Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-06
Ehrntng Gl1at

Spencer {. Gilbert in his delight
ful talk to the members of the Penn
sylvania State Society at the Harris-
burg Club yesterday told the assem-
bled heads of departments of the State
government of some days and Incl
dents on Capitol Hill which furnished
considerable material for talk to-day
In the course of his description of the
old State House Mr.. Gilbert told of
the four clocks which told the hour
by day and flashed forth the time at
night over the city These clocks. as
is well recalled by many Harrisburg
ers. had their weaknesses. They lack-
er team work. They were never, well
hardly ever. known to give the same
time. The application of this story
struck home in these days when
State offices are run on rather strict
lines and people have to be on time
or tell the reason why. In the old
days men who found 1t difficult to he
on time used to observe the faces of
the clock. If the south side showed a
few minutes after 3 or l or 2, for in
stance, they would go to the old re-
liable friend of the tardy, the clock
on the east side, which was generally
several minutes late and would appear
giving the east clock as their standby.
The west clock was generally a swift
proposition and not much in favor eX-
cept for quitting time. The old north
had the best reputation and the rou-
tine fellows swore by 1T.
DR.. ]. ]. Mullowney's Peace CAL
endar' for 1916 is going into, the
schools of the State and will be utilized
as an argument for peace. This call
endar contains a quotation against
war or in favor of peace for each day
of the year. DIR. Nathan c. Shaeffer
says 1T is message knocking at the
door of reason every morning." The
placing of the calendar in the schools
is the result of the benevolence OF
some public-spirited persons who be-
lieve that 1t may do great good.
Harrisburg is not the only city that
is getting publicity through the activ-
ity and intelligent initiative of its off,
cials. Mayor Hetrick, of Asbury Park.
believes that the visitors to that resort
should be able to see the leading and
favorite newspaper of their own home
town" and with that end in view he
has directed the Telegraph to be
mailed daily to the public library of
that city. Mayor Hetrick's idea is
that the service of the library of the
resort will be more valuable as a result
of his arrangement to place on the
files the more important newspapers
of the country.
E. D. Hilleary, division freight
agent of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railway company at this point and
one of the most popular officials of the
Reading along the whole system, has
removed from Camp hill to the old
Ross Mansion near the creek below
New Cumberland. Mr. Hilleary is a
Southerner by birth. his family having
resided for many years in the famous
old Maryland Tract, near Frederick.
He is q great lover of gardening and
outdoor life and expects to have a
very pleasant summer in his new
home. Occasionally he wields a golf
stick but only when there isn't a fish
ing line handy to he cast or when the
lure of the woods In autumn does not
take him out with dog and gun. Hill
leary, by the way, is one of the most
successful pheasant shooters in this
neighborhood.
Another man who is looking counA
tryward these days is Harry G.. Ross,
whose business is custom tailoring
but whose financial activities extend
into many other lines Mr.. Ross has
one of the finest farms in the eastern
end of the county, commanding a
broad sweep of hill and valley that is
just beginning to show the first touches
of green. Mr.. Ross is very fond of
that farm, but he reserves It's beau
ties for his own especial friends, who
not long 9ince enjoyed some very fine
pumpkin pies made from the last
of the giant pumpkins produced undeV
Ross methods of cultivation last suns
mer. The Ross tailor shop is the con-
gregating place of a little band OF
congenial spirits who know Mr.. Ross
as the shepherd" when they don't
forget and call him Boss" 1t is about
the only place of it's kind left in the
city, of all those where friends used
to foregather for social enjoyment be-
fore the days of clubs and for those
fortunate enough to find a welcome at
. the hands of the Ross lambs" there
is no club in the city that has a men,
bership half so attractive or nearly so
prolific of good-fellowship and real
sociability But the membership is
limited, oh, very limited.
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Attorney General Brown, who has
had a case in court at Philadelphia
this week has been handling State
business hare in the evenings He