Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-04
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Announcement by the Harrisburg
Railways Company that it is planning
service improvement and changes in
an effort to maintain schedules during
rush hours, brought forth number OF
traffic tie-up stories and the sympa-
thies of at least one autoist who has
occasion to use the downtown streets
frequently during the day. Ser
vice Improvement" the autoist said
in ''peeved" sort of a way as he
told his trouble to q friend. I'D like
to know how they can do it. Why
sometimes 1t takes me from fifteen to
twenty minutes in my automobile to
get from Market Square to the Phila-
delphia and Reading station. Most of
that time 1 spent creeping through the
Market street subway behind a coal
wagon. Four cars, three automo-
biles and another wagon were trail
ing us. It's going to be some job to
better traffic conditions. there ought
to be help in keeping schedules"
Talking about better service brought
story from an official of the railways
company. too. He was discussing the
plan started some years ago to run eX-
ira cars out State street, and the re-
suits of the trial people in that sec
ton of the city asked for better SER
vice, then with extra cars running to
twentieth street, they preferred TAX
ing crowded Progress or Lingles-
town car instead. l rode out on sew
eral occasions and found that often
the extra car would have only a few
passengers, while the Progress car fol-
lowing 1T had more than so, many of
them getting off at points passed by
the other car"
IF you must have an accident, don't
nave 1t in tollbridge, especially if
there is an unreasonable Amazon at
the one end that takes the TOLL" is the
advice of local man who relates the
following experience:
| Crossing a tollbridge in q nearby
| county an auto collided with his two
horse spring wagon from the rear.
| The wagon was so badly damaged that
he could not continue his trip with
out repairs. He did not care to leave
the horses stand while he went in
search of the village'smithy,' so he
unhitched them and lead them across
! the bridge.
"At the tollgate he paid 10c for each
| horse and &c for himself. He later re-
turned with blacksmith and paid &C
to enter the gate. When the wagon
leave the bridge. Securing the horses
he was forced to pay another 23c to
pass the gate. He had paid 5Sc and
| still wasn't across the bridge. How
ever his troubles were not over. When
| he finally passed the tollgate he was
| charged soc, the regular rate for a two
horse team. Altogether his toll had
cost him SSc
THE matter was taken up with the
bridge authorities and the 5Sc re-
funded, but then maybe the experience
was worth that sum.
Retail milk dealers in the city kept
the telephones busy the other day
when they learned that the dairymen
were talking of another increase in
the, wholesale price. Members and
officials of the city dealers association
decided after short phone conferences
that no meeting will be held for sew
eral days until the action of the farm
ers is known. 1t was intimated that
| fight will be started at once if the
dairymen attempt to jump the price
again. A &c increase per gall
Ion became effective November l.
| 1916.
| Only a few of the third-class cities
in the State pay sc a quart for
Pennsylvania. In one or two places
! the price is 1Oc per quart, but
| the big demand with a small supply is
! largely responsible. In some of the
sections there are few farms and
much of tho milk that is sold is
brought from other points.
The value of the phonograph in the
school and the appreciation of the var
| iety of music made possible by this
machine are causing youngsters in Il
number of schools TO make plans to
| buy talking machines. In one school
in a borough nearby the teacher and
| boys and girls are working together.
| Each day pennies and nickels are saw
ed, which otherwise would have been
spent for candy or other transient
| joys. The youngsters are working
hard and expect to get their machine
| soon.
George IT. Writ, chief forest fire
warden of the State Department of
Forestry, is the author of an illus
trated article in the recent issue of
the Journal of the Engineers Society
| of Pennsylvania in which he tells
what tie State is doing and says that
| If the waste spaces of Pennsylvania
could be reforested and protected
from fires there would be no question
about water supply. Forest fires, he
says, are ineXcusable in Pennsylvania
and 100000 invested in means to
check fires can save millions of dol
lars.
NOW IildJ Inc TuSH Is
over ii is probable that something will
be done pretty soon about a new high
school for the West Shore. The
school directors of that section have
been studying the problem from vari-
Gus angles and from all accounts are
about ready to make known some line
of policy which will bring the realiza-
ton of hopes and furnish the educa-
tional facilities which must come with
the increase of population.
1t is an interesting thing to note
that the State appropriation for the
common schools, which DIR. Schaeffer
would have increased to $18,00O,0O0,
has jumped by ten-year intervals, ex-
cept in the last instance. In 1916 the
total was made 100000. although
the extra million added for the first
time since 1908 can scarcely be con-
sidered as an increase because 1t was
specifically appropriated to certain
objects. The increase in 1908 was the
result of agitation begun back in 1896
and brought about in 1908, when It
| WAS mnde eleven millions