Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-16

~ on DullQlnES owned
by the State must
saaassaAas@ be only for periods
which will end with the last day of
1920. The opinion was rendered in
question raised about insurance on
the State Hospital for Criminal In
sane at Farview, which was increased
| S2G,50O after the passage of the act
creating the State Fire Insurance
Fund.
Mr. largest says that the purpose
of the act was to have the State carry
its own insurance. mo provision is
made for insuring new buildings
erected since the passage of the act
and l am advised that the fund
created by this act is amply sufficient
to protect all such new buildings"
says he. TT seems to have been the
intention of the Legislature that the
fund was to provide for insurance
upon all new buildings and to
gradually reduce the insurance upon
all old buildings until December 81,
1920, when the fund would be able to
carry all insurance upon all of the
properties of the Commonwealth"
In another opinion it is held that
| the Petroleum Telephone Company
chartered in West Virginia in 1900
| ard becoming a domestic corporation
with office at Oil City, is required to
! pay the bonus imposed by the laws of
Pennsylvania upon the amount of
capital which the State authorizes 1t
to have.
Appointed Policeman. - Charles E.
Harbaugh was yesterday appointed a
| special policeman for the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad in Perry county.
Named to Board - Ex-Judge f.
w Biddle, Carlisle, and Mrs. Elizabeth
c. Birney, Philadelphia, have been
appointed managers of State Village
for Feeble Minded at Laurelton.
Increase of Stock. - The Farmers
and Mechanics Bank, of Northumber-
land, filed notice of an increase of
stock from $4,000 to S37,500.
Inspection Postponed. - The in
spection of grade crossing conditions
, at Bethlehem to have been held by
the Public Service Commissioners to-
day has been postponed 1t will be
taken up after the numerous hearings
scheduled for the next two weeks are
finished.
Library In Demand.-A number of
awly-published books on educational
thought and progress have been re-
certify acquired by the State Board of
Education. a list of these books will
soon be issued in the form of an
Educational News Bulletin" to super
intendents and others. 1t is hoped
that they and their teachers will con-
tinue to use these books during the
coming summer months. The State
Board of Education is more than
gratifed with the ever increasing de-
mands for the books of this Library.
The number sent out during the sum-
mer of 1915 was forty-two times
- 4
ing the summer of 1914.
Ex-Employe Dead. - Thomas F.
Floyd, former postmaster at Nesque-
honing and formerly connected with
the State Highway Department, died
at Newark, n. j., recently.
After CrookS.-A campaign against
fake and unscrupulous employment
agencies in Philadelphia has been
started by the Department of Labor
and Industry. In the last few weeks.
the department officials assert, many
persons have been feeced out of hun
dreds of dollars, not only by men who
posed as employment agents, but by
licensed employment bureaus Flag
rant violations of the act by which
employment agencies are regulated
were also brought to the attention of
the departm The first man to
come under the ban of the department
was George II. Tate, who had his
Incense revoked yesterday by James J.
Nolan, the departments investigator
here. Tate conducted an employment
office at Philadelphia, and was ac-
cused of accepting registration fees
from applicants for jobs and of CO.
operating with busters" or un-
license employment agents. Several
licensed employment offices regarded
as suspicious are now under the
surveillance of Inspector Nolan.
Police Named. - The State Police
Department passed these men for
vacancies: Blake P. Baird, Mechanics
burg; NJ. P. Drummond, Chester;
Thomas Cullen, Moosic; William Diet
er: Brooklyn, n. Y; John zalaita,
Wilkes Barre; Fl. o. MCGOWAN, Pa
oil; Charles L. Paul Mt. Carmel;
Joseph Shoon, Linwood Heights; Wal
ter Use, Paliansville, and S. c. Wich-
latz, Buffalo, N. Y. Nine of the ten
successful men were formerly with
the United States Army.