Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-23

Iore tne commission on Monday,
Numerous inquiries as to procedure
have been made and persons and
firms now holding certificates have
peen informed that they will be
effective until June /, next. when
application for renewal must be
made.
The Commission is preparing to
vigorously enforce the new regula-
tions which will not only require
every car used for hire to have a
state license and certificate, but
also to adhere to n specified route
and to give regular service. The
other regulations will be enforced
as well, especially those requiring
insurance indemnity or demonstra-
ton Of financial responsibility.
The inspectors will be assigned to
districts within n few days by Chief
Examiner Garfield J. Phillips plac-
cd in charge of the certification
system by the Commission. William
II. Hartmann will likely be assign
ed to Philadelphia and failure to
observe certificates will be follow
ed by summary prosecution.
Present plans are to have the
new code ready to present to per-
sons interested in the taxicab and
jitney hearing before commission
ers in room 246 city hall, Philadel-
phia, tomorrow.
At least twenty-five tanks will be
assigned to Pennsylvania's new
National Guard for the equipment
of the new tank battalion which is
to be part of the Guard. The bat
TALON will be assigned to corps
headquarters. The commander and
the location will be determined
later on. AS result of his visit to
Washington. Adjutant General
Beary is arranging to take up with
Major General w. G. Price, COM
manding the Guard, the formation
of all of the units that make up a
complete division. While the
Guard at first will be between a.
600 and $4,000 men, 1t will ulti-
mately be 10000.
Shipments of antitoxin for COM
batting the diptheria outbreak have
been sent to more than a dozen
counties in addition to the regular
supply kept available by the State
Department of Health. In investi-
cations of outbreaks the State au-
thorities have found cases got
headway in communities because of
failure to call an medical men or
neglect in prompt reports.
Representatives of the State gov
ernment and of contractors for the
new Memorial bridge will leave
here tomorrow for inspection of
quarries which have offered to sup
ply the granite for the new Memoir
ial bridge. Reports on the granite
and on other details will be made
next week when 1t Is expected that
the contract for the bridge will be
signed.
Arrangements were made to-day
by Highway Commissioner Sadler
and county commissioners of York
and Lancaster for the purchase of
three turnpikes, including those
in vicinity of Hanover, McSherrys-
town and Littlestown. Negotiations
will also be started for the Han
over and Berlin.
The Public Service Commission
has continued to hearing in
Philadelphia the application of the
United States Pipe Line for permis-
sion to take up and dispose of pipe
lines from Warren to Marcus Hook
and from Oil City to Titusville.
The receipts of the State High
way Department from automobile
licenses passed the $5,000,000 and
broke all records yesterday.
Herman L.. Collins says I'm the
Philadelphia Press:
"Chairmana Harry A Mackey, of
the Workmen's Compensation
Board, may soon have data for the
entire State showing the effect of
prohibition on industries. I have
been told by heads of large indus
trial plants that accidents have de-
creased heavily and that compen-
sation has fallen to an equal de-
gree. In this connection I may say
that due to their high h-heeled shoes,
women in industries are more liable
to suffer accidents than men. So
say the official reports. Hence the
campaign to lower the heels and
reduce the death and injury toll"
1t is expected that William j. Nc
Meen will be freed from the Eastern
Penitentiary tomorrow. The pardon
will reach the institution to-day.
Governor Sproul is in Pittsburgh
to-day, but will spend some time here
tomorrow when he will meet the
various heads of departments.
Public Service Commissioner:
! Benn and Clement are in Philadel.
phia holding hearings to-day and
Commissioner Reed is in Pittsburgh
Chief Engineer T.. Herbert Snow
OF the Public Service Commission
has returned to his office after g
serious illness.
Gannctt, Scelye and Fleming, OF
| this city, have taken charge of ar
inquiry into the Ellwood City waite,
situation which is to go before the
Public Service Commission shortly.
State officials in charge of inspec
ton of granite quarries will leave
tonight for Vermont
/ State Health Department official.
said to-day that the total number
of diphtheria cases reported since
the first of the month was 435, ar
! increase of twenty-seven in twenty
four hours, but that this probably
did not represent all of them. In
creases in measles and scarlet fever
have also been reported.
Shooting of a number of foxes an(
one or two wild cate has been re-
ported TO the State Game Commits
sioner by men who have claimed
the bounties on these animals. Fai,
quail and pheasant shooting ha!
been reported from Central Penn
sylvania counties.
C0vornor In Tal,o