Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-26


Rules to this effect have been put
into effect by superintendent George
A. Shreiner, of the Department Of
Public Grounds and Buildings, and
will result in a short time in the
changing of the force. A number
of the men now members of the
capitol police are veterans of the
Civil War and have also served the
commonwealth long enough to go
upon the pension list for those who
have been twenty years on duty in
departments of the state govern
ment. When they retire men in the
prime of life will succeed them.
The capitol force is composed of
a sergeant of police, twenty police
men and five night watchmen. Since
the outbreak of the war details of
state policemen have also been on
duty at the public buildings.
New Rules Soon-New rules of
practice are being worked out by
members of the State Public Serv-
ice Commission and will likely be
ready to promulgate within a few
weeks. The rules have been worked
out after several years experience
under the act of 1913 and will cover
proceedings not only before the
commission itself, but for the various
bureaus handling the numerous de-
tails of its operations
To Select Site-Members of the
state commission to select the site
for the proposed Eastern State Hos
pital for the insane, appointed on
Saturday by the Governor, will be
called to meet within a short time
and will inspect sites in the Cum
berland Valley and in Lancaster,
York and other eastern counties.
The provision for purchase of site
was made by the last Legislature
which also voted funds to begin con-
struction of the new Western State
Insane Hospital to be located not
far from Irwin. The new eastern
commission is composed of Maurice
Wertz, Waynesboro; ]. j. Corson, Jr.,
Norristown; Charles T. Thomas,
Whitford Edgar f. Heffner, Lock
Haven, and DIR. Charles 7. Aikens,
Selinsgrove.
Valuation Too Low. State High
way Commissioner j. Denny O'Neil in
statement just issued criticised the
system of Valuing properties for tax
alton purposes in counties of the
state, declaring that in many OF the
counties the assessments were not
only too low, but inequitable and that
there should be action taken by county
authorities either through a board of
tax revision or by commissioners to
would be a big increase in taxable
valuation of many counties and en-
able them to take up new road i'm
also declares his belief that the state
spould get $3,50O,000 from automobile
licenses during 1918 and that there
would have to be big improvements
to care for war traffic.
Compensation Hearings. - Chester
W. Cummings, referee in compensa-
tion, heard two applications for com
Shia and Reading Railway Company,
the applicants being men injured at
Rutherford, Benjamin F. Ford, Derry
street, who lost an eye January 80,
and H. Jalmer Peterson, Hummels-
town, who lost the use of one hand
as machinist by the crushing of sew
eral fingers.
Should Learn to Play. - People in
Pennsylvania are getting so that they
do not know how to play declares DIR.
Samuel G. Dixon, State Commission
er of Health in a weekend talk. DR..
Dixon says that there should be a
time fixed by every man and woman
in which there should be relaxing and
amusement every day.
Knillen Named-Governor Brum-
baugh to-day appointed Luther M.
Kniffen, Wilkes Barre, a member of
the state board of undertakers to
succeed the late Albert e. Miller,
Kingston.
Board to Meet-The State Defense
Commission has been called for a
special meeting at the Governors of
flee tomorrow for discussion of war
problems in relation to agriculture
and food conservation.
Bank Case Continued-The Dauphin
county court to-day continued in
definitely the proceedings against the
Sons of Italy state bank of Philadel-
phia, in which the state authorities
had asked rule to show cause why
receiver should not be named.
More SmallpOx-Eleven new cases
of smallpox, some of which are de-
clared to have been traceable to con-
tact with patients with n man who
served as a member of an election
board in Clearfield county while suf-
fering from the disease, were report
ed to the State Department Of Health
to-day from the hamlet of Blue Ball.
There are now twenty-one cases in
that place. Three cases now prevail
in Harrisburg and vicinity. the pa
tients being men who had been in a
lumber camp. A case was also re-
ported at Clearfield borough.
To Close Station-The Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad. Company has notified