Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
Enrntng Glrat

Plans for the organization of the
collection of historical data relative
| TO Pennsylvania's part in the great
| war will be acted upon finally ut a
meeting 70 be held in Philadelphia
on october by the History Com
mlttee OF the State Historical Com
mission. Senator William C. Sproul,
the chairman, will preside and will
name the committees to handle var
ious branches. The subcommittee
IN charge is composed of State
| Librarian Thomas Lynch Mont
somery, John w. Jordan, of Phil
aoelphia, and H. NJ. M. Richards, of
lebanon. This subcommittee has
Deeh outlining comprehensive
scneme Tor the work and it is in
! .enaed TO include not only the fight
ing men from the state, but those
engaged IN war work of all kinds,
| inciualnS county organizations, the
Ked Cross and similar bodies.
Immediately after the October meet
ing the committeeman will get into
touch with the army and navy and
| ardIt ofncerS to obtain the names
vania.
E., B. Dorset, chief of the State
Bureau of Markets, has arranged to
ME at the Capitol the data regard
ing emoargoes of various kinds for
.ne guidance of farmers. In potato
raising sections lately there have
Deen movements started for carload
iot sales, but reports on embargoes
nave lnterfered with, shipments
Inc correct information is to be
filed here.
AS If in irony at the lateness of
the season under the PENNSYLVANIA
game code the blackbirds have ali
headed 20 the southern states and
lhefe are very few to be seen. 4
month ago there were no end of
olackblrds about and they were not
only plentiful. but Sassy. Now
there are a few old stagers about,
put they are full of craft and they
can disappear as soon as a man
shows up with a gun. The senti-
ment for material change in the
| season for shooting blackbirds is
gaining rapidly.
| The nerve of some automobile
drivers is worth noting 1t is not
news any more to chronicle the way
some people run cars, but yester-
day afternoon when Adjutant Cen
eral Beary was addressing the stu
dents at Central High School at
thelr military drill in Forster street
in front of the school a big touring
car was run down the street and
brought TO halt by bystanders
within fifteen feet of where he was
addressing fifty students. The
speaker and his audience could be
seen two blocks away. but the driver
| OF the car came sailing right along
ana did not seem to like it when he
was halted. A minute after the
! driver of beer wagon turned around
a block to avoid interfering, a couple
OF Jitneymen and delivery wagon
I drivers asked to be allowed to drive
up to the curb so that they could
near the addresses. But the driver
OF the touring car wanted the center
or the street and the fact that it
was the adjutant general of the state
and several prominent men in the
group made no difference to him. .
The stock question nowadays is
not Have you coal in your cellar?"
but it is How much oil or current
did you use up yesterday" The cool
| weather in the mornings and the pa
triotic desire not to burn coal, al
4 though Washington dispatches say
that the Fuel Administration offices
at Washington were fired up the first
cold day, have caused people to turn
S.
And they are being used extensively.
The impulse of the city is to refrain
from coal fires until the end of Octo-
! Der. anyhow, but what it is doing
to oil and current bills is worth
noting.
Captain George c. Jack seems to
have a marvellous knack of getting
filling for the Capitol Park extension
when other people are chasing
around paying premiums for car
loads. Captain Jack has filled up the
new street, which some people call
| commonwealth avenue, from Wal
nut street to State. He has the grade
fixed and it looks like a railroad
embankment. The filling is a work
of art and economy Captain Jack
got cinder from the Harrisburg
Pipe Bending Works, foundry sand
from the Harrisburg Foundry and
Machine works, ashes from the Penn
sylvania railroad and dirt from cell
lars and clean ashes from every
where. The filling is substantial
enough for the Tower of Babel and
varied enough for a class in geology
to study. But it is there and the cost
would surprise the average man
hunting filling for his lawn to be.
Paul Littlefeld, secretary of the
State Chamber of Commerce, is one
7 of those who have been out on the
firing line in the new war revenue
legislation. He has been where ar
guments are thickest and where
divergent ideas clash. Mr.. Little
field has been urging people at
.hington to consider the indus
trial importance of Pennsylvania in
regard to legislation needed to carry
on the war.