Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-16
EVENING Chat

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Capitol Park Plaza held it's own YES
terday as the coldest place in Harris
burg and the Mulberry street bridge,
Oak Knob and the Riverside had moth
Ing on 1t. This particular spot. which
is about ESQ feet long by 100 wide is
so placed that the winds sweep down
1t when there is any air going. In the
/ hllost OF summer, when there is no
wind. the sun beats down ON the west
front OF the Capitol and it radiates the
neat toward the heat that. is soaked
INTO the concrete pavement and it is
| long after dark until it cools. In win
ter time this particular spot is some
thlng to avoid. The location of the
| building, its angles and its height all
combine to make some currents of air
spin along the plaza with the result
that one gets the full force of a cold
wave when he starts to walk up the
proad pavement Yesterday morning
people who happened to be up on the
| Hill rather early said that the mer-
! curry was down below zero and it was
o'clock in the morning before the air
mad been so tempered by the sun that
the wind did not strike into the very
marrow of ones bones. People who
walked over the Mulberry street bridge
yesterday morning said that it was one
| of the coldest experiences they had
ever mad and some of the people who
mad business in Reservoir Park said
! that the temperature was away down.
II was real winter on Capitol Hill,
| however.
Members of the Governors Troop
and other organizations of the National
Guard in this city believe that the
granting OF the use of the Bethel Af-
rlcan Methodist Episcopal Church
building in State street to the cavalry
| for militia uses until such time as II is
necessary to tear down the building
Tor capitol Park extension is the fore
runner of establishing the guardsmen
| IN that section. Ever since the extern
sion OF the park was broached it has
| Deen generally believed that the time
was coming when the corners beside
the railroads would be used for arm
| orles as part of the state building
scheme and for ornamental purposes
Ihe troop will have the use of the
church for a couple of years at least
ana by that time things may be so far
advanced that the State Armory Board
a
place for the troop. Then infantry
companies could also be included in
the general plan.
The question of rural education and
the improvement of advantages for
learning in the country districts is go
ing 10 form an important part of the
discussion at the meeting of the State
educational Association in this city
Iate IN the month. The subject has
peen gone into by men who have been
educated in rural districts and who
nave made studies for years and it is
expected that some recommendations
for betterment that can easily he
worked. out will be presented. Gov
ernor-elect Martin G.. Brumbaueh
himself a product of the rural school
is IN sympathy with the idea and anx-
ious to aid in the proposition to get
better facilities, better buildings and
petter highways for the schools in the
country.
John Gribbel. elected president of
the Union League at Philadelphia, is
wen known to many people in this
clty' as he has been here a number of
!!s LINES with committees and was Wis
itor TO the sessions of the last Legis-
lature. Mr. Gribbel is connected with
Phlladelphia publishing and banking
interests and was formerly vice-presi
dent of the Public Ledger company.
Senator Joseph Fl. Thompson. of
Beaver Fails, who has been here n
couple of days, is an officer in the
Ienth Regiment, lawyer and a legis-
lator. He was one of the crack athletes
OF Western Pennsylvania and takes n
big interest in football. But he will
not play golf.
The Governor,s Troo, ,.1,
nave the use of church as an armory.
was organized in the City Grays Arm
ory IN February, 1888. Then it moved
TO Kelker Street Hall in 1890 and
stayed for about five years. Since
Aprll 1, 1895, it has held forth i'm
Russ Hall. ~
Trees along the main line of the
pennsylvania railroad between Frazer
ana wayne give one pretty fair idea
OF What artillery fire can do to wood
lahds. SAID a man who travels fire.
quehtly. AS result of the recent
storm great big trees have been broken
in half, their tops have fallen and bip
llmps nave been snapped off as though
some giant forester had been doi,,p
reckless work. The weight of the sleet
proke down many fine trees. some of
them old ones and much admired. The
appearance of the trees shows what a
storm can do. Artillery could hardly
do more" Wy
The snow lying on the mountains
near the city gives some idea of the
havoc wrought by the forest fires
Which swept over this part of the state
and ruined valuable tracts of wood
land On First and Second Mountains
the white snow brings out the burned
trunks of trees and shows the absence
of underbrush.
well KNOWN PEOPLE
w. Il. Lawson, prominent Alle-
gheny county physician. has been
elected head of the Homestead board
of health.
john Berg. Johnstown council