Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-23

@BUgoUua the Johnstown
S-A Telephone Com
pany, interpreting
for the first time the provisions of
the Public Service Company Law re-
lating to the duty of one telephone
company to connect its lines with
those of another telephone company.
The Blairsville Telephone Company
is an Independent company operating
in the vicinity of Blairsville and con-
meeting with the lines of the Johns
town Telephone Company, operating
IN the vicinity of Johnstown. The
Windber Telephone Company operates
system in the vicinity of Windber
and also connects with the Johnstown
Telephone Company's lines, and the
complainant requested the commission
to direct the Windber Telephone Com
pany to allow messages received over
the lines of the Johnstown Telephone
company to be connected with the
lines OF the Windber Company.
At the hearing it developed that the
lines of the Windber Company were
already connected with the Blairsville
locality by means of the lines of the
Bell Telephone Company, and the
commission in its opinion decides that
where two localities are served by one
continuous line or by connections be-
tween the lines of two telephone COM
panies, another telephone company
has no right to demand connections in
the absence of testimony that the SER
vice being rendered is inadequate and
insufficient.
Seelye Leaves State Service.-Theo-
dore E. Seelye, division engineer of the
Water Supply Commission of Penn
sylvania, in charge of the design and
construction of dams and the super
vision over existing structures, has re-
signed his position to enter private
practice in engineering in partnership
with Farley Gannett, consulting engi-
neer, formerly engineer of the Com
mission.
The Water Supply Commission was
given supervision over dams in 1913,
as result of the fanure of the Aus
tin dam, which caused a loss of 81
lives and the almost total destruction
OF the borough of Austin. This work
was placed under Mr.. Seelye's direc-
ton and he and his assistant engi-
neers have. since that time, examined
and reported upon several hundred
dams to determine their strength and
have supervised the design and con-
struction of all new dams, numbering
almost $50.
Prior to his connection with the
Water Supply Commission Mr.. Seelye
was employed by the United States
al my EilSlllcGES pom the
of the great jetties at the mouth of the
Mississippi river below New Orleans,
and upon the navigation locks at Pla-
quemine, st. Martinsville and Donald
sonville, Louisiana, and upon other
navigation works in that State. He
was also connected with the construc-
ton of Notifications and sea walls at
Fort st. Philip on the Mississippi river
and later, for short time, in the office
of Gardner S. Williams, consulting en-
gineer. Ann Arbor, Mich.
Mr. Seelye joined the engineering
force of the Water Supply Commission
in 1913, coming from the Hydraulic
Design Department of the Electric
Bond and Share Company of New
York, where he was engaged upon the
design of hydro-electric power plants.
Mr.. Seelye received his engineering
education at the University of Michi-
gan, Ann Arbor, Mich, and is a mem
per of the Engineers Society of Penn
sylvania.
Smallpox in Greene. Report of
case of smallpox at Waynesburg,
the county seat of Greene county, has
been received at the State Health De-
partment and the county medical in
spector has been directed to make an
investigation.
Pure Food Suits. - Commissioner
James Foust has started ten prosecu-
tions for violations of the pure food
laws in the. courts of Philadelphia
county. Five are against dealers in
rotten eggs, three against soft drink
sellers, one against a milk dealer and
one against dealer in ice cream.
Judicial Petition Filed. - Judge
Charles E. Terry, who presides over
the courts of the Sullivan-Wyoming
district has filed petition to succeed
himself
Pan-American Delegates. - State
Highway Commissioner Cunningham
and Chief Engineer William d. Uhler
have been appointed by Governor
Brumbaugh delegates to the Pan
American congress which will be held
at San Francisco in September. DR..
w. D. Martin, of Washington county,
and A. P. Irwin, of Chester county,
have also been invited to attend the
congress as representatives of the citi-
Zens of the State.
Lease Approved. - Among the con-
tracts approved by the Public Service
was the lease of wires by
the Bell Telephone Company to the
Mutual Telephone Company in Cum
berland and Adams counties and the
sale of the capital stock of the York
Southern Telephone Company to the
Bell.