Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-22
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Have you ever taken a ruler ane
laid it on a ms of Harrisburg and
noticed where the streets would end
If they were laid out the way William
Penn's engineers plotted the city BIZ
tween the Delaware and the SchuyL
kill? The Susquehanna river and thu
bluffs which form the ramparts %
Allison Hill have played some queer
tricks with the surveyors and while
1T is hardly correct that Harrisburg's
older streets resemble a crescent moon
the curves are notable. For instance,
put a ruler at the south end of Front
street. The upper end Of the street, y
made straight, would run into SeventA
at the upper end of the city, while
Second street, If run straight from it's
junction with Paxton near the old fire
brick works. would wind up in the
slades OF wildwood Park. Third streeS
would run into Hoffman's woods.
Fourth street, linked up, would be al
most straight. Now. it is in two Sec
tons. Fifth and Twelfth streets are
In three sections and they roam about
in peculia: ways while Fourteenth and
Fifteenth streets play hide and seek
about their middle course. Cameron
street is the longest opened highway
in the city and goes from line to line,
but 1t has some curves INC if the ruler
happened to be laid straight from its
northern end 1t would prance into the
old Chesapeake nail works. Seven
teenth and Eighteenth streets run prac-
ttcally from end to end as the ira
dltional crow flies and State street is
n straight away monument to William
Maclay's f~orethought, the great Off
cial highway of the Capital City which
knows no turn. Herr street comes
pretty close to be straight across the
city and as for Derry street, it shows
ina once upon a time it was a kings
highway and followed some ideas of
men long passed away. There isn't
any Eighth and Seventh is only in half
the city, while Ninth and Tenth have
trouble finding themselves OCCASION
ally. The city map is an interesting
study and its variety is almost as great
as the nomenclature of the highways
thereon.
People who attended the first mo-
Dillzaton OF the National Guard at
Mount Gretna and who nave been at
the camp site this week have been
much impressed by the number of
young men with foreign names who
V Joined the colors. In most cases
these men are American born and the
same as those whose ~forefathers came
mere zoo years ago. However, there
are some men in the Guard
from the central section Of the State
whose names oun odd, but when you
thlnk that they are the men with
Whonl we went to school, with whom,
we played ball and with whom we
went swimming, there is nothing re-
about it. Irish and German
names probably n strange in
the ears of some of the English born
In Central Pennsylvania a good many
years ago., but there are communities
near here where the English, Scottish
and Welsh names are not in the ma
jority n where the voting lists con-
tain q good many cognomens that
seem strange now. but which will be
matter Of fact tomorrow.
Boost the Greater Harrisburg Navy!
So says John Harder. who knows
everybody and who in turn is known
to all. John believes in practicing
what he breaches and to prove it he
2 has been busy recruiting members for
/ the Navy. The total membership to
:, date is about 210 and of that number
100 were signed up through Johns eff
= forts, seventy-two men and forty-eight
girls. John says he is we'll along in
: years, but none of his lends car be-
lieve it, for the spirit Of youth is in his
F he really has it on" most of the young
!, ones. If the others will only folloW
his example, the Harrisburg Navy wilr
soon reach the proportions that it
should have and Secretary Daniels will
, be sending scouts up here to corral
: John for duty as a recruiting officer
for Uncle Sam.
: Some of the Harrisburgers who
have been in the habit OF going to
Maine and other States for the sum-
mer and who have children and who
came home when the paralysis out
! break occurred are now spreading
| themselves among Pennsylvania re-
] sorts. Many of them are taking au-
{ tomobile trips and some are staying
at home. Thus they are getting to
know their own State better.
l Some of the officers at police head
= quarters spent an hour the other
= afternoon cleaning house." Their
} efforts were spent in asserting a large
pile of junk which had accumulated
t in one of the drawers of a desk used
for the police docket. 1t was a PAN
S handlers mecca and there were
printed cards telling tales of hard
l luck. both in prose and verse. Old
= knives, razor handles, buttons and
3 many other articles were included in
the assortment. Al of them were
taken from drunks and panhandlers
5 who were arrested during the last few
months.