Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-02

sionS in states and acts by legiSla-
lures about memorials, while num-
Der of artists are at work on them,
but none has gotten as far as that
OF the Keystone State.
The contract for the memorial will
be signed in a few days and Gov
ernor Sproul looks for an early start
on the preparation of the site. The
papers will be passed upon by the
Attorney General.
Plans for removing the tracks
from State street and the construc-
ton of the detour on Fourteenth
street for Linglsstown, Progress and
Penbrook Square cars were discussed
with Deputy superintendent George
a. Shreiner yesterday afternoon with
Harrisburg Railway officials. The
plan is to take up the tracks as
soon as the Fourteenth street line
can be laid. City officials accom-
panied the street railroad men. In
cidentally, the railways company is
considering the Herr street line seri-
ously.
Pennsylvania Railroad officials are
at work on the details of plans as
the bridge relates to them.
suggestions for changes in the
building and loan association laws
which will permit such organizations
to devote resources to large building
operations to furnish homes for sale
to members and generally as 4
means to prevent dwellings getting
into the hands of profiteers were
made to Governor William C. Sproul
by committee of Philadelphia
builders headed by Burton c.
Simons. The committee found that
State laws would have to be altered
to carry out some of the ideas. In
| the course of the discussion several
things were mentioned in regard to
the relation of some building and
loan associations to building and
HOUSEKEEPING operations which the
! Governor said would be useful in the
/ investigation of charges made
against profiteers. They will be laid
before Commissioner of Banking
John S. Fisher, who returned from
! Philadelphia, where he had been
making preliminary survey of con-
, ditions. The Commissioner is said
to have been assured by people ac-
tive in building and loan associa-
uons that if any thing is wrong they
want to know so that they can help
the State enforce compliance with
the laws. Commissioner Fisher will
ave conference with Director
Frank B. McClain, of the Welfare
! Commission, next week in regard to
the proposed investigation by that
body and its relation to what he will
undertake himself at the request of
| the Governor.
Governor Sproul has appointed
these trustees for mothers pensions
| for York county, Mrs. Margaret
Mccall, High Rock; Mrs. Helen Lo-
gan, Dillsburg; Mrs. Schall Smith,
| York; Mrs. H. S. Weidner, Hanover;
Mrs. p. w. Emerton, Miss Salome
Baker and Miss Blanche S. Stauffer,
York.
The first complaint ever made to
the Public Service Commission that
an issue of stock by a corporation
in this State had been misrepre-
sented, was heard by Commissioner
John S. Killing, E. ]. Boyle, of
! Wilkes-Barre, alleging that the
| Wilkes-Barr company, a light and
heat concern. had declared in an
advertisement that an issue of $780,
| 600 of stock had been approved by
| the Public Service Commission The
company had only filed a certificate
| of notification and later announced
that it had made an error through
having followed a New York form.
1t also announced willingness to re-
| fund any person who had been de-
ceived. On the other hand, it was
| charged that the company's pros
| pectus did not give the same pur-
poses of the issue as the certificate
of notification. AS the Commission
has held that it could only receive
notices of stock or bond issues and
not act on them, the decision may
create precedent Some of the
bureau officers of the Commission
are anxious for a ruling to be made
/ that will establish the powers of
the Commission. Arthur L. Hull
represented Mr.. Boyle and Ralph T.
| Baker the company, the hearing
being animated at times.
State Treasury receipts i'm Sep
tember ran below the expenditures
The income was S3,236,444.4s and
the disbursements S4,555,739.54. The
total balances at the end of the
month were s16,S24, ,200.95, the pay
ments from the road bond issue ac-
count having reduced them from
1S,143, ,496 at the end of July. The
balance in the general fund at the |
end of September was s3,751, 1855, |
while the road fund had gone down |
to S11, 1,143,924.2S. The motor We
hicle license fund stands at $137,-
1896; game propagation, $685.
907.54, and bounty fund, $242,267.S6 |
The funds uninvested include Fire |
Insurance S2S2,736.27 and school |
| S106,299.74.
Papers for the acquisition of seven |
| toll roads in Eastern Pennsylvania |
are now being prepared at the State |
| Highway Department and the turn |
| pixies will be turned over in a short |
time. The State has acquired the |
| Marietta Maytown turnpike in Lam |
caster county and the road is now |
| free from Columbia to Maytown and |
purchases in eastern counties have |
| freed the roads from Philadelphia |
! to Allentown by way of Chestnut |
Hill. Fort Washington and Emaus |
The roads which it is proposed to |
! take over soon are New Holland, |
Quakertown and Sellersville; Doyles- |
town and Willow Grove, Hanover |
and Maryland line; York and Chan |
ceford, Harleysville and Lodrach- |
vile and Harleysville and Souders. |
The State Board of Pardons' Oc- |
| tober session is scheduled for Oc- |
tober Is. The time for entering |
| cases will expire on Saturday.
The State Historical Commission |
will have a conference here to-mor- |
row with Governor William C. |
Sproul regarding the work of the |
Commission. The Governor was |
chairman of the Commission for two |
years.
Attorney General William I. Schaf- |
fer will argue the States case in the |
claim of the Commonwealth for |
| mercantile tax from the Atlantic Re- |
fning Company in the Supreme |
| Court at\ Pittsburgh next week.