Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
Enftttrg Gl1at

D. william Bowman, head OF The
boy Work Committee of the Y.
M. I. A, is already making plans
Tor next summers camp. The first
outing of the association boys last
summer was such a great success
| that the lads are already clamoring
10 know the date for this years
encampment. Last season the tents
were pitched in very beautiful
spot along the Susquehanna river
below Liverpool and the people of
that town, coming down in the
evenings, entertained the boys very
delightfully."-, and were entertained
in turn. But this year the camp
VIII be located in some other spot
nearer to the city for the conven-
fence OF parents who desire to visit
their sons and in order that supplies
and, mail may be gotten back and
forward more easily. Also, there is
q desire to have better swimming
facilities than are to be had in the
shallow and swift water opposite
last years site.
Mr.. Bowman hopes to see the day.
in the no very distant future, when
there will be within easy hiking dis
lance OF street car line or railroad
a cabin where tY'' boys and men
may so to spend a night or a few
days IN the open with their sons.
He has been looking about for
favorable place and has no doubt
that he will be able to get the neces-
sary money together when once he
hnds an ideal location. Nobody loves
a day in the open more than he and
his young son and he may be seen
almost any time in the year hitting
the trail for the country. They
know the mountains, woods and
streams for miles about Harrisburg
and Mr.. Bowman is bent upon put
ting at the disposal of all the boys
and men of the city who desire it
means for a cheap and pleasant
outing when they so desire. In
this he has the support of Arch
Dinsmore the boys work director
and C. w. Miller the physical di-
rector of the ~" both of whom
are ardent lovers of the open. To
them more than to anybody else
lies credit for the success of the
big camp last year, for they were
in charge, but how they would have
gotten along without Al. X. Thomas
and his automobile nobody knows,
for he provided the only accommo-
dation train and local freight run
ming between the city and Liverpool
during a large part of the time the
tents were up.
Civil service laws are right in
their way nobody doubts, but it ap-
; pears that the police civil service
examinations might on some occa-
sions be made a little more difficult
without hindrance to the depart
ment. For example:
No wonder there's automobile
accidents in Harrisburg" remarked
one of the city's policemen this
morning, mo wonder people get
run over crossing street corners.
The traffic officers do their part, but
, they ought to have saxaphones at
the busy corners"
'Saxaphones? What do you
mean, saXaphones to regulate the
tratfic?" was the query.
why, you know, those revolving
! signs on standards. like they have
in the big cities" said the enlighten-
ed copper.
: "Oh, you mean semaphores!" said
his listener, STOPPING to fasten a
shoe string which didn't need fas-
, tening, while he hid grin.
We'll, semaphores or xylophones,
or whatever you call 'em, we ought
to get some" said the guardian of
the law.
1t is not all superstition which
- |
; a ladder, says S. S. Riddle, editor
of the Department of Labor and In
dustry publications, in commenting 6
: upon an article in this column the
= other day about the tendency of
people to avoid going beneath a lad
l der. According to him it is safety.
4 More people have been hurt walk
: ing under ladders than from fall
e ing off them, I'm sure and it's just
= safety" said lie. why, the state is
: preaching it and many people are
s obeying the injunctions which we
s have been giving them"
A touch of nature has been doing
: things since the world began and
= it was strikingly exemplified in this
city the other afternoon. A young
!, ster about six years old started to get
, on car at Second and Walnut
= streets. A driver of an automobile
!, who would probably be cowhided
!, by the other drivers of cars in Har-
risburg if they could get him, came
bowling down the street and If il
I had not been for the alert conductor
n of the trolley car reaching out and
I pulling the kid in by his collar the
i youngster would have been run
g down. AS it was the automobile
= whizzed by just as the boy was
: pulled to safety. The conductor
r yelled to the driver that he should
: come back and be licked. When
$ the kid got into the car workman
t dried his tears and lady gave him
e a cake from bag.
=
DR.. Francis Schill, of Johnstown'
a school controller for the last six
s teen years and still a young man.
attended the educational confer
ences Wednesday and Thursday. DR..
Schill is a man who has never been
. Caught short" for an after-dinner
: or before dinner speech. For twen--
u tv wears he has made a practice oil
Collecting droll tales which he In
! ! dexes and stores away in in s,,nn,S a tlls,
q At an instant's notice ne can supply I,i
e frate any example. DR.. Schill went
il TO Philadelphia this morning to
spend day or so before ,ssiap se5prns Ssns
: rnhich he did not fill. Francis Schill,
: III at home, wanted a squirrel