Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-09
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the last three months for automo-
bile license tag No. 1917, the requests
for that particular tag being more
numerous than those made year ago
for 1915. The division adopted a policy
of first come, first served, in the mat
ter of requests except where tags had
been held a long time, but the appli-
cations for the number keep coming
In. Any number of requests have
been made for special numbers to
correspond with numbers of resi-
dences, post office boxes, offices and
lodges and there have been special re-
quests made for odd combinations,
notably "straights" and similar num-
bers. There is on file at the Capitol
a letter which asks for the "hoodoo"
and 'skidoo" numbers as one man
styled Nos. 13 and %. Every combin-
alton of like numbers has been asked
and Nos. 1000, 10000 and 100000
have been in demand. This rush of
requests for reservations of tags starts
every year just before election time
and keeps up until January 1. 1t
is expected that more licenses will be
issued for next year before the end of
this year than ever before. Thou
sands of dollars q day are being sent
to the State Treasury by automobile
owners.
The department of the secretary of
the Commonwealth is being asked
numerous times a day about official
votes. This rush started the day the
computation of the official vote was
begun and the requests came from
friends of candidates and, it is sus-
pected, from some holders of stakes
who had to possess knowledge on the
| actual figures before making pay
ments. There was the greatest inter-
est in the difference of votes between
m fret nln oh, zIr
| Arrangements have been made by
| Miss Alice r. Eaton, librarian of the
Harrisburg Public Library, to give a
series of lectures to the city's teacher
training class this winter on the way
teachers can use libraries. The
course will have special reference to
the Public Library and it's branches
among the schools of the city. The
teachers will be told how to use the
| libraries to supplement their instruc-
ton work and to interest youngsters
in outdoor life in summer by showing
them what books to read in winter
Later on in the season Miss Fair, of
the Library staff, will lecture to the
teachers on the work of the story
tellers in the schools.
Senator w. s. Mckee, commanding
the First artillery, who was here yes
terday, looks better than he has for
years. The Pittsburgh senator is
rather stout or rather, he was rather
stout. When he was here in the sem
ate he was not exactly q sprinter in
form and when he went to camp he
was rotund. But the work on the
border trained down the colonel and
he is like he used to be years ago
when he first began attending Nat
ional Guard camps.
pn~,ho~ a.
bers of the Engineers Society will be
here next Monday night to hear Gift
ford Pinchot, president of the Nat
ional Conservation association, speak
on the fight for conservation in the
present Congress. Mr.. Pinchot will
/ speak at the clubhouse and his lee
ture Will include discussion of the
disposal of public water power.
streams and naval oil reserves.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times in an
interesting review of the life of the
State highway Commissioner, who
was buried to-day, says: when Gov
ernor Tener conceived the idea of
highway improvements in Pennsyiva-
, MIA and the department was to be re-
organized for the purpose of doing big
things, he called on Mr.. Bigelow to be-
come the commissioner of State high
ways. Under his administration the
department was organized, and al
' though others have since taken over
the work, but little change has been
, made in the personnel of the chief
men Mr.. Bigelow gathered about him.
| In working out the highway problem,
! Mr.. Bigelow travelled over so, 900 miles
! of Pennsylvania roads"
t What is the reason people will pass
{ UP local car and take q through
Iparpb asked nf Harrisburg IN
! ways man.
: Don't know and neither does any
: one else. Here's an illustration. Wo-
! man standing at Sixteenth and Derry.
Passes up a car running from Twenty
third street in and takes an already
. crowded Hummelstown car. Man let's
: Progress car go by and gets into
y crowded Linglestown car. Search me.
Guess we are coming to express cars
to give the suburban shoppers a
chance" was the answer.
l We'll, why not express cars not
making stops in the central part of
the city or say until they come to
Nineteenth street?"
well, agaia, human nature" said
the man. Ever see a big husky
, foreigner get mad because he was
! carried beyond where he wanted to
get OFF,"
There are problems in all business
lines-even running trolley line.
i
Something may come of the move
ment approved by the Governor for
3, some State recognition of the site of
Camp Curtin and which will be sub
mitted to the next Legislature. Until
that project comes to fruition Camp
Curtin Methodist Church will stand as
Harrisburgs memorial of a place
where many national hopes were CEN
tered and which many men upon
. whose heads the snow has fallen Fe-
call as q landmark in their lives.
State Fire Marshal G. Chal Port
has a striking way of putting out his
departmental bulletins. He is issuing
a series on "How to make Pennsyl-
vania Fireproof." and he very appro-
priately puts them out in flaming red
covers Some of the news matter in
the bulletins is almost as striking,
too.