Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
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Ii tne pans now pelng worked out
by officials OF the State Highway and
Attorney Generals Departments are
consummated. it may be possible to
ridc on July 4, from Harrisburg to
Lancaster for the first time in over
a century without paying toll. Last
year the state made possible a ride
from Harrisburg to Lebanon and on
to Reading without having to pay
toll, the gates which had been main
tained since 1916 disappearing, after
an existence of little more than
lOl years. The toll gates to the
north and west of Harrisburg have
gone, although there are many of
us who recall the days of the old
river road, with its toll houses and
Whlskered toll takers at Division
street and Flickinger's lane and the
Carlisle pike with the toll house lust
at the western or rather southwest
ern end of Camp Hill. Now York
ana Lancaster are the only counties
that adJoin us and are on our lines
OF travel that have the medieval
gates. Highway Commissioner
O.Nell says that he plans to free
about four Lancaster toll roads this
summer. The West Chester, Willow
Grove and Old York turnpikes near
Philadelphia are just about being
freed and the last toll gates in Blair
and Westmoreland have gone, The
Cumberland and Juniata valleys are
nearly 1ree of them and Harrisburg.
tne hup or thirteen or fourteen state
highway routes will soon be access
IDLE from any part of the sixty-seven
counties without the hold-up. The
plans are now to free the Lancaster.
Elizabethtown and Middletown turn
pike, which gathers shekels from
ancient Middletown, practically
speaking, to the city line of Lancas
ter. The price to be paid is $685.,
600 aud the meeting of the companv
shareholders will be held SATURDAY.
to end the matter. The freeing of
TINS turnpike, whose owning corpo-
ration has been attacked before the
Public Service Commission, will be
nailed all over the state, for it will
make clear of hold-ups what Gov
ernors Brum baugh calls the Penn
LIN highway, the link between the
william Penn highway in Harris
burg and the Lincoln Highway at
Lancaster
Notwithstanding the warm rays of
the sun the last week or SO. and the
nigh winds, there are still patches
or snow and ice to be seen in ra-
| vines and gullies in the fields round
/
J county districts especially the wood
ed valleys of creeks and runs there
d are masses of snow, which defy the
rains and sunshine. Just what it
must have been like during the real
ly cold weather can be imagined.
Ihere are some roads in shaded sec
tons which are also covered with
strips of snow.
SnndaNG -
the big days for moving of freight
e trains through Harrisburg, The
pennsylvania and Reading lines yes
terday fairly hummed with traffic
t, and it seemed as though the trains
were as numerous and as long as
those moved on the two preceding
e sundays when records for movement
went by the boards. Members of
crews say that indications are that
'e the movement the last two or three
weeks Will be worth comparing with
" previous years.
Another matter which is attract
ing attention at the Capitol is the
t refusal of trolleymen's union in
? the Mt Carmel district to issue GER
II tlncates for six cent fare. when the
L company operating the line was or
a dered to do so, by the Public Serv-
e Ice Commission. The company gave
orders, but the Union fatty refused
to do so. 1t is the first time Union
has bucked the state.
= The manner in which the Bell
: Telephone Company is boosting the
y War Savings in Harrisburg should
be an inspiration to other concerns
The Bell Company put up the first
I w. 5. 5. sign and every letter con-
| talns circular of vest pocket size
on why the government wants those
spare quarters. Moreover, the COM
pany sells Thrift Stamps at its off,
ces. If other public utility COM
panies would follow the example of
the Bell, there would be greater pop
ularity for the stamps.
|
The Lackawanna Good Roads As
sociation, which is to be reorganized
at meeting tomorrow, has deter
mined upon line of policy which
could be adopted here. 1t has sent
letter to every supervisor, advising
him of n sign post either out of or
der or down in his district There
will not be q cross roads in Lacka-
wanna that does not have a sign this
summer, it is said.
1t The question of whether the wea-
ther can be considered as having
a D1l GU Ill1hlll5 VI d payment In time
!" to obtain advantage of a rebate has
arisen in some informal complaints
made at the Public Service Commits
sion. 1t seems that during the severe
winter weather experienced in Jan
uary and February, the mail collec-
tions were interrupted and that let
ters mailed if time to get advan-
tage OF the rebate were not gather
ed up until such time as to make
their delivery day after the period
for discount had expired. The same
proposition has come from other
!. sections, and it looks as though Old
Man Fact would have to determine
it.