Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-24
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Pennsyivania should have close to
'o'ooo men and women and young
people knitting in its penal and
state charitable institutions If Gov
eInor Martin G. Brumbaugh's idea of
,ne .ne superintendents putting the in
OIL such places to work with 6
Resnonsa anu yarns is carried out.
1esponses coming to Harrisburg.
rom the men in charge of these
piaces are to the effect that in some
oI tnem knitting has been under
way Tor some time, while others will
start the plan. A number of county
Rtison ofnc1als have sent word that
they nave been furnished with warn
by Red Cross ORGANIZATIONS and that.
heretofore idle hands are working
on SOCKS, scarfS and sweaters. From
an accounts the practice of knitting
IN the hospitals has been a big feaZ
ture In the daily life of inmates for.
s sDne months. 1t is estimated that
.nere are between $4,000 and 10000
persons in the various institutions,
state si and county with some in cities.
| Inc laSt report of the population of
sne state Insane hospitals was TO-
100, While there were 4,25O in the
pehltentlaries and reformatories.
some Oh whom We're at work in other
| lines. The feeble-minded ponulation
is given as 1850 while $50 are in
county insane hospitals. over 1000
more are believed to be in other in-
| stltutlons, penal and charitable. not
uhder state control, but where knit
ting has been started or will be in
augurated.
Pennsylvania's National Guard is
growing again. According to rec
ords in the Adjutant Generals De-
partment a few days ago it consisted
or TOUR men. Now it is up around ten.
or rather will be when Col. II. G.
Trexier, quartermaster general and
some of his aids return to state
service, and Col. Frank G. Sweeney,
| inspector general, retireS from duty
at the state draft headquarters.
| Coils. Fl. l.. Haldeman and J. G. Ell
lfott are classed as in the Guard,
until the changes are made, how
| ever, Col. Jere NJ. Leaman, deputy
ad1utant general. is the ranking Off
Ger after Adjutant General Beary.
If the demands for hunters Ii
cense tags at the office of the State
| Game Commission from big agricul-
tural and industrial counties are any,
| thing to go by there will be more
hunters this fall than known in the
last half dozen. Over twenty coun-
ties have already exceeded their
| r.
Inc banner mark was 303, 900 in the
first year of the licenses, but last
year $4,000 was the approximate
total. This year 1t is possible thatI
100000 may be the goal. This will
furnish an abundance of funds for
the establishing of additional game
preserves and to continue propaga-
! tion. 1t is not believed the Governor
Will make material changes in the
personnel of the State Game Com
, mission which will administer the
: FUNDS. Allegheny, Berks, Lancaster,
= Dauphin and Lehigh counties have
gone CLOSE to 1000 above the num-
ber of licenses issued last year Some
of them have estimated that they
will go 1,500 ahead. Fayette, Wash
ington and Westmoreland are 5O0
ahead OF last year. The smaller
counties have been showing proper
tionate increases.
The fact that a number of farmers
in Dauphin and Cumberland coun-
: ties have put UP silos this year rather
leads to the hope that more atten-
: ton is to be given to cattle raisingI
in this section. For a long time il
, has been the hope of men who re-
! member the days when Dauphin was
q county with cattle on every farm
/, to see it revive and the interest in
heep raising has braced up such
people. The silos have been increas-
, ing slowly, but gradually. They are
being built of tile and even of brN Nk.
+
A state official who gets about a.
great deal and who uses his eyes
, while travelling, remarked the other
day that he was inclined to think
: that the custom of railroads to burn
= old ties was sheer waste now. "On a.
trip the other day l passed through
some sections where tracks were be-
ing fixed up and / passed pile after
, pile of ties being burned. Tell me
why the wood in them could not be
given to the workers on the section
, gang or thrown upon adjoining land
: for owners to use for firewood, If the
railroads did not want 1t. Wood Is
wood and when coal is hard to get,
especially in the country, think that
conservation could be put into prac-
-, ice"
? Burgess David Mccormick, of I,c-
highton, was here yesterday for the
discussion of ways of utilizing mine
f, gas for power at the Executive De
partment. The burgess was elected
recently, and says that smiles did it.
He also runs newspaper and is ac-
tive in the Chamber of Commerce.
Likewise he is some six feet and
built accordingly