Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-29
EnRntng Grat

of the war in the way of recreatiop
| will come to a climax during ~
| coming week when the leaders of
the two leagues which furnished
such excellent after supper games
will cross bats for the city cham
pionship. There are pretty weG
| defined community sentiments in
| regard to these two leagues, one he
! ing an up town affair with it's root
ers scattered all through the OLE
part of the city, while the other Is
| an Allison Hill organization whit
| is supported by thousands of the
! folks in the highland part of the
! State Capital. And in between there
are several smaller league whose
/ players and hackers are partisans
| of the two larger organizations
! And all of these grew out of day
! light saving because last year when
/ men found that there was an hove
after supper baseball came into its
| own again and games, such as we
| used to see in the late eighties and
early nineties, in years when Har-
| risburg did not have a professional
nine. but some rafting amateur
teams began to be repeated. Owing
to its neutral position the big da-
mond on the city's island will be
used for the opening game between
the West End and the Reading
Railroad teams. which are at the
peaks of the two leagues and the
other matches will be played on the
respective grounds. 1t will be a
great chance for people to see just
what daylight saving has brought to
Harrisburg in the way of great
sport and just how firmly rooted is
baseball to this city of ours.
Every now and then something
turns up about n Harrisburg man
and copy of the EN- and Ess Elec-
Etric News is just here with Frank
Wert's name as editor. Mr.. Vert
is Il son of Prof. Howard Vert and
was formerly city editor of the
Harrisburg Patriot and also on the
Harrisburg Telegraph He was Sc
lected for the publicity manager of
the Mahoning and Shenango Rail-
way. which operates in Ohio and
Western Pennsylvania after some
service on the Philadelphia Even
!; ing Bulletin and was made head of
some welfare work in addition. Now
| he is editing the company's maga-
zine for its men at Youngstown
among other things.
You can get almost any kind of
a sound YOU want up around the
Capitol, declare people who work in
, the big building. There is a whistle
on the big building and occasionally
there is rattle of tinware in the
subterranean depths. Practice of
an orchestra is not unknown and
, there is good choir. But records
, fwere broken yesterday when a horse
which had been allowed to stand
in one of the recesses of the build
lngs by delivery wagon driver,
+ neighed violently and aroused
, rooster which had been bought by
| an attache to take home.
e A good story is told by COM
: mercial man who travels about the
: State Il good bit. This man is n
= great rooter for Pennsylvania be-
4 cause he has been all over the State
> and knows its people and what they
!, are doing. One day recently he met
e tellow traveller, who hailed from
New England.
= Il should think" remarked the
/ man from Yankeeland, that you
: would have been much worried dur
f ing the early days of the war be-
l cause of the possibilities in the at
= tltude of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
!, Why?' asked the astonished
4 travelling man.
4 Well they would naturally
!, sympathize with Germany" remark.
Y ed the New Englander.
e Say, let me tell you that there
:. was more uncertainty about the at
y utude OF some of you New England
f ers of English descent in 1776 than
= there ever was about the attitude OF
S the. folks you call PENNSYLVANIA.
S Dutch In those, days. They helped
e make up Washingtons army. Just
= leave off the Dutch, they're Penn
e sylvanians and have been that ever
c since they settled here and tho
t muster rolls of every war will prove
4 it."
:. Here's another train story. A
e Harrisburg businessman happened
TO get alongside a genial Irishman,
t who said that he was head of q,
t big gang of men on construction
:, work in Colorado, that part of Colo
!, RADIO which furnishes the setting for
}, some thrilling stories and movies"
!, Me friend" said the Irishman,
t II came East to see relatives
+ and when [ was going into
= Chicago a bullet hit the frame
e of the car window beside which
S was sitting. When 1 got into Chi
u cago there was a race riot. When
: got to New York I heard men
y spouting all kinds of raw stuff from
corners. When I got to Brooklyn
Y they slammed bricks and rocks at
e the street cars I was riding in and
the cops were called out to stop the
u riots. Say, me friend, I'm going
u back to Colorado. The wild and
II woolly west is safer"
Il
Citronella is almost at a premium
y in the upper end of Harrisburg
{ Owing to the failure of city author
{ tiles to take advantage of State Of
). fers to help eradicate mosquitoes,
that part of Harrisburg has been
= overrun with specimens of the ano-
- pheles, culeX and several other va
!, rieties of "skeeters' with names AL
n most as bad as their stings. People
= have taken to smoking ''twofers,"
burning smudges lighting punk and
h other expedients in order to sit out
: doors while citronella has been
II bought by the pint and handker-
: chiefs and cushions sprinkled with
i it.