Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-28
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The fact that quail have been heard
calling in Reservoir Park and in
fields about Paxtang, grouse have
been heard drumming" in wildwood
Park and wild turkeys seen on First
Mountain within sigh of the dome of
the State Capitol, to say nothing of the
deer swimming the river at Dauphin,
calls to mind that the State authori-
ties are making good in a promise a
few years ago. When the hunters
license act was first agitated the claim
was made, rather grandiloquently it
was thought that the game would be
brought back to Pennsylvania. Game
has been bought and turned loose,
some of 1t not far from Harrisburg.
but what has taken place has been an
| increase in public sentiment toward
hunting. 1t used to be that some peo-
pie went hunting and fired on every
thing that had feathers or fur, chick
! ems and dogs not escaping. But that
was ten years ago, before the laws
| relative to killing of male deer with
horns only and forbidding killing of
turkeys as well as limiting the quail
season became operative. Since that
] time there has been marked change
in the public idea about game. Some
| hunters are just as keen as ever after
the birds and deer and hare, but there
are others who prefer the sport and
| do not think so much of the size of
the bag. If couple of counties in
this section could be closed to all
kinds of hunting for three or five years
the result would be a joy not only to
the hunter but the nature-lover. This
county abounds in places ideal for
game to breed and undisturbed by
hunters from one years end to an
other. Perhaps, Wildwood park would
become a sort of native Pennsylvania
zoo after all.
The tennis court at Melrose. out in
the eastern end of the East End is
one of the prettiest places now to be
seen about the city. Roses of the
climbing variety have been trained
about the wire netting and they are
new in full bloom, affording red.
white and pink blossoms. The court
attracts more attention than most
flower gardens.
A man who follows very closely the
movements of foreigners says that
the number Of residents of Steelton
and this city who have gone back to
fight in the last year is far less than
one would suppose and that there ara
men working here who are liable to
recall to military service who show no
intention of returning. Some of these
men have answered recalls to war
by inquring of officials the require
ments for citizenship.
A Pittsburgh friend sends an inter-
esting article on the way streets con-
Meeting with Pittsburgh are being re-
named by the boroughs and townships
through which they pass. Some time
ago attention was called in this coll
umn to the method adopted by the
Wilkes Barre City Planning Commits.
| sion in securing uniform names OF
! streets, it being the scheme to have
) the various small municipalities agree,
= In Pittsburgh all streets and avenues
? connecting the city with surrounding
municipal divisions are to be renum.
l bered to conform to the Pittsburgh
! base. The city numbers will be con-
= tinued in all directions from the city
: The plan has the endorsement of va
rious district boards of trade, the
/, post Office and the city administration
I as we'll as of numerous borough au.
= thorities. 1t would not be a bad plan
for Steelton, Paxtang and Penbrook
2 to do the same thing with Harrisburg.
: Harrisburg friends of DIR. T.
Rothrock, the veteran forestery com.
missioner and conservationist, will be
: interested to learn that he has agreed
to take charge of the publication
known as Forest Leaves. which is the
, organ of the State Forestry Associa-
ton. This publication under the late
|, John Birkinbine was an interesting
: lone and dealt with conservation in a
! practical way. DR.. Rothrock's man
, agement of it is expected to make it
u exceedingly virile as he is a vigorous
writer and the subject of conserva-
; ton is closest to his heart.
I
!, Market and Third streets had fun
ny. and yet annoying, blockade the
. other evening. An automobile which
:. had been stopped to allow traffic to go
in the other direction suddenly STALL
. ed. The man got out and cranked
three times before he got under way
: and as he was exactly in the middle he
: held up things four ways. When he
> got started there were a couple of
; parades of automobiles through grim
a ming throngs.
= Col. Harry C. Trexler, quartermaster
= general of the National Guard, has
a been elected president of the city
!. planning commission of Allentown.
: The colonel is one of the most progress
. sive men in the city by the Lehigh
= and his development of his own
!, properties has shown him to be
/ a Nun of advanced ideas. He is we'll
: known to many Harrisburgers.