Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-14
Ei1rtttng Chat

Study of the streets on Saturday
night was an interesting matter for
anyone who had the time to observe
the demeanor of the hundreds who
thronged Market and Third and
other thoroughfares in the down
town district from early in the even
ing until IL o'clock, probably more
from force of habit than anything
else. Nowhere was there muds
disposition to criticise the orders for
the closing of the stores and .stop
the sale of ice cream, cigars and
magazines any more than there had
Deen against the state order locking
the doors of the places of public
amusement and saloons. Indeed.
the attitude has been marked by a
cheersulness which would not have
peen thought of before we entered
into the war. We have gone through
course of regulation of many ac-
tlVltles and in a way Harrisburg was
pretty well schooled in obeying or
ders long before the drastic precau-
tlons promulgated to fight influenza
ana the mounting death rate, But
the old thing about the crowds in
Market street and the Square Satur-
day night was that while they SEEM
ed to have little kick against the
closing they did not hesitate to con-
| gregate, to stand around in groups,
to spit over pavements and pass
around cigars, cigarets, candy and
plug tobacco. In Union Station
where the sales of even periodicals
was stopped along with the peculiar
brands of candy dispensed at it's
newsstand there were the usual
Saturday crowds and the congregat-
ing was a great deal more than
would have occurred in most of the
churches. There seemed to be a
lack of coordination between the
health authorities and the police
authorities in regard to the street
crowds and there were more people
standing around the four corners
of Third and Market at o'clock
than would be found in a movie.
1t seemed when the fire alarm was
sounded by some miscreant at IL
o'clock at night as though it had
been done as piece of sarcasm to-
ward the congregating order. The
sounding of -four brought out
people by hundreds and they were
jammed in South Third street and
adjoining thoroughfarss as though
danger from contagion was as far
away as the steppes where influenza
is generally understood to have
started on it's prostrating march
|. across the world. Prevention Of
street crowds by the police arm
,, would seem to be as important as
the prohibition of the congregating
at amusement places and groceries
and the like by the health author
tiles.
There are two classes of work
I ers in this community who have had
/ to suffer very much through infiu-
: enza which has struck down their
: companions. They are the tele-
r phone operators and the motormen
: and conductors" said a physician
4 yesterday. IT don't count us doc
tors or nurses. We are like you
pected to go always. But the tele-
phone girls have had their work
multiplied by the epidemic and the
!, force of operators, which is limited
: anyway, has been hard hit by the
r influenza. / fully appreciate the eff
Ifort to cut down calls and everyone
1 should avoid messages not impor+
4 tant for the sake of people who
: have to use the telephone to get
:, doctors or drugstores. AS for the
y motormen and conductors, suppose
L that they would all get sick"
Arrangements are being made by
d DR.. Joseph Kalbfus, the State Game
v Commission Secretary, to purchase
: some 200 deer during the coming
Y fall and winter to stock the new
J. preserves in the Lykens Valley re-
| 90 nd iy. vnr
It est county. Some may go into other
S preserves, although reports are thai
e there are many deer in the South
= Mountain region and in the Elk
IS Cameron n-Clearfleld- Clinton district
: These deer will likely come from
It Michigan and will be liberated after
u the hunting season. The pheasant:
z, will be turned loose in the spring
y The movement to remove the pro.
u lection from red squirrels is taking
!, shape and will be heard of durine
II the coming legislative session wher
q plans for advancing seasons or
: blackbirds and gray squirrels will
: also materadize. People coming here
d are also talking very faVorably o.
r the projects for planting hickory
h and beech nuts so that game may
: be provided with new food supply
= More kaffir corn has been planted
r this year than expected because o
d the war conditions and pronounced
e change of sentiment toward carint
/. for wild life is to be noticed.
l.
o Just now authorities appear t.
differ on the eve of walnut Plant
s ing Day." proclaimed by the Cover
: nor. about the way to plant. l. c
It Williams. the Deputy State Forestry
n Commissioner, says that the hulll
5 should be removed and DR.. Kalbfus
!; Secretary of the Game Commission
!, and a wild life authority, says tha
y the hulls should be merely crushed
2 Governor Brumbaugh says that far
: mers ought to provide the walnut!
$ for planting and farmers are in
: clined to plant as many as they car
D themselves.