Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
Ehrnttg Chat

some idea of the unusual lines in
Wheh workmen's compensation is
operative under the act which went
INTO force on the first of the year is
furnished by the State that in the last
leW weeks the State Workmen's In
surance Fund has paid compensation
LOT men killed by bulls, locomotives
ana ana insane patients. men who were
Nlled by electric current in a mill
ana by lightning and while making
war munitions. OF the 1,448 classifi-
cauons in the State Insurance Fund
manual 1t is estimated that the State
mas 4sS lines in which it has issued
poncles. The number reported to June
10 was 1876 policies covering 1922
oos employees. Some of the lines COW
ered In addition to the big industries
are Dark peelers, lightning rod erec-
LOTS, conn manufacturers, fish curerss.
lruit eNaporators. fumigation men,
rlulng masters, serum eXtracters, toll
gate Keepers water bottlers, manicur-
ists' Dill posters, Fairgrounds instruc-
TORS bowling alley boys, cemetery
keepers, stage drivers vaudeville per-
formers including trapeze artists.
garbage collectors, deputy sheriffs
ana baseball players, there being four
clubs which have insured their play
ers
I1undredS or elevators. freight and
passenger, throughout the State are
oelng changed before the State code
governing the construction and opera
tion or elevators takes effect on July
l.: Lists have been made of thousands
OF elevators and as a result of inspec-
uohs many new ones are being INSTALL
ed or overhauled. The code will
probably affect more appliances than
any of the standards issued by the
several other codes in course of prep
aratlon which will be promulgated
during the year. being designed to Sc
cure better safety and sanitary ar
rangements.
The Bell Telephone Company is
constantly looking for new worlds to
conquer Witness its most recent feat,
that OF connecting up the alumni as
soclatons of the Massachusetts Insti-
tute OF Technology, which has lately
consolidated with Harvard Univer-
slty, in every part of the country and
giving them exclusive wire service for
a period of over two hours. The stunt
cost the company nearly $4,000, 1t is
said on good authority. Thirty alumni
and guests held receivers to their ears
the other evening at the Engineers
club, this city, and heard the Stein
song sung in Milwaukee, the Star
Spangled Banner with a band accom-
paniment in Washington, and loud
cheers from California, Alabama.
Montana, Ohio and other sections of
the country. Alexander Graham
Bell, Orville Wright, Thomas A. Edi-
son, Theodore n. Vail, DR.. Michael I.
Pupin, who discovered the means of
making long distance telephoning pos
sible, and other inventors and scien-
lists whose names are things to con-
n
groups by phone. An instrument was
used in the local club which made the
resonance of the thirty phones the
same as one.
There is a good-natured colored
man who watches tenderly over the
gardens about the Harrisburg hospital.
The old gentleman has sense Of
humor. He was holding conversa-
ton with young lady the other
morning on the subject of cherries
and cherry trees, with which species
the young lady is not wholly CONVEX
SAINT. Just to make conversation, this
young lady-we will call her Frances
remarked on the baroness of one
particular tree. stating it as her firm
conviction that there would be no
cherries on that tree during the pres
ent season.
mo, Miss" replied the old darky,
white teeth cleaning, "you-all suttin-
ly am right; dis yeah's a pear tree
Miss"
Many Harrisburgers will be inter-
ested to know that John W. Alexan-
der, the Pittsburgh artist, who was
much interested in the mural decora-
ton at the Capitol and who was to
have executed the lunettes for the
North corridor prior to his Illness
left an estate of s414,000. Mr.. Alex
ander planned a series of paintings to
show the industrial development of
Pennsylvania as companion series
to the VanInghen paintings in the
South corridor showing the religious
influences which entered into the
making of the Keystone State. No
doubt the Board of Grounds and
Buildings will commission some emf
nent Pennsylvania artist next year to
finish the paintings which should have
been in place long ago.
When an umbrella takes fire on the
street something happens. The other
evening man dropped a match into
an umbrella and it started to burn.
He did not know 1t until he felt it.
Then he forsook the article in hurry
But it took fifteen minutes for the fire
to burn out and about 100 people got
interested.