Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-09
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Palrol wagon can come with the
march OF years. The first patro
wagon that Harrisburg ever had, old
NO. l, that used to dash along the
street with a bang-up clatter not an
preached by either a brewery vaqo6
or fire engine. is now an object of
street repairing utility. Seeing id
Standing in Court street not faJ
from the prison where it was wont
TO be a frequent caller o. nights
one mas to stop and think of the
ume when the glory of the "cop1
pers and de wagon" to which Sib-
ietown' Castle Garden, Cinder Row
ana the Hob Nail drunks and Draw
lers aspired as the proper ending Ia
thelr debauches or their fights. The
wagon came to town back in 1891
ana John Carberry, later With the
water Department and the man WIN
INSISTED in putting the Water Denart
heht wagon into the first "movie'I
ever taken of the Harrisburg fire de-
partment at full gallop, was the frs
uflVer' so tradition says. Later on
Charlle Howler, the ex-Regular Army
soluler VINO was the heavy weight of
.ne ponce station when it was in the
rear or the Lochiel hotel handladE
the reins. There was n succassionH
OF drivers and they all had their ov
perlehces And it may be added tho+
,I.ti rneiS were many stirring scenes i'm
Sarra Sl,rt tne ola wagon figured wher
20. 81 se@iilS McCann and Cilley and
0lleL osle., olu-timers used to send in the
double quick" or Chiefs Anderson
kautz or Weston started ont on
rald' The wagon has been known r.
carry as nigh as twenty persons and
IL ever mad cash register in its
oid Gays IT could have shown traf,c
'llat would nave needed regulating.
Speaking of the old patrol wagon
there are few of the newspaperme enE
VINO were active twenty years ago
VINO did not have their own exper
FENCES In that vehicle. The city edi-
Ior OF detunct morning paper was
once knocked out of the wagon by
drunken lady whom he was assist
ing TO arrest and another newspaper
man, still active, tells of the time
iowler flirted with death at the old
Market street grade crossing while
going TO a fire that was eating up a
rag warehouse near where the
Graupner bakery stands. AS il was
an aggressive shifter banged the
brass handles on the rear of the
car and Howler made the frightened
scribe climb down off the back ofE
| his neck when it was all over. Al
the time of the big blizzard in 1S9J
Amos Drabenstadt, now policd|
| sergeant, drove to a fire down Walnu
street with man now high in one.
OF the Harrisburg newspapers, wip
ing the snow out of his eyes so thad
he could see to steer the tearing'
| horses Howard Holstein once un
dertook to go to a fire at the Central
Iron and Steel works by way OF
Shanois street and got there although
a railroad trestle and the top of theI
wagon did not fit and some of the'
top was left behind, while the lateI
John A. Hooker drove the wagon
through Paxton creek at flood stagd
to rescue some people at SibletowI.
back in days when there was no in |
terceptor or regulating dam when
after n hard rain the residents oiI
that classic locality moved to thdI
roofs. But oldest of all was thd
time one of the officers on an up1
town beat, insisted that Uncle Jod
| Van Camp arrest and take down
two sheep he had found wandering
around about near where the Cam1
eron school stands.
People who are giving loving cup7
and those who win them by prowesd
on various fields are not the onlyI
ones who can make a splash wheII
it comes down to the decorative fea1 |
lures. Hearken unto the story OF
the man who got the cords of his
back iangling by trying to break thd
record on the new course and thd
mans wife who won the pretty cup
in the second flight. The wife wai
proud and justly so. And so by thd
same token were the friends of thd
family. And the man who had tried
and got the unmusical feeling in thd
cords of his back sat back and
thought Then he went out and
Irummaged around and found thd
heirloom sugar bowl that looked lilSd
a soup tureen. He likewise found
a base of basest ebony and then hid
the cover of the old-time sugar bowl
and had the cook shine the bowl uni
til it shown like justice emerging
from a political lawsuit. And wheri
bowl upon the ebony and called in
his friends and showed them what h{
had won. Selah.
Charles r. Michael. of the WASH
! ington bureau of the Philadelphia
Public Ledger, a newspaperman well
known to many residents of Harris1
burg because of service here as 4
legislative correspondent and during
the Capitol cases, is understood to be
about to go to France. He has left
the service of the Ledger and will be
connected with the war, service of
| one of the big New York dailiesi
Mr.. Michael always had a predelic1
ton for proximity to the fightin9
| line.
John II. Reitinger, of the Phila1
delphia office of The Associated
Press, was in a terrible state today
Mr.. Reitinger has reported every one
of the big worlds series baseball
games for years, with a score or sd
of intercollegiate football games
thrown in and thousands of Harrls-
burgers have read his stories without
knowing that the well-known news
paperman who comes here to GOV
er" the State Senate when in session
was the field expert But it happens
that Mr.. Reitinger has also beer
handling the news reports of the
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