Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07

0BggoVua materially dam
aged by tree DIS
IaazzazzaY eases has been
secured by the State Department of
Agriculture as a result of survey
made by w. c. McCubbin, assistant
director of the Bureau of Plant In
dustry. Incidentally, it was found
that the southern counties have also
been afflicted with u troublesome
apple disease.
Director McCubbin' covered many
miles and visited dozens of proper
ties, and found the diseases known
as brown rot and peach scab TO De
prevalent. In some orchards the
rot had destroyed about half the
peaches in an orchard, while the
scab, which is favored py wei
weather, was increasing. Neglect
to spray trees is responsible IN
great measure, say the State experts,
for spread of the disease.
Reports of apple scab, which mas
been more or less under control IN
recent years. have been coming from
many orchards.
Crossing Accidents - Forty-eight
fewer accidents occurred at grade
crossings on steam railroads IN the
first half of 1919 as compared with
the same period of 1918, according
to reports of the accident bureau
of the Public Service Commission.
There were IT fewer persons killed
and a decline of SO in the number
injured. The total number of acci-
dents was 252 at which 81 persons
were killed and 1S9 injured. Thir-
teen persons were killed and fVe IN
jured by crawling under or around
safety gates which had been lower
ed. The accident report shows "A
l,,1 e.ft. ttnlF of crossings.
sulting in As deaths and 81 per-
sons injured. Two watchmen lost
their lives in attempting to keep
people off tracks.
To Attend Mccting-Secretary OF
Agriculture Rasmussen, Director OF
the Bureau of Foods James Foust
and Director of the Bureau or
Markets Guy C. Smith will attend
the meeting of the Association OF
American Dairy, Drug and Food Of
ficials to be held in New York Sep
tember to IA.
Mr.. Perring Hcrc-H. G. Perring,
of the firm of ]. E. Greiner & Co.,
of Baltimore engineers for the
Memorial bridge which will be
erected in the Capitol Park extern
sion was here to-day in conference
with Superintendent OF Public
Grounds and Buildings Thomas e.
IempletOn ana AuQlIOr IeHeTdl
Charles A. Snyder.
Object to Crossing-The Public
Service Commission has decided to
enter a complaint on it's own motion
against the crossing of the Lehigh
Valley railroad and the Wilkes
Barre Railway at Main street, Dur
yea. A hearing will be held later
on. Hearing was held on the mo-
ton to establish new crossing at
Willow street, Korn Krest, instead
of the Greenewald street crossing
in Hanover township. The Wilkes
Barre railway made the application.
The Wilkes-Barre company and the
borough of Parsons presented a
street lighting contract for seven
years.
Big Paymcnt-Register of Wills
James B. Sheehan to-day paid the
State Treasury over $14S,000 as in
heritance taxes, of which S44 900
was direct tax.
Lease Presented-The Public Ser
vice Commission has been asked to
approve lease of the Girard Water
company of some of it's lands in
Schuylkill county to the Shenan-
doah Citizens Water CO. A large
water supply tract is involved.
Policemen BuSy-State Policemen
stationed on roads leading into Har-
risburg have broken up some of the
speeding which was complained of,
mainly along the big State high
ways. The Policemen have ordered
the persons running the cars to mag
istrates and no cases of failure to
appear have been reported.
State to Aid-State Health offici-
ais will cooperate in the Harris
burg welfare centers, of which three
have been opened. Over n dozen
children have been examined daily
at the centers and the State au-
thorities will study the reports as
a part Of the model sanitation plan
for Harrisburg.