Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
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Although scarcely realized by the
hurrying passerby and almost un<
noticed by tho people who live next
door there are many places in Hare
risburg with historical significance
ana which in days gone by played
notable part in the life Of the
states capital. Very few of the mem
and women who go by the Harris
and Maclay mansions know fo4
what they stand in the history NOS
only of our city, but of the state
and similarly dozens of buildings Oh
sites in Harrisburg, which go uns
marked in rather striking contrast
| to the custom in New England, Now
| York and Philadelphia and eVeH
Pittsburgh and Scranton, have store
| les of their own which are very ins
| teresting. The way time passes and
occasionally brings around buildings
| to uses akin to those of years aga
was strikingly illustrated the other
| day by one of our friends. She had
been working along with other good
| ladies of Harrisburg at the REQ
Cross headquarters and while in thN
| patriotic duty recalled that the b'a>s
| ger Duilding, which is now the een-
ter of this activity for mercy ane
| comfort of the young men of Hars
risburg, was one of the improvised
| hospitals for soldiers during the
Civil War. She told most Interest,"
ingly of how with girl companions
she had peepel in at the windows
of almost the very room IN WnIeh
| the women of present day Harris
| burg were working to see the
wounded soldiers. Pm the number
in the Eager building were Confed-
| crates, two of them she recalled
| from away down in Florida. lE
seems odd that after this lapse oE
years that the building which had
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wounded in the war to save tho
country should now be devoted TO
preparations for the welfare OF the
soldiers in the world-war for free-
| dom. ..- F.a
Major w. G.. Murdock, in charge
of the state draft headquarters, says
that the way it looks now the dis
tricts in this part OF the state Wlh
be called upon to send what are
termed their shortages" to Camps
Meade and Lee in the week or Feo-
ruary 4. The shortages are what are
needed to replace men rejected. Inc
district in this section still owes
Camp Meade about twelve per CENT;
of it's first call and these men Will
not go until later in February or
maybe not until March.
Some idea of the manner in which
! the inmates of the states new west
ern penitentiary in Center county
have been striving to Keep the wolL
| from the door and raise their own
! food was furnished here to-day py
| the statement filed by Warden John
Francies with the Governor. 1t
shows that in 1917 the prisoners
raised crops valued at $93,3SS ana
weighing many a ton, all aVallaDie
| for use in the institution. The corn
aggregated IL, ,436 bushels, hay 80S
tons, wheat 1883 bushels, oats, 490S
bushels, rye 1872 bushels, fodder l4A
| tons and straw $50 tons, with pota-
| toes as a banner crop with 10,Olz
bushels The orchard produced q.
| 05S bushels of apples, IL bushels or
! neaches and 532 quarts of cherries
With many berries. The beef aggre-
gated 200 pounds; pork 25,74O ana
lard 1890 and milk was 234,9SA
mounds with 2512 pounds OF outter'
The men gathered in 10 tons OIL lce
calves were registered as born on the
farm. over a dozen kinds of vege-
tables were grown, ono item oehg
96.6S5 spring onions and 2O9 tons oil
cabbage.
"There are fewer revivals being
held in this county now than at any
| time IN twenty ytoiob HS1AN -
who follows religious movements.
"For years January has been the
time for the revivals In this city
and in the smaller towns. while pro-
tracted meetings have been usual in
country churches Now they are
lucky to have enough coal for ordl-
nary services"
Commenting upon Sergeant Hus-
toms weather observations on Sun
days. n friend goes the Rockville
imam some better. He says that the
mercury, by a singular coincidence,
has gone below zero on the last four
consecutive Sundays. This friend
saws that, beginning with the record
lcold day in February, 1912, when
}temperature went to twelve below
zero, all of the really cold days since,
Iat least the zero days, have been
Sundays, with one or two eXcep-
tions.
The state authorities have decided
that the preparation OF the Capitol
park extension for the landscape
work will not intefere with any war
work and fllins at the rate of zoo
cubic yards day is to be ordered
shortly, the filling to be cinder from
mills. Meanwhile the detailed plans
| will be pushed along and filling made
the big object this summer. The
lnnnropriations are available and as
soon as weather improves any men
made idle in industries can be taken
| ~ ra nf