Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-06
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one only commences to realize how
many corporations have their homes
IN harrisburg and how widespread are
their activities in times when papers
are filed at the State Capitol certify
ing TO Increases In stock or debt or
other corporate matters. Scores of
| such papers have been put on record
| In the Department of the Secretary
| or the Commonwealth and the data
indicates that this city Is the Official
business place of scores of water. gas.
electric. traction and manufacturiuc e
companies. 1t is estimated by men
who are prominent in financial affairs
that over fifty water companies have
their nome here and that they are en-
sased IN business in score of coun-
ues. The same is true in a lesser
sense OF gas companies and they are
CONQUERED in probably a dozen coun-
tiee This city is the directing point
OF several railroad, trolley and lumber
corporations considerably removed
from Dauphin county. The above has
reference only to corporations doing
business within Pennsylvania There
are scores which have enterprises
throughout the United States and even
In canada and Mexico which have
onices in this city. Harrisburg capital
Is not inclined to be idle and appar
entity likes to work in distant places as
we'll as at home.
DIR. Joseph Kalbfus. the secretary of
the Game Commission. is of the
opinion that some of the arms of the
law throughout the State are either
SUN In the joints or else that they are
not being worked as hard as they
misht be. The doctors investigations.
which never stop, show that in many
places constables have not arrested
people for violations of the game laws
and that some indiscriminate shooting
curing the recent season cleaned out
usefui BIRDS. The commissioner has
Just sent letter to the judges calling
thelr attention to this laxity on the
part OF officers and requesting that
they pe brought up standing and
either be made to enforce the law M.
ne penalized for Indifference or worse.
Friends of II. L. Bodine, formerly
with the State Bureau of Industrial
STATISTICS and well known to many
darrlsburgers, were communicating
MIN Yesterday while he was in the citv
on mis- selection to be secretary of the
commercial bodies at Winston Salem,
N. Mr.: Bodine came here some
years ago from Tioga county and at
tracted attention by the studies he
made of PENNSYLVANIA cities and bor-
oughs under direction of Chief John
L. hockey. He was made secretary of
the commercial organization of Clear
held. He will have a larger field in
North Carolina, where he will take ut,
his work at once.
The Brelsford Packing and Storage
Company is helping along mighty
sood work which was started in chi
cago by the Swift Packing Companv
and which when YOU come to
think about it is not only based ON
humanity hut on common sense as
We'll The slogan is Throw away that
club" and the movement is to restrain
the stock drover from hammerinr
cattle with clubs, poles, forks and
other articles which come to hand and
Whlon men who are in charge of dumb
beasts are all too prone to use. Now
aoaFs we go after the man who beats
morse or stones a dog, but it has
propaolE not occurred to the average
man that when drover pounds a COW
w'tI ciup mat he is not only causing
needless suffering, in many cases. but
ln1uring our meat supply as we'll. The
packers Keep an account of a bruised
animal and the seller is held to ac-
count for It, Cruelty to cattle, it is
pointed out, is costly. The club i'm the
hands of hot-tempered droyer when
lald on the back of a steer means lust
that much loss. The advice given bv
the people who are back of this SEN
sipie move is worth while reading bv
many city and country people because
IL is Exercise care in handling Your
livestock AT home: insist upon careful
handl1ng in transit and at market"
Professor A Duncan Yocum. of the
University of Pennsylvania. who is in
charge of the university extension
work, is well known here. as he has
oiten visited the city and ranks high
among the faculty members.
The banquet of the Hope Fire Com
pany in celebration of its centennial
to-nlSht mas attracted much attention
from the firemen of the State, and the
otlcers OF the company TO-DAY re-
ceiVed congratulations from a number
OF organizations in the central sec
uon. Hhe Hope has been host to so
many hremen in their visits to this
city that the people who have enioved
It's hospitality are taking note of the
fact.
S. E. Eichelberger. of the staff of
the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
was here to-day to cover the meeting
OF the Public Service Commission. Mr..
Elchelberger has been Legislative cor
respondent for the Bulletin for several
sessions, and during the Capitol fur
nlshlng investigation by the Legisla
ture covered that important work for
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