Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-10
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Pennsylvania people who visit the
San Francisco exposition will have a
line chance to see one of Harrisburg's
industries at work in the daily display
OF moving pictures in the Pennsylva-
MIA building. The pictures are of the
river coal fleet, dredging the Susque-
mamma Tor the fine coal which is so ex-
cellent for steaming and which is one
or the important sources of fuel sup
ply for this city. They were taken
last summer when the fleet was in tt
midst OF Its busy season and when
tnere were more steam dredges and
mats around than at present. Some of
the pictures give excellent ideas of
the scenery about Harrisburg and the
iocation or the city and the numerous
islands and banks of the stream are
depicted In an excellent manner This
INDUSTRY, strange as it may seem, was
picked out as one distinctively belong
ing TO this community. Most of the plants
are duplicated or shown in a larger
scale at other places. Later on il is
the plan to show some pictures of the
state Capitol and it's grounds. Har-
risburg and Steelton are represented
by a number of products in the var
lous buildings. Steelton contributing
to the displays.
| Uncle Sam has a miniature mint
bed in Harrisburg although he prob
aply does not know it. In the midst
Oh the twenty-four varieties of weeds
that now adorn the formerly immacu-
late lawn on the Court street side of
the federal building there grew until
couple of days ago several mint
plants. They were spotted near a
couple of the meanest weeds to be
found and the man who saw them says
they disappeared over night. ~
tnought when / saw the mint that
| II old. They We're gone next day.
AND under pile of timbers, strange
to say. saw an empty pint bottle.''
While City Councilmen generally
approve of the proposed plan to dis
Pense with weekly meetings during
July and August, some of them ques-
ton the advisability of adopting the
resolution which provides for but one
meeting each month during the Vaca-
ton season. If the resolution which
was offered last Tuesday is adopted
at next weeks meeting, then there
Will be no further meeting until Au-
gust 3. That will be the final ses-
sion until the first Tuesday in Sep
tember. Pending legislation, however,
might interfere with this plan for as
one commissioner put it, I'VE don't
Know Just what matters may turn up
which Will require prompt settlement
and | question whether or not it will
be advisable to hold but one meeting
a month"
Writing in the Philadelphia Ledger
Girard' has this to say about some
thing which this newspaper has sew
eral times discussed and expressed a
similar wish:
trust nothing will deter ex-Attor-
ney General Hampton l.. Carson from
work which he told me he means to
perform. He intends to write book
about the Philadelphia delta and its
part in the Revolution. Draw a line
said this scholarly lawyer from
Princeton to Valley Forge, making the
third side of an angle formed by the
Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, and in
| that delta were pitched the critical
events of our fight for independence
Ihen Mr.. Carson explained his state
ment in detail. The possession OF
Boston by the British meant merely
their retention of a part of Massa-
chusetts. Holding New York, as they
did for years, failed to sever the colo.
MES on the line of the Hudsckl.
therefore, Howe and CORVALLIS deter.
mined to push farther South and
cleave the thirteen States by seizing
Philadelphia and holding the line OF
the Delaware. Such events as occur
red at Trenton, Princeton, Brandy.
VINE, PaoH, Germantown, Camp Hill
valley Forge, the Crooked Billet and
the capture of Philadelphia, the Ma
tional Capital itself, were part of the
struggle for mastery of this little
delta formed by these two rivers.
washington won, and the delta, as
you know, Is still in the possession of
America"
Samuel I. Spyker. the Huntingdon
county Republican chairman, who was
a visitor here yesterday, is a lawyer
and was listening to Harry S. McDev-
ltt' VINO is also lawyer tell his expe-
rlences of the first year in criminal
court. Mr.. McDevitt had a client and
got him off. Then the man took him
self off without paying any fee.
Humm!' said Spyker. You're in
your first year all right"
Women will never learn to get off
car right" said Harrisburg Rail-
ways Company official to-day. mine
out of every ten women try to get off a
car before it stops" he continued.
we are having trouble now because
or the summer cars. With the pay-as-
you-enter cars the women cannot get
Off until the door is opened.
Il rode to PaXtang the other even
ing. getting on a summer car at Mar
ket Square. Before we reached Pax
tang seventeen women left tbe car
Only two of these women got off prop
erly. The others stepped off backward.
TWO were given a hard jolt when thew
landed on the asphalt pavement. In
every instance the women were warmed
by the conductor. but they would NOT
heed the warning. 1t is the way of
women"