Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-31
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about q notable change in the vaca-
ton ideas of many persons, particu-
larly those who always made IL a
point of visiting Atlantic City. Every
summer hundreds, probably thou
sands of residents of this city, Steel
ton and the surrounding towns have
been going to the playground by the
sea, but this year they are not going
there in such numbers. 1t Is not
through any fear of U-boats. be-
cause the average man from this
section, and woman, too, would like
to get a view of hostile vessel and
possibly to be around when some
fighting went on. But the change
seems to be due to the interest in
governmental affairs. to desire to be
around where something pertaining
to the war is doing and above ell
TO the operation of the draft law
and the creation of the camps.
washington is about the last place
that the average Pennsylvania
would have felt like visiting in mid
summer four years ago, yet there
nave been more sightseers from tho
@NNS SShchC phehlC CdDlldl at IEG Ma
tional Capital the last six weeks than
ever before. All you have to do is
to note the items in the personal
columns that people have gone on q
sightseeing trip to Washington and
Baltimore. Visits to Baltimore are
easily accounted for when we con-
slider the number of our men at
Camp Meade and the same applies
to the cities near Camps Lee, Hum
phreys and Greenleaf just as in a
lesser degree to Camps Hancock and
Wadsworth. Manhattan seems to
have kept its devotees, but war time
activities have taken away many of
the seaside regulars.
In this connection it is interestine
to note that the Rev. DIR. Silas c.
swallow is spending his usual vaca-
ton at Ocean Grove. DIR. and Mrs.
swallow began going to Ocean Grove
pack in the early eighties and have
not missed a summer, although oc-
casionally visiting Atlantic City.
Harrisburg has been honored by
having a number of distinguished
visitors within the past few months,
Among these were the Blue Devils.
eX-President Taft, Nine. Schumann-
Heink and others whose names have
been less widely known. The sister
of John Adams Thayer, for many
years publisher of The Smart Set
ana EVerybody's was here for sew
eral days recently. Another visitor
was Miss Ruth Riske, of Reading.
Miss Riske is a kinswoman of the
late Jean and Edouard de Rezke.
who won renown on the operatic
stage. Elbert Hubbard, II, head of
the Roycrofters and son of the man
who wrote The Message to Garcia"
and THE Philistine" visited friends
here the other week and r. B. Mel
len, the Pittsburgh millionaire with
his wife and daughter, Sarah, were
registered at the Senate Hotel for
several days.
The low stage of the river may
be cause of worry to the farmers
in this vicinity, but the river coal
men are happy" said a man who
| toured the upper end in an automo-
bile yesterday. Every creek lead
ing from the mines is so low that
| coal deposits can be dug out in MANY
places without the use of the pump
except for washing purposes and
| places in the river above the city
that cannot be worked when the
water is high are being made to weld
T.
Millersburg say the high, prices and
| scarcity of other varieties of coal
have caused the producers to oper-
ate on an enlarged scale and the
quantity mined will be two or three
| times greater than last year, which
was record season."
Charles E. Middlekauff, the nestor
OF the Harrisburg messenger boys, is
seventy to-day. He is one of the
Western Union corps OF war messen-
gers and can find HIS way to and
from the draft headquarters with his
eyes shut. He comes from Hagers-
town, but admits he likes Harris
burg.
Members of the harrisburg Re-
serves. who have been giving of their
time to train men of the draft age at
the island three nights a week. will
go to ElizabethYille on Saturday to
give instruction to $50 men Of the
upper Dauphin district. It will be a
general muster day for that end of
the county and Major Henry M.
Stine will take a detail of officers
and men of the Reserves along with
him. They will include the officers
of the Reserves and a number of the
men who were formerly active.
Charles p. Sweeney, formerly of
this city, who was leg1sIative corre-
spondent OF the Philadelphia Public
Ledger at the 1917 session. is now
connected with the National Com
mittee of Public Information. He
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