Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29
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Capitol Park extension district,
which the boys have already begun
to call "the park lot" will be cleared
of buildings except for the old Russ
residence at Fourth and North
streets, now used for the Offices of
the State Livestock Sanitary Board,
and the Day school building, which
is the laboratory of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture and their occu-
pancy OF those structures is q mat
ter of only short time And it is
very probable that the Capitol Park
conservatory, known variously as
the forcing house." the rose
house" and the green house." ac-
cording to the age and mental atti-
tude of the speaker. will have gone
before August. In the last few days
more real progress toward removal
of the last remnants of buildings has
been made than for a long time.
Workmen have been tearing down
the Paxton Flour and Feed ware
house in big chunks and picks have
been sunk into the classic proper
tions of the Matterhorn, to which
the state has taken title at last. The
demolition of the Lee properties in
Walnut street near the Technical
High school is proceeding rapidly
and the last refuge of the wet" in
the Capitol Park extension, the
lighthouse" in Fourth street just
| above Cranberry is now a ruin. The
| old Free Will Baptist Church, lately
the kesher Israel Synagogue, will
soon be a memory as is the Bethel
Church, which stood beside it in
State street. All the landmarks of
East State street have gone and be-
fore long the state will commence to
rip up the pavements and the pipes
| and to get things in shape for the
graders and the filters and in time
| the whirr of the lawn mowers will be
beard where the click of the dice
and the rattle of the beer glass used
to be the sounds of the day and
| often until far into the night.
| The Harrisburg Public Library is
| taking it's first vacation since it was
| opened half a dozen years ago. The
Library's interior has been taken
charge of by a corps of painters who
will repaint the ceiling and the walls
which have been going through that
! interesting process known as peel
| ing" The work will require month
| during which time the Library stock
will be added to and an immense
amount of binding done. The Lii
brary will be reopened on August /.
During the closed period Miss Alice
r. Eaton, the librarian, will attend
the meeting of the American Lii
bra-y Association at Saratoga. All
patrons of the Library desiring them
have been given three books during
July.
"The signs are right for good
| bass season and 1 think that tho
| fishermen of Pennsylvania will en-
Joy the change in the season which
is effective this year for the first
time" is the opinion expressed by
Nathan r. Butler, the state COM
missioner of fisheries, who has been
on a tour of inspection of hatch
cries and the main streams of the
state, some of which he has been
| observing because of allegations of
pollution. The new bass season was
outlined in the fish code of 1917 and
runs from July 1 to December 80,
both dates inclusive. Mr.. Butler
says that he has had no protests
against it and that he thinks the
fixing of the July 1 date as against
the middle of June will suit many
people better, while the limiting of
the catch will be q good thing for
| fish conservation. The stata has
literally stocked many streams with
| small mouthed black bass in the
last few years and some which had
been pretty we'll flshed out have been
reported to contain good specimens
again. The Susquehanna salmon or
wall eyed pike, which was almost
unknown in some streams five years
ago, has been successfully propa-
gated and the big cebtral river has
been stocked in several places. The
weather has enabled some trout fish
ing to be carried on later than usual
in certain parts of the state" re-
marked Mr.. Butler in talking of the
general situation. "and l think this
year will come close to having a very
fine catch. The results of the syste-
matte stocking of streams with fish
able to take care of themselves is
commencing to be apparent" The
State Commission of Fisheries at its
meeting at BellefontA to-day will
consider plans for very extensive
trout planting" this fall and will
also arrange for bass propagation
on very extensive scale. Appro-
priations for enlargement of hatch
cries will be asked next year.
Here are two kid stories:
A small boy who developed fond
ness for music was allowed to roam
about in a Sunday school room
while the school was assembling and
his elders were busy preparing for
the session. The child had knowl-
edge of some tunes and suddenly
there burst upon the startled ears
of his immediate family the air OF
THE Old Gray Mare"
A small boy Immediately dressed
in white duck was sitting in the
street Sunday playing with coal dirt.
when a young lieutenant spick and
span came along. Sonny" said the
man you'll get your Sunday suit
all dirty and yourself as we'll If you
don't come out of that" The young
ster looked up beamingly: Say.
who's doing this?" he queried.
Among visitors to the city was
Robert NJ. Ginter, managing editor
of the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times,
who stopped here on his way to
Pittsburgh from New York. He was
formerly Washington correspondent
for the Gazette-Times and has a wide
acquaintance among prominent men.