Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-23
SAFETY RULES IN
MORE INDUSTRIES
Milling and Tobacco Working viii
Be Given Benefit of the States
Precautions
Steps for studies


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llon of the workers in such industries.
The Board and Department of Labor
and Industry have committees drafting
regulations for about a dozen indus
tries, including blast furnaces, iron
and steel mills, foundries, textile and
other plants and preliminary studies
of the cigar and cigaret making fac
tories and the flour and grist mills are
said to have shown that some stand
ard rules are necessary.
Committees of employers and en-
ployes and experts will be named to
undertake the studies and to report
drafts OF regulations TO the Board this
Spring.
y standard rule forbidding smoking
in hazardous places is being drafted
by the State authorities
SupefintcndentS Coming. All SUI
perlntendents of State fish hatcheries
have been summoned to meet Superin-
tendent n r. Butler at a conference
in this city on Monday at which ideas
on legislation will he submitted and
recommendations adopted. The de-
partmental appropriation bills will be
drafted in the next fortnight and will
probably be so arranged that the ap-
preparations will be divided in the
bills.
Extensions of the hatcheries at Tor
resdale in Philadelphia and at some
of the western hatcheries are being
discussed.
The results of the planting of fish
last year and the manner in which
they survived will be reported on.
More fish are reported to have been
set out last year than ever before.
No Smoking Ordcr.-The State In
dustrial Board has announced that it
has adopted the following form of or
der which is to be used for fire pre-
Nention in industrial establishments:
Smoking is prohibited in every work
room or stock room in any factory or
work shop in this commonwealth in
which readily combustible material is
used, handled or stored, and in other
parts OF sucn factories where there
is an equal fire hazard" Copies of the
order will be issued to industrial es-
Establishments.
Must Give Whole Order.-An order
was issued to-day by the Public Ser
vice Commission to the effect that per-
sons publishing orders of the COM
mission for direction of patrons or the
public, must print the exact wording.
The order is as follows: ut having
come to the attention of the commits
sion that certain public service COM
,panieS have been sending out writ
ten or printed notices or other such
communications to their patrons, in
which they have attributed to the
commission, from time to time, the
making of alleged rulings, regula-
tions or orders which, in point of fact,
have not been made by the commits
slcn as represented, and thereby have
occasioned misunderstanding, confu-
sion and Inconvenience totheir patrons
and the public IN various matters, but
- urffl To na n
manner of payment of bills subject to
discount, it is hereby ordered that the
above practice shall be discontinued"
The order directs that the exact copy
is to be set forth at length by the
companies.
Governor to Speak. - Governor
Brumbaugh will speak tonight at the
dinner of the Five O'Clock club in
Philadelphia.
Commission Adjourns. - The Pub
lie Service Commission adjourned to-
day after four days sessions in which
numerous decisions were given.
The First RequisitiOn. The first
requisition to be granted by Governor
Brumbaugh was for Peter Kvolek, ar
rested in Ohio, and wanted in New
Castle. He is charged with horse
stealing.
Dauphin Notaries. Commissions
as notaries public have been issued to
A. w. Swengel, c. NJ. Hershey, Mar
garet NJ. Reichert and w. FL. Earnest.
Board to Meet. - The State Board
of Agriculture will begin its annual
session at the Board of Trade next
week Affiliated organizations will
meet It.
Last Day For TariTs-To-da was
the last day to file tariffs at the office
of the Public Service Commission. The
bureau in charge remained open all
day.