The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-30
No Changes Are Ex-
pected When Boards
Are Reorga aniz ed
Next Monday
POOR BOARD
NEEDS $4,000
Commissioners Will Act Late This Aft
ernoon on Request of the County
Sealer, Boyer, for an Increase in
His Salary

The County Commissioners and the
Directors of the Poor practically clear
et their 1914 calendars to-day pre-
paratory to reorganizing for the new
year in extraordinary sessions to be
held on Monday next. In Court House
circles it is practically conceded that
ali of the present county employees will
be retained. Isaac s. Hoffman, it is said,
viii again head the County Commits
sioners.
With four exceptions all of the eoun-
ty physicians connected with the Poor
Department will be retained for 1915
under resolution adopted by the di-
reetors at a meeting week ago. Har-
ly a. Walters, it is expected, will again
be elected to the presidency Of the
Poor Board and so far as can be learn
ed there will be no changes in the per-
sonnel of the persons now employed at
the Dauphin county almshouse.
Poor Board Needs $4,000
Through County Solicitor Fred NJ.
Ott, the County Commissioners this
morning informed the Directors of the
Poor that their requisiuon for an addi-
tional appropriation TO carry on the
department until the close of the pres
ent fiscal year must be submitted anew.
and the Directors said they probably
would have the estimate prepared by
late afternoon to-day.
The Poor Board originally asked for
$500 for this purpose, but it now is
believed that only $4,000 or $4,000
will be necessary The sum to be
granted will be determined by the
amount of the Poor Boards bills and
an estimate of the business to be taken
care of tomorrow. That the Directors
of the Poor had a big deficit and were
unable to pay their employees the reg
ular half month s salary Immediately
before the holidays, the County Commits
sioners said this morning, was not
known to the latter when the requisition
for $500 was offered week ago.
The Directors of the Poor this morn
ing confined their work to paying bills
and granting half dozen or more re-
lief orders. The County Commission
ers were gathering data on freproof
book cabinets, it being their plan to
purchase one for the County Control
Ter. They also approved the November
and December reports of Harry A. Boy
er, County sealer of Weights and
Measures.
Measures Are More Accurate
The Sealer's expenses for the two
months, aside from salary, totaled only
S21.42 He made 5S7 inspections,
sealed $50 scales, weights and meas
ures. adjusted As and condemned ri.
The benefits derived by Dauphin
county through the Office of the Sealer
are pointed out in Mr.. Boyer S latest
reports. They show the weights and
measures he inspected during 1914
were forty-one per cent. more accurate
than those examined during the CORE
spending period of year ago.
Comparisons made with the Decem,
Der records shows that this year the
weights and measures were thirty-nine
per cent. more accurate in that month
than those of December, 1913. The
Commissioners postponed until their
afternoon session consideration of the
request of Sealer Boyer for an increase
in salary.
Friday, New Year s Day, will be OBJ
served as a holiday by all of the coun-
ty officials so that to-day's meetings
were the last to be held this year.