Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
Enrntttn Ulrat

ING Until the nrSt OF July and the
hot wave that usually made itsel&
felt about Santiago battle anniver-l
sary day failing to arrive it does
seem as though there had not been
as much summer as usual in Harris
burg and vicinity although the ten,
mis- courts at the Reservoir have
| been working as hard as ever. How
] ever, there are certain signs that
Dame Nature Is adhering to her
schedule for Dauphin and Cumber-
land counties and we are entering
August with the golden rod bloom
ing, the wind commencing to bring
cool evenings because it blows over
I Swatara township oats stubble and
the blackbirds passing from platoon
! and company formations into regi-
mental and brigade organizations
The golden rod always brings ia
mind that we must begin to prepare
for Labor Day and that Dan Ham.
melbaugh's active times are com.
mencing around the school board
offices. But the blackbirds are the
real official warning to the states
capital that the summer is waning.
The birds have been sflocking about
mere from time out of mind and
about the middle of July, according
10 the bird sharks in DR. Kalbfus'
office they commence to flock. There
are many huge flights of birds to
be observed just before dusk any
evening. They are best seen from
Reservoir Park. They seem to come
from the farms along Linglestown
ana Jamestown roads, although there
are some men who swear that they
come from over in the Cumberland
valley as well. In any event thew
pass over the park and Paxtang and
mobilize on the trees in Swatara
township back of Steelton. some
rooStlng as far down as Middletown
ihere are other flocks which have
been reported from around Colum-
pla and Duncannon as of unusual
SIZE ana 1t means that they are get
Ing ready to set sail for the south.
Ihey viii probably leave about the
hrst of September unless it should
pc very much cooler than usuoI
fhey have even been seen hereaboIts
N tiocks as late as the middle of
October. VI
one OF the visitors to the CITY YES
terday was Colonel Lewis e. ReitIer
OF tne state Council of National De
fense. Col: Beitler was secretary to
GoVernor Hastings during the Snan-
ism War and never fails on visits
, mere to drop in on state draft head
quarters to talk military matters
2
where will Major Gray be sent
5 ITom mere? is question that many
oI ms friends asked when the Tele-
graph announced a few days since
that the big Middletown develon-
ment is well nigh completed, The
! answer has not yet come from Wash
ngton. but it will be wherever there
, is Dig and important work of an on
! slneerlng and contractural nature IN
> be done. Major Gray is second to
; General Goethals in the American
. Army as an engineer of large and
AIRED experience. He built the wa
r yer system OF the Croton watershed
ana tnls, engineers say, approacNsh
' II II does not surpass the Panama
+ Canal In the matter of difficult prob
= !ems Tor the constructing engineer
MAJOR Gray simply says he is a sol
dler and will go wherever he is or
I dered' but it Is known that he has
. hankering for France and no
i wcula IKE to take his present force
goes. iie
! Major Morava, the splendid Bohe-
mlan - we mean American = in
, charge of the big government opera
uon near New Cumberland must
f read the story of the Czech-Slovak
v movement in Russia with real pride.
, | He left Bohemia when a little ho,.
r ana came to the United States, but
the constant strivings of his native
country for freedom have naturally
appealed to one of his patriotic in
stincts and aspirations. He declared
n the other day that the Czechs would
q never submit to German domination
$ because they despise the Hun.
NJ CIonnor
+ a fall out of the new fish code in n
o letter which he has sent to the Lam
o | caster Examiner. the burden of mis-
n complaint being that the code inter
teres with eel fishing. He wants the
@ State Department of Fisheries to set
aside the code and allow cells to he
taken in any way. In years gone by
, eel fishing used to be great sport
| here, but there have been few taken
| here lately and they figured on many
a table as a means of keeping down
the cost of living. State Fishery Of
f1cials. however, say that they have
no discretionary powers and that
they have to enforce the code which
the Legislature laid down.
In Philadelphia many society
women have Joined the Society For
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
and have put their membership to
practical effect by having buckets OF
water kept on their doorsteps so that
thirsty horses may stop there and
drink, providing the drivers of the
nags have sense enough and human
ity enough to bring them to the
draught. In one neighborhood, how
ever it is said to have worked out
badly for n certain doorstep, well
equipped with glistening buckets full
to the brim, became such a mecca
for thirsty horses that one afternoon
a number of them got thirst all at
the same time. and the neighborhood
was stampeded.