Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-05
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Kind or another will decline an
then in the course of years
again employed for much the same
purpose For years when Harris
burg was young the Paxton cre-~
valley, owing to. the waterpower
to be had from the more or less
efratlc stream, was the seat o>
most of the industries of the teS'
There were couple of blast E=~/
naces, some rolling mills. 81
mills and other plants loc-:
along the creek, but except lr-}
some of the industrial units at r.-..
lower end of the stream there az.
practically none of those whiS--
fiourished fifty years ago to ~
found in the creek valley, althoug"
for long time it was set aside ir
conversation as the coming indu~'
trial section of Harrisburg" Ln-
old car works, Prices furnace, W,
ter furnace and others have disar
peared along with the flour an6
grist mills Instead there have
grown up the Pennsylvania rail-
road shops, the Harrisburg Pipe
and Pipe Bending works, and the
various factories which are COM
mencing to fill up the vacant spaces.
And one of the interesting devel-
opments has been of the assembling
Iicreek and canal bed south of HUI
berry street bridge. There are half
a dozen establishments handling
this pretty important branch of the
basic industry and more will prob
ably come. Large amounts of
scrap are gathered here and ship
ped either to other places or to
the nearby steel mills. And one of
the condolences to which attention
n hn ni1oer no
graph. is that almost on the site of
the Wister furnace, which was
close to where the Readings line
| across the river passes the Har-
! risburg Gas Companys plant, there
is now located a large ironmongers
yard and all about is iron in various
| forms and amounts.
Dividing attention with primary
election politics and the fate of the
Peace Treaty at the State Capitol
| just now is the question whether
| goldfish in the basins of the big
fountains which front the State
House are reducing the mosquitoes
/ that occasionally infest parts of the
Will. The fish are a recent acqui-
sition of the State, having been
| given by Thomas w. Templeton,
the superintendent of public grounds
and buildings. Colonel Edward
Martin and other officers of the
State Department of Health, have
been pretty busy telling people how
to destroy the larvae of the mos
quitoes and urging the filling up Of
places where stagnant water can
! gather and mosquitoes increase.
There are some people who insist
that ducks are great destHoyers of
&, the infant pests, while others de-
clare that goldfish have been noted
Tor activity in thus benefitting man.
KIND. In any event when there
! We're some complaints from the
Capitol that the fountain basins.
which are so much enjoyed by the
children taken to the Capitol park
for the afternoons and as bathing
places for sundry squirrels robins,
blackbirds and other denizens of
the park, had been found to contain
mosquito larvae, the new superin.
tendent made up his mind for a
tryout of the theories. He bought
the gold fish and put them into the
basins. But the fish have become
such favorites that they are being
fed by park visitors on a scale sec
ond only to the squirrels and the
question is whether they are not
being banqueted so much that they
disdain the larvae of the mosquito.
1t is not generally known that the
late Col William B. Meetch, who
will be buried tomorrow, was one
of the most active men in the sup
port of the Harrisburg Reserves
during the war. Colonel Meetch
was the first of the associate mem
bers to enroll and offered to go out
and drill if it would stimulate the
interest of the younger men. When
the home defense organization got
under way, the Colonel set about
finding out how many men were
familiar with firearms and offered
to act as an instructor.
Requests by the dozen for in
formation as to effect of changes
in election laws authorized by the
recent Legislature have been made
to the office of the secretary of State
and orders for special printing of
laws relative to the primary, regis
tration and general election laws
have been made. Owing to the length
of the session the bills relative to
elections were signed late and let
ters received at the elections bureau
indicate that hasty steps to correct
errors have had to be taken in some
places. Quite u few of the inquir-
les relate to the printing of ballots
for the primary which is now under
way in most of the counties pre-
paratory to this months election
Another source of inquiry is as to
whether any change in the law rela-
tive to filing expense accounts has
been made.
1t took just one month to trans
fer the names and records of live"
members of State commissions and
boards and officers appointed by the
Governor to a new set of books in
the commission bureau of the de-
partment of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth. The old canvas
backed record book containing the
names of men appointed to various
places, including numerous COM
missions, ssinee 1893 was almost
filled up and when Chief Gilbert II.
Hassler ran up against the neces-
sity of using either the margins or
separate pages he started a new set
of books. Clerks engaged on the
transfer worked day and night for
! thirty days, digging out the names
of men now in office and entering
them on new pages and indeXing