Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-26
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States Transport PocohontaS, tor-
merly the Pripcess Irene. the ship
was is midocean, and Captain Ned
Kalbfus Immediately ordered lights
on and had n moving picture show
for his people. This much comes
from the captain, who is son of
DR.. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the
State Game Commission, in a letter
TO his parents. Then, he writes, he
went to bed in his pajamas for the
first time on shipboard in nine
months or more. Captain Kalbfus'
letter. which is the first of any size
he has written since the war began,
hints at some experiences of a thrill
ing kind. and while he did not have
any such attack as that which fell
upon the Mount Vernon, commanded
by Captain Dougles IL. Dismukes, an
other Harrisburg man, he went
through enough to demonstrate what
he considered responsibility Like
Captain Dismukes, whose handling o.
the Mount Vernon after the torpedo
ing attracted national attention, Cap
tain Kalbfus is chary in talking about
himself. However, it is known that
the Pocohontas, under his command,
made voyages of over $4,000 miles
and transported over 10000 men
WITHOUT loss Oh IL SlllBlG NE SI OilS
trip the Pocohontas towed in dis
abled steamer picked up two days
out of New York. Suffice it to say
that while he was transporting SOL
diers or bringing home his ship, the
commander never took off his cloth
ing and seldom slept In recognition
of his record, Captain Kalbfus has
been appointed to command the bat
tleship Iowa, which is step toward
! higher command.
If any one wants any information
! in regard to whether the war is over,
all he needs to do is to sit at the
telephones in the Harrisburg Tele-
graph office. A month ago the
movements of the armies of Persh-
ing, Petain and Haig, the Italian
campaign, the watch on the fleet
and the developments in Russia, to-
gether with the draft, were the
things people telephoned about night
and day. They took an abiding in
terest and they telephoned in a very
explicit manner. Now the tele-
phone calls are "Who won the
game?"
One of the reasons why Colonel
! ernor's staff, is deeply interested in
! the project to make the Susque-
hanna river navigable is because his
grandfather. Colonel James w,
| Quiggle, former State Senator, intro
duCed a bill into the state Legislature
to make the river navigable by a
system of dams and locks, thereby
connecting Lake Erie with Chesa-
peake Bay. Senator Quiggle was
also a member of the board of di
reCtors of the old Susquehanna
! Canal. lie was greatly interested in
| the improvements of state water
ways and his grandson inherits this
enthusiastic interest.
James 4. Steese. chief of media
! ton in the State Department of La
Dor and Industry, was presented
with a service pin yesterday at the
opening of the state conference OF
officers of the Labor and Industry
| Department. 1t was sent 10 him by
James A. Smyth and other friends
In the Federal service. At the out
etkuf.-thaz War-Alr. Steese was sent
! a pin w4ti4sf stars in No4for Of
| his four sons, who were officers in
| the Army. Since then one has died
and the pin presented yesterday by
Commissioner McNichols in behalf
of his friends contained one gold
star and three silver ones, one of
his sons, an officer at Camp Lee,
having died.
Quail have been heard calling in
old Paxton Churchyard and in the
grounds of the Pennsylvania State
Insane Hospital Bob White seems
to be getting close TO urban life and
! is more protected by farmers than
ever. Comparatively few have been
shot near the city.
One of the most amusing features
Of the present reign of high prices
aside from the noisy assertion of
men who have turkeys to sell that
people must eat turkel on Thanks
giving Day to be patriotic, is the
reason advanced for the rise in the
price of buttermilk. Until the
! Danubian principle of drinking sour
milk to ward off old age became gem
eral and the dietetic values of but
termilk were recognized buttermilk
was fed to the pigs or thrown away
Now there is a demand for it and
one man had the gall to explain an
advance of two cents in the price
per quart by saying, ut costs more
to produce" The remark of the
farmer at the Verbeke street mar
ket who explained his boosts in
price for everything by saying that
''railroaders are making money
seems to be sister to other remarks
! heard
PENNSYLVANIA is face to face with
a shortage of chicken this year, ac-
cording TO reports which have been
reaching the Department of AGri-
culture. The high prices asked for
turkeys lately seem to have turned
! attention to poultry of other kinds
and as geese and ducks have also
been high the chicken market was
fairly raided with the result that 1t
showed q smaller chicken population
i'm the barnyards of the state than
known for a long time and that ow-
ing to the high price Of feed many
poultry raisers had "unloaded" their
stocks. Similarly many people VINO
have kept chickens in yards at
homes have given up the plan and
the winter will start with probably
a smaller number of fowls than
usual on the farms and in the poul-