Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-15
EVENING CHAT

If Harrisburg had enjoyed the serv-
ices of city planning commission
twenty years ago there would have
been prettier outlying sections and
some of the suburban communities
would have had their street lines and
names in accord with what they should
be. 1t was in 1863 that the city had
its last real city planning commission.
That was the year when the boun-
daries were enlarged and the city
plotted for q mile on the north, south
and east. Some of the old maps show
ins this plotting on the old rectangular
system, the Philadelphia plan, are still
to be seen. The men in charge thought
that they were doing the right thing,
but they did not know that the day
was coming when the streets would
follow the contour of the ground and
that the plan of building" block after
block of houses on the same scale
would be done away with and local
beauty spots created. incidentally,
this commission suggested the acqui-
sition of the "Hardscrabble" district,
some of it's members unofficially maxi
ing efforts to obtain prices on the
houses on the river bank side with
view of placing an estimate before the
council. Had the city enjoyed the
advice of a planning commission in
the last generation there would have
been fewer haphazard building OPP
streets would have been run on proper
lines and named with some system.
Commissioner of Fisheries N. r.
Butler paid tribute to the anglers of
the State this morning when he said
that he believed more men would be
out at daybreak with rods and lines
than in any other year. Il have never
known fishermen to be as interested in
propagating fish as they have been
for the last year." said he. In
dozen or more counties men have
given up their time and work to see
that fish were properly planted and to
make observations. l hope the sport
will be good because they deserve it."
Professor Emory r. Johnson, who
has been testifying before the sena-
torial committee in charge .of the
hearings on the tolls repeal bill. is the
State Public Service Commissioner.
DR.. johnson, who was a member of
| the faculty of the University of Penn
| sylvania, worked out the calculations
| for the tolls for the canal.
During the fire at the Aughinbaugh
Press the other night big pals of hot
coffee Were supplied to the firemen
| b.. the Telegraph and the Elks, whose
clubhouse is in Second street, half a
|
| only did the Ellls supply coffee; they
also kept their clubhouse open and
three or four physicians who are
members of the fraternity gave med
| ical attention to the firemen who had
been almost overcome by the intense
smoke.
James Scarlet, the Danville lawyer,
stood in front of a fishing tackle store
ct.,, ,11,r 49, -.
lingly at the trout fishing equipment.
Here is the opening day of the
trout season tomorrow and I'm tied
up in a case in court" he said. Mr..
Scarlet has not missed the first day
| of the trout season for long, long
time and he has u collection of trout
flies that is hardly eQualed in the
State.
| Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer,
the Democratic national committee
man, who was here yesterday, played
football on "a gridiron in Harrisburg
years ago. The Congressman was
then a member of the Swarthmore
College eleven and came here, with
his team to play a game on neutral
ground, the contest being held in
North Sixth street. In his football
days the Congressman had as q team
| llldle GOcIdlOl WtlllOlil ~ OplOul.
The reference bureau Of the new
public library is working overtime
these days. 1t is because there are
many high school and grammar
school students preparing essays and
they are commencing to use
the library to an extent that
is surprising everyone con-
nected with it. The library for
ltunately has secured some of the
best encyclopedias to be found, in
Guiding the Catholic and Jewish edi-
tons, which were donated. These
books have been much used by the
lstudents, many of whom have found
historical matters not treated in Other
editions. The number of reference
Questions answered, that is questions
Involving search and not those to be
taken care of right away, has more
than doubled in the last month.