Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-31
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Although the third class cities of
| the state are Just commencing to get
the commission form of government
reaching the Capitol that the next
Legislature will be asked to make a
change in the method of governing
the third class cities which will pro-
vide an additional form or else create
new class. Objections are being
made In some cities to the expense
and plan of operation under the act of
1913 and statements that 1t has caused
| confusion and not produced results
have been made and denied with euual
| Elgor. The advocates of the reclassi-
ncation are contending that the group
| ing of all municipalities having be-
tween 10000 and 100000 into one
class works hardship upon the
smaller classes and there Is some talk
of reviving the bill offered in 1918 to
create four or five classes. those hav-
ing over 100000 population to be
the first, those between 100000 and
| .UO0,00O the second. those between
| 100000 and 10000 the third, between
$4,000 and 100000 the fourth and all
between 10000 and $4,000 to be the
n1th The Supreme Court refused to
| allow more than three classes In a
decision given about dozen years
ago. Advocates of the change in plan
OF government are demanding that the
power to legislate be taken from ex-
ecutive officers and are urging the
Pittsburgh plan of 1911, which does
not give the mayor power to legislate
as is done by the third class city act
These people would have the mayor
| and directors of public safety and
pubic works constitute the executive
pranch and have small council, the
size depending on population and the
manner of election to be either at
large or by districts. In all the dis
cusslon heard there does not seem to
De much desire to return to the bicam-
eral legislative system, but the small
council with members paid for SER
vices is apparently favored.
The meeting of the State Board of
Agriculture held here during the week.
while not marked by large attendance,
attracted more attention than this or
SanlZation has ever experienced To
begin with, it started off with an un-
usual program, designed, says Secre-
tary Critchfield. to let the representa-
tlNes or the great rural population
| know just what the State is doing, and
some very practical papers, notably
that OF Commissioner of Health Dixon
on waste of fertilizer through failure
TO apply sanitary methods, were pre-
sented. Then Governor Tener stirred
up the board by asking it to give some
practical aid in solving the highway
problem and Auditor General Powell
| got the farmers talking on the ever.
| important subject of taxation More
topics of real interest to the State at
| large were discussed at that meeting
than for years and years.
The first shadf1ies of 1914 have been
| reported, and duly attested. along the
Riverside road. Arrival No. l was
noted on Thursday when the thaw
came along and he roasted on the
pillar of a veranda. No. was re-
ported from North Front street and
NO. was noted at the Commonwealth
much to 'brag of, being small and
not very frisky.
What is the reason left-handed
! people always try to put revolving
door on the blink" asked a man yes
terday afternoon as he watched a large
and perspiring colored person en-
deavoring. to extricate herself from a
door machine and leave enough of it
| for ordinary traffic. II have noticed
that they go right in and try to push
the door around to the left, notwith-
standing the fact that the door is
always very hard to move. If they
! would reverse when they find the
movement is slow and difficult they
would get through a mighty sight
quicker and at the same time facili-
tate travel
! We'll. is the National Guard ready
| to go to war;" a friend joked with a
prominent guardsman, reviving a lest
which it was thought had been buried
some time ago.
always" replied the captain, but
why worry about it now? This isn't
April"
What does April have to do with
| it," demanded the first speaker.
! When did the United States ever
| go to war except in April?" demanded
| the Guard captain in return by way of
settling the matter.
Members of the Royal Fire Com
pany and the Harrisburg Railways
| Company management have rigged up
an arrangement whereby the motor
men on the Nineteenth street line can
| beware of colliding with the COM
! panys apparatus. The Royal fire
house entrance is close to Nineteenth
| just below Derry and when there is an
| alarm red light flashes out over the
| door. This is a signal to the trolley
men that there is a fire alarm and
! means stop and wait"
Fifty million more cigars are made
! in the Ninth internal revenue district
| which includes Dauphin county and
I thirty-four other counties in the State,
\ than any other revenue district in the
United States. During the four-month
period ending October 81, 1913, the
! report, which is just out shows that
| 330.362,2S6 cigars were manufactured
in this district.
| The three revenue districts of Penn
| sylvania in the same period produced
747, 7,923,956 cigars. No other State in
the country has a similar record. In
addition to being the greatest cigar
producing district, the Ninth shows
/ the greatest increase in the industry
A comparison of the same four-month
period of 1912 and 1913 ending with
october shows an increase in the in
dustry of 31,S95.506 cigars.