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COURT REFUSES
DIVORCE GRANT
Sustains Finding of Master in
Unique Case in Northum
berland County Court
Sunbury, Pa., July I.—For the first
time in a quarter of a century. Pres
ident Judge CUmmings in the North
umberland county courts to-day re
fused to grant a divorce. The peti
tioner was Gideon O. Echlin, of Mil
ton, and desertion was alleged. The
court says: "We have carefully ex
amined the testimony and are free
to say that the same sustains the
master," which was against a divorce.
According to Echlin's testimony they
were married at Steelton on Novem
ber 7, 1905, and his wife deserted
him on August 24, 1915.
Edwin Paul, a prominent Milton
lawyer, who acted as master to take
testimony and report his findings and
recommendations to the court, in his
report says: "They amicably divided
their furniture, he helped her to j
furnish a room and called on her,:
sent her flowers and gave her gifts. '
He showed solicitation as to her'
health." All this, the master finds, 1
took place within the two years that
desertion was alleged by the plaintiff,
while under the Pennsylvania laws,
two years continuous desertion is re
quired before a divorce shall "be
granted upon such a plea. However, i
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ffIJESDAY EVENING,
according to the findings of Mr. Paul,
Echlin never offered his wife a home
during these two years, but, instead,
his whole conduct seemed to be a
well-devised plan on Echlin's part to
put off the tinye of resuming martial
relations until the legal period
elapsed for securing a divorce on the
grounds of desertion. For this reason
the master would not recommend a
divorce. Mrs. Echlin, it is understood
lives in Harrisburg.
HOME COMING WELCOME
Mount Wolf, Pa., July I.—Fully
1.000 persons on Sunday afternoon
assembled at Quickel's church for
the welcoming home service for the
returned soldier boys of the church
and community, of which there were
twenty-six, fully uniformed in at
tendance. Addresses were delivered
by the Rev. S. H. Stein, the Rev.
W. S. Herchner, the Rev. J. J. Slauf
fer, of York, and Sergeant John
Becker. The Zion's View band played
patriotic music, while the York New
Salem male octet sang several selec
tions.
With a banquet, a picnic and a
festival, the soldiers of Dover town
ship. will be welcomed home on Sat
urday, July 12. More than 100 soldier
boys are "expected to participate in
the festivities.
Miss Mary Harman, of Harris
burg, visited her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. D. W. Harman, Sr., at Shire
manstown, on Sunday.
Miss Daisy Etter, of Boiling
Springs, is spending several days
with Mr. and Mrs. Mervin S. Etter
at Shiremanstown.
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gestions at that time. The plan
calls for an In-City Park at Di
vision and Third streets, com
prising the swamp and wooded
bluff known as Italian Park, the
property owned by the McKee
estate, the executors residing in
Pittsburgh, Pa.
This commission believing its
duty to bo the continued develop
ment of the Manning plans, so
ably carried forward by the for
mer Park 'Board, before the
change in government of third
class cities legislated out of of
fice all existing city commissions,
desire to present for your con
sideration the following sugges
tions.
Italian Park.—After much cor
respondence and several visits by
those in interest it was tenta
tively agreed by the McKee in
terest that they would look fav
orably upon a proposition to deed
to the city, free of all encum
brances and without charge the
ground required for the develop
ment of Italian Park as proposed.
This was subpect to two condi
tions, however. First, the ap
proximate acreage and the pro
posed treatment should be sub
mitted to them. Second, the gift
would be conditioned upon and
the agreed developments being
carried forward completed with
in a reasonable and set time.
This commission thereupon ar
ranged with Mr. Manning to
make detailed suggestion of the
Park, and Mr. Manning came to
Harrisburg, remaining for sev
eral days, submitting the sketch
herewith submitted. This plan
meets with the approval of the
McKee interest and ourselves
and while not intended to be ab
solutely accurate from an engi
neering standpoint, shows ap
proximately the lines and plans,
details and correct figures to be
determined later.
Green Street—We suggest and
recommend the placing of Green
street, 120 feet wide on the of
ficial City Map. from Schuylkill
street to the city limits. This
would permit a grass plotted
street similar to State street, and
provide a fine residence thorough
fare in the western part of the
city. The key plan adopted by
this commission for that section
of the city from the city limits
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north provides for Green street
120 feet wide and the Estherton
Plot, the only one filed since the
creation of this commission ded
icates Green street 120 feet in ,
width and all other plans as re
corded will be required to do the
same.
Third Street This street, if
continued parallel with Second
would pass through the swamp
ground, now to be used for Park
•purposes.
Third street, therefore, should
be diverted to the bluff or high
ground, connecting with Third
street. Riverside, at Catherine
street, making a continuous thor
oughfare. This street above
Catherine Is now built up to a
considerable extent.
Sixth Street Continue the
lines of Sixth street, as laid out
by the commission of 1872, with
a slight change in the street line
to make them connect with Eliz
abeth street. Riverside, widened
to conform to the present width
of Sixth street.
New Street. Placing a street
on the McKee Tract, between the
ground of the Harrisburg Acad
emy, also a service road or street
between the Park and the McKee
property on the East or Park
side of their property and con
necting with the new street as
proposed.
These suggestions if carried
out will , we believe, prove bene
ficial to the city at large and all
individuals concerned. We earn
estly urge early and favorable
action upon these suggestions.
To the School Board
He then read the following letter
from the Commission to the School
Board:
In connection with the de
velopment of Italian Park, it
has been suggested that this
same development would make
it very desirable to locate our
new High school on a site close
by or connected with this park.
Acting upon this suggestion, we
opened communication with the
McKee Estate, with the object
in view of ascertaining whether
they would sell a part of their
property for school purposes.
The part on the high ground ly
ing between the proposed new
line of Third street and Sixth
street, seemed to offer a de
sirable and available site where
acreage could be obtained with
location and surroundings,
everything to be desired. This
plot contains approximately 35
to 38 acres and would permit
your board to build the new
school on the university plan,
giving ample room for athletic
activities and any future build
ing plan necessary. The selection
of the proper school authority
and landscape designers to make
a joint plan, not only for pres
ent needs but looking to the fu
ture needs of the school district
for years to come, would we
believe, put Harrisburg in the
lead in the bigger and better
things done for the present and
future generation.
Harrisburg in common with
all cities has been handicapped
by reason of the limited amount
of ground purchased for the
erection of school buildings.
Americans are naturally opti
mistic but few of us are suffi
ciently so. We apparently pro
vide for every reasonable
growth expected in fifty years
only to find ten or twenty years
afterward that our vision, large
as we thought it was, has not
been large enough.
' MoKco-Graham School Site Cost
The executors of the estate
have offered to sell to the
school board the 35 to 38 acres
suggested at $2,250 per acre
exact acreage to be ascertained
after the fixing of the new lines
of Third and Sixth streets
Chairman Herman then read to
the assemblage the following state
ment, which he said embodied the
views of the City Planning Commis
sion:
"The City Planning Commission
in presenting for the consideration
of City Council in the School Board
of Harrisburg the proposal to take
over for the improvement of the city |
for the developm\nt of the park sys- I
tern and as a high school site, all that 1
tract of land lying between Third
and Sixth streets, and Division and
Catherine streets, now owned by the
McKee Estate, and described fully ;
in the outlined maps accompanying.
"The portion of this land lying be
tween Third street and the top of the
bluff commonly known as Italian
Park and comprising about fifteen
acres, the MoKee-Graham estate of
fers to give free of all cost to the
city for the development of a lake
and park and the straightening of
Green street, which it is proposed
to make 120 feet wide from Division
street north, not only through this
tract, but to the northern building
limits. This donation the McKee es
tate will make upon the solicitation
of the City Planning Commission
which sees therein an opportunity
for the development and bcautifica
tion of the city, providing the city
within a reasonable perid of years
will improve the land as outlined.
Forty Acres For School
"From the top of the bluff to Sixth
street, and from Division to Cath
erine street, a tract of about 35
acres, the McKee-Graham eseate of
fers, also upon the solicitation of the
City Planning Commission, to the
School Board of Harrisburg at a
price far below what undoubtedly
could be procured if the ground
were broken up and sold in building
lots, or even in bulk if sold to
speculative real estate dealers. The
, City Planning Commission has gon
most carefully into the advantages
offered by these acquirements of
land by the city and the School
Board and recommends that City-
Council and the School Board give
the matter early and careful con
sideration, as the advantageous
terms which the Commission has
been able to procure may not be
continued indefinitely by the owners.
"The Italian Park site, lying as it
does now in the way of street ex
tension and building development,
because of its swampy condition, can
be transformed at no very great
cost into an attractive link of the
city's parkway system, and at the
same time opportunity would be
made for the extension of Green
street 120 feet wide through this
area byway of Riverside and the
old Heister farm, now known as
Estherton, through to Roekvijle,
thus offering another through out
let for rapidly developing traffic in
this section. The Estherton owners
have provided for this thorough
fare 120 feet wide through their
holdings and the only cost to the
city for adding this fine residence
street to the municipal highway
system would be for the remodeling
or removal of one or two houses in
the* Riverside district, an expense
very moderate, indeed, considering
the advantages to accrue therefrom.
The Commission's engineer already
has plans made for the develop
ment of the Italian Park district,
the erection. of an ornamental
bridge, retaining walls and the nect
essary road work and grading. This
need not be done at once, but can
be worked out over a period of time
that will not seriously embarrass
the city.
"The realignment of sixth street
Green street and other highways
that will find their way upon the
city map as building developments
progress will add greatly to the con
venience of those usein the city high
ways and will add additional facili
ties to through traffic.
The acquirement of the Italian
Park area together with the pro
posed purchase of the 35 acres ad
joining for high school development
would, as the years go by, give Har
risburg another open air breathing
spot of no mean proportion, especial
ly when it is considered that these
tracts adjoin the large holdings of
the Harrisburg Academy, which
never will be fully occupied by build
ings.
High School Plot
"The City Planning Commission
has given the matter of high school
location very serious study and It be
lieves that no better, and certainly
no cheaper site could be acquired
than the 35 acres comprising the
Italian Park and Hoffman's Woods
plots. It may be argued that the
district does not at this time need
3 5 acres of land for high school pur
poses, but the site proposed is so
advantageously situated and offers
such splendid opportunities for de
velopment as the needs of the city
grow that it would seem advisable
to take over all the land at the
figures quoted should prove at
the figures quoted should prove at
tractive, and when it is considered
that all of this tract may be pur
chased for the price of a few lots
in the heart of the city sufficient
only for a high school development
for present needs, and that, the
McKee-Graham land offers oppor
tunities for enlargment for the
next fifty years or more, the
wisdom of taking over the en
tire acreage is at once evidenced.
The commission believes that the
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school board should buy this land,
employ an architect to design a
series of buildings for high school
purposes upon the university plan,
but that only such number of build
ings as may be necessary to meet
immediate need should be erected.
Thus it would be possible instead of
building for the next quarter cen
tury as has been proposed provision
could be made for only a ten-year
period at the expiration of which
time addition buildings could be
erected without any way interfering '
JULY 1, 19T9.
i with the conduct of the normal de
velopment of the school.
"Also, this outline of building
could be so made as to be revised
from time to time should the need
thereof become apparent. The Com
mission believes that In this way the
high school needs of the city can
be adequately met at a cost far less
than would be possible in any other
way, present needs and future
growth considered, and mosf earn
j eslly urges the School Board to take
the necessary action looking toward
the acquirement Of the land at the
earliest possible moment.
"The commission also recommends
that City Council enter at once into
the agreements proposed by the
Commission with the McKee-Gra
ham estate, which it believes to be
most generous on the part of the
owners and very advantageous to
the city and all concerned."
Proposition Received Favorably
Mr. Herman discussed the details
of the proposal at some length and
personally urged the adoption of the
Commission's recommendations. At
the request of President Enders, of
the School Board, Mr. Fager gave
his views of the location. He said
he believed it offered great advan-
I tages, the setting of full-grown
trees, campus room and opportunity
for development of all high school
activities on the school campus ap
pealing to him. The Technical
High School, he said, is greatly over
crowded and the university plan
would offer an opportunity for de
| velopment.
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Miss Julia Rue, of New
land, is visiting friends at
Miss Amanda Guistwhite
Sunday afternoon with her ai
Mrs. Lawrence Kingston, at .
Mrs. Phil Gardner and son
of New Cumberland, are
several days at their cottage at
liams Grove. IB
Mr. and Mrs. Curtin Dunlap,
New Cumberland, have
from a trip to Hagerstown, Md. fl
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Carroll anH
son Lester, George Carroll, Mr. OroM
of and Miss Jennie Crol
of Dillsburg, were guests of Mr. an
Mrs. John Lantz at New Cumberlan<
on Sunday.
Mrs. Matilda Gross, of New Cum
berland, is visiting friends in Olev
York county.
The Rev. J. I. Green, of Walkers
\illc, Md., recently spent severa
days with his former parishoners a
Washington Heights.
Miss Evelyn Otto, of Washingto
Heights, is visiting friends a
Churchtown and Carlisle.
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