Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-03
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Establishment of the big ordnance
and quartermasters' depots along
the Susquehanna below Harrisburg
is boon to the jitneys that throng
the streets of Harrisburg, but they
do not seem to realize it. The ord
nance work along the east bank of
the Susquehanna, between Highspire
and Middletown, is served by train
and trolley, but the number of men
employed is increasing daily and
there are also many sightseers who
have been hoping for jitneys to turn
up, but there have been very few.
On the West Shore, the work on
the quartermasterS' depot, which
will be one of the largest in the
state, is located between New Cum
berland and Marsh Run, and it is
without trolley service and theS
trains only hesitate there once in
a whole. But somehow or other,
declare the Army officers and the
men in charge of the contract work.
the jitneys do not seem to want TO
go there, either. The jitneys are
just as numerous as ever on the
Harrisburg streets, but they do not
seem to go beyond the asphalt zone.
One of the surprising things
tomobiles is the number of new cars
being licensed. The total receipts
of 1917 were matched and passed
| before the first four months of the
year were over and it is believed
that the aggregate of the. licenses
| for 1918 may be three and three
| quarter millions. Tags are being
shipped at the rate of couple hun
dred day from the offices of the
automobile division in this city. The
number of new trucks being licensed
is greater than ever known before.
| This years increase in trucks is de-
clared remarkable.
Harrisburg people who have fol-
lowed with pleasure the rise of Colo
| mel Frank r. Mccoy in the United
States army from the days that he
graduated from West Point, which
was around 1897, we think, will be
interested to know that he is now
a colonel on the staff of General
John j. Pershing, the American
| commander-in-chief in France As
matter of fact he is the executive
officer of the staff of the COM,
mander of the American Expedition
ary Force as he is the secretary of
the staff. Frank Mccoy, as he is
still known to MANY comes from
Lewistown and is a member of one
OF the families that helped make the
Juniata Valley notable in state his
tory. He was barely out of Acad-
emy year when he went into the
Spanish American War with the
Tenth Cavalry and took part in the
Santiago campaign. Then he was
made aid to General Leonard Wood
and served eight years with that
indefatigable officer, his work being
in Cuba, the Philippines and other
parts of the country's domains and
after that he was one of the mill
tary aids to President Roosevelt.
When things looked squally on the
Mexican border he was chief of staff
to General Parker and had a part
in the Pershing expedition into
Mexico. 1t was while he was in
Mexico that he became member of
General Pershing's staff and the
then captain was promoted to be
major. In a short time he was ad-
vanced and went to France with
Pershing, becoming a full-f1edged
colonel. He is one of the youngest
men to hold that rank and is every
where recognized for his ability and
military knowledge.
There is Just about one question
asked when anyone walks down the
old boardwalk" in Capitol park oP
passes Third and Walnut streets.
And that is When is the new hotel
to be finished?"
Yesterday an automobile party
came up Third street and hailed n
man at George Harry's: What is
that?'
New hotel"
"When?"
August"
That was all there was to it.
Early this week. the State Game
Commission headquarters had an in
quiry from a northwestern county
justice of the peace as to how soon
ii was proposed to start the issuance
of hunters licenses for 1918. He
wrote that he had received a number
of inquiries on the subject and that
he was ready to start business. Lists
of scores of arrests made by state
game wardens or state policemen
during the first quarter of 1918 have
been compiled at the game commits
sion offices, the number of foreign
ers arrested for having firearms or
dogs or shooting out of season being
rather large. In some instances the
officers have reported the arrest
again of men who had been prose-
cuted a year ago for having guns or
dogs and in others where they have
had fights with persistent lawbreak-
ers and found bad conditions. En-
forcement of the dog law, which
will be facilitated by the new state
dog code, has been taken up ac-
lively and many worthless animals
have been shot, although in some
counties WardenS were threatened