Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-13
GOV. SPROUL TO
LEAVE MEMORIAL
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room is furnished with mahogany
and is one of the most attractive in
the hotel.
The Governors Address
The event of the evening was
Governor Sprouts address. in which
! he forecasted great things for Har-
mind to present to the city a memor-
ial indicative of his friendly feeling
for the city which has been most
Kind and hospitable in its treatment
of him during all the twenty-five
years he has been coming here.
This was the first intimation the
Governor has given of this inten-
ton and it was received with ap-
| plause.
The Governor said that he Is very
fond of Harrisburg and looks upon
1t as second home. For some
time" he said, Il have been think
ing of leaving here a memorial in
appreciation of the kindly manner
IN which you have treated me dur
ing all the twenty-five years 1 have
been coming to Harrisburg in con-
nection with duties in the State gov
ernment" He spoke highly of the
public spirit of the people here, as
| Illustrated not only in their many
| pubic improvements but in the erec-
tlon of the Penn-Harris Hotel which
ne said was one of the greatest as
sets or the city. He expressed the
nope that the report of its enlarge
ment during the coming year by $50
rooms is correct. He recalled how
twenty-five years ago he had come
TO Harrisburg and had taken up his
residence at the Harrisburg Club
and had noted that many people
We're kept away from Harrisburg for
years by lack of hotel facilities.
The Governor outlined to his
newspaper friends the plans of the
State to bring to Harrisburg all the
State government officials and said,
when the space for them has been
provided and when our great road
system is completed, Harrisburg will
be to Pennsylvania what Springfield,
! Mass, is to New England, and we
are going to have better roads than
Massachusetts ever has had he
added
! Governor Sproul said that already
! hundreds of visitors are coming to
Harrisburg and that during the past
week no less than seven delegations
had come to the Capitol to see how
PENNSYLVANIA conducts it's govern
Hient ana 10 get pointers. He fore
| casted the greatest and best State
governmental organization in the
world" with the completion of plans
now in process of being worked out.
The Governor complim ented the
club on the quality of it's member
! ship and told the younger men never
to be ashamed of their work, but to
take pride in it as one of the most
important and influential in the
world. He said that he himself is a
newspaperman, owning prosper
Gus newspaper property in Chester
that he was a newspaperman before
he entered politics and will be a
newspaperman as long as he lives.
Harry S. McDevitt. formerly city ed e.
itor of the Philadelphia Press and
now the Governors private secretary,
recalled in a brief address his asso-
Citations with many members of the
club, and invited the members to visit
the executive department any time,
saying that the door always would
be open to them.
f. j. Stackpole. acting as director
of the Penn Harris Hotel Company,
was called upon by Vice. President
Hiram G. Andrews, correspondent for
the Philadelphia North American, who
presided. to present the room to the
Muzzle Club and as charter member
of the Muzzle Club to receive it for