Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-22
EVENING CHAT

The split log road drag and its
brother, the patented road drag of
iron and wood did more than anything
else to pull Pennsylvania out of the
mud this summer, and when the work
OF the State Highway Department in
OF State highways, after the end
OF the financial hold-up comes to
be written, 1t will be found that the
humble road drag was the big factor
The department was retarded in its
repair work for months and it was
summer and In a period of hard rains
before II could commence to put the
highways into the shape that the pub
lie, especially the automobile owners
who paid over million dollars in
licenses under the belief that it was
to be put into. roads, demanded from
the State. When the hold-up by the
fiscal officials was ended by. the courts
and the repair forces were organized
hundreds of road drags were put to
work dragging the roads and the
change in a week was one of the
Things that attracted attention. Fully
1000 road drags were in use by the
states men at one time or another
and no appliance brought better re-
suits. on many of the roads but lit
tile more than dragging was necessary
to get them back into passable condi-
uon. The steam roller and the stone
pile played a big part in the repair
OF the roads, but the road drag came
next to muscle in making repairs.
Farmers organizations in many
parts of the State are to be asked to
assist in the working out of plan
for more cooperation in bringing pro-
duce to markets as a result of a visit
paid to this city a few days ago by
David Luhin, who is taking an active
part in the national marketing system
campaign and who has spent many
months in Rome at the International
Agricultural Institute. The State
Grange has been asked to arouse in
terest and it is likely that some steps
to hold a conference for development
of Statewide plan will be taken.
The greatest need of the farmer, the
men interested say, is a system to
reach the best paying markets and to
avoid the middleman.
Foreign manufacturers who have
a good American trade are not going
to lose it as a result of the war and
the cry for American-made goods that
has resulted said a travelling sales
man on Saturday night at one of the
hotels. Il have just come from New
York and I find that two German
firms have established factories near
they have heretofore made only in the
empire. They have American labor
and are using American material. All
that there is German is the method"
The rather warm weather of the
last week has caused a good many
youths to go back to baseball instead
of playing football which generally
claims their attention at this period of
the year. on Saturday almost every
diamond about the city was occupied
by a game and at the island and up
town Fairgrounds mines contested al
most all day.
Abolition of the privilege of using
eel baskets is causing a big increase in
the number of cells in the Susquehanna
river, according to fishermen who have
been fooled upon a number of occa-
sions by the big wriggling fish. Eels
have been found in many places this
year and the lower stages of the wa
ter this Fall has resulted in many
being noted close to the city.
Interest in golf in the city is greater
than ever this Fall and it is striking
the number of players as compared
with ten years ago. At that time
playing was rather desutory on the
links at Lucknow where less than a
dozen kept alive the traditions of the
game, while the Reservoir links were
just commencing to attract those de-
voices of the game who have made
the course one of the best in this sec
tion and who have furnished such fine
players to city matches. The Colo
nial course came later and in the next
year there will be some three-cornered
matches that will add much to the in
terest in the game in the city.