Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-30
NEW COMPENSATION
ACT READY To READ
Commission Announces That Its
First Meeting Will Be Held
on Thursday

82VUO00uuE containing drafts
-..s=sss Of bills recon-
...s=A,--.: mended by 1t for
introduction in the next Legislature.
Inciuoed among the measures is an
employers liability act, similar in most
respects to the one originally passed
py tne state House of REPRESENTATIVES.
at the last session of the Legislat,,re'
put winch was amended by the Senate
ana nnaliy refused by the House. The
Dill eventually died in committee.
For a free discussion of this last
Dill drafted by the commission there
VIII be conference of delegates to the
Central Labor Union and all officers
oI traue unions throughout the State
az IhlIadelphia ON Thursday. James
III. Maurer, president of the Pennsyl-
Vanla State Federation of Labor. is ex-
pected to address the conference. John
Rrlce jackson, State Commissioner of
the department of Labor and Indus
try Is also expected to be present.
ASKS Hearing.-The PENNSYLVANIA
ltailroad Company has petitioned the
fuplic Service Commission for a.
nearing In the matter of the enforce
ment OF the order providing drinking
water and sanitary cups in the passen-
ger cars and agency stations of the
rallroad companies operated in this
state. 1t is claimed that the order
OF the Commission is unreasonably se-
we're and not necessary for the proper
accommodation of the travelling pub
lie. 5. Howard Smale, Of Reading.
complains of inadequate facilities for
the handling Of freight at the depot in
North Eighth street. between Helm
and Buttonwood streets, in the CITY
of Reading on the line of the PhiIa-
delphia & Reading. c. A. Jayne and
other residents of Skinners Eddy,
wyoming county, complain of the sta
ton facilities on the Lehigh Valley at
that point.
Join In CaSe.--The Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company has requested
permission of the Public Service Com
mission to intervene in the matter Of
the complaint of the Manufacturers
Association of York against the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, regarding
the rate on bituminous coal from the
CIearfield district to York. This is
likely to be one of the big cases of
the year.
State Charters. State charters
We're issued to-day to the following:
Merchants Realty Company, Philadel-
phia, capital $4,000; Bluebird
Amusement Company philadelphia,
capital $4,000; Chester Dairy Supply
Company, Chester, capital $4,000;
College Drug Company, State College,
capital $4,000; Eastern News Syndi-
cate, Philadelphia, capital $4,000; p.
Erwin Swartley, Inc, real estate.
philadelphia, capital $4,000; Jeffrey
Sales Company, automobiles, Phila-
delphia, capital $4,000; Star and Sem
tinel Publishing Company, Gettys-
burg, capital $4,000; Lincoln Stone
Co, Scranton, capital $4,000; Collins
System of Physical Culture, Philadel-
phia, capital $4,000; William G.. Ar
dis Sea Food Company, Philadelphia,
capital $4,000; Crystal Ice Company,
Wilkes Barre, capital $25,O0O Bloom
and Vasbinder, Inc, stone, ETC., Du-
bois, capital $4,000; Fairview Motor
Car Company, Reading, capital S5,-
600; Kreitner Bros, Inc, building,
Honesdale, capital $4,000.
Mellott to Run Again.-William e.
Tobias, Ferguson township, Clearfield
county, to-day filed q petition to be
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
ton for Congress in the Twenty-first
district. Five petitions for nomina-
lions to the House were filed as fol-
lows: George B. Mellott, McConnells-
burg, present member, Democrat,
Fulton; Charles j. Drardorf, Cash
town, Republican, Adams; C. F. Mil
Ter, Scranton, Republican, Third
Lackawanna; Dewitt c. Smith, Wells
boro, Washington, Tioga; James III.
Henderson, Glensida, Washington,
First Montgomery.
Up to Directors. - The ATTORNEY
Generals Department has given an
opinion to Secretary Bromley Whar-
ton, of the State Board of Public
Charities, to the effect that he should
address to the Board of Poor Direc-
tors of York county recommendation
for the erection of q new almshouse
in that county. The question arose
as to whether the poor directors or
county commissioners of York were
responsible owing to several acts of
the care OF poor.
Eight Vacancies.-Eight vacancies.
the largest number in a long while,
exist in the State police force to-day
and an examination of recruits will
be held Wednesday. The vacancies
are due to expirations of enlstments
and there is no lack of applicants
with regular army, navy and marine
corps experience as we'll as service in
the National Guard.
Hunt SmallpOx.-State medical in
spectors started out to-day to look up
SuSpecleu SludiipoA GASES III Lancaster
and Chester counties. Smallpox now
exists in four or five counties.
Mothers Pensions.-Fifty-s ap-
plications for aid under the mothers
pension act We're put through by the
Auditor Generals Department to-day
and probably as many more remain to
be disposed of. The forty-nine ap-
plicants which were returned to Phil
adelphia for correction are expected
within a few days and there were
five from Beaver county found de-
fective.
Work Goes On.-The rainy weather
is not interfering with the demon
stration of orchard methods according
to reports received by State Zoologist
III. A. Surface. The second week be-
gan to-day and there will be demon
strations in twenty counties
NEW WAX To DROp JUTnCEc