Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
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of the large extent Of the improve
ment which Father Penn will be
called upon to make in the Capitol
park extension, by looking out from
one of the upper floors of the State
House and when the place is looked
over and the changes intended for
the old park are borne in mind and
the formal entrance added in. there
will be an investment made by the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
right here in Harrisburg. that will
amount to so many thousands, that
Harrisburg will have to move some
to match it. Because it has not been
forgotten by some people connected
with or in touch with the state gov
ernment. that when the citizens of
Harrisburg began to advocate the
extension of the park some fifteen or
seventeen years ago, they agreed that
the city would do its share. In a
short time the city councilmen will
be called into conference and ar
rangements made for the city's
share. State officials, who are plan
ming the scheme of development for
the park, look for it to be given un-
grudgingly, because of the hundreds
of thousands of dollars to be spent
in addition to the two and a quarter
millions which have already gone
into the park in one form or an
other. The line and height of the
proposed highway to cross the park
on the line of Aberdeen and East
streets is commencing to show up,
and one can secure pretty fair
| grasp of the tremendous filling in
which must be done before the park
will be ready for the tree planting.
The fact that so much work must be
done, is the reason why the state
will not do any planting of trees on
| A,,lN u
tended as far as can be as Fourth
street and the Lee properties; which
are in litigation. are now in the way
of further planting and it would be
useless to use the old park until the
whole detailed plan for trees is ap-
proved by the board, which will be
sometime this month. The state has
funds in hand to start the work, but
owing to the war conditions, it will
probably restrict matters to the fill
ing in and allow the bulk of the
changes on the lines of Walnut and
Third streets to be deferred. The
next Legislature will authorize the
new formal entrance, which will
harmonize with the building. be-
\ Iyond a doubt as the present entrance
is not popular with anyone.
The United States government
! seems to be having hard time w!ta
it's own advertising matter. The
| Harrisburg Public Library has been
! endeavoring to help along the cause
by a display of posters and Washing
ton shipped a bundle of the best
y posters on March 16. They have not
= arrived yet. One banker tells story
= of bonds being two months late in
e arriving
e Thrift Stamps are certainly COM
A ing to the front for prizes. Not only
e have they been given at some bridge
2 parties, but they are now offered for
=: regularity of attendance. The Mems
r Brotherhood of st. Matthews Lu-
: theran Church has offered stamps
= for three Sundays attendance at all
e services. The offer was made be-
t fore Easter, and worked so we'll that
!, it was continued after the holiday.
please give me a Thrive Stamp"
asked a man at the postoffice win
r dow, which handles the stamps. The
= man came from a foreign shore.
= New name for that" remarked
!, the clerk.
whats wrong with it?" asked the
man.
{ "Wen, they're called Thrift
r Stamps. but you stick to them, and
you'll thrive all right said the clerk.
e "Oh, dis Engliese,' quoth the
e alien.
: Thomas A. Critchton, cashier of
r the State Treasury, is getting to see
n a fair amount of the state these
e days. He came down from Wells
V boro, in his car, the other day and
e yesterday he got word from State
1 Treasurer Kephart, who is ill in
= Connellsville, and started to see him.
Connellsville, is in Fayette county,
almost the extreme southwestern
| corner of the state.
A man showed up at one of the
hotels yesterday morning, in high
)ly incensed condition. He demand
ed breakfast, and when he was
shown the way, declared that some
one with belated idea of April first
jokes, had turned his clock forward
an hour. The joke was perpetrated
on April 1 and hit on April 2.
What made the man indignant was
that he did not discover the trouble
until he got down stairs and found
no breakfast ready.
News from France that young
Hungarian volunteer two years un-
der military age had been killed in
the service of the allies. is another
reminder of the loyalty of thous-
ands of Hungarians in the United
States. This boy was only eighteen
years old last March, but managed
to enlist by representing he was 21
years of age. He was born in Hun
/ gary ten days after his father left
for America in 1900 and was three
years old when his mother joined her
husband with the children. In his
last letter home, young Mates, for
that was his name and he lived in
Allentown. said, he was spelling for
a fight with the Germans. This Al
lentown boy, has many countrymen
fighting with the American forces.
who are just as loyal and patriotic.
The writer was told of young Hun
garian at Camp Hancock, who eX-
pressed great pleasure in the thought
that he was going to do something
for the country that had done so
much for him.