Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-19
Ehrntng Chat

'Tis indeed an i'll wind that blows
nobody good. The new bounty law
has been the means of city garbage
collectors securing some material
which they say is valuable for by-pro-
ducts and which If allowed to stand
around would cause riot. Every day
or so the office of the State Came
Commission receives a cargo of pelts
or wild animals or a collection of heads
OF predatory birds. which are sent to
this city under the terms of the new
law. Most of the shipments come from 4
men who make 1t a business to rid
farms or woodlands of this kind of
vermin and when the heads or skins
arrive they are generally several DAYS
dead, 70 use the phrase of an express
man. The warm weather, too. adds to
their general unpleasantness. In the
Game Commission offices they are put
into garbage cans and the men in
charge handle them with tongs. They
are given some kind of a State mark
and then quickly put into another can
and placed on the fire escape. The
garbage men are becoming authorities
on natural history.
During his recent visit here Park
Expert Warren H. Manning inspected
the whole upper portion of the river
basin below McCormick's island with
Harrisburg Light and Power Com
pany's coal fleet and one of the most
widely known rivermen in this section.
For years Captain Brown has watched
the various kind of crafts come and go
on the Susquehanna, but of all tho
things that float the chances are the
motorboat is the chief bane of the
riVerman's existence. The sweeping
| boats with their fair sized rolling
wakes may not only cause a loaded
| coal or sand fiat to plunge but the
troubled water may even swamp the
larger craft. Anyway, the following
| bit OF conversation on the subject il
Illustrates the feeling of the average
riverman toward the motor -boatman:
What can be done to protect the
motorboats from the sand flats and
steamers through this proposed chan
nel?" asked Mr.. Manning.
ITO protect the motorboats," snorted
the captain. You should say what can
be done to motorboats to protect U.s."
Edward NJ. Bigelow, former State
| highway commissioner, does not seem
to have lost his interest in public af-
fairs in Pittsburgh or his ability to say
happened to be looking at some plans
for improvement of parks in his city
and found that an entrance had been
proposed for Schenley Park. He was
the man who secured the park for
| Pittsburgh and who laid 1t out He
protested against the designs and in
the course of some remarks said:
Think of mere fountain as a
memorial to Mrs. Schenley who gave
millions so that Pittsburgh could have
an excellent park. Why that fountain
would be nothing more than a SPAR
rows bathtub."
Members of the city's infantry COM
panies are commencing to think
| about going to camp and will soon
commence the preliminary work. The
soldiers are always ready but there
will have to be lot of practice march
ing and men getting accustomed to
wearing the clothing and equipment
in summer time. Years ago the COM,
panies used to have practice marches
a short time before camp so that the
men would be fit for work in the hot
sun. 1t is no cinch to carry around
what the men must bear without some
preparation.
The change in the course of tho
creek to which you referred the other
evening"" remarked one of the city's
older residents to me, was a big i'm
provement in it's day. The creek
started on tangent from State street,
heading toward the site of the present
station of the Reading railway. Then
it turned about Ninth and Market, go
ing diagonally across to almost the
bluff at what is now Cameron and
Mulberry streets and then cut across
the old brickyard to pretty near its
present line. The strengthening occa-
stoned a lot of talk in that day and
saved the city lot of annoyance"
An exasperated automobile owner
who has to go about the city a great
deal in his car got even with the
public yesterday in a most effective
way. He has been stopped a good
many times by people who want to
know if he is running a jitney. At
first he thought he was being "kidded"
but he found that a good many people
have the idea that any car Is a jitney.
Finally after thinking it over he got
sign made. 1t made a sensation when
it went down Third street yesterday
afternoon. It read:
This is Not a Jitney.
| Frederic W. Fleitz, former deputy
attorney general, is torn between Can
ada and California The general has
been going to Canada to fish for years
and this year the exposition crops up.
l 80 aa willing fO