Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-15
SHARP ATTACK ON
VALLEY RAILWAYS
Marysville Resident Files Com
plant With Public Service
Commission

Trolley car service maintained be-
tween Harrisburg and Marysville by
the Valley Railways company is sharp
ly attacked by John f. Shannon, Jr.,
a resident of Marysville and employed
in this city, in a complaint filed with
the Public Service Commission to-day.
The complaint is supported by a pa
per signed by eighty residents who
certify that statements made by Shan
non are correct. Mr.. Shannon con-
tends that the cars are dirty, unsani-
tary and unventilated, abnormally
and unbearably crowded; that the law
against splitting on the floor is not OBJ
served; that the car service is INSULT
cient, especially at certain times and
rush hours; that cars are so over
crowded that it is criminal" and
against good health; that cars made
| for forty persons are made to carry
60 and so; that he has to hang on a
strap for the whole ride from Harris
burg to Marysville; that owing to the
| situation the company cannot main
tain it's schedule and that some times
cars have to be dropped out, thus ag-
gravating conditions. Mr.. Shannon
states that he and neighbors petitloned
for more cars. but charges that the
petition was ignored"
The Kennedy Refractories Com
pany, Bainbridge, capital 100000:
National Underwriting Company, Sun
bury, capital $4,000, and d. F. Stauf-
| fer, Biscuit Company, York, capital
$150,000, were incorporated to-day.
The State Board of Pardons to-day
heard over thirty cases, including those
| on the Dauphin county list. In the
Cambria county murder case in which
pleas were made for two men SEN
| fenced to die it was contended that
they had not committed the murder
but that the real culprits were in Italy
| The appeals for the rehearings in the
Delaware and Philadelphia murder
| cases will come up later to-day.
| Highway Commissioner Cunning
ham and Chief Engineer Uhler are in
Scranton arranging with the Lacka-
wanna county and Scranton officials
for purchase of two turnpikes leading
out of Scranton.
| Samuel Raymond Fay, Dauphir
county. and C. w. Mcclure, Blail
county, were appointed Pennsylvania
railroad officers to-day.
] The Blough Shoe Manufacturing
Company. of this city, to-day filed no.
tice of increase of stock from S82,.
$50 to $S4.125.
| Capitol visitors to-day included G
FL. Meyer and l.. r. Riegert, promi-
nent Lebanon lawyers; e. M. Abbott
1
district attorney of Chester county
| Congressman j. r. K. Scott, Philadel.
phia: ex-senator John T. Murphy
Philadelphia; Chester P. Ray, execu-
tive officer of the Panama Pacific Ex.
position commission; A. =. Farquhar
of York
| C. A. Baker, Mcclure, Snyder coun.
ty, and B. A. Filbert, Schuylkill Haven
were to-day appointed notaries.
| An Allentown dispatch says: "W
D. B. Ainey. chairman, and ex-Gov'
nor Samuel w. Pennypacker, of the
Public Service Commission are sitting
here to-day taking testimony in com.
plants against the Lehigh and New
England Railroad Company concern
ing grade crossings in East AlleT
township and against the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad Company anent grade
crossings between Bethlehem ant
South Bethlehem. Testimony is alst
being taken in the case of the borough
of Bath which seeks to void it's light
ling contract with the Lehigh Naviga
ton Electric Company"