Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-03
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=, Folks strolling in Market street
these warm evenings get a good bit of
musical melange. The bands are prac-
tfcing for the various parades which
are IN prospect and for the summer
concert season and there is hardly "a
night that the air in the vicinity of the
courthouse is not filled with. the crash
or the brasses and the notes of the
reeds. The Commonwealth band holds
Iorth IN the Wyeth building and the
municipal band in the building next :.
TO the Lochiel, in the quarters so long
occupied by the Bull Moosers in the
strenuous days of 1912, and the quiet
weeks of the following years. Some
times they hit the same night for prac-
t1cing and the music is heard above
the racket of the trolley cars and the
noise OF traffic. The latest music of the
day is manhandled and then to make
up for the havoc of the practice bands
will swing into some rafting dance
music or indulge in a series of patri-
otto selections that make one want to
cheer. Band practice night is an oc-
easion for the courthouse steps to be
occupied and the bands seldom fail to
have an audience of which they do
not know. Every now and then one
of the uptown bands comes down to
give a practice parade and the music
makers in the halls stop to listen to
their rivals and then Show how it
should be played"
Speaking of bands one of. the oldest
sights in long time came the other
night when musical organization OF
colored men was proceeding over into
the precincts of the old Eighth ward.
For years and years every band strik-
ing state street has been required by
tradition to break forth into melody.
This band was well trained. At the
corner of Fourth and State streets it
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State street to Cowden, every instru-
ment doing its part, torches fiaring
and men in perfect time-with. no one
on the sidewalks. Old State street had
! passed away. Maybe the ghosts of the
crowds that used to line the curbs
when bands went by came out of the
shadows that lay across the lots from
which the Capitol park eXtenders have
| taken the buildings, but the silence did
not disturb the band. 1t marched
right down the broad street as in the
| days of yore, a dozen of boys follow
Ing and memories of other times keep
ing step.
George Gray Bernard, the sculptor
who executed the groups in front of
! the Capitol which artists say are Won
derful and the average man can not
| understand, has given replica of his
| great statute of Lincoln to the Russian
! people. He presented it recently at u
| gathering of people who met to as
sure the Muscovites of the sympathy
| of the American people and his gift
was most appropriate of the president
who stood for freedom. The original
of the statute is to grace Cincinnati,
! having been executed at the commits
sion of Mr.. and Mrs Charles P. Taft.
Edward r. Martin, a Philadelphia
attorney, who has figured in a good
| hnftlaG hafnra tho pnl11in SarN-ipa
Commission and in some skirmishes
with other counsel, sent a letter to the
| commission accompanying a formal
| complaint the other day in which he
leaves no room for argument as to
whether he is counsel or not. 1t will
be recalled that Mr.. Martin and some
of his colleagues in Philadelphia cases
| got into a discussion as to who was
sit" in certain litigation and that
momentous question attracted more
attention than the case at issue. In
his latest Mr.. Martin sets forth that
he is chief counsel.
There is one thing which I think
| your liquor dealers organization in
| Harrisburg should stop as it has done
to great extent in other places" said
a man who travels yesterday. He had
come to the city on a business trip
and was riled because he saw several
men Visibly under the influence of
| liquor staggering about the streets.
| I'm a number of Pennsylvania cities
the liquor dealers have gotten after
| owners of places and bartenders who
sell to men who are plainly 'soused.'
! 1t has been a good thing for the men
who sell rum and splendid thing
| for the people who have no use for it.
1t has kept the drunks off the streets.
| We are not apt to object so much when
we meet drunks steering homeward
| late at night, but 1t is tiresome to see
a man loaded to the guards come out
of a place in daylight"
Appearance of Guardsmen about
the city yesterday whetted the martial
appetite of the younger generation
and there are probably more volun-
teer organizations of kids between
twelve and sixteen drilling on the lots
and in the yards of Harrisburg than
for a long time. The kids chased Villa
last fall and fought numerous battles
somewhere in France after the heavy
snowfalls while trench warfare" was
| common. Now when the Pennsylva-
mia Guardsmen are being called into
service drilling to guard the boxes at
the corner grocery and to prevent
aliens from blowing up automobiles is
the order of the juvenile day. 1t might
be added that there are some very
| deadly looking machine guns"
| mounted on boxes occupying strategic
places about Harrisburg ana paSSerS-
by are apt to be subjected to an an
Initiating volley of boom, boom,
bang, bang" from shrill boyish voices.
|
Harrisburg was a good bit more in
terested in what was going on in the
national capitol yesterday than the
appearances showed. The average cit
izen was all the time calling up on the
| telephone to ask what was being done
| and there were people who had lots
of business about the bulletin boards.
The announcement that the President
would go before Congress affected
people deeper than they would admit.