Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-09
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The big bird hotel in Harris Park
leased rent-free throughout the year
by the city to any and all feathered
guests on the first come -first-served"
plan can accommodate no more dodgers
this season. Not at least, until some
of the present boarders move out.
Some disgusted late corners from the
South discovered that yesterday and
they vociferously voiced their COM
plants at Harrisburgs lack of hotel
Accommodations. The newcomers were
two thrushes in modest brown and
two orioles gay in black and gold.
| The former didn't make much
fuss. One waited outside on a
branch while the other poked an in
quisitive head into two or three of the
little doors. Apparently he found
every room occupied-and he and his
companion departed. The orange and
black visitors, however, didn't leave
| without complaining. Around the
little porch they went, hopping off to
an adjacent tree. returning to investi-
gate again, all the while they chirped
excitedly. Finally they too decided
that local bird hotels are just one
| painful thing after another, anyway.
And they flew off with a sort of
whats-the-use flirt of their wings.
to make certain extensions and i'm
provements within a certain period of
time, pushes ahead the work it has to
do regardless of old Ma Nature or the
elements, has been pretty we'll IL
lustrated during the last few weeks by
building the upper half of the new
| Cumberland Valley bridge.
While the rain was driving Its
hardest, while the wind was blowing a
gale, while thunder roared and light
ming flashed the big corps of men
with their derricks and pile-drivers,
and concrete mixers and electric
trains and cranes went cheerfully on
with the work. Then the sudden rise
of the Susquehanna threatened to
start something. During the night
several sections of the temporary
bridge which carries the electric train
tracks were swept away. In a few
minutes the work of several days went
for naught. Did that delay the job?
1t did not. Even while the high waters
were still swirling through the gap,
engineers and repairmen were busy as
bees rebuilding the structure.
The Wormleysburg School Board
took an encouraging step in the Cen
tral High School proposition recently
when a resolution endorsing the ac-
ton of the school boards of the West
shore, in their efforts to com bine the
schools of that section into Central
High school, was passed. This board
| was the first of the number to pass
a resolution. The board passed
! the resolution showing its in
tention to support the move and to in
| crease the Indebtedness of the district
! to be used for the purpose of erecting
a building. The other boards will pass
resolutions at their regular meetings
this month and permanent plans on
| the procedure of the central idea will
| he started at once. Should the propo-
sition be put up before the taxpayers
1 at the November election, and passed
! by them, it is predicted that the Cen
/ trail High School will be erected in
! two years. The residents of these
| districts are becoming more interested
! in the move and the high school is
| the discussion of many an evenings
conversation among the taxpayers.
! One of the chief points of interest
! for the visiting C. A r. men this week
was the Camp Curtin Memorial Church
| building, now in course of erection on
the site Of old Camp Curtin, as last
| ing memorial to the hundred thousand
men who were mustered into the SER
vice of their country there fifty years
1 ago. -
! A memorial tablet is to be placed in
/ the main entrance of the new church
at Camp Curtin, who are among the
contributors to the church building
! fund