Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
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! The two big furnaces being erected
at the Pennsylvania plant of the Beth
! lehem Steel Company are attracting
much attention among iron and steel
men and engineers generally because
of many new ideas in construction OF
such branches of iron making. the
furnaces are the largest to be found IN
this part of the State as we'll as the
most modern. Their output will be
greater than the combined output or
the old furnaces which made iron 1or
the Steelton works for so many years
and unlike those stacks there Will be
no waste. The gas and everything
else will be saved and converted INTO
use. In old days blast furnaces could
be located miles away because OF the
| flaming gas from the open tops ana
there are many in Harrisburg who re-
call kow the sky would be lighted up
| by the fires Then came the time
when the gas was utilized and some OF
| the early experiments in that line were
made here. Now the older furnaces
are seen to flame, only when charSeu
and the bright lights that used to hare
when q cast was made have become
q thing of the past because of the cast
| ing machines. The difference between
the monsters being erected at Steelton
| and the Lochiel and Paxton furnaces
| here is marked and there are many
points in which the huge new furnaces
essentially different. Tie building OF
these new furnaces has an important
| bearing on this section as an iron
making district. The stacks cost over
a million dollars each and the invest
ment here is evidence of the per-
manence of the industry on the Lower
| Susquehanna Valley. Until the recent
construction started at Steelton no new
furnaces had been built in Dauphin
county for more than quarter of
century and the Lebanon furnaces
were not much younger in their LIS
tory. The new furnaces projected by
Chairman Schwab are of interest from
| industrial, business and engineering
standpoints and should be source OF
pride to people hereahouts.
The cold wave caught a good many
people mapping in spite of the checker
board flag flying from the remnants
of the Federal building and the an
nouncements in the newspapers that
the mercury would drop. There were
n number of people who were caught
in town with light overcoats ana
when they went home last evening
they were shivering. Some of the
visitors to the city had gotten the idea
! that there would be mild weather ana
some incongruous costumes were worn
| for a while. The men who were
I handling outdoor work were mighty
glad when the whistles blew.
I
OF all the jobs which were not en-
We'd last night nor to-day that on the
construction of the building that is TO
make the Victoria theater building is
the worst. The men have to work up
where the winds whistle and sing and
are under the glare of electric lights
which make them the target for all
sorts of iibes from the people in the
street. The remodeling or rather
| additional work which they are DONG
is removing one of the landmarks of
Harrisburg. 1t was for years the
home of the Ginstein store on the
first floor and on the second floor were
the offices of the Mccormick estate
with the McCreath laboratory on the
top floor The second and third
floors were set back and the white
front was q familiar sight for many
years. 1t was sold by the Mccormick
estate some years ago for price
which was nearly q record for Market
street realty
Inhaling gas fumes from automo-
biles again proved to be dangerous.
A Steelton resident several days ago
| started his automobile and closed the
garage door. After doing a bit of
work about in the building he began
to feel dizzy. He went to the door
| for some fresh air and managed to
get to the door of his home, where ho
|
days from the effects of the gas. He
said yesterday he wouldn't wish
similar experience TO his worst enemy.
Fresh air fiends are taking advant-
age of the breezy balmy days of the
winter months and making good use
of the deserted country roads by their
hikes over the week-ends. Many who
are shut in an office during six days of
a week retreat to this instinctiNely
Sunday. For miles about the city on
| q Sunday you can see numbers stroll
ing along the the roadsSome of these
are couples who perhaps take this
course to tell tales which are not at
all interesting to the old folks who
keep them company by the flreside
when they are at home.
An interesting story is being told in
one of the nearby towns much to the
discontinue of one of it's prominent
merchants. The high school does not
have any recess SO the morning ses-
sion ends at 11:45 o'clock Recently
the principal of the school became
Iimbued with the idea of giving the pu-
pills an occasional fire drill. a nearby
merchant who doesn't care to carry
a watch always goes home for lunch
when the school bell rings. Yesterday
morning the bell was tapped at 10
o'clock for the first trial fire drill. The
drill worked all right, but the nearby
merchant hung up his usual sign,
Gone to lunch, back in fifteen min
utes" and then went home, expecting
to find the lunch ready for his COM
ing.
| DIR. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the
! State Game Commission, to-day re-
ceived word that his son, Lieutenant
! Commander Ned C. Kalbfus has pass
ed the examination for promotion to
the rank of commander and would be
commissioned as of August 28 Thus
he becomes n commander before he
is 3S years of age.