Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-06
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First steps were taken today ta
assemble the flags of Pennsylvania
units in the war with Germany and
Austria in this city by Adjutant
General Frank d. Beary when he
wrote to commanders of camps in
this country to furnish him with
names and numbers of organiza-
tions which had been assigned To
those camps and which had con-
sisted mainly of men from Pennsyb@
Vania. Colors of some of these or
ganizations which have been mus
tered out have been sent here and
others are understood to be in the
possession of regimentaI command
ers. The colors of the National
Guard regiments carried until they
! entered Federal service have been
located and it is expected that they
will be in the custody of the General
before very long. 1t is the expecta-
tion that the flags brought back
from France by Pennsylvania orr
ganizations will also come here as
they did after the Civil and Spanish
| wars.
1t is the intention to ask legisla4
tive authority for a formal ceremony
when the flags are placed in the
| rotunda of the Capitol, where the
| flags of other wars are grouped
The flags of the Civil War were
taken from the State Library to the
rotunda by survivors of the regi~
ments in formal procession in 1914
1T being one of the most impressive
| ceremonies ever seen at the Capitol
Literally thousands of men on
their way home from France are
passing through Harrisburg every
week now and the sights and scenes
about Union Station are a repeti-
tion of those of last year, only the
men are homeward bound instead OF
being on their way to war. OF
course, there are not the same
crowds out to see the men, but the
long lines of cars filed with Khaki
clad men are an object of interest
and the cheering and singing finds
responsive echo in every heart
just as it did last year when SONS
of the very boys now going westward
and southwestward from Harrisburg
passed along prepared for war.
| Harrisburg has seen many sights
in connection with the wars of the
country and it is to the credit of
the city that men who were here
in the Civil War or who passed
through speak as highly of the city
as do the men of the Spanish war;
This was rather strikingly Illus
trated yesterday when a man ad-
vanced in years recalled how he had
| been given pie and coffee at a ''re-
freshment saloon" near the old sta
ton in the summer of 1866 when he
was on his way home to be mus
tered out. He lived up the State
| nf nd hot h.
| Washington got here about eight in
the morning. I'VE had the regular
rations, but that pie was the best
breakfast L ever had" said he. The
ladies of the canteen section of the
| Harrisburg Red Cross have made
many a young soldier happy here
the last year and a half by giving
him post cards and letter paper
and mailing letters. And some of
those who went through here so
blithely last spring and summer and
who walked around town in columns
for exercise carried with them to
Europe memories of Harrisburg
which their comrades now on the
way home will gratefully recall.
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"The rest of the counties in the
hard coal fields are going to watch
the way DaE.phin county handles
the coal Idnd valuation problem"
said a SVisitor from Lackawanna
county here yesterday. I'VE have
gone through with it and your
county's course will be watched.
Your commissioners are right in in
sisting on a fair valuation.
Harrisburg is going to be some
place when the Commonwealth
civic center is completed in accord
ance with the Brunner plans" said
ex-Representative f. w. Fletcher, of
Montgomery county, while on visit
to his old stamping ground on Capk-
to1 Hill yesterday. I'm glad to see
that the city is going to take part
in the program, too, because Harris
burg has the spirit and with it's
River Front and the Capitol Park
and the new hotel it will be right on
the line of travel"
| Song sparrows have been singing
in trees along the River Front for
more than two weeks according to
Professor G. A. Ellenberger. There
have been a number of them heard
in Reservoir Park and one man says
that he observed their notes as early
as Valentine day. Another man de-
cIares that blackbirds have been
around. AS for the first" robin, he
seems to have stayed here from last