Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-02
BY J. HOWARD VERT
THIRD AID FINAL PAPER

THIRD AID FINAL PAPER
The varied Industries and long es-
tablished business places in the area
affected by enlargement of the Capitol
grounds became widely scattered, as
has been shown in the cases of those
mentioned in the last paper. Many of
them, naturally gravitated to those
sections of the city that have been
developing in recent years as new
and thriving business centers. Cam
eron street. in particular, has become
lined with vast business plants, and
to this great thorouEhfare of the flu
ture a number of the Eighth ward
industries were attracted.
The Harrisburg Roll Grinding and
Corrugating Company. once located
in a portion of the old Jennings
Foundry, South and Short streets, is
now at 520-522 South Cameron street.
The Gordon Manufacturing Company,
which started in the Moeslein build
ing on State street, and in more re-
cent years was housed in an extern
-sive building on Walnut street, near
the Pennsylvania Railroad. is now
advantageously located at Walnut
and Cameron streets.
Light and Power Company
The Harrisburg Light and Power
Company, which long had it's office
on North Third street in close prox-
unity to one of its power plants, now
has its general oface at % North Sec
ond street, while other power plants
have been increased in capacity to
supply the place of the one wiped out
by park extension.
One of the best-known grocery and
feed stores of Harrisburg, for more
than half a century was the one
In 40 ftrC no Il,
Etter and James Shanklin. For forty
four consecutive years it was in bus
mess at State and Cowden streets.
Calvin Etter, surviving partner of the
firm, feeling the advantage of re-
naming in the vicinity of the spot
in which he had built up his trade,
erected spacious and well-appointed
storerooms and warehouses at 911-917
Cowden street The business is now
conducted by his son. c. Ross Etter.
. For many years the drugstore of
DR.. Thomas A. Thorley was promi-
nent feature of State street business
life. Among the last of the business
interests to leave the park extension
zone, he is now located on Verbeke
street, opposite the brick market
house.
The large brick building, 1873 Short
street. and extending far back on
South street. once the Jennings Foun-
dry, has housed many industries in
the past quarter OF century. some of
which. like the City Star Laundry,
already noticed. have expanded into
large proportions Amongst those
who have been in this building in re-
cent years and who were forced out
by the park extension was the pat
tern and model maker, ]. r w. Nc
Laughlin. He is now at 1905 Capital
street.
The Day School Building
There was but one public school
building in the area covered by the
enlargement of the Capitol Park, the
Day building on North street, erected
in 1876. This school structure was
an emphatic monument to the Rev.
Prof. William Howard Day. d. D..
one of the greatest and brainiest men
of the colored race who ever resided
in Harrisburg. His efforts in behalf
of the elevation of his race were un-
ceasing, and, as a prominent and ag-
gressive member of the Harrisburg
Board of School Control, his opportu-
mites were exceptional in securing
for his people improved school facili-
ties. Thus the Day (called at first
the Lincoln) schoolhouse was secured
by him to better the educational op-
portunities of the colored pupils who,
up to that time, had been packed
away, much like sardines In box in
certain rooms of Franklin Hall, a
ramshackle three-story structure on
South street, with a multiplicity of
uses.
From this North street building
came the first colored pupils to be
admitted to the Boys High School
of Harrisburg, of which the writer
of this paper was then the principal.
Here again Prof Days persistency
and shrewdness won the victory, for,
incredible as it may seem at this
period there was in the school board