Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-05
EVENING CHAT

p Wildwood park these days is abloom
with dogwood and hundreds of peo-
pie spent Sunday in the woods. A
park regulation prohibits the tearing
on of branches from the trees or
otherwise destroying the flowers but
despite this precaution lots of visitors
nave ruined small trees in their eff
iorts to get at the blooms. A city
official the other day advanced a
many people carried the dogwood
away from the park. Many of the
auto tourists - and hundreds went
through the stretch of woodland
carried tonncau loads of the blossoms.
AS rule these were taken from the
nearby mountains. Now to my
mind" said the observing official, "a
going through the park carrying dog
wood think that the flowers were
taken from the trees here. Then they
act on the assumption that If the
folks who can ride in autos may have
the dogwood, why can't we?' So
they go to it and the trees naturally
suffer"
How Henry Schuddemage had the
great stretch of pavements around his
North Front street home cleared of
snow at barR ain price was alnUsingly
recalled the other day by Mercer B.
Tate. Someone had sareastically COM
meHted on the change Of the weather
and the snow shoveiing possibilities
which reminded Mc. Tate OF a story.
That Mr.. Schuddemage has an un-
usually long stretch of pavement to
clear of snow is pretty we'll known"
said Mr.. Tate. Sometime ago, so this
story runs, the city had repeatedly
notified him to clear his pavements.
ments were not cleaned and the po-
lice department, believe, finally had
the snow removed and imposed the
costs on Mr.. Schuddemage. Shortly
afterward he called at police head
quarters to settle the bill.
THE bill think amounted to some-
thing like twelve dollars.
Well, I'll pay it, smiled Mr..
Schuddemage, IF l had had that done
myself 1t would have cost me about
twenty-five dollars "
The big bird "hotel" which was re-
Gently presented to the city park de-
partment by the State Game com
missioD will not be the only summer
quarters provided for the feathered
guests of the city this year; the other
day half dozen tiny rustic bird cot
tages" were received by the depart
ment from a Lansing firm. These
are made of wood and covered with
natural tree bark and are Just about
big enough to accommodate one or
two families. These will be placed in
the tree tops in the city parks within u
week or two.
If it had not been for the Tech high
athletes there would not have been
any track meet at Mercersburg last
Saturday Tech not only put it, all
over Mercersburg, but had to furnish
some of the equipment to pull off the
events. On the day previous to the
track meet the Tech team received
letter which read as follows: Varsity
team and second athletes gone to
Cornell. Bring your hammer"
There is one amateur manager in
Harrisburg who will not schedule a
game at Carlisle very soon. He was
telling about his visit to Carlisle last
Saturday when the Harrisburg play
ers were given a hard bump and
added: Some managers wonder why
they cannot book games If all man
ayers were like the one we met at
Carlisle l wonder how they manage to
get games up there. We were defeated,
and took our medicine. However, the
Harrisburg boys came back home
without some of their clothing, and to
make matters worse the Carlisle man.
ager refused to pay us the guarantee
Harrisburg teams should be careful
about making contracts"
Among visitors to the city yester-
day afternoon was James B. Sheehan
register of wills of Philadelphia and
one of the best known men of Irish
descent in the State. He has been
prominent in the Hibernians and is
well-known as a public speaker.
People must have gone jitney
mad" remarked a man on an up
town car to-day.
There's jitney busses, jitney sales
jitney punchboards and jitney every.
thing else. Why only while ago
saw some boy with a jitney bicycle
In front of the Hamilton grammar
school he stood with his bike, evi
Identity waiting for school to dismiss
On the rear of his bike was thil
sign, 'Jitney, 5 cents