Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-26
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the activity for the sale of bonds and
the start of the drafted men for the
cantonments caused some of the old
| er residents to recall the days of the
| Civil War when the Union bonds
were being sold through the work of
Jay Cooke, assisted by patriotic
pennsylvania bankers and when the
men were being taken from indus
tries as they are now to fill the resi-
ments at Camp Curtin and the other
J mobll1Zaticn camps throughout the
Keystone State. The operation of the
| draft here was not as well conducted
as it has been this war and every now
and then the provost marshal had to
send guard around. Now public
sentiment and the call of the nation
are speeding up the draft and the
men are responding with patriotism
| which has been a source of gratifica-
tfon to residents of the States Capt.
tai. In fact, Harrisburg in the mat-l
ter of the draft has been as fine as in
furnishing men by enlistments and
will have q proud record to add to
its already bright banner of service.
When the Civil War was nearing the
borders OF the state and the bond
issues were matter of serious con-
s1deration it is well established that
this place was a center of activity
In buying just as 1t is to-day, only
then there were no committees and
the bankers and businessmen used
to call the attention of their custo-
mers to the offers. Few communi-
ties of the size of Harrisburg had
more Federal bonds at the close of
the war than Harrisburg, and its
prosperity was as much a matter of
comment as the readiness with which
people responded to the call to in
vest in Uncle Sans securities.
story is told of a Harrisburg
man now in the Army who was not
as sure of eye tests as the man from
Milton was with colors. He proceed
ed to memoriZe the letters on a card
he found was in the examining office.
NOW his eyes were as good as any,
ones, but he got nervous about it
and he studied the card and then
ne learned it upside down and back
wards. 1t happened that when he
came into the room~he saw q news
paper on desk some distance away
and glanced at it. AS the distance
ne saw the paper was test enough,
the officer in charge never asked
Alm about the card at all.
The amount of construction un-
DER way in Harrisburg just at pres
ent may not accord exactly with tbe
L
engage in much building because of
the situation as to material, labor
and finance, but it was pointed ont
this morning by man in touch with
the life of this city that Harrisburg
. is pelng called upon as are few cities
: to do much to house people, to serve
the nation in its demands and
a " contribute in many ways which
may not affect the smaller nIaces
This city is increasing its popula-
tioh every week." said this man.
ana 1t is due to the demands of
the railroads for men, the REQUIRE
9 ments for hands for, the score or
r - more plants which are making things
? Tor the government and to care for
: the men who are building for the
y government Just look at the troll
S ley cars from Steelton and Middle
town. for instance. Then you will
= have the answer"
Dandelions are not being allowed
70 stay very long in Capitol Park.
The garden squad, which is awaiting
the days when the flower beds are
TO be replaced with shrubbery, is
OUT with a knife and a bag and
every bright yellow spot means n
raid. 1t is an interesting thing that
in spite of this annual combing of
the park hundreds of dandelions are
found every week.
Dauphin county's big crow roost
; near Linglestown seems to have been
: pretty we'll wiped out by the use cG
poisoned corn handled through the
state game wardens. This roost was
in the Blue Ridge foothills and hun
: dreds of crows assembled there dur
: ing the winter, another large roost
being in York county. While the
snow was on the ground the crows
flew for miles around, big ones an
noying people even in the limits of
1 Harrisburg and Steelton. Corn was
4 placed near the roost, it being dem
Q onstrated that the strychnine with
which it was dosed would not harm
children, and many of the crows
were killed. In York county shot
guns were used to get rid of the
| birds. This spring when warm wealth
J er returned and the crows began to go
+ north the number was considerably
reduced and there have been COM
paratively few seen about this city.
While some protests were made by
people who feared that the poisoned
: corn would be found by animals and
who declined to believe that 1t
would not harm chickens the state
authorities say that there have been
. no reports made about loss of do
mestic fowls.
Rushing along the ordnance depot
buildings at Middletown will mean
the passing of q once famous rem
dezyous of fishermen, the White
House. This building, which stands
close to the Susquehanna below
Highspire, is a relic of rafting days
when it was a tavern and accumu-
lated more or less notoriety for the
fights that used to take place in its
long low barroom. 1t is one of the
early Lighthouses with numerous
rooms and for forty years was noted
among river men. Then it passed in
to the control of Harrisburg and
Middletown fishermen who made 1t
famous as the center of fish dinners
, and fishing, the river being full of
salmon and bass near the site of this
: place. OF late it has been club, but
D it's glory has departed with the fish.
Tt is expected to begin painting the
names of Pennsylvania municipalities
that ego over the top" in the sale of
Liberty Bonds on the big board at
the State Capitol. Daniel F. Lafean,
commissioner of banking, is the di-
raetor general of the list