Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-01
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quiry which has been inaugurated at
the Capitol as q result of agitation
Tor replacement of the Lemoyne
bridge, the wooden structure span
ming the Cum mberland Valley railroad
tracks where the Valley Railways
line to New Cumberland begins and
| which 1t carries. The bridge is one
OF the most Travelled in that part OF
cumberland County, touching as it
does on the state highway to Carlisle
ana forming part of main high
| way of the Commonwealth itself.
| when the state authorities started
TO look into the matter of repairs
or replacement as a result of the
complaints there was about as in
| teresting problem as could be
| round and no one seemed to know
much about the history of the bridge
or the obligations to maintain it.
The Highway Department people
scratched their heads and took it to
the Public Service Commission and
now 1t Is understood to be in the At
torney Generals Department. Law
yers in this city and Carlisle are
looking up the matter. 1t is possible
that the state authorities If they are
unable to find a solution may adofse
the plan pursued at Butler. In that
city there was more than doubts or
uncertainties about who should pay
for a new JSfidge. There was a con-
| troversy. So the Public, Service and
Highway ends of the Government
1 adopted the Gordian policy of assess
ing the cost and letting a contract
for bridge. 1t seems to have been
effective. There are said to be other
bridge problems beside that at Le-
moyne which came down from other
| days when people were not scare
full about contracts to maintain as
they are in this day and generation.
C. Harry Kain, the well-known ar
chitect, who has been doing war
work for the government in recent
months, has just finished passing
upon the final plans for a 1,500-ton
ice making and cold storage plant
for the eXpeditionary force TO
France. This plant" said he dur
ing brief visit home the other day,
is large enough to take care of
one million men. It's capacity is 500
tons of ice and practically 1000 tons
of refrigeration per day. The beef
storage is 100 feet wide and over 800
feet long, with a capacity of 5000
tons of beef. Six boilers of 70 inches
diameter will be installed, using 100
tons of coal day. The buildings
are divided into two groups, those of
the plant proper and those of the
officers quarters. All are built OF
frame construction. The canton
ment construction will be used for
the officers quarters, going one bet
| ter in several cases. Modern plumb
ing fixtures will be installed through
out, as we'll as steam heat furnished
from a central plant. Both hospi-
tai and laundry are equipped with
| modern apparatus and machinery;
| everything, in fact, was planned to
secure the most sanitary surround
ings for the men. Practically all
materials are to be shipped across
from this country, and this is why
the work of getting out the lists of
materials is tedious.
Following are a few items that
might interest you to know. To
equip and run the plant will require
| 400 tons of salt; 10 tons of am
monia; half q million square feet of
roofing paper, and like amount of
asbestos. over five million feet of
lumber will be needed together with
nearly a billion and a half of nails,
| ranging in sizes from S-inch spikes
| down to siX-penny.
1T took nearly 65 carloads of wood
shavings for the insulation, not
counting the granulated cork. Re
garding the mill work, / understand
the government is drawing on forty
planning mills"
BENJAMIN w. Demming, chief
clerk to the Adjutant General, gets
about twenty-seven interesting ques-
tions a day, especially since the war
began. The other day he was ad-
dressed by an officer of club in
Berks County, where clubs are part
of life to a greater extent than even
in York who desired to know If the
club could serve liquor to men in
uniform. The letter specifically
mentioned officers. Yesterday Mr..
Demming was addressed by woman
! in Pittsburgh who was indignant
over the operation of the draft law
in taking her man" The manner of
her interrogatory to Mr.. Demming
was as follows: Whats a marriage
license worth, If it don't keep my
man to take care of me?"
Col Frank G. Sweeney. officer in
charge of state draft headquarters,
receives many letters of like tenor.
The other day he was addressed by a
woman who appealed to him by the
heavens, the skies and the constella-
tons for relief of her son, her one
'amb, from the draft. The day
after she wrote the letter the Colonel
was called on the telephone and
given fits because the aforesaid son
was not exempted. Folks are not
sure whether the lamb would not
just as soon be at camp learning real
discipline and having instilled into
him the qualities Uncle Sam puts
into his soldiers if they are not dis
covered in the course of training
camp developments.
Commissioner of Fisheries Butler
went on a tour of fish hatcheries the
other day and found the superin-
tendent at Bellefonte had an auto
mobile, a new one.
"Humph, making so much money
you can buy a car, eh? Guess I'll
have to reduce your salary" he OBJ
served.
well, that cars my wife's," re-
piled the superintendent
Next day he found another super
intendent had bought a car. He
sprung the same remark and the
man replied that it belonged to his
wife.
Not long after he met another
owner of a new car. When he asked
who owned it the man said with per-
feet candor: 81 think the bank doa~
Col. Charles Il. Cresswell, forme-
commander of the Third Infantry of
the National Guard, was here yester-
day. The Colonel has been named as
a member of the State Armory
Board and is much mentioned in con-
nection with the Reserve Militia.