Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-08
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| weather conditions did not even
put crimp in the coasting of young
harrisburg yesterday and in spite
or the rain and slush the youngsters
thronged the slopes of Reservoir
park, the hill streets up town and the
/ slopes of the Thirteenth ward. The
sled was king in the minds of the
boys and when they could they
hooked on to automobiles and sleds
and thoroughly enjoyed spiaaing
odd how the boys cling to places to
coast year after year. Mention has
been made in this column from
time to time about the popularity of
places in the upper end of the city,
the streets sloping off "the Ridge,
Maclay street hill and the long
grades out near the State Hospital,
all of which are still in use more
or less.a But there is one place
which has been a favorite for coast
ing for the boys of this city for at
least 100 years. 1t is Harris park.
Starting at Mulberry street there is
a slope which has been maintained
in one form or another for seventy
or eighty years. The other day boys
were coasting down into the park
and going close to the grave Of John
Harris as they did thirty years ago
| and as men who were boys during
the Civil War say they did and as
their fathers said that they coasted
On the other side of the river there
are some places which have been
nsed by boys around West Fairview
and New Cumberland for many
| many years.
| A man can't get gay in restaurants
and similar places these days with
comments about Uncle Sam without
being called pretty sharply. There
are some One-Minute men or less
than One-Minute Men instead of
! Four Minute Men around these days
! Yesterday afternoon a colored poll
| tician with spats and a cane pro-
ceeded to announce in a restaurant
that certain publication was where
! Uncle Sam made a BANKED fool of
himself.
Now you cut that out and cut
it out right now," roared six-foot
young American.
What you got to do with it? Cut
what out?" sputtered the spatted one.
| THAT damning your Uncle Sam.
1t don't go. Buy bond or should
er a gun, but don't roost around in
the warm and throw rocks at your
Uncle"
Six feet lowered over the first
speaker, who declared that he
meant no offense.
mo, but your example was bad
came back the Half-Mlnute man.
John S. Ritenour, the Pittsburgh
newspaperman, who is now devoting
his time to humane work and who
| is we'll known to n host of people
in Central Pennsylvania, has sent
to friends in Harrisburg holiday
greeting in the form of some lines
on Fayette county, his boyhood home.
1t is a tribute to a section of Penn
,,fa ri tn n
splendid example of what progress
industry can make in few years
Throughout the poem brims with
love for Pennsylvania that is too
little heard in these strenuous days,
and the writer takes his friends
back to the wooded hills where he
hunted when he was boy
D. NJ. Smith has made trouble in
Wayne county and in the State Cap
itol. There were two men of that
name elected justice of the peace
! in Wayne county. They lived in diff
, ferent townships. The prothonotary
certified but one. The other went
Iaround to lift his commission and
l the prothonotary passed the buck to
. Harrisburg. Harrisburg passed 1t
{ back. Then the prothonotary form
ally certified and the state sent
commission. The interchange cost
sixteen cents in postage and much
heart burning.
Everybody reads the HarrfsbuxE,
Telegraph" said Josie Magaro, clerE
E to Manager Fackler of the Union
: News Company at Union Station
tThen she proceeded to prove it. From
a cigar box back of the counter she
brought a bunch of letters and clip
pings, and explained: There you
e are, clippings from the Telegraph.
in the Evening Chat column of the
: Telegraph Saturday. Today fourteen
customers handed me clippings.
There are four postcards with clip
, pings pasted on them; and here is
r q bunch of letters, each containing
{ a clipping. 1t is only IL o'clock, I
guess there's more to come"
One does not have to go far from
the mines to find the coal situation
rather puZZling. On Sunday n well
known Pennsylvania railroad en-
ploye visited relatives in the Lykens
Valley. A brother-in-law, foreman
in one of the mines, resides two
blocks from the breakers. Ever
since cold weather set in this miner
Notwithstanding there were hun
dreds of cars loaded with coal near
the breakers during the cold period
paid 1915 a ton for coal, and has
not been able to get more than
bushel or two at one time, except
on one occasion, when he was al
lowed q half ton, and paid So for u.
A boy hauls his coal daily from the
mines in q small wagon.