Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-17
Ehrntng Chat

The Book of the Highways. Just
Issued in pocket form by the branch
of the city government of which Will
nam h Lynch is the chief, is prob
ABLY the most complete list of the
thoroughfares of Harrisburg ever is
sued and suggests the thought that
1t would be an excellent thing for a
hst OF the roads radiating from Har-
rispurg for say forty miles. Other
clues OF the State have such books
OF Lsts or guides according to what
one wishes to call them and these
cites, be 1t said. have nothing like
tne highways to show that Harrisburg
from this city like the spoke of
wheel. 1t is literally the hub of
FennsylVania roads, as it should be.
let, tnere are comparatively few
roads leading to Harrisburg suf1-
ciently marked. These roads could
be marked by club or private enter
prise, or even by the city because Of
the advertisement it would give to the
municipality. The State has done
something toward marking but there
is much more to be done Then, with
the list OF roads Harrisburg would
be as we'll known to the travelling
public, at least the automobile sec
ton, as its highways will be to its
own residents through Commissioner
Lynch's book.
The Book of the Highways furnishes
the names of streets of which the
average man has heard very seldom
and then only casually. The Cameron
layout and the Bellevue Park devel-
opment added a number of names to
the city and they have been chosen
with some regard for nomenclature.
Duck, Cleander and some other places
were not seized upon as in years gone
by There is something attractive
about Briarcliff; Geary is suggestive
of governor and Monroe of a coun-
ty and president. And so Allison,
lawn fit in better than Persimmon
and Cream. In this connection it
might be added that avenue, lane and
court no longer figure in official desig-
nations of streets in Harrisburg.
Meadow Lane has passed out after
$50 years of use as a highway and
Christy Court has gone before the
Eighth Ward gives up considerable
portion of it's area for Capitol Park
extension. Neither does the name of
the historic Jamestown road, which
survives within the city for a short
space up the hill just north of Cam
eron street, appear as a highway,
while there are no avenues at ALL
Everything less than a certain width
is an alley. There are several roads,
notably in the Bellevue section; there
are Cloverly Terrace and Berkeley
Place, Rudy Place and so on. Some
streets appear to be laboring under
two names, but Broad street is off,
cially given as Verbeke. Hop, Ice,
Prune and Ruby streets survive, but
Oil is no longer on the list
The naming of Ex-Auditor General
A. e. Sisson as the Erie county dele
gate to the farmers national congress
in Omaha appears to have interested
number of people. The former au-
ditor general is a farmer neverthe-
less. although he is better known as
legislator, lawyer and auditor gen.
farms in Erie county and what is
more lives on them and sells his pro-
duce to the commission men and
wholesalers himself.
A good story is told by a man of
unimpeachable veracity about the mar
row gauge road to Eaglesmere with
whose tortuous course many Harris
burgers are familiar 1t seems that
this has been a good year for pheas-
ants on the mountains and they have
been seen frequently on the track.
The other day the engineer of one of
the snorting engines found a covey
on the track. He blew the whistle,
but the birds did not move. So he
stopped the train and "shooed" away
the birds.
Among Harrisburg visitors yester-
day was Walter Lyon, former lieuten-
ant governor, now practicing law in
Pittsburgh. He met a number of