Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-01
EVENING Chat

1t is interesting to note in view of
the manner in which the House of
Representatives handled the bill to re-
quire all vehicles to display lights at
night that it is not the farmer who is
the offender in this part of the State,
but what some rural dwellers call 1.-The
city guy" The House defeated the
bill with a good bit of unnecessary
vigor when one. comes to think about
IT, anyone who has been along a road
leading to the city the night be-
Iore market must have noticed the
number of farmers driving to Harris
burg. Those who have come into the
city late on Friday night or early on
saturday morning on return from au-
tomobile trips or visits to the country
wnen something happened and made
you late, have doubtless observed that
almost every farmer has lantern
swinging underneath the rear axle or
fastened to the side of the wagon. In
ueed, thiS custom is almost universal
among those who come to attend the
markets on Saturday mornings and
very general in the middle of the
week. 1t is also to be noted that when
farmers start to return home on Sat-
urday nights after their wives and
daughters have been shopping and
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hours, that the wagons nearly all bear
lanterns which are lighted before they
get out of the city. Wagons have
been seen nearing lighted lanterns in
the electric effulgence of Saturday
night in Market street. The farmers
say, and rightly, that it is the city
chap who goes out buggy riding the
man who has livery team and the
city hucksters who drive along coun-
try roads without lanterns. The farm
ers, as a rule, use lanterns because
they feel safer, a reversal of the old
time idea.
Market Square is a queer place to
play games, but the other evening a
crowd of boys entertained a number
of people waiting for cars and enjoyed
themselves by playing fox in the
morning on roller skates. The boys
made a lot of racket and went through
a lot of evolutions that made the spec
tators gasp. The policemen were as
much interested as the boys.
IF you Harrisburg people want a
park, a park that would be a real
one" said the Detroit visitor, why
don't your city use that island you
have up the river-McCormick's island
think YOU call it? In Detroit we have
our Belle Isle, which we are proud to
1t is an island in the Detroit river
situated similarly to your island, al
though somewhat larger. Our peo-
pie so there by tens of thousands by
ferries or by bridge and your citizens
could get just as much satisfaction
from your island. The sweep of your
river is finer than the Detroit river,
and although you do not have the
great boats passing every five minutes
as we have, the view of mountains and
shore line is better. You have the
trees, the bathing facilities and the
surface formation to make an unsur-
passed place of amusement, and it
could be prepared at very slight en-
pense, without draining any swamps
or cutting jungled underbrush. and
am told the city already owns it. Some
people seem not to know a good thing
when they have it,
"These moonlight nights are no good
for business" remarked a taxi pilot.
'How's that? What's the moon got
to do with it?" was asked.
We'll, on a moonlight night a man
who lives some distance out or who
has missed his car will walk it, if he
is not too tired or lit" In the moon
light he will feel safe and he will
really feel like he needs the exercise
and enjoy his walk" replied the gaso-
fellows who live out on the Hill and
some uptown who are charter men,
bers of all the organizations of night
owls in town. Those fellows will walk
home on moonlight night and talk
about it, but If it's n dark night, no
matter how fine the weather may be its
a taxi for them"
How so many foreigners come to
America penniless and in a few short
years are able to save money enough
to purchase a farm or home and how
some even amass small fortunes, is a
puzzle to many Americans.
Apparently their success is due to
the little acts of thrift which they
practice.
The other day there was an illus
tration of how foreigner utilized
some waste to save the price of a shoe
/ shine.
An automobile standing along a curb
in Steelton was dripping oil. a for
eigner was standing nearby. When
the machine moved off the foreigner
walked over and began to rub the
drippings into his heavy Shoes
The Harrisburg Public Library has
prepared for its shelves the set of
| Rumanian books recently pure hased
| for the use of the natives of the east
/ ern kingdom hereabouts. Among the
works ready are those of Queen EliZ-
abeth or Carmen Sylvia in Rumanian.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE