Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-08
INSURANCE FUND
WILL Be ORGANIZED
Meeting Being Held This After
noon to Complete What Was
Started Yesterday

The steps to establish the State in
surance fund. which is to stand be-
hind workmen's compensation when
it goes into effect on January l, are
being taken this afternoon at con-
ference in the office of State Treasurer
Robert K. Young and men who Will
attend to the preliminary details VIII
pro Dably be talked over. This fund
will be modelled after those in other
states, with such changes as will be
required under the complex conditions
in this State. Meetings were held late
yesterday at which some details were
discussed in the once OF Attorney
General Brown.
Mr., Brown, who has named Francis
H. Bohlen, of Philadelphia, secretary
OF the Industrial Accidents Commls-
sion, as adviser to the compensation
and insurance boards, and Mr.. Bohlen
attended the conference.
Harry A. Mackey, Philadelphia; j..
w. Leech, Ebensburg, ana John A.
Scott, Indiana, are members of the
compensation board. and Insurance
Commissioner Johnson, State Treas.
urer Young and Commissioners of La
bor and Industry jackson compose the
insurance board. In addition to
Messrs. Brown and Bohlen there was
present Deputy Insurance Commls-
Sloner McCullOch.
The Attorney General stated that
the conference was for the purpose of
getting together and arriving at un-
Gerstandings on the system to be es.
tablished."
Inspect New Offices
After the meeting the boards in
spected the otfices rented in Masonic
Temple, adjoining Capitol Park, which
will be occupied because there is not
nn oh in, InnSa Mr.
Brown placed at their disposal numer-
Gus reports and other data collected
on the subject of compensation from
every State and county which has the
plan for its workers.
Both boards will meet here next
Tuesday for further discussion of de-
tails and will return on September %
to meet Governor Brumbaugh, who
is expected to return from San Fran
cisco on September 16. At that time
some selections of officials will be
made and the permanent organizations
effected. The compensation board will
visit Albany and other State capitals
to inquire into the systems in op-
Grafton, and the insurance board,
which had a preliminary survey of in
surance funds and their operations
made sby experts, will arrange for
visits to Columbus. Albany and other
places.
The organization of the insurance
fund, for whose administration the
State made an appropriation of
$500, 900, will be first. 1t will be laid
out as soon as possible and men
familiar with insurance matters will
be placed in charge of various fea-
lures. The act calls for a manager at
800, an, assistant manager and nu-
merous other officers, all more or less
technically trained. 1t is probable
that within a few weeks the making
of schedules, establishment of pre-
miums and other details will be under
way.
One of the interesting features OF
the States insurance fund will be an
elaborate system of advertising of its
advantages. This will be done through
the legislative handbook, which will
devote six pages to the fund, through
folders and by placing of matter in
envelopes sent on State business. The
fund itself will be created out of the
premiums paid by employers. The
State will pay the expenses.
by the time the Governor returns. -
said Attorney General Brown, "tho
details will be worked out and we will
be on fair way to launch the sys-
tenn authorized by the Legislature
For, months this subject had been
given thought and we are nearly ready
to go ahead and all will be prepared
long before January l, the date when
the system becomes operative"