Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07
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III any one mas an IDEA that the
people of Harrisburg are not inter-
ested in the project of establishing
an educational center for the higher +
branches of the city's school system
in the Hoffman's woods sector, 80
to speak, all he needed to do was
to observe the people who roamed
through the old woods and looked
over the adjacent property in spite
of the heat yesterday. This prop
erty has been talked of for so many
things and is familiar to so many
people because of picnics of years
gone by and the site of gypsy camps
that more are interested than would
be thought of. Yesterday morning
there were a number of men and
their families strolling through the
tall trees and stepping over the wet
places in the abandoned grove and
in the afternoon Notwithstanding the
weather conditions people were to
be seen going about and looking
over 1t. Harrisburg's high school
problem is interesting more people
tina the school directors and men
in public life imagine and the pre-
u IN new pTOJcCL mas not
only stirred up street car CONVEX
sation, but also caused folks to 60
and look owe the land discussed.
The site has many an advantage even
If 1t is not in the middle of the
Harrisburg of 1919 and occupies in
this day n generation a place COM
parable to Sixteenth and State
streets did possibly a score of years
| a or or SnaAp1 a~1
did when Dauphin county celebrated
it's centennial.
reference to that mythical sale
OF automobiles by the United States
army reserve depot is getting dan
gerous around Harrisburg and if the
man VINO started the canard gets
caught he Will likely get a swim
the river. The story went around
that Uncle Sam was to sell surplus
cars, some of high grade, some of
medium brand. at low figures under
certain conditions. A number of
people fastened to Middletown de-
pot to get down their names and
according to Ray Shoemaker, who
was one of those who went to the
place. the man at the depot won
dered what it was all about. He
has not heard of it and did not
have the cars in the depot ware
house anyway to hand over at bar
gain prices even if he had received
the orders from Washington.
A proposition for the State of
Pennsylvania National Guard to
take some other divisional number
than the Twenty-eighth in the new
scheme of army organization is be-
ing vigorously combatted by State
officials and men who served in the
Keystone Division overseas and
many who were members of the
guard in years gone by. Adjutant
General Frank D. Beary, who some
time ago protested against the plan
to have Camp Dix in New Jersey
made the base for organization of
the Pennsylvania troops in event of
n call for active service, was at
Washington by direction of the
Governor in opposition to any plan
which did not give Pennsyivania's
new National Guard the right to
use the red keystone divisional mark
and the historic designation of the
Twenty-eighth Division. Governor
Sproul will take up the matter this
week and it is probable that some
urgent representations against any
change will be made. Numerous
letters have come to General Beary
from men who served in France
with the Keystone Guard Division,
including some men who were
wounded while in its ranks, asking
that every effort be made on behalf
of the State to retain the number
and divisional mark.
Incorporation of a dozen COM
panies for the construction of houses
in the last fortnight has attracted
some attention at the Capitol. The
charters have been issued to COM
panies to operate in industrial cen-
ters and the object is given in some
cases as construction of moderate
price homes, while others are for
construction of dwelling houses.
Men who came here in the interest
of the charters stated that the COM
panies had been formed because Of
the housing conditions which threat
ened to interfere with industries
either because Of scarcity or lack of
convenience desired. Some of the
cities are not as large as Harrisburg,
Chester, Franklin and Bethlehem
for instance.
One has only to observe the river
on hot days to note the extent of
the popularity of the canoe When
there is a combination of hot
weather and holidays such as came
last week the result will surprise
anyone who has not noted the river
craft. The canoe has supplanted
the old fiat bottomed boat from
which many fathers of Harrisburg
families swan and ished in years
gone by and fifty canoes a be
counted almost any Saturday after
noon and evening.