Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-02
INDUSTRIES FROM PARK
ZONE WIDELY SCATTERED

or that day a well-defined scheme to
sidetrack the admission of any coll
ored pupils to the city's high schools.
The names Oft the first admissions
were the late the Rev. William H.
Marshall and Prof. John p. Scott,
both of whom have been powers for
good in our city.
When the Day school building
passed to the State. it's pupils were
transferred to other buildings, largely
to the Wickersham school in Cowden
street. That the structure itself has
remained untouched so long is due
to the fact that the Bureau of Chem
lstry OF the State Agricultural De-
partment has been housed there.
The Kelley Institute
Although not quite germane to the
general title of this series, there are
TWO private buildings soon to be lev
eled that seem to demand a brief
passing notice.
one is the handsome residence
erected many years ago at North and
Fourth streets by James Russ For
several years a Keeley Institute was
located here, which was extensively
patronized. During the time which
elapsed between a first and second oc-
cupancy of the Russ building by the
heeley institute it was the home of
an excellent hospital, conducted by
the Sisters of Mercy under the super
vision of that noble and devoted
woman, Mother NJ. Glare, then supe-
rloTess CT the order in Harrisburg.
During the Spanish American War,
when Camp Meade was in existence
contiguous to our city and typhoid
fever was fearully rife through the
imperfect sanitation of the camp and
the carelessness or Incompetence os
some OF the arlhy officials in charge,
the st. Clare lnfirmary did a noble
work. Many a stricken soldier had
reason to bless its shelter and thank
God for the ministering care of those
devoted Sisters of Mercy
1t does indeed seem a pity that n
structure so ornate as is the Russ
building and so rich in memories must
be leveled.
Since its acquisition by the State
1t has hummed with the activities of
the Division of Veterinary Science and
the State Live Stock Sanitary Board
of the Department of Agriculture.
A Monument to FiIiaI Love
The one house of all others in the
Capitol Park Extension Zone that I
hate to see destroyed is the one of
which l told the story in full years
ago. under the caption: "A Monument
of Filial Love" 1t. is the house, No.
lab North Fourth street, built by
Isaac Mcconnell who once roamed the
streets of Harrisburg as a poor Irish
lad; and who, when wealth had
crowned him in a far western min
ing state. hied him back to erect this
handsome building and furnish it
elaborately so that his mother could
spend her declining days in ease and
comfort
The facts in regard to the Isaac
Mcconnell house were obtained large
ly from Miss Annie Clancy, 1873 North
Fourth street who has been amongst
the very last of its inhabitants to
leave the zone given over to the State.
In this house. erected by her father.
Miss Clancy was born and there she
has lived all her days.
All! the Capitol Park Extension is
very great improvement, and i'm
provements must be made; but. all
the same. sometimes, these improve
ments sunder some very tender heart
strings.
But to return to the Mcconnell
home. When I visited it recently I
found the building in charge of the
courteous Jacob Lightner, at the head
of the Employment Bureau of the
Department of Labor and Industry, in
which position he has done efficient
service in bringing employers and
labor together.
This bureau, like the other depart
ments of the State government To-
Gated thick along Fourth street will
soon be obliged to fit, for the edict
has gone forth that all buildings must
come down.
The kurzenknnbe Printery
Quite a prominent industry of the
Eighth ward during many years past
has been the printing and binding
plant conducted by j. II. Kurzen-
knabe in the large brick building at
Short and South streets, already men
toned. He, too. has at length secured