Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-16
EVENING CHAT

1t is only when one gets out into
tne sections of the city beyond the
punt up section that the number of
small gardens conducted about Har-
rlsburg is realized. Take q ride any
afternoon after and you will
see dozens of men working on little
patches, some of them Just ordinary
sized lots, but cultivated with an ar
DOR that makes intensive agriculture
IN the Eastern States seem like child's
play. And then, there are many wo-
men and girls and even youngsters
TO be seen working in the ground.
The small garden idea has taken hold
or Harrisburg in earnest and the
amount of vegetables that will be set
out would furnish some interesting
statistics for the Chamber of Com
merces experts on food supply. Some
or the small patches, not as large as
a quarter of the Post Office lawn, are
being set out with a dozen different
varieties and tomato and cabbage
plants will be consigned to mother
earth on bits of land that the average
man would never think was worth
cultivating. The days are getting
longer and couple of hours work
after supper, or even before, will re-
pay in substantial dividends. Har-
risburg is somewhat noted for its
flower gardens and the beauty and
variety of the blooms that adorn
homes, but there are many, many
patches where the lowly vegetable
will yield its increase and not much
attention be paid except by those who
bend their backs. Making garden is
not a fad around here. 1t is a seri-
GUS business and a lot of work is
being devoted on plots that will help
out the market basket immensely.
Some one has said that the State
ought to make the dandelion the State
flower because it is certainly the most
numerous of the blooms about the
State. 1t will soon be in flower and
the attacks on it do not seem to have
much effect. Just now an army of
young folks, and some older ones,
are going into the backwards and on
the vacant plots cutting out the weeds
for table use and for sale and for the
sake of getting rid of them. Dande-
lion cutting is a recognized industry
at this season of the year and appar-
emily there are a good many who
firmly believe in the medicinal quail
ties.
Me hungry" was the short COM
plant of a foreigner who was being
taken to an Alderman of the city, on
petty charge.
came the query from the officer.
Pie" answered the foreigner.
"All right, you can get it here" the
officer said walking into q quick lunch
with his prisoner The foreigner
bought whole pie, then went before
the alderman and coolly ate it while
the justice gave the sentence.
Speaking of Fort Washington, it was
recalled last week in connection with
the fiftieth anniversary of the surren-
der of Lee that it was just fifty years
ago that the work of removing mill
tary stores from the works on the hill
opposite the city began. The earth
works were maintained from the time
they were constructed during the in
Vasion until the end of the war be-
cause the national and State govern
ments did not intend to be caught nap
ping by any raiders. An old resident
OF the city says that going over to the
fort was a favorite diversion of SOL
diers from Camp Curtin. Fifty years
ago things about the city were pretty
lively for ii marked the beginning of
the end of anxious days for Har-
risburg, so many of whose sons were
in the army.
1t is regarded as improbable that
any OF the new organizations of mill
tia provided in the new act will be To-
Gated here unless it would be the pro-
posed ammunition train. This would
naturally be located where the stores
are kept and as this is the location
of the State arsenal the subject has
been discussed in the city. The COM
pany would have to be started here
pretty soon to obtain recognition as
many places will probably get busy
before long.
Students in the high and grammar
schools are busy preparing for after
noon and Saturday excursions to Wild
wood and the mountains for Spring
flowers which are now blooming nice
ly. Arbutus is blossoming out strong
and If the present weather continues
until Saturday the little plants should
be burdened with blossoms.
When ex-Presdent Taft reached
here yesterday the first person to
greet him was Howard NJ. Hoke, sec
retary to the Attorney General, who
was with Mr.. Taft when he was in the
internal revenue. service in Cincinnati.
DO you remember me, Mr.. Taft"
asked Mr.. Hoke. Dol? Well, | am
glad to see you again Hoke," replied
the eX-president. Mr.. Taft recalled
the days when he was in newspaper
work in Cincinnati and how Mr.. Hoke
had charge of a good many things for
him in the first federal office he had
ever held. The eX-president appeared
to enjoy his "reminiscences.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE