Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-22
EVENING Chat

The growth of Harrisburg is pretty
Well illustrated by the signs on some
OF the trolley cars, and when Derry
street cars began to wear the "23"
sign on Saturday folks knew that a
new terminal for a city line had been
established. 1t seems but short time
since the Second street cars bore the
Maclay street sign and the Derry
street cars that OF Nineteenth street.
Then Second street service was ex-
| tended up to Seneca and Derry street
to Twenty-first. Then the Second
street line went up past the Harris
burg Academy to Riverside, where
the numbers are in the 5000 class.
With the completion of the new dou-
ble track in Derry street the Harris
burg Railways Company decided to
push It's midway terminal out to the
end of the proposed paving and the
crossover was moved from the top of
the knoll at Twenty-first street out to
Twenty-third street. That is why the
z3 signs. began to appear. 1t will only
be short time until all the Hill cars
run to PaXtang and the Second street
cars to Riverside for their trips, just
like the day is coming when cars will
run all the way around Reservoir
Park and the Third street cars will go
to Division street The building line
is rapidly growing up to the city's
gates.
1t is interesting in this connection to
recall that on July it will be twenty
six years since the first car was run
between Harrisburg and Steelton, the
East Harrisburg Passenger Railway
Company, which operated the line, be-
ing one of the first in the State to use
the trolley cars. 1t ran a horse car
line on Allison Hill soon after. but
trolley cars did not commence to op-
crate in the part of the city west of
the railroads until 1890. when the
East Harrisburg leased the Harrisburg
City Passenger Railway and the IA
miliar yellow horse cars with their
tinkling bells, which had given Har-
rlsburg service for a quarter of a CEN
tury, became things of the past.
conductor on one of the lines
passing the corner of Third and Mar
ket streets tells this story on himself.
frequently women passengers have
difficulty getting on the. cars because
of tight skirts, and the conductor,
being veteran, takes care of his pas
sengers, even If he cannot do more
than give advice. The other evening
his car came along at a time when
the curbs were lined with crows"
watching everything and making audi
Bile remarks. A woman in a very
tight-fitting skirt signaled for the car
to stop and when the doors were
opened the conductor noticed her garb
and said. Watch your STEP" Quick
as a flash the young woman replied:
Il will and so will those men,"
Samuel G. Caldwell, brother of War
den Caldwell, who died a few days
ago, was for several years connected
with the Pennsylvania Steel Company's
operations at Siboney,. Cuba. Mr.
Caldwell worked in the shops when
they were first established and new
that whole district. When the Span
ish War came along and military op-
eratons began in that section, Mr.
Caldwell gave the Harrisburg news
papers their first description of the
lay of the land and told of the country
where the fighting occurred.
Some of the trees planted, or rather
allowed to grow, along the River
Front below the level of the park
walks are getting so large that they
seriously interfere with views of the
river from the parks and Front street.
Between Market and Mulberry there
are trees which are fifteen to twenty
iSS' opoNo lne SlTeet leNel anu tney
are beside others which within a few
years will block the matchless river
scenery unless trimmed
William H. Donner. the new chair
man of the board of the PENNSYLVANIA
Steel Company, has been elected a !
director of Cambria Steel, which COM
pany he made a notable success. E. T.
Stewart, who recently became treas
urer of Pennsylvania Steel, has re-
signed as treasurer of Cambria.