Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-12
Ehrttg Glrat


deep along e iding east of the
Market stree Soway on payday.
The paycar ms n a schedule and
is due at Enololcertain days, twice
each month. erwho work at night
hurry to this tAnd' catch the pay
car before il avs for Enola. Those
who have aoIobiles make good
time and areluys on hand before
the cashier aiNs. Roadmen have
another waYo ret paid ahead of
time, especiN hose on the Mid
die division. If hey happen to be
in HarrisbuI i'd the paycar is
somewhere b ven this city and AL
toona, they team early passenger
train to the ir where the paycar
is sidetracket hey frequently save
n whole day. y.Th Enola bunch with
their autos, ,hopver, have it all
over their fOWworkmen who use
trolley cars Il Trains.
Some of L political lights who
came here stGday with nicely
written sketts of themselves to
hand out toFNspapers on the oc-
casion of fix .helr papers found
that a comhton of an unprece-
utUltu TuSill pdptt =
on the last dlam n big battle made
individual ibitDns rather below
par in the NJ LNlue. Some of the
men had goto considerable trou-
BILE to set III facts about them
selves and Il qualifications for Of
fees and importance of their
nominationsBut they were thank
ed for their ldness and given back
their data. nd none seemed to
understand d it is bad business to
wait until tlast day.
One candle for a nomination
for the Housom an upstate coun-
ty had filel petition with $50
names and In 250-word statement
! to give out IN it. When he was
told. there a chance that he
might get hhme and nothing else
on the wires was quite veXed.
But, mykopie want to read
about me-" he.
80 do tlpeople of 500 other
candidates.. pit in an unfecling
/ newspaperm
Say, l m get this in"
why did you come down q
week ago alvoid the rush?" was
asked.
Il couldngive my candidacy
away"
'Nvell, De- O'Neil is gettine
about threenes and Sproul The
same so l SIS you will have tC
get along " one" was the re.
joinder.
Give me article back" de.
manded the te candidate.
One man Y came here from the
ends of the Sc had the other idea
He did not vi his candidacy 20 ge
into the papi lie said that there
were peculiaInditions in his coun,
ty and where was told that hi:
name might sin one line if the wal
did not croWt out he was mucI
peeved.
AS an evice of wartime pros
perity, hunds of people, who il
ordinary tin never dreamed o
riding in an1It day coaches, nov
purchase Puan reservations 70
every trip t make, provided
Pullman is ached to the train
The tendencyems to be to go int
the PullmanSleeping-car conduc
tors say thahe rush for reserva
tions is unprdented. Experience
travellers ma.their reservations
week in adv9. They have learn
ed that they apt to be left in tn,
cold if they dt get the early reser
Vations.
Being a 'bble man these day
is not what cracked up to be il
spite of the re things you news
papermen sapout u.s." remarked
big lineman night. Just to shoy
you / have h on duty for thirt
hours and Whave run up agans
some of theory worst tangles
have struck. one place we had
dozen poles en- and wires in tree
and in roads..nd then we have ha,
this snow onp of it,"
Some of Hrisburg's war gard
eners" were the dumps. yester
day and tn Inquiries they mad
were rather 1sing. One man VIII,
had spent soimoney getting a plo
plowed askeEhat he should do a
he had founde ground all covere,
with snow.
PLANTED seed?" was asked
mo"
well, thegive thanks and wal
a while" w4he advice he got.
Another cen who had spaded
plot was alAistressed because tn
snow fell othe nicely arrange,
garden, all Edy for seeding. Fl
was told to lhature work while
Isaac r. HNpacker, the histor
ian, who is daathority on the bat
tie of Gettystg md on lives of tn
Observation-Disclosures, has writ
ten a letter on of the Phnadel
phia newspa Fswhich gives an in
teresting sidlgt on General Han
cock. 1t ais dals with a subjec
M II discu$d by Harrisburgers
He says: "TT c.oice of concentrat
ing at GettysIri was not Hancock
at all. He VS. OF given the deter
mination ofthe question, whethe
to fight or r(re Meade's orders t
concentrate gettysburg were civ
en- before hdhard from Hancock
and naturallhA lhAancock would no
have undertateto decide, as he di
not, in fact, hfHrtake to decide,
| question belhag to the army com
mander. TIE Sund at Gettysbur
did not keet H;cock from rising I
the commatI,cdhe Army of the Po
tomac. Hancos recommendation
to Meade to ;hult after Pickett
repulse was bid on the fact tina
a nail from hcock's saddle wa
driven by a Het into his wound
and at the mont he assumed tina
the Confederfs were out of am
munition and ere shooting nails" "