Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-28

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state Highway Department says that
1t has been found necessary to warn
applicants that requests received on
1914 blanks will not be accepted. In
securing a registration and license
tags application must be made on the
1915 blanks, which are being sent out
as fast as requests are received.
1t Is hoped that by December first,
when shipment of the 1915 licenses to
early applicants will be made, a large
portion of the owners in Pennsylvania
VIII have their applications in. The
automobile division expected that a
larger number would avail themselves
pr the opportunity to secure new IL
censes early than has done so. T. C.
Boyd, registrar of the automobile divi-
sion, said that he hoped there would
be marked increase in the number of
the applications as a result of the no.
tice issued to-day.
Mfr. Whited to Speak.-A. d. Will
liams, chief road engineer of West
Virginia and head of the Railway and
Highway Department of the Univer-
sity of West Virginia, has invited Will
lis Whited, engineer of the State
Highway Department, to deliver a lee
ture before the county engineers of
West Virginia, on the subject of
Bridge Floors" In his letter to Mr..
Whited Mr.. Williams explains that
the State law requires the Railway and
Highway Department of the university
to give annually ten lectures to the
county engineers which they are re-
quired to attend. The lecture term
this year will be from December l to
December IL. Mr.. Whited has ac-
cepted the invitation and will go to
Morgantown on the date that Mr. Will
liams selects.
Local Charities AppIy.-The State
Board of Public Charities to-day con-
tinued it's hearings on applications for
recommendation for appropriations
from the next Legislature. hearing
several Harrisburg institutions among
others from York, Reading, Wilkes
Barre, Williamsport and other places.
The Home for the Friendless asked for
$1,000; Children's Industrial Home, for
$4,000; Nursery Home, $4,000 while
late to-day the Sylvan Heights Or
phanage, Messiah Orphans Home and
Crittenton Mission made applications.
The board will adjourn tonight.
Walnut Still Kicking.-Represen
tive 7. Henry Walnut, who was
Knocked out of the Democratic nomi-
nation in the Seventeenth Philadelphia
district, is endeavoring to get on the
ticket and trying to hold up the print
ms VI TIE DdllOl SeI MS name llSteQ.
Injunction Continued.-The injunc-
tioE of mine workers to restrain mine
inspectors from examining men as to
experience in mines pending decision
of the certificate case has been con-
tinued in the Dauphin County Court.
Mary Slaughter Here.-Mary Slaugh-
ter, who founded the Home for Aged
Colored People at Williamsport, and
who mortgaged her home to keep il
going, came here to-day to ask a State
appropriation. An item of $1,000
made to pay debts by the last Legis-
lature was incorrectly stated in the bill
and could not be paid. Assurance OF
aid in drafting the bill was given by
Bromley Wharton and c. p. Rogers, Jr.
and 1t will go through correctly next
time.
To Speak at Altoona. = Highway
Commissioner Bigelow will be the
guest of the Altoona Chamber of Com
merce at the good roads meeting in
that city tonight.
Fifteen Dollars Fifteen
dollars in notes was sent to the Treas
urer of Penna" to-day by someone in
Pittsburgh with a scrap to tell for
what it was intended. 1t went to the
conscience fund.
Baldwin Here. - Ex-senator Frank
E. Baldwin, of Potter county, was here
to-day.