Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-14
CITIZENS COMMENT FURTHER
ON THE CITY IMPROVEMENTS

for the future, IL the same active,
progressive spirit continues which has
characterized 1t since 1901. Now that
1t has been started, 1t will not be satis-
fed, but will go on and on, ever eX-
panding and becoming more and more
beautiful and healthful and prosper
Gus. Too much credit cannot be given
to the people for the progressive spirit
which has dominated this first great
step in the city's development.
Frank l.. Cook, the prominent Mar
ket street merchant: when the peo-
pie of Harrisburg voted for the million
dollar loan for public improvements
some fourteen or fifteen years ago, L
question very much whether one per-
son in a hundred realized how much
they were doing for the future Har-
risburg. From the time work was
started on them, the city took on new
life and began to go forward at a GOOD
steady pace. with q healthy growth,
commercially and in populaton-and
the city growing more beautiful all
the time. Wher is there another OF
its size that can boast of such paved
streets, park system, sewers, nltrauoh
plant or River Front? Surely you
would have to look for much larger
cities to make any comparison. Let
the good work continue-keep on with
the improvements.
Let everybody enter heartily into
the celebration of the completion OF
our municipal improvements, not Tor
getting to give credit to the men VINO
have labored so hard to accomplish
the great work and the newspapers
which have rendered much valuable
assistance.
II. A. Robinson, one of the leading
West End merchants says: This cele-
bration is going to give us an elegant
opportunity to look around and see
what we really have in this city Fif-
teen years of continued improvements
is liable to make us forget some OF the
earliest of these improvements. But
we may sit back now and admire ana
have admired this beautiful, progress
sive city of ours.
Naturally we of the West End have
been particularly interested in watch
ing this section grow more peautliul'
more livable and more progressive
through these improvements. We have
at our disposal a most generous por-
ton of the new park system. our
property owners can especially ap-
preciate the improved sewerage. And
Just within this last year real city
air. has been injected into our up
ton of the new street light standards
(the completion of which improve
ment is being anxiously awaited by
the West Enders)
Still more recently, an unsched-
uled, though none the less important,
Improvement has added greatly to the
comfort and convenience of the resi-
dents of this section. Though de-
prived for the last FIVE or six years OF
uptown street car service, on Third
street. the jitney has most successfully
stepped in and filled this long felt
want"
III. c. Ross, prominent in business
circles said:
I remember before 1901 what a ter
rible condition this street (meaning
Third street,, used to be in. Why,
they used to sail boats over there in
front of Ed. Herman's old cigar store.
You couldn't walk across the street
without being smeared with mud.
Since the improvements have been
completed traffic facilities have more
than quadrupled. It's a pretty good
old town All those who go away are
mighty glad to get back. Credit is due
the ones whose brains originated the
scheme"