Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-31
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William H. Ball, Secretary to the
somely bound album of 500 photo
graphs of incidents on the tour
of the Liberty Bell across the coun-
try In 1915. Mr.. Bell was then chief
OF the bureau of city property of
philadelphia, which includes the
Bell, and bossed the job. The photo
graphs were taken by Lewis r.
Snow, the city's official photo
grapber, and are among the finest
brought to this city. Mr.. Ball is
shown in shirt sleeves and also in
a raincoat experimenting the start
of the Bell from Independence Hall;
directing placing of the Bell on it's
car and riding in a parade. He is
shown at Harrisburg, Altoona and
various cities, holding up children to
lay hands on the Bell, receiving
flowers and escorting dignitaries to
the object of affection of the Ameri-
can people. There is something for
almost everyone of the 400 stops on
a journey of 10000 miles. One of
the most interesting is the delegation
of crippled children at Lincoln, Ne
braska, who got to visit the Bell to
the great disturbance of a parade
and the perturbation of the mayor,
one of the Bryan family. At st. 10,
Missouri, Mayor Marshall is shown
beside the Bell. He is q son of the
great John Marshall and a most in
teresting coincidence was that the
Bell rang for liberty on July s, 1776,
four days after the chairman of
Congress signed the Declaration and
cracked when it rang July s, 1896,
for the death of Marshall. 1t was
July 8, 1915, that Mayor Marshall
stood beside the Bell in st. 10. The
pictures show the tremendous en-
thusiasm of the people for the Bell
from Philadelphia to the Golden
Gate.
Adjutant General f. D. Beary is
making an effort to get some action
on numerous complaints being made
to him that the families of soldiers
are not receiving their allotment of
the pay which the Government sends
through the War Risk Bureau.
Many letters have come complaining
of failure to get the money and of
consequent distress. General Beary
is sending them to Washington as it
is not a state matter, but one for
the War Department. In transmit
ting the letters he calls attention to
the urgency of the cases and asks
prompt inquiry.
Charley" Stevens, the man who
was the first to sing in this city,
those old time ballads, "Sallie in
Our Alley" and white Wings" is
dead. He was for many years the
leading tenor singer with the famous
Carncross and DiXey minstrels and is
known to many old timers in Har-
risburg. His last appearance here
was at the old Opera House in 1880.
Previous to that time he was billed
as THE Worlds Famous Silver
Voiced Tenor" and he was big
card on every visit here. In private
life he was known as David w. ID.
Warden. For many years after he
left the road, he was prominent
in minstrel shows in Philadelphia,
his home town. He started as
singer in a church choir and was
discovered by a theatrical manager
who put him on the stage shortly
after the close of the Civil War,
Here is a new one on traction
cars and snow. Day before yester-
day a man called up the Harrisburg
Railways office and insisted on talk
ing to President Musser. After
while he got him on the wire be-
cause he was persistent and would
not talk to any one else.
'Mr. Musser?"
"Yes."
rs thS IlullAiSASNO"A A
yet?"
Eyes. we have it open and traffic
moving"
automobile and go to Hummelstown
but if you had not opened the troll
ley tracks 1 would not have tried
it," came back.
ooh, very WELL" said the railway
head.
From all accounts the ribbons won
| by youthful corn growers and schools
at the state mid. winter farm prod
ucts show here last week have bccn
the cause of much local pride. Rur-
al news letters in papers throughout
the state tell of the winnings ana
discuss the merits of the corn Ia
manner which indicates the deep IN
terest of the country folks in such
matters as big ears of corn and line
potatoes.
The manner in which contractors
and builders kept on the job yes
terday in spite of the low tempera-
ture was we'll worth watching. In
fact, some people who could not
work them selves put in some time
observing the manner in which the
men employed on the Penn-Harris
went about their job. In the outly-
ing districts where new houses are
being built men worked behind can
vass and board screens and lucky
were those who could put in win
dow frames and panes.