Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-20
EVENING CHAT

Il EVENING CHAT
This IS the season when the man
IN harrisburg who owns a cottage
uong the Juniata or in the mountains
mat come down to the Susquehanna
OF IN the shades of Mount Gretna or
one or the numerous haunts of Har-
rlsnurgers in summer heat commences
10 mink about what repairs are neces-
Sary and fine afternoons are apt to
find men taking automobile trips to
loon over the place" 1t is aston
lshlng how little repairs the average
cottages really do require after the
winter. y shingle or two or some fix
ing up or windows or overhauling of
tne drainage or spouting is about all
that is needed except paint. Prob
abiy more cans of paint have left Har-
rlsburs stores heading for summer
cottages in the last ten days than the
average man would dream. Cottage
lIe mas become so generally accepted
as part of summer existence in this
community that IL has to q certain eK-
tent taken the place of the annual trim
10 the seashore or to the mountains,
and there are families amply able to
aHord II who have cut out the ex-
tended vacation trip and made IL q
practice to go to the woods instead.
IheSe trips to spots along the Juniata.
Conodoguinet. Swatara, or along the
Wiue reachlng Susquehanna, are made
all the more enjoyable because of the
development of automobile roads from
the city. Probably hundreds of cot
taseS are owned by Harrisburgers now
when fVe years ago there were dozens.
ana when one comes to think about
II there are no more delightful places
crosse TO city in the state than those
F.A hA
hours ride of the State Capitol
Men connected with the gardening
force OF the State Capitol are working
pretty industriously on patching up
the lawns these days. Fresh earth has
oeen brought in from the country and
is pelng used for filling in the spaces
along the edges OF the walks and
about trees where the grass was killed
on last fall and grass seed and fer
tilizer mixed in.
The drive up along the Susquehanna
is proving more and moro popular as
supervisors are completing the dam
age caused during the winter and early
Sprlns oy heavy wagons driven over
tne soSgy roads. Scores of automo-
biles. filled with pleasure seekers speed
along the paved stretch these balmy
afternoons. Instead of turning back
at Fort Hunter, as formerly, they con-
tinue on to Dauphin and sometimes
even farther. An old resident at Rock
vile who carefully follows the latest
change in models and prices of auto
mobiles - from the catologs - esti-
mated that $4,000 worth of cars pass
ed his doorway in little more than an
hour yesterday.
People who have sat in trolley cars
IN Market Square awaiting their start
may have noticed very staunch busi-
ness like club hanging over the tele-
phone box on the pole between the
tracks Just on the line of the south
side OF Market street. This club Is
Kept for emergency use, for occasion
ally say the trolleymen some one gets
gay at the terminal and the club has
to be handy.
Although men to fight the fires
which have been raging on the noun
talns north of the city have been
rather hard to get because of the fif-
teen cents an hour rate the fire ward
ems have had to literally chase boys
away. The smoke has attracted SCORES
or youngsters from the city to the
some of them walking four
10 five miles to see the fires and to be
around as boys like to be when fire
RACES. Some of the boys jumped in
to help fight the fires and had to be
driven away for their own good.
1T would not be a bad thing for
some of the people in Harrisburg to
take note of Governor Brumbaugh's
arbor day proclamation and turn in to
help put out any fires which may be
burning next Friday. I know of no
more practical way to help" said a
resident of the city yesterday. The
city should be more interested in for
estry. l am glad to see that the Gov
ernor refers to birds The two go to-
gether and if we take steps to see that
woods are not swept by fires we will
be helping both trees and birds"
Dickey's Run in Franklin county
concerning which a man has COM
planned to the State Department of
FISHERIES that farmer is draining off
its water to run goldfish ponds is one
or the streams immortalized by DR..
Henry Van Dyke. 1t is the stream
which he has visited every wear for a
long time and which gave him inspir-
alton for some of his writings. This
year will be the first in over a decade
that he has not whipped the run for
trout.
Joseph Montgomery, the senior mem
Der OF the company which lost it's stor-
age. places in Sundays fire, was COM
pelied by Illness to remain at his home
in State street during the fire. BY the
irony of fate he is the oldest man on
the active list of firemen in Harris
burg. He is over eighty and has been
a member of the Citizen Fire company
since 1850. He Joined when he was
but 16,and took an active part in fight
ing fires for many years. He was
elected an assistant chief when the
fire department was put into a COM
plete organization.