Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
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tuture us part OF the comprehen-
sive plan to make the Capitol the
civic center of the Commonwealth,
should be named the Red Cross
brioge In honor of the women of
the pennsylvania branch OF the
great. organization, seems to have
met with much favor, but objection
was promptly made to-day that .l
wouio torce change in the roads
leaoihg TO Harrisburg from the
Cumberland valley. AS n matter or
iact, 1t would not disturb a single
existing road and being primarily a
orioge Tor tourists would not inter-
lere very much with the ordinary
trattic over the present river
bridges, which by that time will
probably be freed, anyway. So muc!I
Tor those objections. AS to the high
way problem 1t would simply mean
a new road cutting off from ths
lsle-Chambersburg pike some-
where near Camp Hill and follow
ing, most of the way, a ravine or
series of depressions that come
down to the Susquehanna at the
Northern Central water tanks AL
most opposite State street This
would take 1t past properties which
were considered a few years ago ms
a possible site for the Country Club
OF Harrisburg and bring in the
traveller through some very pretty
cumberland county farming lands.
mere Is road a small part of the
way now. 1t would simply mean n
| new road which will come soma
tme OF the demand for it and the
changing of a small part of the
highway on the West Shore which
comes up from York and Baltimor.
ana brings down traffic from the
Juniata Valley that does not cross
the river at Clark's Ferry.
The change in the hours under
the Daylight Savings Law. which
went into effect at midnight on
saturday, caught many unprepared
ana there was more confusion Sun
uas' feople say the newspapers had
not discussed the matter as general
ly as they did last spring. when the
law became operative, and so items
! announcing the change had escap-
ed the attention of many. Some
! VINO mad remembered the law for
got 10 turn back their clocks when
| they went to bed on Saturday night
and they arose at the usual hour to
| ind that they would be able to en-
JOY longer Sunday than usual. The
| trolley cars and railroad trains ad-
Justed themselves easily to the
change. Trains in or near termi-
nals on the steam roads were held
an hour to adjust themselves to the
new order of time.
insurance people are nothing If
not versatile. In recent Legislatures
they have been getting through
laws which extend the field of in
surance, one of the recent acts au-
thorizing insurance against bonn
bardment from air or land and sea,
while others were from various
kinds of natural disturbances. Now
various firms are offering insurance
against riot and civil commotion."
|
| Scarcely n day passes that one or
more letters with a complaint do
not reach the office of William Ell
mer, superintendent of the Phila-
delphia Division. Some of the COM
plants are humorous. The COM
plainants frequently take up much
space and paper in telling Their
troubles. Most of them overlook the
| fact that there is a place for filing
complaints. and in many cases they
get the wrong railroad. This was
the case the other day, when n trav-
eler wrote the local head of the
| hiiduSipiIid blNlSiOIl OIL lnG Ienn'
| sylvania railroad that while travel
ling from one city to another in an
adjoining county he had occasion to
leave his grip in the baggage room
for short time. On his return to
Harrisburg he opened his grip and,
according to the letter had an at
tack of Cow itch" Il scratched
all night" said the complainant. He
asked for an investigation into con-
ditions at that certain baggage
room. Unfortunately Superintend-
ent Elmer has no connection with
the railroad over which this travel
Ter rode.
A year or so ago an appeal was
made by the late DR.. Joseph Kalb-
fus, for years secretary of the State
Game Commission, for the planting
of the American walnut tree and
other nut trees. The doctor pointed
out that the black walnut had been
largely bought up for gunstocks and
that there was danger of the tree
| becoming very scarce. AS q result
there were literally thousands of the
trees planted in this State. In Har-
risburg alone more than 500 were
planted, some of them being young
saplings brought in from the coun-
Try. In otnef instances people
bought the nuts and planted them.
Not many of the trees survived, but
the thing is that interest in the
trees did not die out 1t seems
to be as strong as ever. Years
ago there used to be many chest
nut and hickory nut trees in
the vicinity of Harrisburg. but
they are very scarce now. Twenty
five years ago there were chestnut
trees lining the back roads for miles
around Harrisburg and Oberlin,
Progress and Shiremanstown were
places where chestnuts were to be
had, while the hickory nuts were
on the Blue Ridge and on many
hills. Some were even to be seen
on Fort Washington. And the
beech nut which used to furnish
much of the pabulum for wild tur-
keys was frequently met with in
upper Dauphin and Perry counties
and along the Swatara. Now they
are rarities and some people can not
even identify them. - for the
birches that used to be - nurl"T" :
along the Susquehanna they - "
more garden ornaments 4" The
Lombardy poplar has replaced them
along the streams.