Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-03
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If federal government estimates that
about 2s,o00,000 will be paid for mo-
tor vehicle registration during 1915
Pennsylvania automobile and truck
owners will have contributed
almost one-tenth of it. The
total amount of income de-
rived by the State for registration of
vehicles run by their own power in the
highways of the Commonwealth be-
tween January l and July 81 amounts
considerably over $2,150,000 and the .
a quarter millions. At this time last
year the revenue from motor licenses
In this state was almost $500, 900 less.
The United States government author
ities figure that $1S,245,713 was paid
throughout the country last year for
motor vehicle licenses, which was an
increase of S5,S63,760 and represented
a jump in number of vehicles regis
tered OF 734,32 If the rate of in
crease is the same this year the reve-
nue. may go pretty we'll along toward
the S25,00O,000 mark. The United
states Department of Agriculture
which takes benevolent interest in
highways and automobiles, says that
New York was the first State to require
lees and 1t collected 1854 in 1901. it
says in one of its bulletins that there
is motor car for each "A persons in
this broad land of ours Iowa leading
with one car for each sixteen persons.
The Pennsylvania average is about one
car for each thirty-five persons ac-
cordtng to some persons who have
been making observations on the sub
1ect The Keystone State in 1915 stood
fourth in the number of registrations.
being exceeded by New York, Illinois
and California in the order named. but
was third in revenue received from Ii
censes. This year 1t will be higher up
In the list for both cars and revenue
therefrom, in the belief of folks at the
Capitol. Harrisburg is one of the cit
les which has a large number of cars
and is said to have the most in propor-
tion to population of any city under
100000 except Reading.
The Engineers Society of Pennsyi-
vania, which has issued some very
original publications, has established
a record in announcing its annual ex-
cursion to old Pine Grove Furnace this
year. The invitation is in the form of
an order to an organization of engi-
neers and is gotten up in military style
with works of art embellishing it, The
final roll call is to be held on August
10 and the excursion on August 26.
The old furnace, the States foresty,
sand and quarry operations and the
ice houses will be inspected.
Judging from what I hear about
the National Guard camp at Eel Paso
they would be mighty glad to have
some of the jitneys you are kicking
about in Harrisburg just now" said
a man who follows up Enflitary mat
ters. The latest cards l have re-
ceived from friends on the border say
that they are six to eight miles from
the city and no way to get there.
Evidently the Southwest. which start
ed the jitney, has a few fields which
the unlicensed jitney might visit with
profit"
It's rather a far cry to talk about
winter feed for chickens, but w. Theo.
Whitman, the poultry expert of the De-
partment of Agriculture, makes some
excellent suggestions fol winter feed.
He says that hundreds of tons of the
most valuable winter feed for chickens
is wasted because people do not save
the grass cut On lawns. If farmers
were wise and poultry raisers on to
their jobs, he holds, they would secure
the grass cut on lawns, dry it in the
shade and keep it for winter. It's
rather singular thing that what the
city throws away is the very thing that
the farmer needs for chickens. Blue
grass and white clover lawn clippings.
says the Allentown expert, are among
the best feeds for chickens. Inciden-
tally, the expert says that the belief
that alfalfa is good chicken feed is a
mistake. They would rather eat pig
weed.
The commission which has been
visiting the banks and islands of the
broad branching Susquehanna the last
I'several weeks has been making some
important finds on the islands, show
ing that they were much used by the
Indians and that sometimes they We're
not always used for peaceful purposes.
These Investigations have also es-
tablished the interesting fact that the
islands are ages old and that the Sus-
quehanna must have some time ago
had well defined channels instead of
the many cross currents that make
some parts of.it dangerous.
Progress of the construction of the
Cumberland Valley Railroad bridge is
attracting much attention among the
railroad men in this State and in the
last month it has been visited by a
number of men representing perhaps
half a dozen railroads. The details of
the work have been closely followed
and in a number of instances men in
terested in bridge building have come
here to observe some of the features.
When the bridge is finished it will be
a realization of many hopes expressed
in the last dozen years.