Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-26
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! IL d fatner strange thing for no.
tells to be hunting rooms for people. .
VI course, it has been known in Har-
r1sourg for years, but everyone
rather supposed that when the new
Penn-Harris was built that it would
meet the conditions for years to
come. especially in the handling of
the crowds of people that came here
Tor various meetings. During the
session of the Legislature the hotei5
OF the city were simply jammed us
there was much out of the ordinary
IN the session that attracted peoLle
mere and number of State orga,.l-
zauons held meetings here durns
the winter because at last Harris
purS mad a place where meetings
! could be held comfortably and a hu-
tel that could care for people at
tehdlng them on large scale. But .
now the session is over and gone
ana there are many meetings OF u
statewide nature which are brlns-
ing hundreds of persons to the Stuts
capital; many folks coming here to
see the city and the State House Oh
automobile tours who did not come
this way because of roads and lack
| OF motel accommodations in yeuIs
past and the usual run of peopl,
having business at a State Capital
and in live town. And the hotels
are taxed to care for them. People
are actually being asked to send the
! locations and character of rooms
/ which they have for let to help out
the hotels It's n rather interesting,
ana very gratifying, thing to note
| that Harrisburg is so much upon
the map and that people are coming
here in such numbers
Men who have been on the "ex-
ira list of the railroads for quito
some months are commencing to
find that they do not have much
time to spare and that they are
pretty nearly regulars" when it
comes to their jobs. Quite Il few
men who had been on the "call list
OF the Pennsylvania, for instance,
and been filling odd jobs during the
summer have found that the calls
OF the road are so insIstent that they
barely have time to look after things
about their own homes and gardens,
because everyone on the railroad
seems to have garden this year.
| With more crews being put TO work,
towers being reopened and things
generally speeded up, it would dp-,
pear that ii no strike in Industries
hits this section that there will be
|
In regard to the war record OF
Bernard Brady, the inmate OF the
Soldiers Home at Washington who
seems to have become a soldier in u
Pennsylvania regiment in the Civil
War while under nine years of age,
a friend says that the late Captain
John c. Delaney. one of the young
est men in the Civil War, was born
|
one of the youngest lieutenants
known. He was not thirteen when
he went into the army. Daniel A.
Clemens, Jr., who enlisted with has
father in a Lancaster regiment, tells
an interesting story. His father was
a private in the same regiment and
used to carry the rations for his son,
who was company drummer, in his
haversack. The younger Clemmens
followed the regiment and was final
ly taken on as a drummer when
eleven years, four months and fif-
teen days of age. The mastering
officer put him on as fourteen al
though he was born February 2S,
1852. He was in the battles of I.
J Chickamauga and marched with
Sherman to the sea.
The gentle sport of "gigging" is
under way in the Susquehanna river
in full force just now and there is
hardly night but what the flares
: of the men who spear fish as they
come up to see the bright lights are
) made out on the river. This has al
ways been more or less of a sport
: about here and some fine fish are
taken that way. The fayorite places
appear to be along the Cumberland
shore where the Juniata and Sher-
mans creek and Conodoguinet creek
waters flow along. This water Isl
, free from the coal and culm which
hugs the Dauphin shore because Of
the water from Shamokin and Wico-
e nisco. creeks.
= Great interest is being shown in
!. the bridge building business in the
bids made for the construction of
S the memorial bridge in this city. The
opening of the bids brought here one
of the largest gatherings of build
q ers and material men known in q
long time and they have been fol-
h lowing up every move made in the
U project. From what has been
learned the State will ask that work
u be launched as soon as possible after
e the contract is signed which will
:, likely be next week. The first steps
). will be removal of tracks and street
= material and then the State street
= bridge will be taken down, a tenn
= porary bridge for pedestrians being
:. constructed.
e Speaking about the gun hunt 81
t which are under way in some sec
s tions of the State under provisionst
f of the law forhidding foreigners to
n own firearms of any description calls
to mind that when such hunts were
made in this city during the war
there were some remarkable con-
traptions found among the foreign
ers. In spite of all that can be donej
the aliens seem to get guns, some ofi
them dating back fifty years, and;
I when a time of anxiety comes thcvi
$ are in possession of something whichl
q may make trouble. When ths4
o houses were searched here shotgunsl
r which were made in the seventies,
o army muskets from the Civil War;
y fancy fowling pieces and all sorts of
e guns were found One man re-,
+ marked that the -" appeared TOD
= be afraid of Ind bought anyk