Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
SPEED UP COUNTY
PREPARATIONS Is
GOVERNORS ORDER
Offer to Organize Military
Units Received; State
Fencibles Volunteer

Letters are being sent out from the
Capitol to-day by Governor Brum-
baugh to all of the members of the
Statewide committee on public safety
asking them to speed up the organiza-
ton of their county units. The Cover
nor has received numerous suggestions
OF names for the additional members
of the committees and it is probable
that the departments will be an
nounced within few days. The work
is being outlined in Philadelphia and
when the county units are ready there
will be meeting of the executive
committee to start operations Vigor-
ously.
Governor Brumbaugh has also re-
ceived number of offers to organize
military units for the war, but the
Governor is at present without author
ity to accept such tenders and they
are being sent to the War Depart
ment.
Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia. has
informed the Governor that the State
Fencibles, which is municipal organ
ization, has been recruited from bat
TALON to a regiment and that he tend
ers its services. The Governor has
thanked the mayor for his offer.
The State Highway Department to-
day announced that the revenue from
automobile licenses from January to
April 1 amounted to $2,147,724, an in
crease of $734,511 over the same
period last year. This entire fund is
now available for maintenance and
Commissioner Black is pushing the
work to the limit in every district in
anticipation of the demand for trans
portation facilities by reason of the
impending war;" says the statement
issued.
ton act presented last week by Chair
man Woodward have been favorably
recommended by the House commit
tee on labor and industry.
Capitol Hill is expecting the formal
order of the Public Service Commission
in the Bell Telephone rate case to be
handed down tonight. The decision
will come as the result of the Pitts
burgh Chamber of Commerce COM
plants and the investigation started
some years ago by the commission on
it's own initiative and it is understood
that it will establish the Statewide
principle and bring. about substantial
reductions in the large cities. 1t was
announced at Pittsburgh on the oc-
| casion of the hearing that an under
standing would be reached.
Captain B. G. TiIghman, of Phila-
| delphia, was to-day appointed cap
| tain of infantry and assigned to duty
as an aide de camp to Major General
| Clement.
| Chairman .Aincy of the Public Ser
! vice Commission, was the speaker at
the monthly luncheon of the Pennsyl-
vania State Society at the Harrisburg
| Club to-day. He discussed the work
of the commission which has resulted
| in saving of big sums of money to
the public in the last half year es-
pecially.
Numerous acceptanceS of invitations
| to attend the dinner of the Pennsyl-
vania State Society next Tuesday are
being received and it is expected that
| it will be the largest affair of the kind
| held here in many months.
| The Harrisburg jitney cases arc to
| be called on April IL by the Public
! Service Commission, but hearings may
be postponed.
Payment of the cost of the special
audit now in progress on the books oil
! the Auditor Generals Department is
| a proper charge to be met out of the
item appropriated to that department
in the general deficiency bill according
| to an opinion rendered to State Treas
urer Young, at his inquiry, by First
! Deputy Attorney General w. II. Kel-
| Ter. The audit is in the nature of a
| "check up" before the present Auditor
General leaves office next month. Mr..
Keller says that it is the custom in
large business to employ responsible
| companies to make audits and that the
\ practice is entirely reasonable" does
not disarrange the regular force and
is entirely proper in view of the ap-
preaching change of officials. The
audit is being made by Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh concerns. 1t is under
| stood that the first payment on ac-
count has been made.
Mrs. S. +. Harner, of Flourtown, has
| filed a complaint with the Public Ser
vice Commission against the water be-
ing furnished to her by the Spring
field Consolidated Water Company.
complaint against the rates and
| service of the Monongahela Inclined
Plane Company, of Pittsburgh, was en-
tered to-day before the Public Service
Commission by Frank B. Maloy, of
Pittsburgh.
Deputy Attorneys General largest
and Kun appeared yesterday in the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
in Philadelphia in the action of the
State against the appointment of a re-
ceiver for the Union Casualty Com
pany by Federal Judge Thompson at
Philadelphia. The Dauphin county
court had also named a receiver.