Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-05
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the Philadelphia City Troopers who
guarded the bier of Abraham Lincoln
when the body of the martyr Presi-
| dent lay in state in Philadelphia, re-
calls the fact that there Is living in
Harrisburg one of the men who guard
ed the body at Baltimore. He is John
B. Patrick, of the State Department
who. while a soldier in the Ninety
seventh Regiment, was detailed as a
guard of honor in Baltimore. Mr.
Patrick is a former commander OF
Post So, commander of the Central
Pennsylvania veterans and q member
OF the Meade statue commission with
| George f. Baer and John Wanamaker.
The body was guarded in this city
during the period 1t lay In state in the
Capitol by soldiers detailed by the
United States authorities who came
with the train, and by members of the
invalid corps, as a body of men en-
camped here awaiting recovery from
illness or wounds sufficient to enable
them to return to duty was known.
This corps was encamped where the
silk mill stands and was used for pro-
vost guard and other light duty.
Mayor A. l.. Roumfort also had a citi-
zens corps, who assisted about the
Capitol and aided In keeping the great
crowds In order. not that there was
any difficulty. because all were SORROW
Ing at the nations loss, but so that
the people could get into the building
IN an easy manner and no one be hurt
in the press.
Il should say that an average of
90 per cent. of the peach buds In Penn
sylvania have been killed by the below
zero weather we have in this State
this winter. In some districts the loss
mas Deen greater and in some lower,
but b0 per cent. is fair figure" de-
clared State Zoologist HI. A. Surface
to-day. DR.. Surface has been getting
In reports from his inspectors and
from owners who have been sending
information for the orchard informa-
ton service he is organizing.
The damage Is spotty. In some
districts there are reports of whole
sale killing of trees. When the mer-
curry goes down to fifteen degrees be-
low zero 1t means death to peach buds
and some districts have reported that
minimum said DR.. Surface. I'm not
crying that the crop Is ruined, but do
know from reports that damage has
been done. Now I'll venture to say
that the orchards that have been sci
entifically cared for will stand the
zero weather best. The orchards un-
cared for and those cultivated until
late in the summer or Fall will be
found frozen and those on which culti-
Walton stopped In midsummer will be
round to have stood the test very
well. Many reports of damage come
iromz districts and orchards where
borers and other tree pests have not
peen checked and where we know that
the vitality of the trees has been low
cred.
Il intend to start out nv orchard
inspectors within q week or SO and
Will get complete information. Thus
far we have covered the southern
peach growing counties pretty we'll and
know the extent of the damage fairly
Well There must have been much
more In other districts. Some of the
great orchards started in Western
pennsylvania have undoubtedly suf-
fered"
OF the houses in the lower West Side
OF steelton recalls the fact that this
section of the borough used to be
known as Ewington. 1t took it's name
from Joseph b. Ewing, one of the
most enterprising real estate men the
city ever knew and the man who
turned the large fields between the
Ganal and the river and north of the
PennsylVania steel works into one of
the hourishing portions of Steelton.
Ewlngton became part of Steelton
on March 20, 1882, and for n long
time was known as Ewington, a name
which Is still heard, especially among
tne older people of Steelton, Among
the names of those who petitioned for
annexation a were c. Il. Rheeling, VIII
liam M. James, George c, Strine
Michael Kennedy, Adam Beinhouer
and others well known in SteeIton
affairs for years
More snoWbanks We're attacked yes-
tefoay than on any day since the
SHOWS began to fall and scores of ac-
cumulations of snow and ice were
chopped down, thrown into the streets
or spread over lawns and flower beds.
snow makes splendid protection
against the sudden freezes that come
at thls time of the year saw the
nurserymen, and is also an excellept
1ertlllzer. Up in Capitol Park the
banks about the buildings were thrown
noWn and the snow spread about over
tle grass. The wise folks cut cutters
lnrougn Ice and snow to drain off the
water from the melting snow.
friend of the Telegraph sent this
interesting copy of an advertisement
pupllshed in the Harrisburg Telegra nh
pack In 1887, which also illustrates the
manner in which folks travelled be-
tween the metropolis of Pennsylvania
and Its State capital:
An old copy of the PennsvIvar
"Ielegraph, published in Harrisburg.
April ls, 1887, was found by Mrs
Mary. Martin, Sunbury, while she was
Pa, packing some furniture. 1t contains
the following advertisement. showing
the speed of travel in those days:
Perseverance Mail Stage Line,
from Philadelphia to Pittsburg.
Leaves Philadelphia every morn.
4 o'clock at
Passengers leaving PHILADELPHIA
VIII be carried in splendid railroa Il
cars to Lancaster. thence in stage bv
Harrisburg. Lewistown. Huntingdon.
burgh..
The stages are all new and of the
most approved model and construc-
ton"