Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-12
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Judging from what people in va
rious walks of life have to say
the advance of the clocks when the
daylight saving" period comes
around will be welcomed. The only
objections seem to have come from
farmers and truck gardeners who
are disposed to civil at the dis
turbance of their routine which the
contend gets them up with the sun
in summer time anyway and VIII
force them to rise an hour earlier
to come to the Harrisburg markets.
Street car conductors, who are in
the same boat as the farmers, are
for the change, one man pointing
out yesterday that it would mean
more time in the evening when the
men who run the cars are on morn
ing turn. Railroad men say that 1t
will make no difference to them and
seem to think very kindly of the
chance to do some work after sup
per, while the men who work in
the steel mills are favorable to the
plan almost to a man. Some of the
young fellows who work in the
stores and offices are not cheering
very much, but admit that when it
gets working they will have some
thing to look forward to in the
| shape of long evenings. AS for the
school children they are rather glee-
| ful about it because everyone knows
| how unsuccessful was the effort to
! legislate kids to bed when there was
still daylight last spring.
Miss Violet Oakley, the artist, had
| the unique experience yesterday of
J hearing a Capitol guide explain her
series of mural paintings in the Gov
| ernor's reception room. Miss Oak
| ley was sittinf, in the reception room
| waiting TO see the Governor when
a guide brought in a party and pro-
ceeded to tell all about the paint.
| ings. Miss Oakley did not comment
A year or so ago she heard party
discussing the paintings and kindly
corrected some impressions she
heard.
| Mayor Edward Lawrence, OF
Meadville, took dinner yesterday
with his uncle, A. w. Swergel, of
Harrisburg. brother of former Bishop
Swengel, of the United Evangelical
Church. Mayor Lawrence is prom
inently identified with up-lift work
in his home city. and has had much
to do with cleaning up MeadviNe
and with keeping it clean. They
don't have much trouble with dope"
statesmen or people or that ilk in
Meadville because the Meadville po-
lice department finds itself fully able
to cope with the situation. The
Mayor was on his way to Texas and
Oklahoma where he will combine
business with pleasure for few
weeks, being interested in oil and
gas properties there.
Friends of U. Clark. Swengel, son
of former Bishop U. e. Swengel,
Hx-Ia hnan recommending in
army hospital, hear that he will be
home in a short time, he having
sufficiently recovered to go to Camp
Dix to be mustered out. Swengel,
who is one of the youngest soldiers
to volunteer from Harrisburg, went
into the signal corps at the begin
ming of the war and after very
short training was sent to France
and was in the trenches during the,
great attacks and counter-attacks
of last spring and summer. He
wrote home that he was in hospi-
tai suffering from an attack OF
rheumatism, fearing the truth would
worry his mother, but in reality he
was both wounded and gassed and
in a very bad way. He will come
through his experiences all right
however, and although his adven-
lures were thrilling in the extreme,
| ne Will not allow dCCOuhL VI any VI
them tGs find their way into print
And who do you think happened
into town yesterday with inquiries
for newspaper and professional men
active in Harrisburg a score of years
ago? None other than Dexter w.
Fellows, dean of all the circus press
agents of the country, successor to
. the noted "Tody" Hamilton,
Charlie" Davis and other noted
men of the sawdust ring. Fellows
broke into the press agent game
away back in 1898 and was Buffalo
Bills right hand man for many
years, both in the United States and
, Europe, and more recently head of
the Barnum and Bailey circus This
year he has forsaken the big tent
to tell the folks of the country the
virtues of the famous 369th United
, States band, the negroes of whom
| Irving Cobb wrote so entertainingly
in his wonderful story of the colored
man in France-"Young Black joe y
,, Harrisburg was the first city Fell
lows visited when he became press
; agent away back in '93 and he will
remain here a day or two renewing
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