Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-16
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1t is possible that when the natl
onal authorities get through passing
laws and interpreting them that
Harrisburg will have furnished under
the draft more men than required.
The situation in regard to credits
under the draft is the most remark
able ever known and has puzzled
many'men. but those who have work
ed it out believe that Harrisburg,
Lancaster and some other places
have given about all that is required,
although when the country calls they
are all willing to respond. The pecu-
liar condition is due to the fact that
the Army has not given credit or
the draft calls to Harrisburg and
| the other cities in the same fix for
the men they sent into the auxiliary
organizations of the National Guard
after last June and by the same
token there have been no credits
given for enlistments in the Regular
Army. 1t is argued here that either
credits should be abolished or else
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! Snyder county some of the folks be-
! lieve that the men sent this month
will exceed the quota of the county
considerably.
The canteen workers of the local
| Red Cross chapter are doing most
admirable work in meeting the vari-
Gus troop trains from day to day
, and supplying the soldiers on their
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| and other evidences of the regard
of a patriotic community These
women are doing this work without
any ostentation and practically no
publicity, but could the story of their
unselfish attention to the boys who
! are going to the front be given in
detail it would constitute one of the
most interesting chapters of our
local war activities. Harrisburg is
going to have warm place in the
memories of these soldiers of the
Republic, and their appreciation is
always voiced in most grateful terms.
The Public Service Commission
has made an order for improvement
| of the trolley service in Pittsburgh
which is believed by people at the
Capitol to indicate that something
like it will be made in other places
where companies have refused to
reduce number of stops in order to
prevent congestion on lines and to
keep cars on time. The gist of the
order is rather applicable to people
who have seen a car going to Rock
vile, Linglestown, Middletown or
Hummelstown jammed to the doors
with local traffic while cars intended
to take care of such traffic ramble
along in the rear, forced to make
the same stops as the through car
which is doing local work. In Pitts
burgh'S case the commission gives
the number of stops cars are to
make on certain routes and the COM
ments indicate that similar orders
can be looked for elsewhere. Ulti-
mately, in opinion of people at the
Capitol, companies will be forced to
establish express cars for the welfare
of their through passengers al
though in this and other cities this
idea has been vigorously opposed.
Express cars would mean that Rock
Vile cars, for instance, would not
let off passengers until they reached
Maclay street, for instance, while
Hummelstown cars would not let
off passengers until 10th or 21st
and Linglestown cars would keer
their outgoing doors closed unit.
goth street, for example. 1t might
make some trouble with foreigners
on the Steelton line not to stop z.
Middletown car until Lochiel or
Conestoga street in Steelton. but it
would be boon to through passen-y
gers. 1t would be great educator
for the trolley travelling public,
Judging by what has happened in
New York. Baltimore and Phila-
: delphia.
t Miss Resta Runkle, who stands
behind the ticket window at the
/ Orpheum theater, meets many
strange experiences every day. Yes
terday afternoon George Washington
called her on the telephone and or
dered seats for the show. Let me
have two seats" he said. "One is for
George Washington; the other for
! Sherlock Holmes" Several days ago,
man walked up to the window.
: Let me have a whisky seat" he
ordered. To the mystified Miss
t Runkle he made the explanation
that a whisky seat is what is com
, monty known as an end seat.
"Guess he wanted it to go out and
get a whisky between acts" com
) mented the young woman.
eff any more snowstorms come
along this city will not have shovels
| on hand. said hardware man to-
| day. I'VE nave sofa every SHoW
shovel we had and / believe some of
our friends in the same business
have done the same thing. 1t seemed
to me as though everyone owning
snow shovel had given it away or
lost it following the hard winter
. through which we have just passed
when this onion snow came along.
Then everyone wanted to buy. We
had packed ours away and we had
to hustle to get them out"
Justice William P. Potter, of the
Supreme Court. who died suddenly at
Swarthmore, was well known to
many residents of Harrisburg as he
has been frequent visitor here
since the Stone administration dur
ing which he was nominated and
elected. Justice Potter was great
admirer of the Harrisburg river
| e,o,,+ ard of the State Capitol,