Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-11

Qe0l Dy inc SeCTe-
II -SoSzqsR.2NrJ tary of the Com
hS1S1H1JoM monwealth this
IL h6O6Skt week gives Penn
kh3fEfEsSk5 sylvania thirty-four
Ek4ARNFdRYHNM cities of the third
EHsSsSsaSwSA class, including
ku@sassaEz ssass::sssssaf operating under a
charter granted in 1918. but which is
rated as a~third class city.
1913, South Bethlehem also voting to
ed in 1874 and other acts relative to
that class were passed in 1876, 1889,
1911 and 1918. In 1889 general
third class city act was passed and in
1913 the commission form of govern
ment was established and acts passed
enabling boroughs to vote on the
question of becoming cities. Pottsville
and Connellsville came into the third
class under the act of 1911 and Beaver
rails and Uniontown under the act of
l9l3. South Bethlehem also voting to
become a third class city, but the cleo
ton was annulled Coatesville and
the Rethlehems will become third class
cities on January l. Dubois became a
city some time ago.
Auto Licenses Pay.-$212.OOO was
turned into the State Treasury in the
first ten days of December by the
state Highway Department as revenue
from automobile licenses for 1916,
constituting the largest amount ever
paid to the Treasury for licenses for
the new year up to this time in De-
cember. The applications for licenses
have benn received in greater number
than last year and thousands will be
issued before Christmas day. The
State has issued over 1890 licenses
Tor pneumatic tired automobiles this
year and for almost S,400 trucks.
Demonstration Work. State or
chard demonstrations which have
been in progress in the State at the
rate of from 25 to 80 per day since the
latter part of November will close the
end of the coming week. The demon
strations have been chiefly for pruning
and control of San Jose scale and sim
liar pests. Next Spring after the bios
SONS fall. the State will have demon
strations to kill the insect known as
the woolly aphis.
State After Estates. - The State OF
pennsylvania is prosecuting in the
courts of over fifty counties Of the
State something like 1000 claims
against the estates of persons who are
confined in State institutions as luna
tics and whose property is sufficient to
pay for their maintenance. This work
Whlcn was undertaken under the
Tener administration when it was dis
covered that considerable money could
be recovered, has been vigorously
pushed and hundreds of dollars are
now being collected every week. In
some OF the counties as high as fifty
cases haye been brought.
First Monday Cases. - The Public
Service Commission will hold its first
Monday hearings on applications fo'
approval or contracts between NUM-
cipalities and public utilities, agree
ments involving public service. incor-
porations and similar business on next
Monday and hereafter that day will
be devoted to such matters. The COM
missioners will meet on Mondays in
stead of Tuesdays. During next week
hearings will be held in this city and
possibly in Altoona, Scranton and
Bethlehem or Allentown. Hearings
may also be held in the western part
of the State. The following week the I!
crew" complaint cases being sched- |
uled for December 21.
Insurance Fund Work. - The State !
Workmen's Insurance Fund has so far |
toward organization that |
the rates Will soon be announced and |
the issuance of policies will follow !
very soon. The organization of this |
fund and of the compensation system !
have proved very expensive and have |
made inroads on the appropriations
made by the last Legislature for |
the purpose.
Officials Kept Busl. The de- |
mand for information about the State
Workmen's Compensation system |
and the features of the State Insur- |
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