Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
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I1dIrlSDuTB d ueIn OnStratlon city, sc
to speak, for sanitation and market
ing, it is possible that Harrisburg
may also get a model barracks for
the State Police. The plans for this
improvement, for which $4,000 was
appropriated by the recent Legisla-
ture, are being revised so that they
will meet modern conditions and
the idea is to erect the building on
the tract just east of the State
Arsenal and along the city parkway
One of the details of the plan is to
make a very handsome building
with location between the parkway
and the run which meanders along
the State Arsenal and the State
hospital properties. The barracks
will house a whole troop and provi-
sion will be made for stables and
also for a training ground. 1t will
give Harrisburg a garrison, if such
term can be applied to State Po-
licemen, most of whom are required
to be out patrolling the country
side. When one comes to think
about it the State has immense
property holdings, but the fact i7
that from Herr street clear nortn
to point well above Maclay there
are large State properties. The To-
cation of the new troop, however,
does not mean that the men will
be held here. They will be scat
tered through sub stations all over
southern central Pennsylvania and
be on constant patrol duty through
agricultural districts.
Thanks were extended to-day to
the people of Pennsylvania who
| gave books and the various public
| libraries throughout PENNSYLVANIA
| for assistance in handling books for
| the soldiers, sailors and marines
during the war by Robert p. Bliss.
of the State Library, the represen-
tative of the American Library As
\ sociation for this work. Mr.. Bliss
stated that Pennsylvania had re-
| sponded handsomely to the call for
books and had contributed a good
share of the 100000 books which
had been bought or donated for the
soldiers. Half of this number of
| BOOKS were sent to the soldiers In
Europe, about one million of them
being bought. There are now thirty
hVe large libraries at various army
camps, 237 at hospitals for the army
and navy and Red Cross hospitals,
1906 on ships of the navy or the
Shlpplng board and 99S branches
scattered everywhere American SOL
|
country, the colonies, European sta
tlons, barracks, Y. NJ. C. A. and
knights of Columbus huts and even
in Archangel and Siberia. When
the men are brought home many
OF the books now in Europe will b
given to American colleges and
schools on the other side of the
ocean.
Plans that will give the city of
Harrisburg one of the best systems
of school libraries in the State ara
being worked out by Miss Alice Il.
Eaton, librarian of the Harrsburc
Public Library, who has been giving
much time and thought to WAYS TO
reach the children of the numerous
schools scattered all over the city.
The problem is not an easy one be-
cause there are youngsters of all
nationalities and the funds of the
library are limited. However, the
best is being made of the situation
ana the number of school libraries
Will be increased and the children
reached will be enlarged apprecia-
bly,. These school libraries were es-
tabhshed over five years ago and
have grown from three to a dozen.
1t is astonishing how many books
are circulated and what eXcellen.
care the children under the guild
ance of their teachers, take of the
books loaned by the library While
the way the very youthful pupils
remember and talk of what they
have read is one of those ever IN
teresting facts about childhood.
| -
If there is any one line of busi-
ness that is being pushed and which
is attracting much attention from
store keeper it is the so-called
soft drink line. Scores of con-
Germs have gone into the business
or manufacturing these drinks and
many of them are delicious concoc-
tlons, so good and refreshing tina;
people must wonder why the max
ers did not take up that avenue of
manufacturing before. The auto
mobiles of the men getting the busi-
ness started are to be seen on the
roads of the Lykens valley, out il:
the Hanovers and down in Conewaso
while they are all over Cum berland
and Perry counties. Signs announc-
ing new drinks that only need Ice
to make them right" and which
are free from "kick" and headache
are popping up on every store and
on many a barn.
| Ddupilh county court procedure
for the return to license holders of
amounts of money paid by hem
and covering periods when they had
to be closed by army orders is being
followed in various counties of the
State. The action is taken under
new law which permits such re-
turn upon proper statements made
in court. 1t seems that there were
a dozen counties where the condi-
tions which prevailed at Middle
town occurred.