Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-28
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Men active in business affairs in
Harrisburg, have been studying out
how the change in hours. due to
the enactment of the daylight saw
ing" law, will become effective in
this city, and 1t seems to be the gen.
eral impression that If 1t came a
month later it would not be so hard.
Among the suggestions made to-day,
were that whistles which now blow
for people to come to work. blow an
hour earlier by the clock or two
hours earlier by the sun. This idea
comes from Reading. where there is
a large industrial population and
seems also to have been discussed in
philadelphia. What it would mean
in Harrisburg, would be that whistles
which blow for seven o'clock would
blow at six and seven, clock time.
but which would be five and six
o'clock by the sun. There are a
number of whistles in this city and
Steelton which regulate the lives of
thousands of people, but unfortun
ately, many people can not hear
them. One whistle at Steelton blows
every morning at five and starts
many a home going. Another Steel
ton whistle blows at six and then
there is the general whistle at seven.
In this city, there are n couple of
whistles in Cameron street and on
the railroads which blow for six.
bNt generally they blow for seven.
The suggestion is that for a time, at
least until people get accustomed to
the new regulations, that the whist
les blow at six and seven, clock time
and that every one proceed to for
get sun time, until next fall, when
we will all have another hour to
sleep. The "round house bell"
which regulates the hours for the
big railroad population up town,
will get in tune with the new ar
rangement on the railroad plan.
This bell nightly rings every hour
after six o'clock. Sunday night it
will ring midnight and then one,
but at two, in accord with the new
arrangement it will go forward with
its strokes and ring three, skipping
two.
Another interesting problem in
connection with the new hours, will
be the curfew. The whistles blow
in five sections of Harrisburg at S.45
for the youngsters to get off the
> streets and at nine for them to be
\ indoors. AS the boys and girls have
! been figuring it out, this in reality
| means 7.45 under the time to which
they have been accustomed, and all
in the house at s. There are apt
| to be some protests heard but the
| city fathers show no signs of a new
ordinance at present:
Some pretty wild scrambling has
l been going on among people who
l have suddenly realized that there is
. an income tax. A day or so ago a
= man who had never kept books and
, did not know much about how much
S he made, suddenly discovered that
g he was within. and we'll within, the
!, | reporting limit. But yesterday
=, man made discovery that he was
perilously close to a sur tax and
= had notes in bank. He had not filed
n a report, either. The sights about
c the office of Harry A. Vollmer, who
: is in charge of the information bu-
reau of the Revenue service. in the
s federal building, are of the kind that
NI indicate that a good many people
k are perturbed and Mr.. Vollmer
e seems to be able to meet all comers
j with a smile, although between the
- questions and the calculations it
must be a job.
t The fire which swept the City
= Garage yesterday morning, at
t tracted much attention among old
Harrisburgers, because the site Is
one which has been conducted with
t transportation of some form or an
s other in Harrisburg for close to a
p century. Years and years ago, 1t
d was the stable where the horses of
a the various Calder lines were kept.
Tradition has it, that horses for
stages were kept there a long time
I ago. bat it is certain that 1t was the
| stables for the Calder lines and
j also for some teams which hauled
packet boats. 1t was the headquar-
ters for the live stock and teams of
the bus lines in this city for long
time and the stable of vehicles
which used to haul people from the
stations, those omnibuses with the
trailers on behind, which our grand
fathers used to jump. Then 1t was
the Calder cab line stables and then
the City Transfer Company's stable.
Some seven or eight years ago. 1t be-
came a garage, and the next trans
formation will be into a station or
trackage place for the Valley Rail-
WAYS trolley cars. It's odd the way
transportation sticks to locality.
), Lew r. Palmer, the states acting
Commissioner of Labor and In
y dustry. will be a speaker on what
= pennsylvania is doing for safety and
ldefense, during war time, at the big
| safety meeting in Chicago this week
| He will discuss the various activities
| which have been undertaken in the
| last year. notably the State Defense
Commission.