Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-29
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The manner in which Dauphin
county will meet conditions arising
from the presence within its borders
of men of more nationalities than ever
known to be assembled within the
limits of the county before is being
watched with interest by other coun-
ties. Unfortunately as in other coun-
ties in the coal and steel regions, many
of the men have come here raw.
knowing little of customs and, being
strangers. inclined to look after them
selves bit too strenuously. The in
tluence of the colored residents of this
city and Steelton has gone long ways
toward tanning some of the negroes
from the Southern States who have
been told that, contrary to impress
sions, 1t is not the custom to tote
guns" and in time our colored ele-
ment will bring about more regard for
the way things are done here among
the strangers. Enough Slavs have
been living hereabouts for years TO
impress the men from the Balkans
and other parts of the Near East with
the sentiment of this community and
barring outbreaks due to rum, this
segment of the working population Is
on a fair way to be assimilated just
how to deal with the MeXicans who
have come here to work on the rail-
roads is another problem, very much
like that which met the Lykens val
| ley people when the Russians first ar
| rived and when the Serbian and Bos-
nian laborers were hired for work at
Steelton. Few here can understand
the MeXicans and they do not seem to
| care very much whether they under
stand either The Asiatics hereabouts
are so small in number that they are
not likely to give trouble and the folks
who seem to be able to do more to-
ward making them comprehend what
is expected and what they must do are
the Italians and Greeks, who. like the
colored folks, have been sort of teach
ing newcomers how to behave in or
der to stay out of trouble. The great
est difficulty, says man who has to
deal with foreigners is to get out OF
their heads the necessity for being
walking arsenals.
State Fire Marshal Chal Port is a
great believer in the lightning rod.
| For years the lightning rod agent has
| been the man upon whose approach
| the average man gets gun. Port
| figures out that last year in Pennsyl-
vania 1.343 buildings were hit by
| lightning and suffered a fire loss of
| $664,000 in round numbers. In the
| number were just seven which had
| lightning rods. Somehow or other in
spite of the attitude of insurance COM
panies which regard the rod with
favor there has been a tendency to
abandon the use of lightning rods.
| One of the interesting facts in con-
nection with the recommendations of
the State Board of Charities is the
manner in which the items in appro-
priations requested for agriculture and
| livestock raising were approved.
| Practically everyone of the State in
/ stitutions seems to have gone into
| the business or raising cattle or hogs
and some of the cowbarns, piggeries
| and hnnnarinS ella hOrntplN
planned scale. The reason is that the
State authorities some time ago sug-
gested that farming and stock raising
| be speeded up at the State institutions
| as n means of reducing the increased
| cost of living. All of the insane and
similar hospitals have farms and raise
an immense amount of food.
Notwithstanding the weather, build
ers in this city are rushing work on
| the interior of houses so that they will
be able to rent about April !. The in
terror work is something which can
! be handled with ease, provided the
windows are delivered and some of
| the alert Harrisburg builders took thee
| trouble to give their orders early forS
windows and sashes. Consequently
their men are going right ahead with
inside work and the houses are being
made ready for early occupancy.
! Horned toadS Wnlcn some OIL lne
| Troopers brought back from the bor-
der are a never-ending source of in
terest to n good many people. but they
do not take to the weather. The other
| day a man exhibited one of the toads
in trolley car which was not well
filled and therefore cold. The toad
took one look around and went back
into the box in rush.
LAS quiet as you keep it Saturday
was as near an old-fashioned winter
day as l care to see," remarked one of
the older residents of the county who
was in town this morning." There is
plenty of snow in the country and the
wheat and other fields are well COW
cred But it has also been cold and
things have been frozen up tight. [
have lived some years and the real
winter we have been enjoying is as
close to the old-fashioned as any one
would want for purposes of reminis-
cence. Here in the city you have
paved streets with pipes that give off
heat and you do not know what
country road is like in winter time"