Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-04

Major John Calvin Shumberger, of
this city, has accepted highly re-
sponsible position with the Lehigh
Portland Cement. Company, of Allen
town, which requires severing his con-
nection with the National Guard, his
profession of public accounting and
also his removal from this city to
Allentown.
In military circles Major Shum-
berger has just rounded out his tWen-
tieth year in the National Guard. He
is a veteran of the Spanish American
War, serving in the Pennsylvania Vol
Anteer Cavalry in Porto Rico in 1898
In the last call of the President he
served nine months to the day. Five
months of this period. through recon-
mendationS of regular army officers,
he served as federal paymaster, draw
ing his checks on the Treasurer of the
United States, paying troops and bills
on muster out of the Federal service.
While this service was performed
within Pennsylvania. it carried with it
great sacrifice and hazards, travelling
over $500 miles. After arriving at
station payrolls and vouchers had to
be computed by him, and where money
could not be secured from banks or
could not be forwarded through ex-
press companies in time to make
proper payments he carried as high
as $65,OO in travelling bags, in slee%
ers and in automobiles at all hours
of day and night, across mountains
and through dangerous country. In
Pittsburgh the day $4,000 robbery
took place Major Shumberger carried
$4,000 from the bank to the armory.
Many similar circumstances were re-
lated where delays by the railroad, ac-
cidents to automobiles occasioned
other means to successfully carry out
the instructions of the War Depart
ment.
While orders to pay troops were
received on holidays. and while troops
were being paid at night orders were
received to proceed at a time when no
facilities were available to reach the
resignated point, twenty or thirty miles
distant, when banks were closed, time
locks and burglar alarms had been set,
yet there is not single record of
any order not successfully carried out
While Major Shumberger's new po-
sition required him to resign from
the Guard, he holds the highest ad-
miration for those under whom he has
served and claims that his success was
due toJhis opportunity to serve under
such soldierly and efficiently qualified
men as Colonel Frederick NJ. OFT, Cen
eral ]. p. s. Goblin and General Thomas
j. Stewart.
Resided Here Since 1887
Mr.. Shumberger came to Harris
burg from Cumberland county in 1887
and organized and conducted the
| School of Commerce in this city from
1894 to 1902. During this period Mr..
Shumberger was called upon to audit
books and organize systems In 1902
he disposed of his school and took up
the profession of accounting Since
| that date he has occupied suite of
rooms in the Union Trust Building in
Market Square. His success in ac-
counting has taken him as far south
as Richmond, Va, and as far north as
Montreal, Canada. He has been the
chief accountant in some of the larg-
est cases conducted within this terri
| tory. His work has developed chiefly
along the lines of state and federal tax
reports and confiscations of funds. Mr..
Shumberger and his family are mem
bers of Market Square Presbyterian
! Church. He is past master of Har-
risburg Lodge, No. 629, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons; past high priest of
| Perseverance Chapter, No. 21, ROYAL
| Arch Masons. and also past COM
mande rof Pilgrim Commandery, No.
J IL, knights Templar of Pennsylvania
! and is at present captain of the drill
corps of "a embo Temple, Ancient and
Accepted Order Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine: also an active member of the
Harrisburg Consistory, Scottish Rite
| Masosn.
He is a staunch Republican and is
serving at present on the Harrisburg
city Republican committee. He was
recently rendered a directorate in the
Harrisburg Young Mems Christian AS
sociation, which he will be compelled
| to decline. He Is q member ~of the
Modern Woodmen. also Harrisburg
Lodge. No. IS. Independent Order of
/ Odd Fellows, the Harrisburg Rotary
Club, the Chamber of Commerce and
the Harrisburg Club.
Harry Ellsworth Schriver of Hum
melstown, who has been with Mr..
Shumberger as first accountant for a
number of years, succeeds Mr.. Shum-
berger in the business and profession
| of accounting,