Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-17
! EVENING CHAT

The amount of public improvement
work under way in Harrisburg just
now has been attracting attention of
a good many of the legislators, espe-
clally those from the third class cities
ana even OF some from the large mu-
inequalities and the way in which Har-
flsburg has undertaken its work is
much commented upon. The River
front treatment is particularly inter-
estlng TO the men from the towns
along the SuSquehanna and some of
the Pittsburgh members, where river
front is at premium for business
congratulate Harrisburg on the way it
mas preserved its great natural fea-
ture. The other day couple o. leg
lslators walked the whole length OF
the River Front steps and made notes
OF the scheme, supplementing them by
some data on costs. The way the river
bank has been treated appears to be
something unique in the State and it
! would not be strange If some of the
cities adopted plans to preserve what
remains to them of riverside. Every
one from the third class cities appears
to have heard of the Harrisburg
plan for public improvements launch
ed some dozen years ago and the re-
suits, especially in the handling of the
finances, have impressed many visi-
tors The extent of the paved streets
Is another source of much comment
and the cleanliness is talked of by
everyone. What is interesting, several
men from the cities is the way Har-
riSburg will eventually treat its sew
age. They have studied the relation
of sewers to the general park, river
front and street systems and the erec-
tion of the disposal plant is being
awaited. When that comes, say these
men so well posted on municipal af-
fairs, Harrisburg will present one of
a no laI
for city improvements in the country.
II has the parks the paved streets,
the River Front treatment, filtered wa
ter, walled creek, bridges and sewer
system and all it needs is the disposal
plant.
DR.. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the
State Game Commission, is having a
good bit of quiet amusement over the
developments in the prosecutions of
the game bounty frauds that have been
unearthed in dozen or more of coun-
ties and says that he believes not only
some OF the alleged pot hunters, but
some justices will go to prison for the
parts they have taken in the frauds.
Ihe cheating that has been going on,
says the doctor, is something unheard
or and he has been making a list of
the funny things. In one county it
was brought out that a justice simply
tSSh thS MOAu VI Il man presenting
heads and his excuse for not looking
into the bag was that the odor was too
strong. How many times the heads
had been used for claims does not ap-
pear. In Lebanon county one man
turned in anywhere from a dozen TO
twenty-five heads which he alleged
were goshawks. "As a matter of fact,
this man was genius. He went at his
story so ingeniously," said the doc
tor when we asked how he got so
many birds he said that he climbed
trees with telegraph pole climbers and
took the Goshawks out of their nests.
Now goshawks do not nest in this
State at all. They breed in other
climes and come here when they are
able to fly. But that did not bother
the Lebanon man. He just told his
tale and stuck to it."
Thirteen of the city's crack fire
horses will be without a job within
the next three months. With the ar
rival of the three new motor tractors
and the two motor chemical COM
bination wagons just that many pieces
OF apparatus which would ordinarily
have been horse e-drawn, will be horse
less. So thirteen horses which have
led more or less exciting life for
some years will have to be content
with the routine, humdrum existence
of the dray, the delivery team, the
milk wagon, or-who knows per
haps the cab. Five of the horses have
already quit the service. These are
the quintet of the Friendship. Four
will no longer be needed at the Hope,
three at the Mt. Vernon. and two at
the Washington. An additional horse,
however, will be used at the Camp
Curtin.
The meeting of the State Board of
Pardons next week will be unusual in
that for the first time in months there
will not be a case of a murderer ask
ing the clemency of the State. For
the last six months there have been
appeals for Communication at every
meeting and with one exception all of
them have been from sentences of
electrocution. The people at the Capt.
tol figure out that there are but two
men awaiting execution by hanging in
the State and their cases are in the
courts on appeals for new trials.
The ringing of the courthouse bell
this morning at $40 o'clock caused no
end of comment in the business sec
tion of the city. The people here are
accustomed to court starting at 10,
except in criminal court week, and
when the bell doomed for assembling
If coVrt tlav thought If was q fire.