Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21
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Notwithstanding the fact that
Harrisburg Is showing CONSIDERABLE
smoke these days there is no COM
plant to be heard and most peoplez
are glad to see the pillar of cloud
by day for the reason that 1t be-
tokens n live city. Some ten years
ago there would have been consider
able complaint about the way that
smoke is now spreading over the
community. If one should happen
to sit down on Reservoir Park knobs
or over at Fort Washington the
smoke pail would be round not only
extensive, but made up of a good
many distinct sources. To begin
it there are the railroads that line
both sides of the Susquehanna ana
which can be traced for miles with
the Cumberland Valley and the
Reading at right angles. Ruther-
| ford yards is easy to pick out ne
cause of the locomotives bustlinEE
about and Enola Is marked as witkz
a monument while the yards of the
| Pennsylvania can be traced clear up
to Lucknow by the smoke of the
shifters. Steelton seems like
| haze with its many stacks and then
there is Lochiel furnace with yell
| low plume, a striking contrast to
the black and occasional yellow from
| Steelton and the light colored sui
phur from Paxton furnaces. Gen.
| trail chimneys have almost as many
colors of smoke as those of the Har-
risburg Pipe and Pipe Bending
| works and the stacks of the electric
| traction and other companies add
their contributions to the cloud that
shows the city is busy. Some one
has said that a city without smoke
| is a dead one. If appearances go
for anything the Capital city OF
Pennsylvania is anything but that.
The State Department of Agricul-
| ture is getting some interesting re-
ports on the value of the tractor. A
year ago Governor Brumbaugh, who
was raised on farm made the sug-
gestion that the people of Pennsyl-
vania plow by night as we'll as day.
saying that tractor plows did not
have to sleep and that men could
work in shifts. This very thing Is
coming to pass because it has been
learned that in couple of places
fields were actually plowed byE
headlights. In one county men
burned brush while having fields
plowed by the big machines
State Forestry Commissioner
Conklin, who is one of the busiest of
StiSS llldI tilS AuS"
Of maintaining the forests is not
rev in this state. In fact, he says
| it ought never to have been forgot
ten because when William Penn sold
five acres he stipulated that one
acre should be in woods, which the
new owners promptly forgot.
1t is rather an interesting thing 10
trace the way things get passed
around when sold at public sale.
Not long ago the state of Pennsyl-|
vania sold at public sale a quantity
Of military clothing. 1t is now be-
| ing worn by soldiers of another
state. Some equipment which had
been ruled out in the maintenance
Of the PENNSYLVANIA soldiers at the
nrtioEal standard was also sold. H.
| had never been used. 1t is now wornI
with pride by the militia of cer-
tain ether state.
Notwithstanding the fact thar
| statements have been made att
various times hat the chestnut crJpI
of Pennsylvania is diminishing IN a
| saddening manner the fact remainSI
that there have been as many Cheat
nuts on sale in the markets as ds-I
ual. In somc instances more ha5ej
been found OH the stalls. The|
| Prices, however. are at rate which
woJld indicate rGat the sellers or tE9I
Iants rad fed AID w3tered The trees
| for tW o years.
| DR.. R. P. Cummins, who was here
| .. sterday Tor the conference of In
dustrlal surSeonc, is the chief sur
geon of the Nidvale Steel COMPANY.
He had charge of the organization
III the. hosp,.al system of the CONF
| pany's, plants. aLG is keenly Interest,"
cd in the work pf the Department o.:
Labor and Industry for safety.
Unless one is thoroughly ac-
quainted with present railroad con-
ditions, it requires considerable ex-i
planation to make it plain why cer-
tain things are done. For instance.
there is a train leaving Harrisburg
about 1915 o'clock in the morning,
for the west. This train sometimes
iago hauled from one to three ex-
press cars. Since express and maiEI
business have been increasing, a sec
ond section is run, hauling mail and
express cars only. This greatly
llightens the regular train. Now that
train is being hauled by one of the
heaviest engines in service. When
the express and mail cars were in
cluded, a small engine was used.
| Where's the explanation The mani
at the head of the motive power
knows, and if you ask him, the an
swer will likely be, Just now we
must run engines when we have
them" However, only yesterday a.
| big engine left here with four cars,
and soon after small engine pulled