Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-16
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It's rather interesting thing to note
that. the corner of Third and Walnut
street which is to be the site of the
great new hotel which Harrisburg
people will erect to give visitors to the
States capital city accommodations
such as have been demanded, was
many years ago the location of a
MOTEL 1t seems from old newspapers
that soon after the seat of government
was removed to this city from Lam
caster. which was about 1O3 years
ago, there was a big increase in
the number of taverns in Harrisburg.
IL was already somewhat noted for
the mum Der OF inns, its prominence as
center of roads causing numerous
places for travellers to be built, a cir
cumstance which was much COM
mented upon by foreign visitors in
early days. After the Legislature
came there were more taverns opened
and, when the construction of the
State Capitol began about 100 years
ago Front street began to lose its
prominence as the "hotel street" The
earliest tavern known at Third and
Walnut Is supposed to have been the
State Capital. 1t fourished about
ninety years ago and was succeeded by
others with names according to the
fancy or the owner. The site was then
bought for residential purposes and in
the early seventies the Masonic Tenn
pie and Opera House which so many
recall was built on the site. It was
this building, which was the scene of
many famous political gatherings and
where noted players appeared before
the foot lights, which was burned in
| 1907. In this connection it might be
said that DR.. James A. Dale, former
| legislator from York and now promi-
nent in affairs of that city, said re-
Gently that it would be only question
of time until hotel would be there
again owing to proximity to the State
| Capitol DIR. Dale is interested in the
| big hotel at York and in commencing
| the project here said that there was
no reason why it should not be a big
| success.
The keepers of law and order of Mt
| Holly stand at the wrong. end of the
! joke that is told at their expense by
party of motorists who recently spent
an evening at Mt. Holly park, which
Is popular among great many Har-
rlsburs parties who go there of an
| evening to dance. The story goes that
the loss of several lap robes from
two or three of the cars was report
ed to the chauffeurs who were driv-
ing. David keffer and Albert Green,
drivers for E. S. Herman, and Z. q.
Wallower respectively, accordingly
started in pursuit and discovered tho
| thieves in some bushes. One of the
| drivers drew a revolver and covered
the men, while the other proceeded to
relieve them of a gun and sharp knife,
| after which they were loaded uncere-
moniously into a machine and driven
into town. Unfortunately the chauf-
feurs were unable to discover the eX-
lstence of any authorities to whom the
culprits could be turned over and they
were forced to release them or carry
them around as passengers the rest of
the evening. They did the former.
The electrical storm Thursday ev-
ening was one of the worst seen or
heard in Harrisburg for long time.
Houses were shaken and doors rat
tied from the heavy reverberations.
The illumination of the western sky
from the burning of a barn beyond
Enola appeared like the belching fire
of a volcano apd offered an unreal
picture that caused watchers to gaze
and gaze SO long as the bright glare
continued.
Interesting letters, postcards and
odd little trinkets from faraway Penn
sylvania soldiers on the Mexican bor-
der are no longer uncommon; live
animals from the land of the eagle
and the cactus are not so ordinary,
however. But there is at least one
Harrisburg man who has received
enough of the live stock" of a kind
from the shores of the Rio Grande
to stock a miniature 200" He is
Gilbert M. Owes, an attache OF the
bridge division of the State Highway
Department and son of City Treasurer
Harry F. Owes. Mr.. Owes brother,
Horace, is a trooper in Uncle Sans
regular cavalry now on duty in Texas
and from time to time he keeps his
brother here aroused to the fact that
there are many queer things in the
animal kingdom down there" So
from time to time Mr.. Owes has re-
ceived horned toads, snakes, tarantu-
las, lizards and other things that set
the eXpressmen inwardly qualling. The
latest remem brance arrived a few
days ago. This was box cut full of
breathing holes and containing two
tiny prairie dogs.
Salmon are commencing to flash
about in the Susquehanna and there
should be some good fishing before
very long. There are plenty of fish in
mon fisher will go out and row around
to get his places fixed. After October
the fish will be in fine form and
there should be a repetition of last
years fishing at the dam.
DIR. John NJ. Badly, who was here
Yesterday, is the chairman of the State
Bureau of Medical education and Ii
censure and has had more to do with
raising the standards for practicing
medicine in this State than almost any
one man. He had charge of the legis-
lation and has been the active spirit
on theboard.