Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-11
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If there is any one thing that
seems to be arousing the feelings
OF the many housewives who go to
market in Harrisburg in accordance
with the good old custom of WednesA
day n aturday providing for the
family. it is thirty-tive cents for a
box of berries at the height of the
season. The prices charged for
strawberries this summer were
something not touched here in years
ana one result has been to increase
the demand for plants to be set OUT
In gardens which will be done with
some heartfelt reflections upon what
1t costs to put up" the strawberry
preserves this year. And now here in
the midst of the berry belt people
are being charged anywhere from
twenty-five to forty cents for a box
of raspberries or huckleberries and
the people selling them simply stand.
ing pat and saying that the city folks
are making all the money. Just what
VIII happen when the b~lackberries
come in, 1t is hard to say. One waN
of getting even, according to mem
who go to market because they were
brought up to do sc and marriage
has not caused them to change, Is to-
demand the price per quart and in
sist on getting it. There are manv
people under the impression that the
average berry box is a quart. Some
times there is a difference between.
the contents of a box and the stand-
ard quart and If the average mar.
keter in Harrisburg would buy by
the quart n insist on the quart,
there would be more money saved.
in opinion of some observers A.
good story is old about a mar in ONE
or the markets two weeks Ago.. He
displayed some fine berries and ask
ed so much per box. When aske6
the price per quart he added ten.
cents. When told that his boxes were
supposed to be quarts he refused,
to sell.
Things have been almost as strenA
uous on Capitol Hill, at least in GER.
taln offices. the last few davs WI ept
me Governor has been acting ON
ollls left with him by the Leeisla-
lure as when the general assembly
was IN session. There have been teIe-
srahs and telephone messages galore
eano nnen nave been here from the
iar corners of the State seeking about
.e~sislatlon in which they are in
terested' Owing to the jam the Gov
erhor mas had to restrict his visit
ing hours, but that has not checked
ltne MOOD of correspondence and
messages. Some of the messages ~
may De said are coming collect"
rather Penn has received all of
the money realized by the sale OF
the sl2,OOO,000 road bonds made
iast month and constituting the first
oHerlng of Pennsylvania State Sc
curltles in a generation and in n
snort tlme the bonds will be in the
hands of the buyers. The State
GOT a premium of almost S425,OOO
on the $4,000, 900 of bonds and
wheh thls mont began received
uralts Tor the whole sum, although
tne n a not even been print
eu' steps are now being taken to
rush the completion of the work
ana meanwhile the buyers of the
oonos are getting interest through
~certlncates issued by State Treasurer
H. M The interest began
on July L when the State had the
money in hand and much OF II will
De spent in the next few months
TO meet bills presented by contract
ors LOT road construction. The $12,-
100000 constituted the largest sin
Vail IlC ndnOS OF Mr
hephart since he became the GUS
todian of the strong box Of tba
commonwealth. There have been
payments of a couple of millions of
dollars by big corporations for taxea
and occasionally at the close OF a
fiscal year or period of of
S3,OOO,000 or ever $4,000, 600 has
had to be handled, but S12. 0oO. Oo0
is as unprecedented to the neonla
now handling Pennsylvania cash
at the Capitol as is a bond sale
AS soon as the bonds are received
they will be properly signed. num-
bered and marked and then sent tn
the buyers for general sale. A reg
istry of the bonds will be kent at
the treasury for such persons as de-
sire registration.
With the passing of italian Park
Will go a spot which will long ba
remembered by the younger genera
ton as a place full of mysterious
persons and all manner of blood
thirsty possibilities. In the days
when Sixth street was not built I'm
as 1t is now and when the country
surrounding Division street was a
wild, wild waste, Italian Park was
the darkest of the dark. Mothers
cautious to the point of simplicity.
told their children that kidnapers
lurked in the woods and would un-
doubtedly grab them If they went
near the place. Innocent Bohem-
ians, travelling gypsies, were always
under the greatest suspicion. The
old m who told fortunes IL YOU
crossed her palm with silver was
considered at least a witch and prob
ably one of the DEVILS right hand
assistants. No more will we see the
picturesque wagons, the steaming
kettles over the log fires. the dark,
mysterious foreign-looking people
dressed in bright colors. BY some
they will not be missed, for thew
were not known, but by others the
annual gypsy invasion will be like
the loss of an old friend.