Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-29
BOYS HAVE BIG
TIME; GUESTSOF
ROTARY CLUB
Playground Lads at Beaufort
Farms, Where E. B. Mitchell
Gives Fine Entertainment

Sixty-eight boys of the city play
grounds were entertained by the
Harrisburg Rotary Club at Beau
fort Farms yesterday through the
kindness of Ehrman b. Mitchell, the
owner, who is chairman OF the
boys work committee and one of
the most active members of the or
ganiZation.
1t was great day. Ask any
boy, old or young, fortunate enough
to be present, about it. Next year
it's going to be bigger, but it would
be difficult to make 1t better.
The boys assembled at the play
grounds under their supervisors,
having been chosen for good be-
havior during the season or for the
reason that they eXcelled in some
form of playground activity. j. Is.
Staples, playground superintendent
was heartily congratulated on the
fine, outstanding lads he and his as
sistants have developed in the city's
recrea:on fields. Rotarians in au-
tomoblles picked them up and took
them to the farms, where they were
met by Mr.. Mitchell who entertained
them with a tractor demonstration,
showing the visitors how he plowS
an acre an hour, handling the bulk
of the work of plowing, narrowing,
cultivating, hauling and machine op-
Grafton on his 4O0-acres of farm
lands with this one gasoline driven
piece of motor apparatus.
Apples by the Bushel
From the fields the boys were es-
corted by the Rotarians to THE
Lodge" the Mitchell home, a hand
some structure occupying a COM
manding position on Il knoll not far
from the Rockville mountains,
where the host had placed Il half
dozen bushel baskets of apples. The
lads were invited to go to them"
and they did, like a swarm of bees
about n sugar barrel, coming out of
the melee with pockets. jackets and
blouses loaded with enough fruit to
keep an average family supplied for
several days.
The picnic was held in the woods
and fields back of the Mitchell resi-
dence, where Mr.. Mitchell and his
fellow members OF the boys work
committee had rigged up a shooting
gallery, shotgun range, baseball dia-
mond. volleyball court and a dress
ing room for those who desired to
use the beautiful swimming pool
which is one of the attractions of
the estate. The pool is surrounded
by trees and is from three to nine
feet in depth, surrounded on all
sides by tall trees, and is supplied
by a pure, clear mountain spring.
John S. Musser, in a brand new
sport suit, gave the boys instruction
in shotgun practice whanging away
for an hour or two at clay pigeons
which members of the club fired
from a hand trap, and was ably as
sisted by Dick Robinson, while
Arch. G. Knisely, Jr., put the boys
through their PAGES at the rifle
range. About a million cartridges,
more or less, were fired and there
is lead enough in the hillside to-day
to stock a fair-siZed mine.
Meanwhile the boys on one side
the Rotarians on the other had got
| ten into a baseball game, of which
! Frank Consylman, was umpire, the
men being beaten to a dizzy frazzle
despite the decisions of the Jump
which the boys pronounced, very
very rotten"
b. But the real sport of the day was
! the volleyball match between SIX
| RStarians on one side and the cham
! pion Sycamore street team on the
| other The boys challenged the men
| and they went to it for blood" the
| boys winning the contest three games
/ to cool off all went to the woods al
! the base OF the mountain, where
! :. S. Rutherford, assisted by Ed
! Weaver had prepared a bountiful
! supper. The hot dishes were brought
| out in fireless cookers and the water
melon for dessert in huge ice cream
! freezers that kept it cold as ice. The
! boys were served by the Rotarians
who acted as walters and after the
/ supper lollypops were distributed
while Uncle Bill" Essick, a former
! president of the club. gave a briei
| talk. Others who spoke were Viii.
! liam H. German and Mr.. Mitchell
/ who told the boys the history oi
| Beaufort Farms from the period oi
early settlement down to the present
| day.
The president, G. NJ. Steinmetz
taught the boys the Little Prairie
Flower Song which the assemblagC
! then sang amid much hilarity AT
! terward the boys playground choru.
got together and sang for the Ro
tarians, receiving much applause fol
their efforts. Charles w. Boil lee
the lads in The Star Spangled Ban,
ner," after which the evening came
to a close with a marshmallow toas
around a big campfire.