Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
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Nephc trounoS ana Buildings will
contain collection of exclusively
pennsylvania trees that will not only
De very ornamental but serve an ad-
mirable educational purpose as we'll.
Ihis is the idea OF Governor Brum-
baugh, whose hobby is trees and who
can talk about them by the hour. 1t
was originally planned to have the
older portion of the park studied and
some ornamental trees substituted for
several which have passed their best
days, while 1t was suggested that
planes or certain locusts trees be
placed in the rows of trees in the ex-
tension; Governor Brumbaugh
promptly said that 1t was his opinion
that the park should be planted with
Pennsylvania trees alone and that he
dld not want anything like an ar
boretum. Pennsylvania has some
splendid native trees said he yes
terday in talking about the plan. II
have gone through many miles of
forest in this State and what | would
IKE to see is a collection of the ma
tive trees. You have no idea of the
magnificent trees to be found within
few miles of your city. Take tho
red oak, for instance. which l sug-
gested for the rows of trees to be
| painted east of the Capitol There
Is nothing finer and it grows to great
proportions. 1t is Pennsylvania tree.
| W iihNS many Ol lncn1 WHO IN YOUR
vicinity, probably some very fine ones
IN your Wildwood Park. l know of no
| better tree for the rows. Then we
can select typical trees for the rest
OF the park as the plan is developed"
The States tentative plans for the
improvement of the Capitol Park are
the theme of a good many discussions
| about the city and the growth of
sentiment that the building opera
uons IN vicinity of the Common
| Wealths reservation should be gov
erned by public interest is growing
| py leaps and bounds. 1t stands to
reason that future building on Third,
North and Walnut streets will be in
accord with some general city plan
| winch can be administered through
the bureau of building inspection and
clVlc pride is being manifested in
statements that nothing should be
undertaken that would be out of ac-
cord with the wonderful place to be
created. In time to come the new
schools and public buildings can be
built fronting the park and probably
IN future organizations which desire
to have notable homes will utilize
sites which look on the Capitol.
couple of farmers visiting this
city this week gave some interesting
views on rural conditions. One man
declared that the reason there were
so many farm sales was that farmers
were fearful that they would not be
able to get the labor to properly cul-
tivate their lands and that 1t was
next to impossible to have all work
attended to with the city and the
railroads offering such attractive in
ducements to wage earners. In some
sections near here it has come that
! men have organized whereby they
VIII get the services of men and
teams and implements for ploughing
and similar work, each farmer hav-
ing turn and paying the price, much
: as is now done by threshermen. Just
| how to get in the crops, however, is a
/ different problem. as these cannot
: wait. The other man said that from
what he had observed there were
J more men inclined to raise live stock
} than heretofore and that because of
, INABILITY to make sure of labor some
} fields would be turned into pasture.
This will be benefit in the long,
run in more ways than one and the
animals will furnish more beef In
, cidentally, there is more attention be-
ing given to sheep raising in this
) section.
) Funeral services for Secretary OF
r Internal Affairs Henry Houck to-day
caused renewed expressions of sor-
row at his death and there were many
who recalled the frequent appear
ances of the Lebanon educator al
meetings. banquets and other gather
ings here. Probably the last appear
ance of DR.. Houck at a function here
was at dinner given to one of his
friends which lasted until rather late
in the evening. The secretary was
accustomed to going to bed early, and
when some one remarked that it was
past his bed time he replied, There's
no better way to show your friend
ship than to lose sleep. 1 came here
~ To CT 1g.A.
a speech" And he did both and
thoroughly enjoyed both as much as
those with him.
Tt was a we'll known fact that DR..
Houck did not like to vote adversely
in any applications for Communication
of murder cases and he would re-
frain from voting when he could. u
wish we did not have to act on these
cases." said he upon more than one
occasion. But when it came to the
scratch and he had to enforce the
discretion he would vote. On a num-
ber of occasions DR.. Houck expressed
his objection to capital punishment
and said he would be glad to see the
law changed.
Dauphin county people will be in
terested to know that the Rev. Linn
Bowman, pastor of the Spring Gar
den Street Methodist Church, Phila-
delphia. has declined call to
Johnstown. 1t was expected that he
would be transferred at the meeting
of the Philadelphia Conference, in
Goodman Church, Philadelphia, next
week. This conference includes the
Dauphin county churches, except
those in this city, which are attached
to the Central Pennsylvania Confer
ence, which often honors this city by
its sittings.
Representative John S. Eby, OF
Newport, takes considerable pride in
telling the other legislative lovers OF
baseball about real baseball. n He
used to catch on the Philadelphia Ma.
tional League team twenty years ago.