Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-15
ELEVATOR ORDER
CAPITOL QUERY
Superintendent Shreiner Asks
if It Will Affect Elevators
in the State House

r The question whether the fuel ad-
ministration order regarding ele-
vator service is to apply to the
State Capitol which is heated and
lighted through use of coal dredged
from the Susquehanna river was to-
day placed before Fuel Administrator
Ross A. Hickok by George A.
Shreiner, superintendent of public
grounds and buildings. Mr.. Shreiner
pointed out that the Legislature
would meet this winter. The offices
of the Governor are on the second
floor of the Capitol and the Public
Service Commission, Highway and
Military Departments are all on
floors high up in the building. There
are eight passenger elevators in the
building.
Ex-senator w. NJ. Lynch. of Scran-
ton, was a Harrisburg visitor. He is
now superintendent of the Farview
Institution.
Walter b. PerTigo was to-day ap-
pointed justice of the peace for New
Cumberland to succeed II. c. Oren,
resigned.
The Bamberger Case will be sub
mitted to Attorgen General Brown
when he arrives here tonight.
Highway Commissioner O'Neil has
rejected bids received July 2 for con-
struction of 1,700 feet of road in
Ulster and North Towanda town
ships. Bradford county.
The M1ddIetown electric wire con-
tract with the Pennsylvania Railroad
was submitted to the Public Service
Commission to-day. No opposition
was made.
The State Industrial Board to-day
announced that the hearing on the
proposed printing code for sanition
and safety in all printing houses
would be held here July II.
Repairs to the Capitol dome Will
be started this week.
The Hardwood Electric Company,
operating in Schuylkill, Carbon,
Northumberland, Columbia, Luzerne
and Montour counties has filed notice
of an increase in electric rates with
the Public Service Commission. The
York Railways Company, has also
filed notice of an increase in fares.
Lieutenant Colonel w. ID. Uhler,
chief engineer of the State Highwag
Department, now on army duty at
Washington, was at the Capitol to-
Qdy. he Will Spenu SeNeIdl udSS anu
have a talk with Commissioner
O'Neil regarding the progress of
state road work. Friends at the
Capitol congratulated him on his re-
cent promotion.
Commissioner of Fisheries Nathan
r. Butler has returned from hatch
cry inspection trip.
Men of the draft age in Philadel-
phia who had failed to appear for
examination or entrainment and were
classed as delinquents and so certi-
fed by local draft boards to district
appeal board No. 2, but which the
appeal board failed to certify to the
Adjutant General, are to be put back
on the classification list and sent
questionnaires. Their numbers will
not be changed. A ruling to this
effect was received to-day from
Washington by State Draft Head
quarters. When the local boards
certified the names to the district
appeal board the men were stricken
from the lists. They will be put back
and called up.
The Public Service Commission
has sustained a complaint of the
borough of Ashland against the ac-
ton of the Schuylkill Railway Com
pany, in advancing fares from six to
seven cents on May 2S, 1917, and
ordered the old six cent rate to be
restored. The opinion in the case
was rendered by the commission and
after upholding the right of the bor-
ough to make the complaint analyses
the business of the company. In
commenting upon the contention of
the company that the increase was
justified by increased cost of labor
and materials the opinion says I'm
-. I,I. ,s,,I TIL,
justify an increased rate of fare If 1t
were shown that additional revenue
was needed; but where, as in the
present case, the operation of the
company for years past shows very
substantial surplus after deducting
expenses, taxes and depreciation. the
higher cost of labor and material is
not alone sufficient to support an in
crease in the rate to seven cents
per zone. Something more should
be shown"