Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-11
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quehanna river which has occurred
under the influence of the cold snap
which began on the night of Decem-
ber has attracted much attention
and records show that only a few
times has the river closed before the
middle of December and only one
time in the last forty years has it
frozen over before December 10.
The river froZe over in December,
1913, 1914 and 1916, closing on the
sixteenth in 1914. which will long
be remembered as q severe winter,
which started early. In 1910 the
Susquehanna was iCebound on the
thirteenth and in 1908, one of the
worst winters ever known here, It
closed on December II. The follow
ing year 1T closed on December 10,
but did not remain closed the length
or time as the previous winter. The
earliest closing of the river in forty
years was December s, 1882. This
was a cold snap equaling anything
we have had here the last few days.
In 1876 and 1880 the river closed on
December 10, which date has not
been touched until yesterday. In
th1 nineties there were number
of December freeZings, but they were
mainly around Christmas time. The
| records show that in most instances
| the Susquehanna closed in January
| and there were very few years in
half a century that it did not freeze
over.
Announcement that New Jersey is
| about to establish a State Police
force is interesting here because the
Pennsylvania State Police, the first
| organization of its kind, was created
in 1903 and there was nothing in this
| country upon which to model il.
| ssachusetts had police force, but
it was plain clothes organization.
! The Irish Constabulary, the North
west Mounted Police and the Texas
| Rangers with the French rural po-
| lice were all the state had to go on.
| Since then Nevada and New York
| have taken our model and Ohio and
Indiana have been making inquiries
here.
Peregrinations of parts of the old
Office building of the Greenawalt
! tannery, which stood for many years
on the north side of Derry street be-
| tween Seventeenth and the Readings
branch to the Allison Hill manufac-
turing district, are attracting atten-
ton. The building is now in four
pieces and threatens to go into more
from natural causes or the machin-
ations of builders. When the tannery
was burned the old office building,
which was originally quaint struc-
ture and landmark became the
office of the Bnsminger Lumber
Company, which occupied the old
tannery site. Then it descended to
the manufacture of potato chips
and next was used as a motorcycle
emporium. Now one part of the
structure has migrated to the east
about $50 feet and the western end
has retired up Seventeenth street,
leaving the other parts standing.
The plan to sell carloads of Lake
Erie fish here in carload lots recalls
the days when the shad-fishermen
from Columbia used to send the fish
up here in cars. They were gen.
orally sold from the old Meadow
Lane siding, although a couple OF
times they were run up to North
street and even further up town. In
recent years there have been car
sales at Market street delivery tracks
of the Pennsylvania.
Adiutant General Frank D. Beary,
who is at Camp Hancock visiting the
Pennsylvania soldiers has been con-
graduated by National Guardsmen
from q number of states upon being
named as successor to Adjutant Gen
eral Stewart. The importance of the
work of the laNe general is much reA
ferred to among officers of the or
ganized militia and the army. Cen
eral Beary was the one man who
knew what was under way.
t Good stories are being told from
{ the camps where the drafted men
l have gone. At one of the camps a
2 lieutenant from this section had
= been out in a distant part of the
cantonment and on his return one
night to his regiment, which is COM
posed of colored men, received a
very sharp command to halt" The
officer recognized the soldier and
thought he would have some fun. He
made the proper response and the
soldier told him to advance, asking
who he was.
"Ofcer of the day." replied the of
ficer.
Silence ensued. Finally the officer
asked testify: How long are you go
ing to hold me up?"
The silence grew. Then the eX-
asperated, officer repeated his ques-
ton and drew this remark:
Deed, I doan know. 'Specks until
I kin remembah what Use got ter
say next"
|
There is more pig iron being
made in Dauphin county today than
ever before in the history of this
county and it has been making iron
for over q century and a quarter,
declared man familiar with the
iron and steel industry of this coun-
ty Yesterday. "If the figures could
only be obtained and it is not pos
sible now because of the war, il
would be found that Steelton is
making twice what it did ten years
ago and that the production al
Lochiel and Paxton has been speeded
up until the output would surprise
men familiar with those stacks ol