Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-09
Eirrsttt1g Gl1at

OF tractors is growing the mid-win-
ter exhibition of agricultural pro-
ducts will be more or less dwarfed
by the number of pieces of labor
saving machinery to be assembled
here. The demand of the farmers
lof labor, which is causing men IN
authority and economists to lose
sleep, has become so acute that hun
drcds of farms will only be partly
cultivated unless some improve
ment in the labor situation comes
within the next ninety days. Some
farmers have not attempted to plan
their crops for this year because
,y tney are not sure whether they will
have anyone to help. This con-
ungency has brought about an in
terest in farm machinery, especially
tractors for plowing, that has spur-
red the manufacturers and caused
farmers to form organizations to
own such machines to be allotted on
schedule as is done with threshing
machines in some counties. Yester-
day word was received that two
more types of tractors, making over
twenty in all, had been promised for
the show here. 1t is believed that
the show will interest hundreds of
farmers and that there will be very
large attendance at the various
meetings to be held.
f1lllng in on the line OF the pro-
posed highway across Capitol Park
Extension has been started by Sill
perintendent Shreiner, who has
contracted for thousands of tons of
! cinder and filling from industrial
plants and railroads. The new high
| way will be about on a line or
Aberdeen and old East street which
viii give direct access from the
Union Station or Market street to
the uptown section by an even more
convenient way than at present
through park extension. Eventually
the new highway will swing into
sixth about Forster, but that may
not come for years.
| State game wardens and special
protectors, who were working in the
| WOODS during the hunting season
just closed, are getting ready to run
| termed hunting outlaws" because
or the reckless manner in which
| they go hunting and their utter dis
regard of the provisions of the game
code. Most of these men shot deer
! either out of season or else killed
Goes or even fawns. According to
some of the game commission Off
Gals these outlaws shot at every
thing that looked like a deer and
why they did not kill cows the state
| ottcers declare they do not know.
| cumberland, Fulton, Franklin and
Adams counties had some of these
illegal hunters and as they have
oeen traced arrests will be in order
before many days. There are stiff
lines for such violations and the
TACT that the offenders live miles
away, in distant parts of the state
IN some cases. adds to the costs.
|
In spite of the chilly blasts and
the almost zero temperatures these
/ uaHs there are some people who ap-
| pear to like to walk over the Sus
quehanna bridges and the Mulberry
street Viaduct. According 20 the
takers of the shekels at the bridges
there are people who walk across
the Susquehanna, rain or shine. and
they have not been deferred by the
terrible wintry weather through
which the state has been passing
lately' AS for the viaduct there are
men and women who have not miss
ed day walking over it, SUNDAYS in
ciuded, this winter. And it may be
added that as a promenade the Null
berry street bridge is only slightly
worse from a windy standpoint than
the plaza in front of the Capitol.
An interesting thing in connection
With the patriotic meeting of the
| State Society to be held Saturday
night in the hall of the House of
Representatives is that the two army
officers invited, declined in haste.
They would have been glad to come
here. In fact, one of them had
made all arrangements to be here.
Their messages of regret had a
strong tinge of salt water.
Coal has become almost as valu-
able as gold in some sections of
state and 1'"i it is H' grabbed S5eei o@ite eGts
as eagerly as food in many
cases. A few days ago sixty tons
OF soft coal which had been in
storage for three years at a manu-
featuring plant in this city was
thrown upon the market owing to
a change of the plant to other lhan
manufacturing concern. There
was no use for the coal under the
new conditions and the company
| agreed to sell the coal to another
manufacturing plant in the city for
| S6.75 per ton delivered. This offer
was accepted by an uptown manu-
f&cturer and the original owner
a day to deliver the coal to it's new
Location. His first days experience
in the delivery of the fuel was dis
couraging inasmuch as the teamster
spent whole day in hauling 1900
pounds. AS this meant a loss of
about $500 a ton on the coal the
former manufacturer then conclud-
! ed to use his own trucks at con-
venient periods and thus save his
bacon on the deal.
|
The recent Christmas tree stunt
In the interest of the Children's In
| dustrial Home netted that institu-
tion $1,000. OF all the Christmas
| enterprises this was easily the most
| sncceSsfnl in aiding an institutin1,