Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-13
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last year carried on business of over
SIC, 900, 900 in cattle, hogs and sheep
calls to mind line of business in
which Harrisburg used to surpass the
city of the red rose, but which in
spite of superior railroad facilities 1T
lost. This State now has two great
cattle centers--Pittsburgh and Ian
caster with Philadelphia also doing a
large amount of business. Forty years
ago Harrisburg stockyards were as
well known as those at Lancaster and
I 1t was to this city that men came
when they wanted to buy everything
| from western horses to northern tier
sheep. The old stockyards were To-
Gated along the Pennsylvania Rail
| road above Maclay street, the Maple
| Grove Hotel being then known as the
Stockyards Hotel and occupying the
same position as the William Penn,
the Cross Keys and others in West
Philadelphia do to the cattle trade IN
that city and which several do in
Lancaster. In those days farmers for
| miles around used to come to HARRIS
burg to buy their cattle and many
head were bought right out of the
cars or from the pens and driven
home. But Harrisburg declined as
| cattle center and Lancaster took the
| business. Some of the older men re-
call the days when this city was also
a great place for assembling cattle
and skeep for the Philadelphia and
eastern markets and the passing OF
big llocks of cattle and sheep through
the old camelback bridge used toNbe
a matter of daily occurrence.
One of the most popular forms of
automobile entertainment Just now is
to take "a ride up through the Dauphin
Narrows to q point near SpeeceVille to
see the fantastic forms in which the
ice Is piled. The cakes coming down
the stream were piled on the rocks
near Dauphin and backed up for many
yards, while the Rockville falls were
responsible for some jams which have
formed picturesque places The valley
of the Susquehanna is pretty in
teresting place just now and makes the
average person long for a gradual
coming of spring instead of a sudden
thaw. The conditions to be found
along the river between Sunbury and
Columbia are too much like those of
1904 to be very comfortable.
Men who like to roam about the
countryside in winter time declare
that when the spring thaws come and
the ice starts out of the Susquehanna
there will be a tremendous outpour-
ing of ice from the creeks in this
section. In spite of tie many springs
which feed the Conodoguinet, Swat
ara and other streams the ice is very
thick and rough and unless the thaw
be gradual there will be jams all
along the river. The same is true of
the creeks up the river, some of them
being closed tighter than for years
|
Mary Brecht Pulver, whose delight
full stories have been appearing in the
Saturday Evening Post for some time
past, is none other than the daughter
of Dr. Milton J. Brecht, the Public
Service, Commissioner. Mrs. Pulver,
whose home is in New York state, is
a native of Lancaster and the charm
of her stories is their local color, which
is all the more remarkable because
Mrs. Pulver has not been an extensive
traveller. Her story in the issue of
last week is one that every reader will
| go through with to the end.
Harry L. Holmes, the scotsman, was
, talking the other evening about the
sinking of the Crown Point with
valuable cargo of seeds and remarked
, upon the interesting fact that most of
the spinach seed is produced in Hol-
, land and that the sinking of this ship
J may result in a scarcity for this and
other sections of the state where the
vegetable is grown and where 1t is eN-
, ltensively used. Experiments in rails
, ing the seed have been made in this
state, he says, but the thrifty, pains
: taking Dutch have had the business.
1t looks, he says, as though this coun-
try would have to do some additional
J developing.
Just to Lhow that business keeps
, going on it may be said that at one
of the hotels yesterday were two men
, engaged in the business of selling
articles not ordinarily associated with
i the middle Of February. These two
commercial men were old friends and
one asked the other about the calendar
trade prospects for 1917, while TIE
other replied in kind tnquiring as to
Christmas cards.
Wilnam rerrlne, writing in the
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, gives
this interesting account of the visit
of Abraham Lincoln to this city, which
is of interest because of the anniver-
sary yesterday of the president: MIR.
Lincoln went to Harrisburg in acord-
ance with the previous plan, fulfilled
his engagements there in the course
! of a few hours, and, shortly after sun
set, proceeded quietly from Jones
Hotel--now the Commonwealth--to q
point on the Pennsylvania Railroad
where an engine, a baggage car and n
. passenger car had been provided. The
only other member of the Lincoln
! party that boarded this train, besides
the President elect, was Colonel La
mon; the rest of the suite remained
In Harrisburg and went down to
washington early the next morning
over the Northern Central. The small
special train for Lincoln and his
friend Lamon was headed for Phila-
delphia in accordance with a secretly
conceived plan to which, Samuel M.
FELTON,, of the Philadelphia, Whining
ton and Baltimore Railroad; Alan
Pinkerton, the detective; Governor
Curtin, Colonel Thomas A. Scott, of
the Pennsylvania Railroad; Manager
: Kenney, of the Philadelphia, Whining
ton and Baltimore Railroad, and
Messrs., Judd, Davis and Lamon, as
Illinois friends of Lincoln, were
: among the principal parties. The rail-
road men, together with Pinkerton,
had been busy for more than fort
night not only in tracing rumors of a
: plot for the assassination of the Presi-
dent-elect but of an extensive con-
spiracy to wreck the railroad tracks
and bridges between Philadelphia and
washington. Hence it was that, early
in the night, when Lincoln was speed
ing back to Philadelphia, orders went
, out to cut all wires of telegraphic
! communication south of Philadelphia
and Harrisburg until after daylight
, the next morning"
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