Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-27
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Every large community grows out
oi a number of small ones, but it is
aouotful If many Harrisburgers realize
no" many and how oddly named were
me districts which have come to be
included within the corporate limits
OF the States Capital City. A couple
oL divisional names still survive, buu
there are many which have been for
gotten except by the older residents
ana mere recital of them will bring
back old times. Starting in with the
First ward, Lochiel still remains tho 4
name OF a district but the houses
which used to cluster about the rolling
mills and the furnace have about
passed away. SheesleystoWn is still
used as designation for that part
about Ninth and Hemlock but not
many would recognize in Frog Hollow
Ienth and Berryhill. Up town, there
were Portertown, Schuddemageville
ana Nerbeketown with later on Ensle-
ton because of the man who developed
North Second above Reilly. One sec
uon In the Eleventh or Twelfth wards
used to be called Ragpickertown years
ago. Nerbeketown used to comprise
everything above Forster street, in
Guiding Woodman's Field, which a few
VIII remember, just as others recall
Hannas Woods and Haehnlen's
Spring. Smoky Row can still be
found resisting railroad encroach-
ments in the upper part of the Seventh
ward near PETER street and Sibletown
ana Hardscrabble are we'll known to-
day. But who knows where Judas
town was? 1t was the name of the
district a bout Third and Mulberry in
the days of old King" Bennett, who
passed to his reward long ago. Spring.
dale is all but lost, only a few of the
OLD narrow houses remaining and
Pleasant View is vaguely defined a
m AtNf Fra,..
up near the State Hospital, the real
slum district of Harrisburg, if one
chooses to call it that, although soma
of the structures which gave 1t the
name have disappeared through fire or
sanitary causes. Up above Asylum run
there used to be a collection of houses
known as Burnstown because a brick
yard was located there. Brookwood is
merged in the great district known as
Allison Hill and the Thirteenth ward
has replaced East End, Cashmere and
East View. Old Orchard and Ellersie
are rapidly building up. over near
the Reservoir there used to be a dis
trict called Whitehall because of one
or the Calder farms which was known
by that name, but it is all Harrisburg
now and along the Reservoir park
line. The Eighth is still used to indi-
cate that section which is fast being
vacated to make room for Capitol
Park Extension and with ii are going
many notorious memories and some
traditions of strenuous politics. Then
there was Horse Hollow, which was
given to the district near Crescent
street. and further on Sauerkraut Hill
with the Koenig tavern and it's stories
of cock fights, raffles Dutch suppers
and other things which the men who
used to go there don't talk about except
when cigars are lighted and people
Cfa ri fN foil l,NxN oil I,aI,n
burg has become for all its growth.
And lastly, there is the district which
has the honor of being the only one TO
have its name preserved not only in
memory but in bronze tablet-Camp
Curtin
Two classmates of the law school OF
the University of Pennsylvania shook
hands last week in the Dauphin county
court room when Ralph b. Evans, OF
counsel for Giuseppe Donate, the
sculptor, met w. Harry Musser, for
mer assistant district attorney The
two attorneys graduated from tho.
Penn law department in 1905. Dur
Ing the trial Mrs. Evans, wife of the
sculptors attorney was an interested
spectator. She is the daughter of DR..
John II. Musser, the famous Phila-
delphia specialist whom the State call
ed to refute the allegations of i'll
health of several of the defendants in
the famous capitol trials few years
ago. The defendants at that time tried
to obtain a postponement of the trial
on the grounds of ill health. Mr..
Evans who made host of new friends
among members of the Dauphin coun-
ty bar and among the court attaches,
is member of the law firm of John
G. Johnson, Philadelphia.
s6Y1ar- foot ,.,,laiJ ,,,oaa %
the Capitol graft trials, the ordinary
yard stick method. the metric system
these be fit and proper ways of
measuring things that are all right
in their way but it remained for At
torney Ralph B. Evans, counsel for
Giuseppe Donate, the Philadelphia
sculptor, to suggest a new system of
determining space, during Donates
suit to recover S25.000 for carving a
fountain for Milton S. Hershey, the
chocolate king" The question of
whether or not the boards of the
crate in which Donate shipped his
statue to Hershey Park was at issue
and a more or less embarrassed sta
tionmaster was doing his best to eX-
plain just how wide a crack pre-
sented itself for his curious gaze.
Finally he tried to illustrate:
About that wide, I should say"
he said as he held up two fingers.
'Inat is absolutely the way L should
measure it. 1 don't know what method
you'd call it"
1.-TWO fingers?" observed Mr.. Evans,
musingly. "Ah, yes" he added, ''why
not call it liquid measured"
Had the Westpointers been on their
toes at the Vanderbilt hotel in New
York yesterday morning. they might
perchance have managed to get the
jump on the Navy men in anticipas
ton of the big football spectacle which
was staged this afternoon. A qui',.
good-looking chap from Annapolis
walked into the lobby followed bp "a
rope, attached to which walked sc~
dately very live and very capea's-
looking goat. The admiring glar;l -
of the fair young things who v.e,e
present in large numbers with ''.eiL
chaperones or parents followed Iia'I
and goat, but the Army coItinge0'
were far from the scene, or l. nnr
have been that the enemy's g0s5 y''n' ID
have been taken into camp u orc he
battle had begun.