Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
E,netttttg Gl1at

People who have been visiting
harrisburg since the coal situation
became acute have been saying some
tnihss which indicate that they con-
siuef the Pennsylvania State Capital
fortunate in more than public i'm
ProVements and public spirit. They
nave peen remarking upon the fact
that the city is one of 10000 that
H%oes % not nave to bother about the
Iuei supply for it's essential indus
tries. They might have added the
state Capitol, too, because the Com
monwealth's officers have been most
active In buying up the fuel that is
dredged from the bottom of the
river and have divided the output
that is to be had for effort with cleo
trlc, heating, traction and other util-
lty companies purchasing agencies.
Ihe state has stocked up consid-
cradle quantity of "Susquehanna
Deans as some one facetiously
termed the river coal that is called
puckWheat by others and dredgings
py still others. When the coal short
age occurred in midwinter of 1918
the State Capitol was one of the
places that kept warm and there was
no cessation of business required.
incidentally, not few people got n
cnahce to see the building under
| NoidlllOilS. NOW the CuD1-
tol bins are well filed and as for
the utilities they have huge mounds
OF coal stored in various parts of the
city. There is one in particular near
the Ninth street plant of the electric
company and another at Second and
DIVISION streets, South Harrisburg
having few young mountains. The
TWO squadrons of the river coal fleet
one above and the other below the
DAM have been working without re-
gard to the weather and even NOV
ing flats filled with coal around on
sundays. The coal fleet men say that
they VIII keep at work as long as the
Ice permits and that each one of
the periods of high water that has
occurred since September has
brought down considerable coal.
Last winter the coal fleet was busy
most of the weeks and the marin
ers are hoping that the weatherman
Will hold off until January before
issuing orders for the ice bridge on
the Susquehanna.
Men who have been hunting in
the South Mountain district say that
the number of does in the woods at
this time exceeds those of former
years by twenty per cent. and prob
ably more. The increase of deer
2 under present day laws is shown by
n the comparison with other game,
l The other day eleven Harrisburg
= hunters conducted a drive through
e the mountains near the Cameron es-
/ tate and saw in all q total of eleven
= deer, most of them does and one of
t them young fawn. The same party
{ scared up only three pheasants and
t old hunters of the district say that
8 deer are actually more plentiful in
t that part of the country than the
/ smaller feathered game which have
= been hunted very closely. Unless
= some better protective measures are
y undertaken we shall shortly have no
f more pheasants in the South Noun
g tains, where they used to be Very
n numerous and where the cover is as
e fine for them as in any part in all
: America" said one of the men who
: has tramped these woods for years
t and knows every foot of them. "I
!, believe that foxes, owls and other
: beasts and birds that live on birds
o are even more to blame than the
{ gunners," he continued. "For ex-
\ ample, I was with a party Of deer
. hunters the other day and from 8
in the morning until dark we saw
= only four pheasants, while one of
our number saw a red fox which got
away and another killed a big gray
@ fox. Two foxes to four pheasants
:; shows how the proportion stands.
@ and the fox shot was fat and in the
h best of condition, showing that he
+ had been feeding WELL" Harrisburg
: hunters have been impressed with
! the scarcity of pheasants this year
;, and are considering ways and means
:. whereby the numbers may be in
creased.
Il With the close of the hunting
season in sight County Treasurer
:, Mark Mumma and Deputy Josh E.
- Rutherford are preparing for the
II issue of 1920 dog licenses. Mr.. Num-
:. ma will go out of Office January 5
u u but many applications are being re-
y ceived now for licenses and they
- will begin issuing them soon. Treas
. urer-elect Oliver c. Bishop will come
into office January 5 and for the first
ten days he and his deputy will be
= kept busy issuing the licenses. The
= last day to secure q 1920 dog license
70 tag is January Is. incidentally, Dau-
e phin county set a new record for
u the total issue of hunters license
d almost 1850 tags going out of the
% treasurers office. Just before the
= fall season opened the treasurer was
u furnished $3.50 licenses, but these
. were issued before the rabbit sea-
y. :, son opened
II Sessions of the Constitutional Re-
u vision Commission have been at
IL tracing some attention from law
students, a number of whom have
been at the Senate chamber to listen
to the reports. More will attend
the debates which will begin prob
ably next week. Hampton L. Car
f. son, the former attorney general,
n, said yesterday that he was just clos
d ing his student days when the con-
re stitutional convention of 1873 was
10 sitting in Philadelphia and attended
;; the debates of that historic gather
le ing.