Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
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attraction the fact remains that the
men who almost overnight replaced
the soldiers who were patroIling
bridges. viaducts. water works and /,
other works of vital importance 10
the nation are doing a tremendous
| lot of work and doing 1t efficiently
right in this city and nearby. I'M
portance of Harrisburg as a rail-
road center which Is something
which William B. McCaleb used to
urge upon the people of this city
during the days when he was super
intendeht and which railroad men
from ]. Edgar Thompson on down
have realized has called for the or
ganization of a corps of men who are
scarcely known. In fact until you
! happen to bump up against them in
the dark you hardly know that men
are on guard A year or so ago
soldiers from Philadelphia and New
| York regiments came here to guard
the bridges and the yards and other
| places necessary to the scheme of
train movement and growled over
the duty and longed for action. They
| went away about as suddenly as they
| appeared and a good many people
thought that the bridges were not
guarded. But they soon got over it.
Through the terrible cold of last
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and the alternate rains and hot per-
iods of this summer every yard of
the great yards about here. the
bridges and buildings have been un-
der watchful eye, and the men walk
ing tracks would amaze the average
man If he could get to see a sched-
ule of what is done in storm and
sunshine. 1t is about as hard to get
into the yards at .Enola, Lucknow,
Rutherford or near Maclay street as
it is to get into the Governors office
and any one who fingers near q
bridge is politely asked to move on.
Between electric lights and watch
men things are pretty well taken
care of around here.
while we have no means of say
ing what was the total trout catch in
the season which ended with July.
1 feel safe in saying from what I
have heard from wardens and fisher
men and those who follow the sport
that we had the largest catch in
several years." was the opinion exS
pressed by Nathan R. Butler. state
commissioner of fisheries, in regard
to the first trout season under the
new fish code. "I am just home
from visits to hatcheries and various
points where I got the reports and
the fishing was so good in many
localities that fishermen got the
limit daily and beside they got good
sized fish. I am sorry there were
some people who took undersized
ones. but there seems to have been
plenty of the size capable of taking
care of themselves to go around.
The northwestern part of the state
seems to have done exceptionally
well in trout fishing. We have plant
ed extensively in that section and
think the results told. This years
trout season was an exceptional one.
1t. was very cold at the start, but
the fishermen made up for it in the
last eight weeks. I would consider
it a very successful season. I'VE
are going to start to put out young
trout, the kind that can survive, be-
fore the end of August" continued
the commissioner. I'VE have got tp
start this early because we do not
have the people to handle the work
such as we used to have before the
war We are also up against some
transportation difficulties. Hence
we will make an early start and con-
tinue planting as long as we are
able to do so. We are not going to
put out as many trout as we did for
the last season. Remember we got
close to the 100000 mark and we
had the hatcheries making most
| SQCCGSSIul SedSOn anu a SoHiptSIo
force of men. But we are going to
make the best of it and will ask the
trout fishermen to help u.s." Com
missioner Butler said that bass and
salmon fishing reports were fair, the
catches being good where streams
were right
Judge Charles B. Wilmer, of Uni
ted States court, gave up his vaca-
| 90 M or
to handle business in his court. The
Judge likes to take to the woods and
to fish and every time he has started
off something has happened and he
has had to go about his district TO
hold court. The special session be-
ing held here this week grows out
of the war and the judge fixed the
time in spite of the heat and that
the fishing has been good
James e. Lentz, the recorder of
Deeds is being given many compli-
ment for the thorough manner in
which he has organized the govern
ment's work for instruction of draft
ed men in the upper Dauphin dis
trict. The work of this board has
been reported to Washington as
about the first to carry out the ideas
of the provost marshal general There
were some questions whether the
| board could get the men out 1t
was put up to Mr.. Lentz. He got
the boys out and they are so keen
about drilling that they have been
ordering books of drill regulations
and asking the men Of military ex-
perience in their home towns to give
them pointers In the evenings
|
Horace A. Beale, the Parkesburg
! fronmaster selected as the chairman
of the subcommittee on iron and
steel of the War Resources commit
tee of this section of the state, used
| to be at Steelton. Years ago he
was stationed at the Pennsylvania
Steel Works and played football
about here.