Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-30
EVENING Chat

The Capitol Park extension district
has become the happy quoting ground
for a good section of Harrisburg. AS
fast as Father PENIS commission turns
over properties to the Department of
Public Grounds and Buildings the
houses are torn down n the lots
niled up to street level with good, clean
dirt. That makes an elegant surface
for games and while the lots secured
by the State are not so located that
baseball diamonds can be laid out
there is hope. and meanwhile marble
games, "catty,' mumbledepeg n
quoits flourish. The other evening
twelve games of quoitS, each with its
gallery were in progress within a
hort distance of the Mount Vernon
truck house. Farther over in the
ward some boys were playing leap
froS. More quot games were in prog-
ress in another section. while fronting
on State street some e~nterpriSlng citi-
zens have placed benches on the va
cant lots where they gather in the
evening and enjoy the air. while the
kids play aroun without danger as
would menace them in the streets.
The best part about it is that there
are prospects that Eighth ward people
will enjoy the Fairgrounds for many
months. as the commission is not
To complete its task for some time
to come. and then it will be some time
until the Commonwealth decides how
the park extension is to be laid out.
So meanwhile Fairgrounds have been
informally laid out and the old Eighth
ward is enjoying itself preparatory to
passing ont. Quoits, however, appear
to hold the fort.
Incidentally. while on the subject of
the Eighth ward il might be stated
that "a 1fnE dealer NHhn EnnnG 70 he m
the distribution of the building ma
~terials from the buildings demolished
when the State takes the properties
over says hat for twenty miles around
people have been buying door and win
dow frames and other things. Farm
ers, it seems, are good buyers, and
close ones at that. Some contractors
who have buildings about which they
are not particular are also hunting
the odds n end Houses have been
built in Middletown, Linglestown,
Rockville. Enola and Marysville out
of stuff taken from buildings in the
extension.
Residents of the eastern end of the
city enjoyed a view of a rainbow when
there was no rainfall in their neigh
borhood yesterday. During the after
noon the sky was overcast to the east
and there were evidences tina down
NAAN v "AANN ~ W. III hlllS was
at work, but no rain fell within miles
OF the city. To the surprise of thou
sands a great rainbow appeared in the
eastern sky shortly after 5 o'clock and
shone in splendor for some time. 1t
was in sight against masses of storm
clouds and white bull heads" which
were touched with pink as the sunset
began.
w. l.. Ferguson, the head of the
Wayne County Agricultural Society for
a quarter of a century n who died
yesterday, was a prominent figure at
agricultural meetings. He was much
interested in fruit culture and would
travel miles to look at a farm. He
was great on saving n at meetings
here ne used to interest the grangers
by advice on thrift.
Don't you have band concerts any
more in Harrisburg" was the COM
ment of a viistor to the city yesterday.
This man recalled a few years ago
visits TO Reservoir Park and other
places where band concerts were given
during the Summe and remarking on
the large number of people who had
attended them, expressing surprise
that so popular a feature had been
abandoned. Many smaller towns have
concerts and Harrisburg, which has
close to a dozen bands, does not have
any of a really public character such
as were given a few years ago.
Some of these Harrisburg kids can
earn a bale of money if they will go
out and dig good red fishing worms"
said an old fisherman last evening. II
like to go fishing n I'm blessed if I
know where l can buy worms. There
are a few good places where l can
obtain some bait, stonerollers and
minnows. but you can't buy worms. 1
should think hat if some kids would
dig worms n get some SPORTING
goods man to sell them they could
earn good money, The boys would
have to keep up the supply, but they
would gain a profit and so would the
sporting goods man, for he would sell
hooks"
Auditor General Powell a received
from a resident of Newport, Pa. a
postal ard bearing this appeal:
please get a law passed that all
township supervisors and the board
members and their men shall have the
power to arrest all motor bicycles and
automobiles and garage owners when
they break the law or make nuisances
of noises, smokes, smells. etc. And
also giving this right to CAPTAIN
Groome's mounted state police. Sat
urdays and Sundays are a HI on
earth in Newport, Pa, and on the
Newport and Bristol roads, and parlor
things and paintings are being ruined"
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE