Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-10
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| Swatara township, Dauphin county's
first district to become a first class
township, has been the first in the
county to avail itself of the provisions
OF the act of 1913 providing that the
! state Highway Department shall give
advice and plans to township super
Visors in handling improvement of
| their roads. This act has been called
| as many names as any enacted last
| year. some people refusing to have
anything to do with it, although utterly
unaware of what value it might prove
to be. 1t has remained for the Swa-
tara supervisors, or rather, commits
sioners, as the members of the govern
ing body of a first class township are
called. to turn the law to use. The
supervisors have long contemplated
Improvement of the road leading to
Beaver station and connecting with
the State highway and it has pre-
sented some engineering and other
problems which have made the au-
thorities study a good bit. short
time ago they sent word to the Capitol
that they wanted some help and the
services of engineers and surveyors
have been placed within the reach of
the cost, together with expert advice
on how to meet propositions, has been
provided just for the asking
Colonel "Bill'' Fairman, of Punxsu-
tawney, came to town last night He
wore fur overcoat, fur outside; a
scarlet muffier; light CATERS over pat
ent leather shoes and a silk hat, vim
1878. 1t was the first time the colonel
has been here since last years meet
ing of the Democratic State committee,
when his hopes of becoming minister
to Panama and his reputation as an
orator went glimmering, but he car
r1ed with him ambitions to serve his
country In foreign land or as an
assistant United States attorney and a
| cane like unto the crook of shepherds
on Palestine hills. The colonel regis
cred at the Bolton about the time
business was brisk and there were
numerous political conferences on.
Howdy do, Colonel. Have a room
| with a bath?" said the courteous
clerk.
Room with bath!" exploded the
| colonel. mo. Who the devil would
want to take bath in this kind of
| weather."
Colonel Henry Hall, the veteran
newspaper correspondent and former
| legislator, was here last night for a
time on his way from the western end
or the State to Washington and ex-
pressed his interest in the passing po-
litical show. The colonel has not
changed a bit from the days when he
| used to tie the House in a parliament
tary knot and his geniality is as last
| ing as his fund of "reminiscences.
| Colonel Hall. as readers of this col
umn know, spends his summers on a
| ranch in northern Wyoming and in
days gone by used to ride over to
Dakota to see Colonel Roosevelt The
| colonel remarked last night on the
passing of the ranches and how they
are being split into farms. And he
| did not think beef would come down
in price, either.
| 1t is rather remarkable commen-
tary on the times to note that in the
iist or charters granted since Decem-
| Der 1 there have been Just one brew
ing, one brewers supply and two dis
tlllfng companies Incorporated In
tlmes gone by such corporations were
| brought into the world at the rate of
at least one brewery a fortnight and
a dlstillery almost as often. Two hotel
companies have been incorporated in
| whose papers it is said that they are
to conduct Temperance houses"
Someone asked ex-Mayor John A.
Fritchey the other day what he
thought about the Democratic sit.
uation in the State. I'm not as vel
booked on 1t as I might be-" he re.
sponded. but l tell you I have some
of the finest chickens out my way thai
you ever saw"
In view of the remarks in the report
or the fire underwriters on the sit
uation in Harrisburg the fire on Sat
urday night is interesting. The under
writer's raped the equipment of tn.
hre companies and their distribution
about the city and remarked that tn,
reason fire losses were not greater wa
because the fires were in districts
where there were good fire walls o.
other protection. Saturday night tn,
fire was in the section of the cit,
: Offering the greatest fire hazard il
Harrisburg and the most combustibl,
KIND of property to the value of prob
ably 100000 was within reach of tn,
fire. And yet the total loss will no
run $4,000.
Letters received at the State Leeis
iative Reference Bureau indicate tina
the interest in the State flower, whic,
was rampant In last years session.
not dead, and that bills to establis,
various flowers are certain One LET
ter received asked for a list of Stat
flowers, the writer saying he did no
want to diplcate, while another ma,
wrote to the Agricultural Department
asking for some typical keystone Stat
flower. The daisy, purple violet. ar
butus and wild rose were suggested i
bills last year.