Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-23

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G-tkEz zzzzsllEaN plant of the bor-
ough of East Pittsburgh against the
Pennsylvania Water Company, which
supplies a number of towns near
Pittsburgh. The borough complain
ed that the company in refusing to
give free water service for fire
hydrants and municipal purposes
violated a franchise ordinance with
such requirements. The company
contended that it acted in accordance
with decisions of the Commission in
other water cases and that to fur
nish free service would be to dis
criminate against other towns which
did not get it.
Judge Reed holds that to allow
free service under the circumstances
would be to create a discriminatory
condition between patrons of the
same class which would palpably Of
fend against the Public Service Com
pany law" He said every service
rendered without charge is neces-
sarily paid for by another and that
when it becomes discrimination the
matter falls within the law.
The Commission holds that under
previous decisions the provisions of
the ordinance can be set aside in
such cases.
Sevcn-Ccnt Farc-The Philadel-
phia and Easton Electric Railway
Company has filed notice with the
Public Service Commission that eff
fective September II it will increase
its fares from seven to eight cents
per zone. Notices of increases have
been filed by the Carbon Telephone
IT,
county; North Pittsburgh Telephone
Company, Mt. Zion and Fredericks-
burg Rural Telephone Company, Leb-
anon county; Pittsburgh Beaver
Light Company, Beaver and Allie
gheny counties, and Northumberland
County Gas and Electric Company,
Sunbury.
Studies of Dams-Data showing
how every dam in Pennsylvania fur
nishing power and many used for
water supply stood the strain of the
high waters this year as the result
of the unusually heavy rains is being
assembled by the Water Supply
Commission of PENNSYLVANIA and
will have important bearing upon
the future development of water
power in some of the industrial sec
tions where plants have been under
consideration. Engineers have been
engaged for weeks in study of the
streams and dams, sections where
there was high water and heavy
pressure being given careful inspec-
ton. Owing to the remarkable rain
fan this year conditions have been
favorable for studies for future reg
ulation of dams and power develop
ment.
To Have neutrality-suspicious.
of State Geologist, the first officer
of that kind to be named in Pennsyl-
vania in over quarter of a century,
will be made by Governor William
c. Sproul early in September, ac-
cording to present indications.
Names of several men of high quail
fications have been submitted to the
Governor but no intimation has
come from him as to his plans. 1t
is believed that the Governor will
select some one who will make spe-
cial studies of the mineral deposits
heard of from time to time and that
attention will be given to iron and
similar metal traces which have
been reported. The fact that the
act creating the Bureau of Geology
allows the Governor and Secretary of
Internal Affairs to fix the salary
may enable the State TO obtain serv-
ices of some one man of big scien-
tiflc attainments.
Contracts Let - Highway Com
missioner Lewis S. Sadler has award
ed these State road contracts: Win
ston q Co., Kingston, N. Y, 1858
feet in Wolf township and Picture
Rocks borough, Lycoming county, at
S155,377.12; James McGraw Co.
Philadelphia, 1928 feet in Lehigh
county on route from Emanus to AL
lentown, at $1O6,S97, and Edward c.
Cornish and Wallace Miller. Union
town, 4,101 feet in North and South
Union townships, Fayette county, at
$51, 1,476.21.
To File Answer-Deputy Attorney
General w. f. Hargest will file an
answer on the part of the Auditor
General and State Treasurer in the
actlon in equity brought by Willie
Collins, of Norwood, to prevent paw
ment of State appropriations to hos
pltals and homes alleged to be sec
tartan. The answer will likely he
filed next month.
Must Show Facts-The State Com
pensation Board in an opinion bv
commissioner Paul w. Houck has
ruled that 1t must be shown that n
special officer employed bv n cor
porauon to keep trespassers from
property is in the line of his em-
ploSihent When injured. This decision
was given in the case of Stahl We
watson coal Co., Salisbury, and ends
an unusual appeal. The decedent
was employed as a special officar
subject to call at any time. He gen
erally worked at night and was
round dead beside railroad tracks
after having said that he was going
nome. Part of the property 'front.'
ing on the railroad where he was
found Is owned by the employing
company. The claim was that the
man was in course of his emplov1
ment, but the referee held that n
must be specifically shown and tbot
the testimony did not do so, In
greene VS.. Aetna Chemica Co. oak-
dale. an agreement for death Of Ed
ward A. Greene was set aside n
peing shown that the woman who
made 1t was not his widow. The
decedent had given her name and
that OF minor child as his deced~
ents. The woman claimed that sbo
did not know of any child. Shortiv
afterwards a woman who prove5
marriage and paternity of her child
appeared. She was granted com
pensation, the previous award heino
set aside, Notwithstanding Greena's
statement when employed that the
otner woman was his wife.
10 Meet herc-The special cor,-
mlttee named to complete the codo