Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-20
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many people here from all sections
oil the State. but it is doubtful
| whether any six months in a long
| iohS time. has seen SO many men
from various sections of Pennsalj
wanna IN Harrisburg as the peri6
| commencing with Ground Hog day
| for instance. The numerous con,
ierehces being held at the State
| highway Department have added
| 10 the representatives of the coun.
| ues and in addition TO the hearings
| winch have drawn men and women
from virtually every city and many
| OF the larger boroughs TO the leg.
| lslatiVe halls and committee rooms
| while there have been meetings OF
! various State boards and conferences
| at the Governors office which have
| assembled any amazing variety OF
| people of diverse occupations and
! residence. one observer of things
! at the Capitol remarked to-day that
ne mad wide acquaintance in Penn
| sylNania and felt sure that every
county in the State had had delega-
tons or individuals here, aside from
| legislators, in the last month II
| nave never known so many people
| from so many sections to be here,
| and the odd part about it is that
! theN have come on one of three
days in each week-either Monday,
! tuesday or Wednesday," said he.
! And the majority OF them go back
| nome saying that Harrisburg has
met expectations at last and pro-
| Nlded first class hotel added
| another man, who comes from a dis
| tant city. 1t may be added that
the proposed improvement of Capt.
| tol park is not only interesting
many of the visitors, hut getting
| CltTA Nn,.f
William A. Brady. the theatrical
| producer. who was here yesterday
| for the hearing on the Rorke bill.
! admired the State Capitol very
| much. Mr.. Brady was escorted
through the building after the con-
cert by the Philadelphia orchestra
ard remarked upon the splendor
| of the building. He is we'll known
to number of Harrsburgers as
he has been here several times, but
it was his first visit to the Hill"
Major Henry NJ. Stine, who COM
manded the Harrisburg Reserves,
the home defence organization OF
this city. has arranged for officers
Of the l12th infantry now in this
country and who helped train the
Reserves, to deliver a series of Sat
urday night talks in the courthouse
to the members of the Reserves on
their experiences in France and how
to aid the men in the army when
they return. The Reserve organiza-
tion is being maintained.
First examples of seventeen year
old locusts have been sent to the
State Capitol by Tenth ward resi-
dents who turned them up while
digging garden. The loCuSts were
found under some Front street lawns
and in war gardens and were pro-
nounced undoubtedly seventeen year
old loCusts. AS the war is over no
one will worry about the w on the
wings this year.
The time for filing income tax re-
turns expired on Saturday night at
midnight and Uncle Sam does not
permit of revisions except in due
process of law and not often then
when they go against the govern
ment according to what some people
found out in the Federal building
Sunday night. The income tax law
apparently struck many people who
did not realize it until very late and
some of them were unable to get to
the experts because of the crush in
the corridors of the building Satur-
day night and concluded to try their
luck yesterday morning. They found
that Sabbath observance is q very
real thing about the United States
post office and that the time limit
had been reached. 4 couple of men
said that they had discovered some
grounds for exemption and desired
to know how to recall their returns
I 4. .lgNNU
clerks told them to take their trou-
bes to Lancaster. Some anxious
citizens who wanted to change re-
turns called up men connected with
the revenue service by telephone yes
terday, but got scant comfort. Most
of the revenue men spent the day
in bed.
David Biddle. of the Philadelphia
Evening Ledger. formerly of the
Harrisburg Telegraph, is one of the
!, few people in the world who be-
lieves that the flu probably saved
his life, but he has a crouch against
the disease even at that, for ii kept
him out of the final campaign of
, the S16th regiment that helped put
, the Hun army out of business in
eastern France. Biddle had gone
through the Argonne fighting with
out having been hit and while the
regiment was in quiet sector for
a few days.. resting, the young man
went down with the FLU" and was
! put out of active service for the rest
of the war. During the days that
followed his regiment saw the hot
test kind of service, having 500
major casualties, including the ma
jor and several captains, and Biddle
thinks he might have got his if he
had been with his comrades at that
time. Nevertheless he says he pre-
fers the chance of Hun bullet to
the agonies of influenza.
The weather has been extremely
favorable for fruit up to this time.
Not n bud was winter killed and the
temperature while above normal
most Of the winter was not SUFFICIENT
to push the buds to the danger
point. A few more weeks of the
present type of weather will bring
the golden bells and other early
boomers into blossom.