Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-14
JITNEYS HIT BY
MANY COMPLAINTS
Public Service Gets Large
Number of Letters About
Their Activities

Two dozen complaints against jit-
neys operating in various parts of
Pennsylvania without certificates
from the Public Service Commission
were filed at the Capitol to-day and
VIII be added to the scores which are
being heard at Wilkes Barre and
which have come from Scranton, New
Castle, Pittsburgh and other places
and are listed for further action.
The Pottstown and Phoenixville
Traction Company complained of one
man and mentioned five others who
are running Jitneys in Pottstown and
vicinity; the Scranton Railways Com
pany complained of thirteen and the
Allegheny Valley Street Railway Com
pany complained of ten in Allegheny
county
The commissioners who are sitting
at Wilkes-Barre to-day will probably
be busy with the jitney cases until
Friday when the commission will go
to Bethlehem to make an inspection
or the grade crossing situation. The
commission will be here next week
and will have up the big Pittsburgh
coal rate cases, the Hummelstown and
Lebanon water cases and late in the
week will have special hearings in
Pittsburgh and Galeton.
The hearing in the complaints
against the milk rates of the Phila-
delphta and Reading Railway Com
pany in vicinity of Philadelphia has
been deferred until action is taken
by the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion.
The charter papers were sent out
to-day for the new McConnelIsburg
and Fort Loudon Railroad Company,
winch is to build Fulton county's first
railroad, ten-mile line. The men in
urement act for State employees by an
nellsburg, president; d. H. Patterson
Webster's Mills; ]. L. Patterson, j. H.
Cooper, j. G. Reisner, George A. Har-
ris, McConnellsburg: Enos d. Myers.
Lemasters, and ]. S. Rotz and A. B.
Rider, Fort Loudon.
NINE inspectors in the anthracite
field being State officers and elected
Tor definite term are held not to
come under the provisions of the re-
tirement act for State employees by an
opinion rendered to James E. Roder-
lex State Chief of Mines, by Horace
w. Davis, Deputy Attorney General
TO-DAY. 1t is held that an anthracite
mine inspector has been expressly de-
cided to be State officer, elected for
a dehnite term and his retirement
governed by law.
Governor Brumbaugh to-day ap-
pointed the following commission TO
examine laws relative to recording of
deeds and mortgages, transfers of
lands and insurance of titles: Joseph
X. Fletcher, Robert T. Corson, Sam
uel w. Salus, Philadelphia; James c.
Watson, W1lliamsport, and Albert L.
Watson, Scranton
Secretary of Agriculture Patton to-
day issued preliminary report of
the Dairy and Food Division with the
statement that the full report of the
department would not be ready for
dlstr1bution for some weeks. The pre-
llminary report reviews the work of
the division for year and says that
additional power is needed to enable
the commissioner to Supervise the
conditions of production, manufacture,
sale and delivery and, so far as it
may he necessary, to safeguard the
soundness of materials and the sani-
tariness of surroundings essential to
the production and delivery of clean,
sound foods"
Secretary of Internal Affairs Henry
Houck is speaking at Lebanon Valley
College this afternoon The Cover
nor will speak tonight.
u. b. Kittle, A travelling man. to-
day complained to the Public Service
Commission that the Pittsburgh Taxi
cab Company charged so cents in
stead of a quarter for a taxi ride.
The company answered that Kittle
picked the large cars, in which every
one seems to want to ride and that he
passed up the "tin lizzies" in which
the rate is a quarter.
Commissioner of Health Dixon was
to-day honored with the degree of
learned doctor of laws by Lafayette
College.
Flag Day was observed bv almost
everyone on Capitol Hill wearing flags
to-day. The Capitol flags were all
flown.
Major C. M. Clement. COM
mander-in- chief of the National
Guard, was among the Governors
visitors to-day.
chief Medical Inspector Royer is
attending the American Medical As
sociatlon meeting at Detroit