Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-06
STATE SEALERS
HERE NEXT WEEK
Will Tell How Eye Is Kept on
Butcher, Baker and Candle
stick Maker

How certain keen-eyed men on the
payroll of Uncle Sam, the State, coun-
ty and city governments, keep watch
on your butcher. your baker, your
candlestick maker and your grocer
and most anybody else who sells you
food or drink will be Interestingly dis
cussed by these same officials thePy
selves when the Pennsylvania Associa-
ton of Sealers of Weights and Meas
ures meets Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday of next week in the fifth an
nual convention. The sessions will
convene at $50 o'clock in the House
caucus roo mon Capitol Hill and an
interesting program has been pre-
pared by James Sweeney, chief of the
Pennsylvania bureau of standards,
Harry A Boyer, county inspector Of
weights and measures and Harry A
Reel, city sealer and president of the
association.
While the leading seal and weight
men from all over Pennsylvania will
attend, there will also be some weighty
members from other States on the
speaking program. These include
Thure Hanson, John F. Farrell, Will
liam L. Waldron and Joseph Hartigan.
the guiding heads of the State sealing
and weighing departments of Massa-
chusetts, New York, New Jersey, and
OF the New York city bureau respect
lively
Other leading weight men will be
DR.. S. W. Stratton, director of the
national bureau of standards, Wash
ington, D. c., and James Sweeney,
chief of the Pennsylvania bureau.
In addition to the reports of the
treasurer, committees, election of new
mem bers, ETC., the program of Tues
day morning will include addresses of
welcome by Governor Martin G.
Brumbaugh, DR.. Ezra S. Meals, mayor
of Harrisburg, DR.. Henry Houck,
State secretary of internal affairs;
Chief Sweeney and response by DR..
Stratton, Washington.
Tuesday afternoon beginning at 2
o'clock there will be an address by
Commissioner Hanson, Massachusetts
bureau; a paper on Testing and Seal
ing Gasoline Measuring Pumps" Su-
perintendent Theodore F. Seraphin,
Philadelphia; another paper and dis
cussion on the benefits that follow the
installation of city scales in markets,
by George B. Marquart, of the State
Bureau of Standards and an interest
ing discussion of platform scales by
Inspector Borgel of New York City.
Mr.. Borgel by the way will give a
practical demonstration of scale test
ing on the scales just outside the
capitol building.
Beginning at $50 o'clock wednes-
day morning, there will be an address
by State Superintendent Farrell, New
York, followed by papers on these
subjects, "Hucksters and Peddlers,"
Inspector George B. Musser. Mifflin
county; Inspection and Its Benefits"
D. w. Simpson, Indiana; Advance
and Advantages of City Weight and
Measure Inspection" w. B. Dunn,
Altoona; and a mighty interesting
paper on the advantages that can be
obtained by exhibiting condemned
weighing and measuring devices, by
County Inspector Harry A. Boyer.
At the afternoon session these
papers will be read and discussed:
Relation of Merchants and Inspec-
tors" George B. Moore, Allegheny;
Results Obtained in Philadelphia"
John Virdn, Philadelphia; Honest
Merchandising in Compliance With
the Spirit and Intent of the Weights
and Measures Law" John Lyons; re-
ports of county and city inspectors will
follow.
Thursday morning has been set
aside for discussions by manufacturers
OF weighing and measuring devices
and in the afternoon officers will be
elected and other business of the ses-
slon Will be finished.