Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-28
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People who have come to Harris
burg this week to attend hearings and
meetings at the State Capitol and
Who have been accustomed to go to
the Commonwealth Hotel or the Ie-
land or the Jones, as they may have
known it in the years zone by, got the
shock of their lives when they were
told there would be nothing more do
ing in the hotel line. One Senator did
not know of the fire and the plans for
giving up the old hotel plan and he
informed the clerk that he did not
know where else to go. Another mem
Der who had been making the hotel
his headquarters for years and years
fatty refused to give up and insisted
that some one else be secured to take
charge of the establishment. Some of
the visitors were amazed to find out
that there had been q fire and were
stunned when they found the hotel
was to go out of business. 1t was all
very fiattering to the historic old ho-
tel and illustrates how when people
get accustomed to going to a place
because their friends had gone there
before them that a hotel is better
known outside of a city than within.
There will probably be a good many
this season who have not heard of
anything happening on Market
Square. The corner has been identi-
fled with the public life of the State
about as much as any plot occupied
| by a hotel in the whole State. For
| 125 years, as has been noted in this
column, it has been a place of enter
tainment for travellers. as one of it's
early advertisements announced. Until
the Penn Harris is finished there will
probably be some crowded hotels in
Harrisburg and folks coming here the
| remainder of the session will get some
| surprises.
Register of Wills William Conner,
of Allegheny county, who is a former
Legislator, tells some mighty funny
| stories about the way to the altar in
Pittsburgh. Life is a more or less
strenuous matter in that great indus
| trial county. but the anecdotes indi-
cate that the female of the species is
| sometimes more dangerous than the
| male. 1t seems that one day a pair
secured marriage license, and failing
| to agree upon the church in which
to be married, the prospective groom
| hot-footed it to the registers office to
| turn in the license. Right behind
came the bride-to be. She was q mill
tant lady, too. She caught up with
| the recreant groom to-be and caught
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| turn in the paper Then the lady gave
way to primal instincts and she hit
| the man on the jaw, knocked him
| down. stamped on him with high
| heeled shoes and was mauling hinp
| to the queens taste when the attaches
interfered. Then the man broke and
ran down the stairs in full flight. The
woman chased him two blocks and
| next day the man told a newspaper
! that he was thankful he had found
her out before. marriage"
! Another story is about pair which
! got the license to wed and had gone
! to parsonage when they got into Il
dispute about the church with which
! they were to be affiliated. This bride
was strenuous, too. She resented
some of the mans remarks and not
only knocked him down, but loosened
up his teeth and left the marks of her
shoes on his face.
Things have come to such a pass
politically at the Capitol that even the
| inanimate objects have been affected
by 1t. The office Of Secretary of the
Commonwealth Woods contains a fine
| collection of portraits of the men who
have held the office, among them be-
ing a three-quarter length painting
OF Matthew Stanley Quay, who held
| the office several times. The other
day, following an interchange of po-
litical talk about the conditions in
the State which appeared in the news
papers at Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
a large slice of the moulding of the
Quay portrait dropped to the floor
The master of politics could not stand
it any longer without protest.
Among the visitors to the Capitol
yesterday was eX-Mayor Ira w. STRAIT
ton, of Reading, who came to look
Ice 1t aIT Ia.r Ill
Stratton has been frequently men
toned for State offices. He is well
versed in third -class city matters.
This spring will see the first use of
farm tractors for plowing in this i'm
mediate section. Several men have ar
ranged to use tractors for their plow-
ing and the employment of such de-
vices will be on a much more elabor-
ate scale than imagined ten years ago.
| Motor vehicles have been a part of
| farm equipment in farms in this sec
tion for some time but plowing by
| tractor is n new thing to this con-
servative farming community. 1t may
be the means of solving the difficulties
attending the scarcity of farm hands
because a tractor can do tremendous
lot of work and cooperative work
would be a boon to many n farmer
who is short handed and likely to stay
so this year.
Application has been made by Dau-
phin county farmers for 100 farm
hands according to men who look aft
er employment operations. These men
are wanted to properly handle fields
this year and to help in raising food
crops. Apparently the drafts of the
city and Steelton industries and the
railroads have seriously cut down the
labor supply in this county.
|
The Old Portage road, whose i'm
provement was asked yesterday by
the State by a committee of Cambria
countians, has a great interest for
Harrisburgers. 1t was built by some
residents of this city under contracts
and years before that was the way
that Harrisburg used to ship Cornwall
liron to Pittsburgh. Harrisburgers are
also interested in properties which
the road passes.