Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-20
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The Kipona, Harrisburgs water
festival which was an annual affair
previous to the outbreak of the war,
is to be resumed the coming sum-
mer. Even now ]. William Bowman,
admiral of the Harrisburg Navy, the
organization formed some FIVE or six
years ago for the promotion of river
sports in Harrisburg, Is getting the
preliminaries under way, AS soon as
possible movement will be started
for the opening of a channel broad
enough even for the use of the coal
fleets through the rapids at the up
per end of the city all the way up
to McCormick's Island,
| No date has been fixed fer the
water carnival, but 1t will be in the
latter part of the summer when the
water is still warm enough for
swimming, and the weather is settled
so that there will be little likelihood
of sudden freshet to spoil the
plans, a bigger and more entertain
ing program than ever is in con-
temptation,
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Harrisburg have invited the new
supreme Councillor l. B, Geisen-
berger, of Lancaster, a member of
Conestoga Council. Mr., Geisenberg-
er is we'll known in Harrisburg. His
election took place recently at At
lantic city when the supreme coun-
Gil of the order met there. This is
twice within few years that Gen.
tral Pennsylvania has been honored
| with a supreme councilorship, the
other occasion being when Frank B.
iWickersham, the well known Steel
ton attorney, was elected to that
Office and served with distinction.
Geisenberger, like Wickersham, has
been for long time a devoted and
enthusiastic member of the order.
He was elected to the grand council
in Pennsylvania in 1905 and has
attended every session, He was elect
| ed supreme representative from
Pennsylvania In 190S-09 and made
his debut at the session in st. Louis.
In 1913 he was elected grand vice.
regent of the society in this State,
and at the meeting in Chicago last
year was made supreme vice-regent.
Charles e. Metzger and George
Fl. Durham went trout fishing up
near New Germantown the other
day. They did not catch many fish,
but they did get a rattlesnake. 1t
was four feet long and had eight
rattes and button. And it fought.
The lot of the car dispatchers
of the Harrisburg Railways Com
pany is not a happy one at any time,
but Saturday was one of the worst
days they have endured The truck
parade threw cars out of whack and
then the accident at Second and
North streets upset that line. Then
came the firemen's parade followed
by a fire. The storm then inter.
fered and about the time the eve
ming rush was on it rained and
rained. Many people had come to
town for the various parades and
when they were all going home there
was another fire.
One only gets an idea of the motor
truck traffic that passes through
Harrisburg by getting up early in
the morning. There are regular
trains that go through this city
passing out Market street or up
along the Riverside road, some of
them numbering half dozen trucks.
These trucks go on Sundays as we'll
as week days, and yesterday morn
ing there was long string of steel
trucks owned by a New York firm
going up the river. The idea of an
early start is firm in the minds of
the drivers. There have been strings
of machines with contractors ma
chinery and any number of moving
vans to be seen in morning hours
and it is a good bit like last year
when army trucks on the way to
ports passed through Harrisburg.
Grand army men and National
Guardsmen will unite to make the
unveiling of the statue of the late
General Thomas J. Stweart at the
Capitol n notable event. The statue
is in place. covered with an Ameri-
can flag and the idea is to have the
ceremony later in the summer with
every unit of the Keystone division
represented.
w. NJ. Ogelsbv, Andrew S. Patter-
son and Howard A. Rutherford. the
committee named by Znmbo Temple.
of the Shriners to make a study of
the buildings of various temples, are
in Pittsburgh to-day where they are
guests of officers of SYRIA Temple.
They will go from Pittsburgh to
Fort Wayne This is the start of the
movement to give Harrishurgs tenn
pie a building BETTING its size and
importance.
"Girards", writing in the Phila-
delphia Press has this to say on a
topic much discussed at the State
Capitol: "a list of 336 American
: towns in which public ownership
proved a fiat failure has been pre-
pared by II. ]. Gonden. Philadel-
. phias gas works gets the triple star
: as the prize failure of the whole
bunch BY leasing its gas plant
TO President Bodine's wide-awake
company our city now gets a yearly
! revenue of about SO 100000 whereas,
when the politicians operated the
gas works they earned loss for tho
city of about 100000 a year. If the
day ever comes when shoemaker
can better tune your piano, a
blacksmith repair your watch and
the soda fountain clerk make your
clothes, then YOU can expect your
politicians to run your business bet
ter than your business men can run
it."