Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-10
EVENING CHAT

Have YOU noticed the early hours
that automobilists keep when they are
on tours?" asked a man who gets out
early In the mornings. ITS astonish-
ing how men who ordinarily do not
rise Tor breakfast much before s or
even are up with the roosters when
they are scooting about the country in
their cars. l have noticed that dozens
OF cars speed out of the city over the
Market street bridge as early as 9
O'CLOCK and you can see people speed
ing up the Riverside Drive even before
that hour on their way to the north
ern counties. The same is true about
the Reading and Lancaster pixies. The
automobile is a great thing to get
people out early and once a party has
enjoyed run in the cool and bracing
air around or it's early rising from
that on. You see. they get in about
or and are tired and ready to go to
bed, so early rising is not the hardship
they would think it at home when they
sit up reading until midnight or are
out at the theater or on business or at
some social function until the early
morning. The automobile may be
blamed for mortgages and various
other things and be the subject of
many complaints on the score of eX-
pense, but it's a great thing to get
people up in the morning. 1 think
that quite number of people get up
early anyway while they are at home
and go for rides. You can see big
cars, driven by their owners, around
any of the city markets on Wednes-
day and Saturday mornings. They
get up early and take their wives or
daughters to market and they get the
early selection and the man who runs
the car enjoys the fresh air about
which he would otherwise know pre-
cious little.
Gamy fish are biting in the Sus-
quehanna river these days and the real
hshermen are commencing to haunt
the spots where the boys do not go
swimming these afternoons. Almost
any afternoon you can see men row.
ing of to the quiet places and the
rifles about Maclay street are as
popular as they used to be years be-
fore building moved UP that way, Yes
terday couple of men waded around
with hip boots and got some fine fish.
The Rockville falls" are another pop
ular place for fishermen Strange to
| say, the activities of the sand and coal
| fleets and the swimming propensities
OF the boys have not scared away the
ilsh the way one would imagine. In
| tact, a fine bass was hooked within a
! short distance of all the fuss going on
| at Mulberry street and the men who
| fish from the bridges are on the lob
| every day. The Susquehanna has so
many channels and deep holes where
| f1sh can thrive that there is no danger
| of 1t being ''fished out" or of the fish
| being driven away.
A dispatch from London says fifteen
| automobiles have been thrown over
board from the Anchor Line steamship
california, which is grounded off TORY
lsland Dumping automobiles from
] a ms hF l..
| regular summer experience. A year
or two ago Kenneth Grant, a we'll
| known engineer who assisted in the
| first public improvement plans of this
| city, was en- route to Europe with a
| party who invited him to accompany
them on an automobile tour of the
| continent. Their high priced automo-
| bile was in the hold and the outlook
for pleasant summer outing was
! most auspicious. Somewhere in the
Mediterranean, however, the ship
| struck rock and one of the first
things that went overheard was the big
automobile.
In this vacation period it is inter-
esting to observe that many of our
| Harrisburg tourists are travelling the
world over to see the things and to
ENJOY landscapes that are no finer than
| those within a short ride of their
| aaOI'ANS' hhSl { - lOlllluS more PIC
turesque in the way of scenery in the
world than the Susquehanna river and
the mountain gap at Rockville. Nor is
there anything more attractive than
the sketches of the Juniata river near
Duncannon and the Aqueduct. e. S.
Herman, John W. Bowman, DR.. John
| Oenslager, Mrs. Rothert, Harry Free
burn, Joshua w. Gross and Samuel
| fitzgerald have cottages there and
other Harrisburg people have builr
and are building cottages on the noun
tainside near Dauphin. And near the
city in every direction are the summer
homes of our own people who have
learned to appreciate the gorgeous
scenery which surrounds us every
where. All that is needed is the bniId-
ing of highways which will be com
Portable to travel over in reaching the
delightful places that are near al
home.