Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
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Bernard Brady, who is now q
resident of the United States Sol
diers' Home at Washington, has sent
Official papers from the War Depart
ment for record in the Pennsylvania
State Capitol which officials of the
state government believe make him
Ine Youngest soldier of the Civil
war In the Union armies. The doc--
ments, which have been passed
upon by the Adjutant General of
the United States Army, give the
age of Brady when enlisting as :,
drummer boy in the Fifty Eighth
Pennsylvania Volunteers as eighr
years and eleven months, although
MS enlistment papers gave his age
as hfteen. Brady's claim Mako
him younger than were several otner
men VINO became notable as youth
ful soldiers in the army of the
Union, among them the late Captain
John 9. Delaney, long State factory
inspector; John GLENN, the western
veteran who figured at the fiftieth
anniversary of the Battle of Get
tysburg, and Daniel A. Clemmons,
Lancaster countian, who enlisted iii
the Seventy Ninth Pennsylvania
| volunteers July 13, 1868, after fol-
! lowing the regiment for some time
because his father was one of the
soldiers. The Brady papers which
are supported by the War Depart
ment notation and a certificate of his
baptism at a Catholic church in
| Newark, show that he enlisted at
Suffolk. Va. October II, 1862, giving
his age as fifteen; but that he was
born in New Jersey, October 20, 1858,
and baptised the following November
30. After the war Brady went to
! wyoming county, but soon entered
| the regular army, serving in the
Fourth and other infantry regiments.
| While in the army he lost leg and
for years has lived at the Soldiers
| Home. Jacob Stauffer, of the Ad-
| Jutant Generals Department, who
has looked up many records of SOL
diers, believes that Brady can safely
lay claim to being the youngest SOL
dier He is familiar with records
of many Pennsylvanians and has fol-
lowed up the Brady and other
claims. Officers of the Adjutant
Generals Department have also
studied the papers and Adjutant
General Frank d. Beary intends to
see the veteran when in Washing
ton.
According to reports coming here
from western counties Il law passed
to prevent unnaturaliZed foreigners
from hunting in Pennsylvania, which
was passed because of fragrant viola
tions of the laws protecting game,
has been found of value in curbing
the foreigners in various industrial
districts. In Mercer county the
homes of foreigners were searched
under the law forbidding aliens to
own Or possess firearms and a car
load of weapons seized During the
war this law was invoked in this
city by the late DR.. Joseph Kalbfus,
Secretary of the State Game Com
mission, on general principles and
he took dozens of guns and revolvers
from foreigners in Sibletown and
other parts of the city. Similar steps
were taken in nests of bad foreigners
in Bedford and other counties dur
ing the war and now it is coming
in handy in pulling the teeth" of
the foreign element which has armed
itself and is making the trouble in
the steel districts
1t is not everyone who can pay
out two and a half-dollar gold
piece for penny in street car fare
and can get it back in ten minutes.
Here is the story and it comes from
} n West Shore town, illustrating how
street car conductors can win and
hold the affections of the people who
J ride on lines. One of the Valley
: Railway cars was speeding up to-
ward Camp Hill the other evening
! when the conductor suddenly called
2 out to know who had given him a
= two and a half-dollar gold piece in
) mistake for penny. The conduc-
tor was counting up his cash and
t spotted the gold coin. The passen-
gers looked at each other and
: grinned, but no one said anything
until young woman made a con-
Vulsive grab at her pockethook,
r glanced through it and declared she
E was out" identification of the
gold piece was promptly made and
the conductor was given a bouuuet
of remarks for being just right.
A number of the men who enlisted
; or were drafted in Harrisburg draft
board districts and who have taken
e up homes elsewhere since returning
= from France have been writing to
Q friends here asking all about the
= welcome home next week. A num-
s ber of them will come here for the
t Sunday exercises and some may re-
:. main over for the Monday parade.
n The parade is going to be a most
n interesting one, as the second divi-
r sion will be entirely composed of
a veterans of the World War, who
;, will be guests of the city and they
d will all have the same rank MS far
= as that goes.
= State laws and city ordinances DO
n not seem to have any terrors for
some automobile drivers and motor
$ cycle operators when it comes down
& to operating with cutouts open. They
= do it every day, and night, Front,
C Derry, Cameron and some times on
Q Sixth streets. The way some of the
e cars are driven is enough to make
= people nervous but when a clItout
s is open it is worse. The motor
= cycles that dash along the river
= drive with cutouts open seem to
n have things their own way and seem
s to need a few policemen in plain
o clothes to bring home q lesson.