Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-09
Ehfning Ul1at

| ~ aoo I'LL hcu up III the resi-
taurants in a number of other cities
of the state and from all accounts
is working well. A war order is|
Just enough" in the language of al
man who has been studying the food
problem. In quite a number of places
a regular order is good size, espe-I
cially If it happens to be an artideI
on which the price has been adj
Vanced lately. The idea in the war
oIoer is to give enough to sustain
without overlooking. The average
man eats too much anyway, especial
~ In the middle of the day, say menl
| VINO conduct eating places in Har-
rlsburg. In talking about war por-I
lions" one restaurateur, who hasI
mad much experience here, said THAI
IL would result in popularizing tht|
plate luncheon" This is nothing
more or less than a modified Amer
lean plan dinner. something akin to
the 'businessman's luncheon" 1t hasI
oeen tried here from time to time
ana In some cafes has been popular.
put there has been a sameness about
IL that has caused 1t to be abandon
ed. Now that the men who provided
tne 1000 in Harrisburg ane commen-
clng TO, use more gray matter theyI
VIII probably work out some attract
I've combinations such as an ALL
vegetable plate luncheon, orders with
plt or meat and some salad andI
the like. 1t is surprising what can|
pe furnished for small sum whenI
thought is given to 1t and howl
quickly the public will take to nov
eitleS and then accept them as req
ular things. Harrisburg is singh
iarly well situated as to food. 1t is
IN an agricultural community; gets
gooo western meat; is a. center forI
d1strlbution of garden sass" an
mas many war gardens, while itsI
proximity and good train servicel
from baltimore enable it to have|
hsh and shellfish that are excellent
Then. too, 1t is held by some mon
who have studied the food conditions d
here that Harrisburg people do mott
realize the unusual fruit stores with j
IN few miles Of the city and that
they let much go by their homes to|
New York and Philadelphia and them
buy 1t back again. There are nod
many cities so favorably situated a9
to food supplies as HARRISBURG and
that Is probably the reason why
more thought has not been given I'd
II, although 1t must be admitted that
when 1t comes to prices some of thcI
restaurants in Harrisburg know howl
10 charge and charge we'll.
|
Some time ago reference was madd
TO quail being heard around Reser
Voir and Paxtang Parks and alonJ
parkways and the Riverside Road
In the last few days men who havd
garden patches in the outlying dis |
trlcts and yet. within the city SAN
that they have heard the birds in thd
morning close to the built-up parts
OF the city. The quail has a strona
ieanlng toward the potatobug aa
, an article of diet and If the birds ard
as numerous as they are said to bd
it VIII be blessing for owners OF
war gardens" practically all oi
which have potatoes.
: Speaking of potatoes, a couple OF
!, men who attended Saturday markets
mere were inquiring of provision
dealers as to the rate for potatoed
and one of them let drop that hid
had agreed to sell all of his crop thiJ
year to an agent for commission
merchant at $3.50 busheI Howl
ever, he said that he had not rel
ceived any money down and his let
ters to the address given had moi
brought any replies. The potatoed
VIII be coming, along pretty soon
and there will be lots of them. /
am wondering how I am tied up.
said one man. The other said thai
If the farmer was tiled up he be
ieVed the agent was too, and offered
to bet that the agent would not bd
around.
With the organization of the Varil
Gus motor truck companies now uni
der way throughout the state and
the formation of the military policd
or the division, authorized last weeH
and now almost ready for Federal
inspection, the tactical formation oil
the Pennsylvania. division will bl
about complete. The Federal GovI
ernment has ordered numerous adj
ditional units which are being mus
tered into guard service and it ha |
entailed an immense amount of
work. The military police will be irT
charge of Majors J. Franklin McJ
Fadden and j. Clyde Miller, and will
be composed of Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh policemen. The truck
companies are nearly all made up oil
chauffeurs and the business branches |
or the service are being made up Of
men with business training.
There is one thing that will causd
a man to be jumped on in Harris
burg with alacrity and it will brin.
drastic treatment second only to all
insult to the flag or some unpatri
otic remarks. It is mussing up /
garden. This was discovered on SatI
urday evening when a couple of merI
loaded down with pay and rum uni
dertook to. take short cut acros
some lots In the Hill district which
had been planted with potatoes
They had undertaken to cross IVA
gardens" and in less time than Il
takes to tell 1t men who had beeJ
bending their backs and energies I'd
get the potatoes growing were OF
their trail. The offenders did mo-
realize what they had done and
apologies and offers to have damag
paid for saved them from some livel
treatment.
The approach of the time for mol
bilization of the National Guard
causing a tremendous amount O
work to be done by the officers of tn
} states military establishment. A.
though yesterday was Sunday ther
was much activity about the AdjuH
1 tant Generals office and at the arse.
nal and other places connected witt
the military end there were ais
men on duty.