Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-02
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" oc pCaulilui.
to the planting system inaugurated
some years ago and the care given
to the maintenance work, the borders
of the driveways are lined with
hedges and rows of shrubbery and
bushes and roses are blooming along
yards and yards of the highways that
girt the city. The Cameron Parkway,
which was the first to be laid out,
and which is visited by so few people
that it is regrettable, is ono of the
prettiest driveways to be found in
Central Pennsylvania. Turning
sharply from the humming indus
trial district at Lochiel 1t follows
Spring Creek and the borders are
commencing to show the results of
proper planting. The roses and othe~
towering plants are gay with colors
and the fine old trees are worth see-
ing. The creek Is bordered with
younger trees and the whole drive
way is delightful. The new Paxtang
Parkway which goes from the Derry
street pike to Reservoir Park is ono
OF the most popular but it will take
couple of years to get it's borders
into shape. Fortunately, 1t possesses
many attractive natural features.
| When the connecting link between
reservoir Park and Wildwood is fin
lshed the city will have a belt of
| orlVeways that will surprise even the
men who planned them. Wildwood
is commencing to draw more and
more visitors and every fine after
noon there are groups of children
playing in the woods and watching
LOT the rabbits and the birds.
II the Lohr bill now in the Gov
ernor's hands should become q law
III Will enable cleanup of dogs,
| ownerless and destructive dogs, to
be made in the county districts out
side of the city. Thanks to the op-
Grafton of the dog license law in Har-
rlspurg the number of useless dogs
| has been materially reduced, but the
difficulty is that there are so many
animals who either have homes or
no homes in the boroughs or coun-
| try and which are more or less of q
nuisance. In years gone by there
were many sheep raised in this Sec
| ton. but there are few now in spite
of the high prices of wool and NUT
ton. Dogs have been in q measure
responsible.
Some of the gardens about the
city are being turned into quite
fancy affairs although the average
owner of a war garden" does not
have much time to attend to the
ornamental side because of the de-
mands on his time to fight the weeds
and the bugs. In some sections vines
have been trained on the fences
| around the gardens and owners of
some plots took the time while plants
were coming up to construct fences
| of ornate design. OUT on the hill
the morning glory seems to have
been the favorite decoration for gar
den fences.
Between the operations at the Pax
| ton furnaces and the open hearth
steel plant of the Central Iron and
Steel Company, preparations to start
| Lochiel furnace and the busy Elliott
| Fisher plant South Harrisburg seems
to be coming into it's own again as
an industrial section. The removal
of the Chesapeake Nail Works was
blow for that section, but the war
has brought it around again.
It's rather significant thing when
baseball is not played on Saturday
afternoons in Harrisburg. There
were some games on the island and
at various places about the city on
Saturday afternoon, but there were
half dozen good diamonds which
were not used at all. Some of these
were up town and others were out
on the Hill. The evening games
have been given up in some sections
of the city because everyone is turn
ing to garden work or drilling. War
has brought about many curious
| changes in Harrisburg that are not
realized until one bumps against
them.
According to some conversations
| hea-o abort the nBct:ets IN this .i%y
on SeIr-?sy a number of farn5.s
sIe wondsting if posn who few
mcnths ego offered fency prices fer
all the potetoes they could produce
this fall win ever reau!h. This sec
| ton of the STATE was c7Yered by po-
tato csppers. They actad for specu-
lators and offered fancy prices for
| potatoes, but gave no NJ oney. They
| Just took mem -e.nda ti".t So and So
would sell them potato es at from
| - so to So. The ferme-s are WON
| deripg whether If the potato crop is
big, as it is likely to be. whether
the advance men will be around
again, and if the crop fails and prices
! go up whether they will hold the
producer. 1t is a nice situation and
shows the folly of getting stirred up
by spring prices. In the Cumber-
| land Valley the spectators ducked
when asked to put up any advances
or even to buy seed.
Isaac r. Pennypacker, a close rel
| ative of the late Governor and his
| torian and student, takes a sharp rap
at Representative Isadore Stern for
calling the Pennypacker relics "a
collection of junk" Mr.. Pennypack-
er points out the value of some of the
articles and seems to have a rather
poor opinion of Mr.. Stern's ability to
Judge of what is worth while in
Pennsylvania.
Announcement that the Middle
town Fair organization will be reor-
ganized will be heard with interest
here The Middletown Fair has been
quite an institution in recent years
and as Gratz is an autumn fair Mid
dletown filled in very nicely during
the summer.