Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-28
Ehrnt1g Grat

is one of the head boosters for the
placing of the ''Susquehanna Trail
highway on the map, is authority for
the statement that the Northern Cen
trail Railway follows the lines of the
old Indian trail to the North from
near Williamsport up to Elmira and
then some. The roads which it is
proposed to add to the State highway
system from Roaring Branch, which
is near the county seat of Lycoming.
are the real Indian trail just as are
some of the roads in this part of the
State the ways which the aborigines
followed. The "Susquehanna Trail"
he contends, would be about eight
miles shorter and without going up
hill and down dale as much as the
present road to Elmira. OF course,
the Tioga county contingent does not
subscribe to all that Editor Newell
says and thinks he overlooks some
absorbed the legends of the northern
tier and 1t is rich indeed, in the stories
of the Indians and of the early settlers.
1t was through this country that
Sullivan marched when he went to
chastise the Iroquois after the series
of massacres and the line of the pro-
posed trail highway has an interest
for us because 1T was down this way
that the famous fighting Indians came
who broke the power of the Susque-
hannocks and who were in turn driven
North in years following by the
| Shawanese who fled up the Susque-
| hanna to escape the irruptions of the
Southern warriors Indeed, the "Sus-
quehanna Trail which will start at
Harrisburg and go up the river on
the new road which the State and
Pennsylvania Railroad are building
| between Dauphin and Millersburg, is
full of interest to people here. 1t will
be the first North and South highway
and will connect Harrisburg with
Elmira and those beautiful New York
regions of which poets sing, but
which are not a whit prettier than
sections of our Commonwealth; it
will open the way for New York peo-
pie to come here to see the Capitol
and then go on South TO the seat of
the national government with side
trips to the garden county of Ian
caster. the battlefield of Gettysburg
and the peach orchards of the Cum
berland Valley and the historically in
clined can imagine war parties in
paint and feathers moving through
the trees on forays or moving north
from hunting grounds invaded by the
white man and his ak and plough. But
best of all it will provide an easier,
more comfortable way for our North
ern tier kinsfolk to come to Harris
burg to run the government.
Speaking about highways the idea
of Governor Brumbaugh to name the
State highway linking Lancaster with
the Lincoln highway and Harrisburg
with the William Penn Highway has
met with much favorable comment.
The road is an important and historic
one, as the Governor pointed out, and
it connects the two great highways
running east and west. The Cover
| i5ao iG 1lx alv n fol<en II in
a short time by motor clubs and signs
erected.
Insurance Commissioner J. Denny
O'Neil says that he is becoming the
champion traveller of Capitol Hill. "I
crossed this State about twice and
made some side trips last week." said
he. 'I came here early, had to back
track to Pittsburgh on some matters,
came here again, then went on to
Philadelphia, then back to Pittsburgh
and here again." said he. II am get
ting to know Pennsylvania scenery by
name"
The late Frederic w. F1eitz, who
first came to Harrisburg as a clerk
in the House of Representatives. when
he was scarcely more than a boy, was
one of the first of the champion long
distance roll callers. Mr.. FleitZ was
given the job of calling the roll be-
cause 1t had lot of unusual and
long names and other men who were
assigned to it fell down. 1t was passed
to him once and to the surprise of
everyone he called it off as. though it
was his daily job. 1t seems that with
Mr.. Fleitz's habit of getting to know
all that was going on he had studied
the roll and the layout of desks and
the faces of the members and when
he was sgnaled to step into the
breach he actually knew the roll bet
ter than the man paid to call it. He
was kept at 1t after that and although
they used to try and catch him they
never succeeded. One time some one
remarking on his knowledge of the
roll said that 1t was merely recitation
and that the way to test knowledge
was to start in the middle. Mr.. F'leitz
did it and caught up on the other end.
Then the skeptical one averred he
could not say it backwards. But he
did.
Nowhere will Frederic w. Fleitz be
more missed than in those Canadian
Businesses where he loved to fish and
hobnob with the primitive people of
the hamlets where he spent most of
his summers. Especially at Bob
caygeon on the Kawartha lakes will
he be mourned. For twenty years he
had been going to this place for mus
callonge fishing and he knew every
guide and all the promising hooks and
crannies of a picturesque region. One
summer he spent in cabin upon a.
small island and he always told with
interest his experiences with the
natives. Like the late c. H. Backen-
stoe, who frequented the same lakes.
| Mr.. FleitZ knew the habits of the
game fish of those waters and both
lawyers were popular among the
people.