Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-20
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been abandoned, some of them years
ago. are being started up in Central
and Eastern Pennsylvania counties be-
cause of the demand for lime for agrf-
cultural purposes due to the stopping
OF the foreign supply of potash and
the exhaustion of stocks in this coun-
try. Throughout the central part of
the State and in a few of the western
counties the lime burning industry has
become more or less concentrated be-
cause of the engaging of corporations
in the business and the small kilns,
which used to be so numerous were
allowed to go to ruin as was done with .
many of the old style stone blast fur
naces which were the precursors of the
modern steel giants. Reports which
are reaching the Capitol tell of far
mers buying up old kilns and putting
them into operation to furnish lime.
Last winter large purchases were
made for top dressing of soil and this
spring its use was very extensive,
PROBABLY more so than known in ten
years. The results, notably in the hay
crops. were good. Now the old lime
burning industry, which was once so
profitable in the farming districts is
coming back TO its own as have some
other industries which were revived
by abnormal conditions produced by
war. In eastern counties where there
are outeroppings of limestone the
number of kilns made active again is
surprisingly large. The limestone
quarries are also busy with the de-
mands of contractors for stone for
building or road making purposes.
One of the funniest of the stories
told about schemes to delay trolley
cars comes from the hotbed of the
rucuons, Cameron and Market streets.
1t seems that yesterday morning just
before car came along two men went
to the center of the street and one
| took up a manhole, the other going
down into the hole. The lid was plac-
ed on rail and one man standing in
the middle of the track leaned over
talking to the man in the hole. Along
came a car and after some waiting the
motorman footed. The man looked up
and smiled. The motorman waited
some more. Then policeman order
ed the man to let the car pass. An
argument ensued of course, and the
car had to wait some more. Finally
the man walked away, but returned
and said that he could not leave his
fellow and that he could not leave his
work. The policeman ordered the man
| OUT Oh the mole. linen IQere was more
talk. Finally, the man came out, the
lid was replaced and the car moved
along. So did the men. One had done
nothing but sit in the manhole and the
other was part of the scheme to have
some fun.
Fourth street furnished another in
cident in the strike and it seemed to
amuse the policemen as much as some
of the people who participated in it.
At any rate the policemen laughed
and told motopmen to go on, as they
did when they were asked to stop
throwing of things at Verbeke street
market. It happened that car came
down Fourth street with truck right
in the rear. The truck held half doz-
en- kids and they were pelting the car
with small stones and whatever they
could find along the way, the obliging
driver of the truck stopping now and
then to permit replenishment of am
munition and then speeding up to
catch the trolley.
= Complaints about some of the jit-
ney rates being charged in Harrisburg
just now were being heard up and
down Market street. but no one in au-
thority appeared to be paying any
more attention to them than to the
absence of compliance with the city Ii
cense ordinance. One man was accus-
ed of charging a man quarter to go
to Third and Boas streets.
Don't you know what jitney
means?" inquired. the angry passenger
when told the rate was a quarter.
''Hunh" was the intelligent re-
sponse.
N"Jitney means nickel. Nickel should
be your rate" was the next remark
from the passenger
Nav. Two bits. Five jits," replied
the undisturbed jitneur.
The man handed him a dime and
walked off in disgust. The jitneyman
started to get out and finding no sup
porters in the crowd which gathered.
cut out side street.
Those who travel through the Dau-
phin Narrows are greatly pleased with
the work that is now being done in
the restoration of the river wall. This
wall was fast disintegrating, but is
now being permanently repaired and
capped with a granolithic coping. The
drive through the narrows Is always
picturesque and the improvement of
this wall gives the visitor a good i'm
preston of the entrance to Harris
burg.
DIR. H. NJ. Stine, who will act as re-
cruiting officer for this district with
Frank II. Mike. served as an officer OF
company I, of the Fourth infantry in
the Porto Rican campaign and was al
so prominent in the National Guard
for years.
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