Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-23
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hlghWays that radiate from Harris
purs IKE spokeS from q wheel de-
ciafe that seldom have they known
tne mountains and hills in the Ju-
nlata, Lebanon and Cumberland val
! Ieys to be so beautiful and those who
nave gone down the Susquehanna on
the western bank and observed the
YORK hills are enthusiastic in their
del1ght at the coloring, One has
only to go to Reservoir Park or
cilmb old Fort Washington or take
trolley car to a point above the
Guy limits in Riverside or out aroune1
36Fosress TO get views of the Blue|
The First Mountain is covered with
q patchwork of autumnal tints. rus
set, brown, yellow, red, light green
| ana green. The real yellow of late
october is commencing to predomi-
nate, put there are still enough of|
the other colors left in the foliage toll
make that marvellous color schem q
which seems to be accentuated by
the haze of Indian summer in the
Blue Ridge country. Some of the
hardy trees are just commencing to
turn and there are places where red
| ana yellow have commenced to run
| up the branches like flames, while
| the eVergreens stand out as in pro-
test at the activities OF Jack Frost.
| 80 tAiC tAAliC VI lIlc year 10 maK6l
| tr1ps up through Wildwood park or1
II you have the time to take the ride
out Linglestown road to see First
Mountain or to go along the road
| that skirts the mountain from nearl
Enola. Fishing Creek, Stony Creek
and Clark's Creek valleys are in ALL
their glory now and the valley of
Shermans creek, up in Perry Coun-
ty, is well worth rambling.
|
It may be said that the value of
making Wildwood park a natural
park, where the wildwood would re-
main wild, is commencing to be ap-
preciated now even by those mate
r1alists who wanted to turn the park
into tracks or bone factory sites.
| Wildwood is declared to contain|
| most of the trees indigenous tot
Pennsylvania with few exceptionsI
| which were singled out by boys orr
tramps for burning down before thel
city authorities got the tract. ThereI
are some oaks. in that reservation
which Warren II. Manning says
We're there when Columbus started to|
interview King Ferdinand. coupled
of hemlocks and cypress trees used
to be in the park years ago, but werel
y ruined. The fruit trees survive in al
few places and nay amount to some-|
thing again as in Monroe County,
they have cut back thirty-year- -oldI
apple trees and have them bearingj
again. However, a municipal or1|
chard would require a special police|
force just as watchful eyes have toI
be kept on the chestnut and walnut
trees in public domains
When It comes down to pretty
stretches of way to walk or TO drive|
the city's two parkways offer theI
place for delightful hour or twoyI
if one cares to take the whole ram1
BILE. Starting in at Lochiel, which,
seems to be regaining its old indus
trial prominence and which borders
a pretty residential suburb, the Cam
eron parkway is bright with the fall
hues of the trees and shrubbery oil
the Spring Creek valley. Mid-after-|
noon is the time for this walk fort
then the air is warm and the foliaseI
has the autumn odors and rabbits
and squirrels are to be seen back inI
the trees. The new roadway winds|
around PaXtang park after passingl
the almshouse and municipal hospi-
| tai and crossing the hISu.-IC Cham-l
bers hill road and then dips down bel
side the big spring at PaXtang parllI
where the first Rutherford settled
almost 175 years ago, going through
the subway to the William PennI
highway to Reading and New York
! some times called the Derry Street.
pike If one can survive the bounc
ing of a badly maintained borough
street in PaXtang the Paxtang park
| way is reached and it twists beside|
the old Rutherford ice dam up|
through the hollow by the Dull and
Hale farms to PaXtang. Most of theI
time you are beside the beginnings
of Spring creek and trees on the
sides af the ravine almost meet over
head. Quail call to you from theI
brush, rabbits duck into the tall
| grass and squirrels chatter annoy-|
ance at the disturbance of the glade. 1
Fortunately, the city has extended
it's rules to this parkway and hunt
ling Is forbidden within the stretch
| as is the spelling of trees or shrub
| berry. A few hundred yards beyond
| the ravine you are out where Harris
| burg is going to be before long and|
| shooting up an easy grade you are|
| in Reservoir park overlooking Pen-|
brook and with the Rockville gapI
before you
B. F. Umberger, wel1-known attor-
ney, and former councilman and|
| former member of the City Planning|
| Commission, is also founder of the|
| Order of the Big Potato. AS a con-|
| SerVationiSt Mr.. Umberger differs
with Mr.. Hoover and Mr.. UmbergerI
has all the better of the argument.
Whereas Hoover believes in eating|
| less, Mr. Umberger believes in rails
ing more, and thereby putting one
self in the satisfying and satisfactory
| position of being able to eat more.
Last year he went to live in his new|
| country home near Duncannon and
as a starter he proceeded to astoundI
the natives by raising a potato cropI
such as Perry county never hadI
known before. "How does he do it?'t
asked one of the aforesaid natives
And others replied: "Oh, just luck. l
Therefore it became the bounden|
duty of the former Harrisburger to|
demonstrate again this year. He has
| done so. His potato crop yielded 220|
| bushels to the acre-oh, honest it did
and as for size, well, the judges at
| the Perry county fair gave the Um l
| berger potatoes the blue ribbon and
| their owner a handsome bonus I'M
/ cash. Therefore the Order of thd
| Big Potato. Yes, anybody can joml
! Ten dollars initiation and no duesl
! Place, the Umberger farm any after
noon; time, any afternoon afterl
| 4.30, If you happen to have two1
hours spare time to talk potatoesI
Now don't push, take your turn, one'
at time please. don't crowd thd
ticket office man.