Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-04
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tainly gave Harrisburg something
to think about because of all the
days devoted to that form of collect
ing for various objects the Junior
Tag Day has been one of the most
interesting. For many of the
youngsters of the city, the expert
ence is the first and the way the
youngsters went at 1t was amusing.
Bashfulness soon wore off and the
novices were as eager to fill up their
boxes and cans. as the veterans in
the game. Tag Day is taking on a
new significance this year. 1t used
to be employed for almost anything,
but since the war began it has been
more or less devoted to the Red
Cross, an object in which everyone
is interested and the pre-emption of
the Spring Tag Day for the juniors
Is something which seems to have
won popular approval.
The steamboats, in the Susuue-
hanna have been thoroughly enjoy
ing the movement of soldier trains
across the Susquehanna. There
have been a good many and the men
in charge of the boilers on the sand
and coal dredges have made it a
practice to whoop things up each
time train load of drafted men
or soldiers in khaki goes by. AS a
result the city has been startled
upon a number of occasions by toot-
ing of the whistles and by a din
from the river which has caused
them to think there was a big fire
or some kind of a riot. But the
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men enjoy it.
These are the days when anyone
with an eye to flowers of the field
can find all that they desire within
half an hours ride from Market
Square. The fields on the edges of
the city are bright with the pestfer-
Gus dandelion and filled with the
rapidly spreading violet. Indeed. it
would seem that the violet is trying
to race with the dandelion to see
which can spread the quickest. The
dog-toothed violet has also appeared
and some of the old-time variety of
white -violets are to be found.
Speaking about flowers and the
fields the manner in which some of
the vacant squares in the Capitol
Park Extension are being turned to
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Whole sections which We're formerly
filled with houses and which are re-
called by many policeman as scenes
of reVelry and near riot are now be-
/ ing turned up and sown with seed
with the hope that they will raise
grass instead of something else. 1t
does seem odd to think of blocks
: about Short and South streets and
what were once lots fronting on Tan
oil nd ctr
devoted to lawns and that the site
of that classic structure once known
to police as the Bucket of Blood
should be sown with timothy. And
similarly the idea of North and South
alley being converted to grass
! patches strikes one as odd, as odd as
the proposition to have East State
street with all it's memories furnish
the lines for rows of trees. Some
day there will be native Pennsylvania
shrubbery to mark the location of
Lafayette Hall and geraniums where
hop joints once flourished
State Game and Fish Wardens
who have been cooperating with
the State Police and Forest Rangers
in enforcement of the new fish
code have been having their own
: troubles with the alien element
war time as period in which. to
disregard laws. Not only have the
foreigners been shooting insect eat
ing birds, which is a double infrac-
. tion of the law, but they have been
fishing with nets and throwing dy-
, Mantle into streams. Owing to the
. industrial activities and the pres
ence of many foreigners in the
State in labor camps the task of the
wardens has been anything but easy
this spring and the combined fore
les have been cooperating. Wealth
er conditions have spoiled the fish
ing for many fishermen who make
it a point to get out in the first
ten days of the trout season and
they have also been bothered over
the Interpretation of what shall con-
stitute a days catch, a question
which is to be submitted to the
courts. But the foreigners have not
been held back by any scruples and
charges of catching trout and other
fish with nets and setting out lines
have been made, while in some of
the eastern counties it was found
that dynamite was being exploded in
streams.
The States tractors. which are
now working in various sections of
Z the southern aad central counties on
u a day and night schedule, seem to
be attractig no end of attention
from farmers, many of whom drive
miles to see them in action. The
purchase of tractors this year in this
part of the state has gone beyond
all expectation and there is so much
trouble in getting deliveries that
even the state cannot get machines
fast enough. The way the tractors
have performed on the hilly farms
in this section has been enlighten-
ing to a good many men.