Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-04
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Two years ago stocking factorle-.
were begging for ORDERS" said q woI.
ried-looking stranger in a downtown
hotel yesterday. "and to-day l can't
place single order at fancy prices
Tor immediate delivery. | have re-
quests for 10000 dozen of army gray
socks, of varying sizes, either all wool
or part wool, and / can't find anybody
TO do the work. ] do not ask the ordi-
nary market price. Indeed, am ready
to pay premium, but there is no
body | know Of and l have been all
over pennsylvania, who will book my
order or even u quarter of it. They
say the wool market is too high and
uncertain to take any chances. Glove
makers are in the same boat. | am
ready to contract for the manufacture
OF 100000 dozen pairs of gauntlets,
with thumb and forefnger all wool,
and there is nobody to take the order.
II you know of a stocking manufac-
turer or glovemaker who wants
work, lead me to him, and you won't
have to worry about your Christmas
money"
Demands. for blanks and forms on
which TO transact business with the
State Workmen'S Compensation and
State Insurance Fund Bureaus have
far outrun the supply available and
printers so that everyone affected by
the new laws when they so into effect
| on January | may be able to COM
muntcate with the bureaus. Judging
| from the mail which is being received
at the offices, many people are just
waking up to what the new laws mean
and are striving to make their ar
rangements in hurry. The demands
| made for the blanks are in many cases
out of all proportion and some of them
| nave had to be cut down. Few of the
applicants for forms and blanks ask
| 1or less than twenty-five at a time.
In addition there are all sorts of re-
| quests for Information about the new
| system, with the result that the post
| age bills of the bureaus have been
| soaring.
The bureau in charge of the en-
forcement of the child labor law will
start to send out its blanks about the
middle of the month and big orders
| FOR its printing are being pushed
through at the State printery.
State game wardens are having their
| annual troubles with the courts and
! the Attorney Generals department is
| arranging to have attorneys look after
the interests of the State where judges
have turned prisoners loose after they
have been convicted of violations of
game laws. Some instances have been
l
been issued after magistrates had I'M
posed sentences of a day for each dol
lar of fine and costs unpaid. In these
cases a reopening of the case will be
asked on the ground that it affects
public policy.
The curious yellow chalk marks that
have decorated downtown streets for
the past few days have puzzled many
pedestrians. They have appeared in
the forms of squares, oblongs, circles
and Irregular figures. A group OF
curious ones near the old Post Office
corner at Walnut and Court streets
yesterday morning watched a man
behaving most curiousy. First he
studied the asphalt most carefully for
many feet around. Then, quickly and
certainly, he stopped and began his
work with the chalk. drawing all man
ner of apparently meaningless signs.
Say, who are you, anyway one Of
the group managed to muster up cour-
age to ask. who? Me?" came the
counter-interrogation "Oh, I'm u
/, Highway Department inspector. I'nN
marking off places for the attention Of
the repair gang"
round of visits to the city markets
affords an interesting illustration of
whether the farmers are using auto
mobiles. In place of rows of farm
wagons, mud-Stained and more or less
showing signs of wear and tear, there
are to be seen numerous automobiles,
some of them rigged up with market
wagon bodies. bGt others which are
! plain pleasure vehicles turned into
| basket carriers.
DR.. Moses Stearn, who is exciting
interest in Philadelphia just now be-
cause he thought he was going with
the Ford party, is not unknown to
Harrisburg. The doctor has been Il
perennial candidate for something or
other and ever since 1t became neces-
sary to file nominating petitions for
Congress at the Capitol he has been
running" He has been a candidate
on several tickets not sponsored by
many people. one year he ran as
Liberal Sunday candidate and came
back two years later as the candidate
of the Stearn party. He came here
one year to file his petitions and edi-
fled the Capitol attaches by original
views on politics. When asked what
he thought of the Capitol he said he
would like to have his Office there.
Il Dr. Charles 3. Penrose, who was
elected a member of the Park Com
mission in Philadelphia yesterday, is
chairman of the State Game Com
mission and one of the best known of
the big game hunters of the State. It
is said that he has hunted in every
county in Pennsylvania even in rural
Philadelphia. The doctor is brother
of the Senator.