Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-25
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This old-fashioned winter, If there
Is such thing. is the best thing that
could happen to vegetation and trees
and In fact all nature" said i. c. Will
liams the States Deputy Forestry
Commissioner. as he ploughed through
onts,, oae snow Yesterday. The snow is
IN recent years. the snow has been
falling earlier and then cold snaps
nave come along and damaged trees
and plants and caused loss" Mr.. Will
liams remarks will be appreciated by
good many Harrisburgers who have
and flowers by zero weather in Feb
ruary or cold snaps in March. 1t is
only two years ago that the coolest
weather ever known in this section
came at almost this time when there
was hardly any snow on the ground
ana thousands of dollars worth of
plants and trees were damaged while
hedges were ruined, being frozen
down to the roots. This winter the
snow has been so heavy that the
ground will be protected for weeks to
come and at the same time the melt
ing OF the SHOWS will be good for the
supply of water for next Spring. And
while We are about it the old fashioned
winter remark is something that is
absurd when You think of it. The rea-
son why winters remain fixed in our
memories is because of heavy SHOWS,
or severe cold, or perhaps sleighing
ana skating. Very few can go back
ana give the dates of mild winters or
mention four green Christmas days.
and yet everyone old enough remem-
bers the great blizzard came in 1888
and that 1899 is memorable because
Of the heaviest snowfall in decade.
similarly 1912 is remembered for the
intense cold. The real winter fixes
itself in our minds and we do not
have to go back very far to find the
oid-fashioned variety is really only
recent"
Although Governor Tener has to
travel about the State q good bit at
tending armory dedications and other
functions and attending to personal
business and baseball matters. he
does not seem to lose any of that good
humor which is one of his strong
characteristics. The other day he was
asked II he had found the experience
OF William A. Stone to fall to his lot.
Governor Stone had habit of saying
that the first year a man was Governor
they ran special trains for him, the
second year they held trains for him,
the. third year they would not hold the
trains and the fourth year no one
seemed to care whether he made the
train or not. Governor Tener smiled
and said: We'll, I've been having the
trains and the crowds a couple of
years and had regular handshaking
know whether it's being Governor.
baseball or the fact that / didn't wear
high hat"
State Librarian Thomas Lynch Mont
gomery is we'll protected these days.
Inefe is a cannon outside Of his win
dow pointing down the walk that has
replaced the old boardwalk of other
days. Yesterday some of the uncon-
selous humorists who shovel snow pro-
ceeded to fortify the museum and i'm
the course of their work erected a
rampant right around the corner of
the building where the cannon stands.
the mounds of snow passing about
the cannon for all the world like q
breastwork and just about the right
height to protect the gun and any men
serving it.
Among the visitors to the city yes-
terday was Major Joseph G.. Arm
strong, of Pittsburgh, who made one
OF his flying visits. He was accom-
panied by George S. Oliver, son of the
senator and the active business man of
the two great Pittsburgh papers
owned by Mr.. Oliver.
A squad of colored men engaged in
shoVeling snow from the plaza in
front of the State Capitol yesterday
amused several passers-by by their
antics. The weather was so cold that
they had gone back to the old style
method of binding up their feet in
6urlap or old heavy cloths to prevent
Jack Frost from penetrating. Yet
when they had their work done two of
them proceeded in spite of their heavy
foot covering to execute some buck
and wing dancing of the most ap-
proved sort.
Your little note the other evening
about crows coming in close to set.
tleo districts to find something to eat
was proved up the day after it an.
peared; said an observer of events
yesterday. 81 was taking a ride to
one of the suburbs when | noticed the
crowds flying into the built-up por-
ton and they could be seen dropping
down into yards. The crows were
great big country fellows real ravens
and appeared to be mighty hungry"