Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-30
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The prolonged cold spell has
brought new artist into our midst
and he is entertaining. If not strict \
ly original. He is the man who
writes on the frosted windows of the
street cars or draws pictures and
makes life worth living when you
are crawling along in a car so filled
"ith moisture that the windows are
covered with ice because of the cold
outside. There is a fascinating idea
about writing on the window panes
ol pubic conveyance and a lot
OF people leave their names and
sometimes addresses or the address
es or some one else. Yesterday some
wag wrote in. Steelton car: "Be
iucky you don't have to walk" In
itials are the great thing and once in
while some fellow with a real ar
tlstlc touch carves some motorman
at MS task or gives his impression
OF cop Some of the illustra-
tions are of the cubist school while
otherS are more or less impression
istlc. The crew generally suffers A
Derry street car, which is given to
oVercrowding, was decorated with
this Legend
|
But the best of all was an inter-
change between two men in a Sec
ond street car. 1t was rather more
original than the artist who wrote
Wake me" on the pane beside him
on delayed trip. One OF the Sec
ono street humorists set down:
After this, take a jit.'
The man behind him was some
what testy because he came back
with this on his pane:
Where are the, jits?"
Some fellow whose state of mind
was illustrated by the message he
left to posterity, wrote in q Valley
Railways car:
mo meals served"
/ The best of all was the optimist
who also decorated a Second street
car. He neither walked nor talked.
He just wrote:
Summer is coming"
serious conflict of Jurisdiction
was narrowly averted Monday after
noon at Third and Walnut streets,
where federal and state property and
| city highways meet with the county
Jail not far away. A. particularly
noisy piece of fire apparatus was
on its way up Third street and q
sleigh containing United States mail
! started from Third and Locust, NOV
| liberate, the driver unruffled.
/ Come on. Get out of that" call
| ed the corner policeman. Other
| men Joined in the calls to speed up,
| but the driver was not disturbed.
| Finally some man ran out, took the
bride and jerked the horses heal
until he headed with the sleigh into
s a snowbank and the way was free
Il for the charging apparatus.
q Keep your hands off that horse.
Don't you know this is the United
II States mail. You got no business
monkeying with this team" shouted
the driver from his wayside place in
a the snowbank.
IL "Oh, the city fire engines got the
:, right of way" began a bystan4
q er Holy smoke, look at that"
Ie THAT" was q large city truck,
owned by the Highway Department
and moving large amounts of snow.
IT The driver was also calm; the truck
d asthmatic and deliberate. He just
n made the machine crawl down Third
n street from Locust and by the time
: he reached Walnut the fire appara-
q tus was standing painting, its driver
: demonstrating and its firemen saying
: things The air was blue.
u Come, get on. You got no right
n to do that" yelled the policeman.
- "Get the - out of that" shouted
the nre truck driver.
"G'wan. I work for the city, too"
a replied the snow truck man.
sr Uncle Sans going to get you fell
L lows" put in the mail man from his
10 perch.
# "Oh, go up through Capitol Park
and get the Sheriff to referee" put
in a man who had tried to buy ci-
! gar and found the door locked.
1 a. lit
when the well-known weather liar,
the ground hog, is supposed to come
out, it is fire disaster anniversary
week. On February l the old Grand
Opera House and most of the ad-
Joining property burned eleven years
ago and on February 2, twenty-ons
years ago, the Capitol burned.
While there was much loss. each fire
benefited Harrisburg IN the end or
will. And as for the ground hog,
ff the dweller. in Wildwood Park
who has perennially appeared be-
side the maze of tracks at Lucknow
has the nerve to come out with the
city looking like trenched battle
field because of snowbanks we Will
"sic" the Natural History Society on
i him, or have Grant Forrer take him
for that menagerie he is going 70
\ found.
: Many lovers of horses in Harris
/ burg will regret the passing of
4 Bob" Brubaker, who was buried
I this afternoon. Years ago, back in
1 the days when Amos little, Edwin
K. Meyers A. B. Commlngs and 9TH
i ers who figured as owners of speedy
horses. Bob" Brubaker's judgment
was often called in. He was stu
dent of horses and HAD a love for
| them that made him one of the best
l known horsemen in the city.
L
George C. Jack, former command
er of the Governors Troop, mount
] ed guard yesterday. Captain Jacf
is in charge of the field force of the
state Capitol Park and 1t made ar
4. attack upon the roofs of the build
ings, while Captain Jack kept the
r curious populace out of danger. Th'
snow gathers on the roofs and makes
much trouble and the Capitol fore
goes to the roof after every fall anC
throws it off. The throwing Away
attracts a crowd.