Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-22

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gun are unusually Important because
last year the Governor took the boards
recommendations as his guide in ap-
In Philadelphia yesterday forty
eight institutions make their appii-
cations and to-day more are expected
10 present their estimates The hear
ings Tor this district will be held at
the capitol next week, commencing
on October 27.
The institutions heard from nearly
an ask increases. which the board will
any action.
new Preserve.-Four members OF
the state Game Commission, Messrs.
Ia US, Fenrose, McCaleb and Phil
lps, nave agreed upon the site for
another State game preserve, subject
10 the approval of the Forestry De
partment. 1t is located at a. point close
10 where Lycoming. Potter and Clin-
ton counties join and contains about
watered land.
STATE Tax Cases.-Judge McCarrelI
to-day gave a decision in which he
neid that the Standard Underground
Gaple Company was entitled to be re-
heVed from State tax on $3.50, 600 of
held to be part of manufacturing CAPT
tal. The case is similar to that of the
Stetson company. Ns
Hamburg Plans. - The new State
tuberculosis sanatorium at Hamburg
VIII De inspected by Governor Tener
ana Dr. samuel G. Dixon, Commits
sloner of Health. on Saturday. DIR.
Dixon announces that the public is
invited to inspect these buildings dur-
ing the afternoon of Saturday, October
"a, and all day Sunday, October %.
! The new institution will have q "a.
pacity of 4S0 patients and is comnlete
IN every detail. Every modern facility
Tor the comfort. care and treatment Of
the patients has been installed. on
Monday following the public inspeg-
ton patients will be admitted to the
sanatorium.
Attending Joint Meeting. - secre-
tary OF Agriculture Critchheld and
state veterinarian Marshall are at
Albany attending a joint meeting on
veterinary laws. No cases of foot and
moutn disease have been reported
since the warning was issued.
Armory Board Meets. = The State
Armory Board is in session at the
capitol and something will be done
regarding the Lebanon armory. The
bids for the Allentown armory have
peen rejected as too high.
Trouble i'll the NcsI. DR.. c. J.,
Hunt, associate chief medical inspec-
tor, has gone to Donora to Investigate
twenty y-seVen cases of scarlet fever
He will also go to Monessen, where
there are fortyfour cases of typhoid,
and to Swissvale, where there are
twenty-five cases of typhoid
Inspectors Meet. - State vZoolosist
Surface has the orchard inspectors
mere this week for instruction in
methods of preventing spread of the
| 'borers" which have been reported as
increasing in many orchards Instruc-
ton will also be given in methods of
IDfeDArlnR trees inf he
onstration work will start shortly.
Pure Food CaSeS.-Dairy and Food
Commissioner Foust has ordered pros
ecutions for the sale of fish, fruit and
various foods in Philadelphia which
were found unfit for food. Four ar
rests for sale of adulterated milk were
also made in Chester county. The d.
vision has issued 425 oleo licenses since
October began and is putting out its
list OF Gamers, creamery owners and
condensers.
Interest I'm Cases.-Capitol Hill IS
taking q big interest in the contest of
the Democratic nominations of Wal
nut and Robinson in the Seventeenth
Philadelphia district. If they fall
many of the Democratic State commit
tees fusion nominations may go down.
Public Service Hearings.-The Pub
lie Service Commission to-day heard
the testimony in the industrial rail-
road cases of the Alliquippa and
Southern, Northampton and Bath and
Monessen and Southwestern, the cases
of two other roads having been post
poned. They will be heard November
and the argument will be heard Mo-
vember 10. The New Wilmington
Water Company case was also heard
and this afternoon the New York Gem
trail merger came up again. The West
Chester complaints against the Sub
urban Gas and Electric Company were
also scheduled. r#
Harrisburg Charter. - Governor
Tener to-day approved the charter of
the Young House and Home Company
of this city. The capital is $4,000 and
the incorporators are A. c. Young,
p. M. Young and M. B. Cumbler.