Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-14
EVENING CHAT

People who have been observing the
ERECT OF war on business and indus
tries say that there has been very
nttle stimulation of activity in this
city and vicinity as a result of the war
| In Europe. Some few orders have
been received which might be traced
TO need of certain products to make up
depicted supply and the LykenS VAL
ley coal mines are working pretty
regularly. but that is about all, and
1olks In the coal district of the county
say that generally at this time of the
year things brighten up anyway. Busi-
ness and industries remain about
| Where they were some months ago
and while folks are naturally opti-
mistic the war has not caused as much
OF 4 boom as people looked for. Some
OF the people who handle foodstuffs
say that the ultimate effect of the
| struggle Will be to send up prices and
10 make some things harder to get.
but there will be plenty of the sub
stantials of life and many of the
trimmings in the country this fall and
the determining factor in regard to
increase of price will be the duration
or the war. If it runs much after
Christmas things are going to be high
probably higher. say some men, than
were butter and eggs last winter
when they reached prices out of all
reason. And this year." remarked
one man who is engaged in the whole
sale trade. I'VE will not have any Rus
sian or Chinese or Australian eggs to
fall back upon or to talk about as we
| had last year when PENNSYLVANIA eggs
went to half a dollar" "And neither
Will we have German hams and sau-
sage to buck against" said another
"A restaurateur remarked that oysters
VIII be fine because the pick of the
trade for export and for liners will be
thrown into domestic trade.
There's A great big bass swimming
about in the channel of the Susque-
| mamma nearest to the city and thus far
he has lodged dozens of lines let
down from the bridges and cast by
anglers from boats. This bass varies
according to the opinion of the per-
son who spies him lazily moving about
IN the stream when the sun is shining
Some say he is a foot and a half long
and Dig in proportion. He is a regular
grandfather bass and has the right of
way In the shopping districts. the
amusement places and on the speed
ways of the Susquehanna. For a while
he was thought to be a big carp, but
he has been identified by people who
have gone over the bridges on bright
days and many is the choice morsel
let down for him. He's hook wise,
however; he refuses to be taken by
the most expert of anglers.
City Engineer NJ. B. Cowden saws
that the plans of the city for improv-
ing the drainage in the business dis
trlct Will be worked out in few years
ana VIII be sufficient for the Market
square and Third and Market streets
districts even though they be lined
| with eight and ten story buildings and
| hotels. The surface water is taken
care of now and what remains to be
done is to put down auxiliary ten or
Twelve inch sewers to take care of
house drainage. In all of Harrisburg s
planning now it is well to remember,
says he, that the city has grown much
in twenty years and that the next
twenty will see a much greater devel-
opment.
Many of the stalls of the farmers
at the markets on Saturday bore
punches of herbs which were brought
INTO the city for people who like to get
their supplies of such things at this
tlme OF the year and to dry them. Big
bales of mint and other herbs were on
sale and found ready demand.
Contractors in charge of the on
Grafton for the huge warehouse of the
Emerson n-Brantingham Company al
Tenth and Market streets are evidently
determined to get their foundations in
before the equinoXial storm comes
| oiOAiS' - Stedul SnONel ndQ charge OF
the eXcaVat1ng and now the men work.
ing on the foundations have electric
lights to work by at night. The whole
JOB is being pushed and chances are
that when the snow begins to fly the
men in charge will have things we'll
advanced and with chances of doing
| work under roof Many contractors
and builders about the city are also
pushing things along to beat the au-
tumn rains.
The whole battle-ground in Belgium
can be pretty we'll understood by TAX
ing Pennsylvania east of the noun
talns, said a man who knows the
country. 1T is not so much larger
and there is curious similarity. Let
Philadelphia be Antwerp, the big CITY
and seaport, and Harrisburg the capi-
tai Ihey are not much farther apart
than the Belgian cities. Liege is a
sort OF Reading and Louvain is a. city
of learning like Lancaster. They are
all punched much as are our cities
although to get some idea of distance
Liege would have to be off in the dis.
tance like Scranton"
One would be surprised at the mum.
per or wireless telegra phic outfits tc
be found about Harrisburg. There q re
probably half a dozen homes in tn.
city which bear the tentacIes of ths
appliances In addition to the wireless.
plants on the Union Station and al
schools. Just how they work no one
seems to know, but probably those ir
the Tenth and Thirteenth wards couIC
exchange scores of games of ball play.
erS near by and bulletin war news
; wireless mas taken quite hold on the
Iancles Of young students and some o.
them do very well.
Secretary of Internal Affairs Henr,
Houch. who has tUst been re-electef
q Vice-president of the PennsyIynnif
Snautauqua, has been identified witt
that educational enterprise ever since
, II was started at Mount Gretna. He
, was one of the speakers at the frs
meeting.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
james Crosby Brown, prominen
Philadelphia banker, is in charge q
supervision of bond sales for the com
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