Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-28
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sylvania State highways have to
come down under the new order
just issued by Highway Commits
sioner Lewis S. Sadler, but such
signs as were placed by municipali-
ties and motor clubs announcing dis
tances from places must be removed
If they are within legal limits of ,.
State highway" The effect of tr.-
order which was issued yesterd,
became apparent here to-day WIN
numerous inquiries began to be mao
about the fate of direction signs
placed by various organizations. !.
was also borne home to some candi-
dates whose advertising managers
had posted cards along the low
fences which the State has erected
for safety at certain points on the
roads. mo distinction can be made
in signs if they are on State high
way. 1t is the law and we must
carry it out" was the statement
made by an official of the State
| Highway Department. There have
been some signs erected by motor
| clubs showing the distance to the
| State Capitol, for instance, but where
they are on the highway the law
forbids them to remain. This is
unfortunate, but people in charge
should first ascertain what are the
rules and erect their signs accord
ingly." The rule is that any kinds
of signs, advertising, direction and
boosting" may be erected along
State highways as long as they are
on private property and the owners
agree, but they can not be tackled
nn nf~f fhn Gtaf
erty. Literally thousands of signs,
some of them handsome and eX
pensive affairs; some embellished
with mirrors and others of espe-
cially fashioned iron will have to
be taken down forthwith, according
to the State officials. If they are
not removed by the owners or the
people who placed them in position
the departments men will take them
away. Candidates have been advised
to have their cards placed on pri-
vate property as the road fences can
. not be used for them.
In these days of preparation
for the Kipona many people are talk
Il ing about the water sports of the
/ past and newspaper of the middle
fifties has come to light telling of
the organization of the Flash Boat
/ Club and the fact that it was going
Il
i to be ordered from Philadelphia.
Il This club turned up in the newspa-
: pers almost to the time of the Civil
= war and among its officers were
William Seller and L. Rockhill
s Smith 1t was one of the ancestors
t of the Harrisburg Boat Club which
4 built the old boathouse just above
: the pumping station on Front street
y and across the street from the old
t outdoor Club, a forerunner of the
= Country Club of Harrisburg. The
Harrisburg Boat Club has already
: been mentioned in this column. It's
l' boat house was sold before the flood
= of 1889 to an organization known as
q the Harrisburg Canoe Club which
did much to populariZe canoeing on
the Susquehanna- In those days not
r many people knew the delights of
r canoes and there were few owned
= in the city. The Canoe Club lasted
.. .. until the middle nineties, using the
1 old boathouse with it's long incline
= down to the water and giving Har-
}. risburg its first sight of the present
. so called war canoes" Among the
men in it were Martin w. Eager,
e Charles S. Snyder George G.. Me
: Kerper, Harry Martin, Edward
: Flickinger and others we'll known
n Island park is commencing to be
/. a great roosting place for blackbirdS
= some of the birds which used to flock
e around in Capitol park in the even
i ings having taken to the river is
Q lands, probably to arrange for good
t seats for the kipona In any event
e several big flocks have been seen
II in the trees on the point of the is
n land and have been making them
5, selves very much at home in that
y isolated spot. They seem to know
n that being city park it may not
n be used as hunting ground
G 1t is a we'll known fact that many
1t of the pithiest expressions and best
r poems recorded in history have
: been uttered without the authors
il being aware at the time that they
= had produced anything remarkable.
e An incident of unconscious humor
= came to the knowledge of the writer
e recently. A lady who, for many
0 years, was prominent and efficient
i Adams county teacher, having re-
= tired from the profession, lives in
e her own little snug home to which
d a large garden is attached. Recently
n in describing to a correspondent in
II Harrisburg what she raised in her
IS garden, she ended by saying: II
d eat what | can, and what l can't
n can" When the correspondent
W conplimented her on her neat poem,
It had written the sentence entirely
y unaware of the very clever play on
i words she had perpetrated.
l.
/, Eleven different kinds of weeds
d were identified by friend who is
e interested in botany on one block
l. of North Front street which is not
Y built up few days ago. These weeds
d include some which are most easily
e eradicated and some which are n
II pest with variations. Some of thS
is weeds, this man pointed out, could
o only thrive when they escaped.
e Others, he said, were evidently carr
e ried from the country. The fact
Is remains that failure to keep vacant
: lots trimmed enables some of the
d most annoying weeds to flower and
r scatter seeds, just as do dandelions,
Ir and when the time comes to make
,r a garden it is trouble and expensive.
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