Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-07

Inouncement MADE To-Day by LIT.
Thomas e. Finegan. State Superin-
tendent of Public instruction. The
committees to arrange the program
will have a meeting here shortly
with DIR. Finegan.
DR.. William d. Lewis, the new
second deputy superintendent, and
| other heads of bureaus of the de-
partment who were recently ap-
pointed, have all assumed their du-
ties. DR.. Finegan has been holding
a series of conferences with the bu-
reau heads for the outlining of the
new work of the department.
Hunting of the ruffed grouse will
be legal again in Pennsylvania this
fall as the closed period ordained
last year by the State Game Commits
sion on petition of game lovers and
hunters in the counties of the State
expires this month. The grouse
were forbidden all of last season
| and none has been hunted since
1917. Since that time there have
been grouse imported and extensive
breeding has been carried on at
State game preserves and by clubs.
The season begins on October 20
and will run until the end of No
vember, the limit being four in a
| day or twenty-four in a season. The
season on ring necked pheasants
covers the same period and four in
a day or ten in a season Is the bag.
The quail season Is the same with
bag of eight in day or twenty-five
| in a season.
John II. Glass, Republican leader
of Northumberland county and
county treasurer, has been appoint
ed chief inspector in the automobile
division of the State Highway De-
partment at a salary of $500
year. Mr.. Glass, who will resign as
county treasurer, will have charge
of enforcement of the new automo-
bile code regulations. He will as
sumo his duties at once.
The point was raised ut an argu-
ment before the Public Service Com
mission in the rehearing application
of the Pittsburgh Transportation
Company that an auto bus company
or any other public service company
is not required to appear for the
right to begin business after the
commission has once passed upon
the charter application and granted
it. The commission some time ago
issued an order restricting the COM
pany to certain routes upon COM
plant of the Pittsburgh Railways
Company. A rehearing was asked.
c. K. Robinson, for the transporta-
tion company, raised the question
of whether two applications were
really necessary. Joseph r. Nc
Neary, of the railways company, de-
clared that IL that view was taken
there would be dynamite" in many
decisions.
Enlistment Of fifteen overseas
service men in the Pennsylvania
State police force last week will be
followed by enlistment of as many
more within short time. as there
have been numerous applications
from men who served in the army
in France. including some machine
gun battalion men, for admission to
the force. Only men who have
served in the army or navy are be-
ing enlisted now and some of the
men who went from the State force
into the army are now being taken
back Organization of the new
troop will be finished at Lancaster
in short time, but it is improbable
that it will be moved to Harrisburg
until next summer, when the bar
racks will be built.
Changes in the new State Capitol
office building plans are being made
to provide for assembling the whole
State Department of Health in the
building. This department will have
the greater part of three upper
floors. 1t now has $4,000 square
feet in the Capitol and has some
offices in other buildings. When
the new building is finished the La
Dor and Industry Bureaus will be
grouped in one building. Bids for
the new Capitol building will be
asked this fall.
Inspections OF conditions on State
forests upon which to base provis-
ions in the new contracts to be
made by the State Forest Commits
sion for sale of coal, oil, gas and
lumber which may be on State
property are being carried out this
week by Col. Henry w. Shoemaker
and Clifford Pinchot, members of
the commission. They have planned
extensive trips and will report to
the commission next week.
Commissioner of Fisheries Ma
than r. Butler is at Louisville at
tending the meeting of the Ameri-
can Fisheries Society.
Important engineering confer
ences relative to water supplies for
Allegheny county boroughs will be
held at Pittsburgh the latter part
of the week.
New factory inspectors to take
the places of the four dismissed in
Philadelphia and two who resigned
will be made later on.
The State Capitol orchestra will
resume its rehearsals tonight in
the Capitol. The orchestra gave
several concerts last spring and
summer An extensive program has