Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
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me picture Warren II. Manning,
city planning expert, drew for his
audience at the Penn-Harris hotel
yesterday of the Harrisburg of
hundred years hence will live long
III .he minds of those who heard his
auuress' Mr.. Manning said that Har-
,ispurg people must begin to look
ohu the city boundaries, even be-
ffha ffu me immediate countryside in
their thoughts of city DEVELOPMENT
ana must think of Harrisburgs re-
iation to the country as a whole and
70 pennsylvania in general. Even
now experts are looking over the
country, mapping it by regions in
stead of by states, and Harrisburg.
ne SAID, Is fortunate in lying at the
intersection of two great natural
ihishways, one formed by the Appa-
iachtan mountain system running
rom New England to- the Gulf, the
sreat Susquehanna Valley leading
from new York to the Chesapeake
Bay being section, and the line
generally followed by the main sys-
tenn or the Pennsylvania Railroad
westward through the Juniata VAL
ley being the second. He pictured,.
the Susquehanna as canaIized for.
CARRYING the north and southbound
trafnc and forecasted the day when
tne chesapeake Bay will become one
OIL the great distributing points of
me entlre eastern seaboard, the COM
pletlon OF the proposed inter-
coastal canal system feeding com
merce naturally into that great
waterway with its tremendous re-
sources all about. The time will
come, Mr.. Manning said, when the
state, acting along far-reachine plans
now pelng worked out by ]. Herman
knisely, e. Clark Cowden and others
OF the Municipal Bureau of the De-
partment of Internal Affairs. will
more intensely cultivate the lands
that ought to be cultivated and will
.urn pack lnfo forests the acreage
that is too poor for profitable work
ing, thus increasing the timber re-
sources and providing recreation
places for the people. BY that time
the coal to the north of the city will
be transformed into power at the
mines and distributed all over this
| section, which will become more
tnan ever center of tremendous
industrial activity, with Harrisburg.
| If 1T lays its plans properly. as the
central and most important city of
it all.
10 Il uIOdHlGf, DuJ ne
certainly has dreamed some dream 3"
| said one of those who heard him.
But Mr. Manning is also a doer.
FIRST dream your dream, and then
make 1T come true" is his idea of
| practical achievement of high ideals.
and the creation of the Harrisburg
park system under his direction IL
lustrates the point. Mr.. Manning's
head Is not always in the clouds.
| Most often he is considering prob
lens OF the most everyday sort; how
to make one dollar do the work of
| two in city development and park
work, and how 20 make the public
utility q thing Of beauty as well as
useful. For example, he took stock
| of the city's accomplishments in the
development of the river bank above
| Maclay street ana added that some
I way should be found to continue the
front steps to the city limits. This
is becoming an important problem
and the probability is that with the
growth of the city in that direction
efforts will be made to carry out the
| Manning idea in order that the
whole water front may be uniform
| and the walk continued from one
| end of the city to the other. He
was greatly pleased with the way
| the park department has covered
| the riprapping above the wall in the
| upper part of town by planting it
with matrimony vine and completely
| stopping the washing out which
threatened the permanency of the
improvement. The planting looks
good and serves useful purpose. -,
|
| Drillers who are making the tests
for the foundations for the new State
| Capitol office building and the gran
lite trrraces which are to take up
good. part of what is now Fourth
street are showing no favorites in
regard to the places where they are
putting down holes. One drill is
| working in the middle of a pave
ment beside the State Library, while
another is sinking in the side of a
State street grass plot. Others have
been working over on the line of
old Tanners alley. Some idea of the
scope of the improvements which the
State will make can be gained from
the preliminary work under way.
The Central Construction Com
pany which has the contract for the
new Memorial Bridge in sight is
getting it's equipment assembled for
the big operation. Sidings will be
run into the park extension from the
| Pennsylvania Railroad to handle the
materials and there will be steam
shovels and other appliances en-
ployed. One of the first things to
be done will be to erect a temporary
foot bridge at State street over the
tracks of the Pennsylvania and then
the old bridge which goes back al
most half a century will be taken
down.
It's a sign that man is a real
duck hunter when he gets UP before
daylight and goes out to sit in boat
lin. grass patch in the Susquehanna
river before daylight to get shot
at the birds that are swinging so
saucily over the city and the coun-
try round about. There have been a
score or more of duck hunters who
have braved the raw winds of the
last few days and have been re-
warded by some good bags.