Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-14
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games that is causing thousands OF
people to take advantage of daylight
saving and spend two hours at con-
test i'm the diamond after supper a.
friend says that Harrisburg is Of
ficially doing a lot toward encourag-i
ing the sport. This man said that
the city authorities regard basehalH
of as much Importance as swimming
and that while there were not many
dollars available they are being
made to reach. V. Grant Foryer, OF
the park department says, that the
city has four regulation diamonds
or the island and two others where
youngsters play, but where the hard
balls are not permitted because of
possible danger to children who uss
the diamonds mostly. The Island
diamonds are very popular, but
when it comes down to drawing
crowds they are not in it with the
West End and East games which
have anywhere from 1900 to 1000
persons out to see games. The city
has aided by bleachers or assistance
in laying out diamonds on the
grounds at Fourth and Seneca, Sew
enteenth and Chestnut, Nineteenth
and Greenwood and Twelfth and
Cumberland. These latter diamonds
are the places where the real hot
stuff games are played and they
have the attendance at the old time
professional games faded.
r. II. Lyon, chairman of the recent
Boy Scout campaign in Harrisburg,
and a deputy Boy Scout Commits
sioner for this city, is just such an
outdoormar as boys delight to know.
He has caught every kind of a fish
from a minnow to a forty eight
! pound channel bass and he has shot
every kind of game from q partridge
to bear. He knows more about
the streams and woods of Pennsylva-
MIA than he knows about his own
business, which is saying q lot, for
he is a recognized coffee expert, and
has built up one of the biggest
trades in the State. But when busi-
ness interferes with fishing or gun
nirg- especially fishing-why, busi-
ness just naturally has to go, hang.
He began his scouting experience by
teaching his sons all he knew about
woodcraft and attracted the atten-
Ition of William II. German, the Scout
Commissioner, who made him PROM
Use to exterd his tutorship to the
Scouts in general.
Edison ]. Hockenbury. head of the
Hackenbury campaign system,
WIIlCS ms liplu away up III
New Foundland that the salmon
fishing there is excellent. Mr..
Hockenbury and several assistants
4 are in that country raising $300,000
for a college. But of course a lit
tie thing like work wouldn't stop
Hockenbury from fishing, so he
bought an outfit and is spending his
leisure hours fly fishing for salmon.
Later ir the season he viii try for
channel bass at Wildwood Crest,
where he is secretary of the Crest
Fishing Club.
Speaking of Wildwood Crest,
that's where George Eldridge, re-
Gently retired as head of the COM
merical department of the Harris
burg Gas Company, spends most of
his summers. Mr.. Eldridge used to
be one of the most enthusiastic
campers in Harrisburg, and in his
younger days nobody had any
thing on him" as a fisherman. He
still loves his rod and line and while
Ebasking in the sunshine and recov-
ering his health at the seashore, he
has made some OF the handsomest
4 catches =ever . seer there. He is
thinking of going back again this
year. He has received word that
kingfish, croachers and weakfish
} are running in schools.
. Another Harrisburger who hears
the call of the wild so often that he
J has to be prepared for instant ac-
ton is Martin w. Eager. He carries
his equipment in the back of his
, runabout and it embraces every
thing needful for a night in the
open. not to mention a camp kitchen
! and a fishing outfit. This sort of
. thing is becoming more and more
J popular Quite a few Harrisburg
, people have tent and cot attach
, ments to their cars, and spend the
weekend along the streams or in
the woods. The automobile has done
, much to shorten the distance be-
tweeR city and town, and the out
doors lovers fav ebeen quick to
take advantage Of the opportunity
: According to present plans a re-
organization of the Governors Troop
will be undertaken in Harrisburg
! this summer as q part of the new
) National Guard. The State Officers
intend to give particular attention
, to this troop which may become the
: headquarters troop.
! Two great army camps. Valley
Forge and Camp Curtin, will be port
+ trayed in the paintings which viii be
! finished by Miss Violet Oakley, the
: Philadelphia artist this summer tc
, complete the scheme of mural deco.
ration in the State Capitol. These
paintings are intended to round out
, the series to depict the coming Of
city and peace just as the huge
, panels showing Washington speak
ing at the constitutional convention
, and Lincoln speaking at Gettysburg
, have been employed in the same
decorations. These two camps which
had such n great influence on the
revolutionary and civil wars hav'
been studied by the artist the last
year. 1t is probable that the Board
of Public Grounds and Buildings ane
state Art Commission, which is sooI
to be named, will arrange for com
= pletion of the mural decorations IL
. the hall of the representatives anc
I in the north corridor of the Capito
and that the Supreme Court series
= will await the determination OF tn
1 nroiect to alter the eastern wing al
5 a result of the plans for new build