Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-18
MONDAY EVENING.
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Probe Taxi Service-The Public
Service Commission has authorized
Commissioners Samuel M. Clement,
Jr., and James S. Benn to investi-
gate the auto-bus and taxicab SER
vice in the City of Philadelphia.
Unless company or individual
holding as a common carrier of per-
sons has been engaged in the busi-
| ness prior to January !, 1914, the
effective date of the Public Service
Company Law, it is necessary, in
order to operate legally, to apply
for and secure a certificate of public
convenience evidencing the approval
or the Commission to such operation
All such common carriers whether
having been in operation prior to
January 1, 1914, and therefore not
requiring a certificate of public con-
Venience or operating under the
certificate of the Commission, must
nle In the Commissions office and
post in a conspicuous place in such
auto or taXicab engaged in public
service, a complete schedule of all
rates charged, whether by taxi
meter or under special terms such
as the hourly or trip rates. No
rates can be charged by n taxicab
or other common carrier other than
the filed, posted and published rates,
ana any company or individual
found. guilty of disobeying this
stringent provision of the law is sub
Ject to the penalties provided by law
or the imposition of fine or under
the recent Act of the Legislature of
having the license issued by the
state Highway Department, re-
IAI
or eXorbitant charges by taxicabs in
Philadelphia have been brought to
the attention of the Commission and
1t is for the purpose of correcting
this evil and>protecting the travelling
pubic from being charged unreas-
enable rates that the investigation is
being made.
More Dctours - The State High
way Department to-day announced
list of additional detours which
with the detours announced in the
last two weeks comprises an almost
complete list of the detours on the
main thoroughfares of PennsyI-
Vanla. A short detour has been Gre
ated on the Lincoln Highway in
York county at Hallam. This de-
tour is FL miles in length. Another
short detour on the Lincoln High
% h1A1S bSbHS SSH
and Thomasville. in York county.
Other detours in PENNSYLVANIA are
as follows: York and Cumberland
couRties, on Routes No. 123-Be-
tween Shepherdstown and Dills-
purg; Lawrence county, on Route
NO. 7I-From Moravia to Willow
Grove; Miflin county. on Route No.
S3-Newton Hamilton to Mount
Union; Chester county. on Route
No. 137-Downingtown: Dauphin
county on Route No. 19s-Rift to
Schwahns Mills; Columbia county,
on Route No. 4.-Bloomsburg Bor-
ough; Montgomery county, on Route
No. 15S,-Gratersford to Trappe
Borough; Huntington county, on
Route No. 46-Near Markleysburg.
Pennsylvania Tours = The State
Highway Department has received
requests from great many Penn
sylVanians who asked that they be
given information concerning week.
end trips through the mountain and
resort regions of Pennsylvania The
Department has these requests un-
der consideration and it is likely
that within short time a number
OF three-day trips will be an
nounced. September and October
are Pennsylvania best touring
months
Coal Clauses Up-In refusing to
strike out the rates of the Public
Utilities Company In dismissing the
complaint against it filed by the
Slate Belt Electric Company, the
Public Service Commission goes at
some length into contracts based on
coal clauses as they apply to public
service rates The coal clauses were
brought about by the war with its
rapid fluctuations of fuel prices and
were perfectly proper in the emerg-
ency, the Commission holds. but
says with the return of price sta
oility they have almost passed out
of tariff structures. While the
Commission does not hold them
now to be illegal "it says there no
longer appears a reason for their re-
tention they be superseded by more
definite rates carried into tariff
schedules and calculated to produce
the required revenue" The rates
of the Pennsylvania Utilities Com
pany are pronounced "tust and
reasonable"
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