Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-08

olu ana capable of taking care of
themselves and the distribution will
ne on the most extensive scale ever
known in the State. Incidentally, the
trout have all been distributed to peo-
pie who have given assurances that
they VIII look after them and make
reports. Many of the individuals and
CLUBS receiving trout for planting"
had charge of similar work a year
ago and made reports. The trout are
being shipped mostly from BelIefonte
and the Erie county hatcheries.
Large quantities of young catfish.
black bass. sunfsh. perch and blue
glils are also being sent out and while
the low water has interfered to a GER
tain extent with the planting" good
results have been obtained and more
VIII be sent out later
Many thousands of young frogs are
being sent out, quite a few consfgn-
ments going to farmers who took ad-
vantage of Commissioner Buffers Of
Ter to send them "bullies" for their
ponds and streams.
After Bad Cornmeal.-Dairy and
Food Commissioner James Foust has
started an investigation into the quail
lty OF the cornmeal being sold in the
state now that the season of corn
cakes and sausage is coming around.
his attention having been attracted
to some adulteration turned up by a
chemist in a sample bought in PhiIa-
delphia. Similar mixing of the flour
with materials that did not belong to
1t has been reported from other coun-
ties. IL has been years since corn
meal has been under suspicion. 1t is
largely a native product and made by
small millers, but there are some
brands which have fallen from their
hitherto high estate.
Nomination Changes. - Thomas S.
Cole was to-day substituted as Wash
lngton party candidate in the First
Delaware Legislative district for H.
NJ Mccoy, withdrawn, and Harry p.
ogden. substituted as Washington
nominee in the Second Delaware for
II. NJ. Lutz. withdrawn. Carl A New
burg, Washington candidate for SEN
ator in the Twenty-siXth district, filed
withdrawal to-day
Big Hearings.-The Public Service
Commission to-day heard the proceed
ings in the proposition of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Railway Com
pany to cross certain PHILADELPHIA
strets above grade and it will take a
good part of the day. Tomorrow the
Conshohocken Water Company case
Will come up. In this case the whole
matter of complaints about the
Springfield Consolidated Water Com
pany will be taken up.
Firemen at Capitol. - The Capitol
was visited to-day by one of the larg-
est crowds in months. Whole fire
companies were taken through the
departments by the guides.
Took Part of Day Off.-Capitol Hill
took part of to-day off because of the
State firemens parade. Men in the
departments had visitors from their
home towns and things were rather
slow on the hill" even the depart
ment chiefs going to see the flremen
and to listen to the bands
Spoke at Atlantic City.-Dairy and
Food Commissioner James. Foust
spoke yesterday at the meeting of the
Keystone State Ice Cream Manufac-
turers' Association in Atlantic City
and com plimented them upon the
forts they are making in behalf of
cleanliness. The great increase in the
business done by ice cream manufac-
turers. he said, was due to the rec
oSnition by the public of the fact that
they were doing all they could to i'm
prove conditions surrounding manu-
facture.
Approved Crossing. - The Public
Service Commission last night ap-
proved the details of the proposed
crossing of the Elizabethtown and
Deodate street railway over the tracks
of the Cornwall and Lebanon in Mount
JOY township, Lancaster county.
Among contracts approved were the
Lebanon and Lebanon Gas and Fuel
Company Milton and Turbotville and
northumberland County Gas and Elec-
trio Company Crossings of the Sum
bury and Susquehanna railroad were
approved together with a number of
charters for electric companies in
Erie, Cambria Chester and Schuylkill
counties.
More Arrests.--More arrests for the
failure to observe the act of 1913 gov
erning the employment of women
have been made by agents OF the State
Department of Labor and Industry
Most of them were in PHILADELPHIA.
To Investigate.-Dr. c. J. Hunt. as
sociate chief medical inspector. will
go to Johnstown tonight to make an
investigation into the causes of the
typhoid outbreak In that city.