Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-14
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OHO thiuB the war did was to
prove the value of women as rail-
road workers. To date there have
been very few changes in the work.
ing forces of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, Notwithstanding that women
filled many positions made vacant
when the men were called to war
duty. Since the return of the SOL
olerS tney have been taken care of,
and without any large decrease in
women workers. There is every in
dlcat1on that in Harrisburg women
now working in railroad offices
are there to stay as long as they
make good. According to one or
nclal, they are meeting every re-
qulrement. He continued: They
are efficient. punctual, careful andA
give close attention to their duties"
This same official called attention
to the fact that during the recent
no accident" drive, women workers
| on the Pennsylvania railroad were
not only active in the campaign to
prevent accidents, but were also
prominent, in that in the list of
accidents, there was no name of
| any woman worker recorded on
| lines on the Eastern division. These
workers in Harrisburg alone num-
ber over 800. They have organized
club and are now considering
plans for community building of
their own, to include gymnasium,
| swimming pool and other up-to-
| date features. These women now
have a supervisor, Mrs. Annie Maas,
who is giving the women workers
good advice and helping them in
| their efforts to better their condl-
| tfon socially and make life worth
living.
Some Dauphin county farmers
are going to make money next year
raising live stock" was the remark
of man connected with one of the
city's financial institutions to-day
This year farmers who listened to
what knowing persons had to say
in 1917 and 1918 and invested in
cattle, sheep and hogs are lucky
Live stock prices are at record
| figures and the men who began to
look after that kind of business are
to be envied. There are many farms
in Dauphin county which are suited
to raising some cattle. do not
mean ranching, but going into it on
a small scale, the scale that does not
take much time, but which makes
land useful. If one would take a
trip around this county and see the
land that is being allowed to run
down, being cultivated spasmodi-
cally, not well fertilized and some
times only fertilized occasionally,
the opportunities for raising live
stock would be appreciated. This
climate is well adapted for pasture.
Look at the fields now. There is
money in cattle on the hoof and
there is a chance for Dauphin
county farmers to indulge in in
tensive farming and cattle raising,
too"
The movement to get Philadelphia
people to stop jay-walking is being
followed with interest here. In the
Quaker City there were people out
for week trying to tell folks not
to cut corners or to cross streets
diagonally or to zlgzag as folks
often do when they have not had
drink, but when they see some
one they want to talk too. Last
winter some of the Philadelphia
legislators had considerable fun
with Harrisburg over the jay lines
which were painted on the streets
to show people how to walk. The
result was that Mayor Daniel L.
Kiester's lines furnished the basis
for thought as well as amusement.
Harrisburg's fire hydrants stand
out like light houses on a dark night,
thanks to the liberal applications of
aluminium paint that have been be-
slowed upon them by the men con-
nected with the water department
in the recent autumnal sprucing up.
The man who decided that such
paint was the thing to use because
! of the necessity of finding plugs"
quickly at night, knew what he was
dbing, because in some parts of
Harrisburg the glowing hydrants
not only show where the water lines
: should be attached, but are so thick,
especially up in the Tenth ward,
that they show the lines of streets
J where only the cricket and the hop
} toad have their residences.
Some heartrending tales are be-
. ing brought to Harrisburg by un-
: fortunate hunters. Most of these
hunters went out equipped for
sport regardless of prohibition.
They were fortified against cold,
rain or exposure and looked forward
tells how on the first evening out
the chief commissary fell over a
stump and smashed the visible
supply Just before supper. Another
! band brings the story of how two
men in the group suffered accidents.
one man fell and broke the bottle in
his hunting coat and made everyone
mad because he had to hang the
loud smelling garment up to dry, and
the other man let the container of
which he was custodian fall into a
stream.
It does not pay to be too pros
porous. Governor Sproul in his talk
to the newspapermen at the Muzzle
Club dinner the other night said
? that when he was a newspaperman
he had more money than most OF
his college mates. "I even got rob-
bed twice because was so flush, v
said he.