Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-14
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Fully 10000 Of the applicants for
automobile licenses during 1918
asked for special numbers and the
list of those asking for tags with
certain figures or combinations for
1919 bids fair to go as high. Ten
per cent. of the applications n@-1
coming in make requests. Some of
these fail to get very far because
| the requests are made in latters and
not on the application blanks and as
thousands of applications are being
| received every day they cannot be
sorted out. In order to handle the
rush of applications George NJ. Brus-
star, the registrar of the State High
way Departments automobile di-
vision, has ordered the attaches of
the tag bureau to work three shifts,
eight hours to shift and it is call
culated to handle 5000 tags every
twenty-four hours. Up to January
l, 1918, there had been $4,000 sets
of 1918 tags issued, but by January
1, 1919, 1t is hoped to run the num-
Der to 10000. The cash received
for new licenses has broken every
record thus far, the aggregate up to
yesterday having been $420,S60. On
the same date of 1917 the cash re-
ceived for 1918 licenses amounted to
$29S,627. The pneumatic tired ve-
hicle licenses issued thus far for 1919
number 32,951 and solid tired Sill.
Many thousands of dollars of un-
claimed bank deposits and property
are involved in the appeals from
the decision of the Dauphin county
court on the ascheat acts to be heard
in Philadelphia by the Supreme
Court. Owing to the Importance of
the cases the argument has been ad-
vanced.
Just as an illustration of what
hunting really amounts to in Penn
sylvania 1t may be said that the
states licensed sportsmen have
killed over 100000 rabbits, more
than $500 and almost half million
grouse in three seasons, and it is ex-
pected that the reports of the kills
OF the 1918 which are just being
assembled will add materially to the
bag of all sorts of legal game with
the possible exception of cottontails.
State Game Commission statitsicians
nave been at work on the figures
from other seasons so as to have
them for comparison with the totals
Tor the season of 1918, which comes
to an end to all intents and purposes
to-day as deer, bear and rabbits.
which have furnished the bulk of
the hunting for the last fortnight,
may not be shot after the sun sets
tonight. December IL is the end of
the season but it falls on Sunday.
NO grouse could be shot this year.
put the. figures for 1915, 1915 and
1917 show that 498,631 were shot.
the result being that in some sec
tions the grouse were almost exter-
minated. In the same years the hum
ters of the state killed 69,062 quail:
69,3SS wild waterfowl; 69,S31 quail
and S,7OSring-necked pheasants. The
deer kill in the same three wears is
given as 4,S12, with 991 bear killed
, in the same time and 42,550 "coons"
The estimate on wild turkeys is that
there were 11,601 killed. The figures
on rabbits were gathered under spe-
clal instructions by DR.. Joseph Kalb-
rus, secretary of the State Game
, Commission, and show a total of T.
6O1,Sl0 or more than 100000 a
year. In the same three years the
total Kill Of squirrels is given as
1886.
!: Presbyterian clergymen who were
81 attending the sessions of the Synod
! OF pennsylvania thronged the State
capitol yesterday afternoon, being
given special escorts through the
building by Superintendent George
A. Shreiner. ~The whole building
was opened for them and the legisIa-
, tive halls were lighted up. 1t was the
largest number of clergymen gather
ed in the building for some time.
Farmers in the country around
Harrisburg are certainly taking adj
. vantage of the open weather condi-
tons to clear off the lands and get
rid of weeds and cornstalks. The
smoke of fires can be seen on many
, of the farms and from all accounts
farmers and truck gardeners are
taking advantage of the pleasant
) weather to Clean up ground for next
. years planting. l.. II. While, the
statisticiap of the State Department
of Agriculture, has reported an in
J crease in wheat acreage and looks
, for ex nslve planting of corn all
, through this section next year. Dau-
| phin county bids fair to come more
and more into its own as an agri-
cultural county, in which it has
great possibilities, as the local mar
ket commences to realize what it
can raise.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Frank B.
McClain is going to be Santa Claus
again in Lancaster this year and
as the war is over he expects to give
the little orphans at the Children's
,, Home in his city something better
. than ever. For years 1t has been
one of the delights of the Lieuten-
ant Governor to enact the part of
! Kris Kringle at this institution and
4 1t has gotten to be something that
even the grownups enjoy. This
year the Lieutenant-Govern who
has borne burden of war activity
of which few people know, and han
died immense sums of money with
all that such responsibility brings,
plans to get his relaxation at the
Home.