Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
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which will open its 123rd sitting in
little more than six weeks ana the
preparations for this event and the
gubernatorial Inauguration Just two
months away are going hand IN
hand. The legislative halls are IN
the hands Of the renovatorA The
big curtains have been taken down
to be cleaned and the sound of the
electric sweeper Is heard in the aisies
and about the rostrum, while the
great hall of the House of Represen-
tatives is filled with scaffolding for
the workmen to reach the huge
chandeliers and replace globes and
retouch the gilt where needed. All
of the desks have been gone over a
couple of times and the final rub
bing down will be given in q few
days. In the Senate chamber there
will be less work to be done, but 1t
Is expected that it will all be ready
for the sittings in short time. The
committee rooms, which are occu-
pied by various branches of the state
/
made ready for the committees to
meet. The occupants will go to the
top floor or to temporary quarters in
other buildings.
The first Of the giant locomotives
to be sent into service on the Penn
sylvania railroad by the federal gov
ernment and marked with the In
itials "U. s." has reached here. The
Reading system has been using en-
gines marked ~. S. A." for months,
these engines having been built for
Russia. The new engines on the
Pennsylvania are among the largest
ever seen here. Their favorite place
to stand while awaiting trains is
within sight of the Public Service
Commission offices.
Once in a while some humor
creeps into a Public Service hearing.
Yesterday during the much combat
ted Springfield Consolidated Water
Co. case, the largest of it's kind ever
presented in the state, Commissioners
M. ]. Ryan said that he had once
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peace and then had sent another.
Possibly it found something green
and did not return" remarked Chair
man Ainey.
There was more water then," in
| terjected NJ. u. Paul, one of the law
yers.
But what happened to the dover"
asked Commissioner NJ. j. Brecht
|
Few people know that the consul
general of Sofia is a Philadelphian
and that years ago he used to Visit
| in Harrisburg. This Is what the
| Philadelphia Ledger says about hlm'
For many years no reunion OF the
Central High school alumni was
quite complete unless mick Mur-
| phy was on hand to speak. Ot
late years, Consul General Dominic
| 1, Murphy-to restore to him his
august official nomenclature-has
has had his hands full with King
Ferdy and the rest of them In the
Balkans; but his hearts right there
when 1t comes to the old schooL
that conferred the sheepsktn on him
in '65. Murphy's official experience
has been too long and varied Ior
the limits of u column and ms
memoirs would provide matter for
l
of Zenda." While he moved ram
| llarly among us here, among those
who knew him best were the late
William +. Harrity, chairman OF the
Democratic National Committee
from '92 to 30 and Phtladelphias
| nostnaster from 'S5 to 'S9, ana
| roland Morris, our ambassador to
japan, now sitting in at the great
game at Vladivostok."
While the war may be practically
over and the government moving 10
| return men to the ways OF peace,
hut the fact remains that the pail
of smoke by day and the pillars of
fire by night that mark Harrisburg
industries are, still to be seen. Inc
! glow of the bessemer mill at steel
| Ton continues on Saturday nights
and SUNDAYS and the flares from
blast furnaces are evidence that the
demands of peace are going to put
a strain on even the enormous pro-
| ductive capacity which has oeen
built up hereabouts. Thanks TO the
| construction and railroad needs the
bulk of the plants here will be busy
for q long time to come, say men In
charge of big plants. The officials
of the railroad systems hereabouts
who have been anXiously studying
the effects of peace, say that the
freight movement through Harris
burg the next two years will be im'
mense.
Perhaps, now that peace is here
| It will be permitted some day to tell
of the tremendous number of freight
cars that were handled through the
Pennsylvania and Reading freight
Yards in the Harrisburg district. No
one will ever know just what portion
of the munitions of war for Europe
went through this city, but 1t is an
open secret among railroad men thai
almost everything from shells tt
high explosives, airplanes to tanks
clothing to gas and almost every
thing else was handled right through
| the middle of this city and in the
safest and most expeditions way. Il
was nothing uncommon to see part
of aircraft and more than once solit
trains of motor vehicles wen
through. While no one was sup
posed TO speak about 1t, the lettering
on the cases told plainly enougl
where the things were going ant
often what the boxes contained,