Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-05
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pneumonia which sometimes &C.
companies it have caused many
physicians and people who are in.
terested in following the history Of
disease to voice the belief that in
stead of being the ailment which
Harrisburg suffered in the late
eighties and early nineties as the
grip" 1t is another and more
serious disease. Some go SO far as
to invest 1t with the terrible plaques
which swept Europe in the last five
hundred years. This city and fits
vicinity have had outbreaks of sick
ness OF quite severe character since
the city was laid out in 1875 and old
newspapers tell of those which oc-
CURED about 1890 and 1904. Both
were classed as yellow fever, as the
scourge of the tropics was not un-
known owing to the extensive trade
between Philadelphia and Baltimore
and the West Indies, but whether it
was or not cannot be said now as
no clinical histories of cases have
been preserved. We do know that
to get rid of one plague the citizens
demolished the dam in Paxton
creek about where Dock street is
located to-day and that in another
there was public nursing commit
tees named. A writer in the Car
Isle Sentinel, j. NJ. Reed, of New
vile, gives some interesting facts
about one of these visitations. He
expresses a question whether they
were not the same as the present
and SAYS:
I'm September 1904, a malignant
epidemic prevailed in almost every
part of this county, under which
nineteen persons are said to have
died, and almost all business was
suspended. The editors. of the news
papers in Carlisle account for the
non-appearance of their regular is
sues by saying that their workmen
were all down with the sickness.
Among the deaths which were as
cribed to this cause were those of
William Moore, one of the associate
judges of the country Thomas Gra-
ham, of West Pennsboro; John
Hughes, captain of the Revolu-
tionary Army; VIM. Greason, of East
Pennsboro; Joseph Conelly, of
Frankford; Miss Jane, daughter of
Andrew Holmes, and Peggy Ram
sey, of Middleton; George Line, of
Dickinson, and Andrew McAllister
on farm near Carlisle. A short
time before this august 4) Col
John Alexander, an active officer
in the Revolutionary War, and an
exemplary citizen, on his farm in.
West Pennsboro, was taken, prob
ably by the same disease, and died
very suddenly"
Giles Bowers, one of the city's
| BARRIERS, has just received from the
! battledelds of France photographs
of his own family and his residence
in this city. made last winter dur
ing the deep SHOWS. Mr.. Bowers
has brother, Grover c. Bowers, in
| the Marine Corps, who was among
| the first United States fighters to
reach France. He got into the
| fighting last fall and the pictures.
with a clipping from the Harris
! burg Telegraph, were forwarded by
| Mr. Bowers in letter to him. Last
June the brother was seriously
wounded when the Marines drove
the Germans from Chateau
| Thierry and has since returned to
! this country and is in a hospital in
| New Jersey, recovering. The other
| day Mr.. Bowers received a package
| from Ralph d. Wolf, also a men,
Der of the Marines, enclosing tho
| pictures he had sent his brother
last winter, together with letter
in which Wolf said he had picked
up IL bloodstained coat on the
| battlefield and looking through the
| pockets had found the pictures and
| the Harrisburg address. Not know
| ing what had become of the owner
he sent them back whence they
came. thinking they may Save some
| interest.
The close of the Brumbaugh ad-
I ministraton is being marked by the
usual dining which attends the close
| of u gubernatorial tenure of office.
! In addition to the dinner which the
! Governor and Mrs. Brumbaugh will
give next Thursday to the heads of
! the departments and their wives.
the Governor will be the guest of
| the members of his staff at dinner
on Saturday in Philadelphia and
| later on of various commissioners
| and others who have been his guests
at the executive mansion.
|
Farmer Shreiner's men in Capitol
park are pretty busy these days get
| ting things covered up against the
| time when the winter winds blow.
The tulip and hyacinth beds are be-
ing covered over and also protected
from the squirrels as well. Some OF
| the coverings had barely been put
on yesterday when the snow squall
came to town.
Right on time we are," an
| nounced Morris Garvin, who is in
| charge of some of the outdoor work.
! \ II may be said that the squirrels
| developed much interest in the pro-
cOedings, which would bar them
! from midday lunches on bulbs,