Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-21
Esretttup Glrat

Il note IN this column last night
ABOUT Meadow Lane, one of the old
est thoroughfares in Harrisburg
haVihg disappeared from the map.
caused one of the elder residents of
the city to remark that possibly no
sectloh OF this city had been so
,i1t -nuoh altered by the march of Har-
Spurs toward its great destiny as
oe transportation center as the heart
VI the old Second ward. About mo
years ago South Second street was
S sne important highway of Harris
ours' Front street was n busy river
- t iolt highway, Market street was
just coming into its own as an ave-
nue. OIL hotels which caused n French
uuke mere in 1897 or therenbouts 10
seiIaIk upon the number of inns
th .iaI nau grown up here because of
Ill ndNeiers that stopped in Har-
IlspurS; Paxton street was mn on
trance thoroughfare and Muiherrv
ana Chestnut streets were residen-
t .ial streets. Second street was the
business and classy street Tho
s iIoiies Oh the prominent burghers
We're located on it and tbe most
once stage offices, churches. etc.
uotteu thls thoroughfare and prop
eI ~ values were high. compared 10
pSTtheL parts OF the town. Now whole
CLOCKS of Second street houses have
disappeared. 1t really began to do
cine some time before the civil
war when the grade of the street
was reduced, necessitating extensive
chahges TO many houses and the high
steps which We're features of homes
on the street for years. Mulberry
street began to disappear from the
hnrto itrp some years ago when the Cum
DellIhu valley Railroad extended it's
purchases, preparatory TO the suh-
ways, and the Pennsylvania took
away the usefulness of Meadow
Lane. The city map, if one looks
at the original and then sees how
the railroad improvements have
caused red lines to be drawn on il
VIII furnish some interesting local
/ history. Parts of Mulberry and
Chesthut streets, part of Court and
sl Hiosl OF Mary street, ends of Third,
tourth and Fifth streets, all of
Eighth, have gone. When one con-
slders that these sections were inn
portant residential parts Of Harris
oufg when there was nothing worth
whlle above North street and preci-
! Gus little beyond Cameron. the ad-
vance of time in Harrisburg can
| be grasped.
| . @1S Ioi MeduoW Lane, 1t began at
Second officially, although at one
time it ran diagonally to the river
front where the first ferry had it's
landing. 1t went up along a line
that took it from Second and Wash
| lngton to about Ninth and Market.
In due time part of it became Canal
| street and it followed the line of
the pennsylvania Railroad to North
When 1t gave up in despair at the
prospect of further twists and turns.
| The lane was originally an Indian
tran to the ford before Harris estab-
\ llshed the ferry and it is said that
Jamestown road, which comes down
| the hill near Cameron and Market,
| was a continuation of it. In old
days the lane was lined with wagon
and coach repair shops and when
| the railroads came they made it
| freight thoroughfare. The city Off
I cially abandoned it most of the way
about ten years ago.
Harrisburg book lovers and those
interested in local history will hope
for some publication in time to come
of the paper which State Librarian
Thomas Lynch Montgomery will read
| before the Philobiblon Club at
Philadelphia Thursday. 1t will be
an illustrated talk entitled I'm
! Bellaire." This was the old name
of Carlisle, famed in story, army
annals, State history and political
life. DR.. Montgomery has studied
the ancient borough and his address
will be of rare interest.
Major William Murdock, the for
mer chief of the draft in Pennsyl-
vania and the new State Adjutant
of the American Legion, is an
authority on history of the Susque-
hanna Valley. Descended from men
who settled Northumberland county,
he was naturally interested in af-
fairs of that section and he made
extensive studies of the early days
and has written a number of articles
about it.
General Edgar Jadwin, the former
! Pittsburgh engineer officer here q
few years ago and thought to be in
danger in the Ukraine, is very much
in the newspapers this year. The
| Philadelphia Public Ledger says:
General Jadwin comes from Homes
dale, in this State. He is a Lafay-
cite alumnus of the class of 80. He
| showed himself in his college days
to be man of the type Cecil Rhodes
desired the Rhodes scholarships to
bring to oxford, for his mates even
then marked him out as Il sure leader
of men in days to come. He ran
away with all the oratorical prizes
in sight, and still the fluent speech
maker proved that the mettle of
the soldier was in him. For he went
to West Point, became a Panama
Canal builder under Goethals and
in the war commanded the service of
supplies for the A. Il. f. in France.
General Jadwin has never been
patient when departmental routine
sought to festoon him with rcd tape.
AS colonel, he got his men aboard
the Franceward transports by pay
ing for their equipment himself and
letting the reimbursement by the
Government came along by slow
freight monthly"