Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-29
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The big rush for registration of
new automobiles in Pennsylvania is
over and more transfers are being
authorized now than ever known be-
fore, according TO officials at the
State Highway Department. The
applications for transfers have run
as high as 500 day at the auto
mobile division and it is evident that
as sales of new ears have been fall
Ing off due probably to curtailment
of production that considerable bus
mess is being done in used cars.
The spring registration of cars in
Pennsylvania this year broke all
records for number and for receipts
and issuance of license tags in the
$4,000 series has been started.
Some Of these tags are being used
on transferred cars. Most of the
cars now being licensed are of the
low-priced makes and sales to farm
ers are reported as constituting a
considerable amount of the new
business. The interesting feature,
\ however, say officials, is the num-
| Der of transfers that are being made
almost daily. 1t is predicted that
the number will increase. Tractors
have also shown a big increase in
number registered. 1t is estimated
that the number in Pennsylvania
will be doubled this year, largely
because of the demand for machines
for agricultural service.
Demolition of the Matterhorn, the
building erected in Capitol Park ex-
tension by H. Homer Matter, will
start in few days. Already the
| informal demolition is under way
as boys from the neighborhoed have
been raiding the building and smash
ing glass. The Matterhorn became
an object of state interest, as Mr..
Matter resisted not only the award
of the Capitol Park Commission, but
bucked the decision of the courts.
taking the proposition to the Su-
preme Court, where he also lost
Lately the only dispute has been
whether he would accept the money
awarded him. The state has pos
session of the property.
BY way Of suggestion one of the
State Agricultural authorities who
has been observing some farms in
Dauphin county, sends this clipping
from the Pennsylvania Farmer:
More profit could be made from
the rundown, waste and otherwise
unproductive land by raising buck
wheat than any other crop. Land
that is inclined to ''go wild" and
i grow up with briers and bushes can
be tanned more easily by sowing it
to buckwheat than by any other
method. Buckwheat is not insistent
upon great fertility; in fact, soil in
a condition in which it would not
produce a profitable crop of any
other grain will produce a good yield
! OF buckwheat, if it can be supplied
with plenty Of phosphoric acid. 1t
is in every way u cheap crop to
grow, and in these times of great
need for cereal grains for human
consumption there should be special
effort made to increase the buck
] wheat crop. The greatest difficulty
, may be in securing Seed since the
long and general use of buckwheat
cakes during the past year has re-
duced last years crop to small pro-
portions"
"Got any pennies around?" asked
, bank clerk of a businessman yes
terday
Maybe so. What's the trouble?"
! TCDllGQ lIlS DuSlilGSoIildH.
Harrisburg is one of the few
towns where the trolley fare has
not gone up and pennies are not
. needed as much as nickels There
are a lot of towns yelling for pehr
nies. Between trolley fares and
cigars up to six cents the demand
for copper coins is going to run
high" said the clerk.
The United States governments
announcement of intention to in
crease passenger rates may be the
means of some people connected
with the Pennsylvania state govern
ment getting raises in pay. Many
of the people at the Capitol are re-
ceiving salaries which were fixed ten
or fifteen years ago and efforts to
secure some readjustm ents have
been under way. The propositions
to care for people getting only SIS
ard $50 a month and having fami-
lies arc now being discussed with
the Auditor General, it is said by
heads of departments. of either get
ting more money for such attaches
or else losing them and their knowl-
edge of the business and their Skill
Some of the men employed in steel
mills make far more than Capitol
clerks nowadays. AS a number of
| people connected with the Capitol
| commute it may be possible that the
fare advance may be the means or
| bringing the move to advance their
salaries to meet living conditions to
climax. 1t is certain that bills Tor
a general readjustment OF salaries in
the departments, as was sought in
Legislature which was frowned upon
by the state administration last ses-
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