Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-29
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are getting ready to work on the new
highway that is to occupy tho old
Pennsylvania canal for some distance
north and south of tho Clark's Ferry
bridge should be noted by the goose
bone and sausage skin weather prorh-
cts. The wagons and materials and
tools and men are being assembled
about the region of the old dam as
though the State and the railroad never
expected such thing to come along.
The preliminary work has been under
way for the last seven weeks and wood
cutters have been chopping down the
trees that have grown In the space
where the coal boats used to navigate
and the appearance of the BERN bank
task will not be SO severe after all.
| This improvement, the full extent of
which will not be appreciated by Har-
risburgers for some time because when
tourists learn of 1t the highway will
| be one of the most popular in the
State, is to be pushed. One OF the men
identified with the operation declared
day that he expected some substan-
tial progress to be made before the
great months for outdoor work and
we may be able to work for a time
in December" said he. "Thls Fall
weather makes men and beasts want
to step lively and we will show you
something. We're not starting late.
We are going to start before the black
birds go away and work as long as
old Mr.. Winter will let us. And when
Spring comes we will be mighty well
organized and we will make a quick
clean up. The old canal section is GO
ing to be a lively place for the next
year or So"
Deputy Fire Marshall James Fl. Nc
FArland yesterday investigated the
| rumors of incendiarism in connection
with the Metropolitan Hotel Annex
fire, and while going over the ruins
discovered a fire trap nearby Deputy
Mcfarland notified Fire Chief John C.
Kinder at once. and the owner of the
property was ordered to clean up. In
the rear yard more than sixty large
packing boxes partly filed with ex-
celsior and old paper, were discovered
by the State fire Investigator.
IF the traditional meaning of the
rainbow had significance this morn
ing, then the scores of early risers
on route to office and factory and mill
should have enjoyed a doubly proms-
ing day. From o'clock until about
6.1O giant double span of the deli
! cate colors of the spectrum glowed
across the western Skies Each broad
band stood out with equal prominence
and this, coupled with the fact that
the exhibition of the Fall sky painting
! by the Master Hand had taken place
so early, was more than ordinarily
cheerful indication to hurrying clerks
and stenographers and salesmen and
mill and factory hands that to-day
was due to be a mighty successful
twenty-four hours all around.
Front street in the vicinity of MAR
ket ordinarily isn't the quietest thor
oughfare by any means, and now only
mere man and his wife and his babies
realize this. Here's tale of how one
of the furred little people" appre-
ciated the dangers that lurk on the
smoothly paved street between the
east curb and the sheltering trees of
! the park.
School days in the great wide worlds
lessons in experience evidently had
Ibegun yesterday for the squirrels and
one anxious little four-footed mother
had given over a portion of the morn
ing to teaching her very small baby
| just how to climb trees, move from
trunk to trunk and so on. And when
| the lesson was finished the mother
| had problem before her-how to get
street to the far-away trees of the
park. Fer awhile she hesitated as
motor cars trucks and teams passed,
and then, when a little lull occurred.
she found a solution. She grabbed
the youngSter by the furry part of its
neck. hoisted it half way across her
shoulders and hustled across the street.
THAT famous Wilson tango has
nothing on the dance you can do COM
/ t. L. r.4.z l.
on a wet morning wearing a pair of
shoes which you have just had re-
soled." peevishly declared an Allison
Hill man in greeting his fellow en-
ployes in a downtown office this morn
| ing.
ITS not case of one step forward.
two steps backward and a sidestep,'
but it's half a step forward and along
glide sidewise, backward or most any
other direction that your new S1.25
half soles take notion to CO." he
recited, punctuating every other word
with hard expletive and tenderly
rubbing a pair of aching calves by way
| of emphasis.
"Its bad enough" he ended with
an explosion, ito pay some dog-gone
robber in a leather apron your good
| days wages to induce him to con-
| descend to part with four ounces of
| leather for your only decent pair of
! shoes, but when you try to walk in
those shoes first on a wet day and
nave to attempt to persuade your
| friends you were perfectly sober and
only trying out a Few dance steps COM
ing over the bridge-why. that's too
much."
"Have you ever noticed that a hot
spell always comes around when Sep
tember quarter sessions is being held?"
said one of the older attorneys at the
Dauphin county bar. ] have been prac-
ticing law for years and have never
known 1t to fail l have gone to the
courthouse in the morning wearing
an overcoat and by noon I have shaken
my vest. 1 have known the mercury
to go around eighty in the September
court week. 1t generally always gets
cold about the time the court term
ends"
"I have sold just one dozen red
lights for this campaign" was the
statement of one of the city's promi-
nent druggists last night as he watched
the first club parade of the year. "In
times gone by we have sold red lights
by the gross. but then the political
fever was running high. 1t does not
seem to be virulent this year,"