Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-14
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Removal of the wooden awning
from the pavement Of the Bell prop
erty in Second street at Chestnut, calls
attention to the passing of these old
fashioned pavement protectors from
the city. There are now none of the
wooden awnings in Second street
north of Chestnut street and not many
are left south of that thoroughfare.
The few others are scattered about the
city, mainly in the older portions of
the city and to a slight extent uptown
and in the city portion of the Eighth
ward. Time was when one could pass
south on Second street from Market
TO near Mulberry in time of shower
and hardly get wet at all, thanks to
the awnings which were considered a
part of the business outfit of a store.
South Second had more awnings than
any other street twenty-five years ago
and they were nightly convenient
places to hustle to when a rain came
along, especially when you were
caught without an umbrella and had
market basket or a parcel to carry
nome. The last awning in the busi-
ness district above Market street to
disappear was from the front of the
United Evangelical Publishing House
at Second and Locust, which had a
I'm. llne high awning and was a waiting
place for trolley cars The Baptist
and Gardner store at Third and Chest
NUT formerly the Call office, the Russ
building in Market Square, the Smith
| and keffer tobacco store in Market
near Aberdeen, and the Bates whole
sale house in Market, formerly the
Old k1llinger grocery store, are among
the few houses which have wooden
awnings in the business section and
they are maintained because of the
handling of boxes and bags from wa
CONS The value of daylight in stores
has caused the old wooden awning to
disappear and If person who was ac-
tive in affairs in 1880 would come to
town he would be surprised not only
at the disappearance of the awnings
that made shelter for Deople and
homes for martens but at the rapid
removal of the trees which used TO
fringe the streets
Noticing shad displayed at one of
the stores yesterday impelled one of
the men who has grandchildren to
talk about the times when Harrisburg
never got its shad until April and
then received the best in the land.
L remember when | was A boy that
we used to get shad in April. They
came from The Susquehanna river, be-
Ing caught at Columbia and brought
up here in trains," said he. I'm those
days we did not have refrigerator cars
to bring us Florida shad in the mid
Ole of January or Carolina shad for
Washington's birthday and Virginia
shad IN March, but we waited until
TN shad came up the Susquehanna
and stopped at the Columbia dam. In
those days people caught shad by the
wagon load and they would come here
ifesh and the thrifty folks would go
TO the cars and buy them while some
would get wheelbarrows and peddIe
them around the streets. Why. | re-
member paying quarter for q dandy
roe shad and twenty cents for a jack.
And there was all the difference In
the world in the flavor as compared
10 Wnat we get from southern waters
now"
think one of the most amusing
resolutions ever offered in the House
was a year ago on Thursday. 1t was
Lincoln's birthday and the House was
called upon to note it," said a man
VINO attends the general assembly.
Everything was tame and Gus wild
man got up and offered a resolution
Whlch recited that as the day was
Llncoln's birthday the House should
celebrate 1t by working"
Prof. John Kunkel Small, son of
George IL. Small, of this city, a native
or Harrisburg and now a professor OF
botany at Columbia university, has
added to~the books on his chosen sub
Ject which have attracted wide atten-
ton. He published series of books
on Florida which are notable and his
flora of the Southern States is an au-
thority. He has come back to his ma
tive State for his latest and has pub
lished book on the flora of Lancaster
county, which is of much interest here
because the fora is almost the same in
Dauphin as it is in the mother county.
A. W. Greedy, Jr.. the supervisor in
charge OF the maintenance of way of
the Reading in this district, is a son
of the famous explorer and military
officer. General Greedy was the speak
er at the Reading Chamber of Com
merce dinner the other evening and
his son who had not seen him in
months escorted him to the banquet.
S. b. Watts, who is to speak on
that much abused lady, "rhe Tele-
School, is graduate of the Harris
burg exchange, of which he is now
the manager. Mr.. Watts started in
the business office of the exchange,
where, by the way, l.. H. Kinnard, Jr.
the Bell vice resident, began his ca
reer. He collected bills and chased
around generally on business, even
handling part of the soliciting end
and now is in charge of the Harris
burg exchange, one of the most i'm
portant on the system in the State.
Speaking of the optimist, a promi-
nent Democrat of the eastern section
of the State has written to the man
ager of the Senate Hotel asking that
comfortable room be reserved for
him from January Is to January 20,
1915, as he wants to attend the in
lauguration of Governor Ryan.
<W6kEKnOW
Clarence L. Williams, we'll known
| transportation man. was president of
the Pittsburgh Passenger Club, but
when run for reelection, surprised
his friends by saying he would have
none of it.
Judge T. j. Baldridge, of Blair
county courts, named women to ap-
praise q milliner's stock.
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