Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-23
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AA"iAiSpuIs liIlpOTIdHC6 us LILO Va
hcial center of the State was strik
ingly impressed upon people abou
the State Capitol yesterday. Almos
everywhere one turned there was
man of prominence in some commu
nlty and the meetings and hearing
held on the famous Hill during tn
DAY and evening made up a lis
which affected everyone in the Key
stone State. AS q matter of fac
almost any one of the various meet
ings was of such moment as to ba
"flrst page STUFF in the newspaper
of Pennsylvania in ordinary times
but in the present strenuous state
oil affairs many of them got bare
mention. The meetings of the Leg
lslature were out of the ordinary
the Supreme Court session was i'm
portant and the various hearings by
Legislative committees were of tre-
mendous interest, while the meetings
in the Governors department were
historic. The conference of shertffs
and mayors called by Governor
Brumbaugh will take place in State
annals as its significance is realized
No gathering of the kind was ever
held here before and the assembling
OF the chiefs of the official divisions
of the Commonwealth was a war
time proceeding which grows in Inn
pressiveness as one considers what
1t meant 1t takes rank as a confer
ence of officials with the notable
meeting of the Public Safety Com
mittee here late in March when men
who direct untold millions were :
brought together to plan for the well
fare of their State in the same room.
Prof. Howard Vert, the we'll
known writer, is as handy with MS
hoe as with his pen. Regardless OF
the weather conditions Mr.. Vert s
garden has been prospering and he
is now enjoying radishes every day
with prospect of peas and otner
green stuff of the kind in the near
future. Mr.. Vert is one OF the
pioneers OF backyard gardening IN
Harrisburg. For years every inch
of ground in the rear of his Second
street residence has been cultivated
and made to keep down the high
cost of living in the Vert household.
Guy B. Strausner was in town yes
terday. Mr.. Strausner is one of theV
city's messenger boys who haves
| risen 10 all nOnOTdDlt DldCC anu 6OOo
| salary. In Spanish-American War
days Strausner was messenger boy
| for the Associated Press in the city.
He was swift on his feet, of clean
cut build and eager to serve. One
of the newspapermen dubbed him
1.-The Dispatch Boat Guy" and the
name stuck. But Guy was too swift T
| for the messenger service and now
| he is one of the best steel and iron
| c1l laCn1nn tho nn1nlnV nf thai
| Youngstown Sheet and Tube Com
pany, of Youngstown, o., with head
quarters in Philadelphia. With the
same company is Elmer McCleary,
a Harrisburg high school graduate,
| educated in engineering lines att
State College, who is now assistant
superintendent of the company
der him.
1t does not often happen that
three mayors sit in the same bar
ber's chair in the same day, but Giles
Fl. Bower, of the Palace Barber
Shop, performed that unusual serv-
ice yesterday. First there Strolled
into the shop Mayor Miller, of Har-
risburg, and he had scarcely taken
his hat off when Mayor kits, of
Erie, appeared on the scene. Closely
! following Mayor Kits came Mayor
Smith, of Philadelphia. Mayor Aitts
was in the city on business pertain
| ing to the Legislature and Mayor
Smith had accompanied a delegation
to Harrisburg to meet the Public
| Service Commission on transit mat
ters.
State Capitol folks had fire scare
the other evening. The air was heavy
and there was more than the usual
amount of smoke being blown over
from the Pennsylvania railroad
yards. Some one walking in the Cap
itol Park looked up and seeing the
light from the reflectors which play
upon the national flag on the CEN
trail building against the smoke con-
cluded that there was a fire. For a
time it did look as though there were
a fire right on the roof and people
not familiar with the smoke and
air currents about the Capitol got
busy. State policemen and Capitol
policemen hustled up to the roof
with some legislators and attaches
and concluded that 1T smelled like
coal smoke.
The display of tulips in the big
bed in Capitol Park Just north of
the Library building is the finest ever
seen in the States domain. 1t is
even better than the rows of flowers
which are to be admired every spring
in front of the Capitol building, a
show which has included from three
to six varieties. The display south
of the Library contains several vari-
cites seldom seen here and some of
them are eighteen to twenty inches
high.