Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Seventeen Years in Harrisburg: A Look Backward
Looking now from the loftier buildings on the bluff be vond Paxton Creek to the westward the change is even greater. Miles upon miles of houses where seventeen years ago were fenced fields and vacant town lots. Going to and from my boarding - house in those days it was my custom to cut across the old reservoir ground at Sixth and North - now the site of the handsome High School building and many fine residences; then an unsightly hump of earth, all that was left of the first reservoir basin. Where a few of us erected a toboggan slide at Third and Reily Streets are now hun dreds of the most attractive of the city's homes. All the land from Reily to Maclay on the west side of Third Street was at that time practically vacant. To-day it is solidly built in modern blocks to a point beyond Kelker Street, and the builder ceaseth not. Away beyond Maclay Street and east of Third the city has made its way until there is no one with vision broad enough to see the limits of Greater Harrisburg.
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