Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-05
Ehrnt1g Glrat

The late George w. Cumbler used to
say that the average man living in this
section did not realize the wealth
locked up in the limestone hills that
line the Susquehanna and form the
ridges that create the Cumberland and
Lebanon valleys Proof that he was
thoroughly informed of what he said
is shown by the manner in which
stone is now being taken out of the
quarries about the city and the fact
that many old openings that had not
been used for long time are now
being operated for building stone or :,
Tor road construction. Years ago the :
limestone qnarries around here were
used largely for blast furnace work
and for building purposes, the latter
being the chief use after the manufac-
ture OF iron became more or less re-
stricted to Steelton. In the last ten
years the growth of the concrete busi-
ness has caused stone to be in greater
demand than the old dealers in stone
Tor building purposes ever dreamed
and between concreting and highway
making there is more business being
done at the quarries than known for a
long time. The activity of the quarries
can be noticed chiefly in the mornings
when the blasts are fired and It sounds
Tor time as though battle were un-
der way. Another favorite time for
shaking the heavens is about at
night, when the charges are fred so
that the stone will be ready for re-
moval in the morning. The limestone
hills are a source of business for years
to come and as thousands of acres ar4
underlaid with 1t the supply Is prac-
tically inexhaustible.
Always after a disaster there comes
a shower of inquiries into the news
paper offices for information by people
the m a
day newspaper offices were asked by
people from Erie about the extent of
the food. Indeed. it is rather surprising
the number of people from the Lake
City who are in Harrisburg and who
wanted to know just what had hap
pened. Some of them had relatives
living right in the flooded districts,
judging from the anxiety displayed.
One of the saddest results of the big
storm of the other night was the loss
of young birds Yesterday morning
parks and pavements were covered by
leaves and branches and among them
were to be seen a number of young
birds which had been blown out of the
nests and killed. Some were young
robins which would have been able to
| fly In comparatively short time and
there must have been scores of spar
rows killed.
The first evidence that Fall is not
FAR distant was seen aong the city
streets following the big windstorm of
Tuesday night. Thousands of leaves
had fallen from the poplars and ma
pies even where the branches were
! unharmed. And there was just a trace
| OF that peculiar odor in the air that
one shifts only in the autumn.
A family of squirrels landed on the
| ar1r owls.
terday morning, their home having
| been blown out of a tree. They lived
| in one of the green boxes which have
| been used since the day that Colonel
/ Better brought their ancestors from
Richmond. Happily they were not
hurt, and were looking around their
home as it lay at the foot of tree.
Among visitors to the city yesterday
was Representative Edwin r. Cox, of
Philadelphia, who was sponsor for the
administration child labor bill in the
Cox was here on business connected
with the State government.
One of the big marble Stones" in
the Telegraph composing room which
| Is about to give way to metal furniture
Is veteran of the printing Offices of
the city. The stone was in use in the
Telegraph composing room before the
f1re which destroyed the plant in Third
street near Strawberry in 1865 and
which is still recalled by many old
| residents as a costly blaze. The stone
was in use in the office long before
that. Like most such printing Office
! equipment, it resembles an old
fashioned gravestone.
trip through the downtown Offices
these DAYS shows how many people
are on their vacations. Law offices
arc practically deserted and even in
the commercial houses dozens of ste
ncgraphers, salespeople, department
heads and the boss himself are out in
the wtlds trying to get the black bass
to bite and the mosquitoes not to bite.
The youngsters throughout the CITY
are beginning already to think about
the opening of school five weeks hence.
The other day fourteen-yea who
goes to the Forney building expressed
his displeasure at the thought of the
grind in this rather novel way:
Gee! / hate to hear the crickets
holier.' he told his big brother.
Why" grunted that individual be-
tween teeth that held big calabash
"timmy."
} 1T means schools gona start soon.
1t always does about a month after
they begin to sing around here"