Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-15

county, to make improvements to its
standpipe and service which would
apparently beneht only one consum-
er and suggests that the complainant,
the D G. Derry silk mill, install new
appliances or else get water from the
borough of souderton. 1t is found
that to give the service asked by the
mill would compel the company to
raise its standpipe and that no 9TH
er consumers have complained, so
that 1t does not seem necessary to
require 1t to operate its plant at the
maximum or to incur the expense of
increasing the height of the stand
pipe to serve this one customer"
The New York Central Railroad is
directed to improve its station ia
cilities at Clearfield in the complaint
OF w. 1. Bett~ of that place. in an
opinion by Chairman Ainey, who
finds that the present station is in
adequate, but also holds that the
company, in view of the national
emergency, should not be too heav-
lily burdened with cost. THE Com
mission is constrained" he says, ito
so frame its order as not presently
to interfere with the national pur-
pose. but at the same time it can not
overlook the public need here pre-
Sented." An order is issued for plans
TO be filed by the company by July
l, 1918, and 1T will be directed, ac-
cording to the order, to begin con-
struction within two years thereafter.
Code Approved.-The State Indus
trial Board has approved the provi-
sions of the state code to govern
construction and operation of eleVa-
tors in Pennsylvania and it has been
sent TO the printers. The code will
become effective upon thirty or sixty
days notice, which will be given.
After Snow.-Officials of the State
Highway Department have sent
hurry calls for the snowplows or
deed some time ago to keep the
state highways open for across-state
motor traffic to relieve railroads. The
big snow has kept the maintenance
force stepping.
Millions in It-Certificates of no.
tification running into the millions
of dollars worth of new issues of
stocks and bonds have been filed at
the Public Service Commission Of
fees the last few days. Among them
was the Western Maryland Railroad,
which certified to an issue of. ST.
100000 of bonds and S5,000,000 of
three-year seven per cent. collateral
trust gold notes: Reading Transit and
Light Co., Reading, S150,000 two
year six per cent. secured gold notes;
Penn Central Light and Power Co.,
Altoona. bonds. $4,000; Metropol-
itan Edison Co, Reading, preferred
stock. SS16,SO0; Pottsville Union
Traction Co, Pottsville, bonds, S10,-
900; Eastern Pennsylvania Light,
Heat and Power Co., Pottsville,
bonds, $10,500; Mahoning and st.
Clair Electric Railway Co.. Potts
Vile, bonds, S10,500; Mahoning and
Shenango Railway and Light Co.,
New Castle. bonds, S250.0O0; She
mango Valley Electric Light Co.,
Sharon, bonds. $50, 1000, assumed for
constituent companies, and stock
$50, 900; Union Railroad, Pittsburgh,
bonds, 100000 Monongahela South
ern Railroad. Pittsburgh. common
stock, S1,34O,000, and bonds, s1,sO0,-
600.
Rush TO Register. - Compliance
with the act of 1915 requiring all per-
sons doing business under assumed
or fictitious names to register with
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
is going on with a rush. over 600
firms have eristered, over half of
them in the last six weeks. In one
instance registration was refused be-
cause a manufacturing firm was
found to be owned by Germans.