Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-17
Ehrntng Chat

state Game Commission authorities
believe from reports which have been
brought to this city by hunters com
ing out of the South Mountains and
upper Susquehanna regions and
from the Juniata Valley that the kill
OF, buck deer this Fall has probably
gone larger than in any of the last
halt dozen years. 1t would not sur
prise people here If the kill ran as
high as 1900. Last year there were
llO2 deer killed. Under the rules of
the State Game Commission the
wardens are required to make q re-
port on the Kills of game in their dis
trlct and as the wardens are in close
touch with the hunting parties, espe-
clally in the deer season, the data is
generally accurate. To begin with
deef were plentiful throughout the
regions where they have been noticed
Lor the last dozen years and in some
cases were so tame that it seemed a
shame to kill them: This was true in
the South Mountain resion although
IN the Juniata and Susquehanna val
leys the deer gave hunters plenty of
work This winter it is the intention
10 purchase deer in Michigan and
other. States and to liberate them in
the game preserves which are being
established and in counties which
nave been closed to deer hunting for
period OF years. These deer will be
trapped next month.
Attorney General Francis Skunk
Brown has placed in his department
q portrait of James Wilson, eminent
PennsylVanian of colonial and revoIll-
tonary days and one of the signers of
the declaration of Independence. He
iound IL IN one of the storerooms in
the capitol, having been returned
from some exposition where displays
OF pictures of the great Pennsyl-
Vanlans of the past are some times
made. The attorney general also
discovered picture of George
Bryan. president of the council of
pennsylvania during part of the
Revolution.
r. l.. Watts, of State College, who
was here yesterday, has been promi-
nently Identified with the agricultural
education work In this State for
years and one of the men frequently
spoken of in connection with the State
Department of Agriculture.
1T would not be a bad thing for
people to have cleanup week before
christmas and then, again, the day
after commented one of the city's
veteran firemen as he saw the bundles
being carried into u trolley by Christ
mas "a ADVANCE eS shoppers on Saturday
! afternoon. THE paper in which the
gifts are wrapped and the packings
and things like that are often cause
or tires and my advice, and it is based
on experience. is that the people of
this city should make it point to
get rid of all loose paper and other
STUFF likely to cause a fire as soon as
| DOSSlDl6. THEW In I,ai
furnaces or put 1t into the refuse
cans. But get rid of It,"
Christmas trees are commencing TO
appear on the railroad trains, some
huge cars filled with trees CLOSELY
packed down, being sandwiched be-
tween coal cars on a number of the
trains passing through this city on
Saturday and yesterday The trees
came from the northern part of the
state and were consigned to Phila-
delphia. Apparently, there are few
After all, there are as nice Christmas
trees as any one would want to be
bought right here in Harrisburg
from people who cut them within
forty miles of the city.
Between the Christmas rush and
the way mail is being shipped out
from Capitol Hill 1t is enough to
make a man dizzy" said an attache
of the post Office yesterday. "The es-
tablishment of new branches of the
! government you say 1t is?" he re-
piled when told how the workmen's
compensation system was occupying
considerable time and costing much
money for postage and printing.
We'll, 1t beats anything I ever knew.
| The Highway Department shoots out
automobile tags by the thousands,
but the letters that come down from
the Hill from departments help to
make the postage bill something
awful"
A good story is going the rounds
of Capitol Hill about Dauphin coun-
ty man and Harry S. McDevitt, coun-
sci of the Economy and Efficiency
Commission. This man went to Mr.
| McDevitt's office and asked for him.
| He was in another part of the build
ing. Then the man called again. Mr..
| McDevitt was still out. "Will YOU
| please tell him I'm waiting for those
snow shovels. I want to go to work"
| the Dauphin countian told the stenog-
rapher. Mr.. McDevitt is still wonder
ing how he gets into the Capitol Hill
labor game.