Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-23
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fropoSltlonS made by Mayor
Thomas B. Smith, of Philadelphia, TO
annex to the Quaker City a number
of the municipalities of Delaware
county or the whole of Delaware coun-
ty so that Philadelphia will have
port equal to any in the land have an
interest for Harrisburgers quite aside
from their natural desire to see the
southeastern end of the State prosper.
Such an annexation project would r.
quire legislative action and because
or the opposition of Delaware county
would be hard to get. It recalls a few
years ago when bills We're presented
which would permit city TO go into
another county for annexation pur-
poses, one of the ideas being to con-
sohdate the Bethlehems, while Wilkes
Barre had plan, which while not 60
ing into another county, allowed the
taking in of boroughs. II the plan of
Mayor Smith should become effective
this city would be in a position TO
reach out and absorb not only steel
ton, PaXtaug, Penbrook and other
places in this county, but to cross into
Cumberland county and take the five
boroughs and intervening townships,
provided, of course, that the Cumber-
land countiabs were willing. Under
the Philadelphia plan the Quaker CITY
would be about the largest in area ~
the country, greater even than New
York, it is said. Now the city is ootsr-
mlEous with the county and osnta4.s
IS5 square miles: Delaware county
contains 1856. This city contains s.65
square miles, of which 5.3S is land.
| II could double its area IL an annex
atlon plan such as is proposed in
Philadelphia was legal.
Il counted twenty-seven vehicles
passing Third and Market streets in
TWO minutes yesterday and it was not
a very busy time, either" said q man
who observes things. Now 1t was not
the number OF vehicles that I was SO
much Interested in. 1t was the fact
that there were but two drawn by
horses in the whole procession.
Harrisburg's place on the map has
always been pretty we'll looked after
at Yale and succeeding generations of
local boys do their share each year.
The latest student from Pennsylvania
capital city to add distinction to the
record of fellow Harrisburg students
is Robert Wilcox Seitz. son of city
Solicitor ID. S. Seitz. and graduate
of the Harrisburg academy class of
1915. The Yale Daily News in its
ell about it. In its announcement of
the Freshman midyear examinations
the name of young Mr. Seitz has a
place well up on the academic honor
roll. But that isn't all. Mr.. Seitz is
some singer. And at the general trials
for places on the Apollo Glee club the
city solicitors son was selected as ono
of the bass contingent. All of which
is the reason why the solicitor is trav-
cling about these days with a copy of
the Yale Daily tucked conspicuously
in the outside pocket of his overcoat.
Pennsylvania's cold storage ware
houses. which were pretty we'll cleared
of eggs during the holiday season and
in January, will soon commence to
stock up with the spring egg crop.
In December, because of expiration of
storage limits and the holiday demand.
millions of dozens went on the mar
ketS, and in January and February the
remaining eggs were put out because
of ompetition from the southern eggs,
which started to arrive about the first
week of the new year. Shipments from
the South are reported to have been
heavy and the demand has been great.
However, the men who deal in eggs
have been getting their lines out for
the Pennsylvania crop, which will
start to come in as soon as the weather
moderates. Then the warehouses will
begin to receive thousands of dozens.
Considerable attention has been
aroused at the Capitol by the appli-
cation for a certificate of convenience
for the Dover -Rossville transit line
which is being asked by a Delaware
corporation formed this winter and
chartered at Dover on February l.
The plan is what is known as the
trackless trolley, although that is de-
clared to be a misnomer. 1t is to be
! series of omnibuses operated by
} power from wires strung on roads
similar to trolley wires, but with such
arrangements that the buses may
swing out of the way of other vehicles
and go from side to side of the road
| to pick up passengers. The conten-
ton now being made is that 1t would
furnish transportation in districts
where population would not warrant
expense of trolley line with roadbed
and cars.
Attorney General Francis Skunk
Brown, who is one of the hardest
working men on Capitol Hill. generally
picks out holidays on which to clear
up matters which he has been turning
over in his mind. His favorite time
to work is after . o'clock at night.
He can be found in his office at tho
Capitol almost any evening and on
pretty nearly every holiday.