Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-09
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clerk of the Commonwealth Hotel,who
has been attending to the obsequies,
so to speak, of the famous hostelry
the last week has been getting num-
erous letters from people requesting
| reservation of rooms. The funny part
about it is that they have come from
| people who do not live so far away,
either. Some have been received from
residents of other States and some
from travelling men who have had eX-
perience with Harrisburg hotels dur
inS legislative seasons. All want to
make sure of rooms. One man wrote
for rooms during the meeting of the
! State Industrial Board on Tuesday and
| another wanted to be sure of q room
| the following Friday. Both men live
within 100 miles of Harrisburg. The
| requests for rooms are pretty brisk
and about what is usually the case
during legislative year. The writers
all get the information that the hotel
is out of business The last week Mr..
Marburger has established himself in
the big dining room of the hotel where
he has been bossing the sale of the
| furniture and equipment and writing
letters to people telling them that the
hotel is no longer on the active list.
| The toughest part of it has been i'll
the evening when everything is dark
and silent about the hotel, says Mr..
| Marburger, who has been so long con-
nected with the activities of the hotel
that he finds it hard to realize that the
register is closed for keeps. Indeed
| If there is a more desolate place than
this closed up hotel where for many
| years there was wonted hustle and
hustle it is hard to find. The office
and the dining room seem to have
something to tell of stirring or jubil-
ant times they have witnessed, while
the empty corridors can be peopled in
fancy with the men and women of big
j things in the history of Pennsylvania
that was made within its walls.
j. Horace Mcfarland. author and
publicist, is giving some of the benefit
| OF his experience in gardening to his
fellow citizens in the Miller Bros pub
| hcation, Facts and Figures" Mr.. Nc
| Farland tells of his garden at Breeze
| Hill, his home on the heights. He ad-
mits that the soil has been discourage
ing but the list of what he has been
raising should be an inspiration to the
men who live up in the Tenth ward,
where the soil is of the richest, or in
other parts of the city where a garden
can be grown without breaking the
back. Just listen to what he says he
has raised-radishes, peas, beans, car
| rots, cucumbers, lettuce, sweet corn,
turnips, chard, chicory, asparagus,
| rhubarb, potatoes "and all the rest of
| the good stuff And he says he had
corn from the nineteenth of July un-
til the tenth of November and that al
though he is a lima bean fiend he has
been satisfied with the product of his
property. The talented and versatile
author of "My Growing Garden" evil
IDENTIFY believes in getting his golf in
his garden and enjoying the score at
the table instead of at the nineteenth
hole.
A German poodle raced madly
across Front street and up Forster
like a streak of black lightning this
morning, each leap being accelerated
by staccato reports as of q gattling
gun. The poor little animal, doubtless
of foreign descent, probably thought
the retreat from Verdun had begun
and he had no artillery to cover his
retreat, because he counted not the
order of his going. The cause of his
terror was a big truck, over-eXerted
perhaps, whose carburetor was cranky
and backfire after backtire shattered
the silence of the morning. 1t was az
significant portent!
Prof. Simon N. Patten, who is to
leave the University of Pennsylvania
this spring because of attaining the
age limit, is somewhat noted as paci-
fist. However, he does not always car
ry out the part. DIR. Patten is one of
the best known economists in the
| country and q man who occasionally
springs some radical views. His re-
cent suggestion for revision Of hymns
that have become parts of our lives
and his theories regarding war are
but expressions of mind that is won
derfully varied. Years ago DIR. Pat
ten had his own troubles with stu
dents. His lectures never lacked for
variety, but the professor was some
times picked out on a dull morning to
have some fun with. Throwing shot
against bookcase doors and singing
during lectures were among the di-
versions and finally the, eminent
economist informed the class that it
was not a fair deal. That quieted
things down for while but one
student, who had the best strength
test of any one in the class, concluded
to stir things up a bit and went through
some stunts. The pacitist professor
seized him by the collar and propelled
him with sole leather into the corri-
dor. He did not report him to the
dean. He just let the lesson stand.
To call Patton a pacifist sounds queer
to some people.
There were some real live Easter
bunnies out at PaXtang yesterday. In
the country about the historic Paxton
church there are number OF rabbits
anu IL Se6Hleu as IllouBH LnSy WtiC
inclined to be busy yesterday morn
ing. No less than half dozen were
scurrying about and people who visit
ed the church yard saw them scam
pering amid the trees and over near
the dam there were also some to be
seen very busy about something.
Harrisburg was placed upon the
map considerably last week by the
visit of Ambassador Gerard and the
tremendous interest taken in the pat
riotic meeting and other events con-
nected with the occasion by the people
of this vicinity was more than justified
because notices of the speech of the
man who braved the kaiser's officials
appeared in newspapers in st. Louis,
Charleston, Louisville, Chicago, New
York and many other places. Harris
burg attains prominence of national
scope every now and then through
some important matter at the Capitol,
wreck or something else, but this
time, as when William Jennings Bryan
came to town in 1913, it was a speech
that brought it into the limelight.
The visit, barring the weather, was
| ct1npaaS that there have hnen