Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-03
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One has only to watch the rate a..
which freight trains whizz through
the CITY TO note the tremendous jumSf
that traffic has taken in the last few
months. 1t used to be common for
several big trains to pass under Mut
perry street bridge in half an hour an.
lot long trains to be ten or fifteen
minutes apart on the Reading bridge.
Now the trains pass that point with
the engines not very far behind the
trains in front In fact, they are as
close as the regulations allow. The
DulK OF these trains are heading for
the seaports and are loaded to the
gunwales. And the way they are
watched is something which would
open the eyes OF the average man.
i never had so many early inquiries
doT CHRISTMAS trees as this year. said
a downtown dealer Yesterday 'I be-
lieNe there will be an unusually large
number sold this month, but the main
thing with those who have been ask
ing about them is that they desire 10
get IN early in order to be sure of hav-
ing fine shapely trees. Already car
loads of freshly cut spruces and pines
are being loaded on cars in the Maine
woods and they will be on sale in ten
days in this city. The day is past
when anything in the way of spruce
or pine will do. The imported trees
have educated the trade. Nowadays
they must be shapely if they are 20
SELL"
Just because veteran employe OF
the Pennsylvania railroad is retired on
pension, is no indication he takes
life easy. Very few can stand leisure
without doing something. Harrisburg
mas large number of pensioners.
Ihe number runs into scores. They
are not working as hard as when iii
the company's employ, but are quite
aCtlVe. II one takes the trouble to
make inquiries he will find many en-
ployed in Market street, about the big
! stores, in factories, running elevators
and doing other jobs. Some are doing
duty as special watchmen; others as
park guards. Quite a number have
gone into business. One amuses him
self making oil paintings and water
colors. Three are running automo-
miles, nine have taken up farming on
small scale, q score follow poultry
| raising. Very few can be found who
are not busy. Those who are their
own bosses take day off occasionally
and visit Philadelphia, Baltimore or
some other city. AS one veteran put
! it we cannot stand being idle. II
would kill us. Activity means long
| life"
Approach of the cold weather has
made necessary the hustling of work
on the new parkway extension road
beyond the almshouse The new high
way under ordinary circumstances
would have been completed by this
time had the contractors not en-
countered an unusual out-cropping Of
| limestone. The rocks jutted through
| the earth in a direct line of the high
| way and were so wide that the road
could not be run around it. Conse-
quently in some places u cut through
solid rock of six feet or more was
weeks and it is doubtful if the job will
| be finished before the first of the new
year.
! ST. Goodfriend, who piloted Irwin
| Cobb when the noted lecturer and
writer toured the country last winter
after his return from Europe, includ-
ing an engagement in Harrisburg, was
in this city yesterday on his way from
New Orleans to New York. II never
knew the South to be making such
strides as at present. he said. The
prosperity attending war orders has
been felt not only in the Birmingham
district but elsewhere and I believe
that cotton is no longer king in the
South. Most of the people to whom
| l talked said they thought the future
of the territoIity below the Mason and
| Dixon line lies in diversified agricul-
ture and manufacture and there are
signs that they are putting their ideas
into execution. The cities are develop
| ing along right lines and very rapidly.
Some OF the the cities have much bet
ter hotels than some northern cities /
could mention-Earrisburg included
and they are paving their streets and
| installing new and modern lighting
systems. Altogether it looks as though
q new day has dawned for that partioe
the country"