Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-13
EVENING CHAT

/ EVENING CHAT
There are more sore muscles in
Harrisburg now than at any other
uine OF the year and more people are
wondering what has gotten into their
arms and legs. Druggists are smiling
and selling liniments and the seeds
mon and sporting goods people are go
ing around with busy airs. The gar
den season is here and so is the time
Tor trying out baseball, tennis ana
goif. More people have taken to the
ground in the last week than for
twelve months and the way the earth
is being turned up is a caution. Prob
aoly conservative estimate would be
that thousand gardens have been
prepared since this day last week.
Every man with patch near his
house has been welding spade or
rake, and the wealth of the populace is
going into the ground in seeds and
plants. Everything from a magnolia
TO rose bush is being planted and
neighborhood rivalries have been in
ausurated as to who will get the best
results from sowing of lawn seeds and
the planting of petunias and four
o'clocks. Gardening has put even
local option into the background as
enterprises undertaken are fruitful
Harrisburg will blossom like the tradi-
uonal rose in a few months. The
gardening tool is the implement of
tho day and How much have you
dug?" is the proper inquiry. Harris
burg is in she midst of its annual
beautification and it is a great time
for all.
Governor Brumbaugh's proclama-
tion of Arbor Day is not only one of
the most unusual but also the longest
of such documents issued by recent
governors. The Brumbaugh proclama-
tion is the first of the new adminis-
tration and shows in every line the new
Governors ideas as well as his short
sentences with the direct statement or
punch as it is some times called.
The proclamation is twice as long as
the Arbor Day proclamations in re-
cent years and contains n number of
suggestions regarding trees that will
not fail to attract editorial attention
and public interest. The reference to
a popular chord and at the same time
do away with any necessity for a State
Bird day, as is proposed in a pend
ing bill.
Among visitors to the city yester-
day was the Rev. j. NJ. Yeager, of
Lewistown, former legislator and
United States marshal. author and
traveller. He called on old friends at
the Capitol and was heartily greeted.
a friend who follows military mat
ters writes that Harrisburg was once
the headquarters of major general
of militia. The officer referred to was
Major General Thomas Jordan, a
hrnt hnr nf tho 1atn rntnrNnI ptS
Jordan. and who was in command of
a division in the years following the
Civil war and before the reorganization
took place in the late seventies.
General d. Mem. Gregg, former
auditor general and we'll known to
many here, has Just celebrated his
eighty-second birthday. The distin-
guished cavalry officer has been a
trustee of the Harrisburg State Insane
Hospital for years and is one of the
four surviving Pennsylvanians who
reached the grade of major general
in the Civil war.
Since the first few breaths of Spring
and the falling of the Susquehanna
back to normal stage, Harrisburg ca
noeists are preparing for their Sum
mer's sport.
Already little lockers are making
their appearance in many places along
the banks and there is much activity
around the larger boat liveries. Ca
noes are being returned from their
winter storage places and placed in
the lighthouses along the water edge.
The little barks are undergoing an
overhauling, canvasses are being
patched, keels are replaced, general
repairs are being made and new coats
of paint are being applied
1t is with a rare delight that the
canoeist of several years experience
resumes his excursions on the river.
one of the first things that he does is
to draw a new mental map" of the
river. And you would be surprised to
note the many changes in the rivers
stream topography" SO to speak. Old
sand bars are gone; new ones are dis
covered. The lines of many little is
lands are changed. Some have in
creased many hundreds of square feet,
while others have been entirely oblit-
Grated by the winters ice and floods.
New places are discovered to cross
''ripples" and old channels are filed.
Altogether the first few weeks of the
canoeing season is much like those of
an excursion in strange lands.
No clearer sign of the times has
been seen hereabouts in many day
than at a banquet recently of promi-
nent business corporation which
brought men to Harrisburg from every
part of the State. The first course of
the banquet was cocktail. And
would you believe it, that "red-eye"
sat in front of 80 per cent. of the $50
plates throughout the evening. And
there was a vast amount of hilarity in
the crowd, at that, worked up over
that insane German roundelay, Yah,
es list Elm schnitZelbank!"
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