Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-11

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the central part of the city is going F
to do about a place to practice base
ball when the Capitol park extension +
goes into the hands of the land T
scape architects is rather hard to
predict. The average Harrisburg
Kid learns to play baseball at an
early age and keeps at it. to the
great advantage of himself in after +
years as was demonstrated when F
they started to show the soldiers
from this section how to huri hand
grenades in France preparatory to
driving at the Huns. AS a matter of
fact, places to play baseball have
been growing increasingly scarce 10
the central part of the city. Twenty
or thirty years ago there were plenty
or diamonds" and if the policemen
were not too aggressive there could
be a game played in State street.
East or West. and possibly on Front
street, while there were always
games being played in the riverside
parks. When the States men start
ed to raize the houses in the extern
sion there was joy among the boys
because they were able to not only
get in some practice, but to have
games and diamonds and basket ball
courts were laid out on sites of
houses and factories. Some of the
dead walls made dandy backstops
and the police regulations which pre-
vented any more games in the streets
were not so severely felt. When tho
Capitol improvements start it will
be case of back to the Twelfth
street playground for the boys ifI
they want to have any fun.
People who live in the country
say that they are going to come
to Harrisburg this year for their
supply of ice for the first time iii
years owing to the mild weather
which has come around. In some of
the valleys up Dauphin county, as
they say, there has been no ice
harvested and places which used to
furnish considerable ice for Harris
burg uses will be coming around
trying to buy a supply for their own
| uses. Up the Cumberland valley
and in Perry county farmers are ac-
tually hoping for one good freeze
even though it may mean trouble for
the buds.
The Harrisburg Telegraph had
some job yesterday getting the facts
about the refusal of Harrisburg
breweries to furnish beer after
March 81. Efforts were made at
several places, including the brew
cry, to get some news about this
sad state of affairs for some people.
but while the effort was protracted
and interrupted it was interesting
and, in way, mplimentary.
One brewery when called up re-
torted over the telephone: "Tele-
graphs got a lot of gall to ask US
about this"
| And he hung up.
Another brewery said in reply
The Telegraph gets nothing from
us"
And he hung up.
Another place came back this way:
'Whadt hass Der Telegraf to do nit
beer?"
And he hung up.
One dispensary fired back: go tuz
the dry people you love so much and
git yer news"
And he hung up.
It's worth while being an advocate
of a dry Nation and State after all.
Technical high school boys i'm
training for their spring sports gave'
the city a treat yesterday by cavort-
ing. over the central part of the city
in fk,aHfifg- togs. The boys attracted
much attention and got some hands
on Walnut street. Their uncovered
legs made people want to shed coats.
'"The people of the Camp Hill Sec
tion certainly have gone in for gar
dens and chickens this spring." said
a conductor on the Valley lines last
evening. Every day one or two
of them get into such heated debates
over favorite theories that they get
carried block or two past their
homes, and then blame me for not
running my voice trying to make my
self heard calling streets. Others of
'em sink their noses into catalogues
the moment they get aboard and
there's nothing doing from them un-
til they land in town or at home.
It's a great life If you don't weaken,
and from the number of egg boxes
that get aboard at Camp Hill bound
cityward with passengers there are
lots of folks over this way that can
prove they stick close to the job and
know how to make hens produce
Ieggs If the gardeners are anyway
near as good We'll have to put on n
trailer next summer" concluded the
conductor as he stopped to pick a
seed book off the floor and to warn
a Lemoyne man that il he let his
egg box in the aisles somebody was
liable to tramp on them.
|
The sitting of the Superior Court
here this week recalls the fact that
lrext year will be the silver anniver-
sary of the tribunal. The court was
created by act of 1895 and organized
that summer, sitting in this city late
in the year.