Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-19
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The Tuscarora- Path Valley State
highway route which the delegations
from the Cumberland and Juniata
valleys asked the Governor and State
highway officials to take steps to i'm
prove is designed to furnish the sec
ond OF the connecting links between
the William Penn and Lincoln high
ways. One such link is furnished bv
road which cuts from Everett across
huntington county, very pretty
stretch of country. The Path Valley
tISuee tI peglns at Fort Louden and goes
through one of the finest valleys in
the foothills of the Allegheny noun
tains to the Juniata river. The roads
are IN fair shape considering the fact
| that While over 100 years old not
much has been done to improve them
IN the modern sense and it would
probably not take so very much
money to make them first class. What
interests Harrisburg people is that
the Improvement of this stretch of
highway would open way for a days
ride through section little known to
people of this city. 1t would afford an
All day run through the Juniata val
ley to Minlin or Port Royal and then
down the Tuscarora and Path VAL
leys to the historic frontier town and
then to Chambersburg and through
the Cumberland valley to Harrisburg.
The valley traversed by the propos-
ed highway is like those in the upper
part OF Dauphin county. 1t is sparsely
settled but abounds in beautiful
scenery. 1t is of great interest in the
history of Pennsylvania, too, for be-
fore the Revolution 1t was one of the
outpost valleys. 1t was patrolled by
provincial troops who had their
| headquarters in Forts Louden, Nc
Cord and other safety points in the
valleys behind and many a time par
ties OF savages were intercepted and
thrown back. 1t was sort of No
Mans land in the French and Indian
war and even in later years the people
who, settled in it had their fiintlocks
handy.
Action of the House of Representa-
tives on the woman suffrage resolu-
ton on Tuesday and the meetings of
the suffragists in this city yester-
day and to-day have attracted ma
tional attention to Harrisburg The
| sunragists in Pennsylvania have been
making plucky fight and rallied af-
ter their defeat in 1915 with such
vim that good many people, in
Guiding many. of the suffragists, ex-
pected that they would get through
their constitutional amendment reso-
luton about the same way that they
did in 1913. The defeat by a narrow
margin and the killing of the resolu-
! ton by the refusal to reconsider was
Pacific and there were many messages
received here yesterday and to-day
| asking for information on the result.
Reports of "heavy firing heard at
4 sea and of German war vessels of
in the fogs off the New England
coast, remind men who were about
newspaper offices in the Spanish war
of the days of excitement before Ger
! vera's fleet was trapped. There was
! hardly a day that went by without
Spanish ship being sighted some
where and every time the Atlantic
fleet fired a gun there were reports
circulated of a heavy engagement.
The result was that the telephone
| bells worked themselves into q state
of hysteria about newspaper offices.
! The last week the number of inquiries
made of newspapers about reports of
the questions asked about the propos-
ed patriotic demonstration.
BY the end of the week one of the
landmarks of old State street will
probably be we'll along toward demoli-
ton. The National hotel was put in
the hands of the wreckers on Tues
| day and to-day the workmen are
| throwing down the walls of the third
story. The old National hotel as we
know it dates from the seventies.
Long before the present brick build
ing was erected there was a hotel
near the corner of Fourth and State
streets, proximity to the State Cap
itol having caused a tavern to be
opened probably seventy-five years
ago. The predecessor of the brick
hotel was log house near the corner
which old timers say contained
huge fire place in a very commodious
bar room. The National had a sue
! cession of genial landlords, Fred
Ebel being the latest. The demolition
of the hotel has attracted much at
! tention from the denizens of the
Eighth ward.
| One of the interesting results of the
| commencement of war has been the
| flood of Inquiries made at offices of
| insurance companies regarding life
and accident policies. The bulk of the
| life policies have had attached in the
! last few years what is known as the
war clause" which was designed to
protect the company in the event that
the insured went to war. Whether
this will be modified now that the ma
| ton has taken up arms is what is in
teresting a good many people.