Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-28
z MILLION DOLLARS
FOR EXTENSION


the time of its planning and its COM
pletion the Highway. Health, Police
and other departments We're created
and so much space was devoted TO
legislative uses that in less than two
years after the building was occupied
offices had to be rented outside. The
plans OF Joseph NJ. Huston called for
ultimate extension of the wings and q
connecting building so that the Capitol
would be huge square, but the mall
odorous transactions attending the
furnishing of the building put an end
to any discussion of extension and no
one has cared to take it up officially.
Al present. the State has branches
IN three or four office buildings in
Harrisburg and is occupying six build
lngs in Capitol Park extension which
must be torn down in the next two
years. 1t has offices in other places
and its rent roll is about S2O. 600 a
year. The plan to give accommoda-
uons to these branches would be TO
extend the three wings about 200 feet
TO the east and to finish them like the
west front except for the connecting
wings.
That Awful West Front
The Telegraph has several times
calied attention to the overcrowding
OF the Capitol and to the necessity for
sooner or later providing more room.
and has also noted from time to time
the unfortunate fact that. although
the state erected a magnificent build
ing. the western front of the park re-
mains as II was twenty-five or thirty
years ago with a brownstone flight OF
steps OF medieval design and drive
ways up the side of the park which
are both tortuous and full of torture.
When the time comes to work out
the lln6GFann Avu -
extension the projects, already men
toned from time TO time, of orna-
mentation, erection of armories beside
the railroad and of providing drive
ways through the park. will be con-
sidered. Half a million dollars will
probably be required to grade. plant,
sod and fix up the park and to take
care OF the western front of the build
ing, and possibly to give q start to
the scheme for armories at the Wal
nut and North street corners. which
would extend along those streets and
have narrow front against the rail
road, so that they would really form
an entrance and not interfere with
the view from the trains.
An interesting problem will be con-
nected with the trolley tracks. Exten-
sion OF the building would mean thai
they would be carried over the present
line of Fourth street and the trolley
tracks would have to go on the route
now in use through a tunnel It is
believed that the idea of making a
swing so as to send the line through
the park at what is now Short street
viii prevail, as il would do away with
the expense of n tunnel and avoid
grades. Under the act driveways
through the park must be left.
NEW YORK BANK STATEMENT
By .ies0ciafc9 freSs
New York. Nov. 2S. - The sta atenent
of the average condition of ClearinS 2
House Banks and Trust Companies for
the week shows that they hold s1O2,-
$4,000 reserve in excess OF legal re-
quirements. This is a decrease of So
4ss.340 from last week. The figures OF
last week We're corrected to read s137,-
100000.
The statement follows:
Average Condition
Loans. $2.156,Tl0,000; increase. 81
$4,000.
Reserve in own vaults. ss47.s75. 900;
Reserve in Federal Reserve Bank,
S95; 71S.0oo;. decrease. $4,000.
Reservs ese In othep de repositories, $685.
Net demand deposits, s1,951. 1868. 900;
increase. s15.335, 600.
Net time deposits. ss4.555.OoO; in
cirsulation. ;7s,s17OoO; decrease,
s14.335. 600.
Aggregate reserve, s46S,S45.000.
Excess reserve. 4132 1920 de-
crease, 5.466.3io
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE
Chicago. Ill. Nov. 2S. - Board OF
Trade closing:
Wheat-December. 1.13: May. 11S4.
Corn-December. 63A May. eSs.
Oats-December 4s7s May, A.
Pork-January 10: May 1870.
Iard-January. 9.7T. May. 1000.
Ribs-January. $50: May. 1912.
NOTICE
SPECIAL MEETING
OF the Stoekholders Of the keystone