Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-08
EVENING CHAT

/ EvtNlNC CHAI
Search of the standing of thirty-six
baseball leagues at the close of the sea-
son OF 1913 shows that but one club at
tained percentage in excess of 700.
which is some points below that with
which Harrisburg nails the Tri-State
pennant to it's mast at Island Park.
Harrisburg finishes with .709 and 1t is
doubtful whether any other club in
the major leagues or any of the lesser
leagues In this section will do as well.
The 1918 record for the Tri-State was
but .595. The only club which went
over the ZOO mark was the Jackson
club of the Cotton States League,
which made the remarkable score of
.f4S Thus far in 1914 no club has
come near that and Harrisburg may
be the only one to get over 200. The
second best standing record in 1913
was that of Erie. in the Interstate
League. New York won the National
League pennant with .664 and the
Athletics in the American with. .627.
Binghampton won the New York
state League pennant with .613. The
teat or the Senators is destined to at
tract much attention because they were
twice at the tail end of the league and
bAiiCS kHOCkeu out OF
place, fact which appears to have
been lost sight of i'm discussion of the
work of the nine that held forth beside
the Susquehanna. The record will un-
questionably do much to advance base
ball in this city and Harrisburg will
be strong point for any league next
season.
One of the singular things about
the situation of the foreigners is that
so few are applying to the farmers
Tor work in the fields. It's rather
odd that farmers have not taken the
foreigners, but it's probably due to the
fact that most of the foreigners are
peasants and besides they want high
wages. There are many men out of
work now due to the conditions and
yet they are not going back to their
fatherlands. They're hunting work,
but in industrial communities.
Automobile parties enroute to this
city via the Market street bridge lose
little or no time at the toll gate on
the west end side of the bridge in the
payment of tolls; as rule the car
doesn't stop, frequently it doesn't even
SLOW down, and someone in the car is
ready with the return toll check and
passes it out to the waiting tollgate
keeper as the car whizzes by A light
day tried new speed test however in
paying the toll and got away with 1t.
The party contained five people and
nine cents was required for toll. One
of them had a dime. AS the car ap-
preached the toll-payer yelled have
a cent ready" The car passed the toll
house, the toll-payer Tipped dime to
the keeper of the gate. tho keeper of
the gate flipped q cent change in re-
hAN
The vigor with which the anti
cigaret law is being enforced in west
ern counties, where arrests have been
made by the wholesale for the selling
OF smoke sticks" to boys. recalls the
fact that practically no arrests have
been made in this city This is due to
the fact that the law was so much
talked about in the legislative session
of 1913 that everyone was ready for
IT when the act became a law and
shut down on the sale. dealers post
ing in their windows signs to the effect
that sales to boys were against the law
and that they would not sell under
any circumstances. The sale of stogies
jumped, but cigarets fell off as far as
boys were concerned.
There are some mighty handsome
gardens tucked away in the back yards
In the central part of Harrisburg and
II the average person could only get
TO see them he would be surprised at
the places where the flowers of Sep
tember are showing their gorgeous
colors and the variety of plants which
are cultivated in small areas Many
would be amazed to see a space no
larger than an average bedroom fairly
aoloom with flowers and a plot that
would Just about contain a packing
box and no more blossoming with
twenty different kinds of flowers.
Right within the shadow of some of the
city's big buildings asters, geraniums,
ztnias, golden glow. scarlet sage and
other flowers are to be found bloom
ing, and even near the railroad shops
and nesting beside steel mills and
factory buildings all over the city there
are flowers which will brighten yards
until the frost king comes around.
State Commissioner of Health Sam
uei G. Dixon, who is about to open the
states third sanatorium at Hamburg,
will have the record of having accom-
plished more in the way of real prac-
tlcal means to halt the white plague
than any official holding his position
In the land perhaps in the world.
when DR.. Dixon came to Harrisburg,
and, mind you, 1t was less than ten
years ago, the people of the state
were experimenting with cures" and
but one or two sanatoria were strug-
Cling along. DR.. Dixon systematized
the popular campaign against tubercu
losis by building mp a state plan in
cluding visiting of homes, education
and encouragement, following this with
dispensaries and then creating the
sanatoria. Pennsylvania is giving mil
lions to the campaign and winning
national recognition and foreign an.
plause.