Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-14
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Final steps to give Dauphin the
| state game preserve which her
sportsmen have long desired are
being taken by attaches of the Game
Commission and it is expected to
stock the preserve this summer and
fall with deer and wild turkeys and
probably some other game. The pre-
serve has been located on the state
forestry preserve in Williams town
ship, which was placed at the
disposal of the game authorities.
It will make about a score of
game preserves in the state. The
Williams township tract is known as
the Haldeman preserve in honor of
noted Central Pennsylvania fam
lily. 1t comprises about $500 acres
and 100 will be used for the game
sanctuary" as the places are
termed. The tract is being marked
out and force of men is blazing
the way for the men who will fol-
low with the single wire which I
marks such places and tack up the
notices. 1t was the hope of the
state authorities to get leases of ad-
Joining land owned by the SusQus-
hanna and other coal companies and
some water companies, but it could
not be arranged. IL this could have
been done the preserve would have
compact. In any event, it will make
the Lykens Valley region once more
fine hunting section, which 1t was
many years ago. The location is
not very far away from Schuylkill
and Northumberland counties, and
across the Susquehanna from Perry
county, at whose other end is the
Pennypacker reserve, one Of the best
maintained by the Game Commis-
sion.
One bird seems to have aroused
statewide interest in its protection,
judging from the manner in which
petitions for the closing of counties
for the hunting of ruffed grouse for
two years are reaching the State
Game Commission. Under the law
the commission has authority to
close for periods of two or five years
counties to hunting of various sorts
of game and a score of counties are
| now closed for hunting of deer, quail,
wild turkeys and other game so that
they may propagate. Discovery that
the ruffed grouse had been almost
exterminated by weather, vermin and
hunting in a number of counties last
year caused a movement to have
every county petition for the pro-
hibition of such hunting. Several
years ago the whole state was closed
by the Legislature for wild turkey
hunting for two years, resulting in
big increases in numbers, but in or
der to save time it was determined
to invoke aid of the Game Commits
sion. Fully fifty counties have filed
petitions to close for hunting, some
of the petitions being in complete
form, while there are papers in
circulation in practically every other
county.
Preparation of the train schedules
for the movement of the 1880 men
summoned under the draft to go to
Camps Meade, Lee, Humphreys and
Greenleaf commencing May 25 is
under way, and it is expected that
score of special trains will be re-
quired. The examination of the men
under this call is proceeding and 1t
is believed that the bulk of the
boards will have their quotas ready
soon. At State Draft Headquarters
it is pointed out that the exemptions
announced in the last week will ap-
ply only to this call, as far as in
formation now in hand is concerned.
The time and destinations of the
1855 colored men called at the same
time as the above call have not been
announced. Notices have been re-
ceived which point out that regis
trants are not to be considered as
physically unfit or delinquent in
physical matters until cases are
finally disposed of and such exam
nations as are needed are dis
posed of.
Governor Brumbaugh has gotten
in his trout fishing this year after
all. Last week he was regretting
that he had been unable to get out
for the opening days of the trout
fishing, but Friday he slipped away,
met with Commissioner of Fisheries
n. r. Butler and whipped streams
in the Pocono region. The sport
was good, but the Governor VOWS he
went right to the limit and stopped
there.
The plucky march of the pupils
of the city's schools in the War Saw
ings parade yesterday in spite of the
driving rain recalls the way they
marched along in the big parades
last year The patriotic parade of
last April was the biggest demon
stration ever known in this city and
the young folks stuck to the finish.
Among visitors to the city yester-
day was Colonel Lewis e. Better.
secretary of the State Committee of
Public Safety and former deputy
secretary of the Commonwealth.
Colonel Better was here arranging
financial matters for the committee
and looking after details. He stayed
long enough to see the War Savings