Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-31
EVENING Chat

If the hopes of the officers of the
Harrisburg Public Library are realized
tonight when the library closes its
first year of free service to the people
of Harrisburg and vicinity, 1t will be
able to show q circulation of over
100000 books. When it is considered
that the number of books ordinarily
in circulation at the library is about
10000 this means that each book has
been turned over" to use a library
practice phrase, ten times. 1t will be
one of the best records to be made by
any library in the State. and If one
with bent for mathematics desired
TO carry 1t out that each person in
Greater Harrisburg, Steelton and some
of the daughter boroughs on this and
the other side of the Susquehanna
took out a book during this year. The
figures will be compiled tomorrow
and will show a splendid service given
free to the people.
Old newspapers show that when the
new year dawned back in the days
when Harrisburg was a pleasant little
town and not yet State capital, the
good burghers used to open their doors
and fire their guns into the air. Every
one had gun, and could use it, in
those days, and the shooting was part
of the celebration. Incidentally, 1t
sat up until midnight in spite of the
fact that candles were expensive.
within the next ten years Harris
burg will be one of the greatest re-
shipping, warehouse and transfer
points east of the Mississippi" said
Charles N Horsford, shipping head
of big central western manufactur-
ing concern the other day during q
visit to this city II have just looked
over the improvements under way and
have had explained to me those con-
templated in the lower end of your
town" he continued, land | may say
that never have l seen a city more ia
vored in a railroad way than this will
be when your new bridge, subways
and freight depots and yards are COM
pleted. 1 look forward to the time
when the streets centering around this
great development will be occupied
almost entirely by warehouses and
shipping branches of large manufac-
turtles the country over
The Harrisburg Rotary Clubs an
nual ladies night" will be held this
year on March .. Already arrange
ments are being made for the event.
Last year the club entertained upon an
unusually lavish scale and this year
will be no exception. Some new fea-
lures are DellS pianneu, anu, WHllS
quite as novel as that of 1914, the pro-
gram this year will be quite different.
The Junior Rotary Club is the first of
its kind in the United States, but the
movement has met with favor and
clubs will be organized in other cities.
To meet a popular demand half of the
meetings of the junior club will be
held in the afternoons, some of the
younger members being unable to at
tend in the evenings
One of the important extra items
in the 1915 budget of the department
of streets and public Improvements
asked for by Commissioner w. II.
Lynch is $1,000 for resetting and re-
berry street bridge. Since the con-
struction of the bridge many of the
posts have been cracked by the cold
and have tottered or even fallen from
their places as guard-rails. When the
bridge was erected none of these posts
were reinforced, and as remedy for
the swapping of the material the COM
missioner of streets has provided for
steel reinforcing rods to be fastened
between the floor of the bridge and the
posts. Of the nearly 500 posts on the
bridge about $50 have already been
replaced.
1t is likely that the meeting of the
State Educational Association for
1917 will be held in this city again
The association some time ago COM
mitted itself to the idea of meeting
here just before the Legislature con-
vened and we will likely have the
teachers back with us year after next
The idea of meeting here just before
the General Assembly gets together is a
good one. as many members are here
4. 4 XN,a -
looking over the Capitol and prepar-
ing for their stay. The convention
has an important influence on legisla-
ton.
This is the last day for rabbit hunt
ing and yesterday afternoon, in spite
of the snow, there were men in the
field chasing the "cottontails" In the
vicinity of Reservoir Park. Several
rabbits were shot right close to the
park while on the hills back of Steel
ton the banging of hunters guns
could be plainly heard.
Members Of the State Game. Com
mission are looking forward to a big
enrolment of hunters of the State un-
der the hunters license law this year.
They will present the whole subject to
the Legislature in a report on the sub
ject.
Can squirrels locate nut they have
buried in summer time after the Win
ter SHOWS have come? That is one of
the problems that some visitors to
Capitol Park are trying to fathom
lately. 1t seems that the other day a
! pair of squirrels finding donations
rather slack and few nuts in sight un-
dertook some eXcavating work and
digging through four inches of snow
came up with filberts. 1t would seem
that the animals were able to spot the
places where nuts were buried with.
out much trouble.
II WELL KNOWN PEOPLE