Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-10
-EVENINC CHAT


From time to time articles appear
! in newspapers along the Susquehanna
Valley and occasionally in Harris
burg that tell of the passing of some
portion of the old Pennsylvania canal,
years ago the great enterprise and
an object of much interest to the
people of scores of towns that were
touched by the towpath. We have
seen the disappearance of the famous
lock at the foot of Walnut street and
have seen the Pennsylvania railroad
tracks grow and grow until they have
covered the site of the old waterway
from one end of Harrisburg to the
other and in Steelton we have noted
how portions have been filled up and
other parts retained as reservoirs.
Not long ago the Harrisburg Railways
Company built its line to Rockville
bridge right up to the old canal north
of Otis lane and around Lochiel the
filling operations have caused the sec
tion that remains about the Lochiel
lock to grow smaller and smaller
The site of the canal affords many
pretty walks up along the river and
it can be traced by the bridges still
standing below Highspire Now the
trustee. Samuel Rea, president OF the
Pennsylvania railroad, which has the
lien against the land is planning to
sell off some of the sections in the
upper end of the county and the
Clark's Ferry bridge. The sections to
be sold are in Wilkes-B Barre about
the Montgomery dam, IN Selinsgrove
and Penn township. Snyder county;
four houses and land at Juniata juno
Ition in Reed township, the Clark's
Ferry lock and $500 feet of the
Juniata division of the canal touch
ing it; Clarks Ferry bridge, 2.0SS feet
in length; and a section Of the Wico-
nj lfNsiG ahnVn bridge
The sale of the bridge will, of course,
be subject to what proceedings are
pending against it, but the sale of the
others will be outright and IN all
probability the buyers will fill up the
ditch and either plant railroad tracks
or cabbages on II. Within the next
decade there will be precious little
of the traces of the waterway left.
The decision of the Dauphin County
Commissioners yesterday to the ef-
feet that three meals shall consti-
tute a days keep for a prisoner con-
fined in the county Jail for violation
of city ordinance settles dispute
that has been at issue between the
county and city authorities for sew
eral years. Heretofore. in submitting
its bill for city prisoners keep to the
municip1 'ity the prison inspectors fig
ured upon a charge of thlrty-two
cents per diem. The city thought
twenty cents was sufficient. A COM
promise on twenty-siX cents vas final
ly agreed upon. One of the points
raised by the city was that the prison
authorities charged for full days
keep when a prisoner was confined
only for n portion of a day; and that
two days Ike was charged for when
a man was ct aimed after the evening
meal Of cne night and released before
- En saz-f ~
der to regulate the problem in the fu-
ltuIe il was Grreed yesterday that he
service Of three meals would mean
day, and that each meal would Zee
counted as one third of day.
Members of the Dauphin County
Historical Society are looking forward
with considerable interest to the lee
ture to be given this evening by Ben
jamin NJ. Mead on the First Confed-
crate Invasion of Pennsylvania" Mr..
Mead comes from Franklin county
which bore the brunt of the invasion
| of the gray and will relate first hand
incidents of the raids. 1t is one of
series he will deliver.
J Some good stories are being told
about the State documents which used
to be handed out with such lavish
lEand from Capitol Hill and which url-
! DER the Tener law are placed under
] restrictions. 1t seems that there are
large stacks of books which have not
/ been called for and that in many in
stances people who were really inter
ested in reports were able to obtain
ltkem. In former times the books
were sent out by members of the Leg
| islature and the supply was soon cut
short. Not long ago man wrote In
| for a copy of a mines report. He
asked that if it could not be furnished
that Lc be told where he might find
one as he had been given an agricul-
tural report a few years ago when he
was unable to get what he asked.
Congressman-elect S. Taylor North,
of Punxsutawney, who was here yes
/ terday on his way home from Wash
ington, said that he had been look
ling over the National Capitol. Mr.
North served four terms as a mem
| Der of the Pennsylvania Legislature
and was chairman of the appropria-
tions committee last session.
Col, II. C. Demming, who returned
last evening from Gettysburg, said
that there was three and four inches
of snow on the mountains between
| this city and the battlefield.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE