GREAT WATER CARNIVAL ON SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN SEEN BY BIGGEST
CROWD OF PEOPLE EVER GATHERED
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, . , . . _ , ' J TELEGRAPH ARTIST'S VISION OF HOW RIVKP. FRONT WOULD I/>(»K IN 1915 AS SKETCHED JILY *, 1914
on July 3. last year, the Telegraph printed a vision caught by its artist ct how the great river basin would look in 191 S. Doesn't look unlike the scenes of yesterday, does it? I
MOTOR TRUCKS IN!
GREAT DEMAND
R. C. Rueschaw, of Reo Motor i
Car Co., Says Unparalleled
Order Nation-Wide
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"Whether the frantic demands of j
European nations for American Motor :
trucks, when they were confronted
with the necessity for rapid transpor- 1
tation of goods had anything to do
with arousing American businessmen
to the advantages of the modern
method of transportation 1 cannot say,
but it is an interesting fact that co
incident with the European demand
the motor truck has come Into its own
here at home," says R. C. Rueschaw.
Sales Head of the dual monarchy. Reo
Motor Car company and Reo Motor
Truck company.
Mr. Rueschaw has just returned
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SATURDAY EVENING B*RIUSBURG s£§!& TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 25, 1915.
I from an extended trip which embraced ]
i the Pacific Coast States, and he states
i that the thing that impressed him most
was the tremendous demand that ex
isted everywhere for motor trucks.
"We have all looked forward to a
(time when big business and little busi
: ness would awaken to the tremendous
\ superiority of the motor delivery ve
i hicle. We all realized that when it
i did come it would come with a rush—
[and one has only to travel across the 1
i country to realize that that has hap
! pened.
"It is not exactly a happy coinct
! dent that the nation-wide demand oc
| curred simultaneously with the needs
'of the belligerent European nations.
; It has caused an almost unparalleled
[condition of excessive demand —a de
mand out of all proportion to supply.
"As one instance of this I might
' state that the Reo Motor Truck com
pany has for some months been de
livering a new model truck; in that
time several hundred of them have
gone into use, and up to this time no
general announcement of it has been
made in the public press. This is a
1500 pound "hurry-up wagon."
"Who had been working for some
years on the solving of the problem
of a truck of ample load capacity but
with higher rates of speed than were
possible with, for example, our 2-ton
truck mounted on solid tires.
"After having put the machine
through every kind of test we finally
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ventured to exhibit it at the Boston
Automobile Show last March. To our
consternation we were flooded with
orders. However, we did not con
sider that a serious matter as deal
ers are prone to order any new model
in quantities, and they are just as
likely as not to sell it in units, and
not many of them. So we planned to
make a national announcement of this
model in July. Came July, and a
glance at our order books showed we
dared not say any more about that
model until the factory had more
nearly caught up with orders on hand.
So the announcement was postponed
to August, and from month to month
since then—and still the demand
keeps up.
"I do not think this is an isolated
case. It is a very good indication of
the appreciation in business generally
of the celerity and economy of motor
driven trucks.
"More noticeable than ever the pub
lic demand is the attitude of the auto
mobile dealer toward motor trucks
nowadays. Formerly they looked at
them askance and when a dealer did
deign to take on the line he ordered
a demonstrator and set it back in a
corner of the show roo.iy. There it
was to be had by anyone who came in
and forcibly took it away from him.
"During the past few months I have
found dealers quite as enthusiastic
over motor trucks and in a great many
cases more so than pleasure vehicles.
They realize that it is a big, perma
nent department of the business, and
treat it as such—those among them
who arc merchants and not merely or
der takers.
"1 found business in general excel
lent. concluded Mr. Rueschaw. "the
spirit of optimism seems to prevail
everywhere, and there is no doubt in
the world that the automobile industry
is just starting on the biggest season
it has ever had."
Drives Cadillac "Eight"
10,000 Miles on One Tour
To Dr. Benjamin H. Metealf. chair
man of the board of health of Win
throp, Mass.. belongs the distinction of
making;, without relief, one of the long
est motor oar tours on record. He re- •
cently arrived home after driving his
Cadillac Eight from Winthrop to the
Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Fran
cisco. and back again.
The car carried five passengers all
the way. and a great deal of baggage
and equipment in the way of spare
tires, etc. The actual running time on
the westward route was 22 days, while
IT days covered the actual touring on
the return trip.
Dr. Metealf says the two most pleas
ant features of the tour, aside from
the attractiveness of the country tra
versed. were the utter absence of car
troubles of and kind and the fact that
the tour was made in comfort and with
out excessive fatigue. In crossing the
desert, it was necessary to travel at
night because of the great heat during
the day. Even at night, it was as hot
as 120 degrees, bat the Cadillac radiator
did not boil nor the motor heat to ex
cess under such abnormal conditions.
WATER CARNIVAL
SEEN BY 50,000
[Continued From First Page.]
Harrisburg" was a solid mass of peo
ple.
Water Sports Disappointing
Many folks were disappointed 'tis
true, at the way the afternoon pro
gram of sports was run off; but what
they saw last evening more than com
pensated for vexatious delays In the
racing events.
Just where to begin anything like
even a feeble description of the basin
of the Susquehanna from 7:30 to 10
o'clock, is a regular job—especially on
the morning after. However, most of
Harrisburg was there to see for itself.
In the first place there were the
Illuminations on the banks and the
bridges and the floats. The river wall,
lighted with the ornamental stand
ards. provided a great walk that had
all the features of a seashore "board
walk." Here and there along the
the water's edge someone set oft a
mass of red and green tire from time
to time. Did these things help? They
surely did.
The electrical setting was splendid.
From the city to the island shore
along the railing of the Market street
bridge marked a man-made varicol
ored starline against a sky that was
turning silvery blue under the rising,
grinning moon. Then, before the line
of decorated canoes, began abobliing
on the water, the electric light com
pany switched its current into the
wires that fed the half a dozen very
beautiful mercantile floats just north
of the Walnut street bridge. And
great baskets of flowers, angels of suf
fragists. the Panthenon, the "Merrl
mac" that helped to make the "Moni
tor" famous—all flamed Into light.
Easily the prettiest float of the sta
tionary craft was the great galley that
was lighted and "manned' by the Wo
man's Suffrage Association of Penn
sylvania. The allegory represented
"Justice." Dr. Ruth A. Deeter as
"Justice" was attended by twelve
young women winged and garbed in
flowing robes as "Victories." The
twelve represented the States which
have granted its women the right to
vote. Each winged figure stood like
a statue at a gilded sweep. An illumi
nated American flag gave the color
touch.
The participants who figured as vic
torious States were:
Colorado, Miss Opal Powell; Califor
nia, Miss Olive Ready; Kansas, Miss
Katharine Taylor; Idaho, Miss Re
becca Weill; Utah. Miss Evelyn
Murphy; Wyoming, Miss Cora E.
Bonawitz; Nevada, Miss Esther
Peiffer; Arizona. Miss Mabel Farling;
Washington, Mrs. Albert Chesley;
Oregon, Mrs. Edmund M. Deeter;
Illinois. Mrs. H. G. KefTer.
Anchored near the foot of Pine
street was another float that sug
gested the Improvement spirit of the
times. This was a reproduction of the
proposed bridge across the Pennsyl
vania tracks at Walnut street and was
erected by the Walnut street brldje
association.
Beneath the bridge in great letters
was this"inscription:
"Our Next Big Public Improve
ment."
Harrisburg's leading merchants
surely did their share toward making
the night program of the carnival a
memorable event in the city's history
and the Harrlsburg Light and Power
Company evinced a similar public
spirit by donating oil the current
which was used for the floats gratuit
ously.
The Bantl Helped Too
The band was stationed on the wall
just opposite the floats and when the
lights flashed on and displayed the
gorgeous settings, the roar of ap
proval from the watching thousands
sounded like the echo of a champion
ship game on the island.
Then there were the fireworks. In
many a year there has been no prettier
or more comprehensive display. From
the time the demonstration began with
the crash of the aerial bombs to
Niagara's falling cascades of fire, the
pyrotechnics out-dazzled most any of
the kind that has been seen on the
river.
But, after all, it was in the decor
ated parade of boats and canoes that
Harrisburg's youthful lovers of the
water, did themselves so proudly.
Preparing for the Parade
Lights had not yet begun to twinkle
along the wall when a rocket sailed
across the sky. Canoeists who expect
ed to get into the boat parade and
who had to add finishing touches to
the decorations hustled to get the last
lanterns set, the last streamer knotted,
'lie last flag in place. For this was
the "get ready" signal.
At the big boat pavilions up town
there were never such scenes. Youth
ful canoeists cussed softly as thev
-earched for the hatchet, the new
cushion. the locker key. while very
pretty maids waited about demurely,
ii a wee bit impatiently, for the
launching of the craft. In the locker
rooms many a final furtive dab of
powder-chamois was sneaked.
The Final Touches
About the time the moon began
poking an inquisitive head over "Hard
scrabble's" ragged house line the lights
on the walls twinkled Into being and
there was a general launching of the
canoeists. It was Interesting to watch
them put off for Independence Island
to line up for the parade.
A graceful white swan bearing Uncle
Sam slid out from behind a flat and
glided toward the island; up the river
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a giant Zeppelin teetered: beneath, a
very pretty girl languidly impeded the
progress of the canoe In the same old
ray that girls aways do; near by a
real businesslike Taube slid over the
water with the speed of a hydro
plane, nearly; then a little electrically
lighted "bower of roses" mounted on
a launch hustled down stream: from
behind a wharf a tall "lighthouse"
i.loved: the "F-4" a la Watertown
poked its nose inquisitively at the
"eppelin. and a very un-Germanlike
voice from the latter yelled a warn- |
lag; then, canoe after canoe, deco
rated more or less elaborately with
Japanese and Chinese lanterns, trailed
thadowily over toward the island.
The Signal
About 8 o'clock a bomb from the
island whirled high into the air and
a megaphoned bellow from somewhere
ovtr near Independence Island begged
everybody "what meant to git' in the
bon' parade to hustle over here on the
lob."
The moon was getting in active i
work when the Telegraph's battleship
slid from its moorings and chugged
away to the Calder street end of the
'tiver front steps" to take the Tele
graph "family" aboard. It was on its
vay down stream when another craft
hove in sight. The voices of singers
reached out across the water. Some
where on the boat, too. a band played.
As the stranger moved slowly up past
the wall and folks got a good look at
it roars of applause greeted it.
As In Days of Old
The new boat was a tall three
masted square-rigger of the type that
sailed the seas when even grandfather
was a boy. Great souare-rlgged sail,
furled to the yards, gave a truly
realistic suggestion, and lighted lan
terns were so arranged on the yard
arms as to set off the giant sails to
best advantage. Several flats must
have been pressed into service to ac
commodate the crowd.
The craft was built, registered,
manned and launched by the South
Harrlsburg Amusement Association,
the big organization of First ward
folks who arranged such enjoyable
open-air vaudeville and concerts in
the River Pork this summer.
South Hnrrishurg's Splendid Display
Some of the officers of the organ
ization modestly apologized for the
boat: they said it was "knocked to
gether" hurriedly and was not as nice
a showing as South Harrlsburg could
and would have liked to have made.
But the thousands of folks who
watched the big ship gracefully glid
ing about the river thought very dif
ferently if the applause and the cheers
that greeted it as it swung by was a
criterion by which to judge.
The average small boy couldn't have
been blamed for his jumble of dreams
last night; no wonder hte saw Captain
John Harris of the old square-rigger
taken from his quarterdeck by the
crew of a submarine while a Zeppelin
repelled the friendly Taube efforts to
rescue the trader. Oh! my, such a
night!
The Passing Show
However, the decorated boat parade
got under way and after crossing
toward the city shore the line of
illuminated boats slid down along the
wall to the Market street bridge,
turned and moved back again.
Just Like Hands Across the Sea
As the good ship "Telegraph"
steamed down the river the South
Harrisburg "square-rigger" was on its
way up stream. From the former
ship crew and passengers cheered
mightily and the passing ship's load
of fifty or more folks, returned the
"hands across the water" greeting in
kind.
With the breaking up of the boat
parade the smaller craft scattered to
inspect more closely the beautifully
lighted flats anchored just above the
bridge. First was the big electrically
glowlng basket of flowers of the Kauf
man Underselling stores, the pretty
float of the Souter's "Twenty-five cent
store, then Bowman's massive picture
of the "Merrlmac," then the columned
float of the Dives, Pomeroy and Stew
art float, then the attractively lighted
and betiowered craft of the Schmidt's
bakery and the Majestic-Orpheum
theater display at the head of the line
"capping" the other floats in true
naval style was the John C. Herman
company's gray, grim, shlver-lnsptr
ing submarine. Anchored just a short
distance above this float during the
evening was the tall float of the Har
risburg Light and Power company. It
bore the officials of the company and
a lot of friends and families. It was
just a big, high barge lighted with
tall columns topped with round elec
tric globes.
Like* Thunder Crashes
'Round about 9 o'clock a single
rocket sailed up into the sky and an
answering long, drawn "ah-a-a-a-ah"
from the thousands on the river front
announced the beginning of the fire
works display.
For nearly an hour afterward the
river echoed and reverberated with th«
crush of aerial bombs; the thunder
that rolled back from the Fort Wash
ington hills suggested newspaper stor
ies of the "orchestras of big guns"
around the walis of Warsaw's fort
resses, etc.
The fireworks display was a real fea
ture, incidentally. Alany a piece that
the onlooker never saw—or thought
he hadn't—dazzled his eyes. Millions
of red and green and blue and yellow
stars burst overhead and whirli
gigged into space and got vocal ap
proval from the shore in answer.
Before "Good Night" Was Flashed
While the great natural grandstand
of the river front with its "front step"
bleachers was just the best place in
the world to see the fireworks if you
weren't fortunate enough to be abroad
on the water, the canoeists and other
boatmen preferred to get in closer.
Throughout the display the river in
front of the fireworks stand, some dis
tance out of course, was dotted with
anchored canoes.
That wasn't the only feature of the
entertainment though—the fireworks.
On the wall near Walnut street a band
played through a mighty fine program.
Ever heart a band on the water, espe
cially when you've got the right sort
of company'.'
The music carried splendidly and
It served the double purpose of enter
taining the thousands on the shore and
river. Jt is a safe bet that Harris
burg's water carnivals of the future
will give a big place on the program
to that feature—the bands. The
Commonwealth never played to bet
ter advantage by the way, than it did
last night.
The Ship Tliat Passed In the Night
Even such things as the most suc
cessful night water carnival Harris
burg ever held must eventually come
to an end and as "good night" began
to burn itself away, on the island, the
long line of boatmen sturdily dipped
their paddles for the homeward drive.
The "front steps," the parks, the
banks delivered their thousands to the
streets, the jitneys, the trolleys and
the trains; the river front walk was
turned into a hustling promenade;
tiny phonographs and victrolas in
many canoes walled the "Home waltz"
and distant amateur quartets chorused
"Good Night" to the ladies.
Far down stream the old "square
rigger" passed as do all ships in the
night.
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