Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-31
EVENING Chat

! When the fire alarm sounds, don't
call the police department If YOU
want to find out where the fire is. The
attaches at the police department
can only tell you the number of the box
sent In. The best way to find out
where the fire is, would be to so to the
| fire. For long time, every fire alarm
! is followed by from ten to one hun
| dred requests over the telephone for
Information as to where the fire is rag
ing. These inquiries are big annoy
ance to the police department. If the
information was at hand, there would
/ be no objections. No one reports
where the fire is until it's all over.
The other day Colonel Joseph &.
Hutchison was busy getting some Valu-
able information as to the location of
crook who was wanted. Along
comes fire alarm, and the conVersa-
ton about the crook was all off. That
was not the first time that important
business was interrupted by telephone
requests regarding fires. IL there was
a way to tell who was calling, an or
der would be to not answer any tele-
phone calls during a fire alarm. The
trouble is that someone might be
calling for help, so it is up to the peo-
pie to be decent and not annoy the
police department with foolish ques-
tions, according to the belief of those
Legislation pending at the Capitol
indicates that there is a general de-
sire for improvement of facilities for
crossing the Susquehanna between
Millersburg and Sunbury, no less than
two bills for construction at State ex-
pense of bridges being in hand. For
generations practically the only means
of crossing the river in this section has
been by ferries. The very name of
some of the stations indicate the To-
cation of this means of crossing and
while some of the ferries have been
profitable in years gone by, it is noted
that receipts have been falling off.
Probably a line of 'iitney" motor
boats would come in handy for the
folks of Perry and upper Dauphin. 1t
is rather notable that the motor boat
is being used on the Delaware and on
the Allegheny county for ferry pur-
poses, but that the Susquehanna still
clings to the old ferry or the slight
draught steamboat.
II was Just figuring things up said
a Young man married about two years,
'and I've discovered that my wife gets
about seventy per cent. of my surplus
money after I've paid the general run
ming expenses of the household, and
that ! get the remaining thirty.
This set me to thinking, and l
suggested that she let me give her
regular allowance instead of letting
her help herself out of the joint purse.
When told her how much I'd be glad
TO give her, she was all smiles and
murmured, Thanks, awfully, dear.
Why I don't spenl nearly that much
now"
"The truth of the matter is"
chuckled the young benedict, I've
based her allowance on a fifty-tifty
nd I cp a Snrinu
suit with what 1 gained
An eight-year- ar-old youngster who
| lives on the Hill had just heard his first
natural science talk from the teacher
at school and was full of curiosity
| physical geography. Nav" he said,
when he reached home. "the teacher
! says that it's gravity from the earth
| that makes you fall down to the
ground. Now tell me how far you
would go if the earth was suddenly
taken away and there was nothing to
| hold YOU up"
II don't know" answered his moth
err in a puzzled manner, Il never
thought about that; l don't see how
the earth can be taken away without
us going with it."
We'll. didn't you tell me the other
Sunday that the worlds coming to an
| emu Sblltt heiN anu AiiNAt NOil I w e1iig
thing left of it?' persisted the curious
/ iyoungster.
Among the many compensations OF
living up the river" said the Dauphin
commuter, speaking of his ride to
and from work in the city every day,
ARE the three sunsets I see each even
ling on my way home on the train.
First is the view just outside the city
limits; then the low-1ying sun is cut
off by the first mountain across the
river: beyond Rockville the sunlight
bursts forth again through the gap
back of Marysville. 1t is soon cut off
by the second range of mountains as
the train proceeds, and just before
arriving at Dauphin station it appears
again in unsurpassed beauty, clear
from all the interference OF smoke
that sometimes blurs it nearer the
| cityr