Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-10
Enrtttns Ultat

CHESTNUT street market last Saturday.
Just see what we have here and
from what distant points Ii was
brought to cater to our apFJdtes.
Down there at the end are oranges
from Florida and California, cucum-
Ders from hothouses near Boston, let
tuce from California, apples from
washington and Oregon, celery from
Mlchigan, pineapples from some south
ern cline, / am not just sure where
at this moment; and tomatoes from
the Canary Islands
transportation plays an immense
part in the modern provision prob
lem, he continued, "and our people
nave learned to have all manner of
fruits and vegetables in and out of
season."
Tomatoes from the Canary Islands
was a new one to the reporter but Mr..
walton carefully pointed out the label
on the box. They had run the gauntlet
OF submarines to be brought to the
people of Harrisburg to meet their
craving for fresh vegetables in spring.
time.
Just now comparatively few or
anges are coming from Florida, a large
number of the orchards in the north
ern part of that State having been
seriously damaged by frosts some
time ago. Samuel p. Eby, of Harris
purg, who owns an orange grove in
FLORIDA and who spends a month or o
TWO every winter looking after it, has
returned recently from the South and
says that the orchards in the upper
section of Florida show the effects of
the freezing weather to a very marked
degree and many of the growers have
lost heavily. He sent up several crates
OF oranges which were grown on his
place and which were served at re-
cent luncheon of the Rotary Club.
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The Florida vegetable crop is also
short and not nearly so much green
truck is being sold in Harrisburg as
is usual at this season. The frost blight
Is responsible for this. o. p. Beckley,
head of the Berryhill Nursery, who
ordinarily sells heavily in Florida to
these truckers, says his business has
been seriously injured by the freeze-up
and that many of the Florida growers
have been ruined by failure to harvest
the expected crops this year.
E. d. Hilleary, division freight
agent of the Philadelphia and Read
ing railway at this point resides in a
fine home near New Cumberland,
where he takes great interest in gar
n-making and other suburban pass
times of the kind. The other evening
he worked hard and long getting in
some early seeds and next morning
was not feeling quite up to top-notch
as result of too strenuous exercise.
So he ordered cup of hot water with
his breakfast, whereupon his bright
little daughter questioned him as to
the uses of hot water under the cir
cumstances, and her father explained,
t adding that it was supposed to chase
: away the blues and brighten ones
outlook on life. A few minutes later
he had occasion to chide the little girl
| for something which apparently she
felt didn't merit the rebuke for after
mulling over the matter for a minute
or two she asked him:
Father, don't you think you ought
to have another cup of hot water?"
, Frank B. Musser, president of the
, Harrisburg Railways Company, had
as his guest at meeting of the Rotary
Club at Bogar's store. the other even
/. ing George w. Reilly, the banker, who
happens to hold among other offices,
that of secretary and treasurer of the
Harrisburg State Hospital for the In
sane. Following the usual custom OF
the Rotarians, President Howard G.
Fry ask Mr.. Musser to introduce his
guest. He did so in the following Ian
guage:
Gentlemen, permit me to present
Mr.. George w. Reilly, secretary and
treasurer of the lunatic asylum"
The Rotarians laughed themselves
hoarse over the joke. They whistled
and pounded the floor and otherwise
conducted themselves in most unseem-
ly glee. Did they f1uster Mr.. Reilly?
They did not. He came right back, as
soon as he could make himself heard,
with this:
Gentlemen of the Rotary Club,
after that introduction and that kind
of welcome 1 feel thoroughly at
home"
Farmers in this section of the state
have been making inquiries about
prices of seed beans in an effort to get
q line on supplies for planting this
year. The prospects are that there
will be immense quantities of corn,
peas, beans and similar articles planted
and that farmers will set out all the
tomato, potato, cabbage, onion and
similar crops that they can get hold
of. In fields where the weather spoiled
the wheat there will be extensive fer
tilizing so that the ground may be pre-
pared for vegetables. Tt commences
to look as though this year was going
to be one of the most remarkable
truck gardening years known in q
long time. The seedsmen say that they
have demands that they never eX-
pected and which because OF inter
ference with Dutch shipments are very
hard to fill.
The State street grass plots are
about the last place where anything
except a flock of chickens would be
apt to go to find anything to eat, but
we'll combed over by people looking
for dandelion. Many people who can
not get out to the suburban districts
go over the parks each spring for the
weed. Father Penn banishes dandelion
so vigorously that there is little chance
for it in Capitol Park. The grass
plots are we'll covered with the weed
and the city gets the benefit of the
cutters while they get the leaves and
| all the tonic properties that they con-
tain. The number of people who are
| to be seen on pleasant afternoons
armed with keen knives and capacious
baskets is large.
The jammed condition of the Chest
nut Street Auditorium on the occasion
of the Gerard meeting, when it was
so crowded that not even messenger
boys could be admitted to run" copy
for the telegraph offices to send out
1 reports of the meeting, calls attention
to the importance OF Governor Brum-
baugh's plan to provide in one of the
new State buildings great auditor
| ium. The Gerard visit was, strictly
speaking, O. Statewide affair because
| the whole Commonwealth was inter-
ested in what he had to say. 1t could
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