Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-13
TRAIN URGED TO
KEEP SCHEDULE
Dauphin Man Complains About
the Peculiarities of a Morn
ing Flyer

The Northern Central passenger
train scheduled to leave Dauphin at
6.2S o'clock in the mornings for Har-
risburg is given a very bad reputation
as a timekeeper by H. C. Forney,
superintendent of the Hummelstown
Shoe company. in a letter to the Pub
lie Service Commission to-day.
Mr.. Forney says that numerous
complaints have been made about the
vagaries of the time of this flyer
on which many folks come to this
city for market and business. Some
time ago the commission got after it
and found that 1t was an Interstate
caravan and that the State could only
ask it politely to try to keep to its
schedule. In his letter Mr.. Forney
twice month and that people have
to wait from fifteen to one hundred
minutes to get to Harrisburg.
The point is also made by Mr.. For
ney that if the company can not keep
the schedule for this train it should
make new one and also that if that
is not possible another train should
be put on and educated up to the
propriety of keeping a schedule. He
also says that he was told by the presi-
dent of the Harrisburg Railways COM
pany that the trolley company would
build to Dauphin If the Railroad COM
pany gave a right of way.
Apparently Mr.. Forney has only the
Jitneys to fall upon. He is reluctant
to hop frieghts because that is dan
gerous and he is liable to be arrested;
he cannot induce the trolley company
TO build and the commission can only
pat the locomotive of the train on the
smokestack and ask it to think how
nice 1t would be to keep to schedule.
srIn
The Public Service Commission has
scheduled for Monday afternoon the
application of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway for the right to put
more girders on abutments at Ruth
erford subway.
John McSparran's complaint about
the charge for three minute tele-
phone conversation in rural Lancaster
county will also be heard next week.
The Gettysburg Furniture company
has filed notice of increase of stock
from $4,000 to 100000.
Richard b. Ryan, Shamokin and
w, P. Stoner. Hanover, were ap-
pointed notaries public to-day.
Ex-R x-Representative A. e. Keeport,
or Reading, was here to-day.
No Cost to State
The State of Pennsylvania is not
to be obligated for any of the costs
in the quo warranto proceedings to be
instituted at Williamsport to deter
mine the question of citizenship of
Mayor Jonas Fischer, of that city, ac-
cording to notice sent to the at
torneys in the case to-day. The at
torney general to-day formally allow
ed the writ
Judge j. Whitaker Thompson, of
Philadelphia, was to-day re-appoint-
ed trustee of the Spring City State
institution and EX-Representative ].
Milton LutZ, of Llanerch, was named
TO succeed Samuel r. Crothers, Ches-
ter, resigned.
Herbert L. Pearsall was to-day sub
stituted as Prohibition candidate for
the Legislature in the Potter county
district after 7. G. Gardner had filed
a withdrawal as candidate on the
prohibition, Progressive, Washington
and Socialist tickets in that district.
Jacob Soffel to-day withdrew as Pro-
hibition candidate for Congress in the
32nd district and H. N. Sherwood, as
democratic candidate in the 25th SEN
atorial district.
to-day gave an opinion to Chief of
Mines James e. Roderick in which
ne holds that county commissioners
should not refuse to receive and file
certihcates issued by miners examin-
ing boards to candidates for the Of
nee OF anthracite mine inspector. The
county commission
ers mad refused to accept a certificate
claiming the mine inspectors are state
officers and that certificates should be
nied with the secretary of the Com
Adjutant General Stewart is in
Philadelphia looking after details of
the transfer of State property by the
regiments to be mustered out