Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-10
Ehrtttttg Ulrat

1
rfsburg is furnished by the map in
the new Boyd city directory for 1918, a
which has just been issueda This
is the first map to appear with the
new Fourteenth ward marked on
1t and 1t makes a water front of
about five miles, only small part
OF which is encumbered by build
ings or used for industrial purposes.
The buildings will speedily disap-
pear and the time Is coming when
even the Industrial plants will con-
tribute to the ornamental features
OF the city. And while the new ad-
dition does not add materially to
the width of the city the fact that
the eastern boundary is out at Poor
house lane, or Twenty-ninth street
on the city map is impressive. That
Is nearly three miles from the water
/ front. The city map is something
that everyone ought to study be-
cause Harrisburg has a good many
interesting hooks and corners in 1t
and there are quite a few people
who have the street plan of At
lantic City in their heads better than
the town plot of their own home
community, and some day we will
have an official city publication
parkway system and how under the
influence of the city planning COM
mission the layout of developing
systems is being harmonized with
the parent municipality.
Speaking of the Fourteenth ward
1t is interesting to note that there
are streets in that new section which
duplicate highways in other parts
n rrighrFR fhaFn
lis an Arch street away up near
Vaughan street. which is about the
upper limit and another Arch street
in the Cameron extension down in
the First ward, the extreme opposite
end of the city. And similarly there
lis a Spring street, while another
Spring street exists in the Fourth
ward between Second and Myrtle and
South and State.
When Clark e. Diehl, the superin-
tendent of the city's fire and police
alrm system finishes his work of en-
larging the fire alarm system the city
will have ninety fire alarm boxes,
double the number it had some ten or
twelve years ago, fact illustrative of
the expansion of the city. There will
| be seven new boxes added and the
Fourteenth ward, the latest addition
to the city, will be given five, which is
also interesting as it shows how
! large is that municipal baby. A SER
i les OF changes in the boxes to keep
: pace with the development of resi-
d Dental and industrial sections is also
(: being made out AS far as fire alarm
p boxes and electric lights go Harris
$ burg is well protected.
i Some of the trees which were
Iblown over in the big May storm
thave refused to stay dead. In a
n number of parts of the city the trees
are commencing to show UP small
branches, although half of their
roots are out of the ground. Most
=, of the damaged trees have been re-
moved, but the number was so great
that it took a long while to get '
around and as trees showed signs of
life they were either pulled back to
;, position and filled in or else left for
= later treatment. Out along Herr
= street enc big tree is covered from
= top to bottom with small branches
Iall growing upright. In Reservoir
lpark some of the trees have come
back" while in the first ward are
: two trees which are growing al
though almost fiat on the ground.
Just some idea of the hole the
war is making in the ranks of the
Iyoung men and the effect upon men
: of older age than are called in the
5 draft can be gained by observing
, | the street sweeperS about the city.
They are for the most part either
men we'll on in age or mere youths.
!. The street sweeping contingents used
to be made up of men largely with
| in the draft age or not so far be-
! Iyond it. Now the men on Harris
! burg streets are different. And few
of the men who worked last year
are now engaged in that line of oc-
! Icupation.
The damage done to the cover
: ling of the Capitol dome which was
], discovered when "Steeplejack" Has
J sler climbed up a day or so ago is
$ supposed to have occurred during
J the big storm a short time ago. The
{ wind is presumed to have ripped out
some of the tile which had become
lloosened in the course of the last
dozen years because some parts of
them were found over in Capitol
mark extension The work of re-
pairing the dome will be undertaken
at once.
James B. SAMSON, who came from
Pittsburgh to see that the State
. Game Commission got all the papers
in the movement to close the coun-
ties to hunting of grouse, was one
: of the sponsors of that campaign.
} Mr.. SAMSON is secretary of the State
l Wild Life League and very keen
about Pennsylvania native birds.
He was one of the men who saw the
shortage of the grouse coming and
helped organize the crusade to close
the counties.