Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-20
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20 rdtHer singular circumstance
/ that in spite of the example set by
motor clubs and the State Highway
department In the erection of sign
boards, or index boards" as they are
often called, along the highways of
! the state that public officials have
! given so little attention to. this feature
OF road work. In many of the rural
i ulstrlcts OF Dauphin, Perry and Cum
berland counties there are roads not
! embraced In the State highway system
on which travel has trebled in the
last three or four years and which
are not marked any better than they
were a dozen years ago. Perhaps
some are not as well marked, for the
signs That We're In place then have
! not IN many cases been restored. but
nave been allowed to decay and fall
| down. This Is. feature of highway
| administration that local authorities
| appear to regard with scant attention
IN many instances notwithstanding the
aomonit1ons of judges and the public
seHtiment. Instances have been re-
ported from time to time where the
! maintenance of signboards has fallen
upon motorists, who gave of their
FUNDS that they might be erected and
VINO mad to go out on inspection tours.
me new township road law is. un-
fortunately, silent on the subject of
slgnboards, and it's trainers probably
thought that existing laws covered all
necessary. There are roads in the
vicinity OF this city which offer fine
riues, but are not known, owing to the
absence OF means of direction. II
rev supervisors were to be brought
into court 1t might have a beneficial
enecL IL Is not fair to require club
or Individual enterprise to shoulder
what is manifestly an official duty.
Automobile accidents of minor
nature have been numerous since the
1reeze-up of a week ago One five
passenger car broke an axle just be-
low the Lemoyne bridge on the curve
tnat turns down to the Market street
prldge and another on Sunday skid
ded into a telegraph pole along the
carlisle pike and was badly dam
aged. A third went into an iron pole
AT the Walnut street bridge and
front street yesterday afternoon and
was broken, one of the occupants be-
Ing thrown out, but unhurt. 1t was a
taxlcap. Numerous reports of frozen
ana burst radiators have been re-
celved but in all of the mishaps no
body has been seriously injured
Charles Hoffman, superintendent of
carriers, says the Post Office force is
quite as comfortably situated in it's
temporary quarters in Third and Lo-
Gust streets as it was in the old build
ing in Walnut street. The clerks and
| carriers are rapidly adjusting them
selves to the new conditions and there
Will be no delays nor miX-ups or mis-
understandings as q perfect system of
handling the mails has been devised.
The three-s story residence and the
temporary office beside 1t afford
nearly If not quite as much room as in
the old quarters
Charles K. Letter, at one time a
resident Of this city, but now in the
ice business in the Pocono mountains,
writes that ice eighteen inches thick
is now being cut there. Unless there
comes a decided thaw, he be>ves the
crop this year will be ample to cover
the needs of the territory drawing it's
supply from the dams and lakes of
that Vicinity. The temperature got
down as low as twenty degrees below
zero at some points in the mountains
last week.
1t is not often that a man can read
his obituary handled in good faith be-
fore life has left him. That expert
ence came to ex-senator John S.
Fisher, of Indiana, the other day. He
was confused with Senator John T.
Fisher, of Shamokin, who did die.
The Indiana man was the head Of the
Capitol probers and was one Of the
best known legislators He is promi-
nently mentioned as Republican
candidate for Lieutenant-Governo
Anyone familiar with the water
front of Trenton can appreciate what
the New Jersey capital must do to get
anything like what nature has given
to Harrisburg and what John Harris
foresight preserved. The Delaware at
Trenton washes low banks much as
does the Susquehanna at Steelton and
Middletown. the high banks that we
| have for almost the whole length of
this city being unknown. Trenton
must spend many thousands of dollars
TO even prepare for front steps,"
The trouble is that the Jersey people
used the river bank too much as a
back yard. All over the country river
frontage where not taken UP for busi-
ness is being improved just as Harris
burg set out to do years ago.