Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-02
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Professor Marion ID. Larned of the
University of Pennsylvania, who is
Well known in Harrisburg by reason
or his lectures here and his studies of
the sturdy people of Germanic stock
VINO settled Pennsylvania and made 1t
blossom, has just delivered an inter
esting talk iE Philadelphia on a most
prosaic subject. DR.. Larned talked on
nothing else than barns. He discussed
the barn that we can see on the hill
sides from almost any part of Harris
burg and said that the people who
built such barns were serving the agri-
cultural resources of the nation. The
speaker cited the well-known saying
that the Pennsylvania farmers barn
| Is better than his house and told how
| the great barns that we know so well
are now to be found through the West
and how the spread of families
| brought up on Keystone State farms is
making prosperous the agriculture of
adjoining States. The description of
barns given by the lecturer told of the
type common in Lancaster county and
IN the Lebanon and Cumberland VAL
leys And when you come to think
about it, there are no barns to COM
pare with the strong, commodious
structures which we have come to
treat as a matter of course. walk
Reservoir HILL or even to one of the
upper stories of the Capitol will enable
any one to set u glimpse of a barn
such as is unknown in portions of the
United States which boast of agricul-
tural progressiveness. Some of the
barns near this city represent larger
Investments than the farmhouses and
no PENNSYLVANIA farmer thinks of buy
ing farm or moving on one unless
the barn is big and in apple pie order.
The barns we know are mostly of the
German type. there being few of the
Dutch or English types which are
made subordinate to the house. The
German idea of getting a place to
store the crops and letting the house
adornment come along when the
prohts are taken is what has made
this State hold its agricultural place
when 1t was developing mines, build
ing furnaces and mills, expanding in
dustry and constructing railroads.
Harrisburg people will be interested
to know that Enoch Stanford, who
was at the head of the Lalance & Gros-
pean tin plate mills for several wears
and later in charge of mills near Con-
shohocken, has formed a company to
operate the Hazleton rolling mill. The
new company is composed of promi-
nent men and they intend to put the
mill to work next month
Ice cutting on the ponds and dams
in the vicinity has been going ahead
the last few days in spite of the SHOWS,
and 1t is stated that some splendid ice
has been cut in the upper part of the
county and in the Pine Grove region
The cold snap caused the ice to form
in great masses and some of the ponds
were frozen with ice q foot thick. The
storehouse within thirty miles of the
city will be filled with ice in the next
few days as the icemen will not run
any chances with a thaw.
Ross Poulton, a native of this city
and who is making good in Savannah.
has written an entertaining story of
the snowfall in the Georgia seaport
on February 3. The snow was the
heaviest known in years, and while
Mr. Poulton did not think much of it,
the folks in Savannah had all kinds OF
run, old and young going out into the
streets and having SNOWFALL fights.
Some of the gray-haired men were
like boys with the snow and the city
enjoyed the snow to the limit while it
lasted. The snow was a surprise and
people who had only heard of 1t had
chance to see what it was like.
WdS one Oh our most
popular sports to-day, and according
to accounts. was INDUCED In last night,
although it was Sunday. People who
wore derbies We're apt to find them
whirling from their heads when they
turred corners and some folks made
spectacles of themselves chasing their
| headgear. Newsboys, with an eye to
nickels, kept sharp lookout and aid
ed in retrieving. Incidentally, almost
everyone who had a fur cap brought
| it out.
The anti-swearing leagues being
! formed in some parts of the State sug-
! gest a unique organization that has
been in existence in one establishment
here for years. Every time a man
cusses he has to pay a nickel. At the
end of the month the money is spent
for feed" Generally the feed" is
worth while. Not long ago there was
an epidemic of clean words and few
fines were paid. Very little was in
hand and one man went out and,
saying he would replenish it, started
to swear. No one else followed his
example and he paid two fines and