Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-22

S=->>=s@a@ that place and
that the present arrangement is in
convenient to shippers. Goods are
| received and shipped at Annville, two
and a half miles away Attorney e.
wv. Young, of West Chester, represent
I ing residents of Pocoppson township
| files a petition against the Philadel-
| phia and Reading, West Chester Street
| Railway Company, the State Highway
| Department and the county of Ches-
ter in the matter of complaint as to
a grade crossing on the public road
| leading from West Chester to Ken
nett Square. +. d. Logan, of EN-
porium. notifies the commission of
the existence of three dangerous grade
crossings over the Buffalo division of
the Pennsylvania in Cameron county
about three miles north of the bor-
ough of Emporium.
| j. P. Dohoney, investigator of acct
dents, is investigating the accident
which occurred near the PhoeniXville
tunnel of the Philadelphia and Read
ing last evening and the wreck on the
Baltimore and Ohio at Chester Sat
urday night.
The commission has dismissed the
complaint of Edward j. Meter, of
Electric Company. The complainant
was using current furnished by the
respondent for two purposes, T. e.. for
lighting his house and for operating
the motor used in connection with an
X-ray machine, and he objected to
installing two meters.
To Make Visit.-Of1cials and engi-
neers of the State Water Supply Com
mission will spend several DAYS this
week making an inspection of the ter
ritory embraced in the Pymatuning
swamp reservoir project, which was
surveyed during the last year in order
to ascertain what II will cost to coll
lect the waters of part of Crawford
county and insure a regular flow of
water through the important indus
trial districts of Mercer, Lawrence
and Beaver counties. The project has
been urged for years, chiefly because
OF the damage done by the periodical
Hoods that have inundated Sharon.
New Castle and the other iron and
steel towns, and the Legislature of
1913 made an appropriation of
100000 for start 1t is expected
that the whole proposition will cost
over million, as a gigantic reservoir
must be erected and property bought
to form the storage lake, but Il will
bring a return. II is figured in the
prevention of damage. This year the
whole area to be covered by the dam
and the storage basin as we'll as in
any way affected by the back water
has been surveyed, a. district dozens
of miles in circumference. Test holes
on the site Of the proposed dam and
regulating works have been drilled
and studies made of the water sources
and the geology of the district. Ulti-
mately Ohio will probably be inter-
ested in the project.
Drafting Codes. - Drafts of codes
for the safe construction, installation
and operation of boilers and elevators
of all kinds will be submitted to the
State Industrial Board probably at the
meeting in October. Special commit
tees 9hnrfnp drnff &c
have been securing information from
the headquarters of the big engineer.
[ ing societies in New York, experience
: of railroads and steel corporations and
casualty and inspection companies. II
is also probable that further stems
, toward a simpler form of accident
insurance will he ready late in the
fall.
Powell Is President.-Auditor Gen
: eral A. w. Powell was to-day notified
that he had been elected president O.
/, the National Association of State Audi
tors and Comptrollers at the conven
tion held in Denver last week. TIL,
, Auditor General will accept and ar
! ! range for meeting in the East mex
! year. William Sohmer, Comptrollel
of New York, is a member of the ex
ecutiVe committee.
acquisitions Honored.-Requisit
from New Jersey were honored at tn,
: Capitol to-day for the return to At
lantic County of Thomas Barnett, ac
> cused of murder, and Robert Lyl,
Mason, charged with grand larceny.
J Argue isdiction.-Attorneys rep
resenting the Pennsylvania Utilities
> Company, the Lehigh Navigation Elec
. trio Company and the Public Servic,
Commission have laid before the Dau
phin County Court a case which in
: wolves important powers of the com
! mission. The commission refused t.
grant an order asked by the Utilities
Company for the Lehigh to quit ter
ritory it claimed in the Monroe
Northampton, Pike district, and al
: appeal was taken to court. The at
=. torneys for the commission and tn,
; Lehigh contended that the court
: coulrt not compel the commission t.
issue such an order as asked, the com
Increase Filed. - The Allentown
Crockery Company to-day filed notic
at the State Department that IL hat
increased its debt from $4,000 t,
v 100000.
More Standards. = Arrangement
have been made at the State Depart
ment of Labor and Industry for com
= mittees in charge, of standards 70
O safety in operation of foundries AM
abrazing and grinding machinery 4
5 undertake drafting of safety regula
= tions. The latter will meet Tuesda,
. ana tHe lOuHuTS men OH wednesday
The department brought twenty suit
between September IA and 10 for VIC
8 lation of the labor laws.
S Will Attend Banquet.-State High
way Commissioner e. B, Bigelow will
attend the annual banquet of the Au
s tomobile Club of Chester county a
Honey Brook, Chester county, Thurs
l, day.
Rifle Practice Order.-Conference
> on the rife practice of the Nationa
= Guard are being held at the Adjutan
= Generals Department this week an,
:, lit is expected that an announcement
. of interest will be made within a fey
) days.
"White List" Now.-State Zoologis
Fl. A. Surface has prepared a sub
division in his list of orchards, givin
: those owners whose orchards are sci
d entifically treated The list of orchard
= gives details of the trees and yield an