Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-05
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Much has been said in railroad
circles about veteran employees. The
other day during a conversation
among railroad men someone asked:
VINO is the youngest veteran you
known The question has not been
answered satisfactorily. Many of the
railroad men who started with the
pennsylvania Railroad and the Phila-
delphia and Reading Railway in Har-
flsburg, and are still in service, are
not old men. n'the car inspecting de-
partment men are employed who have
seen long service, but they are as
young as the newcomers, Judging
from the work they perform. One
railroad man took another view of
the question. He called attention TO
the young men, who have between 80
and 30 years TO go before becoming
pensioners, but who have been in the
service 20 years. Joseph McCIntock.
night assistant trainmaster for the
Middle Division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad at DE started work when a
schoolboy. For ) years he has been
holding important positions, and ac-
cording to his age has many years
ahead of him before he joins the
honor roll. There are many others
in his class.
The biggest line of tulips in Cen
trail Pennsylvania, if not in the whole
state, is in bloom in front of the State
Capitol and the different varieties are
making a showing which has attracted
the admiration of many visitors and
townspeople. The two beds aggregate
almost 80 feet and there are several
! varieties, the most striking being the
red and yellow There are also some
pink and white and red tulips which
are well worth going to the Hill to see.
The display this year is finer than
ever.
Veterans of strike service in the Ma
tional Guard are keeping close tabs
upon the service which the Guards
men are performing this year and are
watching the developments in the
Allegheny valleys. Some of the vet
Grams have gone through every strike
in which the Guard has had a part
since 1890 and they are telling some
interesting experiences about the way
i things were handled in Homestead
and the anthracite regions. This is
the first time in a long while that
the Guardsmen have been taken out
on strike service at this period of the
year. The strikes have generally been
in hot summer time or about that por-
tion of the year when the early frosts
come nipping around before daylight.
Ed. S. Black, the well-known artist.
was a very sleepy man on Wednesday
of this week, and. in the language of
a well-known national advertiser
there was a reason. Mr.. Black is one
of the most popular members of the
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the meeting Tuesday night and de-
clined an invitation to remain with
friends in this city, saying that he
preferred his own bed in his hand
some summer home along the noun
tains near Perdix. He boarded a late
! Pennsylvania Railroad train. dozed
and got awake with the train passing
an iron works and hearing the con-
ductor call Duncannon-siX miles be-
yond PerdiX Hastily leaving the car
he tried to find lodging in hotel but
| everybody was asleep and declined
absolutely to get awake. Shivering
and fatigued he finally pried up
window. crawled in, at the risk of
being taken for burglar, and went to
sleep on one of those old fashioned
leather-backed couches that are as
slippery as eels and as cold as ice
bergs Even nearby table cover did
not add sufficiently to his comfort so
ne tileu ii IOChiilE NIdlI lOE a liIlt.
At dawn he worked the chill and stiff
ness out of his bones by a constitu-
tional about town and took the
earliest train back to Harrisburg. p.
S.-He slept all Wednesday afternoon.
The advance of the rate for
pudding iron to the S5.25 per ton
mark in the Juniata and Lebanon Val
leys which has Just been announced
is the highest that the rate has been in
many months. There were times in
this community when the prosperity
of the neighborhood was gagged by
the rate paid to the puddlers and the
rollers The puddlers were numerous
and were pretty free spenders and
when they made good prices per ton
the town knew it, Harrisburg does
not have any puddle mills now. II
used to have three big ones and the
Chesapeake nail works was the last
to go.
Robert V. Massey, who has just
been appointed superintendent of the
New York division of the Pennsylva-
mia railroad, is we'll known to many
residents of this city. He was sta
toned at Miffin as supervisor about
fifteen years ago and was frequent
visitor to Harrisburg.
George b. Lewis, of Canton, who
was appointed a member of the State
Forestry commission yesterday is one
of the big lumbermen OF Bradford
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