Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-31
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Anyone who moved much about
Harrisburg or its vicinity yesterday
could not help but be impressed at
the tremendous activity on the rail-
roads passing through this city. The
trains handled the numerous en-
glnes ana the swarming railroad men
were all evidence of the Importance
OF the Harrisburg district in the
wonderful transportation system of
the Keystone state and no one
needed to wonder long why German
army ofhcers have Ass years shown
remarkable familiarity with the
standard Railroad of America.2
The movement of cars through Har-
risburg now, If the figures could be
obtained, would probably be of a
size which would make the record
movements" of which we used to
talk so much a few years ago, seem
like very ordinary efforts. The num-
ber of engines in service hereabouts
Is away beyond last year and the
government has recognized the vital
character of Harrisburg railroad
work by sending two dozen big To-
comotives. Sundays and holidays
are like every other day in Harris
coal trains that are sent down both
sides of the Susquehanna on the
Pennsylvania, brought in by the
Reading and the Cumberland Valley
from the soft coal fields are worth
looking at. Lately they have been
assuming proportions which would
have made old railroad men sit up
and talk. The Reading bridge is
scarcely free of coal train day or
night and the Enola and Harrisburg
yards are filled with cars notwith-
standing the ceaseless movement
J within their limits and the depar-
ture of huge trains for the seaboard.
Transportation is going to win the
war and Harrisburg is giving up holt-
days and sleep to help do it.
An interesting thing in connection
with the naming of highways in
Pennsylvania, which interests this
city because 1t is on the William,
Penn highway and the Susquehanna
trail is that road from Pittsburgh
down through the Monongahela
valley has been named for an emf.
nent Pennsylvania. Albert Gallatin.
who was secretary of the treasury T.
century ago. The interesting fact
is that some body or official was
about to name the road the Pitts
burgh and Uniontown way, but il
was suggested that perhaps little
thought could evolve something Less
prosaic and the Western Historical
Society of Pennsylvania was asked
to make the suggestion. Gallatin
lived in Fayette county and helped
colonize it with people who stopped
at Harris Ferry and were ferried
over the Susquehanna here. The
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eral favor and there Is a new entry
on the list of highways WHICH bear
the names of Lincoln, Penn, t3ullivan,
st. Clair, Perry and other famous
men and those of streams like the
Susquehanna and Lackawanna.
Harrisburg was one of the first
} cities in the country t0 observe
Memorial Day, or DecorsI1sn Day,
as it was first called, when T1e GUS
tom was launched, but it is doubtful
whether there was ever so general
an observance as that of yesterday.
It was commented upon by many of
: the older residents and the shadow
of the year was over everything.
The number of people at church SER
vices was very large indeed.
Arrests Of violators of the states
, fishing code, especially in the matter
! of trout, have been at a rate which
is astonishing state officials and has
caused some speculation as to WHAT
must have been the number of in-'
fractions of the law before the pas
sage of the act providing for the
) cooperation of the Game and For
estry wardens and State Police with
the wardens of the Department of
Fisheries in the work. The Game
officers have been very active and
their appearance as assisters of the
fish protectors has caused some
panic among the law breakers.
The majority of cases have resulted
from catching of trout less than the
length allowed by law. In somo
cases 1t was evident that the fisher
men wanted to get something and
could not resist the temptation to
keep fish which were illegal. Quite
number of cases have come to notice
wherein men had not only more
than the new limit of Twenty-Five
but over the old limit of forty. Out
lines and nets are also being used
on trout. 1t is the expectation of
state officials that an early test of
the fish code will be made In court.
Heavy rains in the last ten days
have played havoc with corn and
potato patches in many of the war
gardens" and on the truck farms
near the city. These patches are
owned by people who use the extra
hours of daylight in cultivating them
and serious damage has been re-
ported from a number of gardens
especially in low lying places where
the water has a full sweep.
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