Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-01
YEAR JUST CLOSED
BROUGHT BLESSINGS
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sewer. Front street is paved after
ment. These improvements completed
or started this year mean the eXpendi-
ture of thousands of dollars.
improvements ahat will not be start
ed until next year, but which had their
inception and final approval during
1913, outshine in monetary value even
the work of 1913. Millions will be
expended as the result of plans laid
during the past year.
Among thees improvements are the
million and a half freight station i'm
provement of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road; the concrete bridge over the Sus-
quehanna planned by the Cumberland
Valley Railroad; the passage of muni-
cipal loans which will give the city
parks worth 100000 more, a comfort
station, more sewers and more paved
streets, better fire equipment, and the
rebuilding of wornout bridges over the
railroad tracks.
In transportation facilities the city
has been benefited during the year.
Trolley lines on Allison Hill have been
changed so that more residents at
Twenty first and Market streets are in
close touch with the line. Rockville
will have better service within a short
time, and in few months 1t is expect
ed that Dauphin and this city will be
connected. The schedule of cars to
Oberlin and Steelton has been
changed, giving better service to the
lower end. And a movement Is under
way so that the traffic problem in the
city's center may be better handled by
running all cars in one direction in
the Square.
The city was benefited by asking the
Valley Traction Company, the cross
river trolley company, to pay an ade-
quate sum for entering the city. The
increase totals $1,000 a year under
the present conditions.
Recognition of the city as a railroad
center of importance was shown this
year when the Pennsylvania Railroad
and the Philadelphia and Reading
Railway made this city one of the few
cities of these lines where stop-ovel
privileges of ten days are given.
The Gettysburg anniversary celebra'
ton had its advertising effect on the
city. Thousands of people from all ovel
the country had to come to this city IL
they wanted to attend the big anniver
sary. A safety first and industrial ex
hibit held in this city through the eff
forts of the State Department of Labor
and Industry, brought big manufac
turers and dealers from all over thu
East to this city, and gave Harrisburg
favorable mention in all the industrial
trade and technical journals. TIL,
Made in Harrisburg Week held in tn,
Board of Trade had like effect, al
though probably In a more restricted
sense. Thousands Of the home folk
were shown for the first time how pro
ductive their home city is.
Nearly two-thirds of the Eight
Ward section of the city to be included
in the Capitol Park extension is in the
hands of the Park Commission as the
year closes.
Among the other real estate activi
ties of the year were the erection O
the new Mechanics Bank building, the
Fourth Reformed Church, the Greer
Street Church of God, the new YOUNG
Women's Christian Association build
ing, the new Public Library, st. Mat
| thews Lutheran Church, and the Fra
ternal Order of Eagles.
The year did not, however, brint
forth several things the city wanted
and wanted badly in the way of build
ings. The much-needed new hotel pro
position fell through at least for
time, and again the chance to build
new high school was made impossible
at the last election.
The community has been benefited
in other things than the plain mate
rial way There has been social ant
moral change in the spirit of the city
A municipal Christmas tree drew tn
city together for the first time in 1t
history on Christmas eve. An organ
ization of the churches of the city ii
the fight for civic Righteousness
forming as the year dies, hotels wher
vice flourished have been closed an
other hotels are considering early clos
ling, at night.