Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-19
Ehrnnt. Chat

BY h end of this month about S75
OF the buildings in Capitol Park ex-
tension will have been removed n
by the end of summer the chances are
that 400 OF the $40 buildings will have
disappeared from the old Ate" ward.
Inc progress being mad by the house
wreckers is well illustrated by the
manner in which some of the houses
IN state street are being torn away and
the operations nave attracted much at
tention from the members of the Leg
lslature. The demolition of the houses
mas caused some big bare spots in the
district and when the properties
bought in State street are cleared OF
some idea of what the extension will
means Will be apparent. The State will
not tax any steps to improve the
grounds for two years as IL has been
determined to wait until everything is
fsecured and the buildings leveled be-
fore having the landscape features
taken up h members OF the Cover
nor's Troop have expended consider
liable money in fitting up the Bethel A.
NJ. Z. Church for their armory and the
chances are that ii and some of the
buildings now used for the overflow
or h State government offices will he
the last TO be taken down. The funds
for the purchase of the last proper
Ties are carried in the Beidleman bill.
which passed the House finally last
night. II has already passed the Sen
ate and now goes to the Governor. The
f. bill carries S300. eco and by a coinci-
dence eN-Representative BILLY" Tunis.
who pushed the original bill through
the House in 1911, was on guard last
night in the House when the final vote
was taken.
The Harrisburg Newsboys' Associa-
uon. which will meet Friday evening
at the rooms of the Harrisburg News
Agency. in Chestnut street. has ambi-
tions. II believes IL has the germ of
universitllity in it, and that some time
in the future. if II conducts itself as
well as it intends to do and carries |
out some of the plans it has in mind.
there will be branches all over the
United States. That il has confidence
in the utur and does not mean TO
be merely a local affair is shown by the |
TACT that 1t lacks NO. l" TO its title
and there is no telling Just how soon
there will be a NO. 2" The bows
nave their w welfare at heart. They
are ANXIOUS TO become better boys and
better statesmen. Salesmanship is to
be one of the chief topics OF discus
sion 1t has long been a puzzle TO
some of the newsboys why one of their
number could build up a corner trade |
NA0 "thAN AAldh6 IL kEuNH Hldn turn /
green with envy when he contemplated
the weekly earnings as compared
with his own wages while another boy |
has not been able to sell more than
a dozen or two papers each evening. |
Why these things are and how all the
boys a learn to sell more papers
will be the topic of more thar one
interesting address before many weeks. |
The newsboys are ambitious in 9TH |
er directions. too. They have already |
invited John Price Jackson, commits
sioner of labor II industry, and a !
great over of young men and BOYS, TO !
deliver an address before their or !
ganization and hope that he will ac-
cept as soon as h hurry burly of the
Legislature is out of the way suffi-
ciently to give him time TO turn
around. Next in line to receive an in
vitation is TO be Governor Brumbaugh
and somehow or other it has leaked
out that the Governor will be de-
lighted TO accept at a time when the
duties OF his office are less pressing
than at present. The boys are not
presuming when they call upon such
men for speeches. for a large major
ity of the leading men in both Harris
burg and the State at large at some
time in their lives served as paper
boys There are few very prominent
men in this city, for instance. who
were not carriers OF the Telegraph or
one of the other dailIes in their earlier
years.
Half a dozen tiny tenants are await
ing accommodations in the city's first
bird hotel and as soon as City For
ester Mueller has the hosiery set UP,
the feathered folks will be provided
with quarters. These first occupants
doubtless. will be six very young mart |
me prhsaFr u-A-A Ynl-A- -.
nest ,under the caves of Bates and
Company's store in Market Square.
They had no home and from all ap-
pearances they were not at all liked
by the older birds. So the forester
carefully lifted the feathered young
sters from their nest n decided to
provide quarters for them as soon as
the bird hotel is ready for
The hotel is now being prepared to be
erected in Harris Park.
Miss Florence L. Newbold has re-
turned TO her home in Lancaster after
stopping of here for a few days with
relatives. enroute from filling a series
of Spring engagements in Ohio and
West Virginia. Miss Newbold. who is
well-known here, will be particularly
remembered as having PLAYED the
leading role of Mother Church" in
the Indian mystery play. THE Great
iran WHICH NdS presented IN EanneS-
took Hall last February as the climax
to the missionary institute of the Wo-
mans Auxiliary. Diocese of Harrisburg.
of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Miss Newbold is one of the staff of
coaches for Miss S. Ethel Brown. of
Washington, d. c.. who has taken over
the work formerly done by Mrs. II. f.
Munroe in staging home talent pro-
auctions portraying the high lights in
the lives of Martin Luther. John Knox
and other leaders of the religious
upheaval in Europe several centuries
ago. She expects to resume his work
IN Ohio in the Fall.