Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-07
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btohCu NlStlOTSt llS
as the capital of the Keystone State
attracting many of them and the
JOINT sessions of the Legislature,
such as will be held tomorrow in
honor of the French mission. being
events of honor. While william
rem never got closer to Harrisburg
than the confluence of the Susque-
mamma and the Swatara, his sons and
MS chief aids, including Governor
MOTIFS, were frequent visitors to this
pace after John Harris had estab-
IlSheu himself at the crossing and
When the ferry became the first forti-
fled place on the Susquehanna. Con-
rad Weiser and many men of note
met the Indians here. Braddock
| ana FORBES of Colonial wars. Wayne.
sullivan and st. Clair in Revolution.
airy times, Washington and Hamilton
IN the anxious period of the whisky
lhsurrection were visitors here. ia
cob Brown, the Pennsylvania general
| who commanded the American army
in the War of 1912, was here during
and after the war. Andrew jackson,
william Henry Harrison, John Tyler.
General Zachary Taylor, General
winfield Scott, Abraham Lincoln,
Andrew johnson, who came accom-
panied by General Grant and Ad-
miral Farragut; Grant again on his
world, Mckinley, Roosevelt, Taft,
| wilson, Fairbanks. Blaine, Bryan
and a host of notables have visited
here. Joint legislative sessions to
honor guest have been held in the
Capitol, dedicated, by the way, by
| Roosevelt, for Taft and Bryan, both
of whom delivered notable addresses,
and for Ambassador Naon, of the Ar
gentine.
=, OF distinguished foreign visitors
there has been no lack. Back in
| 1870 Count de Noailles, noted
trenchman, came here to visit Alex
ander Graydon, one of the first Off
Gals of the county and in 1895 the
Duke de Rochefauld Liancourt, a
famous traveller, spent some time
here, referring to the number of tav-
erns here and to the Madeira he
drank with substantial citizens. In
| 1879 General Lafayette paid his visit
OF TWO days to Harrisburg, the Leg
islature meeting in joint session to
honor him and the townspeople
ana State officials banqueting him.
Charles Dickens stopped at the Boil
ton IN 1872 and gives his opinion of
the old eamelback bridge in his Am
erican notes and a month later the
town entertained the Prince de Join
Vliie, son of King Louis Philippe,
VINO stopped here on his way from
pittsburgh to Philadelphia and Wis
lted the Capitol to receive the greet
lnSs OF official Pennsylvania. A din
ner was rendered to the prince and
his suite at Wilson's Hotel, which is
Wnere the new Penn-Harris will be
built. In the fifties Lord Napier and
SIR William Ousley, British ministers,
J and Count de Sartiges, French min
lSter, were visitors on a tour of the
state, being guests at the home of
General Simon Cameron, the historic
Harris mansion, which during the
/ life time of the general was visited
Dy SO many famous men, Americans
? and citizens of foreign lands. Then
came the Prince of Wales, later King
Edward VII, who liked the place so
well that he spent two days here.
1t is interesting to note that from
the early days the citizens of Har-
rlsburg have delighted to honor the
Frenchmen. The earliest visitors af-
ter independence were French trav-
elers who came to see the develop
ments in the country where a cen
tury or more before their trappers
had shared life with the Indians and
even meddled in their wars. The
notes of travel of the French duke
offered an interesting commentary on
the life of the time in Harrisbure
and show the cordiality which exist.
ed between the people of the new re.
public and the visitors from across
. ! the seas. Later French visitors in.
GUIDED men prominent in the second
republic and last empire, quite a
number of whom came here on trav.
l els and some of whom were officials
: at Washington and guests of General
r Cameron.
: While not generally known there
have been many visits paid to this
community by men of affairs in for
elgn countries which did not rise to
7 the dignity of public receptions, but
: which were none the less important
l to the community and we'll worth
noting here. These visits were not
from men of eminence in statesman
$ ship and their tours did not take
them to the State Capitol or Executive
, Mansion. They came to see the in
$ dustrial side of this place. notably
E the Pennsylvania Steel Works. When
the works was established it was
7 among the first to use certain pro-
cesSes and the plant could show a
list of famous names if only a regis
! ter had been kept. In the early days
| VI lHe WOThS WIen IL was famed fal
D and wide for it's steel rails and frogs
! there were numerous commissions
l here from other lands to see the
place and quite a number of occa-
sions are recalled when special trains
were run from Philadelphia by the
Pennsylvania railroad or from Wash.
| ington to bring to Steelton ministers
OF finance and commerce quite as
/ potential as the men of high official
statioD< Even England and Ger
: many in spite of their high place in
: steel lmanufacture, have sent scienti-
D fic men here and there are interesting
. "reminiscences of visits by Russian
Brazilian and Dutch committees to
inspect processes in the big mills un-
I der the pail of smoke down the
/ river.
In all probability the visit here to-
morrow will go down in Harrisburg
history as q great event. 1t would
be we'll IL the committee in charge
could do as was outlined in Pitts
burgh where the plan announced is
to take the mission over the route
taken by General Lafayette on his
visit to that city in 1925. Fortunate.
ly a record of the very streets ira.
versed in his parade was foundAanC
the salute to Viviani and Joffre to.
morrow will be fired from the yer,
place where the salute was thunder.
ed forth for Lafayette.
WELL TNOwN pEOpI z