Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
Ehrtttttg Chat


Troop c of the First Cavalry as it is
officially known, is on the way home
from the Texas border, 1t is worth
while starting to consider how Har-
risburg is going to take care of its
militia organizations, which before
long will be increased as the State
Capital by reason of its transportation
facilities is an important military CEN
ter to say nothing of its political and
manufacturing significance. The Coy
ernor's Troop will occupy the old
church in Capitol Park extension for
probably two more years The two In
fantry companies of the Eighth with
the machine gun, headquarters and
supply companies and regimental
headquarters will find the Second
street armory too small for them when
they return. In Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh and other places the county
and municipal authorities have been
voting money for sites for armories
which the State has erected and some
structures eminently fitted for the uses
of the Guardsmen and ornamental to
the city have been put up. Harris
| burg might take a lesson from Wilkes
Barre, which is the headquarters OF
| the Third artillery and devote a part
| of its space on a parkway or in a park
for an armory or it might do what has
| been done in some smaller cities do
nate square and cooperate with the
State in the construction of a fitting
| building.
There are a couple of thoughts
which might be dwelt upon in this
connection. Suppose the city of Har-
risburg should donate plot of ground
in Reservoir Park for an armory for
the infantry organization and their
auxiliaries. What a fine place that
would be for a building such as the
State could afford to put up at once
Then again the city and the county
might go together and get a plot of
land close to the State arsenal, which
will be on the parkway when finished,
and secure State aid, which will be
| promptly forthcoming for an adequate
armory. Suppose the city gave site
in Wildwood Park for an ar
mDP' The troop do5 'ee Comes G"Vay here tr1GR %th
thirty-two horses which it will keep
and mounted drill and practice will be
obligatory. What better place than
| Wildwood? 1t is true the suggested
sites are some distance from the CEN
ter of the city, but in other places the
same condition is found. The armory
question is not solely a State PROPOSE
ton. 1t is something for the city and
county to act on speedily.
Prominent in the delegation of
Scranton men here yesterday was
John Durham. who is president oe the
Scranton Protective Association,
which was formed by the property
| owners and citizens to take care of
buildings and properties affected by
the subsistence of the soil due to mining
beneath. Valuable buildings, includ-
ing State Armory, have been dam
aged by these accidents and Mr.. Dur
kan has been an active man to organ
ize against the conditions which pro-
duce them.
The organization of the committee
to give a home coming to the Harris
burg soldiers recalls the days when the
men came home from the Spanish
war. The Governors Troop and Com
pany ! returned from Porto Rico, but
the greetings to them was no less
hearty than to Company d.
The vagaries of the Susquehanna
river have permitted considerable
work by the sand and coal dredgers
! in spite of the frozen condition in
spots. Down around Steelton and up
near Millersburg the dredges have
been able to work and flats to maneu-
yer, while near this city the ice has
| Deen 100 tnlck 10 Jackie.
|
Colonel Henry C. Demming, re-
elected president of the Firemen's
! Union at the annual meeting last
night, enters upon his twenty first con-
secutive term as the executive of that
body. In the last two decades the
Union has become a force in city
affairs and the colonel has been a fac
tor in the development. Some of the
| best known men of the city are men,
bers of the Union and representatives
of their fire companies. The Union
has done much toward insisting upon
good conduct at fires and in correcting
some matters complained of.
Samuel McClay, prominent Pitts
| burgh lawyer, was here yesterday in
connection with the argument in the
Wabash case, a matter which next to
the Panhandle merger is the biggest
railroad proposition presented to the
Public Service Commission in a long
time. 1t involves transfer to a new
railroad of the Wabash's famous en-
| trance into Pittsburgh.