Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-14
EVENING CHAT

EVENING CHAT
Apparently there is going to be a
great deal of interest taken in the
CLOSING week of the Legislature judg-
ing from the manner in which the no.
tel people are discussing the demand
Tor reservations. One of the hotels
expected to be crowded during the
whole of the week, while several have
found that their capacity will be Sc
Nerely tested by the requests which are
pouring in for accommodations. The
legislative session has been one of
more or less veXation to the hotel peo-
pie. Tuesdays and Wednesdays of al
most every week they were filled to
the roof and the rest of the week
they had only the usual run of bust
ness. h weekend was invariably
dull, according to most of the hotel
people. The difficulty, they explain,
is to ave accommodations for the
temporary crowds, or rather jams,
that come to the city for the hearings
and debates and other big things at
the Capitol. They tax h capacity and
the rest of the week the investments
have to cry for business. Tt is re-
marked by hotelmen that this session
was marked by more crowds than
known in ecent years. The crowds
came every week or So, whereas in
other years there were two or three
big rowds during a session.
Governor ~Brumbaugh is planning to
go to Huntingdon next month to make
an address when the new high school
in hat borough is dedicated. He will
also make a speech which it is be-
lteVed will be an important index of
what he plans for the remainder of
his administration. The Governor
visited Huntington during the winter
on a trip to his fathers home and did
not think much of the roads he en-
countered.
Harrisburg people always take a
great interest in the Legislature when
1t starts on the home stretch and the
sessions h last two days have at
tracted a good many people who like
to see action. They are especially in
terested in the rapid fire way in which
the House acts on appropriation bills,
which is me of the swiftest methods
of legislative procedure known and
also n of the most interesting to the
student of civil government, especially
when some member rises to record a
negative vote when the work has all
been done.
Spring is certainly being heralded
by the bugs. The warm wave in the
latter part of April brought a lot of
crawling, flying, wriggling and boring
bugs to visit us and the cooler wealth
er which followed caused a number
of them to go back to their holes.
last week or so there has been a
gradual increase in the bug tribe and
they have found ever so many new
electric signs in Market and other
streets to butt their heads against
since last fall. The new electric lights
in ('gnitnl Dark which ~ ~ ,,,,,I
greater intensity than those used last
summer, are also a great attraction.
However, ii is to be noted that the
number of bugs that prefer indoor
visits is Just as large as ever, not
outstanding the outdoor attractions.
An owner of a motorcycle built for
two had some fun in Market street
esterday afternoon. He went up and
the street twitting the iitney
operators and attracted much atten-
ton. His vehicle looked very inter-
esting because it had on the rear:
JlTNEY SERVICE, ONE ONLY
The men engaged in tearing up the
street in Derry street between Tween
ty-third and the city line are ANYTHING
but complimentary about the quality
of the macadam highway they found.
Some years ago the traction
HI lONSh inc SlIGcl ana II WOll0 seem
that If the highway had been main
tanned the road would have been excel
lent. The diggers have had to cut
through several inches of solid stone.
At the bottom of that they have struck
the rocks on which the old pike ran.
DIR. II. b. Bashore, who spoke last
evening at h Dauphin County Histor-
ical Society meeting, Is one of the an
thorities of PENNSYLVANIA on Indians.
He has given special study to the In
dian tribes that inhabited the valley
OF the Susquehanna and has located
the territory they dominated. DR..
Bashore's Studio have covered several
counties and the data he has collect
ed will make a very interesting book
some day.
Some early Strawberries have been
grown on the other side of the river.
u the man who displays them is not
proud of the taste. The berries were
in a cold frame and got a great start
during the April warm spell. Since
that time they have been very well
taken care Of with the result that they
came up in fine style. However. they
do not have that taste of the sun which
goes with the genuine York county
berry.
Very complimentary notices of the
recent publicity run of tho Motor Climb
of Harrisburg are appearing in the
newspapers through which the trip
passed. Some of the towns appear to
want the Harrisburg people to come
their way again. The trip appears to
have further advertised the States
capital and in a most effective way.
81 have heard fewer patriotic airs
since the Lusitania incident than |
have known for a long time. think
it is because people want to keen cool
and not get stirred over the war"
said n man who often goes to the
theaters. when the time comes they
will be heard ~abundantly," he added.
we'll KNOWN PEOPLE
Mayor Blankenburg is out with a
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