Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-10
Ehrntnu Glrat

Folks are beginning to wonder IL we
are to have another such n summer as
last year, when 1t rained, rained, rain
ed.
June has started out we'll and
canoeists. golf sharks and tennis en-
thusiasts have been cussing because of
high water, wet courts and soggy
courses. It's not very much fun to
try TO paddle a canoe against the cur
rent of the Susquehanna when the riv-
er is over a six foot stage, but that is
what lovers of the water have had to
do most of this spring. Swimming,
too, is away behind schedule and only
the most hardy-or foolhardy-take
your choice-have had the nerve to
spend much time doing the crawl
or lolling about on the sand beaches
of the islands.
The tennis courts have been wet
most of the time for a week and if
the month of brides and roses insists
on crying much more it's more than
likely that the city tennis champion
ship this summer will be rather slow.
Have you noticed how many stray
dogs there are about town? 1t seems
that the job of city dog catcher is as
popular in Harrisburg as the fleas on
factories working overtime and plenty
OF work for everybody It's next to i'm
possible to keep anybody on the hunt
for the dogs that howl in the night
Now that Melville II. James. of
Ebonsburg. the recently appointed sec
retary of the William Penn Highway
Association, is on the job with head
quarters in this city, things can be
expected to boom for the pushing for
ward of the project. Mr.. James bears
the reputation of being hustler and
he has already started the ball roll
| ing to create interest in the movement
throughout Pennsylvania. He was
formerly on the staff of the Johnstown
Democrat and as a press agent" he
should be jimdandy.
II you are a careful reader of the
Telegraph's first page you probably
notice every night that the marriage
| licenses of the day are carried below
the red bulletin box at the lower right
hand corner. Have you seen how
many licenses are being issued these
days? June Is surely living up to its
reputation as an aid to Cupid.
| The old Wash Day Dinner Club"
which has developed into a regular
weekly luncheon of the Harrisburg
Rotary club, has changed it's quarters
LIOIl lH6 SCIdlS IlOl6l lO lHG columbus
hotel. The members had no fault to
find with the fare the Senate dispens-
ed, but the quarters we're too small.
Years ago, John H. Nixon, freight
agent for the Pennsylvania railroad at
this point, got together a genial little
party of Rotarians, who lunched
round one small table at the Dau-
phin. 1t was not long until other Ro-
tarians began to drop in and the fame
of the club as a dining organization
began to spread. Then the members
moved down to the Plaza, where there
was more room for them, and it was
not long until that hotel was out
grown. Then the Wash Day" diners
moved up to the Engineers club and
remained there until another growth
in membership forced a change to the
second floor Of the Senate. And now
it is the Columbus-where a special
dining room has been screened off for
the diners. Nobody knows just when
the development from the Wash Day
Dinner club lunch to the Rotary club
luncheon took place, but the Rotarians
are so well pleased with the weekly
gatherings that the attendance is now
above the so mark. John II. Nixon In
still chairman of the luncheon COM
mttee, and acting with him this year
are Captain James b. Kemper and
Richard lobe, than whom there are
no livelier members of the club. The
committee promises that there will be
plenty of pep" in the luncheons this
year.
Steelton folks who depend for their
daily bread upon the big plant of the
Pennsylvania Steel Company are hav-
ing a hard time to keep the new names
of the big blast furnaces in mind. You
know down there stacks" and mills
and heats" and turns are regular
subjects of converse ton,
There was a time when the furnaces
there were known by names. The last
of these is the old Lochiel stack. The
big pigiron producers at Steelton for
many years have been called No. l.
, No. 2, No. 8, No. 4 and No. 5 stacks"
} When the new management took
charge, however, they rechristened the
furnaces and they are now "A" "B,
&C." d. and "E'' stacks. The old No.
furnace is now &c" stack; No. is
ID" and No. is "E" stack. "B'' fur
mace is now in the course of construc-
: ton and "A" will be authorized later.
Speaking of blast furnaces, those
who are interested in the steel buSi-
ness will recall when the erection of
, new stack was big event in the trade,
and was heralded from coast to coast.
, OF course, it's still more than mere
! incident but not such an important
matter as years ago.
In those days the furnaces were built
to produce from so to 100 tons of pig
iron daily while now the majority are
built to turn out 500 tons and upwards
every time the hour hand completes
its journey around the clock.
Then, too, there was a time it re-
uuired from year to eighteen months
and sometimes even two years to COM
/ plete erection of a stack Yet, just the
other day, the new No. 8 furnace Of
the Cambria Steel Company at Johns
aI,I ttafb i,tof aferIaf ~ five
DAYS after it's erection had been au-
thorized by the board of directors.
But then, you know, these be fast
: times in which we of to-day are liv-
ing.
"Try, Try Again"
A little girl in Jersey WHO had ban