Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-13


| NsRszEf lalAssgsHsa announced to-day
by Ben G. Eynon, registrar of the
/ State automobile registration division
OF the State Highway Department.
| Under this ruling such vehicles will
be licensed as passenger automo-
| biles. Motor omnibuses when used
! for transportation of passengers for
hire and vehicles used for hauling
goods of any kind for hire must be
registered as commercial vehicles.
The applications for registration of
automobiles have been coming to the
| Capitol at a surprising rate and when
the first shipments of tags start next
week there will be thousands on file.
George II. Biles, assistant State
| Highway Commissioner, who has just
returned from the convention of
American highway officials at Louis
vile, in a statement issued to-day
said that Pennsylvania has. built
more miles of modern typed high
ways in 1919 than any other state
in the Union" Mr.. Biles went, over
the reports of construction of Vari-
GUS states and said that Pennsylvania
is giving more attention to highway
construction that will stand up under
modern motor vehicle traffic than
any other state.
Eleven applications for clemency
in cases involving homicide have
been listed among the 80 on the cal
endar for the State Board of Par
dons when it meets next Wednesday.
Two of the cases are first degree,
Lazarus Bollin, Lawrence county,
and Alexander Dale, Schuyll<ill
county, the latter being sentenced to
be electrocuted the last week of this
month. A number of the other cases
are manslaughter.
The Pennsylvania game season will
end on Monday night except for a
few minor varieties. The bear and
deer season ends at that time and
owing to the large kills it is not
thought that many parties will be
out on the final day. The pheasant
shooting has been disappointing in
some central counties.
Members of the State Forest Com
mission, who differed at yesterdays
meeting over the question of having
the meetings of the Commission open
to the public will discuss it later with
other matters that have arisen in
the Commission in regard to policy.
The fire menace act which requires
removal of growth or conditions
likely to cause spread of fires will be
enforced. Arrangements were made
at the meeting for consideration OF
a budget system, standard contracts,
small forest units for administration
and other matters at the next rlhci-
ing. The State Game Commission
gave notice that it would arrange to
have all scattering of poison to re-
move Vermin so conducted as to
minimize danger to wild life. In ad-
dition to ordering purchases of land
for forest reserves in Fulton, Bed
ford, Schuylkill and Berks counties
to protect headwaters of tributaries
of streams, the Commission decided
to option 1890 acres offered by the
Central Lumber Company and To-
Gated in 10 counties. Some of this
tract is on the Ohio watershed and
it is the plan to buy part and ask
the Legislature to vote the money for
the rest. The State reserves will
then be near the million and quar-
ter acre mark.
Commissioner of Labor and Industry
c. B. Connelley, who has been i'll,
has gone to Atlantic City for a rest.
The State Highway Department is
perfecting a system whereby the
main State highways which are hard
surfaced and connected up will be
kept open for traffic throughout the
winter, especially those which are
extensively used by motor trucks to
and towns. This latter line of trans
portation has had big 1- elopment
since the war and the accompanying
railroad congestion began and it is
the idea to utilize not only the de-
partment's motor trucks, but some
of the scores loaned by the Army and
now stored in this city, to drag snow
plows, while road machines and
wooden drags will also be employed.
F.TA ERNn af.t
ence in handling snow during the Sc
we're winter of 1917-1S and 10 snow
plow trucks have been added to the
16 now in service. The 225 road
machines now used in maintenance
will be added to the snow-fighting
equipment which will be organized
by districts. The department has a
caretaker on each section of six or
seven miles. In addition the High
way Department is arranging for
daily reports from its superintend-
ents on weather conditions.
Two railroads, the first to seek in
corporation in many months, are
asking the approval of their charter
applications from the Public Service
Commission. One is the Salt Lick
Railroad to operate a railroad in
Cambria county connecting with the
Cambria and Indiana branch of the
pennsylvania and the other is the
Wellersburg Railroad which seeks to
operate in Somerset county. An
other interesting application is the
application of the Mercersburg, Leh-
masters and Markes Electric Com
pany, which has been formed as a
reorganization of the Conococheague
Electric Light, Heat and Power
Company. The A. B. Electric Com
pany is asking approval of a char
ter to operate in Altoona.