Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-09
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One of these days, when Uncle Sam
In the postal service, the wisdom of
the people who are arranging for
| larger government building in this city
will be apparent. The plan to spend
considerable money in making the
addition to the big white federal build
| ing two stories beyond what was
planned by the architects of the de-
| partment is by no means caused by
desire to have large structure or to
make the district loom up among those
which have received appropriations,
| but is in fact based on u careful esti-
| mate of what is coming in the Harris
| burg Post Office. The average man
| who sees the bags being thrown in
;rhi anu out OF the temporary building at
Third and Locust streets probably
| never thinks that this Office is the
distributing point for u number of
smaller towns and that it is the place
where the supplies for many offices
are Kept. AS u matter of fact, this
city's post office handles the mail for
thtrty-five other post offices, the bags
being handled by trolley. The mail is
made up for them Just like 1t is made
up for the Hill or Aaclay stations and
as 1t will be made up for the new
post office in the Capitol. Thus the
Harrisburg Post Office is the center of
network of lines. and one of these
days Uncle Sam is going to abolish the
expensive system of separate offices in
the surrounding towns and is going to
have the whole business handled here
with substations in various convenient
ne1ghborhoods. The stamps, envelopes,
blanks and other things needed to run
offices are all sent from here to the
neighboring offices, together with the
"a hn .trxnf ft,.. x..t1 4
made closer one of these days. In fact,
1t may not be so far off.
Capitol Park was the happy hunt
ing ground of the amateur photogra-
piers on Saturday morning when the
trees and shubbery were white with
the clinging masses of the snow. Right
after the ghostly mist that accom-
panied the dawn began to disappear
and people saw the beauty of the
snow-covered trees and bushes in the
park there was no time lost to get pic
lures before the sun got to work. The
Barnard statuary was adorned in the
most remarkable manner, most of the
snow clinging in masses that made
grotesque objects out of the frozen
emotion" of the worker in marble,
Ihe HartraAft statue as shown by the
Telegraph photographer on Saturday
looked like O spook on horseback and
the Mexican monument resembled
Cleopatra's Needle frescoed in dazzling
white. Some exceedingly fine views OF
the park are being shown by people
who were fortunate enough to snap
them before 10 o'clock.
No announcement made by the new
City Commissioners since they have
assumed office will create more appre-
citation outside of Harrisburg than
that the stretch of Derry street be-
tween Eighteenth and Twenty-thlrd
streets is to be paved this year. Hun
dreds of people in Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh, Reading and other cities, to say
nothing of numerous visitors from
other States. will hail this announce
ment with pleasure, and as for the
people of this city who have a jealous
pride in the magnificent area of paved
highway, they will no longer have to
dodge the oratorical brickbats of peo-
pie who have come into Harrisburg by
Its eastern gate. This portion of Derry
street connects within a quarter of a
mile with the main highway of the
State system to the east, the road over
which comes the bulk of the heavy
automobile travel from the eastern
and northern parts of the State and
over which travel the great majority
of visitors going to Philadelphia. The
portion to be paved is one of the worst
stretches of highway of any city in
the State, street whose condition
is in such sharp contrast to the re-
mainder of the city that 1t has brought
down maledictions on the city from
people who had otherwise found every
thing to praise. With the Cumberland
highways improved, the Riverside
road made one of the best in the
country and the lower end connecting
with the long stretch of pavement in
Steelton, Derry street furnished one
OF the singular examples of municipal
neglect that overcome many other
commendable features. Maybe some
of the new councilmen have ridden
over it lately and can appreciate what
it is like.