Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-28
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Every time any one of the older
residents wants to make any ex-
preston indicative of high prices,
reference is made to the figures
which had to be paid during the
war;. This reference is to the Civil
War, of course. and the prices for
wheat, potatoes and fruits as well
| as materials have long been con-
sidered the last word N altitude.
Yet. II things keep on in this war
the Civil War economic situation will
look like mere furry. We are an
familiar with prices for coal and
potatoes last winter and how prices
have gone up and down. mainly UP,
this spring. Now we face raises in
railroad fares, probably to keep
people from travelling as much as
anything else. Just for the sake of
keeping the record straight and in
order to make mention of some of
the sources of complaint it may be
said that the prices of certain fruits
can be taken as indicative of what
prices really are. These prices are
quoted on fruits which are not es-
sential except in cases of sickness
| and then occasionally, but they are
| commonly used and are fair samples.
Grape fruit cost fifteen to twenty
five cents. according to into what
Philistine's hands you fall. Oranges
have previous prices beaten a mile
and now here comes a chance when
| bananas may cost a nickel apiece.
They sell for from forty to fifty cents
a dozen and are going up. OF course,
| this is not a good season for such
/ fruits and transportation Is limited,
but the prices are something to talk
about.
All litigation for properties In the
Capitol park extension zone was
ended yesterday in the Supreme
! Court when settlements were affected
| without presentation to the bench of
the appeals in the cases of Helen M.
Lee and the Cooper Foundry in
terests and the Commonwealth. will
now proceed to take possession of
the last Of the 542 properties in the
district. There is only one parcel
in which an agreement has not been
reached and it is that of H. Homer
Matter, who owned a place called
the Iatterhorn, a concrete struc-
| ture, and who refuses to take the
money allowed him by the courts.
| The building is vacant and it will
| disappear before many days whether
Matter accepts the money or not.
The settlements were effected in the
case of the Lee properties in Walnut
street, in which a question of eject
ment arose, the upshot being that
| the state will remove the buildings
at once. In the Cooper case, wherein
a $3.50 verdict was given against
the state settlement was effected
for almost that sum. This building
has been removed. To-day men be-
gan removing the last of the build
| ings remaining in Fourth street eX-
! cept that occupied by the state and
the old Kesher Israel Synagogue.
which will be vacated in a fortnight.
! The state removed the first building
in 1912 under purchase made ac-
cording to the act of 1911 and Sc
cured about twenty-seven acres of
ground of which the ctaS gave four
acres as highways.
F. R. Stevens, the agricultural di-
rector of the State Chamber of Com
merce, was to-day drafted by the
Pennsylvania Public Safety Com
mittee to, as he put 1t last night "to
see that men who know how to farm
and don't need to are induced to
help out the men who have to farm
and who need help" Mr.. Stevens
was long agricultural expert for the
Lehigh Valley railroad and will be
assistant state director of the Fed
eral Public Service Reserve in charge
of the agricultural labor division.
THE proposition will be to get
Tim Leahy, who lives a short dis
tance from tom" Kline, in the Lau-
rel Hill section of Bradford county
and who is fat and well-to-do and
forty and knows how to work on
farm to go and help out Kline who
only has his wife" said Mr.. Stevens.
"It will be good for both and for
Uncle Sam. The idea is to obtain the
kunoccupied hours of businessmen and
vacation periods for farm work and
to secure the labor which may be
released from non-essential indus
tries. It is the idea to have meet
ings of Chambers of Commerce and
business associations all over Penn
sylvania to get this help for the
farmer organized"
The session of the Supreme Court
held here yesterday was not only
the shortest on record here in years,
but the first in n long time during
which some decisions were not hand
ed down. AS a rule the court hands
down a couple of dozens of opinions
and the decision to hold the session
in Philadelphia for the May deliv-
-erances was a surprise to many law
yers who had expected announce
ments here.