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

rectors take immediate steps to as
certain if buildings are properly equip
ped with fire escapes and exits and
above all that the fire drills are kept
up and the pupils instructed how to
reach exits and what to do In case of
fire.
This request was made by direction
of the Governor and the announce
ment had barely been made before
some of the school authorities gave
notice to the board that inspections
were being made and that special
pains were being taken in many dis
tricts to so thoroughly drill the pupils
that they would not be in danger of
either fire or panic.
The State Board has asked for re-
ports on conditions in every school
house under its general supervision
and this data will be the first of the
kind to be filed here. In cases where
bad conditions are discovered from
the reports or inspections steps Will
be taken to correct them under
authority given by the school code.
Public Service. - The Public Serv-
ice Commission. which is holding hear
ings in Pittsburgh and Greensburg this
week. will meet in Harrisburg on
Tuesday with a big calendar of mu-
nicipal contracts and similar matters
to be taken up. The hearing in the
Philadelphia Electric case, which in
wolves the biggest physical valuation
proposition ever presented to the COM
mission, will also be taken up. The
following week some of the commits
sioners will sit here in the one-way
ticket hearing.
Full Crew Cases. - Eight addi-
tional complaints alleging specific
violations of the State full crew law
will be filed against railroads of
Pennsylvania next week by members
of the legislative committee of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
and the Order of Railway Conduc-
tors. The committee will meet here
on Monday to prepare the papers.
These complaints will be supplement
tai to the three taken up last week
and will put the various questions
arising out of the law before the COM
mission. In number of instances
railroads are declaring that what are
charged as violations are nothing of
the kind and the differences will be
threshed out before the commission.
Rates Due Soon. - Announcement
of the rates of the State Workmen' s
Insurance Fund will probably be an
nounced next week. The members of
the State Board are at work on the
classifications and schedules and are
studying out various questions which
have arisen as to scope. The board
experts are making a number of in
vestigations in other States.
Member Here. - Representative w.
L. Adams, of Luzerne, was at the
Capitol yesterday, accompanied by
Editor Flad. of Freeland.
Asking Bids.--Bids will be asked at
once for the new State bridges in
Northumberland and Bradford coun-
ties.
Diphtheria in York County. - Ac-
cording to reports received at the State
Department of Health last evening,
thirty cases of diphthefia have ap-
pcared in Heidelberg and Jackson
townships. York county. They are
among people who attended love feast
in a church in that district.
Asking Answcrs.-The Public Serv-
ice Commission has called upon the
Riverton Consolidated Water Com
pany to file an answer within five days
to the complaints of refusal to extend
its water mains
More Electric Charters
for seven electric. companies to OPP
crate in Beaver county have been ap-
proved by Governor Martin G.. Brum-
baugh. The companies are Industry,
Georgetown. Glasgow. Ohio Township,
Potter Township and Center Township
Light Companies. to operate in dis