Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-18
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days as Tanners alley except line
| or water pipe and a memory Steam
shoVels and plows have made the
once lively thoroughfare, where rows
ana racket were wont to reign at
! night, only a half-filled ditch an
1t is being covered up so fast that i'll
a snort time sod can be planted over
| II. Tanners was the first of the
alleys to be gouged out of existence
by the excavating machinery which
Went to work in Capitol Park ex-
tension this summer and Cranberry
was the next to go. Cranberry has
oeen obliterated although there are
some people who recall what it used
TO be like especially the days when
one FISHER used to get into action.
I1sher' was sort of Eighth ward
Peter Blackwell, but a more virile
| type. Now Tanners alley is passing
| and in short time South alley and
other streets will be wiped out and
then the machinerywill start in north
OF state street: Filbert will be about
| the last to go as it and Fourth street
| Will care for the traffic until the
new highway being built by Super
intendent George A. Shreiner out os
Pipe Bending Works cinder and Stag
and presumably to be called Corr.
monwealth avenue is completed. The
old Eighth is not hardly recognizable
and one has to wonder what some of
the old denizens would have thought
| II they could have seen a horse
mower cutting the grass which mas
been raised where something else
was the crop in years gone by.
Captain Frederic A. Godcharles,
| Deputy Secretary of the Common
wealth, is the second man from
| Northumberland county to hold the
place of deputy. Years ago General
Charles M. Clement was the deputy.
! The General, oddly enough, COM
manded the regiment in which the
| new captain of ordnance learned the
soldier business Captain Cod
charles was not here to get the mes
sage announcing his appointment as
| he was at Camp Perry with the ex-
pert shooters Of the country He is
an adept with the rifle and the shot
gun and will likely be assigned to
| the important work of teaching the
| soldiers how to shoot. as marksman-
! ship is playing a big part in the
/ work of the Americans in France.
much to the establishment of their
friends and foes.
A good thought was given to tho
Central High School seniors on Mon
day by Ross A. Hickok in his little
| talk to them about what military
training means. He called attention
to the fact that when the boys come
home from France they will be in
competition with the students of to-
day and that they will have to be
on their toes to keep up with them.
1t was a talk straight from the
shoulder and the boys were given to
understand that military training
was not going to be picnic, but
would require not only drill but
study and practice. 1t is probable
that as a result of the movement 10
train the students in the city's high
schools that a number of the boys
will enter Company l of the Re-
serve Militia or the Harrisburg Re-
serves. The work of the two or
ganizations is being cordinated and
many of the Reserves have gone into
the Militia.
A friend who likes to hunt buIS~F
frogs and to eat them, too, is more
or less inclined to think that the
prohibition of the use of lights at
night to spear the "bullies" ought
to be changed just as some of his
friends aver that the blackbird sea-
son ought to open a couple of weeks
before September 1, which is now the
i legal date. "Bullfrogs are multiply
ing and there is nothing more an
noying than a. chorus at night when
/
feeling. THE average bullfrog is a
foxy cuss, anyway, and when you
take away the light you are going to
take a fling at a noise in the dark
ness and be rewarded with a de-
risive jugerum' or a resounding
"plop." as he goes into the water.
There ought to be time, say at the
close of the season when lights
could be used. just to thin out the
rascals. A bullfrog can make you
feel meaner than anything 1 know,
except a lazy, overfed trout, espe-
cially when you have sneaked up
on him and he hops in just about
the time you are going to spear him."
People at the Capitol are speculat-
ing about what will have to be done
with William Penn. AS noted in this
column some time ago William is
| getting bald and growing a fringe
about his neck. William is~tree No.
1 in the Row of the Governors"
along the Walnut street front of
Capitol Park. William was planted
by the Governor and his wife and has
not been we'll this summer. The up
per branches of the tree are bare of
leaves, but the growth seems to have
come out at the top of the trunk
where the tree forks
When American troops arrive at
port or leave train one can tell by
their stride they they are from the
United States DR.. Bagnell said.
'They have a swinging stride and a
look in their eye that shows they are
there for a purpose. The French
and English people know it and
their admiration for the thousands
of Americans is a splendid tribute
to our boys. In any of the cities
or towns where there are American
troops or through which they have
passed this spirit is found"