Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-23
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Removal of poles from the central
section of the city is attracting atten-
ton not only here but elsewhere as
references are being made to Harris
burg's long campaign to get rid of the
wires. However. it is not so many
years since people could look back on
the time when this citys business Sec
tion had about as many poles as it
couid carry Half dozen poles to a
oiock was nothing uncommon, al
though II that had been attempted in
recent times there would have been
an outbreak. There was a time in the
development of the city that the big
telegraph companies, finding that they
We're getting crowded. moved their
main wires off the streets and ran
them in several of the smaller thor
oughfares. That left the streets to the
telephone. electric and traction COM
panfes. The telephone people then
Inquired out the idea of the poles with
distributing platforms and took some
OF their poles off the streets. while the
electric company, with the advance in
mercantile illumination, steadily re-
duced its poles. Many can recall when
arc lights were used in front of stores
instead of the attractive incandescent
dlsplays we now enjoy and every arc
nght meant a pole or two. While the
f1rst cost of the removal of the poles Is
large, it is cheaper in the end, and it
certainly does help the appearance of
city lot
Perhaps there was no method in the
use of Court street as the highway in
which two of the city's aldermen have
located their offices. 1t is a very ap-
propriate location as far as name is
concerned and it does seem a little
odd to see the magistrates of two adj
joining wards, in which practically all
of the street is located, having stheir
offices within block of each other.
People here are giving a great deal
of credit to DR.. Joseph Kalbfus for his
work in behalf of the game laws now
that the Supreme Court of the United
States has upheld the constitutionality
of the alien gun law. The law was
drawn up by DIR. Kalbfus back in 1905
and was lost in the session of that
year and in 1907 when E. L. Beidle-
man made his big speech in its behalf.
Next session sentiment had changed
and the bill went through. People
connected with the work of game pro-
lection all over the State say that the
law has really cut down the list of
murders because 1t has made it illegal
for man not citizen to have a
weapon. Fred w. Fleitz, former
Lemon, Pittsburgh attorney, were
two men who aided DIR. Kalbfus to
draft the act. G. E. Brewster, the
game expert of the Federal Depart
ment of Agriculture. says about the
bill: THE effect of this decision will
be more far reaching in results than
any game legislation ever passed upon.
1t means the elimination of the for
eign unnaturaliZed element that has
done more to exterminate our wild life
than all the rest of the population of
our entire country. Many other States
will quickly follow the lead taken by
Pennsylvania. They were watching
for it and the local case was taken
as test. Too much credit cannot be
given DR.. Kaubfus, author of the law
and its steady champion through years
of legal fighting"
James B. Reilly and Charles ].
Reilly, both prominent Democrats,
both eminent lawyers and both men,
toned for appellate courts from time
to time, met Wednesday at the State
Board of Pardons. They had known
each other for years and it happened
that they were both here trying to get
death sentences commuted. J. B.
Reilly is one of the big lawyers of
Schuylkill county and c. ]. lives in
Williamsport.
Charles J. Tyson, of Adams county,
just elected as president of the State
Horticultural Society, is well known
in this city, where he has frequently
visited, and is a great believer that
there is no country on the face of the
earth better suited for the growing of
apples than the southern counties of
Pennsylvania. Mr.. Tyson says that
his observation has shown that this
is one of the districts that is destined
to be greater fruit center than ever
in, the next ten years.