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Building Canal Boats at Lock Haven Fifty Years Ago

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Workmen along the banks of the West Branch canal are putting the finishing touches to two ¢
their time.

Photo from Penna. Publicity Commissions
raft, the most “modern” type of

canal boats were transported over
Oo Je! Rus he mountains between Hollidays-
burg on the Juniata and Jolins-
in Old Da S town on the Conemuagh by ten
: Y 7 inclined planes.
. . : The entire journcy took a week.
But Freight i The modern highways and rail-
. roads of today often parallel the
WwW i old canal beds; travelers looking
as eavy from the windows of their cars
see the crumbling locks that rep-
resented an early in the
opment of Pennsylvania's

Elder Citizens Recall Days
When River Shore Was!tr
Piled With Coal, Lumber
And Other Commodities

stem.

rtation
> old t boats took mil-
of tons of farm produce to
in the larger cities and
back manufactured prod-

From Columbia Broadcaster.

The mornful wail of the conch Coal, lumber. ore, salt and pig-
shell and the warning cry “low iron from mines and mills also
bridge” ring no more through [formed a large part of the car-

Pennsylvania valleys. goes.
But these echoes of the past in addition on t
lived again in the memories of over a few routes.
“old-timers” saddened by the [of the day rode in upholstered
death of W. C. Fortney, president | “style” and even enjoyed the lux-
and founder of “The Association of ury” of a “smoker car’—usually
Ex-Canal Boatmen of Pennsylvania” a boat towed behind.
at Milton last week. |
Travel and transportation in | HARD-BOILED BOSS SOFT
Pennsylvania a century ago was |
carried on by canals in much the
12 packets, plying
Some travelers

INSIDE’ SAYS PROFESSOR |
”
1938, Bashore Says
Harrisburg, Dec. 30—Proof that | current year annual gains in build-

the home-owning urge is still
strong in Pennsylvania is seen by
Ralph M. Bashore, Secretary of
Labor and Industry, in compara-
tive building statistics covering the
first ten months of this year and
1936.
Witk the new year, Mr, Bashore
believes, building operations will
take another spurt upward, stimu-
lated by millions of dollars in pri-
vate and public funds which are
to be spent on low-cost housing.
“A recent Architectural Forum
survey shows that four out of five
| middle-class Americans would like
|to own homes,”
iclared, “ yet in Pennsylvania and
{the rest of the United States as
{much is spent for radios as for
| EE --:Pcfcpthstrc: { home building. About $2,000,600,000
the Secretary de-
| more is spent per year for auto-
| moboiles than for home.
“In more than 150 of the larger
Pennsylvania municipalities nearly
|
{
same way that highways today | The average “hard-boiled” ex- |{$75000.000 was spent in the first
1 3 Q oll : : a hg Ni | or or ne
serve as main arteries, older Colum- | ceytive is just a “Caspar Milque- [ten months of 1937 for 35.000
. ” . . ol | . . . .
bians, recalled today. {toast” inside, Dr. Robert G. Bern- |building operations. Last year in
Construction of these waterways |reuter, p
marked an effort of the State to |The Pe

: a3
sychologist on the stag of {the same period 29,000 operat
nia State College | wert reported with an approximate
+

ions
speed up and improve transporta- |told 125 delegates to the third an- [value of $60,000.”
tion and travel facilities in re- nual vocational guidance confer- |
sponse to public demand. | ence held at the College November
Agitation for canals was so | 20th. {
great that by 1830, forty-two cor- | “He's tough because he’s afraid |
porations had programs for build- | to allow men under to ask reason-
ing a system of waterways morc able questions which he can’t ans-
elaborate and more comprehen- | ”, Bernreuter said. “Whenyou |
sive than that of any other state meet an executive with a “hard-
in the Union. | boiled cor
Impracticability, lack of finances

|

and pressure from competit
New residential construction this
year amounted to nearly $28,000,000
for 5000 operations as compared
with $20,500,000 for 3,800 operations
for the same period in 1936.
The trend of building values in
the State during the last ten years
followed a downward course, ac-
, be assured that |cording to Secretary Bashore. Val-
{he’s not quite big enough for his |ues decreased slightly following
e job. I have seen many instances | 1926, but it was not until 1930 that
railroads forced the cancellation of lof men increased in happiness when | the real drop was shown.
some of the projects. But by 1834 |they receive a demotion in rank.” |
Pennsylvania had about 673 miles | “Mrs. Milquetoast, beware of
of canals. | Ce ’ Bernreuter also told the
The two most important canals |
of the day were the Philadelphia
Columbia division and the canal | returns from the office. Men can |
between Harrisburg and Pitis- {stand just so much browbeating,
burgh. and then they explode.”
The latter was noted for its | T
Portage Rail division—whereby Patronize Bulletin Advertisers.

plete reversal of form when he

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Shadows on Classic Columns

: wet yg Photo from Penna, Publicity Commission.
This unusual camera study caught the shadows that linger
about the balcony of one of the beautiful buildings in the State
Capital group-—an attraction to sightseers in Harrisburg. Ground
was recently broken for a {win structure, the Finance Building,
in conformity with the, Brunner architectural plan. The view
above includes one of the pylons on the plaza eof the Memorial
Bridge.

For the next three years de-
| creases continued, until in 1933
: the depth of the depression was
jgroup. “He may show a com- |recached. From then until the

NATIONAL WRITERS
WILL VISIT STATE
To Tour Commonwealth As
Guests Next June
Writers and editors of magazines
and metropolitan newspapers
throughout the East will be guests
of the Pennsylvania Publicity com-
mission on a five-day tour of the
State June 13 to 18. Commission
Chairman Warren Van Dyke an-
nounced today.
Other guests will include rep-
resentatives. of all major automo-
bile clubs and outdoor organiza-
tions. Representatives of all the
states have also been invited. The
party is expected io number 100
persons.
The tour is sponsored by the
Publicity Commission, in co-op-
eration with the Pennsylvania
Motor Federation. the Pennsylva-
nia Hotel Association, and civic
groups in the several communities
to be visited.
Henry M. Scharf, is chairman of
the committee on arrangements
which also includes Warren Van
Dyke, chairman of the Publicity
Commission, S. Edward Gable. Col.
Ernest G. Smith, members of the
commission, and Orson N. Ritz-
man. executive secretary,
————— Pee
Mary had a little watch,
But now the watch is gone.
She swallowed it while walking,
Time marches on!
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When in need of Printing. (any-

level than any
340 operations, 20 of them resi-
dences costing an estimated total
of $69,165.

ing values grew increasingly lar-
ger and by 1937 reached a higher
since 1931.
The gain over last year was due
largely to increased activity in
residential building.
The peak in building operations
this year was reached in the spring,
due to an extensive school build-
ing program in Philadelphia. A de-
«
cline noted in September and Oct.
is attributed to a drop in the value
of commercial structures,
The average cost of new resi-
or
dential buildings in 1937 was $5526.
Last year it averaged $5363.
Of $26,094,759 estimated to have
been spent for building in Phila-
delphia from January through Oc-
tober, this year, $9,085,110 went for
2,010 new residences. In 1936 the
tolal estimated cost of building
over the same period was $18,487,-
360, of which $7,918,660 was spent
{or residential construction.
In Pittsburg this year $6,685,230
wage expended for construction,
$1,818,175 on 319 new residences.
In 1936 for the ten-month period
the total was $6,283,591, of which |
$1,199,473 was for residential build- |
ing.
Scranton’s building costs were |
estimated at $703,318 for 440 struc- /
tures in 1937, $78,500 for 18 new |
homes. Last year in the same!

d, $1,502,715 was spent 1
©
In Norristown this year, $1267,
916 was the estimated cost of 550
operations, eleven of them resi-
dences costing $43,985. In 1936
over the tne ten-oonth period 627
| operations were listed at $418,330
lof which 24 residences cost an
estimated total of $110.050.

D JMPLINGS are like the little
girl with the curl. When they're
good they're very, very good—and
when they're
not, they are
just culinary bad
news. The trick
with dumplings
is the leavening
of them to posi-
tively ethereal
lightness with
double-acting
baking powder.
Such dumplings make a lamb stew
welcome even in family circles
where the word “stew” is a red rag
to a bull.
Dumplings for Stew
1 cup sifted flour; 14 teaspoons
double-acting baking powder; - %
teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon melted
butter; 15 cup milk.
Sift flour once, measure, add bak-
ing powder and salt, and sift again
Add butter to milk; add to flour and
stir carefully until all flour is damp-
ened and soft dough is formed. Drop
from teaspoon on boiling stew:
cover very tightly and cook, with-
out removing cover, 5 to 7 minutes,!
according to size of dumplings.
Serves 6 to 8. :
DH Eee

INCREASED EFFICIENCY
IN INCANDESCENT LAMPS
The perfection of a new high
efficiency filament, which increased
the light output of incandescent
lamps ten per cent without using
additional current, was announced
by the General Electric Company
as one of its achievements of the
year. More than one-half billion
large incandescent lamps were sold
in the United States during 1937,
establishing a new volume record.
Including both large and minature
lamps a total of 955,000,000. also a
thing) kindly remember the Bulletinrecord, was indicated.

selection of home builling mater-
ials. equipment and furnishings,
without cost or any other obliga-
tion. This book is not offered for
sale and the publishers restrict the
distribution to the families who
neel it most, at this time. It is
available to all those who will
build homes within twelve months,
for their own occupancy, east of
the Rockies, at costs of more than
$4,000 exclusive of land. Readers
of The Columbia Broadraster who
qualify can secure their copies by
writing to the publishers. F. W.
Pa, giving ssucch information
about their new homes as location,
cost, short description and archi-
sent postage-paid.

THE MOUNT JOY BULLETIN, MOUNT JOY, LANCASTER CO. PA.

HOUSING UPTURN
1938 wili be another year of
active home-building. J. T. Little.
Philadelphia manager of the Home
Owners Catalogs division of F, W.
Dodge Corporation, looks to the
new year for a construction vol-
ume of more than 475—million
dollars in homes to be occupied
by the owners.
“The housing needs of about
65,000 families will be accomodated
during 1938 in the homes they
will build for themselves”, Mr.
Little commeats. “The continua-
ticn of this year’s interest in home

trend of The Great American
better living.”
In a grouping of all types of
family dwelling units, the Dolge
corporation estimates that approxi-
mately 210,000 will be built during
1938. This includes apartments.
two-family houses, developments,
houses for owners’ occupancy and
those built for sale or rent. All
of this work will cost more than
a built for sale or rent. All of
this work will cost more than a
billion dollars.
Families planning to build their
own homes, in this vicinity, may
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Owners’ Catalegs, a guide to the
Dodge Corporation, Philadelphia
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