Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-08
Ehrntng Chat

Boy Scouts in Harrisburg and sur
rounding towns are putting in a few
very busy days this week The fiftieth
ehcampment of the Pennsylvania De-
partment of the q. A. r., the thirty
hrst convention of the Ladies of the
u. A. r. and the twenty seventh
gathering of the Women's Relief
Corps of the Department of Pennsyl-
Nanta Auxiliary of the G. A. r. being
held here, the Scouts volunteered to
guide the visitors about the city and
nuke themselves useful generally.
They met delegates at the railroad
stations and piloted them about, in
addltlon to carrying grips suit cases
ana travelling bags for the visitors.
Inc appearance of the youngsters
alongside of the gray-haired veterans
recalls the reunion of the Blue and
Gray at Gettysburg in 1913 when the
Scouts worked so faithfully in the in
terests of the veterans from the North
and South.
The hundreds of Civil War veterans
from all parts of Pennsylvania who
are here attending the fiftieth annual
encampment appear to be enjoying
themselves every minute of their
spare time. They are taking trips
through the parks and many of them
are visiting the towns surrounding
Harrisburg. Each day this week scores
or the warriors of fifty years ago
could be seen in Capitol Park. 1t did
not take them long to learn that the
SQUIRRELS there are tame and now the
little FUR animals are getting so many
peanuts that they appear to be al
ready getting their stores ready for
next winter. The veterans are taxi
ing great interest in them and 1t is
certain that the squirrels will not be
hungry as long as the veterans are
here. The visitors are strolling
through the big building too and not
few of them are asking permission
to sit In the Governors chair.
Not all sermons are preached from
pulpits, take it from the stroller on
the Market street bridge the other
| day.
Halfway over Ito the Cumberland
shore he noticed a bit of paper wedg-
cd between the plates on top of the
girder railing. 1t was so fastened as
to be readily extracted, safe from va
grant winds, and easily noticeable to.
| the passerby. And the stroller, like
those who had passed before, picked
up the bit of penned note paper, read
the message, smiled thoughtfully-
and tucked 1t back into place. And
this is what he read:
God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten Son
| that whosoever (that means you)
believeth in Him shall not perish
but have everlasting Life.
| You are of the world. who
soever' means you.
|
While many Harrisburg residences.
| business places, hotels, ETC., are gay
these days with bunting and flags of
| A Af1nn nj IN rNf kl,A
citys veteran guests of the Grand
Army, some of the mercantile and
other establishments have gone in for
decoration in other ways. At least
one hotel, the Commonwealth, has ar
ranged for adornment in a way that
def1es wind and rain and darkness.
This hotel by the way is one of the
Market street stopping places for
many of the higher officers of the
State encampment organization.
Around the portico a string of red.
white and blue electric lights have
a blaze of twinkling red, white and
blue electric flashes, "Old Glory
waves through the night.
How would you like to travel 8.
114.4 miles every year-just a part of
your daily work? Quite some trip you
say?
Yes, you could come from Hong
Kong to Honolulu and then on to San
Francisco, with a little side trip from
the Pacific coast town down to sunny
Panam-, and you would cover but a
few more miles.
Yet Benny" Brady, chief figure of
this yarn, doesn't move a foot-if his
corns don't bother him-to accom-
plish this fact. And Benny" yearly
tells some thousands of passengers
the last innings score, who's ahead in
the las hour of the war, just how
| Kitchener went down. and - oh, "a
thousand-and-one other interesting
bits of information as he runs his car
up and down.
Benny is the elevator man in the
Telegraph building.
The Morrell Apartments, in the
Franklin building, have worked out a
clever scheme to prevent the theft of
a refuse can. In big black letters the
management has had painted the
words: Stolen From the Morrell
Apartm tents" 1t would take a good
bit of nerve to use that garbage can
in your back yard, whatdaye think?