Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-11
'Ehrttt1g Olrat

section of the city wherein the circus
exhibits. Somehow. or other all cir
euses are ''the" circus and they are
spoken of collectively. In any event
Iwenty-first street is now the point
Where the circus crowds converge
ana where the cars head along about
and o'clock in the afternoon
when the lemonade is commencing to
cooi Off and the peanuts to get
ileatea up. For many years uptown
was the local habitat of the circus.
1t showed so continuously in that
part OF the city that when anyone
spoke of the various mammoth ag
gregations and most stupendous
shows on earth, etc., coming to town
the thought was naturally of Sixth
ana Maclay or some point up Sixth.
but IL Is interesting to trace the mi
grations of the circus in Harrisburg.
captain Charles P. Neck, who never
missed circus when he was a boy
ana for some years thereafter. saws
that the first circus he remembers
coming to Harrisburg was the world
famous Dan Rice shows and 1t spread
its tent In the old Eby coal yard sec
tion not far from the present Phila-
uelphla and Reading Railway sta
tlon. There are not so many about
town who recall attending that show,
put the captain says that there was
some great bareback riding and the
Clowns were clowns. Then the circus
Tor time held forth on the old "cot-
ton mill lot" which to the memory
OF old Harrisburgers means a plot
near where the Harrisburg Silk Mills
stand FROM that vicinity-and it's
| odd to think of a circus showing on
| fashionable Front street.-the circus
moved out to Seventh street and held
| iorth until the Brelsford plant was
| pullt. 1t was a great occasion when
the circus went over there and
| Hickok, Hot Pot' and railroad
shopmen took the whole day off.
Inc march of building forced the cir
Gus TO move up to what we then
| called the stockyard district" That
| was Sixth and Maclay and the shows
| We're forced up bit by bit to Camp
street, then to Curtin, to Seneca and
| Hnally TO point above Reels lane.
once or twice Wild West shows dis
played on the island, but the island
was never popular for such shows,
albeit great baseball center for
many years after bricks and mortar
crowded 1t from North Sixth. Once
the circus went out on the Calder
1arm, near the Reservoir, but there
IL did not take well either. OF late
| 1T seems to be at home around
Twenty-first and Greenwood. And
Wen stop now because we've got to
| catch car.
One of the most energetic and will
ing TO serve of Harrisburg's men of
aHalrs is c. Linford Scott, superin-
| tendent of the Harrisburg Boiler and
manufacturing Company's plants
where big government orders are
now being turned out. The other
day he was ordered to report to a
large government plant near Balti-
more, where important inspection
work was under way. He drove
nearly all one night. to get there,
worked all day, spent the next night
on the road getting home. spent the
DAY catching up with his work in
the mill and then cheerfully ac-
cepted the request of the Rotary
club committee to lead the COM
munity singing at the recruiting
committee in Market Square Friday
night. And after it was all over he
was the most clipper man in the
whole bunch.
Ehrman B. Mitchell who when he
is not fndulging in Boy Scout work
helping sell Liberty Bonds, gather
ing money for the Y. M. G. A war
service, collecting for the Red Cross
or attending Rotary Club duties.
| looks after the management of over
| 1000 acres of farm land along the
mountain east of Rockville, is turn
ing the acres his father cultivated
for pleasure and recreation into a
real business enterprise. Returning
| from college he determined to make
farming a business and went to Rut-
gers and Columbia to get the tech
nical side of it. Speaking of his ex-
| periences the other night before the
! Rotary Club he said that he soon
| learned that scientific farming means
| applying the principles of successful
business to agriculture. Mr.. MitchelTs
| office is as well kept as that of the
| average business firm and he knows
down to the smallest. detail just
where every penny goesSand whence
his profits come. His farms are we'll
organized under competent heads on
salary and profit-sharing basis and
every one of the employees is a Red
| Cross member and an owner of Lib
erty Bonds or War Stamps.
The French "Blue Devils" who
had such a great reception here and
whose visit to Harrisburg was one
of the events of the war year, seem
to have captured Pittsburgh. They
were given a welcome in that city
which was strenuous even for the
iron and steel city. One of the funny
| incidents was that one of the fore
most engineers of that city. Paul
Didier, was so entranced by the
chance to talk to men in his native
tongue that he went around with
them all day and clean forgot COM
mittee of noted experts who had
come to the city to discuss war work
with him.
Judge S. ]. M. McCarrell, who was
| presented with a beautiful loving
cup by Market Square Church people
] in recognition of his forty years of
service as superintendent of the Sun
day school, has received number
| of congratulatory messages from
| friends about the state. Judge
| McCarrell was for years one of the
most prominent men in Sunday
school work in the state, and Mar
ket Square, which was first in this
part of the country to organize a
| Sunday school, has been long an OBJ
| ject of great interest in the Synod OF
Pennsylvania.