Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
HILL CLIMBING AND
RACING FORBIDDEN
State Highways Are Not to Be So
Used by Automobile COntes-
tants, Commissioner Decides
IL RECRUITS FOR POLICE
State Game Commission Will Meet
Tomorrow to Outline Its Work
For the Coming Summer
State Hi g b W a y

State H | g W a y
in NJ 2 ~H Commissioner Cum
i NM QH/Aningham has forbid
! EN den hill climbing and
| RrrSNyS 1N speeding on State
| IL. .SZZzTsWs&NeJ II Highways and issued
! S%SEn3H2Jt1NNN orders that traction
HN 66o0SSx engines and trailers
4 Ill GaatafNhShstS will be heavily fined
HAINIWaTHVF if they do not obey
! E3gUSSSoSSA the laws governing
| -=EA operation of such
In a recent exhibition of fast ma
chimes in a speed contest on one of the
States main highways in western
county the roadway was so damaged
that the commissioner secured the
| opinion of the Attorney General on
his powers and issued an order to-day
that such exhibitions would not be
permitted. Similar orders were issued
regarding hill climbing contests, which
| have been found to be detrimental to
the highways. These orders will pro-
hibit any exhibitions of the kind dur
ing the coming holidays.
The commissioner has also issued
notice that every traction engine and
| trailer must have a license and will be
inspected to see that the requirements
are complied with. Traction engines
not engaged in agricultural work will
be watched and their owners held to
strict accountab bility.
To Enlist FouFteen.-Fourteen men
will be enlisted in the State police next
month and there are several times that
number on the list of applicants, prac-
tically every one man with expert
ence in the army, navy or marine
corps. The demands for services of
the State police at independence Day
demonstrations of various kinds are
several times the number of men avail
able. Most of the requests are for from
three to six men. Over fifty towns
have applied for men in the last two
days.
Game Meeting. - The State Game
Commission will meet here tomorrow
to outline its work for the summer
and fall. 1t is probable that some of
the new game preserves will be off,
cially located and action taken on
offers to lease land for preserves under
the new act.
The Special Grit. - Probably the
most interesting instance of detective
work on a chicken thief was revealed
by the affidavits in the requisition pro-
ceedings for William Wharton. Whar-
ton was accused of stealing chickens
from Stephen B. Twining, of Yardley,
and to have sold them to a man in
Trenton. Twining says the birds were
traced and Identification completed by
Sitting their crops and finding therein
"a special chicken feed and grit made
for our exclusive use" The Governor
has called upon the Governor of New
Jersey to surrender Wharton to the
sovereign people of Pennsylvania and
| he will be arraigned in Bucks county.
Must File by August 2.-The Public
| Service Commission has notified the
Philadelphia Electric Company that it
must complete it's inventory of prop
erty used in supplying electricity to the
public by August 2 and that hearings
on the Philadelphia municipal lighting
contract will be resumed August 10.
| New Armories.-The State Armory
Board has ordered specifications made
for the new cavalry armory for Phila-
delphia and apportioned funds for
| buildings in three districts. Washing
ton, West Chester Pittsburgh, Lock
| Haven, Mahanoy City and Hazleton
are being considered for armories.
Fair Fund Low. - According to
officials in the financial end of the
| State government, Pennsylvania will
have only $50, 900 to distribute as state
aid to agricultural exhibitions in the
next two years instead of 100000,
which was given for 1918 and 1914
! This is due to the Governors reduction
| of the appropriation for that purpose
and numerous inquiries are being
made as to how the money will be
divided. The 100000 appropriated in
| 1913 was pretty we'll used up in aid
/ to the fairs and exhibitions the State
contributing in 1914 S50,3S2.08, or
more than the whole allowance for
| 1915 and 1915. In 1913 the amount
given was $42,647.52 and in 1912
| S39, ,902.S5.