Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-02
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Proceedings by the Common
wealth to close the old entrance to
the Harrisburg cemetery will end
the career of a picturesque lane
that used to furnish a line for
drives or rambles for many people
a generation or two ago. This old
lane originally ran from State and
Cameron streets diagonally toward
the State arsenal. 1t was used
mainly to reach the James Calder
farm, where Simon Duey, long
prominent in affairs political and
otherwise, resided. When the ceme-
terry association was organized. the
heirs of General John e. Forster
gave certain rights for highway
use and the lane was fenced in and
planted with willows. 1t was
known as the "Willow Lane" and,
was the main entrance to the4
cemetery for long time, serving
until the entrance near the top of
| the State street incline was laid out.
| 1t was closed some years ago when
! traffic was diverted to Herr and
| State streets, but there are many
who remember it as it wound over
the top of the bluff and what a
| beautiful approach it was to the
| burying ground where so many
| Harrisburgers sleep. Like the
Jamestown road, which went down
the hill to meet the city traffic
near Cameron and Market and
which survives numerous changes, it
will soon be a memory of the days
when the highland portion of Har-
risburg was farms.
State Capitol officials are of the
opinion that changes of daylight
saving plans are a good thing as far.
as bringing people to work earlier.
The usual change of the start
ing time from to 8 o'clock for the
winter is now being made in various
departments at the Capitol and at
several of the departments clerks
accustomed to appearing at could
not accustom themselves to the la
ter hour and showed up ahead of
time. Most of the departments
now work from to 5. During the
summer and fall they close at 4.
Father Penn's gold fish have been
put into storage for the winter. The
gold fish were in the basins of the
big fountain in front of the Capitol
and had precarious time until they
got used to cats, squirrels and chill
dren with fishing lines. They sur
vived, however, and when freezing
weather came and the fountains
! were shut off they were ready to go
into winter quarters. They were
taken into the Capitol in buckets and
placed in a tank.
Frank Davenport and Lieutenant
Jacobs, of the Harrisburg Recruiting
is-V., 4 m
to Harrisburg with several friends
the other night had an experience
; that led them for a short time to
: thinking that they We're Seeing
, things"
Stop" called Jacobs to Daven-
, port, I'VE just passed tire on the
| road" SO Davenport stopped, think
ing somebody had dropped a tirc,
| and backed his machine in tie vi
| cinity of the spot Jacobs indicated.
When the lights were turned on the
spot there was no tire. So Daven-
, port kept on going back, believing
that he must have run farther than
he thought. Still no tire. So the
party "joshed" Jacobs about hiJ
poor cyesigkt and started ahead.
BY jingo, you're right, Jacobs"
, called Davenport, as they passed the
spot where Jacobs had said he saw
, the tire, there is a tire in the road
+ back there" and again the machine
; was halted and started back
Davenport jumped out to pick up
the elusive ring of rubber, and again
, it had disappeared. Then it was
his turn to be joshed. but Daven-
port is nothing if not thorough, and
: searching in the bushes he ran
= across three giggling boys with an
: automobile tire tied to a rope.
Every time a machine came along
Ithey had thrown out the tire, jerk
ing 1t back into the bushes when
the automobilists came back to re-
ttrieve the tire. Davenport, Jacobs
] land the boys had a good laugh.
g to a question as to how many peo-
i pie they had fooled said they
n "guessed about fifty"
n Here's another automobile story.
f 1t seems that up along the River
s Drive there are number of gangs
= of boys who are practical jokers
n and they have had all kinds of fun
Y with drivers Of cars some of it
: along the line of the enjoyment Of
the Lancaster countians. one Of
: their pranks is to take a couple of
+ burlap bags and sew them into
r some resemblance of man. Then
g the bag is filled with leaves and
: propped against a pole so that it
O can be pushed over right in front
q of a car. OF course, the man run
ming the car thinks he has run over
{. some one and gets u laugh. One
n man who had been hoaXed came
+ back next night and was given the
II same treatment. He just set fire
to the bag of dried leaves.