Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-03
Ehfntng Chat

T, seventeen men have been mavors Of
tarFlsburg since it was incorporated
S as city on March 10, 1860 aithoIigh
~ Ieckoned by terms filed there have
s Maa're ore mayors. Including DR.. T..
tod VINO becomes mayor again
uyes' TOUR men have been called
upon TO hold the office twice or moro
Siines' however, the doctor is the first
norlner mayor to be elected TO n four
ear term, as he was the first man IN
eiected at a primary. John X.
W. VINO retlres as mayor to-day.
we, IaS Fhe hrst city executive to be \
eiected Tor four-year term. All of
me mayors from William 1T Kenner
uoWh TO Mr. Royal We're elected for
ttlree9-year ~ et, terms. except where chosen
in, a. M vacancies, which occurred three
ihles. When Mr.. Royal was elected
the four-year term had inst @one int,'
erect through n constitutional amendD
| ineht. John ID. Patterson and mr. Tob,,
a; frltchey were the other mavors
VINO were elected to full terms more
,IaI once John G. Herman, who was
CHOSEN in 1881 as MAYOR to fiji ont tbn
term of Mr.. Patterson. who was eIected
resident clerk of the House of Repre-
SehtatlVes, was elected to the full term
Immediately after. DIR. Meals served
lhree years under his former term and
WIN serve four under that which be-
gins to-day.
1t is interesting to note in connec-
/ lon with the change of city govern
hent that Harrisburg is only eXceeded
| III lts cltyhood by q few of the other
cues Lancaster is operating under a
clly charter granted in 1908, Philadel-
phia and Pittsburgh being, of course.
oder municipalities. This city was
lald out in 1885, long after the two bis.
citles and Lancaster. Reading. York
ana other cities. 1t became borough
April IL, 1871, and was reincorporated
! as borough February l, 1908. 1t
entered the city class in 1860.
Some of the finest of the trees in tbe
| reservoir and Riverside Parks appear
TO have suffered from the storms of
/ sieet and rain that have marked the
last week, although it is believed that
the gradual policy of getting rid of
sott wood trees has resulted in fewer
peing much damaged. In the Capitol
iark only old and soft topped trees
telt the force of the storm, the planes
ana other recently planted trees not
| Deng much affected. In Wildwood
Park it will probably be found that
the damage was greater than in other
parks, in the opinion of some expert
enced in woodcraft.
The manner in which applications
for renewal of licenses for the sale of
oleo have been pouring into the Capt.
tol indicates pretty conclusively the
wide extent of the business. When the
oleo licenses were enacted 1t was
thought that the rates would deter
people from selling the product and
thus the dairy industry would be pro-
tected. Indeed, for time. oleo made
such inroads that anyone would have
thought that all the farmers owning
COWS were going to be ruined, so great
was the protest. In recent years, when
forty and fifty cent butter is not un-
known. the natural result has been a
big demand for substances to take the
place of butter. In 1915 close to $500
. licenses were issued and fully 1000
have been taken out for 1915 already.
II shows that building is going for
ward with some mighty strides in Har-
risburg when men dig cellars on the
Monday after Christmas and have to
use special steel shod ploughs to break
the ground Half a dozen operations
We're under way about the city to-day
in spite of the weather and indicating
that builders were anxious to get
things moving for Spring before winter
had more than started.
The number OF Christmas trees, as
! we have come to call all evergreens,
,, whether pine, hemlock or spruce, dis
played beside the doors of Harrisburg
homes this year was larger than ever
known before and 1t was noticed that
the number of small trees in tubs was
also larger than shown heretofore.
Many of the trees which are displayed
at the holiday season are carefully
tended throughout the year.