Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-12
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which Joined forces with the Telegraph
to-day and came under the rooftree in
Federal Square, dates from the CEN
tennial year. The Independent was
founded December 4, 1876, by e. Y,
Wallower, whose genius soon made tt
force in the community, and in Au-
gust, 1891, it was consolidated with
the Evening Star, which had beap
founded in 1886 by B. L. Meyers, who
was then at the height of his power
in Democratic affairs in this part of
the State. The Star was published
from the old Patriot building and in
April, 1891, it was changed to the
Harrisburg Star by it's owners. II
was in August of that year that the
Star and Independent were merged
with Mr.. Meyers as the editor and
publisher. The papers have had some
notable newspapermen on their staffs.
Among them were Vein Foraey and
George d. Herbert. For years Mr..
Meyers Editorial Snapshots" COM
manded wide attention and until the
veteran editor retired for a we'll
earned rest were the first thing read
by many patrons of the newspaper.
For couple of decades the Star
Independent reflected Mr.. Meyers Wig
orous personality and his discussion
| of the events of the day and comments
upon the passing show are we'll re-
called by many.
| In this connection it is interesting
to note that the Telegraph has con-
tinued under its name since its found
ing in September, 1881, being one of
the Few newspapers in the country to
enjoy that distinction. 1t was origi-
nally called the Pennsylvania Tele-
graph and 1t used the name of the
State until 1860, when it kecame the
Harrisburg Telegraph. 1t is the de-
scendant of the Statesman, which was
| published here in the latter part of the
l'twenties, having been founded in 1928,
| and of the Oracle of Dauphin and
Harrisburg Advertiser, the Oldest
| newspaper in HarT Tsburg, which began
publication in 1892. The Oracle was
q Wyeth family enterprise, and, sin
gularly enough, one of their properties
is the plot now occupied by the Tele-
graph home. The Telegraph in its
day has absorbed the Whig State
Journal, which was the newspaper of
John j. Clyde; the Daily American
| George Bergners original newspaper;
the Daily Times, which was published
by the late DR.. William II. Egle and
| Theodore Il. Scheffer, and other less
well-known newspaper enterprises in
! this community. 1t was in the fifties
that Colonel A. K. Mcclure, the famous
later years, was one of the editors.
To-day is Lincoln's birthday and ii
| is interesting to recall that it was on
Washington's birthday, 1861, that he
visited Harrisburg on his way to the
| national capital, speaking to the
people from the very corner where
Washington had spoken in 1894. It
! was the result of the council held in
4 the Jones House, now the Common
wealth, that caused Lincoln to go to
Philadelphia instead of Baltimore,
thereby frustrating the plot to prevent
him from taking the oath. That cpl
sode is one of the most stirring in the
history of Harrisburg.
|
Giuseppe Donate, the sculptor whose
group, presented to the city by Milton
S. Hershey reposes in warehouse,
| has exhibited a statue of Abraham
Lincoln which has attracted much at
tention in Philadelphia. 1t is entitled
Lincoln, the Dreamer" and is being
much referred to by the newspapers,
especially in view of the anniversary
of Lincoln's birthday. Donata is still
wondering why Harrisburg has not
acted upon the location of his group.
The Rev. DR.. George Stuart Cham
| bers, in whose memory tablet was
unveiled at Pine Street Church yester-
|
cation for well over a quarter of q
century and occupied n place in the
community that caused his activities
to be recalled by many yesterday. DIR.
Chambers was not only in the fore
front of the religious life of Harris
burg, but q leader in musical affairs,
a stalwart fighter for civic righteous
ness and man whose personality won
him friends in every walk of life. The
Ipresence of people identified with
other congregations at the exercises
yesterday attested the regard in which
he was held.
Acting for the Comm onwealth in
five murder cases in four days is the
record which Assistant District Attor-
neys f. b. Wickersham and Robert L
Fox, have hung up in the Dauphir
county court records. District Attor.
ney Michael E. Stroup during those
four days was kept busy prosecuting
a case against negro held for shoot.
ing a Harrisburg police officer. Both
court rooms were kept going practic.
ally all the time, empaneling jurors
and hearing evidence. Twice in the
four days, three murder trials were
on at once.
The Susquehanna Trail Association,
which is committed to the booming of
the improvement by the State of the
road routes from Harrisburg to the
! New York county line and of which
Senator e. e. Beidleman is n director,
/ has adopted a distinctive badge such
as have been decided upon by the
William Penn Highway and Lincoln
| Highway Associations and as are being
| discussed by the proposed Perry High
way Road organization from Pitts
burgh to Erie. The Susquehanna Trail
is q circle containing an Indian head,
the route of the highways now in use,
but which will require much attention
to put into shape, having been tho
paths of the Indians in passing be-
tween the valley of the Chemung and
the lower valley of the Susquehanna.
The Susquehanna and Penn highways
are rich in historic association with
the aborigines as is the Lincoln with
the early immigration to the West.