Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
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to have been delighted with it and
that there are more ideas being ad-
vanced for the event next year than
one would have imagined, which all
goes to show that it struck a popu-
lar chord and that it is going TO
be an affair of the early autumn
to which all persons in Harrisburg
and vicinity will look forward for
months to come. There have bee1l
all sorts of suggestions made as to {,
next years celebration, and every
one of them deals with the Susque-
hanna. There have been proposals
Tor more races, more swimming con-
tests and more paradeS on the water
and even of great community SIM
| on the surface of the river. The
| plan of presenting scenes from the
early days of Harrisburg won great
favor and there have been some
ideas for certain incidents in the
| life of the State Capital in it's in
| FAINT days. In event that the STORY
! of Harrisburg should be made q
| part of next years celebration tho
suggestion has been advanced that
the floats should be paraded along
the river front, say from Maclay
street to the railroad bridges which.
| q,
would enable more people to see
them in comfort.
Another suggestion is that the
boat racing of former years be re-
vived and that racing boats be Sc
cured. There is already much senti-
ment in that direction, and some
people would like to see "sculis"
which formed such a pleasant form
of exercise and which attracted great
attention for years, appear on the
river again. There are abundant
facllities plenty of popular backing
and all the support anyone could
wish for revival of boating of every
kind on the Susquehanna.
There has been general endorse
ment or two suggestions thrown out
since the celebration. One is the
Rotary club idea of organizing the
pageant, the choruses and the navy
into great Kipona comic opera
or farce comedy to be given in one
or the theaters during the winter
Tor the purpose of raising money
with which to finance next years
carnival, and the other is for the
purchase of portable grandstands
to be erected along the river front
between Walnut and South streets.
in order that the spectacle may be
witnessed by large numbers of peo-
pie from the best point of vantage.
The Rotary Idea would be to work
the pageant pictures into the play,
using the scenery already painted
as a background and interesting
large numbers of people not only in
the production itself but in the
Kipona celebration of next year.
This could be made very easily
big yearly feature of the life of the
community and would give oppor-
) tunity for hundreds of persons to
| participate both winter and sum-
mer.
In these days of eagle-sized mos
: quitoes, which bump against You
with the force of a slow-moving
: freight train, strenuous efforts are
necessary if YOU don't want to look
like the receiving end of a one
sided scrap. The other evening on
the boardwalk of one of our sea-
side resorts the crowd was madly
slapping and battling at the millions
of pestiferous insects. while tho
, odor of citronella floated on the
air with the persistence of mustard
gas. The approach of a young man
. down the boards was the occasion
for everybody to stand still and take
a good look. And this is what thev
saw: the straw hat of the young
fellow covered with close-mashed
mosquito netting, which fell down
f over his face and was closely
J buttoned in the neck so that 10
! willy bug could crawl in there. And
, while everyone gave him the laugh
, as an odd looking spectacle, there
wasn't single scratcher who didn't
a wish he had the nerve to adopt the
! same tactics.
Girard, writing In the Philadel-
phia Press says: Attorney General
Palmer now puts his official 0. X.
upon the sentiment of that Jersey
, farmer whom / recently quoted:
THANK God, no Act of Congress
! can stop cider from becoming
: hard" some four score years ago,
hard cider was a large factor in q
+ Presidential campaign. 1t may
stage q come back in next years
national election. In the rural Sec
: tions of Pennsylvania the hard cider
! jag is no novelty, and it is a real
jag, too.
"I happened to be in Harrisburg
for your water festival, and your
Kipona was one of the finest things
! of the kind have ever seen," said
, a travelling man this week "The
leaux the singing, the procession on
: the water and the fireworks all
went off in style. 1t showed head
work and hard work"
IF any one wants to get an idea as
to how the people of Harrisburg
. feel in regard to the daylight saw
ing law all he needs to do is to
! attend one of the baseball games in
. the Twilight League series. These
, leagues were formed for after sup
per baseball, the extra hour being
the big factor. The crowds which
gather at Fifth and Seneca and on
Seventeenth street and at the small
er diamonds about the city are unan-
inous in favor of ordinances for the
! turning back of the clocks next April
and not at all backward about saying
so.