Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-24
CITY NEEDS NEW
HAZARDS NOW
State Fire Marshal Will Co
operate in Getting Uni
form Ordinances

AS a result of an inquiry made at
the State Bureau of Fire Protection
to-day by City Commissioner e. 2.
Gross and Fire Chief John C. Kin
dler, to inquire about the power of
the city to order abatement of big
collection of empty oil barrels In the
upper end of the city, which con-
stitutes n fire hazard Ill the opinion
OF city officials, ordinances giving
full authority will be presented soon.
The State Bureau has prepared n
series OF such ord .nances for third
class cities and Harrisburg may be
made place for a test.
The harrisburg fire control ordi-
nance dates from 1902 and Is not be-
lieved to be adequate and pending
the enactment of the proposed uni
form ordinances the city authorities
will make formal complaint to the
State authorities against the barrel
hazard.
Lieutenant Colonel John Price
Jackson, former Commissioner of
Labor and Industry, who was with
the Harbord mission to Armenia
| after service in France, was here to-
day to call at the Governors office.
Colonel Jackson was on his way to
Toronto, where he will visit his
daughter and intends to then engage
in the practice of his profession as
an electrical engineer.
An investigation into the reports
of discovery of oil at Leaman Place,
Lancaster county, will be made by
| DIR. George II. Ashley, the state ge
| ologist, who has just returned from
visit to the new discoveries near
! McKeesport.
The State revenue to-day was
| jumped by payments of state tax or
$279.00O from the Bell Telephone
Company and $204 from the Lehigh
Valley Railroad.
The State Department of Health
! has been assigned half the base
! ment and three upper floors of the
new office building to be erected in
the Capitol Park and the Depart
ment of Agriculture has been given
half the basement and two lower
floors. The plan is to let contract
| for the building this winter.
A complete model of the whole
Capitol Park improvement is now
being made by Arnold w. Drummer,
the architect, in New York. 1t will
show the whole layout with build
ings and the bridge and formal en-
trance 100 feet wide where future
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model is twenty feet square and will
be finished during the winter and
brought here for display in the Cap
itol.
The Atlantic Refining Co., of Phil
adelphia, filed notice of an increase
of capital from $5.0O0,000 to $685.
900. 900, and paid the State bonus
of $66, 6,666.67. The Tiona Refining
Co., of Philadelphia, filed an in
crease of $4,000 to $4,000 ana
the York Body Corporation, or
York, from 100000 to 100000.
The AnnvilIc and Palmyra Elec-
trio Light Company, operating in
Lebanon county, filed notice of an
increase of power rates with the
Public Service Commission. Other
notices of increases or changes filed
were Home Electric Light and Steam
Heating Company, Tyrone, Blair
and Huntington counties; Osceola
Water Supply Company and Bern
vile Light, Heat and Power Com
pany, the latter of Berks county.
The City of Erie filed complaint
against fares of the Buffalo and
Lake Erie Traction Co., alleging
them to be unjust.
The Public Service Commission
to-day heard arguments in COM
plants against the new fares of the
Wilkes-Bar Railways Co., and the
proposed continuation of the rates
of the Bell Telephone Co. They con-
tinued until late in the day.
Philadelphia labor journals con-
tain q boom for Harry 8. McDevett,
the Governors secretary, for Audi
tor General. He is praised, for his
grasp of the State government. Audi
tor General Snyder is doomed for
State Treasurer.