights of August will soon be here
and II old-time camp tricks of keeping
off mosquitoes and snakes have not
been forgotten 1t will be an easy mat
ter to overlook the song of the bull
frogs and the chirps of the tree toads.
To be up with the sun and catch fish
for breakfast and take five sSwims a
day and walk a mile for the milk
from farmhouse, these are things
which your old-time camper likes to
tell about. Malaria does not bother
the real camper and if the fire about
which stories are told at night does
draw mosquitoes there is such thing
as an old-fashioned net to escape an
noyance. The old-time way of camp
ing out is something which if eX-
perienced is not forgotten.
Some of the trike-breakers seem
to be thoroughly enjoying their work
on the cars of the Harrisburg Rail-
ways Company. 1t is not uncommon
to some of the gay boys sitting down
to chat with girl passengers or to join
| in the conversations of men who have
opinions on the strike. Tney do it all
as matter of course and when one
is accustomed to the old-time discipline
of the company it is rather a shock.
The best story is told about the men
on an uptown line who stopped their
car while they went to a drugstore
and bought ice cream cones.
Some idea of the extent or Pennsyl-
vania building and loan associations
and the vast amount of their assets is
shown by the report made at the an
nual convention of the associations of
the country at st. Louis" said a man
much interested in such organizations
to-day. This State showed 1880 as
sociations with 900 members and
assets worth $277, 900. 1t was al
most third of the whole list in the
country"
The Harrisburg Public Library has
placed about a dozen books on Span
ish and some of the weli-known works
In that language into circulation in
response to the numerous requests
which have been made for such books
by residents of this city. In the last
year scores of people have taken up
the study of Spanish in this city, m
cluding number of businessmen.
A former mayor who had his
troubles during a strike was the late
John D. Patterson. He was in office
during the riots of 1877, and never
left his office unless it was to go to-
deputies and special policemen. At
that time the police station was in the
rear of the old Lochiel Hotel. Mayor
Patterson would not permit his officers
to go home. They slept ana ate at
the Lochiel hotel when sleep and eat
ing was possible. Sometimes it was
a whole day before there was a chance
to eat. The city was patrolled from
the old Lochiel furnace in South Har-
risburg to Maclay street. Officers were
lined along the Pennsylvania Railroad
tracks between Market street ana
Maclay street.
Horace w. Davis, deputy attorney
general, who has been busy at the
State Capitol this week preparing de-
cisions in cases. is home from a trip
of some 1000 miles travelled in settle
ment of affairs of the Pittsburgh Bank
for Savings, in which he is acting for
the State rs receiver. He had to travel
to Idaho and California and sell prop
critics and stop in middle States to dig
up people who had. claims. He cover
ed much territory and met many peo-
pie, he says, but he would like to go
over the same trip again some time to
see the country.
Oddly enough the truck loads of
people who take trips into the coun-
try these warm evenings as part of the
riding game during the trolley strike
recall the days when the trolley par
ties were in vogue. About twenty
years ago neighborhoods, church So
cieties, lodges and other organizations
used to band together and get open
cars, which the old Harrisburg Trac-
ton company and some of its predeces-
sors used to string with lights which
drew millions of bugs and lighted up
the countryside. These trips were
great occasions because people turned
out all along the lines and there was
always ice cream at some point along
/ the trip. Now people hire big trucks
and go out into the country for a cool
ing off. Their singing in the night
reminds one of the way the old trolley
parties used to stir up things late at
night.
Certainly no complaint can be made
about the way some of the strike
breakers handle the whistles on their
cars They start in at terminals and
keep footing for blocks. Out on the
suburban lines they blow so much that
one suspects that they are barking for
business or advertising the fact that
cars are running. In the city they
seem to prefer the whistles to the
gongs and If anyone does not know
they are coming he must be deaf.
Visitors to the city yesterday in
cluded Dennis ]. Driscoll borough
solicitor of St. Marys, prominent in
municipal and school affairs In Gen.
trail Pennsylvania and former Demo-
cratic State chairman. He was here
to discuss the borough traffic ordinance
with the committee of the League of
Boroughs.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE