Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-28
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Thousands of bulbs. including many
new varieties of tulips and hyacinths
are being planted in Capitol park for
the Spring flower display which will
De on when the legislators are sitting
In Harrisburg for the 1917 session.
The bulbs are being set out in great
beds which have been drawn by en-
glneers of the Department of Public
GROUNDS and Buildings along the line
OF the famous boardwalk and it is
expected to make blending of national,
ana state colors. In front of the Stats
Capitol there will be two beds eaSf1
over 225 feet long which will be filled
with tulips. The flower display which
is being planned will be one of the
most elaborate in years.
During the coming session the Leg
islature will also be called upon to
provide for the permanent treatment
or the Capitol Park extension zone, all
OF the properties In which will be vest
ed IN the Commonwealth as soon as
court proceedings are ended
The Public Service Commission has
oeen solemnly asked by complainant
IN LackaWanna county to require a
Telephone company to take it's wires
OH trees. He claims that the COM
pany Is using trees instead of poles
| ana interfering with the service. In
ahother instance man complained
mat water company had refused to
| release him from q contract which in
ms opinion is burdensome. Com
| Plalnts about stations have become
numerous again. Such complaints ap-
pear to run in series.
1t is expected about the Capitol
that state printing next year will be
cut down a third owing to the heavy
| expense Nvl L.,
lately and because of the high cost of
paper. The State is protected bv con-
tracts which will run over the next
legislative sessions, but after that it
races big increase in prices. Hence
.ne preparations to reduce printing
| have started.
An interesting light is shown upon
now the great problem of to-day-the
high cost of living-bothered people in
pennsylvania back in the eighteenth
century by an historical address upon
the courts and bar Of Cumberland
county by ex-Judge e. w. Biddle,
which was delivered at Carlisle q short
ume ago. The extract reads as fol-
| lows: Because of the high and ex-
travagant prices of the necessaries of
life" the general assembly in March.
177s. directed that the fees of the
various persons aforesaid should be
double the sums at which they stood
rated in 1752 and this increase hav-
ing proved to be insufficient the fees
were in March, 1879, made three times
what they had been before the act of
1878, and the wages" of jurymen and
witnesses were quadrupled. These ad-
Vances were brought about by a pro-
gressive depreciation in the value of
paper currency, with a consequent rise
in the price of commodities. and the
pressing needs of the case finally led
n,f
vember, %, 1873, relating to the per-
sons who were included in the pre-
vious acts and to some Others"
One of the sights about Harrisburg
these days is Steelton. 1t is always
worth, looking at but the present in
dustrial activity makes it something
more than attractive just now Per-
sons who come up or down the Sus-
quehanna on the Northern Central
railroad these evenings have great
treat. The plant can be picked out for
miles by the lights, the flames from
the stacks and the glow from furnaces
and cinder banks. The sight is one
that attracts the attention of everyona
passing the works and the brighN
lights of Harrisburg and the fantastic
forms of the rows of lights in Enola
yards ada much to the night picture.
IF the movement to make Shamolxiu
a third class city takes shape it ia
likely that similar steps will be taken
before long in Norristown, Shenan-
doah, Williamsburg, Homestead and
other towns which are rapidly ap-
preaching city size and while boroughs
are larger than some of third class
cities
1t is interesting to note that the
trackless trolley line which has been
given the preliminary sanction of the
State for operation is similar in idea
to that which was planned for the
Perkiomen valley and which was re-
fused a franchise because there was
nothing in the law which gave a re-
turn to the districts having the roads.
The growth of the jtneys, however,
appears to have opened way for the
trackless trolley to get start.
Gilbert II. Hassler, commission
clerk of the department of the secre-
tary of the Commonwealth, ran up
against something the other day. Mr..
Hassler was asked to give some data
about the laws relating to children
who become public charges and the
like, The New York concern which
wrote the letter considered 1T a mere
trif1e. Mr.. Hassler found that there
were twenty eighth laws on the sub
ject in three years and finally referred
1 the inquiries to Purdon's digest.