Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-01
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Approval by the Public Service Com
mission of an application for man
to operate ferry across the susque-
hanna, near McCalrs Ferry, calls at
tention to the fact that such enter
prises while numerous in the State, are
among the fewest public utilities to be
Increased in recent years. The act of
1913 placed their control under the
commission and all new ferry propo-
| sitions must have State approval In
all that time less than five ferry pro-
1ects have been before the commission
and that granted this week to a down.
the-river man is the first for this sec
ton of the State since the act became
| effective. There are probably a dozen
ferries operated on the Susquehanna
within a radius of fifty miles of Har-
risburg and some of them, especially
beween the Dauphin and Perry towns,
are we'll established enterprises and
pay fairly well, although once in a
while the service is apt to irritate one.
The ferry companies granted charters
have been very few in number and
have been for southwestern Pennsyl-
vania, especially along the Mononga-
hela and its tributaries. However,
ferry rights are among the things
which are pretty jealously guarded
and no one will give one up. There
are some old ferries which operate un-
der charters that are yellow with age
aid which maintain regular service
while there are others whose rights,
because of restrictions on bridges in
their vicinage, are maintained by run
ming or boat once a month or even
less frequently. A ferry is a pretty
valuable thing even in these days of
| gasoline and frequent bridges.
With the return of the Eighth regi-
| ment but one Harrisburg guardsman
remains at the border. He is Walter
E. Stroup, a member of the Governors
Troop, Troop G, First Pennsylvania
Cavalry, and he is in the military
base hospital at the United States
army post at Fort Bliss, Texas, about
| two and half miles from the site of
camp Stewart. Trooper Stroup was
badly injured at drill with the troop
last August when his horse fell and
fell on his rider, fracturing his hip.
The horse was one of the outlaws"
of which the troop had several, and he
fell to young Stroup in the allotment
or mounts when the thoroughly
green" animals were received from
the government remount station at
Fort Bliss. Trooper Stroup was taken
to the hospital and operated on at
once. The break was a serious one
and the army surgeons were afraid tie
injured leg would be shorter than the
other when the break knitted. In or
der to remedy that several other oper-
adlonS were necessary and the hip was
| enclosed in plaster cast for several
weeks. In letter written a short
time ago Trooper Stroup says he is
now walking about the hospital on
| crutches and can walk a little will. u
cane, He expects to be mustered out
at Fort Bliss in n short time and re-
turn home. Trooper Stroup is an eX-
cellent cavalryman and his comrades
in the Governors Troop were pleased
to hear that he is recovering and will
come home soon. Young Stroup says
he is lonesome now that all his COM
rades have left Camp Stewart, and is
anxious to join them at home. When
Trooper Stroup returns to his home at
1887 Howard street, he will be greeted
by daughter, now only a few weeks
old, whom he has not seen.
1t is astonishing the size and num-
| ber of the trains which are being sent
east through this city by the two big
railroad systems and if they contain
cars of provisions there would not be
much difficulty about feeding people in
| the large cities. Some of the trains
passing through this city are as heavy
as the engines can draw and glances
at the cards tackled on the cars show
| that they are going to tidewater. The
| reports of shortages of coal in eastern
| cities are hard to understand when one
sees the trains of coal that pass this
city and the same is true when one
sees the special fast freight trains
made up of cars of provisions that go
east at certain times each day. The
fact is that the materials they contain,
whether for fuel or eating, are all
bought. One of the residents of this
city who is posted on transportation
says that every twenty-four hours
,n 10 .iulNl f0iY
provisions and coal worth millions
and millions of dollars.
A scarlet cardinal was seen the
other day in Wildwood Park, and a
scarlet cardinal is one of the sure
signs of spring, according to one who
loves birds. Hundreds of very blue
blue birds likewise greeted strollers in
| the country during the spring-like
days that lure the unwary ones into
shedding overcoats and adopting low
shoes. The more or less indefinable
unrest which seizes upon the youth in
springtime more Familiarity known as
spring-fever, ,conjuring up visions of
long drives to center field and flashes
of lightning around the bases, as well
as melting enthusiasts, from the aged
! and infirm to the hoy in britches," to
physical gyrations suggestive of the
full st, Andrews swing, was present
last Saturday in great punches. Gu
1 rious ones passing golf courses eX-
amined the links eXpectantly, but the
ground frowned back uninvitingly and
the sticks were replaced in the bag.
Pretty soon, however, pretty soon
..
Vesta Furnace near Marietta which
is being rehabilitated by the Lavino
interests of Philadelphia to manufac-
ture ferro-manganese was formerly
owned by Harrisburgcrs 1t is one
of the old furnaces OF the lower Sus-
quehanna Valley and has changed
hands a good many times. The neigh
borhood which it occupies has been
making iron for over 100 years. The
sister furnace, across the river at
Wrightsvlle, used to be called Au-
rora. Vesta is one of the few fur
naces left in the Columbia district.
you have been printing some in
teresting matters about foodstuffs;
now listen to- this" remarked a busi-
nessman yesterday. How do you ac-
count for eggs selling by the case at
forty-five cents on Saturday and thir-
ty-five to-day? Give me the answer,
have to go up against changes in
price like that. Why a man came in
to my place and offered me eggs on
Saturday at forty-five and insisted
they were scarce and liable to go up.