Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-28

SNSo hiOSl VI HIS llIlle discussion
ana explanation of the testimony re-
garding plant value and other financial
factors which IL is the contention OF
the Bell company should figure in de-
terminlng rates in this State. He also
outlined the practice of public service
commissions in other States and the
decisions of appellate courts on these
points. One of the points he sought
to bring out is that telephone plants
leaving all idea of good will out of
consideration are worth more then
the amount that it would cost to re-
produce them.
AT one point Commissioner Penny
packer interrupted to ask how the
commissions tentative rates compare
with existing rates of the Bell com
pany in this State, and was told that
ltne commission rates are so incom-
plete that the telephone companies do
not Know how to adjust rates that the
commissions schedule does not touch
to 1t. The best they can do is to guess
at IT, and on that basis it is their
opinion that the commission rate
would wipe out the present net and
would seriously reduce rates.
commissioner Pennypacker also asked
number of questions with a view to
getting direct statement from the
telephone company's attorney on the
justice and value of the commissions
POPuiotiOh bdSlS lOF rate making.
In Mr.. Pennypackers opinion popu-
lation is likely to be nearest to a cor
rect method because it is impossible
to put it on a basis of county or city
lines or upon any other arbitrary
method. To this Mr.. Marye replied
that ii is impossible to make any one
thing the basis for telephone rates
with any hope of making them equit-
able. AS for the population basis be
called attention to the fact that while
the telephone was first publicly exhi-
blted in this State, at the Centennial
exposition, the State ranks will down
the list in the matter of use of the
telephone in proportion to population.
1t is hoped that the argument will
be concluded to-day. Commissioners
Alney who was absent during the first
two days of the week on account of
illness presided when the commission
took its seat to-day
Three Reappointed. - Announce
ment was made by Secretary of Inter-
nal Affairs Houck this morning that
is. c. Wagonseller, of Shamokin, Miss
Inez carroll of Uniontown, and Miss
Jean Fahrney of this city, have all
been reappointed to the drafting room
of the department. The three reap
pointed were dismissed temporarily be-
cause of lack of appropriation.
Brashear to Aid Navy.-Prof. John
a. Brashear, named last week by Gov
ernor Brumbaugh as Pennsylvania s
foremost citizen, has been appointed
by Secretary of the Navy Daniels as
the second Pittsburgher to help select
board of inventors for the United
States Navy, to be headed by Thomas
A. Edison. Paul NJ. Lincoln, head of
the American Electrical Engineers
Society, is the other Pittsburgh man
appointed. Relative to the appoint
lFNNa UNf DpAF 4. I
Daniels has written an important let
ter, to the presidents of the national
engineering societies, namely, the
American Society of Civil Engineers
the Society of Electrical Engineers and
the Society of Mechanical Engineers
asking them to appoint two of the
most eminent and efficient members
OF their society, to be associated with
him in devising the best things in their
line of studies for the higher efficiency
of the navy of the United States.'
Medical inspection in Schools. -
Reports received at the Health De-
partment indicate that 2174 of the
1850 fourth class school districts in
the State will have medical inspection
during the term which will soon be-
gin in the country schools. This is
the fourth year of this particular ef-
| fort in behalf of the rising generation
and it shows by the far the largest
increase.
Wants to be Judge. Edward ]
Mullen, an attorney of Laporte, Sui
livan county has filed a petition of
nomination for presiding judge of the
ISullivan-Wyoming judicial district.
New Justices Commissions as
justices of the peace have been issued
to John Kenvin, Schuylkill township
Schuylllill county. vice James Hag-
gerty, resigned, and Harry w. Webb,
NShippensburg township, Cumberland
! county, vice Edgar A. lrunk, resigned.
Capital Stock Increases. - Notifica-
ton of proposed increases in capital
stock have been received at the office
of the Secretary of the Commonwealth
from the National Register Publishing
Company, of Wilkes Barre, from $5,-
900 to $4,000 and the Ridgway EIec-
trio Light Company from $4,000 to
$250,000.
Finch Promoted. - n. G. Finch
general foreman in the State High
way Department has been made act
ing road superintendent vice w. A.
Dilzer. dropped for alleged inefficiency.
The district where this change took
place is in Berks county.
Auto License Revoked. State
Highway Commissioner Cunningham
has revoked the auto license of Grove
ZelZer. of Warren. who has been con.
victed of operating an automobile
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