Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-20
EVENING CHAT

.lNIHGO VII"
harrisburg youngsters are taking
tne greatest advantage of the COM
plHau0n or fine weather and the
splendid stretch of paved streets he
cause there were thousands of bovs
ana girls out roller skating, riding
express wagons, rolling hoops and
piaylng everything from marbles TO
hop.scotch." The kids woke up to
the Iact that the weather was i'm
proving bright and early on Thurs
| day, and after enioying the after
noon, started in yesterday IT was
noticed that it was hard work getting
the KIDS into school when the hours
arrived and when the bells rung for
the close of recess. Yesterday after
noon the residential streets were
crowded with boys and girls and the
drivers of automobiles and wagons
appeared to feel a kindred spirit be-
cause they went slowly and some re-
turned the greetings called to them
by the boys and girls. Some Young
sters went so far as to lay out dia-
monds on vacant lots as though the
worst blizzards known had NOT been
| dated in the latter part of February or
in March Builders also took trips
about the city to look over sites for
Dullding purposes, and there was a
general air throughout the city of
rejoicing that Spring was in the air,
although it may be chased away be-
lore night The mild period that
comes in February is a little early
and there is always a chance that the
city may be favored with one of those
rafting storms that Old Boreas sends
down the Susquehanna occasionally
to let people know that he is still on
the job. However, the boys and girls
and some of the older folks were out
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Ihe proposed electric line that is to
break the Fulton county record and
give it transportation system will be
watched with interest by a good many
Harrisburgers who have visited the
nils and dales and mountains and
valleys of that county. The line will
so around Cove mountain through q
country that has been famous for over
100 years, and which figured in
Indian warfare when John Harris was
trading in South Front street.
Those who enjoyed the Chamber of
Commerce trip this week were i'm
pressed by the signs of prosperity
throughout the anthracite coal re-
gions and in Reading. With the eX-
ception of the Berwick car factory,
every big industry was in active op-
Grafton and northumberland, Dan
vile. Bloomsbury, Sunbury, Millers-
burg and Herndon all reported good
times with plenty of employment and
business good. In Reading many fine
new homes are being built, especially
in the Wyomissing district, where the
visitors were impressed with the sight
of new trust company set right
down in the midst of an almost open
field, and astoundcd to find that it is
proSpering.
The new Berkshire Hotel in Read
ing was far and away the best hotel
the Commerce Chamber party struck
on its rounds. They had heard much
of the Sterling in Wilkes Barre. and
while that is a handsome structure,
with first-rate diningroom service and
many things to recommend it, the
members would have felt more kindly
toward it had they been able to get
covers enough to keep them warm
and a little water for washstand pur-
poses. At the Berkshire, however
every effort was made to take care
of the visitors in surroundings that
made their stay there the pleasantest
feature of n very pleasant trip. The
the need of just such hotel for
Harrisburg and came back deter
mined to take that subject up anew.
Girard. writing in the Philadelphia
Ledger, has this to say about Il man
well-known to many residents of Dau-
phin and Cumberland counties: Did
Pennsylvania confer titles upon its
sons who had performed some distinct
service to the Commonwealth, Cyrus
T. Fox would surely be knighted. For
fifty years fruits and flowers, trees
and vegetables have been this Read
ing veterans work as well as joy. He
began before there was such a thing
as an American Beauty rose. He was
an expert when the first real carna-
ton, as we know it to-day, was born.
When Mr. Fox started his career in
horticulture, there was no hothouse
ysanthemum-only the small out
door variety known as Fall flowers.
But I'm glad to learn from MIR! Fox
himself that he regards as the best
thing of my life,' the introduction
into Pennsylvania of the Early Rose
potato. He brought it here. His first
seed cost him $40 a pound, and he
raised three crops in his hothouse in
one year. Pennsylvania farmers know
that this was perhaps the most fa-
nous potato ever grown in the State.
Knighthood? Yes, Pennsylvania has
had enough joy out of that potato
alone to make Mr.. Fox a peer-say
the Duke of Early Rose"
George w. Norris, the director of
wharves, docks and ferries. of Phila-
delphia, who was here yesterday. was
formerly a banker in Philadelphia.
He is a member of a noted Philadel-
phia family and is one of the best
posted men on financial affairs in the
State.