Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-10
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risburg people who were impressed
with the talk given before the
Chamber of Commerce by Wesley
Frost, the country's splendid consul
lar representative at Queenstown, to
learn that he seems to have been
impressed by Harrisburg. Not SO
long ago Mr.. Frost visited the city
which contains a good bit of Har-
rlsburg in its district, Augusta,
Georgia, site of the camp of the
pennsylvania divisions. He went to
the southern city to deliver a lecture
on his experiences in Ireland, espec-
tally during the Lusitania outrage
and in the course of his comments
on the country and the way it is
waking up to the meaning of the
war he spoke with the greatest ap-
probation of his reception in Har-
r1sburg, the deep interest shown by
the audience at Pennsylvania cap
ltal, mentioning the names of prom
lnent men who had helped to make
his stay by the Susquehanna pleas
ant.
From all accounts these are siren
uous days at Camp Hancock. Col.
Maurice %. Finney is now bossing
the range. which is one of the
busiest places in the whole of the
great camp and where his experience
is going to tell in getting the men
into fighting with rifles. Captains
Bretz, jenkins and Slime are ali busy
training men as are the lieutenants
while Lieutenant Colonel Zeigler is
working hard with overseas service
ahead. A good story comes from the
camp about Captain Slime. Col. e.
l.. kearns, who commanded the
Pittsburgh regiment until few days
ago, met the captain the other day
and remarking that he had noticed
the name of Henry NJ. Stine in the
lists wondered whether it was
son of his old friend in Harris
burg. well, why didn't you ask
whether it was my grandson" re-
piled the county commissioner who
used to trim Ed" Kearns at tennis.
State automobile license tags by
the tens of thousands are being
made up into packages for shipment
to owners of automobiles the latter
part of this month by attaches of
the automobile division of the State
Highway Department in three differ
ent places under supervision of the
state authorities. The demand is
greater than ever known at this
time of the year as it is now pretty
well known that on January 1 cars
must display the new tags and there
is an unusual lot of requests for
trucks and business wagons. The
tags are being stamped and pre-
pared for shipment at the offices
of the Division in North Second
street, in the basement and on the
top floor of the Capitol and at one
of the warehouses in Capitol park
extension used for storage purposes
by the state government. The tags
are stacked up in great heaps and
preparations are being made to send
them out in wagonIoads. Owing
to the rush for automobile licenses
the amount of cash passing through
the department amounts to thous-
ands of dollars daily, a good part
of 1t being in certified checks. Many
applications are accompanied by
money orders.
The last of the federal property
has been prepared for shipment
from the State Arsenal and all of
the men connected with the United
States quartermaster service except
four officers leave tomorrow. The
officers expect to be ordered away
at any time. The final shipment
will include rifles used at ranges and
on the Mexican border, which will
be used to train men at the camps.
The space at the building will be
utilized for the equipment and stores
whose organization the adjutant gen
erals department has been prepar-
ing for months. Muster in of some
of the new organizations will take
place late this month, it is expected~
The representations regarding
the winter which were heard on all
hands a few weeks ago have been
added to. A man in HaZleton says
that there will not be hard weather
| because the hornets nest low. A
Cumberland county man insists that
the weather will he severe because
chickens in his flock have thick
feathers on their legs.
Friends of Joseph n. Mackrell, the
Pittsburgh newspaperman who
comes here to report the Legisla-
ture, will tender him a dinner at
Pittsburgh next Wednesday, which
will be u regular event. DR.. ]. p.
Kerr, city councilman, will be toast
master and Commissioner O'Neil.
George T.. Alter and other noted
men will speak. It will be a re-
markable tribute to a newspaperman.
Harrisburg friends of william NJ.
Donaldson are congratulating him
upon his reelection as a trustee of
the Masonic Homes at Elizabethtown.
Mr.. Donaldson was instrumental in
the establishment of the great in
stitution and has taken a great in
terest in it.
More kindly words have been said
about the selection of George d. Og-
den as the chief of operations for
the railroads export business dur
ing the war in Harrisburg the last
few days than ordinarily fall to the
lot of any man. The expressions
have come not only from business
men, but from railroad men as well.
Mr.. Ogden was some sixteen or sew
enteen years ago the division freight
agent of the Pennsylvania in this
city and vicinity and is remembered
by many men for his courtesy and
enterprise.