Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-18
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cross streets at intersections" said
a policeman yesterday afternoon
| But the trouble is not so much
with the men and women who cut
corners, but that they do not train
the children to stay out of streets
| Take big streets out on the Hill and
! up town or right in town, IL YOU
want, and count the youngsters that
are playing in the streets. If theyTstay
/ along the curbS 1t would not be 80
bad, but they are out on the car
/ tracks and in the way of automobiles.
If people would train them to-
| stay off the streets 1T would make
less danger and less trouble for uS
now and in years to come"
The Capitol park extension high.
ways are the favorite exercising
ground for troops who come here
on their way somewhere and who
are let out of the cars for exercise,
! Scarcely a day passes but what n
battalion or so is given liberty to-
get out and march while engines
are changed, cars watered and iced
And the place they hike for is the
park extension where there is plenty
of room to move around and go
quick time without getting in the
way. Sunday one battalion held
forth in the extension for half an
hour and attracted much attention
Automobile parties are commenc-
ing to arrive in Harrisburg from
Reading and other parts in Eastern
Pennsylvania with sharp words on
their lips for the condition of the
stretch of road within Paxtang bor-
ough, which is even worse than the
state into which the Borough Coun-
ell allowed this tenth of a mile be-
tween a well-maintained state high
way and the fine asphalted streets OF
Harrisburg to fall last year. After
the state and the counties have
freed the Berks and Dauphin turn
pike and most of the towns along
the road have spent money to i'm
prove stretches of the state highway
in their districts, it is the opinion
of motorists that PaXtang's bit of
road is quite the worst to be found
in fifty miles. Highway Commits
sioner O'Neil has written to the Bor-
ough Council offering to have the
state go "fifty-fifty' in improving
the stretch, but has been unable to
secure any agreement or even to get
the road fixed up so that it is COM
Portable for travelling.
Some one called attention yester-
day to the fact that Harrisburg in
spite of the numerous families of
with its early days and it's develop
ment was singularly free from names
suggestive of the empire or it's cities
except possibly Hanover street The
English influence is strong in nomen-
clature although there is a German.
= alley in Harrisburg, but it is called
S after a family and is pronounced
p Garman.
y Suggestions made by officers of the
r state Department of Agriculture
S that the farmers and truck garden
ers of the state be urged to scatter
food for the robins, bluebirds and
d other insect-eating birds, which
t have migrated from the south only
:. to be caught in an April snowstorm
u which has deprived them of food,
: have met with a remarkable re-
: sponse. According to reports which
have come here telephone compan-
les reaching rural sections called
;, attention of farmers to the possibil-
n ity of the birds being starved and
0 the farms thus deprived of their big
: destroyers; railroads sent word along
q the line; oranges and community
o clubs passed the word along and
state and county farming experts
and field agents urged action, while
: in cities farmers attending market
9 were told conditions. AS a result
e plenty of food was scattered abouC
4 farmyards. In reports coming here
: are mention of snow six to ten feet
: deep, totally covering the fields and
meadows and making it impossible
for robins and other birds to get
a their accustomed food. The lack of
n food and the cold appear to have
n been particularly destructive to the
o bluebirds, many of which have been
e reported as dead. The reports Of
e serious loss of valuable birds evoked
l. a statewide response which has
l. never been equaled.
People who want to start garden
ing and who have to get prepared in
| ground which is infested with cut
J worms are in despair and wishing for
a substitute for bran. Owing to the
fact that millers are not putting out
bran any more but grinding it all up
with the grain, there is practically
none to be had. And the result is
that the poisoned bran mash which
is in so much demand for gardens
where there are cutworms is not be-
ing used. Instead, chemicals that
will clear out tht worms are being
experimental with.
Once in a while a story drifts in
that shows how the dull moments in
court trials may be frightened by the
literal application of the courts ad-
vice. President Judge Kunkel was
told story the other day of an incl
dent in the court OF Judge w. Rush
Gillian, of Franklin county, who
som etimes comes here to preside.
A murder trial was in progress in
Judge Gillan's court and had dragged
along almost interminably because
of the proneness of lawyers to make
their questions along and also of the
disposition of witnesses to add I'M
necessarily to their answers. Cen.
tlemen, make your questions short ~
said Judge Gillian, at last out of pa
tience, "and the witnesses, too, will
be brief"
How long before your son died
were you with him?" the father of
the murdered man was asked.
About an hour" was the reply,
snapped off short.
"Was he conscious or uncon-
scious?" asked the lawyer.
"JJn" was the repiN thereby eS-