Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-12
EVENING Chat

II one wants to get an idea of the
way Harrisburg is branching out and
or the way separate municipalities or
settlements or groups of houses are
springing up within sight of the Capt.
tol dome and how all are contributing
to the greater Harrisburg he has only
to look at the lists of properties offered
Tor sale. Facts and Figures, a real
estate publication that has never been
equaled in Harrisburg for its enter
prise and comprehe furnishes
ideas which are rather surprising to
the man who does not study his city
and whose ideas of the place wherein
he lives and makes his money are cir
cumscribed too often by his place of
business, his home, a theater and, sad
to say, railroad station. Some time
ago 1t was remarked in this column
that there were mighty few men in
Harrisburg who knew the suburbs,
that is, knew what they were like, and
that the number who had been all
over Harrisburg" was probably scan
tier. Now, leaving out of the list
Bellevue Park, Cloverly Heights, Cam
eron Extension, Ellerslie and a few
others which are in Harrisburg, Just
look at this list: Camp Hill, Edge
mont, Elkwood, Enola, Edgewater,
Enhaut, Glenwood, Hainlyn, Dauphin,
Highspire, Lemoyne. Lucknow, Marys-
vile, New Cumberland, PaXtonia, Pen
brook. Paxtang, Progress, Pleasant
Hill, Oberlin, Rockville, Riverside,
Rosemont, Rutherford Heights, Seidel
Park, Summerdale, South Darlington,
West Fairview. Wormleysburg, Worth
while, Washington Heights, to say
nothing of Steelton, Swatara, Hershey,
Hummelstown, Halifax or Mechanics
burg and some operations which are
getting under way. Probably some
have been left out of the list, but ii
serves to show how what can be
called the Harrisburg territory is
branching out. This community is
over the 100000 mark now, counting
In the people who are directly inter
ested in Harrisburg, and it's growing
every day.
In the same envelope that contained
John Yingst's check for his city taxes
the other day City Treasurer O. Nj.
Copelin got little message from Mr..
1ingst expressing in the writer's cryptic,
characteristic style his opinion about
the "Hardscrabble" situation. Mr.
Yingst is one of the oldest residents of
that district. The note was in the
form of sale announcement.
Hardscrabble' must CO." wrote
Mr.. finst. Selling out to close bust
ness Anything from a needle to a
haystack. No reasonable offer refused.
Come and bring your friends"
viii be elected for the Harrisburg Pub
lie Library in the new library building
since it has been opened. The election
Will be to fill vacancies caused by
expiration of terms and the people
VINO have complied with the bylaws
and become members have the right
to elect. The library has been in
operation only since the first of the
year, hut is now filling place in Har-
rtsburg that would not have been an
tlcipated a year ago. The circulation
OF books has been so great as to at
tract attention of librarians in other
cities and the greatest interest is being
taken in its work by school children.
According to the farmers attending
the markets in this city, there have
not been as many pumpkins raised
this year as in former years and IL
seems rather strange, but the reason
assigned is that in the last great agri-
cultural year. 1912, there were so
many pumpkins raised that there was
no sale for them. "A whole lot of my
nelghbors put out pumpkin vines. but
they cut the flowers off them and
raised some big pumpkins instead of
lots of little ones. said one farmer
who keeps his eyes open. "A big
pumpkin you can always sell well, but
| you can't sell a lot of mediums or
| little fellows. / don't think near as
| many pumpkins were raised around
here as few years ago"
The other day a man came up and
thanked the Telegraph for printing its
| little question every night. The ques-
| tion referred to is at the bottom of
| this column. In the language of that
| man: Blessed If l knew this city was
so much on the manufacturing map
until | began noticing that little inter-
rogation point every night 1t has
given me lot of information and I'd
like to see the list keep on growing"
BY the time the Cumberland Valley
Railroad gets the additional piers built
| in the Susquehanna river there will be
| still more distractions. On this side
of the island it will not matter very
much because there are some fairly
deep channels and the water has plenty
of room, but on the other side of the
island between the reefs. the numer-
Gus piers now existing, the stumps of
the piers of the old "camelback," the
sand patches, the rocks and the dams
| there will be more or less obstructing
of the water and it will be almost like
q dam