Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-12
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itoi Park Extension has advanced So
that people can observe the grades
that Will be established one can get
an ldea of what a hole the extension
OF the State domain, which is to be
the civic center of a Commonwealth
mas made in Harrisburg. Prof. 7
howard vert in series of articles
printed some years ago gave tho
salient facts of the history of the
thoroughfares wiped out when tho
otate bought the blocks and began
10 demolish the houses, while in this
column there have been told the stor-
les OF Lafayette Hail, Alderman
simpsons office, the way Tanners
aiiey was named, how Eighth street
ulsaPpeared and Canal street was
Ioveriooked, how the neighborhood
Cnaneed from the home of Irish fam
mes TO settlement of the coIorcd
folks and how the people from pol
land and other nations of the neor
East came in and built ynagogues
and put Jewish characters on stora
WINDOWS that used to advertise weiss
peer. These highways had Interest
ing municipal history, police reputa-
uon and political significance. But
they ana their denizens have gone
and the old wooden houses that every
nremen used to expect to make a
conllasratlon some windy night dis
appeared under the hands of the
wreckers without a fire alarm,
| what park extension means to tho
city Is that section of State street
is just taken off the map. South and
lCranberry streets lose their eastern
ends and become like Locust and
Pine. Cowden street loses a link in
It's Vertebrae, while Fourth street will
end at Walnut and resume its north
ern travels at Verbeke and Seventh
| Will never realize its ambition to get
to Market, much less Walnut. Filbert.
Short and Poplar streets just disap-
pear from the map. So do North and
South alleys, which ran parallel to
and on either side of State West
alley also loses part of its length and
Angle alley, the only thoroughfare
in Harrisburg built on a right anglod
principle joins Christy's court in the
memories of old-time policemen. Ten
years from now people will have to
stop and study as to where these
highways were located just as folks
born down town have to puzzle over
Meadow Lane and Mary's alley.
The Muzzle Club of Harrisburg,
which is composed of the ''fellers
that write things" on the newspapers
of this city and are correspondents,
will be revived tonight at the Penn
Harris where after q lapse of two
years, blamed on the war, the scribes
will hold n dinner in a room to be
known in honor of the clubs, as is the
Clover Club room in the Bellevue
lStratford. In time the room will con-
tain numerous newspaper souvenirs
and Will be an interesting place for
dinners. The club was organized
back in the winter of 1904 and is
unique in the country as it exists only
for the purpose of having dinners.
When it was formed there was much
perturbation among the newspapers
because of the Pennypacker press
mueller law which was enacted in
1903 and the club was named for that
law, due notice being given to Cover
nor Samuel w. Pennypacker, who
sent the club his picture and wished
it success. The Governor also sent
it some letters from time to time and
once remarked that some mething beside
the memory of the mueller had sur
vived. Governors Edwin S. Stuart
and John K. Tener always made it
a point of attending it's dinners which
Club and were some occasions. The
only qualification is that a man must
be able to write a personal that will
get by a city editor and that he must
earn his living writing pieces for the
papers"
One of Harrisburg's well-known
businessmen has a son with a scien-
tific mind. The young man collects
Ixro, irtte, NiY 4F he
fauna, live and geologic and has q
fad for writing for catalogs of various
things. He occasionally turns in
some surprises in the way of sugges-
tions for buying. The other day the
father announced that he had a solu-
ton for some problems of the farm
and that men who complained of
horses and the erratic conduct of
some tractors when put to agricul-
ltural use.
Buy an elephant" said he.
Whats wrong? Has your lunch
affected you?" was one of the queries
shot at him.
Lions are quoted at $500 and a
pair of silver foxes at $4,000, but the
elephant trained to work can be had
for $4,000. Therefore, the elephant
is the best buy" was his reply with
out being ruffled.
Severe questioning ELECTED the fact
that the young scientist had been in
communication with a mail order
house that deals in live animals for
menageries.
One of the features of yesterday
was the query, Where were you a
year ago." This seemed to be the
popular form of greeting among SER
vice men and they seemed to take
a delight in calling each other up and
asking the question. Quite a few
were stumped, but their memories
were quickened when they heard the
whistles blowing for II o'clock and
the end of the war.