Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-27
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canoeists and swimmers off the riven
but nevertheless there are still huns
dreds using the basin from Maclay
street to the dam and from present
indications the Susquehanna will ba
popular until the first of October at
least. The late opening of school is
allowing many of the youths and
maidens who love the water to take
dip during the warm part of the aft
ernoon and every day between two
and six there are scores diving off the
sand flats and rocks. The oncoming
OF the duck season will awaken a new
interest in the river for the winged
web-foots are rather plentiful around
the grass patches during the open sea-
son. Many gunner Is already look-
Ing up his old duck boat and quite a
ming" an imaginary flock of canvass
backs.
The faint tinge of Fall which is all
ready in the air is reflected from the
windows of nearly every store in the
city and even In the markethouses.
Pudding, scrapple and the time-hon-
ored mush have already made their
appearance and the quick lunch
houses are filling dozens of orders for
sausage and hot cakes these morn-
ings. Folks seem to be getting tired
OF the regular summer diet and the
winter dishes are becoming popular
again. In the store windows are dis
played Fall outergarments and quite
a big business has resulted in sweat-
ers, Fall hats and SO on.
By the way, has 1t occurred to you
what pleasant summer Harrisburg
hot, but the really insufferable days
were very few as compared with the
delightful ones. The river was ideal
as compared with 1915 when 1t was
nearly always at q half-food stage;
the parks were never more beautiful;
and the sky was nearly always smiling
down upon humanity. There were
comparatively few cloudy days and
not nearly as many thunder storms
as usual. All in all, 1t surely was a
"pippin."
Cumberland Valley trout fishermen
are getting busy already and there
streams of the county next Spring.
only last week over 1000 yearling
trout were distributed under auspices
of men at Carlisle. They were evident-
ly much pleased with the fish for they
wired the State Department of Fisher
les that they were the finest they had
ever seen.
Homer Meyer, the advertising man.
was talking about an experience in
his Johnstown clearinghouse, in the
days before he came to real city.
There was a Welshman there who
had an uncomfortable pride in Wales
and the Welsh" said Meyer. "One
noontime q Cambria Steel Company
craftsman determined to have some
sport at the expense of the Cymric.
'Walesp he sneered provokingly,
Wales has never produced any great
men,
"T'ell it hasn't said the welsh-
man.
"'Name me three jeered the other.
"'Well, declared the man from
Wales, there's Lloyd George, Honey
Boy" George Evans and Santa
Claus"
The State Educational Association.
which is to meet here in December
for its annual session, is one of the
organizations of the State which al
ways holds its meeting Immediately
preceding the general assembly, in
Harrisburg. 1t is held by the men in
the great organization, one of the big
gest associations of teachers in the
nation, that by meeting here the
membership is brought into closer
relationship to the State Capitol and
that it arouses greater interest in
what is being done here.
No matter how threatening may be
the Sunday afternoon skies there are
always hundreds of people who go out
for walks or rides and they are taking
to the highways which have been little
used and not much cared for. In the
last summer 1t is safe to say that more
tramping parties and automobiles
have gone over hitherto little known
roads, such as those which wind up
Paxton creek valley, out around the
and which branch off the Reading
turnpike and the old Jamestown road.
striking proof of this was given a
few days ago when a man who is
interested in road matters remarked:
"If people keep on hunting out new
roads to walk over or to automobile
1t means an increase in the road tax
next year."
V. Grant Forrer Harrisburg's sum
burned park superintendent, is some
fisherman The other day when he
stepped into a rowboat at the Front
and Edward street landing to row
himself across the river to the Nc
Cormicks Island Camp-which by the
way Is all part of the days work-he
spied q sucker after minnows close in
along the shore. What does " G.. r.
do but walk down along the shore line.
reach in and with quick grab" pull
Mr.. Sucker out of his native element.
1t made good breakfast for Mr.. and
Mrs. Forrer.
When December 81, 1916. comes
around and the records for the year
close, city health officials will begin
to tabulate their figures for the an
nual report. From present indica-
tions all contagious disease records
will be broken this year. because of
the two epidemics on record. In the
Spring almost 1000 cases of measles
broke all previous figures and the ty-
phoid epidemic which is just abating
has also set a new high mark. The
total number of cases, however, bar
ring the two epidemics will probably
be less than during previous years.