Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-23
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proportions in Dauphin and Lebanon
counties and there is pronounced
growth of sentiment among farmers
and others using horses for betterment
of the stock. The demand is not for
fast horses, but for good, strong work
horses and the value of careful breed
ing is being more and more recognized
in this community which, in spite OF
its Industrial and transportation emis
nence, is nevertheless one of the inn
portant agricultural districts. There
are no less than eighty stations In the
two counties, of which sixteen are reg
istered Cumberland has siXty-f1ve
and Dauphin fifteen. In this county
five are registered and in Cumberland
eleven. Only one of the registered is
not considered as up to par. The reg
istered animals in this county are =.
ii. Cassell. Hummelstown, standard
bred; NJ. $. Hershey; Hershey; Per
cheron; John II. Miller, Harrisburg
standard bred; John E. Smeltz, Loyal
ton, French Coach and the Upper
Dauphin German Coach Horse Com
pany, of Elizabethville, German Coach::
The registrations in Cumberland
county are:
S. b. Best, Boiling Springs, Belgian;
Israel Failor, Newville, Belgian;
Farmers Horse Company, Shippens-
burg, Belgian; V. c. Mccormick, Rose
Garden, Percheron; w. ii. Miller,
Highland Farm, Carlisle. Standard
Percheron; MELVILLE Percheron Horse
Company, MELVILLE, Standardized and
Percheron; Shippensburg Horse Com
pany, Walnut Bottom, Percheron; ).
e. Wonderly, New Kingston, Per-
cheron; Carlisle Percheron Horse
Company, Carlisle, Percheron.
Some person asked the question the
other day, What are the veteran PEN
sioners of the Pennsylvania railroad
doing?" None physically able have
idle moments. Of course they are not
doing strenuous work. Their long
service with the railroad company
gives them right to take things easy.
| If you watch closely their movements,
| however, you will see they are follow
ing some vocation. In several OF the
big department stores the elevators
are in charge of railroad vets" Some
| have gone into business. One retired
passenger engineer is passing the time
| in making oil paintings and he has Der
| come quite an artist. Up on North
Sixth street there is a passenger en-
gineer who is selling oil. He knows
what good oil is, having used it on his
engine for many years. A well known
train man is making furniture; while
a shopman who had record as car
builder is a carpenter and is keeping
busy. Railroad pensioners believe
that keeping active prolongS life, and
as long as they can be their own bosses
or have proper hours for work, they
will not kick.
It is not often that a trolley car par
takes of the nature of a zoo, even on
Saturday nights when the owl cars
are more or less filled with the hilari-
Gus. But last evening a suburban car
furnished the entertainment. A man
got on a car with dog in box and
placed it on the front end. There were
l. . ;,J-1 f,, on
the platform and the dog snuffed the
fowls and began to give voice. He
gave some yelpS and the chickens
clucked a little until they were sure
they were we'll protected. The dog
continued to growl and when the pas
sengers were all taking notice from the
rear came a loud "quack." 1t was
from a duck. safe and sound in bas-
ket carried by very much fused
young man.
City health officers are keeping close
watch upon the development of conA
tagious and infectious diseases this
spring and declare that in spite of the
weather there have been few out
breaks. Some of the people observing
health conditions attribute the situa-
ton to the cold weather and Others to
the lessons learned last year when
there was so much sickness. In other
words, say doctors, people are taking
more care of themselves and theii
families. Wbooping cough has moi
been as prevalent as usual.
Albert Rosenthal. the Philadelphia
artist who appears to be considerably
in the limelight at Philadelphia because
of some attacks made upon paint
| ings he executed of the fathers for In
dependence Hall, is we'll known here
Some ten or fifteen years ago Rosen-
| hoI n he tha only artist
with any standing on Capitol Hill and
! he painted the portrait of officials and
hourished about as though he was the
court painter, as indeed, he was dub
bed by some. Rosenthal was strona
on having collections of portraits
made for departments and when he
was not doing that he was executing
| likenesses of eminent Pennsylvanians
| for various expositions, some of his
works being now in the Department
of Public Instruction. He painted the
gallery of chief justices of the SUI
preme court and various department
| heads and if his vogue had not de-
clined he would probably have antici-
| pated Governor Brumbaugh's sugges-
ton that the history of Pennsylvanis
| in art be made feature of the Capl.
tol.
Unconsciously Harrisburg appears
to have taken the bull by the horns
and forged ahead or the rest oil the
country in the save an hour of day
light" plan. At least that large part
of the city's population that lives on
the Hill and uses the Mulberry street
bridge is an hour ahead of the rest OF
the world if it regulates it's life by
the large electric clock that blazes
brightly each evening. Some weeks
ago new electrically lighted face was
put on the clock which is part of
huge sign. Whether the workmen
squinted carelessly at their watches
when they came to set the timepiece
or whether they are publicists for the
save an hour" propaganda is not Just
| clear Anyway the clock has merrily
| blazed ever since one hour ahead of all
competitors. So 1t is no unusual thing
to see persons scurrying rapidly across
the bridge wondering how they came
to be q whole hour behind time.