Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
Ehrntng Chat

At half-past four o'clock yesterday
morning there were three foursome
matches under way on the Reservoir
Park links and shortly before 5 every
tennis court was occupied. For the
last week or so, barring Sundays. golf
ers have been out playing before
o'clock in the morning at the Reser-
Voir. The tennis courts are filled
while the hours of daylight last. These
are plain statements which can be
verified any morning. They indicate
the way golf and tennis have taken
hold in Harrisburg and the way in
which the citys free links and courts
are appreciated. Time was not ten
years ago when people played golf
in Reservoir park to the accompani-
ment OF many jests. Now one has to
wait turns to get on the links. Tennis
is even more popular and the courts
are occupied in relays. A person has
to be real enthusiast to get up to
play golf or tennis at half past five
in the morning to say nothing of half
past four.
Hoffman's woods will have a grand
old-time picnic on July 5. 1t will be
the first real picnic the woods have
had in many moons and it is being
looked forward to with great interest.
The Trainmen's band will hold forth
in the erstwhile popular picnic ground
that day and many railroad men and
their families will take baskets and
go to the woods. Time was when the
woods was the object of fighting on
July 4 and the fire company or organ
ization lucky enough to get there first
and to hold it was talked of for a
year.
With the clearing of the muddy
water from the river, fishermen are
busily over-hauling their tackle in
preparation for what many believe
will be an unusually large season. The
mud which has been flowing along
both sides of the Susquehanna since
the opening of the season is now clear
ing away. The fish forced to feed in
the center, rather than swim through
the muddy water, old fishermen be-
lieve, will bite at most any old thing
now. 1t is well-known fact that
bass like to feed along the shore, es-
pecially near the mouths of creeks and
small streams. 1t is there that scores
of fishermen will take their stand.
Just how a Capitol park squirrel
got on top of the Majestic theater is
something that Walnut street people
are trying to solve. The squirrel was
seen running about on the roof and
the cornice very much disturbed about
his lofty perch and uncertain
whether to jump or not The belief
is that 1t dropped from a wire while
taking a trip.
Not long ago another squirrel was
seen walking about on top of the Jail
wall. This animal was not concerned
a bit, but made the trip along Court
street without much ado and when
tired climbed down and disappeared
into the prison yard.
Advance details of National Guards
men may not be numerous about this
city this year as the guard officers are
planning to have the men put up more
of their own canvas than heretofore.
The regiments of the First Brigade
have been doing that for years and
will do so again. The guardsmen say
that they believe the same rule is to
be applied to other commands.
State zoologist H. A. Surface has
completed a work on which he has
been laboring for years. 1t is a bull
letin of the birds of Pennsylvania.
along the same lines as his bulletins
on the insects and snakes. These
scientific study and minute observa-
ton, will become State text books in
time. In his bulletin the zoologist
says that while bird study is very gen.
eral the birds of Pennsylvania are not
increasing the way they should be and
that people ought to pay more atten-
tion to their welfare.
Col. Louis A. Watres, of Scranton,
former lieutenant Governor and one
of the big factors in affairs in North
eastern Pennsylvania, was here yes
terday to attend meeting of one of
the State boards. Col. Watres is
active in financial affairs in the Lacka-
wanna region and power in politics.