Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-02

doors about two weeks ago, accord
ing to announcement by Deputy
Banking Commissioner F. w. Jack
son. The details of the scheme
are still to be considered and some
changes may be required in them,
but the reorganization idea consid-
cred as a whole is approved" Mr..
Jackson said.
Hunted on Reputation-Dozen of
men went hunting blackbirds in
Pennsylvania this week with only
good regulations and a gun. Owing
to the fact that the State Game
Commission did not get the arm
tags for holders of hunters licenses
from the printer, tags were not
available and permission was given
for men to wear their 1918 licenses
or to produce such reports, the
game wardens being told to go easy
law where a man was known to be
law abiding citizen and in a
county where the county treasurer
had not received his supply of licen-
ses from the State printer.
Drummer to Return-Arnold w.
Drummer, the architect of the State
Board of Grounds and Buildings for
the Memorial Bridge, new office
building and Capitol park improve
ments, is expected to return here in
few days with the changes in the
plans. They will be laid before
Governor William c. Sproul and it
is believed that advertisement for
the bridge and Office building can be
made SO that bids will be opened
late in September.
Forest Fire Loss-The people of
Pennsylvania are losing approx
mately s50,000,000 year because of
forest fires and las year through the
activity of State Forestry depart
ment employees several dozen persons
responsible for fires through care
lessness were arrested and fines
aggregating $4,000 were imposed.
These facts and the declaration that
if the States forest fire fighting SER
vice is to be made efficient much
larger appropriations than the $780,
700 allotted this year will be essen
ton are set forth in a report on
forest fires issued to-day by the
State Forestry department. The
department seeks to expand it's fire
service by location of several CEN
ters with complete forest fire equip
ment and call system for men.
In number of places observation
| towers have been established on
| high locations and telephone alarm
| system outlined. The report gives
cause of fires which show that
most of them are preventable if
cooperation and funds are pro-
| vided
1918 Accident Record-The year
| 1918 had fewer accidents in the in
| dustries of Pennsylvania, but more
fatalities, according to the bulletin
of the State Department of Labor
and Industry on accidents, which
reviews the reports of last year and
those of 1916 and 1917. In 1918
there were 1S4,S44 accidents with
3,403 fatalities; in 1917, 227.S80
| with 3,070 fatalities and in 1916,
255,616 accidents and 2,670 fatah-
ties. August had most of the acci-
dents last year with 1854, while
March led in 1917 with 22,4 and
also in 1916 with 26,971. June had
the most fatalities last year with
! $50. OF the accidents last year
| 53,7S3 were serious causing loss of
| fourteen days or more. There were
4.164 women hurt, "a fatally. In
! all $500 cases were paid COM
| pensation, 2,607 being fatalities.
Women to number of 1917 received
compensation for injuries. The
total amount of compensation paid
was s4,7S0,197 for disability cases
and $6,859,71S for fatalities, total
| of S11639915,