Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-19


ference will be made within a few
weeks
Since the veto of the bill repeating
the full crew law a complaint has
been made that one of the western
Pennsylvania railroads was not COM
plying with the law and 1t is possible
that 1t may be made a test case. This
case came from the McKees Rocks
lodge OF trainmen and 1t is intimated
that other complaints may be filed.
The commission will begin its
weekly sessions here tomorrow with
the Philadelphia milk rate and sew
eral other rate cases and the usual
number of contracts and grade cross
ing agreements listed. Only one ap-
plication for a charter for a public
utility has been scheduled for hear
ing this week. OF late there have been
several each week
To Attend Camp.-Governer Brum-
baugh will return from his vacation
in New England in time to attend the
encampment of the Second Brigade
and the Fourteenth Infantry at In
diana in August. This encampment
will be the last of the militia which
he will attend. The cavalry, artil-
lery and engineer organizations are
camping with regular army organiza-
tions of their branches of the service
this Soar.
Making Preserves Miles of wire
are being strung by employees of the
State Game Commission in a number
of the central counties to denote the
new tract of forest land which have
ben taken over for game preserves
Most of the new preserves are on
State lands, but arrangements are
now being made to lease others which
will enable establishment of preserves
in counties which do not have any
State forestry reserves. The stock
ing of the new preserves will be un-
dertaken shortly.
New Justices.-These justices of the
peace were appointed to-day: Alex
ander B. Mum. Glenwillard, Crescent
township, Allegheny county, and c. s.
Peck, East Waterford, Tuscarora, Juni-
alta county.
Held Conference.-Acting Chairman
Winey, of the Public Service Commits
sion, to-day held a conference with
chiefs of bureaus of the Public Service
Commission on pending complaints
and some decisions will probably be
announced within a few days. The
conference was the third to be held for
the purpose of speeding up the work
of the commission.
Pay This Week.-Attache of the
departments of the State government
month of July this week. Most of the
departments have agreed to the Auditor
Generals suggestion that there be one
pay day in the third week of the month
instead of semimonthly pay.
Charters ISSued.-State charters is
sued includes: Mees Bakery, Philadel-
phia, capital $1,000; Borough Park De-
velopment Company, Stroudsburg,
capital $4,000, and A. H. Hoffman,
Inc. Landisville, capital $4,000.
Nineteen Observation-Disclosures prose-
cutions were brought for violation of
the womens and minors employment
laws in five days last week by the
Department of Labor and Industry
Ten of them were for violation of the
women's law, mainly in mercantile es-
tablishments
School Money Still Held Up.-Pay-
ment of State school money was de-
clared to-day to be likely to be held
up for several weeks owing to the re-
ported insuff1ciency of state revenue
and necessity of establishing special
funds out of the state revenue.
Shearer Increases. The Shearer
Manufacturing Company, of this city,
to-day filed notice of increase of stock
from SIS, 900 to 100000.
Major Pearce Ill. Major e. w.
Pearce, of the Auditor Generals de-
partment, is seriously i'll at his home
On Lake Trip.-Hale Hill, corpo-
ration clerk of the Auditor Generals
department, has gone on a lake trip.
DR.. Dixon Honored.-Dr. Samuel G,
Dixon, State Commissioner of Health,
has been awarded a gold medal per-
sonally for his work along health and
sanitation lines by the superior Jury of
the Panama-Pacific International Ex-
position. The award is in addition to
that given the State Department of
Health for the public health exhibit at
the exposition. The award was made
In recognition of the fact that the dis
play at San Francisco represents the
product OF DR.. Dixon's personal ac-
tivity of almost a lifetime.