Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-07
EVENING CHAT

commencement of the railroad i'm
provements along Mulberry street is
being awaited by a number of Harris
burgers with considerable interest be-
cause it will be the Inauguration of
what Will be a notable change in the
character of the district below Chest
nut street. Ever since the year of the
Dauphin county centennial, or there
abouts, people have been predicting
that Second and other streets between
Chestnut and Vine were going to be
the center of a big warehouse and
wholesale business. The movement
of warehouses to that district appears
to have started. judging from the big
establishments already in business or
being erected in Second street. but the
development has been slow and people
have been rather cautious about doing
much owing to the frequent holdups
of the railroad plans. Now that the
subways are to be constructed and the
State has authorized the start of the
addition to the bridge folks can be
assured of the manner in which the
district is to be laid out and projects
can be undertaken. Front street. of
course. will not be changed, the river
front settling that, but Second will
soon take on new lease of business
life. fronting as it will solid two
blocks of railroad buildings and being
the thoroughfare for all of the freight
deliveries. Meadow lane will be wiped
out and the very oldest part of Harris
burg will retake its place in business.
Next Monday will be the ninth ami
Versary of the famous Lochiel wreck
and according to its custom the Penn
sylvania Railroad will place flowers
on the graves of the unknown dead
who are buried here. The funerals of
the unknown took place from Market
Square Church after one of the most
impressive services ever held in the
city. many prominent men attending
them.
Harrisburg educators and many in
terested in school affairs will be inter-
ested to learn that Dr. Samuel Hamil-
ton mas been reelected superintendent
of the schools of Allegheny county after
service OF twenty-eight years in that
position. The election at Pittsburgh
on Tuesday was unanimous. DR.. Ham
llton has served as president of the
state Educational Association and on
all OF its committees, while he had
upon a number of occasions spoken at
meetings in this city. Like DIR. Martin
q: Brumbaugh, he has been tower
or educational strength and his work
is known beyond the borders of the
State.
1t is not generally known that I.y-
man ID. Gilbert. who was buried yes
terday after long life spent in Har-
risburg. was one of the greatest lovers
OF the Susquehanna. Born along its
banks, he used to delight to explore it
IN his younger days and to tell of its
beauties as he passed the meridian of
me- With John b. Mcpherson, now
one OF the Judges of the federal court.
MT. Gilbert owned the first scull to
be used on the Susouehanna. After
ne returned to the city from college.
MT: GILBERT maintained the interest he
nad telt in the river as a boy and
brought mere the first of the light craft
that used to be used in races along the
stream. 1t was quite a curiosity in
those days and was the predecessor of
the craft that twenty years ago were
not an uncommon sight.
The Rev. DR.. E. N. Kremer. pastor
OIL Reformed Salem Church. will go
10 the general synod at Lancaster next
week with particular interest because
1t is just forty-nine years since he
graduated from Franklin and Marshall
College in that city. DR.. Kremer is
looking forward to attending the COM
Inencement next year when his golden
anniversary will be celebrated. DIR.
hremer has represented his church at
number of meetings of the synod.
Night work on the reconstruction of
the line of the Harrisburg Railway
Company along Derry street attracts
many s1ghtseers and the men who run
tne concrete mixers and other para
phernalla of the construction gang
nave good many assistants" from
the people who gather about. Last
evening the men worked until late and
people for blocks around came to see
the men. One man stepped up and
told a man stamping concrete that he
was not doing it right. The man
promptly told him to chase himself.
The assistant" got the loan of a
stamper and showed the man how he
would do it. 1t happened to he a
concrete engineer
PAINTING of the benches in the
riverside Park last night caused an
overcrowding of the benches in Capt.
tol Park. The city benches were given
new coats of green and the spoonv
ones, who read the newspapers, head
ed for the State park. AS result be-
Iore $50 every bench was filled and
those in the more secluded sections
mad couple of pairs. Some pairs
were even noticed sitting on the gran
lite steps to the Capitol.