Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-20
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Within the next month or so the
state Board of Public Grounds and
Buildings will take the first steps to-
ward working out a plan for the i'm
provement of the Capitol park extern
sion, recommendation being now be-
lore II for the making of survey of
the whole district to be added to tho
PARK so that the problems attending
trolleys, highways, walks, trees, or
namentation and other details which
VIII be involved in the big scheme can
pe threshed out. The properties in
the district are to be turned over TO
the state by June l, 1917, and likely
all but those tied up in litigation will
be ready before that time as the Capt.
tol Park Extension commission has
been doing splendid work. The feN
that VIII get into court will not stay
long because one case will likely fur
nish precedent. The removal of the
buildings is to follow in short order
the expiration of the time limit The
survey work will give the Board the
data upon which it can go to the next
legislature for an appropriation for
the improvement and also Nor the bet
terment of conditions on the West
front.
superintendent Samuel h. Rambo,
of the State grounds and buildings, Is
planning to save the trees in the Park
Extension district as long as possible.
There are some rather attractive trees
In the old ward, but they are not of
the type which have been placed in
the park in recent years and some are
not well located. However. they will
be kept as long as possible and if the
tree experts agree some may stay. The
dlHculty about trees in public grounds
is that they have to be such as will
withstand the weather and storms and
the subject is one which has had care
ful study from many men in recent
years. Planes and other hardwood
trees have been placed in the Capitol
park lately taking the place of the
naples and other early trees which
were apt to suffer from heavy SHOWS
or storm.
Among those who will be present
from this city at the unveiling of an
official stone marker at Fort Granville
next, Tuesday, will be State
Librarian Thomas Lynch Mont
gomery and George F. Ross of
this city. Mr.. Montgomery is a mem
Der of the Pennsylvania Historical
Commission and will make the princi-
pal address. Fort Granville is about
a mile west of Lewistown and was de-
stroyed by large body of French and
Indians in 1856. The marker will be
located on the old Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh turnpike east of the farm
llGoiuGhNS VI iNCSlcI iOuSilI III STdu-
Vile township. Mr.. Ross assisted in
definitely locating the fort.
| Senator Franklin Martin, of the
Cumberland-Per erry- Juniata- -Mifflin dis
! trict, who was renomInated yesterday
by the Republicans, has been unable
! to make much of a campaign because
of breaking bones in his foot at West
Fairview some time ago. His friends.
however, saw that he did not need to
worry.
Much attention was attracted here
| by the reports of the surgical work of
Durwent Wood, the Englishman whose
father and mother lived here for n
time and who is a relative of we'll
known Harrisburg people.
Another case in which Wood har
salved human wreckage is that OF
! Canadian Field Artillery, who was
hideously wounded at Ypres on April
25, 1915. A piece of shell carried
away his right eye entirely, and as the
surgical report professionally puts it,
"the surrounding structures" In tho
ordinary way there would have been
nothing to fix an artificial eye TO
and as in the case of Trooper EveTrcf.
his disagreement was so appalling to
behold that it is doubtful if he ever
could have taken up his old trade,
which was that of a machinist. Now
with the upper part of his right cheek
restored and what appear to be two
perfectly good eyes beaming at you
from behind spectacles this youngster
not only will be able to earn his living
hereafter, but is going to get married,
and the gratitude of his fiancee to
Derwent Wood is only surpassed by
his own.
Il spent months in experiments,
said Wood, before I undertook my
| first case. This was in December last
my patient being Trooper Everitt. Ny
masks as we call them, consist of
plates of thin copper, silvered and
then painted to match the hue of the
patients skin"
Ex-senator George W. McNees, of
| Kittanning, who was here yesterday
on business at the Capitol, has been
| the active spirit in the State geo
graphical and typographical survey
the last few years and he will urge
an extension of the work at the next
session of the Legislature.