Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-17
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pletion of the memorial which it is
proposed the citizens of Pennsyl-
vania's capital city will erect to
honor their sons in the war. This
memorial, designed to fit in with
the great plan to make the city the
CIVIC center of the Commonwealth
and upon which Arnold w. Bruner
| speaks to-day, will be built entirely
by popular subscription and in that
! respect will be different from the
TWO memorials which now stand
| here in honor of sons in war. 1t
| Will be considerably noted by other
, cities and by reason of its proposed
location, part of State plan.
Harrisburg. it might be stated, has
| been chary of erecting mem orials
ana this is reason. say many peo-
pie, for breaking another record.
There Is only one memorial erected
by this community alone. There is
no memorial to John Harris. the
settler and the man who did so
much to make the Susquehanna
safe. There is no memorial to the
men of Harris Ferry, who went
to Cambridge. Quebec and Valley
Forge. There is no memorial to the
eminent men of Harrisburg who
LOOK part in early State and National
government. There is nothing to
commemorate the regiment of Har-
risourg men in the war of 1912. One
of the two memorials stands in
capitol park. State project and
the other Is at Second and State. a
county affair. The Mexican monu-
ment cost the State of Pennsylvania
$50 600 and took ten years to build.
1t has been moved once. Originally
aaehorized d with an appropriation of
$4,000 in 1858. it was not finished
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after another. The obelisk, as the
state street mem orial is often
called, was projected by the citizens
or the county. 1t cost something
nke S!S,6OO to build and the county
commissioners had to make an APP
proPriation Tor 1t. Started in Octo-
per, 1857, it was not finished until
1876. In fact, it dragged until a
committee of citizens took hold of it
ana overcoming contractors red
tape induced Jehu DeHaven to COM
piete it, which he did very promptly.
rms memorial is 110 feet high and
ten feet each way at the base. 1t is
NOT generally known that it is four
square with the compass which ac-
counts for it's peculiar position as
relating to the streets.
And while memorials are under
consideration the suggestion is made
that 1t would be very graceful
thing TO include in the inscription
some reference to the service of the
women of Harrisburg in the war.
There were daughters of Harrisburg
VINO served in the army and navy.
regularly enlisted; there were
daughters of Harrisburg who did
splendid work overseas and there
We're daughters of Harrisburg whose
, iabors In behalf of various activities
~ tnls country in camps and at
nome Will never be forgotten.
More people have been going I'D
TO the paying tellers' windows IN
harrisburg banks the last few days
with papers that they did not know
much about except that they were
worth more money than the average
man lmagines. This week coupons
become due on some of the War
: Bonds and while there were some
folks who did not know that thew
= were the same as money there were
precious few who did not know
that the thing to do was to cut
them on the bonds. Some people
: cashed the coupons and then put
the proceeds on deposit although
they could have deposited the
coupons without going to all that
7 trouble. But the point is the people
them in years gone by.
There are going to be some peo-
pie In this community who made
L big money" on railroads and in
Z mills last year who may have to
explain to Uncle Sam from various
things that are heard. Federal
agents have been reported at diverse
, times as looking up automobile
1 lists, telephone lists and other di-
D rectors to get line on persons. The
idea is to see whether some of the
l I people filed income tax reports
1 Railroad men last year were pretty
I careful about their reports, say men
who work on the roads" and that
D 1T was the steel men who were care
less. The men in the mills say
a good bit the same thing about the
men on railroads.
4 Some of the passenger cars run
{ on railroads entering into Harris
! burg are a crime. They are old
wooden affairs that look as though
they have been taken off scrap sid
= ings, and to folks used to the steel
coaches of the PENNSYLVANIA and
> Reading, IL is trial to ride in them.
Cars of almost every southern and
: western railroad are to be seen not
I I only on local, but on express pas
senger service entering Harrisburg.
And everyone who gets out of them
, breathes a sigh of relief and then
= recalls the good. relocated steel
!. coaches that we thought were the
. least that could be given us a few
= years ago.
The 1919 primary election in
Harrisburg will be remembered for
one thing at least and that is tho
number of cards, posters, placarJis
and signs that bloomed on the poles
billboards, fences and dead walls of
the city. There has been nothing
known like it in recent years and
in some election districts boards
were tackled full of cards and placed
against the sides of brick buildings
that did not afford much chance for
the tack FOUNDER. The likenesses OF
the candidates must have been known
to thousands of men, women and
children who had never seen them
to know them and whatever appeal
they carried must have been strong
d if number of cards is anything to