Excerpt from The Awakening of Harrisburg: Some Account of the Improvement Movement Begun in 1902; With the Progress of the Work to the End of 1906 To promote knowledge amongst the people as to the advisability of the large increase in the public debt proposed, an additional fund of was raised, the total of both funds, indeed, amounting to of which 90 per cent was contributed by the sixty citizens who pay nearly one-eighth of the taxes in the city. This, as previously mentioned, is equ1valent to a subscription of over in New York city. The preliminary organization was now made permanent, with the name of the Municipal League of Harrisburg, under a simple but model constitution. Surely Harrisburg might now lay claim to having awakened! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.