Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-26
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Discussion of general plan for
construction of armories in Pennsyl-
vania cities and boroughs to take care
of the organizations which the State
is obligated to house under the ma
tional defense act brought out the in
teresting fact that the Guard officers
rather look to Harrisburg to help the
state establish armories in the State
Capital. The armories to be built here
for the infantry and cavalry organi- =.
zations and such units as headquart-
ers, supply, machine gun and other
companies must be of type befit-
ting the standing of the city as n capi-
tai and a municipality intimate these
men. In plain words they look for a
couple of 100000 propositions. Sug-
gestions that the city and county buy
properties fronting on Capitol Park,
that the city emulate Wilkes Barre
and give sites in parks, and of pur-
chase of blocks in the built-up sec
ton have been made. However, it ap-
pears that there are some men who
think that the end of the Capitol
park toward the railroad would be
good place for the structures. This
project has been mentioned several
times before and has not always met
with favor on the ground that it
would shut off the view of the park
| from trains, one of the arguments
| used when the park extension was
| being urged. The impression seems to
| prevail that the armory proposition
should be taken up by municipal au-
| thorities while the changes incident
TO the extension and improvement to
! Capitol park are being made and that
the city Will be called upon to do its
part. In Greensburg and other towns
the county gave the lots and the
state built the armories. In other
places the municipalities either gave
| the property or contributed u share
| of the cost. The present infantry ar
mory, called in honor of the old City
Grays will be too small in a year and
as for the Governors Troop it must
vacate the building it now occupies
within two years at least.
OF all the cases that have been be-
| fore the State Board of Pardons in
recent years few have attracted the
attention among lawyers and medical
men that the application of John
Nelson, of Wyoming county, has
aroused. Nelson was supposed to be
a voodoo doctor and no one has his
right name. He ran amuck and now
a doctor who attended his victim and
who did not testify at the trial has
been called to appear before the
board. 1t is a question of medical
ethics with chance that a mans life
may be at stake. The hearing will
take place next month.
The corn and apple show held this
week at the Emerson -Brantingham
building as part of the agricultural
meetings will probably be made an
annual affair. 1t was successful be-
yond many hopes and succeeded in
getting assembled for the first time
in many years the prizewinners of
county fairs. Fifty years ago Harris
burg had a State fair that drew the
choice products of many counties,
but it was in summer. This eXhibi-
ton can be made a regular winter
event in Harrisburg with a little en-
couragement from Harrisburg peo-
pie.
Speaking of this weeks gatherings
it is a matter of note the extent of
the comments heard upon the plans
for the new hotel. The people who
came here and who talked about it
appeared to have one question, ISL
4 1t a go?" AS q matter of fact Har-
risburg's new hotel has been a moro
or less extensively used subject for
the testers from other places and the
fact that it is a "go" has been the
subject of some commendatory re-
marks and some also indicative that
Ine speakers InOuSnL II ABOUT tllne.
Men who asked about the status of
the proposition predicted that it
would bring dozen more conven-
tions to Harrisburg the first year it
was opened.
NJ. Luther Mason, the Reading man
selected as a deputy State fire mar
shall, is well known to scores of fire
men here as he has been active in
State fire circles for twenty years He
is a printer on the Reading Eagle
force and was backed by business
men. legislators. firemen and many
others for the place. Indeed. it is sell
dom that so many people unite to Sc
cure an appointment. He took prom
inent part in the State Firemen's con-
vention here a few years ago.
Just why people should call the Vine
and Race street cars the Vinegar
Valley no one seems to know. The
other evening n couple of young wo-
men evidently working in another
part of the city made bee line for
the car just as it was about to start
from Market Square, calling out
Hold old Vinegar Valley"