Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-22

i EZ=EAA proVal OF its IN
ASzsIssz SsszEsEEasEzzS corporation on the
ground that there is no public neces-
sity for the service the company Of
fers to give. The opinion establishes
| a precedent The company asked the
right to operate in a district where
the evidence showed there were al
ready two companies and nothing to
establish that the service they gave
was inadequate or that any demands
had been made for service which they
/ had not granted. 1t was also shown
that the proposed company intended
TO obtain current from traction
company and to furnish current only
in portions of the township which did
not have electric service. IF the
commission could limit the territory
as designated 1t would be in effect to
relieve the corporation from certain
of the duties imposed upon it. The
grant in a charter is accompanied by
| certain burdens which have to be
met" says the opinion.
To File Briefs. The Public Ser
vice Commission has asked counsel
| for complainants and railroads in
volved in the charges that the ruIl
crew law is being violated to file
briefs. The commission now has
eleven allegations of violations before
| il, eight railroads being respondents.
| The companies claim that the COM
plants are based upon matters which
| are open to question under the full
crew act of 1918.
Two More Lineup. - Notice has
been received at the State Capitol that
Bedford and Monroe counties have
decided to appoint sealers of weights
and measures and to bring articles
used in markets and in business un-
der the general State inspection laws.
Juniata county commissioners have
the same matter under consideration
and there are less than five counties
/ in the whole State whose weights and
measures are not supervised. James
| Sweeney, State chief of standards.
! who has had charge of the bureau
since il was created, has been in COM
munication with the counties which
do not have sealers and expects that
the end of the coming year will see
all districts protected.
People Must Help. - State Dairy
and Food Commissioner James Foust
/ in his bulletin on the activities of his
| branch of the State Department of
Agriculture calls upon the public TO
I help the State enforce the food laws.
1T is recognized that unless the con-
sumner is interested in his own protec-
! tion the police agencies of the State
| cannot secure him entire freedom
from injury" says the commissioner.
To Push Appeals. - 1t is likely
that steps will be taken early in
, January to present to the Dauphin
county court appeals from decisions
| of the Public Service Commission
which were made prior to the act of
1915 providing that such appeals shall
/ be taken to the superior court. There
are half a dozen such cases. some OF
them of wide Importance. The other
! cases will go to the superior court
/ automatically.
Fifty-siX Exempted. The State
! Workmen's Compensation Board to-
day announced that flfty-siX corpora
| tions Cr other large employers of labor
! had been exempted from necessity OF
| insuring their compensation liability.
| having satisfied the board of financial
ability to meet claims which might
arise. In the number are the Phila-
| delphia Rapid Transit Co.. Philadel-
| phia and Reading Coal and Iron Co.,
| Atlantic Refining Co. Alan Wood Iron
| and Steel Co., Philadelphia: Pitts
burgh and Lake Erie railroad, Ritter
Conley Manufacturing Co. and Harbi-
! son Walker Refractories Co., Pitts
| burgh: Alpha Portland Cement Co.
L
| sylvania Coal Co. and Hillside Coal
and Iron Co., Dunmore: American
Telephone and Telegraph Co, New
York and General Electric Co., Sche-
| nectady.
+ Whitaker Named. Samuel A.
| Whitaker, one of the members of the
| Legislature from Chester county, and
! a second lieutenant in Battery C.
PhoeniXville, was to-day appointed
| captain of the battery to succeed Can
| tain Charles II. Cox, who resigned.
| Adjutant General Stewart also an
nounced that Second Lieutenant
! Thomas ]. Kernaghan had been ap-
| pointed captain and assigned to Com
pany K, 3rd infantry Philadelphia,
and Second Lieutenant Walter V.
| Kirkwood had been appointed first
lieutenant and assigned to Company
| e, 18th infantry. Dr. A. Raymond
Radhams, Wilkes Barre, has been ap-
! pointed a first lieutenant in the med
ical corps and assigned to the 9Th In
fantry. The resignation of First Lieu
tenant s. Y. Rossiter, Company G, 18th
infantry. Erie, has been accepted.
State Not Involved.-The State had
no funds in the Pittsburgh Bank for
! Savings which closed to-day.
! Hearings Held Today.-The Public
! Service Commission to-day heard the
Tamaqua- Eastern Pennsylvania and
| the Portage Water cases to-day. The
/ New Castle grade crossing case came
| up this afternoon.
Mr.. Gumbert Herc.-Among the
callers on State Highway Commits
sioner r. j. Cunningham to-day was
County Commissioner-ele A. c. Gum
bert. of Allegheny county who is in
ernor Brumbaugh.