Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-12
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Hundreds of cars from other
States are on the roads of Pennsyl-
| vania, this summer. despite the torn
up condition of many of the main
highways where State Highway
| Commissioner Sadler is making the
dirt fly in his campaign to give
Pennsylvania the best road system
in the United States. A party going
to Chambersburg, thence over the
mountain to Gettysburg, across the
battlefield and home by way of Mt.
Holly and Carlisle, passed cars from
Maryland, District of Columbia,
Virginia, West Virginia, North Caro-
lima. Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, Washington and
California. And this, remember,
was in the course of one journey on
Sunday, and included quite few
cars from the nearby states, and at
least a half dozen from Michigan
and Wisconsin, the Michigan party
paying a visit to that section of
the battlefield where the Michigan
troops fought hardest and where
! their monuments stand. The hotel
people of the State expect great
rush of automobile travel next year
when all of the main highways
across State will be in first class
condition but they are surprised
that so many braved the condition
of the highways this year to visit
the Keystone State. There is under
consideration a plan for extensively
Sl advertising the scenery of Pennsyl-
vania all over the Union.
The Telegraph Companies had an
odd experience yesterday. The
earth currents were so strong that
the wires could not be worked for
hours at time. So strong was the
electricity in the atmosphere that
the voltage on the commercial lines
had to be greatly increased and
messages were taken for delivery
subject to earth current delays"
This is very unusual. SO violent
was the disturbance at times that
Western Union operators could hear
the postal operators testing on their
lines located a quarter mile away.
This sort of wireless is very disturb
ing to wire business and does not
occur once in many years.
The domestic service problem is
becoming more and more acute, but
we have heard of nothing quite so
significant of the attitude of qualified
house servants as an incident, a true
incident. related by a resident of
| Washington, now visitor in Har-
rsburg. She was in need of a cook
and responsive to a little want ad.
! a large, well-nourished and eXpan-
sive woman called to inquire as to
e the conditions of employment and
It the general environment. She was
! particularly anxious to know whether
there was garage on the property
y and when interrogated as to her
It reason for inquiry about garage,
r. replied: Il allus comes in my carl"
> All Harrisburg is interested in the
l. approaching Kipona celebration and
n the hundreds of athletic boys and
:, girls who have learned to appreci-
:, ate the river as a place of resort
" during the summer will have much
y to do with the success of the carni-
l. val. Many fine swimmers have
n been developed in the Susquehanna
IS Basin and there is an increased use
j. of canoes, rowboats and other light
1t craft.
Ii An odd accident happened to n
d camping party from this city re-
st Gently. A canteen of army pattern
l. was put into the fire to heat some
it water for shaving purposes. While
1t the party was getting breakfast the
II canteen was neglected and merrily
5, began to boil with it's cover tightly
It fastened. Following all natural
If laws, the metal stood so much press
ure and then refused to bear fur
n ther treatment from the steam
II which was rapidly gathering head
& With the slow sizzling reminiscent
n of hand grenades, the canteen blew
l. up, scattering the fire in every di-
Il rection, slightly burning a few who
l. were nearest the logs, making all
# look like Ethiopians and throwing
the canteen itself in two jagged
:, pieces a hundred feet or so. This"
cot L, L.
~ slowly from behind a log, Somehow
- reminds me of those dear old days in
- sunny France"
= "Girard" in the Philadelphia
/ Press makes these observations on
a well-known Capitol Hill official:
d Besides owning and editing a news
W paper, being Deputy Secretary of
l. the Commonwealth and captain in
II the United States service, Frederick
N A. Godcharles has not had very
II much to do.
} 80 he called my attention the
m other day to bit of history which
1t touches his own town of Milton.
ly There rests in his grave James Pol
IL lock- who was Governor of Pennsyl-
IF vania back in the fifties and to
. whom we owe the fact that upon our
ty coins is the motto, In God We
n Trust
ID Long before Pollocks political
IN career began Francis Scott Key in
~ his Star Spangled Banner wrote
ID the words:
~ Then conquer we must, when our
bit cause is just
ID And this be our motto, in God is
l. our trust
t. 80 Governor Pollock did not coin
l. the phrase but he did, as Superin-
/. tendent of the United States Mint,
q coin the first money that bore the
i legend In God We Trust
je He had recommended it to Lin
- coins Secretary of the Treasury.
M Salmon p. Chase, and Chase urged it
Ir upon Congress.
- "I believe that the motto is carved
q on Pollock's tomb"
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