Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-09
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| bought in the heart of Harrisburg
for the extension of the Capitol park
is not to be halted by the war and
will be carried on this summer dur
ing tendency of the appeal of the
condemnation proceedings of one of
the properties on technicality to
| the supreme court. Superintendent
George A. Shreiner. of the Board of
Public Grounds and Buildings, the
executive officer of the state in such
matters, returned to-day from New
York where he had been in consul
tation with Arnold w. Bruner, the
landscape architect in charge, and
detailed information regarding the
work will be laid before the Board
on Tuesday. Mr.. Bruner is the
architect who designed the Cleveland
and Denver civic centers and much
of the landscape planning in New
York city and in collaboration with
Warren II. Manning, who laid out
the Harrisburg city park system, is
planning the states improvements.
The first work will be done on the
old park and the streets will be
widened and then the extension dis
trict will be cleared of every build
ing not used by the state for tenn
porary offices and filled in. The
present condition is unsightly, but
the arrangements have been made
for clearing the whole twenty-nine
acres which will mean tearing up
paved streets and alleys, taking out
foundations and covering the whole
with soil. 1t will cost thousands of
dollars, but advance the work OF
parking several years. The land
scape planis is said by Mr.. Shreiner to
be one of the most elaborate pre-
pared for any state capitops sur
roundings and every move will fit
in on general plan. When the fill
ing is done a quadruple line of oaks
will be planted east of the Capitol,
while arrangements for special
planting will be made in other sec
tions of the extension. Every tree
to be planted in the extension will
be a Pennsylvania species and they
will be named for governors, emil
nent Pennsylvanians. counties and
cities.
"It is an odd thing" remarked a
Harrisburger, who has fondness
for looking up historic sites, yester-
day, that the State draft headquar-
ters should occupy the Board of
Trade building, which I am inform
ed stands on the site of the provost
marshaIs Office during the Civil War.
The draft this war is directed by
the provost marshal general and
such an officer had charge of it in
the Civil War The office was in q
brick building which stood in Mar
ket street at the corner of River
street. The draft wheel which was
operated in our city during the war
| is preserved in the Dauphin County
Historical Society rooms" ="
Considerable interest has been at
5 tracted among lawyers and those
who follow corporation laws to the
proceedings to annul the charter of
the Dale Light, Heat and Power
Company, a Cambria county con-
cern. The suit is really against an
individual, who bought in the COM
: pany at judicial sale and failed to
have a reorganization within the
time specified by law. The action
is one of the first of the kind known
in long time.
The Stroller in the Scranton Re-
publican writes of an interesting
state of affairs in the northeastern
counties, a condition which will
have it's appeal to Dauphin county.
This is what he says: THE citizen of
Honesdale notes most unusual con-
dition of affairs in Wayne county.
1t saysk The grand jury had a work
less session Monday afternoon. For
the first time in twenty-five years
there were no cases to come before
that body. Court convened at 2
o'clock and heard the constables
returns. Judge Searle instructed the
, members of Wayne's countrywide
police force to keep a close watch
on unlicensed dogs at all times.
6 and to dispose of them wherever
: found Also licensed dogs prowling
around at night were to be dealt
with in q summary manner. He
, said the sheep were more important
than dogs, and as the new law
makes new provisions, he hoped the
I constables would all make an effort
to protect the sheep industry by
getting rid of sheepkilling dogs at
the first opportunity. Evidently the
war is presenting problems that
keep people busy with other matters
than those that bring them into con-
| flict with the law. 1 note that
Tunkhannock newspaper recently
noted that the wyoming county
Jail contained not a single prisoner.
"People seem to recognize the fact
that prohibition is going to come and
they are not drinking-just cutting
1t OUT said the BARTENDER at one or
the hotels, who does not take drop
and who does a lot in preaching
temperance. "You would think that
people would be stocking up and
buying some to lay away. Well,
they're not. The people in Harris
burg, and this has been a wet town.
have made UP their minds that rum
in passing and they're passing 1t
up. Take it from me. I've seen
sales dropping right along"
q
Saturday seems to be our big
Thrift Stamp day and it shows that
the appeals to people to start saw
ing and buying stamps when they
get their envelopes is all right" said
Postmaster Sites to-day. "I think
when the Boy Scouts get on the
job that Harrisburg will have a
Thrift Stamp movement that will be
worth watching