Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
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/ are that ny lHlS IlIle
next year that substantial progress
will not only have been made on the
| preparation of the twenty-seven OF
so acres embraced in Capitol park
extension for the landscape garden
| ing which is to make it one of the
! beauty spots of the state, but that l.
Will also be possible to see the pis
| changes which will be made along
the streets which bound the park.
! specifications will be drawn UP
| shortly for the coping to be placed
/ at the base of the terraces which
Will rise from little inside of the
present edge of the park in Third
| Walnut and North streets and it is
the idea to let contracts for this
| work withing a few months so that
when spring comes around the ac-
! 1--WE operations can be started. This
| work will mean that the sidewalks
on the capitol park side of Walnut
and Third streets will be abolished
and there will be materially wider
driveways. The city will have to
! furnish the wider street in North
but that will come with the years.
At Third and Walnut streets there
Will be an indentation into the park
Tor highway purposes which will be
semlclcular in form and not only
| afford more room for that busy in
tersection of streets, but also per-
NIT of the creation of formal en-
| trance to the park. With the en-
larged federal building and the new
Penn Harris this formal entrance
and the ''circle' will make a very
attractive spot. 1t is hoped 20 get
all this under way in the next
twelvemonth and to push things
along in the extension. 1t is also
possible that the new highway
through the park extension, which
| will hO IN, I,4 It,,o 80 n
| East streets may be opened and
Fourth street closed. The Harris
burg Railways Company officials are
| ready to begin preparations to move
! their tracks whenever the Common
wealth asks. About the only thing
to he adjusted is the strip along the
| Pennsylvania railroad which is un-
der discussion with that company.
| By this time next year it is also pos
sible that the people of Harrisburg
will have authorized the relocation
of the bridge at State street 60 that
it will be part of the great scheme
of adornment of the city.
Rival claims to Fish Island in the
Susquehanna near Wilkes-Barre and
underlaid with valuable coal depos-
it's, which has been before the State
Board of Property for twenty years
and attracted statewide attention,
will not be opened up again by the
Board. Today it decided not to
grant a rehearing prayed by Edwin
A. Hoffman, of Wilkes-Barre, who
has contended since 1897 that no
patents We're ever issued to the
Mitchell and Shoemaker interests
which have held title for years and
under whose leases coal has been
, mined and other operations conduct
ed. The present title is said to date
from 1911 and Hoffman was refused
nineteen years ago on the ground
that the title had passed from the
state. He was refused a rehearing
in 1901 and in 1915 renewed the
case, presenting an old map which
he conSended proved his assertions.
The Board, however, held that it
was not after discovered evidence
5 and refused to reopen the proceed
ings. In another case the Board
held that the state could not be
legal interviewer and claim 800 acres
near Mont Alto for which a patent
, was issued to John Horner in 1904,
) but on which it was contended no
} survey had ever been filed. These
two questions have long been pend
ing before the Board and will deter
mine litigation which has attracted
! much interest
1--WE have had more snow and
real cold weather up in Erie than we
have ever known in the month of
> December" said Ex-Auditor General
| A. e. Sisson while on visit to the
> Capitol yesterday. This has been
! busy year along the lake." said the
general, but we are having winter
of the old-fashioned kind"
| DR.. Charles T. Aiken, chairman of
/ the commission to select a site for
the new State Insane Hospital, says
r that his commission is now ready
; TO receive invitation to view sites,
but is not anxious for midwinter
e cure a site which will be ample and
healthful and wants suggestions.
"What is the reason that people
persist in driving on car tracks?
Don't they know that by going only
in the place made by the cars that
they are really restricting the road
way because they do not help make
any?" asked man yesterday. The
traction company pays for the open
ing of the tracks and everyone else
uses them; the rails become clogged
with snow and ice and the wheels
spin around a couple of times. vast
ing energy, without making amy
progress | can't understand why
to make paths or tracks and keep
them open instead of running in on
railroads and filling them with
snow"
"This snow is too big a proposition
for the city as it is now consti-
tuted,' declared another man. "rhe
snow is really a pretty serious prop
ositi0n. 1t is ahead of time and
e. ter than expected. The allow
ance for fighting and removing snow
was made on the basis of experience
, in former years. This is an extra
ordinary snow and comes at n time
when labor and carts are hard to
get. The city's regular force is small
enough and does fine work consider
ing its appropriation, but this snow
needs a big force of men to tackle
it and clear it off. And the prob
lem is where 10 get the men and
the carts at this time?"
These are the days of conserva-
ton even in Christmas greetings A
rather nicely printed paper bag was
received here today from a Virginia
city, conveying best wishes for a
Merry Christmas. 1t was just an
l.