Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
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to the gallaries of paintings in the
State Capitol as the result of the ap-
proval of the general appropriation
bill. The funds are now available
and the commissions will be given.
A portrait of DR.. Martin G. Brum-
baugh will be painted for the Execu-
| tive Department. gallery, a space hav-
ing been provided and one of Frank
B. McClain will be painted for the
| offices of the Lieutenant Governor.
| The third portrait will be of Chief
Justice j. Hay Brown and will be
placed in the collection of the chief
| justices of Pennsylvania in the
chambers of the justices. The por-
traits of the Governors are now
complete. a copy of a likeness of
George Bryan, president of the Su-
preme Council of 177S. He was vice
president and served out the unex-
pired term of Thomas Wharton, jr,
who died in office. This council was
the governing body of Pennsylvania
during the Revolution and for some
years afterwards.
Pennsylvania strawberry growers
got more for their produce this year
than ever before, figures compiled
by the State Department of Agri-
culture showing that the average
price paid was twenty-one cents.
The year before the average price,
according to data collected, was six
teen and a half cents an increase of
four and a half cents over 1917.
The crop this year does not seem
to have beeen as large as usual. The
big strawberry growing counties in
Southern Pennsylvania has short
crops in some localities, but fair in
others.
There are said to be only four
families in the United States which
had four sons, all officers in the
United States Army. And one of
them is that of James A Steese of
Mount Holly Springs, chief of the
/ State Bureau of Mediation. The
others are the Roosevelt and Sci
bert families. Mr.. Steese had four
sons, all commissioned officers. in
/ 7.
} c. NJ. Steese, Captain G. NJ. Steese
S and Captain J. u. Steese. The latter
9 died at Camp Humphreys. The
others saw overseas service.
! Second and Walnut streets Is the
y only place with a double stop on
the semaphore arranged for the
= policeman. This had to be planned
e so that when the Valley Railways
n m
:, could could be controlled. There is
! an affair looking like a fire shovel
9 which is put up to stop traffic COM
= ing down Second, while that going
= up is allowed to go, being the only
:. traffic from four ways that is per-
. mitted at such times.
e e While there are many people
. who have doubtless felt rather badly
- about the continued rains, the boys
:. who live in the district adjacent to
= Capitol Park extension are having
9 the time of their lives with Lake
:. Sproul. This body of water has
:, been formed north of State street
= by the rains and is growing daily
: 1t is navigable body also and the
= kids have been fighting Perry's bat
. tie on Lake Erie and entering Ma
= nila Bay in most realistic fashion.
y ducked is impressive. The casual
'. ties, moreover, get little sympathy,
= but occasional splashing from the
:, bystanders.
Among recent overseas veterans
!, II who have put off the khaki and
II II donned "civies' at the u. S. GEN
i eral Hospital at Railway, N. J., is
!. Frank Gaffney, erstwhile first-class
u private, Co. G, 10Sth Infantry, 27th
% Division. Private Gaffney, minus
. his left arm, was inhaling deeply
y from fag as he sat on the porch
s. of the popular "canteen" conversing
a with q convalescent officer and his
e wife from Harrisburg. The sec
y ond bravest man in the United
, States Army" with great gusto pass
is ed over what he said was the best
o paper of them all, his honorable
o discharge that had just been given
d him. With a record of six major
q engagements, a personal bag of SO
le prisoners that he took single handed
Is in an attack on n concrete pillbox of
e the famous Hindenberg line, the
IS Congressional Medal of Honor, and
Is the British Distinguished Conduct
= Medal, Mister" Gaffney, who is
a Irish and proud of his medals, con-
'e siders himself fit, despite the loss
h of his arm, to cope with the prob
lie lens incidental to earning an honest
1t living. His compensation from the
'e Government for the loss of his arm
lr doesn't mean much to this self-re-
t. liant genial soldier citizen. He ex-
It poets to make a lot of money and
g he probably will. Private Gaffney
d was very explicit in his explanation
y that he had not done a brave thing
g. in taking S3 prisoners after killing
it half a dozen Germans with a hand
lie grenade and his bayonet. He kept
1T his nerve; that was all. "I was the
l. oldest man in my company, next to
t. the captain" he said, "and 1 kind
l. O. kept the men in good spirits But
Or 1 wasn't sergeant and couldn't or
N der q detail to take this particular
ly pillbox, so I thought I might as well
die up there as out in the open" 1t
was through the actions of such men
as Private Gaffney that the Ameri-
can Army made its great reputation,