Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-28
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les for the cooperation of the State
of Pennsylvania and the City OF
Harrisburg in the construction OF
the Commemorative Memorial
Bridge to the soldiers and sailors o1
Pennsylvania in the great war has
been made this last week and the
cooperation of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, which will pass under two
of the spans of the monumental
structure has been assured. The
city authorities have enacted legis-
lation to make funds available for
changes of two of the boundary
streets on the Capitol Park including
the extension and a committee OF
real estate experts is making esti-
mates of possible damages. The
making of the detailed plans for the
landscaping and terracing is under
way. One of the first of the projects
to be undertaken will be the i'm
provement of the western front OF
the Capitol for which an early ap-
preparation will be asked. This is
in the unfinished condition in which
1t was left in 1906 and 1t is planned
to enlarge the plaza and change the
terrace and then construct the for.
NAL entrance to the State House, as
Arnold w. Brunner, the architect,
! has styled It. The Memorial bridge,
| however will be the big thing, and
soon after Governor-elect William
| C. Sproul takes Office the model and
plan will be shown him. The Gov
ernor is ex-officio chairman or the
Board of Public Grounds and Build
ings, which will have charge or the
states end of the project. The en-
actment of an ordinance to submit
to the people of Harrisburg the
question of transferring the loan Tor
| the Walnut street bridge to the con-
struction of approaches to the Me-
mortal bridge Vill be taken up by
the city councils early in the new
year.
Trapping of quail and ring-necked
pheasant so that they can be led ana
cared for during the winter and lib-
Grated in the spring in districts
where the birds have become very
scarce Is to be encouraged by the
State Game Commission and 1t IS
likely that guarantee OF cost or
feed and possibly something IN Ine
way of bonus for care will be al
lowed. There has been talk or pay
ing a stipulated sum for each bird'
but nothing has been announced on
this subject, and 1t may not be done.
However, people interested in Wlld
life enough to trap the birds can
be assured of the cost of feeding
upon giving notice to the game pro-
tectors and agreeing to have the
birds liberated under supervision Of
the state in the spring. In some coun-
ties of the state the quail were al
most wiped out by the severe wealth
err of last winter, just as were the
SHOWS. This fall there have been
q number of quail taken and the
rabbits which were caught by the
state authorities have shown forms
of traps for the birds. A number of
boys have engaged in this work and
have shown much interest. The sug-
gestion is that wheat, buckwheat or
cracked corn be fed to the trapped
birds. The point is that game pro-
Itectors should be notified promptly.
A movement is growing up in the
state to have the National Guard
regiments which will be erected out
of the Reserve Militia when the
Guardsmen of the Keystone Division
come home and many of them re-
enter state service, as is expected,
given their old numbers and loca-
tions as far as possible. The state
authorities are very carefully main
tanning the armories and a bill is
being prepared for an extension of
the Militia until 1t will include at
least three more regiments of in
fantry. This would be enough to
have a unit in every place where
there is an armory, owned or leas-
ed. and the state has the money to
/ euuip the men without feeling it.
This Reserve Militia could be con-
tinued until the Guardsmen are mus
tered out and men from the Key
stone. Rainbow and National Army
divisions from Pennsylvania who
would want to enter the state serv-
ice could do so. 1t is very evident
here that instead of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania being wiped
bout by the war that 1t is to be recon
stituted and that an effort have
historic designations, lost when the
organizations went into Federal serV-
ice, bestowed on units and regiments
from their localities will be made.
It is also intimated that the new
regiments will not only have the
names of the old, but some OF the
new and have the names of battles
on flags.
The old State Capitol of Pennsyl-
vania was burned on Ground HOG
day in 1897. There are still some
old Harrsburgers who inVolunIar-
ilv turn at Front and state ana sec
ond and State in going py otate :
street. Do you know the reason
:, Next time you see some one do II