Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-08
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| e VI the results OF the severely
cold weather and the big snow
piles which does not appeal to the
average man, but which is really one
or the most costly after-effects. is
the tremendous amount of repair
Work tnat must be done on trucks
ana automobiles. In fact. almost
every vehicle except a sleigh has been
hard put to navigate in the deep
| SHOWS which prevail and the repair
establishments have so much work
on hand that broken trucks and cars
are standing outside awaiting their
TURN Just as an instance of what
nucking snowstorms mean and how
IL strikes where not expected, II NAV
be said that on one day this weak
there were actually over forty troll
ley cars or the Harrisburg Railways
company In the shops for repairs.
Ihey simply could not be run. Some
We're burned out" and some had
other things wrong with them. in
cIuulng a1rbrakes The Valley Rail-
ways Company suffered in like nro-
portion in all probability. Most of
the motor trucks which have heen
Tamming snowbanks and endeavor-
ing TO get about the snow-filled
streets nave had to go to hospitals
Tor treatment in the last three weeks
ana pleaSurecars, so called have
suilefeu all manner of internal ills
10 say nothing of fractures, because
oI the usage given to them. And
more delivery wagons have gone in
for repairs than in any similar ne
rlod Tor long time. Likewise.
norses and mules have suffered. 1t
mas peen a hard winter and the
damage done can hardly be estimated
now.
Speaking of the weather. it's odd
now eNeryones spirits seem to rise
When the mercury goes up after what
we have been going through. People
tackled work with more eagerness
yesterday than for a long time and
some of the Smile doctors" were
going around saying that it was ALI
due to the genial influence of the
sun. The January thaw, that we
have all heard of but often missed
arrived yesterday and, while it was
welcomed overhead and made some
people reckless about going without
overcoats, there were many who
felt scary as they looked at the river
Some of the young soldiers who
have been coming home from the
camps for a few days are inclined
to give us the laugh as they paradez
around with coats open and some
NAtAAS' Nltll oNCICOdlS over Inell#
arms. The soldiers are the picture
of health and abundant evidence OF
the food and care they get. 81
would have killed me dead to have
gone around this way a year ago,
said one young soldier on a cold, cold
day here this week. But you see
we are out so much and working Sc
hard all the time in the weather
that we're used to it. When l ge
INTO n Sfn hnofn6 7
get out and hunt cold place"
And you have a lot more of fat
producing food results on your ribs
than you have ever had" remarked
doctor to whom the soldier was
| talking.
Yes, that's so. I've had all thd
bacon and other things like that
can eat. They feed us up on the
things that keep cold out"
: Timers are going to be busy men
when the snow and ice go away, be T
l cause there are more porch roofI
= with holes punched in the GOVERNS
8 than for a long time. And by thI
same token there are many lengthI
of spouting which are developintl
l holes because of injudicious han
I ding. The trouble, as one time
explained 1t yesterday, is that tn
average man when he starts to Gu
Ice takes something sharp, methin.
that cuts, and he chops. What h
ought to do, says the overworke(
| timer, is to pound the ice. TIL
point of an icepick will get result
on anything, but when employed OIL
: a tin roof or a brick pavement
has to be handled like the rest
the edged tools.
Hope this zero weather has gon
for good, at least this year; because
If it goes on much longer I'm afrai
!. of being blown up" said the man
ager of a big enterprise. The car
of coal we have managed to ge
have been simply solid cakes of Goa
and ice. We have to dynamite then
| to get the coal so that we can tax
4 it out of the cars. Now that's n
joke. We have been blowing up tn
coal in the cars. 1t is a little roug
q on the cars, but they do not min
1t and it does loosen up the Goa
3 Otherwise, we could not handle j
And while | am about it 1 Nigh
ask that the men who are sellin
E us cars of coal might paint it black
s The stuff we are getting is rock, no
coal, and when we try to burn gra
stones we would like to have tn
n illusion made as complete as pos
sible."
u The small loan brokers of tn
state, who have n pretty live associa
tion and numerous members, hav
taken a step which is worth com
mending. They have decided tina
they will not accept Liberty Bond
or Baby Bonds as pledges. Thes
securities are to induce thrift an
the state officers of the organizatio
have ruled that there shall be moth
ing doing in the line of hooking
such things
Colonel Frank M. Vandling,
Scranton, a former Harrisburge
. was back in the city yesterday
attend a meeting of the commissio
lin charge Of construction at tn
State Institution for Feeble -Minde
Women. The Colonel met a numbd
of old friends and was cordial
greeted about the Capitol.