Harrisburg- More Than the | Capital of Pennsylvania 1 <1 Fifteen years ago Harrisburg was on the map as the Capital of It is a far cry from the little country town, of 1902, to the hust- pS Pennsylvania. It possessed all the conservatism traditional to such ling, growing, up-to-date city of today. Then we had little of which cit.es, and little else worthy of note. Individual citizens gave thought to be proud . Now we have much _ adequate sewers and more d to the proper hoemg of their own rows without considerate to the s(reets> (han any c ; of our sjze m y P | success or the garden as a whole, borne succeeded, some failed. But j D . n , ' , H aitvauu F^y striking an average showed no progress for Harrisburg. grounds, a sanitary Paxton creek valley and a river front worthy of the \t/- l _ most beautiful city in the world; we have filtered water and a dam in With the dawn of the Twentieth Century people awoke to the fact the river that makes for both health and pleasure, during the low yj that the growth ot the community depended in large measure up- ivater periods of the summer. J jpA on the strength of its appeal to the non-resident, x # [jag as a desirable place in which to pitch his tent. jp On this everybody was agreed. Our churches, our schools, our banks, our j|jjo businesses and our industries have felt the §$ All that was then necessary to make Har- • ( stimulus of the new life upon which Harrisburg risburg a better town in which to live was un- jfiblOTFriffM! has entered and have grown apace. Our resi leadership! 'X 'thi's" junS The <*"* 8,8 Telegraph—always devoted to the best interests of our houses is distinctly better. Country of Harrisburg—at the behest and with the PP ffiliil W^e ' ar " s^urg * s known as a model city as loyal support of many leading citizens, became ]|pjHß| IHjlj KIB AHaIM as a ca pi* a ' We have come into i j the standard bearer of the Bigger and Better flfflH 'P\ our own. yj Harrisburg Movement, which had its inception Eql HS Pjff H j w o$ in a series of articles and editorials published PP j ill T , t ] i . U in this newspaper. The rest is an old story, Ml ■ |§| i f tj Ihe past is gone. I o-day—a very pleasant, jg oft repeated. ||jg|| ||p |||3§| jj profitable period—is with us. But what of ?p| SI f| It is the story of th t' h HI i II to-morrow? building and the extension of a city, and of a BSB «H IHiPI! J 111 Jin i ... -r, || newspaper that has argued and fought and MMi Mm 31 HE *' men, cannot stand still. lhey striven almost exclusively to one end—that the jDflfli Wm |||Ml| IJjlfflß- must move—forward or backward. Harris- |j dream of 1902 might be fully realized. Un- t dpif burg has gone a long distance on the great j swerve y ac^l, ' a / on ° n ° ne ana by BffJiS 53' f Iff highway of municipal progress. The watch slanderous reproach on the other, it kept steadily |&i Klf i . , V * , , j ... to the course it had marked out in the be- word 15 stlll onward and to that end thls news " ginning and now it rejoices to see come true - BBS? ' P a P er Podges a continuance of the unqualified so many of its visions and those of the far- § n|gp| IS] IMSfip ||J||» support it has given in the past to all those S |? patriotic citizens with whom it stood flfflS good things which go toward the building of j |_ shoulder to shoulder throu^the an cven Bigger and Better Harrisburs . I TELEGRAPHJ MONDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG t&lf&e TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 28, 191(5. 11
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