Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-07
Ehrntng Gl1at


Col. Henry w. Shoemaker, publisher
OF the Altoona Tribune, takes n rap
at the States game bounty law in the
course of a mighty interesting num-
Der of his series of works on the game
or pennsylvania which has just been
issued The colonel wrote several
BOOKS on the legends and traditions OF
the keystone State, the passing of the
great forests of the State and other
themes which not only appealed TO
every lover OF Pennsylvania, but at
tracted national and even internation-
al attention Recently he wrote on
the pennsylvania Lion or Panther"
telling many people who did not know
OF those splendid creatures of the for
est Just what they were and where
they were still to be found. The pass
ing of the bison from this State and
disappearance of elk were also given.
Ills latest work is on "Pennsylvania
Wildcats. Most of us have always
considered the prowler of the Blue
Ridge TO be nuisance. a menace to
ItraNelers and an enemy to the farmer.
the colonel. who gives dates. places and
individuals to back up every statement
and gives many an interesting anec-
dote of bobcat hunters, says that they
NIL useful place in the scheme of
nature. lie says that instead of being
pest the wildcat, as we know him,
keeps down the rabbits which would
otherwise multiply so fast that re
forestaton would be endangered. In
settled districts the farmers boys keep
the wildcats well killed off. but in the
wilder districts there is need of the
cats. Bounty laws, he says, are un-
necessary, wasteful and cruel. The
wildcat has its uses and If there were
no rabbits in the State there would be
U IPN fl,A 50 ,tg.s In
PRODUCTION the colonel writes: las it
is the aim of all good Pennsylvanians
TO aid in reforestation of the State
after the forest fire menace has been
checked the wildcat should he pre-
served to help along the arboreal mill
| lenium."
| Col. Horace l.. Haldeman. of
] Chickies, who is a candidate for the
l Republican nomination for Senator, is
one of the few officers in the National
Guard who served in the Civil War.
/ He is commissary general of subsist
ence, and widely known all over the
State. Col Haldeman has been iden-
tilted with the iron industry of the
State all his life
The Millersburg electric light plant
which was bought by Farley Gannett
from the Leffier estate, has been in
! eAiSlenCe since 1917. 1T was OrlSln-
l ally located in the old Deibler mill and
was originally operated by water
| power. A steam plant was then in
stalled and for the last six years T. S.
Kirk, of this city, has been in charge.
The Philadelphia Electric company
case which occupied considerable at
tention at the Capitol this week, is
destined to be big one in State finan-
cial circles. 1t will establish certain
precedents and rules of procedure
which will govern in many cases 10
come and which have been closely
watched by men interested in utilities
all over the State.
Plans of the State Forestry depart
ment to set out something like 10000
young black or bird cherry trees this
year, especially in the farming dis
tricts, so that there will be food for
birds will interest a good many peo-
pie in this section. For years il has
been the practice of Cumberland and
Dauphin county farmers to vary To-
Gust trees along the roads with cherry
trees and there are hundreds of farms
within q short distance of Harris
burg which are marked by cherry trees
along their borders, as n good many
automobilists know. These trees ara
OF various kinds and some of them
afford a large measure of fruit, but
1 they are largely for the birds which,
4 flock about them in great numbers
and remain close to the farms, where
their insect destroying proclivites
make them welcome.
Among visitors to the city yester-
day was ]. Banks Kurtz, prominent
Blair county attorney. He is promi-
nently mentioned for the Republican
nomination for Congress against Con-
gresham Warren Worth Bailey.