Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-30
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Song writing is tricky PROPOSE
tion." says Allen Sangree, of the Har-
risburg Telegraph staff who yester-
| day signed a contract with the Jo-
seph Morris Music Publishing Com
pany, of New York and PHILADELPHIA
to print the words of the popular
war song, Your Old Uncle Sam"
on the same sheet with the music of
the "Old Gray Mare" composed by
Frank PAMELA, bandmaster of Pitts
burgh. Marching with the Repub-
lican Club of this city on Flag Day
last summer" Sangree related, "I
heard for the first time old Gray
Mare played by the Goldsboro Band.
IL mad such a stirring lilt that was
moved that very night to compose
patriotic words to it, and in a few
Hays my Judgment proved correct.
| Next thing was to copyright the sonpr
ana get 1T printed along with the
notes, Tor which end l wrote no less
tnan half dozen letters to the Nor
riS company without any reply. Pan
Iia, 'he composer, added his appeals
10 the publisher and he must have
nnally persuaded him, for at O'clock
Sesteruay morning when the rising
| sun was just tinting the familiar.
pune or black smoke from the Pine
Bending Works l heard a shriII cry
from an apple tree in Balm street.
the nearest approach the visitor
could make to Royal Terrace which
is In remote section of our great
city. is this A Sangree?' shrilIed
the voice in New York accents
,Hully chez, I'm Israel, music agent
tor Norris. Want t. sign " nm f'r
Uncle Sam-Old Gray Mare-builv
chee! AS the apple twig on which
ne reprosed gave way he landed
near my home. Hechvation, amt
it. Why doncher live n Newaw,l:
slsn mere; sll right. Got t. hop Il
train f'r Galveston; guy wrote a good
Kaiser Bill song DIN there. Just
come from Frisco. Sell good? You
bet. Never heard it. s. long, see W
at Shanleys. Live in Harlem-got'
wife, n three kids. They say | ought
t been detective. s. long; gotto-
ketchtrain.'"
The vigorous manner in which
state game protectors have gone af-
ter the Susquehanna and Juniata
River Valley men who have violated
the state game code and the national
rulings preventing spring shooting
OF wild water fowl and the publicity
given to the names, penalties end
circumstances surrounding the cases
is reported to have had some effect in
Varius parts of the state. There
nave been unusual qnatities of wild
DUCKS and geese seen this last ten
days and from accounts the tempta-
ton to take some shots at the birds
| was too, strong for men to resist
Consequently, it is proposed to en-
force the law on the subject so that
warning may be given. These prose-
cutions coupled with the following
up of men who broke the deer laws
last summer will keep protectors
busy for time.
DR.. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary Of
the State Came Commission, has
passed up the fuss made over the
use of feathers for trout flies IN
somo sections OF the state people in
clined to stretch things have been
, declaring that the bright hued feath-
ers taken from game birds consti-.
tuted a violation of the clause rela-
) tive to skins and feathers of birds,
hut here it is declared to be very far
! fetched. In any event. many of the
flies are made out of guinea and
and chicken feathers, and the guam
II tity used in manufacture of flies
would not damage any law very
much, say officials.
Thousands of young trout of an
) age, able to take care of themselves,
! have been sent out from the Belle
fonte hatchery the last two weeks
to over twenty counties for distribu-
lion. The planting will be expand
\ ed as the weather improves and 1t IS
\ hoped to make q spring record as
D the weather has been unusually open
for March. The condition has stirred
up sportsmen, many of whom nave
a written here for supplies of young
: fish, agreeing to furnish reports on
= their condition and to comply with
other state regulations The num-
Der of fish at Betlefonte and other
, hatcheries for distribution will be
lerger than usual this year, it is he
lie"ed.
The display of war posters which
is being arranged for the Harrisburg
Public Library by Miss Alice r.
Eaton, bids fair to be one of the
most extensive displays of the kind
even seen in the city, and the an
nouncem rent of the plans, has caused
many offers of posters. The Com
mittee on Public Information at
Washington, has offered the posters
from the OlHCidl SAlllpiI WHICH III
cludes those by Gibson, Flagg,
Christy and noted artists, and there
will also be a number of Canadian
English, Italian and French posters
shown.
Highway Commissioner j. Dem
! ny O'Neil's friends occasionally re-
fer to him as "Mr. McNeiP' and sell
dom fails to bring a smile. One
time when the commissioner was q
candidate for som ething or other in
strenuous Allegheny county, a man
came plound and demanded to sec
Dennis J. Mcneil" The name seems
to have stuck.