Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-22
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| - ever ndQ cause 10
be thankful for the public improve
ments which have given it fame
throughout the land and security and
pleasure at home it has been within
the last fortnight" remarked a man
VINO pays a right fair amount of
taxes yesterday as he stood on the
Mulberry street bridge. II have the
| Hood control in my mind most of ali,
put Reservoir Park and the river
| 'front.', this bridge, the sewer system
that takes up the drainage that used
| 10 pollute the Susquehanna all along
the city, the paved streets and the
inter plant are not to be forgotten.
| l do not think the average Harris
burger realizes what the flood control
works, planned by Engineer Fuertes,
insisted upon by the committee in
| charge of the public works campaign
and carried out by the public-spirited
board, means to this city. Reduced
to the simplest expression, 1t means
dollars and health. In the last fort
| night we have had seven storms that
| brought down tremendous quantities
OF water. Except for the Market
street subway, which was planned
before we launched our scheme for
comprehensive general improve
ments, nothing was seriously affected.
When l was boy, after every thun-
| oerstorm such as we have had lately
or prolonged rain we used to go over
| 10 state street bridge or Mulberry
street bridge, after it was extended
TO the Hill at the old Mount Pleas
ant schoolhouse, or Paxton street
bridge, to see the creek. You have
seen the creek back up when there is
Hood in the Susquehanna? Well,
we used to have that several times a
year and have seen a solid sheet of
water fom the Pennsylvania railroad
TO the base of the hill. The creek
valley had lot of brickyards and
other establishme ents that could stand
such treatment and when the coffin
Factory was built and other indus
| tries began to locate in the valuable
valley of the creek the men who
worked in them got tired of being
made to lose money. That started
the agitation and when I look along
Tenth and Cameron streets and see
the garages, factories, warehouses
and other plants and see up above
State street the big pipe bending and
steel plant, the I1ickok and other
works, wonder what the misguided
| citizens who fought the item in the
| loan for improvement of the creek
valley had in their minds. 1 recall
some citizens who lambasted the
| HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH be-
cause 1t advocated such a wild thing
as making a Lake in Wetzels swamp
to catch the water and prevent It
| from flooding the creek valley and
who declared that the interceptor
! was scheme to make money for a
contractor, who / believe lost money
on 1t. The plan to concrete the bot
tom of the creek was assailed by
citizens who had caught bullfrogs in
1t when young and who insisted that
the springs in the bottom would pre-
vent walling 1t up. If there is any
| place next to the river front where
| the common sense and the esthetic
| and the pleasure features were COM
bined it was the making of flood
control lake and park out of old
Wetzers swamp"
Father Penn is now advising his
! farmer sons and the folks who raise
| chickens to get rid of the roosters.
| The rooster has received more or less
attention from the farmers institute
! lecturers and other men who lecture
to the farmers, but the State has
officially taken up the relation of
| chanticleer to daily life. especially
during war time, and the feathered
Mormon has been ordered thinned
out. In spite of the campaigns
waged recently against the useless
rooster, the State agricultural experts
have found lots of them eating their
heads of and calculate that as it
costs about 20 cents a month to feed
a rooster that someone is losing
money. The calculators have also
decided that to keep every rooster
between September and New Years
/ Day will cost approximately a dollar
and the advice has been given to eat
or ship the roosters, keeping only
fine young healthy birds. Another
suggestion being made by the States
poultry experts is that the hens
should be taken better care of in the
dog days. Too many poultry houses.
1t is claimed have all the glass fronts
in during tho hot months and that
no change is made in summer or
winter.
State officials, who have been ap-
pealed to for some aid to overcome
the shortage of teachers in some Of
the rural districts of the state be-
cause of teachers leaving such work
| to go into moro profitable occupations
in towns, have run against a new
state of affairs due to the entrance of
teachers into army officers training
camps and the draft. Some of the
counties have given up eight or ten
teachers, quite a few of whom have
applied for admission to training
camps, while others have been sum-
moned before draft boards and will
go to mobilization camps. State
officials are puZzling how to meet
the demand for teachers.
|
Troop of the First Cavalry, which
won the coveted honor of being
designated as the headquarters troop
of the Seventh or Twenty eighth Di-
vision, as the Pennsylvania troops
will be known, was formerly an in
fantry company and is the successor
of the company commanded years
ago by Major General c. NJ. Clement,
who made the selection. It's place In
the First will be taken by the new
Danville troop