Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-28
EVENING CHAT

Jitney operators have been opening
up some new lines of transportation
about the city and folks who have
paid quarter to get some places are
now producing "Buffaloes" and "Jits"
and riding where they list. You can
take ride up, or down, the unrivalled
river front for a nickel whereas II cost
you thirty cents before you had taken
seat in a taxi. wildwood park.
hitherto inaccessible unless the livery
man or the to-hire automobile owner
was interviewed and because there is
no trolley line into the park district is
now touched by jitney line. Before
long there will be a regular line going
through the park and all for a small
amount of what regular ride in a
regular taxi would cost. The Reser-
Voir park is on what one jitney opera
tor calls loop" He takes you to the
top for a nickel and turns around and
brings you down for the other nickel
One man last week conceived the
IDEA of running his loop" up to the
Capitol. front or back door, and now
there are half dozen "jits" that are
working over time members of the
legislature, attaches and visitors pat
ronizing them so we'll that they do not
get time to pay much attention to
what they call their regular routes.
And when one comes to think about
1t walking up the Hill on one of the
recent hot days is rather strenuous.
especially when you are in hurry and
an automobile that will whirl you
from Third and Market or the Square
to the big doors graced by w. Penn in
bronze is an institution that should be
encouraged. One of the Jitney bper-
ators says that patronage after mid
night is not to be sneezed at and that
a n on Il fo1,
double rates illustrates that there is
place for the night jitney to fill that
has not been reached by the night
hawk cab or the owl car.
Speaking of automobiles it is an in
teresting fact to record that a few
days ago a man was arrested for run
ming car with only one license tag.
The tag was issued in North Carolina
and in that State it is part of the
regulation that only one tag need be
displayed AS Pennsylvania recipro-
Gates with the turpentine State there
was nothing doing in the way of a
fine.
One of the maddest men in Harris
burg is a driver of a stone wagon. He
was taking his team through the CEN
trail part of the city when the sun was
the hottest and in some manner the
bottom of his wagon was let go and
a ton or so of crushed stone was
dumped on the asphalt He blames a
gang of boys with pulling the lever.
in any event the stone was dumped on
one of the hottest streets at one of
the hottest hours this year and he
had to shovel the stone back into the
wagon at the time he ordinarily ate
lunch.
l. aI~ II
ing, said a man who has just re-
turned from Erie. THE catch of blue
pike on Lake Erie this year is so
great that the warehouses are filled
and people are being regaled with
a fish diet. l heard that fish were
being quoted at a cent a yound. That
is the lowest known in long time and
wish we could get some of it here"
Men in charge of city parks have
started their annual raid on dande-
lions and the yellow flowers are being
cut out as rapidly as they can be
reached. Property owners are CO.
operating on stretches of grass near
their homes and the removal of the
yellow flowers is being pushed so that
the nuisance will not be spread.
Last Saturday a flock of about fifty
wild ducks spent the day on the Sus-
quehanna river opposite Locust street.
The ducks created quite bit of atten-
ton from the strollers in the park.
Every now and then the flock would
fly up stream several hundred yards
and then, heads up stream, they
floated down all the while watching
for floating food Old rivermen say
in past years flocks OF ducks have
made the channel opposite River Park
their headquarters for the entire
summer, spending the nights in the
grass patches.
Nature gave another example of her
many curiosities Monday evening just
as the thunderstorm was passing over
the city. The sun which was just
setting behind the light clouds north
of the city, where the storm was over,
gave deep red glow lighting up the
mountains. Many of the people of
Rockville and the other towns north
of the city remarked that the noun
tains must be on fire because of the
red light Shortly after Old Sol buried
himself for the night, leaving only
gray streaks instead of the red glow.
The hot weather of the last several
days" said "a local sporting goods
merchant yesterday" Is certainly
boosting my business. Why I've sold
more swimming suits, tennis rackets,
golf clubs and balls, and canoes than
ary weather. This is the way I'd like
to see it the year round"
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE