Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-24
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citys streets and the States
main highways yesterday and
struck across country. defying mud
and disregarding the occasionally
sharp breezes, were delighted to find
that the butterflies are with us again.
The coming of the butterflies and the
blossoming OF the iocusts are two
dwellers in the rural districts because
when they appear one can be sure
that summer is approaching and that
1t is time to do various things about
the house and to change apparel.
abound in this part of Penn
ley counties as well as the Cumber-
land Valley being well-known to en-
tomologists for the number more than
for the variety of the species. Perhaps
q score are known as natives and they
range from the small cabbage butter
fly to the gorgeous Ajax swallowtail
with his red and black wings and red
dots on the portion that fanciful scien-
lists have called the tail of his coat.
This big yellow fellow is to be seen in
Wildwood Park and occasionally sail
Ing about the fields near the Reser-
votr. The most abundant of the butter
flies, one that can be seen about al
most any open space, especially in the
country near the city is the Monarch
or milkweed, a common insect with
reddish brown wings, an untiring flyer
with large bump of inquisitiveness
and latin name that sounds like a
line from Virgil Then there is the
beautiful red Admiral with brown
wings tipped with black with white
dots and barred with red. A smaller
and lighter brown butterfly much
seen along the River Front, is the
Comma, because the cut of its wings
when folded make 1t look like that
essential bit of punctuation. The black
and blue asterias and the copper but
terfiy, whose scientific name sounds
like battlefield in the Dardanelles,
are not uncommon and once in a while
in warm weather the superb peacock
eye can be taken in the open country,
where the soldier blackbirds and blue
birds fit undisturbed by noises of the
automobile or the trolley car.
Few of the entertainments of the
schools of Harrisburg in the last dozen
years have matched for beauty and
originality that of the pupils of the
Seller school on Saturday evening at
the Technical High school. The whole
idea of the entertainment was unique
and not only required costuming with
the utmost care but thorough training
of the young folks. The flowers of
Spring time were most daintily por-
trayed and the butterflies and the
geese gave a most delightful and
amusing touch. When one considers
the soirees of years ago in the school
entertainments and nights of recita-
ton and music 1t must be admitted
that the youngsters of to-day have the
advantage of us. The program of Sat-
urday represents the advance in school
methods and its rendition was charm
ing indeed.
The way the Harrisburg Railways
Company has gone about renewing
the crossover at Cameron and Market
streets without stopping shows how
things can be done with preparation.
OF course, the heavy work was done
in the few hours that no cars rumble
across that busy intersection, but there
remained much to be done to COM
plete the job and that cars were not
held up more than q minute or so
when the rest of the operation was
under way attracted the attention of
good many passengers.
While the Susquehanna just now is
practically stationary at a stage that
is usual for this time of the year, tfA-
waters are still too high in the opinion
of contractors and city officials to per-
NIT the construction of the additional
| flights of steps across the gap in the
river wall at Market street. It's true"
observed an official of the department
of streets and public improvements to-
| day, that the river is low but it is
equally true that the water must re-
cede considerably yet before we can
expect the contractors to go on with
the work. When it was announced the
other day that high water is inter
| ferring with the continuance of the
concrete work at the Market street
| gap, the statement was entirely cor
rect insofar as practcability is con-
cerned."
County Treasurer Arthur H. Bailey is
preparing his statement of mercantile
license fees paid to date for presenta-
ton to the Auditor General. The
] licenses have not been taken out as
rapidly as is desired" said a county
official yesterday, but we expect them
all to be lifted by at least the first of
July. Our first report will go up to
! Capitol Hill about June / and we'll
probably have from $4,000 to $4,000
to show for our efforts to date
"The jitneys in Harrisburg are be-
coming each day more popular when
| the people want quick service, re-
marked a man the other day who Is
| interested in the competition between
the autos and the trolleys. He, how
ever severely criticised some of the
| titney drivers who are too careless IN
running their cars. "One of these
days a big accident will wake up the
people of the town to the fact that
safety first is also applicable to tit-
neys, as well as shops. l will say that
a large majority of the drivers are
careful. but there are several who do
not try to avoid trouble. and they will
find plenty of it IL they continue to
endanger the lives of the pedestrians
and the passengers of reckless driving
Personally think it is the duty of the
police to be on the job every minute.
and arrest the fellows who insist In
driving on the left hand side of the
street, running around another ma
chine at high speed and performing
other stunts to show their Ignorance
or wilful breaking of the traffic laws
| of the city"
Fully a dozen automobile parties
registered at Harrisburg hotels yester-
day, some of them coming from as far
away as Pittsburgh, Wellsboro and
South Bethlehem. Most of them we're