Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-11
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hail." said Physical Director Miller
yesterday. THE outings this sum-
mer with their sports and athletic
events have aroused many Harris
burg men to their need for physical
exercise" he continued. Our
classes have kept up right through
the summer. Dozens of men meet
to play volley ball, to romp through
their exercises and wind up under
to the gym now than used to at.
tend the regular winter classes"
The problem of space at the Har-
risburg " is becoming very serious
indeed. The time is almost at hand
when a new building will be neces-
sary if the association is to meet
its opportunities for good in the
| community, but the cost is almost
prohibitive and Secretary Robert
| Reeves is almost at loss to know
has grown rapidly the past five
years. 1t has become a headquar-
! ters for young men back from the
army and is more popular than ever
| among the younger men of the
community There is some talk of
| enlarging the present structure but
more of an entirely new building.
|
Robert Walton, of the East End
I Fruit and Vegetable Farms, near
Hummelstown. is one of the few
growers of this section to come
through the cold snap of late spring
with bumper crop of fine peaches.
lie already has orders for carloads
from Maine, but will sell most of
| the fruit locally. Walton's trees
were in fine condition before the
cold wave. He fed them with nj
trate of soda. To this stimulation
he ascribes the fact that his buds
came through safely while other
growers got only from one-half TO
one-third of crop.
The Harrisburg Silk Mill manage
ment is being congratulated on the
way in which it has improved Its
grounds and buildings. The stretch
of grass in front of the mill on
the North street side is a plot that
any landscape gardner could well
be proud of and the vines which
are beginning to crawl up the walls
will in a short time make a COM
pletely green mantle over the less
slightly red brick. Unfortunately,
however, the effect of this i'm
provement is rather dimished
by the ugly wooden fence which
runs along the Front street
seem to be much better If
the mill might put a high box
hedge about the yard, as such q
hedge would serve the same pur-
pose as the fence and be much pref
tier from both sides. The hedge
could be planted and allowed to
grow to a fair height before the
fence was taken down.
Word has been received that all
would-be flyers in the city will have
a chance to crafty their taste for
sensation in a short time when u
at Atlantic City will have q few
planes here. Formerly the same
company tried to send it's planes to
Harrisburg, but the Government
would not allow them to use its
landing field and consequently they
could not come here. Now, how
ever, all those who want to take a
peek at Miss Penn and other OBJ
jects from another angle may do
so. The charge for playing with
your insurance is said to be very
reasonable.
Eighth ward youngsters have
some hard feelings about the men
who are guarding the long lines OF
army trucks parked in Capitol Park
extension awaiting distribution by
the State Highway Department to
various parts of the State for use
in the maintenance of the highways.
The trucks offer a rare invitation
to the kids to play war" and to
pilot imaginary truck trains across
deserts and through lands filled with
hostile Indians. But the guards do
not allow any one to go near them
and the boys have to fight their bat
ties on the level spaces south of
State street.
The proposed visit of the Prince
of Wales to America recalls to
mind the visit of the Princes grand
father, afterwards King Edward VII
to Harrisburg a few years before
the Civil War. The Prince stopped
at the Jones House, later the Com
monwealth, on his visit through the
United States and was dined by
Governor Curtin and given a recep-
panied by the Duke of New Castle
and a number of English officials
who were lavishly entertained in
homes of Harrisburg citizens. The
Prince visited the old Capitol where
officials were presented to him.
|
An interesting Russian story
comes from q soldier who was with
the Second Division and spent one
of the early months of 1918 with
the French in the Champagne sec
tor. He noticed a huge cemetery
literally jammed with crosses mark
ed with queer names. The French
gave him the story, which is this:
In 1915 the Russians had sent a
regiment of infantry to cooperate
with the French in their defense of
Rheims. The men were wonderful
fighters, but very poorly trained and
with an unbelievable lack of dis
cipline. When the gas attacks
along the front began in the north
toward Rheims, gas masks were is
sued by the French to guard against
a possible attack. The Russian regi-
ment was naturally included among
the others. The officers of the regi-
ment, who turned out later to be
German spies, sold out their men by
telling them the masks were use
less. Accordingly the men threw
their masks away and carried bread
and wine bottles in the mask bag.
One morning the telltale kissing OF
the early gas attacks was heard and
soon the greenish white cloud started
to roll toward the French trenches.
The officers had kept their masks
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