Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-17

MI &GNSfahxhss1 in the two-year
Al53NlWHqDSM period ending No
3pUU0OWGS vember 80, 1916,
--a there were 2,7O7
&z1 charters issued to
manufacturing and
general business concerns, many or
them iron and steel. electric power,
coal mining and similar enterprises.
This is the largest number of charters
ever issued in a similar period accord
ing to officials at the Capitol.
| The revenues of the department for
the same period were 81, 63,717.65, OF
which S964,259,S3 was for bonus ana
$199,457,S2 for fees.
In addition to the charters for cor
porations the department issued sew
enteen for railroads; thirteen Tor
| insurance companies; 216 for build
ing and loan associations; seventeen
for State banks, rechartering hVe OF
the latter which were granted letters
patent twenty years before. over e.
900 corporations filed notices of in
crease of stock or debt, the amounts
carried running into the hundreds OF
millions in the aggregate. Thlrty re-
organizations and fifty-one mergers
were also recorded. There were $50
| trade marks registered
An interesting statement OF the re-
port is that charters as third class
cities were granted to four municlpall-
ties.
Some idea of the extent of the filing
of nominating petitions for primary
elections is given by the statement
that 1856 such papers were entered
together with thirty-eight nomination
papers. In the same period 145 party
names were .pre-empted.
| The department also commissioned
9,S95 officers ranging from govern
or to notaries public and Justices OF
the peace in the two-year period. This
| is an increase of 1904 over the pre-
ViouS period.
Secretary Woods report, which is
a model of brevity, says that the ar
rangement of several subdivisions OF
the department has been changed to
facilitate the work without any in
crease in the working force or any eX-
pense to the State.
Cost Apportioned. The Public
Service Commission in an order hand
ed down to-day apportions the cost or
carrying a State highway over the
tracks of the Pittsburgh and Western
and Pittsburgh, Bessemer and Lake
Erie railroads and ConnoquenesSing
creek in the borough of Butler,
amounting to $150,O00, directing the
borough to pay thirty per cent The
J Pittsburgh, Bessemer and Lake Erie
is to pay twenty-siX per cent, Pitts
burgh and Western eight per cent,
county of Butler seventeen per cent.
and the State of Pennsylvania fifteen
per cent. Plans are also approved Tor
the work. 1t is probable that the Leg
islature will be asked to make an ap-
preparation to cover the State share
of this and other improvements order
ed in recent months by the commits
sion, but for which no funds are now
available through the Highway de-
| partment.
Wants His Berries.-One of the
most unusual February complaints
filed with the Public Service Commits
sion was by L, Horton, of FoXburg.
He declared in a statement filed that
a railroad company had lost crate
of strawberries he had shipped from
Oil City to FoXburg.
GuardSmen On Mettle.-EXcellen
records of attendance are reported as
being made by organizations of the
National Guard which are now being
inspected by the Guard officers under
the regular winter schedule. The
schedule for the organizations which
are about to return is to be announced
shortly.
Big Cases Listed.-The Public Ser
vice Commission has listed for next
Tuesday the application of the Read
ing Transit and Light Company to
purchase S4,OO0,000 of the stock and
| $149,O00 of the bonds of the United
Traction Company, of that city. At
the same time the commission will
hear the application of the Metropoli-
tan Electric Company, of Reading, for
purchase by it of $4,000 of common
stock of the Lebanon Valley Electric
Light Company and for the purchase
by the same company of the controll-
ing rights in the Pennsylvania Utili-
ties Company and the Edison Elec-
/ trio Illuminating Company of Leb-
anon. The propositions are the larg-
est to come up in electric matters out
side of the Philadelphia Electric and
West Penn mergers. The Lehigh VAL
LEY Transit Company will present on
the following day the proposal to sell
to the Lehigh Valley Light and Power
Company the power, generating and
converting system and to lease its
high transmission lines.
Many Want m.-Decision of the
State Highway Department not to fur
ther extend the privilege of operating
cars with 1916 licenses has brought u
| flood of applications to the depart
ment'S license bureau. The extension
was granted because of the failure of
the Prison Labor Commission to sup
ply the tags as fast as required, but
| the deficiency has about been made
up. Apparently some automobile own
ers were waiting.
To Study Report-The report of
the State Anthracite Coal Price Com
mission is to be taken up by the
mines committee shortly. The canal
feature OIL Jne report Will prODaDly re-
ceive some study.
General orders were issued to-day
from the Adjutant Generals office an
nouncing the appointment of James
e. Gee, Monongahela, to be first lieu
tenant of Company A, 10th infantry
and the retirement of Chaplain
Charles M. Miller, of the First Field
Artillery, at his own request. Resig-
nations of First Lieutenants Guy w.
Knight, company I, 18th infantry, and
Carl II. Conner, supply company, First
rtillery, were accepted and First Lieu
tenant ]. II. Richards, company a,
18th infantry, was discharged upon
report of a board of efficiency adverse
to him.
G. w. Sch0fstalI, one of the HARRIS
burg jitneymen in the series of cases
brought by the Harrisburg Railways
| Company, has filed his answer with the
Public Service Commission.
Colonel s. w. Jefferies, inspector of
small arms practice of the National
Guard for years, was here to-day.
| The Public Service Commission to-
day arranged for an executive session
next week to take up numerous appli-
cations presented this week.
| Walter webbert, of the State Depart
ment of Health, is in Lebanon county
looking after prosecution of the men
arrested for selling membership in an
| nlle(ad health organization which had