Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
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One does not ordinarily look for
individuality in an electric arc street
light, but there are some which have
marked characteristics and furnish
interesting ground for speculation in
Harrisburg. On Front street there
are three lights which have unusual
traits. One at Forster street has u
habit of going off the job at IL
O'Clock, while that at Maclay street
| gets absent-minded about midnight,
while further up there is a light
| that is hiding almost every night
I between l and o'clock. In fact,
, it has a record of failing to give
service that is impressive. on
Derry streets the lights at Seven
teenth and Twenty-trst streets are
apt to play hockey for a time
/ after midnight, while the light that
shines at Fourth and North takes a
nap every night. Two lights on
| State street belond Thirteenth are
! given to doing every morning and
there are others which seem to be
visiting almost at the same time
every night. Capitol Park lights,
on the contrary, are noted for their
attention to business and are gen.
orally found shining on schedule,
although neighbor lights may be
sulking. The odd thing about some
of the street lights is the compara-
tive regularity of their darker
moods.
The men who have been observ-
ing these light traits say that there
are also street cars which have their
fits of temper, and that they have
known a trolley that has gone along
most of morning purring as though
1T enjoyed its job to grow cranky and
rattle and clang when another
hand takes the lever. There are
cars which run on Third and Fourth
streets which have been known to
fairly shrek when they stop at
night and yet when on the same
run next day are as docile and well
voiced as though their nerves had
never been strained, so to speak, by
man who threw on too much air
or were hauled up short when they
were rolling along on their way
thinking of nice rest in the car
barn. Some cars which act in a
perfectly respectable manner in
residential sections all day have
been known to protest and groan
when hauling the foundry gang
or put on the Rutherford Special
after 1880 in the morning. Valley
Railway cars probably have the
same singular lines of conduct at
times.
State officials who have been busy
enforcing the pure food laws in
PennsylVania have come to conclu-
sion that so-called elders are going
, to furnish the most prolific source
of violations of the dry" laws of
the land and from some discoveries
made lately there has been marked
activity in inquiry into the size of
the cider crop that may be expected
to various valleys of the keystone
State. In some sections agents have
learned that farmers have been an
preached as to their plans for maxi
ing cider and that in many a section
cider presses are being overhauled.
The Central Pennsylvania counties
which have always been noted for
!, their cider and such products as
come from it are short on apples this
|, year and this may account for some
of the interest in the crop. Expert
ence of the agents of the bureau
of foods of the State Department of
Agriculture last month gave indica-
tions of in what lines there were
going to be some activities when
the Nation becomes good and dry"
Some apricot cider found on general
, | SeiS was ulSCONSISu On analysis TO
contain 6.5' per cent of alcohol,
while some cider sold as Sweet
Cider" contained 36S. AS there is
no 3.75 per cent law in Pennsylvania
in spite of all the legislative ma
nouvering this merchant was ar
rested and fined. In northwestern
county what was called grape
cider" was found to not only contain
per cent of alcohol, but to be also
: colored with coal tar dye. In other
sections what were alleged to be
elders were found to contain any
where from 6 to 10 per cent of
kick" The State officials go on
the law that such things are mis-
branded and that if there are olco-
holc contents they must be put on
the label
Probably the most sweeping in
vestigation of dams in Pennsylvania
is now under way by engineers of
the State Water Supply Commission
to see how the structures which were
gone over few years ago, and in
many cases strengthened and
changed to meet the demands of the
times and experience, stood the
strain of the frequent periods of
high water caused by June and July
rains. Scores of dams will be in
spected and data gathered as to eff
other features of stream observation.
feet of the high water on flow and
Comparatively few dams went out
during the recent high water and
the facts will be gathered for fur
. ther control of streams Five
groups of counties on the Delaware,
Allegheny, Lehigh and Schuylkill
basine have been made out for the
engineers to cover.
From present indications Superin-
tendent George F. Lamb is not going
to have any trouble filling up the
new troop of State Police at Ian
caster. The applicants are already
greater in number than the author
lied strength and all of overseas
men. The troop will be located here
next year.