Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-24
TRACKLESS LINES
WANTED ON HIGHWAYS
Application For Right to Occupy
State Roads Made to Com
missioner Bigelow
NOT LIKELY TO GET A PERMIT
Governor Inspects the New State
Sanatorium at Hamburg;
News of Capitol Hill

EskT5UUS@ sS0a others will be
---ss.--s-EA heard from before
- --.ssE1 very long. The orr
slhal application came from resi-
ueht or Montgomery county who has
asked If the State will permit him to
string wires over the State highway
ior the running of cars which will
nave broad wheels and not require any
track. He has offered to send detailed
plans for the line he proposes to OPP
crate. No mtimation has been given
as TO what the department chief Will
do about 1t.
Ever since the creation of the de-
partment there have been numerous
requests for the use of State highways
tor lines of various kinds, but all have
been rejected or else just put on file
as was done with the suggestion of a
man interested in aviation who wrote
to Mr.. Bigelow that in view of the
development of aeroplanes the State
should purchase or reserve land along
the chief highways for landing stages
for machines where they could repair
or replenish their supplies of oil and
also eat lunch.
| VIII ask Appropriation new
State Commission to make plans for
the establishment of State Institu-
ton For Inebriates and victims of
drugs Will make application to the
state Board of Charities when it meets
in the State Capitol on Tuesday for
approval of its financial outline. The
commission will ask enough money to
purchase a site and to commence it's
building program. 1t is expected that
other commissions named by the leg
islature to establish various institu-
tionS Will also make their applications
The boards sitting here next week
will be for Central Pennsylvania insti-
| tutions.
Home From Conference. - Deputy
Attorney General and Mrs. largest
nave returned from Washington,
where Mr.. largest has been attend
ing the conference of Commissioners
| on Uniform State Laws and a meet
ing of the American Bar Association
| The commissioners on Uniform State
Laws have adopted and recommended
for passage by the States of the Union
uniform act regulating the forma-
ton and government of partnerships,
uniform working1en's compensation
act, uniform cold storage act, very
similar in its provisions to the present
law of Pennsylvania, and an act max
ing uniform foreign acknowledgements
to deeds of conveyance. Deputy At
torney General Hargest was appointed
member of the committee on purity
of articles of commerce, which rec
commended the cold storage act, and
| of the committee on laws governing
the construction and maintenance of
highways. The other commissioners
| from Pennsylvania are Judge William
Fl. Stake, who is a member of the
executive committee, and Walter
George Smith, both of Philadelphia,
who is chairman of the committee on
commercial law, and member of the
committee on marriage and divorce.
Divides Cost.-The Public Service
Commission to-day issued a certificate
of public convenience approving the
mended plans and the location for q
viaduct from Butler street. in Penn
sylvania avenue, to Kidder street, in
the city of Wilkes-Barre. This certifi-
cate directs the city to enter into a
contract and provides that the amount
of the contract price be divided as
follows City, 40 per cent: Lehigh
Valley 25 per cent; Delaware and
Hudson, 17h per cent; Central Rail-
road of New Jersey, II 1a per cent. 1t
is estimated that the improvement will
cost about $S7
Visited the Capitol.-Several groups
of colored Baptists, here for the State
convention, visited the Capitol to-day
The guides escorted the parties during
| the morning.
Hamburg Ready.-Governor Tener
and Commissioner Dixon Today in
spected the new State sanatorium at
Hamburg, which has already been de-
scribed In the Telegraph. To-day was
also a public reception day and hun
dreds visited the beautiful buildings.
Monday patients will be received.
? Companies Quit. - The last few
weeks number of DEGREES of disso-
luton of companies have been filed
at the Capitol. Among them were
the Bellefonte Furnace Company and
Nittany Iron Company, of Bellefonte
Requisitions To-day. - Requisitions
| H. r.. r.. T.
Carmilo. arrested in Scranton and
wanted in New York for abandoning
children, and David Davis, in Ohio
who violated parole.
To Meet Thursday. - The Public
Service Commission will meet Thurs
day in Philadelphia. The New York
Central hearing will be resumed Fri
day in that city.