Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-13
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AtS ratner an ODD fact that al
though practically all of Harris
purg's streets have borne their names
for years, some curious examples of
lack of knowledge about them are
constantly cropping out even among
people who have lived here a long
time. For instance. many old Har-
risourgers habitually refer to Green
street as Two and Half and it is
not uncommon to hear North Sew
enth street called "the avenue" es-
pecially about the police station. ana
occasionally someone refers to Sixth
street as 'the Ridge" These are
survivals of old times. especially the
Ridge" when it was the main high
way to Camp Curtin and was on the
top of the high ground between the
Susquehanna and Paxton creek.
Some people persist in calling Front
street above Maclay THE River
Road" which is certainly taking Il
from very ancient days. The Jones'
town road is still given to portions of
walnut and Regina streets and out
IN the East End Derry street is "the
PIKE. Often people call Cameron
street Eleventh and the Harrisburg
Railways Company is the worst sim
fner In this respect. Every now and
then people run across a name that
stumps them. For instance, a short
ume ago a query came to the Har-
rlsourg Telegraph as to where First
street was located. 1t seems that
someone had heard of it and wanted
TO know whether it was Front street
away down town in the Lochiel dis
trict' AS matter of fact. it was a
plain trick. Out on the Hill there 20
street called Fir. 1t is as short as
lts name. The sign on a house be-
slde 1t has this legend Fir ST." The
ana s. run together. But odd
est or all was driver who demanded
nt bridge policeman where Cresson
street was located. A shipper had
confused 1T with Crescent Crescent
Is one OF the old streets and well
known, yet the policeman had to
nustle around to get it untangled. A
oozen people whom he talked to did
not connect the two.
l AS this is berry time and strests
, are being talked of, it is remarkable
the people who get twisted in regard
10 the smaller thoroughfares which
are named for the small fruits
D blackberry, Dewberry and Straw
B perry are the three chief ones which
are most in the popular mind and
! every now and then someone talks
ABOUT Cranberry. There used to be
raspberry, but they changed that to
court with a wisdom of later days
4 some day this city will realize that
, IL is state capital and the official
Center OF great commonwealth and
tnat It's street nomenclature is de-
cidedly out of fit The only thing
| ABOUT the street plan that fits in with
@ Ine dignity OF the city is State street
Inc names OF men who made Harris
purs or put it on the map are per-
petuated as, for instance, in Cameron
street, but why we gave Capital as
the name for street less than half
a dozen blocks long when there are
streets with the world-old names of
front, Second, Third and Fourth
). available for the names of the coun-
tleS or the state of which we are the
s of1cial hub is hard to comprehend.
= Philadelphia, which is not the capt.
n tai, calls certain streets north of Mar,
! ket street for the counties and GER
tain streets south thereof for the Gov
ernors. Here we give the name OF
= the founder of our state to a narrow
o thoroughfare and of our county to
r another quite out of the central seq
tion of the city, and have Franklin
and Wayne away down in the First
n ward with none called for Pennsyl-
e vania's great general, Meade, or for
|, the keystone States only President.
t Buchanan, or his successor, the la
4 mented Lincoln, for that matter,
either. But we do have Daisy, Car
nation, Duck and Fir.
= There is scarcely a train passing
$ through Harrisburg these days that
q does not have squads of men in
Khaki and bands of men who are
going to don it. Union Station is a
great place for uniforms these DAYS
and 1T is interesting to see the differ
ence in the bearing of the men who
are going to the cantonments and
the men who are home on their first
furloughs. There seems to be a great
gulf at first, but it does not last long.
Some of the cigars which are be-
ing sold to make up the demand for
five cents straight" since the war
tax forced the retail price of TX. o."
and other standard local products
up to six cents are suspiciously like
"twofers" and those who expert
ment with them have fearful and
wonderful results. Certain of these
cigars should be smoked near win
dows, and those wide open and
others make pleasant smoke when
a smoking car Is filed with Austrian
la orers bound for a construction
operation. There are one or two
which are all right to smoke in an
q ute mobile when the car is going
rapidly. They remind one of the
late William II. Eby. Mr.. Eby sold
a box of cigars. during the days when
he and his brother the late Ex-
] mayor were in business, and the
price was well up. A day or two
afterwards the man met Mr.. Eby
and demanded to know what kind of
cigars he had sold him.
why, where did you smoke
them?" asked Mr.. Eby blandly.
why, at home after dinner" said
the buyer
That's where you're wrong.
They're outdoor cigars" replied Mr..
Eby moving off.
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