Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-11
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People who have been observing the
trend of the iron business and the con-
struction of million and two million
dollar furnaces and renewed develop
ment OF mining properties In the east
ern part or the country are commence
Ing to think that the day of Harris
burg as blast furnace center Is draw
ing to a close. There arc now seven
furnaces In Dauphin county which can
be classed as on the active list. three
OF them being in South Harrisburg.
Two in this city are the Paxton fur
naces and one the Lochiel stack. Ali
In Harrisburg are idle now and not
many more campaigns are coming to
them because OF expense of operation.
In years gone by Harrisburg was quite
celebrated iron center, considering
Steelton as part of this city. There
were the two Paxton furnaces, the
Wlster furnace, which was along the
Harrisburg and Pittsburgh bridge;
Porter furnace, at State and the canal,
and Dock furnace, below Steelton.
Lochiel and the Steelton furnaces came
along later, but at one time in the
eighties there were nine good fur
naces In the county. Before that Cam
eron and Conewago furnaces. at Mid
dletown. and Swatara furnace, at
Union Deposit, were making iron years
before, and prior to their day Victoria
furnace. on the Bayard lands back of
Dauphin, and NADIA furnace, on the
Grubb properties at Manada Gap, were
noted. The latter two were abandoned
long ago; Porter, Wister and Dock
furnaces disappeared over twenty five
years ago; Swatara was dislnantled re-
Gently, leaving but seven that have
operated in the last ten years Only
one furnace remains of the half dozen
or so known in Perry forty years ago
and the Cumberland county furnaces
are now memories.
Once more the shadfly. The real
narpingers OF Spring are again pro-
claiming that the season of floods,
movings and gardening Is at hand.
yesterday the sunny side of Market
Square was well infested with the bugs
and some of them seemed to have
grown since their last appearance in
January. This is the second time the
shadfies have come around. The first
time was during the thaw in January,
when the balmy weather made the
buds come out and folks got out light
overcoats. For couple of days the
fiies were to be seen in sunny places,
apparently well satisfied with life and
prepared Tor an extended stay. Then
came the ground hog with his sure
enough predictions and we have been
TOO busy shivering and shoveling snow
70 wonder what became of the shad-
flies. Here they are again. Wonder
how long they are going to stay.
AS result of the extensive SHOWS
ana the generally moist condition of
roofs, men who make a business OF
repairing tops of houses are being i'm.
portuned by good many people to
know when they can look over their
Properties. There is nothing under
the shining skies that will point out
the hole in the roof or the spot where
there are not very good joints quicker
than snow water Some roofing men
say that the requests for their aid are
coming in very rapidly. particularly
from owners of old houses.
The Barber Asphalt Company, which
mas laid large part of the pavement
In Harrisburg, is taking advantage of
the movement for better streets and
highways, which is as prevalent in the
poroughs as we'll as In the large cities.
IN an unusual way. Offering prizes of
S1O0 for the best papers written by
graduates OF engineering schools on
the use of asphalts in construction. AS
an advertisement the offer, of course,
las some features. but it is significant
that this big company realizes that
men VINO make studies of such SUBJ
'ects while in college will make yalu-
able additions to their forces when
they come out into the world. Years
ago the railroads. engine and boiler
works and steel plants adopted the
same plan and they have secured some
mighty able men.
Frank Julian Warne. the statistician
who worked up the figures of own
ershlp or various railroads of the
United States showing that over three
tourths of them We're controlled by
the big systems is well known here.
He is University of PENNSYLVANIA
graduate and figured in the splendid
lnVestigation work undertaken by stu
dents during his college days. Mr.
Warne has written several books or,
labor conditions in Pennsylvania.
notably on the anthracite field, and a
series by him has been printed in sew
eral magazines.