Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28

Paxton warehouse now used for
State storage.
The prospective removal of the
Governors Troop quarters has at
tracted attention TO the armory sit
uation in this city. When the troop
returns from active service it will
not have any armory and the City
Grays' armory is too small for the
units of the Eighth. The policy of
the State Armory Board is to erect
armories only where sites are do
mated and as the idea is to await
completion of Capitol Park extern
sion and then develop the public
buildings along the borders the
chances of Harrisburg getting any
State aid for an armory out of the
s1,200.O00 appropriation just ap-
proved are remote indeed.
Stories that the First cavalry may
be made into artillery have come
here, but no one seems to know what
there is to the report. The State has
its full quota of field artillery now.
Cooperate With State
City Electrician Diehl and the
managers of the several public utili-
ties. including the Harrisburg Light
and Power Company, the two tele-
phone corporations and the Harris
burg Gas Company are cooperating
win IAN EAANt AAAtOl lAlSS III
.he environment of the Capitol of all
overhead poles and wires. The hearty
cooperation of these utility COM
panies is greatly appreciated by the
officials at the Capitol, and, working
together, it is expected that the last
vestige of the overhead system along
Walnut street and throughout the
Capitol Fark zone will have dis
appeared with the end of summer.
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fronts the several companies is Sc
curing prompt deliveries of cables
and underground conduits but suf-
Gcient headwav has been made to
indicate the successful completion of
the general clearance OF overhead
wires and the forest of poles this
year. Ii is entirely probable that the
trunk line of the Bell Telephone
Company which extends through the
Capitol Park zone and eastward
through the city will be placed under
ground in order to relieve the Capitol
Park area of any obstruction which
would Interfere with the view from
Capitol Hill.
A. W. Drummer. the distinguished
landscape designer who is collabo-
rating with Warren H. Manning in
rhe plans for Transforming the Capt.
tol Park zone was here this week
anu wiz nav : ACaN4S lbl Tie
of the Board OF Public Grounds and
Buildings the drawings and speci-
flcations for the elimination of the
street-level sidewalks and the re-
grading of the park district in a
short time.
While nothing definite has been
determined. II is believed the Board
of Public Grounds and Buildings are
OF one mind respecting a great via
duct at State street instead of a sub
way, which is said TO be Inadvisa BILE.
One of the features of the trans
formation of the park under the ap-
preparation approved by the Gov
ernor yesterday will be a dignified
entrance to the grounds at State and
Third streets instead of the unsightly
brownstone conGlomeration at that
point. The first work that will be
done in the Capitol Park area will
be the construction of a granite
coping at the foot of the new-made
terrace on Third street from North
to Walnut and on Walnut street from
Third to Fourth. This will mean the
widening of Walnut and Third streets
to approximately sixty feet and will
greatly relieve the congestion which
is rapidly increasing in the central
part of the CITY.