Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-15
EVENING CHAT

Have you ever observed in going
about the city how the paving of a
street causes a general sprucing up all
along the line and how properties are
improved by owners expenditures al
most as much as they are benefited
IN value by the general improvement
OF the highway? Take, for instance,
second, Third, Market or any of the
streets on which the paving has been
pushed out in the last ten years. Then
watch Derry street, or some other
street where work is in progress.
People are putting down improved
sidewalks. painting houses and other
wise improving them and there is
hardly street on which paving is be-
Ing laid without new houses going up.
Inc city also has considerable improv-
ing to do when paving is to be. put
down and it means reconstruction of
water mains and sometimes sewers, as
well as the installation of a number
OF inlets and manholes. Paving is
always followed by improvements and
the making of better surroundings as
we'll as roadway.
In response to many requests which
nave been made lately the following
flrst dates relative to the history of
Harrisburg are given. being taken
from the Harrisburg Telegraph AL
manac:
First toll received at Harrisburg
bridge, October 16, 1915.
First water turned into Pennsylva-
mia canal. March. 1928.
First railroad train run into Harris
burg, september IS, 1896.
Ihe train was run only from Mid
dletown, but within a few years the
line was opened through to Columbia
and the east, so that the city had
fhrO11Uh pnnnanffnTN xxyifI ~ L., ILL., IA.
and the Cumberland Valley about the
same time in the early part of 1889.
Judging from remarks made by men
active in affairs connected with the
convention of the Pennsylvania State
ASSOCIATION of Volunteer Firemen, the
parade to be held next fall will sur
pass anything ever held in the state,
IL not in the country. Expectations
are that about ! SO companies will par
tlclpate and there will be every STYLE
OF apparatus and no end of bands.
Thus far 1872 companies have accepted
INVITATIONS to parade and many more
VIII send representatives.
j. b. Marquard, former mayor of
Lebanon and now connected with the
state Bureau of Standards tells an in
teresting story which illustrates the
severity of the recent storm. He was
watching the storm of last Friday,
which was more severe in that citv
than in Harrisburg, and was struck
with the prolonged fall of hail. The
particles of ice fell for perhaps forty
minutes. When the storm was over he
went into his yard and found a num-
Der of dead birds. More were found
out In the streets and in a park near
MS nome boys found the birds literally
by scores. The birds had been killed
by the hail and included sparrows,
robins, blackbirds and even pigeons.
More people have been sleeping in
the parks along the river front and in
reservoir and Wildwood Parks the
iast Few weeks than has ever been
known before: The city authorities
are not sensitive about people enioy-
ing outdoor sleeping and every night
Iolks VINO find it impossible to sleep
at nome take a walk to one of the
parks and, making a bed on a bench
or even on the grass, slumber peace
luliy' There's only one disadvantage
ana that is that thunderstorms come
up pretty quickly nowadays and when
they do 1t takes some tall running to
escape the downpours.
where's the hottest place in Har-
rlspurg asked a man of a. groun of
men who get about town a good bit
IueSe were the answers:
:, Mulberry street bridge in the mid
die of the afternoon"
Plaza in front of the Capitol about
Market Square about noon"
me baseball diamond at Island
Park
Union Station"
one of the interesting facts which
nave turned up in a recent investi
cation of some public service matters
IN a Schuylkill county town is that two
ilre companies keep going by business
lntead of the contributions of citizens
nne1npership fees and appropriations
One company is in the coal bnsiness
selling coal like a merchant. and tbe
other making a speciality of hauling
away garbage and ashes.