Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-26
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brickbats at our courthouse. 1t has
some shortcomings, but the truth
of the matter is that they are inter-
nal. Externally, the Dauphin coun-
ty temple of justice, has many good
points and only the other day War
den John Francies, of the Western
Penitentiary, who has travelled a.
great deal and who is rather plain
spoken, remarked that he always
liked to stop and look at the front OF
the courthouse, because to his mind
it embodied some fine architecture.
State Librarian Thomas Lynch Mont
gomery, in the course of some brows-'
ing among papers at the Capitol,
ran across letter, showing how the
old courthouse, which had some OF
the features of the present building,
was admired in the old days and in
cidentally remarked that about all
that was wrong with the present
building, was the lack of some place
where records would be safe from
fire. He said that, architecturally,
he considered the building a fine one
and had heard other men, some of
them wide Travelled, say the same
thing. The letter to which DIR. Mont
gomery referred was addressed to
Hon. John Todd, at Bedford, by
Abram Kers, of Lebanon, who wrote
on March 21, 1926:
r
had the politeness to get Me access
to the Harrisburgh Court House,
which has also been altered Since
the legislature Occupied tit is
quite respectable and Convenient
Court Room-and Made in the right
way as instead of (Most injudicious-
ly) elevating the bar and it is placed
on the floor where it ought to be
The Court Seat is Sufficiently ele-
Uafn1 h1r-rThn
Seats elevated gradually and the
spectators seats elevated on the
back ground still more than the
Jurors Seats - At Harrisburgh L
heard the Court House at this place
spoken of by Many Gentlemen (and
some of them competent Judges) as
being decidedly the most convenient
and the Most elegant one in our State
and Since / have examined the
building thoroughly 1 do not hesi-
tate in saying is beyond doubt the
most Convenient the most any and
the Most elegant Court house I ever
Saw in this State-This court house
is nothing like any of the places that
Mr.. Hill laid before the Commis-
sioners of our County it was built
\ in 1915 in deer times and the build
| ing. Cost $26500-brick at that time
] Cost here $40 p thousand every load
of sand $40 but boards were had at
: SO p thousand from Susquehanna
Il I am of opinion A court house Could
now be built embracing all the Con-
veniences of this one for less than
g half the sum Above Stated"
# Daylight saving is going to be a.
cinch when you just figure it out"
said the head of big industrial es-
Is tablshment yesterday. Get this
e, On June L. most of us, who can, go
to summer cottages In the country
u or else we plan some sort of things.
such as working in garden before
breakfast, because there is daylight.
If Well, just put it forward two
II months. In other words start your
- summer hours long before you eX-
- pected to. Only this is my advice
i. to Harrisburgers: Those who go to
bed at 8, start tonight at s; those
l. who hit the hay at 10, start tonight
, at 8; eleven o'clockers go to bed at
l. 10 and midnighters pike up the.
y. wooden hill at II. And do it ali
week and Monday you won't mind
it,
e when the daylight saving comes
g around we won't mind it" said n
1T trolleyman yesterday. Were used
to getting up at and o'clock, you
know. We start one week about 8
n or in the morning and next week
is about II in the morning. What's an
Ig hour, when you have to swing half
Ill day. every other week or so?"
One of the most interesting of war
time exhibits will be made at the
to Harrisburg Public Library, when
ee Miss Alice r. Eaton, the librarian,
has arranged for a display of war
posters. Miss Eaton has gone to a
great deal of trouble to obtain gov
ernment, state and national posters,
lie and some of them are of great merit.
st The Liberty Loan and War Savings
G. posters will be given a prominent
place in the display. The arrange
ment will probably be completed
I Thursday. The poster has a distinct
appeal for everyone in this war and
j some of the most effective calls to
- the people have been made by ink.
Being a candidate is an interest
l ing experience. I have been a can
didate for all sorts of things in my
4 time but l must say that being a
[ candidate for governor is the rarest
| of ALL" said J. Denny ONeil, the
I ! Highway Commissioner yesterday.
i 'I was in Philadelphia two days and
1 think I was asked questions on
a hundred matters. And they were
/ not all by newspaper reporters
either.
| The final fiowerbeds are being
| prepared on Capitol Hill by Farmer
Shreiner's force of haymakers, who
are engaged in sweeping grass and
/ sort of "redding up" after the win
ter's feeding of the squirrels. The
fiowerbeds have been literally plant
ed with bulbs and similar plants
and when they have bloomed, Mr..
Shreiner will have some shrubberS
!. which has been worked out on a
!. pennsylvania only" basis.
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1t may be of interest to some of
the Harrisburg anglers to know that
1t among the young trout put out into
n the streams, in Cumberland county
: for the benefit of the fishermen,
we're some seven and a half inches
, long. The young fish distributed are
l. all of a size able to care for them