Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
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Will race 'Sulclue according TO tneI
first annual report to be issued by|
the United States Bureau of the Gem
sus on birth reports. This is a newI
enterprise in which Uncle Sam has
embarked and he is going to gatherI
together the information for cities
Dig Doroughs and rural communities
me hrst report is for 1915, a little|
late, but interesting. Harrisburg is
given a population or 7O,754 and the'
city has grown some in the popula
tioh line since that time, so we mustH
De around that 5000 that E. Her
bert Snow demonstrated by means of
circles the other evening. Harris
burgs birthrate that year was ~
500 or 1913 per thousand, and only1
13f children under year in age
died Eric and Wilkes-Barre. which
have a few thousand more popula
ton than the State capital, each had
over 2,1O0 births, as did Johnstown
Whlch mad but $4,000 population
Reading, with 107, 7,594, had only 2.
40l births reported. Lancaster, with
6O,269 population, beat it's old rival
nork, which is given 50,543 popula
uon, reporting 1,124 infantile par
tlsans of the red rose, while the
Iorkists reported but $50 to wea
the white rose. McKeesport, SoutI
Bethlehem. Shenandoah Newcastle
and Chester were all over the thou
sand mark while Allentown with 61,
Jul population, shows 1852 and AL |
toona with $1,000 population report
| ed Lass. Steelton reported All. Nov.
taking the rural parts of the coun
| ues, Dauphin is credited with 6151d
population, and excluding Harrisburg
ana Steelton, showed 1886 births
rather lead on it's county seat
cumberland county, exclusive of Car
nsle with 1S9, show 993 births
Ferry 1885, Lebanon city 393 and
county outside of the city 929. Yorl
outside the city of York showed 2,
| 2S3. Mi1fiin had 707 and JuniatsI
326s Chambersburg reported 29t
and the rest of Franklin county /,
2l5. Adams county reported 1881
They say that when there is wa
there are more boys born. In Penn
sylvania in that year there were Ill,
$40 new little boys and 106,13(
girls. This city had TIA and 652 fol
| Its division of new residents, and
Steelton 226 and 1856. Lebanon, SUM
bury Shenandoah, Columbia and
Bethlehem are among the few tha
had more girls born than boys. Ru
raj Dauphin reported S35 boys and
760 girls, Cumberland, outside oI
Carlisle, 515 and AIS, and Perry 25t
and 253. One of the interesting tablet
is on nativity of parents, it bein
shown that two-thirds of the birth
in Harrisburg were of native borll
parents, while in Steelton it is thu
other way, the bulk of the births bel
ing of foreign parents. In both rural
| Dauphin and Cumberland countieI
the great bulk of the births were oI
native parentage and Perry report
less than half a dozen born of forI
eign parentage on either side. LebI
anon, Lancaster and York show (
very large proportion of native bori
parents as well.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulleti{
contains this interesting paragraph
in discussion of some of the earli
literary lights of that city: witt
the opening of the nineteenth cenI
tury, n new stimulus was given II
literary endeavor in our city by tn /
publication of the Portfolio, edited
by Joseph Dennie, the first numbeI
appearing in the year 1901. DenniE
was a Bostonian, a Harvard gradT
uate, who had previously followe
journalism in Massachusetts, and hi
came to Philadelphia in 1893 as sec
| retary to Timothy Pickering. Al
editor of the Portfolio he shove
much prejudice in his literary criti
cisms. He found German books
be particularly abhorrent, and said
The rage for German literature
one of the foolish and uncouth whim
| of the time and deserves all tn .
acrimony of the lampooner. We ar
sick, heart sick, of the ramblin
bombast, infamous sentiments an
distempered sensibility of the TeuN
tonic tribe"
The State Capitol is being prett
well visited by automobile partie
these days and there is hardly a da
passes that the guides do not hav
to double up in order to get thei
parties through the big structure
The visitors are coming at the rat
of a couple of thousands a week an
are from all parts of the State. o
one day fifteen States were repre-
sented. Unfortunately not all of tn
visitors take the trouble to registe
and complete data about the visitor
cannot be obtained.
The Harrisburg Rifle Club, com
posed of a number of well-know
young men of this city and which
doing a good bit to instruct peopl
in the way to handle arms. will tr
conclusions with the Keystone Riff
Club of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company in a series of three matche
which will be we'll worth watching
The announcement of tlHe Harris
burg Rifle Club, issued by Cassiu
A. Dunn, the executive office
shows that the first match will b
shot on that clubs range on Labo
Day and that the applicants 70
places on the team must have the
scores in hand on or before Thurs
day, August 80, and that all mem
bers should go out and practice
mo favorites will be played" add
Mr.. Dunn.
Some amusing incidents are CON
mencing to turn up at the Audito
Generals Department where the In
heritance tax is commencing to com
in under the direct inheritance ia
act of 1917. In one estate which wa
worth less than $500 the execute
solemnly figured out exactly ho1
much discount could be allowed.
another case a man found the dis
count would be a matter of cen
and asked that a warrant be dis
patched to him for it. ConsiderabE
interest is being shown In the wa
the reports are coming in, especial
from the big counties.