Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-13
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the next half year or SO with as
complete record of it's more than
ooO'00O sons in the army. navv N.
marine corps as the National author
itles can furnish, according to word
Ihat mas been received by Adiutant
Geherai Frank ID. Beary from the
~ War ana Navy Departments. The
MARINE Corps started sending in the
names of men who served in i+s
Iahks from Pennsylvania during the
war hundreds of reference cards
pelns now on file and the NAVY has
sent the first consignment. The
! army list will include men in ali
pranchcs and it is specifically stated
tnat the information cards are to be
! nployed s.tnt, Tor purely historical or
s.atisIlcal purposes and that thew
are not to be used for official rec,
ords In claims, courts or similar for
MAJ proceedings. The men who
were killed or died will be specially
! ciassed as will those whose records
were bad. 1t is estimated that the
army VIII have $4,000 cards for
t the men from Pennsylvania, while
SE oaN maVy VIII have something like
officials to check these cards witb
tne names being assent bled bv vari-
GUS state agencies, county and mn
Hiclpai organizations, community
IoIiliHlIleeS and others which have
become interested in the comnilation
OF the record of the Commonwealth
IN the World War. N''''''
The annual flood of money is now
at high tide at the State CapitoI a,1
Is nothing uncommon for checks
Ior 100000 and S5 to be in Tho
salle inall. In fact, much of the
money that is now going through the
treasury, and going through is The
proper term, because the States docs
hot keep cash on hand at the Capi-
toi, Is IN small sized checks. This
te PeIlou or the year when the
automobile and other licenses arc is
sued and the payments are ynsde h,,
each individual and concern ana ~
ene same time some of the big cor
porauons are sending Father penn
thelf annual dues in the shane Of
taxes Some days money is handled
III bundles at the Capitol and some
9uys there are only few envelones
nlieu with checks, but at the end of
VIC iioii'h IL Is pretty impressive.
Sweeping the grass is now an ar
cepted job every week at the CanitoI
fark. The reason for this unusual
treatment of lawn is that the aver
age visitor to the park takes along
some food for the pigeons or the
squirrels and the result is that every
day or so the "broadwallk" is lined
Win peanut shells and various other
Things, TO say nothing of the hard
smell nuts that Judge Hargest pives
the squirrel for dietary reasons
every Friday the men in charge Of
Ine manlcuring of the lawns on the
I1lll take up a bushel basket or so
ol remains OF squirrel luncheons.
A number of men from various
parts OF the State here a few davs
ago We're discussing the results of
Prohlpltlon in their home towns and
everyone agreed that the decline in
arrests and in prison business was
remarkable. Three county prisons
were mentioned which at the time
dld not contain a prisoner and il was
ueclared by one man that he thought
there were more. Court after court
mas closed criminal sessions after
a trial or two and in some counties
IHere We're no quarter session cases
at all. one man who came from n
clty Where policemen had to be ac-
1--WE atter pays declared that there
had not been an arrest for two weeks
on a drunkenness charge in his home
town: The cops are getting fat"
said he.
|
The manner in which some of the
monarchs of the highways of Har-
rlsburg, the old telegraph poles in
the central section, are coming down,
ana the way they are disappearing
once they are cut is worth not ,ing.
some OF these poles have seen MANY
changes in Harrisburg. They have
witnessed the transition of Market
| Ihlrd, Walnut, Locust and other
other streets from muddy or dusty
roads to paved streets and have
noted the rise of buildings more than
three stories high without outcry as
10 nre hazards. They have been
scraped by wagons and butted by
automoblles, been leaned against by
| takers and furnished resting places
for the weary. They could tell the
secrets of the wires thay have borne
and they have beheld some ludicrous
sights in the early morning hours.
peccadiloes of the great and the near
great and the ordinary in a State
Capital and have seen the stately
march of families to church on Sab
f! baths. And now they are going
down. After all these years the
average time for a pole to be pros
trate in the street after the axes
start is three and half minutes
and five minutes later they are all
cut up and neatly piled against the
curb which in many cases they saw
installed.
An interesting fact in connection
with the Harrisburg Academy is that
seven lineal descendants of John
Harris, the founder of the institu-
ton, are now enrolled as students in
the Academy. The Academy owes its
origin to donation made by Har-
ris in 1886 of the proceeds of Harris
Ferry for the establishment of
school here, the first of the kind in
Harrisburg. Descendants of the first
trustees are also enrolled as students
as are some of William Maclay, one
of the first United States Senators
from Pennsylvania and a benefactor
of the Academy in it's infant days.
There are few records of such con-
tinunity of attendance of families at
the same school possessed by any
educational institutions in Pennsyl-
vania outside of Philadelphia, Ches-
ter and a few places near the States
| metropolis.