Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-17
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by visiting Insurance engineers, sur
Vey squads arn testing committees. the
only thing that will ever bring down
fire Insurance rates is increased fire
protection al d the reorganization of
ilre prevention or fire extinguishing
services on the ever progressing mod
erh system. The modern system is
SON som mlethlng fheting. 1t never stands
sun long enough for any one to catch
up 10 IT, mufh less a city fire depart
iheht under the manner in which it is
Hsea by thf underwriters. But thek
ldcI remalnl that the use of motor
llre apparatus has tripled and on some
cases quadrtpled fire protection be-
Gause OF ting greatly increased mobil-
ny ol the pieces. This can be very
ssSrIhlngly Illustrated by the plans for
Ine nre departments of Harrisburg
u Lnu oteeltoh Under the contracts let
ms Guys department will be COM
pleIely motorized, as the phrase goes,
~ ~ the next nlnety days probably earl
tSl' ~ now nad fourteen companies in
Ihe city department and some local
ORGANIZATIONS in the Pennsylvania rail-
ROAD shops hnd in industrial establish
nlehts. lts slcollection of motor appa-
ratus' wheh complete, will be large
enough for city covering as much
! territory asScranton or Reading. And
an this without Steelton, which, with
its SIN pieces of motor apparatus, will
soon have dn equipment sufficient for
town of larger proportions. The
point, hoWefer, is that with the Har-
rlspurg and Steelton automobile fire
| apparatus lhey will have fire protec-
ton which 'an be speedily modified in
elther place in event of great emer-
sency. With the highways of both
places paved the mobility of the ap-
paratus is eteatly enhanced and con-
cehtratlon OF fire fighting force will
! be possible III very short time which
| should be taken into consideration by
! businessmen Rs we'll as insurance peo-
pie. The celtrity with which Market
| square was tlled up with fire appa-
ratus even uhder the present system
When half ofthe department is horse
drawn and tile quickness with which
| pieces from substance reached scenes
Oh the numehous alarms last week
caused much Comment. but there will
be greater caute for tudy of the fire
| hghtinS SYSTEM when the new appa-
ratus is in service.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
othcial name of Major John C.
Groome's very efficient force is the
State Police Ffrce, many people, in
cluulng quite q few persons on Cap
ltol Hill, persitt in styling them the
state Constabuhry In fact, the term
constabulary appears to be applied to
the troopers about as much as in Phil
adelphia or Pittsburgh or Erie or any
place in the State where the men are
known. a re5lution was solemnly
passed by the Legislature the other
day asking for the "constabulary" to
be sent to hel9 the squirrel guards
protect the CAPITOL, although a few
days before BILL had been passed to
increase the State Police Force. One
man went into "a department of the
State government and in the course
of conversation referred to the "con-
stabulary." He offered to bet that he
was right, but they sprung the act of
1906 creating tie force on him and
he found he was dead wrong.
Speaking of tie State Police much
of the work TO put through the bill
creating the Nev York State Police
force was done by II. Lindley Hos
ford formerly secretary to Commits
sioner of Health Samuel G. Dixon and
well known to many residents of this
city. Mr.. Hosforl is a former news
paper man and wien the movement to
establish the pllice in New York
State was started he was selected to
have charge of the publicity propA-
ganda and other work. For years eff
forts to secure TIL, establishment of q
police force had ben made. Mr.. Hos
ford seems to have put it through in
less than six moths.
A good many in Harrisburg re-
member Major jain NJ Burke, the
veteran attache of Buffalo Bills Wild
West enterprises, who died Thursday
in Washington. The major was a
picturesque figure and used to hold
that he knew more people in the
United States than any one in the
show business, if not in any other
| 10 tafY w In
papermen and he used to regularly
visit every newspaper office when the
show came to town. Last time he
came here he told OF visiting the HAIR
RISBURG TELEGRAPH in three diff
ferent locations in his time and of
visits to the Harrisburg Patriot in any
many different locations within forty
years.
We've, had regular runs on our
stock of hoes" said a man connected
with the city's biggest establishment
that handles tools and things for out
door work. THE run began about the
time people started to talk about
planting potatoes in the front yard
and I tell you that there has been
every kind of garden implement sold
the last week. And l want to tell you
that it is not kid glove gardening peo-
pie are going in for It's the real
thing" H..
DIR. b. Franklin Royer, chief medi-
cal inspector of the State Department
of Health, who late yesterday received
notice of his commission as a captain
in. the medical reserve corps. was one
of the first men to enter that corps.
! He became Interested when it was first
formed sevetal years ago and has had
! charge of examinations made of medi-
cal men in this section. DIR. Royer,
although a yOung man, has had wide
experience in both hospital and field
work.