Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-07
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With awarding of a contract for con.
struction of system of storm sewers
along and across the old Pennsylvania.
canal in Steelton a few days ago warr
sounded the death knell for another
section of that once famous waterway.
The history of the old Pennsylva-
MIA canal. should it ever be written,
would DE filled with many q romance
and would be quite a political chronicle
From time to time since abandon.
ment of the stream as a waterway for
boats there has been many a merr-
controversy and the years of agitation
in Steelton to obtain the filling of tn
stream form only one OF the NUMBER.
When the borough of Steelton was -
thing yet unborn the old Pennsylvania
canal sluggishly flowed through the
peaceful farm lands that now are oc-
cupied with smoking mills and husx
business places. At the lower eno ee
Harrisburg there was the lock for
raising and lowering boats and at what
Is now Trewick street. Steelton. was a
coal yard operated by Coulter Ss
Sultzaberger. These were about the
only places below the city for several
miles. In late years when the borough
grew up closely along the banks OF the
abandoned stream strong demand
for filling of the waterway was MADE:
Unanswered. this resulted in perioolcaL
outbursts in council and in politics Ior
years until the question was recentIy
definitely settled. The canal Will De
| filed from Locust street and the Penn
sylvania Railroad will construct new
| freight spur into the borough ana
erect a new freight station at Front
and Locust streets, Steelton. The sew
| age now drained into the canal Will
be cared for by system OF sewers TO
be built at the joint expense of the
borough. the steel company and the
railroad
| Governors of States who are natives
of Pennsylvania will be guests OF hon
| or at the first annual dinner OF the
Pennsylvania State society to be held
in Philadelphia on November %. The
| committee in charge of the dinner Is
now arranging the invitations and has
discovered that four of the executives
of States were born within Pennsyi-
vania The society was formed last
winter and is composed of heads of
departments and divisions and mem
bers of important commissions
Monthly luncheons are held.
1t is expected that the dinner in
Philadelphia this Fall. which will be
the first of the kind ever given in the
State, will bring together many of the
prominent men of the Keystone Com
monwealth. Governor Brumbaugh is
| the honorary president and Secretary
of the Commonwealth Cyrus e. Woods
the president. Members of the Leg
islature are eligible to be members.
"The general use of automobiles
nowadays" said one with an imagin-
ative mind the other day, forecasts
the period when a mans trade or pro-
fession may be identified by the car
that he drives. The indicator will be
on the radiator cap, where already
many machines belonging to physic-
ians bear the red cross. A lawyer
would fly a crossed pen and seal, the
merchant n symbol significant of the
kind of merchandise he sells, the in
surance man an insurance policy, and
the railroad man miniature engine.
saw a camel day or so ago, mount
ed on the hood of small roadster.
Must have been placed there as sig
nifying that the special merits of that
particular car obviated the necessity
of refilling the tank with water every
day or so. and implying that the car
could go as long without water as the
camel"
Although eighty-four years old, 8.
B. Elliott, of Reynoldsville, comes toA
Harrisburg couple of times month
on business of the States Forestry
Commission. Mr.. Elliott, probably
next to DR.. ]. T. Rothrock, has been
identified with forest conservation
more than anyone else connected with
the State government. He has been
a member of the commission for al
most thirteen years and he knows
every acre of the reserves and of a
lot of land which he would like to
see brought under the States control.
Mr.. Elliott has had much to do with
the auxiliary reserve system to whose
importance people are just waking
up.