Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-13
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Fourteen thousand freight cars
placed end to end would make q train
that would go a long ways toward
reaching Harrisburg and Philadel-
phia by either the Pennsylvania or
the Reading systems. Yet that is the
average number of cars now being
handled and classified in the yards of
the two railroads in what is called the
Harrisburg district. The yards are
those IN the northern part of the city
and extending up beyond Lucknow
Forge; the Enola yards with their
several divisions and others operated
by the Pennsylvania and the Ruther-
FORD yards of the Reading. This num-
per or freight cars sounds appalling
to the man who sees train of fifty or
sixty cars being hauled over the
bridges or up or down on either side
OF the river. But there have been
days, say railroad men, when this
number was exceeded. Nowadays, it
/ is estimated that Trainmaster Joseph
Brown, who has charge of the Penn
| sylvania's freight, tidewater, preferen-
tial, coal, fast, livestock and Just plain
slow, has about 5000 cars moved, east
and west, north and south from the
Harrisburg yards every twenty-four
hours, while over in his Enola do
main the movement runs up around
5000. Hence the Pennsylvania move
ment in all directions through the
yards that fringe Harrisburg amounts
to about 1000 day. The Ruther-
ford yards which were considered
enormous for the business in sight
when laid out, are now handling be-
tween 1900 and $500 cars every
twenty-four hours, considerable
quantity of this pouring in from the
southern States for shipment to New
York. Harrisburg is one of the great
iclassliication points for the coal trade
or pennsylvania, in addition to the
great varieties of other freight, and
a dozen of the ports on the Atlantic
seaboard.
Secretary of Agriculture Charles r.
Patton, who has been watching the
statistics on wheat production with the
Igreatest care, is arranging to have
some important data published by his
department in the Spring which will
show what Pennsylvania has been do
ing in the way of food supplies and
what it can do, Some attention will
be given to Dauphin county.
Shipments of automobile licenses
from the State Capitol have reached
greater proportions than ever known
and the Harrisburg post Office authori-
ties have had to detail couple of
wagons in addition to the mail carts to
telhC tetLS VI TIE OulBOluB DdTC6l post
business. The new license tags which
are yellow and black and bearing a
: small number plate which can be
changed are sent two to a set by
: parcel post and the shipments began
: the first of last week, the number in
creasing so rapidly that 1T was soon
found that the regular postal facilities
were not adequate to handle the busi-
ness. 1t is expected that the rush will
! keep up the remainer of the month,
: although it is likely that the final week
will be worse than last week. Applica-
tions are pouring in for the tags and
, everyone seems to want them right
away The shipment by parcel post
enables the State to save considerable
= money over what it used to have to
spend to send the tags by express.
The other evening in getting out
: the 2S-page edition of the Telegraph
, 1t was necessary on account of the
l size of the issue to omit the red line
which has been feature of the news
3 paper for years. That it was big
| part of the Telegraph was speedily
realized because there were some
calls over the telephone to know
: whether anything had happened and
= whether the inquirer had received all
i that was included in the edition. One
newsboy, who had been selling the
Telegraph for years, had copy re-
| TO MIN WlI1 u request
, right edition. And 1t was all because
{ the red line did not appear on the
: first page.
i Louis w. Strayer, who was elected
president of the former gridiron club
at Washington on Saturday, is the
) Washington correspondent of the
/ Pittsburgh Dispatch and one of the
! best-known newspapermen. He has
been here a number of times on big
q stories. Col. Henry Hall, former
) legislator and Washington correspon-
q dent of the Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph was president few years
: ago. Both of these newspapermen
have many friends in Harrisburg,
especially at the State Capitol Penn
sylvania newspapermen have several
times filled offices in this noted organ