PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, WHICH HAS HELPED TO MAKE HARRISBURG ONE OF MOST IMPORTANT CITIES IN PENNSYLVANIA, IS SEVENTY YEARS OLD TODAY ' ■ I ' fc ■ , . j -ii,» i FIRST PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD STATION IN HARRISBURG. 1837-1856 ■' .v "7 ••v .> . • r SECOND HARRISBURG PASSENGER STATION, 1857-1887 PRESENT STATION AND PHILADELPHIA DIVISION HEADQUARTERS PENNA. RAILROAD IS 70 YEARS OLD [Continued From First Page.] Francis Rawn Shunk. April 13, 354 6. The original line was known as the Philadelphia-Columbia railroad. Later came the Harrisburg, Portsmouth and Mt. Joy branch between Harrisburg! and Lancaster, the Columbia branch, and the purchase of the various lines of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad company, and other lines giving the Pennsylvania a route to Aaltoona and Pittsburgh. The Pennsylvania Canal 20 MILLION PEOPLE I USE CWBS-iy? Only True Tonic for Liver and Bowels Costs 10 Cents a Box. Cascarets are a treat! They liven your liver, clean your thirty feet of powels and sweeten your stomach. You The New Labor Law The new Workmen's Compensation Act is now in ef fect. If yoa are an employer of labor you should be familiar with every of this most important piece of legislation. We are prepared to supply this act in pamphlet form with side headings for easy reference. Single copies 25c with very special prices on larger quan* tities. The Telegraph Printing Co. PRINTING-—BINDING —DESIGNING PHOTO-ENGRAVING HARRISBURG, PENNA. \ THURSDAY EVENING, company was a big branch of the | Pennsylvania railroad for many years.j Th first officers of the company-were: President, Samuel Vaughn Merrick; j directors. Robert Toland, David S. Brown, James Magee, Richard D. I Wood, Stephen Colwell, George W. Carpenter, Christian E. Spangler, Thomas T. Lea, Henry C. Corbett, i John A. Wright and William C. Pat- i terson. Colonel William Bender Wilson in a series of articles now running in the - Mutual Magazine, the official journal of the Mutual Beneficial Association of Pennsylvania Railroad Employes, ; gives many interesting facts about I Harrisburg's part in the history of I the Pennsy. He was a former Harris [burger and has compiled a complete] ' eat one or two Cascarets like candy' I before going to bed and in the morn ! ing your head is clear, tongue is clean, stomach sweet, breath right, and cold j gone and you feel grand, i Get alO or 15-cent box at any drug j store and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver ; and bowel cleansing you ever experi enced. Stop sick headaches, bilious j spells, indigestion, furrled tongue, of fensive breath and constipation. Mothers should give cross, peevish feverish, bilious children a whole Cas caret any time. I history of the Company. Some of ; this history is as follows: Original Line "The practical working of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, j now the Philadelphia division, after | the purchase, demonstrated by 1859] the necessity for a redistribution of I motive power and operating the whole line of the Pennsylvania railroad to j Pittsburgh in three divisions. This ' caused the erection of general repair I shops at Harrisburg nnd the aban donment of the smaller ones between ' Altoona and Philadelphia. On March 1, 1861, the enginehouse, machine and icar shops at Harrisburg were coni j pleted, the shops being occupied on; ! April 1. Between those dates the men 1 jand machinery from the Parkesburg CENTRAL HIGH U SECTION WHICH IS BOOSTING BIRDHOUSE CAMPAIGN Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, aa they cannot r*a<-h the diseased portion of the car. There la only ona tray tor cure deafness, and that la by constitution* al remedies*. Deafness la caused by an Inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube Is Inflamed you hare a rumbling: sound or Imperfect hearing, and when It la entirelr cloaed Deafness la the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condition, hear ing trill be destroyed foreter; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an liiflHmed condition of the mucoua surfaces. Wo trill frlte One Hundred Dollars for any caaa of Deafness (caused by catarrh) thut cannot ba cured by llall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circu lars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, 0. Bold by Druggists, 75c. Tike fcUU'e FanUj nils for coottlpatioiv BLARRIPBURG TELEGRAPH W 'isL HSPwjy ' V ' SAMUEL VAUGHAN MERRICK First President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. THOMAS ALEXANDER SCOTT Fourth President Who Was f .orated in Harris burg For a Long Time. SAMUEL REA Present Head of the Big Railroad System. shops were transferred to Harrisburg, and the shops being thus abandoned reverted to the former owners of the land in accordance with the terms of the grant. Harrisburg Branch "The next important corporation whose property forms part of the Pennsylvania line between Philadel phia and Harrisburg is the Harris burg, Portsmouth, Mt. Joy and Lan caster Railroad company. "By the provisions of an Act of Assembly, approved June 9, 18:»2. in corporating the Portsmouth and Lan caster Railroad company, twelve com missioners named from Philadelphia, ; ten from Dauphin and six from Lan cster county, were authorized to re ! ceive subscriptions towards the capital "THE MAX WHO FORGOT" Special to the Telegraph Hummelstown, Pa., April 13. —Mrs. Katharine Oliver McCoy, a well known reader, assisted by the Rev. J. J. Davies, soloist, will present "The Man Who Forgot" in the Lutheran Parish House Sunday afternoon. The committee on arrangements are: The Rev. A. S. Lehman, the Rev. Herbert S. Games, Mrs. William Grill, Miss Beatrice Loiters, Miss Emma Landis, and William C. I)agg. Mrs. McCoy apears in the interests of the Flying Squadron which has been doing; great work in favor of prohibition. SEA* f * J THE TIGER, AN EARLY LOCOMOTIVE IN HARRISBURG FIRST ROCKVILLE BRIDGE ACROSS SUSQUEHANNA RIVER j stock of the company for the purpose i of constructing and operating a rail j road from Portsmouth, the junction !of the Union and Pennsylvania canals. I through Mt. Joy to Lancaster City. ! "The inhabitants of Harrisburg and | the residents of the Cumberland Val ! ley, who were looking forward to a I rail outlet to the seaboard, began urg [ing Harrisburg as a terminal of the | road and the consequence was that tlie | Legislature by an act which was ap proved March 11, 1835, changed the i name of the road to the Harrisburg, | Portsmouth, Mt. Joy and Lancaster j Railroad company, and authorized its extension to Harrisburg. | "The road was located in 1835 and put under contract, and by August, 11836, that portion of it between Ports TO STOP TERRIBLE RHEUMATIC PAINS Get a box of true Mustarine in the ; original yellow box for about 25 cents I at druggists. Rub it on the inflamed joints or mußcles. and that almost un bearable agony will go at once. No rheumatic sufferer can afford to be without true Mustarine. for it never fails to give blessed relief. Use it for aibes or pains anywhere, and for sore throat, bronchitis and pleurisy. There's relief in every rub. It stops pain and congestion. True Mustarine Is made by Begv Medicine Co., Rochester, N, X. All druggists guarantee it. APRIL 13, 1916. THE BURNING OP OLD CUMBERLAND VALLEY BRIDGE, IS 14 mouth nnd Harrisburg was completed. [ The terminus at Harrisburg was at| Paxton street, from which point a car drawn by horse power ran over j the road. The car was constructed by Kben Miltimore in his coach and wagon shop at the corner of Third and Mulberry streets. Harrisburg, and was a small, open-sided, four-wheel car, resembling triple coach bodies on j : wheels. It was the first of many oth- j era of the same kind built for William | i Calder, Sr., & Company and other! transporters. It was given a trial over ■ the new laid tracks and carried some | i distinguished passengers. There being I no ballast between the rails, a towing - line was attached to the car and to a! pair of horses, which were driven on i l the horse path by the side of thej V-ZLECTRICAL-V You Have But I A 2 Days p 14 In which to take advantage of our .1 11 FREE HOUSE-WIRING OFFER. II Don't miss this opportunity to make 1 your home as comfortable and con- 1 MJ venient as your place of business. kl ' Call 4000 at once, give your address 1^ and we will make your home a mod- 1 ern residence | Harrisburg Light & Power Co. * There's a Difference In Coal j A v«#t difference. You may be burning more coal than 1B neees * sary, because you are not burning the kind especially adapted to your % requirements. | M Talk the matter over with us —we'll Bteer you right on the par % tlcular kind of coal you ought to be using—and supply you with the % M best heat-glvlng fuel you can buy. Costs the same —and goes further. # j J. B. MONTGOMERY j M ooo—either phone 3rd and Chestnut Street* C tracks. "In September, 1836, the 'John Bull,' not having proven a success on the Philadelphia and Columbia rail road, was sent to Portsmouth by canal from Columbia, and with it two dou ble-decked coaches. It. excited the liveliest Interest and was the source of great edilication to the people of Har risburg and vicinity, who congregated around it by hundreds. It was the first locomotive to draw cars into Har risburg, and Us arrival was signalized by a popular ovation." On December 29, 1860 the Pennsyl vania. Hailroad company by lease took over this branch and all other branch es between Philadelphia and Pitts burgh; and the rapid growth of the big system followed: 13
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