Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
Enrntng Glrat

Ad1utant General Frank D. Beary,
who has been following the develop
ment OF the War Departments great.A
depots near Harrisburg with the
greatest interest and who has been
expanding the State Arsenal. says
that few people realize that it will
make Harrisburg more or less of q
garrison city. The activities of the
State Arsenal have created a per-
manent force which has to do en-
tirely with the military property of
the state and the coming of the
depots to the vicinity of this city and
they are of permanent constructions
means that there will be soldiers In
force stationed here. The three sup
ply depots, all of which will be in
full operation before people realize
it, will handle an immense amount
of material of all sorts and in ad-
dtion to the soldiers and civilians
who will man the great warehouses
there will be garrisons Of soldiers to
guard the reservations. Each of the
three places is government reser-.
walton, just the same as a fort, and
under martial regulations The pres
ence of the soldiers near Harrisburg
permanently after the war will be
novelty. While the war lasts the
warehouses will receive materials
from factories and store them until
needed to go overseas. These eStab-
lishments, which cannot be fully de-
scribed in war time, are a notable
addition to the Harrisburg district.
At least 1000 miles through Penn
| sylvania forests and along the val
leys and over the mountains will be
travelled lin the next two weeks by
DR.. Charles B. Penrose, chairman
of the State Game Commission; DR..
Joseph Kalbfus, the secretary, and
probably one other member of the
commission on the annual tour of
the game preserves. DIR. Penrose, who
provides the automobile and pays
most of the expenses of the tour, is
keen sportsman, and next to DR..
Kalbfus probably knows more about
the game conditions in the state than
anyone else. He has personally vis-
tied everyone OF the game preserves
except a few established this year
and some of those he knows by rea-
son of inspections of the tracts pro-
posed in Dauphin, Huntingdon and
Union counties. The state has twen-
ty-four of it's own and three aux
S iliaries. Work on the new preserve
in Forest county started this week.
The plan is to inspect the conditions
in the preserves and study what has
been done in the way of propagation
; during the last year and the pros
poets for the coming fall. Some
, tracts which have been suggested
? for game preserves will be visited
e and first-hand information of value
in advance of the fall hunting sea-
son will be compiled by DR.. Kalbfus.
Meetings will be held with the game
e protectors and the special men who
are going on duty.
\ Will the blackbirds stick around
for the opening of the first stage of
the hunting season, is the question
which many men who like to hunt inv
7 the farming sections of the state
have been asking here. Immense
hocks of the blackcoats have been
Y observed lately and reports made to
l the State Game Commission indicate
| that the larger flocks began forming
) rather earlier than usual. Southern
PENNSYLVANIA counties report enor-
nous numbers of blackbirds follow
ling the oats harvest. It has always
been a guessing game in this section
of the state whether the blackbirds
would be here when the season open
r ed and some years they have left
a only some rear guards 10 tease tne
q hunters. Under the Pennsylvania
. law the blackbird may be shot by
the owner of a farm when destroy
ing crops or fruit or doing dam
, age to wild life of a valuable char
acter to farmers and some have been
i shot. The Game Commission has
authority to direct killing of the
blackbirds when they become nuis-
ance but as yet no complaints that
lytI
come here. The birds have been in
large hocks. but have been no more
of an annoyance than usual. The
season for hunting opens on Sep
tember 1 and runs until the end of
November,~the number to be snot be-
ing unlimited. If the blackbirds
stay in anything like the numbers
they have ben reported there will
be some potpies this fall.
Senator Edward e. Beidleman is
having quite a time to get any Sat-
urday afternoons for himself. The
r Senator is in demand for the various
lfarmers' picnics which are generally
:, held on Saturdays in August and as
!, he has to go out on the stump in
September he has not much time
left Some of the picnic events the
Senator has attended for years.
According to some well-posted
people who have been observing in
sect life there will be visitations by
the locusts next summer. Some Of
the wings are now appearing with
out the '"W" which meant war which
will soon be taken as a sign OF
peace. Some we'll developed To-
Gusts have been found near the sur
face Of the ground in Derry town
ship which is taken as confirmation
of the 1919 visitation. In the up-
per end the county locusts have