Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-11
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Few OF the industries OF Harrisburg
had a greater influence in their
time on the life of portions of this city
than the Chesapeake Nail Works.
which plant is about to be sold for the
metal that 1t contains and to pass out
the list of going" concerns in
this county. The Chesapeake works
were established in 1857 by the late
Charles L. Bailey and at the time of
their construction attracted much at
tention as a model plant and formed a
very important addition to the iron
steel industries of this part of the
state, always noted for h excellence
of its products. The nail works came
into being about the time the Penn
sylvania Steel Works and the Central
Iron Works were established and
puddlers and nailers in
eluded in their time some men who
were widely known in the affairs OF
the First and Second wards. In the
seventies and eighties the Chesapeake
plant was one of the big employers of
labor In this city and people got up
and had their meals according to its
whistles. When it ran many homes
were happy and in dull times 1t affect
ed FAR more than the average person
realizes to-day. The introduction Of
the wire nail put the cut nail into the
background. and while Chesapeake
held to much of its local and foreign
trade for a long time after other cut
nail works had passed out, even send
ing nails to Chilli and China, 1t finally
felt the competition of modern plants
and has operated irregularly in the
last ten years. The works contained
over 100 cut nail machines n had
nearly a score of pudding furnaces,
with three heating furnaces and two
trains of rolls. chesapeake" brand
was known far and wide and did
much to advertise Harrisburg.
Senator Horace A. Tompkins, of
Ebensburg, who was here yesterday
for a short time. was on his way home
from attending the twenty-fifth ami
Versary of the graduation of his class
at Blairstown. n. J.. The senator will
enter his son in the same institution
next year.
NO matter what may happen to APP
pies and other crops from the appear
C of blights n flies of %predacious
nature there is not going to be any
shortage of hay in this part of the
state. The grass fields of Pennsyl-
wanna are showing their old-time
crops and there will be some fine cut
ting If the weather does not turn
wrong. Farmers consider that the
real June days have come and as
there has been an abundance of rain
they are looking at the fields and
watching the grass shoot up. Some of
the fields in the lower end of the coun-
ty present fine appearances n there
is a good strong growth as a re-
suit of recent weather. Farmers here
abouts nave started to cut in some sec
lions and alfalfa that has been cut is
showing good weight and quality. The
hay crop ought to be good because of
the demand from Europe. There is
always a good demand from this
country and in this State the hay COM
mands good prices for local use. With
the added requests for it for export
there ought to be money in the pock-
cts of the Pennsylvanians.
Any n having doubts about the
popularity of baseball as a sport of
boys and young men has only to go to
the fringe of vacant lots about the
city. There are more diamonds laid
out than ever and every lot that can
be considered as common" has been
marked off. Some of the diamonds
show lots of ard work and some OF
the thrifty fellows have turned money
for equipment by cutting sod and sell.
ing it.
II YIN VI hSn SlIStl SlEnS ABOUT In0
city has enabled a good many people
to get a line of the real names of the
city's highways. There are a number
whose names have been changed from
the medieval nomenclature and they
now appear correctly on the poles to
the great advantage of strangers and
the ~ediication of natives. Then, too,
there are a number of new streets
which have lever been properly mark
ed and they are now distinctly la
belled.
Amateur photography is becoming
more popular hourly" remarked alocal
dealer in cameras and supplies while
speaking on the subject the other day.
And some of those amateur picture
takers would surprise you. For good
results a number of them had me
guessing. Some of the pictures they
took and finished themselves were
equal to many that I have seen that
we're taken by professionals. The peo-
pie are beginning to find that the next
thing to speaking to people is to see
them in a picture, and practicing the
belief Is making trade for the dealer,
and giving them an instructive amuse-
ment."
Parents are usually inclined to
blame the driver of an automobile
when their children get run down
and in some instances killed. remark
ed a chauffeur the other day, but this
is not always the case. Parents often
forget an important duty, that of
training their children to avoid need
less risks. and also the danger of care
lessness when on the streets, on roller
skates. bicycles or small wagons. Sew
eral days ago 1 was driving out Null
berry street at the other end of the
bridge. when a youngster shot out oe
an alley in front of me at a fast pace
in a small wagon. l missed hitting
him by two inches. If I had been
going just a little bit faster, l would
in all probability have killed the child.
The parents would nave blamed me.
Witnesse~ and passengers, criticised
the parents of that boy for not teach
ing him more common sense and
pitied the child ror being neglected.
Sending children to school may be all
right, but school and the street are two
things. Traffic is dangerous in a city
and children should be taught the risk
they run in recklessness while on the
street"