Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-04

the State Historical Commission. Fif-
teen Of sthe markers are on the
Brandywine battlefield and others are
on sites of colonial forts in Franklin,
Potter. Mifflin. Northumberland and
Snyder counties with one marking the
site of John Harris ferry, which was
the beginning of Harrisburg.
Fort Hunter marker will be unveiled
with addresses by Governor Brum-
baugh and other State officials and
men identified with historical research
in the State. The marker is on the
site of fort dating from 1855.
Public Serytcc.-No hearings will
be held by the Public Service Com
mission next week until Wednesday,
the usual Monday hearings having
been Cancelled. Wednesday sittings
will be held in Scranton on the COM
plants that jitneys are being illegally
operated in Lackawanna county and
the following day argument will be
heard here on the motion for a re-
hearing of the application for approval
of the contract between the Philadel-
phia Electric and Keystone Telephone
Companies for use of conduits in
cases including Pittsburgh and West
lmoreland coal rates.
state Tax Court - Arrangements
have been made for a session of the
Dauphin county court on November
II for the trial of cases involving
many thousands of dollars in State
tax cases. This court will be exclu-
sively for such cases and a number of
rulings will be asked in taxation mat
ters which have arisen in the last year.
Mccall Accepts.-Governor Samuel
w. Mccall, of Massachusetts. a native
OF Pennsylvania, has accepted an invi-
tation to attend the first annual din
ner of the Pennsylvania State Society
in Philadelphia on November % and
| 1t Is expected that Governor c. r,
Miller, of Delaware, and Louis B.
Hanna. of North Dakota, both natives
of this State, will be present. The
dinner, which will be the first big
gathering of representative Pennsyl-
vanians after the election will bring
together members of the next Legisla-
ture, state officials and men active in
various walks of life in the State
Hearing Next Week.-The State
Board of Public Charities will begin
its hearings of charitable institutions
seeking recommendations for appro-
priations in the central part of the
State in this city on November s. The
members of the Board have Just fin
ished sittings in Philadelphia and
when the central district Institutions
have been heard they will hold a sit
ting in Pittsburgh for representatives
OF Western Pennsylvania institutions.
Home For Election.-EXcept for the
Health, Police and a few other de-
partments of the State Government,
the State Capitol has been closed until
after election day. State officials and
attaches living in other counties have
gone home for the election and there
Will be no business, except that of ex-
traordinary character, transacted on
Monday. Many of the State officials
will make speeches at closing cam
paign rallies.
To Speak at the Shore.-W. r. D.
Hall, statistician of the State High
way Department, will speak before the
Atlantic City Rotary Club on Pennsvl-
vania highway methods.
Water Gases Next Month. - The
hearing of the Newport and HummeIs-
town water cases is scheduled for De-
cember before the Public Service
Commission.
Mead Is Trcasurer.-The Pennsyl-
vanfa Certified Accountants Board or
ganized at the Capitol yesterday, B.
Frank Mead, of this city, beng elected
treasurer James w. Fernley, of
Pittsburgh, is the chairman,
Palmer on Committee. r. Pal
mer, chief factory inspector. is on the
special committee of the National Fire
PROTECTIVE Association just formed in
New York.
MILK Board in Session.-The milk
price probe board spent all of yester-
DAY in session at Philadelphia. the
burden of the testimony being that the
FARMER is not making any money out
of dairying.
knu1 Named.-J. F. Knull. of Hum
meIstown, graduate of State College, |
was appointed a scientific assistant in
the DIVISION of Economic Zoology
Kemp Takes Hold.-A Lee Kemp.
the new factory inspector in the Tioga
county district, took hold yesterday.
kempt Is said to be opposed to men
who backed Albert Karahan. the man
Program for CONFERENCE.-THE pro-
gram for the Fourth Industrial Wei
fare and Efficiency Conference. to be
held at the Capitol November 21-24
under auspices of the Department of
Labor and Industry and the Engineers
Society, came out to-day. The chair
men OF the meetings will be Commits
sioner Jackson, Commissioner Ainey.
Fire Marshal Port. DIR. Francis D. Pat
terSon, chief of the Division of Hy-
e1ene; r. Boone Abbott, president of
the Engineers Society; William Young.
member of the Industrial Board, rep
resenting labor; Z. j. Stackpole, presi-
dent of the Telegraph company, and
II. Fl. Wheaton, of the United States
Bureau of Education. The speakers
include Governor Brumbaugh. Chair
man Mackey, of the Compensation
Board; A. B. Farquhar Representa-
tive Maurer. S. r. Tarner, of the Order
OF Railway Conductors: ]. c. Rose.
Pennsylvania Railroad DR.. S. S. Mar
quis, OF the Ford Motor Company; DR..
w. l.. Estes, State Medical Society;
Marcus A. Dow. New York Central
lines; NJ. W. Alexander. General Elec-
tric Company: ]. II. Herbert, Can't bria
Steel Company; Joseph B. Mccall,
president of the Philadelphia Electric
Company; Florence T. Sanville, Phila-
delphia; Lewis t. Bryant, New Jersey
commissioner; Patrick Gilday, NJ. 3.
King and others.
Fourteen Cases.-The Board of Par
dons list was closed to-day with four
teen cases. There are three murder
cases on the list.
To Muster Out Stinc.-Orders were
received by the Adiutant General to-
day to muster out Captain H. M. Slime.
of this city. who has been in charge of
Eighth Regiment recruiting in this
district. Captain Slime has been on
recruiting duty since July and has
been the most successful of the Of
ficers. He will go with his detach-
ment to Fort du Pont. The men de-
tailed to his force will be returned to
their regiments.
Carlisle Certificate. The Carlisle
Gas and Water Cnp1aopv nf orf.zl.