Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-02
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Search of homes of some of the
aliens in Harrisburg made by officers
of the State Game Commission and
by agents of the federal food and
fuel administration have developed
some things which have been
brought to the attention of United
States authorities for action, being
no less than the display of pictures
of Kaisers Wilhelm and Carl, and
their generals, while 1t is stated that
only recently Austrian flags were in
homes in Harrisburg. The discovery
or the pictures were made a short
time ago when searches were being
made for boards of -four and sugar
which has been going on systematic
ally among some of the men from
parts of Hungary and eastern prov
inces OF Austria. The facts were re-
ported and some of the pictures were
taken down, the foreigners declar-
ing that all had been removed. About
a week ago the state game authori-
ties who are charged with the duty
or seeing that unnaturaliZed foreign
born people do not have firearms de-
scended on the foreign colony in the
Sibletown district and found pic
lures of the kaiser and German pos
ters in front rooms of houses. They
were promptly reported and the for
eigners again protested that they
had been taken down. 1t has lately
been reported that there are some of
the Austrians who touch their hats
when they pass the pictures of Kaiser
Carl on entering their homes. This
situation is a new one for Harrisburg
and the reports are being investigat-
ed with the result that some of the
men may be interned.
Milk shipments from the Harris
burg district are reported as having
grown to the largest size known this
spring and milk is now taken from
this section not only to Philadelphia.
which formerly secured consider
able part of its supply from South
ern Central Pennsylvania but to
New York and even to Boston. The
number of dairy cows in Dauphin
and Cumberland counties which was
reported as declining, is said to have
materially increased and there has
also been an increase in Perry.
Bass fishermen were disgusted
with the weather of the first day of
the season under the new fish code.
The rains of Sunday had caused the
waters of the Susquehanna and
Conodogninet, noted bass streams.
to rise and there was mighty poor
sport on the first day. 1t is hoped
that there will be more doing later
in the week when the waters are no
longer muddy and the streams are
down. Commissioner Butler says he
is satisfied the new season will be
appreciated later on.
Another thing which may be men,
toned as having won the approba-
ton of people who have come here
from various sections of the state
lately on governmental, political or
other errands and that is the CO.
operation rendered upon the part of
the. city in the working out of the
plans for Capitol Park. Quite few
men who came here for the Demo-
cratic state committee meeting last
week were aware of the monumental
bridge project urged by Arnold W.
Brunner and having in mind the way
Harrisburg made it's public improve
ments when the state began con-
struction of the new Capitol said
they looked forward to this city
going right to it" with the state to
make the Capitol and its park ap-.
proaches an object of state-wideI
pride.
While II is quite laudable for the
officials of the Bell Telephone Com
pany to seek elimination of the
service which was encouraged in
other and less strenuous. days in the
interest of greater efficiency the fact
remains that the time of subscribers
and operators now lost in ascertain
ing the correct hour of the day or
night is greater than before the or
der went into effect Many house
holds in Harrisburg have for years
been regulated in the morning by
getting the time from the telephone
exchange and the Bell was always
reliable source of information and
there are many men who have de-
pended upon the always cheerful re-
sponse of the girl as a guide to
catching cars or trains and even 20
getting up in the morning or trying
to get to sleep on a wakeful night.
Now all that is changed and when
you want the time you have to ask
the Western Union, which is a busy
place between it's own and govern
ment business; call up the Pennsyl-
vania railroad or if you have Il
friend in bank, a store, a public
Office or some other place where
there is standard time take down the
receiver and ask for him. There
were some tests made Saturday
morning and yesterday afternoon on
time calls" from these sources and
the time consumed by the telephone,
operators in getting the connections
made was triple and many times
more than the seconds of service en-
ployed in giving the hour the old
way Harrisburg has no town clock.
but for years it had some of the
brainiest men who helped make the
Bell indispensable to help it out.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE