Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08
Enrntng Chat

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munity in regard to the war all you
have to do is to go to a movie"
especially when there is a war play.
Anything of patriotic nature gets
applause, but when the American
soldiers, sailors or marines are
shown swinging along a street or q
| road the audience proceeds to cheer
and 1t does it every time the film
records the fighting men. But when
there is a fight picture displayed and
the Hun gives way the manner in
which the audience. especially the
younger portion, proceeds to whoop
1t up is inspiring. The other even
ing in spite of the intense heat
there were capacity audiences in
the Market street houses showing
war pictures and the cheers that
came out into the sitting street
made everyone perk up. One scene,
which showed the events of pretty
stiff fight, was announced to the
people on the streets by the con-
tinued cheering that greeted 1t,
while the people inside heard the
young men joining in the patriotic
outburst by such shouts as soak
'em!" Go to 1t, Yanks!" Treat 'em
rough!" and kindred exclamations.
A moving picture place has the old
time peanut" beaten many miles,
especially now when there are so
many Harrisburgers in France and
when the martial spirit of the place
is mounting higher every day.
Opening of the ice distribution
stations about the city has proved a
boon to many hundreds of Harris
! burg people and what was inaugu-
| rated because of a shortage of men
to deliver the Ice has turned out,
as do many such things, to the ad-
vantage of everyone. In some out
lying sections of Harrisburg where
regular service was maintained with
difficulty and not as frequently as
before, ice is now to be had at con-
venient points, and, moreover, the
duplication of the cash and carry
plan enables people to get larger
chunks than they would il they
bought from the wagons because of
the cost to the distributor of the
hauling and handling. There are
probably sections of the city where
the old system would not be resum-
! ed if it could. Unfortunately on
hot nights there are no people at
the stations after 6 o'clock.
Commissioner of Fisheries Nathan
R. Butler will have another son go
into the service this week. Earl
Butler, who has been at MERGERS
burg, is going into the marines. His
elder son, Ross Butler, is in France
with an infantry regiment and wrote
to his father from a town where he
was billeted that he is conforming
to local customs. Everyone here
does his or her own washing by this
stream. They get started early. 1t
lis now $50 and I have my wash
out on the line. That is how come
to have time to write"
The annual blackbird invasion of
Capitol Park has started. There are
some signs that it is not we'll re-
,ceived by the feathered and furred
denizens of the park, but the pug
nacious blackbirds have things their
own way. The order for mobiliza-
ton in the park seemed to have been
given yesterday because about 100
birds descended on the park and
made themselves thoroughly at
home. The squirrels did not like 1t
and voiced Indignation from the
trees, while the robins fed and the
pigeons held mass meetings in great
disgust.
Joseph N. Mackrell, for years
connected with newspaper work in
Pittsburgh, who was in the city
yesterday on a brief visit, says that
the movement of trucks and auto
mobiles of every sort over Pennsyl-
vania roads from factories to sea-
board is far and away greater than
anything of the kind ever known.
Mr.. Mackrell came over the Lincoln
Highway, after visiting various sec
tions of the state, and says he found
truck trains and machines in almost
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There is precious little vacation
in sight for the people at the Public
Service Commission offices in this
city, and the predictions that there
would be no cessation of activity
seems justified. The increases in
rates which electic and other util-
ity companies have been forced to
make have caused showers of COM
plants to be received at the offices
of the commission, and every day
something is added to the lists to
be looked up and decided. Last
summer it was the same way only
jitneys were making the trouble, and
this year 1t Is rate increases which
are getting in the way of vacations
Members of the Harrisburg Re-
serves who are instructing men of
draft age in the first principles of
military discipline are running up
against some funny things. The 9TH
er day at Elizabethville Major Henry
NJ. Stine in referring to the all sorts
of work that a soldier must do said
they they would probably have to
take a turn peeling potatoes. Later
on Frank Payne. Jr., who was drill
ing a bunch of seventeen from down
the Lykens Valley found one man
who was slow in Catching on" The
man worked at it and Young Payne
worked, too, and when the drill
ended the draftee said "I guess I'll
do better peeling potatoes than drill
ing"
John Drew has a warm spot in his
heart for Harrisburg. A story is
told of his coming to Harrisburg sew
eral months ago. with Margaret IL
lington in joint appearance at the
Orpheum. Mr.. Drew was sitting in
the Senate discussing old times with
a friend. Right here In Harrisburg
there was a theater on the site of
the present Majestic and I used to
play in it," he said. You're wrong"
his friend reminded him. 'It was
on the site of the Penn-Harris. re-
member the cordial receptions used
to receive in this town when I was
new to the business. People were
mighty nice to me in those days"