Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-13


The Bureau, which has been in op-
Grafton several months, was besieged
with applications from manufacturers.
contractors, farmers and others for
Iaoor within a week after it began
business, the time being right in the
midst of the period of Industrial ac-
tiVity in every line. AS Spring came
on contractors and farmers increased
thelr demands for plain labor which
was hard to get. In view of this fact
the bureau then began to look around
Tor places for men who had special
qualifications or particular infirmities
and was quite successful in finding
Jobs for persons who had been hunt
ing work, but who were rejected be-
cause OF skill or for physical reasons.
Under this special work came the one
armed and one-legged men.
During April, positions were found
Tor over 1000 persons, only twenty
per cent. of whom were laborers, the
rest being skilled. In almost every
instance only few men were placed
at the same plant or in the same
place.
The Jimey Cases.-The Public Serv-
ice Commission has received but one
or TWO letters raising any questions
regarding its recently issued regula-
| uons Tor operation of jitneys in the
State and it is expected that numerous
applications for certificates of public
convenience will be made before the
remainder of the month. The COM
| mission will have an executive session
here next Wednesday to discuss the
jitney applications already on file and
| on which hearings have been held.
AOnllc9tiOnS IN hn I'd
Monday, three being from Schuylkill
county.
Medical Exams" - Probably the
largest series of examinations ever
arranged by the State Bureau of Med
| ical Education and Licensure will be
heid during July. The examinations
Tor certificates to practice medicine
and surgery will be held July II, IL
and 1S at Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
ana those for drugless therapy, Chi
ropodists and others will be held in
the same cities July II and IL. The
examinations for State licenses for
masseurs will be held July IL and 13.
The State Dental Board will hold it's
examinations in Philadelphia and
| Pittsburgh June IA to IT,
Shad Propagation. - Every avail
able man in the State Department of
Fisheries service has been put to
work securing eggs for the States
shad propagation work on the Della
ware river. 1t is expected to make
extensive tests with the shad at the
Torresdale hatchery this year. The
taking of shad on the Susquehanna
will be limited this year and will be
started as soon as the Delaware work
is over.
May Test Law.-It is likely that
some tests of the constitutionality of
the State dog license act of 1915 ap-
plying to boroughs and townships may
be started as a result of the determi-
nation of the State Agricultural and
Game authorities to call for enforce
ment of the act which requires killing
of unlicensed dogs. In several coun-
ties where the commissioners have
declined to enforce the law there is a
disposition to secure test 1t is esti-
mated that If the law was enforced
that 1t would mean the slaughter of
thousands of dogs.
Wide Price Range. Pennsylvania
wheat has been selling at anywhere
from $$1.03 to $1.25 in the last six
weeks, the high prices being secured
in Elk county and only a little less in
some of the adjoining districts, while
anthracite and northern tier counties
report $1.20 as the price. Counties in
the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys
report from $1.03 to $1.1O with S1.05
as the low rate in Washington county.
data on potatoes are contained in the
summary of prices from the Depart
ment of Agriculture. Potatoes have
wider range than wheat, the price in
Snyder county in April being given as
ninety cents, while $1.40 was paid to
farmers in Philadelphit and Delaware
counties. Center, Lebanon, Fulton and
Jefferson paid dollar bushel to the
farmers.
Medical Men Coming. - over 100
medical men identified with industrial
establishments, railroads and public
service in Pennsylvania will attend the
conference on industrial hygiene and
systematic first aid to be held at the
Capitol on May 18. The addresses will
refer to the requirements of medical
and surgical assistance under the COM
pensation act, physical examination
of employees, effect of temperature and
similar topics with demonstrations of
pulmotors and lungmotors.
Want Police Help. - State police
have been asked to shoot dogs which
are running wild and killing sheep in
Washington county, the biggest sheep
raising district in Pennsylvania. Local
constables have not taken up the task
of killing the unlicensed dogs and the
county commissioners have asked
State police to help. However, the
police are all busy in Luzerne county
on strike duty.
The EScheat Act. 1t is probable
that a time about June / will be fixed
for arguing the escheat act of 1915, in
which mandamus proceedings have
been started against the Auditor GEN
eral. The State is preparing to file an
answer denying the allegations.
Compensation Rule. State Com
pensation Referee Paul w. Houck
yesterday at Pottsville, decided two
cases against claimants, Henry Gable,
who claimed compensation from the
Walter Sanitarium for injuries sus-
tanned while harvesting ice, was un-
able to prove to the satisfaction of
the referee that he was injured, the
testimony showing that he had an or
ganic disease. The same fate met the
claim of Henry Shaw against the
Reading Railway. Shaw claimed he
fell down the steps of a bridge at
Reading and was injured.
Compensation Saved. - More than
eight hundred working men and wo-
men of Pennsylvania were killed and
more than eighty thousand were in
jured in the course of their employ
ment since the workmens compensa-
ton law, passed by the last Legisla-
ture, went into effect January 1, 1916,
according to a statement issued to-
day. If these accidents had occurred
before 1916. 1t is safe to say that in
a great majority of cases the en-
ployers would not have been liable
legally for damages because 1t was
necessary to prove in court. first that