Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
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tenth of mile of being a city five
miles long. According to the official
maps which City Engineer M. b.
Cowden keeps locked up in his Of
flee. and measuring by the Susque-
hanna's banks, which is what most
of Harrisburg goes by, the length OF
! the states capital is exactly 40
miles. This measurement takes in
the new Fourteenth ward so that
| from the last house in Riverside to
the north of the Spring creek below
Cedar street it is Harrisburg. And
the beauty of 1t is that consider
able portion of this stretch. which is
not realized by many, is the
/ bank has been improved. Mr.. Cow
denis line takes in the curve at the
pumping station at the foot of North
street, but as since the bank was inn
proved the line has been straighten-
ed so that it is a fair estimate of
the length of the city. Perhaps as
a crow would fly from up near Es-
therton to Lochiel 1t might be a
tenth of a mile shorter. AS for the
width of the city Mr.. Cowden esti-
mates that it varies from one to
three miles. Counting in the Sus-
quehanna, because the city line runs
to low water mark on the Cumber-
land shore, and going out through
the Thirteenth ward to the city line
at Poorhouse lane or 29th street, as
it is officially known, is three miles.
The river varies in width. as does
| the city being from three-fifths to
seven-eighths of mile wide. The
city is narrowest in the First ward
because of the way the Susquehanna
| sweeps in and 1t is odd to run up
against Nineteenth street within a
little over two thirds of a mile from
the river. Hence, the young Har-
risburgers can now boast that they
live in a city almost five miles long
and three miles wide at one point.
ITS just twenty years ago Sun
day" said one of my old National
Guard friends this morning, that
the National Guard of Pennsylvania
went to Mt. Gretna and opened
Camp Hastings, the mobilization
camp. of the spanish-American
War"
Yes" put in Captain Charles P.
Neck, who was one of the officers
of the Governors Troop, DO you
remember how it showed and what
beastly day it was to go into
camp?"
Adjutant General Beary, who was
an officer in the Fourth Pennsyl-
vania in those days, recalls feeling
ly that the shelter the first night was
in one of the buildings used in sum-
mer time as a place for exhibiting
poultry. ,.-..
George B. Uttley, secretary of the
American Library Association, was
here yesterday arranging matters in
connection with the annual conven-
tion of that body which will be held
in Saratoga Springs in July. DR..
Thomas Lynch Montgomery, the
NaN4 st,.1 l. i
the national organization. In ad-
dition to the State Library people
the Harrisburg Public Library will
be represented.
One of the oldest excuses given in
a long time why farmers do not buy
Liberty Bonds is that they have no
place to keep them. 1t is about on
a par with the excuse that a man in
the country would not be a good in
vestor in Thrift Stamps because he
does not get to town often enough to
have them converted into Baby
Bonds. One of the best-known pro-
fessional farmers in the state said
while here recently. Now, don't
blame the farmer for not buying
Liberty Bonds. You see he has to
work hard for all he gets"
well, don't II" put in the man to
whom he was talking.
Yes, but you live in town and are
near banks. The farmer lives in
the country and has no safe deposit
boxes" replied the apologist.
Hey. where does the farmer keep
his money when he takes it in for
wheat and potatoes? Where does
he keep his deeds and his insurance
policy? He don't keep them in the
Bible in the front room or in the
photograph album, does he?" fired
in man who had come up.
Harrisburg's two candidates for
lieutenant governor, Senator Edward
E. Beidleman, who aspires to the
Republican nomination, and Howard
o. Holstein, who is running for the
Democratic nomination. met the
other day on the street. Both said
they enjoyed being candidates.
Warnings given by Major w. G..
Murdock, the chief draft officer of
Pennsylvania that men given defer
red classification under the draft be-
cause of their work being essential
and who change or get dismissed
must be restored to their place, has
resulted in numerous letters coming
to Harrisburg from draft boards
while kilograms and telephone
messages are being received tell
ing of changes which should be
made. The result will be that some
men who got deferred places because
of working on farms and then went
during the winter to industries will
have to go back to the farm or as
sumo their rightful place in the
draft. 1t will also hit some men in
railroad service.
The Department of Labor and In
dustry Offices at the State Capitol
come pretty close to having the rec
ord for the highest price for the sale
of a packet of chewing gum at the
recent Red Cross sale. The packet
was made to retail at a nickel, but
it was sold and resold and auction
eered and turned around until final
ly it rested on the desk of one of the
officials as representing $21.25. Even
the people who attended to the SELL
ing do not know how 1t came to roll
up such a figure, but the money was
there and the gumsis in the curiosity
class.