Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
Ehrntt1g Glrat

Harrisburg is getting to thorough
iy enjoy its daily airplane flights and
II some chap from the Middletown
reserve depot does not come up a
couple of times a day there is dis
appointment. The aviators have
Ine place to try out in the fiat that
lines the river from Rockville tos
Mlddletown and the Capitol Is
cholce point to circle around. Al
most every morning, generally be-
tween 10 and IL, fiier comes up TO
can on us and business stops while
everyone goes out to look. Occa-
sionally we have noon flight ana
the afternoon exhibitions are well
wofth watching. They are the JOY
or the school children who are just
away from lessons and who get
chances to race after the machines
| just like they do after the fire en-
gines. Airplane flights never seem
to lose their novelty and are some
/ thing that breaks the monotony of
Harrisburg's day and stimulate the
interest in flying that this place has
| displayed for years. Circling the
| Capitol dome is one of the things
| that aviatorS seem to like to do and
we all like to see them. Its one OF
the advantages of having a reserve
! depot near the city and there is a
great chance for the Victory Loan
campaign down at Middletown these
days.
Just as an illustration of the way
| things are Frightening up in a con-
| struction way since the war is over
and the restrictions are relaxed it
may be stated that last summer the
| State was unable to get any bids
on three bridges and last fall it had
| nfNl but "a
| prices were not right. Next Tues
| day bids will be opened for a bridge
at place called Falls, up in Wyom-
| ing county, and there have already
been something like thirty inquir-
les for the plans for specifications
and something like the old time eX-
preston of frantic desire to get a
State contract.
Reservoir park seems to be one of
the most popular places for pedes-
trians just now. The last few fine
days there have been scores of per-
sons walking up Oak Knob. They
have been richly rewarded for the
climb as the air is very clear and
the broad bend of the Susquehanna
from the place where it pours
through the Gap to it's curve against
the York hills at Middletown is to
be seen in all its beauty. There are
fine views to be had up into Perry
county beyond the Gap and n
| glimpse of the folded hills, as some
one once called the ridges which
mark the lower end of the hoop
pole" county. And If the smoke per-
mits the view up the Cumberland
Valley and down toward Rutherford
are good. But there is nothing in
the way of the first ridge of the old
Blue Ridge that stands sentinel over
Harrisburg for miles on either side
of the Susquehanna. The noun
tains loom up, every tree and rock
standing out, challenging to a
climb and Offering places for views
with which Harrisburg people are
all too unfamiliar.
"If you can induce two or three
more companies such as that at Nc
Calls Ferry to build power dams in
the Susquehanna river your naviga-
ton problem will be solved" said
Major William B. Gray, discussing
the canalization of the stream the
other day. THE McCall's Ferry
Company by the provisions OF its
| character must put locks in the
| dams If the river is ever opened Tor
navigation. A few more such dams
would gI~e you water enough to float
wholeffeets of merchant ships. Also,
understand that the dam has de-
stroyed your shad and other fisher
les. Well, a lock in that dam would
help you out a lot in that way. The
fish would be locked through the
dam and would thus easily find their
way to Harrisburg and points higher
up, restoring the value of the stream
to the sportsman and the food
fisher"
What is the idea in keeping up
the price of egg drinks to the fig
ures of December and january"
was asked of a soda fountain sprite
yesterday.
why, the price of eggs is away
up" was the answer.
But eggs are selling for only a
little more than half what they were
when you moved up the price be-
cause of the price," was shot at
him.
"Well, the hens don't know it,'
was the flippant reply.
The young man is friend to the
farmers wife who asked So at Broad
street market for chicken such
as sold for 81 last year and when
asked the reason made the sapient
observations: "You railroaders all
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