Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-26
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"The Harrisburg Telegraph mas
hit upon vital need in its sugces-
tion that a beltline be run around
the city to open up the great
stretch of land lying east of the
state hospital and arsenal properties
TOT industrial and housing develop
ments, said j. A. Kirkbaum, od
eittsburgh. warehouseman who
was In Harrisburg yesterday. The
ldea is not original with the Teie-
graph, 1t was explained to him, and
ne continued: mo matter where the
thought originated, it is a good one.
nave looked about this city bit
anu L am convinced that you must
lind more and cheaper railroad
frontage sites for industries and
housing if you want to attract man
ufacturers or trans-shippers to this
city. When you build a factory on
expensive ground you are handi-
capped at the start, and add an
overhead that you must carry
throughout the years. When the
pennsylvania railroad went into the
warehouse business in connection
with its freight stations, as 1t has
done with the new Keystone in the
lower end of the city, it recognized
In harrisburg a very important
trans-shipping point. l am told that
its experts collected data for months
In order that the company might
provide proper amount of room
Tor storage. But 1 am of the be-
iief that generous though that ar
rangement is, the time will come
shortly when Harrisburg can be
made an even more important ware
mouse point pSnnniullxy in,
with the Pennsylvania railroad, now
that the southern connection by way
OF the Cumberland Valley is pro-
vided through the absorption of that
property by the Pennsylvania. The
only way you can get cheap sites is
to create them and the belt line ap-
pears to answer the question that
arises in the minds of strangers who
come here to look the situation
over"
The average Harrisburg small boy
is not going to get over the war for
long time. The youngsters are
drilling and the proudest ones are
those who have caps or parts of
uniforms. "One result of the war
is Going to be that there will be
more cadet corps than you have any
idea Of" said a teacher yesterday.
There will be half dozen this time
next year, and the men who were in
service will have all the fun they
want with the boys"
"I thought there was a law that
placards should not be within a GER
tain number of feet of a polling
place" said a man yesterday. From
what L have seen the people read
inches instead of feet. There were
cards put where they hit you and
the election boards did not seem to
care. There is no use having cleo
tion regulations unless they are COM
piled with"
IF activity in hot beds and cold
frames is anything to go by the
gardeners about Harrisburg, COM
mercial, amateur, expert and time
passing, intend to add materially
to the food supply of the State
capital this year. It is estimated
that the production OF vegetables
and the like in the Harrisburg dis
trict last year went ahead of any
thing ever known and that the i'm
petus given will be reflected for
years to come. There will be de-
crease in war gardens" of course,
but many people have learned the
joy of eating a radish or gathering
beans from their own plants and
that back yard tomato has a flavor
not equaled by any other variety
is self evident truth. Winter has
not passed, but there are more little
stakes being set out in future gar
dens and seed catalogues examined
just at present than the average
man thinks of. And from indica-
tions Allison Hill is going to chase
the First and Tenth wards.