Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-01
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1917 Will go down in history as one
which did not appreciate the finn ,ts
members had when they were boys
and yielded to the general spirit of
conservation thereby ending the
great sport of hunting bulIfross
with torch. OF course. in tAoae
iater days, an electric flash lamn
taxes the place of the torch. but +be
TACT remains that the Legislators for
got the fun they used to bava ~
spearlhg the "bullies" and put the
chorlsters of the swamps and the
orooks on the protected list. Under
the law bullfrogs may not be hunted
or Killed in any way between. Novem-
Der to July 1. No one would oh
Ject to that very much because a
oullfrog discovered after frost has
colhe Is rather melancholy object
anyhow and in the first part of sum-
/ iner they are skinny and pretty
iast In their movements. The legis-
lators did not prescribe any means
Wnich could not be used to catch tha
pullfrogs except lights. Night hunt
ing is banned. And Governor Brum-
pdush, who comes from Huntingdon
Gouhty and who probably made a
| spear out of an old knife and a
hshing pole and sneaked along the
panks OF a creek while a pal held a
eortn 'ii. with one hand and fought mos
quiIoeS with the other, signed the
plll: Well may the BOYS of TODAY
qeplore the passing of real sport. The
river front has been walled IN and
tHere is no chance to crawl along
the SHINE of the shore with a. dark
ahtern to impale a big, green frog:
raAton creek has been walled up and
sie pis rat DULLES" that used to
sing along its banks and be q cause
OIL many fight between night raid
ers are ancestors now and even Wet
eel 5 swamp is a park with nary a
| place Tor boy to sit under a tree
ana uncover torch or a. lantern
When ne heard "more-rum- 1t
Is not bad business to protect ter
Iaplh ana II tadpoles need protection
the average Harrisburg boy can
stand 1t, but this thing of putting
glggln fer frogs" under a ban is
the limit and in war year, too.
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The advent of real summer wealth
er mas stimulated building along the
Susquehanna and tributory streams
10 great extent. Along the Dauphin
county side of the river near Dau-
phln scores of cottages and boat
houses are under course of construc-
tlon. The majority are set well I'D
the side of the banks. to clear high
water and are of rustic design, The
rough barked water-birc is used
extensively for lattice work around
the foundations and lends real
woody appearance. From present
indications the river will be used
more widely this summer than ever
before. Harrisburg dealers report
an unusually large sale of canoes,
many of them to girls who are talk
ing to aquatic sports, as shown dur
ing the annual Kipona, like the
lesendary duck. Commercially, scores
OF coal fleets ranging in size from
three to half dozen craft are drawing
tons of coal from the river. There
are fleets here and at Halifax, Mil
lersburg, Herndon and below Sun
bury. The industry is taking on
more and more magnitude as the
price of coal scars.
Wild ducks have been more nu-
merous on the river this spring than
for many years. Apparently they
know that they are protected by the
new Federal law forbidding hunters
from shooting them for they romp
about the shores. paddle under the
bridges and even allow canoes and
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within a few yards before flying.
Passengers on a Valley Railways car
the other morning observed two lit
tie chaps in a boat below the Wal
nut street bridge trying to catch a
half dozen ducks that were feeding
in the low water just off shore. The
lad at the oars would row desperate
ly, encouraged by his companion
who stood in the bow with a long
club, and the ducks would per-
NIT him to approach within a dozen
feet or less and then would rise and
fly twenty or thirty yards settling
back into the water and repeating
the performance time after time. APP
parently the ducks enjoyed the Joke
as much as the trolley car occupants
who crowded the windows to see the
fun.
Fishing has been pretty good this
Ispring along the West shore of the
river near Harrisburg. The other
day Charles Davis and Horace Kirk,
residing near Lemoyne, caught thir-
teen large river club and seven fall
fish of fair size in the deep water
below the bridges and landed a bass
y that weighed more than two pounds,
using a worm as bait Kirk told his
friends that the hardest job he had
in months was to toss that big, flop
ping black bass back into the water.
Catfish also have been plentiful and
some good hauls have been made in
the eddies and in the still water
above the dams in nearby streams.
Governor Brumbaugh last night
paid a tribute to the newspapers and
the businessmen, bankers and bond
statesmen, who have taken hold of
the pushing of the Liberty Loan. ut
has been the most widely advertised
thing / have ever known" said the
Governor. People all over the coun-
Ltry must know all about them. I do
1not see how they could help 1t. The
advertising given in this state alone
without cost could not be paid for
with the whole of that $4,000, 900 de-
fense fund. And as for the efforts
: to sell bonds 1 have bought not only
for myself but for my wife and chill
dren and if the pressure keeps up I'll
have to buy one for my dog"