Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-01
TREASURY FUNDS
ARE NOT So HIGH
End Of April Finds Smaller Amount
in Cash Than at the Close of
March Business
The statement of

-, @--A-Ai----~sAsEz April business is as
Receipts-General fund. ss14.462.-
s6; sinking fund, s12S.54; school fund,
S2,676.S6; motor vehicle licenses,
$227,444; total, s1,144.742.s6.
Fayments-General fund, s1.67s,
eL4.1o; motor license fund. 100000;
total, $1,77S,674.10.
Balances-General fund, s4.435,-
6ssSs; sinking fund. ss14,6575s;
school fund (uninvested), $9,1S1.24:
motor license fund sSss.O72
Total balance at end of April, s6.-
ioL56O,21; total balance at end of
March, $6,791, ,491.95.
Public Service.-The Public Service
commission will hear the complaint of
the Philadelphia Milk Exchange
against the rates of the Pennsylvania
railroad for hauling milk in vicinity
of Philadelphia when it meets here
tuesday for the first May session.
Fourteen rate cases from various parts
of the State are scheduled for the
week, while over twenty applications
for approval of contracts of various
kinds, abolition of grade crossings and
for incorporation of electric, jitney,
ta'1cab and traction companies are
listed. Among the eastern cases for
abolition of grade crossings is for
keim street, Pottstown, where the
Philadelphia and Reading proposes to
place an undergrade.
Eucampment Orders.-Formal des-
lgnaton of the places and times of the
encampments of the organizations of
the National Guard is made in general
orders issued to-day by Adjutant Gen
eral Stewart. Mt. Gretna has been Sc
lected for the First brigade from July
10 to II and the Third and Fourth
brtgades from July 8 TO Is, while the
Second will encamp with the Four
teenth infantry and the signal corps
company at Indiana August Z to IA
The Mt. Gretna encampment Will be
as a provisional division under COM
mand of Major General c. B. Dough-
erty. The joint camps will be as fol-
lows: First Cavalry. Mt. Gretna, July
10 to II; Engineers. Belvoir, Va, Au-
gust to IT; Batteries A, B. and d.
Tobyhanna. August s to H. and Field
Tospitals Tobyhanna, July 15 to 23.
New Hat Order.-Announcem is
made at the National Guard headquar-
ters that an issue of United States
army service semistiff brimmed hats
will be made TO the organizations of
the State militia during June. Requi-
stions must be made for the hats be-
fore June /, and none will be filled
after June 30.
Board to Meet. - The State Indus
trial Board will hold hearings on the
proposed rule to prohibit employment
of any one under 16 in tobacco fac
lOTleS OH L TlQdy ana SATURDAY OF next
week. The Friday hearings will be
held at Boyertown and Reading and
on Saturday at Wilkes-B Barre. Visits
will be paid to tobacco factories in
: each place.
Supreme Court. - The May session
of the Supreme Court will be held in
Harrisburg commencing May "a. The
list will include State tax cases and
central counties with a few transferred
from other districts
A special sitting of the Dauphin
county court for the hearing of State
tax cases will be held May G.
New Complaint.-A complaint was
filed with the Public Service Com
mission to-day by the Electrical Con-
sumers' Adjustment Company of
Philadelphia against the Philadelphia
Electric Company in which discrimi-
nation is charged. The complainant
company, which audits light and
power bills and combines properties
for the purpose of securing cheaper
electricity. applied to the respondent
for g. combination contract, known as
a blanket contract, for various con-
sumers of electricity in the city of
Philadelphia. The application was
refused and 1t is alleged that the re-
spondent has already issued similar
contracts to certain preferred con-
sumers and has advertised such COM
bination rate in their schedule, which
has been approved by the Public
Service Commission.
Attended ConferenCe.-L. r. Pal
mer. chief factory inspector was at
Allentown to attend the inspectors
conference