Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24
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ence in the skyline of Harrisburg is
made by the big building which will.
be the state capitals new hotel, the
Penn Harris, in the next six months
From the west bank of the Susque-
hanna either on the Northern Cen
trail coming up from York and BaIti-
more or one the Cumberland Valley
trains after they pass the bluff at old
Fort Washington the new hotel
looms up higher than the courthouse
cupola, while from near West Fair
view 1T seems to top the spires of
zion Lutheran and Market Square.
The view from Oak Knob in Reser-
voir park shows the new hotel Az
the central figure in the business
section, bulking large compared with
other buildings south of the State
Capltol. But where to get the besr
view of the skyline is from the east
ern entrance to the Mulberry street
bridge just about sunset, preferably
In the seven or eight minutes after
the orb has gone behind the BluS
ttiuge' Then one can get the sweep
or the city with the splendid struc-
ture of the Capitol dominating the
town, the gilded figure far above the
streets. Then the spires are to be
seen pointing upward, the the tower
IKE the new hotel the courthouse
the business buildings and sweenin-.
on around to the big gasometers and
then on down to the tall chimnevs
at the South Harrisburg furnaces.
the stacks at the power and indus
trlal plants and then Steelton.
AhnVR fol
color In the green tiled twin towers
OF the new synagogue in Capital
street which interposes between the
capitol and the red brick mass of
the Central High School and then
before the smoke of the railroads
comes into the view there is the
white and gray of the new Messiah
lutheran church with glimpses of
the red cupola of Augsburg Luthe-
ran church, the clock tower of Camp
curtin school with steeples and
chlmneys and stacks in between.
And behind all the dark mass of
the Cumberland shore and the di
viding ridge that comes down to the
Susquehanna near Marysville.
One of the Reading railway Off
cials yesterday applied a good name
to the thirty or so government en-
gines which are helping out on the
rush of traffic here. These "U. S. A."
engines as they are called because of
/ the letters on the tenders. are very
very noisy. They have a system =
eXhausts which works when the en-
gine is asleep or awake. 1t is noisy
at all times.
Those engines are pretty rackety.
why is it ? asked a man.
on; you mean the Bolsheviks" re-
marked the railroad man.
| why that name %
oh, they're bound to be heard"
was the answer.
statement that farmers of Penn
sylVania can make hundreds of dol
lars and do much toward replacing
the shortage of sugar with honey il
! they embark more extensively in bee
raising and beekecping is made IN
the bulletin of the State Department
of Agriculture by George H. Rea.
state apiary inspector There is
more net profit in beekeeping in
proportion to the investment than
in any other rural business and on
the average thirty colonies of bees
may be kept where one now exists.
says the state inspector. He says
that the high price of honey is sure
to continue until the sugar condi-
tions become normal and that where
combs remain in the hands of own
ers because the bees were killed bv..
the severe winter they should not be
wasted. A state campaign to inter
est farmers in beekeeping is being
started.
There are human interest stories
galore told by Red Cross workers
who assisted in the sale of chewing
gum here last week. dirty little
neWsboy brought a penny to one of
the girls selling the gum. please.
miss, may / give this to the soldiers" >"
he asked. Another girl tells how
man followed her from booth to
booth. His question was always.
What kind of chewing gum do you
! like?' She would name a brand, and
accept a number of packages of
gum. When the man had passed
on, the gum would be thrown in the
basket for the soldiers. sailor on
furlough from the United States
ship Arizona, assisted in the sale
of gum for two days of the cam
paign.
It's funny the way some men of
foreign birth are affected by Amer
iican customs. On Sunday evening "A
couple of boys in a soda and candy
establishment which was doing bust
ness without much regard for "Blue
laws" made a good bit of racket as
they sat at the fountain. They
were squabbling over some candy
they had just bought and their ar
gument aroused a clerk who was a
Turk if he was anything. In fact
he needed only a fez to make him
a subject of the caliph.
"Heh, heh," called out the young
Mohammedan. "doan you know dis
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