Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-24
EhptttttD Gl1at

There is one camp in Harrisburg
which is important to the 1880
men of the Pennsylvania division
and yet 1t has not attracted ond
ninetieth of the attention bestowed
upon the camp of the units of tn;
Eighth Infantry at the island or thG
platoon camps of the First and
Third Infantry scattered about thi
section. This camp is in every way
a model affair, exactly in accord
with regulations, and one of tho
busiest places in the state. 1t is a
the state arsenal, where the quarter
masters corps has been camped fol
the last few days for the admins
tration of the equipment and sub
sistence of the guardsmen called ou
on July Is. This corps has a tre
mendous task because 1T had to pro
vide the food and many other thinel
for the dozens of units scattered ov0
the state. The men in home stations
at Erie, Williamsport and Other
cities, as we'll as Pittsburgh and
Philadelphia, are supplied by orders
from the tents at the arsenal as wei
as the men who are forming the
truck trains at Mount Gretna. Al
immense amount of detailed worl
has to be handled at this camp and
the officers in charge work until late
Al at night. They are in charge Of
! Colonel Harry G. TreXler, the chief
quartermaster, who handled the sub
sistence and equipment at Mount
Gretna last year when the men mo
bilized for service at the Mexican
border. The camp is not a very biz
one as compared to that at the island
but it is q very vital one to the sol
diers who have answered Uncle Sam
call.
Residents in the vicinity of Losh'
Run, along the main line of the
! PENNSYLVANIA railroad twenty miles
west of this city, were mystif1ed a few
nights ago by mysterious rays
light playing across. the skies and
along the ridges of the nearby noun
tains. The light apparently cam
from point in the country back o
John Doyle's property on the cas-
bank of the Juniata and those dowr
on level with the river were at I
loss to explain the puzzle. 1t wa
plainly a searchlight, but as ther{
were no electric light plants near BY
the idea of German spies and Zeppe
lines began to fit through the mind {
OF some. The mystery is still un
solved, but it Is strongly suspected
that one of the lads encamped at tn Z
Boyd Memorial cottage known to b
an expert with storage batterie
knows something about it.
There is not a more neighborlH
community of summer cottages alonA
the main line of the PennsylvaniA
than the families encamped at Ac
queduct. Last week they held E
s. neighborhood picnic at Baileys Sta
y, ton which was attended by morz
w than forty, young and old. The tabl
,a that was spread would have brought
a frown of displeasure to the face oE
I'd a food dictator, but the picnic partH
le greeted it with howls of deligh
le After dinner there was baseball an@
everybody took to the river for 7
es trolic upon their return home.
p Nothing to fish for but cells an
wouldn't catch one if it was tn I
- only fish in the river" was tn I
Is lament of w. B. Bennett yesterday
IN Bill Is one of the most enthusiastic
"a bass fishermen in this city; also on
~ :. of the most successful. The river
It have been stirred up by the rains an
Id the creeks have been no better. Benz
II nett fishes with artificial bait and
- the things he takes along to attracE
I'd the big black bass are hideou
s, enough to give person the "willies
le But he tosses 'em into the water
the end of his line and the bass swim
right up and take hold. Probabl
- determined to get the nasty thing
out of the water as soon as possible
somebody has suggested.
Some of the people about the Stat
Capitol are of the belief that tn I
Mount Gretna camp, on which thu
State has spent thousands and thou
sands of dollars the last TWENTY
years, will be used for somethin4
after all in spite of the location Of
camps in New Jersey and Maryland
1t is believed that it will be used 70
reserve recruit organizations wheIz
the guardsmen go to their trainin I
|, camps. Nowadays an organization
is maintained and things are differH
ent from the Civil War, when the
let regiment lapse after its timS
expired.
y According to a man at Hazletonz
y who has written to one of the de E
u partments of the state government
the raising of potatoes from peeling
n has been successful. Governor Brum
y baugh suggested that it be tried lasE
/ spring and there was a more or les {
n gusty controversy over the idea HoH
II tel men said that it was possible and
a feasible and some men said that il
u only worked occasionally where thu
Y soil was good. The Hazleton ma
seems to have succeeded under adj
verse conditions.
y That the United States governI
= nlent is very much in earnest abou=
. keeping LIQUOR away from its men i
uniform is we'll demonstrated by thV
manner in which people travelling il
Pennsylvania Railroad car thE
{ other night were handled. 1t seemI
/. that soldier was on the train and |
, man who belongs to the type thai
cannot travel without a flask insisted
: upon giving the soldier a drink. Bel
3 fore anybody got out of that car hi
D had to give his name and everyonI
I was subpenaed to appear at a hear
ing.
Colonel Theodore Burchfield, oE
the State Library, who celebrated hi
seventy-fifth birthday yesterday, wa
a member of the old HARRISBURG
Rifles, a number of whose membeS
' went into the One Hundred ani
Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania Resi-
ment, which was commanded by thi
late Colonel w. w. Jennings.