Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29
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who won it, will be glad to learn
that Colonel w. f. Harrell, who
started the Harrisburg recruiting
station on it's way to the top OF the
ladder, is back in the United States,
colonel of the Sixteenth Regular
Infantry, in which regiment he
started when he left West Point and
in which he served through most of
| his life. When he left here for
Syracuse to help reorganize the regi-
ment for war he was Captain Har-
rell and both he and his family had
! many friends in Harrisburg. He was
| known as one of the greatest hust-
| lers in the army and no one was
surprised when word came here that
he had been made major and then
lieutenant colonel of a regiment
which has a history extending over
| 12O years and which has been in the
| thick of every war. 1t is only neces-
sary to say that this regiment was
| in the First Brigade of the First
Army in France. Colonel Harrell,
! who succeeded to the command
when the fighting was hardest, is
declared by the New York Times to
be known among the army officers
as 1.-Two Gun" Harrell, a tribute to
his fighting ability. Other New
York and Philadelphia newspapers
refer to him as the grand old man
| of the First Army" and say that
the South Carolinian only put on
wound stripes when ordered to do
so. Then he put on two. He was
ordered to put on seven, but he did
not think there should be more than
| two. A significant paragraph about
this former Harrisburger is that he
came home wearing many decora-
tions." Mrs. Harrell and her daugh-
ters are in Denver where Colonel
Harrell will join them.
One of the odd growths of traffic
is that when driver of horse gets
.2n a street he does pretty much as
he pleases. Whether this is because
he drives a horse because he does
not have a motor vehicle and wants
to inform the public of the fact or
else that he grows confused no one
can say, but motormen and police
men are authority for the statement
that drivers of carriages in Second
and Market streets do more to muss
up traffic than anything else. Often
drivers of horses, wishing to keep
away from the cars stacked along
curbs, take to the trolley tracks and
hang there. Occasionally they try
to turn up alleys. But the motor
men swear that every man who
drives a horse takes to the trolley
track and makes him ring the gong
several times to clear the way.
What has became of the old time
street car conductor who used to
help women with children off the
car platforms and pass down the
market baskets? There are some of
them left, but the younger genera
tion of car operatives either has
been well trained in that respect or
does not care. Almost any day
women with youngsters can be seen
struggling to get them off the car
steps and watching for automobiles
at the same time while the motor
man stands on the platform wait
ing for them to clear the platform.
The other evening a motorman on
Second street helped five women, all
with little folks, off his car and
Sunday night another motorman al
lowed men passengers to leave their
seats and help the women and chill
dren while he stood by fiddling with
the brake. Some of the Steelton and
Hummelstown motormen think moth
ing of losing half a minute to help
their passengers and there a few
in the city lines that do the same
thing. Its surprising how much
good feeling can be built up by IL
little thoughtfulness displayed by
motormen and how they will gain
friends all along their route, friends
who will go to the front for them
if need be.
Mrs. Edith B. Bergstresser, the
new police matron, went on duty un-
officially the other night. The story
is told that during the parade of
the Pink Goats" man wearing
one of the pink wrappers that were
worn by that unusual organization
, proceeded to cut some capers He
carried on right near Mrs. Berg
Htresser who told him: Here, put
down your dress, you ought to know
better"
I'm too young" responded the
man.
Some one tipped him off that the
new matron was standing there and
the way he resumed his place in line
resembled pay day rush at a mill.
Some of the automobile drivers of
Harrisburg are getting a chance to
see and enjoy one of the finest rides
in the county and to be wondering
why tiSS ulu HOl take 1t before since
the detour was established back of
Dauphin and over Peters Mountain
to avoid the work in progress be-
tween the lower end of Dauphin, and
Clark's Ferry. The road has been
f1Xed up and it really gives a party
using 1t chance to see the great
central section of the county and
far over the Susquehanna into
Ferry county. The drop right
straight down from back of Halifax
over the mountain into Dauphin by
the rear way goes through a rich
farming section and then over the
mountain unfolding views of which
the. average Harrisburger never
heard.
Midnight swims along the Susque-
mamma are not unknown these days
ana nights when the mercury is I'm
and people living along the river
front have been surprised when the
noise of speeding automobiles and
motor cycles with cut-outs open has
been punctuated with shouts and
laughter of people enjoying the cool
waters of the river Sunday night
there were some late swimmers and
some went pretty close to mornine-
hours. There were probably more
people in the water yesterday morn.
ing before breakfast than for a long
time.
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