Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-07
EVENING CHAT

Chances are that practically all OF
the material in the fifty-two dwellings
and stores in the Capitol Park extern
sion area sold for the stuff they con-
tain will be used in the construction
Of new houses within the next quar-
ter year and that precious little OF the
material that Is workable will be on
the ground after q month rolls by.
Under the contract for the sale the
persons buying the properties are re-
quired to remove everything ana re-
move cellar walls and foundations TO
within three feet of the street level
and fill excavations with clean dirt.
BY this means over $50 lots have been
cleared off and fine places provided for
boys to play ball and marbles and
other things until the State gets ready
to do some landscape gardening on an
elaborate scale. But to return to the
buildings sold. In several cases half
a dozen or more were bought by single
individuals and most of them went in
lots of two and three or four. Many
of the buyers were from nearby places,
Steelton, Middletown, Highspire. Swa-
tara, Lemoyne, Penbrook, Edgemont,
Duncannon, Linglestown and Paxtonia
being represented in the list, and there
were several from the city. 1t is a
at these sales have been people from
suburbs and they have torn down and
carted away the materials, using them
in everything from dwellings to barns
to stables, and have found 1t worth
while, but few city people have turned
to these houses as a source of supply.
Charles G. Gilmer. who bought eight
or ten houses on Saturday. is an ex-
ception. Recently he bought several
dwellings,, but before that bought a
whole row in Filbert street, using the
bricks and other material for houses
in a section of the Seventh ward. 1t is
probable that he will do the same with
the materials from the old brick row
in State street between Cowden and
Filbert streets, which he bought at
the sale.
It seemed like scene from Mexico
yesterday to see several cars in the
Pennsylvania Railroad yards above the
city bearing the sign IN. de NJ" They
were cars belonging to the national
railroads of the republic and happened
to be up north on other duty when the
war broke out. The chances are that
some of them have not been home for
months and If they were they would
be in use for hauling troops or rations
or guns for the armies. The cars seen
here were in good condition and went
east.
A big, stalwart railroader appeared
the other morning at the office of the
State Game Commission with cork
ing wild turkey gobbler, bronze feath-
ers and red wattles and all that. He
surprised the officers in that depart
ment by dropping in and asking IL he
could keep the turkey. They did not
lose much time in telling him that it
would be against the law and then he
told his story. 1t appears that he
runs on line that passes through
wooded sections end a flock of birds
was on the track. The engine came
along and the birds scattered. all but
one. He either bucked the engine or
became confused in fight, because he
hit head on. His neck was broken
and the body was retrieved. He was
allowed to keep the bird.
National Guardsmen here are taking
considerable interest in the newly an
nounced change of regulations for rifle
practice, which will be effective on
May /. Under the old rules everyone
qualifying above the lowest grade got
recognition in the form of a medal or
some decorations. The new regu-
lations allow decorations only for
those reaching the grade of marksman
OF over, .....
They're serving beer In paper "toots'
in Harrisburg. This was the in
formation vouchsafed to a couple of
men on Market street curb last
evening. The men all went in to see
and while they wondered whether the
informant was not drumming up trade
questions we're asked. 1t appears that
under the new State law the "growler"
or duck of beer must be a quart
and no more. Heretofore the kettle
was filled and no questions asked,
sufficient foam or froth or collar" OF
'suds," according to the whim of the
speaker, being added to make it full >
Some genius devised paper affair."
much like a paper individual drinking
cup or envelope" as someone called
one in the Capitol the other day.
This cornucopia holds just one quart
and 1t has a row of holes around the
line to show where the legal measure
ends and foam may begin. The ap-
pearacne of the ''toot" caused quite a
brisk business at the dispensary dur
ing the evening.