Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-25
Ehrning Glrat

Twenty-Five special trains in the
makeup and operation of which
the railroads of the state of Penn
sylvania are cooperating will be re-
quired to move the 1858 drafted
men who will start for Camps
Meade, Lee, Greenleaf and Hum
phreys in the five-day movement
which starts to-day. This is the
largest movement Pennsylvania has
been called upon to undertake under
the draft since the selective service
law became operative and local
boards have been preparing for it
for the last fortnight. The bulk of
the Eastern Pennsylvania men will
go to Camp Meade, but some wifi
also go to Lee, which has hitherto
drawn largely from western Pennsyl-
vania. This movement is part of
one in eastern states which will
take ITO special trains and which
will include over $4,000 men. The
movement to-day will be the small
est of the five days and probably
not more than five trains will be
moved. For the movement to start
May 20, and to cover five days there
will be nine special trains requirSd.
1t will send 2,750 men to Columbus
iDeiIl 1Cho anu OOU each 10 OTIS
Oglethorpe and Schriven, Georgia.
For days agents of the railroads have
been working on the schedules which
cover hundreds of stations and stops
to gather up the Pennsylvanians who
will be furnished from 2S2 districts.
Cassius A. Dunn. of the State De-
partment of Labor and Industry,
tells good story of colored man
at the investigation conducted by the
state into the explosion at Oakda1e
last Saturday. The colored man
was one of the survivors of crews in
part of the plant that was ex-
ceptionally hard hit.
Il doan know what de right name
for dat INT is, Boss" said the
colored man during his examination,
But for me dat means 'Trabbel,
| Niggah, Trabbel.' "
Later on when asked about
phase of the disaster, he said "I had
no time ter mex notes er observa-
tions. When de boom came L
grabbed my gloves and headed for
de woods"
"Milt" Robinson, Harrisburg
railroad man who happened to be
in Oakdale when the disaster oc-
Cured. said day or so ago about 1t:
IT studied geography and read n lot
about volcanoes, but believe me If
volcanoes are anything like that
thing I am glad my study was con-
fined to school and not on the spot"
zone effect the order of General
Crowder for men who are playing
baseball to go to the army or to
munition plants will be that there
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known in amateur circles said one
of the older generation of Harris
burg sports yesterday in talking
about the prospects for ball" as he
phrases it. ITO my mind, it will
not hurt baseball very much. 1t
will be better after the tearup. 1t
will bring some people down to
earth and the boys who will be play
ing on the Saturday afternoon games
on home diamonds will get show.
1t will take baseball back twenty
five or thirty years, but it will do
it good"
All the men who could be found
to work on roads in this section
have been started on betterment of
roads leading from Harrisburg to-
the army ordnance and quarter
masters depots near this city. TT
National government has joine
with state and county and townsh
authorities to fixing up roads II
Dauphin and Cumberland count Ne
and negotiations are under way t.
have boroughs unite in some i'm
provements. The construction kworl
has necessitated very heavy teefminf
and trucking and the highways ir
many cases were in none too< good
condition after the hard wiThter.
a
.One of the effects of the WAR which
liS attracting attention aboVt the Of
flee of the guides at the State Capt.
itol is the way people give their birth
places Half dozen years people
born in Germany were rather proud
of the fact and used 70 write it
out. Now a person of German de-
scent does not advertise the fact. at
least on the register at the Capitol.
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An interesting thing connected with
the parade last night was that the
flag carried by Mayor Daniel IL.
Keister, an Italian ensiGn, came from
the Italian battlefront. 1t was sent 10
Meade D. Detweiler, Jr., Of this clty'
to his mother direct from the Datte-
lires where he has been dong such
splendid service.