Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-05
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ine otdte Oh FennSyfVania ana the
city of Harrisburg are in competi-
ton for dirt. They are bidding
against each other for plain earth.
And up to date the State is having
the best of it. At present the State is
engaged in filling up Capitol Park
extension and the city is extending
the river bank The city has a long
haul and the State a short one. The
State also has large fat bank roll
and the city is offering places to
dump dirt. The competition broke
out recently when some cellar exca-
vatons were started. City people
invited the contractors to dump over
the river bank at certain places, as
clean dirt with an admixture of
rocks makes a fine fill, especially
when some chunks of asphalt from
torn up streets are added to 1t. The
State authorities needed the ground
| for filling at the Capitol and pro-
ceeded to get it. The fills in the
park have gone beyond the two lines
| of the proposed streets and the
| basis for the landscaping is being
| made. The first sections to be filled
up to date will be along the lines
| laid out for the rows of Pennsyl-
vania oak trees, which are to form
| the new wall and stretch from the
East front of the Capitol to the ap-
proach to the pylons at the entrance
of the Memorial bridge. Meanwhile,
the State officials are going after all
the dirt that can be bought and the
city fill above Maclay street is suf-
fering in consequence. The plan is
to get the bulk of the park filled up
to grade in the next eighteen months
and even at that it will be some task
A couple of seventeen year old
| locusts strayed into the hall of the
| House of Representatives yesterday
by mistake. They were blown in by
the breezes which swept fitfully
around the Capitol and which all
windows were wide to open to catch.
Both f1uttered around for a time and
gave page boys some fun, one meet
debate on the Philadelphia charter
bill. Just what killed it was not
divulged.
How many people are asking for
the excess fare slips?" was the aues-
| ton asked of three trolley conduc-
| tors yesterday. about one in twen-
| ty-fve." said one man. 'I have lust
one man who asks for them and
that foxy guy puts the slips into his
pocketbook the same way each day."
replied the second man. The third
conductor said mo one seems to
care any more and not even the
fellows who were advising people
TO demand them last winter have
quit asking for them"
!
The Sunday evening evangelistic
services have been resumed on Capt.
tol Hill. They are in charge of a
branch of the Dunkards and there
are earnest prayers and congrega-
tional singing every Sunday about
sunset on the plaza in front of the
Library. Several members of the
Legislature were called on the tele-
phone Sunday about the time the
| services began and invited to attend.
The excuses they gave were various.
TWO members, however, did attend
and until yesterday thought the man
in charge had hidden them to SER
vice.
A prominent and good-natured
business man of Harrisburg is won
dering what is the matter with the
Burleson administration of the pos
tai service. The other day he re-
ceived from New York city a letter
i from an important firm which con-
tanned two-cent stamp and a de-
mand for one cent additional. In
asmuch as the same business man
a few days before was notified that
certain letters which he had mad
vertently mailed with two-cent
stamps. when they should have con-
tained three-cent stamps were held
for additional postage, he couldn't
| understand why a letter would come
i through from New York and be de-
livered on the two-cent basis, sub
ject to zone cent due" Curious
about the matter he visited the Har-
risburg office and a polite clerk
asked him for the envelope that he
might start an investigation. This
envelope was sent officially to New
York city for an explanation and,
much to the surprise of the business
man, it came back to him with the
added legend Received Without
Contents" Still curious. he again
took 1t up with the local office and
again the same envelope was official
.ly returned to the New York office
| for explanation. few days later
it came back through the regular
channels to the business man with
the magic legend, Received With
out Contents" Also without ex-
planation. Now the business man
is wondering whether the Burleson
system or lack of system is not re-
sponsible for much of the trouble
concerning which complaints are so
| general