Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-17
GOVERNOR ENTERTAINS
MANY AT DINNER
CONTINUED from First Pagel
The Governors Speech

MY lHluleulate interest. as you KNOW,
grows out of the fact that in the very
near future the Capitol Extension
| Park Will have been acquired COM
pletely by the Commonwealth, and its
treatment will become an important
and imminent problem.
1T was my thought that the plan
nins commission of Harrisburg, the
two boards of the State government
the city officials of HARRISBURG and
the gentlemen who in the past have
! put their hearts and their souls into
! the planning of a greater Harrisburg,
should come together here, that we
might be able to start a series of con-
ferences that would help the State
and help Harrisburg to work out the
proper treatment of the extension of
/ the Capitol Park in harmony with the
plans for greater Harrisburg, TO
which YOU have devoted so much of
your thought. Those of us who rep
resent the State in these matters hope
/ that when the park is finally COM
pleted, ii shall be a thing that all will
! be proud Of and that 1t will repre-
sent a part of the whole park system
of the city of Harrisburg, and be
dignitied setting for the great Capitol
of this State.
MY interest in that and Mr..
Young, who sits here with me, and
Mr.. Powell, who could not be with
| Pittsburgh tonight, both share that
feeling / KNOWS deep, and we are
anxious at all times to meet with
| those of you in Harrisburg who have
this matter at heart, in order that
there may be no mistakes, no crossing
of purposes, no conflicting of ideas,
and therefore no delay and no mis-
take in the working out of the addi-
tional ground that the State holds in
| the heart of your city
Another thing l had brought to
my attention to-day when with Mr..
Todd / walked over that piece of
ground. There is the State street
bridge which hardly adequately now
| portrays its quality, because of the
buildings that surround it. The mo-
ment the State removes the properties
and bares that iniquitous sight, you
will see how absolutely impossible II
is going to be for the State to work
out it's problem with that great mass
of stone impinging upon an essential
part of the park.
II want to go just a litter further
into the park extension question. The
other day you had an election here,
and your good people voted another
loan to put humps over the landscape
n thing that seriously interferes with
what 1 had hoped would be and what
still hope will be and believe ought
extension ground.
PERSONALLY, I do hope that you will
in some way contravene any effort
! that may be put forth to put that
hump on the Walnut street site of oul
park extension and thus mar it for
ever. | am not an architect, and
do not speak for the experts, but
am talking just as plain citizen. II
would be shame. almost crime, for
your government to allow that thing
to be done, and l hope you won't
do 1t.
There are two or three other things
that ! had in mind tonight. I be-
lieve that the proper step to be taken
is to try to influence the railroad
companies to put up splendid ter
minal somewhere near the park eX-
tension, and in that way every man
woman and child coming into this city
will look over beautiful VISTA see the
wonderful Capitol and have a sense
of exaltation, satisfaction and pride
in the beauty of it all, instead of COM
, ing into the city through a dingy and
dirty old station, and climbing up by
steps so steep and dark that profane
, person, who has any breath left at al
, by the time he reaches the top, is i'm
PEELED to give vent to expressions
which those of us who are not profane
must thank him for saying.
; I'VE all look with pride upon the
splendid terminal that has been built
in our national capital, and we know
what it means to step out of that beau
tiful depot and see the Capitol of the
Nation with its lovely setting. Some
) thing like that should be done here
, in Harrisburg.
I'VE want to get rid of those TROLLEY
, lines around the Capitol and rid of al
, those humps that hinder the treat
ment of our park extension; and make
, 1t a place that will be so beautiful
that not only the citizens of this city
, but every citizen of Pennsylvania that
. comes here will be proud of the fact
that he is part owner of that splen-
did thing.
Let us work that out together, and
do 1t in big way. There will be nee
essarily concessions, I take it, in the
: working out of these plans on the par
of the State, and other concessions or
the part of the city. There must be
fair play, mutual confidence, and com.
plete and free and open discussion
: of that problem at every step of the
way, to the end that when fnallS
completed it will present the best
thought and judgment of all the par.
ties interested in it,
1t was delightful occasion and al
the guests were more than pleased
that Governor Brumbaugh had in this
social way brought together those who
will have to deal with the questions
involved. The guests included The
members of the State Board of Build.
ings and Grounds, the City Plannint
Commission, the Park Extension Com.
mission, the City Council, and gentle.
men who have taken a prominent part
in the city's social improvement cam.
paigns. Those at the table were:
Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh
Warren II. Manning, Senator Edward
E. Beidleman, Harry F. Bowman
, James c. Deininger, George e. Etter
Ex-senator John E. Fox, Spencer c
Gilbert, w. L. Gorgas, f. q. Gross
t Francis j. Hall, Edwin S. Herman
William H. Lynch. Vance c. McCor.
mick, ]. Horace Mcfarland, Mayor
elect Ezra S. Meals, Samuel b
, Rambo, George w. Reilly, Mayor John
K. Royal, George A. Shreiner, Edward
: ]. Stackpole, M. Harvey Taylor
Samuel c. Todd. Ex-Representative
William S. Tunis, Benjamin r. Um-
berger and Robert K Young.