Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-09

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The Auditor General takes the po-
sition that it is not necessary to
send two or three men to attend |
q meeting unless it is of general inn |
portance and that there is no use in
having men travel districts in pairs
without some special cause being
assigned. 1t is claimed that in the
last two or three years men trav-
eled around the state at very busy
rate and that hereafter they will
| travel on business and without
brother officials, unless specific or
| ders are given.
Attaches of the State Insurance
Fund will be paid their usual wages
for January until the business con-
nected with the reissuance of the |
thousands of policies by the Fund
| is finished. Then the question of
whether so many employees are
needed will be raised with officers
of the Fund by the Auditor Cen |
eral.
| Executive observation-disclosures OF
the Public Service Commission who
spent two days in executive sessions
adjourned last night and to-day the
usual hearings are being held. An
other executive session will be held
next week. Il
Dauphin Next Week.-Dauphin
countys farmers Institutes Will be
| held next week, according to ar
rangements made by Chairman Ed
ward S. KEEPER. Linglestown will
start off on Monday, Gratz starts
the fifteenth and Ffsherville on
Friday. Each institute will last
| two days.
Former Clerk Here.-W. B. Nc
! Crory. of Pittsburgh, former clerk
in the Auditor Generals office, was
there on business.
Going by Ton.-The State High
way Departments automobile div1-
| sion is still shipping out automobile
license tags to keep ahead of the
belated rush for licenses. The ship
ments are being made literally by
the ton.
Board to Meet Soon.-The State
Board of Property will have meet
ing within q short time to take up
reports on the Delaware river Is
lands. The surveys are to be re-
sumed as soon as the weather Will
permit.
To Investigate Further.-John P.
| Dohoney, investigator OF accidents
| for the Public Service Commission,
has gone to Pittsburgh to make fur
ther inquiries into the street rail-
way accidents.
y New Charters.-The Bethlehem
Lime and Supply Co., Bethlehem,
has been granted a state charter
with a capital of $1,000 and the
| Anthracite Reclaiming Co., or Snoe.
makersville, with a capital OF
$4,000.
Gases in Sharon.-Two new cases
of smallpox developed In Sharon
yesterday. They came from
| Youngstown.
absence of members, the meeting OF
the State Board of Public GROUNDS
and Buildings scheduled for yester--
day afternoon was postponed until
! later in the week.
Compensation Case.-The State
COMPENSATION Board has allowed
the widow of william Walker,
| former Lehigh Valley railroad en-
gineman, compensation for tne
| death of her husband, who died
| from acute kidney disease, which
the Board finds was due to the
shock of collision. The case' In
which an exhaustive opinion was
| filed. was heard twice and the Board
first refusing the plea that the train
was interstate commerce and there-
fore not within state Jurlsdictlon,
holds that the effects of collision
| nroduced the fatal disease. The
collision caused the fireman OF the
train to fall under the tender and
| lose his life and the englneman TO
be jarred from his seat The case
is the first of the kind to be decided.
Meeting Changed.--The state
Compensation Board has canceleo
the arrangements for q meeting at
Williamsport on January 10 be-
cause of train service, but hearings
will be held in Harrisburg and Read
| ing January Is and at Pottsville
January 16, as previously an
nounced.
Contracts Up.-The Carnegie Nat
ural Gas Company has applied TO
! the Public Service Commission for
approval of contracts with the
township of Miff1in, the Boroughs
of Duquesne and Dravosburg. all in
| Allegheny county; also contract with
the County of Allegheny, covering
the construction of pipe lines in
these localities.
Central Extended.-The permit of
the Central Iron and Steel Company
for some fills along the Susquehanna
was extended by the State water
| Supply Commission yesterday.
! Appointment Commended The
appointment of Charles ]. Hendler,
| Of Philadelphia, to be lieutenant
colonel in the Reserve Militia is gen.
orally commended in Philadelphia.
Derby Is Warden.-Fred Derby,
! former director of one of the Scran-
ton municipl departments, has been
appointed warden of the Lacka-
wanna county prison. He is we'll
known TO many people here.
Order Goes Out.-The Public Ser
vice Commission car demurrage or
der was to-day sent to all the rail-
roads of the state and attention OIL
shippers called to it as war meas
ure.
Legislator Here-Representa
Fred c. Ehrhardt, of Scranton, was
at the State Capitol to-day.