Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-16
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Urgent recommendation for a
general readjustment of salaries OF
skilled men connected with the
state government will probably be
made to the incoming Governor ear
ly In his term as q result of condh~
tions which have prevailed on Cap
itol Hill the past year. Some of trS
carpenters and mechanics connect
ed with the Department of Public
! Grounds and Buildings, which has
charge of the maintenance of the
, Capitol, for instance, are receiving
considerably less than the pay of
their trades, while in the state de-
partment where men have charge of
important records they are beiE.s
! paid under a scale adopted a quaSs
ter of a century ago. During the
army construction near here q num-
Der of men left the state govern
ment because they could make far
! more than the state salary acts
specified. For the first time Jobs
at the Capitol went begging, and In
more than one department men who
had been in charge of certain lines
of work for years went to munitions
and other plants and will not try to
| come back. 1t has been one of the
oddities of the war that places In
the state government, which have
| been much sought after for years,
have not been attractive either from
! the standpoint of pay or hours,
/ while in most of the departments
war brought an increase of work
with no more provision for enlarg-
ing forces than raising pay. For a
long time pay at the Capitol was
specified by act. Then the contin-
! gent fund began to be drawn upon
| for jobs and in most cases such
| items have been worked so hard
that there is nothing left and tho
state will face a deficit in some lines
| especially postage. Some pro-
vision should be made promptly to
put the pay of skilled men, mechan-
, is paid in the city," said George A.
Shreiner, superintendent of public
| grounds and buildings. I'VE have
had trouble at times to hold our
| people together and like in other
departments, men have stayed from
sense of duty or in hope that
something would be done. The state
ought to be in a position to pay at
least the prevailing wages"
officials of the state government
will go to Pittsburgh Thursday to
| attend the Game Conservation din
ner to be held under the auspices of
the Wild Life League of Western
Pennsylvania, at which q legislative
| policy for the coming session can
| be outlined. One of the projects is
| for the establishment of a game or
| bird preserve for every county in
the state, and another is increase of
the forest reserves in Western
Pennsylvania counties. The pur-
chase of the Cook tract is alsosto be
urged again and It's conversion into
state park to be doomed at the
approaching legislative session. The
| League will also urge more atten-
tion to instruction in the care of the
birds and game and trees in the
schools of the state and extension
of the activities of the Department
\ of Fisheries. DIR. William 7. Horn
| aday, head of the Bronx Zoo; Nor
man McClintock and Game Com
missioner John NJ. Phillips will be
among the speakers.
Too many pigs are going to mar
ket in Pennsylvania for the stock
yards to take care of and farmers
are being asked to hold them on
their farms for a time. The farm
ers of the state were urged a year
ago to raise all the hogs possible,
and the result is that there are
probably thousands of swine in the
state Gr1ore, than atthis time last year
and with the same conditions in
other states the situation is much
like what it has been all fall in the
matter of wheat-not enough places
TO store 1t. In some sections farm
ers have had to arrange to feed
their hogs longer and some dealers
have>refused to buy except for ship
ment at the time specified.
From weather standpoint this
Is quite contrast" remarked a
deer hunter from near Philadelphia
at Union Station Saturday. Last
year hustled home from Franklin
county two days before the season
closed. half frozen, covered with
snow and with bad memory for
my 1917 hunting. Other hunters
felt the same way. In my opinion.
this was banner year for bucks
in the South Mountain"