Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-03
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Harrisburg's unique situation in
regard to its supply of river coal,
which instead of becoming exhausted
seems to be increasing in extent
every year, is commencing to attract
statewide attention, especially among
the people of the North branch of
the Susquehanna whose mining
methods have been the means of
furnishing the states capital with
| fuel for the effort. Only few weeks
ago couple of men from Lacka-
wanna and Luzerne counties took oc-
casion while here to make extensive
inquiries regarding the amount OF
coal dredged from the SuSquehanna$
and expressed the opinion that If thes
communities up the stream took the
| proper precautions there would not
| be so much. They agreed, however,
| with some folks from Northumber-
! land county, who made some obser-
vations here last summer, that Har-
/ risburg was sure of river coal for
| years to come because the bed of
| the stream is lined with coal for
| many miles north of Harrisburg and
that each succeeding freshet would
! bring to the doors OF the capital re-
newal of its store. Rivermen say
| that the sanitary dam does not
| dIilOuHJ 10 very HluCn as COdl
| catcher. Sand bars are said to be
the great means of forming deposits,
| The rocky ledges which extend
! across the stream at Dauphin and
the falls at Rockville do not seem
| to hold as much fine coal as the shall
low places near McCormick's island
or the grass patches between Inde-
pendence Island and the Harrisburg
| Academy. And, oddly enough, the
rivermen say that down around
Steelton and Highspire there is the
! best coal dredging to be found in
| the whole Harrisburg district every
now and then. The coal seems to go
with currents, which, as everyone
familiar with the Vagaries of the
Susquehanna knows, swing and
switch around every year and move
sand bars and great trees with ease
Daniel P. Gerberich. former presi-
dent pro tenn. of the State Senate and
long senator from Lebanon county,
who was buried today, had a host
of friends among men prominent in
affairs of Pennsylvania for the last
quarter century and was one of the
most Travelled men in the Legislature
in a long time. He had been in prac-
Spanish War made a point of visiting
| the insular possessions. He was a
warm friend of Secretary of Internal
Affairs Henry Houck, who was also
| wide traveller, and the two used TO
like to exchange impressions of
places they had visited. DR.. Ger
berich practiced medicine all his life
| in Lebanon county and was known
to thousands of it's people, while he
enjoyed as large an acquaintance in
eastern Dauphin county as any one.
1t is not generally known but DR..
| Gerberich was sponsor for most of
the pure food laws enacted here in
the last decade:
The fine weather prevailing in the
4 middle of the last few days, re-
minder of the glorious Indian sum-
i mer weather we had before Thanks
i giving day, has had the effect of
i causing many people to go out for
runs in automobiles and they have
been well repaid, for the scenery
around Harrisburg in the bright
early winter sunlight is particularly
fine. Reservoir Parks knobs offer
a fine place for view about noon
and any one who walks up will be
well repaid.
Harrisburg weather conditions,
| which have been more than once rG
! ferred to as unusual this fall, have
seldom produced a finer December
day than yesterday. The sunshine
was bright from early morning and
the sunset was one of the kind that
people visiting here have loved to go
! home and tell of. The colors in the
western sky when the sun sank be-
hind the first spurs of the Blue
Ridge were brilliant as they were
varied and the paling from red to
pink and then to the lightest green
} speedily giving way to the darkness
of evening attracted much attention.
Casper Dull, president of the board
Of trustees of the Harrisburg Public
Library, is on his annual hunting
trip to North Carolina. Mr.. Dull has
visited that state for years in the
hunting season.
Edgar C. Felton's plan for distrib-
ution of labor in this state, which
has been endorsed by the Public Ser
| vice Commission and will he put into
effect soon, has attracted attention
from other states. In number OF
y instances letters have come to the
\ state authorities making inquiry as
to the methods to be followed.
| Pennsylvania has such a varied in
dustrial system that anything which
may be worked out to provide the
| labor necessary to keep mines and
mills, factories and shipyards. farms
and railroads, to say nothing of
stores, going will be of vital impor-
tance to every other state.
|
Governor Brumbaugh, who visited
| Cnnratarxf nf the Comm OnwpAlth
Woods and Commissioner of Health
Dixon while in Philadelphia, reports
both of them improving rapidly. DIR.
Dixon is now at his home in the
I Bryn Mawr district