Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-15
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pail Is fast passing into history. If
you have any doubts about this.
take a stroll some day about noon
TO some place where many men
are at work on buildings or in
ditches. or course, you will find n
rev dinner pals and sprinkling of
lunch boxes, but sixty per cent. of
the working men when they leave
home in the mornings carry their
midday meals in bag or small
packages. This is not all. If Won
watch closely you will see most of
the men take from some secluded
spot bottle of milk. Others. when
calls a halt to "eat," will rush to a
nearby store and buy bottle of
mix. There was a time when many
dinner pail was emptied of it's
contents and used for beer. No
| more beer for the working man ON
duty near q saloon. 1t is now milk,
| and most of them drink a quart
| each day. Retail dealers vouch for
this. Many milk deliveries through
out the city now include stops at
places where men are working. One
| man said the other day. 1T ALWAYS
like something cool to drink after
working with pick and shovel for
four or five hours. Milk hits the
spot"
Spencer G. Gilbert, in his reminis-
cent talk on Harrisburg when he was
! q boy before the Dauphin County
historical Society the other evening.
| referred to the changes in business
that had come over Harrisburg and
how in spite of the rise and fall of
various types of distinctive industry.
this city had always retained its
| prominence as a transportation CEN
| Ter. 1t is Its QeOpronbicaI Ync;finr
that has enabled Harrisburg to- grow
ana to grow so firmly into the busi-
ness scheme of the State and it is
this fact that is going to make its
future so great as a center of dis
tribution. Mr.. Gilbert mentioned
the fact that the place had :ts in
ceptlon because of it's position on
routes and then referred in turn to
the trading, coaching and lumber
businesses which developed in turn
and how with them had come tex
tiles, iron and steel. But it is
the distribution advantages, said he,
that are making Harrisburg and will
continue to make it, THE big con-
Germs that carry the large advertise
merits have their depots here and
more are coming because Harris
burgs advantages in that direction
are well nigh perfect" said he The
talk by Mr.. Gilbert and A. Carson
Stamm's valuable discussion of the
school systems in Harrisburg, past
and present, are the beginning of q
series of talks by men who have
| been making this city which will be
continued throughout the winter at
the rooms of the Society in the old
kelker mansion. which was TIE
heart Of the business district a CEN
tury ago.
The State Capitol register which
is always an interesting book to scan
and which bears the names of peo-
pie from every state and almost ev-
cry cline tells some things about the
developments among nations. For
instance, there have been people
registered from Poland and Czecko-
S1ovakia, which would have been un-
heard of a few years ago. Probably
one of the most significant of the
registrations was by man and wife
from Pekin. They appended North
China after the name of the ancient
| capital. Another registration that
commanded attention was from Tri-
este, Italy.
Remarks by DR.. George II. Ashley,
the State Geologist, about the futilitv
of boring for oil IN this neck of the
DR.. j. P. Lesley and other notable
authorities on the geology of Penn
sylvania, always warned people that
the conditions did not favor the dis
coVery of oil in paying quantities
east of the Blue Ridge. Yet some
years ago OIL was sought in an op-
GRAFTON, that is painfully remember
ed by some Harrisburgers, right at
the city gates. Some traces were
I =.
wood Park and n we'll was rugged
up and sunk, being watched by
committee which saw visions of fast
horses and winters in Florida. The
apparatus lay in the weather for
i. years after the people got tired pay
: ing for the experiment
THE other night you printed some
interesting matter about the passing
of old streets in the Capitol Park
extension and 1 was taken by the
references to colloquf6l names of
thoroughfares. Why didn't you re-
fer to the old name of Poplar
street," asked friend yesterday.
When told that the nickname had
slipped, he replied, Remember it?
Yes, you can. 1t used to be called
Ramcat alley"
| MaJ0r-elect j. Hampton moore,
who finds time to handle some of his
old job, newspaper work, in
column in the Evening Ledger, says:
Major William B. Gray, at one time
connected with Pennsylvania Rail-
road contract work and recently in
the service of Uncle Sam, has conf
pleted a report on the nav!gability
of the Susquehanna River. This
has gone to Colonel j. ]. Loving,
United States engineer in charge at
Baltimore. The major believes the
Susquehanna capable of great public
service, once it is properly improved.
, and in this opinion he seems to be
backed up by Secretary woodward,
of the Department of Internal At
fairs, whose recent statement on
Susquehanna River commerce and
3 industry is worth perusal."
DR.. Thomas Lynch Montgomery,
: the State Librarian, is to be the
speaker at the November meeting OF
the Church Historical Society in
Philadelphia, one of the most inn
portant of the societies in that city
and will discuss the Episcopal
Church in the State. This is the
, second society that has asked DR..
} Montgomery to speak in that city