Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-13
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feople In this community have
become very well aware of the fact
nat the Elliott-Fisher COMPANY.
"hieh IN a decade has become one
VI lhe important industries of Penn
1IsiFania capital, does not do things
a ines ana the assembling tu,'
fornn summer convention of a sales
10 Melbourne, Stockholm To Tolxio
ana ana all over this hemisphere is still
.aikeu about. And now il is an
ounceo that the company intens
~ make that gathering which hs
oone historic in local business. -
Hnu'i aHalr. In a way HARRISBURG.
nas peeh participant in meetinr-
Vi sales forces of various big con
Serhs IN recent years, but for num-
ana enterprise Elliott Fisher
I" hohorS In the making OF
W lspurs an industrial capital.
ears ago Harrisburg engines and
Steelton rails and MiddIetowp nino
put Dauphin county before tha Owe.
VI people in many a cline. hut now
~ Is harrisburg book typewriters.
eople nave told about seeing these
IN government offices
Austraiia' Egypt and England and
OF noticing Brazilian and Jananese
| clerks working on other Harrisburg
| products in their home towns and
tils plan for annual meetings means
.nat what is made here is going TO
Se pushed more than ever in Ocei-
LII ana orient, Antipodes and An
| tillles. If Harrisburg could have
more such gatherings of men inter
ested In selling what it makes il
would be a mighty good thing for
the city.
just in this connection reference
! may be made to the way that the
4 Elliott-Ffsher company has perpetu-
ated the memories of that July con-
iVentlon, which many people on the
outside by the parade of the pink
goats as the jocular organization of
the statesmen was termed. That was
some eNentide parade with its out
iandlsh costumes, banners giving
| habitat of statesmen in a score of
lands and more, it's daylight fire.
works and flashlighting photogra-
piers, bands and general good
cheer. Harrisburg turned out to
see 1T and talked about it for
a week. But that parade, as
,,intimated before. was the least
impressive of the convention and
"haI lnoSe IN the inside saw
was a force with a spirit that was
not AFRAID to tackle any trade prob
lem and which was intent on boost
ing a Harrisburg product in spite
OF all the tariffs in creation. The
company has issued a twelve page
paper, giving a historical and pic
torlal description of that conven-
ton. This paper will tell the story
of what was done in Harrisburg to
boost Harrisburg product around
the globe. It's a company PROPOSE
ton, but 1t is also a Harrisburg
proposition of the largest kind
President P. D. Wagner greets the
force on the first page and that
dynamic salesmanager, G. w. Spahr,
also says few things to his far
flung array of statesmen There are
also some 'inspirational paragraphs"
with thumbnail photographs, but
there are also some yards of pic
lures of Harrisburg and "EF'' folks
in Harrisburg. There is lots of Ell
liott-F'isher to it, to be sure, but
there is a lot of Harrisburg, pictures
of the factory, Market Square. the
Penn-Harris, bridges, stations,
churches, homes and things in Har-
risburg which the jocose editor of
the Record" calls his movies"
4 ~NoIui any illClC are IldllN
portraits, camera and pen and ink
which only those on the force can
appreciate in, some instances, but
they all have a Harrisburg end and
as the Record" is going around the
world the rest of us can take note.
The stories printed in the Harris
burg newspapers at the time of the
convention make up quite a feature
) of the publication and the efforts of
Harrisburg reporters will be read in
/ the land of the Beers, the Tycoon
and the Pharaoh.
Harry K. Casey, the field secre-
i tary of the State Chamber of Com
merce, was, in the war and served
overseas at one of the debarkation
points. Mr.. Casey is a former news
paper man and of considerable ex-
ecutiVe ability. From what his
friends say he found much COM
pany in the unit he was in. There
were managers of steamship lines,
heads of big business establish
ments, bankers, technical experts
and others all of eXpertness in some
line or other. Practically all of
them went out for love of country
and each was eager to give his tall
ents. Did any one of them get a
commission? They did not. One
man who had wide transportation
experience was asked when exam
: ined for a commission whether he
could not say, as a matter of fact,
I that he could serve Uncle Sam just
I as we'll as a sergeant as captain.
Being red-blooded he said he could.
3 And he did.
4 From what one sees in the gar
a dens and also the fences and walls
e of Harrisburg homes a good many
v people in this city seem to have gone
d in for dahlias. They are of every
: size and hue and it would not be a
3 bad idea to have in October dahlia
e show such as we have in the rose
0 show in June and assemble the fin
9 est of the autumn flower. Indeed.
Y there are displays made in some
n gardens which are a show in them
e selves and a dahlia show could be
s made as much of a community at
: fair as the rose show because every
v one appears to have them.