Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
Some Differences of Opinion

OI1CerS.
Some Differences of Opinion
In city circles the outcome of this
conference is being awaited with con-
siderable curiosity inasmuch as the
settlement of the issue resolves itself
more or less into a little difference of
opinion in the bosom of the family
between Park Commissioner E. u.
Gross and his nephew, H. b. McCor-
mick. The latter, who is an officer of
the association, is conducting the ceme-
tery's end of the controversy. The
park commissioner is determined to
safeguard the playground.
The water from the hill slopes, it is
understood, cannot drain off naturally,
but is collected in pipes, and the course
has been changed in such way as to
cause the flow to shoot directly out
upon the playground. The effect is
becoming more and more noticeable,
particularly after the heavy rain
storms.
The Park Work
The pleasant weather of the last
few weeks has given the park depart
ment a good chance to hustle along
some of the seasons maintenance
work and the forces have been pushed
with all possible speed. Much of the
years program has been finished, al
though there is still considerable to do.
has been attempted in many day has
been practically completed along the
River Park from Market to Herr
streets. More than 5000 yards of
sodding, removed for the most part
from the island Fairgrounds, has been
| used for the purpose. The paths, Incl
dentally, from Market to Herr streets
have been refined and covered with
tons of crushed stone, stone by the
way, which had been quarried from
the new driveway round the aims
house.
The New 'Fill''
Filling in along the flats" be-
tween the eastern edge of the river
wall and the emhankment from Wal
nut street southwark is keeping the
department busy. More than LOO
yards of earth have been obtained
without cost from the excavations for
| the st. Lawrence German Catholic
Church in State street, although the
park department pays for the hauling
and unloading. This earth is being
spread to a depth of a foot or more
along the fiat lands and as soon as the
"fll" is completed the grading work
will be started. Grass will be sown on
this new ground. Planting on the
river slopes before Fall will be i'm
| practicable, in the opinion of V. Grant
Forrer, the assistant park superintend-
ent, although ii is the intention of the
department to push this end of the
/ Job at the close Of the summer Some
500 matrimony vines were planted be-
low Walnut street this Spring.
On the Big Drive
Finishing touches to the big drive
way to the east of the city, repairing
of the floods devastation on the island
Fairgrounds, the reconstruction of the
caved-in pipe bridge on the Wildwood
bluff road, the reconstruction of the
park paths from Cherry street to Herr,
the grading of the slopes of the park
above State street-these are few of
the jobs outside of the regular routine
of park maintenance work which has
! kept the department busy. The delay
in the start caused by the unfavorable
weather has been seriously felt, but
the effects are gradually wearing off.
The youthful elms which were
planted along Riverside Drive will re-
| ceive careful attention this year, ac-
cording to Mr.. Forrer, and the city
| forester will give the backward ones
some careful coaching. Several which
have given up the ghost will be re-
placed with new trees from the city
nursery.