Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21
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Richard B. Watrous, formerly sta
toned in this city, now secretary o.
the American Civic Association, witt
headquarters in Washington, told
visitor last week that he is sorry IN
deed to miss the big celebration In
which Harrisburg is to engage. II
enjoyed my brief residence in Harris
burg very much" he said. Ere
quently I use Harrisburg in my lee
lures before Chambers of Commerce
and civic bodies as an example of
lprogressiveness and public spirit.
Hundreds of times I have told of the
transformation of Harrisburg from a
country town to an up-to-date city.
am sorry indeed that business will
not permit me to get back for the cell
eorat1on, but my heart is with you
and / hope that the future will be
brighter even than the past and that
what you have done will be but u
stepping stone to what is yet to come"
IT don't know whether you are
aware of 1t or not but there have been
four general alarms so far this year
and that is something I never heard
or said one of the city's veteran fire.
men yesterday. Records for years
back do not show anything like that.
The first general alarm was the Kauf-
fman store fire the night before In
auguration Day, then the Ford garage
fire, then the Montgomery fire and
then the Fourth street fire. Except
in the Fourth street fire the flames
were confined to one establishment or
practically So"
The starting of the new blast fur
mace at Steelton leaves only one of
the five furnaces idle in the steel
borough, but there are three idle fur
naces in this city. In other words just
half of the blast furnaces in this
county are in operation. One of the
Steelton furnaces will likely be blown
out soon for repairs. There is no tell
ing when the Paxton and Lochiel fur
naces will be run. If they can not
be operated profltably under the con-
ditions which are expected to prevail
soon the chances are that they will
disappear before many years and go
the way of Wister, Union Deposit,
Porter, Docklow, Conewago and Vic
toria furnaces which lighted the skies
.of the county in years gone by.
The Brookside colliery First Aid
team, which won the honors in the
big contest of the First Aid teams of
the Readings coal system, is made up
OF Lykens valley men. The Brook
side colliery is right over the line in
Schuylkill county and many of the
best miners of the State come from
that region.
Many compliments have been heard
for the Harrisburg Improvement Table
which has been arranged in the new
Public Library. 1t is in reality two
tables because there are two places
where photographs of Harrisburg be
fore and after taking" improvements
are displayed. Big views of Harris
burg from the Cumberland shore and
from the Reservoir are shown to-
gether with typical scenes from Mar
ket Square, the riverside, Paxton creek
valley and other places. Harrisburg
and Pennsylvania books, works on
civics and other appropriate books
have been placed beside them.
The start of the Harrisburg Aca-
deny yesterday attracted considerable
attention in educational circles bN
cause of the activities of the old
school and the progress which has
been made in the last half dozen
years. When the Harrisburg citizen
stops to consider that the Academy
dates from the eighteenth century and
that it was instructing youths before
George Washington was president OF
the United States he will realize that
it is an institution of which the city
can take notice in the coming cele-
bration.
Quiet as it is being kept 1t is said
that there were half dozen people
who had bought some of the steel and
powder companies stocks which have
been soaring about in the skies lately
when the aforesaid stocks were down
last fall. In two or three instances
men who had bought at the low prices
sold in July.
One of the things which Governor
Brumbaugh says impressed him on his
trip to the Pacific coast was the num-
ber of Pennsylvanians who came
around to greet the keystone State
officials. At every city where the
special train made a stop there were
people from the old State on hand to
shake hands. Many of them had been
residents of other commonwealths q
dozen or more years, but they were
proud to be known as natives of Penn
sylvania. The number of Pennsylva-
mans now living in California was
another thing upon which the Gov
ernor comments.
One of the freaks of the present
summer is the size of cucumbers and
pumpkins. Both of these vegetables
grow well in wet seasons and they have
had a surfeit of rain this summer.
Some prize pumpkins will be shown at
the fairs the coming Fall. Harry G.
Ross. who has a fine farm and sum-
mer home in the eastern part of the
county. is displaying at his tailoring
establishment in Third street a cucum-
ber that much resembles a young
watermelon and on many of the mar
ket stands these vegetables of extraor-
dinarV size are being diSnlayed