Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-03
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mobiles which are parked in Market
Square any afternoon or evening,
especially Saturday? Motor vehicles
have become SO common and horses
SO scarce that we seldom think of
the difference ia the value of the
! two means of transportation. This
! city was for many years noted for
the good quality of its horses. 1t
was not so much on fast horses, al
though in the old days there were
| some prominent men who had good
nags that used to figure in brushes
on the river road and occasionally
on the tracks. But it had a good
| grade of working horses and the
! prices were around 800. Now the
| horse is gradually disappearing be-
| fore the gasoline-driven car and no
where is it more strikingly shown
than in the business and market
house sections. Startling evidence of
! the displacement of the horse as a
means of getting around in the coun-
try appeared at the Grangers' picnic
at Williams Grove five years ago
and the hundreds of farmers auto
mobiles that were parked there
showed that the change was coming
where it would be most noticeable.
Now where ten years ago we used
to have farmers lined up end to end
on Chestnut and Verbeke and
Market streets we find automobiles
of every make. And the women are
able to run them as we'll as the men.
But to return to Market Square.
Saturday afternoon there were ap-
proximately twenty cars parked on
each of the four stretches allowed
for such purpose. In the evening
there were more. Taking eighty as
the number of cars wedged into that
space and allowing $500 as the
average price, because there were
not so many of the less expensive
cars as there were in the morning
and afternoon, 1t means $4,000
worth of cars And think of the
many more on other streets and the
hundreds of others that were not
out. Harrisburg certainly has lot
of money invested in the pneumatic
tired vehicles without counting in
the trucks.
Speaking of motor cars the odd
contrasts that are to be seen on
. market day are Just as striking in
| their way as they used to be twenty
| five years ago. In the line of vehicles
that passed down the street Satur-
G day afternoon were any number OF
pleasure cars and motor trucks, de-
z livery wagons and roasters and sand
4 wiched in between were old-fash-
e ioned farm wagons, one or two
Y 'buggies" and blackboard, hearse.
= a milk wagon and an automobile
with mule tied to the rear.
t The rose show to- be held this week
4 call attention to the manner in which
g the most loved of flowers is culti-
= waited in Harrisburg. This city has
= for many years been the home of
rose fanciers and the show should
bring out some specimens from
= places little thought of. The adage
g that many rose grows unseen. and
s unappreciated, is very true, because
= there are backyards in Harrisburg
S which yield choice flowers and some
). of them from bushes which are n
quarter of century old. There are
n bushes of the good old Jack" and
u "Marchielneil' varieties in this city,
d which are as vigorous as a dozenv
n years ago. The city has a we'll de-
e served reputation for its peonies, al
K though Mrs. Arthur II. Bailey has
been endeavoring to move the peony
center to her ancestral heath of
: Paxtang and its iris collections are
n as beautiful as numerous. A little
o competition in the flowers of Har-
e risburg. such as the rose show will
!: bring about will give us something
J., to talk about and glory in few
years hence If popularity encouraged.
1--WE have had many people COM
I ing here in connection with Liberty
| Bond matters and it would surprise
: you the number who are not clip
ming off their coupons, but letting
Uncle Sam have the money" said
man active in banking yesterday.
This is safe and sane form of
patriotism. They evidently don't
need the money and they do not
want Uncle Sam to have to pay 1t
out now. Some people have been
following the injunction to use cou-
mons to buy Thrift Stamps and I
know of some coupons from the
first issue that were used to pay for
bonds for the third. It's new thing
for lot of people to own bonds and
1t Is interesting to watch the way
they act about them"
> It's a rather odd thing how the
? warm wave caught this city unpre
pared. There was so much rain
i and so many cool days during May
almost until within four days of the
q close of the month that very few
people were really ready for summer
weather and the result was that
there was rush for light weight
caim ents, to the ice cream places
ard for palm leaf fans 1t brouSne
10 people living within sight OF tho
dome of Pennsylvania State Cari-
toI those words of the great hui
rrorist, who wrote in the vicinity of
Boston State House
The folks that on the first OF May,
Wore winter coats and hose
Peran to say the first of June,