Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-16
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Alumni of the Harrisburg Academy
are commencing to sit up and takel
notice of the manner in which the
trustees of the institution have started
to build 1t up. The construction OIL
the new dormitory to the north of theI
original building of the propoSedi
group is showing itself and peopiet
will soon be able to see what the struc-l
ture will look like. This dormitory isl
going to do as much for Harrisburg asl
1T is for the Academy for 1t will en-
able the institution to take more stu
dents from out of town and thus addI
to the repute of the city. In all prob
ability the alumni, and they are num-
erous, will be asked to take steps to-
furnish the building, which would bel
a very graceful thing for them to do
because they could then show their
interest in the place where they learn
ed about the late Mr.. Aeneas and how
to find the elusive algebraic x. What,
the Academy will need before long
will be a lower school building be-
cause it has shown marked success in
its work among the youngsters and
its classes in that department have
been growing faster than the kids.
The Harrisburg Public Library is
continuing to depart from the rule
than most institutions in the way of
books circulated per dollar expended,
in fact, establishing something of a
| record in that line, but it has also
been enjoying gain in patronage
when ordinarily the demand for books
slacks up. The last few weeks there
has been actually an increase in the
patronage as compared with the hot
weeks of last summer. The number
of children taking books from the
Library is steadily mounting and the
| talks given at the Fairgrounds are
causing some of the youngsters to foot
| it long squares to the Library to look
at books. The Library plans to save
this by sending books to the play
grounds.
Over twenty-five hunters license
tags have been reserved at the county
treasury, having been laid aside for
nimrods who have desires for special
numbers, as have people for automo-
biles. Lockwood Worden, the crack
shot, who had number / last year, the
first hunters license to be issued in
Dauphin county, will have number 1
Iagain, having made a request for it a
long time ago. The requests for spe-
cial numbers have come from all parts
of the county Harrisburg is expected
to have more hunters than any other
Over 5000 licenses will be issued
do you know that iced tea, plain
iced tea is commencing to be a popu-
lar beverage over the bar in Harris.
burg?" asked one of the city's hotel.
men last evening. Now 1 don't mean
iced tea with stick in 1t or anything
like that, but plain iced tea such as
you have over your table at home and
1 have been surprised at the number
of people who call for 1t. I tried il
| as novelty a couple of years ago and
the demand became so popular thai
when the weather gets hot / have il
: made and stood on the bar There's e
) fine profit in it, too. Why, do yor
) know that l make a nice profit on i
even when / serve 1t with lemon anC
, some sprigs of green and powdered
sugar. More people call for it thar
: for ginger ale"
( THE most disgusted people In Har
risburg right now are the fishermen
and I'm getting into their class be-
cause have not sold piece of tackle
or a line for a week except to some
men who were going some where fal
off to fish. The weather condition.
this Spring have been of a character
10 make any man who likes to fish
swear This is the way that one o1
the men who deals in fishing tackle ex,
pressed himself. AS a matter of fac
the rains have been so frequent late.
ly that all of the streams have become
muddy and as for the Susquehanna
and Conodoguinet they have not beer
fit for fishing for weeks.
Conductors on open cars coins
through the Market street subway
have the sense of touch of a nicke
we'll developed. They generally are
collecting fares when the cars go into
the tunnel and they take the money
and ring up just the same as though
in the middle of a sunlit street One
man explained 1t yesterday by saying
that they can spot a bad nickel by
the touch.
Former members of the National
Guard who attended the encampment
at Mt. Gretna this week say that the
most radical change they noticed in the
handling of men was not the holding
of inspections in the company streets
but the practical abandonment OF
maneuvers For years the Guardsmen
have been instructed in open order
warfare and hard work has been done
along that line practically ever since
the South African war, Now there is
| apparently some very serious thought
being given by the men in charge OF
| instruction to discipline. To the minds
of old soldiers that can mean onIy one
thing and that is a return to the mass
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