Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
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It's odd how the old names of
streets stick in spite of the years and
how incidents will bring them back
and send them into constant use again.
case in point is furnished by Cam
eron street. For years this highway,
which is one of the few which run
from end to end of the city unbroken.
has been officially Cameron street.
having been changed from Eleventh
out or compliment to the distinguished
statesman from this city. Yet for con-
Venience sake the street railway COLI
pany called it Eleventh and put a. bic
II on the signs for the cars operating
in the North section. Straightawar
the street begins to be called by H..
numeral and one newspaper in t:aA
elty haoitually refers to it as such -.
though the official designation -
Cameron. And an odd feature abo,ss
1t in the popular use is that whi.1
the section north of Market Is oftsa
called Eleventh, that below the divi,..
ing street is Cameron. North Seventh
street is occasionally called Pennsyl-
Vanla avenue, that colloquial name of
the sixties and seventies, when it was
named for the railroad more than
anything else, being heard among old
timers. OF late, it has been called
''fhe Avenue good bit. Verbeke
times to being given it's proper name
once and yet 1t was named In honor of
man whose name was a household
word for years and who gave notable
service. Short street, soon doomed to
| be forgotten in the extension of the
Capitol Park, is officially Fifth as is
Spruce, which is now called by that
term very infrequently. And who
ever thinks of calling the END OF
| Cowden street near the old United
States Hotel Sixth street, which is its
official title? But on the other hand
II one would ask for Two-and-a-Half
street now many people of the younger
generation could tell where it is To-
Gated and why it was called Green?
Some years ago the late Bill" Nye
and James Whitcomb Riley, whose
death this week has caused national
mourning, appeared in Harrisburg to-
gether. They pleased large audience
at the old Opera House, one with his
droll monologue, the other with a
reading of his own inimitable poetry.
About the time Nye and Riley were
here the phonograph was being intro
duced more or less as a toy. 1t was
during the Beaver administration and
the only phonograph in the city
was owned by r. +. Cromelin, execu-
| tive clerk to the Governor. He was
extremely anxious to have Nye and
Riley make record for him and both
were pleased to do so inasmuch as
/ they had not then seen the wonderful
talking machine. Riley recited one of
his poems and Nye made some humor-
Gus comment upon the phonograph
and its future usefulness. This cylinder
was great souvenir and may vet be
found among the valuable records of
the American Graphophone Company.
When these two fun makers were to-
gether they suggested Mutt and jeff
as to their general appearance. Nye
being very tall and Riley short,
A. Coleman Sheetz, one of the as
slstant State librarians, has been fish
ing since he was old enough to stand
up and has probably caught carload
OF fsh in his time, but he says he
never caught q five-pound bass. He
tells a story of the man who did.
And 1t is enough to make real fisher
man weep. Mr.. SheetZ fishes accord
ing to the rules and regulations de-
vised by Isaak Walton and sanctioned
by time, mellow ed by the traditions of
the Susquehanna and adhered to by all
true casters of the rod and line. For
a long time there was a whoppine big
bass in the river near his summer
home at Aqueduct. He tempted him..
but the fish showed the disposition of
trif1er The other day some other
man went out to fish with a part of a
rOd, some KlnQ or a line and a piece
! of wire. The bait is unknown. Let it
be forgotten in the sorrowful tale that
Mr.. Sheetz tells.
II met this man and he showed me
!; a bass that was twenty-three inches
long and was a wonder" says the
assistant librarian. IT was wild over
, it and took a good look at 1t because
I had never hooked one like it in my
q life. I asked the fisherman If the fish
had fought him much and If he had to
. play him lot. And what do you think
| he said? He said No. I just pulled
; him in hand over hand through the
weeds
Mr.. Sheetz has the sympathy of
, large coterie of friends and it is to be
, hoped that if he meets up with that
, alleged fisherman again he. will sug-
gest that he go catch suckers in Asylum
run.
One thing the frequent rains of this
year have done, say men who love the
) woods and the wildlands is to bring up
thousands upon thousands of flowers
, Not in long time have the blossoms
of the field and the meadow and the
woodland been as numerous or as
beautiful as this year. In Wildwood
. park and along the parkways there
) has been profuSion of flowers during
most of the summer. Generally at
this time of the year the sun burns
: plants, but this month everything is
} luXuriantly green.