Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-08

on November 80 and in eleven
months the reports of Mr.. Snyder
show that inheritance taxes have
been collected to the amount of $6,-
| 552,S07.51, the direct amounting to
/ $3,S97, 1868; collateral, $2,91S,-
5000; resident transfer. $685.
| 300.21, and nonresident, $3,909.72.
The Public Service Commission
has approved a recommendation fol-
lowing an investigation by Commits
| sioner James S. Benn for the length
| ening of the north bound platform
| on the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad at the Willow Grove and
| Germantown grade crossing at Glen
i side. 1t will be extended 200 feet
and all north-bound trains will be
! stopped so that the rear car will be
| % feet clear of the crossing. This
| action followed a complaint by the
Glenside Business Mems Association
At first collapsible gates were sug-
| gested as a means of preventing
people from making a dangerou
| crossing, but the change at the plat
forms was found more feasible.
The State Board OF Charities has
] named DIR. P. f. Moylan and Louis
| Wolf, Philadelphia, and Lanning b.
Harvey, Wilkes-Barre, to make the
! investigation of the Hillside Home al
| Scranton.
More cases are listed for hearing
| by the Public Service Commission
during the coming week than in any
week for months. Hearings will be
held in Harrisburg, Erie, Warren
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The
Pittsburgh list contains dozens OF
applications, complaints and con-
tracts, including numerous jitney
90 hna rin will hPRln
Thursday. The Philadelphia list is
set for Friday and includes taNicab
and jitney cases. The Erie cases
involve a big grade crossing pro-
gram. An important executive seS-
sion will be held here Monday.
Two men whose pleas have been
three times refused by the State
Board of Pardons are asking for
rehearing, according to the calendar
of the State Board of Pardons. They
are William Webber, Berks, con-
victed of murder and granted com
mutation years ago, and Adolph
BIau, Lackawanna, convicted of en-
bezzlement. John r. Edwards, Cam
bria, granted commutation in 1911,
seeks pardon, and three men ask
communication of death sentences.
They are Alexander Dale, Schuylklll;
Lazarus Ballon, Lawrence and Lewis
Page, Fayette, the latter case hav-
ing been held under advisement.
Because the Pittsburgh Transpor-
tation Company secured a State
charter to operate auto buses it did
not thereby gain the right to run
vehicles anywhere in the city of
Pittsburgh or to begin operation
without coming to the Public Serv-
ice Commission for approval of its
application to exercise its franchises,
declares Public Service Commis-
sioner John w. Reed in an opinion
handed down to-day in the COM
plant of the receivers of the Pitts
burgh Railways against the COM
pany. Commissioner John S. Killing
has filed a dissenting opinion. Judge
Reed holds that the Commission in
acting on the charter had before 1t
only an application for incorporation.
To hold that the charter gives the
company right to operate anywhere
would be to ignore parts of the
public service law, holds the opinion
which cites numerous decisions and
holds that there has been no error.
Commissioner Killing held that the
company could not be compelled to
appear a second time after receiv-
ing a charter and that the territory
wherein it obtains the right to oper-
ate sis not less than the city of Pitts
burgh and may be greater" The
Commission as an administrative
body, he says, can not determine
what are the rights under the char
ter.
Members of the State Board of
Property will resume hearings in the
claim for a part of Hog Island at
Philadelphia on Tuesday and will
make an inspection of the land in
litigation, which contains some of
the shipways. The contention is
made that the lower part of the
island was once known as New Provi-
dence Island.
Officials of the State Department
of Agriculture say that this fall has
been marked by numerous COM
plants about pests, insect and fungus
and other kinds, attacking trees,
vines, shrubbery, vegetables and
bushes. In addition to the depreda-
tions of the 17-year- locusts, the
State was bothered with the oriental
peach moth, grain moths and vari-
Gus apple pests, as we'll as the potato
wart. Now it is reported that a
serious strawberry disease has made
it's appearance and that it can be
told by spots on the leaves. Similar
reports have come about the catalpa
for shade purposes and it is sug-
gested that the leaves be gathered
and burned. The red-necked cane
borer, which has an affinity for rasp-
berry bushes, is also warned against
in bulletin issued by the State De-
partment of Agriculture, while early
winter spraying is advised for the
leaf curl which is affecting peach
trees. The energies of the State field
force are now being devoted to ex-
terminating the potato wart and to
keeping the corn-borer, a European
pest, out of the State.
The Philadelphia North American
to-day says that the probe of the
Eastern penitentiary has been quietly
dropped and that it will not be re-
sumed until the Governor is con-
suited.
Appointment of the new conSti-
tutional revision commission is eX-
pected to be made within ten days
The Governor is said to have COM
pleted his list.
Congressman j. Hampton Moore
said last night before leaving for
Charleston for the Atlantic Water
ways convention that he wished
people would discuss good men for
the cabinet of Philadelphia. He
said he would like an open discussion
in the newspapers.
Capitol Hill people are greatly in
| terested in the manner in which
John H Dando the LuZerne county