Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-16
Ehrntt,g Gl1at

Incorporation of electric companies
for some districts in the upper part
OF the county brings to this county a
form of activity in such lines which
has been notable in the vicinity of
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and in
Berks, Lancaster and other counties.
Owing to the fact that some of the
districts in this county are rather
sparsely settled not much effort was
made to pre-empt rights within them
by chartering companies, but the de-
velopment of power plants and the
chance to sell current have caused
companies to reach out, just as has
been done by the York Haven power
interests. There are some small cleo
trlc plants in this county, but 1t is the
evident plan of men interested in the
power stations in the Lykens Valley to
get them under one concern. The
charters granted for Berrysburg and
Miffiin and Halifax townships and
Tor two in Schuylkill county are all
Tor the same persons just as was done
IN the case of the companies chartered
by the Harrisburg Light and Power
Company for Dauphin, Penbrook and
adjoining places. 1t would appear
that Dauphin county will one of these
days be divided between two big cleo
trio interests, one from the Lykens
valley and the other from this city
and York Haven,
DR.. Samuel G. Dixon, the State
Commissioner or Health, has given
some very sound views in regard to
preparedness in his address at La
! fayette college. The Commissioner
holds that what counts in these days
| of preparedness is the individual unit
and that 1t is best to do all that we
can to develop it in the best way. DIR.
Dixon, himself an athlete in younger
years, and now able to hold his own
| in not few lines, came out for gen.
eral athletic training as a means of
advancing fitness. This training, he
said, should be considered in the
| broadest sense.
The plan of the allied agricultural
| organizations to have their efforts
placed on cooperative basis and an
office opened here has been under
way for perhaps ten years and seems
to be getting close to realization.
| While some people call it the farm
ers' lobby" there is no question but
that the organized agriculturalists
have succeeded in doing a good many
things in the Legislature especially in
the halting of bills which would have
/ iGlllONtu I6SlIlCllOnS on
inc. The embattled farmers will have
the help of the railroads, which are
| now regarded as their best friends, in
their legislative work The office will
be located here.
John z. Barrett, the Scranton edi-
tor and poet, whose song PennsylVa-
MIA has attracted national attention,
has written a poem dedicated to the
Indian Apple Tree" which is the
only relic of old Capouse blockhouse.
The blockhouse stood in what is now
the center of Scranton and the State
Historical Commission recently marked
the site with a tablet The Indian ap-
pie tree according to Mr.. Barrett's
poem, was trysting place for Indian
lovers, then the scene of the council
fires, of the settlers fort and then of
the city dwellings.
The students of State College who
are here this week for the survey
of Capitol park are tackling their
| first job in a city. To many of them
the surveying work has been done in
rural communities or at the college
or in the woods. The survey of the
park and of the district which is being
rapidly cleared of houses will be new
work and will result in the State get
ting some valuable information about
the tract it must develop. The clear
ing away of the Hickok plant will be
finished within a few weeks and then
other buildings along the railroad will
begin to disappear The big cigar fac
tory in the old Bay building will not
be torn down until the companys new
home in Cameron street is completed.
His pictures show Charles Evans
Hughes, Republican nominee for
president, to be a member of that
famous honorary Greek letter society,
Phi Beta Kappa. Some of the fore
most statesmen and scholars of the
country have belonged to the society,
which includes among its numbers
William Howard Taft and Woodrow
Wilson. Membership in the society re-
qures in undergraduate days the
maintenance of a certain scholastic
stand, and 1t is only the cream of the
real students who attain to the coveted
honor. While this is not necessarily
a commentary upon the former JUS
tees fitness for the position of
president of the United States never
theless dopesters may perhaps see in
it an additional indication of victory
in the coming election inasmuch as
the two previous presidents are wear
ers of the key which is so greatly COW
eted among university and college un-
dergraduates.
Among visitors to the city this
week was Robert d. Dripps, former
director of safety in Philadelphia, and
member of Quaker City councils. Mr..
Dripps was here on matters con-
nected with public charities in which
field he has been studying for years.