Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-05
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Friends of the late Chauncey Pa
Rogers. Jr., for years connected with
the Auditor Generals Department.
and we'll known to many Harrisburg
people because of his conspicuoua
service in the fiscal departments and
through relationships with families
here, will be interested to learn OF
an unusual tribute paid to his mem-
ory in his home county of Erie re-s
Gently. Mr.. Rogers died from in
| juries received in an automobile
accident in Cumberland county last
| fall. He had been a practicing at
torney in Cory and Erie for years.
before coming to Harrisburg as Dep
uty Auditor General under A. e,
| Sisson and his death was the occa-
| sion of many regrets by lawyers and
prominent citizens. A short time
ago on Mr.. Rogers birthday the
! courts of Erie county convened imI
special session and addresses eulo-
CYSTIC of Mr.. Rogers were delivered
| by the judges, General Sisson and
others active in the affairs of the
county by the lake. Nothing like
| it had occurred in the courts of
northwestern Pennsylvania in years
and newspapers of that section COM
ment upon it as we'll deserved. Mr..
Rogers was a nephew OF the Messrs
John n. Speel and A. r. Speel, of
this city, and a descendant of one OF
the early Harrisburg families.
A good story is going the rounds
of Capitol Hill about a policeman.
a legislator and four prominent
State officials. These four men were
going to lunch and as they passed
the Penn Harris corner n lawmaker
asked policeman If he knew who
they were.
"Three Capitol millionaires,"
promptly replied the guardian.
And now the question is who wero
they?
Robert c. Miller, the new superin-
tendent of the State Department OF
Public Printing and Binding, who
assumed office this week with q
characteristic avoidance of any fuss
and feathers, says he is the busiest
man on the Hill. He is studying
the laws relative to his department.
reading contracts and finding out
just what ails the department. "I
have been a printer most of my life.
but I'm becoming one of our lead
ing students" said the Adams county
leader, the day after he took office.
"I guess I have been around print
ing offices since l have been sixteen
and have published a newspaper and
conducted commercial printing
establishment for years, but we all
have to learn. Now I'm sitting up
studying this proposition and until
get it mastered and can think out
some things we are going to do the
best possible" Mr.. Miller is a big
man, physically, and seems to be
exceedingly energetic in getting
after the manifold details of his
department. Many men have come
to Capitol Hill to take charge of
departments without announced pro-
grams, but Mr.. Miller is one of the
first to say that he will have no pro-
gram until he learns the game" and
he is starting right at the bottom.
A North Second street deg.
whose habitat is above Woodbine, has
developed one of the oldest of an
tipathies. This dog is out on the
street a great deal and has much
to do with policing that part of the
Tenth Ward against visits by spar
rows and other birds and in regu-
lating automobile and trolley traffic.
The other afternoon he extended
his beat to the skies. One of the
Middletown ayiators was soaring
around, doing stunts, when he was
spied by the dog. which promptly
challenged his right to that section.
The aviator turned and headed for
down town and the dog with eyes
fixed on the speck in the sky paced
him for blocks. barking warnings to
him never to return.
When the State Highway Depart
ment completes the work of putting
Main street, Camp Hill, into first
, class condition, the road from Har-
risburg to Pittsburgh will be pretty
, nearly as smooth as a hardwood
floor. Wonders have been accom-
plished the past two years in the
shaping up of this important piece
of highway, one of the main links
between the east and the west and
hundreds of thousands of dollars
have been expended upon 1T. But
the effort has been well worth while,
and now the job is nearly complete
; and the next link in the chain be-
tween Pittsburgh and Philadelphia
is that from Harrisburg east and
, this is being rapidly rebuilt. One
of the happiest men in Cumberland
county over the activities of Com
missioner Sadler is II. c. Zacharias,
Chief Burgess of Camp Hill, who no
longer fears for his life at the hands
of irate automobiliStS desiring to
collect the price of springs smashed
on Camp Hills main street. Which
is reminiscent of q remark made by
|, John s. Musser, a neighbor of Zach
arias, while driving his car over
what was at the time an extremely
rough bit of the Emmittsburg road
below Gettysburg.
This is the highway over which
Lees army retreated," observed
Musser between jolts.
How do you make that out?'
asked a doubling passenger.
by these ruts his heavy artillery
wore in the road" replied Musser,
never batting an eye.