Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-02
EVENING CHAT

If anyone ever needed any good
reason for the establishment of city
planning commission. all that could
Derry street. Between Nineteenth and
Twenty-third streets, the section which
is TO be paved this summer, there are
TO be found variety of grades. and
to adjust matters it will be necessary
TO make a lot of changes that will be
expensive and troublesome. The diff
Guilty was that when the street was
accepted the city fathers had to take
f1rst the line of the old turnpike and
then the grades established by abuttins
property owners. These were never
Very stable, as can be seen by houses
which are perched ten feet above the
street level, While others are five feet
ana some are almost near the level of
the present highway. Now the Har-
risburg Railways Company is rebuild
ing Its line preparatory to the paving
operations and the track is according
TO the grade established for paving.
This means further cut. The same
difficulty will probably be met in other
streets and it all goes to illustrate the
Importance of having a commission
which will look ahead and prepare for
the improvements which are bound to
follow because of city growth.
One need not want for musical va
rlety any afternoon or evening in Mar
ket street. There are half a dozen
movie" palaces, each furnished with
some kind of musical contrivance,
which give to the street a festive air
and furnish all the popular tunes. On
saturday, for instance, every one of
the machines was wound up to the
Star-Spangled Banner" America" :"
The Blue and the Gray" Tramp,
Tramp, Tramp" and similar appro-
PIRATE airs: Yesterday "A Hot Time
In the Old Town Tonight" and the
Good Old Summertime" were played.
To-day the wedding march was played
In compliment to June brides and to-
morrow patriotic airs will probably be
IN order because of meetings of state
committees. not forgetting Little
Drops of Water" in honor of the
Prohibitionists.
The Public Library's reference oues-
uon desk helped a good many young
people out in the preparation of their
essays Tor this months events in
schools and some of them made the
stan OF the library hustle. The refer
ence desk at the library is prepared to
furnish information on short notice
ana II some of the writer's of ESSAYS
In the schools would be called upon to
give authorities they would have to go
some. The reference question desk
answered 1875 questions in May; not
the questions one can answer right
OH the Dat, like dates or the BIRTHDAYS
or famous men. but questions inyoly-
ing some search
The slowness in making the count of
votes OF the primary is causing more
to Stockholders. There
were GOOD many bets made on ma
Jor1tles and some of the sums wag-
cred went on counties on various con-
tests. Now, nothing is known about
nine-tenths of the fights and while the
men who think they won are clamor-
ing TO be paid, men who hold stakes
are reluctant about it,
Harrisburg people who have travel
ed on the st. Lawrence will recall the
town of Rimouski by the spires of
the two churches against the skyline
right back of the wharf. The town
is about the size of Mechanicsburg
and is on dip in the bluffs which
line the southern shore of the river.
The wharf is big affair and. like
all st. Lawrence wharves. has provis-
ion for the tide which some times
goes twenty feet. Where the accident
occurred the river is over twenty
miles wide. Rimouski is about fifty
miles from Tadoussac, which is the
point where the boats leave the St.
Lawrence to go up me Saguenay.
The Harrisburg Railways Companv
has started to do it's part toward allie
waiting the dust conditions near the
city by sprinkling the tracks and rights
of way with oil. The first work has
been done on the Paxtang line. which
Is the most travelled of any on the
system because of the opening of the
park, and the improvement is so
marked that people are asking WHY
the city does not do something along
the same line in Derry street, where
1t is not paved.
There was a skurrying around of
Saturday night candymen," as thew
are called in the stores on Saturday.
owing to the fact that stores observed
the holiday and the average man did
not go to the trouble of giving his
order the day before. The conse-
quence was that there was a run on
drug stores and the usual brands were
not offered for Sunday at good many
homes.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
Clarence S. Geesey, secretary to
Congressman Brodbeck, is being
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