Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-14
REPORT DOCK ST.
BRIDGE TO COURT
Attention Of President Judge Kun
kel Again Called to Via
ducts Condition

Once more the condition of the Dock
street bridge has been called to the at
tention of the Dauphin County Court.
In making his quarterly return at
January sessions Constable Elmer
Beck. First Ward, reiterated the state
ments of the last year or two as to
the deplorable shape of the bridge and
the inconvenience the failure of the
city Highway Department to remedy
the trouble had brought upon the peo-
pie of the lower end of the city.
The Dock street bridge" reported
Mr.. Beck, has been closed for nine
months now. 1t is hurting business
very much in South Harrisburg"
At the last election the city voted
$25, 900 to build new bridges and an
additional $4,000 is coming to Har-
risburg from the Pennsylvania Rail-
road in the near future as bonus for
the vacation of certain streets to make
way for the subway. 1t is the latter
sum that is to be used toward the con-
struction of the bridge. The hitch
that is delaying the work now is the
settling of the question on the COM
raise the overhead grade and pay for
the consequential damages.
Referred to District Attorney
President Judge Kunkel turned the
reports all over to District
Attorney Michael E. Stroup, with in
structions to take the necessary steps
to rectify the trouble. The President
Judge called particular attention to
the condition of the roads, bridges,
culverts, and so on, in the country
districts.
I'VE find" said President Judge
that a good many roads are
In bad condition, signboards are down,
in need of repair, and so on.
So we turn these reports over to you
and direct that You take such steps as
may be necessary to remedy the evils
AS a rule the constables reports are
cryptic. John A. Smalty, Derry town
ship, is brevity itself:
Roads as good as can be expected"
said he.
Others are very brief and very much
to the point as to the sign or index
boards along the roads:
AS to Index Boards
up"
"All up
Are up.
"All up ! saw"
Noting
That is the expressive language
many a constable used to discuss the
signboard problem.
John H. Alleman, Third precinct
Swatara township, reports road lead
ing from Bressler to Steelton to be in
bad condition; John Liddick, Reed,
culvert at Inglenook broken, road mile
east of Inglenook in need of repair;
l. n. Bonawitz, Elizabethville, side
walk from Main to Broad street, used
by the children in going to school. in
poor shape; Benjamin Bainbridge,
Williams township, in State highway,
no rail over stream at farm of James
West precinct, Williams
township.
Just a hint of sarcasm may or may
not lie in the report of Peter Kelsey,
Roads, bridges, hand
rails-all In proper place and shape"
he reports, for dirt roads,
When Snow and Ice Interfere
]. II. Bonawitz, Jackson, calls atten-
ton to the fact that the roads are
by the snow and ice from
the mountains, certain sections of
which highways are very bad; he
deplores, too, the absence of hand
rails. ETC., in places. John Harman,
Fishers Mill to Peter A. Matters farm
is so full of coal dirt as to swell the
stream over into the road at places;
William D. Engle: Wayne, declares the
bridge at J. A. Lebo's farm in Every
bad shape 1t is wooden bridge,
says Mr.. Engle. and the farmers using
threshers are asking to have it re-
paired so they can haul the big truck
across in safety. "All roads need re-
is the concise report of J. NJ.
Shenk, Conewago.
Constable I. j. Grove, Third Ward,
city, reports that he suspects some
violations of the law relative to disor-
derly houses but that he hasn't been
able to procure enough evidence to
convict.
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