Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-20

the latest figures are that 4,S54,0OO
bushels are held by growers, either for
higher prices or for home use.
Wheat crop conditions for 1915 are
to the effect that on March the crop
was 95 per cent. what can be classed
as an average, this condition being due
to the alternate periods of freezing
and thawing. 1t is a decline of l per
cent. as compared with January 1. A
larger acreage than usual was sown
| last fall.
Eight counties, all in the western
| part of the State, show conditions bet
| ter than the average in wheat Greene
county shows LOG lud Washington los
per cent. above the average. Other
counties above the average are Butler,
Clarion, Erie, Mexican, Mercer and
show the wheat to have been consid-
erably affected by the weather.
To Hold Hearing.-The Public Serv-
Ice Commission has adjourned its sit
| tings until April 6, but a number of
hearings and Investigations will be
held in various parts OF the State, the
schedule for which is now being pre-
pared. The commission will give
hearing some time in April to the COM
plant of the city of Pittsburgh against
| the Central District Telephone Com
pany. which will involve telephone
service for the Pittsburgh district. Ac-
| tlon in the Philadelphia suburban fare
case will probably be taken before
| long.
Education Hearings will
be given by the State Board of Edu-
cation next week on bills involving
educational interests, the board work
| ing in conjunction with the commit
tees on education Of the two houses
| of the Legislature. A number of bills
I have hnan IN af
request of the Governor and confer
ences will be held with committees
representing directors and others in
J terested.
State Healthy. - Except for some
isolated outbreaks of typhoid and scar
let fevers in the western end of the
| State, the general health reports show
n remarkably good condition. During
February reports to the State Depart
ment' of Health showed less than half
a dozen cases of smallpox
New Steel Company. - The appli-
cation for a charter for the Independ-
ent Heater Company, of Steelton, was
! filed at the Capitol yesterday. F. f.
Bailey, j. S. Householder and P. C.
Doll are applicants.
Increase, FiIed.-The Front-Market
Motor Supply Company, of this city.
has filed notice of increase of stock
from $4,000 to $751;
/ Another Hearing AslSed.-Joseph r.
Grundy, president of the Pennsylvania
Manufacturers Association, last night
in public letter to Chairman Snyder,
of the Senate committee on judiciary
special, and Chairman Cox, of the
! House committee on manufactures, re-
quested that another public hearing
on the child labor bills be held at an
early date for the express purpose of
discussing this particular feature.
Case Dismissed.-The Public Serv-
ice Commission has dismissed the COM
plaint of the Business Mems Associa-
| ton of Hatboro for the restoration of
the train which until November 21,
| 1914, left the Reading Terminal in
Philadelphia at 11.25 p. m. and ran to
lvyland. The testimony showed that
there was not sufficient public demand
to require the company to incur the
expense of the operation of this train.
1t was also shown that the people of
| Hatboro have two ways to return from
Philadelphia other than by train.
| First. by train to a station at Noble,
ON the main line of the Philadelphia
and Reading, and thence by trolley to
Hatboro, and second, directly by troll
ley from Philadelphia through Willow
| Grove to Hatboro.
A Saturday VetO.-GoVernor Brunl-
baugh to-day vetoed the bill to in
crease the fees of pilots on the Della
ware river declaring the time to in
crease is inopportune.
'The intent of this bill is to in
crease the fees of pilots on the Della
ware river" he wrote "These pilots
perform in capable manner an i'm
portant service. They deserve a lib.
eral compensation for their services.
In the present condition of business
! it does not appear. that they are now
Iunderpaid. Moreover, this is an un-
fortunate year not only for them but
! for all parties in interest in the COM
merce of the river. An earnest effort
| is being made to increase the business
of the port of Philadelphia. In this
increase the pilots will have a sub
stantial share. All increased fees at
| this time would interfere with the
general attractiveness to shippers of
J our port. If these pilots will bear
with patience their share of "a gen
eral depression they will win the good
will of all citizens and as soon as it
can be done in justice they should be
given assistance. The time to in
crease charges in the port of Phila-
delphia is inopportune.
To Visit Father.-Governor Brum-
! baugh is going to Huntingdon to see
| his aged father tomorrow morning
His father is i'll at the old family home
at Markelsburg near Huntingdon and
the Governor heard to-day that he
the rest of to-day and tonight here
and tomorrow he will go to Hunting
don, returning here at night.
Arbor Days.-Governor Brumbaugh
to-day fixed April 16 and 23 as the
l'Spring arbor days.
| Opinion on Drug Law.-Deputy At
torney General Hargest has given an
opinion that the Harrison law regu-
lating the handling of drugs exempts
only officers of any State Government
or of any county or municipality from
its provisions. The opinion given to
the superintendent of the Cottage
State hospital in Phillipsburg holds
1 that superintendents and other per-
sons attached to State hospitals are
not exempt. The opinion says, IF it,
! is desirable to have purchases of the
drugs mentioned in the act made by
the proper officers of the State Cow
ernment for your institution such pur-
, chases could be made by the proper
State officials and they would not be
within the terms of the act'
The BrlImm Case.-Governor Brum-
baugh will discuss the petition of
lC. F. Foley, of Pottsville, for an ex-
animation of the physical condition
of Judge C. n. Brumm. of the Schuyi-
kill county courts, with Attorney Gen
araI Rrouu whom he gets IN If The