Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-30
Enrntng Chat

While Berks and Lancaster and
various other counties hereabouts
are putting on considerable airs
about having general officers on the
hghting lines in France. in charge
OF camps or organizing divisions on
this side, Dauphin has not Jared SO
| We'll however, 1t is somewhat in
clined to wish to share with Mif1iu
the honors of Brigadier General
Frank r. Mccoy, who has visited
mere , number of times. and would
like to claim General c. r. Farms
worth. who was detailed to Penn
sylVania for National Guard instruc-
ton, and lived here for several
years, as one of its own. Now comes
the news that Brigadier General
Frederick S. Foltz is in command of
the Ninety-first division. which is in
training in France at present. Cen
eral Foltz comes from another coun-
ty, but he married a Harrisburger
and we will follow his career with
deep interest. This division is COM
posed of men from the northwestern
states and Alaska.
The Matterhorn has started to
disappear from the landscape. The
top of this historic affair has been
taken off and 1t is only a short time
until 1T is razed and the eye will
sweep over stretches which have
hitherto been blocked by it's bulk.
The Matterhorn is a house built of
concrete in fearful and wonderful
way and named by it's builder, H.
Homer Matter, in such a peculiar
way. 1t was the cause of much liti-
cation before the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania got legal title andvthen
possession and is one of the few
houses in this part of the state
which concerned the grave justices
of the Supreme Court of the Key
stone State. Matter built II some
years ago on the site of some small
buildings and it was about as long
getting completed as it was in get
ting into the hands of the states
officers after proceedings began to
obtain the site for the extension of
the Capitol Park. But when the
conservatories began to disappear
the wreckers started on the classic
outlines of the Matterhorn and ii
Is slowly being taken down. Its
gray sides are visible for blocks be-
cause it is the only thing that looms
up In quite an eXpanse of the park
and when it is gone the general
effect will be much improved.
n From all accounts Harrisburg is
responding generously to the re-
quest for old rubber for national
= use, but there are signs that the call
for the pits of stones of peaches,
plums and similar fruits, which pos.
r sess certain chemical properties
making them valuable for manu-.
s facture of carbon for masks for SOL
diers will be answered. A couple OF
inquiries have been made in various
6 offices as to where the pits are to
be sent. One woman said she was
undertaking peach preserving and
d wanted to get rid of a bushel of the
stones and that right. early.
h The Harrisburg Public Library
has been offered several places fol
story telling for children. Some time
e ago the library announced that ow.
ing to the assembly room beina
given up to the Red Cross it would
be necessary to take the story tell.
ing hours of Saturday to the chill.
o. dren instead of having them come
to the library. A room in Pine
is Street Church and one in Sibletown
have been listed, together with
. tentative offer of one from far ur
= town and one on the Hill. A dozer
Il or so are wanted.
Just exactly what some of the
foreigners who are forced to give
;. up firearms to state gamewarden.
- do with the lethal weapons is hard
" say. COHle OIL lnOSe IN Dr. hdlD.
e fus' unique collection in the Frank.
lin Building are as dangerous at one
end as at the other and If they are
fired the man who shoots must have
l little regard for his own safety The
| great number of the guns when
] taken are rusty. show signs of never
having been oiled and must be car.
ried, say some of the men, for dem.
onstration purposes. Most of them
but once in while some internal
thing like knife. which shoots a
20 is turned up. One day a man
brought in what looked like the hub
of small wheel. It was filled with
holes and was made to explode
charges under water to kill fish OF
to leave out in a woods with food
around 1t to have slaughter of game
The larger guns confscated are old.
time contraptions with occasionally
a modern shotgun. The foreigners
seem to like the large bore guns
, too.
A good story comes from Hunting.
don county, where complaints OF
T does killed have been made lately
: Two does were reported down a
we'll and Warren Rogers was detail.
ed from Johnstown to round up
the crooks. Rogers found the well
and located the does. Then he
started to fish them out. A man
came around to help and was SO
loud in his protestations of horror
at the killing of the animals and so
vociferous that the culprits should
be punished that Rogers locked him
up. Finally he told him that it was
up to him to pay a fine. The man
paid 5000 without a kick.
e
Paul Littlefield, secretary of the
State Chamber of Commerce, gets
the reflex of things which are print
ed in the newspapers. Saturday the
newspapers announced that certain
changes in workmen's compensation
rates were contemplated and i'm
mediately manufacturers from all
sections of the state began to write
to him for complete information z
Compensation is a subject all it's
own and the secretary is doing
some tall investigating.