Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
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It's odd the kind of inquiries thaN
are made at various offices In the
Capitol. And yet, when one consid-1
ers the general unfamiliarity of the
average man with official procedures
and his "scaredness" when he lands
in the big Capitol and does not
know where or how to go, it is not s0i
strange. The other morning twOi
women appeared in the building andd
demanded to see the man who runSt
the State Board of Pardons. A dis
terminating attache headed them foEt
the office of Secretary of the Conn.,
monwealth Cyrus e. Woods, but be-1
fore they got that far they were1
shunted to the office where George
ID. Thorn, the chief clerk, hoIdsi
sway. And what they wanted was tOd
make sure that their father was notd
released from prison. A more singu-d
lar case was presented by an old VOL
man from an upstate county, whosJ
persisted in visiting the State De-1
partment to find out somethingi
about an electrocution. She was bitsl
hard TO understand and after manyj
attempts the clerks found out what4
she wanted and 1t was enough to-
give one the 'creeps." She wanted1
authentic information as to whether
her son had been electrocuted under
the law. Every now and then somo4A
one shows up at the Department witini
a request for a warrant for an ar
rest, getting the State government
and the minor judiciary tangled up.
But the oldest of these cases was
when a detective came to the Capitol
to arrange for a requisition and the+
aggrieved party came along so as to
be in on every stage of the proceed
ing.
Some Harrisburg people were in.
terested yesterday in the announce
ment that the Philadelphia, Reading
and Pottsville Telegraph Company
had filed tariff of new rates with
the State Public Service Commission.
This company is one of the few
y. hich were not taken over by the
United States government and has
had Harrisburg connection through
the Reading railway system for more
IMAM hfty years. 1t came to the city
over the present right of way of the
Readlng and for a time did business
IN TINS city. OF late years, however
IT has been more or less confined TO
the Reading system and a good many
people probably never sent a tele-
gram over it, although Harrisburg
mas long been an agency point.
cohe interesting HOOD pictures are
DelnS SHOWN in the windows of the
boaS Jewelry store. They were some
IL OF number taken during the great
l. nood OF June. 1889, by which all
j. moods have been gauged by the pres
ent generation. These pictures show
" the Susquehanna in its most enraged
state with remains of lumber yards
1T piled up in front of Cumberland
n valley piers and fragments of
houses going down the stream. They
NJ are interesting because they tell us
e what we missed this year.
n
"a very irate individual called I'D
~ State Capitol office yesterday and
t wanted to know why a detour was
n being laid out along a road some
Ig miles from Harrisburg. He does not
- live near here, but he wanted to get
~ here and resented the roundabout
20 way he would have to go. Somehow
g or other he got the wrong telephone
10 and poured out his woe. The man at
~ the end of the telephone has no con-
l. nection with the State Highway De-
- partme ent but he let the conversation
70 flow. Finally he made some sort of
- remark which the complainant
y, took to mean that he did not care.
~, Say, who are you?" demanded
y the irate man.
:" Your brother" was the calm re-
l. ply.
- Quite a handsome display OF
~ ~. rhododendrons and laurels is to be
~ seen in Harrisburg yards Just now
~ and the number of such plants
~ blooming is rather a surprise tc
~ many people who probably did moi
w know what a prime favorite this
~ native of the Rlue RidPe has hecopoe
pps in the Capital of Pennsylvania
~ Some of the plants are big ones and
rs ,m are covered with blooms of blue and
70 pink and white. They are a most
Il, effective garden decoration and it is
- pity that the blooming season is
:, so short. A few attempts at makinf
,v hedges have been tried. but have MOI
~ been successful. But as a border
% for walks or against a porch OF
~ house. there is nothing prettier.
1t does not take long for a frest
10 driver of a motor vehicle, preferabl,
~ truck, to tie knots in the traffic al
!. busy corner. There was one o.
at those gay and carefree drivers NOV
" ing up Second street yesterday aft
y ernoon when things were liveliest and
b., he started to cross in front of a troll
" ley car. The policeman stopped hin
:. and the motorman felt like doinf
-. the same thing. While he backed
20 out three cars were prevented from
w. moving on Walnut street and fou
l on Second and the congestion of mo
~ tor traffic on both streets was a,
20 picturesque as the language heard
- p The policeman made the man bacl
u no the whole way and what the drive
-, M got was abundant.