Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-10
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termining what foundations could
be obtained for the proposed Mem
orial bridge to be constructed a. n
part of the Capitol park improve-V
ments, have demonstrated that not
only is the State Capitol of Penn,
sylVania founded upon q rock. but
that for the whole length of the
Vladuct there is rock foundation
| aVeilable St a comparatively short
distance beneath the surface. The
engineers in charge of the boringa
have made preliminary report with
some samples of what they struck
at about fifty feet and it has been
| most gratifying to the men planning
| the great structure which the Legis-
| lature Will soon be asked to author
lie. The dixie of trap rock which
| crosses the Susquehanna and has an
outcrop at what has long been called
| Maclay's rock at the foot of South
street. known to generations of boy
swimmers as "Biggie," goes through
Capitol Hill and some of the borings
developed II not far below the sur
face. The trap dixie separates the
hard shale and slate from the lime
stone, which is so abundant in the
lower end of the city. For the most
part, the borings struck very hard
snale with some specimens of tran.
Ihe whole situation in regard 10
the foundations is all that could be
wished and there will be no aim.
Guilty in the region of the old Penn
sylvania canal line or Paxtang creek.
In older times the creek used to-
roam about the whole valley between
what is now the Pennsylvania rail.
road and the base of the bIuffa
| 1t
that 1T was the old river bed and
some engineers wondered what they
would strike. They no longer have
any misgivings on the subject
Men who have been out looking.
over the streams in Dauphin and
cumberland counties recently stock
ed with trout by the State authori-
ues' say that the fish are showing
excellent of vitality and that there
should be some good sport. Not
only brook. but brown trout were
distributed in these streams last fall
ana iollowed up during the early
months of this year. Inspections
have shown that they are doing we'll.
reports arc current that when the
pennsylvania Railroad COMPANY
sets on It's feet financially again
that is, when the government funds
: are forthcoming-a new building
development will be started at Enola
ana large number of handsome
houses erected for railroad men who
VIII reside there. This news comes
from reliable authority, and while
no railroad official will be quoted to
lhat erect, 1t is regarded as fore
castlng the plans of the company
pretty accurately. There had been
F, rumors that with the completion of
r me big yards at Marietta those at
Enoia might lose some of their i'm
, portance, but this is denied by those
who know conditions and there is
l every indication that with the re-
sumption of business on a large
scale and the consequent increase in
traffic Enola will become more than
ever a. freight center on the Pennsv,
INES. incidentally it is pointed out
that Enola is one of the few towns
or its size on the Pennsy main line
that has no passenger station. onIy
freight is handled in the yards there
and excellent street car facilities
from Harrisburg make passenger
connections unnecessary. Many of
the men who reside there own their
homes and most of the time houses
to rent are at a premium.
"A town that can build as f,ne o.
high school as this will do a lot
for the deeper Susquehanna pro
1ect, said Eli n. Hershey, presi-
, dent OF the Harrisburg Rotary Club.
, speaking before the Columbia Mer-
chants and Manufac cturers' Associa-
tlon the other evening. And the
visiting Rotarians from Harrisburg
applauded vigorously. For Columbia
has indeed done we'll in the matter
, | ~
OF twice or three times it's popula
ton cannot boast of one SO good.
Indeed there are few towns in the
State that have done so we'll When
the old high school was outgrown
the school board wisely went to the
lower end of the borough and pur-
chased the large open tract of
ground at one time occupied by
the town reservoir and in the cen
Ter OF which had been erected a
large building used as military
academy. But having acquired more
land than was required for the
school building proposed. did the
thrlfty citizens of Columbia do
as our own penny wise found-fool-
lsh directors did when they sold off
the old reservoir lots at Forster
street and kept only enough for
school house that now cannot be
enlarged or extended to meet grow
ing needs? They did not. They
Kept all the ground and let the trees
stand. Indeed they went so far as
to retain the rear of the old aca-
denny mansion and built a modern
high school building with big audit
orium, stage and all the equipment
OF an up-to-date high school right
across the front. So now Columbia's
high school site problem is intelli-
gently solved for all time to come,
even though Columbia outErow
Philadelphia in population, and the