Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-10
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fought submarine for an hour and
a half while on q homeward bound
trip short time ago they did not
know that q Harrisburg man, born
and bred and educated here, was in
command of the ship and brought 1t
safe to port, as ordered. There are
suspicious that if his orders had per-
mitted he would have run the risks
involving in ramming the sea snake
or that he would have done some.
thing else than make the best tine
possible in getting away. But or.
ders are orders and Uncle Sam ia
not taking any chances with his
valuable ships. The ship was the
Pocohontas which some people from
Pennsylvania have sailed in as tha
Princess Irene, former German
liner, with a registered capacity for
making seventeen knots. The COM
mander was none other than Coms
mander Ned" Kalbfus. son of the
veteran secretary of the State Game
Commission. Commander Kalbfus ie
noted as one of the most vigilant OF
masters of transports, a duty to
which only picked officers from the
United States Navy are assigned.
When the war is over the story Of
what he has done can be told. In
any event 1t is told in ports that the
Pocohontas found the submarine on
its stern and opened fire. The SUBJ
marine was low in the water and
poor target and the shells from the
guns of the liner splashed close 20
the small surface showing. But the
submarine had something as big as
n fn Gh
sixty shells about the transport, not
one of which hit, although the vessel
got many Splinters and bits of the
casing. While no one says 1t that
knows, the chances are that the rea-
son the liner was not hit was the
clever way it was handled and the
fact that it's commander remembered
his orders and took his vessel home,
r Major w. G. Murdoch, the states
chief draft officer, went to Gettys-
burg yesterday to review his army
The major in addition to numerous
other duties connected with the ad-
ministration of all of the draft
boards and q headquarters here as
large as a high school, has an army
all his own. 1t was made so by
general order from Washington and
= consists of the men sent to Camp
Colt for limited training as clerks to
s boards in the draft system. They are
It under his orders and he will have
d to inaugurate morning reports and
= other things. The majors army will
" be in training for time and when
. . the soldiers return to their home dis
q tricts they will report to him.
3 Carl w. Davis. one of the mem.
G bers of the Harrisburg Reserves.
!. who has mad charge of drills of men
v in the vicinity of Dauphin, has
q widely-scattered and much-reduced
: army. The last draft struck it bad
ly and when he called the roll the
" other evening he found that one man
:, lived at Speeceville, another at
O Clark's Ferry. one near Dauphin, one
v at Rockville. another two miles up
e Fishing Creek Valley and others at
n separated points. Muster. day for
!, what is left of that contingent is go
It ing to be hard to arrange.
The namc of DIR. Thomas Edward
e Munce. who is in charge of the WORT
; of the State Livestock Sanitary
= Board in the absence of State Veter.
It marian C. j. Marshall, is one of tho
e men nominated for representative
: from the Atlantic States to the board
It of the American Veterinary Medical
s Association. The alumni of the Uni
y versity of Pennsylvania veterinary
e department have issued circular
urging that he be elected because of
his activity and interest in the or
/, ganization, as we'll as his standing
| in his profession.
The coming tractor demonstration
near New Cumberland is going to be
one of the biggest things in this part
of the state in a long time and there
will be tractors of all sizes, shapes
and pedigrees on the government
farm near New Cumberland to show
what they can do in the way of tear
ing up the ground. The tractors will
be here from score of states and
it is expected that the demonstration
will attract attention from many
farmers, notably the southeastern
part of Pennsylvania.
Members of the State Public Serv-
J ice Commission are commencing to
get the idea that every time notice
of an increase of rates is filed it will
} be followed by q complaint. The
manner in which the notices have
been coming along the line has kept
= the people att the offices of the COM
mission stepping and there has
I scarcely been jump in rates of a
big utility but what complaints have
followed. There are few trolley COM
panies in the state and fewer cleo
trio companies which have not ad-
, vanced rates. Philadelphia's transit
system is one of the few to keep to
the nickel fare.
1t is not generally known that
Professor John T. Wenyon, the noted
Shakespearean interpreter, is now a
resident of Harrisburg and is living
. at 107 Locust street. Professor Wen
yon's home is in London. Several
years ago he suffered from severe ILL
ness and rs result could not under
go the trials and strain of extended
, tours. He has entered the service of
! the British government as an inspec-
tor of munitions and is now stationed
with the Bethlehem Steel Company
at their Steeiton plant. Professor
Wenyon has great power of voice
and expression. He has toured vir-
tually every country in the world.